Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1899 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER SEMI-WEEKLY REPUBLICAN.

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Two Weddings Wednesday Night.

TRUSSELL/-WOLF. A very pleasent affair, in the maritalline.was bn Wednescay even ing, Sept. 27 th. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur H. Trussell, three miles north of town. The contracting parties were their daughter, Miss Helen A.'. Trussell and Mr. Oscar B. Wolfe, the latter a prosperous farmer of Clinton county. The ceremony was preformed by Rev. V. O. Fritts, pastor of the First Baptist church of Rensselaer, and in the presence of about 40 invited guests, most of them relatives or near friends of the parties. PULVER-VEACH. Still another wedding for Wednesday evening and also a very pleasant affair, took place in town It was the marriage of Mr. Henry W. Veach and Miss Mvrtle E. Pulver and was held at the residence, in the west part of town of Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Clarke, the latter being the bride’s sister. The ceremony was performed by Rev. J. L. Brady. Owing to the sickness of Mrs. Clark, the wedding' was a very quiet affair and only a few neighbors and relatives were present. Those present from elsewhere were the brides grandmother, Mrs. Jane Babcock of Hammond, and her aunt and cousin Mrs. Polly Belshaw and Mrs. Eunice Daum, from LoweU. Mr. Veach is n newspaper man nd formerly pub i shed th? Lowell Recoid. He is now employed on a paper at Casey 111., and at which pUce they expect to make their home.

The Standard Oil Company’s Improvements.

The work connected with the the Standard Oil Company’s big reservoir tank, east of the depot, is now nearly completed. The tank itself is in position, and rests on masonry at an elevation of about 6ft. It is a pretty large affair holding 25,000 gallons, or about as much as four ordinary tank cars. The tank is divided into two compartments, one for gasoline and one for kerosene, otherwise “coal-oil.” The*gasoline compartment is the smallest, holding about 10,000 gallons. The portion of the tank holding the gasoline will be protected from the sun by an outer covering of corrugated iron, the idea being that if exposed to the direct heat of the sun, gas in dangerous quantities might be developed, and blow up the whole affair. The kerosene end of the tank will be left to take the weather as it comes. Pipes and pumps are being so arranged that when a car load of oil or gasoline is received it will be run on the side track and stopped next to the tank, and a man. inside the oil house will pump the oil out of the car and into the tank. A car load can be pumped in about three hours. The tank, and oil house have been surrounded with a ' six foot high picket fence. O. W. Duvall is the Standard Company’s resident * wholesale agent and wiU have charge of the new tank when completed,

Marriage Licenses.

• j Oscar B. Wolfe, | Helen A. Trussell. j Henry W. Veach, I Myrtle E. Pulver. Millinery opening at M. &A. Meyers begining Oct. 4th and will last*2 weeks do not fail to see the pretty bats.

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is Seen and Eeported By an Enthusiastic Attendant. Last Saturday morning opened damp and cloudy, but along about train time the sun began to despel the mists and Uncle Mac was seen passing boquets to “The sweet singers of IsreaL” All were loaded into Jerry’s hack and taken to the train. About 100 of our citizens boarded the cars and in a few minutes were landed at McCoysburg. In about five minutes Tom J. Cline of Delphi that prince of auctioneers had us corralled in and about the inclosure, and after stat ing the terms of the sale called upon Uncle Mao to say a few words which he did as follows, “Friends we’ve got a h —of a lot of stuff here to sell, and its good stuff too, and we’re going to sell it so d—cheap you cant afford to go home without it” Well the sale started gather slow and Mr. Cline concluded the crowd was hungry and adjourned foi lunch which was free, and the crowd did justice to it. The writer thinks some of the folks enjoy the gastronomic talents of a William Goat, for the way they moved back “Vittles” was a sight. After lunch the sale’began in earnest and was kept up incessantly; a carload would be selected out, drove up to the Auction Block sold off in a few minutes and another lot called for; during the waits the ohoir would sing or ihe Sheep Skin Band play and the whole thing was one continous round of amusement and business from the word go. The crowd was estimated at 500 but the wav the wagons, buggies and carriages were lined up around the village, one would think Barnum’s Great Show was giving an exhibition. These sales are a great benefit to the county and should be continued as they stock up our grazing ranches and save our buyers time and labor in hunting stock. Let us hope that McCoy & McDonald will continue the good work until all our farms are stocked.

Yens Anderson, a young Dane, now a section man located at Monon, was run over by a switch engine, last Wednesday morning, while going to work, and had one leg cut off, below the knee. Anderson was formerly on one of the s&ctions here, and also at one time, worked for J. W. Cowden. He is a member of the Rensselaer Encampment of Odd Fellows.

Judge Palmer’s Opinion of Our Court House.

Judge Truman F. Palmer, of Carroll —White circuit sees the interior of our court house for the first time since its completion. He ought to know something about court houses, as many as he has seen and done business in, and he pronounces ours the handsomest and best arranged of any in the state, for counties of a similar rank to ours. . He has equal admiration for its outside appearance. The Judge agrees with The Republican however, in thinking that it was a great mistake not to have made the east court room large enough to accommodate county conventions, and county teachers’ and county farmers’ institutes, and other similar meetings of general interest. The Republican earnestly advocated a large room of this kind before the court house plans were adopted, and it still greatly regrets that its suggestions were not heeded. Winter hats, lovely beyond description, and no heavier than Summer head gear, at Mrs. Imes’.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1899,

Uncle Mac’s Big Sale.

Leg Cat Off.

The City Council.

The sum of S3OO was transferred from the corporation fund to the street fund, to be used in repairing streets and making cossings. The city attorney was directed to prepare an ordinance requiring owners of property abutting on the river to keep the river channel free of Willows. The condition of the channel below Western cemetery is specially aimed at. A little more cement walk was ordered on Franklin street to carry it to the railroad- As previously ordered the north end of the walk was in the air, so to speak. The matter of substituting larger transformers on the business circuit was discussed and the electric light committee was authorized to investigate and take action if thought best. It is claimed by an electric expert that SSOO a year on coal bills can be saved by the use of larger transformers. The 20 firemen who were present at the tecent Front street fire were allowed $2.50 each for their good work that night, and to partly compensate them for the damage the water, dirt and smoke did to their clothing. It was decided to run special wires from the telephone and engine house to the water and light station so that in case of fire, quicker action can be got on the fire alarm screecher. A gong will be put in at the water and light station, and a button will -be pressed at the telephone central or the engine house, and the gong at the light station will do the rest. The Commercial State Bank was authorized to build an eight inch sewer in the alley in block nine, from the rear of the bank to connect with B. Forsythe’s sewer. Thirty-five claims were allowed.

Crippled Men’s Picni.

The cripples of Fulton county are arranging to hold a novel picnic at Lake Manitou, near Rochester. For chairman they have a man who has never walked. The marshal of the day left a leg on a southern battlefield and until recently was engaged in the management of a 500-acre farm. He is as courtly as a king, and is everybody’s , friend. There are four crippled men, who have held the office of county recorder for the last twenty years, to §prve as a committee on arrangements, and it is expected that it will attract the largest crowd that has ever gathered on the banks of Manitou. Those eligible to participate will be divided into three classes — natural cripples, accidental and war cripples. By way of entertainment onelegged men will race for a prize and one-armed men will wrestle; but the principal source of entertainment will come when each cripple, in turn, is assisted to the platform, where he will tell what caused him to be maimed. Pictures will be taken of each group.

Hammond Court House.

The suit of the people of Crown Point against the commissioners of Lake county to prevent the commissioners from letting tbe contract for a court house for the superior court at Hammond will be heard at Crown Point next Monday. Either Judge Hammond. of Lafayette, Judge Hubbard, i of South Bend, or Judge Bradley, of Laporte, will hear the case.

Milinery Openings.

The days of my millinery opening of fall and winter styles will be

MRS. H. PURCUPILE.

Twenty-Five Thousand Acres of Wheat.

Josiah C. Thompson, ( of Fair Oaks, sends The Republican a page of a recent Sunday number of the San Francesco Examiner, containing a detailed description of the largest wheatfield in the world. It is in Fresno and Madera counties. California, and is the property of Clovis Cole, a cousin of Mr. Thompson’s on his mother’s side. The ranch contains 25000 acres and it is all devoted to wheat raising. This year the crop is enormous. Owing to the absence of rain in fall season, in California, the wheat can stand in the field weeks or months after it ripe, and thus there is time to harvest their great fields. In this case five great combination harvesters have been at work since early in July. They cut, thrash sack and the grain as they go, and they will not get it all, harvested until about the end of this month. Clovis Cole, manager as well as owner of the great ranch is a son of Stephen Cole, who went to California from near Vevay, in this state, in 1872.

The Circuit Court.

Mrs. Selina G. Tedford, of Remington was given a divorce from Joseph B. Tedford, theyfwere marAug. 16 and seperated Aug. 20th. 1896. She charged abandonment as the grounds for the divorce. The divorce will be issued on payments of the costs by the plaintiff. She will also be allowed to resume her former name of Selina’G. Snyder. A new divorce suit has been filed. It is that of Lillie M. Goodrich vs. Robert B. Goodrich. They were < married Feb. 4, 1885, and separated July 18, 1899. She charges the defendant with marital infidelity on numerous occasions and specially names Jemima Hickman and Mary Burkhalter, and also says “there are others.” They have no children. The Newton township ditch case, appealed from the Commissioner’s court, of Makeever vs. Martindale, was tried by Judge Palmer. It is a duch petitioned for by John Martindale and ordered by the Commissioners. John Makeever opposed the ditch and took an appeal to the circuit court. Judge Palmer dismissed the appeal, and the ditch will be constructed, unless further appealed to the appellate or supreme court. The two Other cases of Wm. B. Austin vs. DeMotte Canning Co., and others, were venued to White county. In the case of Swisher vs. Marble, a road case from Wheatfield, appealed from Commissioner’s court, the appeal was dismissed.

A Constable’s Powers.

Indianapolis News: A law of Indiana as old as the state authorizes a necessary, to call upon any number of citizens to assist him in the discharge of his duty, and the penalty for refusing such assistance is a fine of not lass than S 5 nor more than SIOO. This old - law was invoked at Crawfordsville a few days ago against two able bodied loafers, who not only refused to assist a constable in making an arrest when called upon to do so, but made fun of him before and after the contest in which he was engaged. The loafers had their fun then, but the next day they were brought before a justice of the peace, who imposed a heavy fine and in default of payment, sent one of them to jail. Old laws . sometimes disclose a good deal of vitality when violated.

From Leonard Jessup at Iloilo.

Lee Jessup received another letter Monday from his brother Leonard, a member as has been before stated, of the Ist Tennesse regiment, and located at Iloilo, on the island of Panay one of the Phillipines, and the only one except Luzon where the people are making any fight worth mentioning against the authority of the United States. The letter was dated August 18 and reached Rensselaer Sept. 25th When he wrote he expected to be mustered out by Sept Ist. and that the regiment would start home by Sept 15th. Leonard thought that he would not return home with the regiment but thought he would stay a while in in the island and then in company with some others of his regiment, return home by way of Paris. and New York, and thus complete a journey around the world. He was somewhat doubtful about staying at Iloilo any longer however, as the small-pox was very prevalent among the inhabitants and he feared it would get among the soldiers again. Young Jessup thinks that the Tagalogs will keep up the fight for a very long time yet unless our goverment runs in soldiers much faster thad it has been doing. Since the above was writen, the daily papers give the news that the Ist. Tennessee was on board the Indiana and started for home and on Sept. 22nd. 265 members of the regiment voluntarily disem-' barked and went back to Cebu Island to take part in a fight with the insurgents, who were artistically but thoroughly thrashed. It was the Tennessee boys last chance for a scrap and they would not missit.

Grasshopperological Statistics.

A live grasshopper will eat a dead grasshopper. A Missouri farmer mixed paris green and bran together and let a grasshopper eat it; it died; 20 ate him up; they died; 400 ate those 20, and they died 8,000 ate those 400, and they died; 160,000 ate those 8,000 and they died and the farmer was troubled no more. In its flight from the far west, says our informant, the name of the statistician of this story has become separated from his figures, but tbe fact that this oooured in Missouri is regared as evidence of its possibility.

Advocates Wooden Bridges.

In view of the fact, that about all the street bridge companies in the county have gone Into a trust, a Brookville paper suggests that their county commissioners, when they have a new bridge to build, ask for bids for wooden as well as steel bridges. The Brookville paper holds that wooden bridges, if well built, will last about as long ds steel ones, and cites the case of a wooden bridge in ■ the vicinity 50 years old and still sound and servicable. It also mentions a famous wooden bridge overthe White river, at Indianapolis, built when the “state road” was made way back in the thirties, and good for many years use yet. Another point in favor of wooden bridges is that they leave a much larger proportion of the money they cost at home than iron or steel bridges do. In these suggestions of the Brookville paper, perhaps our commissioners may find a valuable hint also, in case they build any new bridges very soon.

Millinery Opening.

The days of my semi annual opening of fall and winter millinery are Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week. M ES. L. MJmes.

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Prosperity.

It has come as promised; Amen and so might it be” The undersigned has undertaken to stock this and near by, and extended country without limit with stock and feeding cattle by auction j sales every two weeks at McCoysbvrg station: selling cattle on time, and for cash, having the best of facilities for getting them on favorable terms. Would say to the farmers having feed that they bilieve those buying can by good care of them double the purchase price within one year: and on the feeders they can realize good price for the grain and make quick return. The margin between feeders and the price of fat cattle, taking into consideration tbe prioe of grain has not been better at any time within twenty years, as to the price of fat cattle remaining at present prices, who can doubt as long as every laboring man can get work at good wages: they are the ones who eat the meat and. edjoy it. Wages are increasing and not ■i enough labor to supply the demand. The labor is in the best and most independent condition for any time within the last fortynine years.

Further; —We have made arrange men ts to pasture next summer any cattle belonging to our patrons who may not have feed of their own for 2 cents per day or SI.OO per hundred for the grain and no charge unless they gain. 200 pounds. The stockers will make feeders neat spring or Fall,. z as the market demands light handy beeves. Further wejhave on hands a nice lot stock ewes that are for sale oso favorable terms. At prices th||9 the Ist, crop of wool and lambm 1 -111 will pay Ist, cost or more. Thanking our patrons and wishing thenar „ their share of prosperity and even more. We want to inform the people J there is no calamity on this country now and thank God none threat- j ened. No Calamity bowlers atK| ting on store boxes, or standing | on street corners at cross roads or blacksmith shops. They are riW showing the great prosperity ex-| tant in the land. Amen and so might it be always. As to the sheep there is no domestic animal that pays as well with quick returns as a flock of sheep well cared for. They will eat more weeds and greater variety of feed thaiH any other. When Jasper and aBl counties of the state have sheepjg enough to lawn mow the lanea| and by ways and road sides, theal will prosperity be in full bloonm Then those farmers that have not. the fore thought to kill and salt| meat enough to last until tbe i spring chickens come, they cai»| draw on the lambs for choice meaw| instead of going to town and buy-3 ing a peice of sow belly and paM ing almost as much as they gobi last Fall, and winter for a goo® bacon hog, as the Yankee eajjl don’t be so shiftless, gather aruuu|j| you domestic animals and speb|B your time taking care of them stead of talking politics, scandal M religion—do right, the Lord always helps th. m helps themselves. Thanking you again « you to come end see us ■ u iwdj-J Oct. 7th at McCoysburg • 4|j the free lunch and buy that suits you. , Everybody will be wt n as much without buying' We have the promise oi O>lle R 6 Band in additi c oiran s eep s m « McCoy & Me ..