Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1899 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER SEMI-WEEKLY REPUBLICAN.

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Chicago. Iniiaiamlls & Louisville Rn RENSSELAER TIME-TABLE Corrected to May 7,1898. SOUTH BOUND. No. Sl—Fast Mall (on signal) ......4:48 A.M. No. 5 Louisville Mail, Dally 10:65 A. M. No. 33 Indianapolis Mall (dally)... 1;« P. M. No. 80-Mllk accomm,. Dally 6:15 F. M. •’o. B—Louisville Express, Dally ..11:04 P. M. •„w.45 Ix>cal Freight S:4O P. M.. NORTH BOUND. No. 4—Mail (da11y)...... f.M No, 40—Milk accomm.. Daily . 7:81 A. M. No. 82— Fast Mall (dally) .... A. M. •No. 80—Cin. to Chicago Ves. mail.. 6:82 P. M. +No. 88—Cin. to Chicago. 2:57 P. M. No, 6—Mall and Kxpress, Dally. ... 8:27 P. M. •No. 46—Local Freight JJ' No. 74—Freight (dally) 9:09 P.M. •Dally except Bunday. t Sunday o y. w. H.BEAM. Agent

jdx:ebsot ose~sr COUNTY OFFICERS. derk Wm. H. Coovkb Sheriff NATK J. RKED Auditor Hknky B. Murray Treasurer Jxsbe 0. Gwis Recorder Robert B. Porter Surveyor Mybtß. Price Coroner Truitt P. Weight Sept. Public Schools Louis H. Hamilton Assessor ... John R. Phillips < Ist Dlst Abraham Halleck Comm’rs< 2nd Dlst Simeon Dowell (Brd Dlst Frederic Waymire Commissioners’ Court First Mondays in every month. CITY OFFICERS. Mayor Thomas J. McCoy Marshal Thomas McGowan Olerk Schuyler C. Irwin Treasurer.... 0.0. Starr Attorney C. E. Mills Civil Engineer H. L. Gamble. Fire Chief ....Eldon Hopkins Hot wora I ..Geo. E. Murray Ist Ward..} CHAS. J. DEAN Councllmen « 2nd Ward, j • t ”"....’.J.O. GWIN _Brd Ward. •}.... j. p. McColly JUDICIAL. Circuit judge Simon P. Thompson P'-osfcutlng Attorney Chas. E. Mills Terms of Court—Second Monday tn February, April. September and November. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. TRUSTEES. TOWNSHIPS. Roberts. Drake Hanging Grove A. Prevo .....Gillam John F. Pettit... Walker Samuel R. Nichols Barkely James D. Babcock Marlon Marcus W. Reed Jordan • ackson Freeland , Newton fl. O. Bierma ....Keener J.C. Kaspke.... ; Kankakee Albert 8. Keene Wheatfield John A. Lamborn ''' Carpenter Ceorge W. Castor Milroy B. D. Comer '.Union TOWN OR CITY A. Beasley Remington I‘“'os Thomnson Rensselaer I<l ward T. Riggs.... .. .Wheatfield Louis H ■ Hamilton. Co.Sunt RensSelaef OHUBOHES. FIRST BAPTlST—Preaching every two weeks at 10:45 a. m. and 7p. m.; Sunday Schoo! at 9:30r B. Y. P.U.Hp.m. Sunday; pre ver meeting 7p. m. Rev. V. o, Fritts, pastor. *** FREE BAPTIST—B ervtces every Sunday morning. Prayer meeting Tuesday evening. A. C. F. meets Sunday, 6:80 P. ;M. Rev. A. M. Watkins. Pastor *** 3HRIBTIAN—Corner Van Rensselaer and Susan. Preaching, 10:45 and 8:00; Sunday school 9:80; J. Y. P. 8.0. E.. 2:80; 8. Y.P.8.0. E., 6:36; Prayer meeting Thursday 7:80. A. c. Ward, pastor. Ladles’ Aid Society meets* every Wednesday afternoon by appointment. PRESBYTERIAN—Corner Cullen and Angelica. Preaching, 10:45 and 7:80; Sunday school 9:80; Y. P. C. 0. E„ 6:80; Prayer meeting, Thursday 7:80; Ladies’ Industrial Society meets every Wednesday afternoon. The Missionary Society, monthly. Rev. C. D. Jeffries, Pastor. METHODIST E.-Preachlng at 10:45 and 7; Sunday school 9:80; Epworth League Sunday 6; Tuesday 7; Junior League 2:80 alternate Sunday; Prayer meeting Thursday at 7. Rev. H. M. Middleton, Pastor. Ladies* Aid Society every Wednesday afternoon by appointment CHURCH OF GOD—Corner Harrison and Elza. Preaching 10:45 and 7:80; Sunday school 0:80; Prayer meeting, Thursday, 7:80; Ladies* Society meets every Wednesday afternoon by appointment. Rev. F. L. Austin, pastor. CATHOLIC CHURCH—St. Augustine’s. Cor ner Division and Susan. Services 7:80 and 10:80 a. m. Sunday school 11:80 p. m. Rev. Edward Jacobs, pastor. LODGES. MASONlC—Prairie Lodge, No. 126, A. F and A. M. .meets first and third Mondays of each month. J. M. Wasson, W. M.; W. J. lines, Bec’y. Evening Star Chapter, No-141,0. E. S.. meets meets first and third Wednesdays of each month. Mrs. O. W Hanley, W. M.; Hattie Dowler, Sec’y. *** CATHOLIC ORDER FORESTERS— Willard Court, No. 418, meets every first and third Sunday of the month at 2j>. m. J. M. Healy Sec’y; E. P. Honan, Chief Banger. s - *** ODD FELLOWS—lroquois Lodge. No. 148 I. O. O. F„ meets every Thursday. O. E. Tyner, N. G.; S. O. Irwin, feec’V. Rensselaer Encampment, No. 201, I. 0.0. P„ meets second and fourth Fridays of each month. John T. Sayler, C. P., John Vanatta, scribe. Rensselaer Rebekah Degree Lodge. No. 846, meets first and third Fridays of each month. Mrs. Effie Wade, M. G.; Miss Belle Adams, Bec’y. *** I. O. OF FORESTERS—Court Jasper, No. 1708 Independent Order of Foresters, meets second and fourth Mondays. Geo. Goff, O. D. H r 0 R.; R. P. Johnson, E.; MACOABBEtP-Bsosselaer Tent, no. IM, K. O. I. M. Meets Monday evening. F. WOlssel, Commander; A. Lewis, Record Keep er. PYTHIAN—RRNBBSLAKR Lodge No. 82, Knights of Pythias, meets every Tuesday. R. B. Porter, C. 0.; N. W. Reeve, K. of bTb. RENSSELAER TEMPLE. Bathbone Sisters,No. 08, meets sndMnd 4th Thursdays, every month. Mrs. Lulu Huff, m. B. C.: Mrs. Josie Woodworth, M. of B. C. MODERN WOODMEN OF A.—Rensselaer Camp, No. 4412, meets every Ist and 3rd Wednesday. H. L. Brown, V. O ; P.W Clarke, clerk. * PATRIOTIC OBDEBS. BRAND ARMY—Rensselaer Post No. 84 G. A R. meets every Friday night. D. H. Yeoman Post Commander. J. M. Wasson, Adjutant. Bensselaer Women’s Belief Corns meets every Monday evening. Viola Thornton, President; Mrs. Ella Hopkins, Secy. HOLLY COUNCIL—No. 7. Daughters of Liberty, meets 2nd and 4th Mondays. Gertrude Hopkins, Counsellor; Nellie Moss. Record1:80. Mary Sayler, Pres.; Carrie Porter, See.

NO. J 8

This Jolly Old Batch, Has Made a Good Match.

From East St. Louis, 111., comes lagging along the very pleasant intelligence that our former well known and always jolly and well liked townsman, Johnny Callow has at last taken unto himself a wife. The first intelligence Mr. Callow’s parents and sisters here received of the wedding was conveyed in the following dipping from an East St. Louis paper: Mr. Callow and Miss Flora D. Mais were wedded at high noon Saturday at the Borne of Rev. Gallaher, Presbytertian minister at Belleville. Mr. Callow is the popular manager of the Postal Telegraph Company of this city. A short time ago he was sent here from Centralia to manage their branch office in the Sexton building. He is one of the best known telegraph operators in the country, and while only in the East St. Louis a short time, has made a host of friends for himself as well as the company. He is also a prominent member of the K.of P., I. O. O. F. and D. O. K. of H. Miss Mais is the daughter of one of Centralia’s most prominent as well as wealthiest citizens, M. Durant, better known to the literary world as “Aspiro,” the once famous puzzle worker. This marriage will be quite a surprise to their many friends in Centralia, as it has been conducted on the quiet. They will be at home to their friends in their new home, No. 20 North Main street, this city, after Sunday, November 12th.

Vice President (jarrett A. Hobart, died Tuesday morning, after a long sickness. He was a good, true and able man, in every sense of the words, and in every relation and position in life. He is the sixth of our vice presidents to die in office. His death brings to public attention again the question of a successor to the President in case of his death or other disability. The law names in the line of succession the various cabinet officers, in this order: Secretary of state, secretary of treasury, secretary of war, attorney general, postmaster general, secretary of the navy, secretary of the interior.

Monttcello Herald: Rensselaer is the most thoroughly saturated foot ball town in this part of the State. The papers teem with it, the citizens dream about it, the atmosphere smells of it, the hash tastes of it, the men wear foot ball stick pins, and the girls wear foot balls on the ends of their hat pins. All because the town happens to have a team that has downed about everything that ever ran up against it.

Special Millinery Sale. Beginning Nov. 19 and lasts through the balance of the season I am positively going to quit the millinery business and will sell my millinery goods at cost and below cost I have a nice line to select from, so you will undoubtedly get bargains in all kinds of goods. Come early. Mrs. C. E. Hershman, Location,fnear depot.

A Thanksgiving Shooting Match

A shooting match, at blue rooks, will be held the day before Thanksgiving, Wednesday, Nov. 29th. at Pleasent Grove, Barkley tp. The match will begin promptly at 9:30 a.m. There will be plenty of turkeys and fun for all. Hot coffee and sandwiches will be served at noon, at reasonable prices. Everett Brown is the manager of the match. Immense numbers of trimmed hats, all to be sold before Christmas. Lookout for low prices, at

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RENSSELAER JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, T 899,

Death of the Vice President.

He Tasted Foot-ball In Our Hash.

Bro. Healey Puts in His Paddle.

We think it in pretty bad taste, to say the least, for Bro. Healey, of the Brookston Gazette, to put in his little paddle in the Rensse-laer-Crown Point foot-ball controversy, and especially for him to take sides against his old home town. He takes as his text a little trouble which occurred outside the lines at a garde at Brookston two years ago. Inasmuch as Bro. Healey always claimed that the Rennsselaer rooters got licked on that occasion, and as* our chief champion in the affray, now Rensselaer’s P. M., never disputed Healey’s ruling as aforesaid, there is no good reason for Healey to harp about it now, and especially as he knows that our foot ball team had no share in or responsibility for the trouble. Instead of remembering that little occurrence, Bro. Healey would much better have kept in mind how the people and papers of Rensselaer have always befriended him, and how, at that very game at Brookston, a great big crowd was gathered up here and went to Brookston, as a special favor to him, as the promoter of that game, and who, by their attendance saved him from financial loss, and put him about SSO ahead, as toe are informed. And besides if the Rensselaers have been bad people from way-back, as Mr. Healey contends, how did it come that he marshalled his team and came up here for another game last season? And, at which game he was very easily but very fairly licked. And we are sorry to say it. but we guess that last sentence contains the principal reason for Bro. Healey’s hostility. Bro. Healey mentions a number of towns which he says don’t want any more foot ball truck with Rensselaer. But as it happens some of those places are trying to form teams good enough to play with Rensselaer, and want games when they do, and the others don’t want to play Rensselaer for the same reason that Bro. Healey don’t. They know they can’t.

The most unfortunate occurence in the history of Rensselaer athletic contests, was an accident which happened during the football game Wednesday. Charley Bnnley, one of our most famous players, and along with Fred Parcells, the fastest runner on the team, while almost through the Medics’ line, with a touchdown in sight, was heavily thrown on a tackle, and his right knee joint dislocated. It was a very painful injury, but he indured the pain with the grit of a hero. Drs. Berkley and Ira Washburn reduced the dislocated joint and the young man is doing as well as could be expected. But the injury is very painful one, and at best will lay him up for several weeks. He was holding a good job on the telephone lines, and his accident is a greater misfortune to him on that account. As is right and proper under the circumstances a liberal purse is being made up to partly recompense him for his medical attendance and loss of wages.

Young Cattle For Sale. For sale at my farm six miles west of Medaryville in Gillam, 19 head of yearling steers 20 head of two year olds. Jno. E. Comer.

MRS. IMES.

Marriage License.

j Charles H. Yeagly, ( Mary Smith. j Fred Dunlap, ( Lillie Mays. j Lyman T. Hall, ( Eva Barker.

A Knee Dislocated.

Defeated not Disgraced.

Cast Down but not Destroyed. I ' ’ 7. • . The Rushers From Rush Got Away With Us Wednesday, But They Knew They Had Been Playing Football. Here is the Chicago Times-Herald’s Account of the Game.

Rash Medics, 11, Rensselaer. 0. The football team of Rush Medical College defeated the Rensselaer Athletic Association at Rensselaer, Ind., yesterday by a score of 11 to 0. It is the first time in four years that the Rensselaer team has been defeated. The line - up:

Rensselaer. J. Wright L Ei Clark L Ti Whiting LG Z. Wright C cain R G Leopold.. R T Woodworth RE Rhoades Q B Meyers .LHB Marshall R H B Brmley, Parcels.... F B Touchdowns—Lampin from touchdown—Farr, feree—Fendig.

All athletic sporting organizations which play honestly and in their own class, must sometimes meet defeat and though Rensselaer’s football team has been most remarkably successful heretofore they could not expect to win always, and that they were beaten in Wednesday’s game should be neither a cause of surprise, nor of very great disappointment. To lose honorably and manfully in an athletic contest is no disgrace, and with true sportsmen it is, next to winning honorably and manfully, the greatest delight in life. Our boys lost in that way Wednesday, and they took their defeat like men; and so their defeat carries with it no disgrace nor any loss of popularity. The Rush Medics are the second best team in Chicago. They came down with their best line-up of any game this year, by their own statement. Their men averaged 193 pounds, to not more than 170, or 175 at the most, for Rensselaer. Their three center men were giants. They loomed up above the field like light-honses in a fog. The weight of the three averaged 215 pounds. Moreover their team is drilling every day, while ours has no opportunity to drill at all, practically. Moreover one of our three best men was entirely incapacitated by an accident in the first half, and the other two more or less handicapped by injuries. But for all that Rush knew they had been playing football. They made a score of 11 it is true, but only five by good hard playing. The other 6, though fairly made, was the result of a fluke, such as would not occur one time in a hundred. Our boys especially covered themselves with glory in the last part of the game. Rush, by 20 minutes of hard playing, got the ball within a yard of our goal line, the last few of which were won by such a contest as was never seen in the town before; and Rensselaer then got the ball on downs, and in* five minutes carried it back as far as Rush had carried it the other way in 20 minutes. The better staying quality of onr boys had then begun to count and at the rate! they were playing five minutes! more would have given us a touchdown. It was a nice clean game, without wrangling or unpleasantness inside the lines or out The Medics are nice gentlemanly fellows, if they are as big as leviathans and they were quite “stuck” on tha treatment given to them by otir boys, and the people generally; and they all want to come again next year

Rush. Schroeder R E Shillo R T Bland ..R G Nicholson C Keenan LG Farr LG Freeman L E McKirhan Q B Schwendler.... R H B Lamping L H B I Tobin F B ng. Schroeder. Goal . Umpire—Seifert. Re-

Their manager, H. B. Cragin, as fine a gentleman as ever run a football team, was especially well pleased; and said that in his report Rensselaer would be placed first in towns recommended for games next year. THE GAME BY POINTS. Bnnley kicked to Freeman, Wright tackling; Schwendeler made 3 yards, Toban 10, Lamping 3. Siebert gave Rush 8 yards penalty for Rensselaer’s off side play, and Rush tried their famous end plays for a good big loss, and then stood a deliberate loss of 20 yards to retain the ball. Schroeder made a loss and Marshall a brilliant tackle. Freeman tried the other end for no gain and McKiraham kicked out of bounds, and the ball went to Rensselaer. Marshall made 5 yards, Meyers 3, Marshall 5 & 3, and Brinley 3, and finally a fumble lost us the ball, Brinley retiring from the game at this time and Parcells taking his place at full back. Then by hard steady playing with mass plays and line bucks—all well executed—Rush rapidly took the ball down the field, the red and black fiercely contending for every inch of the ground. Weight, science and training finally told and Rush scored, Lamping taking the ball over for a touchdown, after 23| minutes of hard play. Farr missed the goal. There as far as football went, scoring ceased, though Schroeder made a plucky block of Marshall’s punt in the latter part of the half, and luckier than anybody caught the ball on the bounce and made a touchdown from which Farr kicked goal, leaving the score 11 to 0 in favor of the embryo doctors. The second half was a beautiful game of football. Rush kicking to Cain, who advanced the ball some 5 yards, Marshall made 3, Parcells 11, and Marshall kicked out of bounds and it was Rush’s ball. Then followed some pretty plays, revolving, tandems and straight hard bucks, took the ball slowly up the field till Rensselaer’s goal was in danger. On the 1 yd line our boys held fur downs, and took the ball down the field like a whirl wind. Time and again they gained but time was too short, and the half ended with the ball on Rush’s 45 yd line. The brilliant tackles by Rhoades was one of the features of the game.

Voting Machine.

The county commissioners of Boone county, after considering the advisability of purchasing a few voting machines as a test in the county, finally decided to purchase sufficient machines to conduct the entire election. Wednesday evening the board contracted with the United States Voting Machine company, of Jamestoton, N. Y., for twenty-one machines, at a total cost of $12,000. The contract calls for the delivery of the machines not later than December 30. Boone county has the distinction of being the first county in the state to adopt the new device for the entire county, although a number of precipcts have used them in Indianapolis. These machines are in general use in Buffalo and other places in New York and with the most complete success in every particular. Voting machines are nearly as much an advance over the common Australian system, as that system is over the old method which it supplanted. These machines are certain to come into universal use, in a very short time. And the shorter the better.

For the Thanksgiving holidays, the Monon Route will sell special excursion tickets to points within 150 miles, Nov. 29, 30, for a fare and a third, good to return to Deo. 1.

REGULAR WEEKLY EDITION

ELLIS’ OPERA HOUSEJ J. H. S. ELLIS, MGR. Conkling f amilyl novelty Co. I j ALL SHOW. | 9 £NO PRETENSIL? 1 ; Vaudeville and Acrobatic. I 1 ; Good Comedians, Clever ; Dancers. t I!''’. > ; i Friiay ui Saiuriay, I : NOVEMBER 24-25.1 Admission 10> 20> 30. SEATS NOW ON SALE.

Obituary.

Sarah Louise Knox was born in Berwick, Me., • Nov. 2nd, 1838,1 married to James A. Burnham at Biddeford, Me., April 28tb, 1859, came to Rensselaer in the autumn of 1866. Joined the Church of God in Rensselaer in the winter - of 1894-95. Died at Rensselaer, | Ind. Nov. 19th, 1899, after an ill- j ness nearly four years duration. Her disease was diabetis, which is sometimes arrested, but never cured. A quiet consistent Christian | woman, she, .in her last sickness, j was a model of patience in afflction. Het labors and sufferings over she rests in Weston cemetery waiting I ‘all the days of her appointed | time till her'change come.’ God ‘will call and she will answer’ she 1 will be satisfied when she awakes I in his likeness.’

The Circuit Court.

State vs John H. Jessen, criminal I libel. Tried by jury and verdict, guilty with fine of $5; costs remitted, j State vs Jacques Dessler, practicing medicine without license. Tried J by a jury. Verdict of guilty, with J a fine of $25. Motion in arrest of | judgment pending. State vs Clem Reed, Information and affidavit quashed. 3 Defendant released.

Thanksgiving Market.

The ladies of the Cbristain j Church will hold their annual'll market the day before Thanks-J giving. We will have dressed turkeyj| and chicken, and all kinds of Irak! I ery, bread, pies, cakes, doughnuts!l and numerous articles. | We desire to solicit the patron/; age of all who intend a Thanksla giving dinner.

Cow Taken Up.

Taken up, a black cow, at my... j place 3| miles southeast of Rens* | i selaer. Owner please call and|j pay charges. | John H. Daugherty. JI J The undersigned will make joa| a farm loan at as low a rate of in-1 terest, and as good terms as any* I one in the county. I also havsJ some good farms and town property to sell or trade. Call onorl I

J. P. HAMMOND,

write to

Stayed or Steles.

11 From W. Adams place 1| miles north of Rose Lawn, a bay horse, weighing about 1000 lbs, left hind j foot white, and left ear slit in it; ' little gray in back caused fromj saddle. If heard of please notify I E. W. Kentner, Rose Uwn. Chimneys cleaned. Town d||| j country. By Harry Wiltshire,

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