Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1900 — THURSDAY [ARTICLE]

THURSDAY

Born Tuesday, -Nov. 13, to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Maxwell of Barkley tp. a son. The ladies Literary Club will meet Friday at 2:30 p. m. with Mrs. Jennie M. Thompson. Miss Ona Tyner returned home to Cedar Lake today, after a week’s visit with Mies Maude Jacks. Arthur Frame went to DeMotte, this morning, for a several days’ visit with his parents. W. H. Coover returned home this morning from a few days’ business stay at Monticello, Wolcott and Remington. Born Wednesday night, Nov. 14th, to Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Kahlei, 4 mi'es southwest of town, a son. The round trip rate to Delphi, tomorrow, on account of the foot ball game, will be only one dollar. The party will go on the 1:45 p. m. train and return at 6:32. Miss Kate Mauck, west of town, returned home today, from several days’ visit with relatives at Monticello. Her niece, Miss Ina Witham returned with her for a week’s visit. Mrs. Thos. W. Grant, of Rose Lawn, returned home this morning, after a few days’ visit with her sister, Mrs. Albert Daugherty, southeast of town, who is seriously sick. The Jasper County Sunday School Convention will convene next Monday evening at 7:30 at the First Baptist church, and continue until 2 p. m., Tuesday. James B. Carmen, the State Superintendent will give the address Monday evening. Miss Theresa Wigforss, now at the Makeever House for a short professional stay, is not only the first female optician that ever visited our town, but she is one of the pioneers of her sex in that line of vocation. She states that, so far as she knows, there are only three others in the whole country, who are in the vecation and like her are graduates of recognized optical colleges.

Dr, Johnson went up to Owen Callahan’s near Comer yesterday, called by the serious condition of Owen Jr., the- latest small-pox case, as heretofore mentioned. The boy was in a very dangerous condition from an attack of erainpe, and he is not out of danger yet. ■ Prof. W. H. Sanders and daughter Eura, Profs. Hiatt, MitcheP, Misses Conner, Harris, Roberts, May, Needham, Chilcote, Howartb, and Mrs. Kaub and son Vern are visiting the schools at Indianapolis today and tomorrow. Prof, Coen, and Misses Bates, Marshall, Shields and Cooper are visiting the Chicago schools.

Frank O’Meara has sold his prize winning Poland China hog Royal Medium, winner of a great many first prizes including State Fair and special prizes, to E, B Marshall & Son, of Marion, Ind. Selling for the highest price of any hog ever sold in Jasper Co., the price being $125 cash. ' Today’s Indianapolis Journal gives the complete official vote on Governor. Durbin’s plurality is 25,259. The Journal says all the official returns for president have not yet been received, but will be given soon. McKinley’s plurality will be somewhat larger than The correct vote in this county for governor, is Kern 1552, Durbin 2055. The traveling faker, who recently run a boot and shoe store in Leopold’s Liberal Corner building has now sought fresher fields. He left on the shelves of the room many hundreds of empty shoe boxes, and which were empty when he put them up. That being the kind of bluff he worked to make it appear that he had a large stock of goods.

Another mean man has been found. He is a farmer of a neighboring county. A few days ago he killed a big fox squirrel, and after skinning it stuffed the hide and took it to the woods where it was securely fastened to the limb of a big tree. When the first hunter came along be shot away about all his ammunition but the squirrel remained in the tree. He then climbed up to the squirrel’s perch, and when he saw the joke he was so hot that he burned a hole in his pants sliding down the tree. He left the squirrel for the next hunter. The directors of the Jasper Public Library met Wednesday eveningand ordered 1100 worth of new books. It was decided to continue the series of public entertainment throughout the winter. The first will be Friday evening, Deo. 7th. the “Spelling School.” The tax voted for the library at the recent election will not be available until another year, so that the entertainments are necessary for the proper maintenance of the library.