Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1901 — SATURDAY LOCALS [ARTICLE]

SATURDAY LOCALS

W. W. Wishard has just sod his farm in Jackson Tp., Newton Co., to John Hanes, of Broolf, It contains 1(H) acres and the price is, $12,000, which is $75 per acre. It is the highest price a farm cf its size ever sold for in that township. Jack Essen, of Brook, worked up the deal, Members of the endowment rank Knights of Pythias, are watching with great interest the up-heaval in the affaire of the insurance branch of the order. Those carrying policies in the rank are worried whether they will have to stand a big assestment or if the rates will be permanently raised. Comrade S. E. Yeoman is among those whose name will be in the hat when the great shake-up occurs the 6th of August, in Oklahoma. He has forwarded the proper papers, to have hiß claim filed to his son-in-law M. E.. Spitler, at Oklahoma City. Hebron News: —Lowell is trying to get the Gifford railroad located there. Grading has been done north of the river near the range line road southwest of Hebron and the route was expected to be laid out toward Cedar Lake, but the course may be changed. Hebron should have had Jhat road. The firm of Wallace Bros. Co., of Lafayette, has now begun work on installing the steam heating plant for the two sohool houses. The contract price is $4,500. This and the improvement made in the specifications makes quite a reduction over the terms offered by the Chicago firm.

Rensselaer is to have another circus after all these years. It is the Gollman Bros. & Schumans combined shows, and is to be here on July 29th. It is a wagon show but said to be a good one. The advance agent, Fred H. Seymour, was here today, arranging the preliminaries, such as billing privileges, newspaper ads, etc. Indiana now has but two living ex-lieu t-governors Will Cumback, of Greensburg, and W. S. Haggard, whose term expired with that of Gov. Mount. There are no living ex-governors. State Senator L. P. Newby served as lieutenant governor when Lieut. Gov. Chase took the governor’s ohair upon the death of Gov. Hovey.

The incorrigible inmates of the Indiana Reform School for boys at Plainfield are to be transferred to the Indiana Reformatory. The matter was explained to Gov. Durbin and be has approved the plan. Some of the hoys have been at the school two or three times. Their influence is regarded as detrimental to the younger inmates. The boys to be Bent to Jeffersonville range from sixteen to twenty years of age. At present there are 571 inmates of the school, and at least fifty will be taken to the Reformatory. R. W. Spriggs, otherwise Charley, and hiß son Sammy arrived home yesterday afternoon, from a week's stay at Whitehall, Mich. Spriggs and his little Sprig fished some, while there, as anyone, who knows them might have known they would, and they brought back a 9£ pound pickeral, as a specimen of their captures, just to piake fishing cranks around town envious. They report that .one man hooked and huDg onto a 27 pound muskalouge, during their stay there. A muskalonge is a good deal like a pickeral in build, and it. is like breaking a bucking broncho from the Bad-Lands to handle a big one. The removal of the speaking stand nud seats from the center of Weston cemetery has enabled the cemetery trustees to lay out eleven new and very desirable cemetery lota. These have all been sold at SIOO each, or five times the price of ordinary lots. The money realized from their sale goes into the general cemetery fund. The trustees have in contemplation the erection of a “tabernacle” in a

portion of a vacant ground in the front of the cemetery, for public meetings, funerals etc. In case it is not decided to erect the tabernacle in the early future, a temp orary meeting place may be arranged in a shady place in the lately purchased addition on the west side of the cemetery.