Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1901 — SATURDAY LOCALS [ARTICLE]

SATURDAY LOCALS

There are to date 619 persons enrolled in the Indiana Soldiers’ Home, 378 of whom are men and 89 of these are out on a furlough. The remaining 241 are women, 76 of whom are absent

Judge S. P. Thompson and wife and sods, Firman and Simon and Mis. Alfred Thompeon of this place, and Isaac Thompson, of Bluffton, Ohio, left this morning for Macinac Island, Mich., to remain until about September Ist. * The Robert H. Milroy Circle, Ladies of the G. A. R., will give an all day’s ice cream and cake social next Monday, “Circus Day,” in the rooms recently vacated by the Haus restaurant Everybody invited. ' Two residents of'Goodland or vicinity have letters from different parte of Scotland in this week’s issue of the Goodland Herald. One is Robert Wilson, the other James Watt, The latter is the father of W. W. Watt who was killed by the cars a few days ago. J. E. Spitler is helping put up the big bill boards for Wallace’s circus, today. Gene always works when a big bill board a big circus is to be erected in town. It is sometimes a long spell between jobs, but that does not trouble Gene any.

Senator Fairbanks has been invited to deliver an address at the Buffalo Exposition Indiana day, September 14th, when Governor Durbin and his staff will be in attendance. The senator also has an invitation to deliver an address before the state encampment of the G. A. R. of Kansas. Mrs. Elmer Wilcox, who has been quite sick for the past month has so far recoved as to be able to accompany her aunt, Mrs. Julia Gasaway, who has been nursing her, to the latter’s home in Perrysville, Ind., where she will remain for two or three months. Miss Anna Killin, sister of Mrs. Wilcox who has been here for several weeks, went to her home in Lafayette today. Dr, I. B. Washburn has received a report from the parties who recently attempted to make an X-ray picture of his chest, to show if possible the condition of his liver, with reference to gall-stones. The picture, for some reason, proved on developement, to be a failure. Robert Yeoman, has been found by further examination by hie physioian to have broken a rib in his fall at J. D. Babcock’s new house, Friday, when overcome by the beat. He is improving from the effects of his heat prostration very satisfactorily.

There was no new evidence in the adjourned session of the coroner’s inquest over the remains of W. W. Watt yesterday, at Remington. Death was from all accounts due to aooident, and Coronor Wright’s verdict, which has not yet been rendered will so pronounce it.

It is rather unusual at this time to hear of fires in sitting rooms, but Mrß. W, B. Austin and daughter Virginia, who are spending the summer at their cottage at Charlevoix, Mich., have written to Mr. Austin at this place that on Tuesday of this week they foqnd a sitting room fire very comfortable. W. B. Streeter, state agent of the Indiana Board of Charities, took away today a boy who has been kept by E. Hollin, the shoemaker, for 6ome time past. The boy was very loath to leave, but Mr. Hollin refused to keep him longer, alleging that he was very impertinent to Mrs. Hollin. The boy Veem6 aToutJ;l2 or* 14*"years old.

Marvin Kuhns, the Indiana horse thief, now in the hospital at Columbus, Ohio, says that there is no chanoe for a horse thief since ’phones have been plaoed in so many farm houses. A 6 soon as the loss ooours the news travels faster than the team and the thief oan’t get far enough, away to sell it Basely. Marvin knows what be is talking about, too.

HeDry Zoll, of Hammond, whose wife recently died at that place and was buried here, came down from Hammond last night and this morning superintended the removal of the remains of three of his children, who bad been buried in the old part of the cemetery, many years ago, to the lot in the new part where their mother was buried.

The total population of Indiana is given by the census at 2,516,462, of whom 1,231,068 are females and 1,286,404 are males; 2,347,341 native and 142,121 foreign bom. Indiana has 57,505 negroes, 207 Chinese, 5 Japanese, 243 Indians taxed. Given by percentages in Indiana, 51.1 percent of the population are males. Indiana 94.4 per cent of the population is native born and 5.6 per cent foreign born. The C. E. Endeavor lawn social, held at the residence of Mr. 1 and Mrs. W. H. Coover, on Weston street, last evening was well attended, and a very pleasant affair. A specially pleasant feature was the presentation to Mr. and Mrs. Coover of a silver souvenir spoon, with a gold bowl, containing a picture of the Rensselaer Christian church. It was presented by the ladies of the church, Rev. A. L. Ward making the presentation speech, and was responded to by Mr. Coover. The financial returns of the social were very satisfactory. Harry Townsend, formerly a barber in the tonsorial pallors of his brother-in-law, C. W. Rhoades, arrived here this morning from Lebanon, Ky., for a short visit. Harry’s wife is in Lebanon, where he has been employed in a barber shop.

Indicia has an Andrew Carnegie in the person of J. J. Wilkinson, a wealthy real-estate owner of Evansville, who announcod recently that like Carnegie, of whom he is a great admirer, he had decided to dispose of aU his wealth before he dies. He ljas already given several hundred thousand dollars to churches and colleges. John Halladay and wife returned to their home in Chicago yesterday, after a three weeks’ sojourn with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Owen Callahan, near Newlahds. John is a marble cutter and the hot weather this year had almost laid him np, and his visit here was for the purpose of recuperation. Mrs. Halladay’s brother, Ownie Callahan, accompanied them to Chicago, for a visit.

A olass of fifteen were initiated last night into Rensselaer Encampment, No. 201, I. 0. O, F. There are now about 75 members of the Encampment in Rensselaer and 198 members of the Odd Fellows lodge. A considerable number of these initiated into the Encampfhent last night were from Shelby, Thayer and Lowell. There is no Encampment at Lowell and and it is thought that one will now be established there. The army worms at Alf Donnelly’s place, after he cut the hungarian grass they were working in have moved across the road into his other field of the same crop. They have also appeared in Ed Gay’s field of hungarian, just north of town. They do not confine their depredations to hungarian but seem to greatly prefer that crop. They cut off the leaves at the point where it branches out from the stalk, They do their eating and traveling mostly in the night and burrow down into the ground during the day. ‘ k- ' l » ■ An esteemed contemporary says: “That professor in the Chicago university who pronounces the hymns sung by Protestant churches doggerel is evidently locking for some free advertising. He is the same individual who recently compared John D. llockfeller with William Shakespeare, but failed to make a hit.” When a professor is determined upon saying something that is likely to cause something of a sensation, he usually succeeds in making a donkey of himself.