Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1901 — SATURDAY LOCALS [ARTICLE]

SATURDAY LOCALS

The Crown Point Star bemoans the failure of the pumpkin crop, with its resulting scarcity of “punkin pies" at Thanksgiving | time. It thinks the president will > have to emit or greatly qualify'; j his time honored allusion tfi the J ! year 4 ••bountiful crops" in his i Thanksgiving proclamation, He I can get it ill all right, however, if j jhe confines it ncstly to Jasper j | county, Ind. Waterworks superintendent j j Chamberlain, with a force of men. constructed a temporary Hood gate ! across the Makemself ditch, at the Main street crossing, at Lucius Strong's residence, yesterday and then by means of two four inch hose pipes connected with a hydrant conducted water into the ditch until, it backed up for about three blocks at a depth of almost f9Ur feet. They then pried open the flood gate and let the water rush down the ditch way, flushing it out clear through the town. R. A. Moore, of Lafayette was here this morning and in behalf of his Miss Sabra Stockton, an Indianapolis physician, sold 80 acres of land in the northwestern part of Newton township, Harry Kurrie and Frank Zickmund each purchasing 40 acres and paying $25 per acre, for the same. The land was entered from the government by Daniel Stockton in the early forties and his daughter, Sabra, heired it on the dea>th of her father, about 1871, and this-sale is, therefore, the first transfer that has ever been made of the land.