Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1901 — MONDAY LOCALS. [ARTICLE]

MONDAY LOCALS.

It may not be generally known that the Standard Oil Co.' pay over SI,OOO per week for taxes in Lake county. The check for their first installment is over $30,000, which goes a Idng way in paying the running.., fKpenses of the county and the railroads and saloons pretty nearly do the rest. Lake is the luckiest county in the state as far as taxes are concerned. Rev. M. R. Paradis, whose arrival here, with his wife was noted last Friday, has not retired from the ministry, although his health would not permit him to continue the work at Hastings, Minn. He has accepted, out of a number of calls received, the pastorate of the Presbyterian church at Waverly, a place 27 miles west of Minneapolis. He wilTbegin his work thete after a short visit here and at St. Anne, 111. A number of young bo>s, under the mistaken impression that they are doing something funny, have for several weeks past, been in the habit, on concert nights, of getting young kittens and carrying them about and throwing them upon people, greatly to their annoyance. There is every probability if this practice is persisted in any longer, that the boys will be given a needed lesson in good behavior, in the way of arrests and fines This is Said to be a banner yefir, for peaches, and the way the advance guard of the fall crop is beingrushed into Rensselaer, is a good evidence of the truth of the statement. Vast quantities were sold here last Saturday, especially; and one grocery store which got in an extra supply 7 and advertised a special sale of peaches, for Saturday, at 18 cents a basket, in Friday’s Evening Republican, could not keep up with their orders, with the help of an extra delivery wagon. The Goodland Herald notes th coincidence that a C. & A. train on which Mr. and Mis. N. C. Wickwire, of that city, were going to Kansas City to care for their daughter, hurt in the bad wreck on the same road nearly t wo months, was also in a bad wreck, in which six persons were killed and six injured. The fact is also noted that the train on the same road in which F. D. Gilman was going to the scene of his wife’s death, was also in a wreck, but in which no lives were lost.