Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 24, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1901 — MONDAY. [ARTICLE]

MONDAY.

i Jay Lamson is in Chicago today. A. C. Herrington and wife spent Sunday in Lafayette Charles Montgomery and family spent Sunday in Monon. There were 157 tickets sold here for the Cnicago excursion, Sunday. A Junior said, “Elbridge is one of the best, impersonators in the country.’’ Mrs. I. B. Washburn returned yesterday from a week’s visit in Chicago. H. M. Babb and W. C. Pierce went to Lafayette today to remain until Sunday. Charles L«wis, of Barkley tp, went to Bloomington today to enter the state university. J. F. Rank and wife, of Englewood, came Sunday for a week’s visit with J. F. Irwin and family. Miss Ethel Perkins went to Terre Haute today to enter the state normal for the coming term. Say, you Senior boys! The Senior girls want to go to the entertainment Friday night. Be good! Frank Carr and family, of Ash Grove, Ind., came today to visit the family of Charles Burbage, northwest of town. Mrs. Frank Taylor, of Indianapolis, returned home this morning after a two weeks’ visit with her sister, Mrs. John Makeever. Miss Stella Wigmore, of Monticello, who has been attending business college in Indianapolis, came Sunday for a short visit with Rensselaer friends.

Miss Hattie Rush, of Watseka 111., returned home this morning after a visit of several days with her brother, John Rush, in Rensselaer.

Dr. J. J. Schmidt, of Danville, HL, who for several days had been at the bedside of his father-in-law Thos. Robinson, returned home last evening.

Mrs. John O’Neill and baby went to their borne in Chicago yesterday, after a visit of about three months with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Parcels. Mrs. G. W. Domback of Des Moines lowa, and Mrs. Clara Armstrong, of Oneida, 111., returned home Sunday, after a week’s visit with their brother J. J. Montgomery.

Since his turn for the better* last Friday night, Thomas Robinson has held his own, and a little more, and considerable hopes are now entertained that he will ultimately recover.

Col. B. J. Gifford is in town today, on legal business. He is getting about with a crutch, these days, as a result of varicose veins.

Horace Marble, of Wheatfield, is here today. He reports that 85 men are now engaged in pulling and screening the onions on his farm near that place.

David Miller, of Frankfort, an experienced man in his line, is now in charge of the dry-goods division of Laßue Bros.’ department store. His family will join him here about the Ist of October.

The first forest ever planted in the state is now being done near Thayer, Newton county. State Forester W. H. Freeman, with George L, Clothier, agent and expert in the United States Bureau of Forestry, will plant a forest on a large tract of land belonging to a Chicago capitalist.

Laßue Bros, have their new store room completed at Rose Lawn and are moving part of their large stock into the same. They now oooupy three large store rooms

there and are doing a flourishing business. They will also open up a new store at Gifford this week, in a room recently built by John Kimball. Girls, smile on the boys this week. That’s a splendid entertainment on Friday next A quanity of marsh hay was sent to Purdue university for analysis by Jacob Keller of Starke county. A report from the station says the hay is infected with what is known as “crazy hay.” Many horses and cattle have died in the Kankakee valley lately from eating this hay. The university will make a rigid investigation of the cautes leading to the infection.

Robert Michaels has sold another one of his farms, advertised in The Republican, an 80 acre tract in Jordan tp., to Henry Gushwa. The price was $45 per acre. Mr. Michaels is now moving out to his 300 acre farm, in southeast Marion to look after the feeding of his big drove of steers, for a few months. He will move back to his town residence about the Ist of January. He has rented this big faruf To Thomas Knight, of Union tp. Rochester Republican: The terminal of the Tippecanbe route has finally been decided and Keithberg, Illinois on the banks of the Mississippi river will be the farthest western point. In talking to the surveyor who arrived here, last evening, from Ligonier, it was learned that the corps will be divided in two gangs of three men each who will begin setting grade stakes next week.

Miss Floss Wright is teaching the Slaughter school, south of town, in place of Albert Marshall, who resigned to re-enter Wisconsin University. He will leave for Madison this afternoon, and with him will go Frank Sayler, to enter the Freshman class, of the’ same institution. Both these young men have large, active and well trained intellects in their feet, as well as considerable in their heads, and will, without doubt, be stars of the first magnitude in the bright firmament of college football, this and severahfuture seasons. The work of laying the brick on Rensselaer’s first paved streets, began this forenoon, on Cullen street, at the intersection of Washington. Henry Meadows, foreman for Mr. Southard, of Michigan City, is managing the work. The city has an inspector, J. A. Penrod, of South Bend. He has been a brick burner and also had years of experience in making brick streets. He says the bricks now here are better than are now being laid in South Bend, and that they will make a street that will keep in good shape for 30 years.

North. Judson News: Many conflicting reports have been circulated relative to the delay in the construction of the Central Sugar company’s factory at Shelby, and it has been reported in several papers that the projectors and coni tractors were so hard hit by the failure of the Seventh National bank of New York as to be unable to proceed with the work. We have been informed, however, that only a small amount of the company’s funds were tied up in the bank failure, and that the delay was occasioned by other causes. A reorganization of the company, it is said, will soon be effected, after which work will immediately be resumed upon the construction of tbe factory, which will surely be completed for the campaign of 1902.