Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1901 — MONDAY. [ARTICLE]

MONDAY.

Fred Phillips is now able to ride out. Mrs. John Huffman went to Monon today, on business. Lewis Ramp was in Indianapolis Sunday. Miss Emma Voss went to Francesville today for a two weeks’ visit. Mrs. Lee Davisson, of Chalmers, was the guest Sunday of Mrs. Albert Wolf. Mrs. Everett Brown, of Pleasant Grove, went to Lafayette today for a short visit. Mrs. Mary Hudlow, of Lafayette, visited the family of Geo. Kesinger Sunday. Dr. Geo. Miser, of Kramer, Ind. was the guest Sunday of Miss Harriett Yeoman Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Kennedy of Brookston, weie guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Grow. Miss Lelia Travis returned today from Peru, where she has been for the past ten weeks. Next Monday, Nov. 4th, is.the last day for the payment of the fall installment of taxes, without the penalty. W. H. Brubaker and wife, of Parr, returned todayfrom Camden, where they attended a Dunkard meeting. W. W. Washburn and wife, of Goodland; spent Sunday with his parents, Dr. and Mrs. I. B. Washburn here. Rev. B. F. Ferguson was in Pierceton Sunday, inspecting the Free Baptist church organization of that place. A lady’s gold watch, hunting case, was lost on the streets here Saturday. Finder please leave watch or communicate with this office.

Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Keys, of Crestline, Ohio, who have been visiting P. C. Wasson and family, went to Lowell today for a short visit Reports today are that Henry Tinder is still doing very badly and that Young Jim Blake will likely have to answer to a charge of murder. The Indianapolis News of last Saturday evening givas the portraits of Mr, and Mrs. J. V. Parkison and a brief mention of their golden wedding celebration. W. R. Lee, the hardware and lumber merchant at McCoysburg, has purchased a lot near the McCoysburg school house and will erect a fine new five room cottage, yet this fall. The party who stole the bunch of fruit trees a few nights ago from Frank O’Meara’s 10 acres will save themselves exposure and arrest, by returning them at once, to the place where they got them.

There is considerable sickness near McCoysburg. Mrs. John R. Phillips and Ray Huston are siok with typhoid fever and Reed MoCoy has been quite seriously sick with intermittant fever. The Endeavor society of the Barkley Christian church will give a Missionary social at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Burns, next Saturday evening, Nov. 2nd. Everybody invited. Elmer Ragon managing editor of the Souvenir, Lowell’s “tabloid” shaped newspaper, has retired from the position, on account of poor health and will seek some less confining vocation. The people of Francesville and Salem Tp., Pulaski Co., will take another vote on the question of aiding the Tippecanoe Route. The election will be held Nov. 12th, and the proposition is to vote only $6,000. We see where Ike Wade, the great temperance lecturer, had a big meeting in Remington. Ike is one of those fellows who have grown fat and made money in the temperance business. We knew him when he was an honest editor.Boswell Enterprise. Z. T. Sweeney, Fish and Game Commissioner, has notified thede-

platy game wardens that owing to the great call for hunter’s permits he is unable to meet the demand. He has therefore authorized them to issue temporary permits until such time as the regular license can be issued. Another pretty large land sale has just been consummated in this county, this time in Carpenter tp. Charles S. Martin has sold his half section, 320 acres, to Stephen Buckley for $22,400, which is just S7O per acre, Those familiar yrith the improvements on the farm, and the character of the soil on some parts of it say the price is a big one. W. 0. Babcock and A. R. Hopkins, of the grain firm of Babcock & Hopkins, returned Saturday evening from their extended trip east. They visited all the prominent places previously mentioned as in their route, and at Washington City, they visited the naval yard and attended the Schley Court of Inquiry for a couple of hours, last Thursday. The Goodland Herald reports that F. D, Gilman and N. C. Wickwire, of Goodland, are to bring suits against the Chicago & Alton Railroad Company for the loss of the life of the former’s wife and for the injuries sustained by the latter’s daughter, Miss Dora, in the wreck on said road on the 10th of last July, and that they will employ Hon. J. Frank Hanly, of Lafayette, as counsel in the case. The man who was killed by Monon train No. 6, on the State street crossing, south of Englewood, a week ago last Saturday, was shown to have committed suicide. He had a pistol in his hand and was prepared to shoot himself, but seemed to have changed his mind, and saved his ammunition, when he saw the train coming, and jumped in front of engine.

Mrs. Nancy Plank, of near Logansport, this state, and Mrs. Elizabeth McKinley and daughter, of Tremont, Ohio, arrived this morning to visit their two« brothers, James C. Thrawls of this place and Joseph Thrawls, of Crescent City, 111. It is the first time in 40 years that Mrs, Plank has met her brother Joseph. There is still another sister in Missouri who was expected, but she has not come. The postoffice department has decided to place the head of the late President McKinley on the new issue of postal cards which will appear shortly after December Ist. The design includes the year of birth and year of death immediately at the left and right, respectively, of the name “McKinley,” which will be directly under the head. Above tne head will be the words “Series of 1901” and above that “One Cent.” The inscription “United States of America” will also appear.

A judgment disfranchising Harry Baum, of Crawfordsville, and rendering him incapable of holding any office of trust or profit for a period of 12 years as a punishment for selling his vote, was affirmed by the supreme court Tuesday. Baum was one of a number of persons who accepted money from the democratic county central committee, for which they signed receipts acknowledging that it was paid in consideration of promises to vote the democratic ticket at the late presidential election. These receipts were afterward used as evidence to obtain the conviction and disfranchisement of voters who had given them.