Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1901 — ITEMS HERE AND THERE. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS HERE AND THERE.

We hoped a good deal from the experiment of raising sugar beets in this locality, but so far as we are able to learn now, the returns this year are suoh that it will be very difficult to induce anyone to plant auy next year. “I do not mind the notoriety so much,” said the whale, after it had left Jonah on the beach, “but those smart young whales in our set will be sure to always be asking me to take something for the inner man, or go spouting around about how hard it is to keep a good roan down.” Oranges will be plentiful this winter.- Florida groves have now recovered from that great disaster and a crop is promised this year which will approach in amount those of the years before the frost. Added to this and the further home supply from California, very good fruit is also being sent to us from Porto Rico.

The township trustees, carrying out the idea of the county school superintendent, have granted each school under their oontrol a day’s holiday, the teacher being [required to spend the day visiting some other school in the oounty. The exchange of ideas in sohoolgovernment thus acquired is expected to prove beneficial to every teacher.. A message from high officials of the T. & C. T. railroad company, says the death of Col. Hamilton will not interfere with progress of the plans for constructing the road. Work will go right along as fast as possible, and, while Col. Hamilton’s place will be hard to fill, his work was so well along that it can be easily taken up and finished by a successor.—Rochester Sentinel. The Supreme oourt held where appeals are taken from the granting of saloon licenses by Commissioners’ court that the saloon keeper must not sell liquor while the appeal is pending. The case oame up from Hamilton oounty. The opinion further states that under the present law the remonstrater must take his appeal within ten days from the deoision is rendered.

A man who travels now-a-days and keeps his eyes open can see many things. One of them is that men on a crowded car will all keep their seats when a woman with bleached hair comes in but let a lady with hair streaked with gray step in and every gentleman in the oar is on his feet, politely offering her a seat. He will also notioe that the passenger with a big quid of tobacco m his mouth and a tinted nose has a mighty hard time in borrowing thirty cents if he loses his pocket book and railroad tfoket.