Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1901 — ITEMS HERE AND THERE [ARTICLE]

ITEMS HERE AND THERE

The earnings of the Monon this year close to $4,500,000, and that, too, in a year when the company has expended a great deal of money in improvements. Fifteen years ago the Monon earned annually about $1,500,000. Prof. W. H. Glascock, superintendent of Bloomington city schools, and an educator well known all over the state died Thursday morning from paralysis, which oame as he was nearing recovery from typhoid fever. He Was 44 years old. The Goodland Herald states that Miss Dora Wiokwire, who was so seriously injured in the Chicago & Alton wreck last July, is now able to walk across the house without the assistance of a orutch or oane, and the physioian believes that she will suffer no permanent injury. On account of the leins for wages filed by the sugar beet workers on the Adams ranch in Newton Co., near Shelby, a great quantity of the beets remained in piles, on the land, until the cold weather caught them. It is stated that 900 tons were lost, in this way. The most valuable quarter section of land in the whole world is probably that of Beaumont, Texas, upon whioh are located the great oil wells. Two years ago this tract would have been dear at S3O per acre, while today it is valued at $400,000,000. There is still some doubt Tlbout the Chicago furniture factory locating in Wolcott. It appears that only 50 lots have been sold in the proposed factory addition to that town and it is improbable that the bonus money can be raised, although the effort is still being made. Eclipses in the year 1902 will be small and few in the hill. There will be three partial eclipses of the sun, all in remote parts of the world, and not visible from this continent. Also two total eclipses of the moon, only one of which, however, will be risible in this country. It will oocur on the night of October 16th. The North Judson News, published by J. Don Gorrell, is about to move for the third time in seven years, for the sake of more room.

The News claims it will have the best office and outfit in any town he size of North Jndson in this whole country. Be that as it may, the News is certainly a most excellent local paper to be published in a place of that size. This has been another week of very mild and equable weather. The maximum temperature for each day of the present week beginning with Sunday and ending with today have been as follows: 35, 39,39, 38, 40,37, 34. The corresponding minimum temperatures up to Friday nigbt, were 27, 27, 33,33,82,27 r This is the 6th suooessive oloudy day. At the Indiana Club bauquet in Chioago, George Ade, the humorist, said that “Chioago owes its commercial supremacies to its nearness to Indiana, while Indiana owes its high literary position to the fact that it is so far from Chicago.” He denied the authorship of the remark often credited to him that “many bright people come from Indiana to Chioago, and the brighter they are the quioker they come,” and deolared his loyalty to Indiana.