Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1902 — ITEMS HERE AND THERE. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS HERE AND THERE.

I The January apportionment of the school fund was issued Thursday, by tile state superintendent. Jasper county baa 4,726 children between 6 and 21; pays $5,742.07 as school tax and will draw out $6,049.28, or $307.21 more than we paid in. The period of Lent in 1902 comes earlier than usual, Ash Wednesday being Feb. 13. The feast days from then until the close of Lent fall on the following dates/’ MidLent Sunday, March 9; Palm Sunday. March 23; Good Friday, March 28; and Easter Sunday, March 30. The peculiar endowment of blind persons in other senses or faculties is quite plainly evidenced in'our little blind and crippled boy Ernie Zea. He can give the exact dates of any important event in Rensselaer’s history within the past ten years, the date of the death of every well known Rensselaer person, and of many prominent people the world over. He answers any question promptly when asked, not hesitating even momentariV- « Perry Marlatt, who sold his home farm 2 miles north, some months ago to J. N. Sample has bought it back again paying SSOO more than he sold it for, Mr. Marlatt did not realize how good a home and farm he had until he he had sold it, a,nd several other farmers around here could say the same thing. Mr. Sample is looking about for another place to buy.

The cane-rushes and consequent class wars that have taken place at the Indiana State University at Bloomington between the freshmen and sophomore classes, annually on February 22nd, will not be tolerated this year by the faculty, and the students have been so notified. If they desire to bold a cane-rush under proper athletic auspices, they can do so? 'but “scrapping” will be severely puiL ished. A quite remarkable marriage ocoured in White county one day last week. The bride is Mrs. Hiram Collins, whose husband was sentenced to the state prison for life about a year ago, for the murder of old Philip Ward, of Reynolds. She is about 50 years old and the mother of seven children. The groom is said to be only J 9 years of age and has been in the employ of Mrs. Collins on her farm, for several months. Logansport Reporter: The late Major McFadin left no will, but by the Major’s well* known wishes, his household goods, personal property and government bonds which in all amounts to less than $2,000, will go to his nephew, Frank L, Dukes, of Wipamac, Mr. Dukes to pay all funeral expenses. The lots which the Major owned on the West Side are to be divided equally between Mrs. Andrus, of Forest, 111., and the Dukes children, of Winamac. <

Col. Fred Phillips was one of the auctioneers at two big cattle sales in Chicago, Tuesday and Wednesday. The first day’s sale was all Herefords, by Thomas Clark, of Beecher, 111, Sixty head were sold and the average price was $507. The leader of the herd, Perfection, brought $9,000, and is the highest priced bull in the country. Col. Fred was one of the solicitors when this fellow was knocked off, and secured a -bid of $8,500, but that was not big enough to bag the bull. The second was a combination sale, when 87 head were sold at an average of $216. * A nameless exchange says that the coatlesa man puts a careless arm around the waist of a hatless girl, as over the dustless and mudless roads in a horseless carriage they whirl. Like a.leadless bullet from a hammerless gun by smokeless powder driven, they,fly to taste the speechless joy of endless union given Though the only lunch his coinless purse affords to them the means, is a tasteless meal of boneless cod with a “wide’’ of

.stringless beams;’ he puffs a tobbacolcss cigarette and laughs a mirthless laugh when papa tries to coax her back by wireless telegraph. J. F. Warren had bis public sale Thursday, at his, former farm, two xfitiiles north qf town. The properly all sold readily and at excellent prices. Better in fact than he had anticipated, the total amounting to about S9OO, whereas some S2OO or S3OO less than that was about what he bad figured ont. As usual at public sales in this county these prosperous times, practically all the buyers pulled their weasel skins, or rather their check books, and paid on the spot. Only one note was given, in fact, on the whole lot. According to the pension office statistics more than 48.000 pensioners died and 7,215 names were stricken from the rolls during the past fiscal year. The list, however, had not decreased any, as enough names were added to the roll to show a total increase for the year of 2,273. The pension roll now contains 997,834 names and it is expected that this will be brought up to 1,000,000 mark next fall when the department begins in earnest the work of distributing pensions among the- SpanishAmerican war applicants. The New York W rid Almanac, just issued, professes to give all the names of all the millionaires in the country, though no doubt it misses some. This state is credited with 30. Of these Terre Haute has seven and Indianapolis only five. The Journal says some of theirs got away, probably from fear of the tax collector. One of these five is Senator Fairbanks. Lafayette credited with two, James Fowler and James Murdock. South Bend has four, two Olivers and two Studebakers. No country editors are mentioned, in the list from anywhere in the state.

The state of Michigan has some quite rigid restrictions on the sale of oleomargerine, and Charles H. Thompson, an official of the Geo. ILTlammond packing company, or. Hammond. is under arrest for an alleged attempt to bride Food Commissioner Snow, of Michigan, into lessening these restrictions. Snow was offered | a cent a pound on all oleomargerine sold in Michigan if he would permit the sales, and was assured that the sales would run from 25,000 to 60,000 pounds each month. Mr. Snow had other regard for moral principle than its commercial value, however, and after arranging for an interview with Thompson, had detectives obscured rs witnesses. Thompson is out on $2,500 bail and other arrests of the Hammond .Company’s employes are expected to result. *