Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1902 — Items Here and There. [ARTICLE]

Items Here and There.

< Persons Who were elected justices of the peace in this county last week and are anxious to “get busy” with

the duties and emoluments of their offices, will have to wait some days yet, for the Secretary of the State Hunt says he will not begin issuing their commissions until this week.

John Sullivan, the young Remington boy <bo was so badly hurt by a Monon train at Maynard, some months ago, has returned home from hie long stay’ at the Hammond hospital. The bones of his remaining arm have not yet knit and the arm is still useless.

The crows which, no longer ago than last year, used to roost in the groves along Carpenter’s Creek, in Jordan Tp., in thousands and tens of thousands, and then a whole lot, have forsaken that region entirely, this fall. Their great roosting place now is said to be over the line in Illinois, in the timber along the Iroquois driver, north of Sheldon-

The only female lawyer in this judicial circuit, and, so far as we are informed, in Northwest Indiana, was admitted to the bar in Kentland, at the late term of court there. When admitted she was Miss Lizzie Boyle, deputy county recorder Now she is Mrs. T. B. Cunningham, having married the well known Kenfland attorney of that name on Sunday, Nov. 11th.

J. W. Horton and J C. Carmichael are jointly erecting a two room single story business building on Cullen street, on Dr. Horton’s lot north of his brick building. The building is of wood covered with iron. Mr. Carmichael will occupy his room with his harness shop, Dr. Horton will rent his for some other business.

This is the month when the melancbolly days should come the saddest of the year of wailing winds and naked woods and meadows brown and sere. So far, however, this time that kind of weather has not been much in evidence, though we are getting a little touch of it now. But especially a are the meadows and pastures not brown and sere, but green and luxuriant and the cattle that browse thereon aie waxing fat.

J. A., or Al Bryer, a former cigar manufacturer here, died in Chicago last Friday. When here he had his factory in the building where Ed Rhoads’ grocery store now is, and he directly preceded A. Lewis, now of Lafayette. After leaving here he went to Monticello, then to Minnesota, then to 64th street Chicago, where, only a few weeks ago he sold out to George Imes, brother of W. J. lines, of our town. The cause of bis death was not stated. He was unmarried and probably about 35 or 40 yeara,pld.

Wm. Shepherd, for so many years past, a well known grocer at Remington, but who sold out a while back and went west to look for a new location, has settled at Redlands, California, and according to accounts is so well pleased with it that be has selected it as hie future permanent residence. Mrs. Shepherd who has been Rem ington’s leading music teacher for many years, has closed up her work there also, and will soon rejoin Mr. Shepherd in California, after a short stay in CbicagoNrhere she has just taken her mother, Mrs. Lockwood, to a hospital, for treatment.

Wm. Kight, of Rose Lawn, well known here, was married at Joliet 111., November 3rd, to Mrs Ella Piper, of Hammond. Mr. Kight by the way, is the party who bought the old poet office building here and had it moved out east of the depot, where it stands a melanoholly wreck. It is to be

hoped that Billy’s matrimonial venture will turn out well enough to console for that bad speculation here. Rev. P. M. Elliott, state super* intendent of the Indiana Children’s Home Society, re-organized the local advisory board of the society, daring his visit here Saturday. B. F. Ferguson is president, Mrs. Abbie Roberts secretary, Mrs. N. 8. Bates vice-president, and Mrs. Isaac Glazebrook, treasurer. They will have general supervision of the work of the society here, including the placement of children in families, and their welfare after they are placed. A. B. Rowley has returned from several weeksstay in South Dakota. He has sold one of his big farms there and rented the other, and is now preparing to locate here permanently, to give all his time and attention to the business of the Barcus horse stocks manufacturing and selling business. He has to go back to South Dakota for a couple of months this winter, however, for he was re-elected to the state legislature there, at the recent election and will go back to attend the coming session.