Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1902 — Items Here and There. [ARTICLE]

Items Here and There.

Over at Rochester, this State, the doors of four saloons are closed for one month. It is all due to the fact that the notices were not published twenty days prior to the meeting of the board of county commissioners at their Deoember term. Occasionally an eagle is still killed in Jasper county, the latest instance occuring in Gillam tp., when Mr. Raybnrn shot a golden eagle, often called a black eagle, that measured 7 feet from tip to tip of its outspread wings; which is unusually large, even for an eagle. The bird was sent to Lebanon to be mounted. The current number of The Interior, the great Presbyterian chnroh paper, contains a fine portrait of Rev. M. R. Paradis, formerly located here, and an extended review of his present very successful work as a Presbyterian pastor at Waverly, Minn. Rev. I. I. Gozby, former pastor of the Rensselaer Presbyterian church here, has just been selected as assistant pastor of Jefferson Park Presbyterian church, in Chicago, of which the celebrated Rev. Frank DeWitt Talmage is pastor. Rev. Talmage is planning to get busy in an unusual degree, and Mr. Gorby is especially to assist in the work of organizing the young men and women into visiting bands to carry the campaign into the homes of the people. Goodland Citizen: Papers were filed today with the auditor of Newton oounty by E. B. Sellers, the attorney for Goodland in the courthouse dispute, appealing from the decision of the county oouncil and commissioners in their failure to make appropriations and aooept bids on proposed new conrt house to be built at Goodland. The case will come up for trial on the second Monday in January.

The continuous rain and consequent spongy soil of old England naturally developes large feet, on horses as weU as humans. Thus the Barons Horse Stooks company here has been obliged to make a specially large size ot their foot damps for the apparatus, especially for their English trade though some of the big horses in the lumber regions of this oountry oall for the larger size of damp also, Only two of these large clamps have yet been received and one of them was sent to England with a maohine Friday. The Crown Point Star says that the cost of bridging in Lake county the past ten years would if all footed up, soare the tax payers. Also that there is no prospeot of a let-up in the demand for new bridges, owifig largely to the new ditohing being done. Jasper county is in the same boat with Lake in this matter, and even worse off, for in Lake the many railroads pay the big end of all taxes, while Jasper has comparatively few railroads, and the people have to foot the bridge bills themselves.