Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1902 — Page 1

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Some Christmas Weddings.

Rev. J. L. Brady got two wedhi hie stocking, for Christmas, He married two oonples of very estimable young people that day. Dewey-Besse. r The first of these Christmas weddings took place at Mr. Brady’s residence, at 10 o’olook a. m. The parties were Mr. George M. Besse, of Remington, and Miss Stella M. Dewey, of Jordan tp. It wbb strictly t private wedding there being no one present outside of the bridal oouple and the family of the officiating minister. The groom, is 31 years' old, and 11 years his bride’s senior, is the son of Geo. W. Basse, formerly of Jordan tp., now of Remington. The bride is a daughter of -Morgan Dewey, of Jordan tp. The newly married oouple will reside on a farm in Carpenter tp, near the north end of the Carpenter branoh of the range line grave road, I Norman-Michael. Mr. Brady’s Christmas wedding No. 2 was at l ! :30 a. m. It took plaoe at the residence of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. John W. JSTorman in Barkley tp. The contwraoting'parties were Mr. Milton Michaels and Miss Lillian Blanch Norman. This also was a privrte wedding only 'relatives being present. The groom in this case is 30 and his bride 21. They will live in Mrs, Mary Donnelly’s house *fcnd Mr. Miohaels will help cultivate one of Will Murray’s farms.

A Christmas Eve Wedding.

Mr. Lee Matheny and Mies Minnie Abbott were married at seven o’olook Wednesday evening 24tb, 1902, at the residence of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Abbott, on Main street. It was a very qniet affair, only the near relatives of the contracting oouple, and a few close friends being'present. The oeremony was performed by Rev. B. F. Ferguson. The newly married oouple will reside on his father’s farm, on the former Ponsler plaoe, north of town, whioh he and his brother will onltivate. #

The O’Hooligan Busted Up.

The O’Hooligan’s Wedding Company had a large audience at the opera house, Saturday night. 'As nearly everyone stayed for the concert after the regnlar performance, it is argued that it must have been a good show or else people would not have paid ten cents eaoh for some more off the same piece. On the other hand, it is also argued that the reason people stayed for the oonoert was that the main performance was so poor that they had to take in the oonoert to .get entertainment enough to pay for their trouble in attending. The general concensus of opinion iB however, that it was a very bum show, and that appears to be the reputution they have established in other places where they have showed lately, Be that as it may, ” however, the O’Hooligan wedding is now the O’Hooligan divorce for the oompany bnsted up here and the different members got out of town as best way they oould.

Dining chain S3.7sper set, at £. J. Hurley’s furniture store, 46 oants for a 10-4 blanket at Bowels & Parker’s. Ladies sewing ohairs $1 at E- J. Hurley's furniture store. Farm to Rent T . ~ 800 sores fine improved farm 6 miles southwest of Lowell, lad., * for grain rent one-half delivered. Good house and burn, wind mill, hay barn, ail fenced. Don't apply with out good references Garun Bros. Kankakee, Hi

THE RENŚELAER SEMI=WEEKLY REPUBLICAN.

NO. 34

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1902,

Some Christmas Festivities.

The various Sunday Schools in town had very successful Christmas Eve entertainments, Wednesday evening, in spite of the cold weather. At the M. E. church there was a miscellaneous literary and musical entertainment, after which Santa Claus came down ' the chimney and superintended the distribution of a whole lot of presents for the ohildren. There were two fine Christmas - trees and a “chimney” all well loaded with seasonable Christmas fruit

At the Presbyterian ohuroh there was also a Christmas tree loaded with presents, and a Santa Claus te distribute them among the happy youngsters. A varied musical and literary program was rendered before the presents were distributed, and after that the evening ended with a fine treat of ioe oream and oake for all present. At the Christian Chnroh a very large audience was present. The entertainment features included music and declamations, also a boys’ and girls’ brigade drill and a Christmas pantomine. There was a fine and highly deoorated Christmas tree, heavily loaded, and a Santa Claus to shake down and distribute the abundant fruit thereof. At the Free Will Baptist church there was also a Christmas tree, and very finely deoorated, as well as heavily loaded with fine presents for the ohildren. A good program, consisting of songs, recitations eto, was rendered and Uncle Santa then came in and saw that the presents were properly distributed. The evening closed with a song by 8 little girls, who had been watching for Santa all day and had just concluded there wasn’t any, when in be came.

Contracts for Blank Books and Stationery.

The county commissioners held a special session Saturday, to receive bids for the different kinds, of blank books, reoords, stationery, eto. needed in the oourt house for the ensuing year. The oontract for Glass One, whioh inolndee the blank books and larger olass of ruled blanks was let to the Bert-Terry-Wilson Go., of Lafayette, the same firm whioh had the contraot last year, for $1,373, theirs being the lowest bid. The oontract for Class Two, which includes all letter paper, envelopes and smaller blanks eto., used in the oourt house, was let to Leslie Clark at $323.50. For Olass No. Three, whioh includes pencils, pen, ink eto. all bids were larger than the appropriation, and therefore the oontract was not let. Class Four was awarded to J. A. Larsh, for $37.17. Class Five to A, F. Long for sl.

A New Year’s Reception.

The Ladies Literary Club will keep open house Thursday, from two till five p. m , at the residence of Mr. and Mra. O. W. Coen,* on MoCoy avenue. All friends of the Club, both ladies and gentlemen, are invited to call.

Fine pioture mounting board, in all oolon, for sale at cost at Thx R*public»n offioe, to oloee it out. 80 cents a suit for mens heavy wool fleeced underwear at* Bowles & Parker’sTry our soft ooal at $8.06 per ton, strictly oasb, at Donnelly Lumber 00. Cutter* at Woriand’t. Don’t loss all the good sleighing dnrftag the holidays. But call at my plaoe on Oullen street, east of the oourt house, and buy one of tbs many elegant cutters we hate instock. D. M. Woblamd.

Commercial National Bank.

The fact that Rensselaer is in line for the early establishment of a National Bank, now being organized by J. W. Paxton and others, has already been published. It is now oar privilege to announce that another plan for a national bank here has been maturing for quite a long time past, about a year in faot, and has now reached a stage where its early ancoeaefnl conclusion is a settled faot The Commercial State Bank of Rensselaer has had its application pending to ohange to a national bank for many months. The application has now been granted, and the details of the reorganization will now be proceeded with, though necessarily they will require considerable time; as it is a mncb slower process to wind op the affairs of a state bank to ohange to a national, than simply to organize a new bank. Some of tbe details also have not yet been deoided upon. The name will be the “Commercial National Bank of Rensselaer, Indiana.” The managment will be the same as the present Commercial Bank, The amount of the capital stock has not been definitely decided upon, but it will be much larger than that of the present bank, whioh is $25,000. Neither has the amount of the national bank currency to be issued been decided. The law reqnires every national bank to issue a certain amount of currenoy, depending upon tbe amount of the capital stock. The least that oan be issued is $12,500, and from that up to the full amount of the faoe value of the U. S. bonds that all nation, al banks mast deposit in Washington, as scarify for their oiroulation> It is not expected that the ohange will be made until April Ist.

A Cold Christmas.

Without consulting the records and merely given as a matter of general recollection we think it safe to say that not for a considerable number of years have we bad as severe Christmas weather as was experienced here. It was very decidedly oold and also very decidedly windy, whioh makes a tough combination wherever you find it. The lowest temperature, Wednesday night, was two above zero. All day Thursday it did not get higher than 8 above. Thursday night and next morning, it was two above. It was the coldest of the winter exdlpt on the Bth when it was two below, but it was much worse weather now than then, because this time it was windy and then it was calm.

Special Meetings to Begin.

A series of special meetings will begin at the Presbyterian ohuroh next Wednesday evening, Dec. 31, They will be conducted by Rev. K. A. Bartlett, evangelist and Rev, M. A. Rankin, as singer. They are eminent evangelists in the Presbyterian chnrob of this state. The meeting will oontinne wo works.

Marriage Licenses.

rw o a i Bamuel Lee Matheny, M 1 Minnie O, Abbott {SE±iFB»? rtEWEr** “ on J Bam J. Miols, iJeO 1 Lizzie Ferher.

Three dollars a month buys a Singer sewing machine. At the Singer offioe. *' dt umnAmA Coen & Brady hare just reoeived s oar load of smokeless furnace ooal.

Perjury in Job Lots.

Warren Springer, the Chicago ! millionaire who owns and runs a big ranch in Jasper county, and who also does real estate and other business on a large scale, is also accused of using false swearing in wholesale quantities, according to indictments just returned against him by the Cook County grand jury, in Chicago. The indictments are the result of a long standing trouble between Springer and some other parties, and which they have been la wing about for years, and during the course of which a big judgment was obtained against Springer but which seems never to have been collected. The other parties are builders and contractors, and it is alleged that Springer plotted to have them put up a big building on his lot under the supposition that it belonged to other parties. Also that a bogus loan figured in the transaction.

Springer says the whole proceeding is an attempt to blackmail him, and that there is nothing in the charges of perjnry, while on the other hand, the state’s attorneys claim they have plenty of evidence to prove the perjury. The penalty for that offense in Illinois is from one to five years in the penitentiary. i One thing that makes it look like it was money more than justice the parties were after who secured the indictments is that in four days more the statute of limitations would have let Spring e out.

A National Bank for Rensselaer.

Another bank for Rensselaer is now practically a sure thing, and according to present plans it will be organized as a national bank. Joseph W. Paxton, who has had considerable experience in the banking business is the principal organizer. The laws now {permit banks to be organized with a capital as small as $25,000 but this one will probably be organized with $50,000 capital, although there is plenty of money in sight to make it twice that sum, if it were thought desirable. John Makeever, his nephew D. 8. Makeever, Mr. Paxton’s father-in-law W. E. Moore and his son Austin Moore are all mentioned as ready to invest heavily, It is Mr. Paxton’s idea, however, not to put out the stock in large blocks, but rather to put it out in sums of a few thousands to each man, including many business men and leading farmers.

The matter of a room to house the new bank in, is now the prin. cipal subject of anxiety. After the new K. of P. and Warner buildings are completed, however, there will be considerable moving about, and then there will be several rooms available, some of which will probably answer the purpose of the new bank, at least until a building of its own can be erected. But to find a suitable site for a new bank building is not a very simple problem, either.

A Very Prosperous Business.

The Barous Horse Stooks Company is now working ten men right along in the factory, north of the railroad, and need more to keep up with the demand for the stocks; but at present they bsve no room for any more to work. Tbeir present foroe oan turn out 22 machines a week, on the average, which is not enough to keep up with Mm orders. These 22 maohinee, at S6O eaob, represent a weekly product of over $1,300. It is a big business and all the time growing bigger. Moreover, if we are oorrectly informed, it is ths first invention patented by a Jasper county man that ever proved profitable for its inventor,

Items Here and There.

The State Printing Board has decided to print 2,000 instead of 1,000 copies of the report of the fish commissioner, Z. T. Sweeuey, because of a popular demand. 0$ these, 1,000 will be distributed through the members of the Legislature and 1,000 by the Secretary of Sta'e.

The Supreme Court of Indiana holde that a rule of a board of education requiring pupils to go directly home after school is a valid one, and one that may be enforced by the principal of a echo J. He may go pn the streets or in the stores and publio buildings and compel the ohildren to go home. Valparaiso Vidette: Judge Wm. Talcott, for years proprietor of this paper oelebrated his 87th birthday very modestly yesterday. The Judge is in good health and never complains. He has all tbe vigor of ose and in the past few years has frequently aooomplished as much work as c man of middle age.

The Lafayette Journal feels quite jubilant over the recognition of that city’s local statesmen. It says: “Henry W. Marshall will occupy the speaker’s ohair in the next Indiana legislature. The information comes from the powers that be. With Mr. Storms in the office of secretary of state and Mr. Marshall in the speaker’s chair, Tippecanoe oounty people will feel at home over at the capital.** % A drunken neighbor threatened Charles Ropp, a farmer living near Urbana, Ohio, with a revolver and fiaally pursued him to bis house and then broke in the door. Ropp, believing his life was in danger shot and killed the drunken man. Ropp is believed to be a brother of Horatio, Henry and Andrew Ropp, of this vicinity, as they have a brother Charles living near Urbana.

The people around DeMotia did not do much good for themselves raising pickles last season, owing to its excessive wetness. There was a meeting held there a few days ago, however, to consider what should be done in that line next year. The deoision was to keep up the pickle factory, and to plant a larger acreage next year. It is believed that in any ordinary season pickle raising there will be a very profitable industry. There are now seemingly certain prospects that the Venezuelan trouble will be settled satisfactorily all around, and without President Roosevelt being obliged to take upon himself the .heavy barden of arbitrator. He did not refuse to act in that capacity, but did stronglj urge England and Germany to refer the matter to the decision of the permanent international tribunal of arbitration at the and this they have at last consented to do

Mre. Margaret Hill McCarthy, now of Topeka, Kans., a former principal of the Rensselaer high echool, has just nude her appearance as an author, in the literary world. She has published a book of short stories under the title of “Cuddy,” and Other Folks. She has remembered some of her nearest old friends here with oopies of the book and which the recipients greatly appreciate. The stories are written in dialect.

Kentland’s Christmas preseut ar rived yesterday morning—two car loads of haTd ooal. The announce meat caused a panic. Wagons were lined up aloog the traoks twenty or thirty deep, and in some oasee as high as $2.00 was paid for a favored position. Not one in ten of those aotually oo the ground oould be supplied, bat the ship-, meat was mads to go as far as possible by distributing it in ton lots,

and less. A blinding snow storm from the northwest sparred on the fight for possession—Kentland Enterprise. The first of the five-ton steel I beams for the third floor of the K. of P. building was got into the building late Wednesday evening, after a long bard wrestle. It was taken in through a second story window and has still to be moved baok some distance and then elevated to its plaoe on top of its supporting iron pillars. The beam has to be lifted by jackscrews, and moved horizontally on rollers, by pulleys and levers Nothing more will be done with them until the weather moderates. Tbe othar beam still stands on the oars, at the depot. A bill to prevent the marriage of consumptives is now being prepared. and it will probably be presented before the Indiana Legislature next month. Tbe author of the bill is not yet ready to make any announcement concerning it or even to let his name be known. He is, however, consulting with physicians and gathering statistics. Last month over eighty mothers died of consumption in Indiana,

leaving over 160 motherless children, The death of fathers was hard'y a 9 large, The number of children who died of the disease was large. The Monon Raiload’s Christmas was a $6,000 damage suit, filed in Indianapolis. Edward J. Borman is the plaintiff, and he wants damages for being put off a night train, south of Englewood. . He got on at Englewood, and tendered the conductor an' interchangeable mileage book. The rules of the roads are that the mileage must be exchanged at the stations for tiokets, but there was no agent at the depot, and so Borman handed the mileage book instead. The oonduotor refused to accept it, and stopped his train and put Borman off in the nsual dismal, dark and dangerous locality, where suoh things always happen. Hence he has brought this suit.

Injured Leg Amputated.

John Stuber, the 19 year old son of Mrs. Kate Young, of west of Surrey, whose ankle was mangled by a shot gun accident nearly 3 weeks ago, had the injured limb amputated Friday afternoon It bad been hoped that the foot oould be saved, but the jagged wound has failed to heal, and amputation has finally beoome necessary. The operation was performed very successfully by Drs. Berkley. Washburn and Washburn at Mm. Young’s temporary home just north of town. The leg was cut off about midway between the foot and the knee. See our line of dry goods before buying elsewhere. We can save you money. Rowels & Parker. For sale, 8 eh oats, wt 76 to 80 g)unds. Call on Mrs. Sarah rown, on Sooth Milton street, five blocks east of the oourt house. If you are looking for bargains in dry goods go to Bowles and Parker’s, the new dry goods firm Odd Fellows building. Go to J. C. Carmichael for robes and blankets. Every Saturday a sale day on single harness. Shop on Cullen street, opposite the Makeever House. dwtf For rent; a good barn, with double stall, Targe ginnery, and boggy shed. Also a good wood heater for sale, ort rede for wood JoHH Coen, k

Masquerade Ball,

At the Gifford & Callahan Hall, Newland. lud., Deo. 31. 1902. Everybody invited. Good music will be famished . and the beet order maintained. Come all and have a good tlmm*' Bi O&dkk or Con.