Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1903 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

Tuesday. ' ~— E. S. Wall of Indianapolis a here on business today. Mies Anna Yorragw&nt toßoyal Center today for a weeks visit with her mother. Mrs. Sunderland in the west part of town is very siok with a f chronic trouble. J- A. Patton. Goodland’s noted poultry, batter and egg dealer was a business visitor in -town, today. Abmt people surpris- ( ed Miss Lois Kendall last Fri day -evening. The evening was pleasantly spent in playing flinoh. Miss Floy Nowles, of the Indianapolis Conservatory of Music arrived home last evening, for the long vacation.

Mr. and Mrs. Will Thomas of Frankfort re urnsd home today after a few days viiit with P. A Bask and family. John Coen and Misses Hattie Kerr and Mary B ites went to today to attend the wedding of Miss Bay'er to morrow. V John o’oonne r , of Kniman, is here putting up more of his parent wire fence. He has put up some long stretohes ft r C. G Spitler and H. B. Murray, and several large orders yet fill. The Monon’s first Sunday ex

cursion to Chicago will ran next Sunday, May 10th, The round trip is a round dollar from Rensselaer. and the time is round about 8:45 a. m. The body of Mrs Ella Rajal arrived from Ind anapdis, at 9:55 this morning, and the funeral was , held immediately thereafter at the Catholio o'’.urali, by Rev Thomas Meyers.. Interm-nt wis made in the Catl ojic o melery. Mr. and Mrs. A B R >wlev and two daughters arrived from South Dakota, this afteruoo, aid w.li f make this their future and probably parmaaeat horn >. A» already stated, they hava rented Mrs. Kinney’s house, on Er mt street, for tha summer, aud will o:oupy it as already furnished. Three of the most experienced girls at the Bell telephone exchange are laid up with sickness, of more or less severity, namely Misses Lora Rhoades, Ara Glazebrook and Mae Fox. Naturally the force left is overworked and can not be expected to give as prompt and aoourate service aB patrons have been accustomed to. * A part of the west end of the Stock Farm driving traok having been out off by the land sold to H. B. Murray, a new traok is beiog made, whioh takes a portion of the old traok, but is carried a goxl ded further south It is nearly completed and will be a considerably better track than the old one. At the election at Goodland

Monday, the Republicans elected their entire town ticket, except clerk, and on that the vote was a tie, between John Carpenter, Bepnblioan and Mr.-£Sr*iok, Demnorat. We did not learn how the matter was settled, which is done by lot, in such cases. Mr. Carpenter has been town clerk iu Goodland for the past 18 or 20 years. The state missionary convention of the Christian ohuroh wifi be held at Greenfield, Ind,,—beginning Wednesday afternoon May 13th ancToontinuLng up to and including Friday eveningMay-15th»-One fare for the rouad trip is the rate given over all rail roads iu the state Several frem Rensselaer will go.

Important ohaugee in road laws were male by the last legislature. There will be no more disputes about wages for teams and men Supervisors will get $2 a day for tinn actually worked, men will be paid $1.50 a- day and men and teams $3 a day. The law provides for the election of a supervisor for each road district nr *V«« second Satuid ty afier the fi r st Monday in January 1005, and every two years thereafter. It dtfiues ro.d districts as not including any part of i icorporated oities or towns in a township. Upon taking effect of the act each township trustee will d vide his township into not less than two or more than four road div.sLns and appoint supervisors theieof. Any further ohange in bouadariee of the district must be made only on petition of six freeholders. "<

“Tbtfpcople of Indiana have reason to be well pleased with the work being done by the Board of State Charities iu placing dependent children iu family homes. This is the beet possible way of dealing with orphan or dependent children, b. cause it removes them

from institutional life and puts them in the way of becoming selfsupporting and good oitizens. During the six years that the board has been engaged in the work it has removed 1,264 children from orphan asylums and poorhouses and plaoed them in good homes. Not all of the children thus plaoed do well, but of the above number 923 are still independent of public support.

WEDNESDAY. Benj. Oglesby of Medaryvil’e is visiting relatives here today,

The Northwest Indiana Band Association will meet here Jane 18th.

A 12 year old soa oj E. E Preble is quite seriously sick with remittent fever.

Peter Giver, who. moved his family to Hammond last week, has

a good job there working for the Hammond eleotrio light works. Mr. and Mrs. A, F. Long and Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth went to Chioago today for a short visit. " Mrs. Herbert Sorrel and children of Sheridan, oame last evening for a few days visit with her father, Hiram Jacks. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Fox, the latest “bride and grcom” oame back from Ohicag >, today, and will repair to tbeir home at Rose Lawn tomorrow.

A party of friends, some 18 or 20 in number, surprised Mr. and Mr 9. Mont Bark, last night, and spent tbe evening with them very pleasantly.-

A. J. Brenner, who has j is* lately sold his bakery business will probably remain here and resume his old vocation of painting and paper hanging.

Landlord Wm. Slagel, of the Mhkepver House, now drives a fast bteppi-ig and very trim built little horee, he bouaht of Derm’s Gleason The latter bought it from over about Furesman M mtioeJio and Kentland both chaug>d ends politically at Monday’s election, from what they wire at the previous electicn. This time Kentland went Republican snd Mont’cello went Demo cratic.

B. F. Ferguson and family went to M onticello today to attend tbe wedding this evening, of Miss Bessie Sayler, and the ceremony of which will be performed by bim.

Fred Don, of Morocco, has rented the former Schofield honse, on Austin Ave„ and will move here at onoe. He is a carpenter and will work for Rush & Warren.

Senator Will Wood, of Lafayette has been here assisting the proseoution in the trial of G. W. Tanner, of Halligan cattle oase fame He reports that his partner, J. Frank .Hauly is quite seriously sick.

Joseph Rowen went to Indianapolis yesterday afternoon to have a cancer specialist remove a supposed oanoer from his mouth. He was accompanied by his brother-in-law, Mr. Ramey, of Gillam tp. The Monon railway, on aooount of its continued inorease in business, has promoted 36 of its competent firemen in the last eighteen months to the position of looomo tive engineer.. This would indicate that the Monon railway is a very desirable road for young, intelligent firemen, to locate on, as their chances for promotion are fully as good as on any other road. Jasper county’s farming operations, at the county farm, are in good shape. Superintendent Blue sowed 35 acres of oats, and they are looking fine. He will plant 85 aores of corn, and will have the plowing all done this week. He reports the fruit prospects at the farm as vary poor since the big frost, exoept for apples whioh promise well James Brashear, the elderly but sporty party who oame here last week and rented a building and made a big blow about starting a mattress factory here, has not been seen this week, and is stated to have left on the early train Sunday morning. He seems to have got into a number of people finani dally, to some extent. He was

also on a big drunk Friday and was fiued for it Saturday, but stayed part of bis fine with Cooney Kellner as his security; and unless Brashear returns, Cooney will be left to tbe extent of about sl2. W. H. Gardner has bought a lot on Cullen street, north of Susan, aod will atonoe ereot a neat residenoe for himself, thereon. He bought the lot of Joe Jackson, paying SSOO for it. It is an inside lot, and next to tbe one Joe recently sold to N. Littlefield. Joe still has two good lots there, including the corner, and con Id easily •ell them for enough more than he sold the other two for that he would clean up SIOO or SSOO above what he paid fi r the whole bunch last year.

THURSDAY. Father William Wishard is quite seriously siok with rheumatism. George Goff and W a Iter PorteF went to Chicago today H. A. Warren, of Peru, oame today to attend his» sister’s, Mrs. Norris, funeral tomorrbw. Capt. G. W. Payne of Monticello is here today, oiroulating a subscription paper for fitting of the proposed M. P. church, Dr. C. C. Stratton, D. D. of Portland, Oregon, is in town again and will preach at the M. E, church, next Sunday, morning and evening.

Mrs. Ellen Oram, Mr. and Mrs. Will Oram and Mr. and Mre. Ernest Oram of Logan sport oame today to attend the funeral of Mre. Nanoy Norris. The funeral of Mrs. Nancy Norris will be held Friday, at 10 a. m., at the Free Will Baptist churoh. The services will be conducted by Revs. Joseph Coohran and B. F. Ferguson. Charley Hanson has moved his residenoe from the east part of town, down on to Front street, to be nearer his blacksmith shop. He oooupiee the James Yeoman property, on that street. The LaPorte Herald states that Henry Ward Beecher, while an Indiana pieaoher, -preached two trial sermons at LaPorte, he then being a pastor at Lawrenoebnrg. But evidently hie preaohing did not size up to the ideas of the critoal LaPorteans.

Our former townsman J. Y. Walliok is at last clear of the last oase against him in the circuit oourt at Montioello, for peppering with shot his neighbor, Elmer Reynolds, for reasons best known to the parties most concerned. Walliok plead guilty to assault, and was fined $25 andcosts. Life insurance claims to the amount of $4,359,509 were paid in Indiana in 1902 according according to reports made by the companies doing business in the state. $7,500 was paid for this purpose in Rensselaer, $5,000 in Remington and $2,000 in Wheatfield, or $14,500 for the whole county. Investigation by Amos W. Butler, of the board of-state charities, shows that of the 934 inmates of j the Jeffersonville reformatory, 100 had been inmates of reform schools, 90 of them inmates of the Indiana boys’ school, formerly known as the Plainfield reform sohool. The statement bad been made that 85 per cont, of the inmates of the Jeffersonville reformatory had been inmates of reform schools, but Mr. Butler’s figures show only 11 per oent.