Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1903 — HERE AND THERE ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

HERE AND THERE ITEMS.

The Monon ia receiving twentysix oars of steel rails, which are to be laid on the main track near Logan, between Harrodsburg and Bedford. Roadmaater Cornwell will superintend the work. . » Pulaski county’s sheriff will be first in the to drive an automobile in serving h : s writs and chasing fleeing criminals. The board of commissioners yesterday purchased a one-thousand-dollar machine rather than go to the ex* pease of building a new barn. The members of the Tippeoanoe Battlefield Memorial association will assemble at Battle next Sunday afternoon to decorate the graves of the Amerioan soldiers who fell at the battle of Tippeoanoe. The address will be de* livered by Gen. John C. Black of Chioago. Henry Everhart, of White Co., was found dead on the banks of Honey Creek Banday afternoon, where he had gone to catch fish, His death is supposed to be due to • pilipsy, with whioh he had been f-fflicted for several years, as the result of a horse kick. He was 24 years old.

An old gentleman stepped up to a fashionably dressed lady in a store at Laporte and tapped her on the shoulder, saying, "Lady excuse me but your dress is ripped pretty bad in the baok and your red underskirt is showing through in fonr or five plaoes-’’ The lady fainted. Later the clerk explained that the dress was net torn but of the latest style with slot seams. Cracks in floor roand the base--board or other parts of a room may be neatly and permanently filled up by thoroughly soaking newspapere in paste made of one pound of flour, three quarts of water and a tables poenfal of alum throughly boiled and blended. The mixture will be about as thick as potty, and may be forced into the cracks with a knife. It will harden like papier Maobie. Lafayette is dangling on the verge of a water famine. The cylinder of a big six million gallon pump broke yesterday and as a result the faotoriee there have had to olose down for want of water. The city now has the steam fire engines pumping from the Canal, and the pumps at the eleotrio light plants and gas house at work and it is thought the supply oan be kept up for domestic purposes only until the break is repaired.

To evade embarrassment, and rough treatment, sometimes almost approaching hazing, whioh has almost become customary at Goshen weddings, Miss Ethel B. Croop, prominent in Booial and musical oiroles, and Myron O. Dow, a young Goshen manufacture were married at 3 o’clock, Wednesday morning and left fifteen minutes later for the east. Members of olnbs to whioh they belong guarded the bouse until after 1 o’clock, and went home thinking that the event was postponed until the next day, as pnblioly announced, The minister was rouaed from bis bed to perform the oerenffcay.