Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1903 — Items Here and There. [ARTICLE]

Items Here and There.

The flood at Heppner, Oregon, developed another Paul Revere in the person of Leslie Mattock, who mounted his horse and rode to Lexington, nine miles below Heppner to notify the people of that hamlet of their impending danger. He beat the great wave of water a few minutes, but in time for the people to save themselves from utter destruction. A new bnncoe game is being worked on unwary merchants throughout the oountry. A man enters the store, displays a government badge and “credentials” showing himself to be one of the secret servioe in search of counterfeit money. He looks over the cash drawer, and invariablj finds five or six “counterfeit” pieces which he “confiscates.”

A. Conan Doyle, the novelist, is one writer who also has the faoulty of at the same time being a good business man. He is Said to have recently closed a contract to write stories of 10,000 words each at $9,000 per story. There is money in literature now dajs if you can only get it out. —Beaumont Enterprise. Yep, but you know there’s few people can write like me and Conan.—r Orange (Tex ) Tribune. A Winamac paper speaks of a lady of that towb who considered herself a portion of the upper crust buying oigarette and smoking tobacco at a local store for her own use, What of it? Does not a lady have just as muoh right to use tobaooo as any gentleman? There is one thing sure they cannot by any means be any more disgustingly filthy in its use than are some men.

The guardian for yonng Gail Nipper, formerly of Delphi, who had a foot cut off by a Munon train at Frankfort, and who compromised his damage suit against the oompany, on Tuesday of last week filed an inventory of his ward’s estate in the Clinton circuit oourt. The net amount received by young Nipper out of the $2,550 paid by the oompany was $1,616 50. Attorneys got the rest. The Lafayette Engineering company has just seoured the largest bridge oontraot ever let in the state of Indiana, either railway or highway—bridge over the Wabash river for Terre Haute and Vigo county—amount of oontraot $271,200. The Lafayette oompany will build both substructure and superstructure. The big bridge will have a driveway fifty feet dear, floor of pressed briok There will be two eight-foot cement sidewalks.

A man has been working a graft in the west end of town which seems so apparent that we are surprised to find that he could swindle any person. He gives the unsuspeoting housewife a smooth talk, sells her a dress pattern cutfit for one dollar, collects the money and promises to deliver the goods next day whioh he does not. If reports are true he has suooess fully swindled several women The creddTfty of the human race is astounding.—Decatur Democrat. The wife of a farmer had a sister come from Chicago to make a visit During her stay the threshers oame and the guest insisted on doing the work alone and sent her sister away to rest. When twentyseven threshers filed in to supper that night they found a sandwich tied with ribbon, one chicken oroqnette, one obeese ball th£ size of of a marble a button bole boqnet at each plate. Nothing more. The men refused to come bnok for breakfast.