Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1903 — ITEMS HERE AND THERE [ARTICLE]

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Friday’s Hammond News has the following regarding a former well known resident of Rensselaer. While roofing a house this afternoon Henry O. Zoll was injured badly. The scaffolding on whioh he was standing gave way precipitating him to the ground with great foroe. He was knocked into insensibility and at time of going to press the extent of bis injuries had not been learned. He was taken to his home on Walter street. Dry and warm weather for about three weeks, is what the Jasper county farmers are asking for, to get the corn out of the way of the frost, though under ordinary conditions many fields will not be safe until about the last of September. Four weeks of freedom from frost, and with ordinarily warm and sunny weather, will make one of the biggest, probably the biggest, oorn orop ever raised in this county. Traveling men as a class are a jolly crowd and the pranks they play are original as well as to the point. A drummer selling Duke of York tobaooo had bad luck with a Logansport dealer the other day. That evening he told his troubles to traveling friends and during the evening each dropped into the store and asked the tobacoo man for a package of Duke of York. The dealer didn’t have it and tried to substitute some other kind, but it was no go. The next morning the tobaooo salesman went arouLii again and sold a good bill of Duke of York to the grocer. The theory of red l4monade as a cause for the numerous oases of typhoid fever here is still held by many and a gentleman informs us

that some physicians are somewhat inolined to the same view. The lemonade in question was dispensed here by the Wallace oiroue and is supposed to have been made with water brought here in their tanks from Attica. We are reliably informed that the oirou? men filled their tanks at Attica from the deep water wor&e well and if this be true the water bad a better claim for puri'y than a great many of the wells in Goodland.—Goodland Herald. No doubt the Wallace oirous has a good deal to answer for, but we greatly doubt if there is any just grounds for the widely published report that the typhoid fever at Goodiand and other places came from the red lemonade Uncle Ben and his hired men peddled at the oirous performances. They sold several tanks of that fluid, here, but no typhoid fever has been developed from it. In

fact the stuff sold, here wasn’t strong enough to produoe a respectable oase of wind oolio, let alone typhoid fever. The committee in charge of the M. E. conference to meet in South Bend this week has about the most complete satisfactory idea for the enteitainmentof the visitors that ever any oommittee every undertook to carry out. Badges have been sent to the preaohersand laydelegates to distinguish them from other passengers, and oabs or carriages will meet them at the train and oohvey ‘them to their respective plaoes of entertainment during the session, free. Oar fare in the city will be free also. But the South Bend people will have to treat the oonferenoe mighty wel toldo any better than Rensselaer did last year. The manner and the rate of paying teachers for attending oonnty institutes has been ohanged, by the new law. They now have two per oenb added to their license grade for attending all the sessions of the institute, or, a smaller per oent. for a smaller attendance. This will add enough to their pay as teachers to amount to about as mnoh for attending the institute as they formerly reoeived.