Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1903 — WM Times at Pirre Village. [ARTICLE]

WM Times at Pirre Village.

Goodland Be-aid:—Oul. Spoor writes from North Vernon that he has a stalk of oorn on his farm that beats the specimen 6 inches. Be says it is 13 feet and 8 inches nigh and has a well developed ear. However, there are lots of Missouri people her a, and the oolonel will have to bring that stalk dpt) Goodland. Some of oar exchanges announ e that Bnngham Brothers, .having sold theirJfcfig ►tore, will move away from Goodland. This is a mist ike, so far as the moving is concerned. HuviDg helped lo looate the couuty seat at Goodland they intend *<* ~?~'«in right here and enjoy some of the conveniences and that satisfactory feeling that will come with a new court housj.—Goodland Herald

Ex-President Cleveland, in a speech at Chicago the other night said that our “much vaunted prosperity'’ is unequally distributed There was no danger erf anything like this under the administration dominated by Mr. Cleveland and his party, for the reason that there was no prosperity, either of the vaunted or the unvaunted variety, to be dis* ributed. It was adversity not prosperity the Democrats were handing around, and pretty much everybody got their full share of it.

The S:ata Drp rtment of Public Instruction has issued tt little volume containing muoh valuable information relative to arbor and bird day. The purpose of this publication is to aid the teaohers and pa pile in the publio sohools of Indiana in obssiviDg the day. Gov Durbin’s proclamation fixes Gotober 23 as the arbor and bird day this year. W. H Freeman, secretary of the State Board of Forestry, contributes an interesting article on the planting of trees.

The hero ticket idea is not a new one with the Democrats. It has been tried before, but the hero has not been able to comment the full strength of the party For some reason the party does not take to military heroes when it comes to voting, and yet its sole purpose is to catch votes. But even if there were anything especially attractive about the hero among the unterrifiei, General Miles coul l hardly pass for such a hero as the world dotes on He was a good soldier, and he rose steadily in the army so long as he confined himself to the duties of a man in his position, but his chief claim to admiration among the Democrats today is the assumption that he has been unnecessarily snubbed by the Republican administration. There is nothing in this, however, that will command many votes. ,

There were wild times down at Pine Village Warren county, last Saturday. Brace Hardy went down there with his Mt. Ayr foot ball team to play with the Pine Village team. Mt Ayr took with them those two,giants, Tom Cain of Rensselaer, and Ed Moon; now of Brook, and both former men of might in the Rensselaer Athletics. After the game had got well started, and Pine Village had made one touch down, and Mt. Ayr was jast about to make one, these two men were ruled out of the game They refused to get off the field and were put off by about a dozen big marshals. Mt. Ayr then refused to play, and the game was declared a tie, and all bets off.