Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1904 — CITY AND VICINITY [ARTICLE]

CITY AND VICINITY

TUESDAY

August Rosenbaum went to Logansport yesterday on busin< s«. John Eiglesbach and Willie Barkley went to Chicago yesterday for a few days. Major Erastus Peacock went to xyrench Lick 1 st. night, to attend a district Knights of Pythias . meeting. Mrs. M. Barnes returned to Kikomo this morn'ng after a several weeks stay with her daughter Mrs J. A Larah. Mrs M M Tyler went to DeMott yesterday to oa-e for her 1 parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ephriam Sayers, who are both sick. Mr and Mrs. Geo. Morgan returned home today after a few days visit with their daughter Mrs Orla Finney, at Rose Lawn. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Sprague and sou of Montezuma o-ime last evening for a several days visit ,with her parents Mr. and Mrs. A. Wood worth Last night was another below zero number, the lowest temperature being five degrees below, and which still continued until seven o’clock this morning, Word from Roe Yeoman, our Purdue student who is sick with lung fever, is that he has been very seriously sick but is now slowly improving His mother, Mrs. A. K Yeoman is sti 1 caring for him. Lowell Uniform Rank K. of P. will come to Rensse’aer in full force on next Friday, Feb 19th. to hold their installing exercises in armory hall Major Peacock, of Rensselaer, will officiate as installing officer. George M. Robinson, son of Mrs Mnry E R ibinson, who has been boss lineman for a telephone company at Connersville for a year or more, is to be married at that place tomorrow, to Miss Ooie Ketchum...

Wm Heuson has sold his 160 *ore farm in Milroy Tp„ to bis neighbor, Wm Gaffiald. Th** price was 18,000. Mr, Henson, who is now alone in the world except a grown son, will retire from from farming. He and his son have a public sale advertised for ■ext Tuesday, Feb. 23. Rev. W. E Meads, former pastor of the F. W. B. church here, now engaged in independent evangelistic work, is here for a few days’ visit with his family. He has just finished a big revival for the Presbyterian at Tipton, lowa, where there were 300 conversions A marriage license was issued Monday afternoon, being just three weeks lacking one day, since the last previous license " was issued on, Jan. 26th. A very unusual dearth of marriages for the va entine season. A curious fact aso is that these two licenses 20 days apart, and with none other between, are issued to brothers, Frank and George Borntrager. Monday, though a cleat-bright day, and wholly devoid of storms, was pronounced by those who bad occasion to be o,ut much, one of the worst days of the winter. The temperature remained within a f< w degrees of zero all day and r high northwest wind prevailed all the time. Today also keeps decidedly cold, the mercury having a hard struggle to get above the 10 degree mark.

Seust >r Hanna lingered, alive hut unconscious, until 6.40 o’clock Monday evening, and then passed peacefully away. With bis death the country loses, next t > the president, ns most influential public man, and personally the mot generally beloved of any man now in public life.

George U m went up to Fair Oaks Monday, to investigate the chances for starting up again the steam dredge he has charge of. in the Kent ditch. He found, however that the ground was frozen so hard that nothing can be done at present. Be thinks it will be a month yet before the dredge can be started.

A very successful ‘‘China Show* er” was given Monday afternoon to a prospective bride, Miss Stella PsrkiHoo, at tbe boms of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Cowgill, on Weston street. This was preliminary to tbe more important event, Miss Pirkison’s marriage to Mr. George P K-tohum, of east of town. It is understood the happy event will take place Wednesday, and will be a very private affair J. T. Murray, who recently sold his farm about three miles southeast ot town to El Bruoe has bought cf J. W. MoOonehay the latter’s residence end 6<e or six acres, just north of town the former W. EL B»yler property, a<id will move into it the let of March. At which date also Mr Bruce will occupy tbe place bought of Mr Murray.

The question of the sufficiency of the affidavits chargiing Editor F E. Babcock with libel, were argued today, before Judge H anley, on the defendant’s motion to dismiss The court over-ru ed the motion, holding them good. Tlie defendant then took a change of venue and the cases were sent to Newton county. Messrs. Darroch, of Kent and, and Baughman, of Rensse'aer, represented the defendant, and Dept Prosecuting Atty R. W. Marshall, the state. Quite a party left here this morning for a ten days* trip through Indiana Territory and Oklahoma. They were led by B. O Gardner, the real-estate agent, who is the local representative of the Santa Fe railroad. Besides him the party consisted of W. A. Huff, the jeweler, and W. R. Dennis, of east of town and W. B. Leonard, of Barkley tp. They go to see the country and with some views to investing or locating in that region

WEDNESDAY

Abe Simpson is very sick with infiamatory rheumatism. Mrs. Hugh Leavel went to Francesville tod-y fora few days’ visit. Mrs. A. Wood worth has been suffering for several days with an attack of pleurisy Mrs. E. H. Morlsn and daughter Nora went to LaFayette today for a two weeks visit. The 6 year old son of Wm. Florence north bf town is quite sick with pneumonia. Temperature this afternoon, 20 degrees, which borders on the sultry, compared with what we have been used to late y. Miss V^lma Tucker, teacher at Fair Oaks is very seriously sick with pneumonid at her sister’s Mrs. Anson Chupp, in the east part of town. *

Mr and Mrs.J. T. McGee and son left this afternoon for Yale, Kansas, where they expect to make their future residence. .Miss Annette Borntrager who was here to attend her brother’s wedding, left for her home at Fort Wayne, thia afternoon.

Mr. and Mrs. B Forsythe moved frito their new house, Tuesday They are at present occupying only the upper story, there being several weeks work yet to do on the decorations on the lower floor Chanty Clerk Major is “getting his dander up” over the delinquency of Some ministers. and justices who have failed to report weddings they have solemnized, ae as the law requires Some of tbPee unreported weddings are month* back, and unless returns on them comein pretty scon, the clerk proposes to take legal action againa' the delinquent parties. ■

Last night did not reach as cold a mark as was looked for, as a change of wind during the night eased the temperature off a little The low mark was one degree below zero. At 7 o’clock it was two above. This makes the fifth time zero has been scored this month So far Febinary might have been a good deal worse, ae indeed it would have been had it followed tbe predictions of Hicks and tbs groan! hog. Tbe month so far has been practically free from storms, being only two very light snows and one light rain. Up to this time the entire precipitation -has only been a third of an inch .of water. There has been a good deal of steady but not extreme cold, end's constant tendency towards moderation has characterized tbe weather, tbe first week being a great deal colder than any subsequent w o ek. Tbe ground ia bare and the road* like boulevards,

THURSDAY

Mrs Julia Healey went to Chicago today, for several days’ visit with her daughter, Mrs. Ed Mills. Mrs. Cyrus Haas is quite seriously sick at her home on Front street with a heart and stomach trouble,

Mrs, A. Halleck went to DeMotte Tuesday to attend the funeral of a little daughter of her cousin, Mrs Hugh Burns. Mr and Mrs. George Ketchum, the latest bride and groom, went to Chicago on the 3:30 train yesterday, for a short sojourn. The Union meetings of the Pre-* by ter an and Methodist churches still continue, and will last all of this week, Meetings are held both astern >on and evening, and the interest and attendance contimue very good. Uncle Webb Reeve, mail carrier on tne Pleasant Grove Star route has been sick a number of days, and threatened with intermittent fev<-r. He is impr »ving now however, and hopes to resume his route in a few days Wm. Day has been carrying it for him during his sickness.

There is quite a rush among the young ladies for the position of librarian made vacant by the marriage of Miss Stella Parkison. It is pleasant work, pays a fair salary and moreover, seems, by past experience, to be a sure road to matrimony.. The Russian government whioh had started to building at the St. Louis World’s fair, has since the war broke out abandoned the work and sent notice that it will m->ke no exhibit The Japs not only are going right on with their exhibit but have already applied for Rus-ia’s vacant space. If those little Japs are not the original “Johnnies on the Spot,” we don’t know who can claim that title.

A six year old son of Emmet Fidler, east of town, has a severe case of pneumonia. Three p. m. this afternoon wattoe boor for opening the bids for the Oarnegie library building, and five bids were ti «d. The result was not known when we went to pre*s.

It is now claimed from Chicago that all previous winter records there are skinned by 17 below zero marks, alrea i k this winter. What would they say to Rensselaer’s recur with 21 zero marks already, and 75 miles south of Chicago, at that.

Dealers report that cabbage is one of the hardest vegetables to >btain among those that are on the market at present. Good quality of cabbage is now bringing S6O a t-n and commission men sav there will be an advance to S7(J per ton in tne nest finure.

Some parties in one of the stores were figuring up yesterday, the nnmbor of war vessels the Russians had lost to date by capture, blowing up and other means, as per the ‘"new ” of the Chicago American. They made it something over 100, which would be all the Russians had at the seat of war, and then some.

The bare ground of two weeks past disappeared suddenly last night under about three and a half inches of solid snow, evenly laid on. It needless to say that Marshal Abbott and his ever.faithful helper Mr. Fletcher, were but betimes with their horse snow shove's, cleaning the walk * against the time the school belt would begin to ring. The J T. Murray sale, southeast of town, took place yesterday, and was a very good one. Today Jame« T. Miller's sale in Barkley, comes off. The public sales come thiok and fast now, and some days there are two in the county the same day, and such is the case today when the G W. Smith sale also took place, in the south end of Gillam township. Judge Frank Wilson has ordered McDonald, the Schafer murder suspect to be removed from the Jeffersonville Re < rmatory, and taken, not to Bedford, but to Bloomington, which also is in his circuit He did this, not on account of the G vernor’s uncalled for meddling, but because McDonald could be kept there at less expense than at the Re ormatory. McDona'd could now be safely taken to Bedford, so far as any danger of lynching is concerned, but there is no good jail at_that place.

Rev, W. Ed Meads a former pastor here will be at the Free Baptist church Sunday morning and evening, will s*ng at the morning service and will preach at 7 p m. also sing a solo ‘‘Tell mother I’ll be there ” This song has been used by Mr. Meads in the west while traveling as an evangelist and has been used of God in the conversion of many souls. Mr Alexander the singer with Dr. T.<rrey in his evangelistic tour arou d the world says this song was a fav< rite every where. J. A. Coch ban, Pastor. The basis of settlement whereby the big Spenoer will case, of Monticello, but pending here on change of venue was dismissed, is thus stated by the Monticello Herald: As will be seen in the Circuit Court proceedings elsewhere, the Dr. Spencer will contest has been compromised by the plaintiff, Dr. Frank Spenoer accepting |6.000 in full of all claims against Jthe estate, and the court costs being paid by the defendants, Mrs. O. D. Meeker and Mrs. S. A. Carson. This adjustment of the matter was reached outside the oeurt, and the suit which was to come up for trial at Rensselaer this week has been ordered dismissed. The result is no doubt s relief to both parties, as it lets all concerned know “wher- they are at” and save* public airing of pri- ! vate affairs.