Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1904 — CITY AND VICINITY [ARTICLE]

CITY AND VICINITY

TUESDAY Everett Brown of Pleasant Grove went to Crawfordsville today on business. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Festus Chupp just west of Surrey this mor nig a boy. Mr. and Mrs. G, K. Hollingsworth went to Chicago this morning for a short stay. Mrs. F M McFarland, of Camden, returned home this afternoon, after a short visit with her uncles, J. T. and Nelse Randle. Mrs. Mann Brewer, of Monticello, returned home today, after a few days visit. Her sister Miss Ada Sayler accompanied herhome. Jesse Gwin has not made his animal spring duck trip to the Kankakee river yet, and he may be able to shoot all the ducks he wants from his back door, if the present high water keeps up. Mrs. C. D. Nowels and daughter Floy went to Delphi this afternoon called by the sickness of the former’s sister, Mrs. T. B. Gasaway; and which is understood to ba very serious. Fred Sargent and brother W. W. Sargent, both now of Monticello, were in town today, on busi ness. Fred is now traveling for the International Harvester Company. Korah Parker and Charley Clark’s big bag of ducks has ■started the other Rensselaer hunters to moving. Ed Warren and Wm. Clouse started for the Kankakee to get their share, this morning. The big rain last night put the northeast part of town all under water again. Opinions still differ as to whether it is because M ikemself sewer is too small; the catoh- " bes'ns too high, or because a big bull-h jad has got his horns hooked fast in the outlet. Nelse Randle’s report has not been received yet. He is working on it though, and so far as it is completed it runs about like this —! Dr. Bernard Maloy, of Steger 111., and his mother, Mrs James Maloy, who has been staying with him for some time, oame last evening for a short stay, the Dr, returning home this forenoon. Steger is a flourshing factory town, close to Chicago Heights, and toe Dr. has a fine practice there already. His wife whose sickness has been mentioned, has a complioatiou of diseases including tuberculosis and Brights disease and presumably oan never get any better. There is no oonrt in Newton county this week, but next week there will be a whole lot doing Wer there. The oases set for trial then include quite a number from Jasper county. These include three state cases against F. E. Babcock, editor of the Democrat for libel, in which A. Halleck is complainant; and the civil oases of Thompson vs Patrick Halligan et al; and 0. A. Gundy vs LeMoine. On the week following the oases of Alice P. Williams et al vs Jasper Oil Company; and B J Gifford vs Hemy Toomire, are set for trial. In the Babcock oases change of venue was taken from Judge Hanley by the defendant. We will sell farm implements and Osborne binders and mowers. Lee & Poole, MoOoysburg. i For Rent: Good business building, size 30x100 feet. Apply to Moh26 ' Jas. H. Chapman.

WEDNESAAY B. S Fendig went to Chicago today on business. Born, Sunday, March 20th, to Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Schaffer Jr , of Jordan Tp., a daughter. Miss Jeannette Needham of Indianapolis came last evening for a few days visit with friends. C. W. Duvall is improving his residence on Weston street by the addition of a very large and hand,some front porch. 8. Denkle, of Chicago, returned home this morning after attending the funeral yesterday _Qf little Ralph Sprague. Mrs. M. A. Cornell, of Logansport and Mrs. H. C. Wallace, of Chicago, are the guest for a few day of Mrs Chas Nichols, Qur newly acquired springtime is getting down to work in good shape, today, giving us as fine a March day as anyone need wish for. Water was over the grade at Burk’s bridge four miles north, yesterday, until it nearly came into the buggies of people who had to oroi-s it. J. O Harris has continued very poorly ever since his return from Hot Springs. He is up and about the house much of the time, but not able to be outside any. Ben Prebble is arranging to go to Sout i Dakota about next Tuesday. He now owns the outfit of bis father’s late bowling alley, but is not decided what he will do with it Monday night’s heavy rain helped the roads more than it hurt them, by beating down and compacting the ground. It also must have helped greatly to get the frost out of the ground. The Military Band had a pleasant dance in the armory last night though not so largely attended as they had hoped" for. So many similar attractions lately probably detracted from the attendance. Mrs. Mary Drake returned home from Chicago 'ait evening after a two weeks stay with her mother, Mrs w&loney, and eister, Mrs. Bernard Maloy who on account of her sickness is now at her mother’s home. A. B. Rowley is back from Lis western trip which extended to his old home in South Dakota, He says farmers will begin seeding there this week. Mrs. Rowley and daughter May, are still visiting at Cedar Rapids, lowa. Mrs. Eveline Switzer, of Barkley Tp, is very seriously sick with broncho pneumonia, and complicated lately with erysepelas. She is quite advanced in age, which makes her sickness all the more serious. Wm Schleman, the buggy dealer, has rented O. J. Roberts’ big building, on Van Rensselaer street, lately used for a bowling alley, and after some refitting, now in progress, is completed, will move his businesd’into it. George N. Dunn, who is still visiting here from Wichita, Kans., says every day pretty nearly out there is like today has been, heie. In fact there has been too much fine weather this winter and a few more rainy days could have been used to advantage. Lately however there have been some fine rains there, and prospects are thereby much improved.

For the first time this spring the streets were in condition to permit Marshal Abbott to get his big four-horse iscraper at work on them today. Tuey needed it badly enough. ~ Uncle Pat Halligan estimates the value of his barn that was scattered over 40 acres of land by the big wind, Monday night, at S4OO. It will be a total loss, for though insured against fire the injsurance did not include wild damage. Ed Moon the blacksmith has arranged to take entire charge of the blacksmithing dipirtment at J. P. Warner’s place on south Front street. Mr. Warner will retain the carriage and wagon work, but in the blacksmithing part El. will be “the whole cheese” as he expresses it. John R. Hoffman has sold the house in the northeast part of town, he built last year to David M. Worland. The price was SI,OOO for house and two lots. Mr. Worland will occupy the place, as a residence Mr. Hoffman intends to imigrate to Oklahoma City, in about three months. «Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Kenton and s>n On ar ley are arranging to go to South Dakota as soon as Charley’s medical college at Indianapolis dismisses for the summer, and expect to be out there about four months. It is quite likely, Mr. Kenton will sell his farm and mive to South Dakota, though he also likes the country and climate around Wichita Kans. A big flock of the real oldfashioned sand-hill cranes flew leisurely nortaward today, right over Rensselaer. These and the white or whistling cranes, used to be seen in great numbers every fall and spring. Now they are an unusual sight They are never seen flying except in nae weather and then always far, far up in the ambient air. Ezra L. Clark has; terminated bis long service in the county auditor’s office, and Tuesday began work as chief deputy in treasurer’s office. Mr. Clark has been deputy auditor for twelve years and nearly five months, continuously, and in one office or another he has been doing court house work constantly for over 30 years, and there is no man in Jasper county, nor probably in any counties adjacent, with a more thorough knowledge of the detals of the work of all the county offices than he has. The funeral of little Ralph, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Sprague, now of Brazil, this state was held Tuesday afternoon, at the residence of Mrs. Sprague’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. A, C. Wood worth, on River street. The attendance was large and unusually so for a child’s funeral. Many business men were present especially Masons, out of respect to Mr. Sprague, who belongs to that fraternity. The services were conducted by Rev. A. G. Work. Tne pall bearers were four youths, John EUis. Wade Lißue, Firman Thompson, Taylor McCoy. The floral offerings were very profuse and beautiful. Among those from elsewhere attending the funeral were Mrs. Kate Ball and Mrs. Ed. Fuller, of Monon. Little Ralph would have been four years old th e 27 of next May.

THURSDAY E. P. Honan is in Chicago today on business. . , Born to Mr. and Mrs. Boss Hawkins, of Anderson, Monday, an 8 pound daughter. Miss Laura McCiellan, of Crawfordsville, is visiting her sister, Mrs W. A. Huff. Mose Teuter and daughter Miss Helen went to Chicago today for a two weeks visit with relatives. Mrs. Edward Beach and children. of Delphi, came today for „a few days visit with her sister Mrs. Kate Watson. - If nothing else is doing up near the Yaiu, they have smallpox. Five cases have been found in

Rose Lawn, in a family named Weenland. Health officials have got busy, and probably it will be confined to theone family. The subject of the Sunday eveningsermon at the Christian church will be “Character Building,” the first a series to ba given especially for the young people. Rev. W. J Wright, of Washington, D. C,-will preach at the Christian Church, Monday evening, March 28th. Mr. Wright is a man of note in the church and has a national reputation as an orator. The last public sale of the season took place Wednesday, at Wm. Pruett’s, in Jordan Tp Though the sale had been postponed from a previous date, on account of bad weather, yet the attendance was good and all the property sold well. It was not a large sale, however amounting to about $750 A Mr. and Mrs. Stanley, who live up about Fair Oaks, reached town last evening, on their way to Benton county, where they formerly lived. They left their horses at Kresler’s feed barn and put up at the Nowels House. About 8:30 Stanley went out, and she has not seen him since and is greatly worried about him. He was at Hildebrand’s saloon about 11 o’clock, and at Tanner’s restaurtint a little later. He is disposed to ooozi, but seemed sober when last seen. Marshal Abbott and Old Sleuth Zea looked for him all the fore* noon, without result. He will probably turn up all right when begets ready. There- was “no thoroughfare” on the Monon between here and Chicago again last night, and trains, including the early paper train from Chicago, went around by Wilders and the Michigan City division. The trouble was due to high water, on the Kankakee marsh north of Shelby. A bridge over a ditch at “Grassmere,” now more properly “Watermere” anyhow the place is mere water, was undermined and sank about 18 inches. They got it pried up in time for the milk train to slowly crawl over it on all fours, and the Ila. m. train also got over it, after a delay of about two hours* It is also expected to have it so freight trains could creep over alsi, this forenoon some time. As Postmaster Meyers was entering his registered letters on. the proper record last evening, he had one from Washington Court House, Ohio, another from Washington. 111., and a third from Washington, D. C., all in a string, one immediately after the other, in the order in which they came. He thinks if he can be allowed to hold his position as postmaster, until that same circumstances is duplicated, namely until three registered letters come in a string, from three different cities all of the same name, he will then be as old as Mathusalab, and that he will then be willing to tender his voluntary resignation. Wnioh is really sooner than we had been led to expect. Fred Mackintosh was unexpectedly called away from hieupleasant sojourn, in this, the home of his intended bride, by a call to go to Dayton Ohio, to meet hie mother and his only brother, John, who is being taken back to their old home at Portland, Maine. John, who is a traveler for a wholesale house, has been laid up at Oskaloosa, lowa, for the past 16 weeks, from internal injuries received in a runaway. He has been through two operations, but so far seems but little improved, and ia still helpless He will probably stay at Dayton about a week, for treatment by specialists, land. Fred, in that oase. will stay at Dayton until be has to go to Salem, 111., to begin his season’s work as general agent for Lv Monta’ circus. The best buggies for least money at Sohleman’s. See that S9B Harper Surrey at Sohleman’s. If your farm loan is maturing soon, oall at First National Bank and learn terms.