Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1904 — THE WEEK'S DOINGS [ARTICLE]

THE WEEK'S DOINGS

g FRIDAY Epworth League subject Sunday: Two Standards of Life. Delos Dean, leader. Miss Edna Nolan, of ludianap-,-oIiH, came last evening for a few days visit with Miss Mary Porter, Another big rain last night and this morning has again stopped the work of the farmers in getting in tneir oats The funeral of Mrs. W. E Moore will be held Sa'urday, at 2:30 p, m , at Trinity M. E oh arch Interment la WjsUn Cuin-.y Snnl Sa oerinteucLnt Hamilt )n and City School Super-iatendi-nt Sanders, are attending ’the Northern Indiana Teachers Association at Winona. Edward Ranton, of Hooeston, HL, is here looking after his large farm southeast of town, which he has rented to Reece Roby, former- ■ taos the Gifford district Gjo N Dunn left for bis home and place of business, Wichita, Kane,, this morning. Rte wife will remain f>r a longarjvisit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Granville Moody.

The Pallman cars to be built hereafter, owing to the sanitary ideas recently adopted, will little Resemble the ornate cars built within the last few years. The tnew standard will be severely plain and will be devoid of all scroll and grill work. The uphol stering will be reduced materially and all the angles possible taken from the cars. The old I adies Jolly club met at the Comer House last night and enjoyed a splendid time* About twenty members were present and indulged in flinch, dominoes eto. Refreshments were served by the Comer sisters, after which each niember was presented by a beautiful clasp pin as a souvenir of the occasion. Two new members were initiated, and all went home well Mtisfied with an evening well ; epent. A story is told of a little boy jwho thought his sister was taking more than her proper share of the eandv, He went to his father who vjw a good man and asked him if it was naughty to say the word Rotterdam The father said it was no harm to use that word, which only the name of a city in “Phen” said the little boy, ‘T will go and tell sister that ifehedont stop eating so muoh candy that I hope it will Rotterdam teeth out.”

Willard Court, of the Catholic Order of Foresters, celebrated the JOth anniversary of their organisation by a big and finely maoag ed dance, in the Armory, Thursday night. Their anniversary was ■ really today, but the hall could mot be had tonight, and therefore the danoe was held Thursday night. But they made it Friday ' morning before they were done with it. There were 132 tickets sold, and about 110 to 115 couples Iwere present. The music was by the well known Eddy’s orchestra, horn Chicago, and consisted of Zive pieces; and was of course, very fine. The danoe was an unusually enjoyable one throughout, with the best of order and management. The Foresters will net about SSO from the affair; which is not a large amount for its magnitudes \Jiut the expenses were very heavy the music alone costing S7O.

The Republican city, convention meets al 7:30 tonight, at the ope<a house. Dr and Mrs. L. N. . Welle,< f Marion, Ind., are guests of M; and Mrs, A. Halleck for a few dun Mr. and Mrs Joseph Paxton and daughter, of Sauib B-md, cam? to day to attend the funeral of Mrs. Woo. E Moore,

Mrs. Henry Watson arrived home from her long stay in Chica go yesterday afternoon. Thtumor on her face at li gives here grr-at trouble. Will Van Dyke, of Kentland la'elv traveler for the BarouOompauy, had hi, eve operated o again at Hahnemann hospital Chicago, last Tuesday. The Kent land Enterprise reports that hr came out of the operation very satisfactorily. E tri Sayler, who is packing up to move to Stybrook, 111., intendwhen he arrives there to g> into partnership with his brother G-Hne, the electrician, and together they will install and manage a light plant at Saybrook. They have a 25 years’ franchise.

M»jor D. I McCormick, of IndiHnspohs, hu ordinance offi ter of the Indiana National Guard will be Wednesday, April Ibth, for the purpose of instructing tl e members of Company M in the care and use of their new rifles. The boys ought none of them tc miss t iis chance, if they can possibly avoid it.

S^TURD\Y What has become of the]people who said the weather fwould be all right after Easter? C. E. Mills, the attorney,jis confined to his bed by sicknass, the result of a severe cold.

Sammy Hoshaw, son of H. C. Hoshaw, has a severe case ofjpneumonia, at the latter’s home in the west part of town. W* W. Wishard is slowly improving from his severe sickness and is now able to sit up a little, though still very weak. Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Yeoman, of Kingman county, Kansas, are here to attend the funeral of her mother, Mrs. W. E. Moore.

The funeral of Abraham Pruett will be held Monday, at 10:30 a. m., at the re-idence, by,,Rev. B. F Ferguson. Interment will be in Weston cemetery.

Landy McGee, the telephone line-man, went to Indianapolis, last night, and it is understood that he expects to go to work for some telephone company there.

Dept, Sheriff White, of Kentland, brought Thomas Keefe back today, and he is again an inmate of our county jail. His case is understood to have been continued for another term.

The rainfall last night and this morning was .22 of an inch. That of the night and day before was .44. In all there has been a little less than an inch of rain in the past week, but it has made mud enough and delayed farm work enough for a good sized deluge.

Mrs. Nellie Hansoome, of Chicago, is here to attend the funeral of her grandmother Mrs W. E. Moore. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Morgan, of Kingman, Kansas; and who were themselves not able to come on account of Mrs. Morgan being in poor health.

A young *on ot Fra k Kent in, of Pleasant Ridge has the scar let fever, Anstin Haas of Logansport came today to spend Sunday w tn bis parents. Anna M< dang ter of Harrs McGee, in the east part of town, has the meas'ea.

I. J. Port r is improving slo viy from his attack of paralysis a d nnow beginning to sit up a' btde Mrs. John Stuart and Mrs J. J. Cunningham re<urned to Mo > today after attending the BipriH convention.

The wet, discouraging wean er -till continues, and this morn" g by way of n minder tnat win's' in n >t wholly lot,' its grip, ther.’ ■ er<Snow flak- s fl , lug f >r a tune.

Mrs. -lane Michaels and t-in-'aw, Mrs E<l. Mictia la or < bicago are here o alien > t rnfuoof ibe former’s brother, Unol- Ah Pruett, Monday, So also ari h nephHW, Jonathan Branson hiiii son M >nt. of Duiville, [ll Mr Brans >n whn formerly a well kn<> , n resident of Jordan tp . this cou t v

S <p-aitit.-nd -<nt Sanders arr»v—from the teachers’ assooiatio t arrived from the teachers' H-sonia-tion, this morning H- -a<s Wtnona Lake, is a nine place in July or August, but quite too damp and airy for an April gathering. The Association had a rin > program but the attendance was rather small.

Prof H. L. Arnold, of Elkhart, the very proficient and popu ar instructor in dancing and deportment, began another series of lessons, at the Armory, Friday afternoon and evening. As before, he had three classes, one in the afternoon, one early in the evening and another later, and all followed by an assembly, at 10 o’clock. These classes were all well patronized, in spite of the bad weather, the total in all the classes *■■7l being from 80 to 100 pupils.

Dave Worland has returned from his trip to Storm Lake, lowa. There is quite a resort there and he was investigating what kind of prospects were there for hie merry-go-round outfit; but did not fin 1 them very promising. The ou fit is at present stored in a room on Main street, near the old Foster House. He recently traded a half interest in it to John Hoffman They are now looking about for a good opening especially in the south, and may put it'on the road in a short time.

A hue exhibition of the specimens belonging to the school museum and mounted by the janitor, R W. Spriggs, may now be seen in E. D. Rhoades’ hardware store window. The exhibition includes quite a number of birds of various kinds and sizes, also some squirrels, and most striking of ail the last big wolf Charley Bussell, the wolf slayer, put an end to, in Hanging l Grove township. There is at present no suitable place to keep these yeK valuable specimens in at the. school house, and the school board ought, by alt means, to make some pr (Vision for them They should 11 he kept in cases with glass fronts, and where they can be seen oi" studied by the pupils The s I, d basin Mr. Bprtggs a most rare and valuable man in this line o’ providing a permanent oollecbird and animal specimens oid "is z j al and talents in that re-

p c 1 should be appreciated and av i.ed of, in the fullest degree. Per >jp-«, until another school wilding is erected, provision could oe made far this musaum in the proposed library building.

MONDAY J ihu Langhoff, 5 miles south of fowii is quite seriously s : ck with a compiica ion of diseases. Miss Bessie King, night opera!/r at the Bell Telephone office for the past tw i years, has resigned her position, to take eff cl April 16th. Our neighboring town of Mt, Ayr, eight miles west, but just over the line in Newton county, will nold a<i election on April 30th, to determine whether the town shall be incorporated or not. Though amply large enough and enterprising enough for an independent town, it has never yet been incorporated, but had all its affairs managed as part of Jackson townshi p Squire Char'ey Bussell, the wolf slaver, was in from Hanging Grove, this morning, and reports that 'here is still at lea-tone $lO chunk coming to him, in the wolf line, out there, it he can only get in shape to cfllect it. He has a trap set to catch the critter, but so far has failed to get him, but last night its tracks showed that it had stepped within two inches t of the trap

E. L. Coen and son, his sister Miss Nellie Coen andsister in law. Miss Olive Lawless, who were here attending the Maines-Coen wedding left for their different homes in Ohio, this morning. Miss Clara Coen, who came with them, will remain for quite an extended’visit. The interurban railroad which Ed is secretary of and general manager, has grown from about 20 miles, of 15 years ago. into a prosperous system of 160 miles, and is doing an enormous business. It wts one of the earliest long distance electric lines in the country.

The readers attention is called to the advertisement of B. D-Com-r of B. P R’s. Barney is offering eggs from 2 pens that are made up of extra fine birds, and about which he says Pen No. 1 consists of extra light hens, headed by a very dark occkrel of th* .right type for best results and is for occkrel mating Pen No. 2 is just the reverse of No. 1 and is for pullet mating. They are very large weighing four 7to lOj lbs, nicely barred. And as good as can be found anywhere

Luther Burbank, of Santa Rosa, Calif., the “wizard of horticulture,” who produced the potato that bears his name, has produced an entirely new potato, which may supplant all others. A year ago he secured from a remote part of South America some potato seed which be planted and watched carefully. He crossed and recrossed the plants in his mode of hybridization, and he now says he has produced something new. The potato is sweeter than the o'd. The pulp is almost of carrot hue and very palatable. Mr Burbank declares the new potato will revolutionize the potato industry of the world.

Peter Neidermier, one of the oar barn bandits now under sentence of death, has confessed that the bandits had planned to kidnap John D. Rookfelier, jr., and bold him for [510,000,000 ransom. He said they intended to attend Rockefeller’s Sunday school class in New York and then kidnap him. Why they did not attempt to carry out their scheme is not clearly explained. Probably however, they learned what an elo quent exhorter young John D. was on his religious day of the week, and were afraid be would convert them if they went to his clbß’ and lead them to confers People who were «ure the weather would get better when the ground-bog winter ended; those others who knew there would be a new deal better after the

“sun crossed the line” and that other large contingent who knew that good weather would be a cinch after Easter, especially if it didn't rain on that day, bad better bold a mass convention and agree on a new set of dead-sure weather signs, for evidently those have all outlived their efficacy,—if they ever h..d any. Believers in the potency of the moon might as well jiinin also. The moon has got full and then part full, clear empty and then full again, and still with out any appreciable result in the inauguration of spring. Surely we need a new set of long range weather signs.

Harley Shields’ daughter, Hattie has a severe case of measles. Lawyer Westfall, heretofore reported missing from Remington, has returned to that place, seemingly as suddenly as he left.

Mrs. Arthur Williamsand two children, returned to Chicago, Saturday, after visiting Harley Shields’ family. Measles is getting badly spread among the Rensselaer school children. In the 6th year alone there are said to be 16 to 18 sick with the disease. Seven children in the Wm. Lewellan’s family, near the Christian church, all have the measles . Mrs. Lewellan also expects it, never having had it John Hodshire is back from spending the winter with a brother-in-law, near Painesville, Ohio. He says it was wet enough there,, but not nearly so much so, as he found it here

Another very rare and beautiful bird specimen was secured for the school museum, Saturday It was a Bomparte’s gull, and was shot down the river by a young boy nsmed’Pattee, who brought it to The Republican office for identification. They are seldom seen so far from the great lakes.