Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1904 — THE WEEK’S DOINGS [ARTICLE]

THE WEEK’S DOINGS

FRIDAY Mies Leseie Bates is visiting Mies Shields, in Monon for a few days. The D. R. Saturday at 3 p. tn. at . Alpoiie’s residence. t; Messrs. J, L. Brady and B, O. Gardner are in Chicago today on business. Mrs. Geo. Murray went to Goodland today to visit relatives for 2 or 3 days. Misses Helena Washburn and Grace Nowels are in Chioago shopping today. O. I>. Nowels and family are visiting his son Arthur and family at Columbus City, Ind., for a few days. Mrs. Elmore McCray, of Kentland. returned home today, after a week’s visit with Mrs. Jennie Thompson. Miss Jennie Bernard is home from Chioago, where she has been attending a musio school, for the sunpner vacation.

W. J. Hoback, station agent and operator at,hazard. Neb., was in town yesterday., He was born and raised in Francesville. B. F. Cloen, oame home yesterday to spend the summer vaoation. he has been teaohing in the Bookford! III M high school the past year. Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Speece returned to their home in Fort Wayne yesterday, after a? short visit with Mrs. Speece’s sister, Mrs. 0. W. Rhoades. Mxs. J. M. Wasson went to Winamao yesterday to attend her brother Prior Wood’s .golden wedding. She will rernain there, and visit jrith him.for about a week. J. J. Sweeny* of the Carnival Company, is suffering from a severe case of bipod poisoning in the hand and arm, contracted Saturday, from a cut in the finger. Dr. Miller is treating him. J. H. Chapman has reoeived the large safe he reoently ordered, for his use as assignee of the McCoy bank; and has plaoed it in his office up stairs in the Makeever bank building. It is a big one weighing 5,500 pounds. Mrs. Albert Alter of Forrest Ind, who has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Thompson, went to Moqtioello .. today where she will visit a while before returning home.

John B. Greenhalgh of Virgie, Kans., is here for a visit with his oousin, O. L. Thornton, and may stay all summer. He reports that his part of Kansas is as mnoh too moist as this immediate portion of Indiana is too dry, Seoretary Hurty, of the State Board of Health, who has been devoting a great deal of study tq the mortality reoords and reports of insurance oompanies, says the reoords show that taberonlosis is contracted by 25 per oent of those who recover from typhoid fever. The commissioners will not be able to finish the Iroquois ditch hearing at this time, but will adjourn it today until July sth. As a result of investigations so far made, considerable more land is being bought in and assessed than the viewers reported. Temperatnre at two p. m today 89 degrees. The lowest temperature last night was 73 degrees. It was the warmest night of the year, so far, by six degrees. The warmest previous night was 67 degrees the night of May 20th.

The Republican National Convention, at Chioago yesterday afternoon, carried out the overwhelming demands of the party, by nominating Theodore Roosevelt, , <$- Ngjte York, for President, ; 4pd Senator Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana, for Vice President. The ranks-and file of the party made the ticket, and they will see to electing it, next November. An old farmer was in a Monticello drug store the other day and noticed an electric fan buzzing inside of a wire screen. He Watched it a few minutes and tken stepping over to the druggist, said: “Mister, I don’t want to be givin’ you advise about runnin’ yer business, but es you don’t stop that damn squirrel in thet cage he’ll run his fool self to death.”

Judge Hanley, Clerk Warner, and G. E. Murray were “in on the ground floor” at the big convention, Thursday. E. P. Honan, who was in Ohioago on Foresters’ busi* ness also got in. Charley Warner hays that the reports and caricatures of Unole Joe Cannon’s queer ways are not exaggerated. He is pretty nearly a whole show, when he gets in action, all by himself. We are reliably informed that the tangle over the attempted sale of the Tanner restaurant building to Lew Hammond, will probably be settled without a law suit, though the papers for one have been ready to file for several days. The oiroumstsnoes of the sale, as we are now informed was that the oontraot for the sale provided an advanoe payment of SSO by Hammond to Mr. Bedford the owner, and that if either party failed to oarry out the oontraot, die should

forfeit SSOO to the other. It is this SSOO that the law suit will be about, if there is any law suit. If all the shows iu the Lotta Carnival Company had been as meritorious and as well managed as The Eleotrio Theater the company would no doubt have kept together and prospered greatly. It is* by general oonsent, not only the beat show on the gronnds, but is one that would hold a high place in any oarnival company. It is in fact, a good olean show, with many exoellent features, and considered by all who seen it as well worth the price of admission. The Delphi Journal sends a marked article giving the Latta Carnival Company a very hard roast, in which it is claimed that the company was accompanied by a very tough lot, male and female, andthat acts lawlessness were committed or attempted there and in Frankfort. The fragments of the company left here have not so far been reported as attempting anything worse than a little gambling game, which they quit pretty quick with the city officers have in sight. Probably the tough followers all left when the company broke up. Prof. Albert Marshall, of Northwestern Military, Aoademy is off on a more extensive and probably more enjoyable, though for its lengtb, not more exciting water water trip than the one Jbe and Jennings Wright todk two or three months ago, when they got an involuntary ioe water plunge bath, in the river at the Cowden bridge. He ie with a large party of professors and oadeta of his institution, who are journeying by water

down to St Lonis, to see the world’s fair. There are two large steam launches full in the party. They go by canal to the Illinois river and by that stream and the Mississippi the rest of the way.

SATURDAY Prof, W. O. Hiatt ie in Lafayette today on business. Born, Jnne 23, to Mr, and Mrs Jacob Dewey, of Jordan Tp. a eon. Mrs. Dennis Castor, is visiting relatives at Montioelto for a few daysDr. Washburn, and Miss Myra Watson were in Indianapolis yesterday. Mrs. A. Halleok and children went to DeMotte yesterday for a short visit, Miss Jane Butler returned to her borne at Pern, after an extended visit with Miss Hazel Warner. Miss* Ethel Ferguson* entertained a company of young people last evening in honor of Miss. Jane Batler.

, Miss Mary Wright left last evening for an extended visit with [friends at Hammond and 1 at Madison, Wie. Joseph C. Reynolds, of Delphi, was home today visiting his mother, Mrs. Hettie E, Reynolds, who has been sick for several days. B; F. Ferguson is in Battle Ground today attending the Brown Reunion, whioh is a reunion of all the old settlers of Battle Ground, Clint Brown, who got, carbolic acid in his eye about two weeks ago can now see with it a little and expects it will recover entirely, in time. E. E. Woodcock, of the Lowell Souviner is still another Lake oNinty editor man who attended the Represenative convention here lately. He is a nice little man ; and runs a nice little paper. Sipreme Court Judge J. H. Gillet, Ernest Shortridge, the Lake oounty chairman, and A. F, Knotts, candidate for congress two year hence, were among the visitors at the Representative convention here, today.

W. H. Robertson the celebrated “Print” Robertson, of the departed Wheatfield Telephone, was here with the Hammond contingent, today. He is now on the Hammond Tribune. His father, F. E. Robertson, now runs the Reddick, 111., Telephone, which lately lost some of its outfit by a fire. J. H. Chapman moved all the books and acoonnts of the McCoys and their processors from the MoCoy bank, Friday afternoon. All the books, papers and accounts he plaoed in the new safe in his office just bought for the purpose, All the rest of the papers and books he had stored in the empty bank vfeul£ in the Nowels blook. There were two large dray loads of these old books and papers whioh had been accumulating daring the fifty years the bank has been in' business-

Gov. Durbin gives an explanation of why he dumped Col. Studebaker, of the Third regiment, which makes it look different. He says Studebaker has been so busy making money that he has not attended any annual enoampments, and that he totally disobyed orders to accompany the inspecting officers when they inspected the companies, preparatory to their entering the U. S. reserve force. Regarding the appointment of Thayer as Colonel, he explains that he was the next Lieutenant Colonel in one man, who did not want to be Colonel.

Editor Bibler, of the Hammond Daily Tribune and the Crown Point weekly Register, was one of the convention visitors here today. Mr. Bibler is a newspaper man of marked ability. He took the Crown Point paper some years ago when it was dear run down, and made a fine and a prosperous and paying property out of it. Muoh more reoently he has repeated the

the same process with the Hammond Tribune, whioh was also badly ran down and has made it into one of the best daily papers in this s action of Indiana.

MONDAY Mr. and Mrs. Clift Passons went to Joliet, 111., today for a week’s visit, Mrs. W. L. Lovelane, of Chioago spent Saturday here with Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Ross. Delos Coen, of Yale came home Saturday evening to spend his summer vacation. .. Mrs. W. H. Parkiaon and children returned Saturday from an extended visit with her parents at Attica. Her mother Mrs. A. Lynne acoompstned her home for a short visit. Mrs. Mlary Wheeler, of Chioago* returned home Saturday after a two weeks visit hero with Mtes Cent Carr. Norman Walker of Bloomington this state, spent Sunday here with his brother John Walker. Miss Kate Wood of Monon is visiting Mis, Frank King today. ! Mrs. 0. G. Spitler and daughter Elizabeth, went to Chicago this morning for a few day's visit. Major Harrison oommander of the Third Battalion, arrived here this morning and will inspect Company M- Tuesday evening. Mrs. Lew Hammond, wife of the patent wire fence man, went to Chioago today, and will be joined soon by her husband, he hating about completed his work here. Saturday’s highest temperature was 92 degrees. Today’s was 69 degrees, whioh is a pretty sharp decline in temperature.

Fred Chapman; who has been, acting as a clerk in the post-office for some months, but who has oeen expecting to get into the railway mail Servioe for some time, has got his appointment, as a subclerk, He * left for Cincinnati Suuday night, to reoeive instructions and to begin his work. The reason why rand free delivery route No. 4 from Rensselaer was not started on July Ist, has now been found out.- None of the parties who took the examination for carriers reoeived the minimum per cent required by law and anotner examination will be held.

John W. King, who has been so long an invalid from nervous prostration has been slowly regaining his strength for some months, and has been making short trips on his bioyole, getting several times as far as the depot, this'morning he oame down town, for the first time in five years, laoking about six weeks. He attributes his return to health to some form of oxygen treatment he is taking. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Willey are making a few days’ visit with Rensselaer and Mt. Ayr relatives. Their home has been at Portland, Oregon, most of ihe time sinoe their return from Australia, two years ago, though they have been at Sonth Bend for some months past, on account of the sickness of Mrs. Willey’s father, who lives at that plaoe. Longcliff hospital at Logansport is now taxed to its utmost capaoity Over 800 patients are being oared for and applications for admittance oan only be aocepted as vaoanoies occur. Notwithstanding the crowded conditions existing, the authorities in charge state that they have everything systematized and that the patients receive the best attention that can be given under any oiroum,stances. The work of laying up the walls of S. P. Thompson’s new building was begun this morning, using the cement or concrete blocks, made on the spot, by John Jeasen. It is evident that they will make a fine wall. The Valparaiso Uistriot Epworth League oonveni i m begins this evening at Trinity M. E. churoh Rev. Tillotson of Lebanon, will speak this evening on the snbjeot “A Mind Open to God.” The other sessions will be held Tuesday forenoon, afternoon and evening* The public is invited to attend.

Dave Worland, of merry-go-round fame, was in town Saturday and Sunday. He reports a prosperous two weeks in Momenoe and that this week the outfit will move over to Macomb a good town over in the western part of Illinois and will remain there all of next week where there is to be a big oarnival there, the first in the history of the town, When Bert Marshall and Jennings Wright got their historio damp into the seething billows of the Iroquois, at the Cowden about three months ago, two good Winchester pamper gans went to the bottom. Every effort to fish them ont failed, until a week or ao ago, when one of them was found about 100 yards below the bridgeand on Sunday the other was raked out, from dose to the bridge. Neither weapon seemed so badly damaged by their long soak in the water but that they will still be good, servioable weapons. Mrs. Munally, of Delphia, was over here last week trying to collect money from the carnival people. Bhe keeps a hotel there and not only let them get into her S2O for a board bill, but she loaned Armstrong, the manager S4O, and was looking for that also. It is

understood that she got a little on her aooounts, bat how muoh we did not learn. Under the law now board bills are easy to oolleot as the parties, if they don’t pay, oan be put into jail. The few shows of the basted Lotta oarnival oompany whioh were here last week abont all left daring the night Saturday night, getting ont as qniokly and as quietly as they oonld, to avoid attempts to oolleot bills. The outfit exoept the Eleotrio theater seem to have been premeditated dead-beats, though perhaps if they had had better look they would have been better pay. The Electrio Theater, the best show and best pay in the lot has moved down on Washington street where the merry-go-around was. and will stay another week. The rain here Saturday noon, was a flue little shower and will do muoh good. Right here in Rensselaer there was only a fifth of an inch of rain, bnt it was the most rain at apy one time so far during the whole of June. North from town for a distance of four or five miles there was muoh more rain, but still further north it was not so muoh. The shower did not extend very far south of town, but they had good rains earlier in the week out that way.