Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1904 — Page 5

ftwstwissui— nHjbiissssMMiimnMiaiMi ohicago Taa NDIANAPOLIS M KFFIK T NORTH BOUND. SOUTH BOUND. > No. 4 —Mail daily iHglUft No. 81—Fast Moll 4:48 am i No. 4ft—Milk aooomodattou—l:3l tun No. 6-Louiaville Mail 18:55 am 1 No. 88—Sw Mafl ■ jjfte No. 88—Indianapolis mail— 8:01 pm No. B—Mall and Bxpreso 830 pm No. 88-Mllk aooom. 8:16 pm No. 80-Mall dally. _ 8:81pm No. 3—Louisville Rx 1135 pm No. 48—Local freight -8:55 Mn No. 45—Local freight 231 pm Special rate* Sooth and Sooth-Went. W. H. BBAM, Agt., Rensselaer.

THE WEEK'S DOINGS

TUESDAY Mm. Mary Barns, of is visiting her brother, H. C. Hoshaw, in the' west part of town. Mias*Anna Walters, of Victor Colo, returned home today after an extended visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Walters. Wade and Belle Laßne and their grandfather, F. W. Sever, are visiting relatives at Milford, 111., for a couple of weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Crisier, of ML Ayr, are spending a couple of weeks here with their daughter, Mrs. W. L. Wishard. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Wemple and daughter Grace of Book ford 111. are visiting theft daughter, Mrs. J. J. Montgomery for several weeks. Bruner & Hurley have moved their insuranoe and real estate offioe from the Hemphill buildiDg into the former 0. E. Mills offioe in the Odd Fellows’ building. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Lardner, of Mitobell, S. Dak., and his sister Miss Jennie Lardner, of Goodland, spent the Fourth with their unole W. L. Wishard, and wife. Perry Marlatt arrived home Sunday from his trip to North Dakota. He looked at land in the vicinity of Fargo and other plaoes. but did not decide to invest. Jesse E. Wilson went to Indianapolis, this morning, to be present at the hearing of the MoOoy bankruptcy proceedings, and to see that the interests of Jasper oounty creditors are represented Mr. and Mrs. Sam Overton and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Merkle, of Chicago, were visiting the John Healy and Joe Halligaa families over the Fourth. The men returned home today but the ladiee will remain several weeks.

The little Whitehead child at Stoutsbur?) from whose windpipe Dr. Zaeke, of Wheatfield, and others removed a kernel of oorn last Wednesday, was doing well at last aooonnts, and with excellent prospeots for complete recovery. Walter White was down from Ohioago to spend the Fourth. No reports that Swift & 00. have not yet assigned him his route as one of their traveling men, though they have plaoed him on their pay rolls Monday broke all previous reoords for getting out of town. There were 600 people left on the railroad, not te speak of the orowds that left by team. To Fair Oaks alone there weie44o tiokets sold. To other places, there were enough sold to raise the total to over 600, including Ohioago, Lafayette, Indianapolis, and various other plaoes. The Fowler Review states that the condition of the little Pitohell girl, injured by Perry Sumner had been quite unfavorable for some days past. Reports keep coming in of men like Sumner having been seen, but none of them turn out to be the right man. Efforts were being made to get hold of a photograph of Sumner so as to scatter his picture broadcast, but it seems none oan be found. There is yet another change in the ownership of the Oullen street barber shop. J. M. Dyer has bought the shop and business of Cain & Hendrickson, und is now in charge of the business. Sam Hendrickson will remain in his employ. The north edge of a nice rain struok Rensselaer Monday even-

iag. Here there was a fifth of an inoh of rain, and a mile north, there was not a drop. A little farther south there was b heavy rain. In magnitude as well as in lk* region it traversed and misaed, this storm was almost an_exaot duplicate of the last one, on July 26th.

WEDNESDAY A. F. Long and son George are in Lafayette today. Mrs. E. L Fiddler, and ohildren left today for a few day’s visit with relatives at Logansport. Miss Wendla Lnndb, of Chicago, returned home last evening after an extended visit with Mrs. Addison Parkison. Mis. A. S. Peterson of Hanging Grove tp., left this morning for ah extended visit with relatives at Racine, Wie. Mis. Lnoy Clark, northwest of town, who foil and broke her hip, seven weeks ago, is now able to get about the house oa crutches. Miss Bernios Sajler, daughter of A. K. Sayler, west cf town, continuea to improve slowly from her very severe and dangerous sickness with appendicUes. - Oat in the Slaughter neighborhood, six miles south, there was muoh more rain last night than here, the lmmeuse rainfall of two inobes is reliably reported there. Dr. Albert Overton and wifpj Dr. Sylvia Overton, who have been located in Newman, 111, for some time, have now moved to a larger place, namely Tuscola, 111.

The infant child born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pettit, near Parr, just at the time, a few weeks ago, that their only other ohild met death from a ooffee bean in its throat, also died a few days ago. Mrs. H. M. Draper, of Hartford City, Ind., but formerly for many years a well known resident of Remington, visited Mr. and Mrs. N. 8* Bates Saturday and Snnday. She oame baok to Remington to attend the fnneral of, her old neighbor. Mrs. Peck, last Friday. A man named A. J- Barrett, who had been making regular tripe to Rensselaer for some time past, selling meats for Swift & Co., of Chicago has been missing his, customary visits lately. Aooording to the Chioago papers, he has been detected embezzling the firms money, and they have had him jailed for it, Unlike most traveling men who go wrong, he seems not to have been a high roller and spendthrift, bntjto have fallen frem being altogether too thrifty, and his bank aooount not increasing fast enough from his salary, he had SI,OOO of the film’s money deposited to his own oredit,

George M. Kirkpatrick, a prosperous and intelligent appearing business man from a town in the Snake River valley, in far off Idaho, was in town last evening and procured a license to marry Mrs. Edith Hnnt, He is a widower, about 65 years old and she is a widow of about 50. She now lives near Remington, but both parties formerly lived at Pontiac, 111. Theirs was the first lioense issued since June 28th, Ernest Cookerill will soon beoome quite a land magnate at the way he is going now. His latest acquisition is 200 aores in Colfax township, Newton oounty. He bought this of Dr, J.A. Caldwell, of Pontiac, 111., for 19,000. In part

payment he gives 5 lots in Leopold’s addition. for $1,500, By all aooonnts the Newton oounty tract is a good pieoe of land. N. Littlefield’s agency nogotiated th trade. Mrs. F, M. Waggoner, of Gillam tp., who was sent to Longoliff asylum last May has improved so fast that she is now at her home on a ‘•furlough” and will probably soon be considered entirely well. Regarding Mrs. John Blaze, sent there fonr or five weeks] ago, reliable reports have been received that the asylnm authorities can nofeeeany evidences of insanity in her oase at all. It seems that all ahe needed was to get sway from her wretohed surroundings

THURSDAY J. W. Williams is in Chicago today on business. Clint Brown and J. H. Perkins are in Lafayette today on business Big reduction on all spring and summer goods at Bowles & Parker’s. Miss Mary Gatton, of West Lafayette, is visiting with Rev, and Mrs. H. L. Eindig. Mrs. J. Meyer and ohildren of Pittsbnrg, Pa., are visiting Miss Mary Meyer, for a few weeks. Misses Myrtle and Cordelia Garling, left today for an extended visit with relatives at Monon. Rev. J. M. Elam will preaoh Sunday morning on “Conaoretion ” Sunday evening a prohibition address on 1 Gnat and Camels.” John Hea!)’s little boy whose eye was so badly burned on the Fourth is now doing finely end no further bars are entertained of a permanent h jury to the eye. Britt Marion loft today on prospecting tonr to Bnoklin, Eansis. Hr will probably spend the remainder of the snmmer here. Little Howard McKenna, son of Editor McKenna, of the Oatholio Forester magazine, Chioago, is visiting at E. P. Honan’s. His parents expsot to come also, in a few days. Bay Donnelly has jnst returned from a few days visit with relatives at Noblesville and other points in Hamilton oonnty. He reports so muoh rain there that the fields are all under water and even the gravel roads almost impassible. Prof, and Mrs. A. L. Lardner, of Mitohell, 9* Dak., left for their home today, after a visit with his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Wishard. Mr, [Lardner is professor of oratory in the Mitchell University, The rainfall Wednesday evening was .55 of an inoh, making the total for Tuesday night and Wednesday 1.35 inches. It is plenty of rain every plaoe, and quite too mnoh in many plaoes, where there had lately been heavy rains. The big excursion of Indiana editors through Northwest Canada has been called off. There did not enough of them dig up for the advance pay for the Pullmans, so the affair was dropped. E. P. Honan has received a letter from Jaok Leahy, the nephew that used to lived with him, saying he would arrive for a visit, next week. It is over nine years since he left here, and he has seen long service in both army and navy, and has seen muoh of this and other countries „ since he went away. At present he is being treated for rheumatism, in Belleview hospital, New York.

A. G. Wright, general roadmaster of the Monon, is much elated over the condition of the company’s trsok between Indianapolis and Ohioago with the new rails recently 1 aid. Every foot of the distance is lai d with steel rails weighing 75 pounds to the yard, resting on 8,000 crossties a mile, 2,800 being the usual number. The bridges are all now praotioally new and all streams[are crossed by steel bridges or stone structures. The law and real-estate ftrm o: Ferguson 4b Wilson ended today, after being in existence nine years

to a day. The senior partner, B, F. Ferguson, has moved from the rooms of the late firm, up stairs in E. L. Hollingsworth’s building; on Yan Rensselaer street, into the south rooms down stairs in the same building. The junior partner, Jesse E Wilson has moved into the rooms in Forsythe’s building heretofore occupied by Delos Thompson.

NORTH BOUND. ft .tSaWSSsaassrsß- UST2 No. 88—Fast mall, daily 8:56 a-m No. 6—Mail and express, daily 8:80 pin •No. 90-Vestibnl mail-Cinc to Chicago 8:82 p-m tN0.38 S:ST No 48—Local freight, daily exc Sunday 8 36 a-m SOUTH BOUND. No. 81—Fast mail, on signal 4:48 a-m No. s—Louisville mall, daily 10:56 a-nl No. 38—Indianapolis mail, daily 2 31 p-m No. 88—Milk accommodation, daily 8:16 p-m No. B—Louisville express, daily 11:25 p-m No. 45—Local freight, daily ax Sunday 8:40 p-m W. H. BBAM. Agant tDaily except Sunday. Sunday only.

Hanging Grove.

The late refreshing rain has brightened the oropa wonderfully. Mrs. Holms is able to be up and around again. There was a pie sooial at Pad Robinson’s last Thursday night. Quite a large orowd attended. Mr. Lehman, of 111., spent a few days here on a business trip, Unole Sammy Parker is quite siok.

Northwest Barkley

Misses Mary and Lizzie Shnltz returned to Wabash Tuesday after a three weeks visit with relatives and friends here. Mrs. Gratie Cragun spent the Fourth with her parents Mr. and Mrs. James Torbet of Blaokford, There was a large orowd from here attended the Fourth at Fair Oaks Monday. Rabin Snow of Snowflake ran his horse on the race track at Fair Oaks Monday. Arthur Armstrong and family and Mrs. S. McCleary and family of near Blaokford spent Snnday with Mrs, Mary Anne Cooper of near Snowflake. Frank Hellengreen attended the ball game at Gifford Sunday afternoon.

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