Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1904 — Brief Local Items [ARTICLE]

Brief Local Items

TUESDAY Mrs. J. F. Mitobt-H, of Jordan Tp, went to Chicago, her former home, this mi ruing, to visit rt 1 ativ* s, Mrs. Fred Middleton, of Coioß- - returned home today after two moaths’ stay with her parents M-. and Mrs. J. H. Payne. (J. J. Dean, who arrived from South Dakota Mouday afternoon, rep rts that at the time he left them, no*ie of the Kenton partly had bought any lai.d. Mr. and Mrs. J- Adim», Mr. and Mrs. James L’ tier, Mr. and Mrs. J, C Purdem, Mrs E. E. Garriott. Mrs. E T. Pierson, Vernon Newels and Jam’s Flynn are among ih Be who weut to Indianapolis tad y, to attend the state fair or other reasons.

A L. Willis the old-time gun smith end bicycle repairer, whose shop is on Fro it btraet, and his sen James, wh j h is a similar shop in Murray’s building, on Washington street, have formed a partnership and will oombine their business, and in the Murray building. Hiram Day and his force completed Saturday, the j ib of plastering the finest resid> nre in Brock It belongs to Charles Berkland, a retin d farm r, and cost about $7,000. Mr. and Mrs, W. H. B Gahim and soi Errect, of ladianapol : s, arrived Monday a r ternoop, preparatory to the Graham-Washburn wedding to take p’a ie Wednesday afternoon Toe temp r<.tu*e * as down to 44 degrees here latt night wliioh is low enough t* be near or quite to the frost mark in lew muck lands. Th'.ri was no gentrtl frost, however, aid t May's oha'ge of wind to southerly ass irda good grounds for hoping that the frost danger is pest f'.i some weeks ye‘.

The creditors’ meeting in the McCoy oases is still in progress The voting for a trustee for the banking firm began about 2:30 this afternoon, BDd is a tedious prooes 3 , as each of the some 800 to 1,000 claim.infs is orJled separately. J. Q. Chapman a.d E. P. Honan are tbs only candidates being voted for, Mrs. David Nowels is improving a little from a severe sickness with a stomach and bowel trouble whioh her advanced age made much more serious. Sunday her condition was quite alarming, she having been in a nearly unooneoions oordition all day.

Mrs H. R. Kurrie and Miss' Edna Thompson very pleasantly entertained about twenty girls Saturday afternoon in honor of Miss Lena Washburn. One feature of the afternoon was their showering her with many nioe reminders of themselves and her home oity. Mose Hodshire is up against a j .il proposition of 10 days duration. It seems that Mote has been working on the new building at St.Jcseph's college, and acquired considerable wealth, but beooming ambitious to be a striks breaker, he jumped his job at the college and went to tb? stock yards. He didet’i bleak the strike but he did break Mcse. And when he came back he ran up a board bill of $1.98 with Alf Sea, of the Tanner restaurant. This Mose refused to pay, and Sea had him arrested. He was fonnd guilty ■before Fquire Trcxell, and ifinsd

91 and 008 1 a, or 910 in all, and in default of pnjmeat he has gone to jail for 10 da) s. Monon passen.er train No. 6. north boind, due here at 3:30 p. m., was delayed m re than f<.ur hours yesteidav afternoon by an a oident at Orleans, As the train was approaching that o.ty, ibe tender left the track and was f*.lfollowed by the baggt-ge oar. No one was i» j r d except the fireman who sustained some bruises in jumping Tie engin). was oorsiderably damaged. Wm. 3. Parka, wbuse sudden disapp arano-* j st f iur weeks be fore, oreated suoh a big sensttion and ao many unpleasant rumors returned to Rensselaer on the late train Monday night. He had sent word of bis expeoted return, and he was met at the depot by Rev. •J. M E “.m and W. S. Day who accompanied dim to bis home on McCoy avenue, and where they speLt the night with him. Today still accimpanied by Mr. Elam be went to Remington, to oocbuli with his fathe-. No doubt something tnored finite of Lis future plans and p'ist expsrienoes oan be given afte bis return froHL R mington.

WEDNESDAY J. F. Bruner. Sherman Lewis autJ. W Njwels, of the DAota pilgrim*, arrived him* today. Mr. Loivi* nn’.od A. B. Ro.iley’s big farm in Sju h D »k.. and will grt the pots ssirn mxt Marob. Mr. Nowe’s did n.t bny but th’nks he will. Of those th .t are still out there, Charley Z ird inteuds to buy and Fri z Z ird will rent or buy, but b th will move there. Th > big clearing out sale at Wildberg’e Ileal ulo’hing and furnishing store, begin at Line o’o’ook tbis Wednesday morning, under the Great Western S-lvage C .mpatiy, of Chicago and with 40 o'erks ai d salemen on the fijor. The drawing power of liberal advertising is shown by the large number of peop’e that began orowding in, almost as soon as the dcors were opened.

Rev. C. D Rryae, for mi r paetcr of Trinity M. E, church, and the man whose persiatet 1 1 fforta secured the Carnegie donation for oar public library building, was in town tQday. He is making arrangements to leave bis piesout appointment, at West Lafayette, and go to northwest Rwa, where he will hare oharge of a church at 3per.cer. It is a fin § place and a v<ry ('eatable appointment. W, 9 Porks did not meet his father at Remington, yesterday, as the la’t *r ht d gone to Kosoiusoo county, on a business trip, Mr. Paik* is now at his home, and has the forgiveness of his good and patient wife. He seems to fully realizi aod to repent of bis bad jufsstep, and to evinoe a strong jdispoti ion to return to the pith of rectitude he has been so sadly stray ing from. If he remains in I Rentsjlaer and shows by his 'future conduct that he is fully 'sincere in his repentance and good 'resolutions, he wib have no leok of 'good friends to encourage him in ' keeping in the right path. D.ck Grow stopped at Long i Cliff asylum during his late visit to Logansport to find bow some of .the R nstelaer pitienta were progressing. He found Mrs. Joan Ramey’s oordition perfectly hopeless Her mind is an otter blank,

and will never bi any better. W* H. King seemed to be considerably improve I, and bis mind much less fillel with the great viaiona of wealth he bad when he went there. Mr. Grow did not have an oppor • unity to learn the physicians’ opinions <Jf Mr. King’s case, bu’ fur himself he appears to think he must be making favorable pro. gieae towards r*oovery. Tne rainfall hers late Tueidsy afternoon w«w .87 of an inch. This add d to the half inch ot Quads) s, is surely enough rai» for all purposes, even r or fall plowing. There is dauger that the change t> cooler after this rain will be great enough to cause frost _

J O. Bowers referee ia bankruputoy left for Hammond this afternoon, after days of very strenuous labor in the various MoCoy oaee*. They were not only far the largest but alsu far the most difficult and complicated of any he has ever hid to deal tyi'h. He has shown cl ar through however, that he wpnted to deal rightly and justly and tithe best interests of the creditors, The Cullen street barber shop has been running a olose race with the short order restaurant, on Van Rensselaer street, Ijt the reoord in fnquent ohanges of ownership. The latest of these ohanges has just taken effect, iu the sale of the entire shop by Mort Dyer to Sam Hendricks m. Sam has been the principal ri zor wielder in the shop f or quite a long while- and we suspect he will be a stayer in its ownership and management.

H Cmrchill and h's seven ions had their picture taken in a group, Tue day. at P.rk r’s ghl'ery. It w;S t'.e fir.t one ever made of all the family together and this time is the first time the Squire and his seven sons h ve all been together for over 20 years It is quite unlikely that they v i 1 all ever meet together aga n. Dr J. C. Couly, the physiciin who opira'r d upon E. P. HonaD, liis niece, D.. Wienie Conly, a dentist, and Mis . M r n, daughter of Jud„e Moran, til of Chicago, are visiting Mr. end Mrs E. P. Honan, and Dr and Mrs. J. H Honan, the latter of whom will Mart on their return trip to Berlin on Thursday.

A B. Rjwley, of the Bircm horse stocks oompany, of Wabash was in Lwn tidsy, to lo< k after the shipping of seme stoi ks that were h f i in storage here when the company moved. The firm bar added an iron fouidy to their business, and is preparing to begin making gas heating stove 9 , in about a month, Luther and Marcos Churchill have gone to Columbus, Ohio, to visit tbtir aunt. Mrs. Mary Street, who is very dangerously siok. Mr. and Mrs Arohie lines, recently if Pi.tsburg, Pa., are here 'or a j indefinite atay with his parents, Mr<-aud Mra. W. J. Imee. The Pittsburg climate seems to have been very unfavorable to them and to Mr. lines pi daily whose health is very much impaired.

THURSDAY Unole Ellis Wa'ton is not improving any bis sickness, but slowly growing weaker. H A, Warren returned home to Peru t-day, atttr ab ut a week’s visit hen, The danger of frost is again past for the lime being, and very possibly for the rest of this month. O. K. Ritchey and Obas. Pullins have gone to Indianapolis to at tend the People's Oity state convention. Michigan Oity was chosen as the place to hold the Northwestern Indiana M. E. Conference, next year. Rev. A. W. Wood, who has be n pastor of *the M. E- ohuroh at Hammond for some years, has now been transferred to Delphi. He was located here many years ago and is a brother of Henry

Wood of oar oi‘y. He always is assigned to imp riant and desirable p'aoes Between the big sale at Wild. bergV, the peaoh sale at Forsythe’a and many coming in for the McCoy creditors meeting, Wedneeday was a big day in town, and all tb*» stores were busy. The Bargain store sold 400 bushels of peaches Tuesday and Wednesday. J hn Hodah’ra oame up yesterday afternoon and paid his son Mose’s fine and cost?, imposed for failing to pay a board bill, and has taken bim baok to Frankfort where John is doing come bricklaying work. R.v H. L. Kindig has returned home from conference and will resume regular chnroh servioes at Trinity M. church, Bundty. Miss Lucile Marshall has gone to Indianapolis for a few days’ visit with M’ss Mab.l Huff.

The Oliphant Sisters arrived today, from Delphi, their last engagement, and will give the fi st of their two evening servioes, of “song and story" at the M. E. ohuroh tonight. They have been all over this country and England, Sjotland and Ireland, giving t'.eir services, and meeting with great success. Their heme oKy is now Los Angeles, Oalifornis, R. M. Isherwood, formerly in the newspnper business at Delphi, has return d t> that town and bought out the Evening Herald, of J. W. Fawcett Jr. Rtv. Dr. Utter, located at Romney the pest ) ear, was plaoed on the superannuated list by the late M. E. oooferenoo at Terre Haute, He is quite advanced in years and mnoh broken down in

health. Hj was pastor of the M. E. cbnroh here alout 7 or 8 years j e irs ago. The funeral of Win. Kettleberry was held Wednesday at 3 p. m. at Barkley M. E chnroh, Oy Rrv. H. L. Kindig. Interment was m-de in the cemetery at the church. His older son from Nebraska was present, and will remain and help the otaor son, William close np their affairs here, and the latter will then go to Nebraska alto L bt nigh! wai another decidedly chilly tenapratnre, but not qnile down to the frost mark. The lowest temperature reached was 43 degrees, and with t! at temperature here, a light f oM was possible on low land in exposed places Tbefe rculd have been no u how ever sufficiently heavy to tffeo the oern. at any p’aoein tbis region. Unde Henry Htrris bas torn down the former barn on his residence p*operty at the east etd of W-shington street and is bnildiog a new and larger one at the south end of the lots, and considerably farther away from the residence. J. H. Chaj man gave bonds of ihe Ameiican Bjnding Compmy as trus’ea in the McCoy oes?s. In the oase of A McCoy and Oompany the bond was $140,000, in that of Alfred MoCoy SIOO,OOO and in thet cf T. -J. McCoy SBO,OOO. Nothing further bas been heard of Sip;’a dog, pony and monkey show ooming here next Monday, and for whioh time their advanoe agent rented A. Leopold’s oirons grounds, No doubt they have given op ooming here. Rev. T. F. Drtke who was pastor here when the new M. B.

church waa oomp’ttod bat who for the past year has been pastor of one of the oity oiurohej at Torre Haute, was at his own request, placed on the euparnumary list, by the late conference at Terre Haute. He is still aa able and effactive minister, bat is under* stood t j wish to rest for a year or twr, and aUo to look after o arts in. business matters. It is likely he will return to the active minister**, iai work in a year or two.