Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1904 — Brief local Items [ARTICLE]

Brief local Items

f TUESDAY Uaole Jim Maloy came down from Steger, 111., to vote and visit friends | Dr. and Mrs. A. L. Barkis? game down from Ohioago to visit ids and for the doctor to vote. Bert Rhoades, who is oonneoted with a telephone office in Ohioago, oame home to vote today. Mrs 0. H. Porter from Delphi, Is here visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Williams, for a few days. Mrs. E. P. Honan and Mrs. M. B. Alter went to Indianapol s today to attend the «tate meeting of the D. A. R. Dont forget the free scholarship at the International correspondence schools to be given away at Murray’s cash store. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cowtrell ► and child returned home today after visiting her Uaole David Elder and iriends at Parr. Watoh for the election returns tonight, du played by stereoptioan lights, on a big screen in front of Hhe K. of P. building. Watt Ltwrie of Montioel’o, son of Robert Liwrie, engineer on the Iroquois ditch, was in town last night visiting friends. * Go to Fair Oaks on Nov. 21st and hear the Ideal’s latest musical 7 composition and original character writings, for the benefit of M. E. Ladies Aid Society. W. K. Martin, of Washington D. 0., also oame back to vote, He is a son-in-law of John W. Powell, and is employed in the government printing office. Mr. Powell was not able to get baok to vote. Uncle Joe and Aunt Fannie Parkison are paoking their household goods, whioh they have never taken away from here, preparatory to going to Kansas to stay, this time. They expect to leave Friday. The election today has passed off with most oommendible quietness and good order. That a pretty full vote will be polled was evident at 3 p. m. when per cent, of the full vote of the township oast. Uncle Joe Parkison is selling off his 20 aores of land, of the former Bedford- plaoe, adjoining town on the east, and whioh he bought intending to build on when he sold his Pleasant Ridge farm. He has sold six aores to Oarl Wood and two to M. P. Warner Geo. Healey, of the government printing office, got in on the 9.55 a. m., train, today, having stopped . at Delphi to visit his sister, Mrs. Lyons. His job now in the big print shop is what is oalled a makeup. It is only one notch below a forema tship and pays $4.68 per day, Jerry Healy, though still a young man, was not quite a first voter today, but this was his first vote on the right side. He put in a straight Republican vote from top to bottom, exoept for one speoial friend on the Democratic county tioket. Jerry Is with us to •toy. Fred Par cells oame home from St. Louis to put in one more for Teddy. He is foreman es a big barber shop there now, and . will be there for some time yet, and perhsps remain permanently. His wife oame with him and together they have gone to Remington, this afternoon, to visit her irelatives there.

M. D. Gwiu, now on his fourth and last term at Indianapoiie Medioal College, oame baok to. vote. He ie a grandson of Unole John Gwin, with 29 in the Roosevelt ,2.20 list. One of his grandsons was unable to return to vote. It is Blaine Gwin, of Indiana University. Blaine was in the Varsity first football team and got stove up, early in the season, in a]gsme with this same medioal ooliege his brother is attending. The injury has kept him out until now, when he has just got baok into the team whioh is having some of its bigges* games and the ooaoh would not permit Blaine to corns bom). The Daughters of the American Revolution in Indians will hold their annual state oonfereno* in Indianapolis this •-k beginning Tuesday evening wsmber Bth and continuing in session until Thursday, November 10th. The Daughters go to Indianapolis in respouse to the invitation of the Caroline Soott Harrison Chapter and the Gen. Arthur St. Clair Chapter whose guests they will be. On Wednesday evening by Mrs E. C. Atkins and Mrs. Nelson Augustus Gladding in honor of Mre. Charles W. Fairbanks, presidentgeneral, and Mrs. James M Fowler state regent The oampaign just ended was the quietest of any remembered by amyone, and yet it has been a strenuous one for the political newspaper. In faot it has been essentially a newspaper campaign from start to finish. The Repub lioan has done its full share in the fight, and has issued from 60 to 80 pages of political matter during the oampaign. In all this vast amount of matter however, as we are glad to say, there oan be found no nnkind or abnsive words about any opposing candidates. W. W. Watson, the epecial pension agent, never fails to get home to vote, and this time was no exception. He has recently been down into Mississippi and olinoh the pnrohase of 1400 aoreo of good land in Clarke county, whioh makee him a land magnate, of no small dimensions- It is his intention to seoure northern farmers to looate on and work the land As hae arailroad through it and qnite a promising little town. Charley Wiltshire, now a prosperous Caioago resident, has just been eleoted captain of a company in the Uniform Rank K. of P. in the 12th Illinois regiment. His snooess is specially remarkable from th« faot that he is not. oply the yonngeet officer in the regiment, but the youngest man in his oompany. He was formerly 2nd lieutenant. Squire Charley Bnssell having killed all the wolvea in Hanging Grove township, married all the single people and fined all the pugnacious one* is looking for new fields for his activities. Therefore he is arranging to atari on a big bear and deer hunt, in northern Wisoonain, in a few days. He will be away a week or 10 days. W. T. Stedman, the blind musician and his faithful wife, arrived home last night, in time for Mr. Stedman to vote. They have been traveling through the south this summer and fall giving musioal entertainments. O. F. Rhoades, who is now working on the Brookston Reporter, oame home to vote. His high jumping dog Sport, is staying at Brookftort looking after

Charley’* interests in his abeenoe I Miss Zslmt Rther went to Frauk'ort, this afternoon wh* re she will visit relatives for» few days. She wilt then go to Hsrioj and begin aoonrse in tie basin ess ooliege there* Aleck Isaacson, who was the down at the door of the “Miss Jones of London” show, when the Robinson Carnival was here in September, struck town last night, very much on bis uppers. He says all the employees of that show wrre bounced at Hopkinsville, Ky. We gates Aleck was anyhow. He is trying to get to Chicago. Jadge S. P. Thompson and wife are preparing to leave for California next Saturday, to remain all winter for the benefit of Mrs. Thompson’s health. M’s. Charles Payne who has been visiting in Hammond fra few days returned home last night

WEDNESDAY. Marion Gwin went to Indianapo’is this afternoon, to visit friends’ Mrs. Lanra'Miohaels went to Marion today to visit her daughter who attends a business ooliege there, Chris Arnold left for his future home at Midlake, Tex., bnt intended to stop at St Louis to see the world’s fair. Miss Golda Harmon and brother in law Jakey Hopkins went to Brazil today, where Miss Harmon intends to make her home with her sister Mrs. Hopkins. Thomas Redgate, several miles northeast of town in Marion tp, has sold his farm of 160 acres to Wm. E, Moore. The price was $7,200. O. J. Dean negotiated the sale. Wm. I. Hoover’s little boy still continues to slowly improve and his physician not only is oonfident he will reoover, bnt that no serious permanent effects will be left on the brain or nerves. Porker’s at'acks on Roosevelt proved a boomerang, of the worst kind, There were also one or two boomerangs right here in Jassbr county, thrown like Parker’s towards the wind-up of the cam paiga. The November term of the oirouit oonrt begins next Monday, with a rather light dooket. In state there are only two, as compared with about twenty for the September term. There were eix tickets on tie national and state ballot, as voted Tuesday. The Democratic, the Republican, the Prohibitionist, the People’s Party, the Socialist and the Socialist Labor. A minister’s wife, a dootor’s wife and a traveling man’s wife met one day recently and were talking abont the forgetfulness of their husbands. The minister’s wife thought her husband was the moet forgetfnl man living, because he would go to ohnroh and and forget his notes and no one oonld make out what he was trying to preaoh about. The dootor’s wife thought her hueband bad a poorer .memory still, for he wonld often start out and forget his Wvel nine or ten audsy. AccoSf “Well,” said th u ' auii ‘" nt ’M, , wife, my hrttrmpi u> He oame home’ USmSmm . . * have heciiMggßßH| patted me la Wiv. •fllltlp "I believe I have what is your name!*” «.'„■< THURSO— Mrs. G. M, Rioh*xdi J Parr today for a few Geo. H. Healey noon to return to J Mrs. Julia A. been staying in time will visit M rfM for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. P this morning on ' , 1 to St. Lotus. •:.-t r • T ing there perma£H

It didn’t snow the text day, but it did the day a f ter that, For a white »his morning the enow oame down thick aon fast and in great gobs and wads rather than flakes, as big almost, as ready-made enow balls. The oounty superintendent’s offioe is now a four year office, and L. H. Hamilton’s ter n will extend to June 1906. Wmob will be a good wh 4e for onr de mooratio friends to have to wait before they oan eleot n Democratic superintendent.

Unole Joe and Am.t Fannie Parkison left this forenoon for their home at bnoklin, Kmeas, where they find the climate mash more agreeable to their health than here, Tney will visit their daughter, Mre. Milligan, at Gariett Kans., on their way oat. Miss Hazsl Lamson ’O3 Rensselaer High School, who is attending the State Normal at Terre Hints, was one of the State Normal’s representatives at the state oonventhe Y. W. 0. A. whioh held its convention at Indianapolis last week. The Hammond News complains that this paper gave but a “stingy notice” to the Rensselaer-Crown Point foot-bali game, and says if Rensselaer had won a sweeping viotory, we would have had a big account gos the game Easy Brother, easy! That game was jnst before the election, and the country bad to be saved again, as Bryan wonld say, whether football was reported extensively or not.

McOntoheon’s oartoon ia this morning’s Tribune is a good one. It ie beaded, “The Mysterious Stranger.” The Republican states stand np in long array, and at their bead stands the stranger, labelled “Missouri.” He has a satisfied grin on bis faoe while the other Republican states are rubbering and grinning at him,*to beat anything. The Democratic column, labelled the “Solid South” stands off by himself with looks of sourness and astonishment. A party waa given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jess Zea in the east part of town a Wednesday evening in honor of Miss Nellie Swartze’l who has been visiting here with .friends and relatives for the past two months, A very large oompany was present and everybody enjoyed themselves. The eleotion is over, the returns are in and the results are known. Everyone should be satisfied. Onr friends, the Demoorate on the Oonnty tickets, fonght a good fight; that they were defeated ie no disoredet to them in the face of the odds they had to overcome. Their oampaign need leave no regrets and their defeat ia but one of the misfortunes of the game. Now, that it is over we oan all settle

( <k*ni tp bmstotosiss Aswrioan 4 #pd object for toe Tatar*, and that the promotion of the goad and welfare of this section of Indiana.