Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 134, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1904 — Brief Local Items [ARTICLE]

Brief Local Items

FRIDAY Dr. A. J Milter, the oity health 'officer, is coutined to bed by sickness. Frank K-ester left for Indiana'polls, this afternoon, and has a a good.position as a salesman in * big store there. Mr, and Mrs George H illand,' from Cbioago are •here . visiting riende aud relatives. Miss Fiiry See has fe'urned from Peru, where she spent /the sammer with relative. Mrs May Tackett went to ."North Veraou Thursday for a few days visit will friends aud rdaTivee. Mrs. Mjrt Dyer j >iosd her husband at Cbhlmers, •Thursdey, 'where they intend ta make their (home. Mrs. W H. G Jbraith returned ‘to her heme in E iglewood today after visiting iriends and relatives Jkere for some time. Mrs. G. A. Cox returned to her home in Chicago yesterday,.,after visiting her parent Mr. and Mrs. David Halstead. Valparaiso Vilette. Congressan an E. B. Cram packer and private secretary, Nele Jacobson, deft this afternoon for Washington D. C.

M ‘l3. Tor.! y of Kiosub City, Missouri, ia hero visiting friends and xelaivee for a few da}a. His wife who kis b-ea visiting here for « few weeks will return to Kansas City v.i n him. Miss Lillij Du toD, who has mads her horn* with Remaeiaer relatives aiuoe bar mother’s death inJordmtp.a few m'mths ago ■went to Lifay.t .e toiay, and expects to spead the winter with relatives in that v ioinity

J 6 Bit’s meetings at theF.rsi Biptst oburoh are bang fairly well attended, and will rontiuua all cf n<*xt week, and perhaps longer. Ha will fill his appointment at Brook-tin Sunday evening and thtrafore will cot hold a met t ing here that evening. About the t me that J. Frank fianly is to be inaugur ted governor of Indiana, his daughter, Ethel Elfrida, is to become the wife of a stannoh young Democrat of Laporte oouaty, H»rry 0. (Jarman, son of the Damooratio wheel-horse

of Rolling Prairie, Hon. Noah W. Garman. Evidently these young people didn’t permit politioul differences to stand in the way of a matrimonial alliance. At the seme time it will be interesting to note which of the two will in time become a convert to the other’s political ideas. Oouaty Auditor Leatberman sold 80 sores of a school section in Keener tp., a few days ago, to Romke Sipkema. The price wae $27.50 per acre, which is considered a fair price for the qna'ity and situation of the land which lacks good facilities for drainage. There is still about half of the section left, to be sold, that being the last remaining school land in Jasper county. Pretty strong rnmore of of scarlet fever in town, have been circulating for the pest day or two, and that chilJren have been exposed of it, before the nature of the disease wae known. People should be warned to be on their gna:d, if tbe rumor proves to be correct.

SATURDAY Mrs. Mehitable Mikeell is visit' ing her daughter, JVirs. Dan William?, near town. 1

Mrs. Puffenbarger of Logsnsport is visiting her sister Mrs. E. D Fiddler. Born, Friday night, D’C. 2 d, 'to Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Gwin, near ibe depot, n daughter. Frana Wampler, special agent o p the Central Union Telephone Co , was up from Indianap >lis today on telephone busii ess. Mrs. M. L. Lifciietts aud little eo » went to Kokomo, today, to the bndsido of her mo her, Mrs. M. F. Oa nsrson, wh j is no r . expeoted to live. Mrs. O. E. H-rshman and her m uher M:a. Fraderiok, of Valparaiso, who has been visiting here siuoe Thanksgiving wer.it to Fr tuoeaville today. Oxf rd Tribane—Niuty-fjur of the drpofciftrs of the defunct McCoy ‘rank of Kesselaer ara anxious that Tom be prosecuted, At the pace the whole th ng is moving he will be c sbi< g ebteks on the othrr shore before he is reached.

J. 8. Hollister, of Mattooa, 111,, and Charles Clarke and daughter Maude, of Lincoln, Neb- Arrived toiay to visit Mr. aod Mrs. D. E. Hollister. The first menti >ned is their son. and Mr. Clarke is nephew. Owning to the small parts lost in transit, through defensive b .x----irg, F. A. R'B l has nit been able to start bia new Crestmobil*. He expects aa expert from C lioago M mday, who will supply the aliasing parts and start the machine.

Crown Point B ar. It is so near winter now, and the marshes still as dry as powder, that our banters have given up all copes of hariag auy sport with the ducks. Scarcely any duoks have come this way and those that did were obliged to pass al mg to get a drink, Outside of the ditches and the river the Kankakee maish is absolutely dry. Editor Kitt, of the Giodland Herald, thus relates bow be first gotwissoa exhibitions of “bald ergles,” "white, owls” “badger fight- 1 ’ eto. "About thirty! years ago, in Rensselaer, we held the ropi while Charley Price and George Robinson palled the band from over a bald headed eagle, and the memory of that little incident (it cost three dollars to treat the crowd) will abide with us to the end.

i'be funeral of Mrs Ellen Culp, widow of Elijah Culp was held Wedaeeday, at her home northeast of Lee. She was 69 years, 3 month and 16 days 'old, and had lived in this region a great "many years. Mr. Culp was her third husband. She was born in Ooio, and her maiden name was Prioe. She was buried at Osborne cemetery, in Hanging Grove township. Crown Point Star: The traca on the Gifford railroad is now completed a mile this sido of the Kankakee river, and the work of grading and tracking is kept up clrße to the dredge, which has beeu hampered on aooouot of low wattr. Bat one channel is being excavated and the force expeot to /each the shore of the marsh within a short time. A work train is also employed acd furnishes sand for grading es fast as the ditching is done. . Jasper oonnty’s crop of railway postal clerks nevei fails, neither in qoanity nor quality. The latest is Charley Mann, of Rensselaer, but who has been clerking in a store at Kokomo, for some time past

He has long been studying rp cn the mail rpn»e work, a d has now received notice of bis appointment and will begin his dunes »t ouoe. Bis headquarters will be at Ci »- oinnati, but be bas n,t been no'itied where bis route will be.

The S iprerne court has taken another .drag at the saiouas o‘ Indiana. Tuesday a deoiai in was handed down holding as constitutional tbht provisio l of oity charters giving the cities juriediotiou i ver salouus for a distance of four miles in all directions from the o irporation limits. Tne court took the ground that liquor selling is a privilege, n t a constitutional right and that the state bas the power even to prohibit all liquor selling.

It is given out from Newton county th. t P.of. W. 0- Shanlaub principal of the Morocco high sohool, will he a candidate for ocuoty superintendent in Newton county, when the time oomts for electing a successor to the Dresent inoumb nt. Prof. Shanlaub is a Dt-mimtin p Pities, bat as the Democrats have now a majirity oi* the trui-tees in Newton, it is presumable that the next superintdent over there will be of that political persuasion- Willie, as we call him over here, is a Rensselaer boy born and bred, and as fide and deserving a young man as one need wish 1 1 see, Democrat or no Democrat

The climste of Jaspir county mar not be all that is desired, at some portions of the seas one, but still there are a good maay times every year, when people here can be glad that they do not live in Chicago, or any other place close to the shores of Lake Michigan Thus on Friday, though windy, oloudy, raw ana disagreeable here, still was without stormsto amount to anything, while in Chicago, a horrible snow Btorm prevailed alt day; wuere it blowtd and snowed and filled the road, until the saow was piled up five Let deep in places. And alt along the southern er.d of the Eke it was about as bad, iuoludirg, H.mcnond, LaPorte and Michigan City, in Indiana.

MONDAY Hairison Warren, of Peru, is here tor a short business trip, A. H. H jpkins wont to Rose Lawn today on busiaees. Jesse Coen, from the big MoClurg book store i i Chicago, visited R msselaer relatives Sunday. Harley J ohnsoa, of Fowler, who spent Sunday visiting in Rensse laer, want to Fair Oiks this morning. Mike Barniok3n, of Wheatfield came down to attend the Foresters Saturday night. Mrs. M C Stanley, from Jennings oouaty, who has been visiting her son jaok Stanley, ia Rensselaer, want with her daughter Mrs. Jesse James, to the letter’d he me at Parr today,

Mrs. S. J. Austin who has been visiting her son W. B Austin of Chicago for some time returned home today. Udolo Tom Murphy is remain, ing in about the same state of health as when previously met), turned. Hon, Jesse E. Wilson is attend, ing a meeting of Legislators of the lO.h district, at Lafayette, today, and to which it is thought Congressman Orumpaoker will formally announce hia withdrawal as a candidate for U. S. Senator. Mrs. D. A. Stiers and daughter Mrs. D. M. Jones who has been visiting Henry Randle for a few days returned to their home in Miriou today. Mrs. I. B. Wash barn went to Royal Center today to visit friends and relatives for a few weeks. r. Some | arties made a disturbance at a houee in the east part of town, Saturday night, and threw two atones through the windows. Tney then hurriedly got out of town, but probably did not get so far but what they oan be found when panted

W. A. Burns, son of O, Wvl Bares, 7 or 8 miLs north, has sold out hie dairy bu-iness at South B*nd, and »» n w attending tie Valparaiso normal. Mri. Henry Pierson went to Bafle Ground t day to vi«it her mother Mrs Mary E. Wbid. Mr . J. A. K-nm, of N rtu Menc .es'er arrived Satuidnv evening to spend the winter with her sister Mrs D. E Hollister, There has been skating on the river near Starr’s ice bouse and above, for some days, and it was pretty well nt.ized Saturday and •Sunday. The ioe however, is rather weak in plao*s, as several voang fellows found out, ho broke through it. Luckily the water under it was not very deep

whpreamone broke through. Born, Sunday, Deo. 4th. to Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Stocker, 3 miles west o F town, a daughter, and their first child. J. F McCJillv, acting for the Pa olio Library Board, sold tne old barn on the library lot to Ben Smith, for $47.50. 0 ingress man Oumpacker has settled two of the biggest pistoffioe appoint neats in bis district, by aaaounamg that be would re commend P. O. Small at LaPorte and Thos. W. Burt, at Lafayette. The dry mild weather still continues, and the godd health of the people continues also, as a consequence. In troth, tbe people are phenomenally healthy in this vioinity now, and save for an occasional accident, or something similar, which term may or may not iaolnde additions to the population, the doctors have practically nothing to do. F. A. Ross countermanded the order for an expert to 6et his new automobile id r trotting order. Charley Chamberlain, took a few twist* at it with a monkey-wrench and screw-driver, and off jit went. It made its first appearance oi the street Sunday aid ran like a charm, ,

Mr- and Mrs. Taornas L. Thornton went ti the so diers* home at Lifayette, last Saturday and wilt remain there for the winter, and perhaps perm moatly, depending upon Vlr.J Thorton’s health. The new boose they have lately built near Cadillac, Miob, will be rented

The o >unty Council of Vermilion will probably vote to abolish the position of traant officer. The Oounoil has refused to make an appropriation for services, and for that reason H, B, Whetsell, truant officer, has refused to do duty. Some of the members of ihe Oounoil also favorj getting rid of thee maty superintendent and county assessor.

A hu king match was pulled off north of t >wn, Monday. Jack Reed of Foresman, bet Alleo£May $lO thit thire was not ;a min in the country could husk andijonb 110 bushels of com ia ten hours tbi9 year. Charlev Hicks w»s the ohap that said he oould do it, and started the job Moadsyjmoming. In 9 hoars aad 40J“mioutes be husked aad cribbed |l2ljbushels 60 poands, and it was not good com either. —Brook Reporter. The long dry spell has neither cot nor made mnoh ice in this region, bat down ia the far southern part of the state, and over the river in Kentucky, the need of rain, for fall grain aad stock, is so great that the people are trying to divert the laws of nature and* the workings of the elements, £by prayers though persnmably with no more effects than usually seem to follow in these daye, when the Deity is importuned for [direot physical miraoles; the age of which seems to be past. Here where there is praotioally no fall seeding done, and where about all the farmers have deep and windpumped welts for their stock, the drouth has bad bat little injarioas effect, farther than to meke oistern water a very soaroe article. Oa the other hand the continued dry weatt er has given farmers a grand chance to get their com crops harvest'd aad tbeir fodder stored in the dry.