Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1905 — Brief Local Items [ARTICLE]

Brief Local Items

FRIDAY Mrs. Geo. Slrickfaden is in Obi cage tolay. Mrs. Hencbel Brenner went to Mt- Avr today for a short visit with her parents. The lowest temperature last night was 25 degrees t e highest today was 42 degree?. Mrs. Lina Scudder, of Hamilton, Ohio, is the guest of Mr. aod Mrs. John Mane, for a fe v Jays. Mrs. A. E. Coen of M-OOt ltd., returned home to lay after spending the H»lida)S with relatives here. Tne weather has gr wn very mild and pleasant again af'er its hytencd paroxyin of a few d tys ago. Peter Giver is eti 1 one other Rensselaer man to enter toe employ of the B>rous Conpany, at Wabash. Mrs. W. H. Jackson and daughters Hat ie and Bessie of Mackinaw, 11., »eturned home today, after ashore visit here with Mr. and Mrs. J oe Jackson. Hou. Jres* E. Wihon will go to Indi map ilis, Mon fay. to be ready for the opening see.ion of the State Legishture. Mrs. Wilson will accompany him and they will reside at th ' Linton H >tel. Cozney Ke'lu“ r ; s the nn ly roan reported as yet putting up ice. H • began yesterday, and as none of hie men have been eunstruik tola/ h j s i h keeps at it, in spi'e o f fie warn wmth-r, It is pretty go id ice- from 8 ti 12 inches ’hick* The catching of fur up in tie “far north” otherwisi the Kankakee river region, ended very early this year, aooo-’dit g to the Crown Point Star. All the ripe rats were harvested by Deounber Ist, and all the miaks but a few scattering seed ing- 1 ; and of skunks there are so i o jly e io ig i left t > s nell at John n, of Crown Point, has been engaged by Judge Hanley, to issist in the proseoution of the McC>y cases, in the superior court at Hammond. He has been prosecuting attorneys in Northwest Indiana. It is not like|y that any thing m ire will be done with these oases at the present term of o-uh in Ham uoud furt er than to argue and piss up in the sufficiency ot the indictmen‘B The trials themselves, will undoubtedly be postponed until the spring term.

There are likely to be lime changes in the judicial circuits of the st its by the coming Legi-la-ture, and there ia some prcspeot of a move being made to put Bmton county back in thia circuit, from which it wandered away during the judgeship of 'Simin the debonnair.”’ It seems that Fountain, in the oirouit with Warren and Benton, would like to be in a circuit by itself. Warren opposes this and favors chucking Benton back into this circuit, to relieve the pressure. How the people of Benton think has not been ascertained. It is stated however that neither Judge Babb nor Judge Hanley are particularly desirous for any change. J. W. Walker has juat returned from Wil iamsport, where he has baen doing soma more court reporting for Judge Babb, of the Warren, and Benton circuit. The Judge offers h'm the place permanently, but John is not likely to leave this circuit, at present.

Mr and Mr j . Geo. Mustard Ireturned to their tome in Wabash today, after spending the holidays h re, with friends. Mrs John Hilt >n of Westville and Mrs. John Sager of Ch cago returned to their homes today afera ehort visit with Mr. and Mrs, Uarey L C ifr. Mrs J J. Schmi t of Dauville Id., and Mrs. J. A, Ov«ron of Tuscola 111., returned home today,

aft r spending the holidays with Mr. and M s Tom Ko i is in There will be only two new faces at the court bouse doors, after New Years. They vid te Jack Tilton, of Wheatfield, who willbt coun r y reojrler, and J*ck CTConmr, of Kuiman, who will be county sheriff All the other ffijeis »re re-elected, except Commissioner Halleck and his term has a yt ar to run yet. RJe*r>e B.w.rs heard motions in the McCoy and Gi'man bankruptcy oases today, says Wednesday’s Himmond Tribune. In Iht McCoy o se the matter of the sale o' th* bunk property was discussed by 'he McCoy attorneys. In the Goodland case the matter of the 'reatment of trust funis in the defunct bank was co isid-raMe Several trust fundw* re in the bmk at the time of the oloaing and th) oAnars desire these should be pa d before the accounts of the g-neral ored.t rs Jje Sordrman the ve ? e’aa cf years’ continuous soldier servio r , arrived here this a'term on for a stay if indefinite length He has jaat completed three years service in the 16th U. 8. infantry, with the rank of Commissary B<rgeant. Wh n his term ended the regiment was stationed at St Lo iis guar ling the World’s Fair property. Joe’s previous service has been in the 14th infan'ry and th* 11th cavalry. He has spent over three years in the Philippines, and made two trips over there uni back. In all three of bis d rch rges from se vice his record has been marked ex jellent He expic's no v to get an appointme it as a guard at the U. 8. prison at Atlant , Ga. He has taken the examination required, and made a standi g of over 78 pec oent, when only 70 per oent was required.

SATURDAY

r- Mrs. Ray recoveied from her operation at Ohicag) very satis r aotorily ani is now at home with her parents here. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Terry and Miss Mary Gattm, a'l of West Lafa) ette, are visiting their former p istor, Rev. H. L Kiadig and family over Naw Years. Walter V. Porter is advertising a sale on the MoCoy ranch in Jordan for Jan. 12 h. Hj has rented 500 acres of the farm for the coming year, but expects his sin Rice will manage it, and for bimtelf he ia likely ta move to town. The fiery s authernera have not burned all their oittnn] to. make prices higher Louie Imes saved a few small wads and sent them to bis grandfather W J, In e ) as oor iosities. Including some still in, the b ills, and also com a of the seed. Along with it several bottles of co'ton-seed oil, oil oikes etc. Three of the thirteen presidential electors of Indiana who voted for Abraham L'nooln are still living— M*j jv Will Oumbaok, Isaac Jenkins m and Cilouel John W. Ray. [’he colonel says he’d give 11.000 today for an old’ black hat of til did duty>a ballotjbox in the electoral’college.

Daring the burning of the Dun* lap livery stable at Mt. Ayr, W dnesday night, a son of Thoa. Willey was kicked in the breast and quite severely hurt by a horse he was trying to resone. He was render ed unconscious and bad to be carried out of the building to save Li* own life. Only one of the horse’s hoofs struck him, the other parsing over his shoulder just missing his head. The injury he sus'aiued has been reovered from, we understand. John K Gowdy, after miny years’ distinguished service as consul general at Paris, is soon to return to his home in Indiana. “Oom Jack” as we have before stated, grew up in Jasper county, and it was in Rensselaer that be enlisted at the beginning of bis four years service in the civil war. He will be succeeded in Paris by Frank H. Mason, now consul sen era! at Berlin, while John L. Griffiths, of Indianapolis, will succeed Mason.

The ye*r 1904 enda today, and with fine enough weather even tor California. The sun has ehone gloriously bright all day, and the temperature has ranged from 35 decrees early tnis morn'ng, to 50 this afternoon Wm Bures, of up about Parr, was in town today with the bide of a big wolf he slipped up on and downed with a shot gun, about 10 days ago. Ho filed the scalp for the bounty, and wanted to sell the hide,

Mrs. Margaret L. McDonald and daughter Mary, of near LaCroea, ariived last evening to attend the funeral of her brother. Washington Scott. They are the only near relatives from a distance, able to attend. The two other sisters, Mrs Anna Delaveau. cf Tipton oouLty and Mrs- Mary Liwmai?, east of town, and the brjthe Samuel Scott, of Lakin Kans,, are all in poor health and umble to be pre«eut An exchange remarks-: "Fortunes in fancy farming continually stagger the imagination. Fourteen acres of onions in Indiana have this year year yieldeded their cu 1 - tivators a clear profit of SIO,OOO. The pn fi'ahleness of raisi >g this vegetable with modern machinery f airly takes one’s breath away.'’ Yea, suoh profits as that in onions wou'd take even an onion breath

away. But who is the ma i th** makes such wealth out of coions? Sur-ly no one makes more money out cf ooioi s than our own * Ouion Ait” Donnelly, who some years raises 30 a'res of onions, and thinks be is d ling well if he clears SIOO per acre from the crop MONDAY Theodore Fo ohley. an attorney ( f Fairfield, lowa, spent Sunday wi'h his o. usin, Mr*. B. Forsythe Mrs Berrv Paris has gone to Oxford to spend several months with her dwgi tars Mrs. Lewis and Mrs. Ladd Mr. and Mrj. J. A Hopkins returned to their home at Brsz'l, t ■- day, as er a ho'idsy week’s visit with their relatives here.

Orville Du ilap who has bien visiting with bis parents left today fjr Chicago wh-re he has accepted a position with the Central Hyde Park Tank. E D Knotts, former editor of a paper at Wheatfield, and later at Francesville, but for the past fi ur years deputy auditor at Winamac, has bought a Democrat paper at Wahpeton; North Dak., and has moved out there, A New Yen’s du ca was held at tte Arm cry Saturday night under the management of R>y Smith, Chas Bowers and Everett Potts. orchestra lu-ntahed the music.

John O Oounjr, the new sheiiff moved to town today, and into the sheiiff’s residenop, at the jail, hav ing no v taken posses ion of his office. Abe Hardy, the retiring sheiiff has moved int) the Tom Sayler property on Front street. The White County Quarterly Meeting wll be held at the F.W. B. Church, Rensselaer, Commencing Friday evening Jan. 6th. All ►re invited t > cume. Dr. I. M. Washbura received a New Year’s gifc in the form of the appointment of physician and surgeon for the Menon railn ad compiny f rtl is region. It is a p sition physicians consider very desirable.

The New Year started in yery mi d, Sunday, with 47 degrees as the highest and 37 as lhe lowe t temperature. Toiay there has been something doing in the weather line, in the shape cf snow and mist, and much colder weather is promised by the wea'her bureau

Clerk Warner issued 29 marriage licenses during December being the largest r umber since be has be°nincffice. Four were issued on Saturday, Dec. 31st, that being lie best’single day’s work, the statement previously made that he issued four the day before Christmas, being a mistake. The opt n for hunting anjtbirg but rabbits closed Saturday, and Jto hunt quails, prairie chickens or other game birds, is new unlawful. Tt is said the past season has been a very poor one 'or quail hunters; owing largely to the ground being so dry that the d'jgs could net follow the tcent of <he birds. Probably the great scarcity of the birds bad still more to do with the hunters’ bad luck

Mr. and Mrs. Jessie E Wilson will not go to Indianapolis until Tuesday. The session of the Legislature begins Thursday. Mr. Wilson, by the way, has been honored by being chosen one of the House members to make a ascending speech at the nomination of Senate, r Beveridge for re-election, on Jan 17 h. It is quite a notable honor, and very fiiti g’y bes'xiwer’J Sheriff Shipman, at Kalamaz o, Mich , bad a large part to do in the running down snd orpture o’ Ed Donahue, according to the Michigan City News. And be did it through information given him by Anna Donahue, also of Kalamazoo, and a cons'n of the murderer. Lake county this state, offered a reward of SSOO f>r Donahue’s arrest and probably the distribution of that sum will settle who did the most towards bis capture. He has been held without bail and bis tr'al is expected to take plac 1 in February st Crown Point.

Rev. Geo. H. Clarke, the new pastor of the Christ an church, preached tie fi'si sermios as pastor here, Sunday, morning and evening. He comes with a large reputation for ability as a preaober a d hie firstsermors fully buetained that reputation He has be in located at Sheldon, 111,, for several years past, and through a 'onger stay was desired by bis congregation, be decided to accept the oa'i from this place. He has a family of a wife and two sone, and will move here in a short time, probably this week. Ac ing upon the suggestion of Dr, J. N. Hurty, secret»ry of the state bear’, of health, the Laporte Medical Association recently passed two s ta c f r jsoluti ms p itiii ming the gene-al assembly to create aetata laboratory < f htgiene and a eta’e health farm. Wh’cb resin

tions are goed aa far as they go but shou'd have Included a state epileptic home, and a s’ate consumption cure farm. Ker th Parker vil move into town in a few we* k*, frem the Parker farm about two miles n< r heast o' to*n. His parch- si of the Wm. Sihleman vehio’e butinets

here mentioned some time' ago He has also b ught a to'in 1 residence, the same b-ing the former Robert Dowler place, at th* junotim of Scott and Division 1 streets, —n ar ihe form r Lewis cigar factory. In the way of preparation forrccupyi g the property be his just ocmpl ted a new btre, tbereon. c The de\ious a d double switch back en'rance Pcstmaster Meyers has c ntrived at ths p?s*-office this wiot r, has c u ed a great deal of co jeoture as to its pu'pos) and not a lit Ie sub-rosa profanely. Its purpose, however, is now generally understood as part of a well planned scheme of dt fen e against any sudden attempt of some office hungry individual to capture the office by a surpr’se. As now for tilled and protected it will be a comparatively easy m tter to hold the attacking f rce at bay at the fr n’d or, until the P. M. make? good his escape tbr u.h the rear wi h h’s cimmissicn u der his arm A few barbed wire entanglements however, wonld greatly btrengthin the frmt defense*, and wi 1 probably s on be i d led. The funeral of tho late Washing•o Sc 4t was held at one o'c’ock Saturdiy, at the family residence on south Van Rensselaer s’reeb and was largely attended. Rtv. O. W. Postill, pas or cf the M. E chu ch at Remington, conducted the re'igioui servic s. Prairie Lodge F. & A M.. gave the Mas nic fun ral rites at the re idenoe; and at the grave lhe burial site were by the Ren seal .er Pot No. 84. G. A. R. The pall bear r were three for each order namely R H. Grew, I M. Hemphill and A. J. Abbot*, for the G. A. R., and Ray D Thompson, Moies Leopold and Benhart Fandig f<r the Maions. Interne it was at Crocket ceme‘e*y, southeast bf town

Borne parties from Chicago are here today, with a proposition to .’ooste an ov >r-all factory, to employ 100 h nds. It seems like a very promising p-opositioa. A meeting of citizens was held at the court house at 1:30 p. m, for a conference.