Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1905 — Brief Local Items [ARTICLE]
Brief Local Items
TUESDAY Charley and Wilson Clark left for Kans »s today, on a prospecting trip. The coldest temperature last night was 9 degrees, the warmest today, 22 degrees. Jeaso Coen, of Chicago, spent New Year’s with Rensselaer relatives, gomg’home last night. Misses Leaths and Mary Wright retnrned to Marion today, after spending their holiday vacation here. Melvin and Glenn Wishard made their parents a holiday vieit and returned last night, the former to his work in Chicago, and the latter to bis college studies, at Evanston. Mrs. Nellie Harris visited her brother-in law, L Benj. Harris last night and this morning left for Kalamazoo, Michigan., for a shcrt visit with friends. She is now baok at her old time occupation of sohool teaching, haviag a school near Foresman.
Ike Glazebrook’s Dan Patoh mare Happy New Year oelebrated her seoond birthday last Sunday. So far the oolt is coming oat very moely and is m no re3peot proving a disappointment to her ,’owner He does not contemplate doing anything 'with her on the tbc6 track this year, as he believes that many a promising oolt is rained by orowding th jm too fast while they are young.
Two Angola newspapers printed an advertisement for a local merchant wbioh the postoffioe department doolared was in the nature of a lottery enterprise and the issue of both newspapers was excluded from the mails. Your Unde Samuel is drawing the line pretty strictly on everything that looks like lottery advertising, now days. The bark of the present winter is worse than its bite, as the pre sent weather illustrates. Thus no matter how wild and fierce a spell of weather sets in, by the next day all is mild and serene again and the sun shining brightly. Monday was a decidedly stormy and threatening day and seemed like the beginning of winter in earnest, but today everything is of the finest again.
Joseph Rowen. whose long and dreadfully painful affliction with a oanoer has been several times mentioned, is now very 4ow, and his survival beyond a few days, at the most, is now of. Ue has been praotioally unconscious for several days. In anticipation of the end, his daughter, Mrs. Ben Edwards has been called from Eoglewood, and his two sisters, Mrs. Wm. Ramey and Mrs. Cynthia Paris, and niece Miss Ramey, from Medaryviile. M. D. Gwin went back to Indiana Medical College, today, and probably will not oome baok until he has M. D. at the other end of his name, also. He #ll^. finish his college oourse in rind if be keeps the psoe -he has kept all along, acd there is no reason to fear he will not, he will .graduate right along at the very top of the olasa. He is one of the brightest and straightest and most industrious young men Rensselaer has produoed, and is bound to make a fine physioian. Moreover, he has deoided to locate right here in Rensselaer, where he will start in with the added advantage of the excellent reputation his correct and studious oondnct has won for him here.
About 20 of Miss loma Imes friends surprised her last evening at her home on Cnllen street onjher birthday. Dainty refreshments were served, and a very pleasant time was reported by all. The Ladies Literary 01 uh held their annual New Year’s reception, Monday, from two to 6 p. m . at the elegant borne of Dr. and Mrs. E.C. English, on South Cnllen street. Friends of the club called in large numbers and were entertained by a well executed literary and musical program. Choice refreshments were also served.
Cuarley Wiltshire and Miss Ruth Barber, returned to their homes Chicago, after a New Year’s visit with his parents here. Charley is still ia the employ of the Republio Iron & Steel Company, and has just be<n given a more responsible position with a corresponding raise in salary. All of wbiob will oome in very useful, along about the time when the roses get in action again, and Charley takes to himself a bride, namely the yonng lady in the first line of this item. “The Girl From Kansas.” Who is she? Whptisshe? Where is she? You can have those three questions answered by going to the Opera Honse on Jan. 7th when the great comedy drama of which “The Girl From Kansas” is the title .will be presented for the first time in this city. The play has a consistent story and abounds with funny situations whioh keep the audience in a constant good humor, without interfering with the pathetic part of the story. It is interpreted by an excellent company of metropolitan artists including several high olass specialty acts.
W. 8. Parker, of Two Harbors, Minn., is in town for a short stay. He has been down to Frankfort and brought baok here his mother, Mrs. Isabel Parker, who is still lame from a sprained knee, and tomorrow will help her get started for California, with her brother Uncle Ad Parkinson, and wife, and wheae she expects to spend the winter. Russ is still engineering on the Iron Range Railroad, and though the road has shut down hauling ore for the winter, it will begin hauling out saw logs pretty soon, and therefore Russ has to hurry baok. He works for the greatest iron ore handling concern on oarth. Last year they handled \\ million tons tnd this year expect to make it 7 millions. This much ore would make quite a mountain, it itself. Russ saw half million tons in one pile, and it was about as long as three Rensselaer blocks, as wide as ene block, and as high as the court house tewer. Hence some idea of the pile seven million tons would make.
WEDNESDAY Lowest temperature last night 8£ degrees. Highest today, 28 degrees. Mrs, Robert Lefler returned to her home et Wabash, this afternoon after visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. H, B. Murray. A. K. Payne, of Indianapolis returned home today, after a New Year’s visit with his brother inlaw, Anditcr J. N. Leatberman. R B. Porter, the retiring oounty recorder, can now be found in the county treasurer’s offioe, he having accepted a position there as deputy county treasurer. Walter White is shipping his
household goo I today pieparatory to his intended removal 10 Lowell to open a meat market. A very swell dance is being arranged for Thursday evening at the armory, by way of return for the fine dance given by the ladies, at Tnaaksgiving time. The celebrated Hungarian band, from Chicago will furnish the mnsio. The dirt roads are exceeding rough now and the gravel roads far fr.:m smooth in many places. As a result of these conditions the automobiles here have mostly holed-up for the winter. They are eminently fine weather birds, at beat. Charles Dunn, twice convicted for the murder of 13 year old Alice Cothrell, at Fort Wayne, has been denied a new trial and sent to Miohigan City to serve out a life term* He stoutly maintaiaed bis innocence when the judge sentenced him this time. The evidence against him was entirely ciroumoumstantial but very strong.
A man living near Valparaiso got track of a horse at Hegewisch, Til., the other day. whioh bad been stolen from him 10 years before. He went and saw and recognized the horse, and fell on it neck and. wept, bat the former valuable beast was now old and braised and battered, and he thought it not worth while to go to the expense of trying to recover it.
Today’s Indianapolis Star says Jesse E. Wilson, of Rensselaer, is beiDg pat forward by a powerful combination, as its candidate for chairman of the Repnblioan legislative caucus, in opposition to what is oalled the Marion oonnty combination. Which is a strong evidence right at the start, of the leadiug Mr. Wilson will be given in the state legislature this winter. This is tbe,way a country editor wrote up a reoent wedding: “The bride was born of honest but well meaning parents and could walk alone at six months; at ten she oou’.d ran real fast, and has never slackened her gait. She has many friends—most of them dead ones. The happy conple took a bridal trip to the Gross Roads, and will be at home with the old man until they are kicked out.”
Mr. acd Mrs. Addison Parkison and sister, Mrs. Isabel Patker, left this forenoon on their trip to California, where they expect to remain until April. D. B. Nowela, of Lamar, Colo., want with them, and will accompany them as far as his town, where they will make a short stop. Their next stopping place will probably be in Arizona, to make a side trip to see the Grand Canon of the Colorado, a sight which comparatively few Rensselaer people have ever seen. The retiring tiustee were in town today, filing their annual reports with the county auditor. Among them was A. J, Bellows of Carpenter tp., wearing a fine new gold G. A. R. pin, presented to him by the teaohers of his township. He was the only old soldier among the old trustees, and none will be found among the new ones, In fact, as Mr. Bellows himself believes, he is probably th 3 last old soldier of the civil war who will ever hold the office of township trustee in Jasper county.
The overall factory proposition will not only*be the cheapest fao* tory proposition ever offered us, but also one of the surest. Many of these propositions, in faot. the most of them, have been for some business that had still to be built up. This overall business is already fully established, It started from small beginnings, 8 or 9 years ago, and now in its different branohes employs about 75 persons. It has an established and ready demand for all it produces and has every proepeot to sell all it can prodnoe, even after it be* comes muoh larger than at present. In faot its proprietors believe that in four or five years it will employ 1 several hundred hands; and the 1 rate it has grown in the past seems I to fully justify that view. It should be added further that though the majority of its em*
ployes are girls and Women, yet a considerable proportion of its bands are men, there bring much of the work women oan not do.
Little Lee Richards, wbo formerly broke all records for veninreeomejourneyß by himself, for a boy of his size and eg j , bnt who has been very steady since bis return from the State Soho jl for Boys, gave way to bis old longing for adventure during holiday week, and disappeared ou tbe Monday following Christmas. His parents had no knowledge of bis whereabou s until they received a letter frun Mr, Richards’ sister at Loganaport stating that Lee was there. In the letter was a column article from a Logansport paper, telling bow Lee had shown up at the pc lice station there with the information that his name was Riobards, he was a j ard and a half long, and was there to visit an aunt and unole, and even Whose names he did not know, further than that the aunt’s maiden name was Riohards. With that for a clue the police soon succeeded in looating tbe couple Lee wished to visit, being Mr, and Mrs. Will Mannering.
Charley and Wilson Clark will probably bay land in Kansas, dnr ing their present trip, and move out there. They bargained for a big farm in South Dakota, last Tall, but bargained with |an agent, and afterwards the owner of ;be land insi.ted on so many changes in the oontraot, favorable to himself, that the Clark boys would not stand for it, and cancelled the oontraot, getting baok the money they had paid, some 1500, ;o bind the bargain. A press telegram from Indianapolis says that Jesse E, Wilson, of this city, will have the marked lonor of being chosen to preside at the Republican house oauous, obe held tonight. It is quite a notable honor for our able representative-
THURSDAY U. M. Baughman made a busi ness trip to Monon today . 0. T. Fry, of Rose Lawn was in town en business today. Dennis Gleason is here buying up another oar load of horses this week Mrs. J. W. Blair returned hom6 yesterday, from a holiday visit at Terre Haute. Mrs. Anna Shupe, of Lowell is visiting her brother here for a few days. Mrs. John Barton, of Chicago, returned home today after visiting friends here. Minimum temparature last night 13 degrees. Maximum today, 33 degrees. Call up J, N. Thornton’s res taurant,phone 271- Bread delivered aoy part of the city. There was not quite two inohes of snow fell during the storm whioh began Wednesday afternoon and lasted until midnight. Mrs. Lizzie Mustard, of Qteand Ridge, 111., is here to pass the winter with her sister-in-law. Mrs. Sylvester Gray.
Walter White went to Lowell this morning, to get matters in shape for his family who following on a later train. Joseph Rowen still continues very low. at his home north of the railroad, and Mrs. Rowen is also now on the sick list D, W. Duvall and family arrived framed Indianapolis yesterday and expect to sgain make their home here.
The biggest graphophone in Jasper oountv will make musio at the farmers’ institute, Jan. 19th and 20th. Today is the day of desolation for rabbits in this % icinity judging from the number of hunters that went forth to them this morning, Dr. and Mre. S. J. Herman took their departure this afternoon. The dootor to go to Detroit, bis former location, to visit his brother, and Mrs. Herman to go to the home of her parents, at Baltimore-
| Profs. Hatton and Fisher, of Pardne, are among tbe leotarera for tbe next county farmers institute to be held here on£Jan. 19th and 20th. Tbe program of tbe oiming Jasper oonnty farmers’ institute appears in this issue, and that it will be one of tbe most interesting and most beneficial institutes ever held in the oonnty, is evident. Every progressive farmer, and still more, every unprogressive one, should attend
Esrl Duvall went to Rockville last Snnday to labors as manager of a large clothing and famishing store there, and whioh he manages for half of the profits. It is evidently a fiae opening, ard no donbt Earl will prosper there, greatly. His family will remain here for about a mouthjyet. We are requested by her relatives to state that the legal and proper dame of the mother of the boy ordered by the commissioaers transferred from the oounty asylum to the state sohool for feeble minded children, is Mrs. Nell Rodgers, and not Nell Karsner, as she is mentioned in the commissioners’ proceedings.
The Oounty Commissioners of Tippecanoe oonnty have given the contract for blanks and stationery to tbe Deqnesney Printing I Company, of Terre Haute, the same which bid against the Bart. Terry, Wilson Company for tbe Ja9pei Oonnty contract. Tbe Lafayette Journal pat up a big holler against the work being taken away frem tbe Lafayette firm, and says tbe awarding of tbe oontraot will probably be congested, on the gronnd, as alleged that the Terre Hante bid did not conform to the law.
According to the Madison (Wis.) Demoorat a fossil egg discovered among the gravels of the Gila river in Arizona is described in tbe last number of the American Journal of Scienoe. Tbe egg is supposed to be thousands of years old and shows evidence of having been in the grooery store of a man who didn’t advertise.
An exoited military-looking gentleman entered the editorial sanotum one afternoon, exclaiming: “That notice of my death is false, sir. I will horsewhip you within an inch of your life, sir, if you don’t apologize in your next issue." Tne editor inserted the following the next day: "We regret extremely to announoe that the paragraph whioh stated that Major Blazer was dead is without foundation." A teacher in a country school took an unruly pupil across her knee and paddled him until his pants aotualiy smoked. This is no joke. The boy had a hip-pocket filled with matohes which ignited under the pressure by the paddle, and a small conflagration was only averted by pouring a dipper of water into his pocket!
On one occasion, Governor “Diok Oglesby of Illinois went down to Joliet to inspect the state prison, and in one of the cells he ound s very ugly man How did you get in here? asked Oglesby, “Abduction,” Jwas the reply; “I ried to run off with a girl, and they caught me.” "I'll pardon you as soon as I get back to Springfield,” said the governor; I don’t see bow yon could expect to get a wife in any other way.”
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Moore returned home Wednesday night from Beddiok. 111., where they were called by tbe death of tha latter’s sister, Mrs. George Btndley. She died last Snnday, very sadder} ly, from rheumatism of tbe heart, and was only 23 years old. Her maiden name was Edith Park hurst and she was known to quite a number of Rensselaer people, having lived here a few years, some six years ago. She does not leave any ohildrea. She was bnried at Reddick.
It was a mistake, an error sa and grim, I waited for the railway train; the light was low and dim. It came at last and from a carriage stepped a dainty dame, and looking np and down the place she straight unto me came, "Oh” Jack,” she cried; "Oh Jack! ’ and kissed me asßbe spake; then looked again, and frightened cried: "Ok, what a bad mistake!” I said* ' Forgive me, maiden fair, though I ana not your Jack; bat as regards the kiss you gave, I’il straightway give it baok.” And since that night I’ve often stood upoa the platform dim; bat only onne in man’s whole Ufa do such things oome to him! James McDonald, acquitted through the rascality of an attorney apd the wrong methods of oonrt practice, of the murder of Sarah Schafer at Bedford has bees sent to Jeffersonville for one to ft years for arson, in netting fire to the house occupied by his wife and child, evidently with the intention of bnraing them to death; his wifa previously brought suit for divoroe He plead gnilty to the charge of arson, and under the name of Wm. B. Parsons, whioh he olaims is his right name. His acquittal of tha murder of Sarah Schafer, of wbiok he was undoubtedly guilty, is only one more of those inuumerabla failures of jastioe whioh are making oar nation, a nation of unpunished murderers, and are tbe reii cause, and almost justification, of the lynobings that are such a national digraoe.
Next Monday will witness the inauguration of Governor-elect Hanly. It will be a notable 000*sion, and Indianapolis will be fitted with visitors from ail parts of the State. The first part of the exeroisea will ba in the Senate chamber, where Lieutenant Governoreleot, Hugh T. Miller will take the oath of offioe. following remarks by Lientenant Governor Gilbert. All tbe State officers, members of the Supreme and Appellate oonrts and tbe members of the General Assembly will then maroh to the rotunda, where Mr. Hanly will be inaugurated. After music by the Indi<*napclis Military band and prayer by the Rev. Walter D. Cole, of Lafayette the oath of offioe will be administered to the Governorelect by Chief Justice Hadley. Tne new Governor will then deliver his inaugural address. In the evening the publio reception will test from 7:30 until 9:30 o’olook. Admission will be open to all.