Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1905 — Brief Local Items [ARTICLE]

Brief Local Items

TUESDAY W. B' Leonard arrived home to day from a trip to Ok ahoma and Kansas, 0. 8 Wi’dtr of Rose Law 1 was here on buisnees to day. Misjfss Deena and Barth Swartz arrived home last evening a visit with friends at Fort Wayne. John, Levi and Sherman Ren* ioker all visited there parents in Ca T roll county ever Sunday. M J. Giellen, of Monon, the o: e legged man who i 3 suiog the Momn for $20,000 damages for his it juries, is canvass ng for books here now. Mr, and Mrs. P. JStuaker and •George Slucker went from here to Valparaiso to.day t > attond the funeral of ftfrs. S uck-r’s sister Mra. Alice Cove. Miss Myrtle Tallis, returned to Robs Lawn, yesterday afternoon aftei visiting her parents, Mr and Mrs-George Tullis, southwest of town.

U. M. Eaighman, G.orge Hershman and F. E. Btboook went to Liyfette this afternoon to attend the Jaokson Day oelebration. A marriage aioanse was issued this morning to E. Vernon Pratt of Earl Park Benton Co, and Mies Della D. Russ all. of Carpenter Tp. this oounty, Bnd daughter of W. S. Russell, a leiding citizea of that portion of this oounty. Lae Jessn o, the carpenter and builder and roof-paint dealer has add?d some new lines to his business at the corner of Washington and Weston gtraet, namely a wood yard and fe d store C. D. Sigler, of Memphis, Tenn, is visiting his sister, Mrs G. W Goff, for about a week. Mr. Sigler

known as striker, on a big government dredge boat on the Mississippi river, -•rsJ&f, _• 1 Squire J. M. Troxell oame down from Demotte last night to be on hand for the celebrated Greenlee, the alleged window smLeher’s trial, set for 2 p. m. this afternoon. Unole Jake has been sick for some time with a heart trouble, but is now better. The town of Montioello has now made a oontraot with J. B. Workman. the tax ferrit to dig up sequestered property, and plaoe it on the tax duplicate. The ferrit gets 35 per oeot of all he causes to be ooileoted. That also is the rate Carroll oounty pays Godlove A. Bahm, of Lafayette, and seems in fact to now be the established per oept for that work,

According to editor Simoas of 0 the White ocunty Dem'-orat who recently visited Hartford City, a Archie Robbinß, the young net j jumper, who was so seriously in- ( juried in jumping from the court house tower at Montioello, on v October 4th, is etill completely t paralajzed in the lower part of his { body, being unable to move himself in bed exoept his arms and head, He is quite thin and week, is helpless so far as oaring < for himself is oonoerued and requires oonstant attention. He is fctill in a oheerful frame of mind, however and has strong hopes of ultimate recovery. Mrs Helen Peacock and little daughter went to Dyer tO-day and expeots to make her home there with her son, Roy, the telegraph operator. Her son-in-law and daughter Mr, and Mrs.D W. Dnvall went with her to Dyer, but have uot deoidei to locate there. has been a resdent ' 7ole at Trinity J&. ay Evening. J7m

of Rens=elaer fora great many year. She has sold her residence in the east pirt of town to Frank K nnel, i h i baker. Old Boreas got alter Old Zr:ro las-t nighb good and hard, 4 and got him good and fctr mg. The trinper-t----ture began to fa' 1 rapidly about noon and b/ nine o’clock had fallen from 32 degress down to the zaro mark; and by this morning it was ten below, by the U. S. thermomater. It was 12 degrees oolder than the coldest mark reached si far this winter. W. H. P rks, a We'ls county farmer, has fig.uei out th? cost of produ ing a co n c op and given his es t) Purdue University. He places it at $8 59 per acre. Bis figures are bised on land in the notbempi.t of that couLty and was value at $66 per. acre, and an aers or a renal va'ue of $5 per The price of labir was figured at $2.20 per day for man and teem, naulu gto m rket thee cents per bushel, seeds twe ve and one.half cents p r acre ac.d other small items The averagi yield in the country is forty-four burhels aid the average price now is forty oents per bushel, s) that an ave would yie'd sl7 00 or $8 50 net profit. The fodder wis a'so e6tima’e to be worth $4 p r acre, so that the total net profits per aore would be sl2 20 or $976 on a farm of eighty acre?, besides the pry of the owner for bis time and team at $2,50 per pay Related to the proposed farther lowering of the Kankakee river the Momenoe Reporter says: ‘lt is presumed the ledge in question is the one in the river near the site of Siminds’ old ioe house, where the work of trking out the rock several years ago was left off. At that lime the state of Indiana

.. AAA . . , a LIU iHU DbUIUJ* LI ror me removal of the rook in the r ver.and tue contractor quit work when so many rods hbd been removed, leaving a strip about twenty rods wide and extending across the river which hclds some of the wster above. There is some doubt in the minds of many whether the removal of thia ledge will bring the required results, or whether it would oe a better expenditure of money to straighten the river in places. The windings of the stream holds the water back perhapsmore in the flat, np-river districts than does the rook ab )ve this dlaoe.

WEDNESDAY

E P. Honan and 0 W. Duval and eon Carl were others who wen ; to Lafayette yesterday afternoon, to attend the Jackson Day exercises.

Sheriff O’Connor has appointed as his three deputies his son Joseph and those old reliables, Oliver Robinson and Guss Grant. Mrs, Peter Giver and family went to Wabash, Tuesday to make their home, and where Mr. GiVer is working for the Birous Company. Jappjr county was again iu an extra cold belt Monday night, win lwe had a 10 degree below zero temperature. The coldest at Chicago was 5 below and at Indianapolis 2 below At Delphi 11 below was recorded. Trustee Stackhouse has appointed Dr. A. J. Miller, as pbysioiau for the poor of Marion township, including Rensselaer; but not of oourse, the inmates of the oounty asylum; the physician for whom is appointed by the t county commissioners.

Sher,ff O’Connor enquired into the oonditi m of Dr. Jones, formerly of Kniman, when at Longoliff Tuesday, and learned ih it he was iu fine phvsioai condition, tut mtnta'ly no better than when he was sent there a year or twj ago, and if anyth kg a little worse The weather has been playing see-Baw iu great shape lattly. Thus Monday sas warm 32 degrees, olondy and s iowiug. Monday night and Tuesday were clear and very oold, from 10 below to 12 above zaro. Today cloudy Bgain, with snow, sleet aud ra : n, in that order, and 31 degrees temperature Win. Voider, now of South Bend has jasl sold bis farm two miles west of town, the former Tom Sayler p'aoe. to J, A. Larsh, the druggist. It oontains 103 aores and the prioe was $65 80 per aore. The price aggregates $l,lOO more than Mr, Vedder paid about two jeers ago. C.J D an negotiated the sale. Prosecuting Attorney Graves has appointed as his resident Rensselaer deputy Moses Leopold. The appointment gives exoellent salisfaction here, and no doubt Mose will come as near filling thed.ities of that thankless tflioe with as Itttle oamplaint as anyone that oou’d have been appointed.

THURSDAY Mr. and Mrs. E. We!zell, of Lafayette are in town fir a few days’ »tay. W, H Vedder, who was here ■ailing his farm and visiting relatives. returned to Bonth Bend, today. The installation exeroises of the Ladies G. A. R. has been postponed oi account of sickness, until next Thursday Dight, Jan 19. The High School ohorns, under the direction of Miss Davidson will sing at the Presbyteiian ohuroh next sabbath morning. J, W. Williams was at Chioago Tuesday night, attending a banquet at the Auditorium, given by the wholesale furniture men to the retailers. Th ir were 759 who partook of the banquet, whioh was the finest, iu every respeot. The glacial period, or reigu of ioe seems to have come back again. Anyhow the change to oolder last night, at the end of the big sleet and rain storm, has left walks and ■ r/m t n a ra- I

streets andoountry roads praoticaly one sheet of ioe. Unole 811 Kenton and sen Elmer, of South Dakota, are visiting friends in this vicinity. Elmer will stay only a she.t time, out Unole Bill will stay until Mason Kenton and Charley Zard are ready to move out there, in February. During the whole of Wednee'i day’s badly mixed storm, of snow, aleet and rain there was a total precipitation of 1.41 inohes of water,

or practically ons and two fifths inohes. This water with wbat bad j come previously in the form of j snow, is praotioally a'l still on the ground, in ihe form cf ice and ■now. , John fl. Wood, of the busted national bank of Mathews, was oonvioted of misappropriating the funds of the bank, and has been l sent to the U. 8. penitentiary at l Leavenworth, Kaus., for six years.

He is the min whose attorneys ■ bumped N. S. Bates, of our city, i off the jury, beoause he had lost money in the McCoy bank. He 1 would not have fared any worse had Mr. Bates helped try the oaee. 1 The proposition of one of the members of the Indiana legislature to impose a tax ons bachelors hafl caused a searching of. the census reports to discover how many unmarried men there are in the state whose pocket-books would be touched by eu h a law, There are in Indiana 51,536 bachelors between the ages of 35 and 45; 9,405 between the ages of 45 and 55; 3,313 between 55 ana 65, and 2 606 above 65, making a total of 37,820 Some of them are not ab’eb died, however, and some earn less then SI,OOO a year, so that it is difficult to even make an intelli-

gent «e to how many wool 1 o-ime w.tbia ihe provision of tne law as contemplated. There are a go d many et»t-s whioh hiv-’ more bach lore i i proper ion to ulation than Indiana, i The r ite th t smells the sweetest j 18 ilie fir-t of all to f d ;heboy who runs the fleetest is the one t > soon eat j ide TLe brightest of the evening* h is the gloomieTt of da vat-; the man wh ) buys the biggest yards must cut the biggest lawns, Ths app'e that is ia’gest has tbe fattest worm of all. The fellow who gets on iu life is always full cf gall. The soup that looks the clearest is tbe first to sh ,w thn fli s in. Toe fellow who would B*ll the goods must blow the most in adveitisin. The hen that lavs the biggest egg will be the first to set, and things we always hanker f r will be the last of all to get, The simp'eii way is a ways bast and yet we pass it by. to dabble wi h ih.» tinseled things th t ca ch and f joI the eye. -EX

The electric light and teleph ne wi’es got badly loaded with ioe yesterday afternoo i, with the result that the telephone wires went down under the strain, in many places. At the intersection of Washington and Weston streets, one cf th-se wires fell across the city electrio light wire, which soon burnt off and fell down. Before the light station oould be notified, Joe Jackson drove over one of the ends of tbe broken light wire, and one of bis ho r sesg it a ebook which felled it like it was shot. Us hind foot evidently bit the wire, so that when it fell it was clear of the wire and therefore was unhitched and got up again without farther injury or danger to persons. Tne horse did not seem to be injured any. Several other but less speotacular breaks of the light wires oo cared in other parts of town and tbe telephone and cleotno lights men were on the jump until midnight making repairs

Do you like sweet singing? Do you like pretty dancing, new mute, Do you like to see and hear funny oomedians? Do you tike to see up to date specialties? Its all to be s?ea in the great play of “Eli and •Jane,” whioh will play here on -Jan, 16 Seats are now on sale at Jes-ens,