Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1905 — Brief Cocal Items [ARTICLE]

Brief Cocal Items

TUESDAY C. W. Merritt went »o Oxford, tod >y on business. Miss, Isabelle Scan'oi of Ind ianap »lia. is tie guest of Miss. Floy No *el“. Frink Hall, east of town weot *to Attica t >day to visit hi< aunt Mr?, R. B pier. Albert Wolf went to La r avett-» today, called by the death cf hta •broth r, Poihp Mies Zulu Hopkina baa gonj to ‘Goodland, to visit friends for a few dajs. George Diufo’d, the Lee b’aoksmith formerly of Rensselaer has just moved t> Rejnold’s Remember the first lesson io Phyei ial Culture, by Miss. Mabel Brown, at the Presbyterian Gymnasinm, ton’ght Charley and Albert Waite, of Lookport, 111., returned heme to •day, after v siting their uno'e, 'David Hjrsewood, west of town. Mr. and Mrs. Onarles Battledav home Monday afternoon from a vis t with relatives at Union Mills, LaPorte oouuty, Mr, and Mrs. James Med, of Hammond, returned tome tiday after a weeks visit with her parents Mr. and Mrs, E L. Clark' Mies Fanny Porter, left f r Lin coin, Neb, today, whes* she will visit friends, and spend ’he rest < f the winter studying music, in Nebraska University, Herman Hordeman attended the corn soh >ol at Purdue last week throughout the en’ire cession. 80 far as known he was the only Jasper county representative attend ing, except Ord Yeoman, for one or two days The Cnioago Daily R view is the only Chicago daily you oan get foJ 41 a yeir, 75c for six months, 50c f<r tnree months All important news, a daoy magazine feature complete market reports. a dollar to Daily Review, Orca Cola Building, Cnicago, 111, January ends today, and if Feb ■ ruary lets us off as easy, we have hid a Viry nico winter. Except ; perhaps when it was raining there has been n > day so far this win'er that a person of ordinary physical endurance, could not work ou'jof - doors m >st of the day, Mrs. J J. Montgomery went to ’Oneida, 111.. today, to attend tie

funeral, Wednesday, of Mr. Montfather, whosi death occured Monday afternoon. Mr. Montgomery was with him when he died, having gone out Sit ord ay He wee 83 years old. Regarding the death of Philip Wolf, brother of Albert Wo f of our city, today’s L ifayette Call, says; "Pailip Wolf died t St Elizabeth hospital yesterday morning at 10:30 o'olook Hie death was oanaed by a complication of diseases. He was a son of George Wolf, residing at6l2 South Fourth a reet. He was thirty-one years old and unmarried Ha was a young man of good character aid had a large oirole of friends. The .funeral will be conduoted from St Bonifaoe church tomorrow mornlag at 9 o’olosk and the interment will be mide in St. Joseph oeme fiery.” On this last day of Jan. the mn rose cn this lati ud°, at 7:11 a m and seta at 6:17 p m. Th e gives a day of 10 hours and 6 minutes light but v-ry bulging at its (a ter end 'hr* afternoon being 28 miuutea longer taan the fornoon. Have yen tried our fancy saur • kraut? John Eger.

Among thoe present, at tt e funeral of Mrs. Jamie Willii, here this m irning. were her parents. Mr. and Mrs W. H Moore, and three daughters, Bessie, Iva and Rena; ant Mr. and Mrs. E Morgan, ail of Mmcn. They all returned homo this afternoon Mr, and Mrs E J. Winters, ot Oniongi, were here Sand y. on the sad errand of burying their six months old infact son. Bertram; who died at their home in the< city, burial was made iu 0 ock->tt cemetery The parents former, v lived in ttrs vicinity, the mother biiog a dang iter o* Ab ler Griswold. of south of town. Harry Gifford, so lon / the right hand man of his uncle Co . Be j, F. Gifford, in the ma igement of his mmv f ran in this county has a'rea ty mov d from Newland to hie ne v location at Bradley 111 n-ar Kankakee, As bi-so e stat-d Harry ha? tr ded for a meat m«rke at B adley and has gone there to take c arge of the same. The new cry goods and men’s furnishing firm of P*. rter & Kres<er are now opened for business in 'be room f irmer y occupied by I. J. Porter & Co, which has been ba dt< mely fitted up for their occupmcy. Tney have named it “ The Cisb Store,” and their rule of business can prhbably be inferred from 'he name of the store. Boyd Portr and Frank Rieder are the members of the firm. The sleigti g, such as it is, was iub.’ioated test night by another inch of fluffy slow. That however, is not enou.h to make very good ehigbing on the bare places, and for heavy folds the wheeling is better than the sledding. In f-iot, the wheeling could not well be better and enormous loads of grain and wo id are being brought to town.

In >h■ way of big loads. Coen & Brady think they have them all skinned on oar loads of ooal. They lately received a oar of bard coal fr >m Pennsylvania, which contain ed 54 tons of o >al. Tne freight on it waa $135. They reloaded the big freighter at o <oe with shelled onm. to gj baok east, ani the freight on that was $147 Tans it w >u d appear that the bg oar was making money for s >meone, faster than a gold mine. It was a b'g steel oar wt i bridge truss frames. Fiorenoe Groves was an 18 year old telephone girl, who lived with her mother, Mrs. Parker, in Chicago, and who eloped witn a vidian named Terry, and committed suioide withcarboHo aoid. iu a Mil waukee hotel. She formerly lived at Kentland and her body was buried there last Thursday from the home of so aunt, Mrs, Robert W Allen. She took the poison in Terrv’s prea noe. H 4 was arrested at Racine, and said he agreed to die with her. but bis nerve failed. John A. Williams, from the Mo Coy & Porter ranch, in Jordan, was in town this morning with a six-story Bud basement load of ear oom. In bulk it whs perhaps the largest load brought iu this season. It was white oorn how* ever and that does not weigh down like yellow ooro, this year and hia load baa been beaten by loads of yellow oorn H s load weighed out only 65 bushels, while some other man, from up north brought in 75 bushels by weight, of yellow f oorn, a week or two ago. lhai much corn in the ear weighs 5,250 pounds, or over 2| tons. January Olraranoe Bale at Mur. r*y’a Dry Goods and Clothing st re.

WEDNESDAY Boro, Jan 30tfi to Mr and Mrs. Jesse Eldredge, of Parr, a son Noah E'more, of Winamac, was here on bus'nets today. There is a great deal of sickness of the nature of grip but not much very seriuu». Misw Dollie 8 hook is visiting her >wnt, Mrs. Josie Cbllins, in Chicago. f»r a few days Paul, the seven year old son of J. R. Parkison, is sick with a severe case of pneumonia. February started iu both odd •nd stormy, thia morn'nr, but the storm soon abated and the o Id moder*ted Ed N rntekle.on t v e I-aac P«r----k r farm gor 9 nvles north eos* was in ’own todiv advertising a big quhlic sale, for Feb 21th. Mr, and Mrs. J A. Winter* who wer» here bnrving their intent s">n inCr ck o, t cemetery returned t ’ their home in Chicago today J. P. McWilliams of Dwivht 111., stopped off here this morning, on h’" wav to visit a farm he owns near MoOnyaburg. Carr Brothers, west of town, are in Chicago today, disonaing of three loads of cattle and one of ho<»R, they shipoed to the s*ockvards.

Mr. and Mrs Britt Marion, who went to Reedfv. California, lest Ootnb°r with some view of settling there if they liked it arrived home on the two p. m. train today. Rosa Harmon had his postponed stock sale, at his place west of ♦own, today. There was a b’g crowd and the hiddrng was lively. Th* sale aggregated over $2 000. B F Fendig, the druggist, will l«ave tonight for several waeks f-tav in the “Sunny South ” He will visit Brunswick, Ge, and T«mpa and Jacksonville, Fla., at all of which he has brothers or sisters living' W, J. Imes will have charge of bis store during hie sb-'cnoe. Ed Kirk is just getting about after »wo weeks’ hard sickness at his home on Riverstreet. He hrd a bowel trouble and was threatened with appendicitis, but escaped it, at least in a severe form. Be has b a *n in Chicago most of the time for the p-is’ six months, bu* is now traveling for the Raven Stock Food Company, having the Indiana territory. The temperance people thrcugout the state have prepared a petition to the legislature asking that the Nicholson law be amended to that a remonstrance shall hold good against any and all applicants for two years. These petitions were sent to all churches throughout the state and on Sunday they were quite liberally signed. J. R Parkis on arrived from New Mexico, yesterday. He and Clifford Parkison b >ught 240 acres of rhe Pecos Valley land, jointly, and C iff ord stayed to look after it; but since Jim got here he received a telegram telling him that the sale was off, aa the owners, who live iu Kansas, had aocep'ed a previous offer. Jim is thinking of going back and buying an adjoining and hrger tract,

THURSDAY Mies Glen Sparling is visiting friends in Brookston. Mrs. Barbara Muster has return ed home to Valparaiso, after a week’s visit with her son Lew Muster. Ed Miller has bought of B. F. Ferguson as agent one of the three building and loan houses on Vine street, and will coonpy it as a residence. Mr. Ferguson is offering the other two for sale also. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Sayler arrived from Bismarck, N. Dak , todav, for a stay of 6 or 7 weeks. J. B. is collector for the International Harvester On., at Bis-ma-ok, and Mrs. Hayler has been staying with him for six months B F. Ferflig left for ths far sou’h on th- midnight train. 1 st night. He had a gixd ber h resrrv. ed on a and expected to

go t> sleep a id not aw*ki uitil he heard th* birla s ugiu{ alo ig ab mt noon today. There >s I tt' « do ibt but that Rep ‘seu'ativ-i Wi sou’s bid for the relief of the 'five township rustees w>o lose m n u y iu toe McCoy bank win become a law. It has already passed the House b, a vote of 55 to 13. Word has b en received of the deaih of Mrs. W. A. Rider, wh>oh occurred at her home in Wyno te, Wyo, [foe deceased whs a daugb0r of Rev. J. J. Claypoil of Newtown and was a reside ut of R-ns -elaer, as a vonug girl, about 22 yeirs ago, when h<-r fattier *as pastor of the M. E. church here. The remains wi<) be brought back io Kentland, Mr. Rid-r’s former home, for burial.

Wednesday's Delphi Harald -ayri “J. T Ivea & Sous have purchased cf C. H. Porter bit inter- st in the grocery s ore of Porter & Ives, the taking place to day. Mr. Porter will remain with he stire for a time at least, but it ia the general onders ood that ne will eventually move to Rei seeker where he formerly lived and where many relatives reside. Mr. and Mrs Porter have a great many good friends here who wdl regret exceedingly their removal.” It all off with the ground bog this trip. He was so bhm-<d anxious to qu*er the weather th s morning that he crawled out be fore the sun was up and seeing how low the thermometer whs he slunk back j into his hole, without waiting to see if he c >uld see bis shadow or not. He may make a new date for bis appearance later, but the chances are that he will not try to miukey with the weather any more this winter, and take what comes, like the rest of us

The county jail is now entirely empty of prisoners, but the sheriff loss not always laok for company. Every night or two some gent by tbe name cf W. Eary Willie or something similars registers at bis hotel and is assigned to a ground floor room in tbe annex to the r- ar. In all he has harbored 12 of theee wanderers during January. And it is a m’gnty goed thing there is a plaoe iu town where the poor devils can ’ always dapend on a ptece where they oan be fed and kept warm over night.

Clerk Warner has received not ifica'ion ib«t Fred KupXe has been accepted at L ngdiff asy um and that there is room f r him at once, Sheriff OConnor will take him over as roo i as'he fatni'y reports the necessary outfit of clothing ready.

Another account is that the ground hog sat eo long by his hole this moruii g, b inking his eyes in the bright su'’, that his tail fr< ze fa-1 to the ground an Ihe lost what there was of it and when he went back into h<s hole, be was to mad tha he may not come out sg'iiu for three months.

The w rk on the extension .of B irk’s bridge, four mi e 3 nodh of town, was begun last Satnr<my. The bridge is opened and impassible but people cross the river on the ice, east of the bridge The work is being d >ne by Sam Luce, of DeMotte, under a anboon'raot with the Pan American Bridge Company which has the contract. Up at Mich gan City Wm. Day has sued his mother-in-law. Mrs Anna Kreiger, for SSOO He says that she has septrted him from his wife, caused him to take two ounces of ciroolic acid to relieve his dispo idenoy, and add-id insult to injury by j iling him fora day or two. Worth W. Pepple, who "also rau” for oongtess io this district last fall, is hia at'.oruey. August Rose n >aum and his barkeeper, Billy F ry were served with warrants of err st this morning, by C instable Z «a. They are charged with selling liquor to a minor. Joe Ellis made the affidavits and alleges tha' the 1 quor was sel l to bis son B Hy,a trial w<,s i>ei hr two p. m.. today before Squire Irwin, and Roaey’s at the samel hoar Friday. 1

H. J. itexf&r, teli phoned in from the remote fas tn esses of Uui m township this morning, to report how the rural d struts were h >oked up for wea her. It was 22 below at bis pa m by a common mercury therm >meter. Tnis same instrument marked 12 b low during the oddest weather in January when the U 8 ih?rmometer h?re was 10 below Which would indicate that it is a pret<y reliable in-itrumen', as a d<fferenoe of tw > or three or even four degrees te tween town and the open oiuutrv would not be unlikely. H nos is would not be unreai>ou>*ble to c nclude that the actual temperature out at his place tb s merniog wes not far from what hi« thermo neter indicated,