Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1905 — Brief Local Items [ARTICLE]

Brief Local Items

FRIDAY Wm Schultz, of Melvin, 111., is here on bat-ineis tcday Mrs 8 B Ho'raes. wist of town his go in to Violin, tc visit her eislerMrs L worn Sunday. Mrs.N J York w>nttoMnn hiroli h mu, this nftirn ion, t> attend a Fortnightly Club meeing Mr. and Mrs. Gio. V. Mayers have gone to Wheatfield for a few days’ visit with various relatives in that vicinity. The Fenruary term of the circuit court does not begin until Monday Feb. 13-b, and already are more civil oasis on the d cket than wag ev-*r knovn before, in anyone’s recollection. The case of Billy Fry the bar keeper charged with selling to a minor was oootmued until next Monday, and sent to Squire Thornton on change of venue. August Risen ba urn’s case was in trial this afternoon. James Halleck, the 18 year old son of Charles Halleck, now owner of the Hadeik nursery north of Fair Oaks, ded at his father’s home in that town, Thursday, aftt r a long sioknise, from tuberculosis The funeral will be held at Fair Oaks, Saturday at one o’clock p m

The High School girls will have & basket b Ji c >nt st at the armory tonight. Th* girls of the Senior aniSophonore classes will plav against the girls of the Juoiors and Freshmen. Il will probab y be a close contest. Au admission of 10 cents will be charged to de fray expenses. Game cdled at 8 p. m. Except in places well west or northw -st ho places with coldtr temperatures than Jasper county had Thuredsy morning have yet bsen teported Chicago was 12 below and most friz * to death, and Lndisnapo'ie as bad off with 10 below. Omaht, Neb. Ind 24 bsl jw St. Paul, Minn, the same, and Bismirok, N. D 36 below. Havre Mont., was the coldest of any, with 46 below. Delphi Herald. M. A. Ryan and Frank Grocinger attorneys for Tillie Kranton recovered a judgment in the Marion circuit court at lndian*p >lis this morning for $15,000 damiges against an Indianapolis paper house by whom the young lady was employed ind was working when she lost an arm It is one of the heaviest personal damage judgments lately given in Marion county and Mike is naturally gratified at his success, W, M. Park* r and eon bad their public sale Thursday, on the farm two miles northeast, and though the weather was cold, the bidding was warm. The entire sale was some few dollars under $2 000, not inoludtd about S3OO worth belong* ing to other parties. All the property sold well; but there were no sensational prices except a black mare sold for $l6O, and the dun c broods sows brought $24 a head.

The bill ta relieve County County Treasurer Samuel R. Nichols, for county money lost in the McCoy bank, and through no fault of his, was before the house of representatives, Thursday The bill then passed the house by a vote of 71 to 7, and so large a majority indicates that it will probably piss the Senate cleo, by a large majority. Oharjey Spitler, the great public sale clerk, has a day off today, it.b-*-ing 'he only day this week had no

public side *o clerk for. Last week a'sc Friday was the on'y day we had no sale. He is beginning to think Friday is a bad duv anyhow, for it was while returning from clerking a sale on Friday that his fine driving horse had its leg broke, and hud to be killed. J, C. Schwartz of Urbana, 111., returned home today, after closing op all matters connected with the Schwartz farm near McCoysburg, which belonged to his f »taer, S. J. Schwartz. They have sold the farm to Charley Mausfie d, an attorney of Urbana It co itaine 4DO acres and was figur-d it about $65 per acre, or S26'JOO in all she price is p irtly in other, property, tcwiyer.

At the rate the mercury went down the tube yesterday afternoon and evening it seemed certain that Wednesday night’s cold record vs 17 below ziro would be exceeded. From about four o’clock in the afternoon until nine at night the fall was fully two degrees every hour, and at nine o’clock it was then 9 degrees below zero. Had the same rate of fall prevailed until morning something like 25 be'ow would have been reached. However soon after nine o’clock the sky clouded up and that put aa end to the chitling’, precis and -ven started the mercury on the up grade, . The lowest attained during the night was 11 below zero arid Dy 6 o’clock this moruit g it was ocly 7 below.

The Gampaoker automobile bill h«s passed the sta’e sena’e and will probably pass toe house without much if any modification. It prescribes a speed limit of 20 miles in the country, 15 per hour, in sparsely inhabited parts of cities and towns and 8 miles per hour in closely built parts. Also a state license is required f>r all autos, and every machine has to have a number and in large figures prominently displayed. Every automobile must stop when the driver of a horse raises his hand, and even stop the motor from running, if the noise (■cares the horse. The bill in several of its features closely resembles the Rihs bill in'r>duced bv Wilson of Jasper. That bill however had no speed limit outside of cities and town.

SATURDAY Ohris’ie Vick made a trip to Lafayette today] Mrs- Ray Moisler, of Hammond, is visiting har parents Mr. and Mrs. A, Leopold. Today’s weather could not have any flu a r if the ground-bog had stayed out and looked after it himself E. A. Aldrich, who went to Hutchinson, Kans., ab>ut six weeks ago to visit bis brother Chester, got sick the second day a*ter he arrived there, and is only beginning to get better now. He is expected home early next week. Today’s Blar has a cart >on showin g Senator Davis in the gniee of a grev-honnd, after the corrupt lobbyist, in the form of a badly Soared cotton tail, hot touted Lt looks like if the dog d in’t stop ti scratch be’el catch the rabbit sure

Senator Parke’s anti-c garette bill pawstd the state senate Friday by a vote of 35 to 7. It m k j s if u (lawful to make, sell, tr de away or to own or have in p >ssess on cigarette cigarette wrappers or cigarette tobaooo.

The Rensae'air Feed Store sold 2J tons of feed to Pair, this week, H C. Hefnir is in Uhioago today, oa business. W M. Hr us in returned to Grant Park. II ~ today after several days’ visit with his brother Nat Heuson, east of town. L'oyd Jeiß’en, the jonng telegraph operator, i» now permaaetly located at Logaispcrt, where be has an excellen’ job in the employ of tire Western Union. Mr. George L. Maines, andMiso Harriet 8. Lewis will be married next Wednesday, Feb. 8--L at ihe home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Whitsei Lewis, in the northwest pt rt of town.

Walter R. Lee, of MoOoyebu'g, stopped off here yei'erlay afternoon, from a trip to Peoria, Hi . where he went to attend tbs funerwl of his grandmother, Mrs R. P. Sheperd. Mr. and Mrs. Sh a rman Lewie and family of four miles northwest of tewn went to Marshall countv today and will visit Vaiious rela lives there for seve al weeks, be'ore going to their future home near Mitocell, in South Dakota.

Zero weather was still with tie last night, the low limit bring five degrees below, and which tempera tura still prevailed until seven o’clock this morning. A change of wind to easterly indicates Bit only warmer but st irmy weather. The mayor of Valparaiso publishes a proclamation wherein hv recites that the City Council hazpassed a motion requiring him to enforce the law of “Sabbath Observance.” Whereat he gives notice that all persons violating the aw will be prosecuted. The kinds of vocations he forbids in bis no tice include drag stores, restaurants, hotels, bakeries, milk dealers, selling newspapers, stores of all finds, railroad ticket offices, tele phones, hack lines, etc. All of which, looks to us lute a most contemptible tod wicked attempt on someone’s part to make Sunday aws odious, in the interest of gamblers and saloon-keepers and other still less respectable busi nesees

Sheriff O'Uouner went to Logansport uday to t“k», Fred Kupke Io Longoliff asyiun.' F.ei’d two broth"rs aieo went t to give the sheriff any sssistsnie he might happen to reqn<re. Frank King aho went with he party to britg back his father W. H. King, taken to the Hsylum eirlv last summer and now re-tored to h ; s meatal health.

MONDAY Bom, Fridiy, Feb. 3rd, to Mr and Mrs V H. Thornton, at Surrey, h son. The dooto s’are all busy attend ing grip oases no v. though most--1» of a reaaonmy mild charao er. J- R. ParkinsU’a little boy is recovering from his attack ot pne umonia The rest of the familv are all sick with the grip, except Mr. Para mson.

Saturday was pension day, and a busv day -ith Cmrk Wir-ie-, where the bulkof the r vooc iers|ire exe u d He ad an even 50 including 12 widows and one orphan Rec >rdrr Ti ton dlie I out about 12 vo »c iers and the r j st went to various justices or notaries.

The Sheriff «nd his assistants deliverei Fr-d Kupke to Longohff asylum, Saturday without any in. cident worth- mentioning aui he <as glad to-go t iere. W. H. King w*B found to be evidently entirely recovered and was disohirgedaa cured, and is- now at home with his family, west of town. Dy J mes, of Knioran, is no better and probably never will be.

C. T. Weathnrhogg. the arohi-4-*ct, was over from Fort Wayne-. > f oday to look after the fiumhingup of the pub*'® library building: and to advise w tb the comm ssioneri regarding tl>i propoied countv cottage at thi <«o di *ri h >nn of which also be iathe architrct, and the contract foY which was to be let today.

The snow storm which began Sonday fo’-enooß'and continued until evening was the largest snowfall of r.ne winter here, uu to this. The amou’<t..was very little if any less than four inches The eno* plow brigade was-out betimes and most of the walks were well cleared re the children started to school. Our horse snow plows are surely .r it and >d luv-nt'oas, W. 8 P--r-.ce ha* n-tur ed from a visit in the no?beast part of thestate, and is now arranging his affairs to start back to soutuwest Texas. Tuesday. The big Morris ranch he is there of comprises over 500 square sections of lanl. or almost exaatly as large as all Jasper county. There are about 32000 J acres in the ranch. It is ad under fence, and divided up into pastures and watered by windmills* About 170W0 head of cows are maintained o i the ranch, every oow being supposed to produce a calf every year. Twenty acres of land are allowed to maintain a cow and her calf, the year around. On the foamer Morris ranch near ths Kankakee river in this county three teres would sustain a cow and her calf.