Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1905 — Brief Local Items [ARTICLE]
Brief Local Items
TUESDAY Mrs. G F. Bringbam.of Vtedt rebusy, is in town today, on business. T. R McManis left for Cronkston Minn , after several days visit with friends here. This is another perfeotly bright and beautiful day even if it is a little o jld out of the sun. Mrs. R. B. Harris and sister Mrs. Evaline Randle, visiting friends in Lafayett«, today. Mrs Jesie Fox, of Roselawn, is visiting her parents, Mr. aud Mrs. Geo. Tm!i j , southwest of town, for eev ral days. Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Davis of Hammond, visited tbeir daughter, Mrs. W. L Fry, Sunday aod Monday.
The Bicknell Brothers are having their pool tables that were in the burned room, tekea apart and will take them to Brook and open a pool room th«re. Miss Mandy Hojes, now of Mont<cello. went north ou the 9-55 traia this morning, to visit for a few weeks with an uncle and annt at Gardner, Kans. Mr. and Mrs. F A. R ss to Chicago today, to tee the big automobile show. Tomorrow Mr. Ross will pilot a party of Rensselaer people through the exhibition n
Milriy English, of Hanging Grove Tp. left here yesterday for Jamestown N, Dak., where he i 1tends to eater the employment of the Wrought Iron Range Co., of St. Louis, Who would live in Arotic Hammond? They had 12 inohes of snow there Sunday while we had o ily a soant four inohes. The same general propor.ion of enow there has been the rule all winter. The bill permittiug ba»d ball games on Sunday a f ternooo, where fltdmission is obarged, was killed in the biuse, Monday. Wilson of Jasper wft3 One of thoee voting against it, Unole Wallace Murray and ton Charley, W. L. Lewis and Sam English, all left for Mountian View, Ofcla., taday. Charley and Sam have the b T g end of a big stook ranoh there, and the others go te see the country; and may buy some of it A sun spot 30,000 miles across it and so large it oan be seen wi’h the naked eye, ia new attracting a good deal of attention, In Rena selaer many people are squinting at old sol through smoked glasses, -and moat of them olaim to be ab’e io looate the big hole all right.
Alf Donnelly, the onion king, entertained in a manner becoming a royal personage, seven yonng ladies of the telphone exchange last night. And it is no profanity to say that Alf showed the hello a hello of a good time. He gave them a bob ride and then took them to his home on the breezy eminence two miles north of town, and treated them to oysters flavored with onions, and then to o lions flavored with oysters. It was truly a jolly party and they had a jolly good time, and the girls will not tarn down another invitation from the same sonroe, if one comes their way.
The Duvall brothers have their horses all biok in the undamaged rear part of their stable, and are ready to do business as usual keep, ing most of their rigs in the Fisher feed barn, across the streets
They are having the debris oleaned up. and will rebnild es soon as the weather will permit. Th-? origin of Sunday’s fir* is as p'ain 88 the ncse on a nan’s face It started from a wooden bucket fall of ashes taken from the stove in the pod room and set out be hind the building andrg’nt against the wall. The bucket with a big hole burned in its side has been preseived, and the place where the fire had its first start under the side boards of the building is plainly to be seen. Britt Marion has been kept housed up most of the time since his re<nra from California, by rhenmatism. bat is out now He and Mrs. Marion found it a pretty severe change from spring like California into the arotio temperature that they landed in here, They have no present intention of re turning to California as they found no opening that seemed very promising, except by investing a pretty good eiz-ed sum of money. At Bedford Monday, Evans, one of the Sohafer murder suspects, was released and Browning the other was held to the grand jury. Browning is said to be very defects ve mentally Evans as soon as be was released oaused the arrest of Geo, W. Riley a newspaper correspondent who was mainly instrumental in bis own arrest. He obarges Riley with perjury. Warrants are out for others concerned in the prosecution,
Wm Gaapar, from the southwest paitofGillam Tp.. ]was in town today. He ia another oitigm now far away from post-office facilities soon expaota a rural delivery route to run past £his door, The route is now worked up, and seems in a sure way to soon be established. It w'U heal out from Franoesville, and over the country north and west from that town. The largest of its territory will be in Jasper oounty, mostly in South Giilaoj but a portion of southeast Berkley will also be reeohed. According to the Logansport papers, Nate Stedmaa is wanted for bigamy. He left bis wife and fonr ohildren a year ago and last September, without having proceeded farther on the road to a divorce than to talk with an attorney, he married Estella Ashby. He is a jewebr and son of Wm T. Stedmin, and brother of Theodore Stidman, the blind musician, formerly located here. The Logansport papers say Nate has been here also, with a jeweler’s shop, but that doubtless is a mistake.
In spite of Monday’s temper ature cf 25 in the shtde, and oon. siderable thawing in the sun, the temperature last night fell to three below zero, or rathei this morning. This makes zero weather four oat of the seven mornings so far in February. January had zero only five times in the whole month. And |the sum total of all the January zeroes wrs only 25 degrees, while February has already piled np or piled down a total of 36 degrees below zero. But no finer winter weather shoal J be ssked for than Monday and today even if the nights are oold. Besides this morning was so still that no one knew it was very oold unless he looked at the thermometer,
WEDNESDAY Coldest weather last night 5 above zero. Coldest at 7 a m. 15 above. Warmest today, 25 above.
Btt.-ket B ill Friday evening Feb. 1® V elirbur' vs Ren s*la j r H.S. Come oat end see a go d girne. O. A. Parkisoa of the Ridge, arrived home from his trip to New Mexico, this afternoon. W. W. Washburn, of Gxoiland returned home this afternoon, af* ter a short badness visit here. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Short acd l ttle son have gone to Ligmaport for several weeks visit with relatives. Mr. and Mrp, Will Murray, and her brother Tom Nichols, arrived home from a three weeks’ visit at Kingman, Kans., today. Lloyd Bair, ton of R-;V. J. B. Bair, is reading law in Foltz & Spitler’s offlo*, and exp:cts later to take a course in some law college. Mrs. Thomas Sanford, of Chicago, who has visited Mr. and Mrs. U. M. Baughman since Friday, went to Monon today, to visit her pa-ents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Friend for several weeks.
The fire whistle began sounding at morn, noon and night, today, as per previous notice. The*arrangement will probably continue as long as the weather is oold enough to give the whistle c ingestion m its insides unless it is blown oicaesionally. Nearly the whole adult male popu’ation of Union township was in the court house this afternoon. The oocassion was the hearing of a petition before the commissioners to divide the township, and make two oat of it instead of one, This move for disunion ia Union comes from the north part of the township. The north in this case being in favor of secession, and the south being opposed. Stella Ashbey, the woman whom Nate Stedman, the bad jewaler man married, while he had another legal wife, ani is in a fair way to see the inside of State’s Prison on aooonnt there :>f, formerly lived at Mt. Ayr. Bhe was the wife of Arthur Aabbey and got a divoroe a year or two ago, and returned to her piren's *4 Royal Center. Taers seems to have been no very universal expressiin of sorrow at her departure when she left Mt Ayr.
Billy B'o J gitt. of the News has picked out the 12 best looking men in the state house of representatives, but wbeater he had the “cirl with a red hat” that he writ-s so much about help make tbs selections, he dors not state. One of the 12 is John of the Lake county, aud formerly joint representative for Lake and Jasper. John is a right handseme looking Dutchman , for a fact, and "just as nics as he looks” us the girls would say. M. W. Grove, of east of town, went to Quinoy, Ohio, teday, to visit relatives. Everett Halstead went to Indianapolis today, to attend the state farmers’ congress. Miss Jessie Stephenson, of Chicago, is visiting her mother, Mrs. W. H Stephenson, who is sick. 0. G. Daley, of Indianapolis returned there today after a visit with bis brother, Uhas. Dal&y, southeast of town. Mr. and Mrs. Will Walters went to Caioago, today, and where Mr. Walters will take treatment of a specialist for his hearing. Mrs. J. A. Lakey, of Chioago, returned home today after a 10 days’ visit with her mother-in-law, Mrs. Eleanor Adams.
Today was to have been fair, according to the weather bureau bnt all (be the same we had a driving and disagreeable snow storm, about all day.,with abont another 4 inoh of heavy snow, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Reed, of Eirklin, returned to that plaoe today, after a visit with their daughter, Mrs. Wm Turner, who has been sick and who went book with them, for a visit. There will be a battle royal at the Armory Friday evening of this week. The Veadersbnrg girls’
basket ball team, the state champions, are coming up to play with our high sohool team, also an undefeated aggregation. It will be a great game for certain. Tne Penny Cluo is a branch es the W. R. 0., that meets every two weeks. Their last meeting w&s with Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Powers, on River street, where they were most pleasantly entertained and at which fine refreshments were served Miss Alice Bates the Librarian and stenographer in the court house, bad a sadden siokness and fainting spell, this morning, and was taken home. No serious results are apprehended from her fainting. The Senate voted Tuesday to admit Oklahoma, and Indian Territory as one state, named Oklahoma, and to admit New Mexioo by itself, leaving Arizona still a territory. The bill as it previously passed the house put New Mexioo and Arizona together also, under the name of Arizona. It is doubtful if the honse will aooept the amendents.
Bob Michael’s sale Monday at his place two miles southeast of town, was one of the best of the season. The orowd was so big that aocording to veracious reports people had to go out in the road or over on to neighboring farms to turnaround. The property went like the proverbial hot cakes, and at big prices, and the entire sale aggregated abont $2,600. The most sensational prices were brought by a dnroo jersey sow and six pigs, whioh sold for enongh among them to bring $217. The proper attitade toward the automobile is not persecution, bat enoouragemeat, It is one of the most useful inventions of the age. Let ns not treat it as benighted persons were disposed to treat the locomotive and other beneficent mechanical devioes whioh were ignorantly and foolishly sought to be destroyed by physical violence. The farmer’s horse mast get used to the automobile, even as it has had to bear with the terr fying traoiion eDgine and the buwng eleotrio car.
Providenoe has raised up the automobile, if the farmer but knew it, to rescue bim from the slavery to the ruinous expense of bad roads. The physical conformation of the State of ladiana fits it to be the Paradise of automobiles and boot pived state of the Union. We ought to have a widespread ambition to see Indiana severed with a network of magnificent roads suoh as those tkht hate made France the ideal of the world. Nothing will help this day along so mnch as the automobile, —Indianapolis Star.
THURSDAY Co’dest list night 25 degrees. Warmest today 33 degrees. There is a good deal of snow ons the ground now, especially in woods and oornfields'wh re it has not drifted. From 12 to 18 inches on the level are the way the reports run. Wednesday was the date for J. 0. and J. I. Gwin’ publio sale, ia Hanging Grove township. Owing to the very bad weather, however, the sale was postponed. Saturday February 18th, was the new date chosen. The sale is advertised in another plaoe in this paper Mrs. Martha Washburn and daughter Mary have shipp:d their goods to Chicago and will make their home in the west division of that oity. Miss Washburn resuming h j r old plaoe in an art pnb. lishing firm She went op today and her mithor will follow Saturday. The residence has been rented to a Mr. Davis, of Wolcott
Mrs Will Im h was oalled to Chicago Wednee lay evening by a telegram stating hat her husband had been severely hart by a fall. No particulars of the aooident were given in the telegram, but a letter received this noraing, tail no boms were broken and that Mr lines would be brought home this
I m ■ a t’rnoon. Ca..t. Wm Guthrie, of Monticello, a well known citizen, and two years ego a candidate for Congress on the Democratic ticket, is now a land owner of some magnitude in Jasper oonnty. He has just bought of Mr. O’Neil 239 acres of tbe old Wm Noland farm in Barkley and Hanging Grove. It ia not very high priced land and the consideration for the entire tract, as stated in the deed was oaly SIO,BOO or $45 per acre,