Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1905 — Brief Local Items [ARTICLE]

Brief Local Items

.TUESDAY Ys|sntine business today is unua’iiUj? iigbt at the, post office* Docq, Monday Feb. 13th to Mr. and\A£f3. Richard Gaaway, 5 miles town, a eon. Bjeth'.anyoae, right lately, been heard ,to remark; “What beu winter weather this is wettrermow having?” ' Thsne is at least this to be said for Bt.iValentines Day, When it, is oyq'f;February is half dver, • < Lute Hemphill fell on his back outride stairs, about a week ago, andjhfts siace found fie had two broJwAhbs. ' Grades 3, 4 and. 5, k,t scbdois are noaa/jYom to heat the room?,, in the driving southwest -. i . ~.1 effiOtSyttf fall if» oagp'Jflst y’ tkk i .tbe week to be able to go -was ..received Monday afternoop, an hoar or two after Mrs. Hardman end Mrs. Long had left for that place, stating that iheir mother Mrs. Elizabeth Puroupile, was much better. , g > - | 1; • { -~ fr - All the trains are late again today, owing to the drifting snow. Yesterday it t ok one passenger train three hours to go from here to Shelby a distance of 20 m las, and $ freight train, with only 14 ears and two big engines bad a corresponding amount of trouble,

The girl pith a sofa pillow graft wdrked Rensselaer all bright Saturday, sud foetid plenty of suokers to bite at her oheap skin game- She sold 115 numbers at 10 cents apiece or three for a quater Hugh Gamble got the 75 cent dud.

W. A. Huff, who went from here to Indianapolis last fall, has sold his jewelry business there and is considering a new location, He has several good offers from jewelry stores in Indianapolis, but is more strongly desposed to accept the offer of the management of one in lowa. The record for the first half of February is zero weather 8 mornings out of the 14, and a total of 98 degrees below zero, and 10 iuohes of snow, During all of last February there was zero only six times with a total of 36 degrees below and 9 inohes of snow, Yet last winter was a oold winter.

The band concert at the opera house last evening was not only up to every reasonable expectation in point of merit, but much in excess of that. But unfortunately, and owing mostly, ho doubt to the very severe weather, the attendance was not nearly so large as it should have been.

The weather started out last night like it was going after Monday’s night 23 minus record, and at 10 o’oleok was down to 16 below zero; but about that time the effeots of the change of the wind to southwest began to be felt, and that was the coldest mark reached during the night. By 7 this morning it wes only three below, and moving rapidly on the up grade.

Again the rural »oute carriers did not attempt to make their rounds today. Not only on aocount of the very severe weather, but also because of the blocking of the roads, wliioh the wild southwest wind drifts full fastor tliau they can be ehovelled out.

WEnKSSDA.Y. ( Oapt..Tayaiya of the Ist 17:. $! Infantry, wH r>e here Saturday night to insp-’ 1 Company M. ' A full attendance is desired' -, Charley Zard’a sale took plaod today, north of town, He has had a nioe bright day fai| it if the cold has bien very severe. B S. the. poultry aecl junk dealer, left this morning. drt the belat d milk "train, for New' Orleans, wjiere.his wife has be4A for some weeks and where he Will! stay until about the 10th'df Marpli, Knox was visited by. a, $30,000 fire .Friday .which had its origin dthe 1 !*etook 4 room the Starke Ooutortycßepublican. Mr. Mpar* man’s loss is plaoed at $4,000. Re; ports do not say whether he had insurance but it is presumed that he had. ! , .Tuesday was,the dny set for ,W. H, Berry’s sajlM kbPliasant Ridge; bht owing to*tne wild and ing weather, making the day .one of thh ne new date is "Wednesday Marclij

Ist. The rural route carriers all started out this morning, hoping to find the roads passable. J. Q Alter of Route 3, oaly got out three or four miles, jand found the roads blooked so bad that he gave up and came Dapk. The others made the r rounds, by cutting out some of the worst blocked roads.

The question of the altitude above sea leavel of Rensselaer and Jasp r county generally, as oompared with Lake Miohigan has been raised. The. altitads it the Rensselaer depot is 662 feet. The altitude of Hammond which is but a few feet above Lake Michigan. is 598 feet, or 64"'leet lower than Rensselaer. D. B Nowels, of Lamar, Colo., now spending a few weeks here, reports that the southwSst is getting its share of the excessive ooldand Lamar has had 14 below zero, and even way down atJEiPaso, Tex., there has been a heavy snow storm.

Reosielaei Lodge Knights of Pythias, will attend churoh in a body, next Sunday, meeting at 10 a. m at the lodge room aid march ing thenoe to the Christian church where Re?. Clark the pastor will preach a sermon appropriate to the oooasion., Tuesday was the day set for receiving bids for the MoCoy lands. The bid received ere mostly for oertain portions only, and it it a big job to figure out the most advantageous ones. Probably by tomorrow Trustee Chapman will be able to announce whioh, if any, he has accepted,

John Shaulaub, the sexton of Weston cemetery reports that the colony of fox squirrels living in the treet"of the cemetery are about out of winter provisions, and he is feeding them oorn and hiokoryuuts A kindness whioh they seem to greatly appreciate, These squirrels know Mr. Shanlaub of old and in the summer play around close where he is working but when a stranger appears they, hunt tbeir holes in a hurry.

Valentine’s Day added another 1| inoh of snow to the 18 or 2o already on the ground and tbe night.following about 14 more degrees to the total zsro record if the "Cold February.”

Miss Mabel Brown gave up her physical oulture class here, on account of the injurious effects of

the cold westhei*. It is probabh other class latpr in the season * jl f '! ’ l" Jacob Johus,‘aa old resident o! Milroy tp, died Tuesday. He w ill ( be buried Thursday, ia : Benson oemetery. He had paralysis.: > ; Last night Was anbther very cold number' l On- - *of l/ oerr, though not a record breaker by any means.: Theiteuvpbratbte fell steadily; all night,, aod until sun morning, and reaching as its point 14 degrefs .below zero. BeiDg oomiarativedy o&lm, the night was .ncrt a very severe one, ip spite of the cold. T,be 6tate board, of agriculture in Indiana is already planning for the next fair, and have determined to makeit a record breaker. To this end a large . appropriation has been mi’e io: pay for newspaper advertising, tf* e board having demonstrated that this mode e>f public ity ismo3t effioieat and brings best results. >

A Weshinglon dispatch to the Indianapolis Star says; Walter Olde, cf Fort Wayne; offered valuable auggestioai to Congressman Crumpacker in framing the bill providing for another federal jqs. ge in Indiana It is possible ttyat if the bill becomes a law either Judge Olds or Judge'Crumpabker would be appointed federal judge. The fetter has no thought of such au appointment, but bis eminent fitness for : the place is generally recognized by his friends. .Henry Hoohbaom, at Virgie had set his public sale for last Monday the coldest day of ttfe win ters Auctioneer Phillips and Clerk Spiiler made the 12 mile drive, end pretty nearly froze in doing so and expected to have their joorny for their, pains, and that the Bale would loe oalled off. Instead they fouad a large dheerfuf and by no jneans ohilly crowd and they had the sale ia good shape. It appear that the population up there got po well warmed up over the propostioq to divide Uuion township fchat 24 degrees bslow zero is powerless to 000 l them off. J A icovemaot has been started by Casper Packard Post, G. A. R. of she Soldiers’ Home to build a house for the carriage that Was owned by Oliver P. Morton, the war Governor of Indiana. The carnage was presented to the State Soldiers’ Home by a son of Governor Morton about three years ago. as been stored away from -the sight of visitors. It was deoided a year ago that money fpr the building oould not be taken from (the maintenance fund and the post expects to raise ssooby subscription. The Post has contributed SIOO. It

is intended to use the building for a museum for ether relics besides Governor Morton’s oarriage.

THURSDAY Mrs. Bruce White is slowly improving from several weeks very serious eiokness. from a kidney trouble. * Mrs. J, N, Leatherman is begin* ing to improve a little after two weeks confinement to her bed by sickness, Previous to that their little girl was sick for several weeks. • 1 James Hill, of Madison one of the parties who has bought the McCoy Jordan township land, was the owner of the Blue Sea in Mil* f __ roy township, many years ago. He is now over 90 years old, but is said to have as keen a judgment for business as he ever had.

Rev. H. L, Kiudig was called to Edinburg, Monday morning, by the dangerous siokness of his brother-in-law, 8. 8. Dry bread, who has a ohrouic heart trouble of a very painful and dangerous character. He arrived home Wednesday night, leaving Mr. Dry bread a littie better,

Sheriff Stoner and Ex. Sheriff Wildaem oameover from Kentland today, with two young fellows for «. ur county jail. They are brothers and one is named Ed Kirts, and the other some other kind of a Kirts. Ed has 14 days’ sentence for drunk ‘.and disorderly, and his brother, is bonnd over to the

Newton circuit omr; for all that -_j n „... _ . , , ... _ Bidea .. jL The “co d snap” got in its par?- , iagkick lastj night ,with a. minimum temperaitareraf 9 degrees barlow' zetv>, : <t7dwards ; ' H4or&ing *5 e leffectfs of the eemthwest’ wiod^b|- ! gan ta be t fait, aod by 030 this morning, the temperature was 2 above ? rd , The weatkar no# petdicts at feast a day or two of mire moderate Weather. ' - ' ! i* r t .< , i , •-j ' I&e roulois rooted way over their routes yesterday in some Bbape’exoept on No. 3 bs be* < fore stated. The others all had to cut . out more cr less of their routes, although Vncle John. Daugherty,“of Route . One oame near making all cf his. The peo. pie along his route a'e well trained to keeping the rotd open! (

r It is interesting to note tljat pearly thousand farm* rs of Indiana have reaped the harvest of benefit afforded by the 'farmers’ institute which has beon conduct-' ed, upde,r tjie auspices of Purdue university. The annual report of ,farmers’ institutes discloses the enormous amount of institutes work sohWing that at Purdue and in other parts of the state there were, ,175 ins itutes held during L tbe year, r ; • i . ;

At Rose Lawn yesterday afternoon; while.a freiight train was try, ing to pick up a par of stock, it got a pair of trucks off the tracks and the wrecking train had to be sent freim Monon; to get them ba6k hp. The traok3 were bipdked po that the milk train due ~81 6;15 : p.. did not arrive until 1.30 this morn, ing. Otherwise than the delay no damage was done by tjhe acoident Gen. Lew Waljape, ,the celebrated general apd and still more celebrated, writer, died Wednesday night* at his home at Crawfprdsville, a Jpog eipknees and at 78 years of age. This is the temperature’s record of the cold spell just ended; Sunday night 23 degrees below zero, Monday right 16 below!, Tuesday night 14 below, Wednesday night below. It is a bad record and the like of whiob, fortunately occurs but a few times in a generation. There people in Rensselaer who have been born, brought up, educated and are now thinking of getting married, whenever saw a severer spell of continued oold. The poor old Monon milk train had its time cf tribulation Wednesday, for a, verity, It did not get to Chicago “in the morning” until it was time to start back for Lafayette again in the afternoon. And it did not get baokto Lafayette again “in th 9 evening” until it was time to start back to Chiago again, in the morning or mighty near it. Dr. English went up to Parr yesterday afternoon to visit a patient, expeot’ng to get home at 6.15 on the milk train. The train not arriving however he got a bob sled boost down to Surrey, then after waiting there until nine o’clock he got in a hurry and took the fast foot train the rest of the way. The milk train was delayed by a derailed freight car at Rose Lawn and did not get here until 1 30 this morning.