Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1905 — Page 5

CHICAGO, TIMK 7ABLB INDIANAPOLIS IN EFFEX T AND JUNE 29, LOUISVILLE. 19Ba - —----- ~- - - _ I ■ ■ NORTH BOUND, SOUTH BOUND. No. 4—Mail daily.4J» am No. 31—Fast Mail4:49 No. 40—Milk accomodation...! M am go. No. 33—Fast Mail ’S** --- No. 33-Indlanapolis mail— 2:01 No. o—Mail and Express3:Bo pm No. 39—Milk aocom8:15 No. 30—Mail daily 6:Blpm No. B—Louisville Bx11:2* No. 46—Local freight9:s6 am No. 45—Local freight: 801 Special rates South and South-West. W. H. BEAM. Agt., Bensselae

Brief Local Items

TUESDAY The term of enlistment of Company M. expiree today. Frank Hardy left for hia bon e in Woodward OiLhoma this morning. Ch uley Macklenb nrg.htia gone to Woloott where he has a position as a b ir tender in a saloon. Jerome Harmon’s lit le son Rm-ell has been suffering greatly from a badly inflamed eye. for seviral days. Mrs. W, B. Auatin and daughter, Mrs. R. M. Shayne returned to Ohioago today, after visi'.ing here since Saturday. Chase Day son of H.rim D-y and a lather of high renown went to Danville, 111., today and expects to put in the summer there at lathing Roe E. Yeoman, son of Mr and Mrs. A. K. Yeoman, southeast of town, now a student at Purlue, is very sick with lu: g fev r, A. Ha mm went to Pontisc, 111., today, to visit his son ai d dm ;hterliving t iere. It is probable that himself wife ai d daughter Dorna will mwe back to Pontiac, whic'i wai their old horn ’, in a few weeks

Edward G-fli >ld went to Caicag) a few da.s ago aid his goeds Were shipped th ire tod iy and his wife will j >in him there i 1 a few days, Today she went to Ambia with her acir —I < James D?witt for a few days visit. Earl Reynolds, who has been wi h Lis mother during a cmpart of h r sickness, left for his home and business at New York, to lay. His m ither is improving er favorably that she is considered ‘fairly out of danger, and that he can ssf-ly return to Nsw York. W. L. Frye his b g.in drivii g Jos Jackson’s Nowels Houss bus. Billy, vho was always a misfit in the saloon business, bsirg t >o good a man for that kind of a j )b, has quit it for good and all, and moreover himself and wife have united with the Methodist church. He will have no lack of friends to wish him well in Ifs new course in life. Squire S 0. Irwin tried a civil suit this morning, from out southout. Chaa J, Gilbert, of Wolcott sued Eli Critser for the possession of an 80 acre farm in Milr >y Tp. It is a farm Eli owned and so'd years ago, and has since occupied as a renter. The Squire fjund iu Gilberts favor and awarded bim po-session of the farm, but Otiteer will take an appeal to tne circuit court.

Mr. and Mrs. T. H McCullough late of Gillam tp , took the train here this morning on their intended departure for their new home in the state of Washington- Their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Greenfield who had been visiting at Parr, joined them there. As before stated, their eon Oris will remain in Gillam for a few months, to finish up the season’s assessing, he being the assessor of that township. J. D. Lageson, of Oanora, Asei niboia, Canada, left this morning, after a few days’ stay here. He is the field agent of the Scandinavian Canadian Land Company, and hie been harp irking up the interest of his conpHry, in connection with their reaid nt represen'ative J. O. Eagliih. The region he i» interested in, is in the northeast corner of Assiniboia, and quite a

distance further north than the Yellow Grass oruntry, where Dave Hazen, S hlemnn and others a’e locating. He claims it has marked advantages in several respects over other portions of the Canadian northwest, In conLeition with the revival meetings at the Methodist church a men’s meeting will ba he'd at the nburch from 8 to 8:30 on on Wednesday morning. Rev. J. S. Crowder who returned from Plymouth this miming and will be here the remainder of the week will speak at that meeting. The men. of the city are cordially invited to cone c ut and c i-operate in thia last weak of these meetings Preact ing services every afternoon at 2 and evening at 7:30.

WEDNESDAY V- W. Shuck, of Urbana, 111, was in 'own on land busin ss. today. Bom, Tuesday Mar 2lst to Mr and Mrs. Jerry Shea north of to vn a daug iter. Stone laying on the foundation of Duvall Brother’s Lev building began this mirni g. B ro, this Weinasday morning to Mr and Mrs Aulraw Charles of Milroy Ip. a daughter. Jilin Poole went to Hipkins Park, Id-, tiday to look after a f rm ha o vns in tuat vi u d y. Chas. Lane teacher of Canada fchoo! Birkley tp is siiiously sick with pneumo iia at the home of Eli Arnold. Mri. Peter Schrock, of Trenton, Ohio, is visiiing heir son, Wm Augsbarger, west of town. B. F. Gaines, of Henley, Assini ioia, Canada, arrived today to visit his father, unc'e Joe G dues, west of town. 0. H. Sternberg, of Winamac who his b6o lo king after the Kent d tch, west of tiwn. of which he is the cn raotir, re urned h ime t iday. M s. J. C. Fisher went to Tolono, 111,, today, on the p'.eaaant errand of uttandiug the mar riage of a n»phew, Clinton Van Meter, to M’ss Frank Fdokner. The business pirtion of Washington street was given a good cleaning up to lay, by Marshal Abbott and his assistants, and presents a greatly imprived appearance It has been many months since the condition of the weather has permitted the streets to be cleaned 1

A whole lot of farmers will be sowing oats in this vicinity before the week is out, if the waather remains fine. Some of them have probably already s'arted, and others are preparing to start in a day or two. The ground is Jin fine condition the much hard freezing having well pulverized it, and its very dry condition last fall allowing it t) dry out quickly now. At noon, 85 ye >rs ago today, our present county sheriff, John O’Omnor, had to look under his feet to see his siadow He was square over the equator, and the sun was square over him. He was then on the decks of the Iroquoie, and now is on the banks of the Iroqu ie. But that Iroquois was one if Uncle Sam’s old time war ships, and it was crossing the equator in the Atlantic Ocean not far from the Island of St Helena, where N-ip Jeon's last years were s t ect. W. H. Martin, of the soldiers’ Bone at La’ayette and an old veteran of the 83rd Indiana regim«nh was in town today, after a

visit with his daughter Mrs. Dearduff, of Forssman, and bsppeuec ts meet his son Will Martie, a noted race herse rider • f Chicago who alsi come down to visit Mrs, Desrduff. Mr. Martin Sr, wil return to the Home in a day or two. He reports the Jasper county contingent there as much pleased at »ha near prospect of the erection of a Jtaper county cottage at the home. T. F. Clark has return d to his hime at Kingman, Ind, after a visit with his daughter, Mrs. Chas Robinson. His other daughter, Mrs. DeVault, st Monon, whose dangerous sickness vailed him to this v : cinity. is very much improved.

P. T. Hordeman is busy assessing the property outside of Rensselaer but the city assessing is awai ing the return of Lncuis S'rong fr m California, he having been appointed tha deputy ass *ssor for Rensselaer. Mr. Strong will make a careful and capable essessorManager Ellis has been fort unate in secu'ing another of the always excellent Gordon & Bennett shows to bi p-esen ted here. It is ths Holy City and the bills now being put up are about the finest and mo-t artistic show bibs ever seen here. The play is to be presented here on March 31st a d Lr one r ight only. The co d wave predicted by the Weather Bureau for Monday and Tuesday, proved to be a very uuimportant affair, after ell. The lowest degree of cold only having barely snubbed the freezing point, and now the wind is back in the s uth agiin and balmy spring weather on tip. As to ths wi d and furicus metro-o'ogical disturbances promised by the long lange weitber fakers fir the . quir oitial peri >d, they were only a pipe dream. However, proph -syi g bad weather is the way those fellows make their living. They ara cbiged to be sensational, or they would receive no attention

Oace iu awhile a duck buntar g t a big bag up on the Kankakee. Jasse Gwin went cp Saturday and got back the seme evening witn a dozen fine mallards, Jesse wanted ducks ar.d wanted them quick and was willirg to pay the price So he straight' to Hank Grang-r’s plec a , and dug up enough to hire Hank or one of his retainers, to take him where there would ba some shooting, ‘‘Old Hank” got his et-r marks on every duck that comes to the Kankakee region and a ring in the nose of every fish that swims in its depths, and mighty little fishing or sboitirg does anyone get who is not willing to piy tribute to King Hank,

THURSDAY John Martin, 3 mile 3 southeaet o' town, had hia shoulder dislocated last evening, in a runaway. J. G. Franc’s, of Fairbury, 111., is here looking a'ter hij Jordan land, and other bns'ness matters. The Indies of the Cbristain church will hold there Annual Easter Market. The regular monthly meeting of the D. A. R. will be held Saturday, at two p. m. with Mrs. Granville Moody. The subj-ct ot the Sunday morning at the Christian church is, “Profit Sharing” in the evaniag “A Religious Delusion.” All are welcome. Charley Thompson was jailed yesterday afternoon, to serve out a $lO fine assessed agairst him last fall, for giving liquor to a drunken person. Cyrus G. Luce, former Governor of Michigan, was buried yesterday at his h ome, Coldwater Mich He was an Uncle of Mrs. A. Halleck of th : s city and her brother 8 L. Luce, ex-trustee of Keener tp. Woodson Thrasher of Francesville who eeoured a judgment of $1,200 against the Monon for injuries received about two years

ago, has compromised with the company for a less amount rather than incur the expense and risk of further litigation. The body of Mrs. Fletcher Monnett, and accompanying relatives arrived on the 11 a. m., train, to day and was taken to the Presbyterian church fcr the funeral held at two tbis aftarncon. Those coming were Mr. Monnett, Mrs. H. L. Brown, atd M r s. L F. H pkins, of Englewood. Lake County News: Tnot. J MoCoy and bis family will become residents of Hammond. Mr. McCoy h«s rented the Wood residence at 42 Carrol street and with his wife and son Taylor J. McCoy, will move cut from Chicago as

Sion as suitab'e arrangements can bi made. Mr. McCoy will still continue h's work in Chicago. The case of Morris Rush, of New Carlisle, Ind , against the Big Four railroad c mpany, is new on trial in the Superior Cjuit, at Indian apolis. He was cue cf the worst injured survivors of the Purdue football train wreck, and is suing for $25,000. Emory Mills, of our city, ie another of the very badly and permanently injured ones of the same wreck. He has never made any settlement with the com pany, nor as yet has be instituted any suit against them

F. A- Ross returned last night ! rom Chicago, where he bed been or several days testing his new loHzman automobile, of the oom mon top buggy shape, and of which le has the general agency in this section. He has bought their machine No. 1 of tue model of 1905, and is having it thoroughly tes'ed and perfected before he brings it dome. He gave the machine a big and severe test, in the bad r ads in and around Chicago, in c .m----pany with an expert machinist, and on the whole was immensely jleased with it. but they found a few elight imperfections ano weak po’n s, whioh will be remed ied before he has the machine sent to him hero. Tuesday morning when th a 'kun crossed the line” th? wind was in the n< rth. It is one of the many oil weather ru'es that whatever direction the wind is at the time of the equinox, it wdl genera ly blow from that direction fur the next three months. Avoiding to that, we are to have plenty of north winds this spring Ano her and more reasonable rule, was that the direction the wind seemed to settle down to steady business in, after the equinox, was apt to be its prevailing direction daring the whole season. As the wind soon veered southward after the equinox and has stayed there ever since, we are theiefjre equally justified in expecting the «?outh wind to predominate, for the next three mon'hs

Fair Oaks

Mrs. .Felix R. Erwin was the guest of rela'ives at Morooco the past week. Dr. ProOdley is confined to’the house this week’on aociuut of sickness. Our schools will close next Thursday March 30th for the spring and summer vacation. Born. Friday, March 17th to N. A. McKay and wife a daughter. Born, Sunday, March 19th to Mr, and Mrs. E da Stowers, a girl Joe Knight and Arthur Uatt and wife were guests of Ike Kight and fami’y last Friday and Saturday. Gus’Mundon returned borne last Friday from Cbarlottsville where he hss been for two weeks on account of the sickness and death of a eiaterj Trne Cullom arrived here last week from Tennessee to visit relatives and also to get acquainted with his new daughter oom the 18th Mrs, Cullom has been here with her mother Mrs Oasy for several months. Mies Katheryue Nelson, of Brookston, who has been here visiting her sister Mrs. Cottingham, for the past six weeks, left Tuesday for Lafayette, on account of the death of her aunt Mm. Martha Clegg.

a ****&**&>&>&>&&* I Spring Announcement, f A £ It is with pleasu-e, we extend to the Ladies of Jas- IT. Cl? per Couiwy-j the invita ion to visit our Vr $ DRESS SOODS DEPARTMENT 4S NEVER V was a mere extersive line shorn iuiheCitv; & NEVER W was hi.her et.nd.ra rewted than Ml/ in cloths we are displaying for Cilf Spring fnd Summer, YOU J a~e always welcome to inspect lice, Inspection carries with it no obligation to bay. w 4S ’ |“feiKlifl’s fair.-* & w <5

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Wanted: —Good nun and wife to work on farm, one with some farm tools or team prefered. Will exchange good carriage for team or stock and pay ci h difference . G. A. Williams. Phone 223. Dr Rose M. Remmek, optical specialist, will be at Clark’s jewelry etore Ma'oh IR, 32. You can have the benefit of skilled optical service, can save time and vexation by consulting Dr. Remmek.

I have two good bouses for sde price at Rock bottom. For irformation enquire of owner ro commission attached to price. Earl Sayler. Rensselaer, Indiana, The latest styles of baby ear. riages and folding go-carts at Jay W. Williams’ Furniture & Oarpet Store. The greatest line of carpets, mattings and rugs ever sboWn. Chicago Bargain Store,