Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1905 — Brief Local Items [ARTICLE]

Brief Local Items

TUESDAY Mrs. M. E. Henkle returned h line to Ban *or. Mich.. to lay. Mrs. E. T. Harris »nd Miss Jennie Harris want to Lafayette, to spend the day. W L. iWiehard went to Grand Rapids. Mioh., today to visit his relatives, the Ltrdners for a few days, The briok for Duvalls’ and Leopolds’ building-* have beg in to arrive and A. D, Burns has b *gun to * lay them. M.ss Mary Michaels returned to Marion, toda>, after a weeks visit with her mother. Mrs. Laura Michaels, southeast of town. Mrs H. 0. Nichols and children of Lowell, have been vising her p rente, Mr. and Mrs. J H. F'yun. aad returned home today. Mr. a'ld Mrs. Bherman Renioker left for Larimore N rth Dakota today to look at land, and to visit his brother at Miadansame state. Fred Kapka, if south Gillam, who was taken to LongoLff asylum only 5 or 6 weeks ago, has already been disohargpd as cured, and is now at his home. W. W. Washburn and brother-in-law Dr. Kennedy, name over from G jodland, this morning on aooount of tbe injury to the former’a b*otuer, Dr. I. M.. Washburu, Mrs. E. H Morlan and eon Chirley, our city clerk, lef-. for Rugby, N Dakota today tbe former to ttay a year with her son aod dang iter and the latter for a fe w weeks’ vi it

WEDNESDAY Alt Padgett went to Frankfort today to buy horses. Leonard Ht-yes. of Barkley, returned to Marion normal cdiege, today. Henry Jones returned to Okioig j t jday, after some days’ vieit with his father, Bill N. - Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Hefner went t? Ohioago today to look after their property there Born, this Wednesday April sth to Mr. and Mrs. Wdl Donnelly, on Forest street, a daughter. The oity schools will close today f the rest of the week, to allow the teachers to attend the Teachers’ Association in Ohioago on Thursday and Friday, Following the rain of Monday, the rawness of Tuesday and the frost ofthia morning Aprd is now getting squared aw ty av»ain for some more nice weather. Joe Jeffries and his bride of last winter, arrived from Apple Creek, Ohio, her former home, Monday night, and they ere now keeping house, on Front street. Miss Kate Marshall, now of Hammond, is home for a short stay with her mother Mrs. R. W, Marsh .11, Will Woodworth got one dollar and costs, before Squire Irwin Tuesday evening oa plea of guilty of aesault. He gave Harry Watson a poke whioh knocked him down. Misses Edna Worden and Anna Langhoff went to Legansport, to lay, the former to visit her sister, Mrs. Ed Moon, and the latter her cousin, Miss Minette Wagner. J. N. Simple, whose long sickness has been several times mentioned, died Monday, April 3rd at his home j i?t north cf t>wn. at about noon. The Willis gun and bioyole repair shop is being moved today

into their new location in one of Judge Thompson’s buildiDg", cn Oullen street, east of the public square. Mi.-s Floy Williams, north of town, went to Marion today, to enter the normal college there. Her two brothers, Ray and Will went to the same inatilutou, a few days a„o. Dr. Washburn is doing finely, with at present every iodication favorable for quick and complete recovery. He rested excellently last night for eo energetic a person ae he is, and today his temj erature is normal. The horse barber is getting in his work now and horse hair can he b ught cheap in any quantities. Clipping horses has got to be quite a business in the past few years and makes them look muoh better, as well as getting :id of the shedding pooes. “Tbe Republicans hbve got Smulsky,” is a bead line in Chicago paper today, ov r the city eleotion news. Yes. and it looks that had got more than Bmusy. They have also got Smashky, and Liokaky, and everlastingly Hornswogglesky.

The Men’s Clab of the Presbyterian church will nnet to marrow evauiug at 8 o’clock iu the Lecture Room of the church, The t p'o f r discussion *ill bo “Tbe Need of our City.” Mayor Ellis will make ai adiress and thd discussion will be led by 0. G, Spitler nnd Geo A. Williams. Miss E. B, Waddelle, of Baltimoie, ia now trimming for the se soa for Mrs, L. M. lines. She has been for some time j ait trimming in the big Johnson wholesale house in New York City’ but having oome out to Indiana to visit relatives she was persuaded to remaim here for this season. In a dispatch from Indianapolis Tuesday Governor Hanly said regarding the report that Ohioago traok owners were to es'ablish a race course at Chest* rton that law v’o’ators wonld not be permitted on Indiana soil. He added that pool selling wou’d suppressed if the nse of the militia should be necessary. Miss Jennie Marlatt has been in Cuba for about two weeks which was the extent of her intended stay there. She sent Mrs. Joe Jaokson, a box of pineapples and other tropioial fruit, gathered ripe aud sent bv express, trad tfhjch far surpassed in quality any similar fruits to be bought in the markets. A man who went by the name of Oharlay Reynolds made a rnn out of town, the other morning jnatin time toeeoapi arrest for beating a board bill, at Keister’s He came here some time ago and began working for Mr. Keister, but soon tranefered his field of aotivity to the saloons, in several of whioh he worked for a time. He was a Ohioago ALL PACKAGE COFFEES, Is ot necessity uniform In quality, strength and flavor. For OVER A QUARTER OF A CENTURY, LION COFFEE, has been the standard cotlee Ini millions oi homes.

We understand Billy had his pencil oat for ano’her interesting | article on the McCoy matter. Althongh A. F. Long is preparing to have a building of bis own before next winter’s snow begins to fly, he is going to s f ay in style while stay, in his present looation; and has juet rapapered and redecorated it in a very elegant manner. The paper us- d is of an imported English style, and the border especially is unnsnatly striking and artistic. Mr. and Mrs. Addison Parkison arrived borne this afternoon fr.»m their winter’s stay in southern California, and come back in excellent health. They visited San Francisco, Portland, Salt Lake City on their way back mnd at Portland visited Dr. and Mrs A. L. Berklev. They enjoyed their whole California stay very much. Mrs. Isabelle Parker, who was withTtem all the due, did not stop here but went on direct to her home at Frankfort. Statesmen and jurists often make a poor out of it, in extending their activities in‘o the field of dry nuTses for swine. The naelanoholly fate of the big swarm of Poland China piglet®, produced at hie farm at Parr, under Thompson’s direct supervision, is a matter of history. A more recent case was where Congressman Charley Landis, gtook dire«. personal charge, when a bunch of seven fine blood * d p'g* were produ ied atjhis f irm near Delphi and the old sow laid on tht-m that night, arid smothered the whole bunoh exoept one, tbe runt of the litter. Charley named that one survivor Kuropatkin, because it got away. Ia Chicago Tuesday. Judge Dunne, the Democratic candidate was eleoted mayor by about 24,000 majority, and it is nn'y reasonable 10 suppoee that the lawlessness and filth which hat the Harrison rule will be continued uoder Dunne. That aay good can come from the rule of a man who ciuid stand up and openly advocate the eleotion for councilman of such a man Hinky Dink Kenna, as Dunne did ia tcircely to be expected, bill; it may turn out better that’ now seems likely. Anyhow the! city has a oounoil that was mostly ■ endorsed by the Reform Voters * League, and heavily Republican at that so that protpeots might ba much worse. Harlan seems to hsve suffered largely because of his oonrsa in past elections, in oppes ii>g Repub'ioan candidates.

THURSDAY Amos Davisson, of north of town, went to Lafayette today, on business. Mrs. Johu Eger and Mrs. Dr. Miller returned tbie morning from several days’ visit in Goodland. Miss Lioa Scudder returned to Hamilton Ohio, today, after three months’ stay with relatives in this vidinity. Mrs, Anna Tnteur went to Peoria today on a business trip. Moses Tateur went as far as Ohioago with her. April gave ns quite a snowstorm last night, but most of it had disappeared by morniDg, and all of it by 10 o’olock. J. W. Cleveland, automobile machinist expert, came down from the factory, today to pnt Mr. Rosa’s new auto in full running order.

It was only to be expeotod that Apirl had something up her sleeve in toe line of weather that would surprise us, though nothing that April does ought to surprise anyone. Will Woodworth will branoh out as a commercial traveler next week, fie has a full and very fine line of samples of all fcinds of oil and oil products, from the Atlau. tio of Cleveland, Ohio, and will travel for them in Illinois. I. M. Lewis, the young man who has bad such a long and terrible j experience with smallpox, at the

tate university, got released ia time to put of his spring vacation with his relatives in Barkley. Ha returned to Blooming’oa Wednesday afternoon. > Dr. Washburn is still doing fine, ly, in fact the that could ba hoped for, almost. His attending physicians have ‘inclined to tbe opinion that it is advisable to extract the bullet at oaoe, but as he himself does not think it will be likely to do any harm, it will be left where it ia, unless future developements make its removal a clear necessity. Tax Commissioner Wingate wae here Wednesday and met with County Asstseor Phillips ai d the towsnhip assessors in a conference pertaining to their work. Tbe State Board his adopted the pan of personalty visiting eacu .county during the assessing period with a view to aiding ihe assessors in their w-rk and seouting uniform valuations the State. ‘ S ore teeth’’ l ave th ir advant ages aod their disadvantages. One advantage is they never aohe. A disadvantage is they get lost, and their owners, espeoial ly if of the female sex, are apt io be reluctant to make publio their loss. A buach of aix right nice ’ooking teeth were left ia John Healy’s shoe shop some days ago. and as yet no one has enquired for them. Their owner can get them there and no qu stions will be asked, and no charges and no publicity made. In fact there would he nothing to charge for bnt the advertising which in this case is free; and store teeth cost nothing to keep while oat of business.

Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Robinson, of Hammond came today, to visit their various relatives here About 25 couples enjoyed a pleasant dance at the Armory, last night. The musio was from Montioello. About all of our oity teachers and many from Remington Hnd ti e country s bools, hbve gone to 0 ict-go to attend ths Northern Indiana Teachers’ Association ver Baby Scratched Uhtil Face Was , a( j e and Bleeding Eczema Cured Cnticnra. jii a . “For over two years my little l = girl suffered with a raw, itching “ painful eczema on her head and I the pain causing her to sereanr and night, and rav wife could ge R e Yeoman, of ’Purdue university, has recovered from his reoem attaok of lung fever and has returned to his studies. He was out only twj weeks and did nut have nearly si bad a sickness a« he had last year. This time al o, he went to St Elizabeth’s hospital, Where he oould be better cared for.

Jack Eason, of Brook, and Wm Hill, of Madison, were both here Tuesday talking about the Jordan land purchase, but Mr. Eeson ctuld not long, as bis brother Wm Eason was having an operition performed for some trouble in hie jaw. There is every assurance bo a ever, that the sale will be dosed up at the price bid by Mr. Eseon, and that the deeds will be made to the Hills, who all along have been understood to be back of Mr. Esson in hie bids. A late copy of the Freeport, Pennsylvania, Herald, gives particulars of a recent fire there, which aie of interest |to the various'members of the Alter family and relatives in this vicinity. One of the buildings burned was the homeetead of the late celebrated Dr. David Alter, a near relative of tbp Alters here. The bouse contained many relics of priceless value, suoh as a large telescope, a spectroscope, bis famoas prisms, a large library, and many appliances used by Dr. Alter in his scientific experiments. Abo some very valuable paintings belonging to his son. Another article in the same paper notes that Dr. Frank Cowan, of Greensborg, Pa , had in hisjwill, given to Carnegie Institute, at Pittsburg the very prism whioh David Alter made nse off in his experiments which resalted largely in the disoovery of spectrum analysis one of the grandest aohievemerits of the 19tb, century.

This prism was made from a piece of glass taken from one of the pots of a Pitttbarg glass house, a short time after tbe great Pittsburg fire of 1845. *