Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1905 — Brief Local Items [ARTICLE]
Brief Local Items
FRIDAY A. 8. Laßne went to Loganeport on business today. Arthur Hopkins made a business trip to St Anne. 111., today. Dr. Hartsell returned today from several days stay in Ohioag j . Overcoats and tires have come in fashion again, today. Mrs. G. 8. Posey, of Loohiel, Ind., is here visiting Mrs. Elza Grow. Mrs. F. A. Snyder has gone to Buffalo. Ind., to visit a daughter until over Sunday. P. F. Mansfield, of Springfield, 111., was here today looking after a court case he is interested in. Mrs. Dr. Wiles, of Peoria arrived today to visit her sister Mrs. L. Wildberg and other relatives. Laao Parsons, of Monon, well known by every member of the bar in this oity, died at his home early Thursday morning at his home. He had been suffering with stomaoh trouble for several years and has been confined to his bed four weeks. Worden has moved his harness shop into the west room in Judge Thompson’s new building to make room for the proposed repairs and alterations in the former Tutuer grocery rooms, to prepare them for G. W Goff’s restaurant. Mr. Worden will remain in the Thompson building until the Duvall building is ready for his occupancy.
Sherman Renicker and 8. B. and Vernon Thornton expect to move up into northwest Minnesota, where they bought land, some time in June, and though the land is rented for this year, they have the right to go upon and improve it. Mr. Renicker will also put in considerable time as an expert in putting up and starting harvesting machinery up there, The money derived from the ponltry in the United States makes it one of the greatest industries of our country, and it has doubled every ten years sinoe the war. Jasper oounty has kept up with procession in this line and can now show as many fine pens of chickens as any county i \ the state in proportion to pjpu'ation and besides our breeders are getting reputations for many miles away*
The Kentland and Moroooo people are good and soared about the prospect of losing tin proposed north and south railroad through those towns. It seems the land owners aloDg the proposed line are demanding S2OO to S3OO par aore for the land needed for the right of way and the railroad "company will not stand for it They have sent a (very peremptory letter to Kentland stating that unless they oan be furnished the right of way at reasonable prices, the road will either follow the original survey about three miles west of Kentland, or bounce clear out of Indiana, and I*l d over in Illinois. Attorney James M. Berry hill, of Indianapolis, was here today, and filed a foreclosure suit. The plain-
tiff is the Oonneotiont Mutual Life Insurance Company and the defendants Moses H. Russell, Jane Russell and Wm. A. Rinehart. The land on wbioh the mortgage is to be foreclosed is in .Gillam tp. Crown Point Star —J 1 W. Oit and Dr. Allen Salisbury left here on a forenoun train, last Sunday, for Castleberry, Alabama, where their father-in-law Horace Marole is engaged in the strawberry harvest, They will be absent several days and intend visiting Pensacola before returning, which is but a short distanoe from the berry plantation.
0. W. Duvall has returned from several days’ stay at Grand Rapids, Mich., He was there to attend the celebration of his sister Mrs. W. fl. Cornell’s 15th wedding anniversity, and whioh was observed by a big party; and also to visit his ohildren, Orabelle and John, both of whom being now at Grand Rapid. Miss Orabelle is attendiog a business college and John is learning the tailor’s trade, and is already getting it down pretty fine. Mr. Duvall is very much imf ressed with Grand Rapids as a place of residenoe and business and may ultimately conclude to move there himself. Dr. I, M, Washburn who returned from Cbioago Thursday at 2 p. m„ got busy at onoe and made a professional oall before night, via the automobile route. He gets about in good shape on crutches and is not only attending to his office business but answering calls as well. He is very hopefal that the eplit-off pieoe of bone will reunite to the main part, and give no trouble; and especially as Dr. Byron O. Robinson, the eminent surgeon, held out strong encoursgement to that effect, after carefully examining the x-ray pictures. If this hope is realized the injured leg will be as good as ever in a very short time. J. R. Vauatta, th,e harness maker, though he has sold his residence has no thobght of leaving town. He surely is entitled to remain here as long as be chooses, if length of residenoe as wall as good citizenship entitles anyone to. In faot he is now oar oldest business man in length of time he has continuously followed one line of business here, He oame here 40 years ago and entered the harness making §bnsiness and followed it ever since. No other business or professional man who was in business here then is in the same business here now, The nearest that any coma to that is perhaps the Wright undertaking establishment. Bat since then the basiness has passed from father to so a and grandson. Unole Norm Warner was in basiness here then, and the biggest basiness in the and his eons are in basiness here now; but it is a different line of business. Wagon making and blacksmithing were Unole Norm’s lines then, ana he kept 7 or 8 men busy. The Iroqaois ditoh esse oame up before Judge Palmer, at Delphi, Thursday, on ohaoge of venae to Carroll oounty. Attorneys Wilson and Foltz represented B. J. Gifford one remonstrant and H‘ B, Kurrie and E. B. Sellers the Monon railroad, the other appellant, The petitioners were represented by 8, P. Thompson and W. H. Parkison, and Jasper County by R. W, Marshall and A* Halle ok The hearing was in part continued tc day, and the fall result can not be given until tomorrow. How-
ever it is evident that unless the petitioners attorneys come down from their high horse and make some liberal concessions, the remocstrante ' have the winning oards and can dr feat the whole ditoh,
SATURDAY Mrs. W. R. Brown, of northeast of town went to Tnscola, 111., today to visit relatives. Born this Saturday April Isth. to Mr, and Mrs, Wm, Newberry, o 1 near Newland, a son . Mrs. R. P. Phillips has gone to Silver Lake, Ind., to visit relatives over Sunday. Ed Hopkins, the carpenter, has gone to Sonth Bend to work at his trade there this season. Mr. and Mrs. J. W, Williams are visiting their daughter at Delphi, over Sunday. _h
Mrs. Geo. Bartlett, of Rainesvilte, is visitiDg Mr. and Mrs. R. Y. Dowler for a couple of weeks. Geo O. Bales, the Goodland lumber dealer, was hare yesterday and today olosing up some of his old basiness affairs here.
Jack Montgomery went to Indianapolis Friday and is now supposed to be on his way back in an Oldemobile, bought for Dr. A. R. Kresler. 0. E. Morlen arrived home last night from his two weeks’ visit with bis relatives at Rugby, N. Dak, He reports thr*t the conntry around there looks very good to him.
Miss Lenna Grant has completed her course in a business college at Crawsfordville and is home for a visit with her mother. She has acquired great proficiency in the lines of stenography aad type writing, and has some very good offers of positions awaiting her consideration. Rev. J, M. Elam came from Hammond today, having just oiosed a very successful three weeks’ evangelistic meeting there. Mrs. Elam and biby who have been in Minnesota several months oame back with him. G. N. Peck, the band leader and olothes repairer, has gone whence he came, that is to say, he has gone back on the road with a show oompany, He went to Danville from here and expected to join an Unole Tom’s Cabin oompanv, that was to open at Denver, Colo,
When you notioe a man digging in the garden very slowly, stopping often to rest, says an exchange “it is safe to say he is making flower beds for his wife, but if he is working like a Turk, and scarcely stopping to oatoh his breath, you oan oet your life he is digging worms for bait.” Today was the time set for Referee Bowers, at Hammond, to give his decision of various important matters that have been argued before in the McCoy cases. More especially the [right of the Lafayette and other bank creditors to file claims against all the- estate. Trustee Chapman and attorneys Wilson Foltz and Thompson went np to attend the hearing. Billy Merioa has deoided to move his bakery and restaurant into the K. of P. building, occupying the room where Mrs. Paroupile’s millinery store now is, and who intends to quit basiness on aooonnt of her health, This now locates all the tenants in the site of the proposed new building exoept Ernest Fritts, whojis still without a suitable place for his candy and tobaooo store.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Fendig arrived home this morning from their winter’s stay with their ehildren at Brunswioa, Ga., and Tampa and Jacksonville, Fla. They enjoyed their sojonrn there greatly, bat found the weather getting a little to hot for oomfort, wh?n they came away. A fault they have not yet observed in the weather they encountered here, however.
MONDAY Mrs. Smith is visiting friends in Chicago for several days Mrs. Lake Doyle, of L&9alle, 111. returned‘home today after a
week’s visit with her daughter Mrs A. J Harmon, west of town. Prof. James Troop of Pnrdne, is very fearful that the frost and oold winds have used np the oherries aad plums, and damaged other fruits.
The empty solitude of the county jail was broken by three tramps who were harbored laßt night, but • they were sent on today, and loneliness again reigns in the oounty . bastile. Work at fitting up the former Tuteur room for Goff’s restaurant is now in aotive progress and will be vigorously pushed as Mr. Goff desires to move at the earliest possible date. The Republican has secured the services, for foreman of its printing and oomposing rooms, of Geo L Locke, late of Titusville. Pa., and an artistic job printer of the highest proficiency. He expeots to move his family here and become a permanent resident The worst of the present oold spell seems to be over, though the wind still blows from the direction of Medicine Hat. Sunday was an exceedingly oold, raw and dreary day. The worst for six weeks easily, with a low temperature of 27 degrees in the morning, and 40 aa the highest during the day. Last night the lowest was 30 degrees, but ioe formed on water in dishes, of a quarter inoh in thiokness. The case of Cooney Kellner, charged with assaulting Joe Shindelar, of northwest of town, with whom he is said to have had a forcible argument in his saloon, some days, ago was set for 10 o’oiock this morning, before Squire Irwin. However the complaining witness failed to appear, and the case was dismissed. Shindelar was at first very zealous in pushing the oase, and even hired extra legal help to push the prosecution, but his zeal soon cooled off and it is reliably stated that he ias gone to Chioago, really to avoid proaeouting the case. He is likely to find himself up againßt a legal proposition whenever he comes baok, for contempt of oourt, le having been served with a legal sniumons to be present at the trial, There has been no body wanting to get married in Jasper Co today though quite a number are known to be hankering for divoroes. In regards to the marrying proDoaition it is just as well that no one sas been anxious along that line, 'or they couldn’t have got married if they had wanted to, unless they lad secured [their lioense ahead of time. The new law is now in
foroe, and the new lioense application blanks are not ready and thats where little Dan Capid is oat of business for one day anyhow. Bat there is no disposition in any quarter to keep the little chap oat of work any longer than it oan possibly be helped and there is now good reason to believe that the blanks will be ready Tuesday, and Cupid oan resume business at the old stand. Isaao Parsons, whosejjdeath 00onred at Monon Thursday, was a man of mnch ability and daring his life filled places of considerable prominence. He was a resident of
Lafayette for a long time and published several newspapers there and was prominent iu the law praotioe. After going to Mooodi he published a pap-r there for some years, bat latterly devoted himself entirely to law and realestate. He was quite active in politios aad most of his life was a Democrat, and at one time, as many of oar readers will remember be oame near beirg nominiated as their candidate for Congress in .this 10th dis’not, at a convention held here; and bad be been he would have m-tde a really abler and more respected candidate th'n the one on whom the choice fell. In his later years he was a R-p b-
lioan. Ha leaves a widow aad two ohildren, both of the latter living in California. He was about 60 years old.