Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1905 — Brief Local Happenings. [ARTICLE]

Brief Local Happenings.

FRIDAY. Mrs. F. E. Lewis of Kersey spent the day with Mrs, Van WeaverMiss May Clark went to Grand Crossing today to visit her grandmother, Mrs. 0. C. Jones. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Day went to Ruokley, 111., tod y where they will visit relatives. Mrs. G. 0. Sarpnaok of Chicago oame today for a few days visit with A. E. Kirk and family, Edward Honan, son of E P. Honan went to Danville, 111., today for a visit with his Uncle Jim. Mrs. Wm. Smith and son, went to Lafayette and Thorntown today for several days visit with friends.

J. C. Frazee, cf Peru, is here for a few days, looking after matters connected with his farms in Barkley tp. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Jones of Lafayette returned home today after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Wm Powers. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Baughman and Mrs. Snyder went to Monon to attend a birthday dinner of his father today. Miss Orabelle Duvall oame home yesterday frcm Grand Rapids. Mich , where she has bsen attending school for some time. Mrs. Albert Coen and son, of Mecca, Ind. returned borne after an extended visit with her parents Mr. and Mrs. J, M. Wasson. Mrs. Ora Wahn and sieter Miss Ida M. Body, of Woodland, 111., are visiting their aunt Mrs. W. R. Shesler, east of town for a few days.

A. L. Padgett has gone on the race track with his horses, and his family, who were at Lafayette with him, have returned to their home just east of town, Mrs. M. L. Spitler Jr. left for her borne at Oklahoma City, today after an ex’ended visit with her parents Mr, and Mrs. S. E, Yeoman, at Virgie, and with Mr. Spitler’s relatives here. She reports herself as very muoh pleas* ed with her present plaoe of residence. Leander Wright, of Fowler, 0010., is here for about six weeks visit with his brother Randolph And Jasper, vest bf to#n, and with other relative* in Illinois, It is bis first sight of Rensselaer for 40 years. He ha’s had the great satisfaction of the restoration of his eye sight,'tit ffie fembval of oatsraots, he having previously been totally blind forseveral yeiirs. He is well satisfied with his holme on the plains of Colorado, With their pleasant and healthy olimate and aboundant vield of orops.

Bishop Isaac W. Joyoe, one of the leading Bishops of the M. E. ohuroh, died this Friday morning, at his home in Minneapolis, of paralysis, following cerebral hemorrhage. He was 69 y rare old, and was born at Ash Grove, 10 miles north of Lafayette, in a log oabin whioh stood in plain view of passing trains on the Monon road. He was at one time presiding elder of Lafayette distriot, when Jasper county was a part of that distriot. He was one of the great men cf Methodism, and has preached in almost every oountry in the world. The pupils of Mrs Alice Dunlap gave a reoit«l >n the latter’s studio yesterday tu 3 p. m. E.oh and • everyone of the performances of the fourteen numbers on the program reflected great credit, not only on the performer but on their gif tea teaoher. The select-

ions were cf the highest order,~§nd though the members of the class range from eight or nine years of age to sixteen they all £een» to fall in with the spirit of the music they were interpreting and all show skillful training and inusioal talent. After the recital Mrs. Dunlap received her pupils long enough to give them a treat of ice cream end cake, and a lovely souvenir fan, the paper napkins were bordered with the notes of “Auld LaDg Syne” in oommemontion of the occasion.

SATURDAY Miss Meggie Evers went to Winamao today for a two weeks visit with relatives. ■ Clifford Bhotts came down from Cniosgo for a few days visit with friends and relatives. Mrs. D. W. Williams southeast of town went to Delphi today for a visit with relatives. Mrs E. E. Malone of Montioello came today for a few days visit with relatives here. Mrs, Chas. O. Swift of Evanston returned home todhy after a few days visit with relatives. Mr. and Mrs, Marion Freeland and children went to Indianapolis today to visit her sister Mrs. S- F, Asher,

Mrs. Mark Rusk and daughters left today for Rautoul, 11l where they will visit with relatives for some weeks.

Mrs. James Grider and Mrs. Sherman Stiokroe of Paxton, 111. returned home todav after a visit with relatives here.

Mrs W. H. Cornell and daughter Vera, of Grand Rapid Mich., are here for several week’s visit with her mother Mrs. J. W. Duvall and brother C. W. Duvall.

Thena Meyers, Myra Watson, Fannie Porter. Wade Laßue, Rex Warner and Homer Dobbins, went to Water Valle y for a few days outing.

Mrs. Mary Gross, wife of Henry Gross, living a short distance south of Woloott. committed suiJ' oide last Monday, with oarbotio aoid. She had been despondent for some time. Rob Overton, so severely hurt two weeks ago today, fey a triin at Fair Oaks, is already getting aboht on Crutches, having shade a phenomenally quick recovery from hie injatfee. ' • : -= -1- ‘V . , . , X Mrs- Dr. S. 0. Robinson and bthf. of Auburn Inja. kre vfoitlhg her parents, Mr- and Mri Wfh. Washburn, tad her husband’s plants, Mr. and - Mrs. T. fa. Robinson for several week*. Mrs. Nettie Peregrine and adn Oari, of brooks, lowa, are vis it! fag fn the family of f her nephe# t „. kludge 0. W. Hanley, She is the widow of the late Df. Peregrine, who was raised in Jasper bounty. J. F. Irwin has been appointed admistrator of the estate of the late Mrs. Catherine Wojd, The estate is oomprised wholly in a tract of land a f«w mileß south of town.

Brick laying on the big building began Friday afternoon, on T. W, Hans’s part. Mr. Howe of Medaryville, is the contractor for the briok laying, and he has three expert workman to assist him. Uncle Bob Dowler, so badly hurt by falling from a roof about two months Bgo is now able to walk around town some, but is still far from restored to good health, his arms still being much paralyzed.

E. L. Hollingsworth arrived last night from an eight days’ stay at Cna>lcT°> x i Where his family is spending the summer. The summer season is delightful there, as always but the fishing is now better than the catohing, Guss Phillips, the able leading man of the very prosperous Spooner Stock Company, of Brooklyn’s ’leading theater, left for that city thisMfyrenoon, after five or six ttifci ,s yisit here. The theater retff&fts about August 15th and GuSs it»’bristling back for the rehearsals. MK*and Mrs. Wm. S. Day had juslgotte Iroquois Co, Illinois, to visit his brother George and family, when they were recalled by a telephone message of his 1 mothers eudden death. They returned at once, a’coompanied by George and his wife, arriving on the 10.55 a.m. train, today.

Mr. and Mrs. Warren Tovyers of Lincoln, Neb., are here forjabout a week’s visit with her various relatives, thg Kreßler and Porter families. She wae Miss Helen Glover and lived here when a girl, and this i 9 her first visit here for 38 years. They will also go east as far as New York and Niagara Falls, on this trip

Mrs. Geo. Strickfaden went to Chicrgo today where she will spend a short time with relatives. Her husband and Mr. and Mrs E. P, Honan will join her tomorrow and togethei they will go to Boston where Mr. Honan and Mr. Strickfaden are important officials at the National Foresters’ Convention.

Jesse K. Wilson was over at Joliet, 111., yesterday, to take some depositions of witnesses in the Guy vs Guy divoroe case, but for some reasoas the witnesres failed to connect, and he had his trip for nothing; except for the satisfaction of seeing that fine Illinois city for the first time. Edward Debo3, the Benton county man who bargained to buy the R. B. Porter end Donnelly farms, north of town, and flunked on the deal has, bought instead a 270 aore farm eight miles south of Woloott, piying 90 dollars per acre. It was Remington agents who steered Deßoe away from his Jasper county deal and on to the White couaty land. One of these sensational scientests, probably a present or prospective professor in the Cbioago University, the great breeding ground of sensational scientists has sent out word that iu 1,003 years all Americans will have blaok hair. There ia mighty little comfort in that however for the present population of grey heads, and etill less for the bald patea.

A remarkable instance of the suooess of modern khrgery, is the case of the little Tbuflow boy Whose fool was out off by a mower two Wehks age today, at the farm of bis grandfather Mr. Beeoher, in Jordkh Tp. f Although the leg was entirely ’cot off, near the ankle except a tendon or two and a few blood-vessels'fand a little skin, the physicians re united the severed pirts, and now it is reliably reported that they are knitting together nicety, and that the foot Will be saved; add at no worse result than a somewhat stiff ankle.

HONDO Miss Irene Barons returned io Wabash today after a three weeks visit with friends here. Miss Ginda Maoklenburg went to Morocco today for a few days visit with friends. Born, Saturday Jaly 29th, to Mr. and Mrs. Bert Welsh, southeast of town, a boy and their third son. Frank P. Meyerr.now with Bahl & Son, at Danville, 111., is back for a few days’ visit with bis parents.

Miss Mildred Spitler went to Lake Wawasee to spend several days with Misses Ruby and Alice Abbott. ,

Earl Duvall returned home to Rockville, today after a two week’s visit with his parents Mr. r.nd Mrs, 0. W, Duvall,

Mrs. W. A Thompson “rind children returned home today at Sullivan Ind, after a visit with her parents Mr, and Mrs. Austin Hopkins.' Born Sunday, July 30th to Mr. and Mrs .’'James Price .northwest of town, a son. The baby weighs only 21 pounds but seems healthy and likely to survive* J. E. Spitler has returned from a month or two stay at Cedar Lake Jean found fishing there very poor, and says even “Suckers” would n6't bite for him. J. H: Hontzinger of Wichita, is here with several land trades on the string, but ouly one cf which will be closed up. He has Bold the forther D. M. Worlaud 80, next to Kniman, to F. J. Parr also of Wichita.

Miss Ethel Perkins has gone to Bolton’s Landing, New York, for a stay of some length, with relatives. Bolton’s Lauding is on the shores of Lake George, and one of the pleasantest places to pass the summer in the country,

Dan Willey our former townsman, was in town today, as traveling representative of the International School of Correspondence of Scranton, Pa. His headquarters are at Lcgansp.rt, but ' his home is still at Monon.

Phillip Stuoker, a little south of Mt Ayr had a barn struck by lightning and burned during the big storm. He lost about 5 tons of hay and a number of farming implements. He had SIOO surance on the destroyed property.

Mrs. Frank McAlister of Wilbur Wash, left for her home today after a two mouths visit with her 'parents Mr. and Mrs. Ranson Elijah west of town. Her sieter Miss Nellie Elijah went home with her for an extended vieit. M s Fred Bennett, of just west of town, is very seriously sick with reourring appendicitis, at the home of Colo missioner Fred Waymiie, in Barkley. Bhe went to a basket meeting atPleasent Grove, Sunday, and was taken sick while there. >

Alt Padgett is .at Kalamazoo, Mich., this week with a string of five horses, These include the well known Billy Smith and Kind; st Kind of Rensselaer, John Right’s Fair Oak 9, of Fair Oaks, and one from Lafayette and one from Frankfort. Some of the horses will trot this week.

James Hill of Madieon. oame up Friday and went all over the McOoy Jordan land, just purchased by himself and aon William. The oln gentleman was 91 years Old the sth Of this month, but is still bright and aotiye, both mentally and physically. He went to Brook from Jordan to visit another son, Reece Hill, who lives there.

The new** has been received here of the reoent death, at his home at SpHngfihld. Ohio, of J. F. Kelley, a brother of the former well known dentist, Dr. Ira A. Kelley, and himself quite well known to many of our citizens, from nnmerous visits here, He Was engaged in the grafaiie and stone business at Sf rinfield, and hkd lately taken as his partder his son-in-law, L. M. Wilcox, formerly of Surrey, this oounty,

After a week of absolute quietude, Uounty Olerk Warner and his able deputy, Miss Jean McFarland were almost worked into nervous prostration. Saturday afftrnoon. The rush began about three o’clock, and after that hour four of the loug.jointed, double ended modern marriage licenses were ieeued, and one marriage oeremony performed in the office; not to speak of three new law suits filed.

The new company M. will jleave for the anneal state encampment at Fort Benjamin Harrison, near Indianapolis next Wednesday, for a 10 days stay. The company though only just very recently fully organized has made good progress in drilling, and is now in oondition to do oreditable work at the camp. Quality rather than quanity hasten the rale in mak*

ing up the membership of the new comp my, and though as yet small in nnmber, it is composed of ss fine' a body of young fellows as any equal numbers that will appear at the camp, we are confident.

Mr. and Mrs. Albert Sommers, of Hammond returned home Saturday evening, after a stay c f a few days, in Rensselaer, and other parts of Jasper county. They came down on the melanobolly duty of bringing baok and burying near her old home, tbe body of Mrs. Summers’ mo|ber, Mrs Priscilla Hilton. Sbe was tb* widow of Dennis Hilton, and whei he died about seven years ago,

had D-*r. a resdent of GiUitut towrgh'p fr 50 ye*rs. Since bw death she ring be«a living with. her daagb er in Htmxroiid. Her d-atti oo< ur/ed there on j uly 24ih at ♦be «jg-, of 65v*ars 3 month* and 21 davs. The faneral was held at Ind- p o ndenoe ohuroh; in Gillam. on -Inlv 26 h