Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1905 — Brief Local Happenings. [ARTICLE]

Brief Local Happenings.

FRIDAY. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Sharp wett to Monon today for a visit with relatives. H. W. Kiplinger and Frank Meyers went to the river today for a few days. Mrs. P. B. Downs of east cf town weDt to Indianapolis today to visit relatives for a few days. Mrs. Al Ramey was oalled to Chicago Heights today by the serious sickness of her daughter Mrs. Fred Byrd. Miss Elizabeth Spalding left today for Indianapolis and Greencastle where ehe will visit with friends and relatives for a month.

John Chamberlain onr former townsman who has had his home in Benton Harbor, Mich, for a number of years is now looated ou a fruit farm three miles east of that town and evidently enjoys it greatly, He says the peach orop will be immense and all other fruit a big crop exoept apples.

Robert Shook who went to Spikaue with his family, last Spring, has now j ourneyed back east es far as ~ the vioinity of Mitchell, S. Dak. where a large Jasper county colony is already looated. It is uncertain whether Mr, Shook will remain there permanently or not.

John and Charley Day of KiDg. man-, Kans., and sister Mrs. Amanda Antrim, of Cleveland, Kans., who came to attend the funeral of their mother, Mrs. Margaret Day, are remaining here this week to visit relatives. Another sister, Mrs. Venriok, also in Kansas, was unable to oome on account of sickness.

A covered vehicle, almost a house on wheels, now seen in our streets oooasionaly, is the property of G. J. Gregory, who has recently become a resident of our city, living in one of John Makeever’s houses, on south Division street. Mr. Gregory sells patent medicine, extracts etc. to the farmers, and his vehicle has been made specially for the purp. se.

Viuoent Eisele. south of town has already received his insurance money on his barn and other property burned by lightning on the night of 0 uly 31st, He got in all $585 which was all he oould olaim from the amount of insurance he carried. The live stook he lost consisted of two work mares, one old pacing stallion and a suokling oolt, and a oow Another oow was hnrt some and he got $lO for the (damage to her. Mr, Sobultz of Union, has also got the $75 insurance on his horse.

John Martindale, in telephoning from Frankfort this morning the news of hia brother-in-law, Mr. Rynearaon’a death said that Mrs Rynearson was suffering greatly from injury to her head,; in spite of the faot that she was reported as only slightly brnised. And Mr, Martindale himself was also hurt worse than reported, as one |leg was nearly broken, and he is suffer* ing a good deal of pain from it. He will remain with his sister until after the funeral, and his family and J* D. Martindale’s family will attend it, also. Mrs. Amanda K. Parsons, widow of the late well known citizen. Isaao Parsons, of Monon, has brought eivts against Edwin Ooohell and John Tyler, two saloons keepers of that town, in whioh she asks damages from each in the sum of $2,000. In the suits Mrs. Parsons plaims that the de-, fenUiti sild'jnr huhiil liqu 9

dnriDg the latter months of bis life at times when they knew him to be intoxioated and as a consequence thereof he beoame demented. orazed, debauohed and inoapac'tatid for business, thereby causing him to waste and squander his money whioh should have been used for her support, and leaving her in a distressed and humiliated condition after his death. If more people wovild sue saloon keepers in oases of this kind it would prevent a good deal of the injury done in selling liquor to habitual drunkards, and of which, there are are a number of very flagrant oases right here in Rensselaer.

If Clyde Reeve of our oity can learn to repeat a stunt he went through Thursday with as muoh brilliancy as he did it that time, he can get his own prioe as the great and only wingless dying man. He was helping move a small house from Remington out to Fountain Park for an Assembly cottage. The building passed under and caught on some telephone wires, and before the faot was noticed the wires had been drawn very tight. Clyde went up on the roof and tried to release the wires but could not... He then had the - - horses on the oaDstan backed up. intending fcTmove the building back a little* but just then the wires went loose, like the strings of a bow, and with Clyde just in the right plaoe for the arrow thereof. Clyde went about 30 feet and made a bull’s eye hit in a cornfield over the fence. He did not mind the flying so very muob, but the landing was the unpleasant part of the experience. Still he got out of it muoh better than might have been expected, suffering nothing worse than a few bruises, and sprains. He returned home last evening, fjr a few days rest and recuperation. SATURDAY Miss Ellen Sayler went to Momenoe today for a visit with friends. Mrs. 0. C. Warner went to Indianapolis today for a short visit with friends. Mrs. F. Pcpp of Barkley tp* went to Englewood today to visit relatives for a few days. Max Leopold, of Greeneburg, Pa., is hare visiting his ancle A. Leopold, for a few days. Mrs. James Logan of Attica returned home today after a visit with relatves north of town. »* Mrs. Earl Duvall returned home to Rookville today, after an extended visit with relatives and friends.

Mrs. S. M. Briok and sou Stanley of West Pullman oame today for a short visit with O. Haas and family.

Mrs* Elizabeth Burns and daughter of Montioello and sister Mrs. Isabelle Fox are visiting with relatives in Barkley tp.

It was deoided that Mrs. Lillian MoGimpsey had better remain in the hospital a little longer and therefore she will not came here until Monday.

John O. Vanatta, of Brookaton, oame up today, to bid ou the Iroquois ditob, and was a good deal disappointed to find that he oame in a day behind sohednle time.

Joseph Heath, a well known wealthy citizen of Benton county died at bis home in Oxford on July 29th. He was the father of Ed Heath, a former resident of this plaoe

Try a saok of Oeresotu flour the itfliirmiii at Lißui Bro,

Reeoe Hill, of Brook, 'has sued the C, &. £ I. railroad in the Newton circuit court, for $10,003 for injuries sustained in a wreck last February. He is a son of James and brother of William Hill, the new owners of the MoCoy Jordan land.

Dr. Frank Johnson, wife and two sons arrived here today from Wileonville. Neb., for a few weeks visit with his various relatives here, It is the doctor’s flrst trip back for four years, and the first ever made by Mrs. Johnson and the boys. He reports the greatest crops on eaith around Wileonville this year,

John Klause, a Remington man was very badly hurt in a traction engine, on Friday of last week, Ht was trying to start the engine from a dead oenter stop, and bis light arm was oaught in the cog wheels and cut off at the elbow. His left arm at the same time, was oaught in the fly wheel and both bones below the elbow broken in two places. The right arm was amputated above ths elbow but the left arm will probably be saved Once more the list of teaohers for the Rensselaer sohco’s for the ensuing year has beeu completed by the selection of a teacher cf mathematics in the high school to suooeed Edward Brooks, who resigned. The new selection is Welzie E. Boren, of Haubstadt, Ind. He is a 1905 graduate of the State University, and has had two years experience in teaohing mathematics in high schools, and also comes very highly recommended.

Except for the youDg orphan boy from Parr, the oounty jailds now emp yof prisoners. The two Newton oounty drunk oases having been . One of them WBS that same Walter Curts, of Brook, who seenn to be a ohronio case. The other was Wm. H. Smith the colored railroad worker. He acted like a very industrious man, and |when he got out he struok for Chioago hoping to get a job of his former employers, the Knickerbocker loe Company. He said his home was in Washington D. C. Denver will olaim the distinction of owning the biggest American flag in the world, It will be, s ed for the G. A, R, encampment. It will be 115 feet long and fiftyfive feet deep. The union field will be twenty-eight by thirtyfive feet and the stripes will be four feet and two inches wide. The stars will be two feet high and in its making 1.450 yards of bunting are are to be used. The flag’s weight of 450 pounds prevents it being swung from a pole or hung from a oable between two buildings so it has been arranged to spread it across the front of a five story building on Sixteenth street.

MONDAY Roy Jaokson of Maokinaw, 111., is here visiting his brother Joe for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Wood went to Lafayette yesterday for a few days visiting and oamping. Misses Trne George and Laurel Biggs went to Ohioago today for a two weeks visit with friends.

Miss Belle Smith of Chioago, is visiting at the home of her brother-in-law, Vernon Nowels, this week.

Leo Wolf, of Hammond, visited at his father-in-law’s, A. Leopolds over Sunday Mu*. Wolf being here on a protraoted visit*

The new rnral route, out of Tefft or Dannville will start next Monday, August 14th, with Joseph

Bahles as the carrier. J. M. Wilcox is improving his property, north of the railroad, by &ddiog a second story to the kitchen «icg of his residence. Mrs. Wm. Bennett, siok witlj appsndioitts at Fred Waymire’s piece was not doing quite so well at latest reports, as she had been previously. « Mrs. H W. Jackson daughter, Gerturie, and sister, Miss Marieta Ashaw, went to Farmer City and Champain 111, today for a]visit with relatives.

Rev, E. Baeoh of Delphi, visited his Rensselaei friends over Bunday. He is now having his vacation and himself and family are preparing to leave on an ex tended eastern trip next week Mrs. Mary MoOolly. the aged widow of Olarke McColly, is seriously siok with malarial fever at her home in Union Tp-, east of Parr ;at latest accounts she was improving a little, though her advanced age, ever 81 years makes her siokeness more serious.

The Monon’s Cedar Lake cxour. sion Sunday, from points all along down the lines, was a big success in point of numbers judging from the patronage here, the number of tiokets sold being 205. At the lake the people seemed to enjoy the day. and it was an orderly, well behaved crowd.

Perry DeMoes a young man of the Gifford region, died at his father’s home last Wednesday, aged about 22 years. Funeral services were held at Independence church yesterday, after which the remains were taken to Buffalo, White oounty, Ind., for interment. —Medary. ville Advertiser,

Unole Charley Pallins. of Barkley, has left at this offioe a sample of some Turkey Red wheat he raised this year. He sowed 30 bushels on land 30 years old, and it yields 30 bushel to the aore. The thirties stop there, for it weighs out more than twice 30 to the bushel, weighing about 62 pounds to the bushel. The River Queen mill here thinks it about the best wheat ever grown here. Capt. R. W. Marshall was on the Kankakee River several days last week, completiug his official exam ination of that stream, as per his appointment, under the navigable stream law. He went the whole length of the river where it borders Jasper oounty in a row boat.' He completed the measurement of its actual length, from where the sur, veyor of Lake oounty left off, and found it to be just 29§ miles from corner to oorner of Jasper county. The river men, whose business it is to transport people up and down the river count the same distanoe as 70 miles.

Wilbur Hcsbaw and family have moved back from Allen oonn. ty and are now living in the west part of town in Rabbit town so called. Mr. Hoabaw is employed in the Irwin tile mill.

The Padgett horses did some good at Kalamszoo, last week. The Frankfort horse Nellie Davis got Ist money in a trot with 2.15$ as its best time, and Bonrbon J. the Lafayette horse got second money in his raoe. Fair Oaks, of Fair Oaks made a got seoond money in a rsoe in which 2.07 time was made. She is considered the best horse in the Padgett string, and if that proves right, she is no doubt the fastest horse ever owned in Jasper oouuty.

The boys of Company M. are sending borne lots of the Indianapolis News souvenir postal oards, with the pioture of Abe Martin, the fiotitioas Brown oouuty philosopher, of that paper. Here is Abee’s observation in Saturdays’ Evening News: "Dr. E. Hereford Cockrell is s goin’t’ be married in September. Hers says thet ther’ wunt be no invitations, so I guess he’s got money enough t’ furnish hez >own home. By ginger, if yer going out t’ th’ Army Past t’ morrer you’d better tek a paii o’ blue glasses i’ were when you look et tY Guvnor’s staff.

Wm Porter, of Roesville, visited his brother, R. B. Porter end other relatives here, Sunday. He is 76 years old, and still Monon station agent at Roesville; and is probably not only the oldest man holding the position of station agent in the employ of the company, in point of age, but probably also the oldest in number of years he has served. Thus he was the first agent the old New Albany road had at Monon, then Bradford beginning wav biok in 1852 or 1853, and with a few breaks while he was in the milling business he has been a station agent for tee same railroad ever sinoe. He be£ - an at Rossville when the old Narrow Gauge was first opened for business, about 1877, and has been the agent there continuously ever since. ■ ■- .. ■