Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1905 — Brief Local Happenings. [ARTICLE]

Brief Local Happenings.

TUESDAY. Miss Mary Meyers is spending a few days with friends in Wolcott. Mrs. M. Maher of Zanesville, Ohio, came today for a visit with relatives here. Misses Clara Jessen and Carrie Pierce went to Lebanon today to visit relatives. Miss Lola Warden, went to Lo gansport today for a short visit with relatives. Mrs. 0. 0. Nelson and children . went to St. Joseph Mo., today, for an extended visit with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Jacks, of Logausport, returned home today after a few days’ visit with friends and relatives here. Miss Orabelle Duvall is very painfully Sick at her parents’ residence, on Weston street, with neuralgia of shoulder and arm, and affecting the heart. Scott Robinson and Arthur Hilling, who go to North Dakota every year for the threshing season, left for Lari more, that state, this morning. Scott will run a thresher on J. H. Pifer’s 6,000 acre wheat garden, near Larimore. Born this Tuesday morning, Aug. Bth, 1905, to Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Garriott of Union township, twin sons. This is their second birth and third child; and a fact, noteworthy even for fair and fertile Union township, is that their former child still lacks seven days of being 10 months old. Mayor Ellis arrived home last evening from his trip to the Mile stone region of Assiniboia, Can. He brought none of the soil, nor aught of its products back with him, except one straw of oats, nearly large enough for an off year corn stalk in Indiana. He has not closed up any land purchase up there, but it is understood has a deal pending for a section. Mrs. Lillian Nowels McGimpsey, who was so severely hurt by a car jolt several weeks ago while returning home from her wedding journey, and had been in a hospital ever since, afrived here yesterday afternoon and will stay with her sister, R. D. Thompson, until she is more fully recovered. She is not yet able to walk, and will not be for two or three weeks yet Dr. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the State Board of Health, is preparing to wage war on school authorities of Indiana who are ignoring the law regulating the manner of heating school buildings. The law specifies that the buildings shall not be heated by direct radiation, inasmuch as this means the heat ing of the same air over and over, thereby denying ventilation and engendering disease. Jim Murdock’s chauffeur was arrested in Lafayette for violating the city ordinance as to speed of automobiles. He was charged with having exceeded the limit—B miles an hour. The case was dismissed on the ground that no one could swear how much faster than 8 miles an hour he was going—it was not deaied that he was exceeding that speed. The real reason for the dismissal of the case was that it was Jim Murdock’s machine. —Williamsport Review. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Davis and two daughters of neai Brook and their tfvo nieces, Misses Fannie and Ella Fenwick, of Hell wood, Neb. were in town today. The nieces are making quite an extended visit, and lisive still other places to go befoic icturning home. It is 20 years since they left this vicinity. They are both school teachers, and are haviug their summer vacation. There are six daughters and one son

in the family, and whom their widowed mother has brought up and educated for the past 12 years. J. H. or Ham Sayler, a few miles west of town has just closed up the sale or rather trade of his 120 acre farm here, and secured one of 160 acres, in Minnesota, nearGlenwood. It is in the lake region, only half a mile from a fine lake, and is right on a telephone and rural route line. It is 130 miles northeast of St. Paul. As we understand the trade was abont.acre for acre, and the difference being paid in cash. Mr. Sayler will move to his new farm about Sept. Ist, and Mrs. Sayler, for whose health the change is largely due, will go even sooner. The i rade was negotiated through the Bruner & Hamm agency. Today the hardest work of the militia in camp at Fort Harrison was to begin. All thr<re regiments were under orders to get up early and begin a long days’ march. Tonight they will camp in their pup tents, and Wednesday will occur the big sham battle. Thursday’s special feature will be several hours’ athletic field contests. Sunday was a big day, the annual review by the Governor taking place that day. All the boys seem to be standing camp life well, except a few have been effected by the heat, and have been temporarily treated in the hospital on that account. So far as reported no member of Company M, from Rensselaer, has experieiiced any sickness. One Emil Ruschli last fall was defeated in getting a license to sell liquor in Battle Ground. He was sore, very sore. He threatened to start a five gallon house. Two weeks ago last Saturday he started one. The next week he was arrested for violation of the liquor law and he was fined and costed $15.00. The next week he was arrested for having his blinds shut on Sunday. He had had enough. He told the authorities that if they would with draw the case he would load all of his liquor and traps and haul them back to Lafayette. It was done. The barrel house has left Battle Ground. Barrel houses don't pay, —Fowler Republican. Clyde Reeve still has one arm in a sling as the result of his long flight through the air, last Thursday, besides which he was considerably bruised and battered in other parts of his body. Thb Republican’s account of the accident was no exaggeration, as he was thrown from the roof of the building clear over a fence and into an adjacent cornfield; the distance of his flight being folly 25 or 30 feet. We notice in the Indianapolis Star today, that some fellow in Lafayette, who ekes out his spending money by sending greatly exaggerated accounts of incidents to Hie daily papers, says Clyde’s flight was 66 feet or fully twice its actual distance, and that he was picked up for dead. As a matter of fact, however, Clyde was on his feet again almost the instant he struck the ground.

Mrs. John C. Martindale and Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Martindale, who attended the Johu Rynearson funeral at Lafayette Sunday after noon, returned home Monday. John Martiudaie remained for a few days’ longer stay with his sister, Mrs. Rynearson, until she more fully recovers from her injuries, which are still very painful. Her escape from death was marvelous, as she struck upon her head with great force. Sufficient to break in pieces uot only the shell and steel combs she wore, but eve.i the steel hat pins in her hat. She has a very heavy head of hair, and had it all bunched on

he top of her head, and her physici in says it was entirely due to the protection this afforded that she escaped with her life. Mr. Martindale is still quite lame in, his left leg, which was severely hurt below the knee. WEDNESDAY Mrs. H. O, Hefner went to Chicago for the day. A son, born to Mr. and Mrs. John Jones last Saturday. Mia. Minnie Whistle of Mt. Ayr, went to Monon today to visit relatives. % Mrs. R. P. Benjamin and children went to Otterbein today to visit relatives. Joe Hammond returned to Wheatfield yesterday after a few days visit with friends here. Mrs. Charles Borntrager, returned to Ft. Wayne today after a visit with relatives south of town. Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Williams are now housekeeping in the Miss Moneghau property on Weston street. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Blue returned home to Wheatfield after a visit with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Blue. Mrs. Renney returned home today from an extended visit with her daughter Mrs. Fred Chilcote at South Bend. Mrs. Harry Wiltshire and children have gone to Wabash, for several weeks’ visit with her sister, Mrs. Peter Giver. Mrs. Elizabeth Burns and daughter returned to Monticallo today after a few days visit with relatives north of town. Miss Rose Clayton of Salt Lake City, Utah, came last evening fora two weeks’ visit with Miss Gertrude Hopkins and other friends. Riley Israel and family of near Springfield, Illinois, are here for a few days visit with his sister Mrs. Mattie Grant and other relatives. Misses Kathleen Shortridge, Carrie Debbens, and Irene Palmer returned to Chicago yesterday after a two weeks visit with Nina Yeiter. Miss Emma Messman and sister ofKentland returned home today atfer a visit with relatives here. Miss Lillian Thomas went with them for a visit.

Ed Bodette, who was giveft the he contract for the big dredging work on the Iroquois ditch, arrive ed today, and is stated to have his bond all ready. The temperature at 2:30 p. ra. today was 91 degrees. It is the first time the 90 degrees mark has been touched since July 19tb, when it was also 91 degrees. The Odd Fellows of Shelby will give their annual water picnic at Water Valley, on Saturday Aug. 19th. No doubt large numbers will attend from Rensselaer. The Jasper County house at the State Soldiers’ Home, at Lafayette, is now completed all except the plastering and inside finish, whidh will be done in a short time. F. 'A. Ross, Delos Thompson and Charley Chamberlain made an early mording start for Chicago this morning, on the automobile route. Mr. Chamberlain will buy some more supplies for the new electric line to St. Joseph’s college. . Christie Vick, Mel Abbott, Frank Critser, Geo Calvert and son Clint, of Wabash are getting their accoutrements together for their annual camping trip on the Kankakee river to begin next Monday. C-v P. L. Prichard and Orin Kellogg land men of Alexandria, Minn., were here this week, and left for that place today. In their company was J. F. Bruner, J. C. Fisher, Geo. Nichols and Mr. Ham mond, who are going to look the land over. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Chapman returned last evening from about two weeks’ stay along the east shore of Lake Michigan, principally at St. Joe, where Mr. Chapman’s mother and sistej now live, s and where the latter is teaching school. Some doubts are now beginning to be felt whether Stewart & Sous, who bid off the rock work on tLe Iroquois ditch will show up in time with their bond. Sternberg & Sons

the next lowest bidders, stand ready to take the co a tract, if Stewarts do not. Their bid was only about $145 above Stewarts’. A number of farmeis from tie vicinity of Winamac, who went to North western Canada are returning to Indiana. They say that the opportunities in the Canadian Northwest have been overestimated and that owing to the shortness of the seasous the crops do not mature well. They advi-e those who have the Canada fever to stay in Indiaua. —Knox Republican. Jesse McClure who was sent up from Tipton county for life for the cowardly murder of his two children is reported as dying iu the pen. itentary at Michigan City. Me Clure committed the crime about 18 months ago out of revenge on his wife. There will be few tears shed if the miserable brute does die. The Chicago papers report that Tom Taggart, noticing that Gov. Hanley's eagle eye was being turn ed towards Tom’s big gambling joint at French Lick, and that Tom got so scared that he has already clapped the lid down tight. As we intimated before, after Tom’s place, there is only one worse one for the Governor to tackle, and it is under stood that the boss of that one Col. Satan, will deny the Governor’s jurisdiction. Carroll county had a worse electric storm last Saturday night, judging from its effects, than any that have visited Jasper conuty this season. The worst result was the striking and killing a 14 year old boy, a son of Howard McCain. His funeral was held Tuesday, by Rev. E. Baech. Besides this not less than five barns in the county were burned by lightning, during the storm, and some of them very large and well filled. Later reports regarding the excursion crowd at Cedar Lake last Sunday, do not entirely bear out the earlier reports to the orderliness of the crowd, in some respects. A number of them including some of the Rensselaer contingent, ap pear to have been far from angelic in their conduct on that occasion. Though the disorderly element was very few in number compared with the orderly conduct.

The late John M. Rynearson of Lafayette killed in the auto accident left quite a good estate, and his will has been filed for probate at that place. The widow gets the share allowed her by law and the son, John M. Rynearson Jr., gets all the rest oftha estate except SIOO to the other son, by a former marriage Arthur, himself now deceas ed. The will was made ten year ago. Trustee Chapman has not yet decided whether he will oppose the application of the McCoys for their discharge from bankruptcy the only thing in opposing it would seem to be the possibility of catching Tom with his diamonds on him, some day when he wasn’t watching Tom swore he dident have any for a long time previous to his failure. In spite of this statement Tom is said to have been in Chicago lately wearing his big sparkers with all his old time nonchallence. Beginning with the opening of thenext academic year in September, Purdue'University will offer to young, women opportunities similar to those now offered to young men, for technical and scientific traifiing for their parti* cular life puremt. At that time a new department of instruction in Domestic Economy'will be inaugurated, providing for the yonng women of Indiana comprehensive, systematic instruction in all phases of the art and science of househol d management. Owing to the “initiative” of a telegraph liar in Lafayette, an item is going around that the McCoy lands in Jordan lately sold to James and William Hill comprise over half the laud in shat township. And that it was the largest single land sale ever consummated in Jasper county. As a matter of there are over 40 sections of land in Jordan, and only about three and a half sections were to’.d to the Hills. And as to the magnitude of the sale the

Nelson Morris tract in this county and all sold in one deal, was about eight times a 9 large in area and twice as large in price. The Hammond News has an article headed, ‘’Rensselaer has a Sensation” in which it is related that “Fred Lempke” a young blacksmith of thjs place was fatal ly shot, Sunday morning, iu “one of the resorts east of that town.” That he was shot through the abdomen, and that the physicians said he could not live. Lempke is probably a rough guess at Fred Hemphill, for there was report circulating Sunday that Fred had g»t all shot to pieces, and another report that he was all cut to piece.-*, uot at Rensselaer but at Cedar Lake. Another report was that Inwas only “half shot.” Be the reports as they may, Fred is back in town all right with no furthe. marks of injury than his upper lip cut in two. Some one hit Fred an awful pelt, but who it was and for what purpose neither Fred nor any one else seems to know. He was found unconscious and covered with blood, by two acquaintances; and it is supposed some rough slugged him for robbery, but Fred says he did not take anything from him. Those who saw Fred last before his injury, says he was not bowled up. It is a strange case, truly. THURSDAY

Odd Fellows picnic, Shelby, Aug. 19. Round trip 85 cents. Return limit Aug. 20. Mrs. Monroe Banes and daughter returned home to South Bend today after a two weeks visit with friends here. Rev. and Mrs. H. L. Kiudig left yesterday for a trip to Niagara Falls and other points of interest. They will be away about a week. Charlie Porter finally severed his connection with the grocetf business in Delphi last Saturday, and will probably remove from that place. The Newton County Commissioners have asked the County Council co make !a hew appropriation for heir court house, at their regular September meeting. Capt. G. W. Payne and wife are up from Monticello fora few days’ visit and to look after the affairs of the M. P. church here of which the captain is a leading member. Misses Leona Sheldon, and Maud Dollen of Carbon Ind. and Bessie Murphy of Buck Creek, came yesterday for a visit with Misses Minnie Hemphill and Tillie Malchow. Mrs. Tillie Borchardt and children, of Brunswick Ga. who has been spending the summer here went to Milwaukee, today She was accompanied as far as Chicago by her brother B. F. Fendig. Miss Grace Wemple returned to Rockford 111. after an extended visit with her sister Mrs. J. J. Montgomery. The latter has accompanied her to Chicago where they will spend a few days. Some 24 people from Wolcott spent Wednesday in Rensselaer, as guests of Mr. and Mrs. King Davis, who were former residents of that place. They were mostly members of the Eastern Star order. Attorneys H. R. Kurrie and E. B. Sellers are going to Ottumwa today, where they will take W. A. Rinehart’s deposition in the various cases instituted against him and others, by Trustee Chap. man in the McCoy cases. Mr. Kurrie represents Delos Thompson and the Rineharts and Mr. Sellers represents Trustee Chapman. Mr. Thompson has also gone to lowa, presumably to the same place, County Superintendent Hamilton is a busy man these days, for he is making out the report of the Jasper county schools for the state superintendent of public instruction. The report this year is to be much more in detail than in former years and will show the exact salaries paid and the lengths of term, so that the average pay of the ludiana teacher may be figured out to a dot. The removal from town of Pi of. W. H. Saudu-s, superintendent of our city schools, left a vacaucy on the public Library Board. It was

desirable and desired to appoint Prof I. N. Warren, his maiawr iu the s iiooK as his successor also on the Library Board, but the law rjq'lire? a previous immediate re-idom-e of five years, to be » m*»mb«*r the Library Board, belief Prof Warren could not be appointed., An excellent suhetit ite w*s f mud however, in County Superintendent L. H. Hamilton, to whom the appointment was given. Sh i iff Sr oner Was over from K -titland today with another comm m drunk, from the railroad gmg Mr. Stoner reports that a move i» on foot to start a rockpile in Kent land for the benefit of those fell >ws. ♦ Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Harrold, of Hammond have returned to that place ntrer a visit with her father, ■i. C. llammond. Mr. Harrold has decided to retire from his position with i he Conkey printing company on account of his health, and engage in fruit and poultry raising, in Michigan, where he .has bought a small tract of land for the purpose. The statement in Wednesday’s Evening Republican that C. H. Sternberg was here, as the next lowest bidder, to take the |rock contract of the Iroquois ditch in case the Stewarts tailed to qualify, .was a mistake though made on Judge Thompson’s authority. Mr. Sternberg was here to collect the balance due him on the Kent ditch and having done so he returned to South Bend. He stated while here that he did uot waat the rock work and would uot accept the contract for it. I Mr. and Mrs. Judge Hanley entertained elaborately at a six o’clock dinner yesterday at which about twenty two guests sat down to an elegant repast of four courses, The function was the occasion of the bringing together of several friends |out of town and of some that are soon leaving, among the latter being Mrs. Nellie Hardy who will return to Oklahoma, and Hon. Jesse Ison and wife who ara about to take their departure for Washington. Hon. and Mrs. E. B. Sellers and Mrs. Marcellue Voltz ofMonticello were also in attendance.