Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1905 — Brief Local Happenings. [ARTICLE]

Brief Local Happenings.

FRIDAY. Tsaac Tnteur came down from Chicago today. Mrs. Dr. F. A. Tnrfler went to Montieello for a short stay today. Miss Blanche Steele and brother went to Joliettoday to visit friends. Mrs. Alice Faris of Wilsonville, Neb., came to lay for a visit with relatives. Miss Minnie Keene, a dining room girl at the Makeever House, is very seriously sick. Mrs. Marsh Warner and son Jim went to Delphi and Rossville for a week's visit with friends. Mrs. E. T. Teters and sons of Tipton, returned home today after a several days’ visit with relatives here. W. D. Robinson and daughter. Mrs. Emma Wartena, of Hammond. are here for an extended visit with relatives. They drove down with their own buggy. Rowles & Parker are now unpacking the goods for their new department, which they expect to open in a day or two. They will handle clothin r. hr*. shoes and men's furnishings in the new room. The salesmen will be Clyde Comer and Grlen Grant. Frank Maloy our former townsman, now station agent at Lowell, won first money in a fat man’s race, at a Foresters’ picnic, the other day. Frank must be doing his hard work all by proxy, now days, to be qualified to run in a fat men's race.

John W. Paxton, of Longmont. Colo., arrived last night for a stay of about a week. Mrs. Paxton, and her sister. Mrs. J. F. Watson, who is staying at Longmont for her health, are expected to arrive next Thursday. Mrs. C. P. May hew of Red Bluff. California, arrived last evening for an extended visit with her sisters. Mrs. Wishard and Mrs. Kresler and her brother, R. B. Porter. She was accompanied as far as Chicago by her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Frank Mayhew. M*;. and Mrs. Jim Walters left for Denver or Colorado Springs this morning, with their little baby, about a year old which is troubled greatly with the asthma, and largely for whose benefit the trip is taken; though partly to visit relatives there. i ■ There will be no preaching services at thC Court House on Sunday. Mr. Clarke has been called to Sheldon, 111., to conduct the memorial service of Mrs. Loren Julieu who recently died in Arkansas. The Sunday School and Christain Endeavor will meet as usual. Mr. and Mrs. John Greenfield who have been in Colorado City, Colo., since last November, for the benefit of Mrs. Greenfield’s health, arrived here last night, and are again occupying their home in the east part of town. They hope to stay here permanently after this. The Indiana soldiers broke camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison this forenoon, and brave Company M will come marching home again when the 6.32 train arrives this evening. It has been arranged to give them a rousing reception and to meet them with the Uncle Josli Spruceby baud. Rev. T. F. Drake, a former very popular pastor of the M. E. church here, is visiting and renewing former acquaintances here for about a week or m * e and will occupy liis old pulpit at nexf Sunday’s services. He has not been preaching this year, as he withdrew at the last conference to be able to care for his aged mother, who had become a chronic invalid, who died

last Januai y. Following her long sickness came that of his sister, Mrs M. H. Ingram, of Winamae, who also died last June, after many months of sickness. He is ayet undecided whether he will again ask for a pastorate from the coming conference or nut.

SATURDAY Robert White returned to Chicago after a few days visit with friends. Mis. H. A. Baker of west of town went to Joliet today to visit friends for a few days. A. 11. Hopkins went to Wisconsin, near the Eagle river today, for two weeks’ fishing. Mrs. Wm. Warren returned to Stoptsberg yesterday after a short visit with relatives. Misses Clara Parker and Mary Goetz went to Wheat field, today for a short visit with friends. Mrs. E. Kaub returned to Mad ison, Wis.. today aft®r a five weeks visit with relatives in Barkley tp. Mr. and Mrs. G. K. Hollingsworth and family are now at Williams Bay, a summer resort in Wisconsin, near Lake Geneva. Old Hi Humidity was doing business in our midst today, and he made 89 degrees of temperature feel like 93 in a dryer atmosphere. Mrs. Reuben Dickenson, a ladv of advanced age is very seriously sick with dysenterv at the home of Charles Platt, on Van Rensselaer street.

While there wasapretty nice little shower here yesterday, the region four to eight miles west had quite heavy rains and some also the day before. G. K. Haskell and wife of Mt. Ayr, loft here today for Silver Lake. Koseioseo eountv. to visit their son and daughter there for about six weeks. Miss Minnie Keen, at the Ma keever House, is beginning to im prove from her very serious sickness, and is now considered out of danger, by her physician. Sheriff O’Connor has cleaned up. and polished np, and painted up, the jail and sheriff’s residence, inside and out until, as expressed by a citizen, it all shines like a nigger’s heel. Uncle Josh Sprnceby was pre sented at the opera house last night by a good company, and to a good sized audience for these days. The performance seemed entirely satisfactory to the audience. Ben F. Coen will not go back to Rockford, HI., to teach this coming school year. He has accepted a much better position at Oconto, Wis, where he has been elected principal of their high school. Today is Sunday School Day at Fountain Park Assembly. The Christain efinreh Sunday School was the only one from here attending in a body, and they went over in large numbers and with big baskets. Frank Zacker, of near Surrey went to see his wife at Longcliff asylum, yesterday, and found her so much improved that the hospital authorities allowed him to bring her home, today on trial. She has been there only about two months. The Morocco Courier states that the late Wm H. Martin, who died at the state soldiers’ home last week, had a fall at the home, while going into the basement of one of the buildings, and that his death resulted from the injuries thus sustained. The saloon men of Wheatfield have no great fear of a blanket remonstrance before their eyes, as two of them Mike Beruiokim and

John MeGlinn give notice of inter.fcio i to apply *o ■ new lie* nse at the September icrm. Floyd M-y-*rs, tie It yes-r old sou of Geo. F. Mey< rs. s very seriously sick at the hnter’s home on Division and Rntsen streets. The boy was overcome by the heat a few days ago, while on the road between Reuss-laer and Knimun, and has had a high fever since, and is delirious every night, sometimes wildly so. Sam Headiickson h;is sold his interest in the Cullen street barber shop, with which he has been con neoied for the past two year.-, to his partner, Frank Haskell, and he will go out today. George Bell, now of near Kidman, but a barber of many yeais experience, in Good land, will be with Mr. Haskell aftei next week-. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Van Sickle, of Green. Clay Co., Kansas, are here for a visit of some length with his old boyhood friend. A. W. Cleveland and wife. They grew up together iu the same neighbor hood in Ohio. Mr. Van Sickle, lr\ the way, is minus his right arm which he lost at South Mountain, a few days before the battle <>f An teitam. lie was in the same regi incut with R. B. Hayes aid Win McKinley, both of whom al'ie*' wards became pre-si lent. Lowell ha 3 a citizen who not only conceived the idea that. Mon day is Sunday, but also got such strict notions as to its observance, that he went, around with his gui taking pot shots at his neighborwho per isted in working on Mon days. His aim, fortunately, was as had as his logic, and he did not make any hiK ~ Like many an other zealot before him he has been thrown into a dungeon, and coupled with a verdict of being dangerously insane, to krep him there'.

Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Honan arrived home last night from two weeks' absence way down east. After tin Foresters’ convention closed, at Boston, they went up into the White Mountains, and later to Providence, Newport, Narragansett Bay, and other points of in terest. Tn this they were the guests of Mrs. Rennie, of Providence, s former Jasper county girl, who was the widow of Capt. Edmonds, when she married Mr. Renuie, a wealthy seedsman, of Providence. Her maiden name was Williams, and she is a niece of J. B. Sparling of this vicinity. Friday was the last day given by Trustee Chapman for receiving bids on the McCoy & Porter land in Union Tp. The bid of John and Win. Eger of $16.50 per acr* was the best bid received, and Trustee Chapman will recommend that the land he sold to them There are 520 acres in the trac', and of the purchase price half will go to Walter Y. Porter, and the other half to the bankrupt estate of Alfred McCoy. Mr. Chapman and a number of attorneys are in Hammond, and it is understood Referee Bowers will confirm the sale of this land today.

Governor Hanly has appointed one representative citizen of each county as a delegate to the annual reciprocity conference that will be held at Chicago, August 16 and 17. For delegate from Jasper County he appointed Frank Foltz, of Rens selaer. Gov. Hanly has appointed all county surveyors in Indiana as delegates tothe Thirteenth National Irrigation Congress, which meets at Portland, Oregon, Aug. 21st, to 24th. M. B. Price of our county hardly thinks he will be able to spare the time to attend-and besides Myrt has quit “irrigating” anyhow.

At, today, Referee Bowers, is gi\4M>g a hearing in Treasurer S. R. Nichols’' case. Mr. Nichols when the McCoy bank failed owed the bank, on notes secured by mortgages, some #12,000 to #15,000, and had about #23, • 000 on deposit there. He now asks that he lie allowed to set-off on his deposits equal to the amount he owes the bank. This is allowed in in eases where people owed the bank on overdrafts and also had deposits there, but whether the

s une ru’e : p dies in this <a<e is no v for Ref«r.*e Towers to decide and } r >bablv aft»r him, J dge A-ider-on. Those who went to Hammond for the hearing «r-e' Tru-tee J. 11. C’hipman. Mr. Nichols and attorneys J. E Wilson S. P. Thompson and Frank Foltz. After having suffered twenty t years from his heart being on the j right side of his body, Harry 1 Yohey, twenty-two, is dead at 1 Muneie and one ofthe mod interesting cases that has been called to the attention of physicians in years is closed. The young man had endured greit agony from pleural troubles owing to his heart -being out of place. Xo relief could be afforded. An operation was pei l'ormed a number of yeais ago but it was without avail. The in

ternal organs seem to have been misplaced by nature and the lad suffered great pain almost constantly. As he grew- to manhood the pains increased. Pleural troubles continued and all efforts to relieve the young patient were of no avail Miss Edna Thompson has arrived home fiom her trip to Portland and other places far west, includ ing a trip through the Yellowstone Park, which she saw nearly all of from the driver’s seat of a stage coach. She enjoyed the trip greatly. though the rather small scale ofthe Portland fair was something of a disappointment. She left her brother Finnan at Denver, from which place he was going to Boulder to visit Clyde Coover, and also to Colorado Springs to vi-.it a brother of his brother-in law H. R. Kurrie. He is superintendent of a big mine at Victor, at a salary of SIO,OOO per year. Xext Monday a party will leave here to join Firman in a few weeks camping sojourn in the Rocky Mountains and which will include Thompson and Bradley Ross, and Rev A. G. Work now of South Chicago.

MONDAY Born Saturday Aug 12, to M-. and Mrs. Bert Hopper a son. Geo. F. Meyers’ sou Floyd, who was so bad last week from sunstroke is very much better n >w. Born, Sunday, August 13th, to Mr. and Mrs. Korah Eldredge, in Barkley township, an 11 pound son. C. S. Clarke, contracting agent for Sun Brothers’ Show, was here today, and arranged for the show to be here on August 31st. It is a railroad show. Alt Padgett was at Detroit last week with his horses, and got two second moneys. One each with his Fraukfort and Lafayette horse. This week he is at Lebanon. C. C. Stratton, of Baker City. Oregon, agent of the Auburn Gold Mine, of that state is here on business for a few days. Quite a number of our residents have heretofore invested in his properties. Miss Lilly Nichols died at Good land last Wednesday, at the age of a little more than M years, and during over half of her life she was confined to her bed. The first time for over two years, and the las t time for over 14 years. Mrs. Jennie Thompson moved Saturday into her new home on south Van Rensselaer street. She bought Frank Wood’s former residence, and has extensively repaired and added to the same until she has a very neat and commodious -residence.

Quite a party left for Minnesota and» North Dakota, this morning, headed by C. J. Dean, the land agent. It included Mose Leopold, of Rensselaer, John 8. Renicker, Dan Hopkins and Jim Hill, of this county, Fred Renicker, Dan Metzger and two Spiles, of Carroll county. They will be gone about ten days. Christie Vick, Mel Abbott, Frank Critser, George Calvert and Clint Calvert, all went to the Kankakee this morning, fora 10 dayscamping. They left in the rain but were so; excited they did not know it was raining. Dr. JCannal who went the day before was to take them down the river to their | camping place in his launch, and will stay a few days with them. The unusual wet weather out around Mitchell, 8. Dak., did not hurt the Jasper county

ver j bad, ac<o'ding to all reports. Jasper Kent* n has , ust n ce'ved a letter from them, say rg ihat William Ken'o i h: d finished harvesting 600 acres qf good wheat and oats aid that Mason Kenton was afrer his 100 acres, with two 12 foot an 1 one < ight foot binders. . ■ Thompson and Bradley Ross, sous ofF. A. Ross. and Ross Porter son of Walter V. Port* r left for Denver., Colo., this morn ng where they will join JFirmau Thompson, for several week's camping in the mountains. They expect to -meet Rev. A. G. Work, and John Bissell in Chicago. Mrs. Newton Wiig .t died al Brookston Sunday after four years' confinement to her bed, helpless andspeechle-s, from paralysis. Sh was about 70 yeai-s old. Her lmband, who was a half brother of tin lute Willis J. Wright, of our city, died suddenly a year ago this week of heart disease. A u umber of the relatives here expect to attend tin funeral at Brookston, Tuesday, in eluding Mrs. Melle Medicus, W. J lines, C. P. Wright and Miss FI oast Wright She leaves two sons and three daughters, the latter all un married and living at home. Our celebrated ex Jasper it e Hon. John K. Gowdy, for the past eight years UVS. consul general at Paris, is now working slowly to wards his home in Rush county this state. At last reports he wa> visiting in Ireland, and his ole friend, Uncle Simon Phillips, ha.just received a souvenir postal card from him, mailed at Cork, Ireland on August 2nd. It gives a colored picture of St Patricks street in Cork. Oom Jack and family ex peet to be at home in about a month. His cousin, Geo. O Puraphrey also received a Cork souvenir postal, showing a d ; ff*-r ent street.

During one of last week’s very hot days three big fat hogs died from the heat, at Xoble York’s place, across the river. They were all dead before anything was seen to be ailing them. There wa<only one left in the pen, and that was pretty nearly gone, until it was saved by dousing with cold water. And their bad luck in the live stock line was not confined to their hogs, for Erast us Peacock’s two enormous St. Bernard dogs got loose and came over there and killed 35 spring chickens, big enough for fryers. These sweet and playful pups, somewhere between a yearling steer and a hippopotamus in size, are keeping the poultry pretty well thinned out iD their neighborhood, having made several destructive raids at Win. Washburn’s place also.

A detective named Owen and a lawyer named Underwood have both been digging on the Sarah Schafer murder case, at Bedford. Each thinks he is just in reach of the evidence that will load up a No 9 gallows with prominent busi* ness and society people; and each thinks, also that the other is a fool or a knave, or perchance both and probably the general public is disposed to side with them more or less, in the latter view. As for Owen he is still working along the theory of one rich and prominent bosiness and professional man of Bedford and two or three leading society women, who combined and hiredtwo bad men to attack and kill, Miss Schafer, because of know-ledge-she was supposed to possess as to some disgraceful conduct up on their part. Every opportunity has been given to reveal this conspiracy, were there any to reveal, and the chances are there was none to reveal.