Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1905 — BRIEF LOCAL HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

BRIEF LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

FRIDAY. Mr. and Mrs. Eli Hoagland of Sheldon 111., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Brenner, for a few days. Born, Thursday night, Oct. sth, to Rev. and Mrs. W. H. Flagg, north of the depot, a boy. Erastus Peacock represented Rensselaer Lodge K. of P. at the grand lodge at Indianapolis this week. Miss Catherine Radcliff of Cincinnati, is visiting her brother’s intended bride, Miss Lillian Rhoades. W. H. Parkison, the attorney, and N. Littlefield, the land agent, have moved from the Odd Fellow annex into the rooms in the Forsythe building formerly occupied by Jesse E. Wilson. The lowest official temperature last night was 40 degrees but some parties report seeing frost this morning in low places, and especially on hay and dry grass. It was very light however. The Country Kid Company had a fair audience at the opera house last night, and gave a very high class performance. In fact some of the auditors considered the company one of the very best that ever performed here.

Uncle David Hilton and wife did not leave for the’state soldiers’ home Thursday, as intended, owing to Mrs. Hilton having one of the attacks she is subject to. They hope now to leave early next week. Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Rhoades announce the marriage of their daughter Lillian to Mr. Chas. Radcliff, of Cincinnati, on Wednesday evening, Oct. 18th, at their residence on Front street. Arthur Catt has made other arrangements for an office for his optician business than what was before mentioned. He J preferred two room, together, and has found a very satisfactory suite in Warners hardware building. He will open for business in a short time. Jnd Adams sold his residence on Van Rensselaer st., as well as his draying business to his successor, Everett Warne, of Parr, who will occupy the house. Mr. Adams does not intend to leave town, but will rent a residence for the present.

Mrs. S. P. Thompson has recently been making very encouraging improvement, in the sanitarium at Indianapolis. So much so that the seclusion feature of her treatment has been dropped and she visits her friends freely and even goes about the city occasionally. The commissioners are still holding their session open, on account of the Iroquois ditch stile, due to the non-arrival of Mr. Sternberg’s bond for the rock section, for which he is giving a guaranty Company bond. The other bonds have been personal security and have all been prepared.

Miss Kate Maxwell, of Hanging Grove, has been at the Presbyterian Hospital, Chicago for 5 or 6 week’s receiving medical treatment for an ulcet<of the stomach. The ulcer however, does not seem 'to yield to treatment, wnl an operation has been) decide I necessary and will take place in a short time.

Frank Hopkins, who was here Io attend the funeral of his mother, Mrs. Levina Hojikins, left for his work this morning. He is the proprietor and agent of

two theatrical companies now on t le road, and to look after them bo L h keeps him fully occupied. Our former much esteemed towns min Rev. James T. Abbett who has been pastor of the M. E. church at Ashland, Oregon, one of the best in the state outside of Portland, for 5 or 6 years past has just been given an assignment in Portland, and presumably one of the best in that city.

There was frost last year the 2nd day of October, and though there has been none yet this fall, there is likely to be most any night no w. A frost can not hurt anything now, in the way of crops or gardens, but we admit to a great partiality to a frostless October, and thus giving the trees a chance to ripen their foliage naturally. Mrs. Jeptha Staton, of Kentland whose sickness with lock jaw as a result of a fall from a hammock was previously mentioned, died on Friday of last week, after several days terrible suffering. Her funeral was held Sunday, by Rev. J. L. Brady, of our' city, but pastor of the Christian Church, of Kentland, of which she was a member. She was 31 years old, and leaves a husband and two young children.

The temperature again perform ed the remarkable gymnastic feat of falling 43 degrees between the day and night, yesterday and last night. The temperature reached the maximum of 83 degrees, which is very warm for October, but a sudden change of the wind to northerly caused a drop to 40 degrees, before morning. No frost could beeu seen here, and if there was any, at any place, it was very light. Secretary Hurty of the State Board of Health says typhoid fever is epidemic to a more or less degree in |every county in Indiana, and that during the month of September there were 238 deaths. “The fever has become epidemic,” said the Secretary, “and it is all due to unsanitary and filthy conditions,” Every pile of litter or filth that draws flies is a breeding ground of typhoid, and the local health authorities should cause a cleaning up all over the State.

Track laying on the new Indiana Harbor railroad is now completed from the Kankakee River to Morocco, and from the latter place is proceeding southward towards Kentland. The consequence when these-two hostile communities are are linked together by such easy means of communication as a railroad, are fearful to anticipate. Anyhow Morocco will have the strategical advantage, and no doubt Gen. Oyama Chizum will be ready to avail himself of it. The Moroccans can move down the line as fast as the rails are laid, and seize and fortify the points of advantage, before Kentland has any easy way to reach the same points.

The funeral of Mrs. Levina Hopkins, of Chicago, held at the Church of God Thursday, forenoon, was quite largely attended. Those present from .away were her) daughter, Mi'S. Eva French ‘and ■ little son, and her son {Frank I Hopkins, they being all of her children. There was also present her husband’s only surviving brother Lan Hopkins, of Goodland. There are many more distance' relatives of her husband including

' many living here. Of her own relatives the only near one, now living, is a sister, Mrs. John Spangle of Kansas, whose husband’s health is so poor that she could not come. The cause of Mrs Hopkins’ death was pneumonia, after about a week's sickness, and occured very suddenly and unexpectedly, as she seemed up to ..almost* the last moment to lie doing well with good prospects for recovery.

SATURDAY Mrs. Ray Wood went to Chicago today, for a short visit with friends. Chase Shead, of E istTcoy, Wis. returned home today after a week’s visit with friends here. Prof. Ernest Lamson, of Rossville, Ind., is spending Saturday and Sunday with Rensselaer friends. Lowest temperature last night 39 degrees. Highest today, 8 L degrees; range 42 degrees. Mrs. A. N. Hornady of Plainfield returned home today after a visit with her parents Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Cox. Dr. P. J. Pothuisje, ofßemington is preparing to remove to Denver Colo., where he expects to locate permanently. Reports from Mrs. W. H. Beam, today are that she is very much better, and seems to be making excellent progress towards recovery. Rev. J. C. Parrett, the new pastor of the Presbyterian church, will begin his regular church services tomorrow both morning and evening. There was another light frost last night, but heavy enough that] it could be seen on the grass at six o’clock this morning, most any low place. B. F. Ferguson arrived home this afternoon from a four or five weeks’ visit to Washington state where he visited his sous Geo. W. and Dee.

Dr. F. A. Turfler attended the meeting of the Indiana Osteopathic Association at Indianapolis Friday, and was elected oue of the trustees of the association. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Biggs and her brother George Crawford, of West Lebanon, lud., returned home today after a visit with their relatives A. J. Biggs, southwest of town. Mrs. Anna Neil, of Fowler, has just been given a verdict of SII,OOO in Warren county, against the Big Four railroad, for injuries she sustained iu a wreck at Eark Park, last winter-

E. H. Churchill of Chicago who traveled for the J. P. Smith Shoe Company and made regular visits at this place, dropped dead at Plymouth last Wednesday. He had bought a ten acre tract at Kankakee, and expected to retire from the road at the end of the year. Squire J. H. Thornton is the only member of the regiment from Rensselaer who is attending the reunion of the old 9th regiment at Valparaiso, Friday and today. Capt. B. R. Faris of Gillam is also attending, and Calvin Coppess, of Medaryville, formerly of this county.

Editor Kitt, of Goodland says these same cephalopod fakers who are here now must have something else than badgers in their show, because badgers as he knows them are pure white and have handles on one side. * Kitt’s mind is running on the celebrated badger fight that was puXed off there some time ago and it seems that never “got on to” any other kind of badgers but the ones they had there.

Editor Bowie, of Thayer, was down here Friday, getting absorbent cotton and other material for caring for his little boy, so terribly burned some days ago. The entire front was burned over, from the upper part of the legs up, and also his shoulders and part of his back. In spite of the great extent of the burns, however, there are now fairly good prospects that he w ill recover.

Will Carpenter, of Cincinnati, left yesterday for Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit and other points after a short visit with his father-in-law, W., J. lines. He is on a trip in the interests of his business which is the manufacture of a large machine shop lathe, and in which he employs some 75 hands, and is

very prosperous. In addition to the wealth he is thus accumulating be has just been made sole residuary legatee of a rich uncle who has just died at Lake George, N. ?Y- ---. The uncle’s widow is given a life interest in the estate, and at her I death it all goes to Mr. Carpenter. I Ten cents looks like a good deal I of money to pay for seeing two such very comman and ordinary looking critters as striped American badgers, even if tney are fat, and masquerade under the name of cephalopods which is a shell fish of some kind, and have a fluent faker to loudly proclaim the peculiarities they never possessed, yet it is said that about 100 of our people contributed that much to the street faker in his gilded chariot, at the bank corner last night. They are nice badgers all right, but badgers they are and badgers they will remain. The action of the employes of the Monon shops at Lafayette, who raised SSO for flowers for the coffin of a dead comrade, and then spent only $5 for flowers aud gave the other sls to the man’s daughter, who needed it, is being generally commended. And in was a wise and commendible thing to do. In fact the custom of decorating the coffins and graves of the departed with flowers, though beautiful and commendible when kept within reasonable is fast growing into a very wasteful fad, and many times large sums of money are expended in this way which should have been jdevoted to the actual needs of the survivors; or in helping them pay the really necessary funeral expenses. Thi re is need of a reform in this custom. An automobile which attracted quite a good deal of, attention vas in town late Friday afternoon. It probably could not be called by any of the high names of the high priced, fashionable makes, like Pope-Toledo, though in imitation of that double jointer, [this one might be called a Tuttle-Reming-ton. Anyhow Mr. Tuttle of Remington invented and built it aud Mr. Tuttle of Remington was driving it. It was no piano-polish affair in appearance, but it got there just the same, walking along at right good speed. The wheels were perhaps a little larger in diameter than an ordinary auto wheels, and were provided with hard rubber tires. The jolt of the roads was was taken up by buggy springs, there being a spring at the end of every axel. The engine, Tuttle said was equal to 20 horse power. Tuttle and his wife and children and his wige’s father were on their way to the Kankakee on a fishing trip.

MONDAY Born Sunday, to Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Moore, east of town a son Highest temperature today, 87 degrees. Lowest last ,night 46 degrees. Mrs. George Sigler, of Mt. Ayr, took the train here for Chicago, today, for a short visit with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. David Hilton went to Lafayette today to begin life as members of the state soldiers’ home, at that place. Mr. and Mrs. James M. Holmes, .of Pulaski county, returned home ; today after several days’ visit with I his sister, Mrs. M. P. Warner and i family. I Glidewell & Sons are busy on their Gillam township gravel road I contract now, but considerable I trouble is reported because of the character of the gravel being used.

The October term of the Newton Circuit Court began today, with considerable important business in prospect. Judge Hanley and Reporter Sigler went over by way of Remington this morning.

There was an excursion to Chicago Sunday from way down the line toward Greencastle. It did not take any passengers from north of Lafayette, but people up this way have their chance next Sunday. The engagement is of Mr. Orlen Grant, of our city a well known salesman, now with Rowles & Parker, to Miss'Virginia Stamm of Hammond, but a well known visitor here. The wedding will take place at Hammond on Oct. 25.

Rev. W. H. Flagg, the pastor has begun a series of meetings at Mt Hope church, in jordan Tp.. which will continues every“evening as long as the interest justifies. W. H. Beam spent Sunday at Mary Thompson hospital and states that the surgeons finished Mrs. Beam's operation Saturday and that they report her condition as very encouraging, and with continued good care, a recovery is practically assured. , Miss Flossie Wright, who has ben teaching at Marion, returned home Saturday with a pronounced case of typhoid fever. Four other teachers in the same building are sick with the disease. A nurse from Chicago is now caring for Miss Wright. ' Mrs. Chas. Raymond, who lately acquired considerable notoriety by the discovery that Ed Oliver, the man she was living with, in this county was not her husband, return. Saturday from Danville, 111., and rejoined Oliver in Milroy Tp. It is understood that Raymond will be granted a divorce in a few days. Cards are out for quite a notable wedding to take place at Kniman on Wednesday, Oct. 17th. The parties are Miss Lillieon Sayler, daughter of Mr. aud Mrs. Lewis

Sayler, now of Kniman, formerly of Rensselaer; and Mr. Ira St Peter, of Chicago Heights, 111.

Jim Meyer, eon of our P. M., now clerking in a drug store on Cottage Grove Ave., Chicago, has been troubled with gall stones for some time, and last Saturday he had a sudden attack of such • great severity that he was hustled to Lakeside hospital, and had the stones removed by an operation. He is doing all right now

Sheriff O’Connor left for Jeffersonville on the early train this morning with Ray Kellenberger, where the latter will begin his tei m in the Reformatory. Under the law his term will be not less than two years, and may extend to 14,, depending on the action of the Board of Pardons. And that will depend on his own conduct in prison and on what the Board think of the gravity of his crime. The whole 14 years would scarcely Le too severe.

The Commissioners adjourned without having confirmed thesale o the Iroquois Ditch, owing to the non-arrival of the Sternbergs’ bond tor the rock section. He is giving a guaranty company bond for $99,000 on this part, and naturally the preliminaries take considerable time. No apprehensions are felt about the bond coming all right, however, and already Mr. Sternberg is shipping in tools to begin removing the dirt from above the rock.

Two simple slabs of moss-grown marble mark the graves, side by side, of the two wives of Wm. Kerns, heretofore mentioned in our old time news. One was Isabel, and she died in 1845, aged 33 years. The other was Sarah and she died in 1818, age 23 years. The graves are in the southeast corner of Wes

ton cemetery. William expresses the intention on her tombstone of resting with Sarah, but about two years later he was treking across the plains for Oregon, with another young wife in his wagon, and no special desire evidently to be resting by Sarah’s side, in his heart. Men were much the same 50 years ago as now. - „