Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1905 — BRIEF LOCAL HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

BRIEF LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

TUESDAY. Lewis Hammond left today for Mianesota, on a land business trip. Mr. and) Mrs. W. C. Milliron left today f6r Sprinfield, Mo., for a few day’s visit with relatives. Miss May Rowley, of Wabash came today to attendjthe Rboades Radcliff wedding tomorrow nighs. Mrs. J. H. Chapman went to Chicago today for a few days visit with relatives. R. B. Porter, W. R. Powers, Gum Peffley and Jack Warner went to the Kankakee today for about a week’s stay. Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Smith of west of town left today for Bonesteel, S. D., where they expect to remain several weeks, visiting friends and relatives. Last evening’s News stated that Ed Sehoen, the Shortridge player huri here in last Saturday’s game, was now out of danger. Judge Hanley came in from Kentland this afternoon, having adjourned court there until next Monday. Tomorrow he will go to Hammond to hold court for Judge Tuthill for a few days.

G. L. Thornton and G. M, Wilcox, both of Surrey, visited their respective sons, George and Jay, at Valparaiso Saturday ana Sunday. The boys are both taking a commercial course there and doing fine^ Ed Duvall is preparing to open a pool room in the vacant north room of their new livery stable building, at the corner of Van Rensselaer and Harrison streets. He expects to have it running by the end of this week. This morning Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Morlan’s ten months old baby got an angular shaped bone in its larynx and only the prompt work of the physician in removing the bone saved it from strangling to death. J. C. Porter left today for a trip to Cedar Point and Greensburg, and other point in Kansas, and Mrs. Porter went to Indianapolis, to attend the golden wedding of her oldest sister, Mrs. Watts. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Martin, of Cleveland, Ohio; Mrs. Rad cl iff and daughter Miss Katheryn, Mrs. Will Laidlow and Mrs. Caddie Martin, all of Cincinnati, are all here for the Rhoades-Radcliff wedding tomorrow.

It looks now like little old Dan Cupid would work himself into nervous prostration before Thanksgiving Day, if all the weddings of which rumors are rife about around here, take place, as rumored. The project for a race meet here has been revived, after a period of suspended animation which simulated rigor mortis qnd resulting from a heavy jolt when Mrs. O. K. Ritchey wrote back from Oklahoma forbidding the somewhat sporty Ose to run her black horse in any races. The plan now is to have the races on Thursday, Oct. 26. The prospects are now that work on the Iroquois ditch will soon be going forward with a rush. The boiler to furnish power for the steam drills has already arrived and was taken one near the new bridge, today. Three steam drills have been or lorcd, and are looked for every day, and ought to have arrived by this time. A good deal of drilliug is done before any blasts are put in; the drillers keeping about 100 feet ahead of the blasting

as a means of safety from falling rock for the drilling machinery. WEDNESDAY. Wallace Miller is again clerking at the Chicago Bargain Store. Rev. A. Golden Work came down from South Chicago this morning, and will officiate at the RhoadesRaddiff wedding this evening. The rain storm which began last night and lasted until about nine o’clock this morning, was a soaker, and measured just 1} inches of wa ter. The Gordon & Bennett show troupe which is to give The Royal Slave here tonight, arrived on the 9.55 a in. train today. They were at Mouticello last night. Charley Clark has gone back to Cedar Point, Kans, to harvest his corn crop and close up matters pi eparatory to moving on the farm he recently bought in Minnesota. George Ulm, the dredge boat superintendent with Sternberg & Sons, who moved to Hartford City, a month or two ago, has moved back here to help on the firms big Iroquois ditch contract. Chase James, of Hammond, visited his best girl here today. Chase is the eon and the grandson of a printer, and he naturallylikes printers, especially of the opposite sex. A freight engine jumped the track last evening out at the passing switch, east of town, and blocked the track so that the milk train south and the 6:32 north were delayed until about eight o’ clock. Today’s Star gives a favorable report of the condition of Edward Sehoen, the injured football player and quotes his physician, Dr. J. T. McShane, as saying he will recover unless unforeseen complications develope. And Dr. McShane has also expressed the same opinion by letter to Dr. M. D. Gwin here.

A. B. Radcliff, of Cincinnati, arrived this morning to be on hand at his son's wedding, tonight. Mr. Radcliff, though his home is in Cincinnati spends most of his time in Newark, N. J.. where he is president of the well known Disston Saw Manufacturing Company. There was a very large crowd went on the Lafayette excursion today, to attend the soldiers’ cottage dedication and the Battle Ground barbecue, in spite of the rain, and and the decidedly unfavorable appearauce of the weather. The number of tickets sold was 219. Probably the number would have reached close to 300 had the weather been fine. A big reception is to be given to ex consul general Gowdy and family on their arrival at Rushville, next Saturday. While no information to that effect has been received here, it will only be the natural thing for Oom Jack to head in this way before many months have passed; to revisit his boyhood scenes, and renew old acquaintances Sternberg & Sons’ surety company bond for the rock section of the Iroquois ditch has not arrived yet, but is expected every day. Notice of the approval of his application has been received. There was never the least cause to fear that the bond would not be given, as the Sternbergs are financially very solid, and also have the best of reputations for faithful execution of contracts. They put up SO,OOO in cash, as forfeit money

s that they would fill their contract and give a bond, and were ready to put up as much more if it was needed. The delay in getting the bond was due to the absence for a week of E. L. Hollingsworth, of the National Bank, who was carrying on the negotiations. The Indianapolis News has a story from Idaville of how some farmers, just north of that town, thought they heard the wails of a wounded panther late Saturday night and early Sunday morning, aud that Perry Burgett got on a horse aud aroused the country. Thirty men assemble 1 with all sorts of arms to hunt the panther, but a telephone message explained that the noise was caused by some men with a traction engine, blowing a Deviline revolving whistle. It is further added that the men with the traction engine were on their way from Francesville to Wolcott. Anyone going from Francesville to Wolcott would be about as likely to go by way of Idaville, as anyone going from Rensselaer to Fair Oaks would go by-'the way of McCoys burg,—-and not more so. Doubtless the whole story is a fake. Amor McElhoe, an early settler of White county, died last Thursday at the age of nearly 88 . years. He was the father of Mrs. Joseph Adams, of south of Rensselaer. The Monticello Journal gives the follow ing interesting circumstances in his obituary: “He was a son of Samuel McElhoe, a Revolutionary soldier th it saw service under Washington and was at the battle of Trenton, los ing hisshoeinthemud on Christmas night when the troops crossed the Delaware to suprise the Hessians. As he was sitting by the roadside tearing up his blanket to get material in which to wrap his foot, Washington passed and asked “What are you doing, my boy?” He answered, “I’ve lost my shoe and cannot walk on the frozen ground so I must tear up my blanket and wrap up my foot.” Washington said, “Go ahead and I’ll see that you have new shoes and a blanket.” He got them before morning.

rniiRSDAYj Republican voters of Rensselaer should remember the conventions Friday evening, and be on hand to do their part in selecting a good ticket. Congressman Crumpacker has sufficiently recovered his health to be at the Battle Ground barbecue, Wednesday, where he was the principal orator of the day. Mrs. Oscar McClure and children took their departure today,, for their new home in Hammond, and where, as already stated, Mr. McClure has a good position. The Padgett horses are at Lima, Ohio, this week. So far as reports have been received, their only start there, so far, was by Fair Oaks, and she won second money in a SSOO race. The Gordon & Bennett theater company gave a good rendition of The Royal Slave to a fair sized audience at the opera house, last night, it is a popular play, and a popular company. Dennis Gleason shipped out another car load of good horses last night for Cincinnati; 10 being loaded here and 10 at Monon. Some 9 of the “horses” however were mules, but the'y run into money just as fast and a little faster than horses. Both mules and horses are way up in price now.

Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hemphill and the latter’s sister, Mrs. Adsitt, left for their home at Valparaiso, Neb., today. The ladies have been visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Philip McElfresh for some weeks, but J. B. had been here only since Saturday. He is still publishing a newspaper at Valparaiso and looks mighty fat and prosperous—for an editor; for a fact. Chief Godfrey, of the Miami Indians, was not preseut at the Battle Ground barbecue, Wednesday, to exhibit Frances Slocum’s dress as an Indian princess, but his absence was largely compensated for by Uncle Theodore Hurley of our 1 county, who was present with the flint lock musket his grandfather Gilbert lluriey, carried in the bat-

tie of Tippecanoe, on the site of j which the barbecue was held. The interesting old relic attracted a great deal of attention. j Geo. M. Graham was in town over night looking for men to work on the new town of Conrad, in northern Newton Co. He states that he has the contract for the fraction of some 15 good buildings there, including a fine depot, hotel, stores, and shops, residences etc? All are to be built of stone, and what is more the stones are to be made right there. He states that there is au unlimited amount of sand there that is 90 per cent pure silica, and that a permanent stone factory is to be established at once making blocks of stone 12 feet long and four feet square, which will be cut into the size needed, the same as Bedford stones are cut. The A. McCoy & Co., and the A. McCoy creditors have received notices from Referee Bowers that a meeting of creditors wiil be held at Hammond on Oct. 24th, to arrange for paying the intended dividends. This meeting is called in formal compliance with .the law, but there is no necessity of any creditors attending, except snch as have received notice that their claims are contested; and these are very few in number. It will take about SBO,OOO to pay the A. McCoy & Co. creditors this 20 per cent dividend, and from $5,000 to $lO,000 to pay the 40 per cent, to the A. McCoy creditors.