Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1905 — BRIEF LOCAL HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

BRIEF LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

TUESDAY. Today is some more of that other kind of weather and is decidedly dark and dismal. Mrs. Ora Barce, of Freeland Park is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Bruner. Mrs. J. W. Williams went to Chicago this morning, for a few day’s visit with relatives. Mrs. H. C. Nichols and children and sister in-law, Miss Sadie Nichols, all of Lowell, are visiting the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Flynn. Mrs. M B. Alter and Mrs. C. W. Coen have gone to New Albany and Jeffersonville to represent Gen. Van Rensselaer Chapter at ■the state meeting of the D. A. R. Orlan Grant went to Hammond this forenoon in order to be sure and not miss the wedding there at noon, Wednesday, of himself and Miss Virginia Stamm. John Eiglesbach went with him and will •officiate as his best man. Miss Kate Maxwell, ot Hanging Grove, was operated upon Monday, at the Presbyterian Hospital, Chicago, for the removal of ulcers on the stomach. It is understood the operation was entirely success ful.

Cards have been received announcing the wedding, at Winamac Hast Sfturdiy, of Biv. Tiffi. i F. Drake, a very popular former pastor of the M. E. church here, to Mrs. Artha Bruce. It is the good brother’s third matrimonial experience. They will live in Winamac.

Mrs. Jennie Hendrickson Davis committed suicide, at her home, in Delphi, Sunday afternoon, by swallowing strychnine, dying fifteen minutes later. She was the widow of the late Charles Davis, the young soldier of Company L. who was killed at Buck Creek by Wabash railway train, in August last, while he was returning from the State military encampment at FL Benjamin Harrison. Mrs, Davis, who was but 21 years old, brooded continually over his death till her mind gave way. The latest reports from the typhoid infected district around Mt Ayr, are that probably all the re maining cases will recover. Out of 21 or 25 cases there have been only three deaths, which is understood to be a very good result for this verz dangerous disease. A circumstance that perhaps ought to be mentioned, as a warning to others, though stillJwith reluctance for fear of injuring the feelings of friends, is that two of the three boys who died are said to have been addicted to the cigarette smocking habit; and that thereby their systems were debilitated and deranged so that they were less able than otherwise to withstand the onslaught of this disease.

WEDNESDAY. Mrs. Ralph Donnelly and Miss Rose Scheurick are visiting friends in Chicago. Mrs. W. L. McLlain of Indianapolis, returned home today, after a few days visit with Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Porter. Mrs. Hattie Coone, of Lafayette returned h him today, after a month’s visit with Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Burton, north of town. The installation services for Rev. J. 0. Parrett will .be held at the

Presbyterian church this evening, at 7:30 o’clock. Several of the ablest ministers of the Logansport Presbytery will be present and take part in the services. Mr and Mrs. C. H. Porter, who lately moved from Delphi, is now living in Chicago, and are likely to remain there permanently. At pre sent he is engaged with Murdock & Fischers’ big grocery house, but contemplates entering some form of electrical business before long. J. H. Chapman andS. P. Thompson went up to Hammond Tuesday, that being the day set for the Me Coy creditors’ meeting, to declare a dividend. They have not yet returned, and in fact expected to have two or three days’ work in preparing for the payment of the dividends.

W. B. Donahue has come back from the Wild West to the Wilder East, and a night or two ago it got so much wilder out there than common, that Policeman Zea was c died oiit to quiet the trouble. However he found nothing special do ing when he got there, and no disturbances have been reported there since, r* There was quite a family re union at the home of George Wood on Cornelia street Sunday, the oc casiou being the presence of his mother, Mrs. Victoria Wood, now of Taylorville, HL, who is visiting her' children here. One of the guests at the re union was her sister, Mrs Fannie Rhoades, who is so com pletely an invalid that she had not been out of her house before for nine years.

Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Smith, of west of town, arrived home today from a trip to South Dakota. They went way out on the Rosebud reserva tion where they visited Mrs. Smith's brother, Bev. W. H. Sayler. He has a good claim out there and a good house built on it, and is evidently enjoying life as a pioneer. Jeff did not buy or take up any land but talked some as though he might later on. Uass township, Clay county, contains 12 square miles. It is bound ed on the north by Washington township, Owen county; It is settled largely by Germans. Meyer, Admeyer, Ahlemeyer, Rahmeyer, Sendmeyer, Schromeyer Schopmeyer, Telgemeyer and Weremeyer are nine of the family names of the little township. If they also had Stuckinthemeyer they would have pretty much all the meyers known.

Burglars bio wed open the safe in the bank of Ridgeville, early Tuesday morning and stole $6,000 and after a running battle with a posse of citizens in which the cashier of the bank and two of the robbers were wounded the. safe blowers escaped. For more than an hour the town was practically at the mercy of the robbers, who openly walked the streets, shooting at every thing in sight and apparently taking their time in leaving the scene of their crime. E. C. Maxwell, who has lived on the Dr. Hartsell farm, west of town and run a dairy wagon in Rensselaer, has rented a 156 acre farm two miles from Dunkirk, and will move down there next week. He will take his dairy outfit along and run a milk route there. The people of that community will find him and his family very worthy citizens. George Wood, who has long been in the doctor’s employ will move

on his farm as soon as Mr. Maxwell vacates it Wm Hunt died in the jail at Crown Point, Sunday night The last day of September, while under the influence of liquor, he went to the school house at Hanover Center, west of Cedar Lake, after school . hours, and attempted to crimimally assault the school teacher, Miss Lillie Meyers. He was captured by a posse, and one of them kicked himoutheihead. Nothing much was thought of the injury, but Sunday he grew ’delirous and soon after i died.

The Methodist Protestant church at the north end of Van Rensselaer street has been provided with an organ and a considerable number of seats, and the pastor, Rev. W. H. Flagg, will preach his first regular sermon there, next Sunday evening. His regular schedule is not fully decided upon, but it is probable that he will so divide his time between his three charges that he'will preach in the church here once every Sunday. Preaching in the evening one week and in the forenoon the following week Rev. W. E, Meads, who has been in the general evangelistic work for some years, has found the constant work in that line too strenuous for his health, and he has therefore accepted a call to a settled pastorate in aF. W. Baptist congregation at Milton, Wis., some 90 miles northeast of Chicago. Mrs. Meads has already shipped their goods, and will .follow with their children in a few days. And Mr. Meads, who is now conducting a revival in northern Wisconsin will join them at Milton. He does not intend to give up the evangelistic work entirely, but arranged with his congregation to be absent on that work four months in every year, and during which time the pastoral work of his church will conducted by Mrs. Meads, whose ability as a preacher is well known here.

Mrs. Mary Jones, of Tefft, has written to Clerk Warner for the names ot the witnesses to the marriage license issued last Saturday to Dan Gross and Miss Clarissa F. Jones. It is surmised that Mrs. Jones is the girl’s mother and that she objects to the marriage, and that possibly the girl was under age to marry without her ’parents’ consent. However she swore she was over 18, and therefore no witness nor consent was needed. She was certainly very youthful in appearance. The witness who signed the marriage return was George Ketchmark, of TeffL Possibly George will Ketch something be sides mark, if the girl is under age and the mother is on the warpath over the wedding. And Squire Graves, of Wheatfield, who performed the ceremony. He may find someone camping on his trail, also.

Thursday The D. A. R. will meet next with Miss Mildred Harris Born, Wednesday Oct. 25th, Mr. and Mrs. Theodere Smith, of Newland, a daughter. The roof of the Murray-Long building was completed Wednesday and plastering will begin Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Fendig of Brunswick, Ga., left today for a trip to Milwaukee. They will return here before leaving for their southern home.

Council Monday night appointed the following election inspectors for the coming city election; First Ward, Harvey J. Kannal; Second Ward, Edward D. Rhoades; Third Ward, Marcus H. Hemphill. Up in Referee Bower’s chambers in the Superior Court are gathered a bevy of lawyers who are thrashing over the claims in the McCoy estate. To judge from the burning eloquence we he beard through a crack in the door they must be on the subject of Tom’s diamond. —Hammond Tribune. Mrs. B. O. Gardner and daughter Flossie and son Will left today for Los Angeles, where they will spend the winter. Mr. Gardner weut with them as far as Chicago, but will return here and devote several weeks to business affairs becore he -'so goes to California.

Those sweet birds of the-sommer time, the holioes, are malting tbeir annual migration southward iw>w; and as a result the city officials of Rensselaer are heading one or ! more of them into the ee«nty jail, for a nights dodging about every night now. Hammond Tribune: A Jasper county pumpkin weighingjjust LOO pounds is on display in. the First National bank window, brought from Rensselaer. They surely must be going to celebrate Thanksgiving down in Jasper county. 1 That pumpkin out to- make sixty pies.

Ed Finnegan, deputy sheriff of Pulaski county, arrived here in the cool of the morning after a drive in the considerably too. cool of the night, having left Winamac at one o’clock a. in. He came over to secure publication of notices in the big Ketman ditch, which had to be published this, week, or be too late. True Woodworth is getting around with a cane after an attack of sciatic rheumatism. Daring his treatment the discovery was also made that one of his hip joints was somewhat displaced; the same being considered a reminder of that “ever glorious almost fatal day,” when. South Bend and Rensselaer strove on the field of glory in one of the greatest games of football ever played in Indiana.

George Ulm, the Sternberg dredge ■boss has arrived from Portland, and reports that the dredge to be set up near Parr, was at Frankfort when he earns through, an I is like ly to arrive any day. For the larger work lower down in the inain ditch, a new dredge has been ordered at Marion, Ohio, and is aMmonster in size, the scoop being of 2j yards capacity.

Down in Warren county the Williamsport papers are advert is ing a guessing contest for a merchant, wherein the number of seeds in a big pumpkin are to be guessed at, for prizes. These guessing contests have, very properly, been ruled out by the post office department, as lotteries, and those Wil liarnsport papers had better look out, or they will find themselves up against the Third Assistant Post master General.

Valparaiso Vidette: “The man agement of the Fountain Park Chautauqua at Remington has secured the Services of Rev. J. H. O. Smith, of this city, to take charge of the Bible classes of the assembly during the sessions of 1906. The request to to take charge of the Bible work came as a surprise to Mr. Smith, but he has indicated that he will accept the tender of the Chautauqua management. Those who attend the Chantauqua will surely be well paid if they are found at the classes conducted by Rev. Mr. Smith.”

Born, Wednesday Oct 25th to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Elder, of Surrey, a girl. To Mr. and Mrs. Firth Nelson, of Marion Tp. a girl. The Fatal Sin Theater Company arrived on the 9.55 train this morning. They will perform at the opera house tonight.

The Rev. J. C. Parrett was formally installed as pastor of the Presbyterian church; andjthe services which were very interesting and impressive, attracted a large congregation Rev. I. M. Houser, of Crawfordsville, moderator of the Logansport Presbytery, presided; Rev. H. G. Rice, of Monticello preached the installation sermon. Rev. Geo. Knox of Lafayette, State Superintendent of Home Missions, gave the charge to the people, and Rev. G. W. Simon, of Winamac, the charge to the pastor. George Hancock, of Thayer had his right leg amputated this morn ing, above the knee. The cause was gangrene, resulting I from an embollism, or stoppage of an artery; and this, in turn results from a particular form of heart disease. It was much as ever that he lived through the operation, but now it is thought he will jecover. He lost his left leg from the same cause three years ago. Two Rensselaer physicians and one from Thayer performed the amputa tion.

E. L. Hollingsworth is at Indianapolis attending the convention. The almost wintery temperature* of 24 degrees was reached last night. Today however was bright and mild enough to make up. for the night’s cold. Four big locomotives all in a, string came up from Monon, today, ust to “wet their whistles.” Or literally to fill their water tanks, The railroad tank at Monon wenti broke.

Next Sunday at the Presbyterian church the morning subject will; lie “Effectual Prayer” and evening “The Minority Report. Every one will be J. C. Parrett, Pastor. The furniture for the new library has at last arrived and is. now in place. The library will: be open for the first time at night from 7 to 9 tonight. It will be fully lighted, and its friends are invited to come in and inspect the arrangements, and to offer suggestions if so disposed, to the Board of Directors, who will be in session. Among other matters of importance they will consider the question of organizing a course for this, winter.