Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1905 — BRIEF LOCAL HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

BRIEF LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

UESIAY. Uncle Abe Leopold went to Wol■cott today, to visit his sons, there. M. P. Warner went to Lafayette, today for two or three days stay, on business. . Alf Collins went to Indianapolis, this afternoon, to visit his son John and family. John Hollin left for his home in South Dakota, this morning, after a few days’ visit with his father, E. Hollin. Charles Harding, a former well known resident of this place, has lately moved from Michigan to Herman, Cal. R. B. Harris is preparing to go into real-estate and insurance business, and is fitting up an office in the Odd Fellows building. Chas. Robinson has rented part of a 260 acre farm near Templeton, Benton Co. and will move thereon in about three weeks.

Mr. and Mrs. Guy Friend, of Orland, Ind, went to Chicago Monday afternoon, alter a few days visit with Mr. and Mrs. A. Halleck. Mrs. Belle Parker returned to Fraukfort yesterday after paying a -visit of several days with relatives in and near Rensselaer. Mrs. Oliver Higgs of Denver, •Colo., who has been visiting friends in this vicinity, went to Wolcott, today, to visit her father, who lives there. The Sunday School of Good Hope Christian church, in Union township will hold their Christmas entertainment on Saturday evening, Dec. 23rd. Everybody invited. Sam Lowery, of near Brook was here today. He has rented the old Nowels’ farm north of town of Benj. Harris, the present owner and will move thereon in March.

Bert Goff is making the towns over to the west now, poshing the sale of the Merchants Cigar company. Under his energitic management the bosiness of the factory is flourishing finely. Boss Benjamin is back from Indianapolis, on account of his mother’s sickness. He is now holding a good job as a stenographer. in a wholesale drug house at Indianapolis. His mother is still slowly improving. Johu Micey and wife, of Indianapolis, returned home yesterday, after paying a short visit to his mo.her, Mrs, John Makeever. Abe Martin, of Brown County. There hain’t been no quwrum down et th’ grocery sence they put th’ cheesein a wire cage. It’s been a blamed long while a coming but et last we hev a “Y” in Ellyn. J. F. Warren, of Oklahoma City, dropped off here Sunday afternoon, for a short visit with relatives and old friends, going away Monday afternoon. He is still prospering greatly in Oklahoma, so much so in fact that he has but little time to spend in visiting. Mrs. M. L. McDonald and daugh* ter Mary and son Martin, all of near Wheeler, this state, arrived here this morning, to attend' the funeral of her father in-law, Wm. McDonald, Her husband Carey McDonald, came earlier. It is a notable coincidence that two church funerals were held in town today, both of aged persons, and both of whom lived some miles from town, and both dying on the same day, the death of one occuring in the forenoon and the other in the afternoon, just as their {funerals were he Id.

In pleasant recognition of the known fact that the Presbyterian pastor, Rev. J. C. Parrett, intended to get married the next day, the church choir, at the Sunday evening service, had quiety arranged to sing “When the Bridegroom Cometh,” bat the pastor caught on and when the time came announced another selection, with some emphasis ou the remark that it would be the last song of the services. Dr. A. It- K rosier is branching out into a laud magnate, having bought of Ezra Switzer his 40 acre far in Barkley township at $35 per acre. Mr, Switzer is preparing to move to the vicinity of Big

Rapids, Miohigan, where various other of our citizens have recently located, or are proposing soon to do so. There is no need to go to California to get iuto the citrus fruit belt, is the opinion of Uncle Ben Harris, and he has the goods to back his opinion. The same being a huge lemon, raised by Uncle Ben in that subtropical portion of Rensselaer, where he now lives and formerly known as the Flatiron. The lemon is a monster in size, being 14 iuches . in circumference, five inches long | and weighs one and three quar- j ter pounds. The lemon is truly j a whopper, but this story about it is straight goods.

A copy of the Bell wood, Neb. Gazette, has been received, and we see from it that “Grandpa Jones,” the same being our Uncle Bill N. has been up to his old tricks out there and bowling some. flTe seems to have found also that the western fellows can bowl some too. Thus he went out as a member of a Bellwood team, against a Columbus team, and though Bill N. made the best score i n his team, namely 600, yet a number of the opposing team made higher scores, and they beat Bill N’s team, pretty bad. The term Grand Pa fits Uncle Bill all right now, yet he seems to be getting squared away all right to be Great Grand Pa one of these days, as a grandson of his got married at Bellwood on Dec. 6th.

WEDNESDAY G. M. Keister is in Lafayette today on business. Attorney Foltz was in Rose Lawn on business this morning. Mrs. Ora Boss returned home today after a few days visit in Chica go. Mrs. H. J. Kannal went to Chicago this morning for a several days’ visit with relatives. Large numbers of Dunkards of this vicinity went to Mitchell, Ind. today, to attend a meeting. Sherman Renicker, and Mrs. John Kimble. Another daughter, Mrs. Jasper Fleener, lives in Kansas, and was unable to be present. Lewis Helling, of Williamsport, who has been visiting relatives here for a few days, went to Hammond this morning to visit relatives. J. E. Bislosky is preparing to start a coal and wood yard and feed store, on Front street, north of the K. of P. building. 4 Bobt. H. Milroy Circle No. 3 Ladies of the G. A. B. will hold their annual election of officers Thursday Dec. 1,4. The adjuster for one of the com - panies interested in Logan Wood’s fire arrived here last evening, and went to Parr this morning, to adjust the loss.

The total membership or tne Odd Fellows in Indiana for the year ending June 30, 1905, was 68,055; tne gain for the six months ending June 30, 1,735; net gain for the year ending the same date, 2,209. Itev. Wm. H. Flagg, the M. P. pastor, will go to North Judson this afternoon to get his mother, who will spend the winter with him in Rensselaer. She is 77 years of age and in quite poor health. Will H. Stucker. op the Moore farm, about two miles, west of town has bought a small farm in Wabash county, and will move there in a short time. In preparation for his removal he is arranging for a public sale on Dec. 27th.

J. F. McUolly & Sons, the snecessful depot district grocerymen, have completed their removal from their former location north of the railroad to the Maloy brick building, just south of the depot, where they are very nicely established. R. B. Moffitt has given notioe of appeal from Judge Palmer’s deci- ■ sion in his ditch case. He also states bis intention to keep shoveling away with his dredge. There is said to be a general desire on the part of all the others interested in the affair to effect a compromise, bat Mr. Moffitt does not seem at all inclined that way. George Ulm, dredge superintendent for SteThberg and Sons, lately bought and has moved into Captain J, M. WifSson’s tenant property, 4

' in the east part of town, and is now ' running the dredge by substitute, while he is making some improvej ments on the property. He expects to make Rensselaer his permanent residence, hereafter. | Cooney Kellner, the ice man, went to Chicago this morning, to buy a set of ice tools of various kinds, and one of which will be an 1 ice planer, something which has not heretofore been used by the ice packers here, and? which is very useful in cleaning oft all impurities which gather on the surface of the ice. The rebuilt Methodist Protestant church here, at the north end of Van Rensselaer street, will soon be

; fixed up in excellent shape, largely through the efforts of the energetic j pastor, Rev. W. H. Flagg, whose 1 zeal never flags. The order for the ' new pews was sent in today. They ' will be 20 in number, of oak finished, and curved shape. Mr. Flagg is also working to raise money for a church bell. It is expected to have the building ready for dedication about the second Sunday in February. ! The fine mild weather still continues, but let not that fact he relied upon too implicitly as putting a cinch on a mild winter. December of last year whs very mild also, with much bright weather, practically no snow, and with no zero weather- Yet the two nlonths that followed it brought more zero weather than any previous winter for many years. I Clarence Maxwell, of south of | town, left for Dunkirk on the early train this morning, called by tele • gram announcing that his brother | Wilfred was in a dying condition. The telegram came Tuesday afternoon, and just as Miss Spaulding, the operator, was asking W. J. Wright where Clarence lived, and how she could get the telegram to him, he drove around the corner, 1 and past the telegraph office. The I Maxwells have lived in this vicini- ' ity many years, and moved to Dunkirk only a month or two ago. J The funeral of Mrs. Louisa Thornton, at the Free Baptist church Tuesday forenoon, was conducted by Rev. Jones, a Free Baptist minister, of Sheridan, and was largely attended. The pall bearers were her four sons, Sherman, Samuel, Clinton and Vernon Thornton, her step son, Green Thornton and her step-son-in law, Theodore Warne. The daughters present at the funeral were Mrs. W. W. Reynolds, Mrs.

TM&iAI Capt. J. A. Burnham went to DeMotte, this morning, on a business trip. Miss Edna Wildberg went to Chicago for a few days visit with friends. Firman Rutherford has opened a meat-market, in the old Foster building, near the depot. A fine Busch & Gerts piano will be sold at 0. M. Paxton’s sale, in Newton tp., on Dec. 22nd. Uncle Ben Harris’s big homegrown lemon is now on exhibition in Mrs. Goff’s window aV Mrs. Imesmillinery store. Mrs. Joseph Sharp, who has been in failing health for a long time, has been practically unconscious for some days, and is now in a very critical condition.

Walter Porter and Austin Moore both went to Chicago this morning expecting to buy feeding cattle at the stock yards, the former 60 and the latter about 100 head. Rev. F. H. Hoffman, state Sunday School Missionary, will hold a Sunday School Institute! at the Baptist church Friday afternoon and evening. Everybody invited. Word from Monticello is that Coon Hollow, performed there last night, was pronounced about the finest theater production ever seen in that town. It will be here, tonight. Mr. and Mrs. Addison Parkison left this forenoon for their regular winter’s sojourn in California. They will go to Los Angeles, but expect to locate for the winter at Burnett, a suburb of that city.

About 50 friends and neighbors enjoyed a good old time candy and popcorn social at the home of Mr, and Mrs. Mack Sullivan’s Tuesday evening in Jordan Tp. Music was rendered by the National Phonograph Company. Always something doing in Jordan. The revival meetings that are being conducted at the Reed School House by Rev. J. B. Bair are proving quite successful. On Tuesday evening three young people made a religious profession and on Wedneday evening, seven others made a similar profession. J Louie Wilcox and wifeof Columbus, Ohio, will spend the Christmas holidays with his father, Geo. M. Wlicpi, in Surrey, and with Rensselaer relatives and friends. They are expected the first of next week. Mrs. E. M. Howard, district inspector of the Ladies of the G. A. R., of Logansport, arrived here this morning, and this afternoon is conducting the annual inspection of that auxiliary to the G. A. R.

f The annual election of officers fs also being held. H. V. Childers and daughter, Mrs, Celia Mahanua, both of Delphi attended the funeral of Mrs. Louisa Thornton here Tuesday. Mr. Childers was a brother-in-law of Thornton.

B. O. Gardner has about completed his arrangement to join his family in California, and expects to depart Saturday of this week. eyvilk remain there during the winter and if pleased expects to make it his permanent home. M rs. M. L. Spitler expects to go to Oklahoma City, early in January to spell'd some months with her son, M. L., Jr,, who is making good pro gress there in the practice of law, being now the attorney for a large interurbon railway in course, of building there.

Miss Alice, the popular, strenuous and charming daughter, of a still more popular and still more strenuous but somewhat less charmingdad, is to be married in February, to Congresman Longworth, of Ohio. The Ohio man always knows a good thing when he sees. And when he sees it is. prompt to sieze it. Ephriam Gilmore, of near ~ Lee, I woo journeyed to Minnesota] some time ago, on a prospecting tour, has as a result, closed up the purchase of 240 acres of fine land there at $35 per acre. His son will go out and take charge of it in the spring. He bought it through the Bruuer & Hamm agency. y

George Baker, a youug Bavarian working on a farm near Lowell has received notice through the American consul in Munich that he is one of the six American heirs ol the estate of a great uncle, who recently died in Bavaria. The estate is valued at $2,000,000 in American money. Baker’s' share will be $55,000 in lands and money the consul informs him. Rice Porter, went up to Highland Park, 111., Monday to join Major Davisson, commander of Northwestern Military Academy, and wife, on a trip to Florida. Rice who is a graduate of the academy and a great favorite with the]Major will have all his expenses paid on the trip. They want him to stay in Florida all winter, |Major Davisson’s parents, but he does not expect to remain more] .than a month. TheLaßue Brothers, who have been in business here for abont a quarter of a century, will dissolve their partnership on Jan. Ist, and go out of bosiness here. Amzie is interested in a big eating house at Frankfort, and thinks strongly of’

aaOving there. Mel has bought a store at New Richmond, and also % thinks of moving where his business is. Jud Moore, sub-contractor of the Iroquois rock drilling work, is preparing to fire a big lest blast, either this evening or Friday morning. Therefore if there comes a sound

from the southward, like a doublebarrelled peal of thunder, and a jarring of the earth like an amat« nr eaithquuke, no alarm need be felt. The holes, as we have stated, sire six feet apart each way, and 14 feet deep. Mr. Moore hopes, after the test blast is fired, that he will fi:.d that the holes need not be so numerous. A big charge of dynam te will be used, on this test blast. Dr. Oneal’s lecture at [the library Tuesday night fully kept up, in its liue, the high standard of excellence in the seas j n’s lecture course, as established by the first number the Cleveland Ladies’ Orchestra. There was a large audience to hear the learned and very eloquent Doeior of Divinity, and all went away feeling far more than fully repaid for their time and money. His subject was “3ome Popular Fallacies,” and for two hours be poured out a clear and rapid stream of eloquence, wit, bumor and solid information. He is certainly one of the ablest platform lecturers Rensselaer people were ever privileged to listen to.