Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1906 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN.

VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 33.

A RECORD BREAKING LODGE FUNCTION.

A joint public installation of officers, of Iroquois Lodge of Odd Fellows and Rensselaer Lodge of Rebekahs was held at their lodge room in the Odd Fellows’ building, Thursday evening. The attendance of members and invited guests was considerably reduced by the severe weather, but as it was there were 400 present and partaking of the festivities. This, without doubt, is the largest number ever present at a similar lodge function in Jasper county. The Odd Fellows officers were installed by District Deputy Grand Master L. H. Hamilton, and the Rebekah | officers by Miss Ora Dnvall holding a similar . position in that order. ; Aside from the installation services, which-are extended and impressive, the other exercises were brief addresses by Judge C. W. Hanley, and District Deputy Hamilton. Refreshments of turkey sandwiches, cake, coffee, ice-cream and pickles were served. Music was fuanished by the Rensselaer Orchestra, and by Mrs. H. J. Ksnnal who sang a solo, and Mrs. Orlau Grant, who played the piano. The following officers were installed for the Odd Fellows: John F, Bruner, N. G., J. W. Coen, Y. G., 8. C. Irwin, Secretary, E. G. Warren, Financial Sec’y, E: D. Rhoades. Treasurer, H. C. Pancoast, Warden, W. J. Wright, Conductor, H. J. Kannal, R. 8. N. G. H. L. Branch, L. 8. N. G, Walter R. Lee, R. 8. V. G. Ghas. Osborn, L. 8. Y. Q. C. W. Platt, I. G. J. L. Adams, O. G. Guy Daniels, R. I. 8. W. F. Osborn, L. 8. 8. John Rush, Chaplain. And for the Rebekahs the following. Mrs. Elizabeth Hans, N. 3. Mrs. Ella Hopkins, V. G. Mrs. Sarah C. Barkley, Sec’y. Mrs. Margaret Huston, Treas. 'ftMrs. Mattie Smith, Warden. Mrs. Anna Tuteur, Conductor. Mrs. Duvall, I. G. Mrs. John Schanlaub, O. G. Mrs. L. Strong, R. 8. N. G. Miss Frances Irwin, L. 8. N. G. Mrs, Hattie Randle, R. 8. V. G. Mrs. Ida Pierce, L. 8. V. G. Mrs. Sadie Parcels, Chaplain.

Hunters’ Licenses,

State Fish and Game Commissioner Z. T. Sweeney, of Columbus, has sent to the auditor of the state his report. It shows that up to date 25,166 hunter’s licenses have been issued by Commissioner Sweeney. Of this number 8,000 were issned prior to Jan. 1, 1905, which leaves a total of 16,166 licenses issued during the year. Each licenses cost sl. The money has been turned into the state taeasnry.

One Wedding From Walker.

A young couple from Walker Tp.,‘ were married last Saturday afternoon, Jan. 6th. in the clerk’s office at .the court house. They were Mr. Beuben Snider and Miss Bessie Lambert. Judge Hanley performed the ceremony. They were accompanied by a sister of the groom’s. Bight now when you need them, we will sare pou $ $ on overcoats. New Btock at Bowles & Parker., The pupils of Pleasant Ridge School will give an entertainment and box social on Friday evening Jan. 12,1906. Everybody welcome W. F. Osborne, Teacher,

For Sale, a ■i —•— Thoroughbred barred P. Rock Cockerels; large vigorous birds. Prices reasonable. Mrs. Nellie M. Bone, 7 miles east of Rensselaer, Postoffice McOoysburg, Ind. «M|

KILLED A HAN AT CEDAR LAKE.

The south train due here at 2.04 last Saturday, got another man at Cedar Lake. He was a colored man, named James Ellsworth, and like the last one, was a worker on the Indiana Harbor road, and loaded up with liquor. He was turned 6ver to the Lake county coroner.

Installatioa of Oficers,

On last night (Jan. sth) Kensselaef Post No. 84, installed their newly elected officers. D. H. Yeoman having been detailed as Mustering Officer took command and put the new officers through the ritual servicein good shape. After the ceremonies closed “cooked rations” were issued to the “Old Boys” and their guests. In all about one hundred. Officers Installed. John M. Wasson, Post Comdr. Thos, JEL Robinson, 8. V. C. B. H. Dillon, J. V. C. Jas. H. Burnham, Adj. Larkin Potts, O. D. J'. C. Kresler, Q. M. , J. C. Thornton, Chaplain. H. C. Hoshaw, Surgeon. F. J. Stocksick, O. G. Wm. Daniels, Q. M. 8. Old Post No. 84. is in very flourishing aondition, and they and their guests had a royal good time last night.

Says Wheatfield’s New Road Is Sore Thing.

Crown Point Star: A representative of the new railroad surveyed through Crown Point recently, to be bnilt by the Illinois Central from Chicago to Evansville on the Ohio River, was here this week on business pertaining to the road, and was surprised that the right-of-way man, coming from the south had not reached this territory yet. It is going through with a rnsh, and the line run was “the” line, and just suits. From his talk there is hardly a doubt that real work of grading and building will start early in the spring, and that the right-of-way will soon be secured.

Marriage Licenses. Jan. 6 Reuben Snider, age 22, residence Walker Tp, occupation armer, Ist marriage. To Bessie Lambert, age 21, residence Walker Tp., Ist marriage-! Jan, 5. Thomas A. Wolfe, age residence Rensselaer, occnpation tile manufacturer, Ist marriage. To June Trussell, age 21, residence Marion Tp., Ist marriage. 15 per cent to 25 per cent saved on up to-date overcoats, at Rowles & Parker, For sale, a new double-barbell ed, 12 gage, Remington shot gun, aIL new improvements; good as new, cost $45 in August, will take $25 now. Geobge Ulm. dwtf. For rent, a small farm, orchard, good land, possession at once. Can chop 50 cords of wood. Plenty of ditching at leisure times. Or would trade farm for city property. See Dr. Moore, over Fendig’s drug store, i\ eusselaer, lnd. dwtf Fence Posts for Sale. Burr oak and white oak at 51 cents each. D. H. Yeoman, Phone 176, dw Rensselaer, lnd. Firman Rutherford will sell you the very best meats of all kinds and mekes prompt deliveries. Call him up on ’phone 364, his old residence phone. food Kesidence Property for Sale. Two lots, $ room house, bath, closets; barn, wood shed and coal bins under one roof, barn holds six horses, and has shed room; plenty of young fruit trees, water in house laudbara. Will sell at reasonable prise. Inquire at this efflee.

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RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, TUESDAY, JANUAKY 9, 1906.

~ L -- A very pretty wedding was solemnized at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Wilson on Wednesday evening, January 3rd, in the presence of about thirty gnests when Qua, their only daughter, w i as united in marriage to Mr. Edward Bellows, only SOU' of. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bellows. Promptly at eight o'clock the bridal party marched down the stairs to the sweet strains of “Lohengrin” which were beautifully rendered by MissLonise Hart man. After the bride and groom, who were unattended, had taken their places in the bow window undar the artistically draped wedding bell, the music became softer and the impressive Presbyterian ring ceremony was conducted by Rev. E. R. Whitney, pastor of Presbyterian church. After the words were pronounced which made husband and wife of this most excellent young couple, the bridal party led the way to the dining room while the rest of the guests were seated at small tables scattered about the sitting room and parlor. A dainty sapper of three courses was gracefully served by the Misses Nina Walker, Catherine Hartman, Bessie Hitchcock and Katharine Green. The bride’s table was tastefully decorated with smilax and a large bonqnet of pink carnations, also a carnation lying at the place of each guect. The bride wore a beautiful gown of pure white, ♦immed with real Yalenciennes lace and fine hand work, her only ornament being a necklace of gold beads, the gift of the groom. She carried a shower bouquet of white roses and maidenhair ferns. Amid a shower of rice - Mr. and Mrs. Bellows left for Rensselaer on their way to Chicago where they will spend a few dayß before returning to their home southwest of town on the Bellows estate. —Remington Press.

Mere Threatening Letters in Newton County.

According to the Kentland Enterprise, Commissioner Skinner, of Newton county, received the following letter last Tuesday, postmarked at Morocco: Mr. Skinner: Your resignation is demanded by 92 per cent of your constituents. You are going out of that office, if not as requested you will go out by other means, and if other means have to be used you will beg for mercy on your bended knees. Have jour resignation in by Jan. 6th, or there will« something doing at once. There will be no more notices given you. If you fail you will see some sights. This is the seoond letter of'similar purport received by Mr. Skinner, and the Goodland Herald states that Henry Griggs, while he was commissioner, received about six like it, and all from Morocco. There must be some cne half baked scoundrel there who is responsible for all of them, and all good citizens of Morocco as well as the rest of Newton county, should do everything possible to detect and punish him. The state prison is the only proper place for such a villian.

Another big cnt iB prices on overcoats at Rowles & Parker. * A few heating stoves to close oat at cost. We would sooner sacrifice them than store them, at Warnor Bros. ......• mP*' "* r Our entire stock of High Grade Overcoat placed on sale, to be closed out at 15 per cent and 25 per cent discount. Rowles & Pabkeh. I have 4,000 acres of good improved farms in Wells county to sell. Any one wanting a good farm call on me. Sylvester Gray. wa* ----- - - ’ When you buy a stove at M. D. Rhoades the price is right

Bellows-Wilson Wedding.

DEATH OF HRS. S. H. PORTER.

Mrs 4 8. H. Porter, the aged lady whose stroke of paralysis on Dec. 30th was mentioned at the timq, ingered . until two o’clock this Monday morning, Jan., Bth, 1906, and then quietly breathed her last never having fully regained- her consciousness since the paralytic attack. Her death occured at the residence of Mrs. 8. 8. Shedd, about a mile east of town, and with whom sue had made her residence for abont two years. She came here from Walpole, New Hampshire. Her ajeje was 79 years and 22 days. Besides the daughter, Mrs. Shedd, she leaves two sons, Dr.' J. L. Porter and F. W. Porter, both of Chicago. The funeral will be held at Mr. Sliedd’s residence Wednesday, Jan. 10th, at one o’clock p, m.

Library Report for 1905.

The following is the report of Miss Bessie King, Librarian of the Rensselaer Public Library for the year ending December 3lst> 1905. Daring the first eight months of the year the library occupied rooms on the third floor of the Court House. The later part of August the Library was moved into the new Carnegie building and was opened to the public September 4th. Since that time it has been open through the week, from 10 a. m. to 5 p. m and 7 to 9 p. m., and Sunday from 2 to 5 p. m. During the past year the circulation of books, both fiction and nonfiction, reached 9982, an increase of 3276 over last year. The accession book shows 4076 volumes to date, 912 being added during the year. Besides this number there Are 110 bound volumes ol magazines and 106 unbound volumes. Throughout the year of 1905 only one book has 'been lost, 392 new books have been purchased, 293 books received as gifts, besides unbound magazines and also the Public School Library, which has been put on the shelves, open to the use of the public. * In the reference department alone there are 186 volumes. We now have the 1905 edition of the New International Encyclopedia, the 1904 edition of the Americana and also the complete Britannioa and Century. We also have the Standard and Webster’s dictionary, and complete German, French, Latin, Spanish and Greek dictionaries. The fines collected daring the ,year amounted to $37.55, expenses $35.25, leaving on hand a balance of $2.30. The Library Auditorium has been used three evenings by the Fiction Clab and one evening by the Lecture course. The reading room is used a great deal and we now [have twenty-two magazines and thirty newspapers, coming regularly.

This Week of Prayer.

The second week in January will be observed thoughout the world by the various churches as a week of prayer. Each evening of this week services will be held, and special prayer will be offered for a world wide revival of religion. Among the sub topics for the different days of the week are -‘Prayer; for a revival which shall bring Christians into more vital relation with Christ;” “Prayer for a revival which shall convince and convict the unsaved;” “Prayer for a revival which, saving the indivi* dual, shall also save society.”

M «► , 20 per cent off on all heating stoves at EL D. Rhoades. _ Largest stock of overcoats in the city. All new goods, prices cat 15 to 25 percent ROWLtiB A Pabkkk.

Is The Governor Playing To The Grand Stand

Gov. Hanly, who has been dropping men ont of office at the crack of the whip, has struck a snag in getting Dan Storms out. The people put Storms into office, and it isi quite probable he will stay in until tne people ask him to go out. stand play” for IJ. 8. Senator at the cost of some others.—Grown Point Star. This is a sample of the digs a few papers are giving Gov. Hanly these days, but it is what would be much sooner expected to emenate from the hitherto wide open, saloon and gambler ridden town of Hammond, for instance, than from the secluded and outwardly respectable town of Grown Point. And it is from the pen of the editorial sage Wheeler, too! Who coaid have look for an ex pression so evidently absurd and unjust from snch a source? If Hanly is removing these different men from office merely as a grandstand play, to help him on his way to the U. 8. Senate, what a lot of sell-sacrifising fellow conspirators he must have! Thus several state officers most have grossly and persistently have misconducted their offices, and mis-nsed, the public fan'ds, just to give the Governor a chance for a grand-stand play by removing them. And the great “Tom Tag,” the Democratic national chairman, must have been one of the self sacrifising victims, also, and started his big gambling houses at French Lick and West Baden, just to give Hanly a chance to “grand-stand,” etc., as per Bro. Wheeler and the rest, when he compelled Tom to close them up. And the police boards of such towns as Mancie, Kokomo, Michi gan City, Hammond, and we will not try to say how many other former wide open towns, have all deliberately refused to enforce the laws, they were bound by law and their oaths of office to enforce, jost to give the Governor another chance to give himself another boost towards the Senate by another of Sage Wheeler’s “grandstand plays.” All of which, absurd as it is, is only a logical deduction from the position of these critics of Gov. Hanly. For our part, it seems a much more reasonable view, in connection with these circumstances, as well as much more consistent with the Governor’s former high reputation, to believe that in making these removals, he is only acting from a high sense of duty, in pursuance of which he is obliged to sternly enforce the law against some of his strongest frienda And in so doing, he should have the support of men of snch high personal standing as Editor Wheeler, and not their sweeping and flippant condemnation.

Tritlty M. E. S. S. Elects Officers.

The following officers were elected yesterday to take care of the interests Trinity M. E. Sunday School for the new year. Superintendent, King Davis. Assistant Superintendents, T. F. Dunlap. Miss Helen Wasson, and J. W. Williams. Secretary, Miss Florence Marshall Assistant Secretary. Jessie Knox. Treasurer, Earl Bruner. Missionary Treasurer, Miss Nellie Moody. Librarian, DeLos Dean. Assistant Secretary, Edgar Duvall. Chorister, Misses Grace Warren, Lola Clift, Bessie Kenton. Pianoist, Miss Avaline Kindig. v'ornetist, W. L. Wishard. My old residence ’phona No. 364 as it appears on the card is now my butcher shop number. Call me up for good meats. Firman Rutherford. 160 Overcoats, to be doted out at once, at Bowles A Parker. Buy a stove now at Rhoades’ and save yeursalf 30 per tea*. 4

Old Time News.

Facts from Jasper Vj County’s First Paper. OCT. a«, 18S4. - 1 I 11. From Sept. 21st to Oct. 26th, no number of the Jasper Banner- was* ' wsued, owTrigtotbe CdtfOriß sickness. _ .Four numbers were missed in that stretch and three before that, all Owing to his sickness, fie now announced that he had secured sufficient help and knew of no reason why the paper would not be issned regularly, thereafter. Indiana was then an October state and the election was held on the 10th. The official vote was given of Jasper county, and as the editor explained, that it might be referred to in the fature, as evidence that Jasper county was one of the few that stood by Democracy in the “day of her calamity.” Bnt “she” has got pretty well used to “days of calamity,” since thenT" There were some 840 votes cast in what is now Jasper add Newton counties, or only abont one fourth of what Jasper county alone now casts. The Democrats had a pretty close shave, even in this county, as Eddy got only 420 votes to 408 for Colfax for Congressman. The Democrats also elected all county officers but by small majorities. Owing to the editor’s sickness, and consequent lack of advertising, the county fair had been postponed to Nov. 4th. The premiums offered aggregated S6O and were 35 in number. The highest was $5, for the best colti rated farm. Of the list of judges only two are still living, A. Parkison, on cattle, and S. Phillips, on poultry. Chicago had just authorized the building of a cast iron tunnel under the river, A project which 'failed then but was revived 15 or 20 years later when several such tnnnels were constructed there. ; The Russians were getting badly licked in the Crimean war, and the news had come from Europe that the French and English had already captured Sebastopol: bnt they hadn’t, and it took them nearly a year longer to effect its capture. Rev. Mr. James was to preach at the “Presbyterian Meeting House” in this place the next Sunday. We suspect this was R. B. James, afterwards an editor and father of Horace R, also an editor. The elder James was long a school teacher here, aHd a mighty strict one too, according to the recollection of some of the old timers. The boys called him “Old Black-hawk,” bnt not where he heard them, we can be sure. A new firm got their first ad in this issue. It was A. Pnrcnpile & Co., composed of Lyman Blair and Archibald Pnrcnpile. They had a general store and sold cheap for cash. Two firms published notices of dissolution. Being G. A. Moss and C. A. Logan, physicians, and Walter and Thomas Clarx, of Clark Bros., merchants.

Death of Frank Blncett.

Frank Blancett, a former well known resident of this vicinity, died at Urbana, 111,, on Dec. 28th, of pneumonia, after only a week’s sickness. He lived in this vicinity from 1897 to 1903, four years near Surrey and two southeast of town. He leaves a widow who is a sister of J. C. Fisher of this city and of Mrs. G. W. Terwilliger, of south of town. He leaves also a father, five brothers and one sister. v During his residence here he became a member of the Masonic lodge here. .. His age was 37 years and about Bix months. , r Battler than carry over any heating stoves we will dose out our remaining stock at cost. Warner Bros.