Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1906 — Old Time News. [ARTICLE]

Old Time News.

Facts from Jasper County’s First Paper. * NOV, 4ND ,mo 4

Big accidents seem very .frequent these days t "but we doubt if railroad and steam boat accidents were not much more common 50 years ago than now, in proportion to the numberjojf trains and boats which were run and the number of people who traveled on them. Thus twohad railroad accidents are mentioned in this issue. In one 61 them, which occured on the Great Western road in Canada, 60 persons were reported killed. The other was on the Lake Shore road and 20 were killed. The week before two bad steam boat were mentioned,— one being the famous Arctic, lost oft Cape Race, on Sept, 27th, and every one on board, some 400 or 500 in number. 1 The first definite news of the discovery of the fate of Sir John Franklin had iust eome back from •‘The far, far North, where a scarlet sun doth rise.” It was thought that he and the last of his party mu«t have perished in the spring of 1850, Thanksgiving Day came on the 30th of Nov., that year, jnst as it did last year, and the proclamation of Gov. Joseph A. Wright, setting aside that day as a day of Public Thanksgiving was published in this issue.

Mr. Christopher C. Thornton and Miss Snsan J. Lewis were married on the 30th nit, by Benj. Henkle E<q. John Coen died on Oct. 10th aged 30 yearß. Aud on Sept. 23 a son and on Oct, 3rd a daughter of James and Marilta Porterr Rev. Levi Hughes of Logansport, was to preach the next Sunday at the Presbyterian church. Walter Clark bad bought out Clark & Bro. and the Old Corner was again in full blast. Public sales were, not so common hen as now, but N. R. Boman was o soli his household effects that way on Nov. 13th. He would give time on sums over $5. Previous to him $3 was the cash limit. It has stayed at the $5 mark ever since ; and it would seem the time had come when some reformer •hould it to $lO. Those were the days when boys were still “bound out” our indentured, as appr-entices, and two apprentices were advertised in this issue as having run away. J. R Maaaffee advertised Lewis Baker, md notified all persons not to trust >r harbor him. He offered one cent reward. The other ad was by Isaac H. Wright, of Catalpa Grove, wherever that was. Isaac was furious about his boy, who was about 14 years old He says be treated the boy as a son, but some unprincipled scoundrels had enticed him away, being done by those who wisi to grassy their own vileuess to the boy’s and hi* injury. He was bound to get the boy back and to punish those who coaxed him away, regardless of expense. From the tone of Isaac’s ad, we warrant the boy had plenty good reasons for hiking out.