Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1906 — BRIEF LOCAL HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

BRIEF LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

TUESDAY. Mrs. Granville Moody left this njorning for Wichita, Kans., to visit her driighter, Mrs! G. N. Dunn and ane family. Misses Catherine Jones and Eva Kennedy, of Lafayette, visited Eensselaer friends over Sunday. Miss Kennedy who is a noted singer sang at the the Catholic church at Sundaymorning’s service. The big wind last night badly demoralized the city electric lights, by blowing down wires, crossing them etc., and at about 10 o’clock the whole system except the business district, was turned off, leaving everything in darkness until morning. Dennis Gleason and son have picked up two car loads of horses in this region, this trip, and will Ship them out tonight. He will not take this shipment to Cincinna ti, as usual, but to his home town Liberty, Ind., where he is going to make a big horse sale in a few days. There are 36 in the shipment and all but 6 were bought in Jasper county. Mr. and Mrs. Bam English and family and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. I Wallace Murray, took their intended departure tor Oklahoma, today. They will spend the winter at Carneige, in that state, and go to Sam’s ranch near Stokes far the spring. A very notable circumstance of their trip is that it was the first time Aunt Rose Murray ever rode on the cars. She - Home was always good enough for her, nor would she have left it now except in the hopes that the Oklahoma winter would be more beneficial to Uncle Wall ace’B health.

Today, Tuesday Jan 16th, is the middle day of January, and past the middle day of the winter, considering winter as consisting of De ember, January and So far we have had scarcely any really bad weather, and no day, except the rainy ones, when many people have not stayed out doors all day,{without inconvenience. Just now the weather is quite blustry, and follows a day of rain and a night of sleet and snow, but still it is far from being really bad weather. There is always encour agement too, at this time of the wintei, in the thought that the sun is now on the back track northward, and under a - full head of steams, so to speak, and the days are growing longer rapidly, at both ends A thing which they have begun to do only in the last week. Heretofore they lost in length at at the front end nearly as mnch as they gained at the latter end. Today the sun rose at 7.22 and sets at 4,68 giving a day time day of 9 houis and 36 minutes as compared with 9 hours and 15 rninut* I *. in darkest December. Henceforth they will increase in length much more rapidly.

WEDNESDAY Mr. aud Mrs. H. A. McConahay of Idaville, returned home today after a short visit with relatives. - Clarence Thompson, of Berthoid, Colo., left for his home today, after an extended visit with his cousin, Leland Jessen. The cold snap did not reach such a very severe degree of cold after all. The lowest point reached was zero, some time last night, and then a change of the wind to southerly brought a change to warmer. Charley Simpson and Alva Clark have tern icivcd their conu|Ction with the grocery department of the Forsythe Department Store and next week will enter the employment of G. E. Murray’s store.

Prank Doran, of LaPorte candidate for the state auditor was at the convention. Mr. Doran was a I candidate four years ago, and in view of the mess Don Storms] seems to have made of it, it is a j pity he wasn’t nominated at that time. LaPorte people pronounce] him a high class man in every respect The furnaces ia Murray’s new] building have been fired up several daysand work very satisfactorily. ] The proposed tenants of the upper floor have therefore began moving | in, today. Dr. M. D. Gwin has] moved into the'middle suite off front rooms, and Drs. Turfler & Turfler, the osteoapaths, into the] west suite. Hershman& Hodges] the attorneys *will move into the ] middle suite Thursday. Dr. Frances. Dickenson, of Chicago, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs- E. ] L. Hollingsworth, this week. Bhe] is one of the leaders in the philanthropic reform work in that city, ] and especially in the settlement] work. She also has the honor of being the first to introduce the system of night schools there. She was formerly president of the Harvey Medical College.

H. F. Parker, the photographer, made an early morning trip over to Monon, today, on the request o* Judge Field, the general solicitor of the Monon railroad, and made photographs of the tracks aDd surroundings where a man was killed a while ago. It is presumed that they are to be used as evidence in a damage suit now pending against the railroad, ou account of the man’s death. Marshall Field, Chicago's aud the world’s greatest merchant, died in New York City Tuesday afternoon, of pnenmonir, after about a week’s sickness. His death follows that of his only son by only a few weeks, the son havlug accidentally shot himself. Field had by his own efforts, and with nothing to start with, built up a larger busi ness and acquired a larger fortune than any other merchant that ever lived.

It was one of Marshall Field’s liberal but wise customs to take his best employes into limited partnerships, and who have usually retired after 10 or 12 years with ample fortunes. One of these partners is John Q. Shedd, a brother of 8. S. and Wallace Shedd, of a mile or two east of Rensselaer. Regarding him the Chicago Tribune says: John O. Shedd is still connected with Marshall Field & Co. as vice president and managing partner. He is 55 years old and began his career as a stocaboy in the same firm in which he is now a partner. Mr. Shedd is a rich man today. Jasper county had no monopoly on last Monday’s thunder storm, as we did of the December one, as the storm was wide spread and covered not only all of ludiana but also many other states, and in many places it was much tvor.se than here, especially in the severity of the wind.* Great damage was done by it in many places aud some lives lost. But although the storm was in many other places accompanied by thunder and lightning, yet so far as we have seen reports, Rensselaer was the only place experienced a mid winter lightning stroke, as in the case of the boiler of the drilling out-fit at the river, previously related.

D. W. Blair, whose uame rhymes with swear and whose language on occasions, justifies the rhyming, came to town Tuesday with his pockets bulging with wealth he had accumlated by working on the Moffitt dredge, in north Union township. On arriving in town he proceeded industriously to transfer the bulge fiom his pocket to his beer beg. About two o'clock he came to anchor in the

gutter by the west side of the Makeever House, after having fhllen against and broken a> window in the Telegraph office. * He was gathered in bjr Officer Vick, and and Judge Irwin made it $1 and costs. After sobering up in jail a few hoprs, he paid the fine and 1 [ifpii fll min nil and wasdischarg I ettpfjHe was said to have had SSO in his iispket when he came to town bat bad got rid of S2O of it] by the time his jag measured up to the standard he seemed to be reach-

ling after. ] John W. Dyer, of Hammond, ] was circulating among the crowd at the convention, Tuesday. He was a candidate for the Republican ! nomination for state treasurer four years ago and came mighty near landing it too. Now he has has picked his flint and will try again, j He is a mighty fine man and an ex- j cellent citizen, and in every way well worthy of the position he is seeking. What ought to be and will be an especial point in his favor is that he is a veteran of the civil war, and there are now so few of them left in the field of active life that those few ought to receive extra favorable consideration. He was among the youngest soldiers in the war or else he also would have passed the age when he could hope to eut a figure in the strenuous race j for political position. He entered the racks just as soon as his years and inches would let him, and was only 16 years old when he was mustered out in the fall of 1865, and after having seen about a year’s service.

If “B. Franklin, Printer,” had lived till today, and we wish he had, he wonld have been 200 years old to the day. But .he missed it by a good. 116 years. How times does fly! But dead as he is, he was very much alive once, and he was the greatest man that ever wrote the word “printer” after his«ame, and as an all-around mhn the great esc that ever came down the high' ways of time. He was great as a patriot, great as a philanthropist, great as a diplomat, great as a writer, great as a philosopher, great as a scientific investigator, great as a pioneer editor and printer, great as a humorist, great as an economist and great as an inventorThe dance given last night by the ladies was a very successful affair in all respects, and was attend ed by nearly 50 couples. The music was by Burch’s orchestra, of Fairbury, 111., and the refreshments were furnished by the ladies them selves, in the form of a lap supper, and was very .fine. Among the out of town attendants were the following ladies: Dr. Frances Dickenson, of Chicago, Miss Stella Kimmel, of Lafayette, Miss Donna Harmon, of Pontiac, 111., Miss Marklan, of Kokomo, Miss Lola Fountain, of Goodland, also Mr. and Mrs. L. Leopold, of Wolcott, and Messrs Joe Reynolds, of Delphi, and Charley Duvall, of Nanton Alberta,

TfIUBDAI Mrs. Mary Lowe is recovering very nicely from her sickness with gall stones, at the home of nis mother, Mrs. Win. Bussell. There was still another occqrence of mid winter thunder and lightning here, Wednesday afternoon,, several flashes of lightning having occured and accompanied by heavy peals of thunder. Among the many other noted citizens who were here on convention day were two candidates for the very honorable position of department commander of the G. A. R., of Indiana. They were H. E. Brown, of Monticello, and Capt. J. M. Elam, of Valparaiso. E. L. Case, who has been farming the former Bill Esson place, in Jordau tp/, has bargained for the Keister restaurant, the former Short Order Buffet, in this place, and will take possession of the same at an early date. Mr. Keister intends to go west again, on account of Mrs. Keister’s health. - iJ C. B. Knowlton, the man who promoted the proposed Chicago and Indianapolis traction line through Flora, ROckfield, Idaville and other towns hereabouts, and who has projected more interarban lines and | built fewer than any other man in the business, is now attempting to

j promote one from Ft. Wayne to . South Bend, —Delphi Herald. Editor C. O. Fenton, of the Logansport Times, has just been arrested for criminal libel, on complaint of John T. Stewart, of that I city. It seems that the police raided a joint there and gathered in a man named Steward. The Times got mixed on the names and gave that of this Mr. Stewart, who is a

j respected citizen. The editor’s bail ] was 81,000 and he pulled his weasel skin and put up the whole sum in as though it was nothing ou of the ordinary for au editor to be carrying that much money aroundt With him iu loose change.

; An access ofiuformation has been. had since the claim was made in Tuesday’s items that Rensselaer was the only place that enjoyed the luxury of having a midwinterStj’oke of lightning, last Monday afternoon. No further away than just over the line in Newton county fiom Jordan township, and near enough to it to be in the regular lightning belt, a barn occupied by Ed Hill was struck Trad burned down. Mr. Hill lost two of his best horses in the fire. Still another case of a barn being struck and burned occured the same day, over iu Carroll county. Senators GoOdwiae of Williamsport; and Goslin, of LaPorte; and ex Senators IWolcott, of Wolcott, and Wood, of Lafayette, were here at the convention, and 'while pulling in different directions in the chairmanship affair, found time for indulging in some friendly reminiscences. Rev. Dr. D. M. Wood, Presiding Elder of Valparaiso District will preach at Trinity M. E. church on Friday evening Jan. 19th, at 7.30 and hold the Quarterly Conference immediately following. Dr. Bitler will preach for the first time on Sabbath morning and following with the Quarterly Commumion service. The order of services for

the revival meetings will be announced later. Postmaster L. E. Street, of Brookston, never likes to miss anything good in the Republican convention line, and dropped off of the H>:6s Tuesday, on his way home from a six weeks’ stay in the state of Washington. He is not what you might call a globe trotter, for he confines his travels to the U. 8., but within five years he has made eight trips bet ween BrOokston and Ellensbnrg, Wash., two trips to New York, one to Washington, D. C., and three to Hot Springs, Ark., His health is far from good and he finds nothing so beneficial as a transcontinental trip.