Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1906 — Old Time News. [ARTICLE]

Old Time News.

ram from Jasper County’s First Paner. ; -*SPER BANNER, HQV. 23RD. J 854.

The editor had made a trip to Monticello, the week before, and he has jfc column article about it; but he gives only -six lines to the case of a man who, while on the way to lowa with his son, was kicked in .he head by his horse, while here, and killed. The pnper did not even take the trouble to learn the man’s name nor whdt was done with his body. Considerable of interest can be gleaned from the account of the trip to Monticello, 'which place next to Rensselaer, he declared offered more inducements to traders, mechanics and business men than any other county seat in northern Indiana. He made the trip as far as Bradford in Rook’s stage, propelled by mule power , nd a flagellating driver and at a three mile per hour speed. At Bradford he took the tr a, whicn'was late as usual, to o>' v hero he got his dinner

at toe price of 40 cents, and then went on ihe Logansport stage to Monticello. Court was in session' there and he met some attorneys whose names are still remembered. Such as Behm, Pratt, Chase and Turp Borne divorces had been granted which led the editor to remark that the frequency of divorce applications, and the ease with which they were obtained, was disgraceful i<> the country, robs marriage of much of its sanctity and if persisted in, must at no .distant date, render matrimony a mere farce. Well, we stilpiear just the #me doleful prophet but toe

good old institution of matrimony is still doing business at the old stand On his way back home hw was delayed two hours at Reynolds and nearly 24 at Bradford, but neither delay seems to have been so unusual as to disturb his equanimity very much. G. W. Spitler had a piece in the paper singing the same old epng of arrangements being about to be made for immediately beginning construction of the new railroad. Jasper Lodge No. 125 published resolutions on the death of Henj. Welsh, and signed by Wm. M. Salter, secretary.

The ship New Era had just been wrecked off the New Jersey coast, and 245 lives lost.