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

MONDAY.

Miss Edna Thompson left for Colorado, this morning, for several weeks’ visit, at different points. Geo. E. Murray and Charley Simpson, head of his future grocery department, went to Chicago today to buy goods. Born, Saturday Jau. 22. to Mr. and Mrs. Ord Yeoman, on the Wallace Murray farm, in Barkley Tp. a son. The total rainfall in the two days rain which ended this morning, was 1.44 inches. That it did not turn to snow before it quit was one time when wo were lucky. The weather bureau prophecied a drop in temperature in Chicago Saturday night, of 60 degrees, but the drop did not some, bunt a large fall in temperature is almost inevitable aft<sr the unusual heat and heavy rains. Rev.* W. H. Flagg’s meetings at Rosebud church, practically closed

Sunday night and resulted in eight addition to the church. A “Good Night” service andLord’ssupper will be held Thursday night. Dr. J. S. Bitler who was expect ed to begin revivals meetings at Trinity M. R church failed to reach here. He was detained in South Dakota where he had been called last week but telegraphed from there that he would be here next Wednesday and will hold his first service Wednesday evening. So that he is expected without failure on next Wednesday?

Last Saturday, when it was 67 degrees here it was 65 in Chicago, and that, according to the weather bureau records, was the warmest January weather since 1876, a period ot 30 years. The phenomenally warm weather extended all over the country east of the Mississippi. The heat continned all night, the lSWest reached Saturday uight being 52 degrees. Neighbor McEwen, of the Democratic Sentinel, in his paper of Jan. 13th, reprints his salutatory when he first blossoming ont as as editor, just 50 years before. That was as the editor of a paper in Clinton, Clinton county, Penn., and he has been in the newspaper business ever since. In Ibis old time salutatory, he devotes most of it to defining his political principles, and to expressing his unfaltering devotion to the Deqjpcratic -party; and he prances and snorts like a war horse, smelling the smoke of battle afar off, when he speaks of the opposition party, and tells ot what he is going to do to it when he gets in action. And as evidence that his fight was effective, he now adds that Clinton county went strongly Democratic that fall. Bnt unless politicians were very much different then than from what they are now, we venture to say that he got mighty little thanks or reward for swinging his 'county in line for Democracy.

G. W* Strickland, bow of Laurens lowa, was visit ing old acquaintances hero Saturday, having made a Short stop while on his way back from a visit around from his boyhood home in Warren county. He formerly lived some miles northwest of town for about 8 years, bnt moved to lowa 12 years ago. While here he was in the ditching business, making a narrow bat deep open ditch with a huge plowlike. machine, propelled by a capstan worked by horses. He still follows the same occupation in lowa, there being a great demand for ditches in that part of the state. It had been 20 years sinee he visited old scenes in old Warren, and though he coaid not exactly say that he came unto his own and his own received him not, yet he did pretty nearly have to produce an affidavit every time to make his old neighbors believe it was him. The explanation was that when he left

there he was a slim young man weighing about 145 pounds, bnt when he returned he was a bulky middle-aged gent who tips the scale at about 250. He reports himself as being prosperous in his lowa home and hia appearanoe folly bears out the report