Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1906 — BRIEF LOCAL HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

BRIEF LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

FIIDAY. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jenkins of Jordan tp., Jan. 25th, a 1 daughter. Miss Hattie Kerr went to Monon today to visit relatives. T. P. Morton and wife are spending today with relatives in Monon. Mrs. Minnie Crisler, of Mt. Ayr, today went to Monon for a short visit with relatives. Mrs. Sara. Widener and Miss Cora Messenger went to Monon today to visit friends. ~ “ Highest temperature today, 48 degrees, or within 2 degrees ot the highest in New Orleans, yesterday. Dr. Art Catb and Bert Brenner are makirg the arrangements for a dance to take place at the Armory next Tuesday evening, January 30. The home orchestra will furnish the music.

Mr. and Mrs. Benj. Frantz returned to their borne in Eaton, Ohio, today, after having visited for a week with the Lesh family, north of town. Mrs. Henry Mackey, in the east part of town, has been very seriously sick’ for two weeks, with a stomach and liver trouble, but is now somewhat better.

Dennis Gleason sold 6ft horses in two hours, at his sale at Liberty, last week, and did so well that he is going to have another sale there next week and is now back here baying two more car loads. Owing to his sickness the colle - tor for The Evening Republican will not make his regular rounds this week, and will ask for two weeks’ collection next week.

This wonderfully warm, brigh and calm weather is surely almost ideal weather for any latitude, for the time of year. And people should enjoy it and give no heed to the prophesies of those who say we ‘•will pay for it alter a while.' ’lt is good while it lasts and the season is now so far along that the winter cant be long at more than one end, no how,

Mrs, Will Donnelly and family will arrive back from Texas, today. They joined Mr. Donnelly there last fall, expecting to make it their permanent home. However the climate has proved unfavorable to their health, especially to one of the children, aud their physicians haveadvised their return to Indiana, as their home. Tfc is expected that the inability of his family to remain will cause Mr. Donnelly to sell out his large lumbering interests there and himself to return to Rensselaer,

Sherift O’Connor and son and deputy, Joe, took Thomas Price back to Longcliff asylum, today. He was sent there in December, 1001, and remained until April 1905 a period of four and a half years, lie was so much improved that ho was released on trial, but his insanity has gradually returned, and his condition and conduct have become such as to make his return to the asylum necessary. Ho has been living with relatives at Parr. He is now quite advanced inage|aml it is scarcely probable that li|fc.will ever be released from the asylum again. The fact that John G. Shedd, brother of 8. 8. and Wallace Shedd of just east of town,* was one of the chief partners aud managers in the Marshall Field Store in Chicago, has been mentioned in this paper. We now see that by virtue of his position as first vice-president of

the. company, he Ins become the actual head of the \» i.»fe immense lousiness, and will hold the position at least until another election of officers, which will not be until next year. It is a position of great responsibility and also of great pro fit. . ~

It is Ed Bruce’s move now. Green Thornton has bought that other farm and now he \ is 'even with Ed. And yet there is a possibility that Ed may claim that pthis purchase don’t-couot, for it is not really the purchase of a new farm by Green but only,the buying back of the one he sold a few months ago. But Green thinks it counts all right, for he bought it back ,',for some SSUO less than he sold it for. He only regrets that did not make the re purchase before he had to sell his stock and tools at a public sale. This was held Wednesday and like all sales around here this winter, there was a big crowd of eager buyers present, and to buy that they raised each other’s bids before the auctioneer could announce them. A.s samples of prices, it may be mentioned that horses sold for from $65 for a spring colt "to $lB4 for a brood mare, which last price made Green’s eyes bulge out. His entire sale amounted to about $l,lOO.

There is a fresh candidate for the already densely populated news paper graveyard at Goodland, with Editor Kitt, of the Herald as purveyor of the corpse and chief mourner. This new candidate is The Goodland Plaindealer, just launched this week by G. I. Burgess. It is Republican in politics and a right neat and newsy sheet. But it has been preceded to the silent land of newspaper shades by a long procession of other peat and newsy sheets that were launched in Goodland and under fully as promising auspices as this one. In truth, we have often wondered at the frequency of the births and the shortness of the lives of newspapers in Goodland. But we think both phenomena can be ac accounted for by the same cause: Namely the abilities and characteristics of Editor Ritt, of the Herald, He is a man of very unusual ability aud also of an unusual freedom of speech and causticity of pen. This combination makes him plenty Of firm friends and fervent admirers, sufficient to give his paper a solid grip on support, of the community; and yet at at the same time it makes him quite a buuchof just as fervent enemies, and are not enough of them to support an opposition paper, they are numerous enough and fluent euough to fill up with encouraging wind every man who comes that way looking for an opening for a new newspaper. It don’t hurt Kitt any but it is pretty tough on the fellows who are thus induced to invest their work and money on ventures that have no genuine prospect for per maneut success.

There was quite a mad dog and also something of a mad women excitement in the depot district, this morning. It appears that a nocount dog belonging to a boy of about the same discription, showed strong signs of becoming mad. He went to old Mrs. Stone’s house and gave the old lady a terrible scare, so that she ran out of her house and into that of her neighbor, Harry Reed. The dog followed and continued to act so strangely that Reed got a gun and shot it. r l’he dog after being shot ran into the Rutherford meat market, and thereby soiled the floor with blood. Mrs, Rutherford, in cleaning the floor, made somo very uncomplimentary observations on the “trash” who caused the trouble, just as Mis. I Reed came into the shop and heard her and a wild war of words there \ upon resulted, but no actual over act of hostility occurred as has Irccn errouiously reported.

SATURDAY

Henry Lemere aud family of Momence, 111., arrived today* to visit the family of Wm Daniels.

Burvil App returned to his home t in Lafayette today, after making a [ few days visit here with his sister ► Mrs. Sam Both. f John Scott and wife, of near , Pleasant Ridge, went to Chalmers i today to spend Sunday with relai fives. - -x— .. Born this Saturday morning, 1 Jan. 27th, to Mr. and Mrs. Mel Wood, in the northwest part of town, a daughter. If nothing occurs to prevent, C. D. Nowels and will take their final departure from Rensselaer next Tuesday, and go to their futdre home at Parsons, Kansas. George Keister has changed his mind about appealing from the fine recently assessed against him on the chargeof selling liquor without license, and has paid the fine aud costs in full. Farnk Cornell, of Milroy Tp., has been taken to a Lafayette hospital, suffering from a serious stomach trouble. His - son; L. C. Cornell, who has been conducting a blacksmithing business in south western Missouri, has returned home to manage tli. farm during his father’s sickness. “In the shade of the old apple tree, where you hear the blamed buzz of the bee, with a big carving knife that I swiped of my wife, I am waiting and watching, by gee! Of daggers I have two or three and an ax and a cutlass you see, and I’ll stick all these thing in the next guy who sings, “In the Shade of the Old Apple tree.’ ” One would suppose from the con staut frequency of fatal railroad, street car and other accidents in Hammond that none of the citizens thereof would ever need to go to the trouble of taking their own lives but that conclusion seems not to be always justified by the facts, for an old man named Hans Johnson com mitted suicide there Friday morn ing.

Boys playing marbles all along the street is generally considered almost as sure a sign of spring as when they begin to dig for fishworms. The marble game has been in full sweep for several days here, not only by day but by night, also. Thus last night a game start ed under the arc light, near the Makeever House, in the afternoon, and never let up till 10 o’clock at night. The Chicago, Indianapolis & Evansville Railroad Company has commenced to condemn land for right of way purposes in Lake county so it looks as if they meant business and we would take it from this that their line had been located through the county, but ju«t where it will strike Crown Point has not

been given out by the officials of the road, but we understand it is to go oh the east side of the town.— Crown Point Register. The Sheriff and Joe had no trouble at all in landing Thomas Price at the asylum Friday. In fact the old man knew where he was going and was glad to go, as he realized that the asylum was the best place for him. For the most part his talk was rational on his way over, but whenever a man with a full set of whiskers loomed in view Tom would hold an animated little debate with himself and would then loudly aud positively announce that the be-whiskered one was none other than his old friend and relative, Tom Burns. . A 1 Robinson was over from Monon today, and reports that they think over there that the new state Epileptic village is practically certain to be located on the Mouon ; site. It is a largo t act of land I about two miles uorwieiist of Monon. Besides being a good tract' of laud.

I a special point in its favor iiTits accessibility; being rightatthe crossI ing of the main lines of the Monon ' and which road, by one or the other 6f its branches, crosses every other important railroad in the 1 state. The company has agreed if 1 the village is located at Monon, to j build a side track right out to it and erect a deoot there. Our former young townsman, Louis Leopold, now thef enterprising proprietor of a big department store at Wolcott, not only knows the 1 value of printer’s ink, hot he has a good working knowledge of how to

|go at>oufc to get that value with ! great certainty and expedition. Thus he not only print* page after page of well written ads in the Wolcott Enterprise, but frequently j a doable pager, and snqh a one appeared this week, and the paper states that it also printed 10,000 24 by 36 inch posters from the same ad, whereby Louie intends evidentj ly to plaster every dead wall in the I three counties. It took half a ton of paper for the bills. Rensselaer papers have published manv a double page ad for its enterprising merchants, but never a one of them went into the poster business to that extent ■> „ Interest in the revival meetings at Trinity M. E. church is increasing rapidly. Dr. Bitler the evangelist will speak to the young people this evening at 7 o’clock. On Sabbath in addition to the morning and evening services he will hold a children meeting at 2.30 in the afternoon. The public are cordially invited to co-operate in these meetings. Wallace Bruce Amsbary delighted a large audience at the Library auditorium ou Friday evening by Iris readings. In the course of the evening he interpreted characteristic writings from many of the greatest humorist authors, and rendered various difficult dia/ect selections with considerable success. His main strenght lies in his easy and original manner and not in any especial talent at dialect, except perhaps in the tongue of the French Canadian. He was raised in an Illinoss section where there are many of these interesting people, and is the author of a book of poems in their broken English dialect, and his readings from his own volume constituted his greatest success. The entertainment was the fourth in the Library Lecture course.

An item published in this issue from the Crown Point Register, shows that there is a rnmor circul-

ating that the proposed big new railroad, the C. I. & E. has bought out the Gifford road, and if so, of course with the intention of using a considerable portion at least of his road bed and right of way for their road. It is a well known fact that Mr. Gifford’s road is on the market and it is possible that the rumors has some foundation in fact, though unless the new road contemplates abandoning Logansport entirely as a point on its direct line, or nearly so, it is not at all likely they would want the Gifford road, as it would take their line much too far to the west and require a good deal of a detour to get back close to Logansport. Otherwise it would look like the Gifford line was their best route, as it would carry them through a acope of country farther away from any competing parallel lines.

MONBAY.

Miss Florence Mackland, of Kokomo, went to Chicago today to visit friends, after a visit of two weeks with Miss Harriet Yeoman. Misses Mayme and Frances Schrader, of Lafayette spent Sunday with their friend Miss Christine Hildebrand. D. A. an insurance agent at Crawfordsville visited his brother G. A. since last Thursday, returning home today. Born, Saturday night, Jan. 28th to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Borntrager on the old Borntrager farm, south of town, a son. •* Mrs. Ed Irwin is attending a poultry show at Difayette, and expects to exhibit some of her thoroughbred Ligh Brahmas there. Mrs. S. J. Austin, of our city, but now temporarily living in Chi cago with her daughter, Mis. Malic Hopkins, is very dangerously sick in that city.

James N. Applegate, a pioneer resident of Pulaski county, died at the home of his son. R. H. Afqdegate, in Franeesville. on Jan. 19th, at the age of 78 years. The official report to Lov. I Ilanly of the investigating coin- ! mittee of the auditor’s office shows Sherrick’s total shortage now amounts to $50,847.01. This in eludes absolutely new Items ag gregatiugs7,4loo3 misappropriate! by the ex auditor.

A bunch of our telephone magnates went over to Remington, this morning to close up the sale of their Remington exchange to the Remington parties who have bargained for it, Mr, and Mrs. Steve Barnes and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Vanatta, all of Fowler, visited the ladies’ father, uncle Simon Phillips, Sunday. Messrs. Barnes and Yauatta have returned to Fowler but their wives are staying for a longer visit. Sunday ; was Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Warner’s 20th wedding anniversary, .and the event was observed by a house party, Saturday evening at which a large number of ‘friends were present, and passed a very pleasant evening. The stock for the new grocery department of the Murray department store arrived Friday and was placed in position that nighty and opened out full fledged for business, Saturday morning. And it evidently caught its;full share of the'day’s big crowd of country customers.

We would be glad to see Dan Storms, secretary of state, prove himself innocent of the charges brought against him by Gov. Hanly, in a fair and -open trial, but simply to defeat the Governor’s attempt to remove him from office, by a mere technicality, as he has dona, is a mighty poor vindication, to say the least.

Regular passenger trains are now running on the new Indiana Harbor railroad, two each way every day, and, and the towns along the line, especially Kenfeland and Morocco, are much elated thereby, as they have a good right to be. It is probable that the number of train will soon be increased, and if the alleged intentions of the Big Four to run their trains into Chicago over this road are realized, the increase will be very large.

The celebrated Warren 1 Springer was in town Saturday night, going out to his Walker township ranch Sunday. While here he showed some of our players where to get off in the billiards line, at the Duvall billiard rooms. He is a great expert in the game. While here he also tried to make a big hog sale to Doc Nichols. He seems to be a good deal “on the hog” in one respect at least, for as a single item of his hog possessions, he mentioned while here that he had of brood sows alone 184 ou his Walker place. * L. H. Whitaker aud wife return ed to Hammond today, after a short visit in Rensselaer, prior to which Mrs. Whitaker had visited her father Benj. Goldsbury, in Gillaui tp. They formerly resided in Wheatfield but went to Hammond about ten years ago, where Mr. Whitaker has served as a member of the city CouuCil and later as oil and gas inspector. They had the great misfortune to, lose their 13-

year old son Ira al>out three weeks ago. His foot was injured in an accideut tWo years ago, and death re suited from a decayed bone. The bov.was a successful jockey, having rode six winners in big raws during tUt fall. a > At Delphi last Friday night, at a union - meeting, Rev. Edward Baech, former pastor of the Pres byterian church here, preached so powerfully against the sin of eard--1 play ing aud similar games by church

people, that it profoundly impressed the audience, and after,he was through, several leading citizens in the audience voluntarily arose and addressed the people along the same lines. While this was going on at the church, a big company of the leading church and society people of the place were rolling up some record breaking scores at a six handed game at one of the principal residences. The affair has caused quite a sensation at Delphi. The weather has proved so completely a failure as an iee making proposition that Cooney Kellner, owner of the biggest ice-house in Jasper county, has been obliged t# import a cargo of machine made ice to supply the current demand. He got it from Frankfort, where there is a large ice-making plant.' Cooney made his first public. appearance on the streets Sunday, with his big new ice wagon_aud hiss proportionately big draft team hauling it. It is a fine out-fit all around and the team is probably as good a span of draft horses as any owned in town. Cooney bought them in Chicago a few weeks ago, at a cost of $440.

George Ade and Carrol C. Kent sailed from New York Saturday on the Amerikan of Hamburg. The Amerikan is one of the new type of steam ships, modern in every respect and pronounced the finest vessel afloat. It is a five decker and the decks are named in 'order Franklin, Washington, Roosevelt, Cleveland and Kanar, and Mr. Ade, as would naturally be expected engaged lodges on the Roosevelt deck. The Indiana travelers will spend a few days in Taris. and from there will go through Italy, and thence to Egypt. A trip up the Nile will complete the journey unless they change their minds, and go around the world. Mr. Kent is not expected home before the first of May. Tuesday morning Mr. John Ade received a telegram from his sons reading: “Oat four Hundred miles. Bright sunshine and calm sea.”—Kentland Enterprise**