Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1906 — BRIEF LOCAL HAPPENINGS [ARTICLE]

BRIEF LOCAL HAPPENINGS

TUESDAY. W. A. Rinehart, of Queen City, Mo., is in town today. Mrs. H. Cal Nichols and baby of Lowell spent Sunday with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Janies Flynn. Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Rank, of Englewood, visited Miss Maud Irwin Monday. Miss Clara Marquand was a ijiembei of the party which left here this morning for Mitchell, South Dakota. Lloyd Lewis, who has been attending school here this winter, left this morning for his home near Mitchell, So. Dakota. Elias Arnold of Barkley, left to day on a business trip to Peru, Wabash and other towns in the central and eastern part of the state.

A basket ball game for your whiskers, is on the slate for Friday evening at the Armory. It will be St. Joseph’s College against Company M’s team. Today’s rather cold weather and frequent snow flurries seems to indicate that February may be trying to do what it can in its last two days to spoil it previous good record, but the bad spell is hardly likely to prove either very severe or very .lasting. .. . >,,, . - Mrs. John Sullivan ha 3 been very seriously and dangerously sick at her home on Weston street, with a stomach trouble, but is now im proving a little

At Uncle Frank Grant’s funeral, Monday afternoon, the pall bearers were Guss Grant, Ernest Morlan, Charles Grant, Garland Grant, Charles Morlan and J. M. Carr,, all nephews of the deceased. Another feature of note was the attendance in a body ot the Senior class of the Rensselaer high school, out of respect to one of their number, Miss Leia Grant, his youngest daughter. The funeral was very largely attended. - r—-- ——-

The| revival meetings at the M. E. church conducted by Rev. J. S. Bitler, D. D., of Chicago, closed Sunday evening, after a four weeks’ session. The meetings are considered toMiave been very successful and resulted in 74 additions to the membership of the church. Besides this were a number of other conversions, who will unite with other churches. Themeetings have had an unusually large attendance, throughout.

Leon Lansdurf, the man kicked by a horse morning, still remains delirious, and unable to give any account of the manner of the accident. It is still too soon i for the physician to form any definite opinion as to the final result of his injuries, though he is quite hopeful that he will recover. Mrs. Jesse Sayler and family, of west of town, left this morning for their future home, near Mitchell, South Dakota, and where Mr. Sayler had preceded them some time before. This adds one more to the many excellent families from this nity who have moved to the vicinity of Mitchell within the past year or two.

Squire S, C. Irwin had a case of his own, today, in which he was one of the principal parties, and the verdict was in his favor, and the judgment, a nine pound girl. It was the first case of the kind the Squire has had, and he seems to have been quite a long time in reaching a verdict. However he is well pleased at the final out come of the case. Several telegrams have been re ceived regarding Wayne Parker’s condition since his father and

brother reached his side. The purport of the telegrams is to the effect that Wayne is delirous and constantly growing weaker. This condition, together with the well •known very deadly character of the disease seems to practically preclude all hopes for recovery.

WEDNESDAY. Mrs. Ivan Dunlap returned to her home at Bedford, today, after a visit with relatives in this Dr. A. G. Catt has moved his optical parlors from over Warner’s store to a suite of rooms in A. Long’s new building. j It was expected that the site of the proposed state epileptic village would be selected today, and by all appearance our neighboring town of Monon, will be the place selected.

B. Forsythe is now having extensive improvements made to his Store building. These include a complete new ornamental steel ceiling, and mirrors back of the show windows, and also new lighting fixtures throughout. All will be of the latest and best styles. Mrs. Agnes Smith and children of west of town, left this mornifig for Bonesteel, South Dakota, to join her husband, Everal Smith, who preceded her out there some weeks ago. She was accompanied by Mrs. David Gaston, of Goodland, whose husband also is already out there.

February is ending today -with pretty nice weather, being bright and clear for the most part, and not unpleasantly cold. On the whole it has been about the finest February in anyone’s recollection, the predictions of Hicks and the .ground-hog to the contrary, notwithstanding. Again "Jasper county has been ucky in dodging some very mean? weather which most of the rest of he people of the state did no t escape.' Thus while most of the state had a big and nasty snow storm on the 26th and 27, all that we had were a few little skifts on the 27th, which disappeared entirely under a few hours sunshine, the next day. *'

There is still no material change in Leon LansdurPs condition, except that he seems somewhat weaker. The internal injury in his chest does not appear to be serious, as he ceased raising blood the same evening after he was hurt.. All his complaints are about the pain in his head, and it is believed that a blood clot has formed and is pressing upon the brain.; Rev. A. R. Harper, former pastor of the Free Baptist church here, but who has been doing evangelistic work since our two Baptist churches consolidated has accepted the pastorate of a church of his denomination, at Wixom, Mich., and is now here packing his goods preparatory to moving. Wixom is the same place, by the way, where Rev. W. H. Sayler, of our city, was pastor of this same church for several years.

The Cash Buyers Union, one of the big mail order houses in Chicago, has been investigated by the Government, and is now in the hands of a receiver, in consequence. Their special dodge was to sell stock in their business in small amounts, to customers all over the country, expecting thereby that every holder of a few dollars’ worth of their worthless stock could be depended upon as a constant customer. The outlook now is that the concern has gone clean to smash. The Monon*! Route people are beginning tojrealize that they gave Rensselaer a very raw deal on their new train schedule, and on representations of that fact from Agent Beam, General Passenger Agent Reed has notified'him that it was an over sight not having the 11:05 p. m. train south stop here, and saying the mistake will be rectified at once. Therefore Rensselaer people can sti' I go to Chicago and get back the same day. But the train which passes here at 1.25 in the mdrniug ought to stop also, to accomodate people who want to go to the theaters and other places of amuse I meat in the city.

THURSDAY. Born, Wednesday night, to Ml. and Mrs. Daye Waymire, south o: town, a daughter. ' Mrs. James Ennis was called to Attica, today, by the d3ath of her mother-in-law by her first marriage, Mrs. Appalina Sheets. She was 65 years old.

March has come in like a lamb and the way it comes in makes no difference with the way it goes out, any number of old proverbs to the contrary, notwithstanding. Anson Cox went to Plainfield, west of Indianapolis, today, for a visit with relatives and friends in the region where he was born and raised. Leon Lansdurf, has pretty nearly regained full control of his facultie today, and his symptoms are so much better that his physician is quite confident he will fully recover.

C. D. Hopkins, who has lived in Thayer for quite a number of years is here today, arranging to move back here. His wife has been in poor health for some time and he moves back here in order to be nearer her physici a . A. Leopold has rented the west room in his corner building, adjoining Duvall & Lundy, to Laßue Brothers, who will move into it as soon as it can be fitted up. They rent it for a term of three to five years. Rev. H. K. Muth, and wife, who iave been making their home here since last fall, in order to be with their daughter, a teacher in our schools, left today for Topeka, Kans., their former home, and where they will again take up their residence.

The binder twine plant installed in the state prison in Michigan City to compete with the combine and which will be operated by convict labor was started last week. A force of fifty convicts is now employed in the new plant and that nu>berwill beincreased as the demand requires, The change in the Monon’s time card, since first announced, so that the morning paper train and the 11:05 night train both stop regular, ly leaves Rensselaer about as well off as it needs to be, in train accommodations. If the 1.25 a. m. train south and the 5.25 a. m. train north stopped here, the accommodations would be perfect. Uncle Alfred and Nephew Simon soon won’t speak as they pass by, if Nephew keeps up the pace of his first Frenzied Finance article, in subsequent issue of his personal organ. The E. V. Farmer dredge was being moved today, from the Garrison ditch, south of town, to the upper part of the Iroquois ditch, several miles northwest. Republican workers and delegates have-been going to Lafayette on every train since last evening, to be on hand at the Congressional convention there today. The delegates from this county have not been generally reported, but those from Marion township were R. B. Porter, J. H. Perkins, and G. E. Murray. Mr. Porter also represented West Barkley.

Mr. and Mrs. Geo. P. Daughterly daughter Maud, and son George, went to South Raub, Tippecanoe county, yesterday, having been called there by the death of Mrs. Daugherty’s brother, George Williams. Deceased was a prominent farmer citizen, a large stockholder in the Romney bank, and had lived in Tippecanoe county almost his entire life. Death came quite suddenly Tuesday, Feb. 27. The funeral is oeing held today. AU the roads are full now of farmers moving from one farm to another, the Ist of March being the established moving di me for them. The recent cold spell has been a great blessing to these movers, as it g|ves them solid roads to move* over. Had the weather continued' warm, the dirt roads would now be practically impassable, and the gravel not much better. As it now is, however the roads bear up, if they are pretty, rough. For rent a good farm of 111 acres, I three miles from t all on nr addreas, Win. C. use, K» nsseiner, Ind.