Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1906 — BRIEF LOCAL HAPPENINGS [ARTICLE]

BRIEF LOCAL HAPPENINGS

FfilDAI—- • ■.< -,- u r ... 7..1.',;.,;;'. B. J. >Giffbrd was transacting business dn town, today. John Greenfield has moved ifrom his residence, in the east part of town to his (arm, up near Surrey. , Mr..anc Mrs. E. F. Mills .came ; down from Chicago yesterday even- j ing to attend the funeral of \\ ayne 1 Packer. Will Murray, who sold his farm ’ in Barkley some time ago, has • moved upon the Mrs. Laura ; Michaels pte.ee, south of the old fair j grounds. The McCoy cases have been «on- . tinned to the next term of court in White county, on account of Tom’s , liver being out of order. Next term he will probably have ap- , pendicltis. Anything to stave off .a trial. —Fowler Review. Hon. John ’F, Johnson, one of Newton 'County ’s oldest and best • known citizens,- died at his home in . Morocco last Sunday, and his funer-1 al was held bn Tuesday. He had .several county in Newton county, and a number of years ago represented Newton and Jasper in. -the state Legislature. He was a most-excellent man in all respects. The Isaac Pouter fruit farm, about a mile west of town, and on i the river bank, has ijust been sold. to A. M, Wright, pf Chicago Heights, HL, who intends to occupy it as a residence. The place, contains nearly 14 acres, and abo

■a feir house. The price was $1,4*0. The sale was negotiated by S, C. llr'win.- Mr. Perter, the seller <f the,property, cow lives in nia." • -L The Rathbone "Sisters had a big function at the’it. of P hall last night. It was supposed to be a masquerade party, and a large ps*>- ■; portion of those present were in masks, and some very striking costumes were -in evidence. Refreahments were served and a musical program was rendered. Cards were also«anong the amusemeats. A very large number .were and it was in all respects a very; pleasant affair. There was a class trouble at tire school house today, which resulted in all the members of the Sophomore class walking out this afternoon. It is to be hoped some easy way-can be found to settle up the difficulty, and whale we would suggest to rhe scholars that they must - i ember that discipline must be maintained, we would also suggest |to the teachers that young people : like-these have as keen a sense of ! justice as anyone,-and also astrong and -not blameable sense of class ■ loyalty. Perhaps it is a good time j for concessions to* be made on both : sides. At any rate, means should, - be found to get thescholars all back in school again, without delay, - for; nothing short of .conduct of the, most reprehensible and demoralizing kind justifies depriving a young iperson of his school privileges.

SATCRDAL Mrs. Jeanie Thompson has retwned from a week’-s visit with friends in Kentland. ! Barn, this:fiaturday, March 3rd, to Mr. and Mrs. Frank (B. Ham, a daughter. Bev. Dr. Chamberlain, of Ohio, will preach : «t the First Baptist 1 church at the usual hour, tomorrow forenoon. Representative Crumpacker has filed with the house a touching memorial asking shorter days for telegraph operator*. While .everybody else is getting encouragement to ask for shorter hours, no one seems to have • entertained a pass-

-ing thought for the poor newspaper i man who must work fyom the time he gets out of bed till he get into it ! again.—Hartford City News. Friday’s all day’s rain brought a large amount of rainfall, the total precipitation being slightly more than One inch, Today is unmistakable March weather, but so long as the boys can play marbles on the street corners, it might be worse. C. Fenwick who conducted a successful revival here a number of years ago, is now about to close one at Newcastle, this State, at which it is said there have been 700 conversions.. .. __... Landy. McGee, Fred Hemphill and Georgy Plunkett, the advance guard of the Rensselaer hunting contingent, went to the KankakebJ this morning, after ducks, which have been very plenty there lately. Others are preparing to go in a day or two. The Oxford Tribune has the following item of intezoAto many Jas per county people: “Frank ME. Lewis and Lloyd Paris left for Langdon, Alberta, Canada, Monday, with two car loads of live, ■stock, and household goods. Mrs. Lewis will leave next Tuesday.” Mrs. M. E. Travis, now of Marion, Ind., is here this week visiting her mother, Mrs. O’Meara, who is sick, but improving. Mrs. Travis reports herself as well pleased with Marion as a place of residence, and that she expects and desires to remain there permanently. John W. Byer of Hammond, the soJdier candidate, who seemed to pretty nearly have the nomination for state cinched, has withdrawn from the race. It is supposed that John, like so many other Hammond citizens, is so busy getting rich by starting new town’s that lie hasn’t time to be treasurer. Walter Hopkins and Harve Robinson, two young fellows from Rensselaer who went to Oklahoma about two months ago, have lately enlisted in the regular army, and are now in Washington Barracks, at St. Louis. Harve is not yet quite 21 and it is understood that his mother Mrs. G.' M. Robinson, will [make an effort to have him discharged. Walter Hopkins, the other young man, is a son of Eldon Hopkins. It looks now like the coming h e publican county convention will be too tame to be interesting. The present auditor, clerk, sheriff, sur veyor, and commissioners seem all certain to be renominated without opposition, and Jesse Allman for treasurer and John Q. Lewis for assessor both are on Easy street, for their respective positions, and about the only hope now in sight for any excitement is to spring a dark horse against Jen Wright for coroner.

Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Bales returned from West Virginia last week from a five week’s visit with Mr. Bales’s relatives. George was sick with malaria during most of his stay there and consequently did not enjoy his visit as he would otherwise. On their trip they were in a’midnight wreck on the B. & O. at the Attica, Ohio, m which the engine and several of the front cars were ditched and the trucks of their sleeper also left the track. The engineer and four or five other people were killed. —Goodland Herald. James E. Stiller, one of the best known and most highly esteemed residents of the south end of the county, died at his home in Remington last Tuesday morning, of Bright’s disease, after a short sickness. His age was a little more than 63 years, and he had been a resident of Remington since 1879, most of the time being engaged in business there. He was a member of the G. A. R. at Remington as also of the Odd Fellows, both of

which orders assisted in his funeral, which was held Thursday, at Remington M. E. church. The U. B. church at Brook, a fine brick structure worth 57,000, got on fire last Tuesday night, from too hot a fire in the furnace, and suffered damage of about 11,000 be fore the fire was extinguished. An elegant new wool carpet was totally ruined, but at the same

time the ladies who bought it are * glad they had it down, for to that j is due the fact that the fire was held in subjection. The fire all be-| ing in the basement, and the carpet being of wool and slow to burn, and also soaked full of water, it held the fire down wherever it' broke through the floor. The loss is covered by insurance. James F. Johnson, the new •wner of the Fisher feed barn has arrived from Wells county and will reside in the same house that Mr. Fisher moves out of, on College street. Judge John C. Nye, of Winamac, and the only Republican strong I enough with the people to be elected a Judge in that circuit since time immemorial, is a candidate for the Appellate court judgship. The Judge is better known here than any other candidate for the position, and Jeer tainlyjas highly esteemed as any. In fact we are confident that if he was in “our district’’ the Republicans of Jasper county would be a good deal more enthusiastic for him than they are for the candidate whom the exigencies of “good politics” now lines them up for. But at least our delegates will no doubt keep him in mind if the occasion arises a

second choice. The Appellate Court rendered a decision of much interest to county officers generally holding , that commissioners may use the public money in defending themselves in suits where they are made defendants. A judgement forbidding the Jackson county commissioners from using money from the public treasury in defending them-' selves was reversed. In rendering the decision Judge Wiley said: “To hold that a board of county commissioners when sued in its corporate capacity could be enjoined from using public money in making its defense would establish a precedent which would put the several boards of county commissioners throughout the state at the mercy of unwarranted legal aiiacks vu them. . I

MONBAY. i Misses Jean McFarland and Bessie King are in Chicago today. Born, Sunday, March 4th, to John dimmer and wife, of Newton tp., a ‘ daughter. 6 J Dennis Gleason, the horse buyer j is here this week, buying up an- 1 •ther shipment of horses. ( Mrs. Wm. McCord has gone to < Clark’s Hill, Ind., to visit Ed ; Randle and family. Mrs. J. C. Fisher and baby went 1 to Champaign, 111., their future 1 .home, today. Mr. Fisher will follow in a day or two. Omer Hughes, of Wolcott, hrs succeed W. L. Wishard as salesman in the dry goods department •f the Chicago Bargain Store. Winter has been tightening the screws on us a little, the past few days, as the whitened complexion of Mother Earth bears evidence. Still the wintry spell has not been a very serious matter, the lowest temperature reached being only 24 degrees, this, Monday morning, and the snow-fall being scarcely more than half an inch.

A big delegation of Remington sportsmen took the train here this morning for a week’s shooting on the Kankakee. They were led by Postmaster Ed Peck, who is thus celebrating his late confirmation by the Senate of his appointment to a third term as postmaster. Bd is a dead sure shot at ducks, and also hardly ever misses a post-office, when he gets a good shot at it W. L. Wishard, who has been I connected with the mercantile business of Rensselaer for the past 22 years, in one capacity or another, usually as an employed salesmen, in which he has been very faithful and efficient, and also some of the time as a partner in different stores, has now definitely ended his employment here, by retiring last Sat I urday night from his position as a I salesman ip the dry goods department of the Chicago Bargain Store. He is now preparing to remove to

the vicinity of Big Rapids, Mich., where he purchased a farm, some months ago. Albert E, Brand, who has been a faithful and capable employee of Coen & Brady, the grain and coal* men for the last six years, terminated his work with them last Saturday night, to accept the position of assistant salesman and driver of delivery wagon for J. C. Gwin’s yard. In this place he succeeds the old reliable Henry Wood, who thinks he is getting a few weeks too old for ajob requiringtsuch a considerable amount of hard labor. He intends to do a little in the farming line, but otherwise not to go very far out of his way to look for hard work, hereafter.