Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1906 — WEDNESDAY. [ARTICLE]

WEDNESDAY.

' Mrs. H. Pnrcupile and Miss Amy Nolton went to Chicago this morning to attend the milliners’ convention. Mayor Ellis and Fire Chief Montgomery went to Lafa.wtte today, to study up. some matters along the fire apparatus line. E. D. Rhoades, the hardware man, was taken with an attack of peritonitis, last Saturday, and has been very painfully sick, eversince, but he is now improving. The typical March weather con tinues with quite a heavy fall of snow at night, which is slowly milting oft’ by day. It is giving us some typical March roads, also Ernest Gowland, 17 years old sou of Henry Gowland, and a pupil in our city schools, got his right dollar bone fractured, last evening, while practicing athletics with some other boy-. Ed Duvall and <i-.y Wood, members of the duck hunting contingent, on the Kankakee, came back this forenoon, with a pretty good bag of ducks, and a pretty bad case of rheumatism, on Ed’s part. They report hunting as very good. Curtis D. Meeker, of Monticello, and a leading and much respected citizen, was in town today. He is a prominent Republican and is am bitious to be the first representative in the State Legislature from the new district of White and Jasper counties.

Alva Snow, who was working on the Carter Brother’ dredge, on the Davisson lateral, 7 or 8 miles north of town, got his*right thumb caught in a cable, this morning and it was so badly mangled that it had to be amputated at the first joint. He is a son of Henry Snow, present proprietor of the former Keister restaurant. A dispatch from Wabash states that J. B. Workman, the well know tax ferrit, who has been working in thatcounty with a partner named Higgs, has dug up the enormous amount of $4,000,000 of sequestered property which was not paying taxes. On his contract with Wabash county Workman gets 35 per cent of all taxes collected on property which he thus places on the duplicate. The bureau of public roads of the department of agriculture in Wash ington, D. C., has sent out notices that upon application of a township trustee in any county the department will build a mile of road to demonstrate how a road should be properly built. The government will furnish the machinery and tools, the specification , engineers and skilled labor. The township must furnish the materials for construction, all common labor and teams, and all fuel, water, oil, waste and other incidental expenses for operating the machinery.

THDRSDAY. Mr. and Mia Earl Duvall are moving into the Stewart Hammond property on South Cullen street. The ladies of the Christian church will hold their annual Easter market the Saturday before Easter. The subjects at the Presbyterian church Sunday will be: Morning: “The Brilliancy of the Stars,” Evening: “Methods.” Everybody invited. Rev. J. Carl Parrett, Pastor. A marriage license was issued in Indianapolis, Wednesday, to Kenneth Morgan and Miss Minnie Keen, both former well known residents here, and who left here about two weeks ago. Edgar A. Cox, a former well known architect and builder located here, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Cox, for a few days. He is now located at Hallett, Oklahoma, where he owns a lumber yard. Leroy Templeton, Indiana’s lead ing populist, owns a 5,000 acre tract of land in McClellan township Newton county, which has increased in value since 1890 from sl7 to SBS per acre. Leroy seems to have fared fairly well in Spite of the country going to the bow-wows. The first hunting fatallity en the Kankakee for the season occured last Saturday, north lof DeMotte. Ira Inman, of Hanna, and his son

were going down the river, in a scow on a hunting expediton, and the boat filled and sank, and the elder man was drowned. He was 65 years old. The roads have “gone all to pieces” in the last few days, the combined rain and snow of Tuesday night being figuratively, the last straw to break the gravel’s back, or something like that. Anyhow few people can remember any time •in late years when the roads were worse, and especially not when the gravel has cut up so badly. A merchant in a neighboring town tells a joke on himself at his wife’s expense. He had put on some old clothes and had been helping clean up some machinery. O.i going home he,met a tramp coming out of his front gate. The tramp mistook him for one of his kind and said, “No use to go in there pard; that’s the meanest white woman on earth.” The Valparaiso papers are com plaining about the vagaries of their court house clock, and mention specially the fact that the north and south dials always show About four minutes slower than the east and west dials. It looks like such a peculiarly would really be the highest appreciated feature of the clock. People could go to work by the slow sides aud quit by the fast sides.

A few days ago Miss Gertrude Hopkins, clerk aud type writer in the State Bank, sought to hand Jack Montgomery a playful hack hander, and instead of. landing on Jack, who no doubt needed it, she struck a long sharp pointed steel mail opener Jack happened to have in his hand at the time. The point pissed clear through Miss Hopkins’ hand, so that it showed in the palm of her hand. The injury was given prompt medical treatment, and no serious results from it are apprehended.

Rev. and Mrs. H. L'. *Kindig arrived home yesterday, from a three days’ stay at Anderson, and where he went to officiate at one of the swellest weddings held there for a long time. The bride was Miss Maude Rawlings, a daughter of one of Anderson’s wealthiest families, and who has been a special friend of Mr. Kindig’s family all her life. The groom was Stewart H. Kurtz, of Indianapolis, and also of a prominent and wealthy family. The wedding was reported at length in Wednesday evening’s Indianapolis News.

“The most remarkable arrangement of numbers that I know,” said a Chicago business college men who takes a delight in solving problems and digging up mathematical oddities, “is the combination of the six figures of $142,857. Multiply this number by two and the answer is 428,571, by three and the answer is 285,714, by four and the answer is 571,428, by five and the answer is 857,142. Each answer contains exactly the same digits as the original sum, and to cap the climax, multiply the number by seven and up comes the answer, 999,999.

Simon Leopold; who has been at tending a tailors’ cutting school in Chicago since the Ist of the year, will complete the course this week, and next week will open a merchant tailoring establishment in Rensselaer. He has rented the rooms over Fendig’s drug store in Leopold’s building for the purpose. He expeets to start out with two journeymen tailors. Dr. S. H. Moore, who has been occupying these rooms, has moved across the hall into the rooms formerly occupied by Dr. M. J). Gwin. The Republicans of Jasper county will hold their township and precinct mass conventions next Saturday afternoon to elect delegates to-the county convention, to be held next Monday. There is still every reason to believe that this coming county convention will be about the tamest on record, and unless a little balloting is needed Ito nominate the County Council- . men, the only office likely to have more than one candidate for, is that of County Assessor. The as- ' pi rants for this are John Q. Lewis, l of Barkley, and John F. Bruner, l of Marion. Both are number one

go id men, but they can’t both get the office, for all of that. There was a quiet wedding at the residence of Rev. H. L. Kindig, pastor of the M. E. church, at seven o’clock Wednesday evening. The parties were a young couple from west of town, namely Mr. Wm. A. Shindler, son of Joseph Shindler, and who lives over the line in Newton county, and Miss Gertrude Keeney, daughter of Andrew J. Keeney, who lives in this county. They will reside in Newton county, on a farm south of Mt Ayr. They were not accompanied by any friends at the wedding. John R. Phillips, the efficient county assessor of Jasper county for lo! this many years, is not a candidate for another term and instead, is going into farming on a large scale out in Hanging Grove his home township. He and Lan McDonald have jointly rented of W. A. Rinehart the former big McCoy tract out there, some 2,000 acres in extent, and will farm it in partnership. About half of it is pasture land, some 200 acres in meadow, and the rest in cultivation. It is understood that the mortgages which covered the land three or four layers deep, have been stacaed up in heaps, so that they do not seriously interfere with working the lantt The G. E. Murray Co has the correct spring styles in clothing for gents and ladies. *