Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1906 — BRIEF LOCAL HAPPENINGS [ARTICLE]

BRIEF LOCAL HAPPENINGS

—T* ' ■ i 1 TUESDAY. Mrs. C. A. Radcliff, of Cincinna ( >ti, ii visaing her parents. Mr. and Mrs. M D. Rhoades. A. son was born Moudiy to Rsv. E. Baech and wife, now of Delphi, formerly of our city. Born, Monday, July 2nd. to the wife of Charles|Sig.n*n, on the Makeever farm, northwest of town a son. Monroe Banesand son Cecil came down from South Bend, today, for a couple of days’ visit with old friends. Mr. and Mrs. Charley Robinson, of Benton county are spending the Fourth with their Rensselaer relatives. Miss Cecelia Hollingsworth left for Charlevoix, this” morning, to join her mother, and remain the rest of the summer. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Paxton, of South Bend, came over today, for a Fourth of July visit with friends and relatives here. < Mrs. T. J. Sayler and daughter Florence, of Lamai, Colo., arrived here this afternoon, for a visit with numerous relatives and old friends in Rensselaer and vicinity. Dr. J. W. Horton, the dentist deft this morning for Colgate, Indian Terr., for a stay of two or three .months for the benefit of his health His dental office will be in charge of Jake Wildberg, during his absence. Owing to the fact that the Lowell band can not arrive tomorrow un til the 10:55 train gets in, the time for the parade to start has been changed from 10 to 11 o’clock. AH parties intending to participate, will do well to take note of this change. _i A strip of territory in Posey and •Gibson counties, fifteen miles wide =and thirty-five miles long is said to ’have been without rain all -this spring and summer although rains have fallen on all sides of it. It looks like a desert, and the in habitants are moving away. The Monon’s special train Wed nesday night, to accommodate 4th of July travel, especially to and from Rensselaer will leave Lafaj ette about eight o’clock, arriving here about 9:30, or a little later. It will run to Cedar Lake and then return to Lafayette, stopping at all stat ions in both directions. Elvin Overton sends a copj r of the Aurora, 111., Be icon, of June 29tb, containing an account of C|t ripping up of Ringling’s circus ai that place on that day, by a big storm. One man was killed by a tent pole falling on him, anothei died from heart failure, caused bj the excitement, while half a dozen others were more or less injured. The War Department Saturday announced that Indiana’s allotment under the new militia appropria tiou is as follows: For army equip ment and camp purposes, $44,882. 33; for promotion of rifle practice, $14,960.77; a total of $59,873 69. The department announces that the amount set aside for rifle practice must bp entirely devoted to that purpose. The Indiana death rate for 1905 was 13j6 per 1000 of which is smaller than the death rate of any other State in which records are kept. Michigan was the nearest for 1905 with a rate of 13.6. The other states ran from 15.9 to 20.8, the average being 16.5 showing Indiana to be 3 less per thousand than the average. Pretty good showing. E. L. Hollingswarih left for Do>

' Moines, lowa, this afternoon called by the dangerous sickness of his only uncle, Louts Hol’ingsworth, who has just had a paialytic stioke. It is his third stroke and it is feared the result will be fatal. Mr. Hollingsworth had expected to go to Charlevoix, Mich , tor atendays stay, when his plan was changed by this call to his uncle’s bedside. A little son of Mr. Speke, in the northwest part of town, was the first victim of a fireworks accident. He was firing medium sized cannon crackers Monday, and one of them not going off when he thought it should, Be picked it up and was in the act ot breaking it intwu aud the palm of his right hand was badly torn and burned and cut around the thumb. The remains of a very dead wild dhek were found in a corner of tl e recess or portico above the main entrance to the court house a few days ago. Presumably the duck flew against the building and w?s killed some time in the nighty while wild ducks were flying last spring, Another plausible theory to ac count for its death was that it caught sight of the two gargoyles over this entrance, and was frightened to death. It was a good rain we had here today, aud will help out crops a good deal. However, like . all rains that have visited Rensselaer for the past six weeks, it was rather of the make shift order, and only made t > last a few days, and and was not by any means the regular soaker that has been hoped for, for so long. The totaLamount of the rainfall was .40 of an inch. It will do a great deal of good, however, if it was not very ex tensive. , Miss Nellie Smith, a former we 1 known resident, now of Chicago, is here for a short visit. She is sti 1 in the stenographic and type writ ing lines and now has a good situation with the Employers’ Teaming Co., ih Chicago. She is also prominent in the management of the Women:?’ Business Preparatory School, as well as the Business Womens’ Exchange. The former an institution for fitting girls for business positions, the latter Jan institution for looking after the wellfare of such girls, generally. The Nanton, Alberta, News, ot June2Sth has an extended account of the wedding, on the day before, of Miss Eva Elizabeth Duvall, to Mr. Claude D. Clark. The bride is the youngest daughter of 8. H. Duvall, formerly of our city, and who with his son, made a visit here of some length, a few months ago The wedding was quite a grand as fair, and was held in a church, aud was the first church wedding ever held in Nanton. The bride t eing Sam's youngest daughter and her marriage leaves him without a house keeper, his oldest daughter having been married some time ago. The Hawkins & Allman stone crusher started to crush rock this morning for their Jordan road contract, but they could not make any great progress, on account of the rain. The crusher stands near Cooney’s ice house aud the rock they are using is from the line ol the Iroquois ditch, from south ol the river, where it has been drilled and blasted. It will evidently be excellent road material. The statement heretofor made that they would quarry their own rock from Cooney’s ice pond see ms to have been a misunderstanding. What they are using however, is from a part of the ditch so situated that il ; t were not removed beforehand and hauled away, it would be thrown into the pond when the big diedge came along. The long delay in the completion of the new Christian church is proving very disappointing to the congregation, who have naturally grown weary of their cramped aud inconvenient quarters in the court bouse. The delay has been occasioned from waiting for the glass for the memorial windows, especially the very large one. At the best, it was a slow process in getting the order for this filled, atd then the delay was doubled by some mistake in the factory, whereby the first set of glass for it whs ruin?d by getting it too hot in

some of the annealing process it has to go through. This accident, as we understand, necessitated doing all the work on the window over again, including the making of the special designs. This window will be 20 feet high and wide in proportion. _— THURSDAY. L__.A—-—.- t~ Ray Collins has gone to Naperville, 111., to Visit relatives. Miss Mary Washburn of Chicago is visiting her brother the Doctor, for a few days. Uncle John Coen came up from Monticello, today, for a visit with his daughters here. Capt. G. W. Payne and wife of Monticello, are visiting friends here for a short time. Mrs. George Kimberlin, of Sidell, 111., formerly Miss Nora Baker, is visiting her parents in Barkley tp. Bicknell Bros, and Bowers had a dance in the Armory yesterday and made wealth unlimited at 50 cents admission. Mrs. Arthur Huitz, and sons Frank and Newton, of Twelve Mile, Cass Co., are visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. O. Cline. Thompson Ross, one of the coL lege students, went to Montrea’, Canada, to work with au engineering company the rest of the vacaton. Mr. and Mrs. G. N. Dunn, of Wichita, Kans., are here for about a month’s visit with her parents in to vn, and Mr. Dunn’s in Kankakee township. Dr. Albert Overton, of Tuscola. 111., has a severe case of typhoid fever. His brother-in-law, Dr. S. C. Robinson, has gone down to help care for him. -X D. Babcock, now of Wells county came over to spend the Fourth in Rensselaer and to visit his best girl. Crops are great over in his country this season. By a slip of the pen we said the man with whom Perry Hull was bjarding was Forg Payne, when we meant Forg Moore. The Forg first mentioned lives in Barkley. Martha Long, Star Marshall, and Leon Lamson all went to Bloomington. today, to be guests of Miss Eura Sanders, daughter of our former school superintendent, at a ho.ise party she is giving. There was .40, or just two fifths of an inch of water fell here on tl e Fourth, which with the almost exactly the same amount the day before puts this region on Easy street for rain for a week or two at leatt. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Shay ne of Chicago, were visitors here over the 4th. Today Mr. Shayne returned home and Mrs. Shayne, who was Miss Virginia Austin, went to Crawfordsville, to attend the Hopkins family reunion. Prof. Ben F. Coen, superintendent of the Oconto, Wis., schools, is here for a few weeks’ visit with rel atives. He has not applied for the superintendency at Oconto for another year, but instead expects to find a position more to his liking some place way out west. So far as definitely known there was only one case of lightning stroke occurcd in the storm of Tuesday afternoon and that, of course, landed in the lightning belt country, which extends through Jordan and the south part of Marion township. This particular stroke killed a cow far Theodore Keiper, a few miles south of town. Mrs. H. N. Ogden, of Cincinnati, is visiting her sister, Mrs. H. L; Kiudig. Mr, Odgen will join her here in a few days. He was a former very prominent Methodist miuister in this conference, a D.D., and a presiding elder of the South Bind district, and is now holding an important position in the circulating department of the Methodist Book Concern.

The rural route carriers out of Rensselaer has received orders to go into effect on and after July 9th, to make their start hereafter at eight o’clock, instead of seven, as heretofore. And the order is also to make the end of their trip at the same time as now, which is three ' o’clock pl m. The trip must thus be made in an hour’s less time ! than now. There may be some sore of reason for making the start >an hour later, one of them being

possibly the awaiting|of mail from the south on the morning milk train. Bdt *why the carriers should be compelled to make the trip in an hour less time is a moie difficult matter to uujierstapd unless the Department wishes them to wear out their horses in even less time than they do now. The most unfortunate feature of the 4th here occured at the depot late at night. The north bound special to carry the Lowell and other north visitors home did not arrive until the time of the regular train south. The entire platform was crowded by people anxious to get on one train or the other, and a terrible crowding and jamming occured. It was stated that several women fainted in the jam, and a private postal card from Monticello today, says that a two boys from there were severely hurt. Their names were not given, and perhaps later reports will show their injurious are not so severe as reported. One ofthemostinteresting Fourth of July visitors from White county was James Spencer, of near Buffalo that county. He was the first apprentice of the first newspaper and printing office in Jasper county, the Jasper Banner, and began learning the trade in 1854, and put in type some of the articles The Republican has been quoting from recently, in its Old Time News column. After learning his trade he worked in other places, until he went to the wa-, and after he came back he was one of the editors of the old Rensselaer Gazette. Still later he was owner of a drug store, in Remington, Very pleasmt indeed are his recollections of Rens selaer of 50 years ago; of the universal friendliness of the people, their literary culture and their de votion to churches, education and all good work.