Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1906 — BRIEF LOCAL HAPPENINGS [ARTICLE]

BRIEF LOCAL HAPPENINGS

FtIDAY Fred Miller still continues very seriously sick from his attack of appendicitis. Miss Lucile Shields, of Monticello, spent the Fourth with Miss Myrtle York. | 'Harry Zimmerman and sister Cora are taking in the sights us Chicago for a few days. Rev, Edward Day will preach at the M. P. church Sunday morning at 11 o’clock, and in the afternoon at 3 o’clock. ‘C. T. Plummer is visiting his sister. Mrs. S. C. Irwin, for a week or two. He is now a traveling adjuster for about a dozen Chicago banks, and has been down east all winter. James Overtoil went to Tuscola 111., today., on account of the continued very severe sickness of his son Dr. Albert Overton, whose case of typhoid fever has been mentioned.

John Whiteaker, a residentof what is Newton county from long before it cessed to be a part of Jasper county, died at his home on the banks of the Iroquois north of Kentland, last Friday, at the age of about 83 years. E L. Hollingsworth is back from visiting his his uncle Louis Hollingsworth, at Des Moines.-.and found him in decidedly poor health, though 'somewhat better than he had hoped for. He is able to talk "tairly well and can also walk a little.

Parr had a good celebration of the Fourth, with a fair attendance. Among the amusements were two or three horse races and some foot races. Two more horse races were on the program but were called off on account of the rain. E. P. Ilonan, of Rensselaef made a good oration. A good many people have been impatient with Gov. Hanly for permitting Tom Taggart’s infernal gambling dens at West Baden and Frenck Lick to run so long, but it is now evident that the Governor

knew what he was doing, and that he was waiting until he got the evidence he needed before landing on Tom and his gang. And when he did land he landed hard. F. W. Borges, W. D. Owens’ partner in the great Mexican rubber plantation robberies, received his sentence in Boston, Thursday and it is 12 to 15 years in the penitentiary. The judge spoke his mind freely while passing the sentence and said Borges was just a common thief. Wonder what he would say to the Hop. Billy if he had a chance to give him what he also deserves! Perchance he would acknowledge that Billy is an uncommon thief.

A man named Hansen Kiser, who was drinking and carousing aronndiwre a good deal yesterday was taken , in charge at the opera bouse in the evening, and palced in jail. ’This morn* ipg he was released on promise to leave town, which he did. He was around here considerable* number of years ago and accumulated quite a reputation as a crook and generally worthless character, 'and the officials regard him as a good subject tq drive out of town if they could. Mr. and Mrs. Holdredge Clark have returned here from several months’ stay with their daughter, Mrs. Charley Nowels, at Monticello. Uncle Hall is getting so far along in years now that he is no longer able to do much towards earning- a support, and he has therefore

made applications tor quarters lor himself and wife at the soldiers home at Lafayette, this winter. They ought to have good rooms in the Jasper county building. Quite a-large party of wearers of the kabki uniform went to Chicago this morning, for a week’s camping experience with the Illinois state militia. They go on invitation of Lieutenant Alf. W, Hopkins, formerly of our city, and will participate with his company, which‘is Company D of the 7th Illinois regiment, in their annual school of military instruction, at Springfield. The members of the party were Capt. Geo. H. Healey, Sergeants Clyde Comer, G. E. Hershman, Vaughn Woodworth, Corporals Vernon Marshall, and Jim Brenner and Privates George Zea, Ray Collins, Guy Daniels, Steve Bell, Melbrin Griffin. George Putts and Will Wood worth. They will be away about a week.

When Hetman Churchill went home from Rensselaer on the evening of the Fourth he tound the lightning had been getting busy around his place three miles northwest, while he was away, but instead of getting mad about it Herman pretty nearly felt like having another celebration because it was no worse. His fine new barn had been struck and a good deal ripped up, down two different corners, but the damage was comparatively very slight, net more than S2O or $25, and what was still luckier was that several good horses standing in the barn were not injured.

J. vV. Williams has left on an extended pleasure trip in the east. He will go to Cleveland, Ohio, and

there be joined by his two brothers and from thence they will journey on eastward and visit Washington, Philadelphia, New York and various other places of interest, including a visit with their only sister who lives at East Hampton, on Long Island. He will be away about three weeks.~T~

Mayor Lawrence Becker. of Hammond, has declined to be a candidate for Congress in this district this fall, and they are hard pushed to find a man of ability willing to accept the empty honor. We will charge them nothing for suggesting E. P. Honan, of Rensselaer. He is one of the ablest speakers bis party has iu the district, if not the very ablest.

Jesse Rice, a boy about 16 years old, was thrown from a horse in a race at Parr on the Fourth, and received injuries that at first seem ed very serious, but which he has since recovered from with no last ing results. He fell on his head and shoulders’and was unconscious for quite a long time. He is a sou of Eugene*Rice, of Gillam Tp., and is the same boy whose case attracted a good deal of attention three or four years ago. He was hurt on the head at that time, also by falling from a horse, and remained unconscious for three or four weeks.

Johnny McColly. of the firm of McColly & Son, has lately completed a neat and commodious gasoline launch, doing all the work himself, including installing a gasoline engine of 11 horse power. The boat will carry six or eight people very nicely and will get along also. It has been tried out in the river here several times and today was given its first run in the Kankakee. Quite a party went along to participate in the pleasure. They were Mr. and Mrs. McColly, Mr. and Mrs. Elza Grow, and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Long. They expect to stay there about a week.

A German father said to his son who was starting to school: '‘lf dot teacher vips you, you tell me about id, and I takes a hand in der vippiugs.” A few days later the son reported to his 'father that the teacher had dressed him dowu. “Vot for he vips yonl’’ asked the old gent. The boy explained that it was all the fault of the teacher and reminded his father of his promise to take a hand if anything of the kind happened. “Sur?’’ said the father reaching for a strap, ‘‘come mit me to de voodshed. Id is a bleasure dot I takes a hand in der scrimmage.” If every father wou’d emulate the example of our

German friend, there be fewer hoodlums and incorrigible youngsters. The house west of the river, just torn down to make room for Ray -Thompson’s new residence, was One ot the oldest buildings left in town. It was i uilt by Dr. David I. J ack son. a prominent early resident. along about 1857/ or perhaps a little later. It was still ip a pretty good state of preservation and the timbers in it, all of hard wood, are still so good that Mr. Thompson will use them in his new house. Dr. Jackson seems to have got his title as Dr. more as a druggist term or two as county clerk here and was long a prominent figure. In company with F. W. Bedford he erected the first three story building in Rensselaer, what is now called the Bedford' building, standing between the Nowels House and the Starr building. He afterwards traded his share of this brick building for land in Arkansas and died in that state.

Jasper county had within its limits for a few hours on the Fourth one of the present day’s greatest prize-fighters. It was “Battling’’ Nelson of Chicago-, and since he licked Terry McGovern, a short time ago, the world’s champion light-weight fighter. He came down to Parr on Wednesday and spent several hours there, visiting the femily of Joseph Conway, being an old acquaintance and we believe a relative, of Mrs. Conway’s. He went from Parr to Rose Lawn, where he visited Tump Kight, who was formerly a near neighbor, in Chicago. Nelson, personally, is not only a very pleasant man to meet; but he has the reputation of being a very kindly and charitable man. and free from kinds of vices. He has become quite wealthy since he became a successful prize fighter and is now said to be worth about $150,008.

The man w ( ho lives beyond his means is not leading an honest life. Live within your income, nomatter

how modest that income may be. Save up something for ax rainy day. This is more easily done than you imagine. Where there is a will there is a way. The wants of nature aee few and easily supplied. Most of our wants are artificial and do nob contribute to our comfort. Sweeter to the palate is bread and water in a garret than is a delicious feast to the spendthrift who is tortured by the specter of the creditor knocking at his door. While the insolvent debtor is a slave you will possess a free and independent spirit and will enjoy the testimony of a good conscience.—Cardinal James Gibbons. .

SATURDAY. Born, this Saturday July 7th, to Mr. and Mrs. George Wood, on the Dr. Hartsell farm, west of town, a son.

J. C. Frazee, of Pera, returned home Friday after a few days spent here looking after his two farms in Barkley Tp. F. E. Babcock, editor of the Democrat, left this morning on a visit back to his old home in New York, and to various other points farther east. He will be away alwut three weeks.

Dr. A. J. Miller was at Chicago a day or two ago with Mrs. Wm. Miller, of Barkley, who is in rather poor health and whom he left at a sanitarium at Ravenswood for a few weeks’ rest and recuperation. Mr. and Mrs. I. D. Dunn, of Kaukakee township, and their neice. Miss Rosa Dunn, ot Richmond, Ind., were in town Faiday, visiting their son George and wife, of Wichita. Miss Louie Stoner, a former well know young lady of Rensselaer, is to be married at the home of her parent, Mr. and Mre. D. A, Stoner, at Wichita, Kans., on July 19th to Frank P. Windsor, of Ladin, Kans.

J. E. Spitler is down at West Baden for about a ten days’ stay drinking the water for his liver and incidentally mingling his tears of sympathy with his old friend Tom Taggart, in this his time of great tribulation. •

Mr. and'Mrs. Lee Catt and family now of Knightstown, Ind., are here lor a couple of weeks visit with his

_. -- J . - --- - patents, Mr. and' Mrs Allen Catt and oth«-r friends and relations. Lee has a good job in a planing mill at Knightstown. One more of t lie ridiculous libel suits of M iss Bessie Cronin' has been tried with the regular result of a verdict for the defendant. This was the suit involving Dr. : Jones/nf/ ran cesviHe/_ It was tried 'ast week in Valparaiso. Mrs. Retia Sharp, wife of Joseph Sharp, is gradually failing again from the effects of the tumor or cancer from which she has suffered so long and been operated upon for twice, and auy further Erinest, the 8 or 9 year old son of

Ed Hopkins, the carpenter, got a pretty bad hole punched iu the calf of his leg, Friday afternoon, by falling on top of an iron picket, at Mayor Ellis’s.residence, on Front street. The wound was sewed up oy a physician and no serious consequences are expected. Charley Dunn, son of John C, Dunß, of Wichita, Kans., and grandson of IsaaeD.Dunn f of Duunville. was appointed as a cadet to West Point some time ago by the congressman Tor his district. ; and has passed the necessary examinations and is now at West Point, pursuing his studies. He was here visi ing his Rensselaer friends a month or so ago. Jacob Meger, a 19* year old boy was struck by a Monon train near Dyer, late Thursday night, and so badly injured that he died at noon, yesterday. He worked near St Johns, and had started to walk there from Dyer, and’ either tried to flip a freight train and fell under it or was walking along the track and was run down.

Bishop John W. Hamilton, or San Francisco, has notified the presiding elders of the Northwest Indiana conference of the M. E. church of a change of date fqr the conference. It will convene at Lebanon Sept. 12, instead of Sept. 26. This will bring the conference two weeks earlier than originally intended and will meet with the almost unanimous approval of the conference members.

Mrs. John Eger and son Trevor, who is home from Harvard for ihe summer vacation, entertained about thirty guests last evening, at their beautiful home on Van Rensselaer street, in honor of Miss Edith Gillett, of Joliet, who is visiting vaiious relatives here, and Miss Iva Irving, of who is the guest &f Mrs. Van Grant Cards and other games were the amusements and prizes were won by Gurney Jesson and Mrss Irving. Dainty refreshments were served and the guests left at midnight after spending a very delightful evening.

Mr. and Mrs. Alfred McCoy ex pected to leave Chicago today to go to-Queen City, Mo., where it is understood they will make their permanent homes with their daughter, Mrs. W. A. Rinehart. Uncle Mac had an idea when he went to Chicago that he would be given a good job by Wood Brothers at the stock yards, but that a man of his advanced age and old style ways could hope to earn good wages in a place like the stock yards, was not a very promising proposition.

A terrible accident occured at Lafayette last night. A dwelling house was burned and a woman and six children perished in the fire. Their name wasGaiba or Gobba, and they recently came from some part of Russia, being Jewish refugees. The father of the family escaped, though badly injured by falling from the up stairs window, and one child also escap ed, by being visiting at a neighbor’s. The fire was first discovered by Rev. O. B. Rippetoe, former pastdr of the Morocco M. ® church and now of the Congress street church, at Lafayette. Just as we went to press Officers Vick and Parks were starting out to Hanging Grove township, in the Thompson automobile, to arrest a man whom two special constables feared to tackle. It. was stated that he was barricaded in a house and swearing he would shoot anyone who tried to take him. His name was given as Morris but the party who telephoned in said his

offense was not suitable to describe over the telephone. « 1 MONDAY. The Maud IJenderson show company went to Monon today after a four days’s season in the operd house here.

Bert Amsler, Walter Porter and the Carr Brothers anion? them shipped five car loads cf cattle to the stockyards this morning. Verne Haas went to Lafayette yesterday where he will /make--afi extended visit with his brother Austin and family. Misses” Ina Merrill and lonia Imes, of Chicago, returned there Sunday after a visit of some leugth with triends and relatives here. While there was no rain at all here early Sunday morning while thunder and lightning were so much in evidence, it rained very hard a couple of miles or so northwest of town.

Mrs. Leota Jones and son Ralph are down from Chicago for a couple of weeks’ visit with relatives, during Ralph’s annual vacation. He is still employed in the advertising department of the Record Herald; The Rensselaer boys in camp with Lieutenant Alf Hopkins, and the Illinois state militia at Springfield, 111., are in a beautiful wooded camp ground, and their tents are under large oak trees and have elevated board floors. The Bens selaer bunch are all together.

This is the ninth successive day in which the wind has blown from a northerly direction, and during severTof which it was steadily from the northeast. These cool refreshing north breezes have made a spell of weather seldom equalled for pleasantness in this region, at this time of the year. The Monon’s extra graveling and leveling gang is now working np between Lowell and Cedar Lake. Beveral of the high school and college contingent from here have dropped out, but enough others not of that class have joined in to more than make their number good from this town.

Dave Worfand has sold his farm a few miles west of town which he bought last year, to Mrs. Corlis, now of Rensselaer. The farm contains 120 acres and the price is $66 per acre, cash. Possession is to change the first of next March. Mrs. Corlis’s son, now living ten miles east of town,, will occupy the place. C. J, Dean negotiated the ' deal. Henry Jones, of Chicago, and his best girl, Miss Kittie DeLorme, are visiting his father Uncle Bill

and other relatives here for a few days. Henry reports that the northeast winds right off from Lake Michigan, which have been so pleasant here have been altogether too cold and damp to ba pleasant in Chicago, and that overcoats have been in order every evening, for many days past. Sam Guy bad a light stroke of appoplexy on the night of July 4th resulting in the pretty nearly complete paralysis of bis left leg and arm, and his condition is not at all encouraging. He has been working at the Irwin tile mill this sea* son, and lives with his aged mother in the southeast part of town. He came from Remington here and is a nephew of Jasper Guy, the well known attorney of that place.

A paragraph is going the rounds to the effect that there are 53 Sundays this year, which is all true enough, but this fact is accompanied with thestatement that it w-ill be 110 years before we have another year with 53 Sundays. .<'As a matter of fact, however, years with 53 Bundays happen along every once in a while. Every year that

begins with Sunday has 53 of them before it quits, and that happens once j?very seven years, on an average. \ > One of the Chicago papers stated Sunday that George Ade was sbon to marry Torn Taggart’s oldest daughter. Ade got acquainted with her while both were traveling in Europe. ■ - The funeral of the seven members of the Gaiba family who perished in fire at Lafayette Friday night, was held there Sunday mornirg, and was one of the largest ever held there. Tneir death was the-worst accident that ever took ptaug in Liifayene. The present state administration from its inception has stood,for the

wise enactment of laws and the fearless and honest enforcement of laws enacted. It has been and is characterized by jealousjregard for the taxpaying -public and for the promotion of high standards in the administration of public affairs. The administration will long be remembered by reason of fidelity and sturdy integrity of Governor J. Frank Hanly, whose administration we most heartily and unreservedly commend and endorse.— Prom the Riprblicn 8 tatePlatfortn.

During one of the several very loud and sharp claps of thunder which occured during the rainless thunder storm which came up at an early boor Sunday morning, the lightning struck a large catalpa tree in the dooryard of Uncle Johnny Groom’s house, at the corner of Weston and Rutsen streets. It struck the tree about 25 feet from the ground and pretty thoroughly riddled in nearly all the way down, and large pieces were scattered about in every direction. The tree stands about 20 feet fr.m the house, but the inmates were none of them at all shocked by the discharge. The Sunday papers had reports from several points in eastern states announcing the arrival of great droves of wild pigeons which fly over the mountains in long lines as they did here thirty to forty years ago. Older people will remember that wild pigeons were here in such great numbers they at times sailed over by millions and fairly darkened the air. After being here in great numbers for many years they disappeared as suddenly as they came and, it is said, went to the southern part of South America and to the interior wilds of Africa and now they may be returning. Miss May Dickinson, lost a gold watch on the Fourth,* in the street here, and the chance for its recovery seemdd decidedly poor, when there was so many strangers

in town, who if they found the watch would be likely to carry it away and not see the notice if it was ad vertised. However Miss Diekihson put a notice in The Republican, and has thereby recovered her watch. It was found by Emil Johnson, of about two miles north* west of town. Another article lost on the Fourth and promptly recovered through a notice in this paper, was a young lady’s gold pin which was found by H B. Murray, the rural route mail carrier.' *•'

Mrs. W. R. Shesier, of about two miles east of town, is in a sad condition as the result of a disease she has suffered from fox several years past. It is what the doctors call ascending or creeping paralysis. It began several years ago, aud in her feet as is characteristic of the disease, and has slowly progressed upward ever since, finally involving all parts of her body except the head and arms, and has at last reached and paralyzed the muscles of swallowing, so that now she is entirely unable to swallow even a drink of water. She is very low and her death can not much longer be deferred. Everything possible has been done to arrest the progress of her disease including two sojournsat hospitals, and the trying of different schools of medicine, but all without avail. She is still comparatively a young woman.

Of all the cakes that mother 1 nikes give me the Gundens bread. Eight men and two little boys. If 1 had the wings of a dove how swiftly I would tiv, to Roberts’ Implement shop and a buggy I would bay.Yours truly, \

C. A. ROBERTS