Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1906 — BRIEF LOCAL HAPPENINGS [ARTICLE]

BRIEF LOCAL HAPPENINGS

FRIDAY Mrs. H. X. Ogden of Cincinnati, returned home today, after an extended visit with her sister, Mrs. H. L. Kiudig. Wm. Kenton, yf Mitchell, South Dakota, is back twith relatives and old friends. He reports splendid prospects for crops in his country this year. .. . Mrs. J. H. Hull and daughter Mrs. M. F. Shaw, both of Indianapolis, are visiting their daughter and sister, respectively, Mis. H. L. Kindig. for about a ween.

The advance sign of the coming of the regulars has arrived-in the shape of four or five boxes of hard tack, which are now awaiting them at the depot. Carl Duvall is visiting relatives at Grgnd Rapids. Mich., and from there will go to Charlevoix, for a stay of some length, and he expects to be away until about Sept. Ist. Reports from Dr. Albert Over ton, at Tuscola, 111., are to the effect that he is not get'iug well as fast as he was a lew days ago, though no fears are entertained now of hi.s ultimate recovery. Born, Thursday, July 19th, to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Black, of Indianapolis, a sou. The birth occured,at tue home of Mrs. Black’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Nelson, in the northwest part of town. Born, Thursday, July 19th to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bachman, 1$ miles northeast .of town, a son, and their eight child. | Also thefirst since the birth of the celebrated Bachman triplets, now all fine healthy boys about three aud a half years "old. Rev. T. F. Drake, of Wiuamac arrived here this afternoon, and will hold quarterly meeting in Barkley Saturday and Sunday. He is now interested in the establishment of a big paint factory in Chattanooga, Tenu., and which is to use a wonderful formation ot natural paint, in Alabama. A directors’ meetiug of the Gifford railroad is to be held at Kersey on July 26th. The road has been making pretty good progress northward, this season, and the tracks ate now laid to some eight or ten miles north of the Kankakee river. Mr. Gifford’s dry laud dredge which he installed this spring lms been a great success iu grading the roadbed. 4- few days more and the Gollmar Show will have arrived on its special trains, and its city of white tents will spring up as if by magic. Its magnificent street parade will traverse the principal streets of the towu, the galloping music of its several bauds aud calliope will be heard, and the children, youth and othei people will spend the ds y with their circus friends. Buzz Hooper, a well knowu resi deut of Fair Oaks, died at that place this Friday morning about nine o'clock. He had been in poor health lor qnite a long time, but the immediate cause of his death seems to have been infection from a cut in his knee, which he received about three weeks ago. He was about 40 year* old and leaves a family. Hascalt Bros., of the short order * restaurant, have sold the fixtures and furniture in the same to F. W. Bedford, owner of the building, and have returned to Remington. Their career here was short, but by all accoupts they at least “brokeeven’’ financially, owing largely to the immense business they did on the Fourth of July, when t hey literally sold everything eatable and drinkable in the building. Their trade that one day was renorted at over JIAOO.

! When Mrs. George Hilton, of | Delray. Mich., was here the first of this week to attend the funeral oi her mother-in-law, Mrs. David Hilton, she arranged for the re-in-terment here of the body of her little child, then buried at Delray, and accordingly the body arrived by express, Thursday, and was taken in charge b$ Undertaker Wright, and buried by the side ol its father, buried here last year, and near the grave ot the grand mother, buried last Monday. ’ Reports from the caffip of the ' regulars, which was four miles from Crown Point last night, are .bat the soldiers are greatly surprised and pleased at the pleasant treat ment they are receiving from the country and village people of Indiana. which contrasts greatly with the sour and suspicious conduct towards them of the Chicago people. The soldiers are vouched for by Col. Pitcher, their commander, as being entirely well behaved, and that nothing is taken by any of them withouti full pay. Their today’s march has landed them down near Orchard Grove, a few miles the other side of the Kankakee river.

When Marshall Field the great Chicago merchant died some months ago and was being praised to the skies, nnd yet left a will that was the quintessence of narrowminded selfishness, we took occasion to express the opinion that a man of Field’s enormous wealth who would leave practically none of his money to public purposes did not deserve the unqualified praise that was being bestowed upon him, And now a much stronger proof of the correctness of our views has just been developed. It has been proved that Field was oue of the most persistent AjadYcoiL scieucless 1 tax-dodgers in the whole country, and at the time of his death tie was not paying taxes on more than one fifteenth of his personal property.

Ean Sayler has returned from his trip to Minnesota, during which he made a deal which will result in his removal to that state. He bought an improved farm of 160 acres, four miles from Ashby and ten miles from Elbow Lake, and will move up there and take pcssessiou by Oct., Ist. He traded in his residence property here, being the old Ike Sayler residence, iu the west part of town, and his 57 acre farm iu Gillam Tp. He pays some differencelin money but also gets the stock and tools pn the farm. The farm he gets is well improved, with new buildings.

SATURDAY. F.d. Mills, of Chicago, joined his wife here today, for a two weeks visit. Herbert Zea went to Lafayette, last evening, aud will have an operation performed for a chronic trouble. Mrs. Nannie Slathour. of Lafav- , * ! ette, returned home last evening, after a two weeks visit with hex ; brother, H. C. Hosliaw. Crown Point is to have a Carnegie i library, as the money for a site has been raised, after a good deal of troußTeamT delay. A three year old sou of Chas. Warue, of near Parr, tell from a hay mow, Friday, aud broke oue of his arms, near the shoulder. Miss Eva Griggs, of Marshall Field’s store, Chicago, came down last evening, for two weeks visit with her pareuts, in Barkley Tp. Mrs. Julia Healey aud daughter-in-law Mrs. G. H. Healey went to Delphi Friday, to attend the golden wedding anniversary ofthe former’s sister, Mrs. J. W. Fawcett. The U. 8 Commissioner of Pensions is preparing to abolish about half of the examining boards of the country by makiug the age of 62 a sufficient disability in the meaning of the peusiou laws. The Hon. Dan Fraser of Fowler was elected President of the Indiana State Bar Association at its annual meeting at West JJadeu last week. Mrs. Mildred Powell went to Valparaiso, today, for a few weeks visit with her brother, Rev. Appleby, and she will return here before going to her home in Pennsylvania Mrs. D. T. Crow aud son Emmet*

of Newton tp.. went to Lafayette, today, where Emmet Will enter a business college, and where Mrs. Crow expects to keep a students’ boarding house. In Indiana the sum of SII,OOO is ready to be turned over to any officer or individual who will produce tbe murderer of Sarah Schaffer, the murderer of Mrs. Elizabeth Treseh aud the tobacco trust lobbyist, Cigarette Baker. According to the report of a man who lives on the Otis Ranch., two miles east” of Rose Lawn, the soldiers are to camp there tonight and over 3undoy. The lateness of their departure from the river seem to confirm this In that caae they will cat out Fair Oaks entirely. Frank Crosscqp hasretu med from North Dakota, where himself and mother have lived Tor several years, with her married daughter, and hW mother will come in about six weeks. They will resume their residence here in their house on College street.

Goodland Herald: Frank Eck, who lived northeast of Goodland in Jasper county, and was well known here, was killed by. the cars at North Vernon. Ind., Wednesday. He has been working on John

Ulm’s farm near that place for some time. \\ e did not learn the particulars of the accidert. The U. S. regulars were at Water Valley until nearly two o’clock this afternoon, and then took up their march for Fair Oaks, or where ever else is to be their camping place tonight and presumably until Moudy morning. Their mail natter which they had sent to Kidman, was ordered sent to Montieello, but why they did not have it sent here is an unexplained problem. Roy Peacock, formerly of this place, but for qaite a number of years tower man in the interlocking switch tower at Dyer, has lost that job. and as stated, for too much activity as chairman ot the greivance committee of the railroad tele graph operators union. He is now in Chicago, workiug in the interests of the union and is said to be getting more money than his tower job paid hiim — A local rain storm which seemed to have formed right in the imme diate vicinity of Rensselaer, an. which lastedonly about4o minutes, brought .90 of an inch of rain, or the best single raid for the whole season, so far. The rain was decidedly local in its extent, and north six miles, at Amos Alter’s place there was not a drop. Out southwest, towards Mark Reed’s aud Walter Porter’s places, it rained very hard, and they probably got as much as Rensselaer did. Lieutenant Pepper, oue of the officers in the 27th regiment now near Fair Oaks, shouldered one of the Merriam packs Friday, aud marched in ranks all day. to see for himself what kind of a thing it is for the soldiers to carry. He was about all in when night came, and said he had had' euough of the Merriam pack. Its weight is now stated at 65 pounds, instead of 90, as before published, but even that is far too much, but it is not the weight so much as the position it occupies, aud the sticks which rest on the soldiers’ hips, which cause the trouble. The U. S. regulars will not pass Sunday or part of it at Rensselaer. The announcement was made yesterday that no more marching would be done on Sundays. The regiment reached Orchard Grove Friday and the plan for today was to spend four hours at the Kankakee river, at Water Valley, then march to the vicinity of Fair Oaks, and camp over Sunday. This shows a considerable change from the probable Hue of | march as first published, which i would have landed them at Kuimau touight instead of Fair j Oaks. There are good places to ! camp around there, the only difficulty perhaps, being the water | supply. There is still auother 1 army marching from Fort Sheridan !to Indianapolis, being several batteries of heavy artillery. ' They are making a more westerly route, and by this time must be over ; southwest of Morocco. ! Parker does framing.

HONDA!. Lee Ivepner went to Chicago yeaterday, where he has secured a position in a restaurant. Miss Jean McFarland went to Brook today for a week's visit with friends. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Wash born, of Goodland drove over yesterday fora short visit with the Doctor and family. Mrs. D. A. Stoner, of Wichita. Kans., arrived this morning, for a vistt with her mother, Mrsn. JL..T... Randle. C. H. Porter of Chicago, who has been camping with Delphi friends on the [Tippecanoe river near that place, joined his wife here Saturday Mr. and Mrs. Charles Purcupile, N. Y., are here for a week's visit with his grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Purcupile aud other relatives." —■* ——

Trustee J. H. Chapman and Attorney S. P. Thompson went to Hammond this morning, to be on baud for the hearing of the Rine hart claims, before Referee Bowers. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Passous start ed this morning for their annual visit with relatives at Marion and other parts of Grant couuty. They are journeying overland by their horse propelled automobile.

Fred King, long an able clerlj in the Eger grocery store, went to Winona Lake today, aud expects to remain there permanently, having secured a position iu a store there. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W King, who have been at the Lake for some months, have decided to locate there permanently.

Misses Lucile and Star Marshall went to Marley, Ill;, today ferr a few days visit with relatives,! and for a lake trip with an uncle from Joliet. There cousins Misses Edith Gillettaud Florence Marshall wil be members of the party. E. B. Vondersmith, of Remington, the amputation of whose big toe was mentioned some days ago, has developed gangrene in it, and for several days has been in a very dangerous condition. The wound was opened Sunday evening, and the reports are now that his condition is not altogether hopeless. A seven year old daughter of Jack Hoyes, of east of town,- was taken to Chicago, Suuday, to see an eye specialist, one of her eyes having been hurt some time ago, by being strueh with a corn cob, thrown by a boy. The eye is pretty bad, but the specialist thinks she will not lose it.

G. W. Goff made the first sale to the regulars, now in camp here. It was an order for 500 loaves of bread, and the order was telephon - ed iu by the army quartermaster, Sunday afternoon, from Fair Oaks. It was a bigger order by several loaves at least, than Mr. Goffjis accustomed to filling and knowing that he would have to send out of town to fill it, he suggested that the quartermaster try Nick Sflimitter’s bakery. But’ Nick shied at so big a baking as that, and Mr. Goff then ordered it from Frankfort, to come up on the 9.55 a. m. train, this morning. Five hundred pounds of bread is a good deal of bread iu one shipment.

J. W. Williams arrived hoiile Sundayevening, from his several weeks’ visit down east. He enjoyed his trip very much, but is very glad to get back, and says for nice couu try and friendly people there is no place like old Indiana. The south bound train |passiug here at 11 a. m. today, killed a two year old child at Shelby,

which had wandered frbui home and was on the track alone. If was a child of, Henry DeFrees. who keeps a grocery store at Shelby.

Sunday's temperature reached the usual 91 degrees mark,, and about half a degree over but. though beiu.' thus really uo [hotter than several other d ivs, it seemed . much more oppressive than the other hot days recently, owing uo doubt to greater humidity. Today’s change to coole ris very marked. Saturday Afternoon during the big rain, lightning struck a 1 tree in the door yard of Larkin Potts’s house, in the northwest 'part of town. The tree is so near the house that some of the branches j

touch the roof, and a part ot the discharge entered the house, coming down the kitchen chimney. Tl tore the plaster on the kitchen ceiling, and also melted or cut off a wire which held up the stove pipe; throwing the pipe off the stove. Mrs. Potts was in the kitchen at the time and was pretty considerably shaken up, but perhaps as muck or more by the fright as by any actual shock from the lightning. The damage to the house was slight. . ■Sunday afternoon of horses consisting of four: work horses aud three colts, belonging to Mr. Woods, who lives on the Amsler farm, just north of the railroad and across the street east of the Rensselaei corporation line, got out into the streets and wandered to Frank Shide’s place on East Vine street, where Frank has a

patch of corn. He drove the horses away and back across the railroad, where they belonged, but they afterwards came back and were just on the railroad crossing, on Melville street, when the 3.30 P. M. north bound train came along and ran into them. ( Oue. a two year old colt was carried about 300 feet and killed. Another a sucking colt was struck and badly hurt. The big job of installing the machinery on. Sternberg’s new and enormous dredge which has been going on forieveral weeks, is now almost completed and it is expected that the first start at actual work will be made Wednesday of this week. The dredge, as before stated, is located a few hundred feet north of the Pullins or Stackhouse biidge, and about four miles north and a halt a mile east of town. The other and smaller Sternberg dredge which has cut the Iroquois ditch from Parr down to where this big dredge is, now stands behind it. It is an ordinary sized dredge, [ but looms mighty small ineouiparisou with this huge new machine, which is evidently just about the limit for dredge work in Indiana.