Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1906 — BRIEF LOCAL HAPPENINGS [ARTICLE]

BRIEF LOCAL HAPPENINGS

• Born this Fiiday, Aug. 24th, to Mr. and Mrs James Fleming of Jordan Tp., a son. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Smith, went to Chicago this morning for a short visit with friends. Mr. and Mrs. Effirald Aldrich, went to Delphi today, for a short visit with fr iends. Mrs. Phillip Steel oflChicago. returned home today, after a short visit with Mrs. Dr. English. Mrs. Leonard Ralph Leake, of E'mwood,. Wis , is here f r several weeks visit with her aunt, Mrs. S. R. Nichols. Mrs.' ITaltie Powell Griffith, of Brownsville. Pa., if here for an ex —tended visit with her sister. Mrs. C. G. Spitler. Mr. and Mr?. Harrison Warren, of Peru, are making their annual visit with Rensselaer relatives ai d old friends, this week. Sam Heudrickson, the barber, has bought a half interest in a shop at Francesville, and himself and family moved there today, going over by team. There is a slight change to cooler today, the difference being about six degrees from the temperature of the previous six days. But even yet it is still hot and very muggy. Gen. Theodore F. Brown, of Pittsburg, Pa., is making another visit to his friends, Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Honan. He will be here for about a week. Rev, G. W. Payne and wife, of Monticello, are visiting Rensselaer friends and the Captain is looking after the business affairs of ’the Rensselaer M. P. church. Fletcher Monnett of Evanston., 111., returned home today, after a short visit with relatives here. His daughter Mrs. Dr. Brown ac companied him home for a short visit. Misses Daisy Reece, Elizebeth McLogan. and Lettie Kennedy, -and Mr. Maurice Maloney, returned to their homes in Chicago this morning after a short visit with Mrs. Mary Drake and family. Au Indianapolis paper recently said that the Louisville & Nashville Railroad is likely soon to build through to Chicago, and that ij was the supposed Intention of the company to use the line already surveyed through this county last year, and called the Chicago, Indianapolis & Evansville Railroad. Richard Herron, a comparatively young man, died in Monticello, last week, of chronic alcoholism leaving a widow and one child. She has ■’now brought suit against two of the Monticello saloonkeepers for $2,000 each, for their share in caus ing the death of her husband, by selling him liquor. She includes their bondsmen in the suits. Word has been received from S. R. Nichols, in Oklahoma, that he found his daughter, Mrs. Grace Leatherock, in very poor health, and that he had accompanied her to a hospital at Oklahoma City, where she was to have undergone an operation, a or two ago. As no word to the contrary has been received, it is supposed to have been passed through successfully. The first experiment with rural free delivery was made ?n 1897. In 1898 the expenditures on the was only $50,000. In 1905

j the ex-penditure? had risen to neari ly $21.000.0(A).. The appropriation i for the curiei.'t fical year is $28.330.0 »tt. the routes number 35.S"Tj the can iers 3 >.768. Thei;e is daily j service on all the routes except 253. I and on these there~is service every other day. The benefits of the service extended tQ._ 3,22§^660_. families of 13,667.994 persons. During the mouth of July ac cording to returns made to the State Board of Health 319 persons in Indiana died fiom tuberculosis. Therel were-143 males jamLUßi females." Of the males twenty-five were married and in the age period of 18 to 40 and left fifty orphans. Of the females fifty-seven were in the same age period and left 118 orphans. The total of orphans made by the disease in one month, was 166. ..The number of.homes invaded was 291.

Mr. and Mrs. Win. Green former residents of Rensselaer for a num ber oLyears, bat who moved to Chicago about 20 years ago, madetheiP'tirst visit back here yesterday and that for only half a day, arriving on the 11 a. m. train and leav ing on the evening milk, train. They have been residents of Sacra men to, Cal., for the past ten years, and like all people who have lived in that state for a number of years, they think there is no place bn earth like California and no place in California like -Sacramento. From here they went to La fayette, to visit other friends there and at other places.. in this state.

From many sections of the conn try come reports that city people in fast increasing numbers are tak ing to the farms for their Isummer vacations. A Chicago manu facturer is quoted as saying that he is weary of letting the young men o f his office staff go to summer resirts hotels, where they grow tired instead of rested, where they fall into worse habits than they kept at home, and where They are greatly deprived of vigor, disci pline and moral tone instead of being restored to good form. He is tempting as many of them as w he can to avoid the frequented resorts and spend their vacation time quiet’y tn secluded places where they escape ■ from the rattle and dirt and confusion of the city and find real, rest for the brain aud nerves as well as the body. SATURDAY. George Lundy, of Duvall & Lundy, returned this morning from an outing at Chain of Lakes, Wis. He caught lots of fish. Miss Jane Keeney, who teaches ia Paonia, Colo., left foi that place today, after spending the summer with her parents, near town. Mr. and Mrs. Jay Wood, on the Amsler farm, on the east border of towu, went to Indianapolis, today, for a week’s visit with relatives. Ralph Sherman, a little lame boy who has spent the summer with Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Irwin, returned to his home in Minneapolis, Minn., today. Mrs. C. C. Warner has gone to Lincoln, Neb., on account of the serious sickness of Miss Linda Dwiggins, of that place, who has typhoid fever. H. W. Jackson arrived home last evening from a trip to Minnesota, where he was visiting a sister. He says the beat was as bad up theie as it has been here. Grandfather J. M. Gwin was in town today, on bis way from Fair Oaks, where he . was visiting, to McCoyfcburg. He was 88 years old last Sunday, but gets about light briskly, for all his great age. Joe Reyholds, of the Delphi Journal, has been staying with his mother, Mrs. Nichols, since Wednesday, aud rather under the weather, but returned home this afternoon. Old General Humidity aud r "'orid Temperature are still doing business with us. and seemingly more firmlj’ entrenched than ever. The astral 90 degree mark was scored this afternoon. Mrs. Rev. J. C. Parrett returned from Chalmers, today, where she i has been staying with her parents ! since her recent operation in a hoej pitaKn Chicago. She is still quite “Weak, but seems to be steadily improving.

f The Padgett horse Bourbon J. got another goi>d race, in the 2:18 class at Elwood. Friday. Delos Thomp : son. C. C. Warner. Jink aud Chick were down in the big auto to see it. Fair Oaks also won a race. Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. 8. A. Royster, of West vilie. went through townthL morning on the : r wav to Niagara Falls, and left their little daughter Ruth with Mr. "Beam’s little girl Gladys, during their absence. . M». Royster jwas formerly night operator There for quite a n u mber o 1 years— Mrs. George McCarthy went to Chicago, this forenoon, accompanied by her two professional nurse daughters, Misses Fannie and Nellie, and she will there enter Mary Thompson hospital and be operated upon for gal 1 stones. Her daughters will remain with her as her nurses.

Still we cau not get away from the unceasing succession of excessive aud wholly unnecessary rains. In the thunder storm of early this morning there was .46 of an inch of rain fell and in the previous rain .14-of an inch. In all three fifths of an inch of water, which is a good deal on top of the constant soaking we have been having for the past month. Miss Mattie Hemphill, who has been visiting her mother, Mis. Rebecca Hemphil', for some time left today to return to Great Falls Montana, where she is taking a course in a nurse's training school, aud which course she expects to complete in good time. She was in poor health when she left here nearly two years ago, but the Montana climate has evidently been very beneficial to her in that respect.

The populist party, what there is left of it, will hold its state con vention in Indianapolis Aug. 29tu. in the Criminal court room. Party headquarters will be at the English hotel. .A number of speakers will be at the convention, among the speakers being F. J. Van Vorhis. of Indianapolis, Samuel W. Williarusof Vincennes, State Chairman. Fred Robinson of Cleveland, Mort Raukiu of Terre Haute aud Dr. J. W. Clark of Washington. W. L. Porter and family, of Chi- | cago, returned home today, after | spending several weeks on his farm, northwest of town, now occupied by H. B. Hurd. Mr. Porter has beeu in the wholesale and retail meat business in Chicago for quite a long time aud has found being in the cold storage so much, as is necessary, has given him the rheumatism, and he therefore intends to quit it next year and move ' on his farm here, himself. He has a brother already living in this county, being R. B. Porter, of near McCoysburg.

An incident occured at the Woodworth fire last night which showed that there are still situations in which some of the members of the old fire company can show th«-pre-sent firemen, alert and capable as they are, a few tricks. Thus Christie Vick, one of the old members, was early at the scene and volunteered to help hold one of the nozzles. This he did in a place so thick with smoke that five other men in succession, who heli it with him, were used up and had to holler for relief. As for Christie, he simply enjoyed it. Squire S. C. Irwin turned off a wedding while you wait, at the clerk’s office, Thursday afternoon. The parties were Grover Cleveland Norris, a young man who works on a farm near Rensselaer, and who was fined by the Squire a short time ago for a disturbance in“ the opera house, and being so well pleased with the thorough charac ter of his work on that-occasion, he gave him a chance at this job, also. The young lady was Miss Mary Ellen Snow, daughter of George Newman Snow, of Barkley tp. He is a little past 21 and she “just rising” 19. Morrocco Courier:—Louis Har rington who for some months has been assistant operator at the O. & E. I. depot at this place, has been appointed agent at Zodoe, the cross ingof the LaCrosse division 'of the C. & E. I. and the Wabash Valley. Gifford’s road. He takes the job Sept. Ist. Louis is a good, reliable

la land having had a coyrs* of training under that most proficient of railroad men, D. B. Cassell, he is well qualified to perform the /dutiesaligned to hiHFTB=Na satisfactory manner. Jntpis appoint menu he also has the ad vantage of being only three miles from h s home and can live with hH pemde. Tbe government agricultural dpartiueut says dandelions "may b - killed by pouring a spoonful of gasoline into each head and root ami then setting it on fire. Care of course should be usedinsneha

process, aud it seems tedious, but when it is known that dandelions cab hardly be dug out of root this plan would seem good if effective. However the remedy seems a good deal like the Frenchman's celebrat ed flea powder, which was sure death to fleas, ifyoufirst caught the flea, then tickled him in the 1 ribs until he laughed hard, and Then poked the powder down his open mouth until he choked to death. And now.there is still another Sarah Schafer murder suspect under arrest at Bedford. It is a mail named Ernest Tankersly, who evi - dently is bad enough for murder or anything else. He was arrested primarily on the charge of abduct ing a young girl named Nellie Rainey, of Heltonville, in the same county as Bedford. He has a wif and children 7 but deserted them and went away'with Xfie Rainey g»i 1 It is now said that he had become involved with the girl before the Schafer murder and is further claimed that some of ihe many

letters he wrote to the Rainey girl," all now in possession of the officials, show that he had tried....to arr;i: _‘- to have the girl meet him in Bedford on the night of the murder aud at the very spot where the murder occured. The theory is that Tankersly wanted her to come there that he might murder her, to save himself fr in trouble, and that she did not come, but that Sarah Schafer happened along just then and that Tankersly mistook her for the Rainey girl and killed her before he discovered his mistake. Later he and the Rainey girl ran away together, and he was living with her when arrested a few days ago. There is a possibility that this may be the right man at last, but not any great probability that he is.

MONDAY. Mrs. V. Chaffin is recovering from a very dangerous attack of sickness. H, C. Neville, ot Tamaroa, 111., returned'home today, after a visit here with his son, of the same name. Twins, a boy and girl, were born Sunday, to Mr. and Mrs. John Snyder, out in the fertile Gifford district. AI Cowgill, now of iverton, 111., was in town o ’er Sunday. He has a very successful undertaking business at Riverton. Mrs. Cynthia G. Weathers and granddaughter, Mrs. and baby, of Lafayette, are here foi a week’s visit with relatives. A baby was born Sunday, to Mr. aud Mrs. Tom Parker, on Elm street, but it lived only a few hours and was buried this morning. J. E. McClannahan and Jesse Snyder both went to Hammond today, where they have carpenter work in sight as long as they want it.

Charley Smith, of The Republican printing department, is tak ing a two weeks’ vacation, which he is spend .ng in Cincinnati, visiting former acquaintances. Mrs. Xmelia Smith and daughters, Misses Flora and Belle, and Miss Josie Berg, all of Chicago, are visiting Mr. Vernon Nowels, for about two weeks. And the dry streak out in Hanging Grove got well soaked last Friday night, when there was a very heavy rain there. But it has been so dry there all along that it is still too dry to plow well. The other dry region up in north L’niou i> still need ng rain. Mrs. Dr. Karsner, of *Oroville, Cal., is here for several wee >8 visit with her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, and other relatives. SLtwas at Minneapolis, as a Rebel

Corps delegate at large for California, at : tlie National Encampment, and availed herself of the good dpportunity to visit her relatives here. Mrs. M. E. Coriliss did not move into Miss Moneghan's house, as intended but «ill remain for the present in the Nowels building. She expects a protracted visit from a sister in Wisconsin, with four children, and _ would make too large a family for the Moneghan residence. Fountain Park Assembly at Remington, closed Sunday, after a very successful season, so far as excellence of attractions was concerned, and also in point of permanent camping attendance; bat not very successful in daily admissions, owing mostly to the excessively hot and damp weather. The Monticello Baptist Association convenes with the Rensselaer Baptist church on Wednesday and Thursday Aug 29, and 30. The program consists of Representative me 1 to talk on Home and Foreign Mission and State Mission, also Representative Women to talk on the Woman's work of home and Fcreigu Mission. A sermon each session. All are invited to attend h?se stm! » b.

And now still another of our residents physicians is prpvidiug him with that now almost necessary means of travel, for doctors, an automobile. It is Df. M. D. Gwin and who has bought of Charley Chamberlain his Haynes-Apperson 15J horse power, two cylinder auto, he bought some months ago, it being one of the machines formerly owned by Delos Thompson, and though too small for his use is a powerful and reliable machine. A. R. Shesler's barn east of town, burned by lightning in the big thunderstorm Friday, night, was pretty well covered by iusurance. He lost five or six tons of good hay in it. However, which was uot insured. The report that it was his brother. Wm Shesler’s’barn. which was generally circulated, wax incorrect. The hor.-es were out in the pasture at the time. Regarding the Lum McCoid barn, some miles southeast, struck at the same time, it is stated that one eutire gable was torn out. It is a new barn, just built this spring, and Mr- McCord is lucky it was not burned, also.

j The long hoped for change to cooler weather came with a rush, ; when it did come. Sunday at 11 iA. M. the temperature was at 89 J degrees, and reaching out fast for i the 90 mark, when a sudden blast [of wind from the northeast started ' it on the downward path, and from t lat time on it fell as fast and as 1 constantly as a politician after his first taste of graft, or a banker who gets to buying pools on horee | races. By Monday morning the temperature was down to 53 degrees, or a fall of 36 degrees in J about 30 hours. The hot spell thusjended has been one of the severest in anyone’s remembrance, it being seldom that such long continued high temperature comes in combination with so much rain and such a continuously damp atmosphere. For instance, during the ten days immediately preceding Sunday, when the change came there was a 90 degree temperature on seven of them and 85 on two and 80 on one; and at no time in the night was the temperature below 65. During that ten days there was rain on six of them with a total of 2.65 inches of water, and two very severe and destructive thunder storms during the time. But hot as it was there was not a day during the period with sunshine enough to be classed as a clear day. Lost:—Sunday between Fountain Para and Rensselaer, —Ladta’ gold watch and pin. Name Emma Linn in back of watch and letter “E” on pin. Finder may leave at Republican office or W. H. Parkinson’s law office. Reward.