Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1906 — BRIEF LOCAL HAPPENINGS [ARTICLE]

BRIEF LOCAL HAPPENINGS

FRIDAY e Born Thursday, tOfr. DanLakiri, north of Aix, a son. B. Forsythe was called to Dixon, Hl., today by the very serious and what is feared fatal sickness of his sister. Mrs. Russell Harmon and children went to LaSalle, 111., today, for an extended visit with home people. l Dr. Lewis Jordan, the oldest man in Delphi, died last Sunday, aged 88 years. He has been a resident of Carroll county since 1849. Mrs. P. S. Hemphill, now of Green burg, Kans., is here for a protracted stay withherfather Uncle Tommy Grant, and other .relatives. ::

Rev. A. G. Babcock, of Battle Ground, has begun suit for a divorce from his wife who had an escapade with a man named Bending, at Frankfort. J. W. Wenrick of Miller, South Dakota is visiting his father and mother Mr. and Mrs. John Wenrick in Walker tp. He will stay here until Monday or Tuesday. Mrs. Samuel Ball; of Mohon, returned home today, after a visit with her nephew, the Mellender by whose injury has been related. She left him much improved. There is no noticeable change in John McColly’s condition, nor anything. we regret to state, upon which to base a reasonable hope for his surviving more than a very few days, at mosLr-L Samuel Baker, of near Bucyrus, Ohio, is here visiting his sister, Mrs. M. H. Hemphill and his brother Wm. Baker. He was born and raised in this county, but went east to grow up with the country. Misses Edith and Mary Miller, who had previously decided te remain at Winona permanently, have after further consideration, abandoned that intention and will re turn to Rensselaer in a few weeks. The temperature touched the 90 degree mark at one p. m. today, but.in the matter of oppressiveness it was nothing in comparison with the same heat two weeks ago, when earth and air were laden with moisture

The Aristocratic Tramp Com pany gave an unusually satisfactory production at the opera house, last night. Tonight they are at Monon and from there their route will be south westward until they get into Texas. Francesville Tribune: Elmer Wilcox is attending high school at Rensselaer, where he is taking the 4th year work, Wilcox is. considered one of the best athletes in northern Indiana and should he join the Rensselaer team it#will be greatly strengthened,.- ' ■ • A mature and already consider ably married couple from up north were in town yesterday for a marriage ,1 icense. By the time they were ready to leave the man had celebrated his coming wedding so extensively that his intended bride had to lead him upon the cars. There is always something doing with Uncle Bill N. Jones. Hie last big move was to get himself to be a great grandfather. The reason thereof was a daughter born a few days ago to the wife of Uncle Bill’s grandson Ralph Harris, at Bellwood Neb. Uncle Bill is piobably the champion lively great-grandfather of Indiana.

Dr.-E. E. Quivey. well remembered by many of our’citizens as a dentist located h6re sonje 15 or 16 years ago, is now just moving from Lafayette to Fort Wayne, where he will have charge of what are called Union Dental Parlors. His wife is to help in the management of a morphine cure establishment at Fort Wayne. * He has been in Lafayette 14 years. Ernest Mellender, the Barkley Tp. boy so badly .hurt by a horse kick Tuesday, evening, is doing much better than could reasonably have been expected and his physiciah is much encouraged to think he will recover. His fever has left him and there is no suppuration nor evidence of brain pressure -apparent, which would be the signals of danger had they appeared,

Mr. and Mrs. David B. Ravens croft, of Gotha, Okla., who have been visiting at their former home in Carpenter Tp., for some time, came over today for a few days’ stay with his sister, Mrs. J. F. Irwin and other relatives, before returning to Oklahoma. They have been prosperous and healthy in Oklahoma, and well satisfied to remain thereOne of the few surviving capt uns.of the old eighty-seventh regiment died last Thursday, at his home in New Carlisle, LaPorte county. It was William H. Deacon captain of Company K, arid a brave and popular officer. There were several from this county ip his company, and many here who were in Company A also remember him well.

Miss Hazel Warner had quite a painful accident last evening, which was at first feared to be quite a serious injury. She started to step upon a box to get a better place to see and hear the theater band, when the box brore down and she fell against the stone steps in front of the Wildberg store. Both head and side were hurt, but an examination by a physician showed that no bones were broken and only severe bruises sustained. Hawkins & Allman finished up the north portion of the Jordan stone road Thursday, and will .probably proceed to finish up the south pare this fall. The part completed is about two third of the whole contract. They also top dressed a quarter of a mile of the Marion township gravel road just north of the Jordan road, at connty expense in the way of repairs. On this they put on four inches of fine stone, which ought to make a good road out of it. Kirby Risk, of Lafayette, Democratic chairman of this district, is sending word around that he thinks he has got Willy Hearst landed for three speeches in this district, for this fall, at Laporte, Michigan City and Hammond. It is also added, that in their mipd’s eye, they see where it will be worth 1,000 votes to Judge Darroch their candidate for Congress. Votes are always, very easy for our Democratic brethern to roll up until election day, but when that comes, somehow they are not these with the goods.

Mrs. Florence Greenwait, of Taylorville, 111., is staying lor a time with her sister, Mrs. Elmer Gwin, and helping care for their mother Mrs. Victoria Wood, who seems to have but slight prospects for recovery, and who has been staying with Mrs. Greenwait for quite a long time past Mrs. Greenwait’s husband, if will be remembered, lost one foot entirely and the heel off the other foot by a railroad accident, last fall. He is again in the hospital it having been found necessary to remove part of the flesh that was left on the stump when i the prefiotis amputation was performed. „ ♦

August Rosenbaum, who has mourned as dead for three years a tine blooded setter dog, of the Tom McCoy brand in his palmiest days, got word last week that the dog was in the possession of a saloonkeeper in Roachdale. . He hiked down there at once, making his approach in a buggy from Crawfordsville, with a friend driving for him. Abouf the first person he met as he got in the vicinity of the ■salbon was Ben, the dog. The recognition between Ben and Rosey

was simultaneous and ecstatic, and though they fell upon each others’ necks as in Bible times, fhey waited not to weep there. but instead Rosey hintedto Bentbat hunting was good out in the subuibs, and together they strolled out into the country while the buggy followed afar off, and when at a secure distance both got into the buggy and made all haste back to Rensselaer. Since arriving Rosey has sent word back to the Roachdale man where the dog is, with ah implied invitation for him to come and get him, if he chinks he is big enough for the job. No response has been received to the invitation, however, nor is it likely that any will be.

SATURDAY. Miss Belle Maines went to Fowler today, to begin her fall’s work as a millinery trimmer. Misses Minnie Kissinger and Grace Reed returned home today, after three weeks visit at Chicago Erastus Poacock is taking a layoff from his railway, mail clerk work, and is spending it with friends in Tennessee. J. B. Bruner and G. M. Kissinger went over to Peru today, where Uncle George will look at a farm, with some idea of buying it.

Mrs. G. A. Strickfaden and daughters arrived home, last evening after an extended visit with relatives at Champaign, 111. Mrs. C. A. Cragun, and daughter of Lebanon, returned home today, after a week’s visit with her father, James Torbet in northwest Barkley. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Parkfer, of near pleasant Ridge, went to Boswell todays for a week’s visit with Dr. Wallace Parkison and family and to attend the Boswell lair. A. L. Marshall arrived from Highland park, 111., Friday to be on hand tor his wedding which takes place next Wednesday, and which he wouldn’t miss for a good deal. The evidence in the gasoline engine case of Stahl vs Claspell was heard before Squire Irwin this forenoon but the arguments of the attorneys will be heard and decision rendered at seven this evening. Mrs. W. J. Wright and Miss Floss Wright gave a kitchen shower Wednesday evening to Miss Hattie Eiglesbach, on the occasion of her approaching marriage to Prof. A. L. Marshall, next Wednesday Sept., 12th. The two year old infant son of Frank Snyder, on E. P. Honan farm, in Barkley Tp,, died Friday of summer complaint. The funeral was held today, and interment made in the Dunkard cemetery, in northwest Barkley. Miss Rilla Gaines, one of this yearns graduates of our high school is now at Cottonwood, Minn., near which place she will teach school this year. Her father, Joseph Gaines, is*preparing!to go up and visit her and also a son in Assinboia/, Canada, between which two places he will spend the winter. Abe Martin: Miss Piney Hodges hez gone t’ Princeton, Indianny, t’ sing in a church choir. She hez a a beautiful, low, rumbling voice thet sounds like a bumble bee in a jug. Tipton Bud wuz up t’ Indynoplus yisterday an’ put up et Claypool’s hut-tel. He told th’ clerk if he wuzn’t back in time fer supper not t’ wait fer him. Messrs Lucius Strong, D. H. Yeoman and Wm. Washburn have been selected by the parties interested to appraise the real-estate of the Madison Makeever estate which just lately become released from its long entail under his will and is now to be divided among the heirs. The work of appraising began today. There are about 1,200 acres to be appraised.

A reunion of a sister with three brothers whom she had not seen for 35 years, occured here this morning. It was Mrs. Harriet Green, sister of John, Albert and Tom Bissenden. She arrived here today with her husband from Collinsville, Ontario, Canada, but came with him from Greenwich, a suburb of London, last spring. They will make their home hero and Mr. Green will assist the Bissenden Brothers in their cement block making business.

1 Miss Nora Bringle, whose injur/ in the automobile wreck at Kentland was related, is ill confined to her bed from the injury in her knee and will not be able to., begin her school for a couple of weeks yet. In respect to the damaged auto it seems not to have been quite so completely used upas was reported here, asr it was not considered beyond repair. and was s^nt-bricks to; the factory, fur the, repairs to be made. ] ‘•Bhsiue-vs i> still booming throughout'-, the United States,” says the Washiu.t-on Post, “and a vast , majority of the people are busy making money.” There has not been a time since the repeal of the only tan iff for.revenue law this generation has expetieiwed that this statement has not constituted a correct description of industrial conditions in the United States. It is still a good time to holdfast to that which is good. Colonel Bryan’s plan of govern merit ownership of interstate lines,

with state ownership ot local railway lines, is a most remarkable proposal. More than forty systems of railway management, no one of which would extend the length of a American railway journey, would most certainly make an interesting situation Tor the traveling public. Mr. Bryan has gone to strange lengths in trying to render • consistent the old democratic doctrine of states’ rights and the plan governmental ceiftralization he seeks to import from Europe.

Cold to sell to the consumer. Tkey ffre supposed to sell to retailers and the word wholesale really means the selling to retailers not to consumers. When cold storages sell to anyone except retailers they are violating the law in spirit if not in letter. If the legislature would define the meaning of the word wholesale, it would practically solve the liquor question in Indiana. The saloons can be gotten rid of by remonstrance and if cold storages could not sell to the consumer they could not exist without the saloon.— Goodland Herald. Another chapter may now be added to the story of the little old woman with the big old jag, and it was furnished yesterday by a man from out east. He saw her Wednesday morning way out towards Monon, and she was then coming towards Rensselaer. “ Her old mother, who had reversed the usual order of things by first dying and then getting veiy sick, was still dead as that time, but instead of I being dead at Hammond, Rens selaer was then the place of her demise and the man was asked for a contribution to help the old woman on her journey. He concluded she was an old fraud, however and did not contribute. Evk dently the story of the old dead and dying mother is her regular graft.

MONDAY. J. H. Chapman went to Urbana 111., today, on a business trip. Born. Saturday, Sept. Bth, to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Stover in the northwest part of town, a daughter. Born, Saturday Sept., Bth, to Mr. and Mrs. Harry McKay, on Weston street, a daughter. Born. Saturday, to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Reed, west of Surrey,l!twins, twins, a boy and a girl. John Poole, of this place, and son Warren of McCoysburg, went to Muncie today, to startup a brick plant the elder Poole has acquired there lately.

Mrs. T. B. Fisher and three children, ot Champaign, 111., returned home today after a visit with Fred Taedly’s family northwest of town. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Fox, of Compton, 111., are visiting her parents, -Mr. and Mrs Geo. Tullis, southwest of town. Jesse has a fine business at Compton. Miss Mauda Hoyes returned to Monticello, today, to resume her position as book-keeper and stenographer in Goodman’s big store, where they could not get along without her. Mrs. B. F. Alter and two daughters, of Forest, Ind., Mrs. A.’ A. Chrney, off Dayton and Mis. V. J. Chaney, of Rushville, all returned

to their honieetoday,.after-a vieih with Mrs. Frank Alter and family, at the tile mill north of town. Fathers Ildefons Rapp and Theodore Sauerer. of the College, and Vergilius Krull, of the Indian school, have all arrived back from their summer’s visitjo their respective home places in different parts of Germany. Mr. and Mrs. John Mahle, the newly married couple, the latter formerly Miss Christina Gangloff, took their departure today tor Blue Island, Hl., which is to be their future home, and which is a convenient point for Mt. Mabie’s occopationj, drhich is that of a conductor op the Rack island railroad.

Ray and Roe Yeoman went back to Pardue today, to complete their last year. Cleve Eger for his second year and Rufus Knox for his first. E. E. Chap man, of Concord ia, Kans., who has been visiting the Yeoman boys, went back also, he being in their class. Cedar Lake has had another drowning this season, making two in all, or the same number as in the Kankakee river at Water Valley.. This last was a young man about 21 years old and supposed to be Max Lechsowtz, a former soldier in the German army. His mother lives in Chicago. St. Joseph College students were coming back fast last Friday and Saturday, the latter being the opening day, though the real work did not begin until today, '"he total number of students present so far are 160, or about the same as last year, though a few more are still to come. This total includes some 46 religious students who reside at the college all the year around. J. N. Baker, of Barkley Tp., has just sold a 160 acre farm he has owned in Fulton county for past four years. He paid $45 per acre for it then and sells it now for $63.75. He has in turn, bought another farm in Barkley, of Mrs. Elizabeth Michael, of Rensselaer, consisting of 160 acres and for which he pays S4B per acre. His son James who has been occupying the Fulton county farm will move back here and work the old home place while Mr. Baker himself will move on the Michaels place-

Mrs. Buena Meese, only sister and only near blood relative of B. Forsythe, proprietor of the Chicago Department store of our city, died last Saturday, Sept. Bth, in a hospital at Dixon, 111. She had been afflicted for some time with Bright’s disease, but a sore hand in which bidod poisoning had developed had been the cause of her going to the hospital, and had also greatly hastened the progress of the kidney disease. Their home was on a large farm, about five from Dixon. She leaves a husband and tour t children. Her ftmeral was held today. Mr. Forsythe was by her side wheu she passed away and remained for the funeral. Newton county is all right, but atter all there is no place like old Jasper for all-around produc- | tivenesa. Thus Dave Elder has j just moved back here from Morocco and he is now rewarded by the birth this morning, at bis home in the east part of town, oi fine twin i boys. They were just what Dave was hoping for, though hope and expectations had not run in quite the same channels. The two make thirteen in all for Dave, but that

“does notr worry- him -any,* long as his previous number Jwaa 11, there was no way to dodge the thirteen and get the twins he was hoping for. The N. W. Indiana M. E. conference will open at Lebanon Tuesday night, with Bishop Hamilton, of California presiding. Rev. H. L. Kindig, of Trinity M. E.-church has received a most earnest invitation to return, from his congregation, and; no doubt Still come back for another year. He will go do wu Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Kindig will go with him, but spend much of the time with relatives at Indianapolis. R?v. R. C. Ballard, of the Barkley circuit, and wife, went to Crawfordsville, today, and she will remain there while he is attending the conference.