Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1906 — ITEMS HERE AND THERE. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS HERE AND THERE.

Remington Press: Hawkins & Alima uresu iued work this week on th*Jon Ia u sk • lie road andw ill now. complete this end of the road, using K-nneth rock. The Jordan and Marion township part of the road hXS.'already been completed, and work will‘tKpy'Ue pushed till the entire road is finished. Remington Press: Joe Bilile who did not like his quarters at the i Poor farm came back to Remington and resumed his bunk in the town I Hall where he liecame so weax he could not help himself for several days but after the abcess broke in his face, he gained a little strength and was again taken te the county farm Monday.

-E—Vi. Farmer, who had the third i section contract for the Iroquois* ditch, is now near Part with his dredge, and making very satisfactory progress. Last week he progressed about a half mile and he expects to complete his section which is about seven miles long, by the latter part of October, That same little old woman wLo was hereabout a week or two ago, and got very drunk on money g*ven her on the plea that her old mother was dead, in Hammond, was in Kent land a couple of weeks earlier, when her departed parent was then at Akron, and she got free transportation to Logansport. There ought to be some way to round up the old fraud and get her penned up.

Mrs. Ida May McClintock was granted a divorce Tuesday, from William McClintock. The charge was desertion and failure to provide William went away about three years ago, saying he would be back in time for supper, and his wife understood he meant supper for that evening, but William evidently had some other evening far in the future in mind, for he hasn’t come back yet. He has been over around Brook, his former home, this summer, but at present is in Ulin. is. He did not appear at the trial but was represented by Attorney W. E. Harry, of Brook. The regular soldiers at Fort Ben - jamin Harrison are all under orders to go back to the posts where they came from and some of them have left there already. The big artillery detachment which marched down on a route west of Morocco is returning by a route which takes them to the shores of Lake Michigan, up near Michigan City, where they! will make an extended stop for target practice with their big guns and to try some new styles of amunition. The infantry detachment which marched thru Jasper county is under orders to return on practically the same route they went down on, and therefore in all probability they will again pass thru Rensselaer.

Governor Hauly evidently believes in making the representation ot the minority party on Indiana institutional boards real rather than nominal, thus carrying out the intent ot existing law. He has recently appointed Fred Bays, chairman of the Sullivan county Democratic committee, as a memtier of the board of trustees of the southern hospital for the insane, and the appointment seems to meet' the approval of men of all parties in that county. Governor Hanly is not only maintaining, but is seeking to improve, the high standards of institutional management which have long prevailed in IndianaThere have been several different stories told regarding the stabbing of the young telegrapher J. A. Carney, at Monon, probably from a desire to screen the guilty party. One story was to’the effect that the stabbing of Carney was accidental and that the knife was aimed at another man. The Monon News says the parties seem inclined to keep the matter quiet, but that it is rumored that a Medaryville young man did the cutting, and that he has been involved in several similar affairs before. The News quotes Dr. Clayton, who is caring for young Carnes, as being of the opinion that he will recover. Too much booze was at the bottom of the trouble, the News aay%

W. F. Hodges. the attorney, will be the first man from Rensselaer, and probably the first from Jasper county to locate in the new town and future great oity of Gary. _JELe and his partner, C. V. Ridgely, of Olney. 111., have decided to locate , there in practice of the law.* 4 ' As the first step in that direction, . it is necessary for Mr. Hodges to build a residence to live in, for f there are no houses there for rent, !as yet. He therefore has bought ! a residence lot and will proceed to builfi a house with the utmost possible s: eed. The lot is 30 by 150 "feet in size amiits price was $ 750.

The price wilt include the paving of the street and sidewalks, which leaves its not price about 8150. Mr. Hodges hopes to have the house in shape to occupy by the Ist of November. Another Jasper county man who is investing in Gary is the al way enterpri si u g Robert Parker, of Remington. He was among the applicants for a business lot, but what he paid for it or what kind of business he intends to have there we have not learned. Lots are not sold absolutely to anyone but only on condition that buildings of a certain kind are erected upon them within a certain period.