Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1906 — BRIEF LOCAL HAPENINGS [ARTICLE]

BRIEF LOCAL HAPENINGS

. TUESDAY. George Marvin, a Monticello attorney, was in town today. J. A. McFarland made a prospecting ti ip to Gary, today. Mrs. Sarah Miner went to Monon today, for a two weeks’ visit with a daughter there: Today’s b ight sun is doing good work in clearing up Sunday’s and Monday’s, accumulation of snow. Anson Cox and Bert Overton have returned from Gary,, having got Mr. Hillis’ house ready for plastering. The three year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Shreeves, in the northwest part of town, is very sick with pneumonia. Mrs. E. W. Irwin went to Lafayette, today, to inspect John A. Logan Corps, of the W. R. C., for which duty she has been appointed a special inspector. J. A. William”, of Jordan Tp., left this morning on another prospecting trip northwestward. He is going to New Rochfort, N. Dak,, where he has a son located. He will be away about a month. S. C. Maxwell, a former resident of this vicinity, now living near Dunkirk, has bought the former R. P. Benjamin place in the northwest part oi town and intends soon to move back here and occupy it. S. U. Dobbins and family are moving today to their new home at Goodland taking their goods over by wagons. The house they have been occupying on Front street has been rented to R. P. Benjamin. w F. P. Morton’s son Harlo went back to Lafayette, today, for further treatment for his injured eye." An operation was performed on it last week, whereby it is expected the eye will be saved, but with its sight badly impaired. Last night the temperature touched 18 degrees, and a little under, and which is the season’s low mark, up to this time, tho the record is not likely to last very long. The coldest heretofore was on the 11th of October, or a little more tha.i a month before, when it was down to 20 degrees. Thicker ice froze then than now, for the reason that the cold was more protracted. Uncle Wallace Shedd, of just east of town, left this forenoon for Los Angeles and will remain there all winter and probably make his permanent home there. Quite a large party of his relatives are going out with him, to spend the winter. They are his brother, W. W. Shedd, of Fairbury, HL, his sister Mrs. John Graves and her daughter, Mrs. John Clifford and granddaughter, Miss Emeline Graves all of Evanston, 111. Central high school of Lafayette devoted a full hour Monday morning to celebrating their victory over Shortridge, last Saturday. Perhaps next Monday a similar season of rejoicing will be indulged in over their victory over Rensselaer; and perhaps it will be an hour of sorrow rather than of joy. Anyhow, next Saturday afternoon will tell the tale, on Riverside Athletic Park. It will be a great game. Owing to the fact that the revival meetings at the Christian church

; —v’ will begin earlier than was at first expected, the ladies, have decided not to give the Thanksgiving dinner. They will, "however, hold a Thanksgiving inarket on Wednesday, and open their bazaar Friday at 9:30 o’clock, November 30, and continue it until Saturday evening. Many useful and beautiful articles will be offered for sale. The commissioners of Montgomery county Friday closedfa contract with J. B. Workman &Co. of Indianapolis, the firm that was in charge of the work here, to hunt up sequestered taxes in that county on a commission basis. This same firm have been figuring with the Laporte county commissioner for a similar job in that county, and the commissioners or a majority of them are understood to favor the proposition.

Mrs Jesse Nichols, matron at the county asylum, has received a letter from Mrs. Watson, daughter of Granny Wilkins, the 107 year old lady, at Remington, in which the latter is said to have seemingly fully regained her usual good health, and is bright and cheerful and gets about the house and partly takes care of herself. Mrs. Watson sent for her mother’s goods and expressed her intention of keeping the old lady with her ali winter. J. H. Chapman, trustee of the McCoy estates, arrived home last evening from a visit with - his mother at St. Joe, Mich. He has sent for a copy of the decision of the U. S. circuit court of appeals, in the A.. T. Bowen matter, and will not decide whether it is advisable for himself to take a further appeal until he reads this decision. If a further appeal is taken It will be direct to the U. 8. supreme court, and whatever they decide will be final.

OpnrcrA Propman nheriff olAot »if Wabash county, whose wife had the escapade with Rev. W. E. Hinshaw which ended in his being sent back to the state prison, has since that was accomplished, agreed to forgive his erring wife and they are living together again. Freeman seemed to consider that Hinshaw was the one mainly to blame and such a terrible retribution having overtaken him, he was willing to be satisfied and let his wife off with no further punishment than the public disgrace she has brought upon herself. WEDNESDAY. Born Tuesday night, Nov. 13th, to Mr. and Mrs. John Borntrager, in;Newton Tp., a daughter. Mrs. Grace Jouvenat White of Chicago, returned homeHoday, after a week’s visit with relatives here. Mrs. Monroe Banes, of South Bend, is here for a short visit with old friends’ here and with her sister, Mrs. J. N. Gunyon, near Parr. Henry Gibson went to the soldiers’ home at Lafayette, today to see it he could arrange to enter it later, instead of fight now, he having been accepted there but not wishing to enter it at present. Parties from up along the Kankakee river region report an enormous fall of snow during the several days’ storm which ended Monday night. It is said the total fall was about 18 inches and nearly 16 inches after it settled. Uncle David Hilton went to DeMotte today to take up his residence with his daughter Mrs. Chas. 'Harrington. He hopes next fall to obtain admission to the national soldiers’ home at Marion, this state. Tuesday night held the season’s record for, lowest temperature which wds 18 degrees, only 24 hours, for last night knocked it clear out with three degrees lower, being 15 degrees. Today has been much warmer and it looks like another pleasant spell was before us. Mr. and Mrs. 8. R. Nichols arrived home this morning from a trip to St. Louis and a visit to Mrs. Nichols’ brothei, John Callow, at East St Louis, Doc while he was there went around to the stock yards and bought two car loads of stock cattle, which he is having sent here and will keep till another year. • •

The two weeks old infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Wfc. Smith, in the east part of town, died last night, from the effects of a severe cold. It had never been strong and well. Brief funeral sei vice were held this afternoon, and interment made in Weston cemetery. The baby seems to have choked to death, as it died in the cab while the parents were asleep. J. J. Hunt was in the north part of the county Tuesday and he say the report of snow 15 to 18 inches deep are no exaggerations. Remarkable what a difference JLS or 20 miles makes some times. Here there was no time wherf there was over two or three inches on the ground. Mrs. P. W. Clarke and sister, Mrs. Dr. Kresler, went to Lowell today, to attend the funeral of an uncle, David _PjJyjeL._ He_ was ab.ut 64 years old and died Mon day, from the effects of a stroke of paralysis, suffered about two years ago. He was an old and much respected resident of that community.

The coronor of Porter county now thinks the killed in the wreck near Chesterton Monday moning may reach 85 or 100. There were many young children on the train, including quite a number of babies, who did not have tickets, and many of these were killed but not included by the railroad company which listed only ticket holders among the supposed dead. A press dispatch from Havana, in this morning’s papers, says that Cel. W. L. Pitcher denies very positively that he ever expressed the unfavorable words regarding negro soldiers he has been charged with. He says he never either held or expressed such opinions, and stated that he had served with colored soldiers and had seen them do heroic fighting.

Valparaisa was the scene of a murder, Tuesday noon. The murderer and his victim were both section bauds on a railroad. The former being an Italian named Frank Christ and the latter a young man named Guy Hinkle. They had quarreled during the forenoon, and at noon resumed the quarrel, when Hinkle knocked the Italian down. The latter than got up and drawing a revolver shot Henkle thru the neck, killing him almost instantly. The Italian fled but was pursued and captured and placed in jail, A lesson in civic enterprise might be learued from New Castle, a small town is rapidly growing big. In the beginning New Castle had little to offer investors except an unlimited supply of civic enterprise During the last few years this enterprise has succeeded in landing a large number of desirable factories. The latest addition is an automobile factory, one that’s well established and one that will employ fully 1,200 men. If Rensselaer citizens will get together and stay

rfIURSDAY. Mrs. Laura Rathfon Fischer, of Chicago, is visiting among her many old friends here this week. Among these is Mrs. J. E. Brady, who will give a dinner party in her honor, Friday evening. A box car jumped tjhe track out east of the depot, yesterday and was hot got back on again until th morning. All the trains had to give it the right of way, and go around it on the side track. Ed Warren went up to Wheatfield this morning to start up the work again on their new school house, the needed supply of brick and other material havin? been, received. The building will now be rushed to completion. Mrs. Alonzo Blair, of Fair Oaks, died at Western Springs Monday, where she had gone for treatment for cancer of the stomach. Her funeral was held at Fair Oaks this forenoon, by Rev. G. H. Clarke, of our city. Mr. Glick, who is here working

up the membership of the local lodge of the Knights and Ladies of Honor, reports ten new members Tuesday evening and prospects for about 15 more by the end of the month. John S. Meyers and family, who have been keeping a boarding house near the depot for some time past, and more especially for the extra gang on the railroad, are moving to Hammond today, and will follow the same business there. True Woodworth has engaged the big room in the K. of P. building and will open a roller skating rink there next Thursday, Nov. 22, and run it continuously as long as patronage justifies, except during the week of the Catholic fair, which begins Dec. 10th. Tom Willey, of Mt. Ayr, but one of last year’s graduates of the Rensselaer high school, is now in Spokane, Wash., and is to be married there on Nov. 25th to Miss Nora Thornton, formerly of Rensselaer. Tom expects to remain in that region, it is stated.

together we could soon be landing good things every once in a while, too. According to figures given by the Indianapolis Star, there were 74,000 Republicans. who did not vote in this state on election day, and 11,000 Democrats. This is right along in line with the warning given by this paper to Jasper county Republicans, that the Democrats were working to get out all their vote and likely to catch the Republicans napping. It is a condition which seems to prevail at every election when there are no great issues to a rouse the people. Og such years the Democrats go to the polls much better than the Republicans. However, we guess the Republicans will be there with the goods all right, at the presidential election two years from now.

Sheriff O’Connor went to Monticello, Wednesday afternoon, to canvass the official vote for joint representative from White and Jasper counties. Under the law the sheriffs of the counties form the canvassing boards and thejr place of meeting is in the county seat of the oldest organized county, which in this case is White. Mark McTigue, the oldest sexton in Indiana, died Monday. He had been custodian of Crown Point cemetery at Kokomo since 1866, and with his own hands dug the graves for 4,700 interments. He knew every grave in the cemetery marked or unmarked, and opened the cemetery gates for 5,000 funeral processions. He was 72 years old.