Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1906 — BRIEF LOCAL HAPENINGS [ARTICLE]

BRIEF LOCAL HAPENINGS

TUESDAY. Born, Nov., 24, to Mr. and Mrs, Sam Scott a son. Miss Lizzie Comer went to Chicago today, for a short stay. F. B. Learning, of Goshen arrived here this morning for a short visit. Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Hammond have gone to Chicago to remain for the rest of the week. Mrs. J. W. Dir vail is very dangerously sick at her home in the east partoftown, with a stomach and bowel trouble. Mrs. Bertha O’Neill, of Indianapolis, is here to remain until after the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Parcells. Arrangements have been made for the Company M foot ball team to go to Monticello Friday, to play with the Monticello company’s team. A. V. Farmer and D. H. Yeoman went to Wheatfield today, to look after the starting the work on cleaning the Wheatfield and Hodges ditches. S. H. Porter, who lives with his daughter, Mrs. 8. 8. Shedd, east of town, went to Chicago today to spend a few days with two sons liv ing there. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Burns, of Barkley, left for Alexandria, Minn., today, where Mr. Burns has a prospect of selling the farm he owns there. Lagrange county, this state, holds a unique position politically. She has the congressman, state senator and representative, all of whom were born within her borders and have always lived there. Mrs. Mary E. Lowe went to Mary Thompson hospital, at Chicago, today, and will undergo an operation for a chronic trouble. She was acoompanied by her sister, Mrs. Sidney Holmes and a physician. Vincent Tripodi, the musical instructor from Monticello, is here today, meeting prospective students on piano and stringed instruments. He is trying to organize an orchestra in the high school. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Jessup, of our city left this afternoon for Marysville, Ohio, where they are called by the supposed fatal sickness of his father, J. W. Jessup, who has inflamation of the bowels. He was formerly a resident of Rensselaer. C. B. Steward went up north today to look after some wind losses his insurance compapy sustained in the recent heavy winds. This included among other and lesser losses a big barn blown down near Roselawn.

E V. Ransford, proprietor of the Racket store, was severely and very painfully injured in his back about a week ago, while doing some work connected with his removal to his new store room. He has been confined to his bed from the injury most of the time since, but is now improving and able to sit up sonic. The funeral services of Iva Beatrice, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Hammerton, of n< ar Parr, formeriy of Rensselaer, frereheld at Trinity M. E. church last Tuesday, Nov. 20, and inter ment made in Weston cemetery. Her death occurred Monday, Nov. 19th, and her age was 5 months and 17 days. Jamie Willis returned this morning from a trip down west of Chalmers, where he went to take home an automobile which had been left here tor him to overhaul and put in repair. When Jamie started out he concluded he would go some and he reports making the run to Remington in 19 minutes. Which is considerably faster than 38 miles an hour.

When the Culver Cadets were here last Saturday, their captain took occasi n to speak about Auburn No we's, formerly of oui city and a graduate of Culver and now a student in Chicago Univer si ty. He said Auburn was not only about the greatest all-around athlete that ever attended the academy, but intellectually, morally and socially he ranked just as hijih as he did physically. In fact they seemed to have considered our ormer young townsman as quite the finest young man that ever attended the academy. A seven year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Clemons, ofne ir surrey, is uear ueaiu Horn tuberculosis of the bones. One <4 her legs was amputated just above the knee, a few weeks ago, in hopes to thus stay the progress of the disease; and the wound not healing another amputation was made an inch or two higher up, but the disease had alreadyspread thru her system, and her death is con sidered inevitable.

Owing to the late excessive rains Thompson & Smith have about given up the hope of doing much more work on their big road and street contract this season, tho they will try to complete a quarter mile north of town which needs nothing more than putting on the fine top dressing and rolling. They are still doing something in the grading line however, having a force of teams working south of town on the new road from the Catholic cemetery east to George Terwilliger’s place. There came near being another bad wreck in this portion of the state a few days ago. The endangered train was on the Erie Road and the place was near Griffith, in Lake county. A pipe line inspector' named Jones came along close to the track and discovered a rail with about ten inches broke off the end. A heavy loaded passenger train was almost due, but Jones ran down the track and succeeded in stopping it in time to avoid the broken rail. The passengers took up a collection for Jones’s benefit, raising about 125 for him. Carter the Magician, gave hi; entertainment at the opera house last night, to a large audience. He was the first number on the Library lecture course for the season of 1906 and 1907, and like all the rest in the course is under the management of the Blayton Lyceum Bureau, which of itself is an always reliable guarantee of thoro excellence. He is surely one of the best, if not the best, in the sleight of hand line ever seen here, and has a large variety of tricks and illusions which he performs with marvellous skill. Among these are quite a number of cabinet tricks which are the same that many spiritualists medium fakers have passed upon their dupes as supernatural manifestations.

WEDNESDAY. Mrs. Cora Smail, of Shreve, Ohio, is here for a two weeks’ visit wiih her sister, Mrs. George Ulm.

Rev. A. N. Marlatt. of Connersville, visited his daughter, Mies Anna O. Marlatt, a teacher in our high school, today. '*• The men’s only meeting at the Christian church Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock, will doubtless draw a large crowd. Rev. Wilson’s subject will be “A Living Dog.” J. W. Marlatt, of Barkley tp., arrived horuq yesterday from a prospecting trip to Indian Territory soon to lie a part of the new state, Oklahoma. —fie did not in vest in any land but thinks some very fine country and good chances to buy it are still to be found there. Rev. Father Koehne, for over thirty years pastor of St. JoSeph’s church in Logansport is dead in that city. He was one of the bestknown clergymen in northern Indiana. He was born in Westphalia, Prussia, June 2, 1835. A New York man left $20,000 to be paid to his wife when she marries again. That’s the kind of a man the women have been waiting for ever since civilization began and this is the first time he has shown up. Leota Frances, 18 months old daughter of Mr and Mrs. Sherman Richards, died today at 12 o’clock, alter a sickness of several weeks of lung and stomach disorders. The funeral will be hed at the house tomorrow at 12 o’clock ; by Rev. Clarke of the Christian church.

Judge Thompson and wife ex - pect now to be ready to leave for Los Angeles next Sunday, tho that will depend somewhat on the condition of their daughter Mrs. Kurrie, who has been very seriously sick for some weeks, with what seems a general nervous break-down, but who is now very much improved. Judge Thompson does not expect lU tliUj VLUCI JuUVUiMCIib VAAO family with him this time except Mrs, Thompson. By recent action of the Central Passonger association, clergymen will get special rates during 1907. This was not expected, as it was announced shortly after the new rate law became effective that all special rates were to be abolished. The cl rgy bureau of the association, however, will be continued. Instead of the old rate of one fare for the round trip clergymen are to be given a flat rate of 2 cents a mile. This will not be of any benefit to the ministers in Ohio, but, it will give the clergy of all the mother states a reduction of one-halt cent a mile. The entertainment at the M. E. church Tuesday evening, to provide means for a Thanksgiving treat for families whose financial condition makes such a gift welcome, was a great success. The entertainment itself was a very good one and was attended by a crowded house. The offerings at the door were decidedly liberal, amounting to $lB in money and a

large quantity of provisions. The result of these contributions is that material for Thanksgiving dinners -has been sent out to 27 different families? to each being sent a chicken, 25 pounds of flour, a peck of potatoes, canned fruit, apples, grapes etc. A job which pays $6,000 a year is going begging in Washington The secretaryship of the Smithson ian Institution, which is considered the most exalted scientific positionin. America,—was offered last spring to David Starr Jordan, but be has declined it because he draws SIO,OOO a year as president of Leland Stanford University. Other eminent scientific men have, turned a deaf ear to the proffered vacancy at the Smithsonian In stitution and the Board of Regents will have a perplexing task before it in December, when it will meet to elect a successor to the late Prof. Samuel P. Langley. The continued rains followed by the very fierce wind last week did great damage to the farmers but the full extent of which will depend a great deal ou what the weather is hereafter. The long rain soaked the ground in the cornfields into a soft muck d WliOal rxigli nludS CctixiO there was nothing to hold up the com stalks and they were laid flat to the ground. Thus probably half of all the unhusked corn now lies in that position. This not only adds very much to the labor of harvesting the corn but is damaging it greatly by preventing the ears from drying out. Even with the most favorable weathei from now on, the crop will be considerably damaged, and should more protracted rains come, or still worse, heavy snows, the damage will be very much greater. And much vwxxv* pivtiavubu, UUUt» neaily ruin all that part of the crop now in the fields which is laying flat.' As to how much of the corn if not yet husked, that of course is only a matter of guessing, but from the way the farmers talk at the elevators, there is probably close to 40 per cent, of the crop still to be husked, tho mighty few of the farmers who have corn to husk have let any grass grow, or what is more important, any corn rot, under their feet this week.

THURSDAY. Frank Hanley, of Chipago, visited his brother the Judge, here today. E. L. Hollingsworth and family, are down from Chicago to spend Thanksgiving with their Rensselaer friends. Attorney W. F. Hodges was in town today shipping his household goods to Gary, where his new honse is nearly completed and will be ready to move into next week. Uncle George Daugherty is beginning to recover from two weeks severe sickness with the grip, which he contracted during a visit with fi iends in Crawfordsville. There is a vast falling off in the usual Thanksgiving travel this year, all owing, no doubt to the decision of the railroads not to give any low rates for this holiday. E. D. Rhoades walked down town yesterday for the first time since he returned from the hospital at Chicago, where, as already stated, he had his troublesome vermiform appendix removed by a surgical operation. Arthur Daugherty, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Daugherty, has just returned from two years residence at Worland, Wyoming, and will probably remain here permanently, unless he finds it advisable to go back to take ffirther treatment for rheumatism and other troubles, for which he has just taken five weeks’ treatment in a hot springs health resort there.

The wedding of Miss Grace Stevens, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Stevens, 143 Morton court to James Laroy Donnelly of Rensselaer, will take place tomorrow noon at the residence. The ceremony will be preformed by Rev. C. J. Sharp of the Christian church, in the prese..oe of about fifty relatives and friends. A wedding dinner and a reception from one to to three will follow the cermony. —Hammond News:

Slnporinfendpnt J. H. Scholl of the Rushville schools is determined to stop boys from smoking on the school premises. He expelled one boy from the high school last week for smoking. The boy had been warned several times to refrain from smoking about the school, but persisted in keeping it up until the superintendent was obliged to make an example of him. Superintendent Scholl agrees with scientists that smoking impairs the growth of the mental faculties while they are being developed. Referee Bowers has not yet rendered a decision on the suit with the First National Bank, the three days trial of which ended Monday

afternoon. He intimated at the time that he was in some doubt as to the propriety of his deciding it at all on account of the law points involved, but as he sent Trustee Chapman this morning asking him Zand the other parties to the suit to come at some date chosen by themselves, it is supposed that-he has concluded to make a decision, and is ready to give it at any time.

The year 1907 will net have much doing of general interest in the way of eclipses. There will be four during the year, two of the sun and two of the moon. One eclipse of the sun will be total but it will not be visible to any part of the western hemi-sphere There will also be an “annular” eclipse of the sun, but visible only in South America. The two eclipses of the moon will neither of them be total, but such as they will be, one of them will be in part visible to a portion of this country and the other te all of it

The first damage cases to be brought against the Baltimore & Ohio railway because of the wreck at Woadville,j;ear Chesterton, were filed Wednesday at Valparaiso by Edgar J. Hall, administrator of the estate of Maryanna Szulczynski and her four months old son, John Szulczynski, both of whom lost their lives. The cases are filed on behalf of the husband and father Michael Szulczynsk', who was fortunate enough to escape with only slight injuries, and are for

$20,000 and $lO 000 respectively, the first amount being for the loss of the wife. Jim Lefler and Charley Bussell came in on the early train this morning from their deer hunting trip to northern Wisconsin. They had the two deer apiece which the law allow each hunter to ship from the state, and they were very fine ones, being two bucks and two does. They report deers as very thick there this season, like unto cotton tails here in numbers, and being shipped out in hundreds. The weather was too much for them however, the snow being already three feet deep and the temperature of the zero character.

Remington is just now a good deal exercised over the prevalence there of a disease which some of the physicians have been pronouncing tonsilitis. others measles, and some, more recently, ha ’e declared to be scarlet fever. If it proves to be the latter disease, the town is evidently pretty thoroly peppered, with it, as the infected children have been attending school aud other public gathering right along. If it is scarlet fever it has so far been in a very mild form. There seems now considerable prospect that their town schools may be closed for a time, if after official investigation the disease is pronounced scarlet fever. Special prices on blankets and comforters at Rowles & Parker’s.