Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1907 — BRIEF LOCAL HAPPENIN GS [ARTICLE]

BRIEF LOCAL HAPPENIN GS

TUESDAY. B. F Fergusou was iu Monticello todiy on legal business. Mrs. Henry Wood is sick with a severe attack of nervous prostra tion. Austin & Hopkins are putting a new and much larger safe in their office in the Forsythe building. It is a big one and weighs almost 3,000 pounds. Contractor B. J, Moore went to Monon today where he was to meet John L Burton, special ditch commissioner, and make final settlement with him for hi"- woik as contractor in the Mosier ditch. 4 Mrs. Mary Lowe returned home today from just six weeks stay in Mary Thompson hospital, at Chicago, during which she underwent two operations. She seems greatly improved iu h alth, and hopes she is entirely cured. Exhibits continue to come iu last for the poultry show and already there is a large and surprisingly excellent display of turkeys aud chickens, and good exhibits of ducks and geese. Some good j udges say that the turkey exhibit especially, could scarcely be beaten any place in the state.

Dr. Dick Fidler, of our city, who graduated from Bush Medical College last spring and has since been doing hospital work in Chicago, has now gone to Milwaukee, where he will continue the same line of work in St. Mary’s hospital, in that city, for about six months longer, before he locates in the general practice. Dr. W. W. Merrill attended the tuneral at Chicago the latter part of last week of his brother, Lewis Merrill, whose death occurred on New Years eve. He was a printer by vocation and the owner and manager of a large job printing house in that city. He was about 8f years old and left three children, all of adult age. He has visited with the Doctor and made a number of acquaintances here. Dr. H. W. Fox, of Chicago, who performed the operation which resulted in the death of Miss Emily Miller, gave himself up to the police Monday, and was released on bail. Her case has been mentioned in connection with the fact that she was one of the women married by Charles V4ck, of this city. Dr. Fox admits that he performed the operation, bat says he thought it necessary to save her life.

The home wf Mrs. Wilbur Florence in the ea9t part of town, has been placed under quarantine on account of a sickness prevailing

A nong her children which t ie physicians have decided to be a mild form of scarlet fever. A boy five years old has practically recovered jaud two gills aged seven and nine now have it. The disease first ap psared as a sore throat and was treated as tonsilitis. There does not seem any special danger ot it spreading to any other families. Mr and Mrs. G. H, Maines and family are now in much anxiety over their son Walter who lei’ for California"early in November, on account of his health, he beiug much subject to rheumatism. He is now’ at Woodland, west ol Sacramento, and two telegrams bare been received regarding him. The first said he was very low, but the second was more encouraging and said he was improving. They are now endeavoring to get a still later report, and if it is unfavorable. some member of the family will leave for that place at once.

Alva Simpson, who works on the night shift at Babcock & Hopkins elevator, got a bad fall late Friday night, or rather early Saturday inornirg. from which he received injuries which have incapacitated him for work since then and may lay him Tip for some time longer. He was going up a long ladder out of a corn biu when one of the rounds of the ladder broke and he fell about 30 or 35 feet, landing the corn. He lay in the bin about two hours before he was able to get out, there being no one near he could call for help. He was able to go to his home without assistauce, and Monday thought he was well enough to go to work but soon had to return home and is now under the care of a physician. He has no broken bones but has internal injuries, but how severe they may (prove to be can not yet be determined, but the physician hopes they will not be very serious.

The troubles over Ben F. Smith’s debts are not all over by any means. Vidcent Eisele of south of town has commenced a suit in the circuit court against former Constable Gbrist'e Vick, and his boDdsmen aud Constable 01 Robinson on matters growing out of Ben’s many debts. It seems by his complaint that b >ck in Squire Troxell’s time Mr. Eisele got a judgment tor 875 against Ben, and that when the old Squire died this judgment was turned over to Squire Irwin, and that Ire gave an execution to Constable Vick. He did not make a levy on it however, and later Ben’s goods were seized and sold at the suit of other creditors, and by Constable Robinson, who succeeded to Mr. Vick’s official busipess. Ho still has in his hands 868 derived from Ben’s hogs and chatties, and Mr. Eisele wants to get hold of that and to make the rest of his loss good oil' from Vick and his bondsmen. It is understood that Mr. Vick will set up as a defense that the reason he did not levy ou any of Ben’s property on the Eisele execution, was that he was not furnished witn any indemnfying bond, to protect him and his bondsmen in case the levy did not prove legal or matters went wrong in any way. If Mr. Eisele wins his case thte other creditors of Ben will not get a cent on their claims.

Lute Hemphill shipped a pair of his horse shoeing stocks to Pipestone, Minn., today. He has sold about a dozen sets this fall and winter and the demand seems to be slowly but surely increasing. His stocks are thoroly reliable machines, and probably as good, take them all around, as any on the market, not excepting some which sell for a considerably higher price. It takes considerable capital to manufacture such stocks in large enough numbers to get the best profits ont of them, and alsoto properly introduce them to the public, aud because of the need of sufficient capital, they are not being made and sold nearly as fast as their merits entitle them to be. It would seem therefore that Borne of our citizens with a surplus of capital might find it to their own as well to Mr. Hemphill’s advantage, to invest some of that capital in increasing the manufacture aud sale of these excellent machines.

WEDNESDAY. '

‘•I ( . - J. M. Wi’c ix vis:ted his son E mer, the railway mail at C.ucinnati. last week. .Mrs. J. E. Altef and Mrs. B. D McOolly went to Mon icello this afternoon to visit Mrs. G. Wi Pay ne.. Trustee Chapman. attorney Fjltz and E. L. Hollingswowh went to Hammond this moraifrg, to be on hand for the renewed hearing in the National Bank case.

Mr. and Mrs G. A. Strickfaden and children left for Muneie this afternoon, and will make their home there for some time and perhaps permanently. J. F. Ryan, of Gillam, was in town today, having come down this way on his way home from Chicago where he went with some fat steers to the stock yards. Elmer Fisher, of Champaign, 111. has been here visiting his sister, Mrs. G. W. Terwilliger, south of town, but left today to visit two brothers over near. JBluffton, this state.

Martin Lebold, of west of town, left for Neosho county, Kansas, today, to look after a.farrn he owns there. His tenant is about to move to Oklahoma and he is going out to make some other arrangements. W. H- Dowell, of Indianapolis, who was here to attend the funeral of his sister, Mrs. Mary Thomas, this forenoon, returned home this afternoon, and was accompanied by her son Jake Thomas, of Brook. W. H. Dowell of Wolcott, her nephew, also attended the funeral.

The exhibits still continue to come in for the poultry show, and it has grown to magnificent proportions. The turkey exhibit especially, is truly immense, and the rest of it nearly as good. In the way of big turkeys none equal Os Ritchey’s 47 pounder, but there pre quite a number that are close after him, in size. John L. Turner, of south of town went to Chicago, today, to meet with some capitalists. He owns a larm in Colorado on- which are rock formations supposed to be valuable for cement making material and this visit is with a view of having the material worked. The total rainfall in Monday’s and Tuesday’s rain was .85 of an inch. The change of wind to northwest has put an end to the rain for this time and has also reduced the temperature from 61 de grees of Sunday and Monday to 11 degrees this morning. It is a pretty big drop but there have been plenty of bigger ones. Michigan City News: “F. M. Wolfe, for 19 years connected with the A. R. Colborn company in this city has resigned his position and since the first of the year has been employed by the Van Cleve lumber company of St. Louis, Mo. Mr. Wolfe will continue to make this city his home.” Mr. Wolfe was formerly a lesident of Reus selaer for a number of years, having charge of a lumber yard here. ODe advantageous feature of this season of short and dark dayr, and one not often thought of, is that when the days do begin to in crease in length, the increase is all

on the latter end of the day, where it is needed worst. Thus'today the day is 13 minutes longer than it was on the 22nd of December, and not only has all that increase been on the afternoonjbut three minutes besides that have been taken from the forenoon and added to the afternoon, making the afternoon 16 minutes longer and the forenoon three minutes shorter than they were on Dec. 22nd. In a day or two more the lengthening process will extend to both ends of the day, and then ‘'the worst of the winter will be over” sure, —or ought to be at any rate. " Y ' ' Commissary Sergeant J. M. Sauser, of the U. S. regular army, went away today after spending a three months furlough with friends and relatives in this county. Especially, the Goetz and Weurthner families west of town, aud some of the Mays, southwest and southeast. He lived in this county when a boy but has been in the army 22 years, and during which time he has been twice to the Philippines and was also in the Spanish war. After two -- ■■l—-—-.i -.1 ■ —‘.

years more he will be entitled to retire with pay amounting to $26 1 per m mtli. He I,as not spent all his money as fast as he got it and now has the price of a good farm salted down, and when his 24 years are out be is likely to settle down in this county. He went to Fort Sheridan from here but iu a few days will go to uesMoiues, lowe, but does not know where he w ill go from there.

Firman Thompson lias wi hdrawn from his comm otion with Chicago University and auauged to entei Purdue ai the February terrnv He c.tn get cei tain work there that wi 1. b<- specially beneficial to liitu in his intended professi m of a doctor, more particularly chemistry, better than he can iu Ctricrg '. In fact we think there is little doubt bu that in practically all cases, our boys aud girls had better atttnd tbe moderate sized nut thoroly meritorious educational inslititious in our own state than to go to those of other states. The public school system of Indiana in now confessedly ahead of that of any other state, unless it be the richer California, and our universities iu many rerespects bear a correspondingly high rank, and this is shown by the large numbers of educators from Indiaua Colhges who are called to more prominent aud better paid positions iu other states, and of whom David Starr Jordon, the famous president of Lelaud Stanford University, is the most noted example. One great advantage in attending a moderate sized but thoroly equipped university like Purdue or Indiana, over going to such over-grown and unwieldy institutions as Chicago or Wisconsin, is that the welfare of the individual students can be much better looked after. They are better looked after educationally, morally and socially, and usually at h good deal less expense. Cothpare the present prog ress and standing of Jasper county’s graduates from these and other Indiana institutions with those who have gone outside the state for their higher education, and it will be found that the Indiana products have nothing to fear from the comparison.

THURSDAY. Mr. aud Mrs. Jesse Snyder are spending a couple of weeks with relatives at Rose Lawn. Mrs. P. L. Mattes, of Chicago, re turned home today after two weeks visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Grant. “Warm meals at all hours” are now served at the poultry show. The party serving them js Joe Greiser’s lady Spitz dog and her customers are all in her family and very regular boarders. Abe jMartin: Young Lase Bud wuz chewin’ terbaeker et th’ supper table last night an’ wuz stricken with th’ terbaeker 'heart. Th’ doctor got ther jist iu the nicotine. Th’ late Shah O’ Persia like all swell dressers, wuz alius borrowin’ money. Passenger conductors say that their duties have been consider ably lightened since the anti-pass law has been put into effect. The only trip passes now presented are the employes’ passes. The conductors say that they are glad that the law was passed. Representative Meeker has solved the pass problem by taking his family to Indianapolis to remain during the legislative session. His mother lives in the city and they will keep house with her. Miss Hattie will enter the ridge High School. —Monticello Herald.

Uncle George Kessinger and family took their departure this morning for their new home in Wabash county. Uncle George and wife have been much respected residents of this county for a great many years and have a large circle of friends who will regret their departure, but wish them well in their new home. The Kank.ikqe drainrge Association people had another meeting at San Pierre, Mouday,*at which a committee was appointed to attend on the state legislate e and ask for certain laws that are considered necessary. Mayor Darroch, of LaPorte, Attorney Potter, of Lafayette, and the engineer who made

he recent government survey, are the committee. Another meeting will be held at San Pierre at no very.distaut date. The big Sternberg Dredge is now about a third of a mile below the Halligau bridge and 'making good progress, and from present appearance will be able to keep at work all winter with no stoppage on account of severe weather. They will reach the mouth of the Pinkamiuk in ten or twelve days, probably, ami then make a torn and go up that about three quarters of a mile, and then resume their progress down the main ehanuel. It will be so ue time in March be fore they reach the Monon railroad.

Irwin & Irwin recceived a tele gram today from J. F. Warren, at Oklahoma City, informing them of the death there last night of Howard M. Atkinson, senior partner in Mr. Warren’s firm of Atkinson, Warren & Henley. He has always resided at Wabash, this state, until about a month ago and himself'and fa 1 h v have long had charge of the Aetna Life Insurance Company’s loans in this state. He was very wealthy aud the life insnrenee he earrried alone amounted to a million dollars. He will be taken to \Y abash for burial.

The Ayer & Allen Vaudeville Company gave only one performance here, that of Tuesday night, and that was so poor that Man ager Ellis thought one was enough, and refused to let them have the* house again, and they went back to Chicago Wednesday afternoon. It seems they were a strictly new organization, beiug get up by C. H. Allen, a Chicago man with some money and little theatrical experience; bat who now ha* some less money and some more experience. The Ayers part of the firm is his niece, an able pianikt, who was to be a regular part of the company. The advance agent, ac cording to Mr. Allen’s statements while here, billed the show for Rensselaer, their first town, before they were half ready. And when they came a number company * , ' " • a

who Mr. Allen had hired and paid a bait week’s salary, did not show u ) at all, and several ot those who did come were worse than the vacancies left by those who didn’t. There were two or three good actors iu the bunch however, and Mr. Allen said he would go back to'Chicago and look tor some more of that kind and make another start. He said he had already been to an expense of 8500 on the venture. He aud hia neice seemed very nice people nor was there any - thing morally objectionably in the performance they tried to give—* and couldn't. You ought to see what bargains we have at our store in suit, overcoats, underwear, caps, sweaters and everything in furnishing goods all at reduced prices. Call and inspect them.

DUVALL & LUNDY.