Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1907 — Old Time News. [ARTICLE]

Old Time News.

Fitty-One Years Age. JASPER BANNER, Jan. 10, ISS6. Pr< sident Pierce’s, message was published in full. It was about half as long as Governor 25,000 word message, and not at all strenuous like the messages of the immeasurably greater man whe fills the presidential office now. Some very cold weather had been prevailing and according to the Bauuer the almost incredible cold of 32 degrees b'/.low zero had been reached. Some allowance' can be made however for the unreliability of the thermometers i» common use in those days, and when there was no weather bureau: to keep tab on the weather with instruments ol precision. With its useful disregard of local occurences, especially of a personal nature, no mention is ever made; of divorces granted in the local court, but tb ey were about as easy to get then as now, and we suspect were about as frequent in proportion to population. And it was also about as common then as now to hear that the country was going: straight to the demnition bow-wows onjaccount of the divorces. Which re marks are suggested by the lact that two divorce cases were then pending for the March term of the circuit court which required notice by publication, which are. usually but a small fraction of the whole number of such suits. The plaintiff and defendant in one case were Mary E. and Joseph Stepheus > and in the other Mary A. and William McGimpsey. A big convention to push the Pacific railroad was held at Fort Wayne on Dec. 20. Some good resolutions were adopted, but good resolutions do not always build railroads —those didn’t, anyhow.