Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1907 — BRIEF LOCAL! HAPPENINGS [ARTICLE]

BRIEF LOCAL! HAPPENINGS

—fgfMY Mrs. J. Jones, of Delphi, i* visiting her cousin, Mrs. G. B. Maii.es. Yet Galbraith and Bill Boweis went to Decatur, 111., today to woik on a dredge. The fine mild weather is back wita us again, after a briet aud uot at all severe cold spell. Uncle Billy Obeuchuin, of northwest Very sejio.usly sick with cystitis, or inflatnation of the bladder. Mr. and Mrs. Willard Kiplinger, of Fairfield, 111., are visiting his brother, H. W. Kiplinger and family for a few days. About 30 of the friends of Mrs. Abbie Roberts gave her a very pleasant surprise party last night, at her home in the west part of town. • j Wolcott has made good on pre vious intimations that it had got the saloons downed, and the inaj or* ity against them in town and township is 37. Miss Milda Jackson, who lives with her sister Mrs. Alf Hoover, southwest of town, went to Lebanon her former home, today for a six weeks visit. .The arguments were completed Wednesday in the case of Ch ap man, Trustee, vs. the First National Bank, bat decision will be rend ered later. Y. Slaughter, six miles southeast of town, has been confined to his bed for two week with a severe attack of that very painful disease, the shingles. There are no new cases of scarlet fever in Mrs. Wilbur Florence’s family and the children that have the disease are making good pro gress towards recovery. Lute Hemphil sent still another set of horse stocks to Minnesota day. This one going to Kerkhover, in that state. Evidently the blacksmiths up in that state know a good thing when they see it. The older generation may have forgotten it but the winter of 1876 was about like the present one. Thirty one years ago the weather was warm all during January and men went out in their shirt sleeves. On the eight it was as warm as a

June day. Mrs. Minnie Keene Morgan, of Indianapolis, returned home today, after a couple of weeks visit at her old home in Jordan township. Her husband, Kent Morgan, is working for a wholesale crockery house in' Indianapolis. Jesse J. Fry, the former Ros e Lawn banker, dropped into town today lor a seort stay. He is still in the railroad construction work and evidently very prosperous at it. His headquarters are now at Durand, Indian Territory. Governor Hanly’s message, delivered yesterday to the state legislature, is probably the longest and more than probably the ablest, roost advanced, large minded, and' alto gether eoramendible message ever written by a governor of Indiana. A reception was given to the •new members of the Christain Church, some 110 in .number, at the church Wednesday evening, at which about 300 persons were pre-

sent. It was a very pleasant affair. Amo?ig the features of the evening was the serving of refreshments of coffee, ca ke and sherbet ices. A report has circulated over town to the effect that R. H. Grow had accidentally dropped apocktt book with 81,000 in it in a closet at his house, north of the railroad, ah was mining for the missing weatb in the sewer leading from the house. Dick is probably pretty fairly well fixed financially, but it is not often that he “has the goods on him’* to the extent of SL.OOO ’u cold Cash. The whole story originated in a joking remark made by some party to a little boy, who was watching the digging up of some of Mr. Grow’sewer to clean it our. New exhibits for the poultry show are still coming in all the time, and several new coops were added yesterday afternoon, about the latest being a pair of those rare fowls, Indian Games, by the. Pullins brothers There is sea.eelv any known kind of barn yard fowl that is not now represented by some fine specimens at this show and as for turkejs, Mr. Hill, the great poultry expert and editor, who is judging the exhibit, makes the truly astonishing statement that for number of large aud fine turkeys this exhibition was never surpassed in the whole country. Pullins Brothers put a beautiful peacock in the front window with their sand hill crane last night, but otherwise there is uot much doing, in the pet stock feature of thdsLow.j

SATURDAY

F. B. Ham arrived home today from a business trip to western Ohio. Born, Friday, Jau. 11, to Mr. and Mrs. Louis Ramp, on Forrest street, a son and their first child. C. A. Hopkins, now of Delphi is here for a few days visit with her son Will southwest of town. Mrs. J. C. Gwin returned home today after a number of days visit with her daughter, Mrs. Geo. Thomas, at Monticello. Mrs. G. W. Goff left Friday afternoon for Hot Springs, Ark., where she will -remain for two or three months with a brother who lives there.

Mrs. J. C. Milligan, of Sheridan, lud., came up today to visit her son Alva Simpson, whose injury by a tall had made her anxious. She found him nearly recovered and able to come up town today. Noble J. York, of our city, has been made a filing clerk for the state legislature for the session of 60 days. F. B. Learning of Goshen formerly of this place, also has a clerkship for the same period. According to the Francesville Tribune the remonstrance lor that town and township contained 187 names, or a majority of nine. There are now three saloons in the. town, one of whose licenses will expire in March, one in September and the third not till October. A little girl in the family 1 * of George Tullis. southwest of town, has a case of measles, which she is understood to have contracted while on a holiday visit at Michigan City. Very few of the members of the larnily have ever had the disease and it looks like they had before them a pretty severe seige of sickness.

Mrs. Eliza Heed, whose very dangerous and supposed fatal sickness at the home of Mrs. Eunice Morris, across the river has beeu mentioned, has agreeably surprised her relatives and physician b& her great improvement in the last day or two. Bhe is now so much better that it is .ntended to take her back to her home at her son Mark’s place, in Jordan Tp., Sunday. . Mrs* Fred Gilman has been visiting friends iu Rensselaer since Thursday. It is understood that she likd heard nothing of Mr. Gilman’s arrest until it appeared in the papers this morning. ' She is a very estimable women in all respects and has always had the sympathy of the people of Goodland iu her share of the troubles iesuHiug from the wrecking of Mr. Gilman’s bank Coen & Brady had the bad luck to break a part ufuieir big gas en giue which operates tb eir grain ele

varms, h day or two ago, jdst when the soli'i toads were Jetting the corn come in with a rush, and they bad to scurry around and find all the men in town who were adepts at the tail end Of a scoop shovel and set them at work. The broken parts were sent to machine shops at Lafayette for-repairs. Dr. J. W. Younge, the traveling specialist, who died at Ft Wayne .last week, and who wa reputed to be weighted down w ith real cash, appears not to have been so affluent as he represented, at least the cash that he was supposed to have had cannot be located. His two sons who are heirs to what he possessed, have employed attorneys aud they have been making a search for the personal property. Up to last reports they have uncovered bu‘ little. Theodore George, who got a cow at the Catholic fair last week, has received a letter purporting to Tie from the Ira J. Mix Creamery Company, at Chicago, stating that their cow buyer was down in this region a week or two ago aud in the whole country found onlj one cow which met in all particularsuf largeues3 and quality of milk pro dneed and gentleness and virtue of private character, the high require meats ot their cows. The offer of 885 is therefore made for Dode’s cow, and shipping directions to be sent him on receipt of acceptance ot the offef. Theodore sizes the letter up as a joke concocted by some of his friends qp in Chicago, who take the Rensselaer papers. In the meantime the cow still forages on straw stacks and ramrod hay, up in the region of Newlaud, and all uucouscious f her fame. Aunt Phoebe Nowels wa9 taken quite seriously sick last Monday, with what the doctors think is neuralgia or rheumatfem in the chest, along with the weakness of old age. She is now somewhat better but still very weak and poor ly. She will be 88 years old on the coming 22nd of February, having been born on Washington’s birthday.

Many farmers are having trouble with hunters wounding and killing stock in many parts of Indiana. Some persons think because they have a hunters license they can go go where they please to hunt. Farmers have the same rights they have had and when the land is posted or objection is *made the hunter is a tresspasser if he has not the farmer’s consent to .hunt no matter how mmy licenses he has. The diphtheria in Milroy township has not spread to any house except the one occupied by the Blakemore and Grouns families and it is not thought there is any longer any danger that it will. The school houses have been fumigated and three of the four schools will be reopened Monday. Some of the childreu who had it have recovered but one little boy of Mr. Blake more’s four years old, is still quite sick with it but as he has beeu given the antitoxin treatment it is believed that he will also recover Two other children are not feeling well and it is likely they will also come dowii with it. They have already been given antitoxin and it is believed will have it very mildly in consequence. The little Grouns boy that died was not treated with antitoxin, the disease not having been recognized in time, or the

doctors not called soon enough. The Demorat refers again to the court of inquiry at Remington, and it may not be amiss for us jfco again refer to the graod iury which at its November session made a full investigation of, the charges made made against Prosecuting Attorney Graves and reported in so many words that the'statements published in the Democrat were unfounded. Now ttiat grand jury, just as it happened, was composed mostly of Democrats, and like one of them who talked wita the editor o» this paper lately, they really believed when they began their investigations, that there was considerable truth in the charges of Mr. Graves derelictions in the Remington matter and they jyvere very anxious, and properly so, to uncover his wroug doing, if any existed. There is ho more honorable, truthful nor public spirited man in Jasperooau* ty than this Democratic grandjury man, above watered to. He says

they went into’the Remingtop matter fully aud found that noueqf the people who had made charges in. outside talk could produce the goods when it came to sworn evidence. They knew absolutely nothing detrimental to Mr. Graces themselves, nor d d any of the peo pie they named as /likely to have sucli knowledge really have any. when they were put oh oath. The grand jury found a uumber of bitter and -vindictive persons over at Remingtoh, who from motives of hatred and revenge stirred up the ti’ouble, aid with no just grounds to base it upon. - -- ,

The Mt Ayr Pilot has changed editors, the new man at the helm being W. F. Baughman, who will have more time to devote to it than did the former editor, Mr Willey. A printing outfit has been ordered aneTperhapsalready received, and the paper will be printed at home hereafter, instead of at Goodland as has been the case heretofore. Mr. Baughman, the new editor, was located in Rensselaer some years ago, as instructor of our band. Liter he was at Chalmers where he was publishing a paper. Hon. Anson Wolcott, founder and namesake of the town of Wolcott, died at his home there Thuisday, at the age of a little more than 87 years. He cut a pretty large figure in Indiana in his day, both politically and (financially, but for quite a number of years past has spent much of his time in Colorado, where he had large mining interests. He was a leading Republican most of his active life but later became a greenbacker aud was their candidate for governor once, if rightly remem bered. Ex State Senator E. H. Wolcott is his sou.

County Assessor J. Q. Lewis attended the state meeting of county assessors in Indianapolis during their two days session this week. He reports a good and valuable meeting during (which he learned many things which will be of value to him in the efficient discharge of the responsible aud difficult duties of his office. He reports two rather remarkable facts in connection with the meeting, one of which was that every one of the 92 county assessors in thi state was in attendance; and the other that they are exactly evenly divided politically, being 46 Republicans and 46 Democrats. The meettng did not recommend any general increase in the valuation of real estate this year, nor ask for any change in the tax law.

MONDAY. Joe Sharp went to Brunettsville today, to visit a sister. Still the warm wet weather continues, and the roads grow worse every day. Mr, and Mrs. C. A. Haas and little son, of Lafayette, spent Sun day with their relatives here. George Hemphill was down from Chicago and spent Sunday with his parents here. Mr. and Mrs. Luther Wartena returned to Hammond Sunday afternoon after a week’s visit with relatives here. Lew Robinsou, Clarence Lanham and H. G. Murray are three young fellows who went to Chicago today to look for work.

Mrs. R. W. Burris, of near |Newland, weut to Crawfordsville and Jamestou today, to visit relatives. Her at Jameston. The article descriptive ot Elishur Sage has not yet appeared in the Chicago Sunday Tribune, tho the data for it were obtained about three weeks ago, by 1 a staff representative of that paper who came here for the purpose. Henry Wood and sister Mrs. Henry Pierson aud Miss Bell W« od ventjto Battle Ground today, to . help celebrate the .SL'ml biithday of their mother Mrs Mary Woo3rj There are eight children in all ami I all were expected to lie present. “I have been somewhat" Costive, but Doans Regulets gave just the results desired. They act uiildty ami regulate the bbw eh perfetf ly.V jieorge B. Krause, .‘kMJ Walnut• Ave. AltoOna, Pa. Special grocery prices lor this sale at the Chicago Bargain fcjtore opposite court house. / ,