Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1907 — Here and There Items. [ARTICLE]

Here and There It ems .

* Potato crop figures tor the yeax . 1906 prepared at the state statisfe- . cian’s office, show that Jasper. county leads all others, in average . yield per acre. This is 122 bushel* per acre, with DeKalb county n«s& • with 115 bushels. In total prednetion of potatoes Jasper county? ranks seventh in the state, with. 175,800 bushels. A bill abolishing capital punishment was introduced by Senator--Kimbrough yesterday. The bill very short, changing the presesaA la v| that allows banging for premeditated murder to imprisonment for life. This bill is in line with th« recommendation made by Governor Hanly in his message.

In the assignment of committee: chairmanships, in the Indiana House C. D. Meeker of this district: was given that on Natural Resources. He is also a member osF the committee on Swamp Landv Corporations, Drains and Dikesand Minds and .Mining, aIT which, except Corporations, seems to show a tendency to “ran him ii>to the ground” so to speak. Not but what he has not fared well fir iu the matter of prominence of committee assignments. “‘The magazine section of lase Suuday’s Chicago Tribune has a long description of “the most K '»nwi tifnl head of hair in the word’ r with full description of how ita owner takes care of it. The owner is said to be a girl in New York, but her name is not given. However a large portrait in colors it given of a beautiful young girl wikit. a wealth of rose bedecked hair, and wa ecftist;-; ' ' ■ r 7 -

The latest aews concerning tifc' proposed electric line from Lafayette to Chicago was brought by W, A. Hennegar, who is one of the* members of the company that hare been behind the movement and caused the survey to be made. The proposition looks bright tojhim and he knew of no reason why the road' will not be readily financed. The. information we were able to obtafnv

makes things look as it the road will be built, but whether it will strike Hebron or not is to be determined later. At any rate, the promoters expect some pledging done in this neck of the woods which is one of the many necessary points now under consideration. — Hebron News. The advertised performanoe. ‘The Curse of Idleness,” was evidently not the one presented at the opera honse last evening, at least no resemblance could be found be tween the performance and the advertised description of i‘. The

players had an extremely amateurish appearance, and possibly jusaf started out from some country crane* roads. The play was a very unusuafi one, mixing tragedy with poor comedy, and coming to a climax, with the supremacy of the the banishment of the heroine, tlwr suicide of the soubrette and the execution of the character who had--beeu a benefactor to the downtrodden. The play mipht have been, improved by the murder of tho comedian in the first act, a costume change for the soubrette k» «*«. third, an eye glass and a dictionary for the duke, and the elimination: of the last act. If all things come to those that wait, it is quite probable this company will get their* with the cheapening of eggs. 100 horse blankets at less tftax. wholsesale prices. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORK.