Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1907 — Local Happenings. [ARTICLE]

Local Happenings.

TUESDAY. Mrs. W. Turner, of Kirklic, Tnd., is visiting Frank Rowen’s tfamily for a few days. Mrs. Joseph Rowen went to Marion today where she will visit a sisteij' for two months. John Nowels and. daughter Alta of north of town and 8. 8, Shedd .and Oscar Hatfter, of southeast of it, are all Lafayette v si tors today. J. F. Bruner and Carl Harnacher, the latter of north of town, left for Elbow Lake, Minn., today, on a prospecting expedition. J. W. Williams went to Chicago today, to attend a meeting of the National Retail Furniture Dealers’ Association, of which he is a member.

C. A. Hopkins of Delphi returned home this aft rnoon after a number of days visit with relatives in this vicinity. Dr. M. D. Gwin is now city health officer of Rensselaer, having succeeded Dr. Miller as secretary of the city board of health on Jan. Ist. Uncle Billy Obenchain, of the Blackford neighborhood, is slowly improving horn his bad attack of kidney and bladder trouble anc —rv*—■»■»vpjit he will recover. Tom Eiglesbacfi retunv&d to his street railroad job in Chicago Monday afternoon, after about a two weeks visit with his parent*, Mr. : and Mrs. Henry Eiglesbach, southwest of town Carey Huston, of Milroy, who traded his farm for a stock of goods at Peprysburg some time ago, went dowu there today, to invoice the .stock, he having a probable prospect for their sale. Walter Lee went with him to help make the invoice.

Cooney the ice man is not very cheerful over the prospect of put ting up any home grown ice this •winter; tho he does not consider the case altogether hopeless either, as all he put up last year was .after the middle of February. Winfield Penoe was in town today, looking alter business matters. He is still head manager of Kelson Morris’s cattle ranch, big as all out 4oore, way down iu Bouthwest Texas, and was in a hurry to get •back there to look after it * Little Gerald Hollingsworth, son bf EL L. Hollingsworth, bod a pair

of Light Brahmas at the poultry show, and the hen scored the highest of any in her class, but thru a mistake made in entering, she did not get any ‘ribbon, “much to Gerald's disappointment. , C. J. Dean left for Kansas today,, especially to visit his mother at Coats, who is sick with pneumonia. He will also visit a siiter at Wichita and thought it probable that he would also take a prospecting trip thru Texas before he came home. He will be away two or three weeks About two inches of heavy wet snow last night was something different again in the weather line. If it had come on top of frozen ground it would not have come aini.-s, as it would have helped smooth off their multitudinous roughness, but coining as it did on a foundation of bottomless mud, it will only make the mud the muddier.

A. F. Smutzer, sheriff ofLaPorte county, visited Sheriff O’Connor, of this county last night and today. He is lining up the sheriffs of this congressional district, to get them together to ask for certain changes in the laws which will put the sheriff's office somewhat more on an equality with the other county offices in the matter of emoluments. Mr. Smutzer is a Republican and the only one on that ticket who pulled thru iu LaPorte oouuty last fall He got 400 majority, when the usual majority was about that figure the other way. A press dispatch to an Indianap olis paper today says that when Fred Gilmatvgets all he is likely to ovei in Newton county for wrecking the Goodland bank, that he will find another club waiting for him down in Shelby county, for doing up the bank at St. Paul, that county. He was the founder of that bank and pulled SIO,OOO out of it just before he absconded. Another bank at Milroy, Ind., went by the board right along then, and the brisk Fred is held responsible for that also.

Deputy Sheriff Pearl, of Benton Jarbor, Mich., was shot and fataly wounded by a man named Moore Monday. He went with Moore’s wife, who had left him, to serve a writ for the possession of he* house lold goods when Moore opened fire on Pearl, and also shot his wire in the breast, but it is thought she will recover. Pearl is the officer who al mg with Ex Sheriff Charley Danghertv of Lake county, accomplished the capture of Ewdard )onahu, the desperate criminal wha is now serving a life sentence ki Michigan City, for the murder of a Benton Harbor man in Lake county.

WEDNESDAY. B. J. Moore went to Winamac today, on business. Born, Tuesday morning to Mr. and Mrs. Earl Ellis, in the north part of town, a daughter. Frank Morlan left for his home at ltngby, N. Dak., this morning after several weeks visit with his relatives here. You will be more than paid in values you Mill receive if yon at tend Rowles & Parker’s embroidery sale, Friday Jan. 18th, at 9 a. m. Deputy Sheriff O’Connor took Alva Brohard to Kentland tins morning to have him on hand for trial on the charge of rape. Mr. and Mrs. John Coey, of Francesville, are visiting their daughter, Mrs. C. B. Reprogle and family for a few days.

This ii the middle day of January out instead of being half over as it ought to be it now looks now as if winter had only just its regular pace. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Parker. of east of town, went to Lafayette today to attend the corn show and farmers’ institute at Purdue University. 8. C. Mux well and son V\ 1 1 ford went to Marion today, aud * liete the latter will remain forsom.- time to take treatment from a socialist for a chronic stomach trouble. Mrs. B. Forsythe left this morning for Fairfield, lowa, to visit her relatives there, Judge Leggett aud family aud Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Beck. Wilson Witharn and sou and daughter of Monticello, stopped ofl

-'■» 1 1 .'U 7- ; •, —; —; - for a short visit with his brother inlaw David Maack, while on their way to their future home at Salina, Kansas. , Lyman Barce, of three milts north of town, went to Attica today and will stay two or three weeks at Hunter’s springs to take treatment for the ! rheumatism and a Stomach trouble. A nine year old daughter of Mrs. Wilbur Florence, in the east part of town, is st 11 quite sick from the after effects o| the scarlet fever, but the physiciau is confident she will recover all right., I ‘ --L, .I’., -•- T. E. Besse, now living north west of town, is one of tne many parties who are making publ i c sales this winter. He is arranging to move to North Dakota. His sale date is February Ist.

The merry jingle of sleigh bells was heard in our streets today, for the first time this winter; and right along with the jingle of the, bells was also heard the patter of the drops, which seemed to indicate that the 'reign of the rain would soon put an end to the reign of th> snow.

It was-Joe O’Connor, the sporty son and deputy instead of John steady sire and sheriff who raked in the premiums oh eall ducks at the poultry show last week. Joe has four fiae birds of that kind, being one drake and three duckies They are wild ducks domesticated. TEe owned and A 1 Fletcher and Tom Parkeir operated horse snow plows-were out betimes this morning for the first time this winter and ere the school bells began to peal they had spread their bright and benificieut effluence from the remotest limits off the Bad Lands to the utmost verge of Rabbits’ Beserver

Mrs. Clyde Coriess, of Hanging Grove towuship,. has been- in poor health for several weeksy or ever since she gave birth to a child, and in order that she may be in easier reach of her physiciau was brought to town today, and whl occupy rooms over Warners’ hardware store. A trained nurse- has been secured for her.

MIRSDAIL John Smith, tne painter, is getting around again after two weeks sickness with tonsiiitis. Duke Nichols went to AmbOy, !Ind., today to visit relatives, after which he will go* to Peru to look for a job.. Wno.. Burns of Barkley, had his public sale Tuesday and it was a big one and a good one, aggregating about §£,200. Mr. Burns is now preparing to move on his farm in Minnesota. Two more members of the Tullis family southwest of town has developed the measles, as have also Rifay Tullis, a married son. Mrs. Tullis, the mother, is also showing indications of the disease. Mrs. A. Gangloff, of just east of town, not only took everything in sight on Toulouse geese at the poultry show, but also got 2ud on Partridge Cochin cockerels, which last was accidentally omitted in the published list of prize winners.

Monticello Journal: Manager Ellis, of Rensselaer Surely must have sought to perpetrate a joke on Monticello when hS recommended the “Curse of Idleness” company to Manager Johnson. The Rensselaer Republican has a much different story to tell. It feels that a dose of ancient hen fruit is coming to the aggregation. Mr. W. Willie Hobo, Esq., of most anj place, was a guest of the city of Rensselaer, last.night, having been eflfcertaiued iu a ground floor suite of ro. ms at the Hotel De O’Connor Annex, at the city’s expeuse. This morning he testifield to his appreciation of the excellence of the hospitality shown him by alfaveling ioe off the street crossings for a few hours.

Abe Martin: Til lord Moots took his wife, down t’ Evansville Monday f be operated on fer liveritifc, au’ today bis niece got a letter sayiu’ thet th’ operation wuz entirely successful, an’ thet th’ b *dy would be shipped hornp ei ouce. Pinky Kerr says thet a nice, attractive

free luuch makes th’ whrie world >S kin. ! • . ' The ocdvdonal glemt of.§yn shine at neL/ly noon today were the very find time the orb of day has been seferi around these parts this week. Previous to today it had stormed every day either snow or rain aud ‘ gerferaliy botE. The total precipitatiou during the five days was 1.77 inches.. Albert Moorhead and .family leave .this afternoon for Chicago, and tonight wiil leave there for Lyman, Co orado, where he expects to make his future home. Ho goes iu company with his brother, Ellery, who is foreman in a Rock Island round House at Lyman arid iu which AT will also have a job until spring, and longer it he wants tit, but he thinks he will take up a government land claim in that region as soon as-spring opens. * W. H. Parkison* returned from Kentlaud this morning and reports that he has been engaged to assist Win. Darroch in ..defending Fred* Gilman when his triai comes off. Fred is out on bail but who his bondsmen are or the ansonnt of his bail Mr. Parkison not know

Some of the indictments- were held good Wednesday and some dismissed, The trial is set for next Wonday, but it is understood* that the defense will ask for more time to get ready. Clerk Warner’s statistical .report just made up shows that there were 110 marriage licenses issued in this county in 1906. This is andmerease of 12 ever 1905, when the »umber was 98? There were eight l divorces grante&dn the county during the year aed'seven in 1905. Tbis is at the rate-of ODe divorce to -14 marriages, from which it does-* not appear that the so calledi “divorce evil” is-increasing to any, alarming extent:» this peaceful region. Rodney Pearl, the noted.: deputy sheriff and detective of Benton whose supposed fatal shooting by a man named Moore was mentioned, was still alive at last accounts and considerable hopes felt, that he would eventually recover- Mooie’s wife is also doing well and has good chances for recovery. Moore himself is worse off of any from the cutting, shooting and burning he gave himself. D*. H. W. Fox and the young

man, Johantgea, the two. parties arrested iu Chicago far supposed complicity ic. the death, of Emily has previously been mentioned, were both released Tuesday* there being no evidence to warrant holding them. Some other doctor who had the case earher seems to have been the responsible, while there seems nothing iu Johantgen’s conduct towards the young woman that would justify charging him with being responsible far her death. Cut this out and take it to B. F. Fendig’s drug store-and get a free sample of Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets. Taese tablets are far superior to pills, being easier to take and more pleasant in effect. They correct disorders Oi the stomach* liver aud bowels.