Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1907 — Local Hapoenings. [ARTICLE]

Local Hapoenings.

FRIDAY Percy Hauter wont to Purdue today to attend the big corn shpw. Born, this moaning. to Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Moles, of Hanging Grove, a son. Miss Loretta Nagel went to La fayette today, for two weeks visit with relatives. Mrs. Frank Wert’, of Michigan City, returned home today, after a visit with Mrs. O. O. Hammerton. Undertaker W. J, XV right left for Logansport this afternoon to bring home the body of W. W. Reynolds. Bruce Hardy has given up his job at the stock yards and returned home, but thinks he will go back there in the spring. Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Hough, of southwest of town, went to Walk erton today, to visit a brother of his whom he had not seen for 27 y ears. G. W. Tudor has just sold his farm in Barkley township to Sam Kershner, of Wells county. It contains 120 acres and the price is said to have been $75 per acre. It is reported that Uncle Billy Obenchain, of Barkley, has unexpectedly become much worse and ■that distant relatives have been summoned in anticipation of the worst. Grandmother Zard, of the west side of town, is now in Kosciusco county, where she went to attend the wedding ot her daughter Dora, who was married there Wednesday

evening. Rev. W. R. Nowels, of Flora, who was over for a short visit with his parents, mainly on account of his mother’s sickness, returned home today. Aunt Phebe remains about a* she was when last men tioned. Mr. atftl Mrs. Mark Quinlan, of Dayton, Ohio, after several weeks visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Halligan, left today for Ocalla, Florida, where they will spend the next tnree months with her sister, Mrs. A. E. Delouest. Sherman Richards has received word from the authorities of the Indiana School for Boys, at Plain field, that his son Lee has made the 5,000 credit marks necessary for his discharge and that he will be home next week. Lee has been there 18 months this last trip. A trained nurse is now taking care of Mrs. Wilbur Florence’s little girl who is the worst from the scarlet fever. Mrs. Florence and her older daughter being worn out by caring for the sick children, and the quarantine preventing any of the neighbors from assisting them. Trustee Staulbanrn. qt Kankakee township, was in town am ~ business today. He leports that the two cases of smallpox in Tefft have entirely recovered abd thatno new. Cases had appeared dud the quarantine had ix eb raised. The schools have also all resumed their

S ssions. At the meeting of the Indiana grand lodge of the I, O. O. F. brotherhood held, recently in Indianapolis, the laws regarding the payment of dues was changed. Up until June 30, L9OJ, dues will be collected as usual, at the close ot each quarter. After June 30, 1907 they will be collected in advance al the beginning of each quarter, according to the revised

The Lebqhi sale Thursday, in Newton township, was another large one and aggregated about $2,000. The post notable features of the sale were connected with the horses. Thus.five large Norinan brood mares brought an aggregate of $1,068, and a Clydesdale stallion coming three years old, brought $550. The So Clnb had a big and very successful party at the Armory last evening at which about 80 persons were present. They had music from Chicago, served elegant refresh ments and played Five Hundred as the principal amusement, tho dancing was also indulged after the card playing. The party was to entertain the Five Hundred Club.

At S. B. Snedeker's sale south of town Wednesday, the sensational feature was the sale of a team of mules for which there was such strongfcompetition that the price ran up to the almost unparalleled figure of $475. Elijur Sage, of Rensselaer, was the purchaser. He bought them for use on the Harmon farm, west of town which he bought last fall and upon which he is arranging to move in February. Ed Kirk, who is traveling representative for a paint house but has been laid up at home for a month from an accidental blow on the head received while visiting the factory at Cleveland about that long ago, will start for New Orleans tonight, to resume his regular work. Joe Jackson, the bus man, is going with him on a health and recreation trip, and expects to be away about a month. Mort Murray will drive his bus during his absence. St Cyril’s College basket ball team came down from Chicago last evening and played with St. Joseph’s team. The Chicago boys beat our college by a score of 20 to 7. The St Cyril fellows are terrors, and this is the 14th match game they have won this season, with nary a defeat. As a “curtain raiser’ ’ to the principal game, the Rehsselaer Independents, Bob Mil' liron’s team, played with the younger college team, and the college won by a score of 17 to 15. An unusual lawsuit is now on at Fort Wayne. A piano firm offer ed a .piano to the person making the largest number of words of common usage out of the firm niame of the concern. The piano waS" awarded to a man with 1,924, it being stated that altho Mrs. Jesse had filed a list of 2,471 names, a large number of her list were obsolete or else not in the dictionary. The court will now be called upon to decide how many words in the list of 2,471 are good dictionary words.

Thomas H. Robinson, who has owned and occupied a fine residence on the west side of town for the past 10 or 12 years, is now busy preparing to move back on his big farm in Gillam township, the ownership of which he has always retained. He Is already moving out some of his effects but does not get full possession until March Ist. His son Dr. Schuyler Robinson, an osteopath physician, intends giving up the medical practice and will live with his father and .help manage the farm. It is largely thru his desire to be at home with his little motherless boy that they are going hack on the farm.

SATURDAY Matt Nesius, ofsoutlieast of town went to Chicago today for a stay of some length. Lawrence Hildebrand came down from Chicago this afternoon to re main over Sunday. B. J. Cook, of Kingman, Kans,, is here today for a short visit with his sister-in law Mrs. N. J. York. Mrs. John Graves 1 and Mrs Loni* Paulson., of Wheatfield are visiting the ibcuer’s daughter, Mrs. J. W. Tilton. Will Reynolds, of Chicago, arrived on the two p. m. train this afternoon just in time to attend his fathei’s funeral. II W. Kiplinger and his brother Willard, whd iaxisiting him from Illinois are visiting friends at Muncie, their old home, today. Omar Ritchie, of Anderson, stopped off today for a short visit with relatives He is the president of the Indiana Retail Furni-

tore Dealers Association and has been attending the meeting of the national association in Chicago. The official temperature this afternoon ■ was even 65 degrees, which was a close shot at the warmest January weather on record here and which was 67 degrees, ard just one year ago tomorrow. * The body of W. W. Reynolds »r----rived at noon today and the funeral was held at 2:30 p m. at the Free Baptist church, by Rev. B. F. Ferguson, Owing to a washout on some railroad the body was brought by the way of Remington and overland from that point. Jack Esson, of Brook, than whom no citizen ot Newton county was better known here, died early Thursday morning, after a long sickness. He was a brother of Bill Esson, who was long a resident of Jordan Tp., and whose death occured at Brook also a few years ago. The last night’s rains which con tinued until [early this morning made the eighth consecutive day in which it either rained or snowed often both, not to mention sleet. On five of those eight days not a single glimpse was had here of the sun, and on the other three there were vastly more clouds than sunshine. It is admitted all around that this sudden wiping of the snow off the earth will give the roads a chance to get better a good deal quicker than they otherwise could. In fact on the gravel ahd stone roads a great improvement has already taken place, the snow being gone and the pelting rains having much solidified the surface, George Thompson, a Goodland citizen who is traveling in the south, ha written to the Herald an account of his recent visit to Brownsville, Texas, and where he went on a hunting expedition for marks of bullets made when the Negro tsoops shot up the town. He gives many details of the affair and remarks: “If the people of the north could go to Brownsville and find out the facts in regard to this trouble, they would undoubtedly think that Roosevelt did exactly right. Floyd Robinson is the first to arrive with a harbinger of-spring snake story. He extirpated one of the garters “stripe” this morning, at his place east of town. Fred Phillips, Floyd’s brother inlaw, not to be behind, claims he saw one near his place across the river, while Fred brother-in law, C. A- Roberts, is out with a statement of seeing one out in Newton’s addition. We are not saying that these are different versions of the original Robinson snake story, but brothers in-law hate like >in to be beat by other brothers .n law, and people can drifw their own conclusions.

Word comes from Alexandria that the factories of that town are organizing to fight the saloons. The claim is made that they do not go together in the some town successfully. The American Plate Glass company, Alex indria, has notified the city council that its plant will make no further extensions or improvements unless the council circumscribes the saloon territory of the city to the business portion of the town and the saloons are taken totally out of the factory district. The Lippincott lamp chimney’ plant of the same city has taken the same stand. Each of these factories employ upwards of 500 persons.

Mrs. Mary Cold well, who was before carriage Mary Wilson, of Goodland, and a daughter of James Wilson, a former well known”resident of i ha-t town, has, just been acqnni< «! al Stl.pa, Kansas, of the charge of murdering her husband after Ui6-e trills. He was a wealthy* ' farmomrd cattle kealer, and one i night was found murdered in his bed Ithe Wow of an ax on the head. Mrs, Cold well who slept by i his side w:ls qqvered with blood’, and the iiired men, of whom five ; were enipW.\ed, charged her with i the ci ime,, and her three trials fol loked. Caldwell mentioned at the i supper trrnp in the hearing of the hired men that he had sold a bunch of cattle that day, and therefore 'there have been suspicions that some of t hem committed the mur fder in hopes of securing the money.

... - , —...■ Mrs. Wilson has five sons who have all believed in her innocense. At Kentland the somewhat noted indemnity bond suit case was continued till the next term. It seems that during the thick of the county sqat and new court house agitation apd litigation, certain citizens gave a bond to idemuify Newton county if it cost more to finish the new court house than the original contract, after that contract was set aside by the Supreme Court m some hair splitting technicality. It did cost a right smart more and nOw certain tax payers have brought suit on this iiond. Judge Hanley anuouuced that he had heard the case discussed so .much that he would not hear the trial, and the attorneys for the defense were not ready anyhow, so the case went over. Attorney Frank Foltz, of Rensselaer, has been employed as attorney for the tax payers. There was a total rainlfall yesterday afternoon and last night of 1.04 inches. The rain was warm and before morning the south wind boosted the temperature 'to 58 degrees, or a real spring heat The combined effect of this warm rain and wind caused the disap pearance of the four or five inches of snow and ice on the ground with an almost unparalleled celerity. Ordinarily so much snow with so large a proportion of ice would have lingered for days, even in warm weather, but this time the whole coating disappeared between darkness and daylight as if by magic, and it was hard to find even a vestige of the snow. The snow which was on the ground at sundown held a weeks accumulation of daily rain or snow, being nearly inches of water. This with the amount which fell last night made nearly three inches of watep to be carried away, hence it is nd wonder the river has risen with remarkable suddenness, nor that sewers are gorged and cellars and basements flooded.

MONDAY. Mr. and Mrs. James Lefler returned today from a visit with relatives at Anderson. Miss Vera Ross, of Hoopeston, 111., came Saturday for a visit with her aunt Mrs. A. A. Yates. Frank Kennel’s goods are being shij>ped to Muncie, whe.re he is Keeping bar for George Strickfaden. Chauncey Wood, son of Harvey Wood, went to Lafayette today to take the spring agricultural course at Purdue. Mrs. N. J. York was at Monon Sunday, to attend the funeral of Mrs. Dr. Clayton, who was well known here.

Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Cleveland, of Fondu’ac, Wis., returned home today, after several days’ visit with his uncle, A. W. Cleveland. Mrs. J. E. Bislosky returned today from several weeks stay iu Chicago, where she was 'taking further medical treatment, but without much apparent benefit. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Turner, of Kirklin, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Beam for a short time. Mr. Turner was formerly night operator, but is now running a farm.

. Mr. and Mrs F. W. Tobias went ( to Chicago today, and where he expects to resume telegraph work for the North western road, after being idleTß months, on account of poor health. The, service at the Presbyterian church next Sunday evening will consist of a musicale by the choir, which has been under the instruction of Prof, Prior, of Chicago, for i several weeks past. An offering ’ will be taken.

* Woodworth Brothers will reopen their skating rink here Thursday evening for the rest of the week. They will probably divide their time hereafter between here and Lowell, half Of the week here and half there as long as the season lasts. The Warren county court-house at Williamsport was burned Bom day moruiug. It is thought all the records were safe except those of the auditor’s office, the vault attached to which having been crushed in by falling material and the contents then taking fire.

Leo Tuteur, now of Indianapolis, and Miss Selma Fox, of the same city, visited his father and other relatives here over Sunday. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Fox. and they have just announced her engagement to Mr. Tuteur. Tneir marriage will take , place in April. The very high water following the big rains inconvenienced sever-j al families in town but none quite i as much as a Mrs. Smith, who lives i with her two lit le girls in the east j part of town. They were shut iu by the water until Marshal Parks ventured to ther house Sunday, in hip boots. He found them nearly j : out of provisions and fuel.

Section 2 of the 2nd ward’of the Presbyterian c 1 ■”? h will give a* ten cent social hi ie home ot Mr.' and Mr*. C. G. Spitler Wednesday' afternoon Jan. 23. It is the’inten-1 tion of the women of the church to have a “leftover’’ sale in the near future and members and visitors are requested to bring to the social any prices of lace, ribbon, flannel calico, embroidery etc., that can be spared. , About forty of our young lawyers, doctors, county officers anil busiuess men participated in a general round-up'.of Black Maria, at Clerk C.“t\ “Wrtw^ i i rcsuUuc© Saturday evening. The invitations were issded by Mr. Warner in the form of a court summons and were very humorous. Black Maria “be it remembered’, being, in this case, a popular game of cards. Refrbshrnents were also served. Recorder J. W. .Tiltou arrived home this morning from a short trip to St Louis, to bring home his ten year old daughter, Beatrice, who has been in a sanitarium there for six mouths, taking treatment for a dislocation of the hip. She is much improved but will go back

there later for futher treatment. As they came thru Williamsport over the Wabash the Warren county court house was still burning, but there was not much left of it to burn.