Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1907 — Local Hapoenings. [ARTICLE]

Local Hapoenings.

FRIDAY Oscar Cox went to Otterbein today, on a business trip. Miss Loll Clift returned today from a visit of some length with friends at DeMotte. C. W. Rhoades, the barber and homing pigeon fancier, returned today from a visit to the poultry and electric shows, in Chicago. Mrs. W. A. i oth, of Monon, went home this afternoon after a visit with the families of Ezra Wolfe and Milton Michaels, north of town. Russell Harmon’s Poland China hog sale took place this afternoon at Collins’ feed barn. There was a good attendance of ready bidders and the property was selling fast at big prices. The Indiana House has decisively killed the bill abolishing the death penalty for murder in that body and the one pending in the Senate will probably not be pushi d Any further. The weather changed ends again last night and so suddenly that people could almost hear it snap as it'swung around. As® result today is decidedly cold and raw with a Stiff wind from the. northwest. Ernest Cockerill has traded his residence on Division street to A. Leopold for one in Leopold’s adddition on an even swap except Mr. Leopold assuming the encumbrance on the Division street property. John Poole went over to Muncie again today to look alter the opening up of their last kiln of bricks for this winter. In all they have made over a million bricks since he obtained possession of the plant. “Now Pat,” said a magistrate to an old offender, what brought you here again! “Two policemen, sor” was the laconic reply. “Drunk I suppose,” queried the magistrate, “Yes sor” said Pat, “Both av thim.” W. C. Milliron went over to Monticello on business this afternoon. He is not quite so sure of moving to North Dakota as he was last fall, since the reports of the .continuous cold weather and fearful blizzards came in.

The suit of Trustee Chapman against the members of the old Rensselaer Stock Farm has been sent to Crown Point on vhange of venue, and it is hoped can be got to trial the coming term of court there which begins next month. * A change has just taken place in the Haskell & Bell barber shop, Mr. Bell having sold his interests to Mr. Haskell who expects to be the sole owner, hereafter. Mr. Bell intends to move away but has not fully decided upon his future location.

Mias Jennie Muth, the music and drawing teacher in tbe city schools, being still detained at Topeka, Kaus., by her father’s sickness, the school hoard have felt obliged to consider the place vacant and have engaged Miss Queen Perry, of Goodland, who was here today. She will begin her work next Monday. ( Sheriff O’Connor has received subpoenas for quite a large number of Jasper county residents to test.fy at the Gilman trial at Kentland. The only ones so far called from Rensselaer are Mr. and Mrs. George Bell and George B. Davidson, all former residents of Goodland. The others all live over in the south treat part of the county.

Peru witnessed the unusual scene Friday of drunken animals passing down the Street. They were from a circus aggregation, and some of the elephants and camels, owing to the cold temperature had been fed bran moistened with whiskey. They were considerably tipsy as they left the car for the winter quarters.

F. W. Tobias, who was mentioned a number of days ago as going back to begin telegraphing work for the Northwestern after 18 months idleness on account of poor health, returned here this afternoon in company with his wife. He began work at Ravenswood but Wed nesday had a nervous collapse and was obliged to give it up. He is very much discouraged by this new break-down. Tho the body of the woman Killed in the wreck at Fowler was burred past any possibility of direct identification, no doubt now remains but that it''was that of Miss Delia Cooper, of Baraboo, Wis., who was on hex’ way to Lafayette to work as a waiter girl in the Lahr House. She left her home to go there and her route has been traced by her friends until she took the ill-fated train at Chicago.

Since the cold weather has made the roads solid the corn has been coming into the elevators here so fast that the elevators have scarcely been able to unload it as fast as it comes. Sometimes strings of 10 or 12 big wagon loads of it will come in one right after the other. The embargo on cord wood has been lifted to a considerable extentjalso. tho the wood movement is nothing compared to that of the corn.

Kentland Enterprise:—The girl’s basket ball team of the Kentland High School are proud of another victory, and their record for this year has been a clean list of victories. They met the high school girls at Watseka Friday night and in a fast game won on a score of 16 to 6. The girls have one ambition to complete their season’s glory, and that is to meet and defeat the Rensselaer girls. Is Rensselaer game ? The United States Fish Commission is making elaborate preparations for the distributions of fish in Indiana the coming season. The distribution will begin about June 1. The supply will be obtained, as heretofore, chiefly from the overflow waters of the Mississippi river and its tributaries. When the waters recede after the spring freshets the adult fish leave their spawn, which produces millions of minnows. These are captured by men sent out from the fish commission, loaded in cars and distributed during the summer season. Fish Commissioner Bowers is flooded with applications from Indiana,and he states that he will do his best to fill all orders from the Hoosier state.

SATURDAY Mrs. G. F. Meyers and Mis. L P. Shirer went to Chicago today for the day. Helmer Lilja, of Chicago, is here for two weeks visit with John Werner the tailor. Joe Harmon returned to Pontiac, 111., this morning after several days’ visit with relatives here. Ice five inches thick is being put up at the college, being cut from the artificial lake in front of the college. —— Mrs. Rena Bartoo returned to Morocco this morning, leaving her father Erastus Peacock, somewhat improved from his recent sickness. Terrance Thomson and Albert Hahn, two Rensselaer boys, are working for the Western Union company, as wire stringers at St Louis. A special song service will be held at the Presbyterian church Sunday evening in place of the regular service. Everyone invit ed. An offering will be taken. Born Friday night, Jan. 25th, to Mr. and Mrs. Van Grant at theif home at tae corner of Franklin and .Plum streets, a son and their first Fchild. It is also Mr. and Mrs. W. ’ft. Eger’s first grandchild. Erastus Peacock has been very painfully rick all the week at hte home on the west side of town from

the combined effects of grip and ■neuralgia. He is now considerI ably improved. One of qur physicians was called to the north end of Union Tp., this morning to attend J. W. Faylor who had a bone in- his left foot broken by a heavy wagon running over it. It is a painful injury and will lay him up for some time. Dr. A. R. Kresler has bought N. Littlefield's residence on north Cullen street, as an investment,, and will hold it for tenant purpose*. Mr. Littlefield will occupy it until the close of the school. His future location is not decided upon. The price of the property was §1,500.

Mrs. Werner, wife of John Werner the tailor, received word yesterday of the death of her father, who died suddenly at his home at Husquuarna, Sweden. He was 61 years old and had just finished 31. years of service as a surgeon in the Swedish army. A. M. Traugh, a former well known resident of Remington for many years, Jbilt latterly living with his son Dr. Marion Traugh at Goodland, died at that place last Tuesday, at the age of more than 88 years. The funeral was held Thursday and burial made at Remington. Russ Harmon is well pleased with the way his Poland China hog sale went off Friday. He sold 30 bred sows and 10 fall pigs and they brought in the aggregate 81,275. One of the sows and five of her pigs brought 8225. The best price for a sow was §6O and the best for a pig was §4O. Again we have a day of sunshine the first in 17 days. Of the preceding 16 days all but three were wholly cloudy and three were much more clouds than sunshine. This is also the first day in 14 that it has not stormed more or less. Out of the 16 preceding days all but one were stormy to some.extent. M.s C. P. Wright was called to Kentland this morning by a telephonic communication to the effect that her mother, Mrs. Vondersmith was in a very serious condition. Since the death of her husband at Remington last summer. Mrs. Vondersmith has resided with a sister At Kentland. She is in her 80th yesr. Miss Blanch Hoyes, the capable bookkeeper and stenographer in Foltz & Spitler’s office has just nought of Mrs. Louella Phillips Brown, of St. Paul, her resi ence on South Weeton street now oc copied by her father Phillip Blue, who will move to his own residence on Scott street. Miss Hoyes buys it as an investment, for renting purposes. The price was §1,200.

Elizur Sage, whose intended removal- to his farm, the former Harmon place about three miles west of town, has been mentioned is now planning to build a good residence on the farm this year. One of his reported farm purchases was not finally consummated, being that of the Owen county land, owing to some misunderstanding about some lumber on the land The Brook Reporter publishes an extended biographical sketch of John Esson, better known here as Jack, and to his neighbors as Uncle Jack. He was born in England in 1844 and came to this country with his parents in 1855, living in Will county, Illinois until 1871, when he located in Newton county. He was a good and enterprising citizen and was almost as well known here as in his home country. He left quite a large estate which will be inherited by his widow and daughter.

Representative John B. Faulkner is the editor of the Michigan City Dispatch, and knows how to write a newspaper story with the best of them. The present agitation agaim-t inflicting the death penalty brings to mind a story about John. Several years ago when Charley Harley was warden of the state prison, a colored convict was to be executed. Warden Harloy, acting under the instructions of Attorney-General Ketcham, declined to admit report ers to the hanging, and that made Mr. Faalkner fearfully angry and he said things about shutting out the press. Fnally a way was found to get around the alt* rney general’s, instructions, and Mr. Faulkner was

Writhe prison re idy to be a witness toi the execution. Just five minutes betfoe the time for the drop to fall John got cold feet and made a rush for the warden’s office, where he remained until the execution was over. He was all right finding a way to see the hanging, but when it caiqe to seeing it he weakened. Frank Borntrager's big team took freight at rhe two o’clock train this afternoon while at the corn cribs of the Babcock & Hop-

kins elevator and ran away. The wagon was upstt neir Lyman Zea’s place and Mr. B>rntrager was thrown but violently and pretty severely jolted. The team ran down Weston stieft to Washington street and were stopped by beii g caught on. a big telephone guy wire, just across the street from the Re ; publican office. Nothing was left of the wagon by that time except the tongue and front wheels. The damage done was very slight.

R. A. Hopkins, our ex townsman writing from Lincoln, Neb., to have a change made in nis address ssys: “Allow me to congratulate you for having the best paper for a town of your class that I have ever known.” We always thought Bob a young man of fine judgment and now we know it. Still candor compels us to admit, that .there is another former Rensselaer man out in Billy Bryan’s town, who probably would not agree entirely with Bob’s estimate of The Republican’s excellence. And that is little old Zim Dwiggins, and even he seemed to think the paper was all right as long as could stand us off for the pay. We had zero weather last night for the first time this winter. At nine o’clock in the* evening the temperature was down to five above, which was lower than at any previous time thus far this winter, and as it was still rapidly falling it seemed likely that as How a point as five below would be reached by^morning. However the lowest point touched by the government minimum thermometer was two below and it still stood at that point until seven o’clock this morning. It is quite among the possibilities that we are now in for our share'of the cold weather that has prevailed so generally both e »8t and west of us. Anyhow the present cold is very encouraging to the ice men.

Eke Republican has always been and always will be a friend of the boys and girls and has always s. mpathized with them in their aspirations and their amusements, and if any of them think we are rot working tor their own good as well as that of the community in general when we vpnose the establishment of frats in our high school they are mistaken. The true friend is the one who puts in the gaff some times as much as the one who always applies the plaster. Two of Rensselaer’s most successful professional men, ot the younger class, haxe recently taken occasion to most beaitily commend our course in this respect. Both are college graduates and both declare college frats to Ire a very bad thing in the college and they would be much worse in a public school, and one of them was himself a frat man in col lego. As one of them says, their chief i a->ult is to make the ones who are in them think they are a little better, or a good deal better than those who are out, and what is much worse they throw temptations in me way of their membeas which leads many of them to dissipation and debauchery.

■ONDAT. B. Forsythe left yesterday to join his wife at Fairfield, lowa, and return from there with her the latter part of this week. Judge Hanley spent Sunday at home here and stated while here ft»; toe ale’s evidence in the Gillua t trial would all be in by noon tod iv. Dale Warner, of III., formerly of Mt. Ayr, has been engaged by Frank Haskell to work in his barberahi p, to take the place of Frank’s retiring partner, Mr. Bell. The four years old son of James Blakemore, of Milroy tp., still continues very bad 'ith "diphtheria, and tho he was given anti-toxin | treatment again Sunday, bat slight

I hopes are entertained for his refcovery. « Taree fine bright days in succession have already caused people to almost forget the practically ; solid three weeks of clouds and ( gloom which' preceded them. This weather, however, is a little tco ; fine t? suit the ice men, for tho it is cold enough to keep the roads sol d it is not making ice very fast.

Airs. John Ade, of Kentland, ditd last Saturday after a long sickness,, her age being about 74 years. She and her husband were among the earliest residents of Morocco, aid long before what is now Newton was split off from Jasper county. George Ade, the not.d humorous writer and dramatist, is her son. Mrs. John Groom, whose insanity case has been, described, was accepted at Long Clift asylum, and was taken there today by Deputy Sheriff Joe O’Connor and her son, Joe Groom. Her mentel condition has been growing worse right along and the treatment of the asylum is greatly needed

Another directors’ meeting of our p roposed electric "rail road was held at Reynolds today and it is hoped some more important and encouraging news can be given as a result of the . meeting. Messrs. C. W. Coen, J. L. Leatherman, Geo. F. Meyers and S. T. Comer, the local members of the directorate, were all in attendance. A woman who was put off the train here Saturday afternoon and was given entertainment in the jail over Sunday, was sent on today to Momence, 111., near which place she claimed to have relatives. Her fare was paid by Trustee Stackhouse. She was given plenty to eat and comfortable treatment at the jail, yet it galled her proud spirit not to have been taken to a hotel, and she cried and cussed at a great rate while there.