Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1907 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]
CITY NEWS.
Local Hapoenn. TUESD4Y. MiS3 Pearl Myers has gone to Hoopeston, 111., to visit relatives. Clyde Comer, of Rowles & Parker visited friends and - ndianapolis over Sunday. G. H. Depler of Forest Til., returned home today after a visit with Miss Beatrice Yates. Vilas and Ben Price, sons of Sam Price north of town, went to Piper City, 111., today, to visit friends tor a conple of weeks. Mrs. J. W. Smith, of north of town, went to Boone, Ind., today for several weeks’ visit with her mother. The Rensselaer basket ball team of the season of 1907 will olay their first match game at Whiting, on Friday night ol this week. Mrs. L. A. Rodgers, who with her two sons have heeu living pt McCoysburg, took the train here this forenoon for Attica, which will be their future home.
A gang of men are here to put in a steel bridge over the Nissius ditch, for the Attica Bridge Co., but they are being detained by tl e non-arrival of the material. Arrangements have been made for the Chalmers checker team of five members to play the Rensselaer team a return game Thursday evening of this week. The games will take place in the Armory, and may be witnessed by any one desiring to see them. All recent reports from the Bad Lands indicate that the Hostiles are all back on the reservation and the pip 2 of peace has been smoked and the tomahawk deeply Buried. However past history indicate that it is never buried so deep but that it c m be dog up again pretty easi ly, and on short notice. Edward W. Tripp of Indianapolis e lgineer of the Big Four passenger train that was wrecked and burned at Fowler, is still in the hospital at Kankakee, 111., and tho his condi tion is serious, he is improving. Despite reports to the contrary, .there is a chance for his recovery. Warren Griggs, son of Len .Griggs the court house heiting -plant fireman, returned from Chi <jago last night, where he has been working for some time, on account of being troubled by a gathering in his ear, and from which he has suffered greatly and been laid up few some weeks.
Archie Imes and family carae down from Chicago last night and will this their home for some time Sf a house cau be found, which at this ti|ue are very scarce. He is a motorma’u in the city and will still ontiime his work there even it he arranges tc leave the family here. Mis. Susie Lister returned to her home in Chicago today after xjuite a protracted visit witlf her mother,. Mrs. Eliza "Reed. The latter has Sufficiently recovered from her recent very severe and dangerous sickness to be able to. sit up, but that she will ever fully regain tier former health is hardly expected. A considerable number of the Bythiau Sisters gave George Bell a surprise visit Saturday after noon at their hprue in the Mrs M. L. Spitler property north of the railroad, and Monday afternoon she was called upon by about 30 ladies of the Christain church, both visits being by way of expressions of regrrd, on 'account of Mr. and Mss. Bell’s intention of leaving town soou.
There was an unusually large audierceatthe Presbyterian church last Sunday evening to enjoy the monthly song service by the church choif. A very excellent program was rendered including anthems, vocal and instrumental soloes, all given in a degree of fine efficiency. It is the intention of the choir to support their organization by giv in a song service once a month and the members are highly pleased with the degree of public favor with which their opening efforts have been received. No trouble was exporienced Mon* day in taking Mrs. John Groom to the asylum further than that thru her weakened condition it was necessary to carry her in changing ears and from cars to carriage. T iere seems to be still r<. om at the asylum for women patients but-the men’s waids are very much crowd ed and all except the most urgent cases h*ave long waits for their turns. Thus there are two men now being cared for at the Moutieellojail, waiting for admission, and no doubt there are similar cases in many counties. The new wards soon to be opened will relieve matters for a while. . Squire William Gaffield, of the high court of Milroy Township, and the only justice of the peace that township has had for years if ever, is having hard luck in getting his court into actual action of trying cases. The two or three started beforrn him heretofore have all been cotnpiomised by the parties before trial was reached aud now another in which the parties are obstinate and bound to go to trial, has been taken from the township on change of venue. The plaintiff is a Mr. Charles. He claims to have loaned a plow some three years ago to a neighbor, a Mr. Anstett and he has moved to Remington aud neither returned the plow nor settled for its value and Charles has brougl t suit to make him do one or fie other. The defendant took the change of venue and the case was sent to Squire Thornton, at Rensselaer. When the Squire sets h s hands to the handles of this plow he turns thing over clear to the bottom, there is no doubt about that
WEDNESDAY. • Mrs. F. A. Ross returned home toda\ fmm a visit with friends in Toledo. Ohio. Mr* K. B. Learning, of Go-hen, came today for a visit with her mother Mrs. M. L Spjtler' and Otbgr relatives. Burle\ Parks, of Remington, who w is here visiting his brother the ci i \ marshal, went to Chicago this iii<" mag for a few days stay. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Hayden, of Rom>d ;<. hub, returned home today a't r a visit with Mr. and Mrs. John Eger, the two ladies being sister* 8* * > Moadiy night was regular City Council night hut the allowing of a few ria< in- and renewing a little in suntnoe on city property was all the busbies* transacted. Count y Superintendent Hamilton and O. G Spi tier both journeyed up o ih* region of Wheatfield this morning, the former on school
matters aud the latter oa a busi n ms trip. Uncle Jim Raudle writes back from Tampa, Florida that the plutfii? and peaches are in bloQm aud the leather beautiful there.. He is also enjoying fine health but for some reason the place does not seem to agree so veil with Mrs. Randle. They wifi stay gt Tampa till towards the middle of February (and then try Jacksonville for a while. John Renieker, of the Renieker fruit far,m north of town, leit last night for Chattanooga, Tenn., and from there will go to Jacksonville, Sandford and other places in Flori da, to seek relief from a bronchial trouble from which he has been suffering for some time. It is not his first visit to that region, but his former visit was 21 years ago. He will be away for some time. The little Blakemore boy fn Mil roy Tp., Was given another antitoxin treatment Tuesday for his diphtheria and reports of his condition today are that he is considerably improved, aud his physiciaq therefore now has strong hopes for his recovery, All the other casts in the two families in the hou-e, Blakemores and the Grouus, have recovered and no new ones have developed and it is thought now that theie will not be any more new cases. J. H. Allman, who was one of the contractors who built the Marion, Jordan mnd Carpenter joiut stone road and the pay for which has been held up by the discovery of a supposed defect in the law under which it was built, was down at Indianapolis this week looking after the progress of a law to amend the defect. It was decided to introduce a special law legalizing the proceedings in this ciseand which will apply to no other, as being easier to get thru. The contractors did a good, honest job in making this road and at only a moderate profit, and it is only right, that they should get the money for it, and it has already been quite a loss to them not to have got it sooner. John Zimmer, of Newton town ship, the man who was so severely bumped in a runaway north of town Monday, was able to come to town yesterday. The danger point of his injury, if there was any is safely passed but he has a mark to show for it that he wi’l carry for the rest of his life. He got a big deep cut both over and under one of his eyes and the one below is in snch a position that the two edges of the wound can not be brought together and the result will be~a big scar there that will always stay with him. He is lucky however to have got out as well as he did as he was thrown head first square against a big post while the horses were going at just about their top notch speed, and it is a wonder hi* skull was not cracked like au eggshell.
And still the phenomenal peace and good order of our city, and the prosperity of our legitimate busi-’ ness men keeps up since the saloons were put out of business and ir the present legislature passes the pro posed laws against the ‘‘blind tigers” and all others forms ol liquor selling except thru regularly licensed saloons, it is not likely that anyone now on eaith will live long enough to see another saioon here. This seems a strong statement to make but we have no dobut but. tha' lon before the people here now so tai forget the bad effects of the saloonand the good effects of their abolishment as to permit another saloon to be established here the temperauce laws and the temper ance sentiment behind them will be so strengthened that saloon* will be permanently banished u »t o l. from Rensselaer but from the wn.« e of Jasper county as well ami troiu most other counties in the Mate also Indiana will not always lag way behind the southern states in the matter of anti saloon relorm.
THURSDAY. Mrs. Anstin Hopkins went to Sallivan, Ind., today for several weeks visit with her daughter Mrs. Will H. Thompson. Born, this Thursday, Jan., 31st, to Mr. and Mrs. Arthnr Hopkins,
at their home on Front street, a son and their second oneSimon Leopold has returned fre m about three and a halt months’ stay in Wheatfield, where he was conducting a branch store fey the G. E. Murray Company. James Hill, a well to do re.alestate and stock man of Frances ? ville, dropped dead there Tuesday, from a heart disease. He was well known over a large part of th s county. After being bare nearly all the mouth January goes out today in a big snow storm, and coming as it does on hard frozen ground beneath it gives .promise ot making good sleighing if it deos not get warmer, as sedius not unlikely, C. J. Dean has returned from his trip to Coats, Kansas and reports that he left his mother, whose supposed very dangerous sickness from pneumonia called him out there, very much improved aud seemingly well on the road towards complete recovery. A bill is being prepared in the office of the attorney general providing life imprisonment on third conviction of criminals who have served two previous terms in an Indiana penitentiary. It is modeled after the Ohio law on the sub ject. Ernest Med worth, a former resident of this oounty and now living just over in Newton couuty ' from Jordan Tp., had a parilyitic stroke Tuesday, while he was on the Simoniu farm, in west Jordan. His leftside is badly paralyzed, but .at last accounts he was thought to be improving a little. He is about 40 years old.
One of the Harmon livery rigs capsized this forenoon, out near the college, while carryiug a heavy weight traveling man with liis trunks, aud the driver, Al. ishling, got his back considerably wrenched- He turned out for a load ot straw and broken wheel off his vehicle, which was the cause of the capsize. We notice that our former towr sman W B. Austin is on ’the regular ticket for officers of the Indiana Society of Chicago. He is a candidate for a three year trusteesnip. The ticket contains the names ot such leading lawyers, authors, bankers and theater mat J agers as J. H. DeFrees, Wm. T. Fenton, John Farson, G. B. McGatclieon, and Will J. Davis. A coaple ot years ago there were so many vacant houses in Rensselaer that it seemed that it would be years before they would all be filled up. Now, altho quite a number ot new houses have been built since Mien, yet they are all full and all the old houses are full also and parties who look for a suitable house to rent can not find one. In fact there are said to be only two unoccupied houses now in town and neither of them at all desirable.