Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1907 — TUESDAY. [ARTICLE]

TUESDAY.

M rs. Mary F. Greenfield is visiting relatives at Parr. $ Mrs Minerva Archer, of Chicago, is visiting her son, C. M. Archer. Miss Ellen Sayler went to Hammond today for a week’s visit with relatives. Harvey Thornton, of Hammond is visiting his sister Dora Thornton this week. A three year old son of Wesley Price, north of Aix, is bad with lung fever. Mrs. E. E Stephenson of Chicago, returned home today, after a week’s visit here. Today easily takes all heat records for the year, so far as it has gone. At two P. M. it was 73 de grees. , Mrs. H. D. Clark, ot Fowler, re ■turned home today, after two weeks visit with her daughter, Mrs. Bert Amsler, north of town. A. J. Brenner was up at Hammond, yesterday, and has a pretty strong idea of moving there and • Starting a restaurant. Jeuk would run a good one. There was thunder and lightning all around the sky last night, but the rain accompanying them was very small in amount, being here only three hundredths of an inch. Warner Smoot, of South Milwau kee, returned home todoy. after a few days visit with his grandmother, Mrs. Angeline Smoot, whose condition is not any ways improved. Miss Maude Spitler returned from Goshen Monday afternoon. She left her nephew, Harry Learning st'll dangerously sick, but with conditions much more hopeful than they had been a few days before. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Sayler left for their home at Mandan, N. Dak., this morning, after several veeks visit with relatives in this vicinity and at Winamac. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Ball left for Mitchell, S. Dak., this forenoon, and expect to make their home there if the location proves favorable. Mr. Ball expects to follow his trade as a blacksmith. Dr. Joel Allen, of Pontiac, 111., is one of the first non lesident land owners along the new interurban to respond with the deed for the right-of-way. His have been received and cover a distance of half a mile.

This morning Joe Putts, the ten year old son of Geo. Putts in the east part of town got a fall out of an apple tree and was severely injured. His right elbow joint was dislocat* ed, and the bone of the arm fractured,^'ust above the elbow. Such good progress was made in replacing the Monon bridge over the river after the dredge got thru Monday morning that it was ready for use soon after noon and the first passenger train to get thru was the 3:30 north bound which got along about on time.

{ J. M. Yeoman, comm only known a- Roe Yeomati. son of Squire i James Yeoman, leturned to Belle ! Fourche. S. Dak., to spend the I summer. He has a lad.l claim ! there nearly ready to prove up on and has been spending the summer there and the winters here for five years. Will VV oodworth went with him and expects to look for a claihi some where in that region. alph Donnelly met with a pretty severe accident about five o’clock last evening, while at work in their planing mill near the lowei bridge. He was running a board thru the j inting machine when his left hand slipped off the board abd his first two fingers were caught in lhe knives and their ends so mutillated that their amputa tiou down to a little below.the first joint was necessary. In the injunction case from Rem ington. Monday afternoon, of Demar H. Roades vs Win. R. Gei er, the evidence was pretty conflict ing. Road°s swore there was a contract that Geier would not enter the blacksmithing business again in Remington, and Geier swore as positively that there was no such contract. Mr. Roades, however, was backed up by the most affida vits of other witnesses, and Judge Hanley granted a temporary in junction restraining Mr. Geier from doing any more work in his shop until the case was tried on its merits in open court. The case is set for April 11.

Will lines, who telegraphs for the Western Indiana R. R., at Dearborn station, Chicago, has just learned that there are some dißad vantages in having too athletic a daughter. The latter is Miss loma lines, a graduate of the Rensselaer high school and a former star player on the high school basket ball team. Recently WiFi thought he would try conclusions with luma in a playful scuffle in the kitchen of his home, and of course he got dumped, and dumped hard, and so much harder than was intended, that in his fall he met with an ac cident that was really no joking matter. It was the fracture of the patella, or knee-pan of one of his knees. This is always a severe accident and it has necessitated his going to a hospital, where the broken parts of the patella had to be wired together, and where he will probably "have to remain several weeks.

Monday three leading citizens of Kankakee township, John Biggs. T. F. Maloney and E. W. Allen had plenty of trouble i 1 getting to Rensselaer, because of the river bridge being out. They went to Shelby on the Three 1., before they learned of the bridge and then aad to take the next train back to Wheatfield and get a team aud drive thru. They represent the movement against the recently ordered Stalbaum gravel n>ad. They claim that it can be shown that the resident petitioners repre sented only about two fifths of tiie acres assessed, insreadTbf a majority as the law requires. They con eluded, however, that it was too late to make an effective fight. They object to the assessment plea under which the road is to be built.