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

WEDNESDAY.

Mrs. A. D. Washburn, of Kent land is visiting Rensselaer friends today. Rev G. W. Bundy, of Ft. Wayne a Miami Indian chief will preach attheF ’s' vl. P. church, Thursday and Friday nignts. J. G. Francis, of Fairbury, 111., is here looking after his fine 240 a,'Crejarm_ntj^r|Jjan 1 and visiting his neice, Mrs. Dr. Tur tier. The county council and the board of commissioners of White county have got together and agreed to build a new county poor asylum on a farm to be purchased next Friday.

Abe Martin: Tilford Moots’s youngest boy hez lost five glass eyes since th' marble season opened. It seems like when a feller hain’t got nothing else t’ do he opposes Gov'nor Hauly. One of our many good new state laws is one which will put an end to that very offensive and dangerous form of advertising distributing] free samples of patent medicines from house to house.

■ ■■ , Warmest weather today, 52 def greeS. Coldest last night, 30 degree-. . ■ .. . The Editor Jones vs Editor Babcock libel prosecutions were, to : have been tried at Kentland today, but bad to be postponed on ac count of the sickness of Mr. Bab cock, the defendant. The Morion had a freight wreck last Monday night a mile north ot Rossville. An arch bar.on a car on freight train No. 40 broke allowing the ear to be derailed, tearing up several rods ot track. The, wreck delayed traffic several hours.

Sam English left for ais home in Oklahoma Tuesday and was a<companied by his sistef-in law, Mrs. Frank Donnelly, who is going out to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Murray, and especially the former, whose health is quite poor. Dennis Hogan, of Kankakee, 111, owner of a large iarm just east of, town and himself a former resident here, was on the wrecked train this morning, and so also was Banker Law, of Morocco, and both bound for Rensselaer. Neither ot them were hurt.

County Assessor Lewis has received notice of a district meeting of C ounty and township Assessors to be held at Lafayette on March 29th, t under the management of State Tax C.mmissioner Wingate. Matters of much importance to the assessors will be considered. Mr. Lew is will attend and also hopes to be accompanied by a large number of our township assessors.

Francesville Tribune: The Business Men’s Association of Francesville is considering a proposition to get a terracotta plant established here. There acres of the best clay in the state just north of town that can be secured for such a plant. The great lumber forests of the Lake Michigan and Mississippi valley districts aie practically a thing of the past and thus the terra cotta product is pressing into great demand for construction material.

Herbert Toops, a former resident of this vicinity, is now located at Hebron, Neb., and holds there the office of city engineer. He was elected on the “dry ticket” last year, but was the only man on that ticket to get thru, tho the general ticket only lacked one vote of drying the town. There is another campaign on now and it will be fierce, but the drys hope to win. If Rensselaer, as fai as it has gone, is any criterion to go by, the town will do a mighty good thing by itself if it goes dry. Hunters are not having much luck around oere this spring, it being only occasionally that a duck comes near enough for a shot. It is said that shooting is about the poorest ever on the Kankakee this season. Since so much of the former Nelson Morris lands have been rented tor hunting the resident hunters are confined to a small tract of marsh on the north side of the river and it is said they are so many of them there that when one fellow gets his gun up over his head to shoot, he is lucky if he is able to get it down again wheu he wants to reload, so close are the other hunters jammed up against him. But one lucky thing about that situation is that they do not have occasion to shoot very often.

Win. S. Day went to Knox this morning called by news of the death there, at five o’clock this morning, of Ennis Brown, Mr. Day’s grandsou. He was the 12 year old son of Mr. and Mis. Charles Brown,"and a fine strong boy, but was taken with appendicitis, and tho au operation was performed Monday, the disease had then progressed too far, and his death resulted. The boy’s other grandfather is George Brown, also now of Knox, formerly of Barkley tp. There are numerous relatives here, both on the father’s and the mother’s side, including Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, the aged greatgrandmother, and quite a number will probably attend the funeral, the time and place of which will be sent by Mr. Day as soon as arranged.