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

THURSDAY.

Mrs. Wm. Dixie went to Indianapolis today, for a visit with relatives.

Mrs. J. H. Peacock and children left this forenoon for her home at Butte, Mont., after about six weeks visit with herbrother August Rosenbaum. Mrs. Harry Short and child left for Chicago this morning, expect iug to start from there for Spokane Wash., to join her husband, who left last week. . , The almanacs hit it exactly wheu they said spring begins today, if the fine spring-like weather is any way conclusive. 1 , , Tuesday while it was 73 degrees here, and which was plenty wa m enough for the time of year, it 102 at Guthrie Okla., and 97 at Oklahoma City. Farmers over in Carpenter township have already put their discs at work, and some of them are likely to begin sowing oats befoie the week is out, if the weather dou’t have a bad s pell. Beu McColly is down from Chicago Heights today, looking for some men with teams, that he has work for, as much as they want, at 50 cents an hour for men and teams.

Joaquin Miller, the poet who now resides in California and once lived on the classic banks of the Tippecanoe, in Fulton county, has writen the citizens of Liberty that he will visit his old home in August of this year. Wednesday was the day set for trying Farmer Hopkins’ case over at Kentland. This was the case he appealed from Squire Fay’s court at Parr, where he was fined a few dollars. He concluded however he would rather pay the fine and costs than go to the expense and trouble of going to Kentland and making a fight there and so had his appeal dismissed.

Joe O’Conner returned from a week’s stay on the river yesterday, and during which be got 17 ducks, which he does not consider bad for this season. He was camped north of Kersey with some young fellows from Kniman or thereabouts. He just missed the excitement of being on the train wrecked at Fair Oaks, by the train on the Three I being late.

The railroad people had good luck in clearing the track after the wreck at Fair Oaks yesterday, and trains were passing the spot before nine o’clock. The first train to get thru was the north bound train due here at 6:32 p. m., and the next was tfie south bound milk train which got along some time after nine o’clock.

Will lutes had his operation for his broken knee-pan in the hospital at Chicago Monday. It was severe on hint} or ar least the ether he took affected him severely. The knee-cap was f nnd to be broken in three pieces and four wire stitches were needed in it. The injury will keep him in the hospital three weeks yet. Mrs. George B. Lindsay, of Kokomo, state president of the order of Daughters of Rebecca, visited the lodge here last night, during a trip she is making to all the county seat lodges in the state. She gave an address to the lodge in which she very highly commended the work of the degree team, and that of the officers ad well. After the lodge work was ov£r, refreshments were served. Mrs. Lindsay was the worse hurt of anyone in the wreck at Fair Oaks, but her injuries were rather painful but not considered at all serious or lasting. She went to Monticello today. Today March 21st is the time of the spring equinox, when the sun in its northward journey has reached a point exactly vertical over the earth’s equator and when the days and nights are of equal length all over the earth. The exact minute of the equinox, or when the sun was directly central over the equator, was 33 minutes after one o’clock this afternoon. According to the almanacs this is when the “sun enters Aries, spring begins.” The word spring, as used in this connection, however, means the astronomical spring, or>the quarter of the year between the vernal equinox and the summer solstice, on June 23rd. This spring now beginning has no necessary relations with the spring based on the weather. This, especially in this region is a very uncertain quanity

and some years begins before the arrival of the equinox and sometimes a good while after it, and and very frequently when it does begin, it don’t stay begun, but lets go to get a better hold, so to speak.