Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1907 — FRIDAY [ARTICLE]

FRIDAY

B D. 11. Yeoman went to Chalmers Boday on business. B Miss Zulu Hopkins went to LaBayette today, to visit friends for a Bew days. B Tne 50) Clu j entertained the So ■Hub at the Armory last night, in B. very successful manner. B Mrs. Dr. W- L. Myers went to ■Frankfort this afternoon, to visit Bier purents, for a few days. B Joe Reynolds and his friend Mr. B)’ Connor, of Delphi, attended the Brig party at the Armory last night. B A. F. Long is having his old Biouse on River street torn down ■preparatory to the erection of his Baew residence. I Mrs. 8. R. Nichols went toChicaBxo today, accompanied by her son Ijoe Reynolds of Delphi, for a short ■visit with relatives. I Dennis Gleason, Ue old reliable ■horse buyer is here gathering up ■another car load of horses for the ■Cincinnati market. I A three weeks old boy baby of ■Mr, and Mrs. Andrew Kanler, ot ■four miles southwest of town, was ■in a dying condition this morning, ■from spasms, following a sicKiiess ■from an attack of grip. I John Finn, of Kankakee townIship, was in town today with his ■hammer out for the new gravel ■ road in ais township, and says the I opponents have raised SSOO for a ■fund to fight it with, and more ■promised. > I The funeral of young Ennis I Brown of Knox, whose death was ■ previously mentioned, was held I there Thursday, and was attended I from here by Mrs. Evelyn Rardle, I Mrs. C. W. Coen, W. 8. Day and I-daughter, Miss Glen Day. I Frank Mattox, about 19 years I old, living northeast of Wolcott, I accidentally shot and killed himeelf on Friday of last week, while preparing to go hunting. He laid his gun in an old sled and when he /wanted to get it pulled it out with ■the muzzle towards him, and with usual results. Probably quite a good many farmers are now sowing oats in the south end of the county, but this time the north end got ahead of them. Reuss flaer parties who were up that way several days aga, say they saw a number of farmers sowing oats in the sandy land along some of the dredge ditches. Parks and Oliver, of Milroy tp., received a big car load of mules,

today which they bought in the Chicago stock yards, a few days ago* Some of the mules looked like they hid seen better dajs, but no doubt the rich grasses of South America will soon give them a new lease of s length and beauty. The Hammond Times says Bessie Cro u in, the great libel suitbridge r, belongs in Rensselaer. Which statement we rejoice to say is a mistake, for if Bessie lived here the newspapers would be kept busy dodgiug libel suits. Valparaiso is the nearest she ever came to Rensselaer, and now she is some place in Ohio,. and that is quite close enough. Kentland Enterprise: The three lioel suits against Frank E. Babcock editor of the Rensselaer Democrat, were set for hearing yesterday, and Judge Hanley and the jury were on hands to hear the evidence, but an affidavit from Mr. Babcock’s attending physician setting out the facts that the latter’s health would not permit his coming to Kentland was submitted jto court and the cases were contiued to next term. The warm weather has rushed the season at Cedar Lake and one John Mitch is the first to come to the front with one of the class of performances of which that resort makes a specialty, namely suicide, tho the season more usually opens either with a drowning or a big fight, while the suicides come in later when the other forms of amusement begin to drag a little. Mitch did not lack originality in his manner of trying to end his troubles, as he tied his gun to a tree and getting in front *of the muzzle touched it off with a long stick. His “front sight” was not as good in that case as his hind sight wonld prcbably have been, for he only got a bad wound in the side. But so bad that it may finish him yet.

Methodists are already taking a keen .interest in the forthcoming North Indiana conference session at’Logansport in April, which will attract hundreds of members of the church. Bishop McDowell of Chicago will preside during the sessions of the conference. Pro minent ministers and educators will also be on the program for from one to a half dozen lectures, addresses and sermons. Brother H. A. Strohm, of the Kentland Enterprise, Postmaster, Pen-pusher and Politician, and great in all. but greatest as a politician, has resigned the postmaster part, after he had only got fairly settled in the third term. He ex plains however, what he indeed said when the last appointment was made that he only accepted it temporarily, in order to give Congressman Crumpacker time to look around and find a man capable of filling Harry’s shoes, both as P. M. and political manager, neither of which will be at all easy to do. Two newspaper carriers, Eddie Kaiser, 13 years old, and Freddie Wise, aged 11, got into a fight qver a game of marbles, at Crown Point, XV ednesday evening, and the Wise boy hit the other boy on the jaw, with his fist, and the shock caused the Kaiser boy’s death, a blood clotforming 'on his brain. There seems to have been nothing to the trouble except a common

boyish Scrap, and the reports in some of the Chicago papers about the dead lx>y being a gi*eat bully and all that, are in eq sense bourn out by the account in the Crown Point Register, which says he was quiet and industrious and seldom quarreled. Thursday was a record breaker for March heat over a good deal of this western country. Here it was 81 degrees, which was the hottest March weather during the seven Marches the present observer has kept the government weather bureau records in Rensselaer. The next hottest March day was in 1905, when it was 78 degrees, on the 24 Hot as Thuisday, was, however, today was still hotter, and at 2:30 p. m. had scoredjhe high mark of 83i degrees. There was even more difference than this in the average temperature of the two days, for today started out much warmer than Thursday, and thus reached a high degree of heat earlier and maintained it longer. A Dutchman addressing his dog Slid: ‘‘You vas only a dog, but I vish dat I vas you. Ven you go mit your bed "in you vas already undress, you schust durns dree

dimes round und lays down; ven I go mit de bed in I have to lock de blace up,|und vind de glock up, und put de cat oud, und myself undress, und mine frow vakes up und scholds, den de papy vakes up und cries, und I has to valk mit de house round; den may be ven I myself gets to bed, it is time again to ged up. Ven you ged up, your glose vas all on; you schust stretch youself und you vas up. I has to light der fire und put on der keddle, schrap some more mit my vile und ged me myself some breakfast. You blay around all day, und has blenty of fun. I has to vork all day und has blenty of drubble. Ven you die you vas dead. Ven I die I have to go ver dey says it’s pretty varm yet alrettey.