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

SATURDAY

Adolph May went to Gibson Oily 111., today, to work in a canning factory for the season. Uncle Theodore Hurley w°nt to Logansport, today, for a short visit with his son there. Andrew Kahler’s baby, mentioned as dying in Friday’s item, died during that day, and was buried today. Capt. W. H. Guthrie, of Monticello, came ovei today, to look after matters connected with his big farm in Barkley tp. Mrs. Elmer Osmon, of Benton Harbor, Mich., has returned home after a few weeks visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Timmons. Miss Laura Yeoman, daughter of Trustee W. B. Yeoman, of Newton tp., returned home today, from six months attendance at a business college at Lafayette. Mrs. Zelda Dem, who has spent the winter with her daughter, Mrs. W. H. Daugherty, northeast of town, went to Dublin. Ind., today, where she will make her home with other children living thei e. The Kentland paper was in error in the paragraph we quoted about Editor Babcock’s libel cases having been continued for the term. They were only continued until the last week of the present term.

E. E. Erwin, the assistant day man at the depot, got badly bowled up Saturday night, and Agent Beam would not stand for it and discharged him. Some miserable snipe brought in the liquor from some place tip the line. Thursday broke all previous March heat records with a temperature of 81 degrees in the shade. Friday got that record, with 831 degrees, and now today has smashed them both with 8« degrees. What Sunday will do remains to be seen, but it has its work cut out for it if it beats today. Mrs. James Donnelly and daughter Ellen went to Fort Wayne today, to visit a sister of Mrs. Donnelly’s. Comrade 8. E. Yeoman was down from Virgie today, and re. ports that himself and wife are thinking strongly of moving back to town this spring. The supreme.court yesterday held

f hat a city has rheright tb, license saloons. Tbit* decision is in direct variance with the famous decision of Judge Aitman, who held that ihe liquor business was illegal and theiefore could not be licensed. B S. Fendig rounded up 13 ra's at his abattoir this morning, and he says the number was unlucky only for the rats; They raise the total to 80 since the rat season opened with such eclat about a week ago. - A new business for the east end will lie a soda fountain, which Christy Vick has just purchased in Chicago, and wilt have installed ea ly next week. It is of a modern and improved bind, and can sit on any part of the counter. There were so many people in town today that it was a hard mat ter to get dinner at any of the restaurants. A great many came in because of its probably being tueir last Saturday until after cats sowing, while many others came because of the Harmon sale. Mrs. J. E. Alter and Mrs. Joe Pullins returned today from sivera days visit with Capt. G. W. Payne and wife, at Monticello, and who came back with them ior some

days’ visit and for the Capt. to attend the M. P. quarterly meeting this afternoon. A law was passed by the last legislature giving road supervisors a salary of $2.00 per day. Here-to fore they have reached $1.50 per day, an amount so small that it was almost impossible to get a man to take the job. A man who had any thing else to do could not afford to bother with it. Mrs. Austin Hopkins and daughter Gertrude of this place, and Mr. and Mrs. Carey Hopkins and Mrs. George Hopkins of Mt. Ayr, went to Monon this forenoon, to attend the funeral of Henry Robinson, a relative, held there this afternooj. He was 45 years old and died from a cancer. The only explanation yet heard for this entirely unprecedented spell of hot and windy March weather, is that it has been sent by the Weather Bureau, as a special compliment to F. B. Meyers, P. M., soon to be a Has Been, and for the reason that he is arranging to go to Oklahoma in a few weeks on a prospecting tour, and a sample of their weather has been sent to let him see how he likes it. There has only Been one state prosecution in Rensselaer since the saloons went out cf business last fall, and that one was a whiskey ease growing out of illegal sale of liquor. As to business interests suffering from the closing of the saloons, they have not done so, but directly the contrary is the case, and the legitimate merchants get more cash trade than they did when the saloons were here.