Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1907 — WEDNESDAY. [ARTICLE]

WEDNESDAY.

Everett Halstead went to Chicago today on business. Miss Alice Drake went to Chicago today, for a short visit with re atives. C. B. Steward is confined to his home by the grip and a kidney trouble. Mr. and Mrs. Oren Parker went to Hoopeston 111. today, for a short visit with relatives.

R. P. Benjamim’s little daughter Mary has been in a stupor all day, and her death a matter of only a few hours, at must. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Murray are back from their winter’s home in OklahomaahcT will spend the summer with their daughter, Mrs. Frank Donnelly. Word from Paul Wood, at the West Side Hospital, in Chicago, is that he is getting along finely operation for appendicitis, with excellent prospects for final recovery.

Peter C. Wasson, whose sicknets at his present home near Winchester has been mentioned, had his ex pected operation there yesterday, and a telegram to his brother, Capt. J. M. Wasson, states he went thiu it well and his condition is now satisfactory. Tho April went out at midnight last night it got in a farewell kick along the old lines, by giving us a freezing temperature for the last hours of the month, with a low mark of 28 degrees, and everything white with frost this morning, and ice of considerable thickness on still water. Firman Rutherford has been obliged to suspend the work of replacing the Robinson bridge over the river, on account ot the high water. The big re in naturally raised the river a good deal, anyhow, while the work of the dredge below the bridge greatly filled up the old channel, and thus the water is backed up around the bridge until it nearly reaches the top of the trestle work.

Squire William Gaffield, presiding justice of the high court of Milroy "township, gives it as his opinion that more cattle are hustling their feed right now in Milroy township than in any other two townships in tho states of Indiana. On three big farm, the McKillip, the Mays, and the Gaffield, he says there are nearly 3,000 head of cattle. That is a good many cattle but Squire Wilbam says they are there.

Trustee Albert Bouk, ot Walker township, thinks matters never looked more unpromising for farmers in the north part of the county at this time of the year than right now. Very few fields of oats are up yet, practically no plowing is done for corn, many regions are under water, and the grass not moving at all, or crawling back into the ground. It is indeed a very backward and discouraging spring.