Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1907 — Local Happenings. [ARTICLE]

Local Happenings.

FRIDAY Miss Jesse Stephenson returned to Chicago yesterday, after a visit of two weeks with her mother here. Thos. Crockett and W. F. Pow- • ers returned today from Ft. Wayne where they attended the Q. A. R. encampment. The Lowell Tribune in writing up the St. Joe base ball game, says could not defeat ten men, when one of them was the umpire. As the score was 8 to 1, it does not aeem probable that the tenth man -did it all. Monticello is getting the base ball fever right now, and have strenghtened up tlieir team for two -days this week by hiring two players from Logansport. St. Joe goes op against them Saturday. Father George Heldman, the eloquent and patriotic priest at the college, will go to Elwood Sunday to deliver the memorial sermon to the G. A.R.The service will be held in the Catholic churoh at 2 o’clock in the afternoon. Attorney Geo. E. Hershman today vacated the office he has been occupying in the L O. O. F. building, preparatory to his removal to Oklahoma, where he will take up his future residence. He will visit his father in the north part of the county for about three weeks before leaving for the west Contractor E. G. Warren, who is figuring on the contract to build the new Christian church at Kentland, ! went to Chicago today to confer I with the church building committee in the office of the architect The church is planned much the same as the new Christian church, here, but is not so large. Its cost will be about SIO,OOO. Extra fancy Michigan potatoes all sound no sprouts 80 oents. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE. Those who attended the G. A. R. -encampment at Ft Wayne report a very pleasant time. The parade

Thursday was a fine one, the day being very beautifhl. Comrade Crockett brought us a copy of tie Journal-Gazette of today which is practically all devoted to a report of the encampment. Kokomo gets the 1908 encampment. Word comes from Chicago Heights that on Wednesday evening of this week Mr. John Sharp, son of Joseph Sharp, of this place, and Miss Lizzie Watson, also formerly of Rensselaer, were married there. Both had been working there for several months. They are very excellent young people and their many friends here will be pleased to learn of their marriage.

J. F. Irwin, was driving in the the country Thursday and ran over a rattle snake which he brought to town. Some high school boys were not slow to realize its zoological value and took it to the school house where it will be stuffed and placed inthe large natural museum. Seven rattles and a button constituted this snake’s accumnlation. A new Indiana law provides that whoever throws or dumps any tin cans, old iron, brush, boxes, tools machinery, vehicles, rubbish, brick, wood, logs, glass bottles, jars or debris of an sort upon or within the limits of any publlo highway, except by the direction of the township trustee, is liabel to a fine of SSO.

Joseph Guest, the itinerant peddler of groceries and especially of coffee, tea and spices, who was arrested here yesterday and fined for failure to take ont a license, soon wearied of his expressed intention of laying out his fine in jail. He was very angry when arrested and talked so fast he telescoped his words, but he made it very plain that he proposed making the city pay dearly for his incarceration. The inhospitable appearance of the jail, however, soon brought him around to the cashing np point. He then went about town- completing his deliveries. Many people here have thoughtlessly been a patron of Guest for’many years, paying him as much and often more for goods than the local merchants sell them for. The aggregate of his business was not large, but the local merchant pays taxes here, spends his money here, contributes to local charities, is interested in the welfare of the city, and deserves the business of the townspeople. The ordinance requiring peddlers to take out a license has been drafted with a view to the protection of the home merchant and should be enforced. Persons should take a local pride in building up the commercial interest of the city by giving the store keepers all their trade to the .exclusion of peddlers from oat of town.

... - ± O. F. McKay made a business visit to Hammond today, Mrs. A. G. Catt went to Thayer today for a short visit with her parents. Mrs. Ross Hawkins returned to Logansport today, after a three weeks’ visit with relatives here. Mrs. Mary E. Lowe went to Chicago today to reenter the Mary Thompson Hospital tor furtner treatment. A trick bicycle rider was liberal ly paid here yesterday for doing a tew stunts on the brick street! west of the court house. Mrs. W. W. Watson, daughter and two sons and Mrs. Hazel Kirk Stephenson, of Chicago, are here for a few days’ visit. Philip Kiston removed here yesterday from Guernsey, and oc cupies the Wishard property in the east part of town. He expects to engage in junk business. A Chicago policeman in uniform held np and relieved of $135 a man named Jankowski. Better look out for policeman as well as for everybody else when you visit Chicago:

Dr. and Mrs. C. E. Triplett, of Morroco, celebrated theii 50th wedding anniversary Saturday, May 18th. They have resided in Morocco ever since their marriage. G. F. Meyers, who recently bought the John Grooms property, corner or Weston and Rutsen streets, has had the same painted, papered and otherwise remodeled, lor tenement purposes. Mrs. Ollie Daugherty and two daughters, of Springfield, HI., who have been visiting her husband’s parents, Lewis Daugherty and wife in Hammond are here for a few days’ visit with relatives.

A Bucklin, Kans., newspaper of May 23rd, relates the death of Edith Opal, the 8 months old child of C. G. Padgitt and wife. The baby had measles whioh ran into spinal meningitis. The father was Guy Padgitt, formerly of Rensselaer, and the mother was May Bingham, formerly of Remington. America is Japan’s model. A very sensible selection by a very sensible nation. If Japan keeps her head, as we think most probable, there will never be any difficulty between that country and this, but each government’s ambitions for the beet national results will be inspired to higher accomplishments by the industry of the other. Meedames J. Q. Alter, Maria Hopkins, George Maines and J. C. Porter, members of the local Ladies of the G. A. R. Circle, and Meedames P. W. Clark, Will Childers, John Duvall and Jesse Nichols, of

the local W. R. C., have returne from the G. A. R. encampment. Mrs. Alter was honored by being made inner guard of the Ladies’ convention, and Mrs. Hopkins declined the nomination for national 1 delegate. Mrs, Porter also declinW. R. C. ladies returned home this afternoon. The Auditor of State is watching the over draft reports sent in from various banks with a supervision that is surprising even to the most conservative banker. As a result many banks are getting notices to cut down their over drafts and depositors who occasionally over checked their account are now finding their checks not honored when the money is not on deposit to make The payment. This law was enacted to stop such financial failures as the McCoy bank at Rensselaer and the Gilman bank at Goodland when the over draft of one individual was $40,000, not speaking of the dozen of other over drafts of the other banks.-Praneesville Tribune The funeral of Mrs. Charles H. Price took place at 10 o’clock yesterday morning. Rev. Parrett conducted a short service at the Makeever Hotel, where the remains of this much beloved women were viewed by many of her old friends and acquaintances. Max and Don Price and their wives had accom panied the mother’s remains from Middlesboro, and here they were met by several relatives from Rem ington..Quite a largejconcourse followed to the cemetery, where the remains were layed to rest beside her late husband. A little daughter who died many years ago. while the family lived in Rensselaer, is also buried in the same lot.

MONDAY. Melville Wishard, of Chicago, spent Sunday in Rensselaer. Born, Saturday, May 25th to Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Day, of Rensselaer a daughter. Watch for the missing words con test. Read every ad every time they are published. Mrs. Chas. Porter, of Chicago came Saturday to visit her parents, f • W? Williams and wife. St. Joseph College was prevented from going to Monticello to play ball Saturday by the rain. A. J. Brenner, now of Evanston, HI., is here attending the com mencement events, his son Ivan being one of the graduates. W ord comes from the Mary Thompson hospital in Chicago that Dr. Nicholas Sen and Dr. Byron Robinson have agreed on the diagnosis of the local physician of Mrs. J. L. Brady, and that an operation for gallstones will probably take place Tuesday.

Prof. Roy Blue has been given a better position in the Remington schools tor the coming year, having been promoted to Principal. His work seems to have given very excellent satisfaction there, and his friends here will be glad to learn of his promotion. The 5-years old daughter of Geo. Martin, living near Pleasant Ridge was kicked by a horse last Friday evening, the hoof striking her in the back of the head. It is believed to have inflicted only a severe scalp wound, and the attending physi cian found it necessary to take five stiches to close the scalp. The little girl is doing nicely now. Miss Iva May Amsler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Amsler of Rensselaer, and who is quite well known here, where she resided with her parents for some time, was married Wednesday of last week in New York City to Jesse O. Carvalho, of Elizabeth, N. Y. Miss Amsler was a professional nurse and had for some time resided with here aunt, Mrs. Agnes E. Finan, at Stamford, Conn., whom she accompanied Ibst year on an extended Europeon crip, and her husband was formerly a resident of Stamford. They will reside in Elizabeth, where Mr. Carvalho is a book-keeper for a large firm. Mrs. Amsler espqcta-to visit them this summer. Mrs. Mina Yount, the nurse who has been in Rensselaer for several months post, and who has jflsfc begun house-keeping in 'rooaia over Warner’s store, was taken

very sick in the night Satuiday night, and had to call from ti e window for The a tending physician fonnd her in a rather critical condition aud dccided it not safe for her to be alone, so some charitable ladies are tern porarily waiting on her. Tt is Tm*t improbabe that eventually a operation will be necessary to permanent ly relieve her. She has not been employed lately, and her stepfather who waß__bere last week established her in boose keeping. A pnrse, which she thinks was lest in the post-office, if recovered, will go far toward relieving immediate wants. -- .. _ ~ ■■■ ■- ?