Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1907 — Local Happenings. [ARTICLE]

Local Happenings.

■ FRIDAY Bead the correspondence on the back page. Mrs. W. L. Myer went to Frankfort Wednesday to visit her parents. rßoy Bine was over from Remington Wednesday. He is the father since last Sunday of a baby daughter. Mrs. W. J. Ladd and little daughter ot Oxford, were guests this week of her sister, Mrs. W.J, Imes. - Mrs. J. H. Buckles and daugb ter of Pleasant .Grove aie visiting her sister Mrs. Cloyd Reprogle and family. Mrs. John Yanatta went to Oak Park today to visit her son in-law, Thos. Large and his three children for a few days. “On the Bridge at Midnight” is to be at Ellis Opera Honse Friday night, June 7th. It looks good, judged by the advance agent. Miss Margaret Steele, of Chiliicothe. Ohio, who was a college friend of Miss Mildred Spitler at Oxford, is visiting her here, and 'will remain for some time. Mrs James Flynn’s improvement •continues very slowly in the private sanitarium in Chicago, and it is at present indefinite how much longer she will remain there. Miss Elizabeth Spaulding was in Indianapolis over Decoration Day, leaving the Western TJnion office in charge of her two proteges, Miss Zoe Peck and Leland Jessen, H. O. Osborn, now practicing law in Chicago, formerly Principal for two years of the Rensselaer • High School, was visiting the family of B. F. Ferguson and other friends in Rensselaer this week. Mrs. Cowden, of JLogansport, and daughter, Mrs. Manley Burk, of Walton, Ind., were here a day or two this week, visiting relatives and attending to the lot in the cemetery where Mr. Cowden is buried. M. Quinlan, son-in-law of P. Halligan, has been visiting relatives of his wile here this week. He is a traveling man and during the past few months since her return from Florida, Mrs. Quinlan has been staying at the home of her father. They are now changing - their residence from Dayton, Ohio, to Albany, Ind. Miss Mariaim Hyland and Ralph Jones, of Chicago, came Wednesday for short visits, the former at the home of her aunt, Mrs. J. Q. Alter and the latter to visit his father, Uncle Bill N. Jones, who continues in extremely bad health. Prof. Ernest S. Tillman, teacher of biology in the city schools, went to his home at North Manchester today and after a short visit there will enter the Indiana University biological Btation at Winona Lake, for the summer term. He has been re-employed here for another year. Mel Abbott reports his wife as feeling a trifle stronger since going to Chicago to stay with her sister, Mrs. Frank W oods, in hopes that the change would benefit her health. She is now able to be up and to get around the house a little. She will probably remain there for several weeks yet.

I have just received a car load of Wisconsin Early Bose, Early Triumph beauty of Hebron RuraLs and Green Mountain seed potatoes. John Eqkr.

IMre. W. B. Austin and Mrs. E. A. Horner,' or Chicago, carte W ednesday for a very short visit, the former returning to Chicago, and the latter going to Lafayette to see her parents, Judge E. P. Hammond and wife. Mrs. Horner had not visited Rensselaer for some years. Her health which has been very poor for some time, is now somewhat improved. St. Joseph College were again victorious over St. Vincent yesterday defeating them on their own grounds in Chicago by the close score of 2to 1. Hassar, the pitcher, was a double hero, having let his opponents down with only one safe hit, striking out nine men, and then winning his own game by leading the team in batting. Nageleisen, who caught him, is performing like a veteran behind the bat also. —The second team of the St. Joseph College went to Mfc, Ayr yesterday and by the score of 18 to 0 defeated the ball team of that place. An all sports event was palled off there, with the athletic Jtohn Morgan, of Rensselaer as the star performer. He took first place in the broad jump, high j ump, foot race and ball throw. Our small neighbors were up against a strong combination when "they tackled a St. Joe ball team and John Morgan’s athletic prowess the same day.

Miss Mildred Spiltler returned the first of the week from Goshen, where she had been visiting the family of her aunt, Mrs. F. B. Learning. Her cousin, Harry Learning, whose critical condition was mentioned several weeks ago, is slowly gaining in health, with the prospects of ultimate recovery, tho probably never back to the robust health he had enjoyed before he was taken down. His trouble probably resulted from a neglected cold, which created a local tubercular trouble that was discovered when it was almost too late to admit of treatment. Ray Wood, the barber, who went to Tombstone, Ariz., last winter, to complete his short hand education under the tutorage of that very proficient stenographer, John Walker, has been working there in an office for some time past. He is now planning to return to Rens selaer about the first of July, and will probably remain the rest of the summer. He still retains his interest in the barbershop, but will probably not again work in it, at least for any great length of time and will probably find employment in his new line. The last day of May is gray and chilly, most disagreeable May in the minds of those we have heard express themselves, passes ont with a final snlk. Corn planting has progressed fairly well this week and the crop is now largely all in, except perhaps }n the lower lands. Only a small per cent of it is thru the gronnd, and the weather not warm enough to furnish much growing impetus. The weather record for the month will, no donbt, show this May to compare with the woost since the records have been kept, as April this year did With Aprils for some 27 years back. Everyone is hoping that June will be decent.

SATURDAY June 1. —Did you start a fire in the base burner this morningt Jack Montgomery went to Chicago on business today. John B. Elder, of Monticello, came today lor a visit of two or three weeks with his son, Dave Elder. Dick Hartman is now working for a telephone company in Pueblo, Colo., where he has been for a month or more. Mrs. Simon Wagoner, of Herschel, 111., came today for a visit of a few days with her daughter, Mrs. Fred Kilgos. Lymau Zea is now working with the construction gang on the Lafayette- Logansport interurban gang at Lafayette. Mrs. Eliza Reed, who makes her home with her son Mark, in Jordan tp., went to Chicago today for a mouth’s stay with her daughter. Mrs. J. F. Rank returned to Englewood yesterday after a visit

of two weeks with her sister, Mrs. J: F. Jrwi n and other relatlf&fbere and at Remington. “Jf'. * R. P. and family have moved from the Leopold tenant house on Front street v F<rthe G. Fr Meyers property recently purchased by him from John Grooms. Medaryville and White Post tp., Pulaski county, have gone dry again, and the Advertiser of that town thinks by about 40 majority, or even more. Mrs. Hale Warner went to Denver, Ind., today to attend the funeral there tomorrow of her cousin Wallace Kirby, who died very suddenly of appendicitis. Mrs. Britt Marion went to Ham mond today to visit her father, J. H. Payne and her brother, George Payne. On account of the poor health oi the latter, he and his father will for Colorado next -week. /YRex Warner and Bradley Ross are in Madison, Wis., where they are visiting the latter’s brother, Thompson Ross, and other Rensselaer students in the Wisconsin University, where both may attend school next year.

Ed Goetz, living west of town about three miles, was kicked in the face and chest yesterday morning by a horse, and very fortunately not seriously hurt. It was a both legs kick, one hoof striking him in the face and creaking the skin on the nose and lip and the other strikiug him in the chest. He is able to be up and about this morning. Miss Anna O. Marlatt, teacher of Latin in the city schools here, will be the only one of this year’s corps of high school teachers who will not return next year. Miss Marlatt is undecided whether she will accept a position offered her in the schools at Rushville or attend Chicago University. Of course, there is, and very appropriately coo, always a reserve clause permitting the teacher to secure a better place at more money if one can be found, and this might yet result in some changes not now anticipated. This reserve clause also permits the lady teachers to get married if they get a chance and care to accept it. Which privilege would probably be denied by the Goodland school board.

It is now insured that the Kankakee marsh, at the south end of the county, will soon be the most valuable farm lands we have, and that the north end, always considered a waste of marshes and sand hills, is the most valuable from a financial standpoint, by great odds, and up to 20 years ago the two ends were both counted as worthless, although a few of the early residents calculated the north part would be in time what it is now approaching, but is still in its infamy. Every person who was able to keep a tew acres in that territory is now rich, and anybody could have had a] fortune by investing from two to five hun dred dollars there fifteen years ago. Those sand dunes and scrubby pines look most interesting at the present time. —Crown Point Star. A Rensselaer business man this morning offered us a forcast of this months weather, based on observation of former years. He first recalled that in 1889 we had four inches of snow on May 4th and on decoration day the same year we had a sold rain followed by snow and a freeze that night that killed much corn and garden vegetable and some oats. He then called attention to the May of 1893, world’s fair year, which opened up cold and only had two or three warm days during the month. But in both instances June was a fine month, and based on this recollection we are privileged to predict that June will be a fine month this year, altho after the 10th it will be a little too dry for best crop conditions. It is needless to say that our volunteer weather prophet prefers that his identity be concealed until it is determined how nearly correct he has been in * his first prognostication. Bessie Cronin, the Valparaiso young lady plaintiff in so many libel suits against newspapers; and who recently failed to make a case against the editor of the Logansport

Journal, in a trial before Judge Hanley at Monticello, felt so grateful toward the Monti cell j Democrat for the fair write-up she had received that she ivrote a seven versed poemfUandsePtrttrtfaepablisher pf that paper. The Democrat did not use all of Bessie’s effusion, printing only two verses just to show how ridiculous some people are. The Democrat, like The Republican here, had endeavored to treat her with the courtesy becoming a modest, gentle woman, but she has spoiled it all by the verses and the letters accompanying them that are published in the Monticello paper that gave her a fair write up. Miss Cronin is apparently tortured with a microbe of insanity, and the writing of doggerel poetry is calculated to develop the microbe.

MONDAY^ John Ellis returned to Chicago University this morning after a short visit with his father here. Mrs. Jamie Willis has gone to Chicago to join her husband who is working in an automobile gai age there. The St. Joe boys defeated the Rensselaer ball team Sunday by the score of 6 to 2, which is a good showing for the town boys, considering that St. Joe is one of the best small college teams in the country. Mrs. \V. S. Parks returned Sat urday from a several days visit with a sister at Martinsville. She was at Indianapolis decoration day and witnessed the unveiling of the Lawton monument and heard President Koosevelt’s speech. The Northwestern Uni varsity will .hold its commencement exercises this year during the week beginning June 16th, when the baccalaureate sermon will be preached. Glenn P. Wishard is one of the graduates. Emery Mills and Ray and Roe Yeoman are in this year’s Purdue graduating class. They are home on a vacation now but *Vill return to Purdue Friday for the commencement jevents which continue all next week. Emery will go to at once for the Marion wheel and jobbing company in their shops at Marion.

It is too bad Rensselaer can not have a band. Witu the number of musically inclined boys among theyonng class, and the several good old timers, a very creditable organization might be effected. Monticello, which usually has a band at least part of the year, has again organized. Walter Lee and iamily will move tomorrow from the W. B. Austin property they have been occupying on Weston street, to Fred Tyler’s new house, corner of Weston and Cornelia streets. Fred has built a fine house on this corner, wiring it for lights and supplying it with bath, toilet and all modern improvements. • T . M. Morrow, poet-master of Hebron, came yesterday, to be on hand today for the letting of the contract for the building of the new Keener tp., dredge grade road. He had the contract in Porter county and has just completed theli miles on the north side of the river. There are about three miles to be built in this connty. It is thru the low, swamp land near the river and the road will be built by digging a dredge ditch on either side and throwing the excavated dirt to the middle for the road grade.

John and Tom Bissenden have planned a novel trip for this summer, and John has just returned here from Chicago where he was working for the Illinois Central railroad to take part in it. They will construct a house boat at Attica and float down the Wabash river to the Ohio and thence down the “Father of Waters,” to the gulf. They will make all river towns along the route and canvas lor and manufacture rubber stamps. It will be a nice trip and the boys expect to be able to make some money out of it too. Mrs. William Moore was in Hammond yesterday to see her brother James Payne and son George, and today two other Bisters of Mr. Payne, Mrs. Stephenson and Mrs. Timmons, are visiting them. Tomorrow the Paynes start for

Cripple Creek, Colo., in hopes that the climate will prove beneficial to thier health, both suffering from lung tronble, altho George is in the worst condition and the one for whom the trip is especially being taken. If he is improved by the change of climate they may proceed further southwest, going to Albnqnerque, New Mexico. His condition is very critical, however, and it is donbtfnl if he will be able to stand the trip. Ed M. Fergnson and son Frankof Brookston, came today for « short visit with the former’s brother, Irvin, south of town. Ed is a crack checker player and has taken most of the White connty players into camp and is probably looking for other fields. Some of the Bens selaer crowd are quite apt to induce him to prolong his visit. The Rensselaer District of Christian Endeavorera will meet in annual convention at the Christian church, Tuesday and Wednesday, June 4 and 5. First session Friday evening and continuing through Wednesday and evening. Good speakers have been secured for each session, and it will be such a convention as yon can not afford to miss.

A woman had a very narrow escape from injury at the Chicago Bargain Store. One of the employees of that store had thoughtlessly left the gate to the elevator open when he descended to the basement, and the woman, who is from Chicago, and visiting her son-in-law, Matt Nesius, south of town, did not notice it and fell thru the opening. Most remarkably, her hair, which is of very unusual growth, caught on some bolts in the framework at the top of the elevator car and held her in an upright position, with her toes barely touching a barrel on the elevator floor, she being practically suspended by her hair. She was not injured to amount to anything, and in fifteen minutes after the A accident occurred was able to complete her trading.

Pleasant Jenkins, county school superintendent of Harrison county was a frequenter of saloons and was accused of appearing before schools of the county in an intoxicated condition. He was a candidate for reelection, but Fassett A. Cotton, state superintendent of public instruction, refused to grant him a license to teach thereby making him ineligible to election.