Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1907 — Local Happenings. [ARTICLE]

Local Happenings.

TUESDAY. Miss Anna Clager went to Wheatfield today for a week’s visit. Miss Verda Sharp, of Monon, came Sunday for a week’s visit with relatives. Mrs. R. B. Harris went to Chicago yesterday to begin treatment with a specialist for her eyes. Miss Hazel McColly went to Chi -cago Heights yesterday for a visit of several weeks with relatives. Dr. Rice and wife, of Rose Lawn, were here yesterday. He has continued.to prosper since leaving DeMotte. Hollace Royster, son of S. A. Royster, formerly night operator at this place, now at Westfield, is here for a short visit with Agent Beam and family. Prof. W. W. McCullough, com mercial instructor in the Pontiac, 111., high school, who is visiting relatives of his wife at Fair Oaks, was in Rensselaer yesterday. This is the 85lh birthday of ■Grandfather James Leatherman, father of County Auditor Leatherman. His son in-law, H. K. Payne of Indianapolis, is here to visit him and other relatives. Joe Jackson, the bus man, has a pet of the felon variety on the third finger of his left hand, which he has had lanced and which causes him to lay off from work and to give utterance to many un becoming things. Samuel Noll, O. Bright and T. S. Denman, of the Boswell First National Bank, and W. Mankey, of the Farmers Bank of the same town, are here today, looking after some land interests they hold jointly in this county.

Mr. and Mrs. Earl Gray of Marion, and his father, Wm. Gray ot Lee, were here yesterday visiting the Richardson and Richards families, and on Wednesday Earl Gray and wile will return to Marion. They came to Lee last week to attend his mother’s funeral. The housejust vacated by A. J. Brenner, and belonging to Dr. Kreeler, is undergoing some interior repairs with every appearance of having as its next occupants a couple just embarking on the housekeeping sea. If rumor is borne out the occupants will be Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Comer. Mrs. Andrew Potts, of Parr, and Mrs. Nathan Eldridge, of Bafkley tp., returned this morning from Wabash, near which city they had been visiting their cousin, - Oliver P. Goodlander, who has a cancer of the stomach and can not live very much longer. He' is well known in this county by reason of many visits he has made here.

Born this Tuesday morning, June 11, 1907, to Harry Dewey and wife, of Jordan tp., a eon. Paul Wood has sufficiently recovered from his recent appendicitis operation to be able, to return to Chicago Sunday, preparatory to again beginning work. Everett Brown went to Hoopeston, HL, Monday to participate in a big shootin * tournament being held there. If he is successful he expects to enter the Grand American at Chicago next week. The 21st field aitillery returning from Indianapolis to Fort Sheridan;' piwsed Lhenight here last night, and were off at 5.30 this morning for the journey of today. They expect to camp at or near Roselawn tonight. County Superintendent Hamilton went to Wheatfield today to attend the Wheatfield tp commencement exercises, and to award the diplomas to the graduates. This will be about the last act of his as Superintendent, as tomorrow is the day set for him to turn the office over to his successor, Ernest Lamson.

Philip B. Hem mig was finally elected school superintendent of Carrol county. 214 ballots had previously beeu cast, but when the board re convened Saturday afternoon Hemmig was elected on the fiist ballot. One republican trustee was absent and the democratic trustee who had been supporting Jesse Blue voted for Hemmig. Chief Ranger E. P. Honan, of the Catholic Order of Foresters, head ed a party composed of George Strickfaden, member of the board of trustees, and Jos. Nagle and Will Michaels, delegates respectively, of the Rensselaer and Remington courts of that order, to Indianapolis Monday to attend the state convention. Ed is a candidate for reeleeti6n, and will probably be successful. George Ade, the well known humorist and playwright, came yesterday in his big auto to see Congressman Landis and family. He was accompanied by Judge Henry Vinton and wife and Charles Murdock, of Lafayette. Mr. Ade is now at his big farm near Brook, Ind., where he is writing a play for the Frohman’s to be produced next season.—Delphi Herald. The Monon railroad has surveyed a line a half mile west of Carmel and talk of discontinuing their station at that place. The officials have viewed the new survey and it is probable it will be accepted. The company contends that inasmuch as a town ordinance there limits the speed of their trains they will have to find a remedy, as their fast trains loose too much time in slowing down.—Delphi Herald.

Bert Goff and the other Rensselaer young men who have been leading the life of frontiersmen since they took government land .claims in South Dakota, have been up in Montana for some time herding sheep, but most of them are now again at BelleFourche. Will Wood worth performed the shepherd stunt in Montana, and was a cautious guardian of the lambs of his fold. In this connection we are reminded of the story told a few years ago of the Yale college graduate and member of the track team who went west to work on a ranch after getting out of school. His employer was dubious about his frail stature and reluctantly put him to work, cautioning him to be sure that be returned in the evening with all the sheep. He did not turn in that night until about 9 o’clock, and bore every evidence of exhaustion. The ranchman asked him how he got along. “All right,” he replied, “except I had a hard time getting those three little devils.” He was told that there was no lambs in the fold and insisted on on the ranchman accompanying him to the pens to see, and there it was seen he had three jack rabbits which he had run down by foot. It is not probable any of the Rensselaer boys will mistake jack rabbits for lambs, for there are no tenderfeet among the lot, all having seen more or less travel, and Mel Griffin as a soldier in the Philippines and Marion Gwin as an enlisted man in the Navy, have both been almost all over the world.

WEDNESDAY Frank Myers, former postmaster, went to Kentland today to investigate a drug store purchase proposition. ’ Mrs. H. E. Parkinson went to Evanston, today to accompany her < daughter, Martha, home, after the close of the college. ' Mrs. J. M. Wasson returned from Chicago today where she had been for a few days visiting her daughter, Mrs A. E. Coen. | Mrs. O. M Allen and Miss Nellie j Wilson, of Kalamazoo. Mich., came yesterday for a visit of a week with the former’sdaaghter, Mrs E L. Hollingsworth. ! J. H. Barnum, magician and ventriloquist, has just concluded a [series of medicine show performances in Fair Oaks, and today went to Delphi, another good town. I J. H. d. Ellis is out a bunch of keys which he would much like to ! recover. If the finder will return 1 them he will get free “ad mish” to 1 the first vaudeville performance in July.

Miss Margaret Steel, of Chillicothe, Ohio, who has been visiting her college friend, Mildred Spitler, went to Chicago today, and will visit at other places before returning to her home. Wheatfield has decided to play a return game here with St. Joe, and the date of Saturday, June 15, has been agreed upon. The famous Jensen battery will be at the points for the north-enders. The line up later. Firman Rutherford is now mak ing rapid progress in the tearing down of the old Foster hotel building, near the depot. He will use the lumber in the building of a house on lots he has purchased on College road, across the river.

The Lowell base ball team came today to play with the St. Joe boys. Dobbins is playing with Lowell. The same pitcher, Parker of Chicago, who pitched for Lowell against Chalmers here last 4th of July, is to be on the rubber for the visitors today. The Babcock & Hopkins elevator is undergoing, the enlarging and roof raising process necessary to permit the installing of the new oats clipper and the additional driers. This will enable the firm to handle much more western grain. W. A. Brown and wife left at 9:55 today for their home in Minneapolis, Minn., where he is an interurban railway conductor, between that city and St. Paul. Mrs. Brown’s two daughters, Madeline and Ester Phillips will remain here for several weeks yet. Mrs. W. C. Babcock and two children left today for Estes Park, Colo., where Mrs. Babcock’s parents, Thos. Daugherty and wife are now living, and where she with the children will spend the summer. It is about 75 miles from Denver “and some 7500 feet above the sea level. Messrs. E. B. Sellers and Sam Thompson, Jr., left Sunday morning for Dorset, Minn., for a fishing trip. They were joined by Judge Field, of the Monon Railway, at Chicago. No special car was chartered in which to ship fb»h home but you are safe in concluding that the fish will be caught— Monticello Journal.

Mrs. Hale Warner returned yesterday from Denver, where she had gone to attend the funeral of her cousin, W. W. Kirby, who had died very suddenly. Her cousin, A. C. Kirby, brother of the deceased, who had come from Hannah, N. D., to attend the funeral, accompanied her home for a short visit, departing on the 9:55 train today. John J. Kepnei and family have arrived here from Carney, Neb., and will mace their future residence in Rensselaer. Mr. Kepner moved from Sheldon, 111., to Car ney, .several months ago in hopes that the change of climate would prove beneficial to the health of his 11 years old daughter, and it is in the hope of an improvement that again brings them to Rensselaer. Those dredge men up at Rensselaer, who are having so much trouble in getting the rook loosened up in the bottom of the Iroquois river in front of their dredge, ought to insist on the use of

Mifthellite. If they would call on “Trig” Randall and let him use a few experimental charges, they would soon see the reason why. It “robts” down below the end of drill hole and as well as outward and upwards.—Monticello Journal. The stoves hzve been taken out of the depot and stored for the summer, and their removal calls attention to the shameful old hulk of a depot that has served for so many years in Rensselaer. The-floors in the waiting rooms are al most rotted out, the depot is so dirty and filthy that it is really unfit for people to be in. It is probable that the Monon authorities do not appreciate bow disreputable an old shack it is and that if a petition was started tor a new depot and signed by resi dents of the city and country, we might secuft a new building. This was the method employed by Medaryville, we understand.

THURSDAY. Miss Katie Shields has been employed to teach in the Brook schools next year. Important meeting of 4th of July committees at B. F. Fendig’s drug store at 8 o’clock tonight. Mrs. Chas. H. Porter returned to Chicago today after a visit of about two weeks with her parents, J. W. Williams and wife here. Mrs. Lucy J. Myers and daughter, who have been visiting the former’s son, J. E. Myers, north of Aix, for the past two weeks, returned to their home in Indianapolis today. ext Sabbath will be Childrens’ day at the Presbyterian church. In the morning the pastor will speak on “Heredity.” The Sabbath School will have charge of the evening service. County Superintendent Lamson began bis duties this morning and the presentation of the diplomas to the graduates of the Marion and Newton tp. schools which is being held jointly at the Library today, will be among his first duties. __ Miss Mabel Houston, who has been teaching school at Lowell, left today for Perrysburg, where she will spend the summer with her parents. During this week she has been a member of the house of Miss Nina Martindale. 1

John Medicos is down from Chicago Heights. He has given up his intention of going to Gary and will continue at the Heights, where he is employed by George Minnicus the plastering contractor. He says that during the summer months the Chicago Heights Improvement Co. employ the DeBaugh band and that it is the finest band he knows of. This is the band that has been engaged to play here on the 4th, and Jehu thinks we will have the best music ever played in the county. The Telephone Co. forces got back as far as Lowell with their new Waltham Orient last night, but were afraid to tackle the muck grade north of Shelby and came home on the 11 o’clock train, leaving their machine and the Delos Thompson White Steamer at Lowell. They will make the trip after the machines when the roads are safe for travel. The new machine for the telephone company is a 2-cylinder, 8 horse runabout with a delivery wagon bed, and is a fine little machine. The cost is $550. Mrs. H. C. Reed, who gave up the Nowels House some weeks ago and has been visiting her son near Frankfort, came yesterday to Rensselaer and thinks of renting property here and running a boardinghouse. Contrary to general belief she says she has not seen anything of her husband since she left here. Henry it will be remembered, took the accumulated hotel funds and disappeared several weeks before Mrs. Reed went, and was afterwards seen in Cincinnati in company with another woman. Henry is missed by a number of people he defrauded, but he is a citizen the town can well get along without and it is hoped he will not return to board off the labors of his industrious wife when he runs out of cash. Rye bread, made right, fresh daily. Aug. Rosenbaum.