Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1907 — Local Happenings. [ARTICLE]

Local Happenings.

FRIDAY __ Miss Anna Hehl, of Lafayette, is here to visit the Macklenberg family. Warren Robinson and family went to Chicago today for a visit of several days. Mrs. Jnlia A. Healey went to Chicago today to visit her dan s hter Mrs. E. E. Mills Miss Katherine Marlatt went to Evanston yesterday to visit her sister. Mrs. C. O. Swift. Willis Lutz was up from Indianapolis yesterday and states that he will get back here abdnt every two weeks in the future. Simon Leopold will not open up ' bis new store in Francesville until Aug. Ist, having purchased a line of goods for the fall and winter trade. Rex Warner went to Cedar Lake today to work for a tew days at the Sigler Hotel. He will have charge of the soda fountain and may de-* cide to stay all summer. € has Macklenberg, who has

been attending bar at Wolcott, is home for awhile. The saloons over there have gone the remonstrance route. Charley expects to get employment at Lafayette. Harold Clark, «on of Leslie Clark, and Willie, son ot A. S. Keen, of Wheatfield, who are attending the state school for the deal and dnmb at Indianapolis, are home for the summer vacation. Prof. C. M. Sandifur, who has been in Delphi since the closing of the schools here, was here a short time today on his way to Chicago, where he will enter Chicago University for the summer term for the study of mathematics and ped agogy. Miss Bertha, Nichols, daughter ot and deputy in the office of County Treasurer Nichols went to Indi anapolis this morning to make Jasper county’s settlement of semiannual taxes with the State Treasurer. She will remain there for a short visit with relatives. Today, June 14, is the anniver sary of two important events, viz , the adoption of the American flag and the marriage of the writer. The former, took place 130 years ago and the latter 14 years ago. Ln the writer’s opinion both the nation and the editor’s wife made mighty good bargains.

Frank B. Myers of Rensselaer, iormerly postmaster at that place, has purchssed the drag stock sold by E. S. Steele to parties atOhatts- . worth some time ago, and re-open ed the store yesterday. Mr. Myers is not fully determined whether he will continue in business here or ni>ve the stock to Gary.—Kentland Enterprise.

! \H>B Elizabeth Luers, who has been ui tending school at Valparaiso is home for a few days’ visit with her parents, south of town. The third aud last of the series rot lectures at the Barkley M. E. church was held last night and ’here was a crowded house out to hear Mrs. J. M. Brown, wife of the pastor of the Monticello M. E church, in an interesting program. The lecture course paid out with quite a large “margin to spare. Mr. H. 8. Hayner, expert piano tuner and repairer from Chicago, will be in town on Saturday the 22nd or as near that date as possible. Those wishing to have their pianos tuned or repaired by a tuner of long and valued experience, will please leave their orders at Clarke’s, the Jeweler and Optician, and re ceive prompt attention. Lloyd Jesson, the telegraph operator, has been having a hard tussel with typhiod fever at Ogden, Utah, and altho now over the worst of the disease is still unable to be out, not being strong enough to walk. This will cause considerable delay iu the plans he and Hue Parcells had ot following down the Pacific, coast; to Mexic> and thenep around the Atlantic coast. Rev. H. L. Kindig was at Thayer last night and conducted a meeting in the school house in the interest of rhe effort now being made to rid that to vuship of saloons. At

present there are six saloons there, three of them being at Rose Lawn, two at Thayer and oae at Water Valley. The effort seems to be awakening a good deal of interest and Rev. Kindig thinks the“remonstrance movement will ultimately be successful. Dr. W. H. Parkinson, son of H. E. Parkinson, and brother of Attorney Parkinson, who since be graduated from the Indianapolis College of Medicine has been practicing at Boswell, has now removed to Rensselaer and will occupy the Kinney house on Front street and have his offices in the G. E. Murray block. Dr. Parkinson enjoyed a liberal practice at Boswell and is making the change to Rensselaer in order to be in a larger place and to be near the former home of both himself and wife.

E. P. Honan and the other Rensselaer parties who attended the state convention of the Catholic Order of Foresters returned home yesterday and report that Mr. Honan was again elected State Chief Ranger and G. A. Strick - faden was re-elected trustee, and what was even a higher honor to Mr. Honon was his election as an international delegate to the convention to be held the first week in Augnst at St. Paul, Minn. Five provinces in Canada and 26 of the United States will be represented in the convention. Sheriff O’Connor hears frequency from his son Joe, who has been working for several weeks with a railroad construction gang some twenty miles from Forsythe, Mont. It has rained almost every night since Joe reached there but seldom in the day, and he has been able to work all the time except one half a day. He had the job of killing a mountain rattle snake one day last week, the “varmint” having approached to within a step of his quarters in camp. It was an eightrattled affair. Joe has made one trip to Forsythe, which is a county seat town with a court house no larger than the Kniman school house. It is a wild country with no pretty girls, and as some one else has appropriated Joe’s Republican every time before he can get it himself, he is probably a trifle homesick.

SATURDAY Bradley Ross returned home this morning from Madison, Wis. Miss Anna McMunn, of Chicago, came today for a few days' visit with A. E. Brand and wife. John Casey, of Fair Oaks, came today to visit his sister, Mrs. Geo. R. Dicxinson, and other relatives. Miss Gertrude Hopkins will leave tonight for a two weeks’ visit with her sister at Sullivan, Ind. If it’s time to sock up, we can supply you; all you want at 5 cents a pair, or 50c a dozen.—Duvall & Lundy.

Joe Hammond came down from Wheatfield yesterday to transact some banking business and of course to rein "in over fur the ball game | today between the Wheatfield champion j and the St. Joe team. Fred Cbilcote aud little daugh ter, Lizzie, of South Bend, came today, the latter to remain for a time with her gr udmother,' Mrs. J. H. Kinney, who is again living in Rens.-elaer ana occupying tier Front .-treet residence. Or. George Elliott, ot Chicago, delivered his lecture. “A meric*— Its Opportunities and Perils,” at j the ME. church last night. He , went from here to Lafayette, wh re ; he will fill the Trinity M. E. pul ' pit both morning and evening tomorrow. Samuel Remley, of Xv heatfield, is visiting his sou, John Remley. I Altho he is somewhat of a base ball fan,* of course, it is merely a coincident that he happened to get over here at just the same time that the Wheatfield St. Joe ball game was to be played. Farmer & Yeoman were Awarded the contract in Cass county this week for the construction of the Gault ditch, involving the excavation of about 300,000 yards of dirt, and which they bid in at 9.90 and 10.25 per yard, in all about $30,000 contract. They will begin the, work shortly.

Alter serving a two years’ sentence in Lowell, Walter White’s { friends think it must be a nice thing for him to get down to Rensselaer occasionally. He is here today, and has made several unsuc , cessful attempts to explain how; Lowell happened to be beaten by , the St. Joe ball team Wednesday.; The oil well is down to a depth of about 600 feet. The rock at the ■ bottom is called by drillers ‘ ‘Hurryup stone.” It is necessary to, sharpen the bit every few feet. | And the man that sharpens them has to hurry in order to get a sharp ' bit while another is being dulled. I It is estimated that it will be safe to carry matches for another week.--Fowler Leader.

Brother Baughman, of the Mfy. Ayr Pilot, is truly a wonder. In addition to being the editor of a bright little paper he is proprietor of a restaurant, instructor and 1 director of the band, and now he ' has been elected manager of the I base ball team. Ls all the others fail as financial propositions, .the { managing of the base ball team should at least bring him out on top. Wm. L. Nies, of South Bend, is j engaged in searching the records of, Jasper county for the past 20 years ' to ascertain the number and causes I of divorces and to find out the number of marriages that have taken | place in the county within that| time. Mr. Nies works under the I authority of an act of Congress that I authorized the Department of Commerce and Labor to gather statistics from every county in the Union relative to marriages and divorces, i It is being done with a view to the adoption of a universal marriage

and divorce law. It appears now j that there have been in the neigh- ( boi hood of 250 divorces granted in Jasper county within 20,years. x Chas. Barta way, the Fowler sa- 1 loon applicant, who had made arrangements to test the sufficiency; of the remonstance filed there, has changed his mind, as great men do some times, and Thursday tele- | phoned to the county auditor that he would not appear. On Wed- j nesday he had caused the sheriff and his deputy to drive all over j the township in order to serve 87 subpoenas to persons who had; signed the remonstrance, requiring their attendance at the trial in court. Of his withdrawal the next day, the Fowler Leader says: “Men were taken from the corn field when their absence means the loss of dollars. That the appearance of a bold front of one day should be changed into full retreat the next, is a sample of pure meanness on the part of the applicant. Neither the witnesses, sheriff, or any other person will get a cent for the trouble caused by this mean] ness. The fight was over and no possible advantage coulee Stained.”

Ralph Snerman, of Minneapolis, is here to spend the summer with S. C. Irwin and wife. Glenn Bates, who has been worl - logout in Oregon, is home for a visit of indefinite length with his parents. 1 Mrs. A. E. Caster left today tor Louisville, Ky.. for a visit of al>out two mouths with her daughter. Mrs. Srtsie Kennedy. If you once wear a “Collegian'’ suit or top coat, you will always call for them, for they have an individuality about them that yon get in uo other make.—Duvall & Lundy. Uncle Simon Phillips was able to pnt his clothes on yesterday for the first time iu five weeks. He had a very serious time but is now entirely out ®f danger and will probably shortly be able to get out of the house again. One of the walls of the new Odd Fellows brick building at Brookston, in course of construction, caved in and fell yesterday at about noon. Three brick mansons working on the a*cond story of the building fell with the wall but were hot seriously hurt.

Mrs. Alice Lawson, the Lafayette women who murdered her husband, and was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment some weeks ago, was yesterday taken to the woman’s prison at Indianapolis, where she will spend the remainder of her life.

Mrs. Ralph Sprague and baby are visiting her parents, A. Wood and wife, for an indefinite period pending the completion of a thew mill Mr. Sprague and a partner are building for themselves •at Tuscola, 111. For some years Mr. and Mrs. Sprague have resided at , Brazil, this state, where he was ; employed by a milling company, but he now intends going into busij ness for himself. When they get | their mill completed Mrs. Sprague will join her husband at Tuscola. I John Van Buren, who prior to fourteen years ago, was a student at the Indian school then conducted by the Catholics here, and who afterwards worked for the Grant and Morlan families as a farm I ( hand, has been here the past week visiting them. He had left his . wife and two children at her form.er home in Michigan, and yesterday was notified by telegram that she was very sick and he was com pelled to cut his visit short and left lon the afternoon train. He is only a half blood Indian but has the appearance of the American stock predominating. For several years he has been a street car conductor at Duluth, Minn., but he is now I expecting to decide upon another ; location.

I George H. Thomas and wife of Lafayette, were in Rensselaer ! yesterday, he being the manager of | the Dr. R. B. Wetherill farms, of | which there are two in Jasper county, with a total of 81,520 acres. Dr. Wetherill is a bachelor and a very extensive land owner. He is ■ one of the most charitable men in Lafayette and when Mr. Thomas was made manager of his farms it ; was with this admonition: “Exact of no tenant that which imposes a hardship upon him.” And Dr. i Wetherill was in earnest when he {saidit. His acts of charity and generosity have made him the most admired man in Lafayette. The Wheatfield ball teams arrived here on the 10:55 train today for their contest this afternoon • with the St. Joe team. It is pecu- , liar that so many Wheatfield busiI ness men had business here today, but the several followers of the ; team all assert that they came on ( business and not to attend the ball game,.but all admitted that they probably would get out to see the game it they could find time, and then proceed to register at the hotel and to loat in the office until the hour for the gane. “Gee,” remarked a Rensselaer kid at the depot, “but dey’s a husky looking bunch of guys, ain’t deyf” as the Wheatfield Jensens, Andersons and Millers piled off of the train and crowded into the bus. It will be a fine game, no doubt

MONDAY. Highest temperature vest ei day, in the shade, 85; highest today, 89. Miss Nellie Bullis, of Jordan tp„ went to Chicago today, where she has secured employment. Miss Nellie Garriott. from noith of town, went to Hammond today for a visit of three weeks relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Hallie Flynn, of Chesterton, Mr. and Mrs. .Cal Nichols, of Cook, and Mr. Weaver, of Lowell, returned 1o thetr homes this morning. Mrs. Weaver will remain for a time with her father. Mrs. Henry Ampler return* <1 this morning from Michigan f'itx where she has been visiting her daughter, Mrs I. L. Jones, for several days. . Her little gtauddaugh ter came with her for a short visit.

Mr. and Mrs. Louis Wildberg and Misses Lena Tuteur and Tillie Fendig went to Chicago today to be present at the wedding this even iug at 6 o’clock, of Mr. Jacob' L. Wildberg to Miss Bessie Lee Selig. It was Thompson ami not Brad ley Ros- who returned from Madison, Wis., last week. Bradley has gone toHeadley,British Columbia, where he will work with his father, Frank A. Boss, who is now the eugineei for a corporation with extensive mining interests at that place. Ellery* Bloom, the Remington checker player, was over Sunday and chased some of the Rensselaer players almost out of the notion that they are players Ellery is a plum good one. He will accomptny the Rensselaer team to Lafayette to play the Bramble Hotel bunch. R. B. Faris, from up in Gillair, was in the city a day or two last week, it being his first visit heie since the reunion of the Ninth Indiana regiment iu October. He has not been feeling the best the past winter and spring, but expects* an improvement with the summer weather. Mrs. T. B. Skinner returned to Battle Creek today, after a visit of three weeks with her daughter, Mrs. Delos Thompson, who with her children accompanied the lormer as far as Chicago. Miss Lois Thompson accompanied her grandmother home for a visit of a month or more.

Robert Lefler and wife, who have been living at Wabash since their marriage, are here lor a lew days’ visit with their parents. They have decided to remove to Joliet, 111., and will leave for there in a few days. Mr. Lefler dues not kuuw in what line of work he will engage in in his new home, but as there is considerable progress evidenced in Joliet, he expects to have no difficulty in securing employment.