Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1907 — Items Here And There. [ARTICLE]

Items Here And There.

Read the classified advertise ments. New ads daily. Patronize this column for quick results. 'bhe new $35,000 Methodist Episcopal chnrch at Hammond was dedicated Sunday afternoon before 4,004 persons. Bishop William F. McDowell, of Chicago, preached the dedicatory sermon. George Ade has lately blowed himself for m fine .new automobile and passed thru Rensselaer with it, last Sunday on his way to his place over near Brook, from a trip to Chicago.- Several Kentland friends wereiu his party. ~ r.. Sheriff O’Connor’s monthly re port to the State Board of Charities for June showed that the county jail was entirely empty of prisoners clear thrn the month- This is the third time since he has been in or fice that his monthly report showed an empty jail daring the month. Abe Martin: In bnildiu’ a cement house be sure an’ put 2-inch studdin’ an’ lath on th’ inside. If yon don’t th ( loan company will have a damp house on its hands. I'll bet th’ officers will have a hard time to ketch Rockefeller. He can go ten days on me soda cracker. ' Attorney Philip J. McKenna, of Chicago, with his. wife and children came down from Chicago for a short Visit with Mr. ahff Rlrs. E. P. Honan. Resides bsthgoarprosperous lawyer Mr, McKenna is publisher’ .'of The Catholic Forest er, a monthly magazine of yery large circulation* and tho Official organ of the Catholic Order of Foresters. They came diwn in his new six seated Pierce A”row automobile, a $6,000 ma Oiine and one of the finest antoes ever Been in Rensselaer. f

August Schmidt, of San Pierre was before Squire Irwin on the charge of • shooting fish in the Kankakee marsh. The weapon he used was a shot gnu, but whethor he was flashing them with a dog and giving it to them on the wing, er pot-sticking them on the setstill, was not shown. Anyhow Squire pot-stuck him for $33.50 on a plea of guilty, aud that was the least he could let him off for, under the law, which provides among other features, a special penalty of S2O iu such cases, as well as a minimum fine of $5. Schmidt was winded up by Jas. L. Martin, a deputy game warden whose home is in Benton county. A good many farmers are re marking on the rather bad appearance of their oats field lately, some fields being, to use the expressi n of one of them ‘‘as brown asa toad’s back.” Most of them agree, how ever that the weather of the last few days has been very favorable tor oats, and that they have not lost ground any lately. This bad oilur of the oats, and the presumably bad condition it indicates, is attributed to a variety of causes such as the gretfn bugs, late frosts, too shallow rootsowing to excessive rains soon after sowing, and to hot weather following rain, a short time ago. It is probable, however, that all of these causes worked together and that no one of them is wholly or largely responsible, t * ’ t>'. v-’ 1 ' *.l « :