Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1907 — LOCAL HAPPENINGS [ARTICLE]

LOCAL HAPPENINGS

FRIDAY Dick Crowell is at Monticello today on business. Martin Murphy went to Delphi today, for a short visit. Mrs. vVill Logan, and little son of Goodland, are visiting Mrs. Eldon Hopkins. —-- D. H. Yeoman went to Bellfountaine, Ohio, today, for about a week’s stay on business. Work has been started to agiin paint the Makeevei House. It will be a dark stone paint, about the same as the present color. “Honesty” is a trait that makes the small man great. Don’t keep little things you find, for they are property of others. Advertise them in the Republican want columns. About 50couples enjoyed a pleasant dance at the armory last night, and which was organized and managed by Firman Thompson and Rex Warner. The music was from Cedar Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Duvall and daughter left on the early morning train today for Grand Rapids, Mich., where they will visit for two weeks with John Duvall and other relatives. D. M. Worland has his building operations at his residence on Van Rensselaer street now in full swing. He is practically rebuilding his residence and increasing it in size quite extensively. Attorney George Williams will go to Logan County, Ohio, tomor row and join Mrs. Williams, already there, in a visit with his home people, who live near East Liberty, in that county. Mrs. Silas Tombs Sr., the aged woman of Barkley who was bitten on the hand by a rattlesnake Monday is recovering very satisfactorily and is now considered out of danger tho still with a very sore hand. In spite of the recent excessive rains some of the farmers expected to begin cutting their wheat today. Wheat is an extra fine crop in this county this year, and for this counan unusually large acreage was sown.

The regular rate to Chicago now over the Monon is $1.50, that being the legal rate of two cent? a mile about as near a? it can be conveniently figured, the distance between the two places being 73 miles. The round trip rate is $3.00 or just twice the single fare rate, so no money is saved by buying round trips.

Mt Ayr Pilot: While at the races at Rensselaer last Thursday, Wallie Jenkin’s horse became frightened at an automobile and plunged madly into the crowd. Much damage and possible injury might have been the result but for the quick acting of W. S. Greenlee who seized the horse by the bit and quickly brought him to a stop. State inspectors are making their first round-up of Indiana under the provisions of the pure food and drug law passed by the last legislature. Violators are found in almost every town and city visited, and prosecutions are following right and left. Inspectors are now working thru the northern- part of thestate and Rensselaer may ex-pect-a visit soon. G. F. Meyers yesterday closed up the sale of the last of his 960 acre tract in Walker township. This was the old Manny tract which he bought some time ago. He first

sold 240 acr-s to Dr. F. H. Turfler, Jf Rensselaer, and yesterday sold the jenaiinirig 72» acres to some Benton county parties. The price they paid was *27 per acre, which tho not a large price was large enough to leave a fair margin of profit for Mr. Meyer-. Mrs. Elmer Malone, of Monticello, formerly Miss Lucy Shields of our city, whose sickness has heretofore been mentioned, was operated on at St. Vincent's hospital, at Indianapolis yesterday for appendicitis, and parsed thru it very nicely. There had been some fears that there were other and perhaps more dangerous complications than appendicitis, but this was found tS be the only cause of her sickness. Her early complete recovery is now confidently expected.

Morocco Sentinel: In the horse races at Rensselaer on the Fourth Jackson township took a large chunk of the money put up for the occasion. Jack Brown of near Pilot Grove won the novelty race with Ids lithe limbed, snorting steed —“Maid of the West.,” o. some such cognomen. J ack scraped up $75 of good honest “dust ” Randolph Wright scooped the the half mile race with his famous running colt —“King of the Canibal Islands,’’-and went home with his right side the heavier by fifty plunks. - The msaae and criminal folly of these big automobile races is illustrated again by the contest now in progress cal led the Glidden Tour. A portion of this race took place yesterday from from Toledo to South Bend, and was marked by accidents all along the line. Many autoes were dumped iu the ditch and several person were badly hurt and one young woman probably fatally so. Most of the injured ones were among the autoists themselves, tho several other vehicles were struck and it was only theft good luck which saved them from being killed or badly injured. The advance force of Company M left for Indianapolis this afternoon. The force consisted of Capt. G. H. 1 ealey, Sergeants Jim Brenner and Verne Marshall, Corporal Earl Chesnut and Private Arthur Tuteur. It looks like a good many officers to be in command of one private, but probably Arthur will see that they are kept business. As a matter of fact this advance force is really the rifle practice squad, which are ordered to be on hand for camp practice Saturday forenoon. The rest of the company will leave next Wednesday, under command of Lieutenant True Woodworth.

SATURDAY Herman Churchill went to Hebroj thia afternoon where he has elevator construction work for a few weeks, on a new elevator being built there. George, the ten year old son of Al Daugherty, on the G. P. Daugherty farm southeast of town fell from a horse Friday evening and had his left elbow joint dislocated. Births: Thursday, July 11th, to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wilson, Barkley Tp., a daughter. Friday, July 121 h, to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Floyd, in town, a daughter. Saturday July 13th, to Mr. and Mrs Jeff Hizer, in town, a daughter. The Chicago Union, the colored base ball team will play the team at Riverside Park next Wednesday July 17th. The regular Thursday evening band concert will be held Wednesday evening on account of this game. The parties who are furnishing the rock for the Remington and Carpenter stone reads have agreed to the rule laid down by the county commissioners that the top dressing of small rock be run over a half inch screen before it is used. The superintendent of the roads also agrees tothisrule, and therefore the contractors, Smith & Co., will resume work there on Monday July 22nd.

So greatly have oats prospects improved since the rainy spell set in, that it is common now to hear the opinion that the crop this year will average as well as last year, and on the whole be a larger crop,

as a larger acreage was sown this year. -Corp ha_s_aJso been growing fast biMy and -if ...B e present fair weather continues long erough to permit thw fields lobe well worked the prospect tor a moderately fair crop will be ignite favorable. Dr. Wallace Parkison has spent most of this week iu buying and learning to iuu his new Wayne automobile, and having got a pretty good insight into its management, he is now opening up his of fice in the Murray building. . He has the east front room’ formerly occupied by G. E. Hersh man, the attorney, and is fitting them up in excellent shape. Cedar Lake is enjoying a prosperity this year greater than ever known before, The hosts of summer visitors that have flocked in since warm weather commenced simply fill the various hotels and resorts to their capacity. The picnic season is now in full blast and thousands of visitors come to the lake every week.-Crown Point Register.

Reports from the Kankakee say that some few pickerel and goggle »-yes are being caught, and any amount of bull heads. The water is still very high and the river so full of minnows, crawfish and other feed for the larger fish that they will seldom touch artificial lures. There are plenty of fish in the river and they can be seen playing about in the water, and a little later in the season some good sport is looked for.

It is bkely that Brook will hold no harvest festival this fall. The business men are of the opinion that another would be a diag on the market. In the past they have had the best talent that could be obtained, and on skirmishing about this year they found that they could get nothing better than in the past years and along the same lines, so we understand that they have given up the attempt for this season, but may give an entertainment of some kind before the season isover.—Brook Reporter. Monticello has a thread factory, Fowler a mitten factory, and another town this and another that, but Rensselaer has got none of them and all because it does not go after them with a little money in the fist. Moticello raised theirs by a factory addition and is now getting money on hand for another by the samt plan. The Rensselaer Commercial Club might easily float a small city addition and get a nice little fund on hand and then go into the market for a nice little factory. Every larve city has plenty of them which would gladly move to a smaller town for a small bonus.

Congressman Charles B. Landis, of Delphi, is in receipt of an invitation from the republican state committee of Oklahoma to attend and address the republicans of the proposed new state at their first convention, to be held at some date in August yet to be fixed. Recently Mr. Landis delivered a number of addresses in Oklahoma and Indian territory, following Mr. Bryan, and as Mr. Bryan took occasion to dip into politics, Mr. Landis, at the request of republicans, took occ?sion to answer him. The sequel is this invitation to address the first republican convention to be held in that state. Mr. Landis WSR the guest of honor at two banquet • while in Oklahoma one at Kingfisher and the other at Oklahoma City.

Four persons have been fined in Hammond for violating the state pure food law, and other arrests are to follow, as the result of the visit there of Frank S. Tucker, of Indianapolis, the state food inspector. One of them was M. W. Lutz, a butcher, who had the carcasses of five calves shipped to him and not properly covered. Another w;ls Th oh. Roper, the farmer who shipped Lutz the calves; another was a fish dealer named Golitz, whose stock in trade had quite too “ancient and a fish-like smell,” and the other was another market man named Nicholson, who also neglected tojpreperly cover the carcasses of calves. People who handle food stufih these days, and especially fresh meats, can not be too careful it they wish to keep clear of the penalties provided for violators of the pure food laws.

MONDAY

Jerry Healy, of the Chicago Bargain Store, is taking nis annual two Weeks vacation. » Frank Kresler. of Porter & Kresler, weiff to Chicago today, vn a business trip. Mr. and Mrs. George Macy, of Columbus. Ohio, are visiting his mother, Mi’s. John Makeever. Mrs. C.A. Radcliff, ot Cincinnati, is here for an extended visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Rhoades. Mrs. Kate Watsoaand daughters Misses Ella'and Myra, went to Chicago this morning for a few days' stay. Miss Florence Moore' and sister, Mrs. Disband, returned from Ham mond after several days’ visit there with relatives. Aus Moore, Ed Randle, Wm. Hoover Sr., and Wm. Hoover Jr., all went to the city today, on cattle selling bu sines o . Miss Maud Irwin, assistant cashier of the State Bank, went to Green Bay, Wis.,Sunday, for a couple of weeks vacation. Edward Honan, son of E. P. Honan, got a pretty severe shaking up Saturday, by a fall from a ladder. He is around again today however.

Zoe Peck went to Lafayette yesterday where she will join her cousin Glenn Sparling and from there they will go to Brookston td visit friends and relatives. —J Haines Hacket. the Monon brakemao who lest both b ; s legs in an accident a few weeks ago, has just been offered SIO,OOO by the company to settle, and har refused the offer. Wm. Frey, who has b?en here two or three weeks, visiting friends and recovering from the effects of an accident, previously described, returned to his work in Chic ago, today. Mrs. Frey will remain here with relatives most of the summer. After .August Ist a portion of the front side of postal cards, which now goes to waste, can be used to write or print on, the same as the whole of the back side. Not more than a thiid of the front can be used this way, and the rest to be left for the address only. The two parts of the front must be separated by a vertical line. The Kentland Democrat says the question of the county school superintendency in Newton county is now getting in good shape for a suit in the circuit court, and probably from there to the supreme cou-t. The county attorney advised that Kellenberger should continue to hold the office, and Mr. Shanlaub’s attorney advises him to bring suit for it. The hopes of the farmers for some dry weather in which to work thei r corn, cut thei r hay and harvc st their wheat and rye, have been disappointed again by the return of rainy weather. The rainfall in the shower which came up early this morning was quite extensive, being .65 of an inch. The farmers arc now greatly discouraged at this setback, as this week’s work in their corn was mightily important. A. F. Long moved bis drug store

Saturday night from A. Parkison’s building where it has been for so many years, into Mr. Long’s own building, on the north side of the street and abouc half a block further west. It is a big job to move a drug store but it was finished and the stock put in order ready for business this morning. The room he vacates will now be fitted up for the use of the Jasper Saving and Trust Company’s bank and office.

Simon Thompson, tae son of course, not the sire, went up to Parr yesterday with a bunch of small tho husky kids of about bis own size to play with a crowd of about the same class there. The chance to clean out the son |of the founder and principal owner of the town was too good to be lost, and young Simon’s bunch was"terribly skinned. “Gee gesh!” he’said in telling abont it, “they run in a bunch on us as big as' that longlegged Meyers kid. But next time we’el fix em. We’el be loaded for em.” The score against Simon’s bunch was a fright. But the end is not yet