Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1907 — LOCAL HAPPENINGS [ARTICLE]

LOCAL HAPPENINGS

FRIDAY Miss Leah Knox left this morning for a week’s visit at Winona Lake. She was accompanied by her little sister Lucille. Spencer Vick, of ew York City is here f r a couple of weeks’ visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Vick and his brother Christie. Homer Kessler, formerly of Logansport, and well known here as an insurance man, is now manager of the Elijah Hospice, or the Zion City Hotel, Zion City. 111. He is sending circulars to his old acquaintances telling them what a delightful sn nmer resort Zion City is. Ike Leopold, a well know former Rensselaer boy, but located .in Wolcott for the past eight or ten years, is now preparing to move to to Chicago with his family. He has a position there as manager of a big merchant tailoring establishment, and starts in with a salary of $l5O per month, and good projects for increase as his efficiency increases.

Win. Ballinger, the saloon keeper of Kniman, was tried on one of the four charges of running on the Fourth ot July. Thursday afternoon, before Squire Thornton, he having taken a change of venue 4roui Squire Thornton’s court. He was found guilty and fined $lO and costs. On the other three affidavits he gave bail for his appearance and they were set for trial Saturday. Wallace Miller, of the Chicago Bargain Store, has been having his share of the prevailing sore finger contagion, and had it pretty hard too. Yet the start of his trouble was from no greater cause than the bite of an especially mild looking but very malevolent minded mosquito, and which bite rtsuited in infection and a sore which has caused Wallace a good deal of suffering. This morning Len Adams, better known as Shorty, was operating a road scraper in a ditch two milee south of town, when he got a tumble into the ditch and struck his foot against the cutting edge of the scraper. He got a pretty severe cut on the upper part of his foot, which cut into but did not entirely sever two of the tendons, and made a gash that it took several stitches to close up. He will be laid up for a week or more. County Auditor Leatherman and County Assessor Lewis, were both belore the State Board of Review at Indianapolis Monday, on summons of the Board, to give information as to the assessment of realestate in this county. The Board questioned them extensively as to these assesments, and how they compared with those in neighboring Counties, why Pome parts of the county were high, some low etc. The Board did not give any intimation as to their conclusions from the information furnished, nor what if any changes would be made in the assessments in the county, as reported by the county board of review. Today with its cool, dry and bracing northerly wind makes practically the first b.eak this month from the reign of high and humid heat. The highest temperature .today was 73 degrees. On only one other day this month has the temperature failed to touch 80 degrees or above, and on that day it reached 79. For a period of sustained heat with great humidity, it has been almost unparalled in

recollection. During this entire period of 26 days, there has been rain in, measurable qua«<ny on id days, and only three of the 26 have been free enough of clouds to be recordtd as clear, today being one of the three, while 17 of the days have been partly clear and four wholly cloudy. The total of the rainfall has been live inches, and being so evenly distributed, and accompanied by such a high and sustained degree of heat, the Datnral result has beep a vigorous and constant growth of vegetation as remarkable as the weather.

SATURDAY Mrs. A. Graham of Wolcott came this morning tor a few days visit with relatives. Born this Saturday morning July 27th, to Mr. and Mrs. Zack Stanley, in town, a son. Mrs. Ed. Irwin came home Friday evening from a ten days’ visit in the east part of the state, returning by way of Chicago. Prof. John H. Reddick, superin tendent of Pulaski county schools, claims to be the oldest county superintendent in the State. He has served 22 consecutive years and was recently re elected for four *jfears, ~ Company M. reached here last night on the 6:32 train. They were looking and feeling well con sidering the tough experience of the long (march in extreme heat without anything to eat, they were put thru by Gen McKee. Rev. I. S. Wade, the well known temperance lecturer of Lafayette, was in an automobile accident yesterday while hurrying to keep an appointment to speak at Arlington, this state. He wasn’t much hurt, but missed his lecture appoint ment.

Quite a number of farmers are already cutting their oats and many more will t»egin next week. About 25 or 30 bushels to the acre is a common estimate of .the probable yield, which is a great deal better than was expected three or four weekp ago. Ed H. Graham, formerly of Remington but who has edited and published the Earl Park Gazette for ten years, has sold the plant to Roland B. Craw, of Oxford who has taxen possession. Mr. Graham has purchased the News at Clarkshill, of which he will assume control next week. Monticello Herald: Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Malone came home from Indianhpolis, yesterday evening, just two weeks after her operation for appendicitis. She stood the trip home excellently, in fact did not have to lie down after reaching the house until time to retire. She is well pleased with Dr. Cook as a surgeon and with her treatment at St Vincent. A regular old “residenter” of a rattlesnake was killed Friday, up at Eli Arnolds’s place in Barkley. He was provided with seven rattles and a button at his musical end, and big and sharp fangs at his poison end, and a vicious temper the whole length of him. His supposed mate was being diligently searched for a last reports received. It was not far from the Arnold residence where this one was killed. The sale of the Gifford Kailroad is practically a sure fact now, and if nothing now unforseen occurs to defeat the sale, it will pass into the control of the New York Central or Vanderbilt interests, on October Ist. It is stated that the new owners will extend the line south to the Indiana coal fields, and north to the new city of Gary. Evidently the future of the road is to be one of importance. Wm. Ballinger and his contingent came down from Kniman this morning, this being the day set for the trial of the other three charges against him for running his saloon on the 4th of July. The cases were to have come before Squire Thornton but Ballinger took another change of venue, and the cases were sen! to Squire Malachi P. Comer, of Barkley Tp., and set for trial on Saturday of next week, August 3rd. # Wm. Blair, a Hammond blacksmith, was pushed, jerked, jolted, or jumped, from a picnic train on the Monon on July 14th, and

Aright between the moving train and th* stone abutment of the depot platform at Hammond, and pretty generally bruised and banged up. His injuries were not of soch a lasting character Irowever butrtirat he is now able to start the inevitable suit for damages against the railroad company, and demands 820,000. The last Legislature passed a law 6 increasing the salaries of Judges of Circuit and Superior Courts to $3,000 a year, in interpreting the law tiie Auditor of State held this would cut off the S3OO for traveling expenses allowed jud"es who pie side in more than one county and refused to draw for the same. Judge Carter of the Superior Court at Indianapolis, in a test case, decides the S3OO traveling allowance must be paid as heretofoie. There are places and plenty of them, no larger than Rensselaer to which electric railroads come with out assistance and even without invitation. But they are places on lines between large and closely situated larger towns, and therefore on the natural and unavoidable route for the roads. Rensselaer is not so fortunately situated. At least no electric road, has eouie tons yet without assistance, nor is is there any apparent prospect of any.— Therefore it seems evident that if we get an electric road, we must do something for it. We are now offered such a road but it will not come without some assistance. That the road will “be the making of the town,” is almost universally admitted. Let our Citizens awake then to the great importance of this opportunity and meet it in a spirit commensurate with its importance.

MONDAY G. A. Strickfaden and wife are spending today in Chicago. A. Leopold went to Chicago this morning for a few days’ visit with relatives. Miss Anna Stout, of Trafalgar, Ind., is visiting her cousin Mrs. Geo. H. Healey. Firman Rutherford has the cellar excavation for his College street residence completed and work has been commenced on the foundation. The Christian Sunday School will hold a picnic Thursday of this week. Wagons will leave at 9 a. m. and 10 a. m. Come with well filled baskets. Mrs. D. H. Yeoman returned Saturday from a visit of three week’s with her daughter Mrs. Ed Mauck, at Anderson, and with relatives at Indianapolis. Andrew J. Miller and wife, of Holmes county, Ohio, started home this morning, after a visit with the fan ily of Daniel J. Stutzman and other relatives in Jasper county. Miss Pearl Pott*, of Chicago Heights, and her cousin, Bruce Chilcote of Fredonia, Kans., who have been visiting relatives here, returned to Heights this morning. Isaac Leopold went to Chicago today te take up his residence there and assume his position as manager of a big merchant tailoring establishment. He will reside at 5653 Calumet St. Quite a number of Rensselaer people witnessed the GiftordPleasant Ridge ball game at the latter place Sunday. Gifford was victorious by the score of 6 to 4, in a well played game. D. H. Yeoman went to Royal Center today, where himself and partner, E. V. Farmer, are erecting their dredge, preparatory to beginning their ditch contract. They expect to be ready to begin in about a week. Gaylord McFarland, who is time keeper for the Dodge Manufacturing Co., at Mishawaka, Ind., was home over Sunday. Gaylord likes his job better than teaching school and will therefore not be among the Jasper county school teachers this year. He hopes to enter Purdue University in 1908. Miss Jessie Stephephenson returned CD Chicago today after a few days visit here with her mother and sister, Mrs. W. F. Frye. She will shortly leave for New , York City where she will manage the restaurant department of the Henry Siegle Department stol e.' She was

formerly assistant manager of the restaurant f n the big Siegle-Cooper store in Chicago aud later manager of the Hillman restaurant. I'er new: position is a very responsible tnitraotl carries with rr aspieiidid sa’ary. Helen Elizabeth is the name given to a daughtdr born on July ■lB. 1907, to Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Sayler, formerly of Rensselaer, now of Mandon, N. Dak., according to birth notices being received here by relatives aud friends of the prond parents. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Duvall re turned home Saturday evening from Grand Rapids, Mich., where they had been visiti g for about three weeks with relatives. Mr. Duvall’s brother John, is getting aloDg nicely there and will visit his parents here the last of August. A ten years old son of Nelson McCoy liviug near the Porter farm in Jordan tp., fractured both bones of his left arm above the wrist Sunday evening, by a fall he had in the hay mow. In addition to being broken square off, the arm was badly twisted, making a bad complicated fracture. He is getting along very nicely now, however. -» ' ; ;—■ , ‘ 72 tickets were sold for the Chicago excursion yesterday. Taking the day thrnout it was one of the best days Agent Beam has had for passenger ticket receipts. There were many passengers for Chicago, Hammond and Cedar Lake, while Shelby got its quota. Exclusive of the excursion sales, the passenger receipts amounted to $236 for the day. The Chicago Union Giants, the coon ball team that played the Wheatfield Regulars here about two weeks ago, write that they are coming this way again shortly aDd want a game in Rensselaer on Aug. 30th. The game will probably be arranged and Wheatfield given the chance to meet them again. Altho Wheatfield will play them there on Aug. 29th.

J. R. Gray left this morning for Forsythe, Mont., where he expects to work on Abe Hardy’s railroad job. He will also look about that country for a future permanent home. Ray Adams, son of Marion I. Adams, who has made one previous trip to the west, also left in company of Mr. Gray. He will go to Belle Fourche, South Dakota where his brother in law, Bert Goft is located, and may also take out a land claim there. Harry Zimmerman, night operator for the Monon and C. E. & 1., at Fair Oaks, began his summer vacation Saturday. He came down here for a few days’ visit with his parents and tomorrow will leave for Meadville, Pa,, where he was located for some six years as a printer on a daily newspaper. Meadville is having a big home-coming event, continuing all this week and Harry will spend the time visiting his many old friends there. Miss Sadie Cody, formerly of Jasper county, but for several years past located at Dowie’s Zion City, is working for a short timeTff Ferguson & Ferguson’s office as a stenographer. Miss Cody his become an expert accountant in the manufacturing cost of fine laces, and has secured a responsible position at the head of that department of a new company soon to start in business at Cleveland, Ohio. The company’s entrance into business has been retarded by the failure to get their machinery, which is manufactured in England. Former Postmaster Frank B. Meyers has returned from Gary and has given up his plan to erect a building and engage in the drug business there. Frank had negotiated for the lease of a lot for the erection ot a building and had begun having the lumber hauled for the same, wheu he decided to look over the lease. His astonishment can easily be imagined when he found that he had leased the ground for only four months, after which time it could be sold. Of course, Frank did not care to erect a building on land that he could retain for only four months, so he cancelled the deal and returned home. Gary seems to be a city of graft and it is a difficult matter to get a square real estate deal there.