Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1907 — LOCAL HAPPENINGS [ARTICLE]

LOCAL HAPPENINGS

TUESDAY Birn last night, to Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Riehliog, of Pieasant Grove, a daughter. $ Joe Wilier and Ralph Zeigler went to Hammond yesterday for an absence of about a month. John Pey ton, of Portland, Ore., left today after a visit with his ■sister, Mrs. Marsh Warren. Matt Moosmdlcr returned home yqsterdty from a visit, near .Kent land with Harvey Messyian ai.d ▼be.. J* Mrs. W. R. Rowles. S H. Porter Dr. W. W. Hartsell, Dr. A. G. Catt, and Jud Moore were all Chicago visitors oday. Born last night, to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Elder, in the northwest part of town, twins, a boy and a girl. Mias Nell Moody, daughter of Granville Moody and a member of last year’s graduating class, has entered the young ladies seminary at Oxford, Ohio, for the college year. P. O. Kennedy, from north of Wheatfield, who was one of the petit jurors got himself excused yesterday on account of the pressure of farm work. He is a brother of Rev O. Kennedy, who left yesterday tor Kimberlin Heights, Tenn , to begin his theological studies in the Christian university there.

M. B. Wisbard was down from Chicago yesterday, 100k 1 ng - after his farm interests and he brought into town a few samples of as big •eared and well filled out corn as we ever looked at. It will take two or three weeks good weather yet to develops it to Jts best state, however. Mell has been working all summer without a vacation, having worked extra hours a good part of the time, but he will get a rest this fall and will spend it in Rensselaer and vicinity.' In the fall a scrappier blue tinge dawns upon the jay-bird’s crest, In the fall a Hoosier’s fancy, lightly turns to way out west. This is not just the way Tennyson wrote the lines, but its the way they fit in best to Jasper county conditions. Which is suggested by the large number of persons who left for the west today, on prospecting and other purposes. Samuel Parker of Hanging Grove, left for Mitchell, 8. Bak , to look after his 400 acre farm, occupied by Sherman Lewie. Jeff Smith went to Burke, 8. Dak., to visit his son Everal, Russ Harmon and brother Lou. also started for Mitchell. 0. J. Dean, Henry Gowland and W. L. Porter, for bedfield, 8. Dak., Alf Collins and R. A. Parkison for Bucklin and Lakin, Kansas; and C. F. Tillett for Wenatchee, Wash., under B. F. Ferguson’s agency; and Charley Stackhouse and N. Littlefield for Murdo, 8. Dak.

Monday’s Indianapolis Star has a big illustrated write-up of the Kankakee river, and demonstrates the fine fishing there by a picture ■of Harry Parker and Johnny Walker holding up between them a splendid stick load of pickerels, whiter they had caught, bought, begged or borrowed, to say nothing of stolen, for the occasion. The picture was made a number of years ago when the Kankakee was just in its glory with the great and historic rush of carp fed pickerel, but it fits in mighty poorly with conditions there now, when Walker is far away in the wilds of arid

and fl hloa Arizona. and ibe inly pickerel Parker can book is a big head he hooked from one somebody caught on a trot iiue. Yea, verily, iL a iir t 1 » z~> I* .A ii It !r rZW Qu t* -1 fttr gttyry Vx tut? Hati a a Ktr pickerel stream i- depaited, and auyone who koks on the picture of rhat great row being htld up by Hairy and Johnny and hies himself to that stream expecting to duplicate the string, will be mightily disappointed. The Manhattan Theater Company b-’gau a three night’s engagem *nt at the opera house here last night. They had a good sized audience, every member of whom seem ready Jo pronounce the com p my (.he very best repertoire compiay that ever performed here. Certainly it is a very fine company, aud the “Fivfc Columbians” are esp zcially excellent. Last night they pl «yed “The Angel of the Alley,” and tonight the Frank Davidson version of “Robinson Crusoe” will be presented.

WEDNESDAY Warren Robinson was in Chicago today, on a business trip. Mrs. Joe Larsh and Miss Mary Yates made a trip to Chicago today. Miss loma Imes, of Chicago, is visiting her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Imes for a short time. Charles Parks, northwest of town, io Newton township, is sick with a severe case of typhoid fever. A. L. Kent, division engineer of the Monon, was here today on his semi-annual inspection tour. Miss Anna Nagel went to Wheat field today for a few days visit with her sister, Mrs. James Linton. Mrs. F. B. Meyers is sick at her home across the river, with a severe attack of acute nervous prostration. Britt Marion, who has been out in North Dakota for several weeks, has taken up a very promising land claim out there. Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Sayler and W. D. Sayler went to South Bend today, to attend the annual reunion This week’s hot spell culminated yesterday in a high mark of 88i degrees, which is pretty hot weather for the lattet*half of September. Miss Grace Norris, an ’O6 graduate of the Rensselaer high school, went to Greencastle yesterday to enter DePauw University for the Freshman year.

Misses Alta and Eva DeMoss, of Fairbury, 111., returned home today, after a week’s visit with their sister, Mrs. Russell Baker, in Barkley township. W. D. Parks, of Bourbon, Ind., came today, to visit his father Claib Parks, west of Surrey, and his brother Charley, who is sick with typhoid fever. The big dredge in the river here resumed the work of throwing out rock today, after a long idle spell, while the additional drilling and blasting was being done. The Chicago Tribune’s test balloting on the Republican presidential candidate shows that Taft and Hughes lead all rivals, and the fur. ther fact that each is second choice in the other’s home state.

Altho Sheriff O’Connor and his deputies ifeve made the most strenu )us efforts to obtain some clue as to the direction taken by the jail breakers of Monday night or Tuesday morning, so far his efforts have been entirely without result. Mrs. Lucy Clark and son Will left this morning for Cedar Point, Kans., near which place they will visit het- two sons, Wilson and Charley. Will Salter, step-son of J. C. Porter, and formerly living in Rensselaer, is a merchant at Cedar Point.

Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Mahan, of near Cadiz, Ohio, left for Milo, yesterday, after a week’s visit with their nephew Logan Wood and other relatives, at Parr and vicinity. At Milo they will visit a brother of Mrs. Mahan’s whom she has not seen for 62 years. So'tne .47 of an inch of rain had fallen here up to two o’clock this afternoon. It is probable that the rainfall was considerably greater a lew miles north of town. The

farmers almost without exception would mrch rather th*»re had teen no more lain uatil their corn 1 ad a chance co ripen. Monon stopped ar ihe Makeever House last night. Th*\v were Mr. and Mrs, Will Reiuicke and Mr. and Mrs. F. E- Messenmick. The first named coupie left this moiLiug for Streator, 111., the latttr

were still with us this afternoon. Glen Wishard is down for a few days’ visit beret before he returns to Evanston Io resume his studies at Northwestern Uriversity, where as already stated, he will spend a year in post-graduate, tor the M. A. degree. He will preach for the M. E. congregation at Chesterton this year, but continue,to reside at the university town. Charles Stoltz’s family at McCoysburg, are much afflicted with sickness at this time. Mrs. Stultz is permanently in poor health with tuberculosis, while a number of the children have malaria. Mr. Schultz is a section man and a hard worker, but so much sickness puts the family in very hard circumstances. Mrs. Nannie McGuire, a Carroll county woman, died in a dentist’s office at Logansport, Monday. She had taken choloroform to ha e a large number of teeth extracted and when all but one had been pulled, she partly recdvered and began struggling, and drew a clot of blood into the wind pipe, which caused her death in spite of the the efforts of several physicians. Fairy the four-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Snedeker, died at three o’clock this, Wednesday morning, at the home of her grandmother, Mis. John L. Nichols, in the northwest part of tjwn. The cause of her death was general tuberculosis, and her sickness of quite long duration. The funeral will be held- Thursday, at Mrs. Nichols’s residence by Re”. G. H. Clarke. Burial will be in Barkley church cemetery.

THURSDAY Highest temperature today, £8 degrees. Last night, 65 degrees. The Ransford & Parcells merry-go-round has been dismantled again and will now be taken to Ladoga, where there is a street fair next week. The ladies of the Christian church will serve chicken p’e dinner and supper Thursday Sei t. 26th i» the K. of P. building. A cordial invitation is extended to the public. Meals 25 cents. Elkhart saloon keepers have entered into an agreement whereby they pledge themselves to enforce the observance of liquor laws of the state and to aid in the prosecution of any any and all violators of the law.

Abe Martin: Uncle Seth How, of Urbana, Ohio, is visiting’ ’mongst his kin here. He is ninetyfive years ole, an’ looks as straight an’ spry as a lifelong Dimmycrat. Things er never the same again after you have your ’phone taken out. A new form of birth report has been adopted by the State Board of Health, on which physicians must make returns to the county secretary within twenty days after the birth occurs. Failure to do so means a fine of not less than 110 or more than 1100. Chicago, Hammond and a large •cope of country north of here, had a very severe rain and thunder storm yesterday, only the mild outer edge of which seems to have reached Rensselaer. The rainfall was prodigious, and much damage was done by lightning, and in Hammond one man was killed by it.

Rensselaer is to have another 5 cent theatre, and it will be opened this evening for the first time. It is being conducted by a nice looking young couple who have had considerable experience in the business. Piano mpsic will be furnished thruout the evening. The theatre is located the first door south of the fire engine house. Frank Morlan left today to return to his home at Lansford, N. Dak., and was accompanied by his mother, Mrs Amanda Morlan, who

expects t • make her home m ith him permanently, afed who ha'sold Ler i Orue ou Van Rensgrlaei ■’street to J. C. Passon*. ’ Per North Dakota with them for a >r. y of about a monrh. The greate.-t shiptueu; of pigeons ever made from this town of countless pigeons, was made today, when E. L. Hollingsworth shipped out his entire stock of birds of that species. He sent away 800 pairs, part of them going to South Haven, Mich , and the others to Independence, lowa. Mr. Hollingsworth is not clearing out his pigeon stock because he finds it unprofitable to raise them, but because on account of Mrs. Hollingsworth’s pr - tracted absence from poor health, he is unable 'o devote the neces sary time to their care. He ex pects to stock up again next spring, and he has one of the finest and most complete pigeon houses any where in this region.