Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1907 — LOCAL HAPPENINGS [ARTICLE]

LOCAL HAPPENINGS

FRIDAY Born last night, to Mr. and Mrs. Joe Pullins, of Barkley Tp. a son. Aunt Phoebe Newels is in very poor health again and Mr. Nowels is contemplating sending for the children. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Birnes, of Kokomo, returned home today, after a weeks Visit with their daughter Mr*. Joe Larsh. Mrs. M. B. Leslie, of Conners ville, will preach both morning and evening Sunday, Sept; 22, at the firet Baptist ch arch in Rensselaer. Joseph Lane left for Sioux Falls, Sjuui Dakota, Tuesday where he will visit bib daughter Mrs. E. E. Pierson, he was accompanied by Mr. Herman Messman pf Kentland. Yesterday was Mrs. Charles Vick’s 67th birthday, and the event was observed in the evening by the assembling of about 30 relatives and neighbors, who gave her a fine surprise party and dinner. Mr. Fletcher, the new manager of the clothing department in the Chicago Bargain Store has moved his family from Kentland and now occupies one of the Makeever houses on south Division street. Ernest Stewart, formerly in the baibering business here for some t/ne, has been in very-poor health for a long time past, and is now confined to tris bed the home of his parents at Brookston, with no prospects for recovery. Mrs. Minerva Cowan, of Crawfordsville, and Mrs Martha Wil liams, of South liaub, are visiting Mrs. G. P. Daugherty, the former being Mrs. Daugherty’s sister and the latter her sister-in-law.

Dqc Nichols had a big’ public sale of cattle ou the McAfee farm in Hanging Grove, yesterday. It wiS very successful and the sale amounted to $6,671. Some 179 head in all were sold. Mis. George Daniels underwent her expected operation Thursday, the Presbyterian Hospital, and some 20 gall stones were removed, The gall bladder was also found so badly involved that it was removed also. She withstood the operation well and the hospital physicians are quite confident of her final recovery. Kentland has quite an epidemic of typhoid fever and three new cases have been added this week, to the considerable number suffering from that disease. Rensselaer is always to be congratulated on the fact that its splendid pure water supply gives it practical immunity from typhoid fever, there having been scarcely a single Case of the disease occurred here since we have had city water except such as were shown to have been contracted at some other place. ' The Tenth United States Infantry has been ordered to Ft. Benjamin Harrison, the new army post near Indianapolis. Capt. Edwin A. Root, a Kentland boy and West Point graduate, is a commissioned officer of this regiment. The Tenth has been on dnty in Alaska for two years. It is said to be one of the crack regiments of the army, as well as one of the best drilled regiments, and has a fighting record that is unsurpassed.—Kentland Enterprise- “ Tne McGlynn saloon went out of business at Wheatfield Wednesday with a general big time, and was then turned into a restaurant. The same night the lightning got

after Mike Bernicken’s place, the only remaining saloon, aud erv d to put it out of bijsttw**- too. hM. ojiik succeeded in ripping up a few boards and knocking off some plaster. Bnt the blanket remonstrance had been after all of the Wheatfield saloons some time ago, and Mike has only about two weeksjeft to run. Then Wheat field will be saloonless. Another instance of a rattlesnake bite, occurred in this vicinity Thursday morning. The victim was Boyd Holmes, the 13 year old son of Sidney Holmes, of five miles west of town, in Newton township. The boy and his sister were out |in the garden io pick grapes, when the snake was encountered. The boy was bitten on the little toe of the right foot. It made him very sick of course, but medical attend ance was promptly given and he is now considered out of danger. The snake unfortunately got away, and is thus still A source of danger and fear in the vicinity. The number of rattle snakes reported in this region this year ia rChiariJabTe, and on sonie farms tea or a dozen have been killed, and one man is said to have made the record killing of 17 Of these Snakes in one day.

SATURDAY Mrs. Jesse Nichols returned this morning from a visit with her sister Mrs. Alva Nichols, at Mexico, Mo. L. E. Noland and daughter, Maul, of Lse, took the train here this morning for Gibson, for a short stay. J. M. Holmes and wife, of Winamac, are here for a short visit with his sister, Mrs. Marsh Warner and family. Lieut Rice Porter went to Chicago this morning and to endeavor to arrange sbme football dates for the militia football team. Mrs? H. I. Adams went to Topeka. lud., today, to visit her (laughter, Mrs. O. J. Horsewood, for a week or ten days. Miss Judith Woodward, of Chi cago, returned home last evening, after a months’s visit with her cousin, Mrs. 8. C. Irwin. -- L. A. Hopkins, of Martie, Huntington county, came yesterday for a visit with his brother*, Nim Hopkins and his father Clint Hopkins.

W. C. Milliron,.of Knox, was intown over night, having come over from Francesville, where he sold ice cream cones during the harvest home carnival. Miss Lizzie Hemphill, a graduate of the 1901 class of the Rensselaer high school, has gone to Indianapolis to enter the teachers training school for the ensuing yelr. John Makeever -has rented his small building at the corner of Weston and Washington, toC. E. Prior who will use it as a butter, egg and poultry buying depot. - Will Campbell and wife, of Mahommet, 111., who have been visiting his Z. T. Campbell and other relatives here, went ’to Brook today to visit other relatives. Bev. H. N. Ogden, D. D. tfnd wife of Indianapolis are visiting Rev. H. L. Kindig and family. Dr. Ogden will speak at Trinity M. E. church on Sunday morning.

Mrs. Martha Cox, of Kentland, came today to reside with her sonin law, J. B. 'Fletcher. Miss Mamie Fletcher accompanied her here but to remain only for a short visit. Dr. 8. E. parting left this morning for his winter’s work in the pontidal ’lciened at Wisconsin University, after 8 visit of some five or six weekswith his father here. * Charley K Parks, northwest of town, isvery nnreh better from his sickness and'his ccrniplete recovery soon expected. He did not have typhoid fever as was at first supposed, but self-poisoning or “autointoxication,” as the doctors call it, from a stoppage of the kidneys. Word comes froin Lee that Ephriam Gilmore began digging with his new dredge this morning on the Howe ditch. The dredge is located about a half mile west of Lee and the If yard dipper will plow its way along as rapidly as

I ' ■- ■ Mr. Gilmore can make it. which means that no time will be lus*t. Tbe Howe ditch i* better known under the 'name first given ir. rhe The funeral of Geoige H. Maines was held Sundav. at 2:30 P. M.. ar the family residence on Daymn afreet. rhe former Robert anrile place, by Rev. G. H. Clarke, pastor of the Rensselaer Christian church. Interment in Weston cemetery. County Superintendent Lamson thinks he has all the district schools supplied now having just employed two young ladies from Indianapolis, Misses Violette Myers and Ethel Mills by name, to teach in Keener tp. They were here over night and left for their school work this morning. JL Rev. J. A. Cochran, formerly located here for some , time tn charge of the Free Baptist church, is now at Fairbank, lowa, very pleasantly situated, in charge of a congregation which much appreciates his services, and pays him $720 a year and a parsonage to live in. He has just been unanimously called for another year.

Mrs. Marion I. Adams went to Chicago this morning to see her husband who underwent an operation this week for the removal of a cataract from the left eye. He seems to be getting along very nicely and it is thought he may recover the sight of the eye. Mrs. Adams will remain there over Su a day. The young son of Sidney Holmes who was bitten by a rattle-snake Thursday, is recovering from its effects very satisfactorily. The boys parents were visiting at Medaryville when it occurred, and being informed by telephone were of course very anxious to hurry home, but as the trains run, could not get here until 3.-30 in the afternoon.- Joe Bennett with his Ford Ailto solved the problem of quick transit for them however, and brought them home very speedily. W. L. Hill, of Madison, is here and will remain for a week or more looking after the interests of his big fam, which Walter Porter has rented. By a recent survey Mr, Hill discovered that the big 200 head stock barn was not on his land but on that of his brother Charley, and so he is arranging to build a barn this fall. It will be 56x70 feet in dimensions and will easily accommodate 100 head of feeding cattle. He thinks corn on his farm this year is better than last, which condition is now thought by a great many to be general on well drained land.

Miss Grace Wagner, of Wabash is another ■ out of county teacher brought in to supply the shortage. She will teach in Barkley tp. She is a graduate of Wabash college and supplied in Wabash schools last year. Since the fact of our shortage of county teachers become circulated over the state, County Superintendent Lamson has been flooded with offers. One man at Indianapolis offered to come on a guarantee of SI2OO a year, and teaeh any district school in the county. As this would pay about four teachers for the term, Superintendent Lamsom could not use him.

MONDAY Ralph Smith and wife, of Chicago, were guests over Sunday of Van Grant and wife. S. R. Nichols left for St. Louis Saturday evening, to buy a big bunch o* stocfecattle, and will also visit his eon Alva, at Mexico, Mo. Tfrtl.TT *Fdrfeythe arrived home Saturday nigh# Atonia* two weeks visit with< her sister, - Mias Emma Smith, at NewPhHadelpMa, ©hio. Lew Harmon returned this morning from South Dakota, if here be and Russ had been looking after the farm they and their father bought there last spring. Rus will return home Wecjneadry. Uncle Joe Yeoman was very dangerously sMr>‘fihturday and Sunday, with*a sudden and very severe attack of bladder trouble, and for a time his'llfe was almost dis paired of, but he is much better now. Wheatfield continues to play good ball and again have the set

vicets of Jensen. the* pitchw. « h<i finished tlie season wwi iWmmit. ton. La*r Friday at Fram* -.svfße | they won by a share of Sto 2, ami Saturday at Whoa’field they bear «Francesville 3to 0 . ”' r " j Romer Dobbins had had luck aoout the first foothill sei unmade Ihe mixed in. nt College. aud sustained a broken rib. He writes back that be expects io get over it in time to play with Michigan oa Oct. 19th. He is »laying one of the, end positions on the Wabash team, instead of half-back as was supposed he would. Aunt Phoebe Nowels has got a good deal worse during the last day *or two, and it is considered very doubtful if she can survive this attack, tho the remarkable vitality she showed in recovering from her equally apparently hopeless condi tion last spring, still leaves some hopes for a like favorable result now. Her prospects are so unfavorable however that word of it has i been sent to all the children.

The temperature Saturday night, or Sunday, morning, reached down to 40 degrees here, or very close to the light frost mark. Some frost was reported in some of the lower lands northeast of town, but probably not severe enough to do much damage. A. good dea lof ’the eora is already out of danger, and prac tically all of it will be in a week from now, if there, comes no frost before then. Uncle Simon Phillips reports enough frost out near hie place to nip vines and morning glories a little. J. C. Gwin has returned from Hunter Springs somewhat improved from his rheumatism. Miss Lena Jackson went to Bloomington this morning to the university.. It will he her last year in college. —— —v~—— Mrs. John Long ’returned to Shelbyville today after a week’s visit wfth her sister, Mrs. David Worland. Mrs. Albert E. Pffee, of the Newland neighborhood, left today for Lu cay, Mo., tor a months’ visit with her mother. Rev. Chas. David and wife, of Onarga, 111., returned home today after a short visit with his nephew, B. W. Ellsworth in Barkley tp.

Mrs. H. A. Heacox and daughter Lillian, of Morris 111., returntd home today after a weeks’ visit with the Jacks and Parker families near Pleasant Ridge. J. W. Hill, of near Gifford went to Monticello today, to close a deal for renting a big farm near there. The Gifford farm he has occupied for the paat five or six years has been sold. C. B. Reprogle visited in Francesville Sunday. He was accompanied by Mrs. Reprogle and son John, also her sister Mrs E. A. Bledsoe of Peru who will visit sevrale days before she goes to Texas her new home. Misses Martha Parkinson, Helen Lamson and Avaline Kindig, and Mr. Earl Bruner left this morning for Evanston. 111., to enter jNorthwestern University. Ivan Brenner of last year’s graduating class,' now living at Evanston, will also attend that college this year.

A (dur months old boy baby died Saturday at the home of its grand father, Philip Kistuer, residing in Mire. Wishard property in the east part tit town. The baby’s mother died about two months ago at Effingham, 111., o! consumption, and the baby’s death was apparently caused by the same disease. It will be takeh to Effiingham lor burial. Perry Gwin, now entered as a student in tbeelectrical engineering department of Purdue University, spent Saturday and Sunday at home here. He says he was in the thick of the fray at the big tank scrap Thursday night, or rather Friday morning, where 700 or 800 Sophs and Freshies battled tor an hour in furious conflict, before 'the more numerous but less experienced and smaller Freshmen finally yielded to the onslaughts of tihe Sophomores. Perry was among the longest stayers in the Freshmens ranss he says, and his battered and bruised condition bear out his claim; for he looked like he had been at Donnybrook fair or a post office round-up. «*■

Quite a p'i y of rel love I WrD visiting AirStyu Me M. P. arner i hr Breides r —and —Max—— 3T.—H< —i- of :V\ iuaiuar. I lie party lut iudtd ■anoth-> In other of Mj>. % r nef«, I Wiii Holnies :<»j wift*. of Indianapolis They ;<»•* here on a bridal. i vi.-ir, luivihg ju>r recently been i mar< ie<i <<< tier name I before mai having been Mrs. j Julia Ci<>« «• Other v sit ora were I Mis. Ho i i s’ r-ouKiiis, Mr*. f’lmelie | Walker, at Wmik »n. lowa, Mrs. . Kate Wioon and-d>Hig brer Rose, of B’-ookstun. Tbe thtee fast named ladies return <1 to their homes to 1 day.