Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1907 — LOCAL HAPPENINGS [ARTICLE]

LOCAL HAPPENINGS

TUESDAY Geo. H. Brown, of Knox, waa in town a short time yesterday. The D. A. R. will meet Friday afternoon with Mrs. C. W. Coen. Born last night, to the wife of County Recorder, W. Tilton, at their home on Division street, a daughter, and their seventh child. Miss Jessie Makeever has gone to Madison, Wis., to euter the Wis oonsin state university for the ensuing year. Born, last Saturday, at Lafayette, to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Canon, a boy, and their first child. The mother was formerly Mias Ota Clark, of Rensselaer. j

Jay W. Williams, who has been very painfully and very dangerously Sick for two weeks with pleurisy is now very much improved and on the Buie road to recovery, tho s ill cou fined to his bed. Arthur T«*teur left last night for Ann Arbor to resume his law coarse studies at Michigan Univer sity. Thisyearfinishes his course there but he is figuring on taking a year’s at the law department of Columbia University.

Frazier Antrim came down from Wheatfield last night, bringi ig his mother, Mrs. Lucinda Antrim, to spend the winter with her daughter, Mrs. Rachel Scott. Graudmother Antr'm is still hale and strong, dispite her advanced age of nearly 93 years, her 93rd birthday occuring next month. r *—

Mrs. Harry O. Garman, daughter of Gov. Hanly, whose life has been hanging in the balance the last few days at St. Elizabeth’s hospital in Lafayette, is convalescing, and is now apparently out of danger. Gov. and Mrs. Hanly have arrived at her bedside, after a hurried trip from Washington. A seven year old child of Wm. Warren, of Fair Oak?, died early this morning, of diphtheria. The parents are iaith eurists of some kind or o#her and the childJwas allowed to die without medical at* tendance of any kind, and which

very likely could have saved its lite. The same parents lost another child a year or so ago, also without medical attendance. James Barber and son of Pawpaw I 1., came in today to look after the 1 uge farm owned by himself and brother-in-law, 10 miles north of town, being the former Lewis Davisson farm. They have the place rented now but will move on it in a year or two. Pawpaw is about 70 miles west of Chicago and euough further north of here that t tere was quite a hard frost there last Saturday uight, while here it was only a very light touch of it in a few places.

WEDNESDAY —■■■ 0 • - • Mayor and Manager Ellis made a business trip to Chicago today. Mrs. W. F. Smith went to Chicago today, for * few days viei* with her sister there. Mr. and Mrs. John H. Holden, of Chicago, are here looking over the town with a possible view of locating here permanently, if it proves an agreeable place of residence to them.

Mr. and Mrs. Holdredge Clark left Monday evening for Holla, Missouri, where they will spend the winter with relatives. They will visit various p laces in Kansas on their return home. . Uncle Wallace to array and wife, who have spent the summer here, left today for their home at Stokes, Oklahoma. Their son Charley, who came up a week or so ago, went back with them.

Frank Kenton left today for Mitchell, S. Dak., to visit his various relatives there, look and the prospect o’er with a possible view of moving there himself. ] He will be away about a month.

Miss Elizabeth Spaulding, of the Western Union office, returned from Green castle today, where she had been for two weeks by the side of a sister, who had a severe case o( typhoid fever, bnt is now recovering. Unde Henry Sparling and wife drove down from DeMotte yesterday for a few days’ visit with his sister, Mrs. Peck and brother Joseph, while Mrs. Sparling- went on to Monon, to visit her youngest daughter, who lives there. Another favorable settlement of McCoy claims advertised by Trustee Chapman has just been made. The party was Charley Murray, who had a note of 1150 and an overdraft of $75, and both ot which he paid ‘in full, before leaving for Oklahoma.

Frank Borntrager has just bought of Mrs. Louisa Thornton the old Thornton farm south of Surrey. It contains 831 acres and the price was SBO per acre. Mr. Borntrager will move on the place next spring. The sale was negotiated thru B. F. Ferguson’s agency.

i '"III. I. II " 'VS . 1 ■ There is not much change in Aunt Phoebe Nowels’ condition today, tho she seems, if anything, slightly better. Her sou W. R. Nowels of Flora, arrived last evening, and her daughter, Mrs. Ida Raudle, of Mexico, Mo., this afternoon. The other sons, Dallas in Kansas, and David in Colorado, are looked for on every train..

A. J. Harmon arrived home this afternoon from his trip to South Dakota, where himself and brother own a half section of fine land. He reports fine crops there this year. Several who went ont with him are still there and some of them may buy land there, especially Henry Gowland, who was looking ,at a good tract with a good deal of interest.

8. R. Nichols arrived home last night from his trip to St. Louis and Mexico, Missouri. He bought three car loads of stock cattle at St. Louis, and which are expected to arrive here tomorrow. At Mexico he visited his ~son Alva whom he found contented and prosperous on a small farm he has bought, adjoining the town of Mexico.

Floyd Archer has soldz hie interest in the Edison Electric 5 cent theatre to Dr. Salisbury. He is Succeeded as operator by Miss Pearl Potts who has been in the employ of the company for several months. Miss Potts is a thorough little business woman, and having

had experience is well qualified to manage the allairs of the Edison Theatre in a most competent manner.—Chicago Heights Star

Lowell Souvenir: Homer Dobbins who made his home in Lowell this summer, and filled the position of second base in our ball team, started in Monday as a student at Wabash college at Crawfordsville Ind., where he will take a law course. He has a position in the base ball team and football team of that institution. “Dobby” will make good* J. V. Lesh arrived home a couple of days ago from an extended visit with his father, at Menomenee, in northwestern Wisconsin. He likes it so well out there that he has decided to move there next spring himself. The Leshs, father and sons, have been residents of the vicinity of Bensselaer for the past 20 years, and have been among our best citizens, but when J. V. moves there will be only one of the iamily, Dan, left here. • - - - ‘ *

THURSDAY J. M. Bell, of Frankfort, came yesterday for a short visit with his daughter, Mrs. '»V. Leioy Myer. Mrs. 9. B. Nichols and Miss Bertha Nichols returned home this morning from their eastern visit* Morris Holtzman and wife, of Brookston, are making a short visit here with the family of A. F. Long and other friends.

Mrs. P. F. Warren, of Gary, who has been visiting relatives here returned home this morning, Mrs. W. B. Gates accompanying her home for a week’s visit.

Simon Fendig has been down from Wheatfield for a few days visiting his mother and family. He is gradually getting better from his sickness of each long standing and has hopes of regaining his lormer robust health.

Mrs. Purcnpile desires to announce x that her fall millinery stock is nowon display and to invite the ladies of Rensselaer, old patrons and new ones to call and inspect the many new designs, which she is prepared to sell at reasonable prices. Comrade S. E. Yeoman and his good wife Nancy drove over to Kentland yesterday afternoon, to spend a few days there, visiting friends and attending a soldiers reunion. It is a county re-nnion of all the surviving old soldier’s who enlisted from Newton county.

Thompson Ross left this morning for Madison, Wis., for his third year in Wisconsin University. Bradley Roes, a member of the 1907 graduating class has entered the Worchester Academy, at Worchester, Mass., for a year’s study preparatory to entering the Boston Technical School.

A district convention of the re lief Corps is being held in toe G a. a room in the court bouse to day, the local corps being the en tertaiuers. The couveutiou is ait annual one repiesentiug a great many eorpsin various counties in the northwest section of the stale About fifty delegates are in attendance.

The temperature last night reached a lowest mark of 34 degrees, which was one degree colder than Tuesday night. There was some frost bnt not so much as the night before, as owiDg to the cloud ing of the sky and the change of wind to southerly, the col ’ did not last so long, and therefore the frost was not so severe. It seems likely now that the further danger of frost is past for the time being, which will give the backward corn one more chance for its life.