Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1907 — LOCAL HAPPENINGS [ARTICLE]

LOCAL HAPPENINGS

FRIDAY B. F. Fendig made a business trip 'to Chicago today. About a dozen young ladies of the Christian church were entertained last evening by Miss Zelma Rayher. An 18 months old child of Conrad Shatter, 7 miles southeast of town is very bad with summer -complaint. Mrs. Daniel Alsdnrf, of Jamestown, N. Y. is visiting her son Xeou Alsdurf, at the home of John M. Knapp. The total rainfall in the rain which began late last evening and continued until late this forenoon, was one and one-fifth inches. Mrs. Meyer, the aged mother of F. B. Meyer, slipped at her home on Van Rensselaer street yesterday evening and fractured her left shonlder. Her advanced age makes the case n very serious one.

A. R. Orton, the Monticello map man, is here tod«or. He has made many of the best maps in use in Jasper and in other counties in this section ot the state.

Marion Harrod and wife, of Scott county, and Mrs. Mulissa Gudgel, of Jefferson county, "started home today after a shprt visit with the former's son, William Harrod, of near Aix. , George K. _ Hollingsworth and

family departed automobile route for Chicago this morning after the hard rain had subsided, having concluded their stay in their home here. The boys will enter school in Chicago next Monday.

S. R. Nichols received his 96 head of St. Louis cattle yesterday, having had them shipped over the C. &A. and the Gifford road to McCoysburg. He was well pleased with the railroad service and thinks the Alton’s immunity bath has done the road a lot of good. Ora Cain, who has been living

in Billings, Mont., for the past six years, came Wednesday for a short visit with his brother Charles Cain, south of town. Thursday he went to Spencer for a visit and he will come here after a few days for a more extended stay. I A. 8. Keene, ot Wheatfield, is here today, having brought his

little deaf son Willie down to accompany Harold Clark to the state school for the mute at Indianapolis. Willie Gray, of Lowell, another mute, also stopped off here and accompanied the other boys to Indianapolis.

Since 1890, when the G. A. R. had 409,489 members enrolled, its numerical strength has been cut down almost one-half. There are only about 212,000 comrades now. The losses by death run up to 9,000 or 10,000 a year. There is practically no chance to gain recruits. Mesdames Pnmphrey, Hagins, and Powers, served John A. Logan Corps 191, of Lafayette and other ladies who attended the district convention of the W. R. C., with breakfast and sapper at the home of Mrs George Pnmphrey. The house was beautifully decorated with the national colors and flowers.

Harry ,0. Tbewlies and wife, who spend their winters with the family of her parents, James Jordan and wife, will not return home until about Dec. Ist. He has had au unusually busy year in'contracting at Linden, near Crawfordsville, aud will have plenty to do until the cold weather sets in. He now has the building of four houses under way.

An umbrella mender got off the 10:55 train today and was taken into tow by Officers Parks and Vick. The conductor had wired ahead that he believed the man to be trying to get money away from Willie Gray, the deaf boy from Lowell who came here to accompany other boys to the Indianapolis school. The umbrella mender was a tough looking citizen but denied that he was trying to do anything wrong when he engaged in mute conversation with the boy, and he was not placed under arrest. Ed Kays and Kid Churchill are preparing to migrate for the winter, months and will start for Memphis, Tenn., to work at elevator building within the next two weeks. Kid had quite a jolt financially this last summer when .his practically new barn and other out building on his farm northwest of town were wrecked by the cyclone, but he has everything rebuilt now except some corn cribs whioh he expects to put in shape before he goesjsouth, where at the high tfages he and Kays command he will soon overcome his cyclone losses. f The road petitioned for by | Delos Thompson and others, thru the GangUiff farm east of town to the Thompson farm occupied by D. A. Tanner, was established by the dr cuit court and Mrs. Gangloff given damages in the sum of S3OO, aud John Groom in the sum of $25. It is a 40 foot roadway on the range line and extends from the pleasant Ridge road north one-half mile thru the Gangloff farm. The road had been established by the county commissioners after the report of viewers, Mrs. Gangloff being allowed S2OO damages, and it was appealed by her to the circuit court. »

Mrs. E. L. Pidler went to Terre Haute today, called there by the serious sickness of her sister, Mrs.! Fred Johnson. * In an opinion to State Superintendent Fasset A. ,Cotton Attorney General James Bingham holds that the new teachers’ minimum wage law passed by the General Assembly ot 1907 is constitutional. . David B. Nowels and wife, of

Lamar, *Solo., and Dallas Nowels, of Parson, Kansas, arrived yesterday at the bedside of their mother, Aunt Phoebe Nowels, who now sc slightly better, altho at her age and in her very feeble condition this improvement is not apt to be for long. Rev. Riley Nowels, another son, has gone back to Flora, while Mrs. Dallas Nowels and daughter Floy came here a few days ago from Columbia City, where they had been visiting Arthur Nowels and family.

W. A. Davenport the Monon night agent in Rensselaer, has been entertaining an old friend named Frank Kusnick for several days. Kusnick is a telegraph operator and for the past six years has been stationed at Peru, South America. Like all enterprising citizens of the United States who have resided in South America states he has seen plenty of opportunities for the suo cessful employment of capital and has made some investments in ranch lands. He has also worked for the Panama railroad company and traveled extensively thru' the isthmus country. -

SATURDAY The rain last night and this morning amounted to .30 of an in#h. This and the previous inch and a quarter has made the ground very wet, too wet to plow, in fact. W. J. Burnside, of Vermillion county, 111., was in town a short time yesterday. He is an auctioneer and thinks of changing locations bat found Rensselaer already quite well supplied. From here he went to Napanee, in Elk hart county.

Invitations have been sent out by Mr. and Mrs. David Elder to the wedding of their daughter, Ada,-to Mr. Lemuel Hammerton on 3unday evening, Oct. 6th at 8 o’clock. Mr. Hammerton is the son of Elias Hammerton and has been a railway mail clerk for the past two years.

Fred Donnelly plead guilty to the charge of pe£it larceny last week when his case came up Wednesday. He was given a $5 fine and 00 days in jail In addition to the diamond ring theft, for which he was sentenced, he had stolen a camera fiom a hdy at Winamac, which was recovered by Marshal Roth rock last week.—Monticello Herald. We are told that the 8,000 acres belonging to John BrowD & Son, lying in the Kankakee valley, will soon be divided into ordinary-sized farm tracts, buildings put up at each place, and they will then be put on the market or leased to renters. They will arrange their large business to take more ease iu the future.—Crown Point Star. President Infield returned from a trip in Porter county in the In terest of the Interurban and re j orts that Boone township in that county seems getting right in line to vote a one and a half per cent, tax for the road. This is the only township in that county which is bit well enough to ask for a subsidy. In Lake county Center township, where Crown Point is, will be asked for a tax, also.

Mr. W. T. Jopp is in Rensselaer to introduce the new Practical Reference Library, a work that seems to be of the highest order. An illustration of the set appears in Jthe advertisment in this issue and Mr. Jopp will give his personal attention to the replies sent to all inquiries about the work. It is the result of a most careful and painstaking effort to produce a work of the most valuable aid to students and is so concise and unique in arrangements as to make it much more valuable to students for ready reference than the large encyclopedaes. A set will be of nn questioned value in the education of children.

Mr. and Mrs. Allred Arulstrong, of Michigan City, are spending a

few days with friendfcand relatives in this vicinity, this being his aunual vacation rim s. He is still the superintendent bf the state prison farm and garden, as he has been for mauy years pesr, since he left Hanging Grove towuship wb* re.he worked for the McCoys in managing their big farm out there. Now Tom works for 'him, on the prison farm, when he works at all, but for the past six Weeks he , has been flat ou his back as the result of the broken leg heretofore mentioned. It is the right leg and was broken square off a little more than half way from the knee to the thigh. It will be a couple of weeks yet before he is able to leave his bed. He is still the same chc sriul Tom, in spite of the reports that have been circulated that he had lately been broken down and dispondent.

NONDAY Will Ham, who has charge of his brother, Frank Ham’s furniture store at Wolcott, visited the latter here Sunday. Misses Loe and Oka Pancoast, who are teaching adjoining district schools in Gillam tp., this year, were home Saturday and Sunday to visit their parents, C. A. Pancoast and wife, west of town. The longest through haul on any traction line out of Indianapolis has jnst been made the Terre Haute I idianapolis and Eastern, a special car load of passenger having travel 1 ed from Indianapolis to Zanesville, 0., a distauce of 250 miles. Mrs. Clarence Hamilton and baby arrived Saturday from Morrison Tenni, having been preceded here about two weeks by her husband. Until they begin house keeping they will be located at the home of his mother, Mrs. Vest Richards.

Harry Parker, the photogragher was over at Joliet, 111., Sunday and arranged a trade of his gasoline river launch for an Elmore toneau automobile, which he and Will Timmons brought part way home. It will be run on home when the weather becomes more settled. It is a bright red car with a removable rear seat and is said to be a mighty good machine. Several friends of Ira S ; gler, the court reporter, responded to an in

vitation from Mrs. Sigler to surprise him Saturday evening, the occasion being his 34th birthday. The friends were largely of the legal profess : on with a few others included, and the evening was pleasantly spent in playing that popular game of cards ‘‘Black Maria,” sometimes pronounced with a final “r.”

A petition by the voters of Gilboa tp., Benton county, for an election to vote a subsidy to aid the construction of an interurban road which will pass thru Remington and Rensselaer, will be presented to the Commissioners at their October session. The sentiment i n favor of voting the tax is said to be strong. A little later on other townships on the east side of the county will hold elections for the same purposes.—Fowler Republican.

Announcements have been received her by friends of the marriage of Miss Anna Sample, daughter of Mrs. Lucy Sample, to Mr. Praetor K. Brown, of Pneblo, Colo. Mrs. Sample and daughter moved from Rensselaer to Pneblo about a year 'ago. The wedding oocured last Thurday, Sept. 26th. The groom is a member of a prosperons grocery firm in Pueblo. Prior to going to Pueblo the bride was for about a year employed in the telephone central office here.