Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1907 — Thursday’s Local News. [ARTICLE]

Thursday’s Local News.

Mrs. Chas. A. Roberts entertained several ladies yesterday at a home porch party. Miss Maud Merritt, of Remington is here for a few days visit with her brother John. iFred Hartman and wife have now moved into their own honse accross the railroad, where Landy McGee had lived lor the past year. WilburTharp and wife, now of Chandler, Okla., have been called back to White county by the serious sickness of Mrs. Tharp’s father Banks Christy, at Chalmers. '] A baby girl, 20 months old, daughter of Conrad Schafter and wife, 7 miles southeast of town, died Wednesday of summer complaint. The fnneral will be held at 2 o’clock Friday afternoon. Mrs. A 1 Needham of Dublin, Ind. is here to spend a few days with Mrs. Mary Kannal and other friends. She is the mother of Miss Jeanette Needham, a former teacher in oar public schools. Jay W. Williams is now able to sit up a little at a time bat will probably* **£ get out for ten days or more. He has had a verj serious time with his ease of pleurisy, it being now almost four weeks since be was taken down.

Sliss Emma Glager started to Lisbon, N. Dak., this morning to be present next Tuesday morning at the wedding at 9 o’clock of her friend Miss Elizabeth Brown to Mr. Nelson G. Liane. Miss Brown is a daughter of John H. Brown, formerly of Jasper county. She is also a niece of Mrs. Candice Loughridge and visited here last spring. ' • White county is to have a Poultry and Pet Stock Association. Farmers and poultry raisers should see to it that the poultry show is repeated here this year. Last’ year’s show was a financial failure but it can probably be conducted at les3 expense this year. The shows are great poultry educators and do much to improve the breeds of chickens thruout the country.

B. S. Fendig, who represented the local K. of P. lodge in the meeting of the grand lodge at Indianapolis has returned home. Ed Peck, of Remington, was elected district deputy and the third district meeting is to be held in Remington. Erastus Peacock, of Rensselaer, also attended the grand lodge meeting and Mrs. W. H. Beam and Mrs. F. E. Babcock attended the Pythian sisters gathering.

John M. Boyer, a farmer residing south of Logansport, met Misses Winifred Van Buskirk and Laura Howe in the former’s auto and commanded them to stop, shoving a revolver in their faces. He said that everyone who drove an auto must stop when they met him. He was promptly arrested and Justice Reed, of Logansport fined and costed him $49.40. Cass county has an automobile club and this organization prosecuted Boyer.

Samuel Parker has returned from Mitchell, S. Dak., within eight miles of which place his 400 acre farm and on which Sherman Lewis lives. He brought home a sample of oats that tested 35 pounds and land there bore from 30 to 40 bushels to the acre this year. They had had a couple of quite sharp frosts there but all corn except a little planted as late as June 20th, seemed to be out of the way. Jasper county people seem to be prospering there quite generally.