Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1907 — TUESDAY [ARTICLE]

TUESDAY

Miss Nellie Scott b*s returned from Anderson after a week’s visit with relatives. W. C. Milliron and wife weie guests over Souday of her siMer, MrS. Hale Warner. Gamble were in Kentland on business Monday ami Attorney Williams was in Valparaiso ou business. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Bellows will go Wednesday to Carrolton, Greene county, 111.. to visit relatives of Mrs. Bellows. They will be gone a week or more. Mrs. Frank Hm.t of Lowell, 4oined her sister M'-sCora Everett, iere Saturday night and Soiiday" they took Joe B* m.fit’s automobile route to Medary \ i.le and spent the day with their pun ats. E. G. Wan* », <•<>;■tractor f<sr the j Kentland Cbn- u.i> church, went) to Winona M<> <ay *o see about the stone trifiiinii g-. delay in tbej shipping of v Vie hi as caused much | delay in com)oc! teg the church. All the chtb»»4-,i rfid grandchild- j ren and a numb*! ot irieuds ol Mr. i and Mrs. Prior K'ow*u atinnUd a surprise dinner Sunday given in honor of Mrs. Ro wen’s 57th birthday. It was a v«-iy enjoyable oc easion. -"v< The wreck i* now all c’<'ve4 up. the trucks ii.>\ n g been loaded care and taken iu to the shops The wrecker went from here to Francesvilie, where a box car load of corn had been dumped over in the ditch. Frank Brnner was the only baseball fan to go from Rensselaer to Chicago today to see the first of the Cubs-Detroit world’s champ-: ion baseball series. It is qnite probable several will go later in the week. E. M. Parcel Is was home over Sunday with his family. His merry go-round will be stationed at Villa Grove, 111., this week and he will join it there today. Last week at Fowler and the week before at Ladoga he done a fine business.

A. K. Sajlerand wife and W. D. Sayler left this morning for Big Rapids, Mich., near which place the former expects to purchase a farm. W. D. will probably go to Oadalac to visit relatives for a day or two. They expect to return here Saturday. O. D. Engle, the Monon local freight conductor who was injured hereon July 19th lesumed work last Thursday after an enforced lay off of over ten weeks. He did not lose any of his toes as a result of the injury but they are somewhat crippled and he walks with a slight limp. it. A. Parkinson and wife, Vern Jacks and mother, Sheriff and a few others went to the Osborne cemetery today to attend the burial service of Charles Oglesby, the murdered sheriff of Pulaski county. The Jacks family were related to Mr. Oglesby’s first wife. Bruce Hardy, who has been in Montana for several months, was here a short time today, having arrived in Rose Lawn from the west yesterday. He will remain in Rose Lawn for a short time until he decides what he will do this winter. His father Abe Hardy, will return home about Nov. 15th. Rue Parcells and Gaylord McFarland, who are doing railroad office work, have just been transferred from Lemay, Utah, to San Francisco, Calif., and Lyod Jessen, who is one of their tirumvirate of Rensselaer health and experience Beekers, and who works in the telegraph branch of railroad work is still atJLemay but soon also.to be transferred to San Fraucisco. ' M. G. Richards, of Rose Lawn, secretary of the Rose Lawn carnival committee, was in Rensselaer Monday advertising the big four days carnival to be given at that place next week, from Oct 16th to 19th. Mr. Richards says they will have a big time there, plenty of sports and amusements. The W. F. Baughman band and carnival company of Mt. Ayr, will be employed all lour days. Ezra Clark also attended the reunion of the 9th Indiana at Hammond last Friday and Saturday and met among other comrades J. B. Brinton, a former captain ot Co G, whom he had not seen since the close of the war. Captain Brinton is now living at Ashland, Ohio, and has been a railroad agent foi many years. The reunion will be held at Michigan City next year. .Washington dispatches state that is is understood that the house and senate committee on pensions owing to the passage of the McCumber bill, will adopt a new rule that the oommitte will report no private bill for any soldier except upon satisfactory proof that the soldier is so afflicted and disabled that he is in ebnstant need of a nurse attendant This will decrease, in a large measure, the number of private pension bills passed by congress in the future. Wayne county republicans will likely determine their choice for

congress by ballot at the next county primary, which will be held in February. All candidates for tin* republican nomination for congreft' in the district wilt have th« ir nameplaced on the ballot and the one which recei\ps the highest number of votes will be permitted to name his own delegation from Wayne county to the congressional convention. It is believed that this will be done in several'other counties in the district, instead of ward and township convention. Another accident that the wreck was indirectly responsible for «• • enrred yesterday. Conducts Stinson I of the wrecking train, was clinging to the side of the engine watching the wrecked engine which they hrd chained on l»ehitid the wrecking t-nwin*-. A- the train worn pasture Babcock Hopkins elevator his legs struck a Ik>x settit g by the side of the track and he had a hard time holding on to avoid be ing pulled lieneath the wheels. The box cut and badly bruised his legs and he was at once placed nnder the care of a physician. AtterThe Injury was dressed he was able to get a'l ofiT' l'iiT hewlll iiot lir able to work tor some days.