Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1907 — LOCAL HAPPENINGS [ARTICLE]

LOCAL HAPPENINGS

FRIDAY • Earl Bruner is home from college for the Christmas vacation. Grace l/qrris is home from De Pauw for the holiday vacation. Granville Moody and A. O. Moore went t w Chicago today on a business trip. ' Jqhn Ellis of Chicago is home from Chicago Uui versity to Spend the holidays with his father. ' ‘ ,f ‘ A. E. ' Branch has gone- to Stockton, Calif., for a visit of ‘two or three months with his Mrt/X ts. &<Beei Has\ returned £o her hpme fn Monon aftpr-a short With "Mr. And Mrs.* Chas. Sands. "■ C. A. Radcliffe and wife, of .Cincinnati, ate here to spend x holidayswither' parents, E. D. Rhqadeh aud wife. 1 \ Little Rowels is again ■kbuie irom Chicago and is very much improved, so much so as to create the belief that he will eventualiy get entirely well. He cau now walk some by holding to chairs and .tables; tr- ' !<■ •<, I ■ J Glenn Baker returned from Engelwood Thursday where he has liven at the bedside of his brother Custer, who has had an attack of appendicitis but is recovering nicely 'without an operation. The physician says he will be able to go to his office next week. -'

The holiday vacation begins with the closing bf the schools this evening and will continue thru next week. School will resume again on Monday, Dec. 30 th, and then be closed on New Years day.' Appropriate eloping exercises will take place in many of the school rooms tjjia afternoon. John Bruner has returned from Hallett, Okla., where he went to ascertain the condition and he made a very thoro investigation, not only at Hallett but the surrounding country, as well as taking a side trip to Fayetteville, Ark., to ascertain the standing of the company that is booming the town. His impressions will be puolished in a latter issue. Get your Christmas presents at The G. E. Murray Co’s, and get votes.

SATURDAY* Frank Hardman, of Wabash, is home on a vacation. > ' 1 Arthur Tuteur is home from Michigan University. Miss Orabelle Duvall is home from Indianapolis tor the holidays. Jas. H. Gray has gone to Green castle to spend Christmas with his sister. Miss Carrie Pierce has gone to Remington for a short visit with friends. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Bellows have gone to Chicago for a visit with relatives. , > Prof. Samuel Spalling of the Wisconsin University is home to spend the holidays. John Richards and wife will spends next week with relatives in Francesville. Guy T. Gerber, of the University of Indiana, is home during the Christinas vacation. Irene and Orth Barcas of Wabash Ind., are here to visit with Geo. ! H. Colvert and family. Ttie Goodland Herald says it is the general opinion that the Baldwin and Dague bank will pay out dollar for dollar. Mrs. Matie Hopkins and son Senior; will spend Chirstmas ip Chicago with Geo. It Hollingsworth and filmlly. Arils Rowen, who is now living at Sheldon,' DI-, la a Jew days’ visit with his mother, Mrs. Priof Bowen and family. .. . -r * 1 MM Lamaon, Martha Parkinson and Avellne Kindig are home during the Christmas vacs* tfon from Northwestern University.

James Myers was down from Union township today and arranged for a public sale to be held on Jar. 1 ith. He expects to leave ths D >dgejarm, northeast of FairO*ks amMaove to one of ,th* Thompson /farms near Parr.

MONDAY Walter Pousler has gone to Chi ergo on a short busiuesstrip. Frame McCarthy of Indiana Medical College is home for the holidays. Mrs. M. D. Gwiu has gone to Lafayette for,a short visit with her parents. Omar Day of Purdue and Blaine 1 Gwiu or Indiana University are; home for Christm is. ' -MrsL Geo Ropp has gone to Dowagiac. Mich., lor a four weeks visit with her father.. I Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Myer are spending the week with relatives tu Frankfort and Flora. Mr. AbaL Pierce of, Brook, are! visiting a few days with Frank Critser apd lejife^p— — -j morning to MrX and Mrs. Hale- Grant in the easjr wArc wn,. a; baby girl. Born, this to Mr. And Mis. Edgar Nicholson, of' near Parr, twin daughters. Miss Grace Cunningham has returned to home in Lafayette after a ' short visit with Glenn Day. Mr. and Mrs. Cicero Pancoast have gone to Hammond for a visit i wiih hi° nephew Samuel Livingston. Mrs. Geo. Green in the north part town has been quit- sick with a complication of kidney and stomach trouble. ’ >• f

if J. W. Edwards, who has been living northwest of town has moved to Oklahoma City, where he will reside on a farm. ; The ladies pf the Christian church pt Fair Oaks will give an oyster supper at Mallets Hall Christmas eve. Everybody invited. Miss Myra Watson came home Saturday evening from Bloomington University for about three weeks visit with her mother Mrs. K. R. Watson. Frank Ham and Auctioneer Harmon had three busy days at Wolcott last week, in auctioning off Ham’s furniture stock. Every thing was sold, and at very good

prices. j Bradley Ross, who has been at tending school in the east prepara I tory to entering the Massachusetts ’ Institue of Technology, is home to j spend bis holiday vacation with. iis mother. ’ ’ Alvin Clark, living on the Cal Porter farm, 2 miles north and If 1 miles east of town, was compelled to postpone his sale today, on account of the bad weather. He has set a new date, and the sale will now be held Friday of this week,!* Dec. 27th. He will move to town, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Young, who 1 have been living on the Geo. Ade’s farm six miles west of town, have moved to Sherburn, Minn, in hopes that the northern climate will benefit Mrs. Joong's health. 1 F. P. Morton will shortly hold a public sale of all his farming im-, plements and stock, preparatory to, removing to Goodland where he has property. He is yet undecided whether or not he will engage in business, and he will probably wait awhile to see how financial prospects look. George T. Weeks, former owner and for a short time editor and publisher of the Monon hews, died of typhoid fever at Peru sometime •go, shortly after his marriage. He was a writer of considerable ability and his widow is arranging to publish a small volume of poems written'by him and left unpublished al the time of his death. J The temperance microbe is abroad in the land and the time is rapidly approaching when It will prevail. Fifty, years from now paoplg will look back with wonder at the time wheuAnry government granted licenses to engage in the liquor business. With total tern perance the United States will be the happiest, best and strongest nation in the world.--Goodiflnd Herald. J. H. Cox, the new 'dealer, has been confined at his home for the

greater,part of the past'five weeks with an infected firger. It was scratched with a splinter atr first and uot ruuch cOhcern felt about it, but ft soon became quite seriousand has caused hjm-mrTch pain and utieasiat*-*.' His son, George Cox, is now with him and wjlL-rennrru' for some makes his ho me in'Oklahoma City now. and works at cement construction, which is extensively used in the new state metropolis. McKay’s Model Laundry will l e moved shortly after the first of the 1 year to the room over Hemphill 1 Bros.’ blacksmith shop, in Dr. i Horton’s fine new cement building. Mr. McKay will use for an office the room recently vacated by Carmichael’s harness shop, and, intends placing.a -stock of cigars and candy therein. The small frarpe < building now being ■ erected by Dr. Horton between McFarlahd’s store and Free’ Wood’s barber shop wfU be . occupied, by Hollh), the* shoe 1 maket\ which ' indicates that Both Bros. Are going , to build sometime soon- Ou the ‘lot they bought last summer of Dr. I Horten?. \ I Sunday was the first day of actual winter; and it termiuated tha finest fall in our recollection. Since the

firajt freeziug'days in October . the temperature rhad been erisp and even and scarcely -a night passed shat a freezing point was not reached, while on-only a-few. occasions did it grt below 20 degrees above zero. There was only a small amount of rain and the snow of Saturday, Dec;.' 14; afforded fine sleighing on faultless, roads. Sun day, however, it -rained or rather minted and sprinkled all day nod almost all night, and- this morning a heavy wet show is ?falling, b The snow that was pn the ground, proJi-

ably about a foot in hii, has turned to slush and it is very bad Underfoot. The forecast is for a moderate temperature with northeast shifting to westerly winds. A few degrees of depressed temperature to keep ■ the rodds from breaking up would be greatly welcomed. By the way, if our recollection is not faulty, the Rev. Earl Hicks, of St. Louis prophesied all manner of miserable weather for these two months, ■ which goes to show that Hicks is as miserable a guesser as the weather . he had hoped to impose on us.