Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1908 — LOCAL HAPPENINGS [ARTICLE]

LOCAL HAPPENINGS

TUESDAY Dr. Hartsell made a business visit to Chicago today. Trustee Robert A. Mannan is down from Wheatfield today. Mrs. Mell Davis, of Chicago Heights, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Griggs for a few days. Howard Jones and wife, of Carpenter township. Spent Monday with the family of A. J. Bellows and wife. Everet and Ethel Walker returned to their home Ifi “BSfHey township today, after a short visit with relatives In Monticello. Mrs. Belle March, - of Lafayette, came today for a short visit with Mrs. Will Griffith, at the home of her brother, Will Smith. The funeral of Mrs. Greenfield will take place at Good Hope church, west of Alx, Wednesday, and burial will be made in Weston cemetery, Rensselaer. Mrs. John Graham, of Silverton, Colo., who has been visiting Miss Bessie Moody for the past two weeks, went to Chicago today, and Mips Moody accompanied her home. On Wednesday of this week the seven deer that were the property of Robt Parker, and that occupied the deer park at Fountain Park, will be placed on sale at public auction. Timothy Karsner Is down from Chicago for a month’s stay with relatives. Tim usually farms in the summer time and spends the winter in Chicago, where he works in a butcher shop. Levi Sanders has moved from the Levi Renicker farm In Union townto the Thou. Daugherty property recently vacated by Levi Soullgne. Sherman Renicker has gone to the farm from which Mr. Sanders moved. Relatives of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Tharp, now of Oklahoma City, Okie., have lust bean notified of the death last week of their only child, a son

named Ronald, 10 years of age.Dlphtheria was the cause of death. Frank Bartoo was over from Carpenter twp., today. He is just recovering from an injury to his right leg. It was bruised about 30 years ago and this last year showed signs developing into a running sore, but he has checked it and is again able to be about. W.D.Meyers was down from Wheatfield yesterday, jußt to see how things were getting along at the hub, and performed a feat that he has regularly practiced for years, viz., the passing of $1.50 into the Republican money drawer for a year’s subscription. Spencer Vick, who has been visiting his father, Chas. Vick, for the past week, went to Chicago for a short stay. For five years beei in charge of the dining room service in large hotels In New York, and now ha has contracted to take charge of the dining room waiter service is a large new hotel, the St. Marks, to be opened in Los Angeles, Cal., the latter part of the month. David Tufts and wife departed this morning for their home in Sharon, North Dakota, after a short visit here with the family of Hazel Carr, the two women being sisters. They have lived in North Dakota for 26 years and Mr. Tufts says he thinks he ought to be living proof that there is no danger of having your legs frozen off up there. Don’t forget that the ring contest closes next Saturday night If you get the largest number of new subscribers, paid one year in advance, you get the ring. It is a beautiful ring, containing three chip diamonds and two Hungarian opals. The ring cost Just $25 and is worth making a special effort for. Only subscriptions secured since Jan. Ist figure in the contest Some one who hustles this week will get the ring. Pat all your time this week into being a subscription solicitor for the Republican.

WEDNESDAY Miss Irene Duvall went to Chicago today for a few day*’ visit A. L. Branch returned yesterday evening from hlo trip to California. Miaa Nellie Wallace, of Laura, took the train here for Chicago today, for a short vlait Bom, Tuesday, Feb. 11th, to Mr.

and Mrs. D. H. i jr„ of ion township, a daughter. * :'■ Harry ,Watson Is down from 'Chicago Heights for' a visit with relatives and friends. * The wedding of Kenton Parkinson and Miss Bessie Hhrdy took place this afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. Geraldine Kindig is reported somewhat worse in her case of pneumonia today and her condition is Regarded' as quite serious. Miss Jane Sigler, of Mt Ayr, and Miss Margaret Kessler, of Morocco, who is teaching in Mt Ayr, were guests Sunday of Mrs. I. J. Porter. DPh’t-forget the date of the- J. A, Teter Duroc Jersey Brood Sow sale next Monday, the 17th, in Remington, in heated sale barn. Sale begins promptly at 12:3Q. Rev. D. W. Sanders, of Columbia City, will fill the pulpit at the First Baptist church both morning and evening next Sunday. Everybody is invited out to hear him. Mrs. J. F. Fisher, of near Alx, had the misfortune to fall on the icy ground last Sunday and sustain the fracture of the large bone of the right arm just above the wrist. There was some rain last night and today has been-cloudy and threatening. , The temperature Is such as to cause fear of a general breaking up, which is always an unpleasant thing to have happen in midwinter. " John Chamberlain and wife, who have been visiting the family of S. E. Yeoman, went to Chicago this morning, where they will spend two o three weeks before going to their home at Benton Harbo.r Mich.

.Mr., and Mrs. A. Gangloff, residing just east of town, have decided to let the boys run the farm this year and to remove to Rensselaer, and they will occupy the Mrs. Bessie Shesler property in the southeast part of town. Frank Ham returned home today from Chenoa, 111., where he has been conducting a dry goods and ladies’ furnishing store, for which he had traded. He yesterday disposed of the stock in a trade, taking a 400 acre farm in Minnesota in the trade. This is Lincoln’s birthday. What stirring recollections of the great emancipator it recalls to those who lived during the period of .the civil war. The day has just been made a legal holiday, and will be perpetuated in the' name of the great statesman who had so much to do with the preservation of the Union, and who gave his life because of principles he stood for. As practically all the books belonging to the Jeffersonville reformatory were destroyed by fire, an effort is being made to get money to replace them, and Governor Hanly has been appealed to for aid. There are many Inmates there who read almost incessantly and all are encouraged in that direction and only the very best books with a pronounced moral tone are sup plied. It is indeed a reformatory, and the influences that surround the prisoners is calculated to do them much good.

Secretary of War Taft, republican candidate for president, put the For&ker boom In the list of "hasbeens” yesterday by securing every one of the 46 Ohio state delegates to the national convention. Foraker has used every power he possessed to belittle President Roooeevelt and to defeat Mr. Taft. And fee resorted to the most corrupt means in an effort to secure control of the boards that handled the primary elections, but they all Called and the vindication of the President and the approval of Secretary Taft la most emphatic, and the defeat of Senator Foraker should relegate him to the political background. The grand jury is still in session today and are grinding away on some matters that the public is excluded from any knowledge of. The testimony in the Robert Parker bank matters was brought to a close yesterday and it has been rumored tho unsubstantiated that there will be three Indictments returned, charging him with embeeslement in having received deposits within thirty? day* prior to tbs closing of the bank’s 'doers. There seems to be some doubt, however, as to whether these Indictments will be returned at this time, and It Is possible that further developments will be awaited before definite action is taken.

THURSDAY Bd Sternberg has gone to Yankton, & Dak., on dredge business. Geo. Lundy has gone to Gosport tor a few days' visit with Mends. Miss Mae Dunlap, of Chicago, is here for a short visit wlht Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Warner. R. O. Jones, the oondoctor Injured In the wreck at Broad Ripple last fell, has been adjudged Insane

■ ■. • *•. • ' ; 2v_: i , and application has been made for his admission to -the asylum at Longcliff. .. . !£iss Pearl Daniels has returned, to her home In Denver, Colo:, after a extended visit with Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Nichols. 9 - ' . +

The condition of Geraldine Kindig is so serious that Rev. Kindig’s brother, of Chicago, has been called in consultation with the local physician, 1 While working in the library this morning James Overton was stricken with an attack of stomach trouble that effected the heart, and for a time it was feared that it would prove fatal. Frank Fuller, of Crown Point,while walking on the Monon track at Cedar Lake, Wednesday morning, was struck by the 10:41 train and instantly killed. Both arms and legs were broken and the side of his head was caved in. Ring’s Little Liver Pills wake up lazy livers, clean the system and clear the skin. Try them for biliousneA| and sick headache. Price 25c at B. F. Fendig’s. The car of household goods for Will Clark and family and his father* family was started the first of the week for their future home at Mitchel. South Dakota, where Will has been for the past two or three weeka His mother, Mrs. W. O. Clark, went to Chicago today, and will remain there until the car arrives at Mitchell, when the remainder of the family will take their final departure. J. P. Deselems was down from Gillam a few days ago, and .reports that there are again some signs of life in che once famous Jasper county oil fields. A large oil refinery is being erected and ten or fifteen hands are employed. Representtalves of the company that is erecting the refinery are said to be selling stock in England and are finding a ready market for it, all of which indicates that there will be some badly disappointed subjects in the kingdom of Johnnie Ball. Considerable of the oil that has Btood in tanks for several years has recently been shipped away, and it is said to have fulfilled all of its early promises, so far as its value is concerned, and it is used in the manufacture of axle grease, as machine and lubricating oil, and for asphalt construction. Mr. Deselems is planning to remove to the Burk ranch up near Koats, and Jasper county will lose a good citizen in his departure

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