Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1908 — THE WORLD’S HAPPENINGS [ARTICLE]

THE WORLD’S HAPPENINGS

Paragraphs of Up-te-Date News Culled From the Press Dispatches of Metropolitan Papers. An epidemic of small pox has closed the schools at Wanatah. The new public depository law is quite profitable and the interest earnings from deposits will amount to a considerable sum. The mayor of Frankfort last week fined a wife beater SIOO and sentenced him to jail for 20 days. He was only 22 years old and, his wife was but 18, and they haA a baby 18 months old. W. W. Pepper, of Arcola, 111., is at work with hay presses baling snow for summer Use. He claims that baled snow is better than ice for summer use, that it will not melt as quickly and is much purer. The new law that requires that telegraph operators shall only work 9 hours a day is .to become effective March 4th, and railroads are confronted with a proposition of where they are going to get the extra operators this will require.

“Pure air, lots of ventilation in sleeping roooms, eight hours of sleep, no whiskey or other stimulants, not too much tea or coffee, temperate eating, and all around temperate living are the best preventatives for pneunionia,” says Dr. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the state board of health. William Jennings Bryan,the able selection of the democrats for their nomination for President, preached in the Christian church at Indianapolis Sunday morning, addressed the Y. M. C. A. in the afternoon, and Monday attended a democratic pow wow there, which is being attended by several democrats who have saved $2 for a plate out of the recent financial crash. A large tract of land, 3,000 acres in all, owned by the Indiana Land Company, has been leased to the Valley Gun Club, of Chicago, as a hunting preserve. The land included in the lease extends from Baums Bridge to the Range Line, and lies on the south side of the Kankakee river. It is also reported, but not substantiated that a tract of 4,000 acres west of the range line has been Teased to the Brighton Park Gun Club, who makes headquarters at the river bridge south of town.

John Vaughan, who has been an engineer on the Monon railroad between Louisville and Chicago for 30 years, and who Is now 76 years of age, has asked to be given a slower and shorter run and will hereafter run betweerf Bloomington and Louisville. Mr. Vaughan is considered one of the safest engineers on the road and gets in and out of the engine cab aswell as any engineer on the road, notwithstanding his advanced age. He has been offered an opportunity to retire at full salary but wishes to continue his work as long as his health will permit him For all these.years he has made regular trips thru Rensselaer and he is known by many people all along the route. Pinesalve Carbolized acts like a poultice, draws out inflammation and poison. Antiseptic healing. For chapped hands, lips, cuts, burns. Sold by B. F. Fendig.