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

LOCAL HAPPENINGS

TUESDAY State Bank Examiner Hinshaw is in Rensselaer today. Bern, Sunday, Feb. 16th, to Mr. and Mrs. Bert Ryan, of Gifford, a girl. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Reynolds, of the Anna Held theatrical company, are here Tor a visit with his mother, Mrs. 43, R. Nichols. t State Tax Commissioner John C. Wingate, spoke Tuesday afternoon in the county assessor’s office on the assessment of property and taxation. 1 J. C. Passons celebrated his 63d birthday Saturday with his nieces, Bessie and Edna King, Bessie’s birthday coming on the same date as Mr. Passon’s. She refuses to tell her age. Omar Day is home from Purdue Uni versify with a bad case of mumps. At just about this time last year he was home with the mumps, also, but they were on the other side of the face. John Randle, who is now located with a large loan concern at Mangum, Oklahoma, In writing to the Tribune says that he Is much better pleased with the country than when he saw it in December. He says land can be bought there and two or three cotton crops will pay fqr it or they will guarantee 12 per cent return on the money invested. Taxes are low.— Francesville Enterprise. Johns F. Fisher, from up above Alx, Is another man to draw one of our good luck set of sale bills. He is planning to go to South Dakota, and to locate in the same neighborhood as those other good and hustling Jasperlifts, vis. John Stewart, H. H. Hayes, and E. W. Gwin, for all of whom the Republican has previously printed sale Mila Mr. Fisher’s sale date is Thursday, Feb. 27, and A. J. Harmon is the auctioneer and C. ,G. Spitler the clerk. Sheilff OCuuiior had a freakish tramp as a guest at the jail last

night. He was without either overcoat or other suitable clothing and seemed to be badly off mentally, and probably a cigarette fiend, and his greatest grievance was because the Sheriff took a package of tobacco from him at night for fear he might set the jail on fire. Just after he was taken in t 6 the jail he was in conversation with Deputy Joe O’Connor, and when the sheriff came in and took a hand in the conversation the hobo said, “You’re the janitor, don’t bother me, I’m talking to the sheriff.” The sheriff took umbarge at the remark, but made things as comfortable as he could for the peripatetic. This morning Marshal Parks bought him a ticket to Monon. x

BurdettPorter and James Blake have had the Republican print bills for a joint sale which will take place on Thursday of next week, February 27. Mr. Porter will retire from the farm and move toßemlngton.and Mr. Blake will go to his recently purchased farm of 160 acres near Wabash. Mr. Blake has rented his Carpenter township farm to John A. Grey, who now lives about four miles northwest of Rensselaer, and the Porter farm will be occupied by Tom Porter, who has been living for the past year on the Chas. Hensler farm. The sale is booked to take place on the Porter farm, and there will be a lot of good stock placed for hammer dlsposltlpn, and it is the only sale advertised in that section for that day, and will doubtless draw a good sized crowd. Fred Phillips will be the auctioneer and G. A. Chappel the clrek.

Bee's Laxative Cough Syrup for coughs, colds, croup and whooping cough grows in favor daily. Mothers should keep it on hand for children. It is prompt relief to croup. It is gently laxative, driving the poison and phlegm from the system. It gives immediate relief. Guaranteed. Sold by B. F. Fendig.

WEDNESDAY James Craig, of Thayer, is planning a big sale for March 11th. J. C. Frazee, of Peru, Is over on business relating to his Barkley township fawn. . f No one going away, no one coming back; there is a good excuse for a dirth of news these days. Rev. B. F. Ferguson was called to

Brookston Tuesday to preach the funeral of Miss Mary Marquette. ... The senior 500 club has invited the junior 500 club to stagg in Rosenbaum’s emporium Thursday evening. On account of the terrific storm most of the down town business houses closed at 6 p. m. Tuesday night. There is only one real happy man in town these snowy days and that Is "Happy”’ Fletcher. He just revels in snow. ( 'rhe milk train this morning was stopped by great drifted banks of snow between Shelby and Lowell and the section were called to shovel it' 'out. The 10:55 was delayed from the same cause. ——-- .... The three months’ old Infant of Mr. and Mrs. Grover Norris living on the Bedford farm just east of town, died Tuesday night. The baby had been sick since birth and its death was due to a complication of infant troubles. The bad condition of the roads from the drifted snow did pot prevent D. H. Yeoman & Son from holding their sale today and they were going right along with it at 1:30 o’clock, with a fair sized crowd of spirited bidders on hand. Jake Market, of Reynolds, who is blind; deaf and dumb, in an insane frenzy, dangerously wounded his brother by stabbing him in the side with a corn knife. He is now confined in the Monticello jail and application has been made for his admission to Longcliff.

Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Clarke entertained several friends last evening in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Nichols’ thirteenth wedding anniversary. Her home was decorated in cornations, pink and green paper hearts. The crowd presented Mr. and Mrs. Nichols with sterling silver meat fork. ~ Bert Barber, of Elton, Wis., says: “I have only taken four doses of your Kidney and Bladder Pills and they have done for me more than any othei medicine hassever done. I am still taking the pills as I want a perfect cure. Mr Barber refers to DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills. They are sold by B. F. fendig. Bertie, the 11 months old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lewis, living near Mt. Ayr died Tuesday night The cause of its death was measles. This is the fourth child Mr. and Mrs. Lewis have lost, none of them living to be over a year old. The remains will be brought here for interment. : _ .._ _.x?Sam Parker will start for Mitchell, So. Dak., Friday of this week, and will send back for his family as soon as his goods get thru. He had a hummer of a sale last Wednesday, totaling about |2,700. One team brought J 485 and two spring colts brought |lO5 each. Sam came into town yesterday and got snowed in but he says he is glad of it, for that is the kind of an experience that a Dakotean should have before he goes out there, and he can tell his neighbors up there that he had just the same experience right back in Indiana. Billy McNeil, of Wheatfield, is down for a day or two. It was he who acted as the manager for Claud Hastings. the speedy chap who gave the colored Sportsman and his” backers such a drubbing last fall. Billy holds out that the race could noP have been fixed and that the race was on the square, and we have no doubt it was so far as he was concerned, but the fact that none of the parties ever told just where they were from makes it seem quite certain that they are all in, the crooked racing game. Hastings has continued to remain in Wheat field since the race until last week. If any one should care to write him a letter they can address it to Canada. A letter to either Sportsman or his manager, Raymond, should be addressed to Missouri. If no reply is received in six months try again.

THURSDAY On account of Saturday being WaahIngton’s birthday all the banka will be closed. See the fine line of new embroideries, ginghams, carpets, rugs, etc. at the Chicago Bargain Store. Born, Thursday, Feb. 20, to' Mr. and Mrs. Asa Loach, living In the west part of town, a baby girl. • Good eating apples down to 15 to 80 cents per pock at the Chicago Bargain Store. f2lt2 Leland, the young son of John McClanahan, living In the east part of town, la seriously sick with pneumonia. I Ed Oliver has decided to hold his sale on Thursday, March sth, and advertising for the same will be posted in a few days. Try a lunch, Saturday at Mrs Kaub's market, one door west of the express office. Hot coffee, sandwich and either mince pie or doughnuts for 15 cents. The marriage of Mr. James I.

Peck, of Remington, and Miss Catharine Meehan, of Rensselaer, will take place this evening at the residence of Father Myers. Uncle John Daugherty, On rural route 1 was the only carrier that made his route Wednesday. His horses became stuck in a drift near a school house and the school children dug them out. All the carriers were able to make the rounds today.

The ladies of the Methodist church have subscribed to the Republican and have ordered it sent to Rev. and Mrs. Middleton, who now live In Mlama, Fla. Mr. Middleton was formerly pastor of the church here but is now on the superannauted list and is living in the south to regain his health. You can buy the best wool aad cotton ingrain carpets at reasonable prices at G. B. Porter’s. W. N. Moseley' of the firm of Horton & Moseley, was in town today advertising their larger sale of farming stock and implements, to be held on next Thursday, Feb. 27th. The notice of their sale appears in this paper and they will have a good list of stock, including 18 horses and three mqjes. The sale will take place on thmir ranch a mile and a half northeast of Lee. They will* rent their land, and devote all their time to their dredging contracts. Ring’s Little Liver Pills wake up lazy livers, clean the system and clear the skin. Try them for biliousness and sick headache. Price 25c at B. F. Fendig’s. Des Moines, lowa, is to be governed by a commission of five men elected at large by the people. These five men control the affairs of the city government just as the affairs of a bank or other corportlon is placed in the hands oof a board of directors.