Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1908 — LOCAL HAPPENINGS [ARTICLE]

LOCAL HAPPENINGS

FRIDAY Than Reeves is suffering with an abcess on his neck. Mrs. F. A. Ross and son Livingston have gone to Chicago. The sale of John Karr, in Newton township, yesterday, went off in good shape, everything bringing good prices and the sum totaling about SBOO. Emanuel Ropp and wife and two children, of Urbana, Ohio, are here on a visit of a week or ten days with Ills brother, Horatio* Ropp and family. The Yeoman sale Wednesday vy a great success. Quite a large crowd had congregated and they were all bidders. The total of sales amounted to about $2,000. Miss Manda Hoyes will leave Sun-

day for ML Carmel, HL, where she has a position .as book keeper and stenographer with the Mt. Carmel Gas and Electric Co. Ed Miller, for a long time faithful hand at B. S. Fendig’s poultry and junk shop, has tendered his resignation and is today moving to he S. E. Yeoman farm, near Virgie. ritz Zard, Sam Parker and their families left this morning for Mitel ell S. D., where they expect to make their future home. Glenn” Rayher jaccompanled them andwillwerk on the farm for Fritz. A couple of Halstead street pugs were in town yesterday looking for a scrap. Both of them were carrying a nice package and the heavy weight wonder just to show the amount of punishment he could take, stuck a pin thru his cheek. He said he was the only original without a ~ solar plexus and could whip any three men In town, weight not barred. They evidently thought they had struckGoldfield, Nev. At the 500 club stagg given in the Rosenbaum hotel parlors Thursday night, Vern Nowels drew the first prize for being the best Slippery Ann player and B. Forsythe and Bert Hopkins were in a tie for the poorest. Barney cleverly let Mr. Forsythe have it. After unwrapping a number of pretty boxes a dainty rubber tboth brush holder was brought to light. Mr. Forsythe declared that It was of more value than the first prize, which was a cigar case. Information, relative to the teachers’ examination for school work In the Philippine Islands must be obtained directly from the civil service commission at Washington. The county superintendent has received no information further than the cities in which the examinations will be held and the work covered by these questions. The examinations will be held the 11th and 12th of March and Chicago and Lafayette are our nearest cities. The questions cover all branches of work taught in the common schools.

SATURDAY Russ Hannon is in Englewood on business. Mr. and Mrs. Rice Porter have gone to Chicago. " ”7 Ernest Clark, of Lafayette, is spending a few days with his father. The Whiting basket ball team remained in town until the 3:30 train

and were treated to- a bob ride by the Rensselaer girls’ teams. Little Leland McClanahan, who has been so seriously sick, is cmsile ably improved today. The court Thursday establisi ed the Halligan ditch but lowe. ed the' assessment from S2BB to 8142. Mrs. Mattie Hopkins and son, Senior, have gone to Chicago for a few days visit with relatives. Joe Jackson la shipping his household goods to Hoopston, HL, where he and Jink Brenner recently leased a room for a restaurant. Bruce Porter has been under the weather for several days, experiencing an attack of the grip. He has been unable to be at the post office for several days. There is an epidemic of measles in the northern part of the county near Tefft and Wheatfield. Over 8 cases were reported to County Health Officer Gwin Friday. A Monon passenger train due in Michigan City Wednesday evening was 3 days behind schedule time. For 64 hours the crew labored hard with but little sleep, but scarcely any headway could be made against the heavy drifts. The report of the Indiana State Board of Charities and Correction shows Dr. E. C. English to be the president of the county charities board; Mrs. Louisa Imes to be the secretary, and E. P. Honan, of Rensselaer, and J. M. Helmick, of Wheatfield, to be members.

Some enterprising Rensselaer girl can earn the gold watch that the Republican will give away. There are a great many people that will be glad to send the paper for a year to some absent friend. Ask anA see, and if you succeed in getting the greatest number you will get the watch. This being a legal holiday, Washington’s birthday, the post office is closed part of the time and the rural route carriers are enjoying a vacation, and a very appreciative one, for their horses as well as themselves needed the rest after the hard trips they have had for the last few days. A. E. Chilton, who resides on a farm Between Fair Oaks and Roselawn will hold a sale on Tuesday, March 3, and will'remove to Indianapolis. He bought the Shand farm of 374 acres two years ago, paying $3 an acre for it, and he recently sold it for $62 an acre. The purchaser was W. J. Hufford, of Indianapolis. Miss Jennie Harris and niece, Marcaline Roberts, were thrown from a sleigh this morning, in front of A. Woodworth’s residence on River street, the cutter being overturned as they were turning around. Neither was injured,but the horse was somewhat frightened and ran to Washington street and up that street to the H. O. Harris residence and into the barn. .

Under .the direction of the Farmers’ Loan & Abstract Co. the Great Northern Ry. will give a free steroptlcan Lecture show on Wednesday evening, Feb. 26th, at Belle Center school noußt*, hoi tn or town, aim again Thursday evening, Feb. 27th, at Pleasant Ridge school house. Renters, laborers and home seekers should all be sure and attend this lecture and learn where you can secure a home for yourself and family and become Independent. Mrs. John Eger and several members of the ladles’ industrial society of the Presbyterian church, the neighbors and her friends, gave a surprise miscellaneous. Shower for Miss Emma Hydenblut, at the home of Mrs. Eger Thursday evening, and many useful and beautiful presents were received by the guest of honor, whose marriage to Mr. Peter Hordeman Is announced to take place on March 3rd. Miss Hydenblut has made her home with Mr. and Mrs. Eger for several years and has a large circle of friends.

The rapidly increasing circulation of the Daily Republican is very gratifying to its publishers and we shall be pleased to have the circulation extend to every part of the town. Persons who are taking the Semi-Weekly Republican can have the sape stopped and their paid tn advance subscription applied to the daily and that paper delivered each evening at their door, and when the time paid for haa expired the collector will call each Saturday and receive his pay at the rate of 10 cents a week. The larger the circulation becomes the better we expect to make the paper. Try it for a week or two and see how satisfactory ft is to have the day’s local happenings to read tn the evening after returning home. The circulation to the Daily Republican Is now nearing the 300 mark m against 185 two years ago. Parmenas Browning, a very agreeable young man who has been a clerk at the Makeever House for the pest three or four months, and who was one of the Investors tn the Hallett, Okla., townsite, has gone there to take a look at hie purchase. There was considerable mystery about Mr. Browning; he arrived here when the first financial troubles were announced

and claimed that he was stranded by inability f to get banks to cash his drafts. He tcld no cne wl e e he was from and guarded his past with the utmost secrecy, but he was, . always well behaved and he was Introduced into good society and played the part of a gentleman wherever he went. His disappearance” was also rather abrupt and it Is not expected that he will return again, and he may possibly get In on the ground floor and be the first mayor of Hallett. .Interest in the piano contest continues to grow and today hv teote tinues to grow and today the vote was one of the largest cast in any single day, and many of the candidates were in with votes. Miss Fannie Porter received the largest vote for the day, casting 3,625; Miss Lelia Grant was next with 2,500; Miss Grace Reed was third with 1,625; Mrs. Joe Halligan was fourth with 1,200; Miss Grace Peyton voted 1,000; Ethel McCarthy voted 725; Mary Adams 600; Bernice Sayler 400; Indus Wiseman 200 and Esther Padgitt 175. The candidates are hustling as they never did before, and the race is more in earnest than at any previous time. The Jasper County Democrat has ordered a new linotype type-setting machine, at a cost of about $3,500. This prosperity was made possible by three successive republican administrations. We congratulate our brother on his progressive movement, and feel that with the prospect of a continued growth in the printing business the movement is a very welltimed one. The face of the type the Democrat will use after the machine arrives, which will be about April Ist, will be much the same as that of the Republican since Its consolidation with the Journal, each line being cast on a solid slug. These machines are now used in all city offices, and are becoming quite general in the smaller towns. It is possible with them to set more type, to always have a fresh, clear dress, and the type Is. more easily handled, and the paper publishers that have installed them seem unanimous in the opinion that they are worth the cost

MONDAY Geo. Lundy is confined to his bed with a fever. 1 * -- The D. A. R. will meet Thursday afternoon of this week with Mrs. Mill's. The Young Ladies* Literary Club was entertained by Miss Cena Carr at her home Saturday night Mrs. M. D. Gwin returned this morning from Lafayette where she has been visiting with her parents. Miss Grace Cowell returned to Chicago this morning after a short visit with Mr. and Mrs. Bert Brenner. Will Turner, of Delphi, and former night operator at this station, is here for a short visit with Frank Rowen. George Hemphill was down from Chicago Sunday to spend . day with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Hemphilt rr The court Saturday allowed Irwin & Irwin $342 for attorneys* fees

against the estate of Almira Monnett. The original claim was for, 8515. John W. Walker left this morning for Mexico City, Mexico, and expects to tour that country before returning to his work at Tombstone, Arizona. Dr. H. L. Kindig has gone to Evanston to attend the midwinter luncheon of th® studen st of the Theological School of the Northwestern University Joe Jackson left this morning for his future home in Hoopston, 111., and will open his restaurant at bnce Joe is a good fellow and a hustler and he and Jink Brenner with his restaurant experience should make an excellent firm. We wish them much success. J. A. Knowlton is another substantial Jasper county farmer who has decided to try farming in South Dakota, and he has rented his good farm just northwest of Rensselaer to Jim Walters, who will place a farm hand thereon and farm It in connection with his own place. Mr. Knowlton will be located eleven miles northeast of Mitchell and only a mile from where his daughter, Mrs. Charles Robinson and husband reside. Another son-in-law, Daniel Reed and wife, at Dayton, Ohio, arrived b ere last week and will also go to Mitchell, and together he and Mr. Knowlton will run a farm of 160 acres. They expect to load their household goods tomorrow.