Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1908 — LOCAL HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

TUESDAY Jack Montgomery and Mayor Ellis Thave gone to, Chicago on business. Mrs. Len Lefler has returned to her home in Crawfordsville after spenc ing a short time with her parents. Albert Fisher, of Wheatfield, has •opened up a barber shop in the Cleaver House, at the depot. —- Mrs. John Sullivan is very low today and the end does not seem to be far away. Conditions in Shelby and Water Val ley are almost unprecedented. Every family needs to resort to a boat and unless the household goods are moved for miles in rowboats they are doomed to destruction. Guy Hudson, for two years a faithful employee of the G. E. Murray Co., is now working for Ross Porter on “the W. V. Porter farm. His place in “the Murray store has been taken by ■Gilbert Albin. li* . t Chas. Robinson and wife, of Battle Ground, came yesterday to attend the funeral of Miss Zula Hopkins. Mr. Robinson returned home today and Mrs. Robinson will remain for a few day#' longer visit ✓

Manager Cobb, of the skating rink, has gone to Chicago to purchase dec- - orations for a Japanese party which •will be held some night this week. -A skating party was held at the rink last night under the management of -Joe O’Connor. The carpenters on the Crown Point court house are threatening to strike for the union scale of wages iand the contractors fear that such =an action will tie up the work indefinitely. A ... Harry Murray, who camrhome ffftni Indianapolis about two weeks ago, following an elsht weeks’ siege of ■typhoid fever, and who has since been at the home of his father, John Murray, Just north of town. Is just setting around again. He is still quite •weak but is on the road to recovery. 0 P. W. Long, an old and respected resident of Armour, was Instantly billed Saturday afternoon when he was struck by a Monon train be-

tween Armour and St. John. Mr. Long was walking the tracks at the time on his way. to St. John, and It Is thought that he either did not hear the train approaching or else became confused and stepped from one track to another directly in the path of the engine. ' - J. W. Marion, of Gillam township, was in town today and states that he is just inaking a move to Rovington, Ohio, and for the next year himself and wife will be in attendance upon her father, who is in his 78th year and in quite poor health. Mr. Marion has been a continuous resident of this county for 54 years and this is rather a momentuous jump for so thorough a Jasperite, but It is only a temporary one, and unless he changes his mind he will return here next year. The Republican will follow him there and keep him posted about old Jasper.

At the last meeting of the County Board of Education the times and places of holding the diploma examinations were fixed as follows: Barkley township at Valma March 21st and 'ApfU Ts. Carpenter township at Remington March 21 and April 18. Gillam townshipW Center, March 21 and April ISL township at Egypt March 21 and April 18. Hanging Grove township at Banta, March 21 and April 18. Kankakee township at Dunn ville April 18. Keener township at DeMotte April 18. Walker at Walker Center, March 21. Marion and Newton township at Rensselaer March 21 and April 18. Milroy township at Center, March 21. Union township at Parr April 18 and at Fair Oaks May 16. Wheatfield township at Wheatfield April 18 and May 16. Those from Kankakee and Keener will have a second chance at Wheatfield May 16. Those from Walker will have a second trial at Wheatfield April 18. Those from Milroy will have a second trial at Rensselaer April 18. Pupils failing In one examination will take the entire examination at the next trial.

George R.. Smith is today concluding the sale of the ten acre farm and residence, near the ball park, and which he bought about four years ago of Rarl Sayler, to J. M. Souser, of the regular army. The deal is being looked after by Edward Goetz, a relative of the purchaser. Mr. Sauser will be remembered by many Rensselaer and Jasper county people, having spent parts of several furloughs here. He has been in the regular army for about twenty years, but has seen sufficient foreign service to bring his credits of service up to 30 years,which will permit him to retire with pay in a year and ten months,

and as he stated to the Republican on the occasion of his last visit here, he expects to make Rensselaer or its neighborhood his permanent home. He has reached the grade of commisary sergeant in the army and will be retired with pay at about j $46 a month. The place he has bought has a good' house and bam and all Sergeant Sauser will need when he retires from the army to make life one grand sweet song will be a wife and he probably has made a requisition for this necessity through the channels of love, and will be prepared to serve his home and country in peace as faithfully as he has served it as A soldier. Mr. Smith contemplates moving to the state of Washington and will go there on a prospecting trip very shortly. # The price paid for the place was $2,400.

WEDNESDAY B. F. Ferguson is in Chicago on business today. - • Several from here are attending the Craig sale at Thayer today. John Churchill has gone to Chicago on business. i J. Bobbitt, of Lafayette, has been i assigned to the Monon station to work the trick from 1 a. m. to 10 a. m, Homer Pugh, who has been visiting relatives here has gone to Bluff ton, where he has employment. Frank Foltz, G. A. Williams and A. Halleck were in Monticello yesterday on political business. I Emerson Reeve has returned to his j work in New York after spending sevj eral weeks with his father, N. W. Reeve. . Mrs. Susan Lockwood, who has been here to attend the funeral of Zula I lopkins, has returned to her horile in Lafayette. ; — " l ", . ■ Mr. and Mrs. Tim Nichols left this morning for their future home near Mitchell, South Dakota. Charlie Spain accompanied them and expects to find employment out there. The Hebron grade has been in a bad condition, owing to high water and the ice breaking up. With the use of dynamite and filling in with sand the danger of its being swept away is now over as the water is now going down. 1 Before Circuit Judge Hanley, who Was hearing the case for Referee In Bankruptcy John O. Bowers, The examination is being conducted today relating to the sale by Robert Parker of the Remington First National Bank stock to E. L. Hollingsworth. The trustee of the Parker bank, W. H. Cheadle, is represented by Attorney William Darroch and Daniel Sims, and Mr. Hollingsworth is represented by Attorney Emery Sellers. The action questions the right of Mr. Parker to transfer the bank stock when he did.

On account of the recent heavy snow fall and a two days’ heavy rain the ditches were overflowed atWheatfield and surrounding country and a deluge of water swept down upon the town last Friday morning, the water being so„Wgh as to flood the entire north hair of town ang. humy residents were compelled to move out of their homes or take up their quarters in the upper stories of their buildings, the water being so deep that boats were used in the streets Sidewalks floated down toward the west part of town and at one time It was thought that the tracks of the C., I. & S. Ry. would be washed out The company sent a work train loaded with cinders and gravel and made dykes along the track to protect it

THURSDAY 0. K Prior la In Chicago on business today. Jesse Crowell has gone to Chicago on business. Dr. Parklson has gone to Chicago on business. H. P. Honan la In Fair Oaks on legal business today. George Kohler, of Chicago Heights is visiting with his parents. . Ed Kayes has gone to Chicago to work at his trade as a millwright Miss Sarah Wolford, of Danville, 111., Is visiting Miss Edna Thompson. Britt Marlon has gone to Wall, a D. where he has a claim which he intends to prove. sv Judge Hanley and Court Reporter Ira Sigler went to Kentland this morning to hold court George Lundy continues to-Improve from his attack of typhoid fever, but is still unable to sit up.

On account of the war between the different picture film houses the Bijou has been shut down temporarily.

Little Margaret Babcock is getting along very nicely In her case of pneumonia and is now Considered out of danger. Capt. J. M. Wasson has gone- to Union City, Ind., and from there he will go to W T incliseter and Greenj ville, Ohio, to visit relatives. Hale Grant has given up his position on the dray and his father will take his place. Earl Cline taking Mr. Grant’s place on the express wagon. William Day, who is always among the early garden makers, 1b today planting his small vegetable hot beds, and this is another evidence that spring is near at hand. Rev. G. H. Miller, of Fort Wayne, will preach morning and evening at ! the First Baptist church Sunday, March 15th. Everybody is invited to come out and hear him. Tonight Manager Cobb, of the rink, will have a Japanese party. special features in the past have beenj excellent and with the beautiful deebratlons he has purchased this should be exceptionally nice. Elizur Sage's sale Wednesday was a hummer and brought the total of $3,100. One mare brought $255, another brought $240, a team brought $370 and the cattle. Including cows and heifers brought an average of S3O a head. The Uniform Rank of the Knights of Pythias has again been revived in Rensselaer with most of the old members again taking part In It. In the reorganization Jesse D. Allman was elected Captain; True D. Woodworth, First Lieutenant; Dr. A. 1 G. Catt, Second Lieutenant The meeting nights will be Mondays. Judge and Mrs. S. P. Thompson are preparing to take several short ocean voyages before starting back home and accordingly have left San Diego, Cal., on the first of these today and will go to Santa Barbara. It is hoped these trips will aid In restoring Mrs. Thompson to better health. Col. A. J. Hannon cried James R. Craig’s big sale at Thayer Wednesday and it brought a total of $3,300. Horses sold as high as S2OO and the Polled Angus thoroughbred cattle brought good prices, yearling balls j

selling as high as $75. The sale was well attended and one of the best held this year in the river section. ; G. JLj Parks, trustee of Milroy township, Was in town today hobbling about on a cane and having some difficulty in his locomotion. About a week ago while lifting some logs Into a wagon at his place in the country, he suffered a bad strain of the back and he has been in great misery since that time. Comrade Fox, who has hitherto confined his talents to the carrying of mail and to mail carrying contracting, has now* taken another job under his wing and he is now the night clerk at the Hotel Rosey. Tommy O’Meara will continue to carry the Pleasant Grove star route and Com-1 rade' will handle the city mails between the postoffice and the depot. Miss Julia Meyers, who had been making a short visit here with the family of N. W. Reave, started yesterday to her home in Auburn, N. Y. She has been spending the winter in St. Paul, Minn. Emerson Reeve accompanied her as far as Chicago, and will return here and re-! main for some time longer with his! parents, it being an error that he had returned to New York.

Mrs. J. A. Grant writes back from New Or loans that upon arriving there she found her brother, Will Harding, somewhat improved in general condition. He had recently undergone an [operation for some stomach disorder. It is not certain how far the opera- | tion will go toward effecting a perjmanent cure, but he is sufficiently improved to warrant a hope of further improvement. Older residents will remember William Harding, although he has been away from Rensselaer now for more than 25 years. Henry Koepka, of Francesville, had a narrow escape from drowning Tues- , day morning. He was driving from j his home to Monon and while cross--1 ing the dredge ditch the bridge col- \ lapsed and he and his team were 5 thrown into the swift stream where j the water was almost 12 feet deep. Both horses were drowned and he saved himself by hanging to the overhanging limb of a tree. He was discovered sometime later by O. D. Engle and when taken from the water he lost consciousness, and only | the heroic efforts of the physician saved him. He is somewhat Improved now but still very weak. j Mrs, Wilson reports that the section of the chicken house that Fred Phillips gave to the Children’s Home is being moved today. She received this morning through the mail a letter from Mrs. George Keener, of Hinkley, 1111., inclosing a money order for $lO, and this along with other contributions from outside of the state show that people in some other states are not quite so selfish about the subject of ‘‘letting each state take care of its own dependents” as is indicated by an article in another paper that we should be. Mrs. Wilson’s brother-in-law, W. W. Morrison, of Fergus Falls, Minn., has also been a contributor to the amount l of SSO. When Hast year was closed Mrs. Wilson had a bank balance of 68 cents and now she has a little ' more than sl27,and with the heroic determination that characterizes women who have pledged their lives to a good cause she Is ready to accept more little girls at the home and the 1 work of seeking them out is being done by the Training School In Chicago. Mrs. Wilson’s disposition is not the kind that becomes dismayed winen adverse criticism 61 her plans' are made and conviction in the task she has undertaken is responsible for |an optimism that will insure success in the face of graver discouragements than can be created by the methods | employed.