Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1908 — LOCAL HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

FRIDAY Ftfjf. J- H. Gray was a Judge yesterday evening at an oratorical contest 1 at Lowell. Mrs. .Sarah Barkly continues In quite poor health and is confined in bed at her home most of the time. Will Barkley and wife will move the fc|rst of the week to the Barkley farm in Barkley township, and he will have, charge of the farm during the succeeding year, Theo. Keiper was in from his home south of town today and contributed to the material welfare of the Repubup to Jan. 1, 1909. Mr. Keiper does not get into town very often, but a day like this is calculated to tempt any one out

In honor of Mrs. George R. Smith who is soon to remove to Washington, the Ladies of the G. A. R., with Mrs. J. M. Wasson as hostess, entertained at a 6 o’clock dinner Wednesday evening and about 25 ladies were in attendance. The event was a very pleasant one. Mrs. Frank Morrow went to Remington today to be present Saturday at the funeral of her uncle/ Basil Hunt, whose death Occurred Wednesday, from cancer. Deceased resided about two and a half miles northwest of Remington and was an old and highly respected resident of the county Today is a beautiful early spring day, the sun shining brightly and th e temperature being just crisp enough to produce the energy that usually gives away to a spring fever laziness when the weather warms up. But good weather is not apt to last long at this season, for we are right at the equinoxial period and storms and disagreeable weather are almost sure to ensue. Several friends accompanied A. Halleck to Monticello on the early morning train today and a number more went there on the 10:55 train this morning. And a lot more of his friends who remained behind have been hoping all day that he will land the spnatorial nomination. It commenced to look yesterday as tho he had a tolerably tough row to hoe to get the nomination, for some opposition heretofore not looked for came up and in such unexpected places that it was going to be hard to overcome, but things still looked quite favorable and he took with him to hustle for him a great crowd of good citizens good feelers and warm friends.

Eggs are very plentiful these days and they are all nice and fresh too. The cash price Is now only 11 cents a dozen. Butter is not quite so abundant nor nearly so fresh In many cases. T.he retail price of butter, the good kind, Is 30 cents, and that Is a quite high price. Many dairy farmers are shipping cream to the city and for that reason butter is scarce and higher, but it will probably not continue so high with the coming of pasture for the cows. But the city demand for good butter and the greater number of careful butter makers since tb* introduction of the cream separators added to the improred facilities mt reaching the city markets, will hardly let the butter price fall at any time much below 20 cents. And most of as will remember that no longer than ten years ago butter sold most o t (he year for 11 and 12 cents. The Republican received a copy of She Reach basebsll manual today for the year 18G8, and this Is another of the late evidences that spring is coming. The baseball bee that buzzed a little in Rensselaer during the fall and winter has about bussed out and it is possible that there will be no team here this year, unless the

ever ready for business Harry Swart* zell resurrects the Ted milts and sthrta out again. St. Joe will play hut it is probabli will not have quite so good a team as they had last year, owing to the absence of some of last year’s stars. Wheatfield has reorganized also, but the two Jensens, Lou and Tom, are away, the former havISi 5 gone to Bloomington, 111., to play professional ball and Tommie having gone to Oxford to work in a drug store. Wheatfield and St. Joe should have a game or two during the spring.

SATURDAY Mrs. Joseph Carson and children, of Lafayette, are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Clark. Thomas Hollingsworth came down from Chicago yesterday to spend the schol vacation with friends here. Miss Ir r ene Mott returned to her home in Hammond today after a visit of about two weeks with friends in Rensselaer. Mrs. J. Coon returned to her home in Orland, 111., today, after a short visit with the family of John Murfitt, near Mt Ayr.

Mrs. Warner Hopkins and children returned to the home in Momence, 111., today, after a few days’ visit with relatives in Rensselaer. Ed Blakemore, who has been spending the winter with his daughter, Mrs. Elmer Clark, in Milroy township, returned to his home in Chicago today. Robert Michael iq around today for the first time in quite awhile. He had an attack of the grip and almost had the pneumonia, and he is looking far from well. Mr. and Mrs. John Greenfield, of near Surrey, are planning to go to New Mexico shortly to be away for several months. They may leave as early as next Monday.

The spring vacation for the Rensselaer schools will begin with the close of school next Friday, March 27th, and will last one week. There will be seven weeks more school after it resumes. This is the first day of spring and a mighty fine one it is, with still a little chill but a bright warm sun. There are lots of people in town today and they are not all here to attend the democratic convention. The bands in the surrounding towns are getting together for the coming practice preparatory to the summer concert season. The band did very well last year and will probably find the public again a willing patron of the concert plan. j The little baby born Wednesday morning to Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Donnelly, died Friday morning and the funeral took place today. Mr. Donnelly was in Louisville, Ky., when the baby was born and arrived home the evening before It died. The condition of John Pullln is so low today "that on the advice of his physician the sons, who are in the west, were telegraphed to come and it ir probable he will not be alive when they reach here He resides in the former Mrs. Crosscup house on College street.

Harry Parker and Joe O’Connor returned this morning from their several days’ stay on the Kankakee, and they brought home about thirty mallard ducks, all of which they shot yesterday. They report the ducks thicker than they ever saw them before. Very generously they passed the ducks around among their friends. Mrs. Henry Nevill has returned from Lyman, Colo., w'here she spent some time visiting her daughter, Mrs. A. L. Morehead. In addition to having taken out a quarter section claim there and being a half partner with hiß brother in another quarter, he is firing a railroad engine and expects soon to be promoted to be an engineer. The family are all well and there is another littel Morehead since they moved there, so prosperity is quite general.

The Uncle Tom’s Cabin troupe that came this morning for/ both matinee and evening performances is a mighty fine looking outfit and they appear to be very prosperous. Two large brlndle mastiff dogs iu charge of a real | negro have added to the Interest of j the children- At noon the troupe baud arrayed In red costumes gave a concert in front of the court house. 1 John Renlcker returned yesterday morning from Boynton, Fla.,where he haß been for the past three monlhs. Duriii? that time he has been driving the bus for the Boynton hotel, which Is a winter 'resort hotel and accommodates about 125 guests. John never ' lost a minute of during • the months he was there, enjoyed perfect health, had a good time, and came home with S4O more money than he started out with. That is something that most people can not do that win--Ur at a seaside southern hotel F. W. Austin, of WheutfleM, who was ' also at Boynton during the winter, > bought a 15 acre tomato farm, and

• Mr. Renicker partially contracted for ! a tract of the same size and he may decide another year to move his fatally there, as he believes the climate will ,be a great benefit to his son, 17 years old, who has never altogether recovered from the effects of an abcess two years ago. Bert Goff and wife and son left on the 9:55 train today for BeUe Fourche, South Dakota, near which place he entered a. claim-last year. They were accompanied as far as Chicago by his mother, Mrs. Geo. W. Goff. Bert has beeh quite fortunate in the selection of his claim and it is right in the country affected by

an extensive system of irrigation installed by the government Marlon Gwin, who went from here the same time Bert did, also has a good claim in (hat neighborhood, being only about a mile. from Bert’s. During the time Bert has been here Marion has been on his farm, living in his two room house, and although he has now built a house of his own he will continue to live with Bert and his wife, that is, until he makes arrangements'to get a houeskeeper for himself, which is not apt to be during the leap year period. Marion was given credit with three years on his claim for his naval service and now has it all proved up, Mr. Goff likes the country, the climate and the frontier life and expects to take out another section claim in his wife’s name. This will be proven by the payment of $3 an acre, and he will be given' three years in which to complete the payment. Will Woodworth, who took out a claim there last year and then relinquished it, has been negotiating for another claim and later for the resumption of his original claim, and it is probable that he will get this matter fixed up and return there next week. Mr. Goff will cultivate some land for his own use and will raise some sheep and buy a number of calves. He believes the opportunity is a good one and he intends to make the best of it.

MONDAY Admission to the concert, 25 and 15 cents. Leonard Turner and John Yates spent Sunday In Monticello. Born, Sunday, March 22, to Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Smith, a daughter. School concert at M. E. church Thursday evening, March 26th. The D. A. R. will meet Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. R. D. Thompson. J. A. McFarland went to Chicago today to try to find a better ’ market for eggs. You can save money on your package and bulk garden seeds, onion sets and seed potatoes at John Eger’s. Mrs. R. P. Johnson and son Leonard, of Lafayette, visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Clark, Sunday.

C. W. Goes-want to Chicago today, where Mrs. Coen had preceded him. They are visiting their son, Delos. Frank Moore, of Anderson, spent Sunday with his father, Squire Moore. Lawson Bruce, son of E. L. Bruce, went to Indianapolis this morning to take the examination for railway mall clerk. Opie Read Tuesday, Children Thursday. If Opie can’t entertain you the pupils can, Opie can, so can the children. Rev. B. F. Ferguson returned this morning from Brookston, near which place he conducted a funeral service yesterday.

Mrs. Chas. E. Nowels and children, of Monticello, came today for a week’s visit with her father, Holdrldge Clark and family. Mr. and Mrs. Vein Robinson returned today from a short visit with Chas. Robinson and family, near Battle Ground. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Wallace, of Chicago, were here over Sunday, guests of her parents, Mr, and Mrs. J. F. Irwin. He returned this morning and she will remain over today. Cglvln Coppess and wife, of Medaryville, are visiting their daughter, Mrs. Will Simons and his sister, Mrs. John Gray, and will remain all this week. \ Harry Kipllnger, Harry Kresler Landy McKee and Jim Hemphill went to the Kankakee today to try their luck bunting ducka D. H. Yeoman and B. J. Moore on ditch matters, George Hosmer, looking after his farm interests, and and Dennis Gleason and son, in quest of horses, went to Wlnamac today. M. QUlnlan, of Albany, spent Sunday with his wife, who Is now remaining with relatives, the Halllgans, here. Mrs. Quinlan has been In very poor health but Is now somewhat improved. George Peters, who la working on D. H/ Yeoman's dredgq at Royal Center, and Miss Bessie Brown, of

* ' A i J. a , , Royal Center, spent Sunday with his parents, A 1 Peters, 1 and wife, south of town. Grant Warner will be the host at a stag party at his home this evening mid about 75 guests have been invited. It will be about the jolliest crowd of masculines that ever assembled under one roof. Sunday school was organized at the M. P. church last Sunday. The following officers were elected: Isaac Saidla,-superintendent; Thomas Larso assistant; E. W. Hickman, secretary and John Timmons treasurer. Gladys Beam fell from a teeter board Sunday and sprained her right elbow quite severely, and the attending physician made an X-ray photograph of the arm to see if there were any broken bones, but found none.

Word has been received here of the death at Logansport of “Dad” "Burns, who lived in Rensselaer for several years prior to three years ago. His two sons, Ad and Frank, were alajo residents of Rensselaer for some time. Frank Brown, of Manistique, Mich., has been visiting his wife at the home of her mother, Mrs. Frank J. Turner, of Barkley township, and returned to his home this morning. Mrs. Brown will remain for a longer visit with her parents. ^ — • v. n: - "1 Rev. O. E. Miller preached for the First Baptist church again Sunday, beginning his work as pastor. Today he returned ta JTort Wayne and will not undertake to get moved here until about May Ist, although he will be here each Sunday to preach. Dr. Crowell and wife, parents of Jesse and Richard Crowell, proprietors of the Merchant Cigar Co., have been visiting here, and the doctor, who is a den(ist, is expecting to retire from practice and is thinking quite seriously of coming to Rensselaer to reside.

Wm. Schleman, of Francesville, is in town today, and reports that while there are several cases of scarlet fever in Francesville and that there was one death, the cases are for the mlost pert very mild and that at Francesville they are net much alarmed about it and that business is going right along without interruption. • Albert Warr, of Morocco, was fin •< for getting drunk last Saturday and was brought here this morning to remain 16 days in the county jail. War is rather tough looking customer, and seemed to take his sentence with complete nonchalence. He remarked at the depot this morning that Morocco was a dry town but that he got tanked on sulphur water.

Mrs. J. R. Parkison and little son returned today from California, where they have been since last October. Recently they left Los Angeles and wept to Sierre Madre, in the itMSWK s®d there Miss Hamel, for whose health the trip was largely made, will remain for alonger period. She is enjoying better health and all were very much delighted wlh California. The new law relative to beginning teachers says that they shall be graduates of commissioned high schools or have work equivalent to that. To determine this equivalency the state board of education has prepared an examination covering the high school work, and persons who are not high school graduates may be classed as such by successfully passing this examination. This examination is held this year by county superintendents the last Saturday of March and April along with tho teachers’ examination and .the papers are sent to the state board for grading. Two days are allowed for the examination If the applicant desires, part being taken In March and the remainder in April, or the applicant may take the entire examination in one day.

Ross Goble and wife arrived home from Seattle, Was., and will remain here for a visit of Indefinite length. They left Los Angeles, Cal, several weeks ago, iand after he had worked at Seattle awhile they took an ocean trip to Vancouver and were on the water when Mrs. Goble’s mother,, Mrs. John Sullivan, died, and they did not learn of her death until two days after the funeral and they left as soon as they could get ready for Rensselaer having previously planned a trip here this spring. They are undecided what they will do now. He has a good position awaiting him In the silk depratment of a large department store at Seattle, lr he cares to return there, but they are yet uncertain as to what they will do. Mr. Sullivan has been staying at the home of his brother-in-law, Clouse, since the death of his wife, and he, also, is very undecided about w’hrt will be best for him to do.

Ail goods must be sold by Saturday, March 30. Big bargains In clothing, dress goods, etc., in room adjoining Democrat office. Store will be open every afternoon from 13:30 to 6 o’clock.