Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1908 — LOCAL HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

TUESDAY tJeorgfc A. Strickfaden is her® from ftoblesville today. C. H. Peck, of Remington, took the 9:55 train here today for Chicago. -John Albertson went to Indianapolis today, where he has prospect of employment. O. P. Tabor and wife, of Remington, have gone to Valparaiso again, where iie has a stone road contract. .Mrs. A. Hoff, of Pocahontus, lowa, started home* today after a visit of about a week with the family of S. O. Baker. Peter Nomenson, of Dwight, 111., returned home this morning after a short visit in Rensselaer, having two farms near here. He is a real estate dealer. Miss Edna Thompson went to Chicago this morning to meet her parents, Judge and Mrs. S. P. Thompson, who are to return tomorrow from California, where they spent the winter. The Sew Club cleared up sl4 for the Children’i Home at their market Saturday. It was a very great assistance to the home and was a very charitable act on the part of the Sew -Club members. Miss Adah E. Bush, of KentlOfid •vrent to the top of the tenth district 'tour to Europe contestants today, hav4ng a total of 83,940 votes. Miss ‘Coombs, of Lebanonn, her close rival, •had 80,918. The third candidate had *only 1f>,544. Miss Mary Wright, who is teaching sschool at Berwyn, 111., and Miss Floss Wright, who is teaching at Grand IRapida, Mich., have been home for a several days’ visit with relatlves.Mias •Mary returned home today and Miss Tloss will set urn Thursday. J. A. McFarland has received a •checker challenge tor a team of tight .players to meet a Hammond team next .Saturday night the challenge coming from LeGrand T. Meyer, the Ham•mond city attorney. It is not known yet whether .the game can be arranged or not. Mrs. Isaac ißeubelt came this morning from Jeffersonville, and will spend the summer with her mother, Mrs. Peter Rhoades. Her son Ray has been here for the past week. M. Reubelt taught school this year at New•castle, Ky., but the family continued to reside in Jeffersonville. W. A. Davenport, night agent at the depot, is being relieved by Leland Jessen for a few days in order that he can give more attention to the demonstration of his Gloria gasoline

lighting systern, which he is selling quite both in Rensselaer and in the Country near here. Wm. McNeil, irSd Recently removed to LaCrosse, has Just closed a deal by which he again comes into the ownership of a good quarter section of land two miles east of Wheatfield. He owned the farm once before and it has changed hands several times since he sold it. He got it this time from Carey J. Gorham, of Chicago.He was here yesterday on business relating to the transfer. Jesse G. Cover and wife, who arrived here yesterday from Oklahoma, will remain here but a few days frith relatives and will then start for Baltimore, Maryland, for a visit of several weeks with his wife’s people. They expect to return to Indiana in June and to remain here for the greater part of the next year. Mr. Cover has prospered in Oklahoma and Is well satisfied with the country and the climate. An explosion occurred at the Aetna powder mills, near Hammond, yesterday. The explosion was caused by the overheating of a large quantity of nitroglycerine. The dangerous temperature of the explosive was observed in time to give the employees an opportunity to escape, and long after the rest of the powder workers had gone away, Chester Alkorn stayed at his post and tried to cool down the explosive, but he finally saw that the explosion was imminent and escaped just in time to prevent being hurled into eternity. Rev. and Mrs. H. L. Kindig took their daughter Geraldine to Chicago today to consult a specialist about her luaga. It is now almost ten weeks slMto she .was taken sick with pneumonia and she has never thoroughly recovered. Last week, Rev. Kindig’s brother, a doctor In Chicago, came here and counseled with the local physician and they decided that it would be best to* submit her case to a specialist There was a caller at the Republican office Monday 1 after noon who sought information shout the “wet” cities and towns In Indiana He did not state why he wanted to know and we have been unable to learn why he called here for information.' He was a real good looking and well dressed fellow but had a breath like a brewery. He asked about business conditions in Rensselaer since the drouth and Boon found out where pur sympathies were. He was inclined to be reticent about his own business but after being assured that Delphi was not ’’dry" he sailed out toward the depot with the Intention of buying a ticket to that place. B. J. Gifford is over from Kankakee today. He says that the money has aot been paid over for his rallrcud yet and he is not caring whether the deal is concluded or not, Every time we see Col. Gifford we become reminiscent and we wonder why he

didn't build his road In Rensselaer as he talked of doing and as Rensselaer and Marlon township expected he would do when It voted him a 2 per cent tax. The road would have had twenty-five times the business it now has and would before this have been built on to Remington and probably to Lafayette. May be he will tell us some time when he Is over why it was not built. We shall be glad to learn. . Joseph Borntrager is another farmer down the river who feels certain that the lower Iroquois will have to be drained. During the rains last week the river raised over the low lands below Rensselaer much more than it formerly did with the same amount of rain. Mr. Borntrager says that so far as the muck land up river drying out quicker and then absorbing the water when it rains and thereby keeping it from rushing into the main channel and down to the low lands is concerned, there is nothing in it. He believes the muck land will not dry out there before June and the ditches that have been constructed to run the water from the lands passed through by the dredged channel above will carry the water to it so rapidly that the overflow below ron be averted in but one way and that is by continuing the improvement on down the river. It is probable that the sewage outlet in Rensselaer will not be satisfactory either until the lower river drainage is completed.

WEDNESDAY Miss Pearl Morris has returned fro© ft short visit Ju Remington. . Mi'll Prfttik Mart, of Wolcott, spent today With Mrs.- Grant Warner. Capt J. W. finite is confined to his home with a sevdff 6ase of-bron-chitis. Miss Flora E. Horner, of ftfdftoft, is spending today with Mrs. Chad. Sands. Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Murray and Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Moore are spending today in Chicago. Judge and Mrs. Simon P. Thompson returned today from their winter’s stay in California. The spring vacation at St Joseph’s College began today and many of the students strated for their homes today. Owing to sickness Rev. G. W. Payne will be unable to fill his appointment at the M. P. church Sunday, April 19th. The inability of several of the players to leave Rensselaer next Saturday evening will probably prevent the acceptance of the Hammond challenge. Revs. G. H. Clarke and J. L. Brady returned this morning from Kentland, where they had been attending a district meeting of the Christian church. J. F. Fisher, who has lived up near Aix for some years, arrived here today from a prospecting trip up in the Dakotas. He likes that country and expects to locate there next year, and for the present he will Remove to Watseka, IIL Guy Gerber is home from 111. University for the spring vacation. He was at Danville, 111., a few hours yesterday and called on George Bell, the barber, who is working in a shop* there, and also on Steve Pollock,, er as he Was known here, Steve Bell. The latter is married and is railroading. Chas. Wellington, the Hew' fork life insurance man, WAS hero from Lafayette yesterday and tdday'i He couples Poland China hog raising with the insurance business and makes both pay. His glsits here are not so frequent as they used to be, but he generally does some business when he does come. . Alvin Clark arrived here last night from Coats, KaM, and is today loading his v hous6h6l<f goods and shipping them tid that’ place, Where he and Me family expect to reside in the futsre. His eon; for whose health the' trip thete Was expressly taken, is now in a very critical condition and it is grektly faired can not live. ~

Mr. and Mrs? William R- Johnson 1 have gone to iffoopeton, 111., for a short visit wlth hls parents, and from there they will go to Chicago Heights, where he has been employed ss a teamster for the past year and 1 a 1 half. Mrs. Johnson is the daughter of Samuel Williams, from north of Rensselaer, and they were married recently and have been spending a few days here before taking their departure for their future home. At Chicago Heights they will reside in the same house with Franklin Ott and wife, who have lived there for 16 years, being among the early Jasper county setters In that thriving manufacturing city. And during all this time they have been subscribers to the Republican. Don’t cut serose lawns; follow the' cement and cut square corners; you will get there a little later but it will be soon enough; may be sooner than you are wanted. If there Is any real bad habit that many of us are guilty of and oftlmes unoonslcously it to cutting off the corners and thus contributing to the ruination of

some one's lawn. A few trips across the lawn and the grass is killed. We are in for a more beautiful Rensselaer, and the way to get it Is to have everybody think about it. PHJk up bits of paper, clean up the trash, keep the lawns and the parking outside the lawns mowed, have as much regard for-the lawn of another as you have for your own, or even more, for in ruining the other fellow's lawn you are injuring him and doing yourself no good. Let’s get busy with the lawn mower and the rake and put and keep Rensselaer in the front rank of pride.

The writer visited Brookston over night Tuesday night, and met many of his old friends in that very pro-. gressive and congenial little town. There are no saloons there now but there is some quart whiskey trade but some of the old topers have cleared up and everyone seems to agree that the town Is a lot better off than it was during the saloon reign. Brookston used to be regarded as a pretty tough place and drunken brawls were of frequent occurrence. The stores there are all doing a good business now, there are few dead beats, and the town has added paint and other things to its material prosperity as well as helping its morals. The district meeting of the Logansport Prestry was being held there and the new minister was ordained Tuesday night. The Christian denomination that organized there last fall are held? inf another revival and both meetings were erowdsd, The pr&ent editor of the Reporter, flro; Metkger, has given Very exddlldflt Satisfaction there and has enjoyed a Vdif fftnarkfible advertising patronage and CoiWequently has prospered along with his advertising patrons. He is an unusually capable newspaper man and has developed a scheme for starting a democratic newspaper in Tippecanoe cdUnty, at Lafayette, The paper has already been started and for the time being is being printed at Brookston, but arrangements are making to publish it in Lafayette and to make it an Important laic tor in journalism during the forthcoming campaign, Mr. Metzger is an ardent democrat, the only failing that his friends have found In him. Brookston is a very good news peper field and if the Reporter Is offered for sale it will be a good investment for some enterprising young journalist THURSDAY Friday night, at the opera house, “Under the Laurels.’’ Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Spitler went to Chicago today for a short stay. Don’t miss “Under the Laurels” at the opera house Friday night Mrs. H. D. Clark returned to Fowler today after a week’s visit with her daughter, Mrs. B. R. Amsler. Mrs. Kate Schmidt,of Chicago, came today for a visit with her daughter, Mrs. Matt Neslus, near Remington. See the Lowell high school play “Under the Laurels” at the Ellis opera house Friday night, April 17. Next Sunday’s Indianapolis Star will have a five vote value coupon. Cut it out and leave it at either Cox’s news stand or the Republican office for Miss Bush, of Kentland, Ur*, J. H. Kinney, who has been spending the winter at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Fred Chilcote, at South Bend, arrived here today and will probably remain hero all summer, M. W. Carmichael and wife, Of Barnard, Mo., who have been visiting relatives at their former home, near

Morocco, are here today for a short visit with his brother, John Carmichael. j j ■fl.-'j * ■ i.. Jasper county la quite welt represented at the Terre Haute normal school this year, and at least five young lady teachers are now there, viz: Clara Bruaaahan, Grace Worland, Eva Maines, Clara Jessen and P*zel Parker. Mrs. John Murfitt, of near Mt. Ayr, went to Chicago yesterday to see her grandfather, who is 78 years of age and who had been in a critical conditio for some time, his health failing rapidly since he fell and sustained three broken ribs a few weeks ago, Dr. I. M. Washburn haft changed the day of the week that he will j go to Chicago, and commencing with this week he goes Tuesdays instead of Thursdays. He found* that the work he could get Tuesdays and Wed-; nesdays was nearer what he prefered having than the work on the other! days. H. C. Willette, of Harrison, Ohio, a newspaper man, is hero today looking after his side of a mortgage fore- j closure suit in the circuit court. B. 3, Gifford is the defendant, and the pUdffOff avers that the land was mortgaged when Mr. Gifford bought it. The case is brought up on an amended complaint. James Babcock, of Union township, it is said, is quite certain to permit the use of bis name as a candidate for the republican nomination for 1 trustee, before the convention to be held at Fair Oaks, Saturday, May 2nd. Jim would make a mighty good trustee and we believe would give splendid satisfaction all over the township. ) The temperature went below the freezing point last night and there was a quarter inch of ice on still water in small bodies this morning. The effect on fruit is uncertain. Probably apricots and early plums have been injured but It Is thought cherries, apples, peaches and pears are not far enough advanced to be hurt. Today is a bright day and somewhat warmer, but a raw east wind has been blowing all day. Alvin R. Clark established a record for packing and loading household goods. He arrived hero Tuesj day afternoon from Kansas, and on Wednesday packed and loaded all his

things in a car and he himself got away this Thursday morning on the early morning train. He was Impelled to make this great haste by the serious condition of hie son’s health. They will reside in Coats, and he is thinking some of embarking in the egg and poultry business there. jDelo* Thbiapsoh has tfsdSd hlB 6ld White Steainer automobile in and got a brafld new One, and the new car was brougfai tb Rensselaer Tuesday. It is a case o/ Wing white' in name but red in color and J* surely of the “red devil" variety, it gttdes about as noiselessly as gondola bloat on the placid water streets of Vititci. Frank Ham, who became an automd' bile convert last year, is also to own a steamer. He traded his old car in and got a second hand steamer that has been little. It has not yet arrived but will shortly. The Lowell high school club will visit Rensselaer Friday night of this week and present a play entiled “Under the Laurels,” which they recently presented very successfully at Lowell and which they are going to repeat there again this week. The money derived from the performance will go towards buying books for the Lowell high school library. The long friendly feeeling that has existed betweeen Rensselaer and Lowell will guarantee the visiting amateurs a good attendance and their coming is being looked forward to with considerable pleasurable anticipation. John Renkker has about concluded ; the sale of his farm of SO acres, near j Alx, to Frank Kresler, the bus line! owner. And If the trade goes through j Frank will probably sell his residence property in Rensselaer to bis father, John Kresler. Mr. Renicker is selling out here with the intention of removing to Florida, having found that climate to be much more agree-

able to his health. He was a fine fanner and there is no better kept up farm in Jasper county than the one he is selling. He will continue to reside on it this year, and make hto removal to Florida next fall.