Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1908 — LOCAL HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

•? jy ... . , . . TUESDAY N. J. York went to Monticello on' business today. Miss Edna Thompson went to Chicago today for a short visit. Uncle “Bill N.’’ Jones returned this morning* from Bellwood, Neb., where he has been spending the winter. W. F. Hopkins, of Momence, 111., stopped off here between trains today, on his way to Delphi to visit Ills father, C. A. Hopkins. He expects to return here the last of the week. , 1 Contractor Smith has a large force of men at work on the stone streets now and very rapid progress is being made. A number of the east and west cross streets are In course of construction. County Treasurer Jesse D. Allman went to Chicago this morning with his daughter, Aileen, who will undergo an operation by a specialist there for the removal of two adenoidal growths In the throat. It is not a serious operation. , Manager Ellis has re-opened the picture show at the opera house and' tonight will be the first show, and hereafter the program will change l each night, and will be announced ’ each day in the Republican. See tonight’s bUL Several ladies, members of the Pythian Sisters, went to Lowell this' morning to attend the district meeting of the order. The district Is comprised of four counties, Jasper, Newton, Lake and Porter. Other ladles went to Lowell this afternoon to attend the evening session. j Ira Cheek, of Remington, was brought here this morning and lodged in the county jail for a 60 days term. He was convicted there of plain drunk and it seems that he de- j ▼elopes a dangerous disposition when be is drunk and on this occasion he threatened to kill some one with ■a butcher knife. 1 1 Phillip Blue, administrator of the estate of the late Dr. Hartaell, accompanied by B. F. Ferguson, his attorney went to Chicago on the early morning train to see If they could find a will made by the doctor, and which they thought might be in a safety •deposits box he had In one of the hanks of that city. We are having a few spring like days now and they are very acceptable. The 'year so far has been a very agreeable one and while not so very warm fruit has advanced slowly and has prob-

ably all escaped injury from frosts and freezes, and it is generally thought that we are going to have an abundan crop of fruit this year. ! Miss Winnie Crouch, a field worker of the Chicago Training School, who has been spending a few weeks at the Monnett Children’s Home in Rensselaer, went to Chicago today. Owing to continued poor health she will not return here and may be compelled to altogether give up her field lobors with the home. r ■ ■ . A leak In the water tank at the city pumping station has caused considerable waste of water and arrangements are being made to have it repaired. Superintendent Chamberlain will tomorrow have all the water run out of the tank and the supply pending the repairs will be made by direct pressure. Scott Chesnut will do the repair work, which will be accomplished from a swinging derrick.

Miss Adah E. Bush, of Kentland, ha taken quite a lead over her nearest competitor in the trip to Europe contest being conducted by the Indianapolis Star, and today’s vote shows her to have 112,561 and her nearest competitor, Miss Coombs, of Lebanon, to have 94,561. But Mlbs Bush and her friends must keep hustling and sot take the victory for granted. There is now too much at stake to permit a defeat by carelessness. Rensselaer people should save their coupons for Miss Bush, and either leave them at the Republican office or at Tobias’ news stand. The Rensselaer young people who witnessed the production of George Ade’s play, “The Fair Co-Ed’ by Purdue students at the Grand opera house in Lafayette, last night, pronounced it a great performance. The scene of the opera is Purdue itself and the play was written expressly for the college, it was sparkling with live music and captivated the audience. It was at first intended to present It two nights at Lafayette, but the demand was so great that It was finally decided to give it three nights. The company will then go to Indianapolis to rive it Filoay night True Woodworth’s little boy, three years of age, Is Wearing a bandage over his right eye, having come off second beet in his first fistic encounter. His youthful adversary Is the son of Eph Hickman, also three years old. The families live In adjoining houses, and the little Woodworth boy was playing wlth Mr. Hickman’s youngest child, a baby. The older HiAmnn boy without warning let fly a door knob that he had been playing with and struck the little Woodworth boy squarely in the right eye, cutting it badly under the eye and seriously endangering the sight of the eye. ▲ physician was Immediately called and now the little chap Is gdftlng along quite well and his sight will not be impaired. I

-WEDNESDAY Mrs. Henry Amsler left tbs morning for a short visit at Pontiac and FUlrbury, IIL ' j Master Johnnie Lesh visited his uncle, Eli Arnold, in Barkley township, yesterday. Mrs. Henry Wood and Miss Mary Wood went to Brook today to pay a short visit to the former’s son, Dr. Aaron Wood. ;j Lyman Zea came up from Lafayette today tor a short visit with his family. He is still a nightwatchman at the Monon shops. | Mrs Mary J. Hopkins returned home from Montlcello today, where she had been visiting her son Homer for the past two weeks. Miss Maud Atkins, of Montlcello, is here to attend the wedding this afternoon at 4 o’clock of Miss Ruth Harris to Leonard Rhoades. Mrs. C. A. Griffin and her attorney, John F. Wiggins, of Fort villa Jnd., were here yesterday, in the interest of* some land that the former has near Roselawn. *> It Is proposed to double the size of the Fort Benjamin Harrison army post, near Indianapolis, and a bill appropriating SIOO,OOO for the purchase of land has been introduced In congress. Mrs. E. M. Parcells returned from Indianapolis Monday evening, where she recently underwent an operation. She is somewhat improved but still very weak and it will be some time before she will be able to leave her home. Mr. and Mrs. Werner Miller went to Burlington, Wis., today. Mrs. Miller’s father and mother celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary tomorrow. Mr. Miller will return home Monday and Mrs. Miller will stay for two or three weeks. This is school closing day at Parr and the teachers, Chas. Blue and Miss Nellie Gray, had prepared an interesting closing program. Mrs. Blue accompanied her husband there to share in the closing festivities, which were to include an elaborate spread.

The annual meeting of the associated press of the United States has caused publishers from every state in the union to gather in New Tork City, and a straw vote taken by an enterprising New York paper shows that a large part of them prefer the nomination of Roosevelt for president. Taft is second and there seems little chance outside of one or tbe other of these. • A. L. Branch left this morning on the early train for Stockton, Cal., where he will engage in business with his brother, who has an extensive automobile and bicycle business there. He left his little daughters here with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Wilcox. He expects to return to Rensselaer next year for a visit with them. Mr. Branch had been one of the most successful business men in Rensselaer, and his removal is regretted by his many friends and acquaintances, who will wish him well in his new business in a new field. (

Mrs. Lois Penwrlght was the defendant Tuesday in a suit brought by Lewis Messenger to compel a ssttlement for the farming of a twenty acre tract of her land last year. It seems that she had rented the land to Clarence Penwrlght, who had planted it in corn and tended it until the laying-by season, when he wanted to go away and disposed of it to his brother, Lewis Messenger,for 660. Mrs. Penwrlght and daughter and a woman who worked there for a short time went out and husked the com and cribbed It without notifying Messenger and when he sought her to ascertain the reason he was told that his brother had forfeited his share in the crop because he had not fulfilled his agreement in caring for some other land and that he had not properly attended to the com. The court thought differently and so did the jury and they allowed Lewis Messenger damages in the sum of 628, having reached this decision by ascertaining what two-thirds of the crop would amount to and then allowing the defendant fbr husking and cribbing it As Lewis is said to have paid his brother 660 for it he fared badly in the deal.

THURSDAY .D. M. Worland made s business trip to Chicago today. J. C. Thrawls returned home today from a visit with relatives at Lognntport and Uonon. Miss Elisabeth Luers went to Valparaiso today for a visit of about two weeks, and during which time she will take up a little special work In the university there. Louis Wild berg has been quite weak for several days at the hospital In Chicago, where he was operated upon

and he is evidently going to have a long hard pull if he recovers. Word received from there yesterday was very encouraging, but the ultimate result is in grave doubt | Ross Hawkins returned to Rensselaer yesterday from his prospecting trip in the state of Washington. He did not find anything out there that he considered desirable and has given up his original intenton of removing there at least before next year. Today he went to Logansport and Mrs. Hawkins, who has been visiting relatives here, will join him there in about a week. Comrade Fox has found that he has too many mail carrying contracts on hand and he has tendered his resignation to his old standby route, the one between the post office and the depot, and the resignation is to take effect within thirty days, and other bids will then be taken. Comrade will continue to carry the Pleasant Grove star route. Patrons of the Rensselaer post office will regret to have him leave the city job, as he has been both punctual and a hustler in getting the mall down town after the arrival of a train. Rev. Geo. B. Ranshaw will lecture at the Christian church Friday evening of this week, his subject being “Christian Patriotism.’’ The lecture will be free and the public is cordially invited. Rev. Ranshaw represents the Home Missionary Society and lives in Cincinnati. o

A. 0. Harriott and wife went to Surrey this morning to visit the famiy of his brother, E. E. Garriott. He recently completed his first year in McKillip’B veterinary college in Chicago, and during the summer months he expects to sell life insurance. He will have two more terms of six months in the veterinary college. The sale of the personal property of the late Dr. Hartsell, including the stock and equipment of the large farm west of Rensseaer, will be held Saturday of next week, May 2nd. It will be the largest sale of horses that has taken place in this locality for several years, there being 47 head of

horses and colts. The sale will be extensively advertised and bills for It are being printed at the ’Republican office.