Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1908 — LOCAL HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

===■“-- FRIDAY J. P. Flynn 1b here from Cheaterton. 1 Mrs. W. J. Wright and Mrs. Bert Brenner t went to Chicago today, for a short stay. Miss Audrey Vondersmlth, of Brook, ts spending a few weeks with her relatives here. Some of the young men have built a very nice tennis court at the west side of Mllroy park, and that popular game will doubtless be played a good deal this summer. The Knights of King -Arthur have decided to give their musical on next Tuesday night at the Presbyterian church, and a program will be published In the Republican a day- or two later. The first baseball game of the year will be played tomorrow, Saturday, afternoon, the visiting team being the high school team from Logansport. The game will be played on the college grounds, and will be called at, 2:30. The admission will be 25 cants, William Hiatt was fined $1 and costs yesterday for plain .drunk. The case was tried In Squire Irwin’s court, His wife, who also accompanied him on thee jamboree, and who is said to have been the drunkest of the two ( was not arrested. “They have both been working, at the Rosey, Hotel. J Two very worthy republicans In Jackson township are seeking the nomination for county auditor. They are W. W. Miller, who is a brother-in-law of A. P. Long, of Rensselaer, and Edwin Harris. Both are known In Rensselaer, and both are high-class men, and we wish both could get the nomination. \ j

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. A fire entailing a financial loss of $6,000 occurred last Tuesday night at the farm of Sam Wilson, 6 1-2 mile south and 2 miles east of Wolcott The barn on the farm burned at about 9:30 o’clock and along with it 13 head of good horses, 1,500 bushels of corn which wak in- a crib near by and several tons of hay. The hog pens were also burned. The bam was erected in 1900 and was one of the best bams in that locality. The orgien of the fire is unknown. The loss was estimated at $6,000 and he carried $4,000 insurance. Frank Ham and a chaffeur from the White Steamer automobile agency came through from Chicago yes erday with Ms big White steamer. They found the roads very rough, having been badly cut up by heavy loads of hay, and they had to take it pretty slow most of the way The car is about the same as the White steamer Delos Thompson had last year. It is a large two seated automobile with an abundance of room and as smooth running as an ocean steamer. It has a removable top and is one of the best looking machines ever owned in Jasper county.

A bill was received by Treasurer Allman against Jasper county the earlier part of the week, and it may Lc news to some tax payers to know that each oounty is required to bear the ex'-/ pense of clothing its patients in the Insane hospitals. There is no oost of maintenance except for clothing, the other expenses of the patient being paid by the state from taxation. This bill was for $37.97, and an Itemized account of how the money had been expended was attached. It included all purchases made for seven inmates for a period of six months, so it will be seen that the patients of the hospitals for insane are not expensively dressed. Michael J. Fanning the much herald ed prohibition orator, who. cam a here to speak yesterday, on tbs occasion of the prohibition county convention, was greeted' by a very small audienrw at the oourt house yesterday afternoon 1 there being only eleven In the room when he began to speak. As is so

frequent with the prohibition speakerg he could see no good, at all in the old parish and gave them no credit for whpt. they had accomplished by their legislation in th|s and . other states within recent years, and be sought to discredit the acts of the have passed and strengthened the various republican legislatures that liquor- restriction laws of this state-The-sincere and-'well balanced prohibitioa4*fci?wehave always admired, .but we. have never seen but one or two public, speakers that were either honest or wanted to be. in their treatment at; other It Is the end that the a prohibitionist should desire and ths rneans employed makes little difference. The republican party with its previously fulfilled promises add lift: present determination to pass a county option law, can be depended upon to bring about the doom of the saloons in Indiana, and the sincere temperance advocate should get in apd helpthe republicans do It SATURDAY Zern Wright went to Anderson on a business trip today. ■i Court -Steneegrapber Ira Sigler went - to Chicago, today rta jeipala .over Sunday. MrA Grant Warner has been confined ‘to hqr bpipe for several days with siokness. Miss Cora Everett went to Medaryville last-night for a week’s visit with her parents. Mrs. S. R. Shreeves went to Virgie today for -a. short visit with her brother, George Cover and family. * The Logansport high school baseball team came on the 9:55 train to- • day ; to play StJoe. . It is the first ! match game of the season. | Mrs. Gr N. Dunn and little son went to Oxford, Ohio, today, for a ’ short visit With her sister, Miss Nell Moody, who is attending college there. Word has reached here from Stokes, that Charley Murray and his nephew, Okel English, son of Sam English, have just had mild cases of small pox. Charlie has recovered and thq; .English boy is Improving. Jim Ciark, who runs the steam roller for Contractor Smith, went to Lafayette.today tq have a part of the machinery of the big roller repaired, the threads of tips draw head having broken out. Silas Swain, who-, has been selling some 1 lightning rods ip the neighborhood the-past week went to Lowell today and will go-from there to his homp ip Morpoco;,. Iff Is enjoying a good trade here- and will probably be back agaip lff-a few;-days. Jakf who has been a factor in the Republican office for some hag j been quite sick for the pa* week with what, .was feared shoul terminate in a case of typhoid fever, but these symptoms have been passing away and hip . physicians now pronoupce; his disease ; auto-intoxioation. He i&jnpw .-somewhat improved now.

Judge Hadley was in Fowler yesterday, where he was to have sat as special ' judge in a case instituted by the commissioners of Benton against their former auditor, JamSs Smythe, charging him. with having illegally retained fees due to the county. A judgment was arranged by compromise, the former auditor paying back to the county the sum of SBOO. James, Noah and Charley Shlg’ey, of Chalmers, the soub of Noah B. Shlgley, a wealthy man who recently died at Chalmers, came here this morning and went out to look at a tract of 40 acres that their father owned in the south end of Union tp. As the Shlgley estate is now to be divided they have about decided to sell this forty • and may close up a deal today to do it

A. B. Crisler, who: e father, J. A. Crisler, 'moved from Mt. Ayr to Spokane, Wash., about 30 year* ago, ha* been visiting relatives here and at Mt Ayr recently, his Rensselaer relatives being Mr. and Mr*. Benjamin Harris. Today he went to Roselawn to vl*:t relatives, and Mrs. Harris accompanied him there to spend the day. He has just completed a course In a cartoonist college at Kalamazoo, and expects when- be returns to Spokane to secure a position as cartoonist on a. newspaper there. Six dfferant tornadoes raged through several southern states yesterday, causing 133 deaths In Louisiana, Mlsslssipl and Alabama, and resulting iff great property damage. Twenty towns were swept by the storm, 1,000 > homes are estmated to have been destroyed and the loss extends Into millions of dollars. This vicinity was visited by a heavy wind that blew all day long and the storms of Thursday and Friday nights were quite, severe. -Today the eun apd the clouds have been in a constant strife for supremacy. The i sent moving picture show given by Manager Elite at the opera house is attracting' fair crowds saoh night. An unusually fins lot of films ha vs been received lately and the per-'

- formances are refined and instructive. One night this week the -films dlo played the life of the bee, which showed that busy little animal .in every phrase of its existence. Imagine photographs of bees in every occupation of their ltVee and so arranged that they can be enlarged and placed op canvas and -all their habits brought out clearly to the person that sees the picture. It' was a lesson In natural history worthy the time of anyone. The program for the evening show is carried la the Dally Republican each day. ' " j ■ * t ,; '■ /, . , MONDAY Mrs. Isaac Saidla is- recovering from a severe case of 'pneumonia. Bom, Sunday, April 26, to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Borntrager, a son. Miss Alice Drake, who has been teaching school at. Glencoe, 111., is home for a week’s vacation. Chas. Hellwig and E. D. Cajnerson, q t Whiting accompanied Alfred Lowman here yesterday just to see Rensselaer. Alfred D. Stephenson, of Parr, was today appointed administrator of the estate- of his late father, Robert Stephenspn. Mrs. Robert Henderson, of Chicago, and Master John' Gryson Faithorn, of Chicago,; are the guesst of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Holden. o '-r >\.n Rensselaer K. Of P. Lodge will have a candidate in the 3rd degree Tuesday night and Remington lodge will come over to confer the work. Mr.' and Mrs. A. E. Wallace came Saturday for a short visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Irwin. He returned to Chicago this morning and she will remain for a few days. M. H. Hemphill has been confined at his home for some two weeks or more with an attack of stomach trouble. He is now able to be up some but has not ventured out yet. Trustee Cbeadle and Attorney Darroch started Saturday to inspect the Parker lands in Arkansas and estimatt their value, with a view of realizing on them -as soon as possible.*—Remington Press. .

J. E. Flynn, who has been engaged in the milling business at Chesterton for some time, has now returned to Rensselaer, and will remain here for an indefinite time. Temporarily he is boarding at Gleason’s. A keyless dime savings bank, a novel, yet very useful article, is being giv en away by the Home Grocery as a means of introducing this excellent new firm. Every home In the city and country should have one of these treasures. Mrs. Mary Eslinger, of near Peoria, 111., is visiting her sister, Mrs. L. J. Lane, southeast of Rensselaer. She reports that there was a water spout at Peoria last Friday night that almost flooded that city, and that cellars were filled up all over the city. It is said that B. J. Gifford the Kankakee capitalist, has recently sold 800 acres of his Indiana swamp land to a colony of Russian Jews, who are now on their way to this country to take possession of the land —Rem* ngton Press

The heavy rain of Sunday and Sunday night has temporarily stopped the work on the stone roads. Very good progress was made last week and about 2,000 yards of rock have been distributed on the various east and west streets already this year. In Carpenter township, near Remington, about 6 miles of road has been built this year. The Odd Fellows’ lodge will tonight celebrate the 89th anniversary of the foundation pt the order, and the local lodge has made extensive preparations for a big time. The ritualistic anniversary ceremony will be carried out and a special program of music and toasts has been arranged,' and a banquet supper will be served. The Rebekah Order, the ladles’ auxiliary, will assist in the program. Alfred Lowman came down from Whiting yesterday for a short visit with relatives and friends here and at Pleasant Ridge, from which plaee he moved to Whiting last January. He has been getting himself well established in the grocery and meat business at that place and about three weeks ago he opened up another store there and placed It in charge of his son WIU. Both stores are enjoying a good cash trade. James Blake, who formerly went from near Remington to Spokane. Wash., writes as follows from there to the Republican: “We are as yet stopping in Spokane, but don’t expect to stay here much longer. We like the country and the climate fine and think the west is much better for a young man than the east. Have been to Moees Lake and oalled on Henry Farmer and Rudy Winger, formerly of Indiana. Found them both well located and doing fine. Mrs. John Marlatt had a revere attack of heart trouble this morning, and for about 15 mlnutae was unconI edema. Mr. Marlatt was serving on

the petit jury and was excused so that be could accompany the.doctor to i their home in Barkley, township. She recovered from the attack very satisfactorily and now seems in about her usual health again. She. had a similar though somewhat worse attack about three years ago. W. N. Pence, who is manager of the Nelsbn Morris ranching interests In Texas and Dakota, was here a short time Saturday. As before stated the plan operated by the Morris people Is to breed their cattle on tbe 850,000 acre tract of land they own in Texas and when the calves are yearlings they ship them to Dakota, whe e they have many thousands of acres of land leased and feed and fatten the cattle there for the market. ' iJoseph L. Mendenhall, deputy sheriff of Danville, Ind., came here yesterday and arrested Earl Gray, a parole prisoner wanted for forging a check for $125. Gray brought his wife and chjld here some weeks ago and they have tenanted on a farm in GiUam township. Gray was sent up for lawny to sprve from one to five years, was paroled but got himself into trouble within thirty days afterwards. He has no relatives living in this part of the country.—Francesv lUe Tribune. - Will Donnelly, who a few years ago bought a big lumber tract in Texas of which he has been in charge sine** that time, has Bold out his business there and bought a retail -lumber business at Ravenia, Neb., with a sale office in Lincoln. He has a partner and it is expected htat the partner will he located at Lincoln. For the present he Is at Ravinia, where Mrs. Donnelly and two children will go from here - to join him next Sunday. They found the Texas climate so inimical to their health that they did not remain there j long and Mrs. Donnelly and the child- ( ren have been here with her mother, t Mrs. Meyer, for a long time, ,

Frank Meyers is over from Danville, 111., today, where he is engaged very successfully in the retail shoe business, having the largest and most popular store In that city. When thejt started into business they had small capital and a lot of nerve and determination and a good business training, and their growth was rapid. Advertising was one of the things that made them grow, and they still advertise. “Gee,” said Frank, "but It did come hard to pay advertising bills for awhile, but I was told by all successful business men that it was necessary, and we kept at it. Now our advertising costs us about l HOO a month and we never feel it It is the only way to get and keep trade.” Kavanaugh & Meyers recently moved their original quarters to new, larger and better located ones, and In a few years they have climbed to the top of the commercial ladder In the business city of Danville. Mrs. T. A. Crockett has been suffering for the past ten wteks with a severe attack of inflammatory rheumatism and shows but little improvement