Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1908 — LOCAL HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

TUESDAY Mrs. Frank B. Ham is in Chicago today. Trustee Robert Mannan, of Wheatfield, was here today. Attorney A. Halleck went to Wheatfield on business today. J The D. A. R. will me2t Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Jay W. Williams. Mrs. Levi Renicker and Mr. Renicker’s mother went to Chicago today for a short stay. J. F. Irwin went to Wolcott today to look after his tile mill interests, the same now being running at full blast.

Hiram Day went to Gary today on business, closing up for some work he done last year and figuring on some new contracts.', ■ -- - Mrs. A. E. Wallace and sister, Miss Marguerite Irwin, will return to Chicago this evening, after a short visit here with their p&rents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Irwin. Mrs. C. J. Weathers, who has been staying with her grand daughter, Mrs. J. J. Fox, at Otterbein, came here Sunday to remain for an indefinite time with her daughter, Mrs. Mary Peyton.

Valaparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana, “accredited” by the State Board for preparing teachers for all | classes, A, B and C, according to the new law, will open its summer term May 12th and its mid-summer term June 9th. Each term will continue twelve weeks, thus meeting the wants of all who wish to prepare to teach In' September. In addition to the above work there will be the regular and review classes in all the subjects taught during any other session of the year. , Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Hickson, of Sheridgn, passed thro Rensselaer this morning, enroute to Chicago, from where they will go to San Francisco and from there embark on May 9th tor the Philippines, where he will be engaged for the next two years as a school teacher. Mr. Hickson was a classmate and roommate of Rose

Dean at Indiana University, and he , recently went to Sheridan to attend l the weddng of his old college friend. Today he was called to the depot to see them go through and to bid them farewell. k _ h WEDNESDAY Rev. G. H. Bundy went to Greenfield today on business. C. H. Pltser, of Thayer, lawyer and preacher, was in Rensselaer yesterday. Rev. G. H. Bundy will preach next Sunday, morning and evening, at the M. P. church. Miss Hattie Shields, of Duluth, Minn is expected here today for an extended visit her grand parents, Mr. and Mrs- Chas. Platt. D. O. Warne, of Morocco, a half brother of Theo. Warne, of Parr, has been here for several days, having several jobs of sheep shearing in this neighborhood. J. P. Hammond came over from Remington with the K. of P. crowd last evening and stopped over for a while today to transact some business and to visit' with his many friends here. Encouraging reports arrive daily from Chicago about the improvement of Louis Wildberg, and today his relatives were notified that he seems considerable better. It will, however, be some time before he will be well enough to return home, and it is not probable that his health will permit of his resuming charge of his business for some time longer.

J. R. German writes from Bloomingdale, Mich., that they have been having fine weather there and that oats are looking well and that there is a fine prospect for a large hay crop, and if there are no later frosts they will have a large crop of fruit. He says that he has talked with many (of the fruit growers who say that it I will become necessary to pick off half |of the peaches if they stay on. A great many farmers had planted their potatoes and many were through plow ing for corn. If l

Vernon Schock and wife have about completed the sale of their household goods, and will leave tomorrow afternoon for Pasadena, Calif., where they expect to make their future home. Vern made a prospecting trip to the west last year, but had about given ' *

up moving, but he failed to procure agreeable employment here this spring and decided to go to Pasadena, .where' they have relatives that assured them that there is considerable work. They will be accompanied to California by j Miss Jennie Parkison, who has been ( teaching school and who goes here to be with her sister, Miss Harriet, who is at Sierre Madre for her health, having remained there when her mother returned to Rensselaer some weeks ago. ~ ■.. •. .'"V, For two or three days there has been a constant fear that the tempera- f ture Would get down low enough to kill the abundant fruit prospects, and every owner of a cherry tree has been - trembling in his boots. The danger j now seems almost past and it is prob- | able that all fruit escaped, although this Wednesday morning there was quit a little frost and a scum of ice. J The rain and clouds of Monday night saved the fruit from going'then and last night it was cloudy until late and then cleared away and at midnight the sky was clear and the frost and slight freeze occurred after that time. It Is possible that on the lower lands the fruit was injured. Today it is Borne warmer, hut it is having a hard time clearing up.

THURSDAY Walter White is down from Lowell todays Miss Grace Roush went to Monon today on business . See “Cousins” at the opera house next, Monday night. May 4th. Mrs. A. C. Robinson, of Monon, was here a short time this morning. Born, Wednesday ,April 29th, to Mr. and Mrs. Chester Zea, a son. Had Gen. Ulysses S. Grant lived he would have been 86 years of age last Monday. Mrs. John Eger went to Rosebud today to spend the day with Mrs. Peter Hordeman. \ Van Grant has about closed a deal for the Geo. W. Goff restaurant, Mr. Goff feeling that he must retire from active business because of his failing health. f Hiram Day found that there was plenty of work at Gary and he about closed up for two or three good jobs of plastering, on which he and his gang will shortly begin' work. Mrs. D. Mauck, Mrs. Jas. Elijah and Mrs. Loma Miller, of Mt. Ayr, went to Monon today to attend the funeral of a relative, Mrs. Olney Goble, who died Tuesday at the age of 31 years. The Monticello high school track team are strong bidders for the state championship this year, and the team’s picture was published in the White county meet will be held at Wednesday Indianapolis Star. The Monticello Saturday. This is the last day of April and it is another damp, cold and altogether disagreeable day. The fruit had another narrow escape last night and is apt to have trouble in getting through tonight. The forecast is for showers today and cooler weather tomorrow.

True Woodworth is building a new barn on the .I'ear of the property he recently purchased of Chas. Nowels. Mrs. Grant, the former occupant of the house, has moved to the Mrs. Jas. Randle house, on Forest street, near the railroad, and Mr. Woodworth and family will occupy the property he has just purchased. I William Hoover, Sr., has just begun the erection of a fine large barn at his farm southwest of Rensselaer. The main building will be 30x40 feet and at the end will be a shed 30x14.' The floor of the barn will be cement and in addition to the cost of the' framing timber, which was cut and sawed on the farm, the bam will cost about $1,250. Anson Cox is do- | ■ nig the carpenter work and Fen Smith the cement work. Eger Bros., Cleve and Harry, have been making some extensive improvements in the hardware store conducted by their father for so many years prior to his death and to which they succeeded. Needing more room they moved the tin shop from the rear of the store proper to a room across the alley, and then tore out the partition that separated the main salesroom from the former tlnshop. This not only gave them much more room but better light. They have had metal celling put on the large room, a new front put in the building and will now have one of the best looking hardware stores in this section of Indiana. The mill whistle will blow the weather forecast every evening at 6 o'clock, but the weather indications can not yet be published in the dally Republican, owing to their not getting here in time. Arrangements had been made to have the mill notified from Chicago, in which case the postal from the Chicago weather bureau

would reach here at 2:01 o’clock, but the Chicago office transferred the service to the Indianapolis office and that does not let the card of information reach here until 3:18, too late tob e used in the Republican. Mr. Kosterman, who keeps the local weather bureau records at the College, is trying to arrange to have the forecast sent to him each day by telegraph,and thinks this can be arranged and if it is, the Republican will publish the daily, predictions. It is rumored that Governor Hughes, of New York, will withdraw from the race for the Republican nomination for president and make the race for renomination for governor of New York. He has begun an effort in New York to rid that state of race track gambling and he will not be able to accomplish the effort if he does not stay right in New York and finish the work which he*2bas so earnestly begun. Governor Hughes is a young man and a great man and while he would make a splendid standard bearer for the republican national party, he can accomplish much by his determination to reform his own state, and there is plenty of time for him in national politics later on, and the people will watch him and not let him get out of their memory. Taft is each day more certain of getting the nomination unless Roosevelt should be dragged into it, and it would not be surprising if Taft get the nomination on the first ballot.