Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1908 — LOCAL HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

TUESDAY Miss Eva Clark came down from Hammond yesterday for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Clark. Earl Gray and wife have moved here from Marion, andw ill work with Sherman Richards the painter and paper hanger. Mrs. E. G. Warren and son Edwin and daughter, Miss Grace, started this morning for Julia, Kans., for a visit of about three weeks with M. M. Yeoman and family.

George E. Hershman and wife, of Crown Point, where he is employed In an abstract office, came Sunday for a short visit. He returned there Monday and she remained for a longer visit Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Messman, of near Brook, spent Sunday at the home of the latter’s parents, Mr. and MrsJoseph Lane, of Newton tp. They were accompanied home by Kathryn The Discount and Deposit bank, of Kentland was today made a state bank with G. W. McCray retained as president The bank is capitalized >60,000. The president of the bank has been Identified with it for 33 .years.

"After a number of changes in the proprietorship of the News” remarked a Monon citizen the other day, “I believe that at last It has fallen into good hands.” And the News is looking up a great deal. Bill Fuzz, the new proprietor, is an entertaining writer and evidently an enthusiast

Ed. N. Thacher has sold the Wolcott Enterprise to Mr. Kean, of Milan, Ohio, who took possession at once. Mr. Kean has had twenty years experience In newspaper work and comes to the field well prepared to be a splendid successor to Mr. Thacher who gave the town an excellent paper. The retiring owner has not fully determined what he will do yet, but he found he had to let loose from the Enterprise on account of his health. THURSDAY J. C. Frazee Is over from Peru for a few days. | A number of the young people had 4 dance at Warner’s hall last evening. Born, Thursday, • May 7, 1908, to Mr. and Mrs. Tom Murphy, of Surrey, a daughter. Chase and Carrie, Day, of Champaign, 111., arrived here yesterday. They are brother and sister of Dan Day. I

Mrs. J. A. Ramey and three sons have returned from a visit of two weeks with relatives in Spokane, Wash. j Elder D. T. Halstead’s subject at hte Church of God next Sunday morning will be “Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven." The postoffice interior has just received a redressing in Wall paper and paints and presents a much improved appearance.

Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Coen, of Chicago, are here for a short visit with her parents, Capt. and Mrs. J. M.Was’son, and his father, W. F. Coen. Misses Edith and Mary Miller went to Lake Winona yesterday, where they will again conduct the same boarding house that they had last I year. ,< ' Prof. S. E. Sparling came down from Madison, Wls., yesterday to be here tomorrow for the hearing of the Sparling et al ditch petition In the ciri cult court The reception for parents announced 'to take place at the M. E. church tonight, has been postponed on account of the bad weather. It will take | place when the weather prospects are i better and a later announcement will , be made. M. V. BROWN, Supt. The entire city and country adjacent to Rensselaer seems peppered | with measles, but there are not I thought to be any dangerous cases 1 It Has greatly reduced the school atI tendance, which is a very bad thing, coming so near the end of the school year. Miss Elizabeth Spaulding, who went to Indianapolis last week on account of the severe sickness of her sister, Is still there and will remain for another week, her sister continuing In poor health. Miss Zoe Peck is in charge of the Western Union office during her absence. Miss Coombs, of Lebanon, and Miss ' Bush, of Kentland, are fighting their I Star tour-to-Europe contest out to the last ditch. Miss Coombs went a few hundred ahead of Miss Bush Wednesday, but Miss ‘Bush recovered that lead and Is today about 1500 in the lead again. j

The last Sunday Indianapolis Star had a two page Illustrated article about the reclamation of the Kankakee region, and the various systems of drainage already accomplished and those under consideration. The article was very Interesting and was thoroughly covered. Mrs. J. B. Marlon and daughter went to Hammond yesterday for a day’s visit with relatives and will depart from Chicago today for Wash, South Dakota, near which place Mr. Marlon, generally known here as Britt, has taken out a claim, and

;i . • where they expect to make their future home. - The Lowell Tribune says that Geo. Ade’s political ardor has waned considerably since he found that it would cost him S3OO or S4OO to be a delegate to the national convention. But this is A mistake, George Ade will not mind the expense. He will probably care as little about the cost aa any man who attends the national con- ' vention; and be probably knew all about the cost before he was elec- j ted a delegate. George Ade is not cheap, and be don’t mind the cost. J The Grover Smith ditch case, which I was set for Wednesday, was post- j poned until Saturday, the last day of • the term, on account of the time required for hearing the Day murder case and the Rosenbaum liquor case. The. Peacock wife desertion case is set for hearing Friday. Most of the large crowd that had assembled to hear the Day case lingered to hear the Rosenbaum case and it is probable that a large crowd will come out Friday to hear the trial of Esastus Peacock, and it is also prob-] able that many of the witnesses will bs women,

Isaac Thompson, of Bluffton, Ohio, came yesterday for a visit with his brother, Judge Thompson, tomorrow being the Judge’s 70th birthday. Isaac ' has him beaten a little more than 10 years and like the judge he is still a man for his age. Isaac' is somewhat of a fisherman, he and 1 his brother David, now some years 1 deceased, being much alike in that respect. He was attracted here large-' ly by the report that "Baldy” Powers had opened the season by catching a 10% pound pickeral. The very high I and dirty waters now prevailing are apt to prevent fishing, however, for some time. • 1

It is an ill wind that blows no one good.and| likewise a small rain or a large one either that does not benefit some one, and whlka'armers and business men and stone road contractors and workers are all bemoaning the heavy and long continued rains C. H. Sternberg & Son, who have one of their dredges making a 23 foot cut in the Hoagland ditch, near Monon, are getting just what they need, plenty of water. Monday the rainfall was 1.18 inches, but that did not stand long for a May record of precipitation, for Wednesday it set in to beat that, and by 6 o’clock this morning the water gage as kept by Mr. Klosterman, at St. Joseph’s college, showed that there had been a 2 inch rainfall, and it is still raining. Since Sunday it is probable that there has been more than 4 inches of rainfall. , . . , . •

Chas. Jacks, the barber who has been working for Free Wood for some time, and the Ward girl to whom he wanted to be issued a license; to marry about two weeks ago, but was restrained when the clerk found out that she was not yet: 16 years of age, returned Sunday from Hammond, where they had been visiting. They did not get married, but are living with her parents J. W. Ward and wife in the north part of town. She will be 16 years old next Thursday when, the girl’s father says, they will be married. Charley has* been less talkative since he returned home, and says he is going to let those who are interested find out whether he is not, and as most of those»lnterested were too busy to look the matter up, the above information is given. It comes direct from the girl’s father.