Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1908 — LOCAL HAPPENINGS [ARTICLE]

LOCAL HAPPENINGS

FRIDAY Mrs. Ray Wood and daughter Ruth went to Chicago this morning for a week’s visit Mrs. Jas. Maloy came down from Steger, 111., today to visit relatives and attend to some business affairs. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Coen went to Chicago this morning and will go from there to Michigan for a week's vacation. The board of commissioners of Lake county have let the contract for a new jail at Crown Point to cost $58,140. . Harvey Lowman went to Whiting this morning to see his brother, Alf., He will also visit in Chicago before returning home. Stone hauling was begun this morning on the Weston and Dayton street improvement. It will be a fine street when finished. The democrats of the thirteenth Indiana district have nominated Henry A. Barnhart, editor of the Rochester Sentinel, for congress. Mrs. J. A. Rodgers, of Hammond, who has been visiting the family of J. P. Simons, went to. Monon today for a short visit with friends. Miss Florence Hawkins, of Remington, and Miss Hazel Broadie, of Ashland, Kans., are the guests today of their consin, Mrs. J. D. Allman. Mrs. D. E. Hollister is being visited by two sisters, namely, Mrs. M. F. Clark, of Lincoln, Neb., and Mrs. J. A. Krum, of North Manchester. J. B. Martindale and his father-in-law and Joe Long returned this morning from a fishing trip on the Kankakee. They had fair success and brought home some pickerel and bass. Will Idles has been havingsome trouble with his hearing lately and It threatens to make it Impossible for him to hear the ticking of a telegraph Instrument. He came down from Chicago today to consult a local physician. Mrs. Jess CroweU came back from Monticello this morning and Mrs. W. P. Crowell, her husband’s mother, will join her here this evening and remain until Sunday. Mr. Crowell will also'fae here in a few days.lmd they expect to continue to make Rensselaer their home. i D. H. Yeoman Is feeling good because he had 80 acres of wheat on his farm this year that yesterday threshed out 30 bushels to the acre. There is some exceptionally fine wheat here this year and we shall be glad to hear from those whb have had better yields than that reported by Mr. Yeoman. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Perkins departed this 1 morning for Morris, 111., her former home, for a short visit before returning to their future home In Mishawaka. They are the couple who were married Wednesday, and they make a very fine looking bride and groom. ~ He is in his 66th year and the bride was 60 on May 12th. R. M. Isherwood and wife and daugh. ter, of Delphi, were in Rensselaer over night, having come here in the afternoon in their Franklin automobile. They went to Chicago this morning and will be back through here In a day or two. Mfi lsherwood is one of the Hearst Independence League workers in this state and he states that it is the positive intention of the league to nominate a national ticket. Wolcott defeated Monticello at baseball yesterday by a score of 7 to 4. The game was witnessed by about twenty people from Rensselaer.

who went over in automobiles. The Monticello team was not at its best, as the pitcher, Karp Stockton, was kept out of the game* by an inured foot, and two or three of the other regular players were out. Wolcott did some timely batting, getting a two bagger in the 7th inning with crowded bases and scoring three and repeating with a two bagger in the Bth, scoring two. Manager Scott arranged with Monticello to play here next Thursday, July 30. Miss Ethel Sharp has returned from her visit in California. Her father, Joseph Sharp, who has been confined at his home for several weeks past, is in very poor health, and his daughter’s return was somewhat hastened on this account The big dredge is now within about 100 feet of the Washington street bridge and by tomorrow night it will probably reach the bridge. The contract for the removal of the bridge will not be let until Augpst 3, so there will be a delay of about two weeks in the work again, which is very unfortunate. The removal of the rock with the great dipper is quite intersting to view and there is a large crowd continually on the river bridge.

J. D. Babcook returned to his. home at Bluffton today. He had been in Rensselaer about a week having stopped off on his way back from Chicago, where he had had a load of cattle on the market. He has not been feeling very well for some time past and thought perhaps a visit in Jasper county would straighten him up. But he did not appear to have received much benefit and when he left he was feeling quite poorly. HA had the grip this spring and can’t recover from it -

H. 0. Harris went to Chicago again this morning to be at the bedside of his wife, who is now at the Rest Cure hospital. Miss Jennie Harris is also at her side. Mrs. Harris went to Chicago recently, expecting after a fewdays to go on to the sanitarium at Battle Creek, Mich., but she became §o much worse that she was unable to leave the city and she was transTered from the Michael Rees hospital to the Rest Cure. While she has been regarded as in quite critical health, she yesterday rested very easy and her relatives here have great hopes for her recovery. SATURDAY W. 0. Carrothers, of Lee, is taking the teachers’ examination here today. Mrs. George W. Hopkins went to New Waverly, Ind., today for a short visit Allen Catt returned yesterday from a visit with his son Lee at Knightstown. Miss Merl Ellis went to Lafaytte today for a visit of two weeks with relative*. Mrs. Mary E. Travis went to Marion coday to visit her daughter, Mrs. Wade Loop. Miss Josie Miller has returned from Marion, where she has been attending normal school. John English, of Chicago, came today to visit his, brother. Dr. E. C. English and family. John W. Marlatt has finished thresh ing his wheat and has hi* crop of 650 bushels stored at the elevator. He had 25 acres, and therefore an average of 26 bushels to the acre.

Geo. K. Hollingsworth came down from Chicago today to remain over Sunday with his family. Mrs. J. F. Bank, of Chicago, camo today to visit her sister, Mrs. G. L. Parks, of Milroy township. Misses Ruth and Goldie Bundy, daughters of Rev. Bundy, went to Monticello today for a week’s visit. James Norris went to Hammond today to spend Sunday with his wife and-daughter, who are visiting there. Mrs. M. J. O’Connell and daughter Regina, of East Chicago, ere visiting the family of her brother, J. H. Conway. Mrs. C. P. Wright went to Kentland today to remain over Sunday with her mother, Mrs. Maria Vondersmith. u Miss Elizabeth Chilcote returned to her home in South Bend this morning, after a visit with her grandmother, Mrs. Kinney. W. H. Daugherty went to Monticello today to call on his uncle, William Daugherty, who is reported to be in very pood health. Misses Agnes Newell and Sadie Jones returned to their home at Urbana, 111., today, after a week’s visit here with Mrs. J. L. Burton. Carl Worden continues to slowly improve from his condition that necessitated the operation for appendicitis, and his recovery now seems quite certain. E. C. Maxwell, wife and son went to Anderson today to visit with a brother of Mr. Maxwell, who Is in quite feeble health, having suffered a stroke of paralysis. * Louis; Wildberg, who has been at leaving the hospital in Chicago, now expects to be able to return to Rensselaer next Saturday. Mrs. Mary E. Kannal is improving her residence property at the intersection of College road and Milroy avenue by the erection of a fine large porch of colonial style across the fi ont. J. H. Toops writes from Hebron, Neb., that notwithstanding the fact that Nebraska is the home of Bryan, the republicans of that state can be depended upon to give Taft ten thousand plurality in November. " R. F. Leadbetter.who works at Warner Bros.’ hardware store, went to Fowler today, where he formerly worked, to assist his former employer, who has sold out his business, in making an inventory of the stock. Mr. and Mrs. Hartley Church and Miss Twonette Parker, of Remington, and Miss Louise Ford, of Indianapolis, came over from Remington Friday and spent the day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Bellows. Judge Clark Price, of Ashland, Kans arrived here this morning from Ohio, and this afternoon he went with his sister Nettie to their old home in Carpenter township to visit their brother, County Surveyor Price. Misses Mary and Doris Porter went to Orleans, Ind., today for a week’s visit with relatives. They have a great aunt living there that is almost 90 years of age, and another who was 94 years old died only a short time ago. Abe Martin: After a feller gits so he kin support his family an’ own his own hoine it* won’t hurt if he talks politics ’casionally in th* evenings. Th’ feller with a deep, thick voice alius gits th’ most attention an’ generally knows th* least Prof. J. H. Gray, for. the past three: years principal of the Rensselaer high school, but who has secured a better paying position as principal at Huntington, Ind., for next year, came to Rensselaer today for a visit of several days. He has been attending Chicago University this summer. Trustee Cheadle sent out notices this week of an order to sell all the real estate and personal property belonging to the estate of Robert Parker bankrupt, at private sale at his office in Remington on Tuesday Aug. 4. and from day to day thereafter until all said property has been sold.—Remington Press. Mrs. Eva Crane and friend, Mrs. Bousman, of Logansport, who have been visiting the former’s sister, Mrs. Ira Gray, at Monon, came here yesterday and spent the day with W. F. Osborne and family, and Mrs. Crane’s stepfather, J. C. Thrawls, who is now In quite good health and able to be about the streets every day.

The physician attending John Andrus will take the cast off his leg tomorrow. It was almost eight weeks ago when John had the limb broken and he has been bedfast ever since. He will be mighty glad to get out again, having always been an active and energetic man. It was only about four years ago that his father, George Andrus, suffered the fracture of his left leg.

Mrs. William Ulyat, of Brook, took the 2:01 train here today for Indianapolis, where her sister, Mrs. Wm. Beard, is very sick and not expected to five. In speaking of the departure of Mrs. J. K. Smith for Indianapolis Thursday, the Republican said that her sister was Mrs. M. B. Beard, of Wolcott, when it should have said Mrs. William Beard, of Indianapolis. Trustee G. L. Parks is of the opinion that weather conditions being favor-, able Miljgy township will have the largest corn crop this year It has ever had. A great many farmers used commercial fertilizer this year and with very good results. The oats there is very good. After planting 40 acres Mr. Parks plowed up 15 acres an'd planted it in corn and he says the oats he raised is the poorset he ever' raised. I

Jasper county is complaining already of a shortage in school teachers. The township trustees cannot meet the condition. The average school ma’m is good looking and the young men of the neighborhood know it too, and there the trustees’ troubles begin. The young man offers a better contract. Too many years in tbe school room fosters a dislike for housekeeping, hence the sooner taken the better. We can offer no remedy. —Oxford Tribune. J. K. Davis lost a 40 pound pig, which he advertised in the Republican, but he received no replies direct. However, a reader of this paper who saw the pig answering the description in a pen in his neighborhood informed Mr. Davis, who investigated and found that it was his pig. The man who had fastened It up gave as his excuse that he saw it running loose and caught it and penned it up, but he made no effort to find Its owner. One guess is allowed as to who ha/i the pig penned up.

Lee Jessup, the original celnent block manufacturer in Rensselaer, is also to build a cement house. He has already begun the excavating for a new residence for himself on the lot he purchased last year of Thos. Knox, in the southeast part of town. The house he will build will be very similar to the one he built last year for Fred Tyler, and which is occupied by Walter Lee and family. Another cement house and which Mr. Jessup will also build, is to be erected on the Fank Hill farm, in Jordan townsl.il • Squire C. W. Bussell and sisters, Mrs. Mary Lowe and Mrs. Sidney Holmes returned last evening from their trip to Michigan and Wisconsin. They visited Rhinelander, Marionette and Packard, Wis., and it is near the latter place that Mrs. Lowe has 320 acres of timber land. She did not make any other investments during this trip. Squire Bussell is known as a great hunter but he did not take his rifle with him on this trip as it was a business and not a pleasure visit he was making, but he had the pleasure of pointing out to his sisters two wild deer and a fresh bear track. A bunch of grapes hangs in the Re- J publican office window, which is one of a number of bunches that Miss Ethel Sharp brought here from the farm of Ike Porter, between Reedley to that state from Rensselaer about i seven years ago, and he now has a ! fruit farm of 32 acres, only four miles from Reedley. Half of the farm is in grapes and half in peaches. The grapes are picked before they are entirely ripe, in order that they I will stand shipping the best, but we do not get the best fruit because the vine ripened is better than that which is ripened after it is picked. What does not find a ready market as fresh fruit is dried and sold as raisins, each farmer curing his own raisin crop. Ike is prospering, as also is his brother Charley, who has a 40 acre farm across the road from Ike’s. Miss Sharp was very much pleased with the climate and country and had a most pleasant visit. MONDAY Miss Lena Spath went to Chicago today for a short visit Ringling Bro*. Show will be at Lafayette on August 15th. Miss Margaret and Marion Hill, of Chicago, are here at the home of Austin Hopkins. Miss Louella Worthley, of Michigan City, is the guest of Rev. and Mrs. H. L. Kindig Frank B. Meyer, deputy post-master at Gary, is here today for a short visit Gary is booming livelier than ever. Miss Ella Morris, of Chicago, returned this morning after having spent Sunday with Mrs. E. W. Morris and family. . A. H. Hopkins and wife and two children returned this morning from a short visit with her father and family, near Monticello. W. H. Mackey, the proprietor of the monument works, is out today, I after being confined at bls home for

several days with an attack of malarial fever. G. K. Hollingsworth' and family left Sunday afternoon in their automobile for WilliMns Bay, Wis., where they will spend their summer vacation. Firman Thompson and Rex Warner returned home this morning from Monon, where they visited over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Sol Jacobs of Tampa, Fla., arrived Saturday to be here until September Ist. They are visiting Mrs. Jacob’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Fendig. List of letters remaining uncalled for in this office for the month ending July 25: Mrs. Belle Ricker, Miss Maude Leek (2), Mrs. Mary Beadenkoff, Miss Lottie Goodner, Thomas Carson, Geo. Macey, F. G. Thatcher, Ella Marten, Anna Miller and Mabie Gier. Richard Crowell and wife and baby and Miss Irma Kannal and Mr. H. F. Parker returned Sunday night from their camp near Buffalo, in White county, on the. ’Tippecanoe river, where they had been for the past two weeks. They had a very pleasant time and caught a total of 32 bass while there. .== Bayard Clark, now a railroad conductor on the Santa Fe, and running out of Pueblo, Colo., is here today io visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Clark and his brother Leslie. He will be in Indiana about a week, visiting various relatives. Mrs. Clark came from Pueblo about two months ago to visit her relatives at Monon, and she is now at Tipton. This is Bayard’s first visit in Indiana for three years. Ves Richards has subscribed for the Semi-Weekly Republican tor ’ his brother,. Joe, now at Nye, Mont., whe. e he is prospering in frontier life. Joe and wife went to Nye about two years ago and took out a claim. Now they own their own home, have a comfortable house, some stock and are getting to the front. Ves expects to pay them a visit this fall and may spend several weeks there, in hopes that it will be beneficial to his health. Miss Nettle Price returned this morning from Carpenter township, where she and her brother Clark, of Ashland, Kans., had gone Saturday to see their brother, M. B. Price, th* county surveyor. Myrt has been having another severe siege wl* h the rheumatism, and it is hard to tell when he will be able to return to Rensselaer, and he may decide that it is advisable to return to the springs for further treatment His brother Clark Price, who is a lawyer and former judge at Ashland, Kans., will return there today. Joe Reynolds, business manager of the Frankfort News, is in Rensselaer today, and this evening he will accompany his mother, Mrs. S. R. Nichols, to Detroit, Mich., where they will visit for several days. During the time they are in Detroit Earl Reynolds and wife will open an engagement in the leading vaudeville theatre there. On August 10th Marl and wife will appear at the Majestic theatre, Chicago, and they will later be at the Olympic and Haymarket, their engagement being tor a w%ek at each theatre.

A telegram from Crawfordsville to the Indianapolis Sunday Star says that Ray Hopkins, of Rensselaer, is now assured a place as tackle on the Little Giants football team this fall. Hopkins was the captain of the last high school team that Rensselaer had and he was one of th* best tackles in the stat*. He entered Wabash college last spring and will return this fall. Homer Dobbins, another Rensselaer boy, will also b* on the same team, and will either play at end or half back. He was one of the stars of the Little Giant team last year. Judge Hanley and E. P. Honan, composing the finance committee for th* big home coming, met the attraction* committee this morning and several of the proposed shows were talked about and the finance committee start ed out and in about two hours had secured S3OO, and it is believed that much more can be readily raised. Then the privileges for stands will give some S2OO more. It has been proposed to hold a K. of P. and I. O. O. F. ball game and give the money to (lie committee. It is going to be -*■ - great and wholesome home-coming and our former residents are urged .to begin preparations to be her* and share in the good time. Forty-three persons took th* teacher’s examination here Saturday. Some already held licenses, but took the examination with the hop* of raising their grades. Several Stier* who reside in or desire to teach school in this county will send their papers here to be graded, and this will include several of the young folks who are attending normal schools. It no* seems that there will be no trouble in securing plenty of teachers, a* many outsiders are writing for place*, but County Superintendent Lamson will prefer the local teachers *o ter as possible and all who make eligible grade* for licenses will b* given schools at home if they wish to teach here. The Rensselaer Grays, formerly called the Blues, have been exhibiting considerable enthusiasm lately and last week passed a subscription paper in town and almost $35 was subscribed toward getting them new suits and they have ordered the Spalding gray suit* with black trimmings and die new outfits are expected to arrive Wednesday of this week. Th* Grays will be a nicely outfitted team when they get into their new dud* and they have some very good young ball players who are apt to develop into good fielders and hitters. They met some discouragement Sunday morning when Hugh Kirk’s Spuds, an organization of Wren castaway*, took their measure to the tune of IS to 8, but the playing was much mor* ragged than th* Grays ar* capable of putting up and they ar* auro to do better when they have another game. What they most need is an outside manager.