Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1908 — LOCAL HAPPENINGS [ARTICLE]

LOCAL HAPPENINGS

TUESDAY Miss Mary Kline of DeMotte, came today to visit Miss Mary Meyer. Bert Brenner and wife and George Hopkins and wife are spending- today on the Kankakee river. Prof. Ross Dean, history teacher in our schools, came over from Winona today, on a short business trip. Leland Jessen returned this morning from Frankfort, where he has been working in the Monon telegraph office for the past ten days. Mrs. Sylvester Gray went to Goodland today to attend the funeral of Mrs. William Toyne, who died Saturday evening of heart failure. Mrs. E. G. Sternberg returned this morning from her visit with relatives in Michigan. Mr. Sternberg met her in Chicago and accompanied her home. Mrs. R. P. Benjamin and son Junior went to Otterbein today to visit her father and mother, B. F. Magee and wife. They will remain about a week. The sextette of young , men, some; asthma and hay fever sufferers, took' their departure this morning for Eag’« River, Wis., for a four to she weeks sojourn, j Rue Parcel)? returned ffom Indianapolis this morning, where he arranged to enter business college the second week in September for a six months term. Mrs. Kate Harbold and three daughters, who have been visiting her sister, Mrs. Mary Peyton, for six or seven weeks, left this morning for their home in Lakin, Kansas. Mrs. John E. Alter and „ daughter, Mrs. A. W. McAuly, left this morning for Salt Lake City, Utah, where they will visit Cecil Alte? for the next two "months. Mrs. Eva Morgan and daughter, Mrs C. T. Shotts, of Chicago, are visiting relatives here, and will remain for about two weeks. Mrs. Shotts went to Lafayette today for a visit. Miss Mary Meyer went toi Chicago this morning, where she will tomorrow meet her sister, Mrs. Will Donnelly two children, who are returning here from Revenna, Neb. List of letters remaining uncalled for in 4his office for the month ending August 8, 1908: Ella Leffler, Mattie Smallemen, Mae Fisher, Amos C. Waple, Phillip Stemhoes, Erbln Carlan, Joseph Brown, Francis A. Riley, Wm. Reed, Harry Thomas. The insurance adjustor was here yesterday and accompanied the local fire insurance agent,. C. B. Steward, to Hanging Grove township, Vhere the loss of John Knopinski, in the burning of his residence was settled, he being allowed the full amount of his loss, $350. Emmett Fldler had 105 acres of oats that averaged 23% busftels< to the acre, •yhioh is the best average we have heard of for a large acreage. Some fields threshed by Jim Clark only made 7 bushels. The oats shortage seems to be general throughout the central states. Firman Thompson returned home this morning from his wedding trip, Mrs. Thompson now being at her father’s home at Monon. After re- j malning here for a few days he will go to Chicago and take up his \eork to the stock yards and they will begin housekeeping there very shortly. Mrs. A. • Parkinson, who accom-! panied Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth and family on their automobile trip to Lake Geneva, Wis., returned to Rensselaer by train yesterday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Hollingsworth will return in their automobile Wednesday. Mrs. Parkison had a most enjoyable outing. > Augustus Phillips started for New York this morning, his departure having been hastened by a telegram stating that the Schuberts were ready to begin their rehearsals of “The Wolf.” It -is not probable that he will get into Chicago this year, as another Schubert company has been playing this same play there., Earl Reynolds and wife are one of the attractions this week at the Olympic vaudeville theatre In Chicago. Next week they will be away and later they will return for engagements at the Majestic and Haymarket. It is probable that a number of, Rensselaer people will see them during their engagement at these theatres. Delphi is to have a street fair the first week in October and the eight | saloon keepers have each contributed [ 'sso each. Evidently it is believed thgt the thirsty public will be. there with' full purses. All the leading stores and each of the banks contributed $25 to the enterprise, and at the close of the first day the commitlJee reported about $1,200 subscribed. Joe Putts has the champion potato crop this year, and Joe believes that the proof of the potato as well as the pudding is in the eating, so he brought a half dosen fine tubers to

the Republican office tor us to both see and sample, The six pobgnet weighed 5 pounds and 9 ounces, almost a pound each, and they were deliciously mealy and of fiqg flavor. Joe had almost an acre of them, which he thinks will make about 150 bushels. A close weather observer remarked to the Republican man this ..morning that he fully expects rain this afternoon or evening. He says he is a close observer of the sky and that he observed that the clouds were gatherering slowly but determinedly about the horizon and that this means rain in less than 24 hours. Ray Harrington, of near Aix, was hunting last Saturday 'and bagged a wolf. The animal was 100 yards away and Ray was armed only with a 22 rifle, but he is one pf the militia company’s good shots and he hit it jthe first shot but had to put three more shots in it .to kill it. Ray I brought it in to claim the bounty and , will be $lO better off Bor his marksmanship. - • C. H. Tryon went to Strawn, lU., this jnorning. where he formerly engaged in the elevator and lumber business. He will return here before going to Satchet Harbor, N. Y., and later himself and wife will return here and remain during the corn husking period. They then expect to go to Oklahoma to remain during the winter, he having two sods living there. Joe . Jackson is oyer from Hoopeston, 111., for a few days, visiting L. P. Shirer, his farm tenant, during the threshing season. Joe and Jinks are enjoying a good business at Hoopeston, but Joe would probably prefer being at Rensselaer. He has gained 16 pounds in weight since he went %way, which is a good increase to make in a temperance town. Hoopeston has for years been the greatest temperance town in this part of the world, and it has often been said that an officer there will arrest a man if he smells liquor on his breath.

That Lake county voters will have a chance to try one or more of the new voting machine was made a surety Monday when the county commissioners met at the court house In Crown Point and practically decided to Install three or four of the machines In various places throughout the county for use during the coming election, where they will receive a "try-out’' and if they prove satisfactory, before another election comes around the whole county will be re-dlstricted into precincts so as to meet the full capacity of the machines, which register six hundred votes apiece. Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Coppess and Messrs. Chas. H. Guild and J. J. VanBuskirk left last Tuesday for Stephen, Minn. The last two named will l e go e about a week, having gone on business. Mr. and Mrs. Coppess’ stay will be determined by circumstances, they having received a communication stating that their son-in-law, Mr. John Daughetee, who moved to that place about a year ago and Where he is managing a farm owned by Mr. Guild, was very poor health and only able to attend to his business part of the time. Let’s hope that they’ll find Mr. Daughetee’s condition better than they anticipated.—Medarvville Advertiser. < * Mrs. Mary Makeever Gibbon, who with her husband has been engaged in business for some years at Lewisville, Canada, writes to the Republican from Vancouver, British Columbia, where she is spending the summer, looking after the, sale of their creamery butter manufactured at Lewisville. Mrs. Gibbons has promised to write a description of the- Canadian Pacific railroad and a trip on it through British Columbia, for the Republican, and we shall be glad to receive it Alhough Mrs. Gibbons haß been away from Rensselaer for almost 25 years she has been a constant reader of the Republican. WEDNESDAY B. F. Fendlg went to Chicago on business today. - Mrs. C. G. Spitler and daughter, Miss Mildred, are in Chicago today. Jos. tfagle, Jr., went to Lafayette today for a week’s visit with rcla'lves. 8. H. Yeoman went to Union Mills yesterday to look after his nursery business. Miss Bessie Burk, of Logansport, came today to visit the family of F. M. Parker. Walter English returned home this afternoon from a three week's visit with relatives at Glencoe, 111. C. Arthur Tuteur returned yesterday evening from Indianapolis, where he had been for the past ten days. Miss Ruth Ritchie returned to Indianapolis yesterday after a visit of two weeks with Miss Helen Murray. Mr. and Mrs, Albert Hazelton, of Jamestown, N. Y., came todby to vivt

her sister, Mrs. John M. Knapp, and family. v •*- Capt. James A. Burnham recently received notcie that his pension had been increased from $24 to S3O per mohth. Miss Leota Colvert returned to her home in Oxford today after a visit of a week in Rensselaeer at the home of her uncle, George Colvert * Miss EthlKnox, of Calumbus, Ohio, started to her home today, after a visit of three weeks at the home of her uncle, Thos. Knox, south of town. Owing, to the tfridge being out it has been decided not to the social previously advertised for Friday at the home of Mrs. W. V. Porter. Mrs. Carter Moore and little daughtfi returned to Frankfort yesterday after a visit of two Weeks with Frank Has-, kell and family apd other relatives here. ■ —— ■< ■■ "—777; —•—■ '•— 7 . Jas. W. Nelson started for Filmore county, Minn., this morning, where he will visit his sister, Mrs. Perry Loqghry, for the next week or ten Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Tillman, who have been visiting at his parents hom< at North Manchester, since their marriage last Thursday, will return here tomorrow evening on the 6:32 train. Miss Belle Torbet, of Tulsa, Okla., who has been visiting at the home of J. M. Torbet, of Barkley township for the past week,went to Lafayette today to visit relatives. Mrs. William Clift had a seveie fall a, few days ago at her home on College street and is quite severly bruised although she escaped fortunately without breaking any bones. George Ade, the author, was in town a few hours this morning, having come on the milk train from Lafayette, and telephoned for his automobile to come over from the farm and meet him here. Misses Ethel and Elizabeth and Master Ralph Witham, of Monticello, returned home yesterday after a short visit here with their father, Chas. Witham, and their grandparents,' W. R. Nowels and wife. Vern Cooper, of Indianapolis, came today for a visit of two weeks with his aunts, Mrs. J. K. Smith, of Hanging Grove, and Mrs. Wm. Ulyat, of Brook. His sister, True, has been here for several weeks, and they will return home together. Miss Marceline Roberts again utpnt to Chicago this morning. Her grandmother, Mrs. H. O. Harris, shows no indication of improvement, in fact, it is feared that she is gradually becoming weaker, and there seems no hope for improvement.

We had a nice little shower just before 2 o’clock today, and the mill weather forecaster, wanting to get in on 'the glory, blew ' the whistle for rain after the rain had begun. It looks like more rain and every one and everything is crying out for more. James Overton was one of thd younger soldiers of the civil war and was in one of the later regiments, viz., the 151st, of which Joshua Healey was colonel. Although 61 years of age Mr. Overton is in very poor health most of the time. His pension is only $8 per month. Jesse A. Snyder was able to be down town today but he is feeling

very weak, not having taken any solid I food since his attack of appendicitis la week ago. He will try to go to work again within a few days. He will put off an operation for awhile hoping to effect a cure without reaort- | ing to the knife. Mr. and Mrs. Orlan Grant are spend ing this week in Hammond and Chicago, visiting her mother at the former place. Rowles & Parker are giving their clerks a week’s vacation tills year with full pay, thus following a custom adopted by many city employers and establishing a precedent in Rensselaer. G. R. Hanna, of Kalman, returned this morning from Carroll county, where he was a citizen for many years and where he always liked to go and meet his old neighbors, especially when the old settlers reunion in on at Delphi. He says the gathering last Saturday was a record breaker. He went from Delphi over to Flora and had a pleasant visit there. I A. H. Dickinson and son Earl, from Carpenter township, left this morning for Lisbon, N. Dak., where they will do some prospecting for land, and where they will remain until corn husking time here. Lisbon is the town near which Bud Hammond is located and they will look over Bud’s big farm and possibly decide to permanently locate in that section. Ben S. Coen has written to relatives that he will be home from Denver, Colo., where he is spending the summer, for the marriage of his nephew to Miss Mildred Spitler, and also to attend the home coming. He is a member of the faculty of the Colorado Agricultural College, at Fort Collins, this being his third year with that college. Dr. Washburn and County Clerk Warner, who went to Logansport yesterday on a business trip,via automobile, returned home this morning from Delph via the 9:65 Monon passenger. They had a tire blow out near Delphi yesterday evening as they were en route home, and they were compelled to put in the night at Delphi. Chauffeur Lloyd Parks brought the car on home, trailing it behind another car that was called over from here. Thos. Knight and wife, of Oklahoma City, who moved from Jasper county a little over a year ago, are back' here visiting relatvles and friends and are spending today at the home of Mrz. and Mrs. Horatio Ropp. They report all crops better in Oklahoma this year than they are in Indiana and he thinks some corn about Oklahoma City will make 100 bushels to the acre. They will remain in this county until next Monday. Rensselaer is not the! only city where some property owners- object to the smoke and noise of a stone crusher. At Valparaiso Frank Eglln has begun suit aganist street contractors to compel them to move their crusher to another place. The case was continued from Monday to next Tuesday, but the contractors were required to furnish bond in the sum of $lO6, in each of three cases to procure the delay. Rev. Ralph Leake, husband of Mrs. Jennie Bernard Leake, who has heed preaching at Aleva, Wis., the past year expects to again be a student in Northwestern University this year, taking a post-graduate course. Mrs. Leake, who has been visiting Mrs. S. R. Nichols here, went to Chicago last Saturday, arid’ they expect to etiher establish their home at Evanston or. Brookfield. During the school year he will do Sunday supply preaching.

Cards are out announcing the approaching wedding of Miss Mildred E. Spitler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Spitler, to Mr. Delos Marquis Coen, of Chicago. The groom to be is the only son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Coen, of Rensselaer. The wedding is to take place at the Spitler home on South Cullen street on Wednesday, Sept. 2d, at 8 o'clock, and Mr. and Mrs. Coen will make their home in Chicago, where he is employed as a teller in the Western Trust and Savings Co’s. bank. Burgees Dillon, who for four years was in the civil war, being a member of Company K, of the 20th Indiana, went to Logansport today to be examined for an Increase of pension. He Is now receiving only sl2 a month. It is said that Mr. Dillon saw as much or more active service than any BOldler that went out from Jasper county. He was in 14 or 15 active engagements, besides many skirmishes; witnessed the battle of the Monitor and the Merrimac and

the surrender of Lee. Mr. Dillon was one of the very hardy kind of soldiers and while he came out of the war .with his strength apparently as good as ever, recent years have seen him break very much, and he can readily attribute this weakness to the strenuous service during the years of his enlistment. He has been unable to do hard work for many years, and should be given a substantial pension increase. 1

THURSDAY Don’t forget the band concert tonight. The Rensselaer Wrens are to play ball at Mt. Ayr next Sunday. Dr. A. P. Rainier, of Remington, was in the hub yesterday, having come over in his Ford automobile. J. M. Howell and wife, of Remington, are entertaining D. N. Garrett and wife, of Chillicothe, Ohio, and together they came over to Rensselaer yesterday, just to/jeg tpwn. Miss Carrie Day returned to Rensselaer yesterday from Champaign, lU., where she has been for some months. She will visit her father, Hiram Day, and her sister, Mrs. H. O. McKay. Sherman Renlcker and Chas. Kakin, neighbors, living near Parr, had a scrap yestereday, and today Lakin swore out a warrant for Renicker’s arrest. The case will be beard In Squire Irwin’a court. Mrs. Erret Graham and baby, of Lovedale, Tenn., are here to visit her brother, Dr. I. M. Washburn. They came here from Chicago where they had been visiting relatives. The baby did not thrive well In the city but It Is thought that It will do better in Rensselaer.

Miss Leatha Wright, who taught school the past year at- Ranton, N. Mex., is now In the Mary Thompson hospital In Chicago, and her condition is regarded as quite serious. She has hot been In good health for some time and recently baa become somewhat worse. The Methodist Sunday School had their picnic broken up by rain yesterday afternoon. They were in the grove near the J. K. Davis residence, but most of them sought shelter in houses nearby and only a few got wet. They were willing to sacrifice their

picnic for the benefit the raiq would do. All special scenery and meehanical effects are carried by the ELI and JANE company. The play Is on the order of “Way Down East” ; and Shore Acres. It’s worth your frhile to take advantage of this opportunity, and do not make a mistake, but see this great play. At opera house Thursday, August 20th. W. S. Holderness and wife, of Chicago, are visiting Anson Cox and wife. Some years ago he was a resident of this county and taught school In the -country for two or three years, and. was commonly called “Pesky Bill.’* He has many warm friends here. Now he Is engaged lifThe opten front IP velope business. «* A marriage Ucense was issued here yesterday to Mr. Emil Summers and Miss Lydia Augspurger, of Jordan township, and they are to be married this afternoon at the groom’s home, the bride’s father, Rev. D. D. Augspurger, performing the ceremony. They will reside on the Summers .arm in Joruan unruwny. George Platt, usually a very peaceable and orderly young man, became very much intoxicated yesterday evening and was so loud and boiitroua that Nightwatch Thomas locked him up, and took a quart bottle about half full of alcohol away from him. This morning he was fined $1 and costa, amounting to $8.55. He could not Remember who gave him the alcohol; a failing most boozers seem to have. R. M. Moore, of Trafalgar, In«L, has been here for the past two or three weeks visiting his sister, Mrs. Jos. Yeoman and other relatives, and expects to remain for some time longer. He reports that bis brother Jose&h J. Moore, who was injured by having the buggy in which he and Mr. Yeoman were driving overturned by the cyclone a year ago last spring, is still Iu quite poor health, having never recovered from the accident. Thad H. Stevens, for some months employed on the Reepubllcan, left last Saturday on a vacation, which he expected to spend in Michigan. Wednesday, however, the publishers of the paper were advised In a telegram fro* him that he had been marred at Leporte, Ind. He did not divulge the name of the young lady, but we expect he will send a letter giving the details of the marriage later. Mr. Stevens is a fine mechanic and the Republican has arranged to keep him regularly and he will hrti>S his bride here and make this city their home.