Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1908 — LOCAL HAPPENINGS [ARTICLE]

LOCAL HAPPENINGS

FUMY Miss Grace Banta, of Valparaiso, Is visiting Miss Nellie Gray. A daughter was bom to Mr. and Mrs. Cestus Chupp, of near Surrey, this morning. Mr. and Mrs.Firman Thompson went to Chicago this morning to take up their residence. D. T. May, of near Mt. Ayr, left this morning for a visit in Johnson and Shelby counties. J. H. Conway is in Chicago today, and Mrs. Conway and children are spending the day at Roselawn. Miss Eva Moore has returned from Ada, Ohio, where she has been attending school for several months. Misses Maud and Martha Roth, of Edna Mills,' came today to visit the family of Clark Johnson of near Remington. Mrs. Frank Debolt and Miss Fiorence Adair returned to Chicago Heights this morning. after a short vißit here with the family of Nehemiah Hopkins. Misses Maude Daugherty and Esther Padgett went to Lafayette yesterday to attend Rlngling’s circus and the Chautauqua. Miss Padgett will join her father before returning. Wm. Gratner and boys, of Barkley township, and Harry Parr, of Franklin, who is visiting them, are spending the day fishing on the Kankakee.

C. A. Radcliffe, of Cincinnati, is here to visit his wife and baby at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Rhoades. They expect to return to their home next Sunday. j L. A. Bostwick is now at Marion, Ohio, where he was called the latter part of last week to take charge of some civil engineering work pn an electric railroad. Since leaving he has had one or two other offers. Mr. and Mrs. John Williams, of Chardon, Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. Horace Morley, of Galien, Mich., and Mrs. Peter Smith, of Glendora, Mich., returned to their homes this morqlng after a week’s visit here with the family of Wm. Washburn. Miss Ruth Bush is entertaining a house party this week. The guests are the Misses Marjory Gordon, Maye Search and Hazel Kramer of Indianapolis, Jean Burroughs and Bright Cdie of Lafayette, and Selma Leopold. of Rensselaer. —Kentland Enterprise. Rev. G. H. Clarke, pastor of the Rensselaer Christian church, writes from Edinburg, Ind., where he and Mrs. Clarke have been visiting his parents for the last ten days. They are now at Richmond, where they will visit Mrs. Clarke’B parents, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Jones. A lively time is said to have gone on at a residence in the “smoky row’’ district last night, and that at about 10 o’clock there was much loud sweariug and a woman or two in night dresses were engaged in the melee. The particulars of the affray could not be learned, and no arrests were made. E. M. Parcells returned yesterday evening from a two days’ scouting trip after a merry-go-round for the hopae coming. He found one at Kankakee, 111., and arranged for it for that week. At Kankakee the Odd Fellows were having a big district meeting and Ed marched in the parade that consisted of more than 800 Odd Fellows: If was a great and Kankakee made all visitors glad they were there.

Thos. J. Richardson reports that the Michigan huckleberry or blueberry season is at an end. Through the' O. E. Murray Btore he handled berries shipped from there thlß summer by his brother, M. D. Richardson. They came from the Grand Traverse Bay region and were the equal of any berries ever shipped into this city. He disposed of 166 crates here in Rensselaer, and as 16 quarts compose a crate, there were 2,640 quarts handled by him. The pretty play of Eli and Jane teems with quips of human nature and one is brought very close to humanity without its civilised frill, without its passions subdued by dissimlia-l tion, with all its faults and some of its vices. The sentiments are pure, clean and wholesome, with a constant remind of your boy and girlhood days, that brings Just a suspicion of moisture to the eyes at times. Remember the date and be one of the happy throng to see ELI and JANE. George B. Sayler, little son of J. H. Sayler, of near Glenwood, Minn., sends in a renewal for his father's paper, and writes a very interesting letter. He says: “Papa and'l put up 46 acres of bay and by Friday night we will have 76 acres of oats and splent in the shock. We have 26 acres of flax to cut yet This week we reoelved as invitation to the home coming, but papa can not oome as he will be thrashing by that time; mama can not

come either as she does not want to miss any of this good Minnesota air.” Frank Donnelly, the lumber man, scorched his right hand quite badly Thursday. He was helping his wife do the family washing as a good husband should, and put a little gasoline in the water. It formed a gas and just as he went to rub the clothes the gas ignited from the stove, which was near by and there was a sudden flash and Frank’s right hand and arm were quite badly burned, and the flame had singed his eye brows and the hair on the right side of his head. The bum will not be serious but he will have to have his hand bound up for several days. Did you ever sit on a mossy bank and look at the sun-kissed brook as it merrily dances in glee around the protruding pebbles and feel glad that you are alive? Well, that is just the same experience when you go to see ELI and JANE, the clever show that is soon to be here. It is a laughing, bubbling pure heart and home story. When the curtain drops on the last act you feel as though you had been refreshed by a drink of good cool spring water. Harry Green in the ,role is enough to insure a good performance. At opera house, Thursday, August 20th. Lewis Nichols, who has been with the W. C. Milllron restaurant at Knox ever since Mr. Milllron left Rensselaer, came to Rensselaer yesterday and will be here for some time. Mr. Milllron is engaged in the general merchandise business at Denver, Ind., and as he could not arrange to get the business room hid restaurant was in at Knox without entering into a long time lease he decided to get out of business at that place. During the latter part of summer and early fall he and “Duke” will make the fairs and sell ice cream cones and they will probably select a new location and re-embark in the restaurant business later on. The bridge gang, owing to the heavy rain Wednesday evening, did not succeed in getting the Washington street bridge out of the way until this morning. The dredge began thowing rock ‘early this morning, but were compelled to quit work this afternoon by the cable breaking. The delay will be short, however. Those living across the river are “compelled to either cross the river on foot bridges or use the creamery bridge. Superintendent Chamberlain has a force at work removing the water main from under the bed of the river just below the bridge. It is a difficult and expensive job but he expects to get the pipe removed today or tomorrow. The water has been cut off from this main and those living on the west side of the river are being supplied with water through fire hose strung across the river above the dredge. The work at the bridge is drawing large crowds of sightseers.

The Remington Knights of Pythias scalped their brother Knights from Rensselaer in the ball game at that place, winning from them by tte score of 31 to 9. Joe Hammond umpired and the Rensselaer crowd say he is responsible for the 9 runs we did get, and also say that if he hadn't called the Remington boys out whether they were out or not, the plumed knights from Carpenter would have been batting yet. The gallantry of the host knights is a little in question, for when thhy came over here Reensselaer let thme win and they thought that wag. to be done over there. Q'st the Remington boys saidth at if Rensselaer got that game we would have to play off the rub, and they were afraid that their boys could not get off to play. It was rumored that Ban Johnson, president of the American league, was a witness of the game, looking for material to strengthen up the White Sox for next season. If Rensselaer Knights want to tackle the Remington Knights again it is probable that they will suggest dominoes or flinch. E. A. Schultze and family, of Chicago, were in Rensselaer from Wednesday morning to Thursday afernoon, and stopped at the Makeever hotel. For some years Mr. Schultze was a school teacher in Indiana and at that time lived in Ft. Wayne, i Prof. Gray, who is now here, was well acquainted with him, and each were very much surprised to meet here Thursday. Mr. SchuUse has for the past eight) years been in the school book business in Chicago, but he Is going to “nature’s heart" now, having bought a farm of 800 acres near Laurel, Ind., and the family were going there overland from Chicago, which accounts for their presence in this city. One of his children is a boy about 13 years of age, and Mr. Schultze bought him a pony while here, and then fitted out the pony with saddle, etc., and the boy was going to take the overland trip pony back while the parents and other children traveled in a carriage drived by a large black horse. They went as far as Remington Thursday night, spending the night there.

Dick Foulks, of McCoysburg, was in towt a little while yesterday. Although Dick still calls McCoysburg his home he has laeen leaving that' place! by degrees since early sprjpg, and I is now about as near Rensselaer as he is McCoysburg. Himself and wife make their home on the E. Gilmore dredge, which is plowing its way down the Howe ditch survey And is just now at the edge of the H. W. Wood farhm, southeast of this city. Mr. Foulks is running the job and his wife is the cook. Mr. Gilmore, who has the contract, is pushing the work along as fast as possible, and occasionally they have worked on Sundays. Dick says he has heard less politics this yepr than during any previous campaign since he has been a' voter, but he has not heard any farmer say that he was anxious enough to have the price of corn cut from 66 to 15 cents a bushel to contribute to the democratic campaign fund. He remembers that the first Bryan campaign was waged on the free silver issue, and the farmer was told that he would never get the price he ought to have for his grain until ‘ the government made the bullion j silver in a dollar worth intrinsically' 100 cents, and provided that all the bullion silver in the world would be! worth the same amount. The farmer did not try the proposition, but aided in the election of William McKinley and after "that of Roosevelt and today he is getting 65 cents a bushel for corn, from 85 cents to a dollar for wheat and 45 cents a bushel for oats and the democrats are claiming that the price of grain. is solely a matter of supply and demand. And now they are raising a frightful fuss because flour and beef and pork and other living expenses are high. But he can't for the life of him figure out how wheat is going to be high and flour and bread low,nor how the farmer is going to feed his cattle 50 cent corn and the butcher sell beef for the price it sold for when corn was 15 cents. And he can’t see what kick the fellow has got who /bought everything he ate and wore in 1895 for half what he pays now, if he didn’t have a Job then. It was the Dingley tariff bill that put smoke in the chimneys and filled up the dinner pail, and it will be hard work to induce the farmer to believe that he should contribute to the democratic campaign fund when they can give him no promise save the closing of the factories and the withdrawal of the demand that has made corn and oats and wheat and potatoes and every article that is grown or fed on the farm bring the highest price in history. Dick has not observed the farmers falling over themselves to contribute and don't expect to see any of them either. SATURDAY Misses Mae and Ethel Clark went, to Chicago this morning for a visit' of two weeks. George Lundy returned this morning from a week’s visit with his parents at Gosport. Miss Ethel Davis returned this morning from a visit with relatives and friends at Wolcott. Miss Hazel Moore went to Hammond this morning and will make a 1 short visit there sad at Chicago. I Mrs. Maria Hopkins returned Thursday from an extended visit in Oklahoma and Nebraska, with her daughter and son. Mrs. Dora Kilbinger and Mrs. Cornelia Conklin are spending a few weeks with their friefids, Mr. and Mrs. J. Bislosky. W. V. Vannatta and wife of Chi-, cago returned home this morning after a visit with her father, W. P. Gas-1 field, southwest of town. Born, Friday, Aug. 14th, to Mr. and Mrs. E. L. McFadden, of Chicago, 1 at the home of her father, Henry Zacher, west of Rensselaer, a son. Frank B. Ham has moved from, the Laßue brick house on River street to the house formerly occupied by | John Jones, further south on River Btreet Judson M&ines and family have moved from his mother’s house on Dayton street to the house next door j south of Dr. Myer’s residence on Cullen street .

Mrs. Harry Harmon, of Chicago, has been visiting her husband's brothers, L. A. and A. J. Hannon, this week. Mr. Harmon Joined her here today for a short visit I Several members of the local Modern Woodmen damp are going to Mt Ayr this evening to witness the initiation of a large class there. The

.• , / . . V’ Morocco Woodmen team will do the initiation work. Lucius Strong, chairman of the home coming inviattlon commute has received a letter from T. F. Clark, of Battle Ground, who says that himself and wife will try to spend home coming week in Rensselaer. John McClannahan went to Hammond this morning to see if he could find carpenter work to do. Jim [Thompson also went to Chicago yes- | terday on the same mission. The Hammond papers say that work is opening up there in good shape. J. F. Irwin returned this morning from Wolcott, where he had been in the interest of his tile mill business. He says they are turning out lots of tile and that the sale has been very good this summer considering that this is a busy time for thrashing and other things on the farm. The Rensselaer fire show attraction being gotten up by Fire Chief Montgomery, will be one of the greatest of the crowd drawing events that week. It will be the last day, and will be called the “Burning of the New All Hotel/’ a reproduction of the great Milwaukee hotel disaster. The New I All is now being erected on the vacant lots across the river. W. M. Turner and wife ,and his parents, Milton Turner and wife, of Kirklin, are visiting here today, having come down from the river where they had been fishing. The junior Turner was formerly the night agent here, but is now living on a farm near Kirklin. He is somewhat of a checker player and aims to get a whack at McFarland, Thomas and Stephens about once a year. When Eli and Jane was written it was the intention of the author to give the play the surroundings of human nature and realism. Those facts alone were looked after with careful detail and has much to do with the success of the play, Eli and Jane ean’t be excelled for fun, originally and novelties giving you an evening of enjoyment that you will not soon forget. At Ellis opera House, Thursday, August 20th. The arm of the big dredge caught the telephone cables crossing the river this afternoon, breaking the cable in two and putting out of service the Wolcott and Remington toll lines and many of the city wires running-across the river. The dredge was compelled to cease work for a time until Superintendent Montgomery could take care of the wires. It will take some ; time to repair the broken wires and j the people across the river are to be pitied—with their supply of water, bridges and telephone service badly crippled. The breaking of the light wires is next in order. Thos. Knight, of Oklahoma, who is visiting relatives in Jasper county, is very much pleased with his Oklahoma home, and now owfis a good 80 acre farm 7 miles fror/ Yukon. He says they have some fine crops there, and com looked like it would make 50 or 60 bushels to the acre, but he says that he was misquoted in this paper when it said he had stated that com there would make 100 bushels to the acre. He says it is hard to make Indiana people believe that their coun- | try there is as good as it is trying to make it any better. Mr. Knight has enjoyed his visit here | very much, and will report to the Jasper county people around his home that old Jasper is all right He says there are a great many people there from this section of Indiana and he expects some of them will get back for the home coming. MONDAY T. J. Yankie, of Ludlow, HI., was here today on business. Bora Sunday, Aug. 16, to Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Shook, of Barkley township a son. * D. M. Yeoman and family returned to Ambla today, after a visit with relatives here. Chas. Grow, the railroad mail clerk, of Covington, Ky., was in town between trains today. Mr. and Mrs. B. Forsythe are taking a trip on the lakes this week and buying goods in Chicago.

John Ramp left this morning for a week's vseation, which he will 'spend in Chicago and Michigan. 1 Miss Sadie Cody returned this morning from a week's vacation 1 spent at her home near McCoysburg. 1 Born Friday, Aug 14th, to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Peregrine, of Hanging Grove township, a son, and their second boy. l Mr. W. C. Baker, of Chicago, spent Saturday night and Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John N. Baker, of Barkley township. Floyd Robinson had 46 seres of oats this year that averaged 26 bushels to

tbt acre. About the best yield we have heard from. > Fletcher Ramey and wife came up from Lafayette yesterday for a week’s vacation and visit with the relatives of each. Misses Adeline Diener and Dora Hildebrand, of Chicago, came yesterdady to visit at the home of Mrs. A. Luers, south of town. Miss Ella Ritchie, of Anderson, is here to visit her sister, Mrs. Kate R. Watson and other relatives. She will remain until after the home coming. George O. Crawford and family, who had been visiting the family of A. J. Biggs for several days, returned to their home at West Lebanon today. W. S. Holderaess and wife and two children returned to Chicago this morning, after a week’s visit with his sister, Mrs. Anson Cox, and family. C. A. Wooden, of Hammond, returned home this morning, after a short visit at the home of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Philippi, near Remington. Albert Pattee and wife, of near Newland, left this morning for Abbington, Va., where they will spend the next two months visiting relatives of Mrs. Pattee.. •: Robert A. Mannan, of Wheatfield, is in Rensselaer today. He would like to arrange to have Wheatfield play a game of ball here during home coming week. Miss Selma Leopold returned home Saturday from Peoria, 111., where she has been visiting relatives since June. On her way home she stopped for a few days visit with friends at Kentland. j The temperature Sunday reached the high mark of 96% degrees in the shade, as kept by Prof. Klosterman, at St Joseph’s College. It was a swelteringly hot day, and today is mighty hot too. T. J. McMurray, of Cedar Rapids, lowa, who has been visiting his daughter, Mrs. David Wheeldon, left this morning for Rantoul, 111., where he will visit another daughter. From there he will return to Cedar Rapids. Mrs. W. M. Parkinson and baby, of Brook, came over in the doctor’s automobile Sunday and will spend two weeks visiting relatives here. Dr. Parkinson is building up a good, practice at Brook and they are very much pleased with their new home. Wheatfield defeated the Valparaiso Standards Sunday by the score of 5 5 to 3. As Lowell lost to the Standards by the score of 3 to 2 Wheatfield rather thinks they have the best ball team notwithstanding their three recent successive defeats.

J. W. Brown and Lewis Nichols went to Crown Point this morning, where they will work during the fair, the former selling ice cream cones and hamberger and the latter ice cream cones and novelties. If they have good business there they will go to the LaPorte fair the next week. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Radcliffe and baby returned to Cincinnati yesterday after a visit of some length here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Rhoades. Mr. and Mrs. W. E, Laidlow, also of Cincinnati, who have been visiting at the Rhoades home, went to Chicago this morning to visit relatives there. Rev. D. J. Huston, of Goodland, came this morning to be here to preach the funeral of Mrs. H. O. Harris. H« was pastor of the Rensselaer Baptist church for several years between 1867 and 188 L Since that time he has been living at Goodland, with the exception of six years that he resided in Milroy township. J. F. Pattee was down from Newland today and reports that the recent rains there have been a great thing for the pickle crop. The vines are looking fresh now and there ale lots of new pickles on them. The Bloomington Pickle Co., with headquarters at Newland, has contracted for all the pickles raised in the Newland neighborhood, and it now looks like there would be a very good crop. 81 nee Harry Green has been starring in Ell and Jane be has had the play rewritten each season and each season sees the good clever comedy with a new coat of action but the same name. Mr. Green hqs this year surrounded himself with an exceptionally strong cast and is carrying special scenery with the show which is all new efrery year. It will be one of the best shows here this season. The public wants good things to be amused with, and Harry Green has it with Eli and Jane. It is a good thing, something doing all the time. At Ellis opera house, Thursday, July 20th. Ephraln Hughes, of Barkley township, was in Rensselaer Saturday, but he was not feeling the best He had felt young a few days before and ran for some distance, and did not notice that be was injured until he had finished his running. It resulted in a painful hitch in the right side of his back and was causing

him some- uneasiness. Mr. Hughes feels very much Interested in our home coming, and left the addressee of several people that he wanted invitations sent to. Jerry Healy returned home yexterday from a visit at South Havea, Mich. John Healy and son Lon returned from there last Thursday, but Mrs. Healy and the other children will remain for a longer visit. They are the guests of Mrs. Healy’s sister, Mrs. S. E. Overton, who is at the head of a factory there that is engaged in the manufacture of fancy wood work, for furniture and interior house finishing. Mr. Overton started the factory in Chicago, but moved to South Haven last spring, that city having made the present of a $6,000 brick building as a bonus to get him to locate there. He is now employ* ing 50 men. Jerry Healy was very favorably impressed with the city, which has a population of about 8,000, and is a dry city. He said he did not see a case of intoxication during the time he was there. Mrs. G. W. Goff has gone to Meadville, Pa., to attend for one week, the yearly Spirella corset convention, where she will take a regular postgraduate course in corset minute Instructions in measurements and make more perfect her knowledge of the corsetierre’s art. The art of the corsetierre approaches that of the fine ayts. If it is a part of art to paint a beautiful picture of a lady, why is it not equally a part of it so to corset that lady so as to show her form to the best advantage from an artistic point of view. Mrs. Goff expects to return here in a week. Four years ago the brewers were opposed to the Moore law; now they would gladly let it stand. Two yeas ago they were opposed to a high license law; now they would gladly accept it as a solution of their troubles. At present they are fighting the county unit proposition. It is safe to say that two years from now they will be satisfied with the county unit and declaring that temperance legislation is strong enough. Their bare faced to control the political destinies of Indiana can only arouse the people more strongly to the danger that must follow their domination.—Fowler Republican. Harry Greene, who is at the head of the Eli and Jane Company that will present that very excellent comedydrama at the opera bouse next Thursday night, went to Chicago this morning to make some purchases needed by the company. The Eli and Jans performance promises to be a first class performance and as it is th« first show we have had at the opera house since last spring it will doubtless draw a large crowd. No drag, everything moving, everything fresh and new—Home Grocery.