Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1908 — Lee Locals. [ARTICLE]

Lee Locals.

Mrs. Lase Ptoton and baby have gone to her parents in lowa. Rollin Stewart la firing on the dredge for a cpuple of weeks. Miss Rose Rishling of Monon assisted Mrs. . Gilmore with her peaches Monday. *' Mrs. Susie Fisher of Wheatfield, visited her parents, L. E. Noland and wife, a few days last week. Arthur Parcel has completed the trade of his farm here for Texas land and will move about November let There is another case of scarlet ’fever in D. E. Noland’s family. They are having the disease in a mild form and are getting along nicely. There were two fires started by the train Monday. One burned three stacks of hay and' a stack for Mr. Gilmore, the other burning a stack for Mr. Deardorff. Fruit jars at less than wholesale prices at the Chicago Bargain Store. Dusan and Nelson, a clever team of dancers now touring the country with Harry L. Tolln’s “Along the Wabash” Co., have played all the best vaudeville houses over the country and are favorably known wherever they have appeared. Their turns takes place immediately after the first act. Miss Marie Adair, one of the most beautiful women on the stage today, I will be seen at the opera house Sept. 24th with Mr. Harry L. Tolln in I “Along the Wabash.” Besides being! a talented actress she is a graceful I dancer. Her dancing turn takes place between the second-and third acts. Sam Lowery, whose horses fell into the river at Burk’s bridge Tuesday, informs us that both horses have recovered, but that they had a narrow escape from death. It took fifteen men to rescue the horses from the river. They were kept alive by holding their heads above water until they could be rescued. A good set of harness was ruined and the horses were badly scratched.

The special election being held in Jasper county today to elect a state senator to succeed state senator McCain,whose appointment as postmaster at Kentland makes the election of a new Senator necessary, is passing off quietly. Counties voting are Jasper Newton, White and Starke. There is but little doubt that Abraham Hal’eck, of Rensselaer, the Republican candidate, will be elected. His opponent is Algie Law, of Newton county. . With no reason to suggest its cause, it is however, a notworthy fact that locusts are unusually scarce this year. Only .a few have been heard and the season for them is about over. There has notb een a summer for many years that the locusts have not been heard, but he has been mighty scarce this year. Some three weeks ago a few were heard, but since that time this famous insect seems to have totally disappeared. The extreme dry weather all over this section of the country may have had something to lo with his not coming to the sup face, but of course this is only problematical. George W. Sharp, whose wife and little son met such untimely deaths by being run over by a street car in Indianapolis, a. week ago last Sunday, came to Rensselaer again today, bringing his little seven-year-old daughter

and three-year-old-son with bim. For the present, at least, they will make 1 their homes here, the little girl living with Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Parks, and the boy with Mr. and Mrs. Cbarli I Rishling. George returned to Indianapolis on the 2:01 train, and will again go to the south, probably to 'Georgia, to resume his work as a sign painter. George has been giving some personal investigation to the cause of the accident and is thoroughly convinced that it was the fact that the motorman lost bis head and could not stop the car that caused the deaths. There se -ms no doubt that the street railway company is legally responsible for the deaths, and Indianapolis attorneys are looking as- ! ter his interests. I The dramatic event of the season will be the production at the opera I house Thursday, Sept. 24th, “Along the Wabash" a four act comedy drams with music, headed by Mr. Harry L. Tolin, one of Indiana’s foremost and most popular actors supported by a company of capable performers, j “Along the Wabash” as the title Implies, is an Indian play, the scene' being laid in Smithville, Ind., a small' town on the Wabash river—a play' that is said to be far in advance of the ordinary comedy drama. Bubbling with good humor seasoned with ' spontaneous wit, sustained by a, dramatic purpose and enlivened by original music. The characters in the j piece are all well drawn and well portrayed. The play has much to commend it "Do your shopping in the morning while the clerks are fresh,* advises a Chicago newspaper. Most of them are that way all day. Why hurry down. |