Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1908 — Page 3

FRIDAY

a .5x ; .. _... . ■* . ‘ 1,1 Uesly went to Oelplif today to visit some old acquaintances and to attend the street fair. Mrs. Lillie Shaw returned this morning from Delphi, where she has been for a few days’ visit. 8. R. Nichols went to Chalmers today to attend the .horse show, which takes place today and tomorrow. , •; •* Mrs. P. J. Grelser and children *nd Ethel Witham have gone to El Paso, HL,, for a visit with the parents of the former. Mrs. Mary Lennox and children returned to i’owler today, after a week’s visit with the family of Noah Zeigler, north of town. Mrs. A. Konen and daughter Lauetta.and Mrs. Grassy, of Chicago, returned home yesterday, after a visit of ten days with A. Gangloff and family. Mrs. J. S. Ross, of Hoopeston, 111., and daughter, Mrs. Geo. McKay, of New Orleans, are here for a short visit with the former’s sister, Mrs. A- A. Yates. • Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Stucker went to Sheridan this afternoon to attend an annual meeting of the Primitive Baptist church. They will be absent ovei- Sunday. ' J ‘ - ~ A. F. Long went to Crawfordsville yesterday to visit hisson' George, who is a freshman in Wabash college, and will go from there to Indianapolis on a business trip. __________ L . Mrs. W. D. Sayler returned this morning from Monticello, where she has been at the bedside of her daughter. Mrs. Brewer, who continues quite low with the typhoid fever. J. H. Conway has returned from a trip to the west and a short stay in Chicago. He xyill probably give up his removal from Rensselaer, and will remain here at least all winter. Mr. and Mrs. Claud Oran, of Logansport, who had been visiting his uncle, Wm. Warren, at Stoutsberg, drove down to Rensselaer yesterday afternoon and this morning went to their home at Logansport. The J. Warren Davis Stock Co., with a barrel of comedy, lots of specialties elegant plays and sixteen peo- ‘ pie will be the attraction at the Ellis theatre, for five nights, and one matinee, tieginning Tuesday, Oct. 6th. D. H. Yeoman went to Buffalo this morning, near which place the dredge ditch he is building in Pulaski county, and which is now about % of a mile from completion, w|ll empty into the Tippecanoe. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Clift returned yesterday from their visit at Brazil, Veedersburg and other places. Their eon Charley lives at Veedersburg, and himself and family are all quite well except their two months’ old baby, which has been quite poorly. Judge Darroch. was in Chicago Tuesday In conference with Attorney Harry Kurrle, Attorney Frank Foffz, of Rensselaer, and Attorney Fred Richmire, of Morocco, over some land matters lit the north end of this county.—Kentland Enterprise. G. W. Infield and C. W. Coen made a business trip to Reynolds today, in the interest of the projected interurban railroad. That matter is by no means dead as some have supposed, and It is believed the promoters will some time have good news for Rensselaer and vicinity. Zern Wright and Ross Benjamin went to Crawfordsville today, the former on business and the latter'to witness the football game between Wabash and Franklin colleges. Dobbins Was to play but Hopkins’ injury probably kept him out of the game.

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Clint Brown and Leslie Miller, who farmed the old George Brown place in Barkley township, were quick to come out with a larger clover seed yield than Ehrhardt Wuepthner had. They raised 10 acres of clover that threshed out 44 bushels and 50 pounds of seed, or bushels to the acre. Next. The sale and distribution of the whisky sahdwich is the latest method in the state of Alabama. Loaves of bread, cut and arranged like oyster sandwiches, are sold over the counters in lunchrooms presumably operated for that purpose, a bottle of whisky being cleverly arranged between the layers of the bread. . The condition of Lyman Barce, who suffered a paralytic stroke a few days ago, is very much improved, and it is now thought probable that he will recover from the same. He is now able to move the limbs affected and his speech has also improved. His daughter, Mr*. Chas. Michaels, of Oxford, who was here on account of his condition, returned to her home today.

hear the republics n candidate for governor was so lai&e that the opera house could not- hold them and the meeting was held in Guild & Robinson’s hay barn. Chas. W. Miller, candidate for congress in the 13th district, accompanied Mr. Watson and also spoke. In the evening they spoke la Winamac. Some miscreant visited the barn of James Wilson, south of town, last Thursday might and cut up several good sets of harness, and damaged as far as possible some farm tools standing in the barn lot Mr. Wilson believes the work was done for spite, and has his suspicion as to who the party was, but in order to establish proof will pay a reward of SIOO for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the guilty party.—Kentland Enterprise.

W. A. Forbis, of Monticello, was here about five mi nutes this morning, coming over on the 9:55 train, which was about 40 minutes late, and returning on the 10:55, via Reynolds. Mr. Forbis has been one of the door keepers at the nat lonal house of representatives for the past eleven years and because of-his acquaintance with public men he has frequently been called to the white house on the occasion of receptions to Identify the guests. He is the son of W. N. Forbis who died suddenly at his home in Monticello, last March. There is much that is good in each of the plays that are produced by the J. Warren Davis Stock Co., which plays an engagement of five nights and one matinee, starting Tuesday evening, October 6th, at the Ellis theatre, that no one wonders at the ! extraordinary;success which the company has enjoyed. Everyone who appreciates the good that the theatre can do will like The clean wholesome plays produced by this excel’ent company, headed by Miss Laura Winston as leading lady ai>d C. E. Tomlinson, leading man. The company is one of the strongest ever got together fr an attraction playingat popular p Fes. .

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The worst looking outfit that ever came to Rensselaer arrived at about 3 o’clock this afternoon. It was a decrepit old mule that walked like a mechanical doll, and the driver was a young man, without a hat and having a handkerchief tied over his right eye. He was hailed as he passed the Republican office and readily submitted to an interview. He said his home was in Hammond and that he was a junk dealer. He said that he built a fire along the road this noon to get his dinner, and as he went to break a stick in two with his ax, one of the ends flew up and struck him in toe eye. He was stunned for a moment but finally recovered sufficiently to tie ' his handkerchief over his eye. Then he turned to pick up his hat only to find z that it had fallen into the fire and bsn burned. He wks a. bit sensitive about the mule and when we suggested that his miil’e was about all in, he repjtied, “No, he’s a d good mule, only little stiff.” .He then drove on his way, the mule doing the mechanical twist and he looked as if every step would be his last .

SATURDAY

The regular M. E. social will meet with Mrs. Milt Roth next Tuesday afternoon. , 2td Percy Hauter returned home yesterday from a nine months’ stay in the south and west.Born, Thursday, Oct. 1, to Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Cox, in the northwest part of town, a daughter. Mrs. Geo. H. Healey and children went to Brookston yesterday evening to visit friends over Sunday. Mrs. S. R. Nichols went to Chalmers yesterday evening to remain over Sunday attending the horse show today and visiting relatives. ;< Mrs. J. W. Horton and son Perry went to Indianapolis this morning, where Perry will take a,course in the Lane business college, preparatory to entering a dental college next year.

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Mrs. John Rademacher and daughter, Anna, were the guess the first of this week of the former’s daughter, Mrs. Alt Donnelly, at the Globe Onion Farm. Jesse A. Snyder underwent a thoroughly successful operation for appendicitis at Indianapolis yesterday. The operation was performed Just in time for after ha entered the hospital a third attack of th* disease began to work on him. It is thought that he Will be able to leave the hospital within 1 ten days. irii-.A n'hhUCU wk

are busily at work tor their annual I Christmas Bazaar, which is to be held toe second week in December. Immigration statistics for August show a decrease in the number of immigrants coming to this country compared with the same month of 1907. The total immigration during August was 27,733 while during August, 1907, the immigrants numbered 98,825. John W. King’s condition has not improved any since he came back here from Winona and he is still confined to his bed. It is believed,' however, that he will Improve and himself and: family are all feeling quite hopeful. Quite a number of Renss-h er re'ple went to Parr today to attend the fall festival. Hon. S. P. Thompson and S. E. Sparling are among the speakers. A baseball game, horse show, and the awarding of premiums for the farm products exhibits should make the affair a very pleasant one. The Brookston high school football team arrived here this morning for their game with the Rensselaer boys this afternoon. The visitors are rather a light team, and like our ! high school boys moslt of them have ' not played football before, but they have been training regularly and' will probably give our lads a game 1 tussle. ( The funeral of Miss Lillian Thomas took place this morning at 10 o’clock at St Augustine’s Catholic church, and burial was made in Mt Calvary cemetery. Deceased was born Oct. 24, 1889, and was therefore 18 years, 11 months and 6 days of age at the time of her death. A large concourse of relatives and friends followed. the remains to the cemetery.

G. N. Sayler returned last evening from his western trip. He visited Seattle, Spokane and other cities in Washington, and also got oyer the boundry line and visited British Columbia. The great U. S. naval fleet visited Seattle while he was there and he had the pleasure of seeing It. He expects to remain here during the winter.

Gladys, the three year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John McClanahan, has been suffering for several days with a badly infected leg, resulting from a very little scratch on tier heel. This morning the family physician lanced the infected wound and drew out a large half glass of puss. It is thought an immediate improvement will result. Mr. Taft carried away from Haze!den last week a souvenir that was emblematic of ' Newton county. It was no more nor less than an ear of corn grown by Cl/arley Roe, the farmer politician. Mr. Rce tramped all over his broad acres to find as near a perfect ear ds possible, but was repaid for his trouble by having the pleasure of personally pre;enting it to the next President of the United States.—Kentland Enterprise. F. J. Sears and wife went to Watseka, 111., yesterday to visit his daughter, Mrs. Sidney Arnold, for three weeks. Upon their return they will move into toe flats over toe Republican office, and will conduct , a boarding house therein. There are thirteen good sized rooms in this flat, fitted with bath room, toilet rooms, wardrobes and it is hot water heated, making ft a very convenient and comfortable quarters for a boarding house. Mrs. Britt Marion and daughter Lottte arrived- here- this morning 7 from Wall, S. Dak., where they had been since last April with Mr. Marion, living on his claim. They do not think they tike' that country well enough to make it their permanent home, and “Mr. Marlon is quite apt to sell his claim which he will prove up about Dec, Ist. He will not be back here until during the holidays or later. Their daughter, Miss Lottie, will enter the Junior year of the high school Monday morning.

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The Rensselaer' Democrat threw spasms last week because a few preachers from over the state saw fit to visit the State House and ask for the passage of the county option bill. It had nothing to say, however, about the brewery lobby, headed by Marshall, Taggart and Fairbanks, and which has resorted to the most despicable and contemptable method* to block legislation. We will admit that a lobby was there to influence the passage of the county option bill. Will-toe Democrat now admit that the brewery had a lobby with headquarters at the Dennison hotel, and tell what that lobby did "In toe interest of the people?’’—Kentland Enterprise.

I nrt. zv a a. i' terday; toe Giants put it over Philadelphia and toe Pirates snatched‘a double header from St Louis. This put Pittsburg in the lead by a nose ’ and caused consternation, in New York and distress in Chicago. The .great national baseball race is nearing an end with chances favoring Pittsburg, and considerably against Chicago.' In the American league toe Sox suffered a shut out at the hands of the Nape, nary a snow hoofed Comiskeylte reaching first base. This practically put the Sox out of the race. Detroit still holds toe lead in toe American league but the Naps are I showing a lot of finishing class. It will not be surprising if the world’s series is between the two coal black cities, Pittsburg and Cleveland. ■ < ■ ■ The football season opens today in many of the college towns and the enthusiasm that has attended the sport for many years does not seem to have waned. There are many accidents and occasional deaths during each season, but they are small indeed compared to the number that result from hunting accidents, and we have always believed that the football player had it a little bit 1 over the "ring-around-a-rosy” boys 1 that act as wall flowers at kissing parties. We approve any change in ' football rules that will lessen the 1 danger in the game, but we don’t believe in keeping the boy of nerve and spirit who wants to play the game out pending the change. And we don’t believe in throwing away theshot gun pending the discovery of one that will kill a deer but won’t hurt when it hits another hunter.

MONDAY

Oscar Ritchey is in Chicago today. Mel Abbott made a business trip to Monon today. Miss Mary Meyer spent Sunday in Lafayete. —r :- Mrs. Louie Ramp is spending a few days in Chicago. W. R. NowelSmadea business trip to Delphi today. Mr. and Mrs. .Chas. Arnold spent part of today in Monon. Uncle Harvey Phillips made a business trip to Monon today. Jas. C. Passon and wife went to Marion Saturday to visit relatives for the ensuing two weeks. Misses Millie Gall and Clara Schultz went to DeMotte Saturday for a short visit. '. . Simon Fendig came down from Wheatfield today to attend the funeral tomorrow of Louis Wildberg. Miss Emma Clager went to Wheatfield Saturday for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Clager. W. J. Mills, of Chicago, returned to his home Saturday, after a visit of two weeks with his niece at Mt Ayr. • ' - • • ■* - The township trustees and county commissioners are in session today, it being the regular monthly meeting. ' Mrs. Vern Robinson and Miss Clara Robinson went to Royal Center Saturday for a few days’ visit with relatives.

4 u^^_.rj l .,,a,rfrrfa'....rrr J '■"■'“T Mr. and Mrs. Eli Arnold and Mr. and Mrs. Dan Lesh went to Peru today for a short visit with C. Frazee and family. The stores and business houses of Rensselaer will be closed tomorrow from 10 to 11, on account of the funeral of Louis Wildberg. W. N. Jenkins and sister, Mrs. John Hurley and their nephew, Ross Price, returned this morning from a short visit with relatives at Knox. L. Q. Jeffries and wife came down from Chicago Saturday evening for a short visit with bls nephew, Joe 1 Jeffries, and wife. Sdrs. Linnle Gant has sold her farm in Union township to her brother, 1 W. L. Wood, of Parr, and has again, moved to Rensselaer. Miss Ella Rusk went to Indianapolis this morning to re-enter the Indiana Business College, where she 1 was a student last year. Mrs . Alex. Hurley and three daughters, Agnes, Lucy and Latona, left this morning for Ralston, Okla., where they will visit her father, W. J. Durant Mrs. Mel Abbott went to Monticello today for a short visit wlto her mother. It is near picking time and Mrs, Landis has several trees of toe Kelfer variety and Mrs. Abbott will have some of them shipped to her here. A report was circulated on toe streets Saturday that John Churchill, who has been in the Lafayette Home Hospital receiving treatment for typhoid, fever, had died. , The report, however, was not true, as he Is getting along very nicely and will doubtless fully reeover. * »

Miss Ruey Burnham went to Goshen this morning to visit her cousin, Mrs. B. F Learning and family. She will probably be back here before leaving for her home in Boston. Mrs.' Ira Payne and daughter, of Kingman, Kans., left this morning for Science Hill, Ky., to visit relatives. They have been visiting Capt G. W. Payne and other relatives. C. A Gundy and family have moved here from Fair Ottos,’ In order to be near their son Roy and daughter Mildred, who are attending the Rensselaer high school. Freeman Wood has gone to Fairbury, Hl., again to accompany his sister to a hospital at Pontiac, where she will be operated on for appendicitis. Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Puffer and Miss Stella Haskell, of Chattsworth, ill., are guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Ketchum. They came over in Mr. Puffer’s fine automobile. D. C. Mead and wife, of Hammond, were toe guests of Ezra Clark and family and Julius Huff and family Sunday. They were accompanied here by Miss Eva Clark, who spent the day with her parents. Miss Dena Miller returned home Saturday from a two months’ visit with her grandparents and other relatives in Burlington, Wis. She was accompanied home by her uncle, Lou’s 1 Kornhoff, who will visit a few days.

. James Cummings, son of Ed Cummings, of Remington, died Saturday morning at his home in Remington. Tuberculosis was the cause of death. He was about 24 years of age and leaves a wife and one child. The funeral was held Sunday afternoon, and was attended by County Treasure! J. p. Allman, of this place. Deputy Fish ' Commissioner Galion ' of Logansport has been opening toe 1 eyes of some of the fish law violators 1 and also their pocket books. Levi * Cohee and Chhs. Mabb were arraigned 1 before Justice Marshall, toe former for keeping a seine and the latter fob spearing 7 fish. ThCfr fines and costs were $36.35 and $40.90 respectively. Leo Minor was also caught In the officer’s net for some violation and paid .toe same penalty, as Cohee. — Monticello Herald. Vaughn Woodworth was up from Purdue over Sunday, and H. R. Hook, a student at the university, stopp’d over Friday night with him, en route to Chicago to witness the PurdueChicago football game. The Maroons had but little trouble in disposing of the Purdue boys, defeating them by a score of 39 to 0. The only. consolation that the defeated team can get out of the game is that it was not so bad as last year, when the scoe was 56 to 0. No sooner had we come out with the prophesy that the Pirates would win the national pennant than the Cubs took a double fall out of them and put them down and out, and Cleveland also fell' from its exalted place. The Cubs are now on foe pinnacle in the national and if New York catches them they will have to take three straight. from Boston. The Sox rammed it to the Detroit Tigers Sunday add* took a'new lease on'TifeJ and tbe Chicagti teains may yet 'garner both pendants. Chas. Robinson .-came up. from Battle Ground this morning to spend a part of today with his mother and other relatives here and this afternoon he went to Chicago and from there will go to Dalias, S. Dak., on a prospecting trip. Charley is looking for more and cheaper land and if he finds anything that looks good to him he will probably arrange to move there. He had the banner wheat in his country this year, not in quantity per acre but in quality. His threshed out 25 bushels per acre and he got SI.OO pel 4 bushel for it

Few companies in the last five seasons have had so great a measure of success as the J. Warren Davis Stock Co., which will be seen at the Ellis theatre for five nights, beginning Tuesday, Oct. 6th. The company possesses many lasting qualities which gnarante ■ its life for many years. It has made an instant hit in every city it has visited, society turning out in force and setting-its seal of approval on each and all of the high class plays produced by them. Oh Tuesday one lady.will be admitted free with each 30 cent ticket. Wash Lowman, who has had a case of typhoid fever for the past month and who was thought to be on the road to recovery after the fever was broken a week ago, did not improve as rapidly as had been hoped, and last Saturday two Francesville physicians were called into consultation with the local family physician. He suffered a great amount of pain in his side and it is thought be has gall stones and that he will probably have to undergo a surgical operation at some future time. Yesterday he was somewhat improved and it is believed that he win aow rhcover without another backset.

Augustus Philips at Lafayette.

Augustus Phillips is to be at Lafayette on Nov. 10th, starring in tog popular theatrical prodnetlon, “The Wolf,” and a number of his friends and admirers in Rensselaer are planning to go there to see him on that occasion. The plan is to go frost here on toe milk train and to brought home after the show by special train. A large number of people have signified their intention of taking advantage of this opportunity to see our famous townsman on the stage, and an effort will be made to make it quite a social affair and all arrangements for the trip are to be made as soon as possible. It win require the sale of 75 round W tickets to secure the special return train. . ‘ X The list of those going is being made up at B. F. Fendig’s drug store, and those who wish to accompany the party can place their names on the list and it is probable that some one will be sent to Lafayette to make arrangements for the seats. The prices of admission at the Grand opera house will be $1 and $1.50. It the plan that is now on foot developes it is probable that from 100 to 150 people will make up the theatre party, being the largest crowd that ever went from Rensselaer to attend a theatre. e Although Mr. Phillips has been an actor of renoun for many years only a comparative few people from Rensselaer have ever seen him on the stage, for the reason that for the past ten years he has been all of his time in either New York or Brooklyn, and only those who have visited there have had an opportunity to "see him. Before Gus graduated from the Rensselaer high school he exhibited a striking aptitude for the stage and lie occasionally took part with traveling troups that passed through this place. .When he decided to make it his business his progress was rapid and he soon began playing leads and in such a creditable manner as to attract much favorable comment. He was associated for several years with the Spooners and severed ; his connection with them only last summer, going from hie vacation here to take up his rehearsals for “The Wolf,” toe play that he is to appear in at Lafayet'e, and which will be there but the one night There is to be nothing exclusive about the party that goes to see him, and no special invitations will be issued. It is believed that there will be enough of bls old school mates and townspeople anxious to see him on the stage to assure a large crowd, and the invitation is a most general one. ; ' It was just 40 years ago today that Forg Payne and wife and five childenr set out overland for Lincoln, Neb., where he lived for 14 years before going to Kingman, Kans., where he has since resided. He has beens visiting his brother, Capt G. W. Payne for 'some little time, and it is his first vieit here In 18 years. He had the misfortune to lose his wife on the 4th of last July, and had she lived until Aug. 9th they would have been married 58 years. Mr. Payne is in quite good health, considering his age.'* There is so much that is good in each of the plays produced by the “J. Warren Davis Co.,’’ that no one wonders at the extraordinary. success which the company has enjoyed. Everyone that appreciates the good that the theatre can do will like the clean wholesome plays produced by this excellent company headed by Miss Laura Winston, an actress of well known ability and beauty. The cast is far stronger than is usually seen with a popular priced attraction. The above company will appear at the Ellis theatre for five nights commencing Tuesday, Oct 6th. Tuesday Is ladles’ night when one lady will be admitted free with every 30c ticket Augustus Phillips arrived here yesterday for a short visit with his father, Simon Phillips, and family •and with his many old friends. He •left this morning for Aurora, 111, >vhere hie company plays “The Wolfe, •in which he is starring, tonight He says they have been showing to mammoth houses, and he regards toe nlay as a splendid one. He was more than delighted to find that so many of his old friends here had planned to go to Lafayette on Nov. 10th to see him there, and he is going to try to have the very best in the house reserved for the big theatre party from his old home. So enttiusiastlcally have his old friends and admirers token hold of the plan that already more than a hundred hare placed their names on the list to go. It is not improbable that two hundred or possibly three hundred will make the trip If toe seats can be procurred. No home is complete without * piano. Why not have one in your home? Pay as you wish. Come in and see us. Ist door south of City Fire Dept Bldg. , MEYERS PIANO CO.. 0.5-2tsw Factory Distributors.