Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1908 — Blue Sea [ARTICLE]

Blue Sea

- > - r ; -. ' ' ■ / ''' Mr. Herman is shredding corn for Lud Clark this weak. Henry Beaver was in Monon Tuesday forenoon. Cady Underwood and wife were in Monon Tuesday. There was a large audience in Monon Tuesday to see Bryan. Uncle Tom Johnson was in Monon on business Monday. Richard Foulks returned from Logansport Monday. "Chattnatr Was Tn Rensselaer Tuesday on business. Willard Johnson and wife were in Monon Tuesday. M .Beaver was in Rensselaer Monday. Everyone should read the Republican and get all the latest news. Chas. Smith was in Monon Tuesday afternoon. Frank Summers went to shuck corn Monday. ' • John Woosley went to Kentland Tuesday to shuck corn. C. Underwood was in Reynolds on business Thursday afternoon. A good rain is needed at p esent. The farmers in this vicinity are husking corn. Grandma Foulks spent Thursday with Mrs. Roy Williams. Mrs. Geo. Foulks spent Friday with Grandma Foulks and Mrs. C. Underwood. Mrs. Esta Hamiltbn and sister, Elsa Beaver, were in McCoysburg Monday afternoon. There were quite a large audience at the speaking at Center Monday evening. Uncle Tom Johnson has purchased a new buggy. Uncle bleieves in being up-to-date with the times. Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Johns of McCoysburg spent Friday with Grandma Foulks and Mrs. C. Underwood.

C. Underwood and wife called on Roy Williams and wife Tuesday evening, x There was a gentleman In this vicinity from Pleasant Grove to look at the hay business in the Blue Sea. Geo. Timmons and C. Underwood are prepared to furnish gcod music for any kind of a social or entertainment. Frank Coghill and wife who have been spending a while with their daughter at Kankakee, 111., returned home Monday. Jeff Becker is baling hay for A. C. Robinson in the marsh. Jeff has a good machine and is a good hand at the business. Look for special in the paper November 2d er Sth, and read other news from the north special to the Republican. Roy Williams and Wife and Richard Foulks spent Wednesday evening with grandma Foulks and C. Underwood and wife.

Mrs. Jacob Gantz, of Warsaw, was accidentally killed by her husband, who was shooting at a hawk. Gantz has become insane as a result of the accident. Because she was forced to change her home thirty-nine tmles in her married life, Mrs. Jennie E. V. Jarrett, of Fort Wayne, asked a divorce from James E. Jarrett. The couple were married in 1891. The brewers have reached South Bend in their efforts against local option. On numerous consplcious billboards are flaming posters presenting the doleful results which the brewing interests say will follow the enforcement of the county local option law. • • The Machinists’ union of Ft. Wayne, adopted a resolution Tuesday- night scoring Gompers as the paid tool of the democratic national committee and the representative of such enemies of organized labor as “Flngy” Conners and Roger Sullivan.

The students of Indiana university who were before the committee on student affairs charged with being mixed up in the riot at the Harris Grand theater were summoned again. The committee Informed the students it would hold them responsible for payment of S3B. While at work on the new German Lutheran church at Gary a desperate fight occurred between Samuel Roth, a contractor, and Andrew Shippel, both of Gary. The altercation aross over the work. Roth went home to get a gun to shoot Shippel. He was overpowered, disarmed and later arreated on a warrant charging him with attempted mtp'der. The Bartlett Kuhn company’s elevator at VincenneS, recently Improved and modernly equipped at a cost of SIOO,OOO, was destroyed by fire of incendiary Origin. The bins contained 100,000 bushels of wheat and 25,000 bushels of com, which was all burned. The fire caused a stampede in the court house just as John E. Lamb was concluding a democratic addgßs, and nobody remained to hear the final speaker.