Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1908 — Page 3

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Mrs. I, Flsher’went to Roselawn Wednesday to remain over Sunday. Mrs. Harriet Moon, of is tbe'i guest of Dr. and Mrs. LK Wtah« burn. Miss 'Carrie Pierce is spending the Thanksgiving vacation visiting in Chicago. Mrs. Earl Duvall and Miss Mildred Biggs went to Chicago this morning to remain over Saturday. H. M. Grant Went to Chicago Wednesday for a short visit with his daughter, Mrs. P. L. Mattes. Born, Wednesday, Nov. 25, to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dewees, five miles southeast of town, a daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Donnelly spent Thanksgiving at Hammond with her relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Milt Roth and son spent Thanksgiving with relatives at Evanston. Miss Mamie Woodcox, of Chicago, is the guest of her sister, Mrs, Thad. Stephens. Mi-s. J. P. Hammond and son spent Thanksgiving with her parents, at Wheatfield. . ' Born, Thanksgiving day to Mr. and Mrs. John Borntrager, northwest of town, a son. Bpm, . this Friday morning, Nov. 27th, to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Byrd, near the depot, a daughter. Mi-s. Geo" Ulm and daughter spent Thanksgiving with relatives at Royal Center.

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Mr. and Mbs. Philip Blue spent Thanksgiving n with their 1 son; Roy Blue, and family, at Wheatfield. Delos Dean and Emmet Laßue, of Indiana, are also at home for the short Thanksgiving vacation. Jacob Evans, of LaPorte was the guest of his niece, Mrs. Frank Kenton and family, near Pleasant Ridge. Warren Washburn, of Goodland, was a guest over Thanksgiving day of his I brother, Dr. L M. Washburn, and family. * Miss Clara Huston, of Hoopeston, 111., was a Thanksgiving guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Brenner at the Makeever house. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Parker were Thanksgiving guests of their daughter and husband, Dr. and Mis. Wallace Parkinson, at Brook. J. H. Ford, of Ambia, came Wednesday afternoon for a few days’ visit with his daughter, Mrs. Ed. Raqton and family. Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Wood, of Monon and daughter, Kate L. Wood, spent the day Thanksgiving with the Wood and Bruce families near town.

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Mrs. M. Hardesty returned to Indiana Harbor Wednesday after a week’s visit with her daughter, Mrs. Victor Walker, in Barkley township. Mrs. J. H. Holden is this afternoon entertaining fourteen Rensselaer ladles at an afternoon tea in honor of her sister, Mrs. John A. Thomas, of Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Delos Ccen, of Chicago, were Thanksgiving guests of their parents. Mr. Coen returned to Chicago this morning and Mrs. Coen will go tomorrow. Misses Nellie Drake and Lizzie Riddle, chaperoned by Mrs. Joe Halligan, went to Culver Thursday to attend a football game and a night dance. Hugh Gamble went to Lake Forest Wednesday to spend Thanksgiving with his sister. Before returning home he will also visit a niece at Wheaton and a nephew at Elgin. Thomas Smith was on the street Wednesday afternoon. He is not feeding the best this winter. He is nearing the four score period, and will be 80 years old on Jan. 27th. Bert Rhoades, manager of the'ChiTelephone Co., at Blue Island, 111., was back at his old home for the Thanksgiving holidays. He was accompanied by Miss Irene Dunning, Who, it is understood is to become Mrs. Rhoades before very long. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Quinn, of Strawn, 111., came Wednesday for a short visit with his sister; Mrs. L. A. Harmon, and family. Mr. and Mrs. Quinn were married only a week ago Wednesday, and. are spending their honeymoon among relatives. X

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Prot. Samuel E. Sparling left this morning for Mt Vernon, lowa, where oratorial contest between students at Cornell college. It is the twelfth time that Prot Sparling has made the Journey to Cornell in the capacity of a judge in oratorical’ contests. C. L. Parks, at Surrey, has recovered through an advertisement in the classified columns of the Republican, a pony and colt that got out of his pasture On about Nov. 12th. They were found over near .Brook. He wrote Jthe Republican after the recovery: “The ad did the work.” Omar Day brought two college friends with him from Purdue, viz. H. N. Weist, whose home is at Manistee, Mich., and H. T. Shrum, of Omaha, „.Neb. Both are e’ectrical students and in connection with Omar will today make a test of the machinery at the Rensselaer electric light plapt J" Ray Hopkins and Homer Dobb’ns went to Nebraska with Wabash to play football, but Dobbins did not get in the game at all, and Hopkins for only a few minutes, playing center after two others had been used up. Wabash proved easy for the cornhuskers, winning by the score of 27 to 5.

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' A. J. Bellows and wife entertained the following people for Thanksgiving guests: Their son, Ed Bellows, and wife, from near Remington, and their son-in-law and wife, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Murphy and baby, of Chicago. Alsp Dexter Jones and family and Howard Jones and family, of near Remington. Jesse L. Morris writes to have his Republican changed from Chicago to Memphis, Tenn. He says “Bert Overton and myself have sold out our business in Chicago at a good profit and are looking for another location here. Bert is at present employed at his trade of carpenter and I |am working on a passenger train on I the Frisco railroad.” The Solt-White law suit is proving quite a long drawn out affair and it is now probable that the evidence will not all be in by Saturday night As court will close on the night of the sth of December it is not probable that all the cases on the docket will be tried. The Brosnan-Halligan suit will probably take up most of the time next week , The college students were largely home from their various schools for the Thanksgiving holidays. Prof. Ray Yeoman, of Purdue, Vaughn Woodworth, Omar Day, Paul Glazebrook, all from Purdue; George Long, from Wabash; Wood Spitler, Rex Warner and Thompson Ross, from Wisconsin; Avaline Kindig and Grst<e Norris, of Northwestern; Frank Hardman accompanied by a friend from Illinois, and Nell Moody and Myra Watson, from Oxford. Word comes from Mitchell, S. Dak., that Mrs. Maggie Kenton Meads is now living with her father, Jasper Kenton, having separated from her husband, the former Rev v Will Meads, who for some time was pastor of the First Baptist church in Rensselaer. It was reported here that Meads had been married and had a wife and three children from whom he was separated when he came here. They have been living in lowa for some time. They have one son, a boy 5 or 6 years of age, who is with his mother.

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C. F. Schwenk, of LaPorte, is the guest today of Jas. Donnelly and wife. Eya Clark Is down from Hammond to spend Sunday with relatives and friends. An elevator and mill owned by Smith & Inana, at Sheridan, was destroyed by fire last night I ■ ■■ iitahM.H A. L. Clark.Jhas sold out the Monon Telephone exchange to Austin Hanawalt. Mr.'Clark expects to buy a fruit farm in northern Michigan. Asa Thompson left this morning; for Adams county, N. Dak., where he has a claim and where he will remain for some time. The Solt-White case that has occupied the attention of the court for several days went to the jury at 2:10 this afternoon. The school house at Foresman caught fire last Friday, and was saved only after some very hard work by the people of that village. The damage was'not very extensive, and did not cause the closing of the school. -—Brook Reporter.

—- Thoe. J. Merrifield, who was the first mayor of Valparaiso, died on Noy. 21st, at the home of his son in Detroit, Mich. Mrs. J. N. Leatherman and little daughter will return tomorrow fromJoliet, IIL, where she has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Carrie Lagin, for a few days. The Remington Poultry show will be held during the week of Dec. 28 to Jan. 2. A fine exhibit is promised and the Press says the program and premium list will be out about Dec. 10th. Dr. I. M~ Washburn and* B. F. Fendig will leave for Longmont, Colo., this evening cm the 6:32 train, on a business trip that will permit them to return home Friday of next week. , : - • A new four-seated five-passenger Cadaillac curing car, the property of William Washburn arrived here, today. It is a very fine car, and we understand focal agents are to push the sale of it next year.

_________> Mrs. Grace Pumphrey and children are spending the Thanksgiving period with her father at Brook. They will return home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. George Pumphrey are looking after the boarding house during her absence ' _______ W. M. Hammond and family arrived here this afternoon from Lisbon, N. Dak., for a visit of four weeks with friends and relatives in this county and in the gas belt “Bud” has prospered in the west and thinks it is the great place sos a hustler to locate. Misinformation caused us to yesterday Include Miss Myra Watson among the names of the college students at Oxford. Mies Watson was home as also was Miss Thena Meyer. Both are teaching school this year at Ambia, in Benton county, and they are spending their Thanksgiving vacation at home and. in Chicago. W. J. Huff & Son will succeed Mrs. J, L. Peetz as owners of the Monon News. Mrs. Peetz, is is understood, will be the deputy to her husband, who was recently elected state statistician. Mrs. Peetz has made a good newspaper out of the News and her successors are both' newspaper men of long experience, and should maintain the present high standard of the News.

Last week the firm of Sawyers & Ulery sold their furniture store at Brook to Mr. Lloyd Hershman, a native of Brook. Mr. Mose Sawyer will move to Kentland and take up his duties as sheriff of the county and Mort Ulrey will, conduct the furniture business until the first of the year until Mr. Hershman can move to town and take charge of the business himself —Goodland Herald. There are a ‘few scattering cases of scarlet fever in Kentland, and as a result the public and parochial schools have been adjourned for the weak, and children are being denied admission to public entertainments. The cases thus far developed are of a mild type, but precautionary measures are being taken by the health officers in hopes of stamping out the disease as quickly as possible.— Kentland Enterprise. Men are like flies. They, congregate around those things which interest them. ' When you see a swarm of flies around a sugar barrel you know why. They want the sugar. When you see a crowd of men around a fine hprse you know why. They are admiring the animal. And when you see another crowd of men standing around with a look of innocence so fixed on their countenances * that, it wont come off, and now and then | two or three take a sneak in the | back way you know why. Keep your eyes open.—Oxford Tribune.

MONDAY.

Miss Ethel Davis went to Hobart this morning for a ferw days* visit Mr. and Mrs. B. Forsythe went to Chicago this morning to buy holiday. goods. E. F, Mills, of Chicago, was here Saturday and Sunday, visiting his mother, Mrs. C. E. Mills and family. | G eorge Gilbert, Walter and George Simons, of Monticello, visited friends in Rensselaer, a short time Saturday. ! Both basket ball and indoor base ball are being considered by the militia boys and the basket ball practice has been begun. Attorney and Mrs. C. M. Sands returned this morning from Monon, I where they have been for a short «4sftr> -r-T-Wmilftii-L. . , . J F. C. Plckner, of Knlman, is going to farm the George Fate land J and was in town Saturday getting furniture and equipment for housekeeping. His sister will keep house J for. him.

■ mill '■» l - ...... HI. , ■lll ■ - Mrs. A. Oppenheimer, who has been spending the summer with her daughter, Mrs. B. S. Fendig, left for her home in New Orleans yesterday. Mrs: .-Jim Randle, of Chicago, returned home this morning after a short visit here with her husband’s father, Nelson Randle. Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Hopkins returned this morning from near Monticello, where they had spent Thankswith her father and family. Mrs. Jack Smith went to Urbana, 111., this morning, having been called there by the serious sickness of her mpther, Mrs. Thos. Day. Rev. L. B. Ragan, who preached at the Mt. Ayr Baptist church Sunday, todk the train here this morning for his home in Greentown. 3U ■. . Delbert Beckman returned .to his school work at Lafayette today after spending the Thanksgiving vacation Idth his parents here. Miss Blanche Palmer returned this morning to Evanston, after spending Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Brenner. W. C. Baker, of Chicago, spent Saturday night and Sunday with his father, J. N. Baker, and family in Barkley township. Order your fresh meats and groceries together at Lowman’s market. Call central and say “Lowman’s Market” Mrs. C. Vondersmith left this morning for her home In Murdo, S. Dak., after a visit of two weeks with her sister, Mrs. N. Littlefield. Miss Eva Clark returned to Hammond this morning after a short visit here with her brother, Leslie Clark and family. Mrs. Chas. Burleigh returned to her home in Chicago this morning after spending the Thanksgiving period with her sister, Mrs. W. H. Beam. Mrs. Mary A. Reynolds, of Warsaw, Ohio, and sister, Mrs. Jane C. Whitsell, of Lafayette, arrived here today to visit their nephews, the Carr Bros., west of town.

Clarence Brubaker, of West Alex* andria, Ohio, has been visiting his cousins, Harry and Van Arnold, and this morning all three went to Chicago to attend the stock show. G. B. Parkison is another progressive farmer who will have the Dally Republican sent to him regularly hereafter. The Daily by mail costs |3.50 a year. The college has opened the basket ball season, ah<f shows very fine form. They had a game with Goodland Saturday afternoon and disposed of the visitors by the emphatic score of 84 to 11. Miss Martha Jones, ot Cincinnati, and Arthur and Martha Vaughan, of Chicago, were guests over Thanksgiving of Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Murray and family. They left for their homes yesterday morning. Ray Hopkins was toe.e Sunday, stopping off on his way back from Nebraska. He sustained no Injuries in the Nebraska game and is now feeling fine. He returned to Wabash college at Crawfordsville at 11 o’clock Sunday night. The order of the Eastern Star will elect officers for the ensuing year tomorrow evening, Tuesday Dec. 1. All members of the order are requested to be present 2td By order of the W. M. The case of Hugh Brusnahan vs. Halligan Bros., which was set for today, was postponed until tomorrow, 4n order to give the parties to the suit an opportunity to settle it out of court Mrs. Harry Wiltshire and brother, Timothy Karsner, were at Monticello Saturday, attending the funeral of their uncle, Samuel Babb. He was a brother of Ed Babb, also of this place. He was a soldier in the civil war, serving in the 48th Indiana regiment, and was badly wounded. Mrs. Chas. Kasson and niece, Ruth Wooden, of Hammond, returned home this morning. Mrs. Kasson is the mother of Mrs. Orlan Grant, of Rensselaer, and she had been at Remington at the bedside of her sister, Mrs. Eliza Phlllipi, who is quite seriously sick. Miss Nina Martindale, daughter of John Martindale, was one of the college girls not mentioned last week. She is the only Rensselaer girl attending Indiana University this year, and she has returned there, after I spending the short holiday vacation at home. t Llllo Hauler, an agriculture student at Purdue, went to Chicago this morn- [ ing to attend the stock show. Purdue . will exhibit some animals there. Vaughn Woodworth, another ag stu[dent, returned to Purdue this morning.

’ All Sessions Open , f Everybody Invited ’ JASPER COUNTY Farmers’ Institute - _ AND < . a i Ladies' Auxiliary , 2 Combined r December 7 ✓ 8, 1908 In the Court-House Rensselaer, Indiana Eighteenth Session I“■ . . State Instructors —A. G. Burkhart, Tipton, Indiana, Miss Ethel E. Berry, Jewel City, Kansas, Sam B, Woods, Crown Point, Indiana. Program Monday, December 7th ' io.oo A.M. Invocation . . . Rev. Kindig io. io “ Miscellany 10.20 “ President’s Address 10.30 “ The Golden Hoof . A. G. Burkhart 11.00 “ Cow Barns and How to Budd Them . . . . Sam B. Woods s u. 30 * Cement on the Farm . Amos H. Alter 12.00 M. Noon Intermission 1.00 P.M. Patriotic Chorus L 05 1 “ Miscellany 1.15 " Co-operation Among Farmers, Sam B. Woods 1.45 “ Sheep Raising in Jasper County . . . . -R. J. Yeoman 2.05 “ The Duties and Privileges of a Farmer’s Wife « . . A. G. Burkhart Discussion opened by Mrs. George Ketchum 2.35 “ Should Farmers Patronize Mail-Order Firms ? Answered Pro and Con by W- L. Wood , and Stephen Brusnahan 2.5.5 “ Dairy Breeds . . . B. D. Comer 3.25 “ Feeding a Dairy Herd Sam B. Woods 3.55 « Summary EVENING SESSION 7.00 “ Instrumental Music 7.20 “ Select Reading . . John E. Alter 7.30 “ The Farmer and His Calling, A. G. Burkhart ■ ■■■ Tuesday, December Bth 10.00 A.M. Invocation . . . Rev. Bundy < io. io “ Miscellany ( 10.20 “ The Ideal Farm . . A. G. Burkhart 10.50 “ Corn Culture . . Marion Adams 11.20 “ Domestic Science in the Public Schools ' Miss Ethel E. Berry • 12.00 M. Noon Intermission , 1.00 P.M. Song, Hunting Chorus 1.05 “ Yeast and Bread . Miss Ethel E. Berry < 1.35 “ A Plea for More Clover, and How to Get It , A. G. Burkhart 2C05 “ Varieties, Color, and Characteristics of Com , . . Joe Pullins j 2.25 “ Rotation of Crops . Theodore Dunlap , 2.55 “ Education and Preparation Necessary in Every Galling . A. G. Burkhart 3.25 Report of Committees Summary • ’ __ ■ J JOHN E. ALTER, President. EVERETT HALSTEAD, Secretary. A. A. FELL, Treasurer. ’ LADIES AUXILIARY MRS. I. F. MEADER, President. MRS. BURTON, Secretary.

Bruce E. Baker, of Barkley township, left this morning for Pontiac, 111., where he will spend a few days wih his brother, Jas. R. Baker, going from there to Chicago to attend the stock show. John’ Jessen went to Chicago this morning, where, it is understood, he will work with the Chicago Journal, presumably in the circulation department The Journal is now a rampant democratic paper. Bert Brenner returned this morning from Rossville, where he spent Sunday with Mrs. Brenner’s aged uncle, William Porter. He is now almost 80 years of age and still holds the Monon agency at Rossville, but his son is the active agent The following young ladles returned to DePauw University this morning after spending the Thanksgiving vacation at home: Misses Grace Norris, Georgia Harris, Belle Laßue and. Harriett Shedd. Miss Nell Moody returned to Oxford, Ohio. Miss Edith Adams, who is attending college at Hillsdale, Mich.; Miss Lois Thompson, who is at Bradford, Mass., and Miss Cecelia Hollingsworth, who Is at Wellesley college, N. Y., were not home for the Thanksgiving short vacation. V -

Visit the bazaar by the ladies of the Christian church, Dec. 4th and sth. Place it will be held will be announced later. We had another fine rain Sunday night, the fall being a little In excess of an inch and a half. It Is now getting considerably colder and a stiff west wind is apt to reduce the temperature considerably before tomorrow morning. Mrs. Eva Hunt and Mrs. Sarah Domke, of Medaryville, who have been spending the past week in Rensselaer with their sister, Mrs. W. W. Reeve, went to Chicago this morning for a day’s shopping before re* turning to their home. . Comrade Fox is again carrying the city mall between the postoffice and the depot, and Tommy O’Meara is carrying the star route to Pleasant Grove. There are said to be several boxes on the star route badly out of repair and the law provide* that the carrier shaH’put letters and other mall in these boxes at the risk of the addressee, and during the winter season of the year the boxes are unfit lots of time to put mail into. It would only take a little time to repair the old boxes or put up new ones and patrons ahold do tnls without delay. -r— —’l-i