Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1908 — Page 3

FRIDAY

B. K. Zimmerman made a business trip to Monon today. Mrs. Ed Duvall went to Chicago this morning for a week’s visit. Mrs. Mary E. Kannal went to Lafayette today to visit the families of George Dexter, John Purcuplle and others. . J; Mrs. F. B. Meyer left this morning for Highland Park., 111., where she will remain for some time and possibly all winter with her son, Lawson, and wife. James Clark, who wag recently married, has rented Ike Hemphill’s tenant house in the east part of town and will shortly begin housekeeping therein. Brookston writes that they have organized an independent basketball team and are*looking for games. It is not improbable that the militia team may take them on.

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Mrs. Julia A. Healey is here for a few days, visiting the family of her son, George H. Healey, having sitopped off here'on her way back to Delphi from Chicago. She will remain here over Sunday.

Mrs. Katharine Schmitt, of Chicago, came this morning to visit her daughter, Mrs. Matt Nesius, over toward Remington. She will probably remain all winter. Matt has recently been having a great tussle with the rheumatism.

The Jasper county corn and bread contest will be held in connection with the Farmers’ Institute, December 7th and Bth. Pupils who enter exhibits may be excused from school on Tuesday if they wish to attend the institute.

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Theodore E. Burton, congressman from the Cleveland, Ohio, district, has been tendered the secretary of the treasury portfolio in the Taft cabinet. So it looks like we would have a Theodore in the cabinet, anyway.

Two teams from the Freshmen boys of the .high school mixed in a game of basketball at the armory last night and had a spirited and quite evenly contested game. The Peter Thompson team won out finally by a score of 17 to 11.

Philip Blue, administrator of the estate of the late Dr. W. W. Hartsell, is today expecting Samuel H. Hartzell, nephew of the dead physician. He has been In Colorado lately and is expected to come here from that state. -- - ... The weather forecast as flashed over the Western Union to the Monon agents today was for a cold wave. This signal is sent to agents to caution them against overloading trains, and probably is a suggestion to lock the coal bins.

Simon U. Dobbins is over from Francesville today, having been called as a witness in the Arrlck-Davls case. He says that Homer is getting along nicely at Wabash and that he is about recovered from the knee Injury which he sustained early in the football season.

James E. Watson is said to be considering a law partnership with James E. Piety, a leading lawyer of Terre Haute. Mr. Watson is said to have decided to locate in a larger city than Rushville, believing that he can better, succeed with the increased opportunities of a big city.

Mrs. Jens Jensen has been quite sick for the past week at her home on south Cullen street, and today her husband’s mother, Mrs. E. Jensen, came down from Wheatfield to help care for her. Her husband Is employed at Fred Hemphill’s blacksmith shop.

Mrs. Gaylord Nowels and two childdren left this morning for their future home at Longmont, Cola, where her husband preceded her a few weeks ago. He Is working with his brother Charley In a planing mill there and is more than pleased with the country and the effect it has had on his health. You are cordially invited to visit our kitchen and if it and the cook are not clean, we want you to go out and tell every one, if It is clean do the same thing. Remember we are making a hobby of our clean kitchen, and we want you to see it, and wo want to In the near fuure give each one a Christmas present that has visited our kitchen and proclaimed it B. plurlbus unum. McKay is on the watch for you, and will give you a fine meal or a good room. *

John Nichols and John Marlatt went to Chicago this morning to attend the stock show and the dairy show, expecting to divide their time between the two. John is one of our leading dairy farmers, and probably the only one in this section of the state that markets his cream in an automobile. The dairy show, by the way, is one of the most interesting and instructive events pulled off In Chicago each year and deserves the attendance of all who visit the stock show. ’

The first snow of any consequence o/ the season fell early this mqrning, and from 6 o’clock to 7:30 the snow fell thick and fast and it continued to fall after that time, although with less vigor. “Happy” Fletcher cast the first real pleasant smile he has cut loose since the snows of a vear ago, and was out betimes with his snow plow and black nag cleaning off the side walks. The temperature moderated very perceptibly but is stilt cold enough to keep the snow from melting. The road beds are almost perfect and if cold weather follows aS is predicted for Saturday we should have some good sleighing.

At the regular covenant and business meeting the First Baptist church elected officers for the year 1909 as follows: Judson H. Phi kins, clerk of church; Miss Laura Bruce, treasurer; Mrs. Glenne Brenner, assistant treasurer; Laura Bruce, organist; Boyd Porter, S. S. Supt.; Laura Bruce, Asst Supt; w Miss Grace Peyton, S. S. Secy.; Miss Anna MaGee, Asst Secy.; Oscar Leech, Librarian, and Mrs. Myrta Long, S. S. Treas. A vote of thanks was extended to M'ss Mary Porter for effecient service during the year as treasurer of the church. Notice was ordered given that three trustees will be elected at the regular meeting In January.

Dr. I. M. Washburn and Druggist B. F. Fendig returned on the 11:04 train last night from Longmont, Colo., where they had been since last Saturday, visiting John Paxton and family and looking at the city of Longmont and the surrounding country. "Longmont is a city of about 7,500 people and is a hustling place, although not the county seat They struck there along with a big snow storm that was general throughout the west. The people in Colorado always welcome an early snow storm, considering it an assurance of a fine crop the next year. One of the daily newspapers at Longmont is published by George Johnson, who a great many years ago published the Rensselaer Union. He was also engaged in the newspaper business at Remington at one time. The Rensselaer parties were very favorably impressed with the Colorado city and with as much of the country as they were able to see with the ground covered with snow.

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SATURDAY

Mrs. M. E. Corliss and little grandchild returned yesterday evening from a week’s visit in Louisville, Ky.

The members of Co. M, 3d Infantry,- will be mustered for semi-an-nual drill pay next Wednesday evening, Dec. 9th.

Clyde Huguet, a young man whose home was near Francesville, died last Saturday of erysipelas after a five days’ sickness. He was a schoolteacher and a fine yonng man.

Mrs. Lois Foster returned to Chicago today, after a week’s visit with her uncles, the Carr Bros., and her friend, Miss Jessie Knox.

A. O. Moore is another up-to-date farmer to have the Dally Republican sent to him. Hon. I. D. Dunn, of Tefft, will also hereafter read the Dally Republican. ' ’» Right on the heels of the announcement that James E. Watson was likely to form a law partnership and move to Terre Haute comes a denial from him. He says he will remain at Rushville. A. E. Bolser is now said to be working at SL Louis, Mo., and Mrs. Bolser is said to be clerking In a store at Indianapolis, and the little daughter, Zulu, is In a Catholic school at’lndianapolis.

John Behrns ran into a rather bad day for his sale, the weather being quite cold and disagreeable because of the snow, and prices did not meet quite up to some sales held this fall. His total of sales was $764.75. The best electric light globes made, the Gem, all sixes, I to 40 candle power. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE.

H. R. W. Smith went to Hammond this morning and after more days there he will return to his home in Longmont, Colo. His visit here was altogether too short to suit his many friends, but he promises to return" again in the warmer season of the year and make a longer stay. Mrs.. Ralph Fendig has gone to Jacksonville, Fla., at which place she will -visit her son, Louis Fendig. The winter will be spent in the south, visiting also with her daughter, Mrs. Tillie Borchardt, at Tampa, Fla., and her son Albert at Brunswick, Ga. Sam Fendig, who has been keeping house with his mother, is now boarding at tiie Makeever House.

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Offer to sell land to the Commercial Club for the proposed lot subdivision should be submitted to the committee ,n°t later than Friday, Dec. 11th. An unimproved property owner adjacent to town will be given consideration if the owner will submit a price to the committee The option committee hopes to be able to decide on a purchase by that date or a day or two thereafter.

When John Paxton was here from Longmont recently his brother, Will, of Hammond, accompanied him home and is spending some little time back there and at Torrington, Wyo., where the Paxton boys and their brother-in-law, H. R. W. Smith, are interested in considerable land, and where Bert and Ralph Paxton re- , side, Mrs. Isabel Paxton, their mother, widow of Wm. F. Paxton, makes her home with her son, Charles, at Longmont, and is in quite poor te It’ 1 , being 83 years of age.

A deal was closed last Monday whereby L. T. Hammond bought the interest of R. F. Zehr in the real estate firm known as Hammond & Zehr, real estate dealers. Mr. Zehr came here last spring and entered into the business with Mr. Hammond and in all his deals was a straight and honest gentleman. Mr. Zehr with his family has moved to Hoopston, 111., where he will engage in a similar business. Mr. Hammond will still continue to conduct the business of the old firm with office in the Burk building on south Range street.—Wolcott Enterprise!

Augustus Phillips has written to his brother, Fred, here that he lost all of his theatrical wardrobe of 12 years accumulation Id the recent burning of , the Park theatre in Brooklyn, N. Y. For many years Qus was with the Spooner stock company, and when he contracted with the Schubert management he left all of his valuable wardrobe stored at the Park theatre, which Mrs. Spooner continued to manage, and all of his property was either destroyed by fire or ruined by water. “The Wolt” has been showing to a fine business since the election, and the New York Mirror, in a recent issue, praised the work of Gus very highly.

Milo Zolmer, of Rochester, Ind., was arrested at South Bend Wednesday on suspicion of being implicated in the recent robbery of the South Bend postoffice. When taken into custody he was trying to dispose of a quantity of postage stamps. When questioned about where he got them, he said that he recently helped rob a store in Rensselaer and when he was leaving the store he found the stamps on the floor. As there has been no store robbery in Rensselaer for several years, it is probable that Zolmer manufactured the story. It is also possible that he might be one of the parties who assaulted and robbed Frank J. Lewis, the manager of the C. & W. V. railroad at Ker<say.

J. D. Babcock is here from near Bluffton, having come down from Chicago, where he had been attending the stock show, for a short visit at his old home. Jim was the most ardent republican in his section of the county the last fall, and in fact republicans of any sort were rather scarce right in his neighborhood and one night a number of democrats planted a tall pole with a Bryan banner floating from the mast, right in front of his farm house. Jim put up a Taft picture on the pole and also a banner saying that the fellows that erected the pole were as crooked as the pole itself. And another saying “Vote for Taft and prosperity or for Bryan and 12 cent com.** But Jim's son was afraid of making all the democrats in that section mad, so he cut the pole down.

Senator Halleck can serve this district quite acceptable by voting agalntt any and all appropriations for exposition purposes. Indiana has no million to turn over to Indianapolis and a firm refusal by the legislature to donate any sum will discourage the exposition ambitions of the capital city. The United States and the various states have been building expositions for years, and the game is getting old. If Indianapolis wants to hold a blow-out In 191 L let her

do so, but also let her foot the bill. Such enterprises are promoted the purpose of advertising the city tn which they are held, and to stimulate the business of that city, a purely selfish' motive, but commendable if those benefitted pay the fiddler. This part of Indiana, just at present, however, would rather put its money in stone roads than in expositions. —Kentland Enterprise. It was Samuel Hartsell, a brother, and not Samuel, a nephew, of the late Dr. Hartsell, who was expected here yesterday. He and his daughter. Miss Catherine, arrived last even ng on the milk train, and will visit for an indefinite time, making their headquarters with Philip Blue, the administrator of Dr. Hartsell’s estate- Mr. Hartsell is somewhat oilier than his late brother, being 75 years old. He is, however, quite well preserved and a very active man. He has lived in Colorado for the past 48 years. During the long years that his brother resided in Rensselaer he never visited him and this isj in fact, the first time he has ever been in Rensselaer. He Is one of the heirs, by virtue of his relationship, of the doctor, who, it will be remembered, died intestate. Something more than a year before the death of Dr. Hartsell he was vfslt6d by a nephew, also Samuel Hartzell, who spelled the name with a “z” Instead of an “s”. He iia’d just returned at that time from Alaska. This nephew is another of the heirs. He is a subscriber to the Republican, receiving it at Kingwood, W. Va.

MONDAY.

A. Halleck made a business trip to Wheatfield today. John Poole made a business trip to Lake Village today. You can get a roast beef or pork dinner every day at McKay’s. Mrs. Ray Adams went to Roselawn this morning to spend the day. Try the $1.35 flour at Murray’s Guaranteed the best in every way. Headquarters for the best standard makes patent leather dress shoes. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE. Silas Swain, the lightning rod man, accompanied John Bruner on his trip to Oklahoma. A game of box ball after the days’ work will make you feel better. Try one at the new alleys.

Born, Saturday evening, Dec. sth, to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Phillips, near the depot, a son, weighing 5 pounds.

Miss Anna M. Cowan, of Rushville, Ind., is the guest of her cousin, Mrs. A. J. Miller.

You take no chance when you buy flour of the G. E. Murray Co. Every sack warranted. I will deliver your oysters and bread. Don’t be afraid to call phone 432, McKay. Mrs. Frank Bailey returned to Kankakee, 111., this morning, after a short visit here with Allen Swim and family. ? Mrs Kirtley Bishop returned to her home in Indianapolis today after a visit of a month with her sister, Mrs. Ed Ames, southwest of town.

Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Zink, of Wapakoneta, Ohio, left for their - home this morning after a visit of three weeks with their daughter, Mrs. J. C. Borntrager, southwest of this city.

Trustee Henry F. Feldman has been quite sick of typhoid fever at his home In Keener township. He was very low some two weeks ago, but Is now said to be improving.

The Industrial Society of the M. E. church will hold a 10 cent social of the home of Mrs. R. A. Parklson Tuesday afternoon, Dec. Bth. Everyone is Invited.

Matt Shields, the Monon conductor, is recovering from a long siege of typhoid fever. He is at his home In Lafayette, and it is said will not try to resume his run until about the first of February.

The Robert H. Milroy Circle, Ladles of the G. A. R., will bold their election of officers on Thursday afternoon, Dec. 11th. The Department President, Mrs. Wright, will be piesemt

Harry A. McElroy, the Bridgeport, Conn., poultry man, is here to see what he can purchase in the turkey line for the Christmas market. He usually buys a car load or such a matter from B. 8. Fendig.

Sunday was a very nice day and not very cold, but a decided fall In the temperature occurred in the evening and it grew colder almost all night and this morning the murcury bung near the xero mark again. It has not * wanned up much today, notwithstanding the fact that the sun has shone brightly most of the time.

Jesse Eldridge, the manager of the S. P. Thompson farms at Papr, was brought home from the springs at Attica Sunday. He was down there two weeks or more but received no benefit whatever In his effort to free himself from rheumatism. t" Frank Hart, the DeMotte postmaster is here today. He has been having a tussle for the past six weeks with rheumatism and took a course of treatment at the Mineral Springs near Attica, and was greatly helped. He still gets around on a crutch and is far from well. The county commissioners and the township trustees are in session today, it being the December meeting of both boards. The farmers’ institute is also in session and the judges of the corn growing and bread baking contest are here, as well as the special institute workers.

Miss Flora Ward, daughter of Capt. and Mrs. G. B. Ward, of Monticello, died last week and was buried Friday. She was well known here and was known chiefly by the nickname of “Pet” Ward. She last visited here during the home coming, when she was the guest of Miss Lenna Grant and other friends.

Liveryman have a snap when weddings are numerous. They get rice enough out of the closed carriages to do them from one year’s end to another, and occasionally find a pair of second hand shoes that were thrown at the bride and groom which they put on and throw their own away. Nearly every business has its snaps. —Ex.

Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Nichols were host and hostess Sunday at a turkey dinner, the guests being White county relatives of Mrs. Nichols, as follows: Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Baker and son, of Monticello; Mr. and Mrs. George Wolverton and son and daughter, and Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Raub and sons, Joe and Charles, of Chalmers.

John G. Brown, reprerentatlveelect from White and Jasper counties, had a big sale at his home near Monon last week. He employed Col. Fred Phillips of this city and V. D. Cline, of Monticello, and bad a big crowd, well managed and everything went off smoothly. » The sa’e totaled right at SB,OOO. Mr. Brown is a progressive farmer and will make one of the ablest representatives this district has ever had.

Mr. and Mrs. Lorenzo Wartena returned to their home in Indiana Harbor this morning, after a visit since Saturday witn nis mother and sister, Mrs. Fred McColly, In Rensselaer. Lorenzo is the manager of the Indiana Harbor and East Chicago electric company, and while here he bdught a team of horses for the use of the company. Luther Wartena, his younger brother, is now engaged in electrical contract work at Gary and is doing a nice business.

A letter from Dr. C. A. Fidler, better known here as “Dick", in which he encloses draft for subscription renewal to the Republican, says: “I have been intending for several months to visit home, but havn’t got to do it yet, but wish to have my subscription account in front so send draft for it. It reaches me O. K. and I read it, trimmings and all.” Dick is located at Milwaukee, Wis., and has offices in the Majestic building. He is also one of the physicians at the Johnson Emergency Hospital in that city. He has evidently entirely recovered - from the operation he underwent several months ago.

Every merchant to whom the Republican editor has talked favors the revival of the monthly horse sale. The committee having matters of this sort to look after will probably recommend to the Commercial Club that the sales begin the latter part of January or the first of February, and then buyers will be invited to come here on that day and regularly every month thereafter. It is thought advisable to have the sale either the day before or the day after the Monticello sale,. so that the buyers can make the one trip out of the city answer for both towns, and it might also be an advantage to the buyers in shipping their purchases.

President Roosevelt takes Delavan Smith, the Indianapolis News publisher, to task In an open letter to William Dudley Foulke, and calls Smith a liar, slanderer and a few other names. Since the News began Its attack on Roosevelt last spring it has shown more bitterness than decency In its opposition and President Roosevelt makes Mr. Smith and his corps of political writers look very ludicrous, In view of the fact that they tried to make a scandal out of a matter that is open to the investigation of any person that cared to look into It The News employes the most contemptible form of innuendo in its criticism of the president and others with whom be is associated and deals In a class of pug dog politics that its former patrons hardly I thought it could be guilty of.

—< A specialist from Chicago was berg several hours Sunday and operated on three tonsilitis sufferers, removing the tonsils. He also removed an adenoidal growth from the post nasal passage of a 15 year old boy. In addition to these operations he made several other examinations. As he was only here about four hours he was kept on the jump, but the modem surgeon works with a vim and accomplishes his task with as much ease as a butcher cuts up the carcass of a cow in his shop. The only certain relief from quinsy and tonsilitis seems to be to have the tonsils removed and while there is considerable pain and inconvenience from the operation it is small compared to the menacing danger of having them retained after they become diseased.

One lot men’s suits, 50' cents on the $ while they last. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE.

J. V. Lesh, who had a big publie sale and went from this county to his father’s farm near Menominee, Wis., last spring, Is again back in old Jasper, having arrived here with his household goods Saturday, and his wife and children having preceded him a few days. He will occupy the Henry Grow farm of more than 400 acres 4 miles north of Rensselaer, and will raise a great deal of stock. His father, J. M. Lesh also accompanied him home. Mrs. Lash was very much dissatisfied in Wisconsin and the return to this state is largely made on her account. Mr. Lesh had a very good crop there and thinks there are some fine land bargains in that country and he rather expects to later invest in a farm there. He will not get pos-* session of the Grow farm until after Tom Brusnahan, the present tenant there moves off, and In the mean time he will live with his brother Dan in Barkley township.

Bargains in all kinds of winter clothing and cloaks at the G. E. Murray Co. Two sample base burner stoves at less than manufacturers prices to close. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE.

John Bruner left this morning for Bartlesville, Okla., and he is quite apt to spend the winter in that state Or some other place in the south. Bartlesville is not very far from Hallett, Okla., where several Rensselaer people purchased lots about a year ago. Mr. Bruner was one of the original investors there, but after he made his trip of investigation be found that the salesmen had decieved the buyers here by claiming that they bad already received a bill of lading for the shipment of a few car loads of gas pipe, when they had not contracted for the purchase of a foot of pipe. So John quietly gave all the purchasers the tip that it was a good thing to leave alone and it is probable few if any" ever completed the payments. Mr. Bruner’s judgment was that the location of the town and its natural surroundings might cause It to enjoy a boom but the fact that the agents had used deceit in the sale made it look very dubious. It will be remembered that the agents were doing a land office business in Rensselaer when J. Frank Warren arrived here from Oklahoma City and proclaimed them frauds, and that the Republican published Mr. Warren’s opinion about the Hallett prospects and thereby arousegd the Wrath of the agents and created some skepticism among the buyers. Of course, if there was going to be any thing real good pulled off at Hallett, we wanAd Rensselaer people to get in on the fact that two railroads crOesed there did not seem sufficient reason to warrant investment, and we were inclined to think that if there was any real good thing in sight there, people closer at home were going to gobble it up, and Rensselaer people would not learn of it until it was all over. This matter is history now, so Is the Kellog-Canada deal, but it is just about time for another set of land fakirs to drop in on us and it is a good idea to tighten the strings on the weasel skin or at least to decide to thoroughly investigate any proposition that is offered before we put any money into it Local real estate men are more apt to put you wise to all the “value received” propositions there are, , and glib tongued strangers should be left alone.

A sweater sale. The newest coat . style at lowest prices. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE. J. C. Carmichael has opened * harness shop in the White building, next door to Knapp’s Livery Barn, and would be glad to see his old customers. dwDefe.& Prompt deliveries made by Lowman. Order your meats and groceries there. Shoes and rubbers. Double the stock of any other. Over 100 esses new rubbers at special low prices. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE. ,