Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1908 — Page 1

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COMMERCIAL CLUB BUYS ADDITION

Robinson Tract of 75 Acres Purchased at $l3O per Acre— Sale to Begin Soon. The. directors of the Commercial « Club this Tuesday morning held a ' meeting and considered all the proppositions for subdivision property suitable for the lot sale that is to provide a fund for factories and after careful consideration of all the propositions decided to take the offer of Warren Robinson to purchase his 76 acres just east of town. All members of the board of directors were present except G. E. Murray and E. L. Hollingsworth, and the board reached the agreement without a dissenting voice. The tract was offered at $l3O an acre and the price appealed to the directors, as well as the fact that it was the only one of the plots offered that was large enough and it also had no waste ground! It was thought advisable to have ally the lots together instead of subdivisions in two or three diffeient locations.

The other property offered was the Kellner tract at $175; the Monnett tract, now owned by the Chicago Training School, at $150; the Henry Amsler 40 acres north of town at $140; the Harve Grant 15 acres at the north Bide of town at $260; and R. A. Parkison’s 24 acres west of the stock farm at $l5O. The directors at once employed Civil Engineer Bostwick to make a survey and blue print of the tract, and from this a plate will be made and then the large posters will be printed and the sale of the lots will begin. Mr. Deam was here and commended the action of the board. He thinks the subdivision best adapted to the needs of the Commercial Club and he is anxious to begin the sale. He also said that it is probable the factory people will be in Rensselaer within a few days to look over the toWn. If the metal furniture factory is secured the club would' probably set off five acres of this tract for the factory. 1 As previously stated, the lots are sold without regard to location in the subdivision and after six months the drawing takes place and the lots are dispersed by lottery. As there is a good house on the tract this will go to some one of the lot purchasers. President Warren Robinson is pushing the affairs of the Commercial Club right along and Rensselaer is shaping itself for a big boom and every citizen can gid in the effort for a "Greater Rensselaer.”

Barkley Neighbors Surprise Shirer.

Thirty neighbors and friends pulled off a surprise of Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Shirer, at their home on the Joe Jackson farm in Barkley township, last Saturday night; the occasion being a farewell to them, as they will move before the first of the year to the county Jail residence in this city, where on Jan. Ist he enters upon his duties as county sheriff. The crowd had met at the home of George McElfreeh, and the men had brought a quantity of oysters and the women had baked cakes and other things and made preparations for quite a spread.- Mr. Shirer was at home at the time, but Mrs. Shlier was out of the house and when she returned and found the house filled wit people she was quite overcome. The evening was very pleasantly spent.

The Fire Company Benefit.

Seats are being sold for the fire company benefit which takes place Wednesday night of next week at a lively rate and evidently the Musical Hoyleß will be greeted by a full house. Rensselaer’s fire department is the pride of the eity and the money raised by this entertainment will be spent to secure added equipment and thus Improve their efficiency. The cause is worthy and the entertainment will undoubtedly be worth the oost. It will be wise to get your Beats early, as all will undoubtedly be sold before the doors open the night of the entertainment

Sunday Service at Good Hope.

The service at the Christian church at -Good Hope next Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock will be a Christmas service conducted by the pastor, Rev. G. H. Clarke. All are Invited.

THE RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN.

Indiana School That Educates Both Heart and Head

(M. W. Carr in Indianapolis Star.) Adjoining the city of Rensselaer on thf southwest and ensconced behind clumps of woods—those islands of virgin forest in the clearing that have escaped the woodman’s ax, or the greed of the husbandman for broader cultivated fields—is situated the classic village of Collegeville, the home of St. Joseph’s College, conducted by the fathers of the Congregation of the Most Precious Blood. The college buildings, including the community houses, are seven in number, and are modern, commodious and substantial. Another building for chapel and refectory purpes s, to cost $60,000, is planned for next year. When this is completed a striking cluster of imposing structures will overlook a spacious campus and grounds 400 acres in extent, with a lake, the whole presenting an unusually attractive Beene. Little has hitherto been heard of this institution of learning, so

Will Establish Creamery Branch.

W. A. McPherson, proprietor of the Monon Creamery, and W. H. Morrison of Monon, were in Rensselaer this Tuesday morning planning to establish a branch cream buying station in this' city. Mr. McPherson has built up a large business in Monon and for some time has also been a purchaser in this market, and he has decided to establish the branch here and to put Mr. Morrison in charge of it. Mr. McPherson said that when he began to buy cream at Monon he had just one customer, and now some two hundred people come to his place with cream every day. He feels confident that he will do as well or better in this place, as he pays an attractive price and proves to any farmer that dairying paya It is probable that he will secure a room in the same block in which the Republican office is located and that he will begin business very shortly.

Bazaar Realizes $255.

The ladiee of the Preabyterian church had the very best success at their bazaar held some ten days ago, and have since then sold enough articles to make the total sales reach the sum of |263. The ladies of the Christian church preceded them with their bazaar and they took in S2OO. The ladles of both churches are greatly elated at the success enjoyed.

SEE THE HOLIDAY GOODS NOW Oti DISPLAY IN OUR WINDOW. E. D. RHOADES & SON. Ice cream 20c a quart at T. W. Haus* restaurant

ST. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE. St Joseph’s College, located near Rensselaer, Ind., has enjoyed a remarkable growth, and Is now a:suming prominence as one of the principal educational institutions of the state. The college is under tte management of the Catholic Fathers of the Congregation of the Most Precious Blood. The college buildings are seven in number, and the grounds cover 400 acres. The school takes pride in educating both "heart and head” of youth.

quietly and unostentatiously has it pursued its humble course, ard so timid has it been to raise its head above its woody surroundings. And yet, after only seventeen yea;s of existence, with its 250 resident students, it merits high rank among the schools that in these latter years have given intellectual fame to Indiana. Like St. Claran’s Clonmacnoise of old it wooes the knowledge-seeker from local and distant parts and even from other shores to drink deep from the plentiful fountain of its Pierian spring, and it gives him “good measure, pressed down, and shaken together and running over,” that his hunger may be appeased with the choice things, both moral and intellectual, which he prizes and desiies. While this unpretentious college is abreast of many of the older ones In the high standing of its faculty and professors, in its curriculm of studies and in the other means employed looking to the neds to be attained, it has in addition this speoial excellence, that it pays marked

Soldiers and their wives who a e inmates at the Lafayette Soldie s’ Home are to be the recipients of a fine remembrance at the hands of the Corps of Rensselaer this year, as a barrel of canned fruit and jelly has been sent to the home from this place. The barrel contained 36 quarts of fruit and 10 glasses of jelly and was sent to the commandant at the home to be used for the inmates of that institution. In sending it the ladies were doubtless reminded of the times fortyfive, years ago when the mothers and sisters and sweethearts of the boys at the front made efforts to remember them at Christmas periods and there were many reminiscences of the war period as the patriotic women packed the barrel that was to help make Christmas a day of cheer to the “old boys” at the home. The act was a most commendable one.

The Masonic order held its election Monday night the old officers for the most part being elected. .The following will be the officers for the ensuing term: H. B. Brown, Worshiping Piaster. B. N. Fendlg, Senior Warden. R. D. Thompson, Junior Worden. W. J. Imes, Secretary. S. Fendlg, Treasurer. % It Is expected to hold a public Installation next Monday night, and It Is probable that the Royal Arch and the Order of the Eastern Star will Join with them and hold a Joint Installation.

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attention to fundamentals, believing with the monastic teachers of the middle ages that the permanen.y as well as the efficiency and polish of the intellectual superstructure which we call education or learning, d?pends largely on the breadth and depth and stability of its foundation. is therefore the policy and practice of St. Joseph’s never to crowd the beginner, never to cram the lagging student, never to estimate a boy s progress merely by the page 3 he has hurriedly fumbled over. Hence it’s rule requires six years for tte completion of the classical course, four for the normal and three for the commercial, in each of which it is empowered by the state to grant degrees. Coupled with the above, and with the special excellence nam.d, the e is also the pervading influence of religion, with its moral atinosphe e aiding in the enforcement of mild, but rigid discipline the formation of correct habits and the full development of a manly and Christian char-

Seats Went Like Hot Cakes.

The fire company has about run into an obstacle for their benefit performance which is to take place next Wednesday night, Dec. 30th, and that is that the house will not be large enough to accommodate the great crowd that wishes to gee the show. Every seat on the main floor has been sold, and most of the balcony, and the entire house has be n reserved at the 50 cent price. Fire Chief Jack Montgomery struck it rich when he reached the Makes ver House In his ticket celling rounds, for Makeever and “Uncle” George Hosmer took twenty seats each and each planked . down a ten spot to pay for them, j Mayor J. H. S. Ellis also took twenty seats and B. Forsythe, who is always in the front rank of progres- j siveness, took ten seats. If arrangements had been made to have the Musical Hoyles here two nights the bouse could have been filled both nights. As it is the house will hardly hold the great crowd that will be on hand on that occasion.

Leave your order for your Christmas dinner at John Eger's. We will have Fancy Sweet Potatoes, Leaf Lettuce, Cranberries, Celery, Mince Megt, Sweet and Sour Pickles, Olives, Canned Corn and Peaß,, Oranges, Apples, Bananas, Pineapples and Fancy Mixed Nuts. r Telephone 132, King Floral Co., your wants for Xmas and they will do the rest. Telephone us early. Come In and see the wall charts that the Republican Is giving for 35 cents Along with new or renewed subscriptions.

acter. The church’s experience of more than a thousand years in educational work is tenaciously clung to by these disciples of blessed Caspar del Bufalo, the founder, in 1815, of the congregation of the Most Precious Blood, for they educate the heart along with the head; they yoke science with religion in the work of equipping the youth for the battle of life, and they aim through these means to upbuild and develop the whole man in strength and symmetry, and in that happy proportion which gives open field to the marked talents of each individual student. If parents are bound in conscience to see to the proper secular and religious education of their children, the obligation holds that they seek out or at least not overlook such Institutions as the one here mentioned. Especially is this so when the terms and conditions are both easy and inviting, and when in addition to the mental and moral pabulum the creature comforts are most abundantly supplied.

Pattee Family Goes to Iowa.

Mrs. S. A. Pattee and W. M. McCoy, better known as Nels McCoy, and wife, left this morning on the 9:55 train for Stewart, lowa, where they expect to make their future home. John Pattee proceeded them a few days. They have been living near Newland. The Pattee family has been considerably in the liipe Tight for several years, and their departure was made quite spectacular by the efforts some creditors made to get a settlement out of them. Pat Halligan had sold them some horses and he began a suit of attachment Monday when it was found that they were going to move away and take all of their property with them. He finally got a settlement by compromise and then Sheriff O'Connor levied on some of the goods and finally collected some 114 back taxes. Albert Pattee remains behind and says that he will send to Virginia for his wife and continue to make this county his home. *

Roth Bros will cut the baby beef for Christmas; get your order in and have some of the kind that melts in your mouth. Box ball is less violent but more scientific than bowling. Any one can play. Try a game some evening. *— Fancy salad dressing, fine syrup, sweet pecallette, good olives and all other little niceitles to finish off your Christmas dinner. HOME GROCfcRY.. OYSTERS FOR CHRISTMAS. Baltimore Standards 40c; Seal Ship solid meats 50c at T. W. Haus.

FINEST GOODLAND RESIDENCE BURNS.

The Residence of Rafus Ross, Val~ ned at SII,OOO, Destroyed by Fire Thursday Horning. > —■ ) The largo residence of Rufus of Goodland, was burned to theground at about 5:30 o'clock this Thursday morning. It is thought to have caught on fire from electric light wires in the house. The house cost about SII,OOO and was one off the finest residences in Goodland. The owner, Rufus Ross, is the maa who suffered the loss of his mammoth implement stock by fire at Goodland only about four or flva weeks ago. Mr. and Mrs. George Davidson went to Goodland today for a visit off about ten days.

Praise in Verse for Sheriff.

While the people of Rensse’aer and Jasper county are praising Sheriff O’Connor as an able and just official, and regretting that his term of office is about to close, we axe net the only people that are proud of ouxr sheriff. Delphi is claiming great praise for the sheriff of Carroll county,, who serves chicken every Sunday to’ the prisoners, not having missed a Sunday in the past year. An overjoyed jailbird has broken forth lu the following verse in praise of the sheriff: “I’ve traveled o'er the wild and wooly west, From Texas to Montana, But the finest sheriff I ever met was Mr. Pullen, Of Delphi, Indiana” The prisoner boasts a personal investigation of all the sheriffs of the west and pronounces the Delphi officer the peer of them all. Possibly there is some method in his rhymatle exertions and may be he would thusflatter the sheriff into leaving tl)p jail door unlocked some night. The designing tourist now confined behind the bars «.f the Carroll county jail does not close his eplstler of praise with the poetry, but speaking for all the prisoners says that with one voice they wish the sheriff a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Again there may be some design in the archly worded 1 tnguago of the culprit and the she. iff may find that he has been raj :led into too great confidence in the prisoner and that some morning he will not answer roll call and will fail to takehis place in the lock step column) that leads to the pancake table. Or, perhaps, the coy rascal would merely pursuade by his compliments the preparation of a more elaborate spread on Christmas da>', where turkey and cranberry trimmings took the place" of chicken. „ Possibly the sheriff will find himself betrayed by a kiss. He should sleep with one eye open.

Fined for Violation of Game Law.

Joe Thomas, assessor-elect of Newton township, and a former bar tender for one of the Rensselaer Saloons, was fined at Morocco last Saturday for violation of the game laws, his fine and costs amounting to $22.50. Last wek four big fellows came* down from Chicago and it is said spent several days bunting game under the guidance of Mr. Thomas and Ed Shlndeler. The latter Is a road supervisor and by virtue of bis office a deputy game warden. According to our advice the Chicago hunters were unlicensed and they proceeded to shoot at will over th» surrounding country, both In Jasper and Newton counties and that they are thought to have killed both rabbits and quail. When it became rumored last week that some of the farmers were objecting to their hunting without conforming to the game laws of this state they are said to have taken a sneak and to have boarded the train at Fair Oaks Friday afternoon and it Is alleged that they took a trunk full of game with them. As game is scarce here and as many farmers do all they can to protect the quail, it is not right that non-residents should come here and in dlflance of the law, shott game. The names of the Chicago parties should be procured and they should be compelled to return here and face prosecution. It Is understood that they are all saloon keepers in Chicago, and that they boarded while here with Mr. Thomas.

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