Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1909 — LOCAL HAPPENINGS [ARTICLE]

LOCAL HAPPENINGS

THURSDAY. ; f J. H. Carson went to Indianapolis today on a business trip that will keep him away about a week. See the greatest plow on earth, the plow a man con pull, at Sylvester Gray’s Saturday afternoon. MAINES & HAMILTON. Jimmie Robinson has taken charge of the depot restaurant and is getting along very nicely. He should make a great success of it Ex-sheriff O’Connor is down from Knlman today. He is planning to engage in the real estate business and should succeed splendidly. Mrs. Chas. Michael returned to her home at Redkey today, after a visit here with her sister, Mrs Ernest Lamson. The contract was let at the college this morning for the pews for the new church. The American Seating Co., of Chicago, got the job. The altar and railing contract was not let.

W. F. Smith went to. Chicago this morning. His sister-in-law, Mrs. J. E. Smith, of Thorntown, who was recently operated on there, is still confined in the hospital. -• J. C. Thrawls came on the 10:05 train yesterday and is visiting W. F. Osborne. He wi}l return to Logansport, where he is now making his* home, in a few days. Not at the stock farm but at Sylvester Gray’s residence in Rensselaer, will be shown the great J. I. Case sulky plow, the plow a man can pull, Saturday afternoon, April 3rd. A girl baby 27 days old died at the home of its parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Sanders, near Laura, yesterday. The funeral will be held today and burial will be made in the Hershman cemetery, in Walker township.

Mrs. E. S. Tillman went to Indianapolis today to attend the Northern Indiana teachers’ association. Mr. Tillman has been spending the week at North Manchester and -will join his wife at Indianapolis. Joe O’Connor, son of ex-sheriff O’Connor, has secured a job firing on the Monon railroad and began work at Lafayette last Monday. He is working on a switch engine in the yards and is much pleased with his work so far. Clarence Hurley has traded his 40 acres near Aix to Geo. F. Meyers for 126 acres near Wheatfield. Clarence is a good farmer and we are pleased to learn that he is Increasing his acreage. Undertaker Wright reports that he has supplied caskets for 21 children since the Ist day of January, a very unusual mortality, being more than he supplied during the entire preceding year.

E. Powell and wife have the Nowels House in running order now and have decided to make it a $1.50 house. They have it nicely furnished and clean and both being hotel people of experience they should enjoy a share of the patronage. Maines & Hamilton have arranged to give the demonstration of the J. I. Case sulky plows, the plows a man can pull, at the residence of Sylvester Gray, instead of at the stock farm, Saturday of this week. This is done to permit the people that attend the Gray & Damson sale to witness the exhibition. The ladles of the M, E. church will hold a market in connection with a rug and apron sale on Saturday before Easter. The sale will be held in the room recently vacated by Fred Phillips’ music store. Everything good to eat will be there—chickens, doughnuts, pies, salads, baked beans, cakes and everything suitable for a first-class Easter dinner. Don’t fall to call on us and we will surely satisfy your appetites.

John Burger,' now of Huntington, but formrly for many years a resident of Remington, was In Rensselaer today. He is a brother-in-law of Robert Parker, the Remington banker who is now serving a 2 to 14 years sentence in the penitentiary, and was for some years a partner in the banking business with Mr. Parker. Mr. Burger was the heaviest loser in the bank failure, having a deposit of about $28,000 in his brother-in-law’s bank. He says that he still believes that Robert Parker did not defraud his depositors with the object of getting the money himself and he believes that the Parker family is altogether without means. The crippled daughter, Miss Twonnette, is holding a clerical position in California, and she had never undertaken to work during the previous years. Robert, Jr., is working at Kansas City, and Mrs. Parker is living with a married daughter tn Bt. Louis. Mr. Burger is not in good health and his wife is also quite poorly. He does not get Into Rensselaer very often. The Nowels House has been reopened under new management. Patronage solicited. E. POWELL, Mgr. Special efforts on Easter suits at my store this week and next. So If you want value received come to my store and I will do my beet to please you. EARL DUVALL. Will the party who picked up bundle by mistake at Eger's store please return the same there and oblige the owner? John M. Moore. apr6