Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1909 — Page 4

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CORRESPONDENCE

PLEASANT C. P. Moody is now the owner of a fine bull dog. Charley Topp spent Sunday with relatives and friends in Francesville. O. M. Callahan, wife and mother attended church in Rensselaer Sunday. Miss Myrtle Richmond and Effie Wentz spent Saturday in Rensselaer. Ed Randall is now speeding down the gravel with a fine new driving horse. Arthur Watson and wife of near Rensselaer spent Easter Sunday with Tilman Watson and family. Miss Effie Wentz expects to return to Medaryville Friday, her former home, to be present at the last day of school of her sister, Vida, who has been teacher there for the last six years. The Pleasant Grove school closed Wednesday with a great surprise dinner given the teacher, Homer Arnold, by the patrons, after which all present heartily partook. A program had been arranged by the pupils. The most interesting was a couple of recitations, by the teacher, which everybody present enjoyed.

FAIR OAKS.

Mrs. Cottingham visited in Brookston over Sunday. Alva Brohard went to Lebanon the last of the week. Born, to Otto Cedarwald and wife, April 6th, a daughter. F. R. Erwin and family visited a day in Rensselaer this week. A. D. Washburn, of Kendland, was in town on business this week. Dr. Fife of Wheatfield had a professional call here a few days ago. Mrs. Kight is taking the enumeration of school children In town this week. Al Helsell is having an addition put to their house In the north west part of town. Newt McKay and Jim Clifton are building a house on A. Moore’S land southeast of town. .There was quite a crowd of young people from out of town here Saturday night to attend the ball. John Cellars and family visited with Tom Johnson’s family near Surrey Sunday and Sunday night joe Winslow and family left here the last of the week to spend the spring and summer In North Dakota. There is a show going on at the band hall every night this week, which seems to be about the whole thing just now. Rev. Dunkleburger of Lowell will preach in the Christian church next Saturday night All are Invited to attend. Born, to Bart Crofford and wife, April Ith, a son. A daughter was born on the same day to Dewey Dewitt and wife. Carrie and Mattie McKay came home from Clinton county Saturday evening and are working for F, K. Erwin at present

REMINGTON.

Mrs. Ella Parks and Misses Blanche Parks and Edith Henring shopped in Logansport Saturday. The Carpenter township schools are all out now and the teachers report prosperous year. There will be an examination for country school graduates on Saturday, Apiil 17. The saloon at Wolcott did not seem to seriously affect business here Saturday, as all the stores were full of customers and there was as much work as the stores could well take care of without increasing the force of clerks. Hartley Church is now located at Berkeley, Cal., but does not expect to stay there permanently. Our hunters are busy shooting, or at least hunting plover. Not many have been killed yet.

If two reports can be taken to indicate the general condition, eggs are not hatching very well this year. One man reports 8 chicks from 200 eggs and another 6 from 100 eggs. The high wind here Monday did considerable damage in the country to windmills, cribs and outbuildings. Old settlers say they have never seen the wind blow so hard for so long a time before. One of the mail carriers was obliged to return for fear of being upset. Arthur Lucas, one of the well known teachers of Gilboa township, has bought a part interest in his brother’s laundry at Fowler and is spending the summer at that place. A great many of our teachers in the country are attending normals this spring. Valparaiso and Marion are the most popular, it would seem. Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins of the east part of town were quite sick last week, but are somewhat better at last report. The Christian Sunday school had an egg collection Sunday morning at which nearly a bushel of eggs were given. In the evening the children gave an entertainment and a collection of $25 was taken for the Orphans' Home work. Miss Florence vv emock, one of Carpenter township’s teachers, went to Logan, lowa, to finish a spring term of school and will visit friends there and in North Dakota before returning. There was quite a cyclone a few miles northeast of town, which did considerable damage to some of the farmers. Barns were unroofed, cribs turned over and doors blown down. So far as learned no stock was destroyed, but it will take several hundred dollars to replace buildings. A. Dunn, who now lives at Mt Vernon, Ohio, had the body of a little child brought here for burial Monday. Funeral services were conducted in the Catholic church and burial made in their cemetery west of town. He already has two children buried here. Omer Burgess and wife spent Saturday and Sunday at their old home in Crawfordsville.

NEWLAND.

Ed Oliver was a Rensselaer goer Monday. Wm. Rees is working for Ed Oliver this week.

Everett Walker and Floyd Tow haulßd hay’ for Ed Oliver Tuesday. Miss Day Jordan went to Valparaiso Monday to attend school there. George Gorbet, Wm. Rees and Ed Oliver called on T. M.. Callahan. Tuesday. Quite a few young folks of Newland attended Sunday school at Gifford Sunday. Mr. Ed Kennedy called on Mr. and Mrs. John Bowen and family Saturday night. Mart Summers is able to be at work again from the injury he received a week age. Miss Leatha Rees and George Gorbet took dinner with G. A. Gorbet and family Sunday. Wonder where Sam Bowen and Frank Snider went Sunday? To see their best girls, I suppose. v Mrs. T. M. Callahan and children went to Francesville Saturday’ to spend Easter with her mother. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Kemp went to Kersey’ Saturday to spend Easter with the latter’s sister, Mrs. Wm. Whitehead. Well, these rains make the grass grow, but if it keeps on very -long it will stop lots of the farmers in plowing the low lands. ,——

Charley Martin and his little brother and sister have the mumps. John Marion also has them. They seem pretty severe nowdays. Miss Leatha Rees, who is working for T. M. Callahan, spent Saturday night and Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Rees. Mr. Summers, of near Remington, took dinner with Ed Oliver Saturday. Mart, his son, and him also took their cow home Sunday. Miss Day ‘Jordan’s school was out Thursday at Newland. All had a good time. Everybody that are the patrons of the school took dinner with them and made it enjoyable. Those who spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kennedy were Mr. and Mrs. Ed Oliver and daughter Lola, Newt Bowman and sons Claude and Lloyd, Wm. Kennedy and family, Zella Bowen and Mary Rees. The afternoon was spent in music. All had a nice time.

HANGING GROVE.

Jas. N. Tyler Is doing some tiling on' his farm this spring. Paul Wiltsen spent Sunday with relatives at Medaryville. C. W. Bussell made a business trip to Rensselaer Monday. » Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Chas. McCashen, Saturday, April 10, a daughter, first child. Wash Lowman’s baby continues about the same condition with the whooping cough. Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Baker of Fowler visited at August Tlgler’s a few days this week. Cecil Rishling now has a steady Job on the section at McCoysburg for the summer. Misses Elsie and Zera Smith went to Brook Saturday for a few days visit with relatives. ... Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Bussell and daughter took dinner with Chas. Bussell and family Sunday. Robert Johns has secured employment

at Lafayette for this summer and started to work Tuesday. , R. V. Johns made another trip to Monon Saturday night .to have a growth on his eye-lid treated. W. C. Rose unloaded a car load of cows at McCoysburg Saturday night and took them to his farm. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rishling visited with their son Cecil Rishling and wife a couple of days this W’eek. A man by the name of Kalb has moved on the Davis farm that was vacated early in the year by Geo. Potts. Miss Ruby Cooper of Indianapolis has been visiting for several days with Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Smith and family. Chas. Saidlai received a nice box of fresh fish Monday evening direct from Chicago. They were soon all sold out. Miss Carrie Parker, who has been working in Chicago for some time, is coming home this week to remain all summer. Mrs. Ed Downs and children, of Indianapolis, returned home Saturday after a few days visit with P. B. Downs and family. Mrs. J. H. Robertson and grandson, of Indianapolis, returned home Sunday evening after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. John Marnltz. Lark Blunk of Monon came up Tuesday for a couple of days visit with his brother Lawrence, who is staying with Joshua Ross. There was German church at McCoysburg school house Monday, such a stormy day preventing many from coming out. Geo. Potts unloaded a car of fertilizer at Della Tuesday. The roads were quite muddy and it requires four horses to each wagon. . ■ Mrs. Jerome Harmon and daughter Harriett were in Rensselaer Saturday helping decorate the church for the Easter exercises Sunday. Miss Mary Molltar, of Chicago, has been home the past week helping take care of her brother John, whose sickness has been mentioned heretofore. Considerable land lying along Alje Gilmore ditch that has heretofore been idle will be cultivated this season and some of it should raise an abundance of com too. Assistant postmistress- and clerk Vlra Lefler has been sick for several days and unable for duty at the store, but she expects to be able to resume 'her work soon. Andrew Knopinski lost a good "every day" shoe on April Bth, somewhere between the Ridge and Rensselaer. Any one finding same would confer a favor by returning it to him. Bob Drake went up to Halleck's nursery Saturday and bought a number of nice young fruit trees which he will set out on a lot west of his house. He selected some very choice varieties. Great clouds of sand were sent rolling in the air Monday by the terrible* strong wind. The wind almost as bad here as it was nine years ago this fall, when we got a touch of the Galveston storm. Roy, the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Wash Lowman, died Tuesday evening of pneumonia and whooping cough. The little follow was past two years old and Just begining to talk and was recognized by all who knew him to be a very bright child for his age- The funeral

was at the house Wednesday at two o’clock and burial was made in the Smith cemetery in Barkley township. The new Ringeisen ditch about to be dug will necessitate the buying of four new bridges. Arrangements will be made if possible to -have the material, ready to construct the new bridges as soon as the grades are cut through. It would be a good thing too if another ditch could be made before the dredge crosses the Monon, starting in south M os C. C. Randle’s and following the old open ditch down to the main channel, but this suggestion will not likely be carried out at this time.

BUBNS TOWN.

Thomas Brown was in Rensselaer Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Folger’s little twin boy still remains very sick. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Greenlee were Rensselaer goers Saturday. Mr. Thomas and Frank Brown were Rensselaer goers Tuesday. Wonder where Vilas P. went Saturday when he was headed south? Mr. and Mrs. Ellas Arnold and family were Rensselaer goers Saturday. „ Mr. and Mrs. John Scott visited Thomas Brown and family Sunday. Jim Stanley and Samuel Holmes were Rensselaer goers Saturday evening. Mrs. Samuel Holmes spent Tuesday night with her mother, Mrs. John Scott. Charles Greenlee and family visited with Thomas Brown and family Sunday. Herbert Eib came home from Chicago, where he has been attending business college. Mr. and Mrs. James Pierson were visiting friends and relatives on Nubbin Ridge Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Reed and family visited with Mr. and Mrs. John Marlatt and family Sunday. Miss Mary Jacks, Bertha and Ethel Holmes cal fed on Miss Alice and Jennie Eib Thursday evening. Theodore Snow’s aged father is growing weaker each day. Without a speedy change the end is near. Elmer and Hazel and Florence Jacks attended the last day exercises at school Saturday at this place. Mr. and Mrs. Chris Morgenegg and family visited with Mr. and Mrs. Geo. McElfresh and family Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Greenlee and childred called on Mr. and Mrs. Add Shook and family Sunday afternoon. Dan says he don't get to go to Rensselaer on Saturday any more and he just gets his best girl and goes on Sundays, Jim said he ate 44 pickles at the big dinner Saturday and could have eaten 6 more but they ran out Wonder if Jim got home all O. K. 8. H. Holmes lost his pocket book and the contents near Babcock’s office. Mr. Elzie Grow being an honest man, found it and took care of it Mtr. and Mrs. L. A. Greenlee and family, Elmer, Grover, Stella and Lillie Brown and Jim Stanley called on Sami Holmes and family Wednesday evening. Misses Sarah. Vergie and Epna Holmes called on their uncle Samuel, of central Nubbin Ridge, Saturday and attended the last day of school at this place.

Miss Mary Jacks’ school closed Saturday, this being Miss Jacks’ first term. - She has built up a reputation as a young teacher that is hard to beat even by many that have taught a number of years. She showed partiality toward none. No better as ternoon program was ever held in Burns Town school house.

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NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION. State of Indiana, County of Jasper, ss: To the Sheriff of Jasper County, Greeting: Notice is hereby given to the citizens and legal voters of the County of Jasper and State of Indiana, the Schuyler C. Irwin and 1,410 others have filed their petition in the office of the Auditor of Jasper County, Indiana, praying the Board of Commissioners of said County for the privilege of determining by ballot whether the sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage shall be prohibited within the limits of said County, and the said Board of Commissioners have ordered that the prayer of said petition be granted, and have fixed upop SATVBDAT, THE FIMT SAT OF ECAT, 1908, as the ,day upon which the polls of said County shall be opened for the purpose of taking the votes of the legal voters of the County upon the question of prohibiting such sale. The ballots to be voted at said election will be in the following form:. YES Shall the sale of Intoxicating 1 1 Liquors as a beverage be proNO hlblted? All votes marked with a cross in the square containing the word “yes” shall be counted in favor of prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage, and all votes marked with a cross In the square containing the word “no" shall be counted opposed to prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage. Given under my hand and the seal of the Board of Commissioners of said County, this 7th day of April, 1908. . JAMES N. LEATHERMAN, Auditor Jasper County. State of Indiana, Jasper County, ss: L I* P. Shiver, Sheriff of said County, in said State, hereby give notice that a Special Election will be held in, said County on the Ist day of May, 1909, at which time the question mentioned in the foregoing Auditor's certificate will be voted for. 1 Witness my hand this 7th day of April, 1909. L. P. SHIRER, , i Sheriff Jasper County.