Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1909 — Page 3

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' FRIDAY. C. A. Ball was over from Francesville this morning. Mrs. Joe Larsh returned yesterday from a visit with relatives at KokomoMrs. W. D. Meyers and son, of Wheatfleld, were in the city yesterday. Mrs. John Merritt and baby are spending this week at Remington. W. H. Churchill left this morning on his extended visit with his sons in several states.

Miss Nellie Makeever, of Mt. Ayr, took,the milk train here .this morning for Chicago, for a few days’ visit.

Mrs. O. E. Brown and little son. Fay, went to Kirklin yesterday to visit her daughter, Mrs. John Perciful, over Sunday.

Mrs. Geo. C. Smith aind baby, of Covington, came this morning for a visit of two weeks with her sister, Mrs. W. H. Parkison.

The Lafayette grand opera house is to be remodeled at a cost of $35,000. The contract for the work was let to a Chicago firm.

Mrs. Van Wood and two boys went to Monticello yesterday afternoou to visit for a few days with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Phillips.

Attorney G. A. Williams returned home from Winamac, not going on to Fort Wayne, but went to Fort Wayne today. He will return tomorrow evening.

P. O. Kennedy, of Wheatfield, was down yesterday and remained over night. His mother lives here with his sister, Mrs. L. P. Shirer. Mrs. G. F. Meyers is another sister.

Peter Englehart, of Indianapolis, was in the city over night. He is a representative of the Premier automobile company. He states that many Indianapolis machines will attend the races at Lowell.

Gh 11 dr• ri Cry SO* FLETCHER'S CASTO RiA City teamster Chester Zpa has been doing some very excellent work cleaning on Cullen street just north of Washington. An accumulation of dirt from many months is being scraped up and hauled away. J. J. Fox and two children and her grandmother, Mrs. Weathers, returned to Otterbein today, after a visit of two weeks here. “Grandmother” Weathers is in quite poor health lately. She is in her 84th year. Mrs. William Nichols, of Oklahoma City, who has been visiting relatives at her former home, Morocco, and witji her sister, Mrs. M* J. Thornton, west of town, left yesterday for Goshen, where she will visit another sister before leaving for her home.

Misses Blanche and E<jna Babcock, ol Parr, ware in Rensselaer Thursday evening. Both attended high school here the past year, and the r J i4t *».’.) Vi ) rh i farmer was one of the graduates. She expects tp attend Northwestern University the coming year.

Chlidren Cry F.OR FLETCHER'S ' CAStdtUA Mrs. James E. Flynn and’ son, Paul Miller, left Thursday for Sheridan, Wyo., in which state she haa three sons living and where it is probable they will make their future home. . tyrs. Miller recently sold her property tp George W. Ott, of Barkley township. The United States Steel Corporation are not doing things by halves at Gary, and has Just appropriated $6,000,000 for the construction of 650 coke ovens there. It is estimated that from 1,500 to 1,800 more men will be put to work in Gary to complete these ovens.

Mrs. Jesße M. Coen came from Chicago on the 10:55 train today, and she and Mrs. Delos Coen, of Chicago, are guests of honor afternoon at a reception being given by Mrs. Chas. W. Coen, MVs. Rebecca PhrWr and lira. R. B. Harris, at the home of the (former on Milroy avenue.

- % W. Grant returned tfihs morning from a business trip, to Monwn George Keener fpotn. St. Joe, Mich* today to visijt lns parents, Mr. and-Mrs. John Kepner. M)ffU FrahWMhiiby, SO6 Children returned to Lew*U this, morning, after a.weelts vialt with, relatives here. The A. B. C. of Topsel Tops, a; youthful baseball aggregation from. Moftob. arrived, here this morning., toi play bait this afternoon with the K. O. K. A. team, which is managed by Rev, Parrett. The game, will be played between showers this afternoon, if the grounds will permit.

The little daughter of Mr, and Mrs. J. W. Tilton is getting along very well since her accident the first of the week, and is able to be wheeled about in a cab each day. It is not known yet just how badly her hands and arms will suffer from the scalds. She is not suffering very much now.

Vernon Nowels and S. Leopold received a blank form for bid on location for stand at Lowell during tbe auto races there. The locations they seek are estimated to be of $lO value anfl the highest bidder over that amount takes the privilege. Lowell does not intend to lose any money during this "good thing.”

A? workmen were trying to load a four ton piece of stone that is to be set in the tower of the new church at St. Joseph College, at the depot Thursday, the stone fell from the car, and it took almost all the balance of the day to get it loaded on wagons so that It could be hauled to the college. It was finally loaded, however, and delivered in safety.

The dense clouds that intervened between the earth and the moon last evening probably prevented any one from seeing the eclipse. At least no one has reported that they saw the eclipse in the shape it was advertised to take place. There was a quite large crowd on the streets, but the threatening weather soon drove them in. The band concert and other stunts brought out a number of people.

Addison E. Miller, a well known and highly esteemed banker and farmer of Tippecanoe county, was found dead Thursday morning shortly after 5 o’clock beneath his overturned automobile. Apparently the man had been dead for about eight hours. >Mr. Miller was driving a Buick four-passenger car, which he had owned and driven for the past three years. He was going a short distance in the country to attend a business meeting and it was very dark. Apparently he had turned from the center of the road to let some one pass him, and his machine had overturned in the ditch along the side of the road.

H. W. Marble, or as he is generally called, “Buzz” Marble, was down from Wheatfield yesterday, and was one of the bidders on the Howe ditch. He staid in the bidding game for a considerable time, but dropped out with his bid of 6.15 cents per yard. He has the contract for digging the Tyler ditch, in Keener township, and the dredge is in charge of R. E. Halleck, who has pressed the work along with great rapidity. The Tyler ditch is about 6 miles in length, having 338 stations, and they are now digging the last mile, whereas the contract did not call for the completion of the ditch until Nov. Ist. It is said by engineers to be about the best ditcK ever in Jasper county and to have been dug in less time than any other involving a simitar amount of work.

Cry m hatcher s <SEAatTPR»)A C. H. Sternberg dobs not intend to let any grass gtow under his fset at i V i'\c( jfi. 4 f » a time w)*cn thtere is plenty of htgh water to keep under his drMfi boat, and Gus Short* and Chris twiddle, who have been running the Little Monon dredge, came over from White county this morning to set the big Iroquois dredge in action. It will be floated down stream to the mouth of Carpenter creek and at once start its up-grade digging on the Howe ditch. This ditch is to be completed by Jan. .1, 1910, and in the mean time the lower Irolquols proposition will probably be settled and if that ditch is ordered Mr. Sternberg will be right in line for it, and will probably underbid any other contractor, because he will have a dredge right in line to begin work at once. The dredge that was working on the Little Monon has been torn down and is being hauled to ths Iroquois above Burk’s bridge: fyr the muck dredging previously I mentioned in this paper.

' V-i- Dax untraT* i Miss Eunice Adamson went to Culver today to visit relatives. Mrs. Dallak Nichols and children are Spending today at Parr. " aii This is a bright and beautiful day, but the air indicates that it will not be long until it rains again. Chas. Antcliffe, of Jordan township, has been suffering lately with a bad. case of erysipelas.

Mort Murray went to Joliet, 111., today, to visit his sister, Mrs. Robert Lefler.

Miss Adelaide Smith, of Chicago, is visiting at the hotne of Mr. and Mrs. Anson Cox, and will probably remain all summer.

Robert L. Anderson, son of T. W. Anderson, who has been a member of the local militia company for the past two years, has enlisted in the navy and is now at Norfolk, Va.

Mrs. L. L. Lefler came here from Lee this morning, and expects to go from here to Joliet, 111., to visit Mrs. Robert Lefler before returning home. Her sister, Ethel Jacks, visited relatives with her at Lee.

J. C. Thompson, the Parr postmaster, was in the city this morning, and his little daughter, Eliza, who has been visiting her aunt, Mrs. Keller, accompanied him home this afternoon.

Milt Roth came home Thursday from the springs where he has been taking treatment and a rest from his ardous labors. He will try not to work so hard or at least not to confine himself for so many hours to the shop in the future, and believes that he will regain his failed health.

R. A. Mannan, of Wheatfield, came to Rensselaer overland this morning. He says that the north end of the county has us skinned in every agricultural respect this year, having better oats, better corn, better wheat and everything looking better. This makes us a bit jealous and if we can get the weather to stand in with us for a while we will try hard to catch up.

The Republican was in error yesterday in stating the names of Mrs. C. W. Coen’s co-hostesses, in the afternoon reception given for Mrs. Delos Coen and Mrs. Jesse Coen, of Chicago. Mrs. R. B. Harris was not one of the hostesses, but Mrs. Coen was assisted by Mrs. Rebecca Porter and Mrs. Judson Maines. A great many ladies shared the joint hospitality of the three hostesses and spent a most enjoyable afternoon.

The editor that expressed his views as follows upon the 1908 styles In ladies' millinery is no doubt a bachelor, and for that matter deserves the scorn of all womankind. He says: “The idea that stuffed fowls, artificial vegetables, dried apples, paper posies and imitation hay, fancifully jabbed in and chaotically distributed over an inverted coal hod surmounting a bale of “rats,” is "pleasing to the masculine eye, is a sadly mistaken one.” ’ John Hack was down from Lowell yesterday. He has the contract for the construction of the Otis ditch and gets in occasionally to draw a little money. He thinks is digging about the best ditch and digging it the fastest of any ever constructed in Jasper county and he holds thh opinion, he says, with all due respect to the claim of Buzz Marble, on the Tyler ditch. Two and one-half miles were dug on the Otis ditch in 26 days. The ditch is 5% miles long and it will require less than three months to complete it if all goes well.

W. L. Wood, of Parr, went to Chicago Thursday and after canvassing about among the automobile bouses finally bought a second-hand Cadillac four-passenger car. His daughter, Miss Osle, accompanied him, and together they started hack from Chicago, the car being driven by a chauffeur from the selling house. When near Hammond the car refused to move and Logan sayrf he never saw a balky horse perform worse. The chauffeur coaxed and cajoled and cussed a little on the side, but the machine would not move. Finally Logan helped the driver push the car beneath a shed and Logan hastened to the nearest telephone station to Inform the company that they could come and get their blinked machine as he would have nothing more to do with it. Logan arrived here on the 11:05 last night and went to Parr this morning. Hfo don’t know now whether he wants an automobile or not, hut he knows tfckt he don't want a balky one.

Z ■ ' rf , A’tfnT9T"'' , * r l,r "' " ' ffVAvATi - Miss Eva Clark is visiting her sister, Mrs. James Mead, in Hammond. «, Dr. A. G. Catt is spending today in Chicago.Jay Zhnmdrtnfth IS speeding today in Chicago. J. F. Warren, of Oklahoma City, joined his wife here Saturday, evening. 1 Mrs. B. F. EdWardS Went to Chicago Saturday evening to visit her husband for a few dayß. Mrs. Alvin Clark, of Lee, visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thos, Smith, last Friday antd. Saturday.

Do two men’s work with the Two Row Cultivators. They are a success. Sold by Maines & Hamilton. Oar special for this week oaly. Our regular 10c Pea, 4 cans for 25c. JOHX EGEB. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Harmon went to Chicago this morning to spend the day. Tour opportunity. 33 1-3 per cent off on ladies’ spring suits. 20 per cent off on all spring jackets. FENDIG’S FAIR. . ■ ■|.n— Mike Kuboske and wife went to Chicago Saturday evening to remain over Sunday as guests of the latter’s sister, Mrs. Chas. Smith.

Mr. and Mrs. Levi Hawkins and daughter, Florence, of Remington, spent Saturday and Sunday with J. D. Allman and family.

Willis J. Holmes, wife and daughter, Virginia, of Chicago, are spending a two weeks’ vacation with her brother, A. E. Wallace, and wife, west of town.

Mr. and Mrs. Marion Swartzell, of Headlee, Ind., visited the former’s sister, Mrs. E. A. Aldrich, from Friday to Sunday, making the trip overland in a carriage.

The Atwood Two Row Cultivators will do as good work and do it as easily as any one row cultivator on the market. They are sold and warranted by Maines ft Hamilton.

The G. L. C. girls were entertained Friday evening by Misses Mildred and Nell Biggs at the home of Mrs. Earl Duvall. Misses Georgia and Merle Harris will entertain June 18th.

John Duvall has moved from the house he traded to Van Grant, on Van Rfensselaer street, to the S. P. Thompson house on Front street, which was formerly occupied 1 hy Verne Rbblhson.

Ed Ranton, Harvey Wood* jr., and Henry Hordeman all say that the Atwood Two' Row Cultivators are all right. Examine one of these at the implement store of' Maines ft Hamilton.

n. Kind You Hava AJwavt Baueht Bears the s/V/Tt p** Signature of Mr. and Mrs. Perry W. Dirham, of Milwaukee, Wis., returned home this morning, after a short visit with Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Allman. Master liltoyn Allman accompanied them home for a visit. Jackson Freeland, one of Newton township’s prosperous farmers, has employed D. E. Elder ft Son to build him a fine new residence on his farm. It will be a nine room house, modern in every respect. Work was begun on it this morning.

Chas. Vick and wife arrived here Sunday from St. Paul, Minn., where -they had been for several months with their son, Spencer, who has changed his location to Denver, C.*,10. They are lemporarily stopping here with their daughter-in-law, Mrs. C. H. Vick.

Oliver S. Green and daughter, Miss Mary A. Green, of Chicago, returned home Saturday evening at 6:02 o’clock, after a most pleasant visit at the hospitable home of Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Moore, near Pleasant Grove.

Dr. F. A. Turfler returned this morning from Bloomington, 111., where he appeared last Saturday evening before the district meeting of osteopaths, to demonstrate his methods of treatment. A part of the meeting was given over to a banquet. Dr. Turfler returned hofne by the Way of Peoria, where he assisted an osteopath doctor in the treatment of a patient

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SPECIAL SALE OX POTATOES. We are unloading a car of 600 bushels of fancy old solid Dusty Rural Potatoes. 25c a peck or SI.OO a bushel. Compare these prices with others. JOHN EGER. M. S. Gardner, a Monticello athlete who is a Junior in the agricultural course at Purdue, was unanimously elected captain of the Purdue track team for next year. He is an all »■ \ • -■ *-• * around athlete. He is a sprinter, a hurdler and a weight man.

Fred Steel Krtt this ruvrning for Popular, Mont., where he has two ancle* living, and where he expects to make his future home, taking up a homestead if his present plans are carried out. Fred" is n first rate young man and his frlbnds here will hope for'his success in his new home.

Peter Youngbergeh, of Lafayette, has associated hihfself with J. P. | • i Warner, and in addition to carrying on the carriage repair work and carriage painting on a larger Scale they have re-opened the Warner blacksmith shop and shaped themselves especially for automobile repair work.

Wm. and James Long, of Marion, James R. Baker, of Pontiac, 111., and W. C. Baker, of Chicago, were called here last Saturday to attend the funeral of their nephew and cousin, Wm. Albert Long, who died last Friday at the home of his parents, ten miles north of Rensselaer. Some unknown correspondeiit writes the Republican that Michael Jungles is expecting to have an automobile by tbe 4th of July, and suggests that there will be some fun. We know of no one in the north end that we would sooner see with an automobile than Michael Jungles and we hope he gets one.

Rensselaer lawns are looking better this year than ever before. Keep up the good work. A town is known abroad by the appearance of its streets and lawns and residence properties. If every property owner will do his or her part Rensselaer will profit by having visitors favorably impressed with our city. Bert Goff and son, Neal, left this morning for their home in Bellefourche, S. Dak., where he has a claim and where his wife is, she not having returned when he was called home on account of the serious illness of his mother, whose condition is not much changed. G. W. Goff accompanied his son as far as Chicago.

Peter Youngberg, of Lafayette, has associated himself with J. P. Warner in the carriage and buggy repair business. Mr. Youngberg la a first-class constructor of all kinds of work in this line, and an all-round good blacksmith with long and varied experience both in carriage, automobile work and general blacksmithing. Who will be hie first customer at J. P. Warner’s bid stand.

W. S. Grant is not in as serious a condition of health as was upd*rstood and reported to the Republican last week. He is able to get up and dress himself every morning and also to be about the house and yard almost every day. He was 83 years of age, the 25th of last October, and while he has been in a failing condition of health for several months hi is not especially in danger at this time. Ernest Maxwell, wife and baby were here over Sunday from Dunkirit, visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. tL C. Maxwell. Ernest lives on a farm just a mile from Dunkirk and reports that his spring work is well advanced. Himself and wife and baby left hdine Friday and spent that day visiting titM sister, Mrs. Jesse Pfirdtitir, and husband, who just moved this spring from this county to near Forest, Clinton county.

Wolcott, Remington and Goodlanff have all been saloonless for the most of the time for the past two years. The postofflee business of each town has been sufficient to cause the salaries of all the postmasters to be increased. It would seem that general business has not been injured by the absence of saloons, thus refuting the argument that some people have put up that saloons are necessary to the commercial prosperity of a community. Rev. Q. H. Clarke has been called, to Williamsport to deliver the funeral* discourse over the body of Dr. W. R. McCullough, of that city. Rev. Clarke Was pastor for four years of the Christian church at Williamsport and Dr. McCullough was a member of his congregation. Dr. McCullough was about 4$ years of age and the cause of hja death is not known here. He was a brother of the McCullough who has purchased the Remington Press. The funeral will be held at Williamsport Tuesday.

Wednesday morning at nine o’clock at the home of the bride in Remington occurred the marriage of MfsA Mabel Lambert to Nelson Boieourt, formerly of Wolcott, but who for some years past has been engaged in the lumber business at Beech Grove, Ind. The wedding guests were confined to the members of the two families and a few of their moet Intimate friends. Rev. Lookablll, pastor of the Christian church officiated. After the ceremony a dainty four course wedding breakfast was served. Mr. and Mrs. Boieourt left for Beech Grove Wednesday on the noon train where they will make their future home. The parties to this union deservedly possess a wide circle of friends who predict for them a wedded life filled with happiness, contentment and prosperity.—Wolcott Enterprise. f » " - * <*■ j 1 The present supply of gold io the government mint at "Denver Is $370,000,000, the greatest amount on. record.