Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1909 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

- % 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.