Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1909 — Page 2

" ' " 1 The Rensselaer Republican DAILY AND SEMI-WEEKLY. j HEALEY & CLARK, .. - ‘ Publishers The Friday Issue Is the Regular Weekly Edition. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Daily, by Carrier, 10 Cents a Week By Mall, $3.75 a Year. | Semi-Weekly, In advance, Year $1.50. Friday, August 20, 1909.

No sport in any clime lias as may adherents as that of base hall. A good common, old name it is true, and equally true, one of the most common of sports. The price of a bat and-a bdfll, a vacant lot, and there you are. Most all other sports require more or less preparation. The sport itself being so clean and wholesome as a recreation, having embodied in it every incentive that appeals to the American boy spirit, is it any wonder each succeeding year finds an ever increasing army of supporters necessitating sumptuous and commodious quarters for the patrons and players ? The future of the game has naught but the brightest hues. The patronage increases yearly. The club owners of the great leagues are astute to seQ that to be of permanent success the game must be kept clean—first of gambling, secondly of rowdyism. The lesson of what lias killed the great race course has not been lost upon the base ball fraternity who are looking after their financial investments. In a horse race, the principal actors are the horses, but on the ball field your own flesh and blood are before you and the merest novice can soon catch on if a ball player doesn’t play the game. That same novice would be as a rule a poor judge of horses. The ball player knows his audience is critical. He knows the average school boy is well up in the points of the game. He therefore is not in a position, before so many critical eyes, to not “tote fair” in his play and its the history of the game so far, that its a very difficult matter to “throw” games. Indeed as a matter of fact, a game could not. well be thrown unless with the connivance of several players, and in the shuffling and the changing of players from one club to another, or the dropping out of some altogether, such plots would stand a chance of. coming to light. The fact that no great scandal has come to light thus far is all the evidence needed t 6 stamp base bast as the cleanest sport on earth. Self preservation is generally the first rule of man and in base ball each player stands solely on his record or his merit. Fear of being delegated to a minor league or being supplanted by the many aspirants for his job, keeps him ever keyed up to his highest and best efforts. Keenly indeed does he feel if benched” during the progress of any game. It is true that objections are raised at times, but to the sport itself there is no objection from a physical standpoint. No part of the body is left undeveloped, even the lungs come in for their share and possibly in too much “lung expansion” exists one of the objections, as a crowd of boys can disturb the quiet of,any settled neighborhood during the excitement of the! game—indeed their own fathers can’t produce enough noise to suit the occasion when at some of the great games. - On the ball field, all participants senses are strained to the utmost. The mind, nerves, muscles, sight and hearing, are on the “quivive”—in fact in. close contests where the score is 4 to 3 in last inning, bases full, batter on the 3 side has only one strike left, the tense situation arrests the attention of all in the stands. There is breathless silence. Whatever physical position one is in he remains just so till the spasm is over. He may have partly arisen in the excitement. He clutches unconsciously, desperately, any article he may be holding, indeed a picture of him would be ludicrous. Mouth partway open, the keenest anxiety depicted on his face—all over a man with a bat who is trying* to hit a little round ball. This then is only one of the many situations with the man at the bat as just described. A second later, pandemonium may break loose as the batter sends out a one, two or three baser, or a home run, then the roof trembles with the shouts that go up in the air and the batsman is a hero. Praises without stint are his. On the cars home his name is on every lip—but presto! Suppose he strikes out, all you hear is prolonged sighs and groans as the crowd exhausts its pent up breath. Great is base ball, the king of all sports in the hearts of the American people. Long may it wave. From present indications there is no danger of the wave receding.

I see where it costs $100,000,000 in grain to feed the rats. When we come to think of it each rat on the farm eats to live and what’s to hinder a fair size healthy rat eating as much as a chicken, in grain? Every rat on the place would cost at least a dollar each in the course of a year and in that event there are enough rats on the average farm to buy a horse every year for the amount of feed they get away with. Seems as though if one has to spend even $25 in their extermination, it would pay.

In the court records appears the name Wojcieihowski. If we had a name like that we’d go off some where and die. W e might live with Woj, the front end, and we might hang on to the hind end, Howski, hut the stuff in the middle would give us appendicitus. It has one redeeming feature, however, it can be as easily pronounced backward as front ways.

ONE SIDE OF SUMMER VACATION.

It does touch the heart strings a bit to see how some households bundle off for the summer vacation leaving the household pets to shift for themselves meantime. T o See where St. Louis people are making a fight on the bill board. That is alright, but if it was on the board bill you could raise a regiment in every block. , o t E. O. Lewis says “Women’s Rights are Coming/’ Why;great guns! We went away back and sat down ten years ago and nary a word since. \

BASE BALL.

COST OF RATS.

PRONOUNCE IT QUICK.

FAIR OAKS.

Paul Carr is quite sick with typhoid fever. Fair Oaks is rushihg the pickle season just now. Mrs.' McGlinn, of Rensselaer, is visiting relatives here. Miss Edith Moffltt is taking treatment in St. Louis for her hip. Miss Mildred Gundy is visiting her brother, Clint, of Monon, this week. Mrs. Cottingham has gone to Wheatfield to visit her daughter, Mrs. Dr. Fife. Will Cottingham is a fullfledged car inspector on the C. & E. I. railroad now.

.Dr. English has made two or three professional calls here within the past week.

The Fair Oaks band will go over to Virgie again Saturday night to play r cr the dance.

Goldie and Gilbert Fentess, of near Morocco, are visiting their sister, Mrs. Geo. Lambert.

A young child of Wess Odels was brought here from Wheatfleld Tuesday for burial, Dick Mallatt and family, of Remington, is visiting relatives and friends here this week.

Elder Briggs will preach in the M. E. church Thursday night. All are invited to attend.

Mr. Bbnta, of Reynolds, has moved his family here and will occupy the HelselL house for the present. Miss Anna Lee, who has been staying with Mrs. Cottingham for several months, has gone to Reynolds. Mrs. Frank Goff and daughter, Effie McKannel, have returned from a two weeks’ visit with the family of Philip Goff, of Cissna Park, 111. There will be meeting here at the Christian church three nights the last of the week. Preaching by the Rev. Dundeburger, of Lowell. All are invited. Laurence Halleck has a lot of new song books for sale for the benefit of the Christian church. Anyone in need of one will do well to buy one or mot*e and help a good cause that much. David Brockus, formerly a resident of this place, but lately of Thayer, was brought here Monday for burial. Funeral services at the M. E. church, of which he was a member, and did some very active work toward getting the means for its erection.

Obituary.

David Brockus was born in Southwestern Missouri, Dec. 19, 1845. When three years old he moved with his parents to Pittsburg, Ind., where he lived until 1863. On Nov. 4, 1863 he enlisted. in Company G, 128th Ind. Vol. Inst., at Logansport, Ind., to serve three years or during the war. His regiment was assigned to the army of the Ohio and took part in the Atlanta campaign, viz, Dalton, Ringgold, Resoea, Bigshanty, Smoke Creek Gap and Marietta, Ga., and was on that famous march with Sherman from Atlanta to the Sea, and was mustered out of service at Indianapolis, Ind., April 19, 1866. The subject of this sketch was united in marriage to Miss Alida P. Baker January 24, 1867. The fruit of this union were six children, five sons and one daughter. Of these three are living, Helen dying in infancy when about three months old, Peter E. and Frank after they had reached the years of maturity. Deceased lived a good many years in Jasper and Newton counties. He at one time was postmaster at Fair Oaks. He took a deep interest and an active part in raising funds and helping to build the Methodist Episcopal church in Fair Oaks. -For the last three years of his life he lived in Thayer, where he died of Bright’s disease, Aug. 12, 1909, aged 63 years, 7 months and 23 days, leaving his wife, three sons,-eight grandchildren and many friends to mourn their loss. All of his children, except Elias, who lives in Montana, were present at the funeral, which was conducted by Rev. C. R. Ball, of Roselawn, Aug. 16, 1909.

A short service was held at his late home in Thayer at 9 o’clock, after which his remains were taken to Fair Oaks, where services were again held in the M. E. church. He was burled at the Fair Oaks cemetery, {lk burial services being conducted by tW G. A. R. post.

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DeMOTTE.

The farmers report plenty of rain for the present. Howard Luce has been on the sick list a few days. Barden Tyler has been on the sick list several days. _ ~ , • '. Art Yeagley is in charge of the pickle station this season. Mrs. Jay Spencer went to Kankakee Monday morning. Chas. Thompson has gone to visit his daughter in Michigan. Mrs. E. M. Fairchild went Saturday to Valparaiso to visit a sister. Bert Traver was a visitor here from South Bend Thursday evening. Mrs. Cora Zimmerman has been quite sick, but is now recovering. Mrs. Bart Sigler and childrefi went to Brazil Friday to visit home folks. Mrs. John Terpning is entertaining a sister-in-law from Manchester, la. Emma Cooper is at Streator to stay awhile with her sister, Mrs. Bessie Worrell. >

Carson Vanduzen, of South Bend, was here on a visit to his parents a few days. The game here Sunday between Parr and DeMotte resulted in favor of the latter.

Jacob Koppelman is building a ware room. C. O. Spencer and son are doing the work. Mrs. Sunderland, of Chicago, arrived on Thursday to visit her mother, Mrs. I. Chambers. Mr. and Mrs. Ira Sigler were here Sunday and Monday visiting his brother, Bart, and family. Geo. Batson, of South Bend, is working on the N section here, and will move his family here soon.

Mrs. Nalor has .returned to her home at Cherubusco, after a visit with her daughter, Mrs. C. D. Shook. Ran Halleck was in Rensselaer Thursday to assist his brother, the senator, in repairing his automobile.

Trustee Snip is preparing to have the school house fixed up in good shape before school opens in September. Born, Aug. 4, 1909, to Mrs. Ben Crawford, a daughter, at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Batson. Our ball team have laid out a diamond north of the creamery and expect to have a game here some of these days. Mrs. Sheridan Cooper drove over from near Stoutsburg Sunday to see her little son, who is ill here at his grandmother’s. Mr. Cook and Mr. Wagoner, with some others interested in the pickle business here, ate breakfast at our hotel Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Perry, of lowa, visited with Mrs. E. M. Fairchild Wednesday of last week. Mrs. Perry is a niece if Mrs. Fairchild. Mr. and Mrs. Wes Hinkle and Mr. and Airs. David Alter, of Rensselaer, and Harold Vedder, of New Mexico, visited Mrs. Troxell Sunday. Fay Granger and family, who have been camping out near Kersey and visiting with Mrs. Granger’s father, Ben Dolson, have returned home to Hammond.

The little son of Sheridan Cooper who is suffering from blood poison in his leg, caused from a bruise, is here with his grandma Cooper. His physician reports he is improving. A little excitement was caused Saturday by C. D. Shook’s horse, which was hitched near the meat market, breaking loose and tearing down Lily street. It was stopped before any damage was done. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hamstra buried their five-months-old baby last Friday. It was sick only two days. They brought it to town to the doctor Wednesday, and it was so' bad took it to Jacob Koppelman’s residence, where it died.

The marriage of Miss Effie Hart, daughter of Frank Hart, ex-post-master of DeMotte, and Truman Jay Spencer, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Spencer, took place at St. Joseph, Mich., Aug. 1, 1909. They are both -exemplary young people, and have the best wishes of their friends. This was kept secret for nearly two weeks, which accounts for its late publication.

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