Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1909 — Page 2

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FAIR OAKS.

The Carr children, who have had typhoid fever, are reported better. Mrs. N. A. McKay and children spent a day this week on the Kankakee. Mrs. Isaac Kight and Mrs. John Kight went to Wheatfleld on business Friday. J. Chas. Wolf and wife, of Peru, visited with John Casey and family over Sunday. John Dewitt and Ray Casey quite recently picked 21 bushels of cucumbers in one day. Joseph I. Burns visited E. P. Stanfield, of South Bend, last week on important business matters. Felix Parker and family, of north of town, spent a few days this week on the river fishing and boating. Ed Lacons has brought in five or six wagon loads of melons already with a prospect of several more. Mrs. Allen, of Davenport, lowa, formerly Mrs. Sina Lambert, of Fair Oaks, has just moved back here, and will keep the hotel on Kent street. John Casey has had considerable experience with a cucumber patch of his own, 140 feet by 90 feet wide, about 3-10 of an acre. He has sold the first month 1,632 pounds for $16.44, besides pickled for his own use and used for chicken feed and those thrown out, a total of all 2,172 pounds the first month, and they are just beginning to bear good. John says he-is good for another ton, and picks them himself. - - —i...'

Interesting Items From The Mt. Ayr Pilot.

. T'T J. R. Sigler and wife went to Rensselaer last Friday in their automobile. Miss Dollia Ashby, Mrs. Loma Miller and Mrs. Arthur Ashby were Rensselaer visitors Monday. Jasper Wright has fully from his recent illnes and is able to be out and around as before. At a point not far from town the editor was able to count the smoke from ten threshing machines last'Friday. Elmer Stucker and Harry Hufty, together with their wives went to Rensselaer Thursday evening to see “Eli and Jane.” Misses. Lillian Witham and Mary fid Johnson went to Rensselaer Thursday afternoon and remained over night with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Critser, taking in the play .“Eli and Jane.” Jasper Wright and Jack Brown are making preparations to go to the Kankakee District County Fair with their race horses. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Harris were camping on the Kankakee last week from Thursday until Sunday. Miss Edna Long, who is clerking in the Murray store at Rensselaer, is spending the week at her home, north es town. Lee Mauck had a runaway last Monday and in the mixup that followed he had one hand and his right leg seriously injured. The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Mayhew suffered a very severe spasm Tuesday and for awhile it was thought it would not recover, but yesterday it wae reported to be getting along nicely. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Hardy came over from Rensselaer Sunday for a visit with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Brenner. Bruce Returned Sunday evening and Mrs. Brenner remained for a longer visit. A suit was brought before Squire Hufty last Thursday in which Laßue Brothers of Rensselaer were suing a Mr. Mercer, of Roselawn, for the payment of $133, interest on a mortgage, •the payment of which Laßue Brothers had assumed. Sebulyer Dwyer, of Lowell, represented defendant and Geo. A. Williams, of Rensselaer, the plaintiffs. The suit was being tried before Squire Hufty on the grounds that Mr. Mercer was not a resident of the state of Indiana, but he made affidavit that he was and the case was thrown out. It will likely be next heard of in the circuit court.

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FRIDAY. 4 Miss Mary Weights went to Chicago this morning’ tdt a stay of Several ' - f I Harrison Timmons returned yesterday evening'Trom 'hitftrip t<S Mich-® igan. Mrs. Jennie Ruts, of Chicago, came today to visit her brother, John Moosmiller, and family. Miss Zoe Hess* returned to Ambia today, after a visit bf a week with Mr. and Mrs. Ed Ranton. Miss Helen Hopkins returned this morning from a business trip to Indianapolis and a visit at Lafayette. J. E. Flynn returned this morning from a visit of several weeks with his children at Lowell and Chesterton. Mrs. Robert Hough and Misses Maud Burroughs and, Belle Mcßee, of Monon, spent yesterday with the latter’s sister, Mrs. C. M. Sands. Will Barkley went to Chicago this morning for a short stay. Mrs. Barkley and sister, Mrs. Fern Starr Guss, will return today from a short stay at Bay City Mich. » Grandfather J. M. Gwin came this morning from McGoysburg to transact a little business and spend the day with relatives. On August 19th, which was Thursday of last week, he passed his 91st birthday, and he is feeling first rate. E. P. Washburn and his son-in-law, J. J. Lowry, of Pulaski, came to Rensselaer in the latter’s auto yesterday. The former is a brother of Dr. I. B. Washburn, who died some six years ago, and bears quite a close resemblance to that former ,well known citizen. W. S. Greenlee returned to Plymouth this morning, after a short stay here and at his former home in Newton county. He moved to a farm near Plymouth last March, and is very much pleased, having had a good crop of both oats and wheat and having splendid prospects for corn. Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Gasper and son, Carey, of Putnam, Okla.. who have been visiting relatives in Jennings county, are now visiting Mr. and Mrs, Alva Simpson, on Dayton street, Mrs. Simpson being Mr. Gasper’s sisle.\ They will leave this afternoon ’ for Westville, where they will remain until next Monday when they will start back home. Fraternal society baseball is rife at Monticeilo, Logansport and Delphi, the K. of P. lodges of those places playing frequently. Following a game at Monticeilo Wednesday with Delphi, an auto load returning to Delphi was overturned as the result of a bursting tire, and Seneca Shepherd, the auto owner, suffered a badly broken leg, and the auto was wrecked. Senator E. B. Sellers was in Detroit last week as a commissioner from Indiana in attendance at a meeting of a commission appointed to aid in promoting uniformity in the commercial and divorce laws of the different states. Thirty-six states were represented in the meeting. This was followed this week by a meeting of the National Bar Association in the same city.—Monticeilo Democrat.

Children Cry FOR FLETCHER’S CASTO R I A Jay Miller, of Mt. Ayr, who would have been a member of the 1910 graduating class of the Rensselaer high school, has decided not to reenter school this year, but instead will accompany Harry Hufty to Paonia, Colo. Misses Nellie and Addie Harris, daughters of Ed Harris, will enter the senior class here, as also will Raymond Stucker, grandson of Isaac Stucker,. of near Mt. Ayr. CASTOR IA Fsr Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the /Hp Signature of /-GlZc/UM Quite a severe electrical storm accompanied the rain Wednesday night in the Kentland neighborhood and the Enterprise relates the burning of two big barns and considerable other property damage. A big cattle barn on the Addison Williams farm, tenanted by Elmer Skiver, was struck by lightning and entirely destroyed. No insurance, but Mr. Skiver had some insurance on the contents. The barn on the Rufus Whitmire farm in Washington township was also entirely burned after being struck.

Mrs. Mhry E. Drake returned yesterday from a visit in Chicago. j,,•; • . . J Born, Thursday, Aug. *B, to ’Mr,| and Mrs.' 1 Van Grant, a daughter. ■ ■ * i xh ' V jto : r B. Forsythe and wife returned this, morning from a week’s on the® lakes and in Illinois? Misses Grace and Fame Haas end Rose Carr went to Wlnamac today for a visit of several days. Kentland has a new opera house, which was dedicated last Friday night by the presentation of Monte Cristo. - ■ ' Roy Donnelly went to the Kankakee this morning to join the quintette of fishermen that preceded him by a day. A. R. Parkison and daughters, Ruth and Jenny, are spending today with Mr. and Mrs. James Rhoades at Gary. Louie Alter went to Lafayette today to get some repairs for the machinery at the Alter tile factory, north of town. Mrs. R. McNany returned to Hammond yesterday, after a visit of two weeks with her mother, Mrs. J. H. Payne. A new Presbyterian church is to be built at Ade, in Newton countv. It is to be 3fix4o feet in size, with a 12x18 annex. __L » Court Stenographer Ira Sigler and family returned this morning from a visit of three weeks with relatives at DeMotte. W. H. Morrison went to Chicago this morning to invest in a new pair of Fairbanks scales for use at his cream depot. L. H. Dirst and wife, of Mt. Ayr, took the milk train here this morning en route to Joliet, 111., for a visit of two weeks with relatives. Mrs. C. E. Hershman and two children’ returned to Valparaiso this morning. Little Miss Wanda Meade accompanied them to her home at Hammond. F. C. Price, state senator from the Ashland, Kans., district and a former judge of that circuit, is here visiting his brother, M. 8., and his sister, Miss Nettie. He will also visit his brother, Corey, near Remington. John. W. Mauck returned to Kankakee, 111., this morning after a short visit here. He has just completed his removal to Kankakee from Chicago, and will engage in the poultry business just north of Kankakee. Mrs. Mauck will join him there today.

Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S C ASTO R I A Miss Mary Elizabeth Herriman, of Brook, and Edgar S. Divin, of Roselawn, were granted a license yesterday and were married at the court house by Squire Mock. —Kentland Enterprise. 7 George Haste, of Nebraska, is visiting his son Dave, and will probably make this place his future home. Dave is taking a short lay off from the light plant and Chas. Elder is substituting for him. At the conference of the ministers of the Methodist Protestant church held at Indianapolis the first of the week, Rev. O. S. Rarden was assigned to the Rensselaer circuit, while the Rensselaer mission was left to be supplied later. Rev. Wooten goes to Berne and Bryant. Prof, and Mrs. E. S. Tillman came last evening from Winona, where they have been for the past month. Prof. Tillman will be here for the institute next week and then go to Bloomington, where he will teach botany and zoology the ensuing year. Mrs. Tillman will continue her residence here, retaining the Carnegie librarianship. W. J. Holmes, brother of Mrs. Marsh Warner, who was here yesterday, will probably spend a considerable part of the winter here. Mrs. Holmes will start Saturday for Seattle, Wash., and >vill spend about six montjis visiting relatives in the west, and they have rented their place at Maywood, near Indianapolis for the coming year. !, —T Kentland will decide at a meeting tonight whether qr not it will hold a horse show this fall. Last year .it was freely talked that Rensselaer would hold a horse show this fall. Why couldn’t it be combined with a baseball tournament and band concert and a good success made of it at a moderate cost? About the last week in September would be a good time. GHtlcf r* n Cry FOR FLETCHER’S OASTO R I A

SATURDAY. X ■ . j ' V - . ■ : j George F. MeyenTwent to Wabash today pn a b||in<iSß^trip. Mss "True to DeMottef this mornllgi^^ljslf 1 relatives. • Mrs. James RftSeell to DeMotte this’ m’orhifi’g to visit relatives. For good cf@am separator oil call at the Willis Garage, east of the court house. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Adams are spending today at the "Monticeilo old settlers’ meeting. Miss Minnie Cox returned to Fair Oaks yesterday, after a visit of a few days with her grandmother, Mrs. L. McGlinn. Mrs. Jesse Nichols and her mother, Mrs. I. D. Walker, left today for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Alva Nichols, at Patterson, Mo. W. R. Shesler and daughter, Miss Ina, went to Remington today to attend Fountain Park Assembly and have a short visiLjwith friends. Mrs. F. B. Meyer left yesterday for Gary,to which place they have shipped their household goods and where they wilt make their future residehce. Miss Hazel Lamson will teach school again this winter at East Chicago. She went yesterday to Ann Arbor for a visit of a week before entering upon her school duties. Vern Crisler returned this morning from a short visit with his grandmother, Mrs. Michael Blankenbaker, who makes her home with her son, William Blankenbaker, at Parr. She is 84 years old and is in quite feeble health. Miss Ruby Daniels, who has been visiting relatives here for the past two weeks, returned to her home at Hammond today. She was accompanied by her cousin, Miss Pearl Daniels, who will visit at Hammond and Chicago for the next two weeks. - -I John Teter, the Duroc Jersey hog breeder and one of the best known Carpenter township farmers, is taking the initiative in the fall public sale business. He will hold a sale next 'Thursday, Sept. 2nd, and states that he will quit farming. He may decide to remove to Rensselaer. His sale is advertised in the Republican. The government has issued orders to the effect that hereafter you can mark your letter simply “R. D.” where they are destined for rural routes, dropping the “F.” heretofore used. It will now be simply Rural Delivery in place of Rural Free Delivery. The service has become so general that there Is no longer need of using the term, “Free.” Everybody now knows it is free.

Misses Margaret Shafer, of south of Monticello, Mabel Waldsmith, of Dayton, Ohio, and Addie Neff, of Delphi, left Wednesday morning for Low Gap, Washington, near which place they expect to teach school the coming winter. They went by way of Chicago and St. Paul and thence over the Canadian Pacific for Vancouver. They will visit the Seattle exposition before going to Low Gap. While teaching they will expect to make their home with Mrs. D. M. Ferguson, formerly Miss Olive Grant.—Monticello Democrat. B. J. Gifford is here today. He is busy extending his railroad northward and says that within a few days will reach the watershed south of the Pennsylvania tracks. He has practically arranged for all of the right-.of-way for the remaining two miles. Asked what he would do when he reached the Pennsylvania tracks, Mr. Gifford said: “I never cross either rivers or railroads until I come to them.” Mr. Gifford says that the Jewish settlers in the neighborhood of the town of Gifford have made first-class citizens and that the other people there have no criticism whatever to offer. Miss Bessie Davis, of Rensselaer, and Miss Margaret Kreigh, of Greencastle, had an amusing experience. They left Rensselaer Tuesday for Fountain Park assembly and expected to take the Pennsylvania train west at Reynolds. They were 60 busy visiting when they reached Reynolds that they did not see the town and were carried through. They got off at Chalmers and waited until the 5:07 p. m. train when they again took up their pilgrimage. We did not learn whether they forgot and went back to Rensselaer. They wanted the Joke kept as a secret, but It leaked out. Rensselaer papers, of course, are not expected to copy.—Chalmers Dispatch.

The finest oil for cream separators can be the Willis Garage, Miss Gcie Moot, of Parr, returned; home tiijs nibrrifag, after a visit, at Frankfw Sbd fiEWette. Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Barce went to a month with their daughter. Miss Geraldine Kiadig returned;' last evening from a yisit of five’weeks at Indianapolis, Edinburg and Lafayette. : /*.; Mrs. Isaac Tuteur and son, Willard, returned to Chicago this morning, after a visit of two weeks with relatives here. William Stockton, who works at the Babcock & Hopkins elevator, is spending today at Monticeilo, attending old settlers. Jas. Darnall, of North Manchester, who will teach School in this county this year, arrived this morning to attend institute. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Fitzsimmons returned to Chicago this morning, after a visit with William Maloney and other relatives. Tul Malone and wife and Miss Flossie Hines are spending today at Monticeilo and will visit relatives near Buffalo tomorrow. Mrs. Al Hopkins and children, of Wabash, are here to spend Sunday with her sister, Mrs. Chas. Thompson, and -husband. Mrs. H. I. Adams and daughter, Miss Constance, went to Chicago yesterday, the former for a visit and the latter to study millinery styles. Mrs. E. E. Malone and little daughter, of Chicago, who have been visiting her mother, Mrs. E. H. Shields, went to Monticeilo today to attend the old settlers’ meeting. • The 50th annual meeting of the Monticeilo district of the Baptist church association will be held at Burnettsville September Ist and 2qd. A large attendance of ministers and church workers is expected.

W. T. May, wife and children left this morning for their home in McComb City, Miss., after a visit of two weeks with his father, James A. May, over near Remington. Mr. May is a locomotive engineer, running between. ,\1 Comb and New Orleans. It is 16 years since he left Jasper county. Monticello is also suffering some from the weed nuisance and they have a force of men cutting down the weeds. The Journal of that town says: “Help Monticello keep its good name” in appealing to property owners. That town has always had it a shade on Rensselaer in the matter of tidy streets. Let Rensselaer get a good name and then keep it. Charles Harmon is spending the week with his wife who preseded him here from Chicago. He has resigned his position in Chicago and has been appointed the city salesman at Indianapolis for the Pillsbury flour company, and will begin work there the first of the week. His many friends here will be pleased to learn that the position carries with it a good salary and all who know Charley know that he will be able to handle the Job in first-class style. Herman Miller and wife, who were residents of Jasper county some twenty-three years ago, have been here for the past week visiting his cousin, John Hordeman, and other relatives. They now reside in Tulara county, Cal., where he is successfully engaged in wheat and barley farming. This morning they went to Chicago and from there will go to New York City for a visit of some length. Mr. Hordeman accompanied them as far as Chicago. Over in the vicinity of Pleasant Grove, where most everybody owns the farm upon which they reside, and where there exists a friendly but progressive rivalry among the populace In making their farms ideal country estates, Chas. Moody has under construction and nearing completion, a large and commodious home. He has picked a beautiful site on a high sloping elevation of ground surrounded by tall and stately oaks; in point of drainage for sanitary purposes it cannot be excelled. The dwelling will probably contain ten rooms, not including basement for hot water plant and the bath. It is arranged in the latest pattern of architecture, with every appointment of convenience to make urban life a pleasure and well worth the while. Try the classified Column.

M, 100 Horses mm M«jes At LedlWFeetF'Bift’tiy ** ’lMhsVeWfer,lndiana Saturday, Sept 4,*09 fe St »> } We want to buy Horses and Moles weigbing from 1,000 to 1,800 pounds from A to 10 years old, in gQQd market condition. Bring your good horses as well as the poor ones. We will pay the highest market price. FREY & CLARK. *; . JN otice of Appointment Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed executor of the Estate of John Bisioi-kej,' deceased, late of Jasper county, Indiana-, by the Clerk of the Jasper Circuit Court. Said estate is solvent. FRANK FOLTZ, Executor. Foltz & Spitler, Attorneys, a. 17-24-31

Mrs. Jaines Britt aid children #eilt to Attica today for a week’s visit with her mother, Mrs. Ollie Isley. . Mrs. O. O. Hammerton and little niece, Helen Fox, went to Michigan City this morning for a visit of a week. Bruce Pierson and family returned to their home in Bushnell, 111., yesterday, after a visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pierson, southwest of town. ( Mrs. A. J. Bissenden and children accompanied her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Birt, to Paxton, 111., this morning for a visit of a month or more. A, J. Harmon, the realestate dealer, left this morning for Illinois, where he will organize a party of homeseekers and accompany them to Mitchell, S. Dak. He expects to be absent two or three weeks. Dr. E. N. Loy has been having considerable trouble with a wisdom tooth, which ulcerated and is causing him considerable pain. He is under the care of another physician and. it is not improbable that he will have to be taken to a hospital. William Hayes, son of Frank Hayes, and who returned to this county last spring after an absence of several years, is marketing some of the nicest early peaches ever raised in Barkley township, and he finds - a ready sale for them at $2 a bushel. James F. Yeoman, Of Ambia, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Yeoman, of this city, and who is successfully engaged in the lumber business, has been chosen the vice-president of the First National Bank of Ambia. The bank has a capital stock of $25,000 and has just been chartered.

Horse thieves keep operating in the vicinity of Danville and Champaign, , 111., and Marshal Parks receives a description of some stolen rig almost every day. On last Saturday a fine team of bay geldings were stolen at Champaign. It may become popular and effective to hold a few impromptu neck tie parties for this sort of criminals to break up the practice. A boarding school trick is to turn fudge into a paper boat, which is as good as a pan; besides, it need not be buttered. The boat is made by turning up the sides and securing the corners of a sheet of foolscap. Cut a cork to fit into the spout of the coffee pot. It keeps the coffee hot and preserves the aroma, which Is frequently lost In the steam from the spout. Stand up for your home merchants. They are the fellows who extend favors and stand up for the good roads, the churches and every public improvement. The home business man is the fellow that stands by you. The Chicago department house wants your business, it’s true, but the man who buys your produce and helps your schools and churches and every public improvement is the home business man. Is he not entitled to your moral as well as business support? If occasion required and you needed a little for a public road, a church building or any local improvement would you call on the Chicago merchant or on the home merchant, who stands by. you every day in theuweek. j