Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1909 — Page 8

Mp r ttraMHT «<M n. V. HUM. YOU GAN PAY twice as much for customtailored clothes, if you want to, but you cannot buy more than we can give you for, say, *2O to *4O. Select your preference of hundreds of beautiful Fall and Winter woolens, and secure the superior workmanship of Ed.V. Price & Co. America’s largest tailors of good made-to-order clothes. ‘ You have otir guarantee of shape, fit, style and extraordinary value in clothes just as you want them. The Cash Store G. B. Porter, Prop. Rensselaer, Indiana

LEE ITEMS.

George Sharp and his men were here Monday painting the Dukes Mixture signs. Six of the high school junior class, of Monon, walked out here Monday and went back on the milk train. Mrs. Geo. Woods and Mrs. Willard Johnson were in Lee Tuesday. Charley Jacks and wife returned Wednesday evening from an extended visit at Tipton and vicinity. Mr. Lampart’s brother and family are visiting him at this writing. Our broom man returned from Indianapolis Wednesday. His wife is expected Saturday. Mrs. Dora Jacks went to Wednesday to have her teeth fixed. Miss Hannah Culp, of Fair Oaks, is visiting friends here. Mr. Ayler was kicked by a horse Sunday, and is still in a very dangerous condition. His brother and family came from Kentland to see him. Mr. Orcutt, of Hammond, is visiting Mrs. Anna Rishling. Miss Mary Woods was in Lee Wednesday. I W. L. Steirs and wife and Mrs. Ola Randall and children went to Monon Monday. Mrs Kelley, of Marion, came Thursday of last week, and will return Friday. She is visiting Geo. McCoy.

Special Prices On Spirella Corsets.

In order to reduce my large stock of Spirella corsets, I will sell all corsets now in stock, consisting of odd sizes and styles at a substantial reduction in price. Sale to take place all week beginning Monday, October 11th. MRS. H. R. WOOD. A gold life saving medal was presented to Secretary of War Dickinson in recognition of his heroism in rescuing from drowning Jas. F. Joy, a Detroit lawyer, on the night of August 29, 1895. It is the first time in history that any member of a presidential cabinet has thus been honored by the government.

HANGING GROVE.

J. D. Miller lost a good horse last week. Mrs. A. A. Rusk and daughter, Ethel, returned home Tuesday morning from Lebanon, Mo., where they have been visiting relatives. R. B. Porter went over to Newton, 111., Monday morning to see their land interests, also the elevator at that place. Chas. P. Saidla butchered a beef Tuesday afternoon, and sold it out Wednesday to' his former fish customers.

Mrs.»*J. W. Kelley, of Marion, returned home today, after a week’s visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. McCoy. rJohn Tomilson, of Monon, pressed hay for P. B. Downs this week. A hay-rack load of young people from McCoysburg went up to J. C. Maxwells, in Barkley, Tuesday night, armed with tin pans and shot guns and “belled” the bride and groom. It was about eleven o’clock, but they made the family get up and let them in, after which the party soon left for home, getting in at the short hours of the morning. The golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Robinson Tuesday was attended by forty-six of their friends and relatives. A fine big dinner was served and the day spent in social chats. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson received a nice little sum of money and several handsome presents. - Richard Foulks made a trip on the C. & W. V. Ry Tuesday to buy cabbage and onions«for his own use.

A young man by the name of Abler, living on the Kunes place, was probably fataly injured in a runaway Sunday, near Monticello. He was on his way to Monticello to haul gravel, and had some hay on his wagon, the team took fright and in his efforts to hold them he slid off the load behind the horses and was kicked twice in the breast. He may die any moment. Supervisor Hoy Rishling is doing some of his road work this week. Speaking of having things handy on the farm, Brook Snedeker is coming to the front along that line. He has a oew gasoline engine that pumps the water, slops the hogs, churns, paddles the butter, runs the washingmachine, and will soon have an attachment to paddle the children. Brook says it beats a windwill ten to one. Mrs. S. L. Karr is visiting relatives at Paxton, lU.

There arg 40,131 persons, big and little, officers and scholars, identified with the Sunday schools in Marion county. This figure is announced by the Marion county Sunday schools association, and the information is one of the by-products of the associated Sunday school movement, which crystallizes in the county association. Geo. Carver has filed suit for $15,000 damages against the Pennsylvania railway company in the Bartholomew circuit court for personal injuries. He alleges that while working at one of the company’s turntables a rope broke and he was thrown a distance of twenty-five feet and so severely injured that paralysis followed, rendering him helpless.

Williard J. Shawcross, 10-year-old son of Mrs. Emma Shawcross, of Anderson, was electrocuted by picking up a fallen telephone wire which lay in an alley back of his home. The wire crossed a high voltage electric light wire and had been lying on the ground for ten days since a storm. The boy suffered the amputation of his right leg two years ago.

An Irish tramp one day wandered into a country churchyard, and seating himself on a new mound, deciphered the following old inscription: “Dear friends, as you pass by, as you are now, so once was I; as I am now, you’ll surely be, so prepare for death and follow me." The Irishman scratched his head and fishing out an old stub pencil from his pocket, wrote underneath: “To follow ye I’ll not cinsint, ’till I know which way ye wint.”

Announcement has been made that Immediate steps will be taken, with assurance of success, in enlisting eastern capital in the building of an interurban system giving Chicago connection with Winona Lake. The men interested in the project plan to begin construction of the road early In 1910.

Chas. Pinckney, second baseman on the Dayton baseball team, who was hit on the head with a pitched ball in Tuesday’s game with Grand Rapids, died in the hospital at Dayton Wednesday noon. He suffered a fracture of the skull.

REMINGTON.

- Mr. and Mrs. Allman and Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Peck visited with J. D. Allman at Rensselaer Sunday. Mrs. W. C. Hallihan and sister, Miss Ethel Wahl, visited their sister, Mrs. C. G. McKain, in Indianapolis, last week. ’ ( Harry Hartley #left last week for a trip through the west, looking for a new location. A daughter was born last week to Mr. and Mrs. O. Thurston, of Chicago. Mrs. Thurston was formerly Miss Alma Rinker, of this place. Miss Catharine Hartman is attendi • school at Earlham college. Ed Lucas moved here from Fowler last week into Mrs. Stoudt’s tenant property on north Orio street. Mrs. H. E. Sheetz, of Indianapolis, vtsited her brothers, Bert and Had Spencer, last week.

A. A. Fell, former trustee, was in Rensselaer Monday and Tuesday on ditch business. « Postmaster Ed Peck is in Indianapolis this week, and Miss Turpening is acting as assistant postmistress. John Teter bought a quarter section of land in North Dakota, and will move there next spring. MT. and Mrs. Wade Rowlings, of Hutchinson, Kans., came last week to visit his mother, Mrs. S. A. Rawlings. Mrs. Mel Julien- returned Thursday from Grass Creek* where she had gone to attend the funeral. of her father. Another party of land seekers left here Tuesday for the Dakotas. Some expected to take part in the land drawing there, and Tom Shew was going intending to rent if possible and move in the spring. Mp and Mrs. Ed Reeve spent Sunday with his brother and family here.

The Baltimore & Ohio railroad company has placed additional contracts with the Baldwin Locomotive works for 26 Atlantic type passenger locomotives and with the American Locomotive wqrks, Richmond, Va., for 34 consolidated engines. These orders call for an expenditure of over $3,000,000 and together with those given in August total upward of $10,000,000. Those given in August were largely, for refrigerator cars and two electric locomotives.

John Adams, 2:17 *4, a pacing horse, owned by Willard Slaybaugh, of Ligonier, was burned to death in a box car on a Lake Shore' sidetrack at Kendallville, and other cars containing racing horses and fancy stock billed for the Kendallville fair, were endangered. Robert Brown, the colored driver, was unable to explain the cause. The horse had just concluded the racing season at Indiana and Ohio fairs and was enroute home. The loss is $1,200.

Farmers and merchants in many localities throughout the state have been compelled to pay a fine of $lO for putting sale bills and advertising matter in rural mail boxes without affixing a stamp to the bills. The federal authorities have made a number of arrests. Those arrested have set up the plea that they did not kn >w they were violating the statutes but the postofiice authorities give warning that this plea will not avail.

A mother’s grief was turned to joy and a father’s worries ended when Mr. and Mrs. Turk, of South Bend, learned that their son, Stanley, twelve years old, instead of being kidnaped, as they feared, is alive and well, and is working in Elkhart with an advertising company. Stanley disappeared from home Tuesday afternoon. When last seen he was with a one-arm man peddling bills.

A father recently overheard a young son use a word he Gid not approve, and calling the child to him said: “My son, if you will promise me never to use that word again I will give you a silver dime.” 'fhe little fellow promised and true to his word refrained. About a week after he went to his father and said: “Papa, I’ve learned a new word worth fifty cents.”

L. J. Lorimer, son of United States Senator Lorimer, Saturday morning paid a fine of $5 and costs in the Urbana, 111., police court for scorching in his automobile. He killed a dog on one of his trips and refused to pay the owner, whot had him arrested. Lorimer is wanted in Champaign on a similar charge.

The architectural competition for plans for the new |BO,OOO federal building to be erected at Honolulu closed Wednesday. Several prominent architects have submitted plans. The edifice will be one of the finest in the iqpular possessions of the United States.

RUGS Special Price Continues Until Friday Night Oct’22 ■.. t - . Finest Display of Fine Rugs ever shown in Jasper County. You can see more Rugs than at all the other stores in Rensselaer combined. Come in During the Horse Show whether you* buy or not WRIGHT’S Big Furniture Store Rensselaer, Indiana

Newsy Notes About People We Know From the Review.

Kankakee Valley Review. Louis Pinter returned Friday evening from a six weeks sojourn at Petoskey, Mich., where he went to escape his yearly attack of hay fever. Attorney John Greve, who was confined to his bed last week with an attack of malaria, is again able to be out. H. W. Marble, who is confined to his home with an attack of typhoid fever, is reported as we go to press to have shown no decided change for improvement. Mr. and Mrs. Simon Fendig went Sunday to Rensselaer to attend the funeral of his aunt, Mrs. Fredrica Fendig, widow of the late Ralph Fendig. George Davisson and wife and his son, Clyde, of Barkley township, came over in George’s auto Tuesday and visited Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Barlow.' Mrs. Barlow returned with them. « Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Helmick went

Grand Cloak and Suit Opening October 14,15, and 16 We will have on display the garments of three leading Cloak and Suit Houses of the country, giving you a variety that will materially aid in making your selection. This will be your opportunity, as you will have more individual styles to select from than at any other time this season. You are cordially invited to inspect garments. FENDIG’S FAIR

last week to Elkhart where Mr. Helmick attended the annual reunion of the 9th Indiana volunteer infantry, and H. H. Bush looked after the hotel in their absence.

Jessie White, the nine year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Warren White, while playing with a wagon on the walk Tuesday evening, fell and dislocated her arm at the elbow. Drs. Wells and Fyfe were called and replaced the dislocation. It was at first thought the arm was broken. Mrs. M. L. Bosserman, of Los Angeles, Calf., who has been visiting here with her brother, Eugene W. Allen, and family for the past month, returned home Tuesday. She alpo visited relatives in other parts of the state. Mr. Allen returned with her to the Golden stated where he will remain for the winter in the hope of regaining his health.

Judge William Darroch, of Kentland, afid Trustee Cheadle, of Remington, were here Saturday looking after some business matters in connection with the Robert Parker bank

failure. Judge Darroch stated to our reporter that upon a recent visit to Michigan City where Parker is serving sentence, he found the convicted banker very contented and acting very much like he was needed as a part of the institution. William Webb, of Walker township, who was in town last Saturday is remarkably active for a man eightyfour years of age. Mr. Webb is in possession of all of his faculties and can quote correctly Shakespeare by the hour. He informed pur reporter that since Monday to Saturday noon of last week he had cut and shocked 225 big shocks of corn, and show me the man who has attained four score and four years who can beat this record. If you could hear the compliments we are receiving daily on Acme Flour you .would want to try a sack if you are not already using this flour. Acme flour—sl.so a sack —is the best. Just received another car.

ROWLES & PARKER.