Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1909 — REMINGTON. [ARTICLE]

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.