Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 119, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1909 — Comment About People and Things We Know. [ARTICLE]

Comment About People and Things We Know.

Hon. J. K. Gowdy, who recently decided to go into the raising of Jersey cattle as one department of his farm work, haa gone into R on a large scale, says the, RushyUle , American. He bought a fine male c?tjf the first of the year , and a few ago added several cows to the herd he started on one of his large farms over near Arlington. He is receiving a large amount of milk from the cows, which he Js marketing here and In Indianapolis. His new departure is not only affording him.a delightful manner in which to take up his time, but the financial returns are very satisfactory. He selects his new additions with great care, and now has one of the finest and largest herds in the state. The other day an old friend of Charles B. Landis stopped off at Delphi to see the ex-congressman. He found him Beated on a load of brick driving a steady team, and headed for his farm about a mile and a half from town. On being questioned Mr. Landis declared he had never before so enjoyed himself as in these recent days upon his 325 acre farm. “I’m hauling brick to build a fire place,” said he. “I’m going to make it big and wide, so I can pile big chunks of wood in it. Then these long winter evenings I’ll draw my chair up close, take a chew of fine-cut and spit in the fire. Can you imagine anything more ideal?” And his visitor admitted it was an attractive picture. After all, power, fame, money, responsibility, society, none of these satisfy like the simple pleasures within reach of all. Since the first of the year Mr. Landis has made lar lectures. By a decision of the state supreme court of Illinois, the city of Chicago stands to lose approximately $700,000 in judgments for damages wrought in the Debs railroad strike of 1894, unless the United States court, in a case now pending before it, knocks out the Illinois statute on which thqse claims are based. The taxpayers will finally be called upon to make amends for thi failure of the city to suppress the hoodlums, who had things practically at their mercy until federal troops arrived, after which order was immediately restored. The case decided was that of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis railway company against the city of Chicago and involved SIOO,OOO. The railroad claimed damages for several hundred cars burned by the mobs during riots which were a part of the strike of the American railway union.

A. J. Biggs went to Hedrick, near West Lebanon, today to attend the funeral of a niece. His wife and daughter, Mrs. C. Earl Duvall, went yesterday. Mrs. W. H. Snedeker, of Barkley township, left this morning for Coshockton, Ohio, having been called there by the serious sickness of a brother, who has tuberculosis'. Philip Kistner, who moved from here to Dunn, in Benton county, last spring and who is conducting a leading store there, arrived here today, to look after some business matters. Mrs. A. C. Pancoast went to Crown Point today to see her mother, Mrs. Livingston, who is in her 82 year and not in very good health. If she is well enough to make the trip Mrs. Pancoast may bring her back with 'her.

During the past three weeks at least three local merchants have had eggs shipped to them from Chicago, having been unable to buy eggs enough here to supply the demand. Within the same time dealers here have been buying eggs and shipping them to Chicago. Farmers ship creatn to Chicago and it is shipped back here and bought by the butter hungry people. Calves are butchered and shipped to Chicago and butchers here buy the calves, nicely dressed, and resell the meat to the same farmers that sold them the calves. These things were rare a few years ago but are very common now. “The world do change.” Crown Point football players at Lowell last Saturday are said to have become very ungentlemanly and to have wound up the day with a general dabauch, In which several of the young players became intoxicated. The Crown Point Star gives the boys a well merited chastisement The athletic sports in high schools hays their place,, but any disgraceful conduct on the part of any of the players of any team should he sufficient for debaring the guilty of»es from further participation in the events. Some of the Rensselaer players a few years ago became intoxicated after a game at Lowell. The teachers should watch these matters closely and punish arty disreputable conduct severely.

Charles R. Crane, who recently was recalled as minister-designate to China, will leave in a few days for Europe, according to a telegram received from New York, assigning the trip abroad as his reason for declining a public banquet proposed in his honor by fifty prominent Chicagoans. , —-"T-T* " ■'■'T On his first day at work In |he Evansville Packing company’s plant Roy Cobb, 16 years old, was caught by p descending elevator while looking over the guard gale and died three hours later from a broken neck and Internal Injuries. The elevator acted like a guillotine, but did not sever tbw boy's head. He was the only support of a widowed mother.