Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1900 — Page 2

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EVENTS OF THE WEEK

At Mead. Neb., Lee Johnsou was robbetl of nearly S7JMM>. The robbers entered his bouse and took his suit of clothes containing the money. Johnson recently sold his hardware business and the money taken was part of the proceeds, Edward Lawrence of Lakeville Corner, N. 8., and his wife and three children were burned to deatli in their home. On tinding the house on fire Mrs. Lawrence rushed from the building, but went buck to get her children. As she entered the roof fell. The Pennsylvania Railroad pension department has acted upon the cases of 988 employes who were relieved from service on the first of the present year, and has fixed the monthly pension allowance to be paid to each, the aggregate of which amounts to over s26o,<W(> per annum. At Belle Center. Ohio, Robert Young, a wealthy liquor dealer, was shot down in the street by James Pergrin. The motive for the crime was business jealousy. Pergriu drove to Bellefontaine, and going to the county jail gave himself up. lie was put into u cell. , A few minutes later he shot himself fatally. Arthur Payne, a 15-year-old lad. was sentenced to be banished from the State .for, two years in the District Court at Clinton, Mass,, after having pleaded guilty to a charge of forging a check. The lad’s father will lake him to California to remain with friends until the period of his banishment expires. At the end of the two years, it he comes back to Massachusetts, he will be placed in charge of a probation officer. The Northwest lowa Thrashers’ Association has just perfected a permanent ■ organization, which is intended to control the thrashing business for all the northwestern and north central portions of the State. While its projectors deny that it is a trust, they admit that its objects are to include uniform prices, the making of thrasher bills n lien on the grain and other legislation for thrashermen. James Winter of Gilmore is president; J. M. Reed of Rolfe, treasurer, and W. B. Wier of Gilmore secretary. The west-bound limited train on the Wisconsin Central was derailed three miles west of Curtis, Wis., an.d the tender and five coaches were hurled from the track and seventeen persons were injured. The train was under full speed when a rear wheel on the tender broke and the trucks gave way, precipitating the train, which was carrying ninety-five passengers and the crew, into the ditch. The engine, in charge of Engineer Geo. Graham, passed on safely. The cars ran on the ties for a short distance, but, clearing the track, they jumped about seven feet down the embankment. The uninjured passengers received a severe shaking up.

NEWS NUGGETS.

Berlin thinks England is seeking to force a naval war with Germany. A. W. Perry, editor of Perry's Musical Magazine, is dead at Sedalia, Mo., aged 71. Two ships foundered off tin l Allanic eoust near Norfolk, seven or more lives being lost. The President has nominated Brig. Gen. Harrison Gray Olis to be a major general, by brevet. The fire and police board of Denver, Colo., has ordered the chief of police to close all the gambling houses in that city. Bam Johnson, who was leading low comedian in Sir Henry Irving’s company for many years, is dead in London. St. Petersburg newspapers urge the Government to take advantage of England's “adversity" mid settle old scores. Andrew Carnegie, Jr., of, Pittsburg, nephew of Andrew Carnegie, the steel king, and Miss Bertha Sherlock were married at Clifton, near Cincinnati. Mareehale MacMahon. Duchess of Magenta, widow of Mawchai Patrick Maurice MacMahon, second president of the third republic of France, died in Paris, aged 71. A fatal d yuamite explosion occurred in the Union Pacific gravid pits at Sherman. Two men were killed and two fatally . hurt. The men were thawing dynamite with hot water. Attorneys for Republican and Democratic contestants for State offices in Kentucky have agreed that there shall be a speedy trial in the courts on an agreed case involving all of the issues. Edwin Gonld, Cyrus Field Judson, Joseph Leiter and other capitalists are behind a $20,000,000 automobile company, which pro|H»ses to contest the New York field and later other cities with the surface railroads. » Mias Mary Ixionard Baker, only daughter of United States Senator Lucien Baker, was married to Dr. Charles Henry Tighlman Lowndes, surgeon iu the United States navy, at her parents' home in Lea ven worth, Kan. At Haverhill, Mass., a slight fire in the shoe factory of Thayer, Maguire & Field started the automatic sprinklers. The water was not turned off and everything was flooded. The damage from water is estimated at SIOO,OOO. Jacob Newman and David Duncan went to Shelbyville, Ind., from Greenfield. In a quarrel that arose Dunean shot Newman through the lungs, killing him. While en route to prison Duncan tried to kill Officer James Magill. At Jefferson City, Mo., the Supreme £ourt en banc, in an opinion by Judge Robinson, declared the department store law passed by the last Legislature unconstitutional and void. The reason given Is that it is clearly class legislation. Dr. Leslie E. Keeley of Dwight. lII.* the inventor of the “Keeley cure for the liquor habit.” died in Los Angeles, Cal., of heart disease, William W. Wicker is dead at his home in Brooklyn, aged 80 years. He was a pioneer in the shipment of refrigerated goods, and sent to England the first consignment of American dressed meat. Chief Engineer McDonald of the transport Manauense. has admitted on crossexamination before British Consul Plckersgili at San Francisco that he signed an incorrect statement while undec Pressure favoring the owners of the vessel

EASTERN.

Tom Gould, of national notoriety as a keeper of saloons in New York, is dead. Woman suffragists in Washington formally celebrated Susan B. Anthony’s eightieth birthday. Mrs. Thomas tycKean of Philadelphia has made a gift of $25,000 to th* University of Pennsylvania. Fire did $50,000 damage at 231 Mercer street. New York. The losses are divided among fur and clothing firms. The funeral of William H. Lots, Reading’s fattest man, took place at Reading. Pa. Mr, Lots weighed 547 pounds. The Pittsburg Plate Glass Company announces a general advance of 5 per cent, on glass prices, effective at once. Mrs. Annie E. Lodge, mother of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, is dead at her home in Boston. She was 70 years of age. George Weeks, corored. was hanged in Moyatnensing. Pa., prison for the murder of Alice White, also colored. Dec. 25, ISOS. James L. Spaulding, who formerly conducted a large wholesale tobacco business in Louisville, died at Sayville. L. 1., aged GO. Thomas Parsons and Jacob Dull, boys aged about 13 years, were found asphyxiated iii a closet of the Metropolitan Hotel, Millvale, Pa. Three' men were drowned and $250,000 damage done to the property along the Hudson river by the worst freshet which Albany has seen since 1857. At Pottsville. Pa., Thomas Brennan of New Philadelphia was hunged for the murder of Harry Elliott, a neighbor and fellow workman in a colliery. Mrs. Rachel B. Crane of Peekski IKN. Y„ has given $50,000 to the home innF’ sion board of the Presbyterian Church and $50,000 to its foreign mission board. J. A. Woods is the champion pie eater of New Jersey. At it contest be ate eleven large apple pies in nine and onehalf minutes. He was three pies ahead of his closest competitor. The 1,800 employes of G.' B. Markle Co., anthracite coal mine operators of Hazleton, Pa., have been notified of a 5 per cent increase in their wages, the second advance in the last two months. At Pittsburg fire gutted a three-story brick building at 947 Liberty avenue, occupied by Sol Cerf & Co., wholesale jewelers, causing a loss estimated at from $75,000 to SBO,OOO, partially covered byinsurance.

The steel sheet mills of the country were combiued at u meeting held at Pittsburg, twenty-five concerns out of twenty-nine being represented. The capital stock ot the combination was fixed at $52,000,000. John B. Oltmau, a broker, was killed at the New York Athletic Club by falling down the marble stairs leading to the main tloor. When half way down tbe stairs he slipped and fell, then slid down the remaining steps, his head striking each step. The coal barges Blossom and Alice Tryon foundered off Port Chester. N. Y., with six persons, all ot whom were probably lost. On tbe Tryon were the captain, his wife and two children. Ou the Blossom were the captain’s brother and a deck hand.

WESTERN.

The Oregon Republican and Democratic State conventions will be held at Portland on April 12 next. The Arkansas Republican State contention to elect delegates to the national convention will be held March 20. Richard P. R. Millar, general freight agent of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, died suddenly at Lincoln, Neb., aged 60. The Ohio Republican State convention will be held at Columbus on April 24 and 25. Delegates will be chosen by popular vote. At Mexico, Mo., Edward Spencer was sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years for the murder of Benjamin Eddlenian in a saloon at Vandalia. The building of the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company’s northwestern branch at Minneapolis was destroyed by tire. Loss on building and stock, $125,000. K. T. Parkstad committed suicide at his home in Chicago by hanging himself to a doorknob. Parkstad was 61 years old, in poor health and out of work. Because he was unable to secure employment for the support of his young wife Walter Belz, a Chicago plumber, committed suicide by banging himself. The residence of the Rev. W. Bainbridge, an elderly retired minister, at Antwerp, Ohio, was destroyed by tire. Mr. Bainbridge lost his life in the flames. Frank E. Moore has been renominated for Mayor by the Republicans of Omaha. Neb. The platform declares for municipal ownership of water works and other public enterprises. H. L. Moyer of Deshler, Ohio, in attempting to cross the railroad tracks in front of a train, was caught in a frog and the entire train passed, over him, cutting him into fragments. One man was killed and five others were overcome by gas while at work in a sewer at Paulina and Fulton streets, in Chicago. The men were almost drowned before help reached them. At San Francisco the contract firm of Marcuse & Remmels has tailed for $140,000, and large blocks of property owned by them have been sold to satisfy the demands of pressing creditors. The bill for the reorganization of the government of Cincinnati, known as the “Cox-Ripper bill,” passed the Ohio Senate by a veto of 17 to 14. the contest resolving itself along party lines. It is now certain that County Treasurer Gebhard Bougard of Chaska. Minn., who has been missing, left a considerable shortage in his accounts. From the l>ooks he appears to be at least $5,000 short. A mob of armed negro soldiers from Fort Bliss went to the city police station at El Paso, Texas, and attempted to release two imprisoned comrades. A tight ensued, resulting in the killing of two men. Frank A. Ulrich, a collector, 34 years old, committed suicide at his home in Chicago, by shooting himself. According to the statement of neighbors to the police. Ulrich’s wife left him n week before, and that, with pour health, made him despondent. C. S. Cullingbum of Qniaha. champion tennis player of Nebraska, died from the effects of chloroform. He was to submit to an operation for the removal of an abscess, but death ensued in about a minute from the time be first inhaled the chloroform. Notwithstanding the fact that.it has long been expected, but repeatedly de-

nied, the quiet marriage of Dan R. Hanna, son of Senator M. A. Hanna, and Mrs. Daisy Gordon Maud, created a sensation in high Cleveland societycircles. Arthur Wolford shot and killed Herman Schultz at the home of Jacob Harness, south of Kokomo, Ind. The shooting occurred during a dance at the Harness home and was witnessed by many persons. Tbe cause of the shooting is unknown. Frank Crane, of Wakefield. Neb., who disappeared ten years ago and was supposed to have been murdered, has turned up alive. He gives no cause for his disappearance. He has been in Central and South America. He returns to stop some family litigation. Edward Nelson, a colored preacher, was killed at Gooseneck, I. T., and United States Deputy Marshal Shipley brought eight prisoners before United States Commissioner Jennings, charged with the crime. The trouble grew out of a line fence dispute. Cleveland is to have another big rolling mill for the manufacture of iron and steel. The Empire Rolling Mill Company has been incorporated at Columbus, the incorporators being U. G. Walker, Louis D. Round. James Patou, John D. Paton and W. R. Dunbar. Discoveries of gold of wonderful richness have just been made in the Chispa mountains in Brewster County, Texas, and there is great excitement throughout that section over the results of the assays that have been made. Prospectors are rushing into the locality. At St. Pau) the Supreme Court declared the Minnesota inheritance tax law to be unconstitutional, being contrary to the constitutional provision requiring equal taxation. T*he law was passed in 1897, 'Wter the adoption of a constitutional aihpudmeut permitting such a law. men were instantly killed and three frightfully injured by the explosion of aMocomotive boiler in the Santa Fe roundhouse at Topeka, Kan. The explosion was caused by compressed air, which was? used as tbe motive power in the ’’Midget” locomotive, a small switch engin/ According to a circular of David Eastman, commissioner of school and public lauds for South Dakota, the State still has 1,958,33 G acres of common school lands and 691,416 acres of endowment lands to be held, leased and sold for the benefit of tbe public schools of South Dakota. Wesley Church, the largest Methodist church in Minneapolis, is free from debt. In response to the urgings of the pastor, Rev. James S. Montgomery, the congregation contributed in ninety minutes, at tbe rate of $262 a minute, a total of $23,600, sufficient to pay every penny of tbe indebtedness. After freeing himself from two government officers in Chicago, Paul F. Dogge, who bad been for using the mails to defraud, leaped from the Dearborn avenue viaduct to the Chicago and Northwestern Railway tracks below and sustained such severe injuries that he died three hours later. Suit for $1,350,000 damages was brought at Akron, Ohio, by Charles Howland of the Vermillion Mining Company of Ontario against Judge Stevenson Burke and other stockholders of the Ca nadiau Copper Company. He alleges that the defendants secured control of the Vermillion Company by conspiracy. lu St. Louis Mrs. Julia Cammer, wife .of a foundry workman aud mother of five children, poured oil over her clothing aud deliberately set fire to herself in the presence of a drunken husband, aud will probably die of her injuries. She took this method in order to be revenged on her husband, whose drinking she objected to.

SOUTHERN.

Fire burned the business part of Halls, Tenn., causing a loss of about $50,000. Osmond C. Howe,* British vice consul at Pensacola, Fla., died there, aged 68. William Scott Belknap, formerly a wellknown minstrel, is dead at Louisville, Ky. At Southern Pines, N. C., the Alfa Hotel, with all its contents, was burned. The thirty guests eseaped. The Owen brothers, two of the bandits who held up a train at Fairbanks, Ari., have beep captured near Pearce. Goaded by hopeless despair over his poverty. Dr. D. C. Green, aged 65, committed suicide by jumping from the roof of his country home in North Alabama, Tenn. He formerly lived at Rockford, 111. Mrs. William J. Garland, wife of a saloonkeeper in Phoebus, Va., was found murdered in her bed by her husband when the latter awoke. The husband reported the murder and he was arrested, charged with the crime. Gus Pryor, a young negro, was murdered on the streets of Huntsville. Ala., by his formef sweetheart, Ellen Gordon. Pryor was shot four times over the heart and died in a few seconds. The woman surrendered to the police. State Senator R. L. Bradley was shot and slightly wounded at Raymond, Miss., by Mrs. Ida Bolls, who alleges that Bradley had failed to keep faith in a promise to marry. Mrs. Bolls then attempted to commit suicide by stabbing, but was prevented. At Chepultepec, Ala., Jennie Maxwell was ordered by her husband to go out in the woods and cut some kindling for the tins The woman declined to subject herself to the exposure of the very cold weather and the husband hit her on the head with a plank. The blow drove a nail which the woman bad in her hair into her head..and it penetrated her brain ami caused her death.

FOREIGN.

The Sudanese mutiny has lieen suppressed entirely. Paris hotels have raised their rates from $3 to $9 a duy. Andrew Coats, famous threadmaker, is dead in London, aged 85. Henri Rochefort was mobbed and pelted with rotten apples in Bordeaux. Berlin authorities deny that Germany has any designs against Macao harbor, M. Varicle of Paris will attempt to go from Vancouver to Dawson by balloon. Brazil has declared Argentine and Portuguese ports free of the bubonic plague. English wall-paper makers have completed the organization of their $30,000,000 trust. Paul Hervien and Emile Faquet have been elected members of the French Academy. Au imperial edict. Just issued, commands Li Hung Chang to desecrate and

destroy tbe tombs of tbe ancestors of the Chinese reformer Kang Ju Wei, and offers 100,000 taels for ,the capture Kang Yu W’ei, dead or alive. A French expedition has decisively defeated Rabah, the “Africa.n Napoleon” of the Sudan. Tbe Caechs have adopted a plan by which they hope to force the dismissal of the reichsratb. Out of a total of fifty-one cases of suspected bubonic plague reported in Manila forty-two proved genuine and thirty-two deaths resulted, half of them being Chinamen. The health department census shows the population of Manila is about 190,000, including 31,000 Chinese.

IN GENERAL.

There is a shortage this year In the production of olive oil, and large holders, it is said, are attempting to corner the output. Ex-Consul Macrum declares the British censor opened bis official mail and held up his cable messages from Washington. Four well-to-do residents of Mont Carmel, Quebec, were killed by the Quebec express on the Canadian Pacific at a crossing near Three Rivers. Bishop Newnham sends from Fort Churchill, Hudson’s Bay, a story that indicates that Andree’s balloon descended in North America and the explorer and his companions were murdered by Eskimos. The Ontario Government is about to make a survey of the immense territory north of the forty-seventh parallel, which is known to contain very valuable mineral deposits and large areas of excellent spruce aud poplar timber. The United States steamship Nero, during its recent survey for a transpacific cable, broke the record for deep-sea soundings. One sounding near Guam Island marked 5,269 fathoms, only sixtysix feet short of six statute miles. Preparations are now being made at the War Department in Washington for a reduction within the next few months of the American military force in Cuba. There are now in Cuba four general officers with a total of less than 9,000 troops.

Construction work on the all-Canadian telegraph lines to Dawson City has been commenced. J. B. Charleson, superintendent, sent seventy men to Quesnelle, B. C., to begin building the line to Hazelton, and twenty-five men and supplies to Bennett to begin building from Atlin to Telegraph Creek. Jean Louis Legare, who surrendered Sitting Bull and hundreds'of his Sioux to the United States government in 1881 and 1882, is about to push, with the promised help of the dominion government, his claims for $13,400 and interest from the time of its presentation eighteen years ago. Rains and a rapid thaw caused many rivers to overflow and there are unprecedented floods in various parts of the United Kingdom. Several provincial towns are inundated, great damage has been done to farms, hundreds of sheep and other live stock have been drowned, and much of the railroad traffic suspended. Au American syndicate with a capital of $10,000,000 will immediately begin the construction of a great steel plant in Monterey, Mexico. The plans for the mammoth concern have been completed and the ground purchased for locating the several buildings. An abundance of high-grade iron ore and coal is within easy shipping distance. Capt. Porfirio Diaz, son of President Diaz of Mexico, has been paying a visit to the camp of Gen. Bravo’s troops, who are waging the campaign against the Maya Indians iu Yucatan. While out with a reconnoitering party he had a narrow escape from being killed or captured by the Indians. The detachment was ambushed and several were killed or captured.

The business situation is thus spt forth by Bradstreet’s: “Satisfactory advices as to expanding spring trade in dry goods and kindred lines come from a number Of markets. That the aggregate business of the country is of good volume otherwise is, however, indicated by detailed reports of increases iu trade as compared with last year, confirmed by satisfactory railroad earnings reports, by fair gains in bank clearings and by reports of better demand for money in commercial channels. Though some talk of lack of snow in the grain growing regions is beard, no widespread damage from cold weather is yet noted. Some cutting of the list price for anthracite coal is reported, while bituminous grades are very firm, and leading operators talk of a further advance caused by increased cost growing out of advanced wages of mine workers and also by the steadily growing foreign demand.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, fair to choice. $3.00 to $6.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 66c to 67c; corn, No. 2, '3sc to 36c; oats, No. 2,25 c to 27c; rye, No. 2,53 cto 54c; butter, choice creamery, 24c to 25c; eggs, fresh, 13c to 14c; potatoes, choice, 4Oc to 50c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattie, shipping, $3.00 to $6.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 71c; corn, No. 2 white, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 28c. . : > St. Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to $6.50; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $3.00 to $6.00; wh*at, No. 2,71 cto 73c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 33c to 35c; oats, Nd. 2,24 ct® 26c; rye. No. 2,54 cto 55c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.25; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $2.50 to $5.50; wheat. No. 2,73 cto 74c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 36c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 25c .to 27c; rye, No. 2,61 cto 63c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.25; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $3.00 to S3UjO; wheat* No. 2,72 cto 74c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 29c; rye, 58c to 60c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 71c to 73c; corn. No. 2 mixed. 35c to 36c; oata. No. 2 mixed, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2,58 c to 60c; clover seed, new, $5.55 to $5.60. Milwaukee—Wheat. No. 2 northern, 65c to 66c; corn, No. 2,33 cto 34c; oats. No. 2 white, 25c to 27<f; Tye, No. 1, We to 59c; barley, No. 2,45 cto 47c; pork, mess, $10.75 $o SIIJ?S. Buffalo—Cattle., good shipping steen, $3.00 to $6.50; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $5.50; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $6.25; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $7.50. New York—Cattle; $3.25 to $6.50; hogs, $3.00 to $5.50: .|flioep, $3,00 to $6.00; wheat, No. 2 reife Wto eorn - <No. 2, 43c to 44c; oat#. No. '2Mirßite, 31c to 33c; butter, creamery, 20c to 25c; eggs, western. 15c to 16c.

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COUNTY OFFICERS. Clerk Win. H. Coover Sheriff Nate J. Reed Auditor W.C. Babcock Treasurer R. A. Parkison Recorder Robert B. Porter Surveyor. Myrt B. Price Coroner Truitt P. Wright Supt. Public Schools Louis H. Hamilton Assessor Johnß. Phillips COII.MISBIONEKS. Ist District Abraham Halleck 2nd District Simeon A. Dowell 3rd District ..FrederickWaymire Commissioner's court—First Monday of each month. CITY OFFICERS. Mayor Thomas J. McCoy Marshal... .it' Thomas McGowan Clerk Schuyler C. Irwin Treasurer C. C. Start Attorney Harry R. Kurrie Civil Engineer. H. L. Gramble Fire Chief Edgar M. Parcch COUNCILUEN. Ist ward. ......G.E. Murray, Chas. Dean. 2nd w ard John Eger. C. G. Spitler 3rd ward J. C. McColly, J. C. Gwin JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge Simon P. Thompson Prosecuting attorney .Charles E. Mill, Terms of Court.—Second Monday in February. April, September and November. COUNTY BOARD OF KDVCATIW. TRUSTSM. TOWNEkiPS. Renert S. Drake Hanging 1 Grove A. W. Gillan John F. Pettit Walker Samuel R. Nichols Barkley James D. Babcock Marion Marcus W. Reed Jordan. Jackson Freeland Newton C. C. B’ertna Keener J.C, Kanpke Kankakee Albert S. Keene .’ Wheatfield John A. Ijimboru Carpenter George W. Caster Milroy B. D. Comer Union TOWN OR CITY J. D. Allman Remington J. F. Warren Rensselaer Edward T. Biggs Wheatfiyri Louis H. Hamilton, Co. 5upt...... Rensse aer CHURCHES.

First Baptist—Preaching every two weeks at 10:45 a. m. and 7 p, m: Sunday school at 0:30: B. Y. P. U, 0 p. tn. Sunday; prayer meeting 7 p. m. Free Baptist—One service every’ Sunday morning and evening, alternately. Prayer meeting Tuesday evening. A. C. F. meets Sunday, 6:30 P. M. Christian—Comer Van Rensselaer and Susan. Preaching, 10:45 and 8:00; Sunday school 8:30; J. Y. P. S. V. E.. 8:30; S. Y. P. S. C. E.. 6:30; Prayer meeting Thursday 7:30. A. L, Ward, pastor. Ladies' Aid Society meets every Wednesday afternoon by appointment. Presbyerian—Comer Cullen and Angelica. Preaching. 10:45 and 7:30 Sunday school 0:30; Y. P. S. C. E.. 6:30; Prayer meeting, Thursday 7:30; Ladies'-Industrial Society meets every’ Wednesday afternoon. The Missionary Society, monthly. Rev. C. D. Jeffries. Pastor. Methodist—Preaching at 10:45 and 7:30; Sunday school 8:30; Epworth League Sunday 6; Tuesday 7; Junior League 2:30 alternate Sunday; Prayer meeting, Thursday at 7. Rev. H. M. Middleton, Pastor. Ladies’ Aid Society every Wednesday afternoon by appointment. Church OF God—Corner Harrison and Elza-. Preaching 10:46 and 7:30; Sunday school 8:30; Prayer meeting. Thursday, 7:80; Ladies’ Society meets every Wednesday afternoon by appointment. Rev. A. H. Zilmer, pastor. Catholic Church—St. Augustine's. Corner Division and Susan. Services 7:80 and 10 ;3O a. tn. Sunday school 11 ao p. m. Rev. Father i homas Meyer pastor. LODGES AND SOCIETIES. Masonic—Prairie Lodge, No. 185, A.F. and A. M., meets first and third Monday s of each month. J. M. Wasson, W. M.; W; J. Imes, Evening Star Chapter—No. 141,0. E.S., meets first and third Wednesdays of each month. Maude Spitler, W. M.; Hattie Dowler, St?c*y. Catholic' Order Forrbsters—Willard Court, No. 418, meets every first and third Sunday of the month at 9p. m. J. M. Healy Sec’y; George Strickfaden, Chief Ranges. Magdalene Court-No. 886. meets the 2ndand4t.i Sundays of each month. Miss Mary Meyer. C.R.; Mrs- Mary Drake. R. S.; MissCindaMacklenberg. F. 8. ODD Fellows—lroquois Lodge, No. 144, I O. O. F., meets every Thursday. E. M. Parcels, N. G.; S. C. Irwin, Sec’y. Rensselaer Encampment—No. 801. I. O. O. F„ meets second and fourth Fridays of each month. J. M. Cowden, C. P.; J. R. Vannatta. scribe. _ •_ Rensselaer Rebekah Degree LOdgeNo. S46.m*etsfirst andthirdFridaysofeach month. Mi»a Delma Nowlas, N. G.; Miss Belle Adams, Set’y. I. O. of Foresters—Court Jasper, No. 1703, Independent Order of Foresters, meets second and fourth Mondays. J. N. Leatherman. C. D. H. C. R; C.L. Thornton, R. 8. Maccabees—Rensselaer Tent, No. 184. Kr O. T. M. Meets Wednesday evening. F. WrCisael, Commander; Isaac Porter, Record Pythian—Rensselaer Lodge No. 88, Rensselaer Temple, Rathbone Sisters,No. 47. meets 8d and 4th Thursday, every month, Mrs. Lulu Huff, M. E. C. Mrs. Josie Woodworth. M. of R. C. Grand Army.—Rensselaer Post No. 84 G. A. R-meets every Friday night. J. A. Bum- ' han. Post Commander, Ji M. Wasson, Adjutant. Rensselaer Women's Relief Corps—meets every Monday evening. Mrs. J. C. Thornton, President; Mrs. Ella Hopkins. Sec’y, Robert H. Milroy Circle—Meets every Thursday in I. O. O. F. block, Mrs. Ben; , Sayler, Pres.; Carrie 1. Porter. Sec’y. J Holly Council.—No. 7. Daughters of Liberty meets 3d and 4th Mondays. Gertrude ing € Secret^r” UeUOr ’ Nele RecordRemselaer Camp.—No. 4413. Modem WoodAmerica, meeta First and Third