Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1902 — Additional Local News. [ARTICLE]

Additional Local News.

Subscribe for The Democrat. _ Ralph Donnelly is visiting his sister, Mrs. John Keiper of Plymouth. Grace and Wilma Payton are visiting their aunt, Mrs. Tharp of Monticello. Mrs. Hugh Constable of Goodland, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. J. L. Brenner, this week. Donnelly Lumber Co., have just sold the lumber for the new K. of P. building, amounting to about 145,000 square feet. There will be a basket meeting at the Egypt school house, Jordan tp., to-morrow, held by the CJniversalists. Preaching at 10 a. m., and 2p. m. All are cordially invited. There has been a vindication all around in Rensselaer’s latest society sensfttion. The “injured husband” was persuaded to make an affidavit that what he had alleged he had seen with his own eyes, he didn’t see at all. D. J. Pettit and two other gentlemen from Wolcott were in the city yesterday, enroute home from Chicago, where they had been to purchase a carload of horses. They shipped the horses to Rensselaer and drove them from this place to W T olcott. A Chicago paper last Sunday contained a two-column write-up of Charlie Vick, Rensselaer’s noted bigamist, together with a picture of wife No. 2 The Cincinnati Enquirer of July 29 contained an excellent picture of Charlie, and is the only paper thns far to publish a picture of the young bigamist himself. The sweaty, sticky days are come, the hot ones of the year, when fat ones want to sit on ice, or else fill up on beer. Heaped here and there in piles so limp are collars some have shed, while every night folks tramp about who ought to be in bed. The summer maidens blossom out in clothes, alas! quite scant, and big eyed pugs, with curly tails, put on their extra pants. Louie Ramp and Charles Mann returned last Friday from their Colorado trip and report having had a very pleasant time. They spent four days at Victor, where Mrs. Corcoran and Miss Maggie Walter, formerly of Rensselaer, are conducting the Gold Coin hotel. At Anacondi they went down about 700 feet in a mine, quite an unique experience for a tenderfoot. They visited quite a number of other points of interest also. Matters ha,ve progressed nicely for Co. A. 87th Indiana’s 40th anniversary next Monday, and a tent will be erected on the Milroy tract, just west of the Washington street bridge. The program will consist of n roll call of Company A. just before noon, and after dinner and at night addresses by Col. E. P. Hammond and others will be made. A. cordial invitation is extended to the public to come out and help to make the occasion one long to be remembered. Contrary to orders, the people who make the half-tone cuts for us, sent us the half-tone which appeared in The Democrat last week made from a finer screen than ordered, and while an exctdlent cut for u«e on enameled paper, was no good for newspaper work. The bad working of the cut was not discovered in time or it would have been taken out of the form. For this reason we republish the same picture this week, the half tone being mnde on a coarser screen. Willard Court No. 418, C. O. F., ia preparing for a big meeting of Foresters hero ou Sunday, August 111. Some ten or twelve candidates will be initiated into the Court, and the initiation ceremonies will lx* held at St. Joseph’s College auditorium, after which there will be a picnic and reunion on the college grounds. A large number of Forostersare expected from Chicago as well as from different parts of this state. Probably at least 1,000 visiting Foresters will be present.

Geo. Besse of Remington, was in the city yesterday. See our glazed building blocks for all kinds of foundation work, the cheapest and best; also have stock and all sizes sewer of pipe. Donnelly Lumber Co. M rs. W. B. Price, the aged mother of County Surveyer Price, died at her home southwest of Remington last Monday after an extended illness. The funeral was held Wednesday afternoon from the residence, Rev. Middleton of the Remington M. E. church conducting the services. Interment in the Remington cemetery. Deceased leaves five sons and one daughter—Charles H. Price, of Webb City, Mo.; Myrt B. Price of Rensselaer: Clark Price, of Ashland, Kan.; Titus E. Price of Yankton, So. D.ik.; Cory Price and Nettie Price of Carpenter tp. All were present at the funeral except Charles and Clark. The family were among the oldest residents of this county. Several changes have been made and are about to be made in the force of clerks at the Chicago Bargain Store. Frank Wood and Taylor Boieourt havegoneto Wolcott to engage in business for themselves, and W. 0. Rowels will soon leave to engage in business here with Orrin Parker. The new clerks thus far engaged are: Jerome Halmuth, for two years past a clerk in Sigler Bros, store at Mt. Ayr; M. C. Burke <of Crawfordsville, to take W. O. Rowels’ place in the dry goods department, and Earl Duvall, now of the Ideal clothing store in Rensselaer, to take Frank Wood’s place in the clothing department. The latter will begin duty August 25. Several other clerks are to be employed but at this writing contracts with them have not been closed. The last will and testameot of Lena Tuteur, deceased, was filed for probate last week. The will was executed Dec. 11, 1900, and the witnesses were C. G. Spitler and Ilirain Day. After directing that all debts bo paid, etc., decedent bequeathed to her son Isaac Tuteur, SSO, also It 7, bl 20, Rensselaer; the residence property of decedent to her daughter, Bertha Wildberg; It -12, bl 1(>, original plat of Rensselaer, to her daughters, Sarah Weil and Eliza Spangle; to Moses Tuteur, It 8, bl 20; to the children of her deceased son, Benjamin Tuteur, SSO each; to Jacob Wildberg, $25; to Edna Wildberg, $10; to Leopold Tuteur, $25; to Hattie Tuteur, $10; to Gladys Weil, $10; to Helen Weil, $25. All the remainder of the estate of whatever nature is bequeathed to her five children e'qualy, and decedent desired that the children settle the estate without the appointment of an executor or administrator.