Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1901 — THINGS IN GENERAL! [ARTICLE]

THINGS IN GENERAL!

Daily Happenings Around the Prairie City. » * TIMELY TOPICS TERSELY TOLDi News Items Caught on the Run and Served While Warm Without Trimmings or Embellishment. Local and Personal Notes, B. S. Fendigis in Chicago on business. Miss Ada Gay is visiting at Rejnolds. Mrs. Ray Thompson is visiting in Lafayette. J. F. McColly is sick with pleuropneumonia. For flnejob work call at the JOURNAL office. Arthur Landis, of Delphi, spent Sunday here. Miss Mary Weathers spent Sunday at Monticello. Joe Sharp has returned from a visit at Logansport. G. H. Landis, of Delphi, is visiting his children here. Jesse E. Wilson is at Crown Point on legal business. Mr. and Mrs. B. Forsythe are in Chicago on business. B, M. Donnelly spent Sunday at his home M Monticello. Grant Warner is at Mt. Ayr invoicing a Ptock of hardware. Miss Katherine Rogers has returned from a visit a,t Medaryville.

8. Nichols, of Lowell, was the guest of Miss Lona Flynn, Sunday. Recorder Porter is not at his office this week. Too much grip. Dr. Washburn made a professional visit to Logansport Monday. The late J. W. Youche, of Crown Point, left an estate of $75,000. Mrs. W. O. Rowle* is in Chicago taking a few lessonsjn painting. Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Stoner are attending the poultry show at Chicago. Miss Cora Everett, of Medaryville, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. F. L. Hunt. Dr. and Warren Washburn have purchased the Goodland telephone sj stem/ The Journal has just recoiveda large assortment of poster mounting board. E P. Willard, of Chicago, has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Austin Hopkins. » A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Emmet Pullins, of Barkley township, Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Yeoman lefG for their home at Kingman, Kansas, Tuesday. E. L. Hollingsworth spent Sunday with Mrs. Hollingsworth at Kalamazoo, Mich. Merle Benjamin is at the Indiana Mineral Springs taking treatment tor rheumatism. . *

Miss Stella Wigmore, of Monticello, was the guest of friends here the first of the week. A pension has been granted to Mrs. Jacob Clouse as the widow of a Mexican war veteran. Ask your grocer for Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2oz. package five cents Refuse imitations. The farm house of Van Lesh, of Union township, was destroyed by fire last Saturday. Mrs. E. H. Wood, of Monon, is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Frank Randle, who is sick. A. E. Wallace and Ed O’Connell, of Chicago, were the guests of Misß Maude Irwin Sunday. . Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Saylety of Gilman, 111., visited his parents here the first of the week. Mrs. Mary J. Hopkins has returned from an extended visit with her son Homer at Alexandria. When you go to buy bluing, ask for Red Cross Ball Blue. Large package 5 cents. Refuse imitations. Mrs. Etta E. Baker, of Chicago, Heights Ilk, is -the guest of her brother George W. Spitler. Frank Kelley left for Rockford HI., last Thursday, where he expects to make his home for some time. Quality and not quantity makes DeWitt’s Little Early Risers such valuable little* pills. A.F. Long. The Latayette Courier predicted that the first people to call on Mrs. Lyda on her return home would be the “old hens who started the story that she had poisoned her husband.”

James Tanner has returned from a visit in Kansas. Joe Jeffries was called to Apple Creek, Ohio, last Friday, by the sickness of his father, Rev. C. D. Jeffries. Hereafter the horse sale day will be on the fourth Tuesday of each month. The next sale will be on February 26th. Mrs. Caroline Gant, of Parr, has been taken to the Longcliff asylum, at Logansport, to be ' treated for insanity. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Morris, of Chicago Heights, was buried at the Egypt cemetery, south of town, Monday. Mrs. Ben Thornton and daughter, Mrs., J. O. Conway, of Tipton, attended the funeral of Mrs. A. M. Powell, mother oT the former. Have Jerry’s bus to call for you when you want to make a train. Satisfactory service at all times. Will Make all trains day or night upon call. Such little pills as DeWitt’s- Little Early Risers are very easily taken, and they are wonderfully effective in cleansing the liver and bowels. A. F. Long. Bro. Knotts, of the Francesville Tribune, has been getting out a rattling good paper lately—one that should be appreciated by his constituency.

If you have something to sell, want toTJuV something, have a house to sell or rent, want a job of work or need help, try the want ad column of the Journal. Mrs. E. W. Morris and Wm. Nowels went to Chicago Heights last Friday. They were called there by the sickness of a grandchild, who died after their arrival. The Lake county delinquent tax list covers nearly six pages of the Crown Point Register. Such a li3t is a small fortune for the lucky paper that gets to publish it. A card received from Joe Jeffries, who is at Apple Creek, Ohio, says that his father, Rev. C. D. Jeftries, is very poorly and that his death is likely to take place at any moment. The furniture was placed in the new Wheatfleld bank building Monday. Joe Hammond, the cashier, says that thefixtures are finer than thosejn any bank building in Rensselaer. When in need of sale bills remember that the JouknaE’ can get you out a good bill on short notice and at a reasonable price. A free notice of the sale will be given in the Journal. A debate has been arranged between the Delphi and Monticello high schools to take plt?ce at the latter town Friday. Superintendent Hamilton, of Rensselaer, will be one of the judges.

Here is the way an exchange very aptly describes a cigarette: “Take a bad cigar, extract all the poison, mix the poison with still more poisonous drugs, roll up in thin paper, hitch an idiot to one end and you have it. Nathan Swisher, of Pulaski county, and Miss Ina Hall, of Gillam township, were married by Rev. Ward, of the Christian Church, at the clerk’s office in the court house, Monday morning. The bridfe is the daughter of Henry Hall. Charles Chipman, son of M. D. Chipman, was married in Chicago about six weeks ago to a young lady of that city. Charlie has passed the civil service examination and is now employed as engineer at the 69th street pump station, in Chicago. A Kansas paper has discovered how to tell a man’s politics when you meet him in a hotel wash room. The republican will wash and empty the basin; the democrat will wash and leave the water stand; the populist will wash in the water left by the democrat.

Charley Porter has purchased a grocery store at Delphi and himself and wife will take, up their residence there Charley is experienced in this line of business as well as in telegraphy. We recommend him to the citizens of Delphi as an honest, trustworthy young man. When threatened by pneumonia or any other lung trouble, prompt relief is necessary, as it is dangerous to delay. We would suggest that One Minute Cough Cure be taken as soon as indications of having taken cold are noticed. It cures quickly and its early use prevents consumption. A. F. Long. A sentiment over the state against the proposed primary election bill is fast gaining ground. As people begin to understand itaprovisions more fully the opposition grows and it is probable that if such a bill is passed it will only apply to the Itfrge cities, where corrupt methods are in vogue, and then only optional with them. Rev. Middleton kindly permitted us to peruse several copies of Manilla, P. I. daily papers sent him by his son Ernest, whom we regret to learn is confined to the hospital with' acute dysentery ana gastritis. The papers dated Dec. 13 were received here Jan. 11th, wßich is fully two weeks quicker than the usual time of transportation of mail matter from there,—Remington Press.