Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1901 — THINGS IN GENERAL! [ARTICLE]

THINGS IN GENERAL!

Daily Happenings Around the Prairie City. TIMELY TOPICS TERSELY TOLDi News Items Caught or the Run and < Served While Warm Without Trimmings or Embellishment. Local and Personal Notes. Mrs. Hale Warner has been visiting in Peru. The local ice men began putting up ice Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Bussel are sick with the grip. Miss Jennie Marlatt is visiting at Evanston, Hl. Mrs. B. Forsythe is visiting relatives at Fairfield, lowa. - John Bayer and Joe Carr, of Delphi, spent Sunday here. J. E. Pauley, of Lafayette, was here on business Monday. Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Chutihill are visiting in Monticello. Pete Brenner returned to his work at Indianapolis Monday. Miss Pearl Blue is home from Indianapolis for a short visit. Mrs. Eleanor Florence is visiting her daughter in Lafayette. Ault Padgett shipped a carload of horses to Chicago Monday. Owen Stoner and Roy Baldwin, ot Morocco, spent Sunday here. M. M. Tyler has returne'd from a business trip to North Dakota. Mrs. P. W. Clarke visited in Hammond Tuesday and Wednesday. Mrs. E. H. Wood, of Monon, is visiting the family of Frank Randle. Ray Wood is still confined co his home with the grip and an abcess. Miss Violet Brown, oFKankakee, 111., is visiting her parents near town. Miss Ada Gay has returned from Remington, where she has been visifiing. George Wright, of Fresno, Cal., is the guest of bis daughter, Mrs. W. H. Beam.

Bert Walker, of Chicago, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Robinson Sunday. " ' . < ' James Boaz was called to Newman, 111., Monday by the death'of her brother. C. B, Steward was in Rose ‘ Lawn Tuesday adjusting the T. W. Grant fire loss. The Journal has just received a large assortment of poster mounting board. 1 ; Mrs. Hugh Lowe, of Monon, is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Red Cross Ball Blue is the best in thq world. Large 2 oz. package costs <•5 cents. J. C. Thrawls has returned home from an extended visit in Illinois'and Missouri. L. W. Alford, the former Rose Lawn merchant, has purchased a lumber yard at Monon. S. F. McGillard, of Indianapolis, was here Monday and adjusted the Peacock tireless. Misses Nellie Moody and Stella Parkison are visiting Miss Bessie Moody in Chicago. Miss Eva Grant, of Rugby, North Dakota, is the guest of her cousin, Miss Nora Morlan. Pever Hordeman, Jr., is taking treatment at the Alexian brothers’ hospital in Chicago. - Harry Strohm, of the Kentland Enterprise, left last week for a five' weeks’ trip in Mexico. Miss Maggie Kenton returned to Janesville, Wis.,last Friday, to resume' her work at a mission. Herbert Toops. of Sharon, will leave * today for .Nebraska, where he expects to regain for some time. If you wish to have beautiful, clear, white clothes, ask for Red Cross Ball Blue. Refuse imitations. John Kiefer has moved to Twin Lake, Marshall county, where he will again engage in farming. Mr. and- Mrs. Jesse Francis have entered the American School of Osteo--pathy at Kirksville, Mo. A wolf round-up wilLtake place in the territory surrounding Francesville • on Frifiay, February Bth. Amanda Marian, widow of the late Edward Morlan, has been granted -a of $8 per month. F. M. Lakin and son Edward, of north of town, started for Oklahoma Tuesday, for a short stay. White & Marion are home from Virginia, where they have been drilling wells, for a short stay. A. Leopold is getting the stone on the ground for the foundation of a I new business block at Wolcott. * Educate Your Bowels With Cuscarets. , Cathartic, cum constipation forever. 85c. If C. C. C. t ail, druggis ts refund money*

Wright & Webber have moved thei? j 6)1100 Fopalr shdp idtd M. t*. Warner’s ! room on Van Rensselaer street A great reduction in rubber and leather boots and shoes at the Chicago Bargain Store. The contract for the carpenter work of the proposed M. E. church parsonage has been let to Rush & Warren. We continue to throw in the trimming-s with dress patterns. Chicago Bargain Store. The Misses Comer are figuring on erecting a fine residence on their lots on Weston street in the near future. Mrs. W. H. Churchill has moved to Rensselaer from tne country. She has moved into the Aldrich property. A fire in the residence of T. W. Grant at Rcse Lawn last Thursday caused a loss of S2OO, covered by insurance. J. W. Conner & Son, late landlords of the Makeever House, are now in the hotel and, bakery business at Argos. Two car loads all kinds fencing wire and nails to be received this month at the Chicago Bargain Store. We acknowledge receipt of ticket to the sessions of the state sena*e, through the courtesy of Senate r Wolcott. • Albert, the four year old son of John Martin, a clerk in Dr. Kirk’s drug store at Parr, died last Wednesday of diphtheria 17% pounds "granulated or 23 pounds of soft white A sugar for SI.OO at the Chicago Bargain Store. Charley Wiltshire, of Chicago, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wiltshire. His mother is quite sick. Charlie Morris was called suddenly home to Molene, Kans., last Friday, by a telegram announcing the sickness of his son. Misses Belle Lally and Nellie Rozeau, of Michigan City, were the guests of Mrs. Fred Phillips Sunday and Monday. The Hammond bowling team will again be here this evening to'try to regain their lost laurels from the Rensselaer team. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Sayler and daughter Florence were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Sayler, near Monticello, Sunday.

Mrs. Fred Dalton and children left for their future home at Gilman, 111., Monday. They were accompanied by Miss Lelia Travis. 1 The Monon has purchased a lot adjoining its property in Frankfort, and will at once begin the construction of a depot to cost SIO,OOO. Mrs. Chas. Johnson, after a visit with relatives here, has gone to Glencoe, 11l , for a visit with her daughter, Mrs. Fred Brown. A. Leopold has repurchased the one-fbird interest in his New Oklahoma addition to Rensselaer, sold a year or two ago to J. H. Chapman. A special linen sale, all new stock, 15 cents a yard to $.1.25 a yard for fancy satin damask, at the Chicago Bargain Store. T. C. Devaney, of Noblesville, and Mrs.' Homer Hardy and Miss Stella Snyder, of Remington, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hardy.

Zell Fisher, who recently bought out E. F. Short’s lease and feed barn, has purchased the ground on which the barn is located of A. Leopold. A. D. Washburn, manager of the Kent ranch, near Fair Oaks, suffered a broken and sprained ankle Saturday night by his horse falling on him. See some of the photographs of the prize winning cattle of the world in B. Forsythe’s' front window, now on exhibition. All were fed Acme Food. The Journal jo > department is printing a brief for the defendants in the Wakarusha ditch case, which has been appealed to the supreme rourt. Millions of people are familiar with DeWitt’s Little Eary Risers and those who use them find them to be famous little liver pills. Never gripe. A. F, Long. Mrs. A. L. Ward, assisted by Mrs. P. W. Clarke, will entertain the ladies ot the Christian church this afternoon from 2 to 5 o’clock, at the home of the former. Persons who can not take or inary pills find it a pleasure to take DeW’itt’s Little Early Risers. They are the 'best little Liyer pills ever made. A. F. Long. The next number on the lecture course will be COl. Geo. W. Rain, on Tuesday, February 19th. His subject will be “The New Woman and the Old Man”.

Richard O. Hall and Miss Allie B. Aired, of Gillam township, were married in the county clerk’s office in this city by Rev. A. L. Ward, last Thursday afternoon. Simon U. Dobbins, ex sheriff of White county, will deliver his lecture, “From the Cradle to the Jail,” for the benefit of the Jasper Public Library, March Ist. Attorneys Anderson and Frazer have been allowed $1650 by Judge Rabt> as fees for assisting in the prosecution of the Lyda Cox murder case at Monticello. Like bad dollars, all counterfeits of DeWitt’s. Witch Hazel Salve are worthless. The original quickly cures piles, sores and all skin diseases. A. F. Long. A great sacrifice sale on all winter goods to make room for new spring stock which is arriving every day at the Chicago Bargain Store. Ross Hawkins contemplates taking in the Mardi Gras at New Orleans neyt week. Elza Grow and C. W. Stdneback are also thinking some of taking the trip. Frank Maloy was at Lowell in charge of the Monon day office, during the absence of the regular man. His place here was filled by Claude Cunningham, of Monon. A bill has been passed in Tennessee prohibiting the sale of cigarettes and users of the “coffin tack” in that state will either be obliged to move from tiie state or quit the habit. A complete new stock of lace curtains, carpets, dress goods, embroideries, laces, etc., just received, at the Chicago Department store. The latest report from Rev. C. D. Jeffries is that his health is improving. His son Joe, who was called to Apple Creek, Ohio, by his sickness, will shortly return here. E. F. Short has leased of M. H. Hemphill the grounds and sheds north of his livery barn, and after remodeling the sheds into a feed barn, will again open a.hitch and feed barn. B. J. Gifford, who was in the city Saturday, reports that hundreds of ties are being delivered along the line of his road daily, and that with the opening of spring work will be rapidly pushed.

Cnarles H, Porter, the grocer, will move his family here from Rensselaer next week, having rented the Stansel residence on Franklin street now occupied by Frank Broadlick and wife.— Delphi Citizsn. There is always danger in using counterfeits of De Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve. The .original is a safe and certain cure for piles. It is a soothing and healing salvo for sores and all skin deseases. A F. Long. A February sale—another great reduction on what is left of the great January clearance sale of winter goods at the Chicago Bargain Store. The grip got after Bro. Robertson, of the Wheatfield Telephone, last week and a thin paper was the result. He promises a warm paper this week, however, and advises everybody to take in their lightning rods. Orvel Russell Osborne, infant son of Mrs. Anna Hartman, died last Wednesday afternoon, at the age of 7 months arid 22 days. The funeral was held at the residence of Fred Hartman by Rev. J. L. Brady, Thursday. Ike Glazebrook has sold his blacksmithing business to Renicker Bros., and rented them his building, where the business has been carried on. Ed Moon and Abe Wartena will be employed by the new proprietors. Our idea of a genuine, long eared, deep voiced, line-backed ass, is a big, lubberly, dirty-faced, sixteen-year-old boy smoking a stinking cigarette and spewing out great streaks of carboniferous profanity.—Morocco Courier. B. S. Fendig and the Journal editor will leave on Sunday for a southern trip, taking in the Mammodi cave in Kentucky, mardi gras at New Orleins and other points of interest. They will be gone two weeks. After a long and painful illness, Mrs. Andrew Arnold, of Barkley township, died last Thursday, at the age of 75 years. The cause of death was a cancer. The funeral was held Saturday at the Dunkard church, n<.ar Blackford. The Francesville creamery is for sale. This is the only creamery, of the many established in this part of the country some years agoremaining. xhe purchaser will be given permissiou to use the building and plant as he sees fit.

! The sale todjy brougfit. tb® Ingest crated in town that has been here in several weeks. A large number of buyers from Chicago and other cities were also here. About forty horses were bought.—Monticello Journal. Less Than*Cost —ls per cent off on all overcoats. Original price marked in plain figures. Juvenile suits at cost. Chicago Bargain Store. The damage suits of Agnes Dluzak and Jacob Dluzak against James May, brough here from White county on change of venue, were continued by agreement and will be set for trial .on the second Monday of the March term.—Delphi Journal. Mr. and Mrs. John O’Neill, of Chicago, arrived Monday for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Parcells, the parents of Mrs. O’Neill. Mr. O’Neill returned to Chicago the same evening. He is one of the experts who was formerly employed in investigating the county records here. The supreme court has held that the amendment to the state constitution last November, providing that lawyers might be co npelled to take an examination before their admission to the bar, was not adopted. The amendment to increase the number of supreme judges also met a like fate.

Delos Coen and Rice Porter, Rens selaer students at the Highland Park Military Academy, each carried off a prize given by Chicago businessmen last week. Young Coen got first prize ■or standing high jump and best running high kick. Rice also got a first prize for being the best rope climber. Navy tobacco, 25c a pouud; 1 gallon pail fancy syrup 26 cents; Town Talk Flour, 95 cents % barrel; 3 pound can fancy tomatoes, standard brand, only 8 cts., at the Chicago Bargain Store. ’ Reports show a greatly increased death rate from throat and lung troubles, ue to the prevalence of croup, pneumonia and grippe. We advise the use of One Minute Gough Cure in all of these difficulties. It is the only harmless remedy that gives immediate results. Children like it. A. F. Long. Ex-Township trustee, Rennewanz, of Railroad township, Starke county, and his bondsmen have had suit filed against them by Burson & Burson, attorneys, for the township, to recover $3,000 of road and railroad tax money which is said to have been misappropriated, also SI,OOO of other funds misappropriated.

A bill is being prepared to curb the business of the State Printer. It provides for the establishment of bureaus in connection with some of the State institutions, and also provides that groups of counties may join together and award contracts for public printing to some establishment within the group of counties. For the weakness and prostration following grippe tnere is nothing so prompt and effective as One Minute Gough Cure. This preparation is highly endorsed as an unfailing remedy for all throat and lung troubles and its early use prevents consumption. It was made to cure quickly. A. F. Long. Charles Putman, son of Edward Putman, of near Parr, had his skull fractured by the kick of a horse last Sunday. With other boys young Putman was playing hide and seek, when the accident occurred. Portions of the broken skull were removed and the wound properly dressed, and it is possible that the boy may survive his injuries. The local News Bureau of Chicago, says: “We can state on absolutely reliable authoritv that negotiations are almost concluded whereby the Louisville & Nashville will control the Monon, thus giving the L. & N. a terminus in Chicago, and making another parallel line between Chicago and New Orleans. Details will be given later.” In the case of Babcock vs. Kessinger, in which the former sued the latter for $1 for printing milk tickets, a compromise verdict was reached. Judgment was given the plantifffor the dollar against Kessinger and his former partners, Everett Halstead and James C. Masker. A portion of the costs, however, were assessed against the plaintiff. Everybody will be greatly benefitted by attending- the closing- out sale of the Model Dry Goods and Daylight ClothingHouse. Don’t be led astray but come at once, as I mean business. Will quit business by March Ist. Stock is all g-ood and in perfect condition. Save from 30 to 50 per cent by buying- at this sale. All winter g-oods will be sold on six months’ time. A. Leopold.