Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1901 — THINGS IN GENERAL! [ARTICLE]

THINGS IN GENERAL!

Daily Happenings Around the Prairie City. TIMELY TOPICS TERSELY TOLD! News Items Caught op the Hun and Served While Warm Without Trimmings or Embellishment. Local and Personal Notes. BB.th cabinets at Long’s. Enjoy Turkish baths at home, 3 cts. each. For fine job work call at the JOURNAL oflice. Mrs. I). A. Stoner has been visiting in Mafion. Rev. A. L. Ward preached at Wimamac Sunday. Horse sale day will be around again next Tuesday. , Dr. and Mrs. H. J. Kannal are visiting in Chicago. “Dode” was home from Delphi Sunday. John Vanatta, of Brookston, was in the city Tuesday. Winamac is preparing to celebrate the Fourth of July. See those $5.00 Bath Cabinets at Long’s before buying. Joe Hammond, of VVheatfield, spent Sunday in Rensselaer. Mr. and Mrs. B. Forsythe are in Chicago buying goods. The Delphi Herald, weekly edition, hns been discontinued. Mrs. Robert Johnson and son are visiting relatives here. Oren Parker, of Chicago, spent Sun- . day with his parents here. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kurrie have returned from a visit at Paoli. Born, Monday morning, to Mr. and Mrs. Truman Nichols, a son. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Gaylord Nowels Tuesday. Take a bath in one of those vapor bath cabinets at drug store. Wanted —Good, all-round painter. H. O. Reed. Mrs. Wm. Hoover and son spent Sunday with her parents at Delphi. Mrs. Everett Brown, of Pleasant Grove, is visiting friends in Monon. R. M. Isherwood, former editor of the Delphi Times, was in town Tuesday. Dr. Berkley is in Chicago being treated for inflammation of the middle ' ear. Senator E. H. Wolcott has also been appointed a member of Gov. Durbin’s staff. Fred Phillips has returned from Kansas, where he has been on business. The Journal has just received a large assortment of poster mounting board. Rev. H' M. Middleton, of Remington, was here Tuesday to meet his son Ernest. Miss Anna Ethlynd Read, the vocalist, has returned to Chicago for the season. John Morris, of Centerville, lowa, is the guest of his mother, Mrs. E. W. Morris. The best cure for the grip is a hot bath in the Robinson Thermal Bath Cabinet. Mrs. Ada Crosscup is attending the utate meeting of the Eastern Star at Indianapolis. E. Peacock is rebuilding the Bartoo property, partially destroyed by fire some weeks ago. Ask ydur grocer for Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2oz. package live cents. Refuse imitations. Our new 1901 styleßobinson folding Lot air and vapor bath cabinets at Long’s drug store. It is said that there will be no Sunday picnics at the Monon park, Cedar Lake, this summer. Mrs. and Mrs. Hugh Lowe, of Monon, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bussell last Friday. Mr, and Mrs. George Davidson have removed from the vicinity of Fair Oaks to Ancona, 111.

Taylor Boicourt has gone to Wolcott to visit while recovering from a bad case of rheumatism. Mrs. Lena Swartz and children, of Brookston, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Malchow. Charles Perkins and son, of Mishawaka, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. 11. Perkins Sunday. Mrs. A. Woodworth was called to Montezuma last Friday by the dangerour illness of her grandson. The Monon will open the excursion season on Sunday, May 5, with a 75 cent excursion to Chicago. Cheap excursion to Chicago, Sunday, May sth. Only 75 cents for the round trip from Rensselaer. When you go to buy bluing, ask for Red Cross Ball Blue. Large package 5 cents. Refuse imitations. May 6th is the last day on which the spring installment of taxes can be paid without the penalty attached. It is rumored that there will be a double wedding in Rensselaer this week, in which two sisters will take a part. c Madge, the oldest daughter ofH. W. Uiff, of Jordan township, is very sick, and her condition is considered critical. Mr. and Mrs. James Randle attended the funeral of Mrs. Randle’s sister-in-law, Mrs. Sidnej Darrow, at Morocco, Tuesday. B. J. Gifford, of Kankakee, 111., and J. W. Burgett, of Francesville, were looking after their case in court this week. Dr. C. C. Stratton will preach at the M. E. church next Sunday, morning and evening. Special music. Everybody invited. L. S. Gant, of Parr, left on Monday for Duluth, Minn., to accept a position as brakeman on the Duluth and Iron Range railroad. Sunday sprees are getting to be quite numerous in Rensselaer, and it s said an effort will be made to pat a stop to the practice. Miss Leurie Steele, of Barkley township, was thrown from a horse Sunday, and suffered internal injuries and the fracture of a rib. G. A. Strickfaden, E. P. Honan, J. J. Eiglesbach and Charles Macklenberg attended a meeting of the Foresters at Lafayette Sunday. The Jasper County Telephone Co. will extend its lines in White County from Wolcott north and eafct to the Palestine neighborhood. W. H. Coover is figuring on moving to Oklahoma in the near future if he can arrange his business matters here in a satisfactory manner.

In the circuit court this week Minnie Burk was given a divorce from her husband, Cecil Burk. The parties live in the Gifford region. Two special trains, hauling the Grau grand opera troupe, passed through here from Cincinnati Sunday. They were bound for Chicago, The remains of the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Maines were brought from Chatsworth, 111., last week and interred in Weston cemetery here. The 10th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Gamble was celebrated in an appropriate manner at their home Monday evening. Wm. Shoup, living south of town, was fined SI.OO and costs, $9.60 in all, by Squire Troxell last Saturday for assault and battery on Ben Smith. Remember that when the Rensselaer Decorating Co. does your work that mechanics will do the job and not “kids” or inexperienced men. 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. Miss Feme Nelson has resigned her position at the Halleck telephone exchange and has accepted a similar position with the exchange at Goodland. Taken this month keeps you well all summer. Greatest. spring tonic known. Rocky Mountain Tea, made by Madison Medicine Co. 35c. B. F. Fendig. Those famous little pills, DeWitt’s Little Early Risers will remove all impurities from your system, cleanse your bowels, make them regular. A. F. Long.

Cures dizzy spells, tired feelings, stomach, kidney and liver troubles Keeps you well all summer. Rocky Mountain Tea tkken this month. 35c. B. F. Fendig. Skin troubles, cats, burns, scalds and chafln g quickly heal by the use of DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. It is imitated. Be sure you get DeWitt’s. A. F. Long. Eugene W. Bohannon, mention of whose engagement was previously made in these columns, was married at Mankato, Minn., last Thursday, to Miss Mary Carney. The Monon had an ugly freight wreck at Crawfordsville Junction Monday morning. The engine and eight cars g/ere thrown from the track, but no one was hurt. Rev. Converse, an Episcopal minister, of Delphi, will preach at the Egypt school house next Sunday at 2:30 P. M. and at the Primitive Baptist church, in Rensselaer, on Monday evening. “Have you any doubts remaining?” said Mrs. Jones. “No, Marinda, I have not, I took Rocky Mountain Tea last night.” ’Twill remove any impure thoughts in the human family. 35c. B. F. Fendig. Spring coughs are specially dangerous and unless cured at once, serious results often follow. One Minute Cough Cure acts like magic. It is not a common mixture b .it is a high grade remedy. A, F. Long. You cannot enjoy perfect health, rosy cheeks and sparkling eyes if your liver is sluggish and your bowels clogged. DeWitt’s Little Early Risers cleanse the whole system. They never gripe. A. F. Long. E. P. Honan, state chief ranger of the Catholic order of Foresters, delivered an address at a meeting of the Foresters at Lafayette Sunday. Twenty new members were initiated into the order at the Lafayette meeting. “I had piles so bad I could get no rest nor find a cure until I tried DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. After using it once, I forgot I ever had anything like Piles.”—E. C. Boice, Somers Point, N. Y. Look out for imitations. Be sure you ask for DeWitt’s. A. F. Long. Louis Sidtke, of Wheatfield. has been declared insane by physicians, and an application for his admission to Longcliff asylum at Logansport has been acted upon favorably. He has been taken to the asylum, where it is hoped the treatment will restore him, to health.

The school exhibit which was sent to Richmond a few weeks ago, is now on exhibition at the post office. The exhibit is the work of the various grades and is quite interesting and a surprise to many of the citizens who have not visited the public schools In recent years. Granny Wilkens, our centenarian now in her 102nd year, who has been spending the winter with her son Dr. Wilkins at Delta, Ohio, returned to Remington Wednesday, apparently spry and in good health. She was accompanied by her daughter in-law Mrs. Wilkins.—Remington Press. The average winter crop of frogs caught on. the Kankakee marshes and shipped to Chicago is between 120,000 124,000 dozen. It is not an uncommon thing for two men to go out in the neighborhood of North Judson and catch enough frogs in a day to net them sls or S2O in the Chicago markets. “Last winter I was confined to my bed with a very bad cold on the lungs. Nothing gave me relief. Finally my wife bought a bottle of One Minute Cough Cure that effected a speedy cure. I cannot speak too highly of that excellent remedy.”—Mr. T. K. Houseman, Manataweny, Pa. A. F. Long. The Central Sugar Co., which is erecting a sugar beet plant at Shelby, has rented the Brown Brothers ranch of 11,000 acres, which will be planted in beets. Shelby is experiencing quite a boom at the present time, and the establishing of this plant there will do doubt result in Shelby becoming quite a village. Mark Quinlin, of Richmond, and Miss Katie Halligan, of this county, were married at St. Augustine’s Catholic church Tuesday morning. Miss Maggie Healy and Joseph Halligan were the attendants. After the ceremony the bride and groom and guests repaired to the home of the bride’s parents, north of town, and partook of a bounteous wedding dinner. Charlie Grow, of Rensselaer, and Miss Pleasant Spencer, of Wolcott, were married at Monticello Tuesday evening at 5 o’clock. The marriage was a surprise to his friends here, but they received news of the proposed marriage a snort time before it took place, and when the train arrived a little after six with the. bride and groom, a number of their friends were in waiting at the depot, and as soon as the newly married couple stepped from the train they were met with a shower of rice. In the evening they were treated to a reception that they will remember for some time. Mr. and Mrs. Grow will at once set up housekeeping in his residence north of the depot.