Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1901 — THINGS IN GENERAL! [ARTICLE]

THINGS IN GENERAL!

Daily Happenings Around the Prairie City. TIMELY TOPICS TERSELY TOLD! News Items Caught on the Hun and Served While Warm Without Trimmings or Embellishment. Local and Personal Notes.

Job work at Journal office. Mrs. Sam Roth is visitingin Dayton. T. W. Haus was at Westville this week. Miss Helen Harris spent Sunday at 'Hammond. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Overton are visiting in Monon. Oren Parker has -come home from Chicago for a short rest. - Mrs. E. P. Honan returned from Danville, 111., last Friday. Fred. Clarke, of Monticello, is workring here this week. Miss Mae Dunlap, of Chicago, is visiting friends here. Miss Zora Adams is clerking in La Ttue Bros.’ new store. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Warren, last Saturday, a son. Postmaster Peck, of Remington, was in the city Monday. C. E. Tyner is now pumping water for the Monon at Monon. ' Mrs. John Platt, ofChicago Heights, x is visiting, relatives here. Mrs. Fred Phillips accompanied her husband to Ihdiananolis. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wood spent Sunday and Monday at Brook. Dode George, of Delphi, spent Sunday with his mother here. An electric car line will be built from Lafayette to Battle Ground. For a first class job of horseshoeing call on C. Hansen, the blacksmith. Mrs. L. Strong is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Dal Yeoman, at Ambia.

For first class blacksmithing call on C. Hansen, on Front street. Merle Gwin was home from Purdue to spend Sunday with his parents. Misses Edna and Bonnie Jordan, of Hammond, visited friends here Sunday< The Journal has just received a large assortment of poster mounting board. . ' Mr. Jacob Raub, off Chalmers, tended the funeral of Mrs. Mattie BernardAll kinds of wagon and buggy repairing done at C. Hansen’s wagon Shop. Mrs. Ella J. Hetlock, of Chicago, is .he guest of her mother, Mrs. Eb W. Morris. Bring your plows to C. Hansen to have new shears put on. Satisfaction guaranteed. Red Cross Ball Blue is the best in the world. Large 2 oz. package costs 5 cents.

Crown Point is organizing a company to bore for oil in that Vicinity. x John Chilctote’s pension has been raised from six to eight dollars per month. Strictly pure hungarian seed for sale at Alf Donnelly’s, 1A mile north of town. The band boys are fitting up the rooms oveT Harris’ bank for their headquarters. Granville Moody, Jr., and Miss Carrie Warren returned from Oklahoma Tuesday. James Thompson departed Tuesday for Oklahoma, where he may locate permanently. Dr. Besser, the osteopath, will be at the Nowels House on Tuesday and Friday of each week. Mrs. Eva Morgan attended the funeral of Miss Kate Lear, a cousin, at Monticello, last week. If you wish to have beautiful, clear white hlothes, ask for Red Cross Ball Blue. Refuse imitations. Mrs Ella dchofield, of Monticello, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Schofield Sunday.

Wheatfield ’/ent Republican Mon day. Bro. Robertson, of the Telephone, was elected clerk. ? Mrs. Mel Abbott was called to Delphi, Saturday by the illinessof her sister, Miss Ola Landis. Mrs, E. H. Shields and grandson, Johnnie Shields, have gone to. Manchester, Tenn., for a visit. Fred Phillips is in Indianapolis helping as auctioneer in a big combination sale of blooded cattle. Fern Smith, who has been the guest of Mrs. W. I. Hoover, has returned to her home in Delphi. The Democrats, running under the name of the ‘‘Citizens” ticket, carried the town election at Remington Monday.

George Healey has moved here from Brookston and occupies Julius Taylor’s new house in the east part of town. The protracted meeting at the Christian church closed Saturday night with eleven accessions to the church. Miss Flora, Wharton, of Chicago, is visiting her friends here. She was formerly instructor of music in the schools here.

The first Chicago excursion of the season was well patronized Sunday. One hundred and thirty-five tickets were sold here. The public library has recently been enriched by another valuable gift of books from the Van Rensselaer chapter of D. A. R. Some nice fish are now being caught in the river by lamp light. A seven pound buffalo was included in Saturday night’s catch. O. P. Tabor, of Remington, excounty commissioner, has sold his 1-10 acre farm, adjoining Remington on the west, for SIOO per acre, or $14,000. The city of Attica has purchased the electric light plant established there by private parties fourteen years ago, the purchase price being SIO,OOO. 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 u’ght upon call. John A. Stebelow, a fireman on the Gifford road, and Miss Cordelia C. Lewis, of Kersey; were united in marriage by Judge Thompson last Saturday.

Ben Smith was acquitted in Squire Troxell’s court last Thursday on the charge of provoke, preferred by Will Shoup, who had been thrashed by Smith. The least in quantity and most in quality describes DeWitt’s Little Early Risers, the famous pijls for constipation, and liver A. F. Long. Yob are much more liable to disease when your liver and bowels do not act properly. DeWi' t’s Little Early Risers remove the cause of disease. A. F. Long. Earnest Clark went to Bloomington Monday, to work at telegraphing under Robert Johnson, who is now manager of the Western Union in that city. C C. Brown, of Winamac, visited his mother, Mrs. A. E Brown, last week. He is moving to South Dakota, where he will engage in stock raising. George O. Stembel, of Wheatfield, and Mrs. L. M. Imes, of Rensselaer, have been appointed members of the county board of charities by Judge Thompson.

Leave your order with C. TtanSen for a new wagon or buggy, ft will be manufactured to your order from the best material and at a reasonable price. All hand work. Mothers of good judgment and experience give their little ones Rocky Mountain Tea this month, keeps them well. 35c. Made by Madison Medison Medicine Co. B. F. Fendig. Last Monday was the last day for paying taxes without the penalty being attached. Treasurer Parkinson reports that but few allowed their taxes to go delinquent. The Mothers’ Mutual Aid and Improvement Society will meet in the east court room Saturday, May 11th. Rev. Work will address the meeting. A good attendance is desired. Grandmother Chilcote, who has been living in Ecktord, Mich., since last August, returned to Rensselaer last Friday. Her son, Bruce B. Chilcote, accompanied her on her trip home.

The Pan-American postage stamps ' have made their appearance. The 2 cent stamp, the only one we have yet seen, is a trifle smaller than the world’s faic stamps, but not near as pretty. T. P. Wright has broke ground for a new undertaking establishment. It will be located between the brick livery barn and Sharp’s photograph gallery. It will be a one story building, with basement. J. E. Toole and h ; s dramatic company closed a three nights’ engagement here Saturday. They played to very small audiences but gave the best of satisfaction. From here the ’company went to Kankakee, 111.

A. R. Hopkins, for many years assistant cashier in A. McCoy & Co.’s bank, has purchased of W. C. Babcock a half interest in his elevator business. The style of the new firm will be Babcock & Hopkins. Mr. W. J. Baxter of North Brook, N. C. says he suffered with piles tor fifteen years. He tried many remedies with no results until he used DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve and that quickly cured him. A. F. Long. C. C. Starr has opened his ice cream and soda parlor foi; the season. This year he will handle the celebrated R. W. Furnas ice cream, made in Indianapolis. 80 different varieties. Individual ice cream for parties a specialty.

Mr. and Mrs. Ancil Snodgrass and daughter arrived here from El Paso, Texas, Saturday. Mr. Snodgrass is very low with consumption and he was brought here in the hopes that the change of climate would be beneficial to his health. At the meeting of the county board of education Monday, it was decided to hold a declamation contest on Saturday, June 22, at 1 o’clock. A representative of each school outside of Marion township and Rensselaer will take part. A New York woman the other day married a horse doctor under the impression that he was a French noble man. Notwithstanding the fact that this might be considered a “horse on her” she can certainly congratulate herself on her narrow escape.

The residence of Charles Schatzley, living north of Stoutsberg, burned, with contents, Saturday evening. The loss was about $1,500 with an insurance of S6OO on the house and S2OO on the contents. The fire started in the kitchen during the absence of the family. The county board of review will consist this year of the following members: County auditor, treasurer and assessor by virtue of tneir offices; Geo. F. Meyers, of Walker township, and Ellis Jones, of Carpenter township, the last two being appointed by Judge Thompson. The Union township graduating exercises will be held at the M. E. church, at Fair Oaks, on Saturday evening of this week. There are five graduates as follows: Frank Brusnehan, of District No. 7—;Paul Zea, Ethel Arnold, Clint Gundy and James White, of District No. 6. “Our little girl was unconscious from strangulation during a sudden terrible attack of croup. I quickly secured a bottle of One Minute Cough Cure, giving her three doses. The croup was mastered and our little darling speedily recovered.” So writes A. L. Spafford, Chester, Mich. A. F. Long. The series of library entertainments for the season will close at an early date with the production of an elaborate and beautiful programme, rendered by the most talented young people of the city. In order to raise funds for the expenses of the whole summer the entertainment will be given in the opera house, and the management relies upon the generous friends of the library to come out and make it a grand success.

The firm of A. Leopold & Sons is now figuring with different contractors for the erection of a fine briefc block as contemplated some few months ago, and as soon as the necessary arrangements can be made work will be commenced on the building.— Wolcott Enterprise. E. Hollin, the shoemaker, was Anted $5 and costs, sl3 85 in all, by Squire Burnham Monday, for violation of the truancy law. Hollin has living with him Wm. Haywood, a young boy whom he obtained from an orphan’s home, and whom he failed to send to school 43 days out of 150, and for such failure he was arrested and fined. The commercial state bank of this city has arranged to issue its drafts on Buffalo for the convenience of visitors to the Pan-American Exposition which has just opened in that city. Their plan will relieve persons not acquainted in the city from the delay and annoyance <,f being identified at the banks. Particulars may be had by calling at the bank, north side of public square. When a rural free delivery rdute has been uniformly equipped with boxes of any one of the fourteen kinds prescribed by the department and ranging in price up to $3, including lock, the department will consider the boxes as entitled to the protection of the United States statutes, which provide severe penalties for wilful or malicious damage to them or interference with contents.

You will waste time if you try to cure indigestion or dyspepsia by starving yourself. That only makes it worse when you do eat heartily. You always need plenty of good food properly digested. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure is the result of years of scientific research for something that would digest not only some elements of food but every kind. And it is the one remedy that will do it. A. F. Long.

The law of 1893, requiring the holder of any recorded mortgage which has been paid off, to release it under a penalty oi $25 and an attorney fee of an equal amount, to be recovered by the mortgagor, was declared constitutional by the supreme court Friday in affirming a judgment for such a penalty and attorney fee recovered by Henry C. Thompson against John F. Judy of Warren county. The school enumeration this year shows an apparent loss of two. Last year the enumeration was 697 and this year it is 695. A new law, however, permits pupils, who will become of age in January to enter at the proceeding fall term. There were fifteen of such, which will increase the number entitled to enter school to 710. During the year 77 children moved away and only 50 moved in.

The talk of the possible separation of the Uniform Rank from the Knights of Pythias has been revived, and it may be brought before the next meeting of the grand lodge, which will be held at Indianapolis in June. If the separation is made it will result practically in two orders. The movement originated in Ohio, and has caused much discussion among the members. It is understood there is not a large element in favor of the move.

There was a rather bad runaway at Parr last Sunday. A horse hitched to a buggy containing Mrs. Wm. H. Meyer and little boy, of Blackford, took fright and commenced to run. The buggy struck a wagon and both were thrown out. Mrs. Meyers was considerablj bruised but not seriously hurt. The boy escaped injury. They were picked up and taken back to Parr, where they were given necessary attention.

If people only knew what we know about Kodol Dyspepsia Cure, it would be used in nearly every household, as there are few peopie who do not suffer from a feeling of fullness after eating, belching, flatulence, sour stomach or waterbrash, caused by indigestion or dyspepsia. A preparation such as Kodol Dyspepsia Cure, which, with no aid from the stomach, will digest your food, certainly can’t help but do you good. A. F. Long. The annual dues of one dollar of the commercial club are now due from the members and are payable to the treasurer. The club had its first meeting last Friday night in nearly a year and if it makes no tetter record the coming year than it has in the past it is hard to see of what benefit it is to be to our city. The club can do much to advance the interests of our city and we hope to see it push matters pertrainingjto the welfare of the city in the future.