Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1901 — THINGS IN GENERAL! [ARTICLE]

THINGS IN GENERAL!

Daily Happenings Around the Prairie City. TIMELY TOPICS TERSELY TOLD! News Items Caught on the Run and Served While Warm Without Trimmings or Embellishment. Local and Personal Notes. Job work at Journal office. For a first class job of horseshoeing call on 0. Hansen, the blacksmith. Mrs T. R. Daugherty is visiting in Fowler. Earpest Stewart spent Sunday at Brookston. Sam Roth is visiting his parents at Dayton. Miss Edna Dillon is visiting in Lafayette. Clyde Reeve is laid up with the rheumatism. Charlie Harmon is clerking in Leopold’s store at Wolcott. C. A. Brown and family, of Knox, are visiting relatives here. Mrs. George Sharp is visiting relatives in Logansport. Dr. Mary E. Jackson, of Hammond, was in the city on Friday. Mrs. Ella Hetlick has returned to her home in New York. Mrs. S. S. Barnes returned to her home in Fowler Friday. For fine job work call at the JOURNAL office. > Mrs. Will Parkison is visiting her parents at Attica. - The first band concert will be given the last'Thursday of this month. S. M. Laßue is adding a bay window to his residence on Weston street. A. Leopold has been confined to his home with rheumatism. Mrs. Ica Morris, of Remington, has been the guest of Mrs. J. F. Major. Mrs. Ella Savior has returned from an extended visit at Napoleon, Ohio. Miss Ellen Gwin 4s visiting her sister, Mrs. George Thomas, at Monticello/ Dr. I. B. and Mrs. Washburn are attending the state encampment of the G. A. R. The Monon will run another cheap excursion to Chicago Sunday, May 26th.

The old'Comer building was success-1 fully removed to its location on Weston street. The ’Journal has just received a large assortmenl of poster mounting board. All kinds of wagon and buggy repairing done at C. Hansen's wagon shop. Joe Meehan, of Remington, has joined a dog and pony show as musician. 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. Miss Julia Leopoldjs assisting her brothers at their Wolcott store this week. Misses Ethel Sharp and Leah Knox are visiting at Burnettsville and Logansport. Mrs. Ross Grant, of South Bend, is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Alter. Strictly pure hungarian seed for sale at Alf Donnelly’s, mile north of town. Ten acres of ground on F. W. Bedford’s farm were planted in sugar beets Monday. Dr. Besser, the osteopath, will be at the Nowels House on Tuesday and Friday of each week. A. R. Hopkins was at Bedford last Saturday, purchasing stone for the new elevator. Frank Iliff and Miss Lizzie Lock, of Rose Lawn, were married in Rensselaer on Tuesday. S. B. Jenkins has moved into the Tuteur tenant property on South Weston street. If you wish to have beautiful, clear white clothes, ask for Red Cross Ball Blue. Refuse imitations. The Presbyterian church has been improved by grading and thinning out some of the trees. Mr. and Mrs. John a Coen and Miss Hattie Kerr are visiting Mr. and Mrs. John Sayler, near Monticello. Mrs. Elizabeth Purcupile and Mrs. Abe Long and daughter are spending the week in Logansport. ■ Rev. A. L. Ward is attending the State Ministerial Association of the Christian church at Anderson.

A. B. Cowgill is at Indianapolis attending the state meeting of the Funeral Directors’ Association. W. H. Daugherty, of Monticello, was present at the institution of the new G. A. R. Post Monday night. The Epworth League celebrated its twelfth anniversary with appropriate exercises at the M. E. church Sunday. Father Babb went to Reedsburg, Wisconsin, last week, where he will spend the summer with his daughter. The Halleck Telephone Co. is just completing a new line from Kouts to LaCrosse, a distance of fifteen miles. Mrs. Grace Large and baby, of Champaign, 111., are the guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John R. Vanatta. The Commercial Bank is extending their vault into the second story for the use of the tenants, Hollingsworth & Hopkins. H. J. Weaver, formerly of Rensselaer, has moved from Lowell to Rose Lawn, where he has charge of a furniture store. The new police board at Hammond is making war on the houses of ill repute, and is intending to drive them from the city. Have Jerry’s bus to call for you when you want to make a train. Satisfactory service at all times. Will Make al^,trains day or night upon call. Remember that when the Rensselaer Decorating Co. does your work that mechanics will do the job and not “kids” or inexperienced men. Edward Casto, the Singer sewing machine agent, has been transferred to Michigan City. T. W. Beasey succeeds him here.

The Conkey printing plant, at Hammond, which now employs 1,300 hands, is to be enlarged, after which the employes will number 2,500. There will be preaching at the Egypt school house on Tuesday evening, May 21st and two following evenings by Rev. Patrick, of Logansport. A, Leopold has brought suit to quiet title to the Liberal Corner ground, which is necessary before he can complete the sale of the same. Mr. and Mrs. John Callow, who were here to attend the funeral of his sister, Mrs. Mattie Bernard, returned to their home at East St. Louis, Saturday. Daniel T. O’Connor and John M. Johnson, of Remington, will apply at the next term of the Commissioners’ court for a renewal of their saloon licenses, The least in quantity and most in quality describes DeWitt’s Little Early Risers, the famous pills for constipation, and liver complaints. A. F. Long. The citizens of Rensselaer* have subscribed SBOO to aid their band. The Goodland band would be satisfied with half that amount.—Goodland Herald. A number of the teachers and scholars of the public schools went to Chicago Saturday to hear Nat C. Goodwin in Merchant of Venice.” You are much rrfore liable to disease when your liver and bowels do not act properly. DeWitt’s Little Early Risers remove the cause of disease. A. F. Long. Mrs. W. A. Hopkins, Mrs. Henry Purcupile, Mrs. Charles Warner and Miss Gertrude Hopkins attended the funeral of a relative and her infant baby at Chicago, Tuesday. Bow Are Your Kidney* »

The new laws were received by the county clerk last Saturday and all the counties of the state having received their allotment, the laws are now in force. Ellis & Murray will shortly dissolve partnership and one of the members of the firm will remove from Rensselaer. They will begin a dissolution sale next Monday: Prof. Mockel and Dave Jakes have joined a circus as members of the band. It is said that Dave will shortly return to Rensselaer, however, as he cannot stand the work. George R. Keever, of near Parr, and Miss Lydia Webb, of Rensselaer, were married at the residence of Jasper Kenton, in Rensselaer, last Thursday, Rev. Ed Meads officiating. Leave your order with C. Hansen for a new wagon or buggy. It 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.

Mrs. J. No matter what causes facial eruptions, absolute cleanliness inside and out is the only way to cure them. Rocky Mountain Tea taken this month will drive them away. B. F. Fendig. • The Milroy Circle, Ladies of the G. A. R., were entertained by Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Sayler at their home three miles west of town, Saturday evening, on the occasion of their 31st wedding anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Goldsberry, and daugnter, and Chalmers Brown, of Monticello, stopped off in Rensselaer Saturday, to visit Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Coover. They were on their way to Oklahoma, their future home. Rev. Clarence D. Royse’, pastor of the M. E. Church, was called to Vermillion, 0., Tuesday, by the sudden death of his brother, who died at Columbus, Ohio. His death is supposed to have been accidental. Mr. W. J. Baxter of North Brook, N. C. says he suffered with piles for 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. 0. Starr has opened his ice cream and soda parlor for 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. E. F. Short is packing his goods preparatory to moving to Plymouth, where he is building a large feed barn. Plymouth, although quite a large place, has no hitch barn, and Mr. Short thinks he has found a good opening.

W. H. Coover has sold his grocery to John Eger, who will take possession next week. In the meantime Mr. Coover will reduce the stock by selling at opt prices. Mr. Coover is intending to move to Oklahoma in the near future. Charles McCully died at his home in Remington last Friday evening. McCully has figured considerably in the courts of Jasper county, and was once sent to the penitentiary for shooting with intent to kill his father-in-law in Remington. The order of “Buffalos” is now a back number. “The Camels” is the order which occupies the front of the stage and originated in White Pigeon. The main thing to accomplish in the latter order is to go nine days without drinking, and it makes the applicant hump to do it.

The Wheatfield Telephone man was sick week before last and issued no paper. Last week, however, the paper appeared as usual—not as usual, exactly, either—as the sheet was as clean as a Sunday school paper. Can it be possible that Bro. Robertson’s sickness is responsible for the change. The Ladies’ Aid Society of the M. E. Church gave a dollar social at the church Tuesday evening. Each member of the society was expected to earn a dollar and to tell how she did it. Forty-nine dollars was the result of their labor, and over |4 was taken in at the door. The money will be turned into the building fund of the new M. E. parsonage. Judge De Hart, of Lafayette, has decided that a woman granted a divorce cannot have her maiden name restored by the same proceedings, but must institute separate proceedings. The - practice of courts throughout the country in declaring the maiden name of the plaintiff restored in the decree granting the divorce is, according to Judge DeHart, illegal. The directors of the Battle Ground Campmeeting Association held a meeting last week to make arrangements for this year’s meeting which will open July 25, and close August 5. The association has decided to dispense with the services of an evangelist who makes such work a specialty and Rev. D. Tillotson, aformer Cfrown Point pastor will have charge of the evangelistic work. The music for the meeting will be furnished by a quartet of which Rev. Hovis of East Chicago is a member.