Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1901 — THINGS IN GENERAL! [ARTICLE]

THINGS IN GENERAL!

Daily Happenings Around the Prairie City. TIMELY TOPICS TERSELY TOLD! s News Items Caught on th?e Run and Served While Warm Without Trimmings or Embellishment. Local and Personal Notes. Job work at Journal office. For fine job work call at the JOURNAL office. Charles Parker spent Sunday at Frankfort. Trustee Comer, of Union township, is on the sick list. Joseph Nagle visited at Plymouth the first of the week. Mrs. M. E. Monnet, of Evanston, is visiting relatives here. For first class blacksmithing call on C. Hansen, on Front street. J. P. Overton and son Randle spent Sunday at Chicago Heights. Small pox in a mild form has made its appearance in Lafayette. Ray Thompson made a business trip to Indianapolis Monday, Mrs. T B. Skinner has returned to her home at Battle Creek, Mich. John and James Ellis are visiting their grandparents in White county. The 12 year old daughter of C. Hansen has been sick with the tonsillitis.** Miller Kent, of Brookston, was the guest of Rev. A. G. Work over Sunday. L. A. Bostwick, of South Bend, spent Sunday with Mrs. Bostwick here. M. A. Churchill and family left on Tuesday for their future home in Minnesota

Miss Nell Smith, former stenographer for Ferguson & Wilson, is now in Europe. Dick Hartman and Emery Mills have gone to Terre Haute to work on a telephone line. Congressman Crumpacker has been invited to deliver the Fourth of July oration at Morocco. 1 Miss Needham, teacher in the public schools, will spend the vacation at her home in Dublin. Miss Rose Platt has returned to Danville, 111., where she is employed in a dressmaking establishment. Rush & Warren have secured the contract to build Dr. Berkley’s new house on McCoy AvenueMrs. ( >oige N. Dunn, of Wichita, Kans., is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Granville Moody. D. L. Halstead is at Lafayette watch ing experiments at the Purdue agricultural experiment station. Dr. Horton is attending a .dental meeting at Indianapolis, composed of members from Ohio, Michigan and Indiana. The Indianapolis Sentinel will begin publishing an evening paper as soon as the necessary equipment can be installed. Moses Leopold and Miss Spaulding, the Western Union opefator, have each purchased new Smith Premier type writers. John Ramey, who has been laid up with inflammatory rheumatism for the past five months, is able to be out on crutches. The Monon strawberry special made its first trip to Chicago Tuesday morning. They start from New Albany and average 5§ miles an hour. It is reported here that H. C. Goldsberry who recently moved his family to Augusta, Ok I a , has since moved them to lowa —Wolcott Enterprise.

Owing to the sickness of A. K. Yeoman, one of the jurors, the HalliganTanner cattle case has been postponed until the September term of court. Mrs. P. W. Clarke has taken her sister’s, the late Mrs. Veach, baby to Keithsburg, lowa, where It will be given a home with Mr. Veacb’s sister. Mrs. Mary E. Spitler and daughter Maude have returned from a visit at Goshen. They brought home Miss Mildred Spitler, who has been attending school there. The Wheatfleld Telephone last week was surely a daisy. Not a single line of news appeared in the whole paper .which was filled almost entirely with advertising. J. Edgar Windsor, of South Bend, the husting state agent of the Smith Premer typwriter company, was in the city Friday and eloped up the sale of two machines. A late discovery is that ice cream is good for a delicate stomach. This is the first time in the history of remedies that anything pleasant was ever found to be good for anything.

Don’t get side-tracked in business. Dullness sometimes passes for death. Men with brains reach the goal. Rocky Mountain tea puts gray matter in to one’s head. B. F. Fendig.^ The hearing of the case of Milton Bushong has been postponed until his wife is able to appear in court. An effort -will probably be made to send him to an insane asylum. Jennie—To have a round beautiful neck wiggle your head from side to side every night and take Rocky Mountain Tea. It’s a short cut to a graceful form. 35c. B. F. Fendig. Chester Zea, who has been working in a machine shop at Hammond, had .his left foot mashed by a heavy bar of iron falling on it. He will be unable to go to work again for some weeks. On account of small rent we will sell all goods at a reduction. It will be an advantage to call and see my goods and learn prices before purchasing. Mrs. Purcupile. The old corps of teachers, with the exception of Miss Lessie Bates, have been re-elected for the ensuing year. Miss Bates has decided to resume her studies at the State Normal at Terre Haute.

Imitators have been many. Thoughtful people have learned that true merit comes only with the genuine Rocky Mountain Tea tpade by Madison Medicine Co. 35c. B. F. Fendig. Misses Edna Thompson and Ole** Robinson are at Lake Man'-knckee attending the Culver Military Academy eommenpoiflent, the guest of the latter’ o cousin, Auburn Nowels, who is a student there. Mrs. J. F. Irwin was called to Remington Saturday by the sickness of her mother. Mrs. S. Ravenscrofl. The old lady is in her 87th year, and h« r sickness is caused by a cut in the wrist with a case knife. Danger disease and death follow neglect of the bowels. Use DeWitt’s Little Early Risers to regulate them and you will add years to your life and life to your years. Easy to take, never gripe. A. F. Long. The city council held a special ses sion Monday to grant a city saloon license to Conrad Kellner, made neces sary by the death of Robert Goodrich. City license was also granted to August Rosenbaum at the same session. - Bill N. Jones is happy, made so by the receipt of the news of the birth of * a son to his daughter, Mrs. Sallie Barklow, in Nebraska. He now offers to out run, out bowl or out wrestle any man in Jasper county, even if he is a granddad. The clapper of the school house bell, which disappeared some weeks ago, unexpectedly made its appearance at the end of a rope from the opera hoose flies during commencement exercises. It hung in its place over the heads of the graduates during the exercises.