Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1901 — LOCAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL NEWS.

* Diphtheria is prevalent at Morocco. Mrs. Rachel Work ' is visiting in Judge Thompson Is holding court at Kentland. Mrs. A. H. Trnssel is visiting relatives at Forefet. * Miss Flora Harris is visiting her annt at Kalamazoo Mich. 'Fob Sale —Good milch cow. Inquire of E. L. Clark. Miss Grace Nowels is visiting relatives at Monticello. Lon Leopold,of Wolcott, spent San day with hiaparents here. Miss Mable Sayler, of Monticello,has been visiting relatives here. . Miss Anna McMunn of Ohicago is the guest of Miss Dora English. The band concert was cat short last Friday evening by the rain. Lewellen Bros., the harness makers, have moved to Terre Haute. Mrs. Ray Wood is visiting relatives ✓ at Battle Ground and Lafayette. Spinney Bros, store at Goodland was destrbyed by fire Friday night. Prof. Thomas Large, of Champaign, 111., spent Sunday with his wife here. Miss Mary Beck, of Sedalia, Mo., is visiting her mother, Mrs. Wm. Beck. Leo Wolfe, of Hammond, was the guest of Miss Sadie Leopold Sunday. E. G. Parrish, of Jonesville, Wis., is now assistant to Agent Beam at the depot. Glenn Grant, who is clerking in a store at Goshen, is home for a short, visit. All kinds of wagon and buggy repairing done at G. Hansen's wagon shop. Ed Mills and Merle Gwin, of Purdue University, came home for commencement, W. H. Ooover leftpn Tuesday for a prospecting trip and Kansas. x Mrs. Charles Jouvenat, of Chicago, is the guest of her father, Uncle Ellis Walton. John Bissel has returned to his home at Arbor Vitae, Wis., to spend the vacation. Miss Mary McGahan, of Taylorv lie, 111., is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Lamson, Miss Lillie Nowels will succeed Miss Lessie Bates as teacher in the public schools.

Mrs. J. W. Paxton and daughter, of Lamar, Col., are visiting Rensselaer relatives. - Blue makes the whitest white, thats Red Cross Ball Blue. Re fuse imitations. The mothers’ meeting will be held in the east court room next Saturday at 2:30 P. M. Mrs. Simon Fendig and son, of Wheatfield, are the guests of Mrs. Mary Fendig and family. It is stated that the I. I. I. road will build an extension from Chicago to Toledo or Detroit. Miss Emma Sebold, of Sedalia, Mo., is the guest of her two brothers at SL Joseph’s college. The salary of the post master at has been reduced from ✓ SI4OO to fI3OO per year. Red Cross Ball Blue makes clothes whiter than snow. Large 2 ’ounce package only s'cents. Miss Ruie Oouner, teacher in public schools, has gone to Ann Arbor, Mich., to spend the vacation. South bound train No. 3, formerly due here at 11:06 P. M., has been changed to 11:25, or 20 rainutet later. j? Miss Irma Crosscup has gone to LaPorte to take preparatory steps in a sanitarium to become a trained nurse. At Fort Wayne the asphalt contrac tors underbid the brick controctors on a proposed street improvement. Mrs. Agnes Kelley will again take up her residence in Rensselaer as soon as she can secure her property. Frank Sayler has returned home from Monon. He had been working on the stone crushing plant over there. Children’s Day will be observed at the Presbyterian church next Sunday morning. A literary program will be carried out. A marriage license was issued Tuesday to Fred Arthur Hicks apd Hattie Bell Yeoman, daughter of Ira W. Yeoman, of Remington. Ransford & Frank, of Harvey, I 1., have rented the former Daylight Clothing Store room, and will open a 10,16 and 25 cent store therein. T. W. Haus has rented the vacant room in the Odd Fellows’ building and will occupy the same after extensive remodeling is completed. Mrs. Wm. Henson, of Milroy township, was brought to town last Thursday to have a broken .arm set. The aocident was caused by falling down. Remember that when the Rensselaer Decorating Co. does your work that mechanics will do the job and ' not “kids'’ or inexperienced men.

fix-township Trustee fcappbft, of Kankakee township, Jett .on Tuesday* fora-prospecting;ttfl>jn Oklahoma, where he expects to locate in this fell. We sell paiftt* and wall paper of aU kinds, also all kinds of painters’ and paper hangers’ supplies. Rensselaer Decorating Co. The first home grown strawberries of the season made tbeir appearance Tuesday. They were brought in by Henry Shipman, the expert berry raiser. 9 Eczema, saltrbeum, tetter, chafing, ivy poisoning and all skin tortures are quickly cured by DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. The' certain pile cure. A. F. Long. A surgical operation is not necessary to cure piles. DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve saves all that expense and never fails. Beware of counterfeits. A. F. Long. The grand jury which has been investigating Dowie, the faith healer at Chicago, for responsibility in toe death of Mrs. Jndd, has failed to return an indictment. Leave your order with O. 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.’ 0 ’ Miss Juno Kannal* entertained the graduating class with a one o’clock luncheon Friday. H. E. Osborne, of Chicago, and Miss Lillian Buchter, of Indianapolis, were guests of honor. Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Nowels, of Lamar, Colo., are here for a two weeks’ visit. Their son Auburn, who has been attending Culver Military Academy, will accompany them home. Work of demolishing the old Odd Fellows’ building was commenced Tuesday. The contemplated moving of the building was abandoned on account of the difficulty and expense.

The St. Joseph College ball club played the Lowell club at the latteri place on Decoration day. The game was hotly contested and ended in a victory for the college. The score stood 2 to 3. Eugene Sayler, a former Rensselaer boy, who liaa.been superintendent of the electric light plant at Gilman, 111., has moved to Cullom, 111., where he will superintend the installation of a new plant. Rev. Henry Arlen, A. M., of Goshen, strict superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, was in the city Tuesday in the interest of the league. He will return Sunday after next and preach at both the Baptist and Christian, churches.

Mr. James Brown of Putsmouth, Va. over 90 years of age, suffered for years with a bad sos-e on his face. Physicians could not help him. DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve cured him permanently. A. F. Long. The bilious, tired, nervous man cannot successfully compete with his healthy rival. DeWitt’s Little Early Risers, the famous pills for constipation, will remove the cause of your troubles. A. F. Long. Rev. R. V. Hunter, D. D., of Indianapolis, has lately accepted the state superintendency of the Anti-Saloon League. He intends to push the work from now on and to introduce a number of new departments. Senator Beveridge is noyr in Germany studyng conditions in that country. At he was the recipient of special honors at tne hands of the emperor, who invited him to be one of the guests at the royal opera. 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. Mrs. Laura Lutz, of Hanging Grove township, had her shoulder dislocated last Friday morning. Near Pleasant ridge her horse ran away and she was thrown out of the buggy. The horse’s fright was caused by a wheel breaking and the tongue falling down. Congressman Crunvpacker has announced the list of his appointments of postmasters in the tenth district. They are H. A. Strohm at Kentland, M. A. M. A. Jones at Brook and A. D. Peck at Morocco, all being reappointments.

S.. C. Irwin, Ed Hopkins, Reuben Diekenson, R. B. Harris, A. B, Cowgill, Dr. Schmadel, George Babcock, Frank Randle, Parker Overton, e! G. Warren, Jesse Nichols and Wm. Parkinson, were at Lowell Friday night instructing the Odd Fellows lodge in third degree work.

F Andrew JJhdid, of Barkley township, has beett very low, and at time* his death has been looked for. At this writing there is some Improvement inhis condition. ’ The JotjßWALia in receipt of a bandsome commencement invitation and program of St. Joseph’s college. The commepqemeut will be held Tuesday evening, Jane 11th. On Monday evening the Columbian Literary Society will present the play, “Hermigild: or the Two Crowns”, at the College Auditorium. Smallpox has broken out m the hospital at Danville, 111. This is the hospital in which Miss Grace Jacks is a nurse, and her room mate, one of the npraes, is down with the disease. Fortunately Miss Jacks came home on a visit before the breaking out of the disease and is still here, but may be compelled to return this week. “The doctors told me my congh was incurable. One Minute Oough Cure made me a well man.” Norris Silver, North Stratford, N. H. —Because you’ve not found relief from a stubborn cough, don’t despair. One Minute'Cough Cure has cured thousands and it will cure you. Safe and sure. A. F. Long. Maggie Lohmen, a German girl employed as a domestic at the Halleck nursery at Pembroke was badly burned Monday morning. Her clotbps took fire from the stove Her screams brought assistance and the flames were extinguished but not before she was painfully burned.* The burns will not prove fatal.

When we first came to Rensselaer, a struggling business man, with hardly one cent to rub against another, we stamped our initials and the date on a copper cent and put it in circulation. Saturday we received some pennies in change at the post office, and on looking over them we found the penny that we had stamped was not among them.

The editor of the Middlebury Independent helped to defeat a banker’s son for town clerk by fighting him through his paper, and now the banker threatens to start the second paper in the town, which is hardly large enough to support one. The editor threatens, in a joking way, in case the other newspaper is started, to open a new bank in retaliation. “A few months ago, food which I ate for breakfast would not remain on my stomach for half an hour. I used one bottle of your Kodol Dyspepsia Cure and can now eat my breakfast aind other meals with relish and my food is thoroughly digested. Nothing equals Kodol Dyspepsia Cure for stomach troubles’, H. 8. Pitts, Arlington, Tex. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure digests what you eat. A. F. Long. The eounty institute has been changed from August 19r,h to Sept. 2. E. B. Bryan, of the state university j who had been secured to make the address has been appointed superintendent of the normal schools in the Philippines and will depart for there before the normal. Norman Triplett, Ph. D of Worcester, Mass., has been secured to take his place, but the change in date was necessary to secure him. Dyspeptics cannot be long lived because to live requires nourishment. Food is not nourishing until it is digested. A disordered stomach cannot digest food, it must have assistance. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure digests all kinds of food without aid from the stomach, allowing it to rest and regain its natural functions. Its ele raents are exactly the same as the natural digestive fluids and it simply can’t help but do you good. A. F. Long.

On last Friday evening the Juniors entertained the graduates at the home of Mayor Eger on Van Rensselaer street. Nearly 200 were present at the reception. Music was furnished by the Rensselaer Male Quartette, composed of Messrs. Brown, Barcus, Wishard and Warner, and by the Ladies’ Trio, composed of Mesdames Hollingsworth, English and Mitchell. Mrs. Pearl Wood apd Miss Bessie Moody furnished the instrumental music, while a graphaphone added much to the enjoyment of the evening. Refreshments were served, the ice cream being served in slices in the class colors of pink and green, on which were the figures ’Ol. Decoration Day was observed this year in Rensselaer about as usual, though with not as much demonstration as in some former years. In the morning the graves were decorated by the W. R. C. and the members of the new G. A R. post. In the afternoon Post No. 84 and the Ladies of the G A. R had charge. The procession, consisting of the Sunday school children, Knights of Pythias, Ladies of the G A. R., G. A. R. post No. 84, citizens in carriages and the Citizens Band marched to the cemetery wheie the program as previously published in the Journal, was carriedout. Cn the return from the cemetery, a banquet was given to the old soldiers by the Ladies of the G. A. R. at the court house, after which a camp fire was held.