Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 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. Eva Clark is visiting her sister, Mrs. Robert Johnson at Bloomington. Charles Mann visited in Indianapolis, Sheridan and Cicero last week. Kenneth Morgan is now night clerk in a new hotel at Delphi. O. B. Harrold was down from Hammond to spend Bunday. Mrs. W. H. Sanders and children are visiting her parents at Hadley. Mrs. George Mitchell is visiting near Bedford. Miss Alice Wartena is visiting her brothers at Hammond. Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Hopkins have returned to their home at Chicago. Edward Vogel, of Chicago, is the guest of H. M. Grant and family. Strawberries are plentiful and cheap. John McColly and family are visiting in Chicago Heights. Frank Hunt, of Knox, spent Sunday with his brothers in Rensselaer. J. W. Cowden was at Logansport on business Monday. Albert Overton is visiting his sister at Chicago Heights. Mayor Eger and wife are visiting her parents at Kendallville. Miss Doris Porter is visiting relatives at Indianapolis. Mrs. W. W. Reeve is sick with rheumatism. Misses Jennie and Lizzie Ohlloote are visiting at Dyer. Joe Sharp and Benhart Fendig spent Sunday at St. Joe., Mich., fish ing. Rev. A. L. Ward tilled the pulpit of the Christian church at Paris, 111. Sunday. Mrs. Stella Downey, of Wilsonville, Neb., is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Harris. \ B. D.domer, who has been confined to his home with sickness, is able to be out again. Miss Luella McCoy attended the Miller-Bixler wedding at Lafayette yesterday. Mrs. LovAnda Huff and grandchildren, Etnel and Emil Huff, are visiting at Crawfordsville. Miss Georgia Dickenson, ofChioago, is the guest of bar father, G. R. Dickenson. south of town. Jake Wildberg, after a two months, tripi in Colorado and New Mexico, arrived home Friday. re. J. B. Sayler has returned from Winamac, where she was called by the sickness of her mother. / “Snowball,” the colored Jockey, after an absence of several years, drifted into Rensselaer Sunday. Fred Donnelly, who is working in Chicago, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Donnelly. Park Kelley arrived here from Rockford, 111., Sunday, and will make his home with hie mother here.

Mlbh Lillian Nowels has returned from Chicago, where she has been attending the Chicago Institute. Albert Marshall has returned home from the Wisconsin University at Madison, Wls., for the summer. A. K. Yeoman has returned from Hunters’ springs, where he went to have his rheumatism treated. Misses Elsie and Jeannette Nelson, of Springfield, 0., are the guests of their uncle, E. D. Rhoades and family. Mr. and Mrs. James H. Rice, of Morocco, were the guests of T. F. Clark and family at the poor farm last week. Miss Belle Chamberlain has resigned her position in Chicago and is again assisting the tax ferrets at the court house. E. P- Honan was re-elected high chief ranger of the Catholic Order of Foresters at the state meeting at Elwood last week. B. F. Ferguson and 8. A. Dowell left for Blockton, lowa, Tuesday, on a land prospecting trip. Mr. Dowell expects to Invest in real estate If he finds everything satisfactory.

The Bluest Blue makes the whitest white, thats Red Cross Ball Blue. Refuse imitations. . Mrs. L. W. Wills and daughter, Miss Ivah, of Brookston, were the guests of Mrs. Julia Healey and daughter Maude Suuday. Mr. and Mrs. G. 0. Pumphrey entertained the Rathbone Sisters and their families at their residence Saturday evening. , Mrs. W.H. Townsend, of Goodland, Mrs. A. lieabe, of Manchester, 0., and S. S. Dryden, of Peru, are the guests of Mrs. O. W. Rhoades. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Clark, Mr. and Mrs. H. Clark and Mrs. Mary Porter were the guests of T. W. Grant and family at Rose Lawn Sunday. The large hotel at the mineral springs at West Baden, was destroyed by Are Friday night. The guests escaped in their night clothes. Mrs. H. L. Brown, Mrs. Albert Overton and Miss Vivian Baker attended the district Y. P. 8. O. E. meeting at Winamac last week. The Tharp Bros, have sold the Monticello electric light plant for |12,600. The boys will remain with the plant as employees for a time at least. W. R. Wilson and family/ of Mechanicsburg, Pa., and his mother, Mrs. Esther Wilson, of Harrisburg, Pa., are the guests of Wm. Bull and family. Joseph Bennett, Owen Smith, Alfred Randle, Ira Lang and Will Hefferllne, of this county, have gone to Topeka, Kans., to work in the harvest fields. W. R. Lee, of Hanging Grove township, has traded his farm tor a stock of hardware at Harvey, 111. The stock will be removed to McOoysburg to be disposed of.

The Journal acknowledges receipt of the catalogue of St. Joseph's college. It is a handsome piece of printer’s art and contains much information in regard to the school. Rev. D. A. Tucker, of Ridgeville, has been appointed by the department commander a member of the G. A. R. committee on military instruction and patriotic exercises in public schools. The laborers employed on the atone crushing plant at Monon are on a strike and their places have been filled by Louisville negroes. They bad been working 10J hours a day and struck for 10. Lost—Between Rensselaer and the Slaughter school house, last Sunday, a pair of spectacles in leather case, bearing the name of D. Budge, Auburn, Ind. Finder please return to Journal office. 8. B. Jenkins, who moved to Monon a few weeks ago to take a position as engineer at the stone crushing plant, has moved back to Rensselaer. He found the work too hard and the hours too long to his liking. John Oollins, who has been traveling in Michigan for a shoe house, has come home to remain until he recovers from a severe case of rheu matism. For the past three weeks ho has been in a hospital at Allerton, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Nowels and so n Auburn departed for their home at Lamar, Col., Tuesday. They were accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Sayler and Mies Fannie Porter, daughter of Walter Porter, who will visit at various points in that state. W. A. Huff has sold his residence property on Weeton street to A. B. Cowgill for |I6OO. Mr. Huff is intending to locate elsewhere some time in the future if he can And a suitable location. He will move into A. Leopold’s new tenant bouse on Front street for the present. Mr. add Mrs. J. F. Major and eon Wilfred of Rensselaer were guests of Mrs. Isa Morris Thursday afternoon. He reports that his father Hon. Geo. Major of Mulberry, Ind., as sufficiently Improved from his sickness to be able to be up and ab?ut the house bnt still In a very weakened condition.— Remington Press. Mrs. Anna Clark, wife of Robert Clark, of near Parr, was burled at the Catholic cemetery, near Rensselaer, Monday. Her death, which was caused by consumption, took place Saturday at noon. She leaves a husband, but no children. The funeral services were held at the Catholic church, in Rensselaer. Jhe tenth annual convention of the Rensselaer District Christian Endeavor socesty, will be held in Kentland, on Wednesday and Thursday, June 26th and 27th. The services will be held In the First Presbyterian church, and one of the state officers of the order will be In attendance daring the convention.

Mrs. Frank Paul, of Paoli, is the guest of her brother, Harry B. Kurrie. Mrs. F. W. Lester, of Alliance, Neb., is the guest of her uncle, John Makeever. Ground was broken on ' South Cullen street for the new improvement Tuesday. a T. W. Haus will move his rests urant into the Odd Fellows’ building June 26th. Robert Hopkins, formerly of Surrey, but now of Klamath Falls, Oregon, was married at that place to Miss Edith Huse. M. P. Warner, the ice and implement man, will erect a nine room residence on hie 20 acre tract east of town this summer. Mrs. Elizabeth Hardy, of Remington. and Mrs. Susan Guss, of Washington, D. 0., are the guests of Sheriff Hardy and family. Mrs. F. W. Tobias has returned to her home at Lake Forest, 111., after several weeks’ visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Dlxey. Burgess Dillon had a thumb and two fingers cut and crushed by the falling of a derrick which he was manipulating at the new mill Tuesday.

The Journal is in receipt of a long letter from Oklahoma, which was put in type but crowded out of this issue for lack of room. It will appear next week. Miss Maude Kepner, daughter of John Kepner, now of Sheldon, 111., will be married July 10th to Tom Manley, the young iron worker formerly employed on the construction of the court house. Roy H. Bunch, of Joliet, 111., and Miss Bertha L. Shinkle, of Rose Lawn, were married in Rensselaer Tuesday by Rev. A. G. Work at his residence. The groom is a brakeman on the Joliet, Elgin and Eastern railroad. Mrs. George Pumphrey surprised her husband Tueday evening, it being his 68th birthday. Albert Gntheridge Poet and the W. R. 0., to the number of 60, were the guests. B. Peacock, in behalf of the Post, preooatod hiss with a fine umbrella and ho wants it understood it is not to land. The usual good time was had and the decorations were pink and white. The menn consisted of strawberries, ice cream and cake, which was tarnished by the hostess. The annual appropriation for farmer’s institutes was increased by the last legislature. This will give fends sufficient for the holding ot about fifty additional institutes the coming year. These will be distributed among towns near the boundary lines of counties remote from points where the annual meetings were heretofore held. This will give Remington or Wheatfield an excellent chance for one of these institutes. Application for this county should be made to B. D. Comer, of Union towhrihjp, the , county chairman. His addfoss 'ls Rensselaer. If his recommendation is acted upon favorably by the general committee speakers will bo assigned and the expenses of the institute will be paid by the state. Jt. Lewis, who has long been engaged in the manufacture of cigars at Rensselaer, will bring his foctory to this city and locate it in the rooms over L. W. Schaefer’s grocery, comer of Fifth and Columbia streets. Ho expects to employ twenty men and bring ten men with him from Rensselaer. The others will be employed in this city. The factory will have a capacity of 6,000 or 6,000 cigars dally. Mr. Lewis comes to LaFayette because of the superior railway facilities and because he can more easily cover a big territory. He has the reputation of being a successful business man and comes highly endorsed. Ho was here yesterday and is completing arrangements for the removal.— Lafayette Courier.