Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1901 — THINGS IN GENERAL! [ARTICLE]

THINGS IN GENERAL!

Dally 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 Hominy meal is the feed. Mrs. Ora Bushong is again seriously sick. For fine job work call at the JOURNAL office. Delos Ooen has returned from a visit in lowa. E. M. Parcells is sick with liver complaint. Miss Lillian Sayler is visiting in Medaryville. Robert Newell, of Qoshen, is the guest of Taylor McOoy. Mrs. B. M. Donnelly and son are visiting in Monticello, W. H. Ooover and son Clyde spent Sunday at Logansport. Mrs. J. A. Overton has joined her husband at St. Joe, Mich. J. C. Porter ha* gone to Winona Lake for a short sojourn. J. E. Spider secured the bill board contract for the Wallace show. Miss Elizabeth Ewry, of Lafayette, is the. guest of Mlbs Luella McOoy. Rev. A. G. Work has gone to Oxford, Ohio, for a short vacation. Mrs. I. J. Porter and Mrs. Stella Downey are visiting at Rossville. Noble J. York and son, of Monnn, attended the show here Monday. For a first class job of horseshoeing call on O. Hansen, the blacksmith. Mrs. Dr. Milligan and son, of Garnett, Kans., are visitfng in this vicinity.

Miss Mamie Morrison, of Wbeacon, 111., is the guest of Mrs. S. 0. Robinson. All the popular drinks at Haps’ new restaurant in the Odd Fellows’ building. The summer normal opened Monday. The attendance is about twenty live. The Wallace show will exhibit at Montioello and Qoodlaod after leaving here. The Jasper County Telephone Go. publishes their new directory in this issue. Miss Katie Shields is home from Montioello to attend the summer normal. Red Gross Ball Blue is the Best in the world. Large 2oz. package costs 6 cents. , Mrs. O. J. Brown, of Onargo, 111., is the guest of her sister, Mrs. T. J. Sayler. All kinds of wagon and buggy repairing done at O. Hansen’s wagon shop. Harry Townsend, of Lebanon, Ky., is the guest of his sister, Mrs. O. W. Rhoades. Gall at Hans’ restaurant in Odd Fellows’ building for a square meal or loach. Isaac Wildberg, of Peoria, 111., was the guest of his brother. L. Wildberg, last Friday. A. O. Lester, of Nemeha, Neb., was the guest ol Felix French the first of the week. John F. Johnson, the Login sport bank wrecker, has been pardoned by President McKinley. * If you wish to have beautifiil, clear white clothes, ask for Red Gross Ball Blue. Refuse imitations. John Gray, who went to Rocky Ford, Col., with J. L. Turner, has returned to Jasper oounty.

Mrs. B. F. Ferguson and daughter Ethel are visiting the family of John Sayler, near Monticello. Six more days of the great clearance sale, to Aug. Ist. Chicago Bargain Store. Mrs. Gladys Henderson, of Georgetown, S. 0., is the guest of her uncle, G. W. Goff and family. Mrs. W. Cornell and daughter, of Grand Rapids, Mich., is the guest of her sister, Mrs. W. H. Eger. Buy your fall supplies at the great clearance sale. Chicago Bargain Store. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Porter, of Delphi, spent Sunday with their parents here. The mothers’ mutual improvement society will meet at 2:30 P. M. Saturday afternoon at the court house. Charlie Murray, who went to Oklahoma to register in the free land distribution, has returned home. Warren Robinson has been appointed administrator of the estate of Lizzie W. Hitchcock, deceased. < Just received, a shipment of bran and shorts. Give us your order. The Rensselaer Fuel and Feed Co. If a dealer asks you to take something said to be“just as good as Rocky Mountain Tea made by the Madison Medicine C 0.,” ask him if he makes more money. B. F. Fendig.

The M. E. Church at Remington was struck I>V lightning one night last week. The damage wffa small. For bran, hominy meal, mixed feed, corn, oats, hay or straw, telephone 273. Rensselaer Fuel & Feed Co. The majority of the township trustees publish their notices of annual tax levies in the Journal this week. • Mrs. W. A. Jordan and daughter, Miss Bonnie, of Hammond, are visiting at the Makeever House. Miss Georgia Dickenson has returned to Chicago after an extended visit with her parents near, Remington. Misses Helen McFarland, of Camden, and Lorene Vanatta, of Fowler, are the guests of Misses Mabel and Ida Randle. J. M. Gwin has returned from a Visit at Hersher. 111. His granddaughter, Miss Ethel Sayers, accompained him home. Judge Thompson and family and Mrs. Alfred Thompson have gone to Maoinac Island, Mich., to remain until September. Lots in Leopold’s addition are now on sale at reduced- prices and on easy terms. For particulars inquire of Moses Leopold. Mrs. Elhaer Wilcox, who has been seriously sick, has gone to Perry ville, where it is hoped she will speedily recover her health. Lee Mauck, living northwest of town, cut his knee with a chisel last week. The accident will lay him up for some weeks. Local melon raisers report that there will be a good crop this year and that the melons will soon be ripe enough to market. A. Halleek and J. F. Bruner attended the state convention of the independent telephone companies at Lafayette, this week. O O. Buck, Beirne, Ark., says: I was troubled with constipation until I bought DeWitt’s Little Early Risers. Since then have been entirely cured of my old complaint. I recommend them. A. F. Long.

Mrs. B. K. Zimmerman and daughter and Miss Cora Zimmerman returned Saturday from a visit at Dayton and Springfield, O. R9V. and Mrs. A. L. Ward have gone to Arcadia and before re turning home will attend the Pan American Exposition at Buffalo. Hominy meal is the heart of the corn, cooked and steam dried, and is a very rich food. Sold by the Rensselaer Fuel & Feed Co. Feed your hogs ‘‘hominy meal.” ft will put on more pounds of flesh at less cost than any feed known. Sold by the Rensselaer Fuel & Feed Go. J. F. Osborne has received a position with the Taylor Lumber Go. at Lafayette and will shortly move his family there from Michigan City. Dora Baughman, of Ada, Ohio, one of the heirs of the late D. J. Thompson, came yesterday to be present at the settlement of the estates. Wallace’s advance agent reached here Saturday and made all necessary arrangements for their exhibition which will be given here August 27th. Jackson township, Newton county, in which Mt. Ayr is located, has Voted an appropriation in aid of the new railroad. The vote carried by a majority of 64. Helps young ladies to withstand the shock of sudden proposals, that’s what Rocky Mountain Tea has mine. 36c, Made by Madison Medicine Go. B. F. Fendig. - Geo. F. Meyers has negotiated the sale of the old Abe Miller farm of 90 acres, north of Wheatfleld, to F. Guy Bernard, of Benton county, at $35 per acre. The beauty thief has come to stay, Unless you drive, the pimples and blackheads away; Do this; don’t look like a fright; Take Rocky Mountain Tea to-night. George Spitler left for Chicago Tuesday to take a position with the Wallace circus »s bill poster with oar No. I. The car will strike Rensselaer the latter part of next week.

The firm of Ellis & Murray dissolved partnership yesterday. Mr. EJllls retires and Mr. Murray will continue the business. Mr. Ellis has not yet decided upon ’ his future course. Mrs. F. B. Learning and sons Marion and Harry, Misses Ruby and Ellis Abbet, Lillian Sparklin, Helen Hawks and Grace Crowell, of Goshen, are the guests of Mrs. M. L. Spitler and daughter Maud and G. G. Spitler and family:

Grant Antrim, who was arrested last week on the oharge of trespass, was fined $6 and costs, S7O in all, by Squire Burnham. Antrim refused to pay and was sent to jail for 76 days. .Henry Zoll, of Hammond, was here last Friday and disinterred the remains of his three children in Weston cemetery, and removed them to the side of who was recently buried in the new part of the cemetery.

The long looked for rain came Sunday. It waa worth thousands of dotlars to the farmers of Jasper county. The rain seemed to be pretty general throughout the country. E. L. (Mark has been spending the week with Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Johnson Bloomington. His daughter, Miss Eva, who has been visiting there for some weeks, will accompany him home.