Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1901 — THINGS IN GENERAL! [ARTICLE]

THINGS IN GENERAL!

Daily Happenings Around the prairie City. TIMELY TOPICS TERSELY TOLD! News Items Caught on the Pun and Served While Warm Without Trimmings or Embellishment. Local and Personal Notes Excursion to Michigan City Sunday. Miss Bessie Murray is visiting in Monon. J. H. S. Ellis and son James are in Cincinnati. Wade Laßue is visiting relatives at Milford, 111. Mrs. J. E. Flynn is visiting her daughter at Lowell. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kurcie are visiting in Paoli. B. F. Ferguson was in lowa on business this week. The brick for the new stone streets is being unloaded. Mrs. L. Strong is visiting her daughter at Ambia. Miss Ethel Sprigg is visiting relatives in Qlencoe, 111. Wallace’s bill car No.3arrived here Monday evening. Mrs. Peter Giver and baby are visiting in Greencastle. Jay Sayler will enter a dental school in Chicago in October. Dan Day returned from a visit at Danville, 111., Monday. The Merchants’ Cigar factory now has cigars on the market. Miss Hattie Lear, of Monticello, is the guest of Miss Lola Clift. The date of the Lafayette fair will be the week of September 3rd. Miss Addie Hawn, of Remington, is the guest of Mrs. S. O. Johnson. Mrs. W. N. McGinn and son have joined her husband in Chicago. The ground has been broken for the new Monon depot at Lafayette. Judge Thompson and family returned from Michigan Monday. Miss Edith Quantic, of Chicago, is the guest of Mrs. Floyd Robinson. Misses Mary and Miriam Hyland, of Chicago, are visiting friends here. Roy Blue has been engaged as principal of the Wheatfield schools. Senior Hopkins has gone to Conover, Mich., to spend a few weeks. Jacob Cdbal, of Crawfordsville, is the guest of his cousin, Ross Dean. For a first class job of horseshoeing call on C. Hansen, the blacksmith. Charles Tyler, of Lafountaine, is the guest of his brother, Grant Tyler. J. R. Vanattais still confined to his home with inflammatory rheumatism. Mrs. W. H. Ooover has gone to Bay View, Mich., to escape the hay fever. George W. Peterson is now an inmate of the National Military Home. All kinds of wagon and buggy repairing done at O Hansen’s wagon shop. Mrs. W. H. Beam and Mrs. A. S Laßue attended a funeral at Reynolds Monday. Miss Birdie Griffith, of Crawfordsville, is the guest of Mr. antT Mrs. W. A. Huff. Miss Edith Bushnell, of Monticello, was the guest of Mrs. Harry Wemple Sunday. Miss Eliza Thomas, of Monon, is the guest of her mother, Mrs. Mary Thomas. •a Miss Emma Houser, of Harvey, 111., has been the guest of Miss Ethel Ferguson. The Monon officials have promised Medaryville a new depot to be built next year. Mrs. J. W. Cowden and daughter and Mrs. Jake Clouse are visiting at Chauncy, 111. For Sale—Secondhand sprinkling wagon. Address A. Wood worth, Rensselaer, Ind. George Gorham was called to Lafayette Eriday by the serious sickness of his mother. Misses Clara Hemphill and Rosa Carr returned from a visit at Chicago Heights Tuesday. Monroe Allman has moved to Michigan City, where he has a position in the car shops. Azariah Warren, of Manchester, Tenn., is visiting his brother, George Warren, at Parr.

A. W. Cole and family, of Lafayette, spent Sunday in Rensselaer. The Odd Fellows will give a big picnic at Water/ Valley on Thursday of next week. Misses Kathryn and Florence Marshall are visiting relatives at Joliet and Marley, 111. Mrs. Benjamin Oglesby and two children are the guests of her mother, Mrs. Cyrus Haas. Advance sale fall opening- to begin Aug. 27th at the Chicago Bargain Store. Wanted—Two gentlemen boarders in private family. Inquire at the Journal office. Mrs. Wm. Norris has been granted a widow’s pension of |8 per month, with back pay of |ll>o. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Loveland, of Evanston, have been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Ross. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Gaul, of Evanston, 111., are the guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Dlxey. Mrs. Albert Coen and son, of Chicago, are the guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wasson. John Boheik, of Rose Lawn, implicated in the fight there last week, has been released from jail. R. C. Spondan and family, of Danville, 111., are visiting Marsh Warren and family, north of town. Miss Joeva Green has returned from Valparaiso, where she has been attending the summer normal. Frank Eck and Wm. Coffman, of Goodland, have been placed in Jail here to serve out fines for being drunk. The Odd Fellows’ lodges of Jasper, Newton and White counties will hold a picnic at. Fountain Park September 20 th. NJ.akemself ditch, which had become very filthy, was flushed with city water Friday, cleaning it out in good shape. A new K. ofP. lodge will be instituted at Morocco September 3rd. The Rensselaer lodge will perform the work. J. F. Osborne, of Michigan City, Is visiting relatives here. He will shortly move from Michigan City to Newcastle.

Three members of the Remington band assisted at the band concert last Thursday evening. The attendance was large. ’riie Monon ran the largest excursion to Chicago Sunday of the season. It started at Greencastle and ran in two sections. B. M. Donnelly was forced to close his photograph gallery last week on account of sickness, but is now ready for business again. The Lafayette Carnival this year will be in charge of the Lafayette Elks. The date of the carnival la from September 23 to 28. Miss Lillian Nowels has resigned her position in the public schools to accept a position in the Helena, Montano, public schools. Home grown •watermelons have made their appearance. They are not as large this year an formerly, owing to the dry weather/ The long dry spell was broken Saturday and Sunday by extensive rainfall. It comes too late, howeyer, to be of any great benefit. The infant son of John Clager, of Barkley township, died Sunday of cholera infantum. The burial took place at the Catholic cemetery.

We can gown the town with new fall dress goods. Opening August 27th. „See the bargains at the Chicago Bargain Store. The Nowels House has been leased by A. V. Eaton, landlord of the Bramble House, of Lafayette. He will take possession September Ist. Special Sale. A complete new stock of blankets, not one carriedover. Openingday, August 27th, at the Chicago Department Store. While on his eastern trip C. P. Wright was presented with a four caret diamond stud. It is the largest and finest stone ever owned in Rensselaer. Ernest Middleton reported for duty to the army officers at Fort Sheridan last week. He hopes to secure his discharge from the army in a short time. Orders have been issued from Pennsylvania railroad heallqparters to stop the custom of issuing passes to the company’s employes. The management takes the ground that free passes are in the nature of extra compensation, and therefore contrary to business principles.