Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1901 — THINGS IN GENERAL! [ARTICLE]

THINGS IN GENERAL!

Dally Happenings Around the prairie City. —— TIMELY TOPICS TERSELY TOLD! News Items Caught on the Uun and Served While Warm Without Trimmings or Embellishment. Local and Personal Notes Hugh Lowe, of Monon, has been dangerously sick. Misses Grace and Wilma Peyton are visiting at Monon. , Charlie Vick, of Harvard, 111., is visiting his parents here. Sadie Haas of Valparaiso, visited Clara Hemphill last week. Miss Kate Burk, of Wolcott, has been the guest of Miss Mary Meyers. Miss Orrie Clark is home from Lafayette for a few weeks, visit with her parents. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Amos Davisson, of Union township, last Saturday. The fight in the Maccabee lodge last week secured prominent mention in all the metropolitan papers. For Sale—A new Webster’s International dcitionary, indexed, revised edition. Inquire at the Journal office. A majority of the Goshen city council voted to invest $50(000 or more in a municipal hot water heating plant, Prof. W. H. Sanders and family arrived home Friday from their summer vacation spent at Middleton and Hadley.

Mrs. M. A. Hopkins attended the annual reunion of deaf mutes at the Institution for the Deaf, at Indianapolis, last week. Lots in Leopold’s addition are now on sale at reduced prices and on easy terips. For particulars inquire, of Moses Leopold. Mrs. R. W. Sprague, who has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Woodworth, has returned to her home at Montezuma. Helps young ladies to withstand the shock of sudden proposals, that’s what Rocky Mountain Tea has done. 36c. Made by Madison Medicine Co. B. F. Fendig. The Standard Oil Co. pays over $60,000 per year taxes in Lake county, or over SI,OOO per week, which goes a long way in paying the running expenses of the county. Leave your order with C. Hansen a new wagon or buggy. It will be manufactured to your order from’the beet material and at a reasonable price. All hand work. 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. If the action of your bowels is not easy and regular serious complications must be the final result. DeWitt’s Little Early Risers will remove this danger. Safe, pleasant and effective. A. F. Long. Rev. S. E. Sines and family left for a three weeks’ visit at Annapolis, his old home, Monday. While away he will attend conference. He expects to be sent to Benton county by the conference.

James White, Bryantsville, Ind., says DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve healed running sores on both legs. He had suffered 6 years. Doctors failed to help him. Get DeWitt’s. Accept no imitations. A. F. Long. Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Newels, Mr. and Mrs. David Mauck, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac . Stucker, Mrs. Simon Kenton and Mrs. Louisa Thornton, of Rensselaer and vicinity, attended the yearly meeting of the Primitive Baptist Association. The Monon is still dumping train loads of stone and dirt into the sink hole north of Cedar Lake. The track over the the hole is not now used and in one place it has dropped into the hole several feet. The immense amount of rock being dropped into the hole will eventually fill it up, unless it has no bottom, but the work is costing the Monoh thousands of dollars and it is doubtful if the benefit to the road will be anywhere near what the work will cost.

Ralph Jones is taking a vacation in Michigan. Mrs. Harry Kessenger spent Sunday at Medaryville. Miss Edna Dillon visited friends in Lafayette Over Sunday. U. M. Baughman has rented the Short property on Franklin street. Mrs. Mahala Robinson is the guest of her sister, Mrs. L. H. Hamilton. Mrs. Leota Jones is visiting her brother, John Tharp, in Remington. Rev. and Mrs. M. R. Paradis, of Hastings, Minn., are visiting friends here. The Coriway cases from Parr were continued from last Thursday until today.

Misses Miriam and Mary Hyland returned to their home in Chicago Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hammond returned to their home in Coats, Kan., yesterday, James Mead and Luther Wartena, of Hammond, spent Sunday with friends here. The revival at the Free Baptist church will.continue for 10’ days coin mencing Sept. Ist. Don’t fail to hear Rev. J. H. Bagwill at the Free Baptist church in revival services commencing Sunday night. The Tharp boys, of Monticello, are investigating the matter of establishing an electric light p)ant at Wolcott. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Harrold were down from Hammond Sunday to attend the funeral of Mrs. Harrold’s sister, Mrs. Dan Waymire. S. O. Duvall returned Friday from an extended trip in the west. He went to the coast, taking in many of the most noted sights of the west. C. H. Tyron, of Strawn, 111., was here the latter part of the week, to see to the leasing of his recently purchased farm, the McDonald farm, near Pleasant Ridge.

The marriage of Miss Luella McCoy to Dr. A. L. Berkley will occur on Wednesday, October 2, at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. McCoy on McCoy Ave. 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. A Sunday school superintendent asked us the other day for some literature to make things more lively. He said: “Our Sunday school needs bracing up. It is as dull as the devil.” But is the devil very dull? Eruptions, cuts, burns, scalds and sores of all kinds quickly healed by DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. Certain cure for piles. Beware of counterfeits. Be sure you get the orginal—' DeWitt’s. A. F. Long. E. L. Clark received notification that his number in the Oklahoma drawing was 34,916. As there were only 6500 claims to dispose of in the Lawton district, it will be seen that his chance of securing a claim is a slim one. Correspondents should bear in mind that contributions should reach us not later than Wednesday forenoon to insure publication. Last weekcorres pondents from two points reaclfeti us on Thursday, after the paper had been issued. In cases of cough or croup give the little one One Minute Cough Cure. Then rest easy and have no fear. The child will be all right in a little while. It never fails. Pleasant to take, always safe and almost instantaneous in effect. A. F. Long.

The annual County Teachers’ Institute is in session at the court house this week. The instructors are State Superintendent F L. Jones, and Dr. Norman Triplett, of Worcester, Mass. This afternoon Mr. Jones will deliver an address to this year’s common school graduates at the Presbyterian church.

A. Leopold has decided to sell the lots in his new Oklahoma addition. They will be sold at reduced prices and on easy terms. Now is the time to purchase before the completion of the new railroad, which will be built within two blocks of the addition. For particulars inquire of Moses Leopold. P. T. Thomas, Snmterville, Ala. j was suffering from dyspepsia when I commenced taking Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. I took several bottles and can digest anything.’' Kodol Dyspepsia Cure is the only preparation containing all the natural digestive fluids. It gives weak stomachs entire rest, restoring their natural condition. A. F. Long. Don t be satisfied with temporary relief from indigestion. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure permanently and completely removes this complaint. It relieves permanently because it alXpws the tired stomach perfect rest. Dieting won’t rest the stomach. Nature receives supplies from the food we eat. The sensible way to help the stomach is to use Kodol Dyspepsia Cure, which digests what you eat and can’t help but do you good A. F. Long.

Miss Mallde Irwin is visiting in LaPorte. Mrs. A. F. Long and children hie visiting in Lafayette. Curtis Randle is now engaged In business at Humbolt, Kans. A. Leopold returned from Mudlavia in time to attend the circus. Milton Makeever, of Stromsburg, Neb., is visiting relatives here. Mrs. Delila Meyers, of Reynolds, is the guest of Mrs. Marsh Warren. Mrs Isaac Reubelt and children, of Dana, are visiting relatives here. Mrs. Simon Fendig and child, of Wheatfield, are visiting relatives here. Mrs. V. E. Ball, of Brookston, is visiting the family of Geo. H. Healey. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, Thornton have returned from their eastern trip. Mrs. W. A. Jordan, of Hammond, is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. W. G. Slagle. Nirs. Jrmes Duvall and daughter, of Monon, are the guests of T. F. Clark and family. M. F. Chilcote and W. J. Imes are attending the Knight Templars conclave at Louisville. Iroquoise township, Newton county, has voted to construct twenty four miles of stone road. W. B. Austin has purchased a half section of land near Lee, in White county, for SIO,OOO. Misses Rosa Platt and Della Hollingsworth have returned to Danville, 111., after a short visit here. Another “sore arm” fake struck town Moiiday. Such frauds should be put at work on the stone pile. Rev. Monroe, of Franklin, will preach at the first Baptist church hex, Sunday, morning and evening.

Parties from Hammond were here yesterday looking for grounds on which to erect a merry-go-round. Horace Marble, of Wheatfield, has out this year 180 acres of onions, which he thinks will yield 300 bushels to the acre.. Ernest Zea, the blind cripple, has received his new wheel chair. With a few slight changes it will be of great benefit to him. Joseph Hammond and children, of Wheatfield, were here here Sunday to attend the funeral of his sister, Mrs. Daniel Waymire. A 6 year old son of Spencer Greenlee, east, of town, fell from a fence last Saturday and both bones of his left forearm were broken. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Oglesby and children, of Medaryville, returned home yesterday, after a visit with heimother, Mrs. Cyrus Haas. John Leahy, a former Rensselaer boy, is now in the U. S. Navy, a member of the crew of the “Yankee,” stationed off the Porto Rico coast. Miss Rhoda Jackson, who has been the guest of her brother, H. W. Jack son, north of town, returned to her home at Monticello, 111., Tuesday. The Renseelaer public schools will open the second Monday in September, which falls on the ninth, and not on the first Monday as many supposed. Rev. and Mrs. Frank Hobson, of Marshall, Mich., were the guests of Mrs. Hobson’s sisters, Mrs. John Jessen and Mrs. Alfred Hoover, Sunday. The Citizens’ Band will play at the Odd Fellows’ picnic at Water Valley today. For this reason the band concert has been postponed until Friday evening.

Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Bott, of Bloomington, were tne guests of friends here the latter part of the week. Harry is now employed in the Bloomington World office at a good salary. Dave C. Warren, of Beatrice, Neb., is visiting relatives in this vicinity. Dave left Rensselaer fourteen years ago and this is his first visit here since leaving. He is following his old business of harness maker.