Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1901 — THINGS IN GENERAL! [ARTICLE]

THINGS IN GENERAL!

Daily Happenings Around the prairie City. TXIHELY TOPICS TERSELY TOLD! News Items Caught on the Hun and Served While Warm Without Trimmings or Embellishment. Local and Personal Notes. Subscribe for the JOURNAL. J. W. Cowden visited in Ohio last week. Joe Reynolds, of Delphi, spent Sunday with his mother here. 'Earl Houseman, of Chicago, visited friends here the latter part of the week. McCoy & Porter are building an eight-room house on their farm near Fair Oaks. A foot ball team has been organized here, and some good games are promised this fall. For Sale. —A high grade bicycle; good as new; cheap; or will trade for good top buggy. H. L. Brown. For Sale—Anew Webster’s International dictionary, indexed, revised edition. Inquire at the Journal office. Wm. Carter left for Atlanta, Ga., last week, where he will enter a colored college to prepare himself for the ministry. • Mr. and Mrs. Delos Thompson have left for a three weeks’ visit in New York city and at the Pan American exposition. Hicks says a violent storm period is probable from ; the 26th to 30th. A touch of frost, snow and early winter during the close of the month. Services in respect to the memory of President McKinley, will be held at St. Augustine Catholic church this morning, at 10 o’clock, by the pastor. On account of poor health, Joseph Kight has resigned his position in his brother’s store at Fair Oaks, ard will not again engage in business until his health improves. ■ An English association regarding woman’s happiness has offered a reward of SSOO for a greater blessing to woman than Rocky Mountain Tea. Sensible move, B. F. Fendig. When in need of sale bills remember that the Journal can get you out a good bill bn short notice and at a reasonable price. A free notice of the sale will be given in the Journal • Mothers write us that they have solved the problem of keeping their children well. Give them Rocky Mountain Tea each week. A blessing to mother and child. B. F. Fendig.

Leave your order with C. 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. James Yeoman, five miles west of Rensselaer, who raised 30 bnshels of Canada wheat to the acre this year, will sell seed wheat at $2 per bushel and will guarantee the wheat not to fall down and will replace the seed 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. The Monon is able to show a net surplus of $652,000 for the fiscal year ended June 30. This is $30,000 less for the previous year, on account of the increased cost of supplies, fuel and labor. The full report of the company wiil not be made public until the directors meet in September. The year has- been the most satisfactory one in the history of the company. Obas Pullins, of Barkley township, sold a car load of 87 hogs in Chicago last Friday which brought him $1109.87. He sold them at $6.76 per hundred. Part of the stock was of his own raisiujf. Charlie is enthusiastic over Barkley township’s crops and' thinks the farmers of Jasper county are having their full share of prosperty this year, with nearly a full crop of corn at double prices.

Miss Gail Wasson is visiting in Evanston, 111. Mr. and Mrs. Holdridge Clark spent Sunday in Rose Lawn. Mrs. I. B. Washburn is visiting her daughters in Chicago. Harold Clark will return to school at Indianapolis today. Mrs. Mary J. Cole, of Lafayette, is the guest of her brother, F. W. Bedford. Taylor McCoy has re-entered the military academy at Orchard Lake, Michigan/ Mrs. E. E. Malone, of Monticello, has been the guest of her mother, Mrs. Shields. Mrs. B. F. Ferguson and daughter Eihel, are on a visit to Monticello and Logansport. Mesdames Chas. Sines and Elizabeth Morris, of Delphi, are visiting the family of I). 11. Yeoman. Lots in Leopold’s addition arc now on sale at reduced prices and on easy terms. For particulars inquire of Moses Leopold. Hon J. J. Moore, of Trafalgar, but a resident of this county some fifty years ago, was the guest of Joseph Yeoman last week. A. Lewis, the cigar manufacturer, was here Monday. He reports a very satisfactory business in his new cigar factory at Lafayette.

Mrs. C. W. Domback, of Des Moines, lowa, and Mrs. Clara Armstrong, of Oneida, 111., are the guests of Mrs. J. J. Montgomery. George K. Hollingsworth and family returned from Conoyer, Wis., Saturday, where they have been spending a portion of the hot season. The Odd Fellows of Jasper, Newton, Benton and White counties will hold a picnic at Fountain Park Assembly, Remington, on Thursday of next week. Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Nelson, the traveling photographers, are home for a short visit, after which they will go to the south to spend the winter at their traßfe. James Thompson, who recently fell and broke his leg in Oklahoma, has arrived home. Since returning here he has bad a bad attack of inflammation of the bowbls. Omar, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Beoughter, died Monday morning, the cause of death being brain fever. The funeral was held by Rev, A. L. Ward, Tuesday. t)on’t wait until you become chronically constipated but take DeWitt’s Little Early Risers now and then. They will keep your liver and boweb in good order. Easy to take. Safe pills. A. F. Long. E. E. Pierson and John Reed,,, of Union township, have just returned from a prospecting trip through the northwest. Mr. Reed took a claim near Minot, N. Dak., where he will probably engage in stock raising. A Rensselaer dealer starts his ad thus: “We have got everything in the school supply lino.” Such grammar may pass muster in Rensselaer, but if that man was in business in Boston even the cab men would boycott him. —Monticello Journal. It is announced that George H. Shidelar has resigned his position as warden of the northern Indiana penitentiary. His resignation has been aicepted by Governor Durbin, but by request Warden Shidelar will retain his position until Jan. 1, 1902. The town council of Monon, at a stormy session Thursday night, granted a franchise to a Chicago company to put in a system of water works. The town is to own the plant after a certain amount in water rentals has been paid to the company. As usual, the old fogies opposed the project. Madge, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harley W. Iliff, died at her home in Jordan township, last Friday, of consumption. The funeral was h Id at the family residence Sunday, a Spiritualist elder from Anderson, conducting the services. Interment took place at Weston cemetery, in Rensselaer.

Ernest Middleton, who has been stationed at Fort Sheridan, near Chicago, since the expiration of his furlough, was here Sunday. His applii cation for discharge from the army . was rejected, and he will remain at , that point until the expiration of bis , enlistment in August of next year. The marriage of Miss Lu Ella Mc- : Coy and Dr. A. L. Berkley will take place at the residence of the bride’s parents, Holn. and Mrs. T. J. McCoy, on Wednesday evening, October 2d. It promises to be a brilliant affair. Miss Margaret Micks, of Sepeca Fallfi, | New York, will be maid of honor. The bridesmaids will be as follows: Miss Rae Sloman, of Coldwater, Mich. Miss Belle Wilson Wallace and Mrs. Ruth Miller Bixlter, of Lafayette, and Miss Leathe Wright, of Rensselaer. Mr. Jesse E. Wilson, of Rensselaer, will be best man. Little Emily Thompson and Gertrude Kannal, of Rensselaer, will be ribbon girls.

* Overcoats have - ,been in demand this week. Mrs. R. E. Scott is visiting at Danville, 111. Laßue Bros, will start a branch store at Gifford. Frank Giver has gone to Chicago to accept a position. The late Ancil Snodgrass left an insurance of $2,000. Joe Reynolds, of Delphi, spent Sunday with his mother here. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Wood, of Lowell spent Sunday in Rensselaer. Mrs. Wm. Stockwell, of Mancheiter, Tenn., is visiting relatives in this vicinity. Louie Fendig, who has been visiting his parents here, left for Brunswick, Ga., Tuesday. Miss Grace Jacks returned to Danville, 111., Tuesday, where she has been offered a position. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Grow and his sister,Miss Bessie Grow, are attending the exposition at Buffalo. Mrs. Ancil Snodgrass has moved hor household goods to Cayuga, where she will make her future home. J. H. Phillips, of Brunswick, Ga., was the guest of Louie Fendig, Monday, returning to Georgia Tuesday. 1 H. S. Ford, of Vermillion county, 111., was here to attend the funeral of his brother-in law, Ancil dnodgrass. About 400 bushels of peaches sold in two days this week. Quality and price tell the story. Chicago Bargain Store. Miss Laura McClellan has returned to her home at Crawfordsville, after a visit with her sister, Mrs. W. A. Huff. Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Reed have moved back to Remington, where Mrs. Reed will embark in the millinery business. Miss Fannie Wood has resigned her position with the Democrat to accept a position in J. H. Chapman’s real estate and loan office.

The peach crop of Michigan is now much finer than earlier in the season. Come and see the extra fancy stock next Tueday and Wednesday at 75c to SI.OO per bushel. Chicago Bargain Store. Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Snodgrass, who were here to attend the funeral of his brother, Ancil Snodgrnss, returned to their borne in Lafayette, Friday. Henry Braydon, Harris, N. C., says; “I took medicine 20 years for asthma but one bottle of One Minute Cough Cure did me more good than any thing else during that time. Best Cough Cure. A. F. Long. “John Doe” and “Richard Roe,” of the Gifford region, refused to pay for their meals at Goffs restaurant Saturday, and otherwise acted ugly, and were arrested by Constable Vick. ’Squire Burnham fined and costed them tp the extent of $9.16 each. One of the men was bailed out by Harry Gifford, but the other one is still in jail at this writing.

Leave your name. Last chance for line Michigan peaches, Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 24th and 25th. Chicago Bargain Store. Geo. Mitchell moved to Remington, Monday, where he has been elected principal of the Remington schools. Owing td failing health, Prof. W. R. Murphy, superintendent of the Remington schools, has resigned his position, and will move to California in hopes that the change of climate will benefit him. His position in the Remington schools will be filled by Prof, M. R. Marshall, the former principal.

It is said that the people have been showering money upon James Parker, the colored man, who knocked Czolgosz down and prevented him from shooting President McKinley the third time. Notes of $6 and SSO, according to the dispatches, were shoved into Parker’s hands and pock eta before he lefc the grounds, and soon after he reached his hotel checks for him began to arrive. The, first two were for S2OO each and the next, for S3OO. It is believed he will realize at least SIOO,OOO from those who appreciate his prompt and heroic action.

Mrs. Ray Mossier is visiting in Cincinnati. Mrs. H. E. Parkinson is visiting in? Indianapolis. R. T. Newman has gone to Mason City, Mo., on a prospecting tour. D. E. Hollister returned from Cleveland, Ohio, Tuesday evening. Mrs. Maude of Lagro, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Michael. Mrs. W. G. Slagle was called to Hammond Tuesday by the sickness of her aunt. Miss Tillie Fendig, who has been clerking in a store at Delpni, iB-liome for a short visit. The Rensselaer band will furnish music for the Lafayette carnival, three days next week. Rice Porter and Delos Coen have resumed their studies at the Highland Park military academy. Henry Gowland, E. P. Morton and W. 11. Dennis have gone to Woonsocket, S, I),, to look at land. A large number from here are attending the state fair and Odd Fellows’ gathering at Indianapolis. Charles Kenton lias gone to St. Louis, to enter a medical college. Rev. Ed Meads accompanied him, The first car load of peaches ever received in Rensselaer was this week by B. Forsythe, of the Chicago Bargain Store. A new postolfice has been established at Asphaltum, Gifford’s latest town. Geo. M. Comer is postmaster. G. A. Thomas and family, of Monticello, have been the guests of Mrs. Thomas’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Gwin. W. H. Ritchey, Mrs, O. K. Ritchey and Mrs, David Michaels left on Tuesday for a visit in Kansas and Oklahoma.

Advertised Letters.—Jas. Michaels, Rufus Bordwell, Charlie Beaty, Wm. Brubaker, Prof. James M. Clemens, Miss Mary Cords. Miss Bessie Fairchild, Will Kamberg. Joseph A. Wildman,a United Brethren Minister, was tarred and feathered at Huntington Monday night, for making derogatory remarks about President McKinley, in a serm.on. The largest and most complete stock of ladies’ cloaks ever shown in town at the Chicago Bargain Store. John Macklenburg was struck in the eye by a piece of iron, which he was breaking up at Fendig’s junk pile Saturday, The eye was badly cut and bruised, but he will not lose ohe use of it. Wanted: Man or woman of good address to prepare for an office position. Salary S6O per month. Give references. Address in your own hand writing. Geo. L. Gordon, 167 Kelley Bldg., Frankfort Ind. Last week I went about, Full of trouble and of doubt. Now I’m smiling and dance with delight

I had some Rocky Mountain Tea last night. B. F. Fendig. Mt. Hope Chapel in Jordan township, will be dedicated Sunday, Sept. 29th. Services will begin on Thursday evening and continue over Sunday. Services all day Sunday, with basket dinner. Everybody cordially invited to attend. The president of tiie Conference is expected to he pretent.

Thursday, September 12th, the Rensselaer W. It. C. gave a reception to the Remington Corps and post. Quite a number came over and a delightful time was had. Substantial refreshments were serve I and some witty speeches by the G. A. R boys with a word no.w by the visiting sisters, completed the entertainment. A cordial invitation was extended to come again.

A pleasant time was enjoyed at the h.'me of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Ulrey, in Newton county, last Sunday, in honor of her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. S. Ulrey, who are visiting here from Washington, D. C. A number of guests were present, namely : Whitsel Lewis and family, ’Squire Troxell and wife, Allen Cali and family, Morton Ulrey and family, Grace and Merle Warren, Mrs Henry Shipman and daughter Mildred and Geo. Ulrey. Fried chicken and watermelon were the order of the day. Everyone ate watermelon to their heart’s content, and then finished with a sham battle of rinds.

It required three delivery vvag-ons to deliver peaches and other merchandise Tuesday.* Bargain Store.