Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1902 — THINGS IN GENERAL! [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THINGS IN GENERAL!

Daily Happenings Around the Prairie City. TIMELY TOPICS TERSELY TOLD! News Items Caught on the Hun and Served While Warm Without' Trimmings or Embellishment. Local and Personal Notes G. E. Hershman is on the sick list. Dr. Kay’s Renovator for dyspepsia. Don’t delay—Get' tickets to hear Jones. Miss Edna Dillon has an attack of the tonsilitis. .. Mrs. T. Rishling, of Winamsc, is visiting relatives here. Mrs. W. I. Hoover and son are visiting her parents in Delphi. Miss Mary Meyer is the gnest of Miss Katie Bark at Wolcott. A. P. Sample, of Wisconsin, is the gnest of his father, J. N. Sample. Lagrippe, coughs, quickly cured by Dr. Kay’s Lung Balm. Druggists sell it. Rev. A. G. Work attended 0 meeting of Presbyterian ministers at Chicago Monday. Dr. Kay’s Renovator, n perfecsystem renovator. At druggists 26 60, *l. Editor Robertson and wife, of Whbatfield, visited friends here Monday and Tuesday. To purify the blood, renovate with Dr. Kay’s Renovator. Ask druggists for it. The foot ball hoys have received the sweaters presented by their Rensselaer admirers. Miss Ma de Daugherty’s school at Surrey has closed on account of her sickness with tonsllitis. 0. O. White will be the tenant of .Henry Amsler’s 240 acre farm near Parr the coming year. Mrs. Martha White and son Frank, of Francesville, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs Brace White. Bam Jones, the great evangelist, will lecture at the opera house • Friday evening, January 24th, 'l’here is but one “Sam Jones.” He will be here Friday night, January 24th, at Eliis’ Opera House. Mrs. Grace Pumphrey and children, of Brook, are making their home with Mr. and Mrs. G. O. Pumphrey.

Brookston sends telephone message “save 20 tickets for Sam Jones’ lecture. We can’t miss hearing him.” Mr. and Mrs. B. Forsythe have been called to New Philadelphia, Ohio, by the serious sickness of Mrs. Forsythe’s father. M. B. Price, county surveyor, and his mother, of Reraingtdn, are visiting C. H. Price and. family, at Webb City, Mo. . The Nowels House has been changed from a twp dollar to a $1 60 per day house, in the hopes of increasing the patronage.

br. Kay’s Renovator fbr the liver. *J. A. Sharp is visiting in Burnettsville. • O. E. Zoll, of'Hammond, was here on business the Drat of the week. Dr. Kay’s Lung Balm the very best cough cure, Prioe, 10, 26 and 50 ots. Mrs. Jane Dobbins, of Woloott, is the guest of Mrs. George Mustard. To cure obscure diseases, renovate the system with Dr. Kay’s Renovator. Dr. Kay’s Renovator cures headache, oonstipation, dyspepsia. 26c. 60, and sl. Charlie Kepp’e, of St. Louis, Mo., was the guest of his aunt, Mrs. A. Simpson, last week. Some of the rooms in the pnblio schools had to be dismissed again this week on account of unauffleient heat ing apparatus. Perry Marlatt has repurchased ids old farm two miles north of town recently sold to J. N., Sample, at an ad vance of S6OO. * W. 0. Miiliron has rented a business room in Monticello and will open a restaurant in that city about the first of next month, it is stated, S. H. Howe, who recently removed to Fair Oaks from Dwight, 111., is very siok. Mrs. T. I. 'Knox, of Rensselaer, ■bis sister in-law, is In attendance. The 67th birthday of M rs. Louisa Ohurohill was oelebrated Sunday with a dinner, at which a number of friends and neighbors were present. The Uniform Rank, K. of P M at their last meeting, voted to attend the biennia] meeting of the supreme lodge at San Francisoo next August, as a company. The Jasper county jail is now empty fqr the first time in many months. The last occupant was L. M. Powell, ofßrook, who was taken to Kentland fer trial Monday. *

The January, apportionment of the school fhnd has been made. Jasper county has an enumeration of 4,726 school children and receives $6,049.28, or $307.21 more than paid in to the state treasury. Let us speak of a man ns we find him, And censnre only what we can see, Remembering that no one can be perfect, Unless he uses Rocky Mountain Tea, B. F. Fendig. The Mothers’ meeting will he held in the ladies’ waiting room at the court house this afternoon at 2:30. The subject to be discussed will be “Our Giris and Boys—What of them?” A full attendance is desired. What you doin’neighbor? Helping Bill. What’s Bill doin’? Helping Mandy ? What’s Mandy s doin’? Helping Mother. What’s Mother doin’ ? Taking Rooky Mountain Tea. Sensible family. B. F. Fendig. W. L. Wood at Parr will begin at once the erection of a 60 by 100 foot fire proof frame addition to his store bnilding. It will be used for a harness and buggy depository and will be one of the largest of this kind of buildings in the country. The. statement published in so many of our exchanges that marriage returns must be made to the county clerk within seven days after the marriage by the person performing the ceremony, is a mistake, Ninety days are given in which to make such return. Thomas McGowan, ex city marshal, has bought the old Hockbaum farm, in Union township, and wiij move on the farm in February. His residence property in Rensselaer was putln on the trade at $1960. The price paid for the farm was S4O per acre, or $3,200 for the 80 acres. Rev. W. F. Oldham, D. D., of Chicago, will preach at the M. E. church next Sunday morning and evening. Dr. Oldham is a returned missionary and has been In nearly, every country. He is a man of more than ordinary ability and no one should miss attending these services. J. F. Warren fP* his home in Oklahoma City Saturday. His public sale on Thursday wfts a successful one and the property brought better prices than be expected. Miss Glady Brown, of Glencoe, 111., accompanied him home and will be their gnest for some months for the benefit of her health.

Mrs. Laura E. Pierson, a former resident of Newton township, Jasper connty, died at her home in Shelby last Sunday at the age of 36 years, of consumption. Deceased was the wife of Clark Pierson, of Tower, Minn., and daughter of John B. Clemens, of Shelby. She leaves three children. The funeral was heid at Rose Dawn Wednesday. J. W. Cowden has purchased two farms near Logansport. one for himself and son-iti law, Manley Burk, and the other for his own use. The joint farm contains 200 acres, and was bought for $63 per acre and is located about seven miles from Logansport.* The other farm adjoins Logansport. contains 40-acres and will be occupied by Mr. Cowden as a residence. Th e consideration $98.76 per acre.

Mrs. Floyd Robinson is visi, Ingin Delphi. Read thwlieavy ad line attho top of first page. M. P. Werner and Q. O. Star are putting up ioe. Warren Waßhburn, of Goodland, was here Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs D. B. Nowels returned to their home at Lamar, 0010., this week. John Hemphill, a former Rensselaer boy, but now editor of the Valparaiso, Neb., Visitor, is visiting his mother and other relatives here.

The celebrated “Fresh Water” clothes wringer for $1,35 at Lee's at MoOoysburjf. But that is only a sample of the way he sells everything. Charles W. Larson, of Jordan township, and Miss Mary O. Heferlln, of southwest of town, were married at the Catholic church Tuesday morning. They will jnake their home in South Dakota. What would you think of your grocery man if he sold you sand for sugar ? What do you think of a drug gist, who offers you a substitute for the Madison Medicine Co’s Rocky Mountain Tea. B. F. Fendig.

You can now buy a granite bucket of Lee for 75 cts, which is at least one third less than you ever had a first class article like it offered you before. Remember he is at McCovsburg.

Sam Jones is the highest priced lecturer on the road today. He ordinarily gets |2OO per. lecture, but has agreed for the benefit of the ohuroh here to come for -|l6O. Already the advance sale of seats is enough to make the guarantee, and seats will be at a premium before the night of bis lecture. Arrangements are being made to seat 000. Out of town parties desiring seats should telephone to Mr. Ellis, manager of the opera bouse, at once, and seats will be reserved for them. Little Agnes Minikus, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andy Minikus, after months of suffering with cancer, died at their home in Francesvilie on Wednesday of last week. Until recently they were residents of Rensselaer. During her infancy an accidental injury to one of her legs developed into cancer, and about two years ago amputation of the limb was necessary. This afforded but temporary relief to her sufferings. Her age was about twelve years. The funeral was held at Francesvilie Friday.