Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 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 Run and Served While Warm Without Trimmings or Embellishment. Local and Personal Notes. Dr. Kay's Renovator for dyspepsia. Don’t delay—Get tickets to hear Jones. Steel, traps at Lee’s Hardware at McCoysburg. Joe Reynolds, of Delphi, visited his mother here Sunday. Lime and building paper at the McCoysburg Lumber Yard. Everything in the cutlery line is warranted at Lee’s at McCoysburg. Miss Tillie Fendig, of Delphi, spent Sunday with her parents here. Lagrippe, coughs, quickly cured by Dr. Kay’s Lung Balm. Druggists sell it. A. J. Abbott was called to Tawanda, 111-, Saturday, by the death of his brother. Dr. Kay’s Renovator, a perfeosystem renovator. At druggists 25 60, sl. The Monon News will change hands March Ist. Geo. T. Weeks, of Ohio, is the purchaser. Dr. Kay’s Renovator cures headache, constipation, dyspepsia. 26c. 50, and sl. The annual reports of the majority of the township trustees appear in the Journal this week. Geo. W. Phillips, the “corn king,” has gone to the wall again through speculating in rye. The ice dealers have all succeeded in filling their houses with an excellent quality of ice.

Mr. aud Mrs. M. A. Makeover, of Stromsburg, Neb,, visited friends and relatives here over Sunday. John Hemphill went from here to Danville, 111., to visit his brother Jim before returning home at Valparaiso. Neb. Marsh Warren, the former manager of J. F. Warren’s farm, has leased Granville Moody’s farm in Barkley township. Levi Renicker has sold his residence property in Rensselaer to J. N. Sample, who will take up his residence therein. Frank Thurston and Mabel Thurston were married last Wednesday at Remington by the pastor of the Presbyterian church. Mrs. M. A. Hopkins has returned from a three months’ visit with dead mute friends at Michigan City, Water Ford and Door Village, Ind

At the Newton oounty Republican organizing convention last week, Hon. Williams Cummings, of Kentland, was endorsed unanimously for olroult judge. The six saloons in Winamao were raided last week and all the slot machines therein confiscated. Prosecution for maintaining gambling devices will follow. George Healey has at last secured an appointment in the government printing office and left for Washing ton last Friday. His family will remain here for the present. Leave your order with O. 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. Senator Fairbanks has introduced a bill in the senate to appropriate $125,000 for a federal building at Hammond. Congressman Orumpacker will champion the measure in the house. What would you think of your grocery man if he sold you sand for sugar ? What do you think of a druggist, who offers you a substitute for the Madison Medicine Co’s Rocky Mountain Tea. B. F. Fendig. When the new telephone device is in operation, permitting the parties talking to see each other, every woman will have a comb case and a few extra hair pins handy to the ’phone. The 10th district Republican congressional convention will be held at Monticello February 19th. Hon. E. D, Orumpacker, the present incumbent, will be unanimously renominated. Charlie Murray and Conrad Kellner started for Oklahoma Tnesday. Murray went on business connected with the claim he drew in the government land lottery and Kellner hopes to buy or enter a claim while there. What you doin’neighbor? Helping Bill. What’s Bill doin’? Helping Mandy ? What’s Mandy doin’? Helping Mother. What’s Mother doin’ ? Taking Rocky XMountain Tea. Sensible family. B. F/Fendig. Edison predicts that in a shortthue automobiles will be so cheap that persons of moderate means will be able to own and enjoy it at less expejue than the present purchase priceand cost of keeping a horse and carriage. Wallace Parkison arrived home from Kansas Saturday. While Away he purchased 1100 acres of Kiowa oounty for $3 50 per aertf ind leased 3,000 acres more. He will engage in stock raising on his new possessions. Let us speak of a man as we find him, And censure only what we can see, Remembering that no one can be perfect, Unless he uses Rocky Mountain Tea, B. F. Fendig. Trustee B'ue, of Marion township, is activelj engaged in constructing a mile of now gravel road. It starts at the Norman corner, north of Rensselaer, and will extend a mile east. The gravel is secured at the Phegley pit, southwest of town.

You can now buy a granite backet of Lee for 76 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 McCoysburg. The period of Lent in 1902 comes earlier than usual, Ash Wednesday being Feb. 13. The feist days from then until the close of Lent fall on the following dates: Mid-Lent Sunday, March 9; Palm Sunday, March 23; Good Friday, March 28; and Easter Sunday, March 30.

A bill is being prepared by congressman Griffith, of Indianapolis, which he will soon introduce, providing that 160 acres of land be given to every Spanish American or Philippine soldier, who served ninety days. The title will be absolute and without requiring the soldier to live thereon.— Ex. Halstead And Yeoman, the chief movers in the farmers’ mutual telephone project, have decided to construct an experimental line fiom John Martindale’s farm to Mt. the use of the farmers along the line. If this line demonstrates the project to be feasible the subject of extending the system will be considered further. Some dealers it would seem are not aware that the legislature of 1897 enacted a measure prohibiting the sale of cigarette wrappers to any person nnder age, and the first violation causes a fine of not more than |lO, and the second offense brings a dose of not less than flO nor more than SSOO, to which may be added sixty days of imprisonment. Read the heavy ad line at the top of first page.