Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1902 — THINGS IN GENERAL! [ARTICLE]

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

Miss Evelyn Miller is visiting in Chicago. Prosper Clemens has moved to Hammond. Francesville is to have a new national bank. Rev. Work visited in Bloomington this week. John Hack, of Lowell, was in the city Monday. Miss Harriet Yeoman is visiting her brothers at Ambia. Miss Nellie Swartzell is visiting relatives at Cedar Lake. Mrs. T. J. McCoy was visiting in Lafayette last week. Zern Wright is taking treatment at the Indiana Mineral Springs. Advertised Letters.—Mr. J. H. Noonan, Mr. George Johnson. Mrs. August Rosenbaum is visitiug in Chicago and Michigan City. Miss Elizabeth Spaulding spent Sun day at her home in Greencastle. Joe Reynolds, of Delphi, visited his mother and friends here Sunday. The Journal carries a large line of stock cuts suitable for sale or stock bills. Judge Thompson and son Simon took in Ringling’s circus at Chicago last week. Mrs. 0. B. Harrold was down from Hammond to attend the Goff-Adams wedding. Mrs. Emma Wartena returned to Hammond Monday, after a visit with relatives here. Mrs. B. O. Gardner and daughter, of Harvey, 111., spent last Sunday on their farm east of town. Misses Edith jmd Mary Miller, of Dyer, were called here by the death of their uncle, M. F. Chilcote. F- W. Bedford has purchased of Jbhh Eger the old Bedford homestead of twenty six acres. Consideration SBOOO.

Mrs. C. T. Vaugh, who has been the guest of her daughter, Mrs. W. H. Sanders, bas returned to her home at Hadley. After a short visit with his mother here, Charlie Kelley went to Chicago, Monday, where he hopes to secure a position. Lieutenant Bates Tucker, who is now stationed at Fort Brady, Mich., visited friends here a few days the past week. F. B. Lyon, of Delphi, was here Sunday to visit his wife and children, who are the guests of her sister, Mies Maude Healey. Mrs. Ida McKinley, widow of the late President McKinley, bas been granted by congress a pension of $5,000 per year. Dr. Lois Robinson visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Robinson, last week. She is now located in the practice of osteopathy at Ridge Farm, Judge Thompson has let the contract for a new building south of Worland’s implement store. Mackey & Barcus will occupy (he new building with their marble works. Wm. Sutherlin, who killed Ed Fetters and burled his body under a mule near Knox, has been released from prison and is working oh a farm in Michigan.—Wanatah Mirror.

The seining of Cedar Lake for outlaw fish was not a brilliant success and the work has been abandoned until the water gets warmer, when it is hoped there will be better success. Don’t forget to pay your first installment of taxes on or before the first Monday in May. After that date all taxes become delinquent and the penalty fixed by law will be added. The articles of association of the Castle Hall Association have been filed at Indianapolis and in this county. About |14,000 in stock for the new K. of P. building was subscribed. Mr. Frank Olinger and Miss Florence M. Sayler, of Walker township, were married last Monday at 2 p. m. at the home of the officiating clergyman, Rev. B. F. Ferguson, in Rensselaer. We give you news of town and county, and give It to you good, while The Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean prints the telegraphic news of America and the cabled happenings of all the world. |1.40 for both papers per year. Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth left Monday for Denver, Col., as a delegate to the National Convention of the Daughters of the American Revolution. From there she will go as a delegate to the General Federation of Women’s Clubs at Los Angeles, Cal.

In answer to numerous inqinries concerning game laws, deputy game warden Smith says that wild ducks may not be legally killed, even if you can find them, until after Sept. Ist next. The law period for killing went out with last Tuesday, April 15 Squirrels may be legally killed from n ® * to Jan * you are a good shot. You can fish any day, including Sunday, with hook and line if you can get the bait, and there is little danger of prosecution. Fishing with seme or net is illegal at all times.

An Indiana farmer went home, the other day, with crocodile tears in his eyes, because the merchants of a little town refused to buy his butter and eggs. They explained that he had been buying nearly all his goods of a Chicago firm and that he could look to Chicago to take care of his pro ducts. Dr. Arthur Kressler, who will graduate from the Indiana Medical College today, has decided to locate iq Rensselaer, and will associate with Dr. S. 0. Johnson in the practice of medicine. Their offices will be in the quarters now occupied by Dr. Johnson but will be enlarged. Sheldon, 111., for the first time in many years, voted to have saloons in the village. Recent difficulties with the druggists, who were charged with the illegal selling of liquor, aroused the people to the belief that it was better to have licensed saloons than to have the liquor traffic carried on illegally. The supreme court has affirmed the judgment of the lower court requiring the Grand Rapids & Indiana railroad to reduce passenger fares in Michigan to 2j cents a mile in accordance with the general railway law which requires that rate from railroads whose earnings exceed $2,000 per mile.

The Western Union Telegraph Co. began the work last Monday of replacing the old telegraph line along the Monon railroad from this city to Indianapolis. Lineman J. H. Nichols has started a gang of twelve men at work beginning at this end of the line. The work is expected to require about four months time for completion.'—Monon News. The first installment of taxes, with all road taxes added, is due on or before the first Monday in May, the sth, the remainder on or before the first Monday in November, the 3rd. If the first installmeht is not paid at the time indicated, the whole becomes delinquent, and ten per cent penalty and costs of collection added. The Jasper county Sunday School convention will be held in the various churches of Rensselaer, April 27 and 28. Each Sunday school in the county is requested to send two or more delegates. State Secretary Carmen will be present. Programs will be sent, upon application, by Secretary County S. S. Assn., Rensselaer, Ind. The Monon is now doing the heaviest stone traffic from Bedford quarries in the history of the road, and the present year bids fair to eclipse all former years in this line of traffic. Shipments of Bedford stone are being made to New York, New England and to Chicago and points north, and considerable quantities are coming to

Rheumatism Cured in a Day. “Mystic Cure” for rheumatism and neuralga radically cures in one to three days. It’s action upon the system is remarkable and mysterious. It removes at once the cause and the disease immediately disappears. The first dose greatly benefits. 75 cents. Sold by J. A. Larsh, Druggist, Rensselaer.

Edna Wilson and daughter Olive, of Huntington, arrived in Collins last Monday evening. Her husband, F. D. Wilson, who has been practicing medicine at Thayer, Ind., for about two years, has been arrested, but is now out under bonds, and will await his trial which will be heard in the Newton counts* circuit court some time next may.—Churubusco Truth.

Here’s a few lines from a spring poet who has escaped being shot: “The winter now past and gone, and gentle spring is here, the pent up season’s over now and breathing is much freer. The meadow lark is now being heard in soft and mellow notes, and the farmer man is humping himself with the sowing of his oats. The robin and the blue bird will build their little nests, and the dude will scare the horses with his Dolly Varden vest. The housewife now with mop and broom will clean the bouse full well, and the man she swore to cherish will wish he was in well he would like to go fishing for a few days.