Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 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. Take your eggs to Murray’s store. Miss Mel Abbott is visiting in Montleello. Miss Laura Gangloff is visiting in Indianapolis. Miss Ola Boyer, of Goodland, Is visiting friends here. Mrs. W. 0. Babcock and Miss Sarah Reeoe are at French Llok springs. Kentland has let the oontraot for a new school building to oost $16,576. Rev. Carpenter, of Goodland, preached at the Missionary Baptist ohurch Sunday. Mrs. Joe Bowen was oalled to Marion last week by the slokness of her sister, Mrs. Etna Parker. School fends to the amount of $32000 are lying idle in Lake oounty waiting for some one to borrow the money. Miss Alice Mills has returned to her home in Ottawa, 111., after an extended visit with her brother, O. E. Mills. Something speoial? Sure thing. The Ohioago Weekly Inter Ocean and this paper $1.40 for one year. Ask ns what it means. Misses Martha Oppenheimer and Henrietta Eisen, of New Orleans, are the guests of the former’s sister, Mrs. B. S. Fendig. Jake Wilberg, traveling salesman for a Chicago clothing house, left last week for a trip through New Mexioo, Utah and Colorado. John W. Alkire and John M. Johnson, of Remington, will apply for saloon license at the next term of the commissioners’ court.

A new time card will go into effect on the Monon June Ist. There will be no radical changes in the running of the through passenger trains. Mrs. F. B. Lyon and; children returned to their home in Delphi the latter part of the week, after a visit with her sister, Miss Maude Healey. Mr. John Somers, of Jasper county, and Miss Sallie Johnson, of White county, were united iu marriage by Rev. D. J. Huston, at his residence in Milroy township, last Wednesday. A novel feeling of leaping, bounding impulse goes through your body. You feel young, act young and are young after taking Rocky Mountain Tea. 35 cents. B. F. Fendig. The North Judson News editor says he has been on the sick list for a week, suffering from what his physician calls “zyzwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcba.” He must have been eating something. Owing to the chilly condition of the atmosphere and the dedication of the soldiers’ monument at Indianapolis this week, only eighty-five tickets were sold at this point for the Chicago excursion last Sunday. Mother, yes one package makes two quarts of baby medicine. See directions. There is nothing just as good for babies and children as Rocky Mountain Tea. 35 cents. B. F. Fendig.

Company “M” departed on the early train Monday for Indianapolis. Their hearty cheers on the way to the train showed that the boys were in good spirits. A large number of citizens are also attending the dedication of the monument. A widower of Wanatah remarried the other day, only two weeks after his first wife’s death, and when the boys came to charivari him he went out and told them they ought to be ashamed of themselves for making such an uproar around a house where a funeral had been held so recently. The supreme court has ruled that the general funds of a secret society are free from taxation, even though the money is loaned out and is drawing interest. If the lodge, however, takes the funds and builds a block for rental, the block is taxable. Mrs. George B. Antrim, of Chicago Heights, died in a * Chicago hospital Sunday night. The remains were taken Tuesday to her former home at DeMotte, where the funeral took place. She was thirty-three years of age and leaves a husband and two children.