Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1902 — Page 3

VOL. X.

From Sam Sprigg.

Sam Sprigg, who is visiting in Oklahoma, has written the following letter to his parents, whioh will be of interest to his acquaintances here: Oklahoma City, O. T. t June 5,1902. Dear Polks—l arrived here yesterday afternoon. I did not write then because I was so tired. We had quite a time getting here for there were so many wash-outs. At Lockport we crossed a bridge which had three feet of water running over it. I tell you it was scarey. At Joliet everything was flooded. The people were going around on rafts and in some places the water was almost up to the second story of the houses. Our train went through water from six inches to two feet deep for over a mile. At Kansas City Mr. Murray got off to get a lunch and got left. He telegraphed ahead and I got off at the next station and waited until his train came, 45 minutes later. It was alright though, for we were on the wrong train anyway. We (Uncle Frank, Aunt Madge and I) went driving last night. Oklahoma is no one horse town by a good deal. Everything is new. The population is 20,000 by the last census. I saw Kirg Spitler and his wife last night. They live right across the street from Aunt Madge’s. Carrie will be home this afternoon from Norman. The corn is past plowing. It is so large and wheat is being cut. We passed through an Indian reservation coming here. On every 160 acres there was a small house and barn. The Indians do not live in these, but have a tepee in front of the houses. At one station I saw several Indians. One of them was a policeman. They all wore moccasins like mine. In front of a store there were several squaws. They had on every bright color you could think of. Well 1 must close. Your loving son and brother, Sam. S. E. Yeoman represents the Hooker, Wyman & Co. nursery, of Rochester, N. Y., one of the best nurseries in the east. He is now taking orders for fall delivery. All stook is guaranteed and stock dying will be replaced free of charge.

Closing Out Advance Clearing Sale! TO JULY 4, 1902. ° CHICAG-O 33-A.3R, GAIN STORE you A ar? e su; r ptd ark D ° W " “ de P artme " t ' We Relieve in making Reductions and a Great Special Sale at the time you most need goods and not wait until

Wash Goods. A special great Wash Goods event. Many marked down r /i and yi to close out. All 4c and 5c Lawns, now while they last 3c All 6c and 8c Dimities, now while they last 5c All Wash Goods, now 10 c All 25c Wash goods, now 15 c Some extra fine Silk Mixed Wash Dress Goods were marked 50c, 80c and SI.OO yd, now, only 35c, 50c and 60c Ribbon Sale. A great Ribbon Sale, great in quantity, great in quality, at the lowest prices ever offered. Clothing. At surprising reductions but they must go while they are in demand. All kinds, at all prices. Trunk Store. (Second Floor.) The most complete line of Trunks, Sole Leather Suit Cases, Valises, Telescopes, etc., ever shown in town. A high shelving just built to carry this stock. '

Velocipedes, Graereewsr'^T^nee ei'' 11 vllues ‘ n Gr ° eerles ’ Queensware. Glanware, Lamps, Hardware, Washers, Churns, Wringers Wagons l».»u. ...... ..! CHICAC ° BARCAIN STORE. B . Forsythe, Pro’

The JOURNAL and CHICAGO WEEKLY INTER OCEAN for $1.40 per year. JOURNAL and TOLEDO BLADE, $1.26. je ticnssclacr Journal.

FLOOR RILL DAMAGED.

Fire Company Succeeds in Saving the “River Queen” Mill. About one o’clock Monday morning fire was discovered in the engine room of Stoner & Day’s flouring mill on Front street. By the time the fire department arrived the flames were under good headway and for a time it was hard to tell which would come out victorious, the flames or the firemen. The latter finally won, after a loss of several hundred dollars was suffered. The origin of the fire is a mystery. Saturday night the fires were all drawn from under the boilers, and Sunday the boilers were thoroughly cleaned. The engineer was there in the evening and says he is positive there was no fire about the place. In the west end of the engine room the cab and coal bin was located and it was in this bin that the blaze started. The engine house is almost a complete wreck and the engine and boilers are badly damaged, if not rendered entirely useless. The machinery in the mill is all more or less damaged and the whole north end of the building is considerably charred and much of it will have to be rebuilt. About 300 bushels of corn, between 200 and 300 bushels of wheat, considerable oats, feed, flour and meal was in the building. This was all damaged by the smoke and water, but can be' sold for feed at a slight reduction, so the loss on this will not be great. The building and machinery was insured for $4,000, but no insurance was carried on the contents of the mill, so whatever loss there was on the stock will fall on the owners. The $4,000 insurance on the building and machinery is more than enough to cover the loss, if the owners can get a satisfactory adjustment with the insurance people. The work Of rebuilding will not commence until the loss is adjusted. The present mill was built a few years ago to replace a former mill destroyed by fire. The building was three stories in height, with a basement, and the machinery was modern throughout.

RENSSELAER, IND., THURSDAY, JUNE 12. 1902.

This fire demonstrates again the wisdom of the oity fathers who constructed the water works, and those who originally opposed the improvement now have nothing but words of praise for the system.

The July Designer.

Charming Fashions and Millinery, designed especially for the summer season, are given prominent place in The Designer for July, but not to the exclusion of other features of feminine interest, such as Fancy Work, which in this issue embraces “Sofa Cushions,” “Toilet Table Chat,” “Etiquette Hints,” suggestions for the mother, the housekeeper and the gardener. “Some Outdoor Decorations,” by Mary Kilsyth, and “Seaside Frolics,” by Dr. Sarah A. French Battey, give delightful and new ideas to those who wish for closer acquaintance with nature, while patriotism is paid due homage in “July,” by John DeMorgan, “Menus in Patriotic Garb” by Sarah W. Landes, and “Selections for the Recitationist,” “The Late Lamented,” by Leigh Gordon Giltner; “A Morning in Midsummer,” by Edward A. Morris; “Ralph’s Successful Experiment,” by A. J. Johnson, and several chapters of Mrs. Ellen Olney Kirk’s charming love story, “The Apology of Ayliffe,” supply the fiction. The notes on current literature are exceedingly interesting this month. So, too, is “What Women are Doing.” The latter department, by the way, beginning with the September number, will be edited by the women readers of The Designer, with monetary reward for those who among them show marked aptness in this novel, entertaining and instructive line of work. Worthy of especial note among the fashion features are Outing Costumes of every description for ladies, and “Summer Apparel for Little Lads.” From the Hammond Daily Republican we learn that Mayor-elect Knotts has succeeded in bringing about peace in the divided G. A. R. ranks in Hammond. The Major Genera} had better go over to Rensselaer and try bis hand in that line on the fractious “boys” and “girls” of that burg Lowell Tribune.

Binder Twine Headquarters One Car Load will arrive in a MKays. Catalogue house’s prices knocked out. For the of the farmers we have investigated the Catalogue housed prices and we have made our price less than all of them to save you some money and the trouble of ordering from the city. We guarantee our twine to be as good as any twine made or money refunded and our prices you will find on investigating the lowest. Leave your order at once. Sisal and Standard Binder Twine, guaranteed 500 ft to the lb, at ll^ c Manilla, guaranteed 600 ft to the lb, at 14 C Pure Manilla, 650 ft to the lb, at !!!.... 16c Shoes. We simply take the lead in carrying the stock of the best values for the least money to be found in the country. Some sharp reductions that will save your hard earned dollars. 10 per cent off Ladies’ Suits Tailor Made Suits, Skirts, Jackets, Capes, etc., and not one old or poor pattern in the stock, all new and fresh.

Our Man About Town.

A man in this town oalls pneumonia “pomonia.” * * * Some people call a wedding invitation a dun. « * * We heard a man say the other day that he likes to go to funerals occasionally just to see the people. It is a wonder somebody does not go to his fttneral. * * m One of our citizens lost a job recently just because he could not control his temper, but he undoubtedly could by this time. When he was unable to control himself he did not know his job was in danger. # * * There is only one real independent man in town. He does just as he pleases and does it when he pleases. He has not a thing to do, however, and not a friend in town. He is so selfish and independent that he hates himself. * * * You often hear it said that when you hear a disagreeable thing or a bit of gossip that you ought to let it go in at one ear and out at the other. But we know a man of whom it is said he knows so little that nothing ever gets to “the other ear.” *** There was a cheap John auction in town once. A man went in and bought a lot of goods that he did not want, simply because they were cheap. Afterwards he went into one of our local stores and bought a lot of goods that he really needed and then asked that they be charged to his account, which was already over a year old, because he said he had spent all his ready money at the auction. This story, being true, has no moral, but it shows that there are some very funny people in the world. The cheeky ones are

not all dead yet.

w Discusses 1 Sundry \ and J Other Matters.

A man in this community bought a sewing machine of a Chicago mall order house onoe upon a time. The machine came and was so unsatisfactory that the purchaser tried to exchange it with a home dealer for a good one. The merchant took out his pocket-book and handed over every cent he had with the remark: “A man who has as much nerve as you have will get it anyway, so I might as well surrender.” V Call a girl a chick, and she smiles; call a woman a hen and she howls. Call a young woman a witch, she is pleased; call an old woman a witch, and she is indignant. Call a girl a kitten and she rather likes it; call a woman a oat and she’ll hate you. Women are queer. If you call a man a gay dog it will flatter him. Call him a pup, a cur or a hound/ and he will alter the map on your face. He don’t mind being oalled a bull or a bear, and yet he would object to being mentioned as a calf or a oub. Men are queer, too. * * * The phrase “Go way back and sit down” is becoming somewhat of a chestnut and being varied in different localities. Here is the way they say it over at Remington: “Go in the rear and lay down.” At Wheatfield they say, “Dig down the line and take It easy.” The Monon railroad boys put it this way, “Break off two car lengths and take a sleeper.” Rensselaer, which is always trying to lead in everything now-a-days, springs ic thus, “Please will you retire and be seated ?”

Chicago capitalists, according to advice received in Hammond, are to put a million dollars in a big sugar beet factory at Shelby a few miles south of here on the Monou railway. If the good news is true, all this sugar beet talk will not have been in vain.—Hammond News. Wise is the girl whose sense of self interest prompts her to take Rocky Mountain Tea. It fills her full of vigor and there is always honey in her

heart for you.

Upholstery Department. (Second Floor.) Many reductions and many new goods just received. Carpets, Rugs, Lineoleums, Mattings, Lace Curtains,Curtain Rods and Poles, window blinds, etc. Bicycles, Sewing Machines At less than Catalogue houses. Drop Head, 5 Drawer Sewing Machines, warranted 5 years, only 9Q The Domestic, the World’s Best, 23 50 Up-To-Date Bicycle, only 12 00 Special Values In Straw Hats, Umbrellas, Gloves, Underwear, Hosiery Ladies’ Muslin Underwear, Corsets, Hammocks, Shirt Waists, etc. Neckwear. As Nobby a line of Neck wear as was ever shown. Acornplete new stock just received last week and marked verv low but no reductions. J

Big Sugar Beet Factory.

B. F. Fendig.

Counterfeiters Arrested.

Secret service offloers arrested two counterfeiters in this county, last Friday, and secured all of their paraphernalia. The names of the counterfeiters were Oscar Sorrensen and Albert Merrill, of Indianapolis, both of whom are now behind the bars anxious to receive sentenoe and get off as easy as possible. They were caught redhanded Friday morning by detectives. Merrll and Sorrensen rented an upstairs room in a farmhouse, a few miles from Morocoo. It was not a place likely to be suspeoted as a den of counterfeiters. How it came to be suspeoted will probably never be known outside the federal grand jury room, as the seoret service officials seldom tell these things. The tip on the plaoe is understood, however, to have oome from Chicago. The three offioers found their way to the house early Friday morning. Merrill, who was there at the time, made a spectacular attempt to get the paraphernalia, whioh was in the attio, hid from the officers, but they found it with little difficulty, and arrested Merrill. Sorrensen was later arrested. The officers regard this as one of the most important captures they ever made, as the dies whioh were just being perfected for splendid counterfeiting work were secured before muoh money had been made. The molds are fixed for making silver dollars, quarters and nlokels. They are said to be among the most perfect and accurate ever found among counterfeiters. The surroundings of the attic and the completeness of the outfit showed that the counterfeiters were preparing to go to work on a big soale. A dippor of melted metal was found, on which the workmen had been experimenting to secure the proper alloy necessary to fill all the fine lines in the molds.—Goodland Herald.

Ready to Yield.

“I used DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve for piles and found it a certain oure,” saysS. R. Meredith, Willow Grove, Del. Operations unnecessary to cure piles. They always yield to DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. Oures skin diseases, all kinds of wounds. Accept no

counterfeits.

NUMBER 1.

A. F. Long.