Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1902 — Page 3

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CLOSING OUT SALE. Queensware, Chinaware, Glassware and Lamps. All ware of ,the best English make. The best staple stock in the city at LESS THAN COST. This is no fake. lam going to quit this line of business. If you want bargains come and see me. C. C. STARR.

Stop Paying Rent. WHAT’S the use of paying rent when you can own a home of your own paid for with the money now given your landlord. We will build you a modern residence complete and you can pay for same in small monthly payments and in a few years be the owner of your own property. Isn’t this worth serious consideration ? Think the matter over and call on us for full particulars. We do all kinds of Contracting and Cement work at lowest prices. Let us figure on your next job. RUSH & WARREN.

♦ ■Ja®. •£ -“4- in»f»tt * timg||iiiiF. I B M | 1-' jing | Rfl Largest in the County is our stock of Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Sash, Doors and Moulding. Least in the County are the Prices at which we sell this stuff. Let us show you. DONNELLY LUMBER CO.

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The JOURNAL and CHICAGO WEEKLY INTER OCEAN for $1.40 per year. JOURNAL and TOLEDO BLADE, SI.2S.

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RENSSELAER, IND., THURSDAY. JUNE 26. 1902.

AS AN OUTSIDER SEES IT.

An Illinois Editor Tells What He Saw In the Jasper Oil Fields. Homer, 111., Enterprise. In the genial company of our fellow townsmen, H. J. Wiggins and Wm. Mudge, I visited the now famous oil fields of Pulaski and Jasper counties, Indiana. After stopping for a three hours’ visit at the historic battle ground, where Gen. Harrison met and defeated Tecumseh, the great Indian warrior, we boarded a train on the Monon for Medaryville, where we were met by E. T. Mudge, formerly of Homer, and were driven out to his farm, one and a halt miles from the city. Here we enjoyed the luxury of drinking the finest mineral water it has ever been my fortune to taste. The well was discovered while drilling for oil and is 125 feet deep. This water is clear as crystal and cold as ice. It flows at the rate of 25 gallons per minute. One can stand and drink, drink, drink by the pint, by the quart or even by the gallon and feel no inconvenience whatever bat a sense of buoyancy and an indescribable exhilaration comes over your whole being and you get the impression that you could run through a troop or leap over a wall.

W. S. Blatchley, the State geologist of Indiana, has made an analysis of this water, a copy of which I have, and he places it high as a medical agent. An old gentleman who lives near by and who has been afflicted with salt rheum all his life comes to drink this water every day and says he can never drink enough. He also bathes his hands in it and is rapidly getting well —the skin on his hands looks as tender and fresh as a babe’s. A Chicago firm has already proposed to build a sanitarium at the .springs to cost $50,000 at their own expense for an interest in the water. Their offer was refused as the company will have ample funds to erect its own building, which will soon be begun on a grand scale. A oeautiful grove of native trees at the spring affords abundant shade and ere long we shall see a grand edifice here with accommodation and pleasure grounds for thousands of people. I would rather to-day own that spring than any section of land in Champaign county. After leaving the springs we were shown the oil wells, of which this company now has eight, all complete and full of the finest lubricating oil that has ever been discovered. This oil has been thoroughly tested by a large number of manufacturers and railroad people, and proved by them to be superior to any oil ever used by them, ft does not have to be refined or treated in any way. Nature has made it a perfect lubricant. It has a ready market at a very handsome figure. They are sinking wells as fast as two Keystone drills can put them down, averaging from two to four a week. They expect to have one hundred wells completed inside of six months. They have land enough to put in five hundred wells. Last year Chicago alone used five hundred and twentythree thousand barrels of oil. Chicago people are making daily requests for this oil. So are the leading Trunk railways. Many fortunes will be made out of these fields.

Sayler. Daley Wedding.

On last Wednesday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John T. Sayler, north of Monticello, occurred the very pleasant wedding ot their daughter Mabie to Mr. Winford T. Daley, formerly of Sharon. Quite a large number of guests witnessed the impressive ring ceremony, which was performed by the bride’s nncle, Rev. B. F. Ferguson, of Rensselaer. Besides friends and neighbors at home there were a number of relatives and friends present from a distance.|Many beautiful presents were received. After the hearty congratulations, the guests were served to a wedding supper, immediately after; which the bride and groom took the train at Monticello for Indianapolis, followed by a merry party of the young guests as far as the station. Mr. and Mrs. Daley will live in Wolcott, where the groom will engage in business. He has already purchased a home.

JReadv to Vieta. “I used DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve for piles and found it a certain cure,” says 8. R. Meredith, Willow Grove, Del. Operations unnecessary to cure piles. They always yield to DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. Cures skin diseases, all kinds of wounds. Accept no counterfeits. A. F. Long.

THIS WICKEK WORLD.

Important Happenings From all Parts of Our Great States. Crimes, Accidents,Marders and Other Important Nows as Oathered For Our Readers. Road What You Like and Thon Quit. John Fielding, at Knightstown, has a boil as big as a quart oup. Ebenezer Schenck, of Reelesville, attempted to rob a beehive, and now he looks as if he weighed 600 pounds. Just when the upper-ten women of Lafayette began riding horseback seven new physicians located in that city. John Reynolds, of Lebanon, has gone into the pole-cat business. He starts with a mother skunk and seven youngsters. A woman in Knightstown sent out a notice that she and her family are about to starve. The Journal, Knightstown’s spicy daily, has asked for assistance for the woman. At Scottsburg a young married woman is in trouble because someone heard her say to a young man: “You must come to see me.” The husband thinks she should have said: “Come and see us.”

Terry Trimble, of Henpeck, has rheumatism so bad that his swollen feet burst his shoes to pieces. He is in very poor circumstances and doesn’t know how he can get two more cowhides. Charles Vetters, of Brandywine township, Hancock county, killed an eagle on his farm, a fine specimen, weighing more than 25 pounds. From tip to tip of wings it measured seven feet and four inches. The log cabin in which the first election held in Fairfield township, DeKalb county, was held is still standing. The election was held in 1844, when there were but nine voters in the township. Rev. A. J. Frank, of Lebanon, “pump-handled” so many brethren during his attendance at the Indiana ministerial meeting in Terre Haute that a boil has appeared on his hand. He thinks it was caused by excessive hand-shaking. A construction gang on the 0. R. & M. railroad has found a bottomless hole on the Smith farm, in Porter township, Porter county. Hundreds of loads of dirt and trash have been dumped into the hole, only to sink out of sight. Maybe this is the underground passage to China. A man of Crawford county who lost ten acres of corn last year on account of the dry weather will lose no more corn, he says, from this cause. The first dry spell he will place his unique irrigation scheme into effect. He has planted five acres of watermelons for this purpose. The melons will be hauled to the top of the hill, cut open and the water from them will flow down the hill into the corn field.

Advice for June Brides.

After the wedding, put away all of your pretty dresses; they are of no farther use, you’ve got him. Insist on your pin money being put on a firm financial basis.- Getting it surreptitiously from stray pockets may be more exciting, but is not always satisfactory. Minister to the needs of his mind and soul by familiarizing him with Noe Platonism and Browning. His stomach is of no consequence, canned goods are cheap, and the factories need patronage. Keep on tap some ot those ardent vows and pledges which he showered on you before marriage. They come in handy and are salutary if given homeopathically. If all other means fail, tell him how all the other girls were dying to have him—-that always works. A vigilant care of his pockets brings its own reward. It is likewise a duty you owe to order and cleanliness and is warranted to keep things humming.

Spring fever. Spring fever is another name for biliousness. It is more serious than most people think. A torpid liver and inactive bowels mean a poisoned system. If neglected, serious sickness may follow such symptoms. DeWitt’s Little Early Risers remove all danger by stimulating the liver, opening the bowels and cleansing the system of impurities. Safe pills. Never gripe. “I have taken DeWitt’s Little Early Risers for torpid liver every spring for years,” writes R. M. Everly, Moundsville, W. Va. ‘‘They do me more good than anything I have ever tried.” A. F. Long.

July Weather Forecast.

July is primarily the month of patriotism and perspiration. It is the month when the busy mosquito reaches the prime of life and becomes the most affectionate; it is the month when the night-blooming hive becomes universally stylish; it is the month when the potato bug and the amateur elocutionist become ripe, and it is the month when the rural lad with the low-necked overalls steals watermelons and cholera morbus from the neighbors. July this year will open cool, but the normal temperature will be regained by the Fourth, so that the nose of the orator of the day will have .the customary blister burned on it. Exceedingly hot and dry weather will continue until the 7th, when the temperature will change for the hotter. This condition will continue until the 12th, during which time the regular crop of hot weather jokes will be harvested.

This will be followed by a backactionary storm period during which much damage will be done on land and sea. There will be severe winds, dashing rains, thunder, lightning and rural profanity. Farms will be torn up by the roots, and hail stones about three inches larger than the newspaper readers’ incredulity will fall. This storm will last until the 15th, when the temperature will drop from six to eight inches throughout the United States. During the cold nights of this period we advise housewives to throw a superannuated newspaper over the verbena, and to upholster the nonblooming oleander with an overworked bed quilt. We also advise farmers to keep the shoats and the spring calves in out of the night air as much as possible and to bed down the hens a little more generously. From the 15th to the 20th a hot wave will sweep through the country from south to north. Persons who, during the cold snap, had concluded that summer was practically over and were preparing to put up the baseburner and carry the cactus down cellar, will suddenly change their minds and their wearing apparel when this warm wave comes.

During this time there will be quite a drop in butter, especially where the farmer tries to bring it to town in a porous bottomed market basket. The summer resort mosquito will go down to the depot to meet the big delegations from city and town; the hired man will leave the plow in the furrow and go fishing; the country merchant will roll in the barrel of ax handles from in front of his store, lock up shop and wander off some place where he can dangle a line in the water and catch a blister on the back of his neck; and the annual grasshopper delegation will march across the country arid trample down the hay, eat up the garden, kidnap the children and burglarize the smokehouse. On the 21st there will be three bank robberies and a thunder storm. On the 22nd there will be a balloon ascension. On the 23rd there will be open hostilities between a bald-headed man and a fly, on the 24th the wind will shift to the west, ana on the 25th there will be a Sunday school picnic in northern Texas which will break up in a cyclone. The rest of the month will continue hot and sultry, and people will divide their time between looking at the tops of their thermometers and saying mean and unkind things about the state of the weather. And, thus discouraged, out of sorts and universally cussed, with no one to speak a kind word for her, July will sneak quietly out ana away while August will hop upon the scene.

Boys Outnumber Girls.

Superintendent of public instruction Frank Jones last week finished compiling this year’s enumeration of school children in the state. The report shows 385,838 white boys and 361,061 white girls in school, making a total of 755,799. Us colored children there are 7,415 boys and 7,587 girls, In all 15,002. The grand total 761,801 shows again of several thousand since last year. The total for 1901 was 757,684. The state report is tabulated from the reports of the county superintendents.

Mayor Maufflyarten, Freeport, 111. Says, *‘l have used Bailey’s Laxative Tablets and am much benefitted. I certainly believe that they will do all that is claimed for them.” It is the only medicine made that actually cures constipation, sick headache and liver troubles. They are pleasant, mild and natural in action. A tablet or two at night makes you feel fine in the tablets. 25c pack., 60. Chocolate coated. Made by Lakeside Med. 00., Chicago. Sold by A. F. Long.

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. Mrs. G. M. Robinson spent Sunday in Monon. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Childers are visiting relatives in Delphi. J. P. Overton and son Randle are visiting in Chicago Heights. Brick work on the new Odd fallows* building commenced Monday. Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Nowels and son Auburn left for their home at Lamar. Col., Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Hammond, of Wheatfield, spent Sunday with Rensselaer relatives. Rev. B. F. Ferguson delivered the Odd Fellows’ memorial address at Brookston Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Meyer, of Pittsburg, Pa., are visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Meyer. Mrs. Mary Sayler, of Rensselaer, has been appointed state librarian of the Ladies of the G. A. R. Dr. I. B. Washburn attended the commencement of Rush Medical College in Chicago last week. Dr. J. W. Horton is attending the meeting of the State Dental Association at Lake Maxinkuckee. Dave Warner is one of the latest contributors to the school fund, as one of the participants in the recent riot. Clarence Lintner. living three miles south of DeMotte, died Sunday of lung trouble. He leaves a wife and six children. O. K. Ritchey has taken advantage of the new bankrupt law by filing a petition in bankrupty. His liabilities are given at 85,000. The St. Joseph’s ball club was at Winamac last Wednesday to play the Winamac team. They were defeated by a score of 2 to 11. Albert Overton went to Lake Geneva, Wis., Friday, to attend the Y. M. C. A. conference as a delegate from the American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Mo. An Odd Fellows’ lodge of some 85 members was instituted at Parr Monday night by District Dept. Grand Master L. H. Hamilton and the floor team of the Rensselaer lodge. The Monon excursion to Indianapolis Sunday was an Immense one. Rensselaer furnished 188 passengers. Hammond furnished the largest crowd, over 800 going from that point. Trusee Bill, of Jordan township, let the contract Monday for a new school building in District No. 1. Wortley & Fenwick were the lowest bidden, 8624, and the contract was awarded to them. Wm. Daniels is laid up with injuries received in being thrown from a wagon to which a frightened team was hitched. He fell on his shoulders and one rib was torn from its ligaments. James Comer, a former Jasperite, but now of Oklahoma, is visiting his brothers, Steve and Barney and other relatives in this county. He left Jasper county nine years ago and has prospered in his new western home. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Major, J. E. Wilson, B. F. Fendig, Walter White, Fred Phillips, Walter Porter, Frank O’Meara, B. K. Zimmerman, Georgs Scott, 0. W. Rhoades, Dan Waymire, Delos Thompson and others attended the Derby at Chicago Saturday. The will of the late Henry Mackey has been filed for probate. All the property is willed to his widow, Mrs. Sarah A. Mackey, with the provision that at her death the property is to be divided equally among their three children, except that a certain amount advanced to his son, Wm. H. Mackey, be deducted from his share. The last named is made executor of the will. At the residence of T. F. Clark, superintendent of the county farm, on Wednesday evening of last week, the marriage of Mr. Lewis M. DeVault, of Monon, and Mrs. Cora Hopkins, of Rensselaer, took place. About twentyfive guests were present. Rev. A. G. Work, pastor of the Presbyterian church, officiated. Mr. and Mrs. DeVault will make their home In Lafayette.

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