Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 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. 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.