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 Miss Louise Harmon is visiting in Pontiac, 111. For fine job work call at the JOURNAL office. Ed Heath, of Oxford, is visiting rel atives here. There are sixteen cases of smallpox in Hammond. Mrs. Ellen Thompson is sojourning at Winona Lake. N. J. York and family, of Monon, are visiting relatives here. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Fay, of Parr, Monday. Jesse Nichols has gone to West Baden for the benefit of his health. Company M. will participate in a sham battle at Lowell on the Fourth. John W. Ulrey, of Washington. D. C., is visiting relatives in this vicinity. J. R. Kight, formerly of Rensselaer, has been appointed postmaster at Thayer. This paper and The Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean f 1.40 for one year. “Special deal.” Trees that will grow are the kind that S. E. Yeoman sells. Give him your order. Miss Helen Kelley, who has been teaching school in Michigan, returned home Tuesday. Frank Moore, of Indianapolis, visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Moore, Monday. Philip Blue and family and Mrs. Louella Phillips have moved into the latter’s rebuilt house on Weston street. Mrs. Flick and daughter and Miss May Banning, of Cleveland, 0., are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Hollister. We have added a complete line of buggy dusters, fly sheets, and buggy harness pads. W. R. Lee, McCoysburg. Isaac Morgan, of Kingman, Kans., is the guest of his mother, Mrs. Mary Morgan, and his brother, George L. Morgan.

L. H. Hamilton is attending the semi-annual meeting of the County Superintendents’ Association at Indianapolis. Something special? Sure thing. The Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean and this paper f 1.40 for one year. Ask us what it means. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Vanatta, of Marion, visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Vanatta, last week, returning home Monday. When you say “oil” Lee, the McCoysburg hardware man, is right in the deal. He has anything and everj - think.that you can want along the oil line. If you want nursery stock that wil grow, give your order to S. E. Yeoman, who is now taking orders for fall delivery. All stock guaranteed. Tell us why a druggist offers you a substitute for the Madison Medicine Co’s Rocky Mountain Tea. Does he love you or is he after the bigger profit? Think it over. B. F. Fendig. The June crop report to State statistican Johnson shows the condition of grain in Indiana to be good. Wheat 78 per cent, oats 88 per cent, corn 76, timothy 76, potatoes 90. You’ve got to hustle all the time to keep in the swim. If you are slipping down the ladder of prosperity, take Rocky Mountain Tea Makes people strenuous. B. F. Fendig. S. E. Yeoman, the fruit tree agent, can be found at Worland’s buggy store in Rensselaer every evening and on Saturdays, where he will take pleasure in showing samples and taking your order for the best nursery stock in the country.

Mr. Louis Paulsen and Miss Lilian Greve, of Wheatfield, were united in marriage last Sunday evening. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs John Greve, of Wheatfield. Advertised Letters:—Mr. Jteese Clinton (2), Robert Davidson, Harry Fietcher (2), Miss Viola Reed, Miss Mary Witt, Henry Weiler, Miss Rosa Doll, Miss Mabie Wilbur. Walking shoes 50c, 75c and SI.OO per pair at the Chicago Bargain Store. We have over stocked in oil and gasoline stoves and are anxious to reduce our line. Hence will sell either kind on a close margin for the next 30 days. W. R. Lee, McCoysburg. Mrs. Elizabeth Brown has let a contract to Rush & Warren for a SI2OO residence on Kannal street. It will be occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Oren Parker, who will move here from Chicago. Binder twine only 11% c. per lb. and guaranteed good as any made or money back at the Chicago Bargain Store. 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 stock is guaranteed and stock dying will be replaced free of charge. Judge and Mrs. S. P. Thompson took their little son Simon to Chicago Monday to have an operation performed on the latter for the benefit of his hearing. They were accompanied by Dr. I. B. Washburn.

Frank Schroer and Miss Nellie Barkley, of Barkley township, were married at the residence of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Barkley, in that township, last Sunday afternoon. Rev. J. L. Brady, of Rensselaer, officiated. Binder twine is of better quality and less in price than Chicago catalogue houses at the Chicago Bargain Store. Joseph Broadhead, Blue Mound, 111. after having given Bailey’s Laxative Tablets a good thorough trial says they are the best thing for constipation and liver troubles. They clean out the sewers of the body, purifying the blood and invigorating the system. Pleasant and effective. Price 10 and 25 cents at A. F. Long’s.

Deputy Revenue Collector Elam has received notice from the Internal Revenue department that dealers in oleomargarine, renovated butter and adulterated butter must pay a yearly tax as follows: Manufacturers <f oleomargarine butter, $600; adulterated butter, $600; renovated butter, SSO; wholesale dealers, oleomargarine (colored any shade of yellow) $480; adutlerated $480; uncolored product exclusively, $200; retail dealers, S4B; adulterated butter, S4B; oleomargarine (uncolored product exclusively) $6. Wholesale and retail dealers in oleomargarine paying the higher rates of special tax may sell either colored or uncolored oleomargarine or both.