Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 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 All 6c lawns at 3Jc yd. at Laßue’s. The oyster season is again at hand. All 60c neckties at 39c at Laßue’s Closing Out Sale. Mrs. John Eger is visiting her sister at Rosedale. Wash goods at your own price at Laßue’s Closing Out Sale. Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Laßue spent Monday in Monon. 10,000 yards of new calicos at 4c yd. at Laßue’s Closing Out Sale. Miss Helen Murray is visiting in Indianapolis. J. W. Medicus has gone to Chicago Heights to work at plastering. All 25c neck ties at 19c at Laßue's Closing Out Sale. Mrs. C. E. Newell and children spent Sunday in Rose Lawn. All hats and caps at 50c on the dollar at Laßue Bro’.s Closing Out Sale. Miss Maude Grant, of Chicago, is the guest of Rensselaer friends. Shoes of all kinds at 50c on the dollar at Laßue’s Closing Out Sale. E. L. Hollingsworth and family have returned from Michigan. If you are looking for bargains call and see Laßue Bro’s. Everything at cost.

Mr. and Mrs. Scott Barkley, of Roscabel, Wis., are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ike Porter.

600 men’s shirts, $1 to $1.25 value, all new patterns at 87c at Laßue’s Closing Out Sale.

Miss Mary Hoyes, of Aurora, 111., has been the guest of her mother, Mrs. Hester Hoyes. The old settlers’ meeting will be held one day, Saturday, Sept. 20, 1902, in Van Rensselaer Grove.

500 men’s shirts, 50 to 75c value, choice patterns, at 35 to 43c each at Laßue’s Closing Out Sale. Charlie Murray has returned to Oklahoma to look after his claim and put in a crop of wheat. We are selling 24 pounds extra (J sugar for SI.OO aud 21 pounds Granu lated tor SI.OO. Laßue Bros. Company L, Third Regiment, under whose auspices the carnival was given at Delphi last week, cleared enough to lift its armory debt. Fresh car salt just received at s6Bc per barrel, best quality, won’t get hard in barrel at Laßue’s Closing Out Sale.

The Delphi street carnival is said to have been a very thin affair, in no particular being up to the high standard of the one given in Rensselaer. Try a sack of Occident flour, no better made, only 88c a sack. Every sack warranted, at Laßue’s Closing Out Sale.

Rensselaer will be taxed to its utmost next week to entertain the visit ing preachers and chickens with yellow legs will be in great demand.

It looks like Laßue Bros, mean just what they say in regard to closing out from the prices they are making on all their goods.

There was such a demand for rigs at Rose Lawn last Sunday to go to the river fishing, that the hearse was used to transport a party of fishermen. Now is a good time to buy goods of all kinds. Price our goods and see how much lower than any place else in town. Laßue Bros.

Mrs. Biggs, of south of town, has our thanks for a basket of the finest apples we have seen this year. They were Wine Saps and a dozen would fill an ordinary size basket. The Boy’s Brigade of the Christian church will give an ice cream social on the lawn east of the church this evening. The proceeds to be nsed in securing uuiforms. All invited. The Brook Reporter claims to be following the orders of the connty central committe in the stand it has taken against the Republican nominee forjudge. The only papers that are fighting Mr. Hanley are the Kentland Enterprise and the Reporter. The Enterprise wants a Kentland man for judge, no matter whether a Republican or Democrat, just so long as he lives in Kentland, and for this reason is attempting to elect the Democratic nominee. The Reporter editor is said to be heavily in debt to the Enterprise firm, and is ouly obeying their commands in fighting Mr. Hanley, instead of the commands of the central committee.

The Rensselaer horses are at the fair this week. A big assortment of corn knives at Lee’s at McOoysburg. lima Robinson has entered a business college at Indianapolis. A fine car of yellow pine just in at Lee’s yard at McOoysburg. Mrs. A. J. Abbott is recovering nicely from her recent sickness. For Rent —A new six room cottage in Rensselaer. S. P. Thompson. Miss Cecil Morgan is visiting her sister, Mrs. O. Finuey, at Elwood. Miss Stella Neal, of Vallisoa, lowa, spent Sunday with the family of E. L. Clark. This paper and The Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean $1.40 for one year. “Special deal.” Mr. and Mrs. B. Forsythe were in Michigan Sunday investigating the peach crop. 1,000 yards ginghams, worth 6 to 7o per yard for 5c a yard at Laßue’s Closing Out Sale. It is now lawful to shoot wild ducks —if you oan find them. The closed season ended Sunday. Rev. and Mrs. T. A. Hall took dinner Sunday at the home of Philip Clouse, south of town. The Odd Fellows’ school of instruction is in session here this week. Will H. Talbott, of Orleans, is the instructor.

Joe Bilile, of Goodland, has been placed in jail here to serve out a fine for drunkenness imposed in Newton county.

The city is now entirely under Republican control. Mayor Ellis, Clerk Morlan, Treasurer Chapman and Marshal Abbott having taken their seats Monday. A nice line of stoves to be on sale this week, at the McCoysburg hardware store. If you are going to bny a cook stove soon, don’t flail to see the ones in this assortment.

Mrs. J. F. Warren and Mrs. A. W. Cole are visitihg at Glencoe, 111. Mrs. Warren will be joined there by her husband, and from Glencoe they will go to Petoskey, Mich., for a few weeks’ stay.

Owing to the inability to pump the water from the oil well at Water Valley the well has been abandoned, but other wells will be drilled, It is stated. It is also said that a test well will be sunk near Rose Lawn.

Advertised Letters: Miss Edna Wood, Chas Neime.ver, Oscar Wnishy, Albert W. Pnrsel, Frank D. Mearce, Elmer Humphreys, 11. E. Hefner, Dr. W. R. Abbett, Dr. Chas. A. Davis, Miss Rosa Callaghah Frances W. Brown, Miss Jennie Brunswick.

Press Roberts, ofnearlMt. Ayr, after a three year’s rest, has again gone into the melon raising business and although this is a poor melon year in this vicinity owing to the spring rains, he has a good crop and will visit Rensselaer twice a week during the mqion season.

The >asr. payment of the second series of the Rensselaer Building, Loan and savings Association was made this week and the affairs of the association will be wound up at once. This series was ten and one half years in paying out. Each share is now worth IJ2OO. The monthly payments were §1 per share. It is not probable that another association will be formed, which is to be-regreted, as such an association.is of much benefit to the poorer classes. Many of the neighboring towns have what is called perpetual building and loan associations, which are a success and such an institution should bo formed in Rensselaer. An association of this kind lakes in members at any time, which could not be done by the as sociations as formed here.