Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1902 — THING IN GENERAL! [ARTICLE]

THING IN GENERAL!

Daily Happenings Around the Prairie City. HHELY TOPICS TERSELY TOLD! flews Items Caught or the Pun and Served While Warm Without Trimmings or Embellishment. Local and Personal Notes Mies Dora English is visiting in Monticello. All 50c neckties at 39c at Laßue’s Closing Out Sale. Simon .Leopold has bought a grocery store at Wolcott. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Amsler are visiting in Illinois. All 25c neck ties at 19c at Laßue’s Closing Out Sale. ■Mrs. E. C. English and son Harry are visiting at Danville, 111. Wash goods at your own price at Closing Out Sale. 10,000 yards of new calicos at 4c yd. at Laßue’s Closing Out Sale. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Robinson visited in Delphi over Sunday. Mrs. B. F. Ferguson and daughter Ethel are visiting in Monticello. Mr. and Mrs. H. Ballard, of Lebanon, are visiting relatives here.

A ten pound son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Peter Wagner Friday. Mrs. E. D. Rhoades is the guest of Mrs. C. D. Martin, in Cincinnati. See the ad of R. E. Flander’s public sale of stock in another column. Mrs. J. F.-Hardman and son Frank /•eturned from Wisconsin Monday. Shoes of all kinds at 50c on the dollar at Laßue’s Closing Out Sale. Dave Warren, of Auburn, Neb., is visiting friends and relatives here. Millinery Opening, Oct. 2, 3 and 4. 2 fc - Miss Mary Meyer. All hats and caps at 50c on the dollar at Laßue Bro’.s Closing Out Sale. Every stove fully guaranteed when you buy an Anchor of Lee, at McCoys--hurg. Mrs. Nicholas Krull, of Monon, is visiting her parenrs, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Ramp. If you are looking for bargains call and see Laßue Bro’s, Everything at cost. The 3 I. railroad has discontinued its Sunday excursions to Benton Harbor, Mich. 500 men’s shirts, $1 to $1.25 value, all new patterns at 87c at Laßue’s Closing Out Sale. This paper and The Chicago Weekly znter Ocean $1.40 for one year. “Special deal.” Mrs. Ira McCord, of Indianapolis, is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Haus.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Willey, of Kansas, are visiting his sister, Mrs. I. J. Porter, and other relatives. Don’t forget that Lee has any thing you want in paint and oil at McOoysburg. Mrs. H. T. Bott and children, after a short visit with friends here, joined Mr. Bott at Joliet, 111., Sunday. 1,000 yards ginghams, worth 6 to 7c per yard for 5c a yard at Laßue’s C losing Out Sale. 1 Mrs. E. R. Mason, after a visit with relatives here, returned to her home .at Grand Rapids, Mich., yesterday. - 500 men’s shirts, 50 to 75c value, -.choice patterns, at 35 to 43c each at Laßue’s Closing Out Sale. A car load of hard coal was received at Brook last week, and it was retailed out to consumers at $7 per ton. We are selling 24 pounds extra C sugar for SI.OO and 21 pounds Granulated for SI.OO. Laßue Bros. Bids for the contract for the construction of the Newton county court .house at Goodland are again being advertised for. They will be opened Wednesday, November sth.

Mrs. W. H. Gardner has a severe attack of pleurisy. Don’t buy a cook stove until you see the Anchor line at Lee’s at McCoysburg. A son has been born to Rev. A. L. Ward and wife, formerly of Rensselaer, but now of Martinsville. Farm for Rent—Bo acres 5j miles southeast of Rensselaer. Address T. W. Grant, Rose Lawn, Ind. 4 t. South Bend will again try her strength on the foot ball gridiron with the Rensselaer team this year. Rev. Hall began a series of talks on the literary structure of the bible at the Christian church last evening. Try a sack of Occident flour, on better made, only 88c a sack. Every sack warranted, at Laßue’s Closing Out Sale. Two more car loads of peaches were received here yesterday. They are selling at a lower price this week than last.

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. Mrs. Sherman Renicker and children have joined Mr. Renicker at Bedford, Wis., where they will make their future home. Fresh car salt just received at 68c per barrel, best quality, won’t get hard in barrel at Laßue’s Closing Out Sale. Ed Moon has accepted a position in Judy & Wood’s blacksmith shop at Parr and will probably moye there with his family. Mrs. Charles Platt has returned from the mineral springs. Her rheumatism was benefitted but little by the treatment. 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.

Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Thompson, Mrs. D. G. Warner and Mrs. J. H. Larsh visited over Sunday and Monday at Benton Harbor, Mich. The post office department is about to issue a new 13 cent stamp. It will bear the likeness of the late President Benjamin Harrison. The Newton County Citizen, the new Democratic paper at Goodland, made its appearance last week. We welcome it to our exchange table. Stevens’ garments are the best. Call and see samples of ladies’ tailor made suits, cloaks, furs, dress skirts and silk waists. Genevieve Sprigg. Fred Chilcote has been appointed to a position in the railway mail service, under the civil service rules. He began work as extra man out of Cincinnati. If you are going to make a sidewalk don’t fail to use Glazed Sidewalk Brick. They make the cheapest and best walk. For sale by Donnelly Lumber Co. R. P. Johnson joined his family here Saturday, and on Monday went to Chicago, where he expects to go to work for the Western Union telegraph company. Trevor Eger, one of last year’s graduates of the public schools, has entered Wisconsin University for a four years’ course in the commercial department. Miss Grace Peterson, who is an experienced trimmer from Gage Brothers, Chicago, is now employed at Miss Mary Meyer’s millinery establishment. gt

Lump coal for threshing at $3.25 per ton at the Donnelly Lumber Co. The 9:55 train was delayed here over an hour Sunday by the breaking of a part of the engine. The train could not proceed until another was secured from Monon. 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.

A big rattlesnake was killed in front of W. S. Richards’ residence in the east part of town, Saturday. This is the first rattler that has been killed in Rensselaer for some time. Ray D. Thompson is making arrangements to move his office into the rooms over the Commercial State Bank October Ist, which he will occupy jointly with G. K. Hollingsworth. B. 8. Fendig is moving into his recently purchased residence at the corner of Washington and Front streets, formerly the Ludd Hopkins property. Byer Bros., the big commission firm of Rochester and other points, have rented B 8. Fendig’s old quarters and will open a poultry and egg establishment therein. We are now. prepared to suit the public with all the latest styles of millinery at veiry low prices. All new goods. Please give us a call. 3 t. Mary Meyer. C. W. Duvall has purchased J opes’ bus line and will give prompt attention to all calls day or night. Remember him when you want to make or are coming home from a visit.

J.ohn Medicus, now of Chicago Heights, spent Sunday in Rensselaer. He says he has a good job of plastering there that pays him $4 per 'day and he is well pleased with his location. Drs. English, Johnson and Kressler operated upon Miss Celina Switzer, of Barkley township, last Wednesday for the relief of a chronic pelvic disease. She is getting along nicely since the operation. When once liberated within your system, it produces a most wonderful effect. It’s worth one’s last dollar to feel the pleasure of life that comes by taking Rocky Mountain Tea. B. F. Fendig. The former Renicker farm, in Barkley township, has again changed hands. August C. Stanffenberg, of Manhattan, 111., is the latest purchaser at $9,300, or S6O per acre, an advance of $lO per acre since spring. I will take pleasure in calling at your residence and showing samples of Stevens’ fine line of ladies’ tailor made suits, cloaks, furs, dress skirts and silk waists. Telephone 174. Genevieve Sprigg.

Grandmother Livingston returned to her home in Crown Point after an eight days’ visit with her daughter, Mrs. A. C. Pancoast and family in Newton township. Mrs. Livingston will spend the winter in Oklahoma. Dress does not make the person. Nor does a clean exterior indicate a clean interior. To be well all organs of the body must work in harmony. Rocky Mountain Tea does this work. B. F. Fendig. Ellegro Loverna Moon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Moon, died last Wednesday, at the age of one year, three months and 13 days. Rev. J. A. Cochran conducted the funeral at the residence Thursday. Interment took place at Weston cemetery.

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. Advertised Letters: John Trit, W. M. Powers, Joseph O’Connell, Billie Orren, Miss Hester McCoy, Edmond Myers, W. P. Lewis, J. M. Jackson, I. B. Hughes, B. W. Harrington, Earl Gray, Mrs. Helen J. Gibbs, Frank Bezpolis. Genuine Rocky Mountain Tea made by the Madison Medicine Co., is made of rare and costly herbs not found in any other preparation, therefore get the kind you read about. B. F. Fendig. The Republican campaign I was opened in Jasper county last Saturday evening at the opera house in Rensselaer by Hon. A. N. Grant, of Indianapolis. The opera house was crowded with a well pleased and attentive audience. The eener township Republicans will m et in mass convention next Saturdi y at 2 P. M. for the purpose of nominating two justices of the peace, two constables, three road supervisors and three members of the township advisory board.

Delos Coen, of Rensselaer, who graduated lasfc jear from the Highland Park Academy, this week entered Yale College for a four years’ course, at the conclusion of which he may decide to take the law course. His father, C. W. Coen, accompanied him to New Haven. The action of| the town board in granting a franchise and free right of way through the town to Robert Parker as agent with power to assign same to any responsible corporation that may wish to build an electric line of road through our town, was in the best interests of the town, and we trust such a line through the fertile regions of Benton county connecting us with the Monon at Rensselaer, anc passing by Fountain Park may be the result, as we have reason to expect it will be at no distant day.—Remington Press.