Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1902 — THINGS IN GENERAL! [ARTICLE]

THINGS IN GENERAL!

Daily Happenings Around the Prairie City. TIMELY TOPICS TERSELY TOLD! Ntws Items Caught on the Run and Served While Warm Without Trimmings or Embellishment. Local and Personal Notes. The Barkley township schools all began Monday. Mrs. J. B. Sayler is visiting in Frances ville. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Williams spent Sunday in Delphi. Simon Phillips is visiting relatives at Greenfield, Ohio. John Wolfe, of Alphonse, was here Saturday on business. Willie Stone was taken to the reform school Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. John Brown are visiting at North Platt, Neb. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Day Friday. A son was born to Frank DeMoss and wife, of Newland, Sunday. Mrs. Margaret Bobinson and son Warren are visiting in Lafayette. G. O. Barnes, of Kokomo, is the guest of his sister, Mrs. J. A. Larsh. J. H. Chapman is attending the G. A. R. encampment at Washington, D. C. Harold Clark returned to Indianapolis Saturday tp resume his studies. A daughter arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Overton last Thursday.

The finest lot of lumber that has yet been on, at Lee’s yard, at McOoysburg. A. F. and Ed Long have purchased the old Paxton farm in Newton township. This paper and The Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean $1.40 for one year. “Special deal.” John Jones, the busman, answers all calls day or night. Your patronage solicited. T. H. and Abel Grant and Mrs. R. O. Hemphill are visiting at Garden City, Kans, Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Long departed Sunday for a visit in Washington and New York City. Frank O’Meara will enter his running colt, Jack Orr, in the Chicago derby next year. The Tommy Grant homestead in Newton township has been sold to James R. Parkinson. Rev. J. L. Brady is visiting his old home in Pennsylvania and will visit Washington before his return. Mrs. Charles Robinson is representing the Rathbone Sisters at the session of Grand Lodge in Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Parks and daughter, of Sandwich, 111., are the guests of W. S. Parks and family. Mrs. Candace Laughridge and Mrs. J. H. Chapman are visiting Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Henkle, at Lewiston, Pa. Monday, November 3, is the last day for paying the fall installment of taxes without the penalty being added. E. J. O’Connell and A. E. Wallace, of Chicago, were the guests of Misses Maude Irwin and Lillian Roberts Sunday. Call on John Jones, the basman, when you want to make the train. All calls promptly attended to. Phone 257. Sheriff Hardy escorted Lee Richards to the reform school Thursday. Lee seemed perfectly satisfied to enter the school. R. B. Porter, P. W. Clarke and E. G- Warren are attending the session of the K. of P. Grand Lodge at Indianapolis. t Dr. I. M. Washburn contributed $3.10 to the school and other funds last week for riding on the sidewalk with his bicycle. Prof. Dentinger’s three children have the whooping cough and Mrs. Dentinger has been sick with pleurisy and malarial fever. See or telephone Joe Jackson, the basman, when you want to go any place. Prompt attention given to all calls. Day or night. Sunday’s Chicago excursion was patronized by 143 persons from this point, notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather. Mrs. J. O. Porter and Miss Maude Healey are visitiDg in Washington, D. C. and attending the G. A. R. National encampment. Stevens’ garments are the best. Call and see samples of ladles’ tailor made salts, cloaks, furs, dress skirts and silk waists. Genevieve Spbigg. I will take pleasure in calling at yonr residence and showing samples of Stevens’ fine line of ladies’ tailor made suits, cloaks, fare, dress skirts and silk waists. Telephone 174.

GENEVIEVE SPRIGG.

A. B. Rowley, of Mitchell, 8. Dak., who is a member of the Barons Horae Stocks Co., is here for a few days looking after his interests. There is still good fishing on the Kankakee. Dr. K. J. gxnn»i landed the largest piokerel Sunday caught there this year. It weighed 8£ pounds. Yes, the Journal prints sale bills and has the best equipped office in Jasper county for doing this class of work. Get our prices before placing your work. She’s a radiant, witching, wondrous gem, that beautiful blushing wife of mine. She is an angel on ’earth, so you can be, only take Rooky Mountain Tea. B. F. Fendig. , The Repnblicans of Milroy township will nominate their township tioket next Saturday. The convention will be held at Center school honse at 2 O’clock. Miss Grace Peterson, who is an experienced trimmer from Gage Brothers, Chioago, is now employed at Miss Mary Meyer’s millinery establishment. gt We are now prepared to suit the pnblio with all the latest styles of millinery at very low prices. All new goods. Please give us a call. 31. Mary Meyer. T. J. McCoy has purchased a naptha launch for use on the Kankakee river at a cost of S3OO. It is also reported that Mr. McCoy is contemplating building a club house at the river. O ye peoplel have ye wasted the golden moments of never returning time in taking a substitute ior the genuine Rocky Mountain Tea made by the Madison Medicine . Co. B. F. Fendig. Ex-auditor Murray has bought 15 acres of land adjoining the Rensselaer Stock Farm on the west of Grandmother Robinson. Mr. Murray intends to convert it into a fruit and truck farm. John Kohler has sold his residence property near the jail, the former Comer House, to L. Strong and Warren Robinson for $3,000. There are two lots in the tract and some day they will command a high price for business purposes. 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. Joe Marshall, after seeing considerable service in the Philippines as a calvalryman, returned home Sunday. He was mustered ont of the service ip July and has spent the intervening time in the mountains of Nevada for the benefit of his health. Mrs. Christina Stibbe died at the home of her son Michael Stibbe, in Union township, last Saturday at 9 p. m., at the age of 87 years, 10 months. The funeral was held Monday afternoon at the German Lutheran church in Union township. The interment took place the Schultz cemetery. There are but a few persons who understand that when they are driving along the public highway and some one drives up behind them it is as much their duty to turn out and give half the road and let them pass as it is when you meet them. This is not only good law but is right in morals and etiquette. The Republicans of Qarpenter township have nominated the following ticket: For Justices of the Peace, G. B. Chappell, Chas. Bonner Jr., Bert Stiller; Constables, Robert Shearer, Wm Thurston, J. G. Tharp; Township Advisory Board, George Welch, Robert Irwin, Jack Hudson. v Roy McKinsey is now the happy entertainer of a dear little visitor which arrived last Friday. It’s a daughter and will do its best to keep papa busy stepping on tacks while he hunts up soothing syrup. “Yes, I’m the family baby, And oh, the day I came They did the greatest talking, A-fluding me a name.” Remington’s centenarian, Mrs. Mary Wilkins, celebrated her 103rd birthday Monday of last week and is apparently as strong physically as she has been for the past several years, but her mental powers are weakening. Mrs. Wilkins was born in the county of Tyrone, Ireland, Sept. 29th, 1799 and is probably the oldest lady in the state of Indiana. She enjoys the rare distinction of having lived in three centuries, the close of the eighteenth, entirely through the nineteenth and the commencement of the twentieth. The Barcas Horse Stocks Co. increased the force at their factory Monday from four to six hands. This factory will grow to considerable proportions before many months unless we miss our guess. They cannot secure castings fast enough to fill the orders as they come in. At present they are seventeen machines) behind in orders and every week brings in additional ones. The stocks sell for $65 each and the orders for machines will average not less than one per day. It will pay one to visit their factory, which is located north of the railroad near the depot.