Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1902 — THINGS IN GENERAL! [ARTICLE]

THINGS IN GENERAL!

Daily Happenings Around the Prairie City. TIMELY TOPICS TERSELY TOLD' News Items Caught on the Hun and Served While Warm Without Trimmings or Embellishment. Local and Personal Notes. Mrs. Bruce White is visiting in Indianapolis. Eugene Spitler is here from Lafayette for a short visit. Taylor Boicourt, of Wolcott, spent Sunday with friends here. James Mead, of Chicago, visited over Sunday with friends here. Beyer Bros, have established a branch poultry house at Goodland. Mrs. Gertie Robinson is spending the week with relatives in Lafayette. The public sale season has opened. Get your sale bills of the Journal. Mrs. Mark Yeoman and children, of Kigman, KaDs., are visiting relatives here. This paper and The Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean f 1.40 for one year. “Special deal.” Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wood, of Wolcott, spent Sunday with their parents here. Mrs. Elizabeth Brown and Mrs. Rebecca Porter are visiting relatives at Knox.

J. B. Workman, the tax ferret, was here Saturday looking after business interests. John Jones, the busman, answers all calls day or night. Your patronage solicited. Mrs. M. L. Spitler is visiting her daughter, Mrs. F. B. Learning, at Goshen. Mrs. Amanda Lewis, of Oxford, is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Berry Paris. Mrs. Henry Little, of Arcadia, was the guest of her niece, Mrs. W. O. Hiatt, last week. Dick Hartman is still very sick with typhoid fever, but is showing gradual improvement. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Tilman Watson, of Pleasant Grove, Tuesday. Miss Grace Pulver has returned to Danville, after a visit with her sister, Mrs. P. W. Clarke. Miss Lizzie French was home from Goodland Sunday to spend the day with her parents. The oil company at Water Valley will drill another well one-half mile east of the Monon track.

Mrs. O. M. Allen, of Kalamazoo, Mich., is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth. Miss Blanche Kenton, of Indianapolis, is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Kenton. Mrs. Wright, of Monon, and Mrs. J. C. Beaver, of Francesville, are the guests of Mrs. O. E. Hershman. Mrs. Dr. Sharrer and Miss Emma Noland, of Francesville, were the guests of Mrs. R. B. Harris last week. Mrs. E. O. English has returned from Danville, 111., where she was called by the sickness of her mother. Mrs. Fred Waymire has returned from the springs near Attica. She was much benefltted by the treatment. Monday, November 3, is the last day for paying the fall installment of taxes without the penalty being added. Call on John Jones, the busman, when you want to make the train. All calls promptly attended to. Phone 257. Lloyd Lambert, aged seven years, of Union township, fell from a horse Sunday and broke his left arm below the elbow. See or telephone Joe Jackson, the busman, when you want to go any place. Prompt attention given to all calls. Day or night. Advertised Letters: Miss Lulu Antrim, Geo. W. Boosie, Miss Lon Body, Mr. John Oust, Mrs. Fred Brower, Miss Ella Mix.

Miss Mary Weathers spent Sunday in Remington. Mrs. J. W. Williams attended the district meeting of the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society at Monon this week. Squire Bussell officiated at the wedding of Frank DeMoss and Lillie L. Britton, a Gillam township conple, on Wednesday afternoon of last week. In the game of foot ball between the Rensselaer and Monticello high school teams last Saturday Rensselaer was defeated by a score of 11 to 6. Stevens’ garments are the best. Call and see samples of ladies’ tailor made suits, cloaks, furs, dress skirts and silk waists. Genevieve Spbigg. Dr. Merrill’s family, who have been living in Hammond, joined him here this week. They will occupy Squire Moore’s property near the electric light plant. 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. If you want nursery stock that will grow, give your order to S. E. Yeoman, who is now taking orders for fall delivery. All stock guaranteed. 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 Rocky Mountain Tea. B. F. Fendig. H. J. Kannal, Republican, and U. M. Baughman, Democrat, have been appointed election commissioners by Clerk Major upon the recommendation of the county chairmen. The commissioners of Lake county have been asked to grant a franchise for an electric road to connect Shelby, Lowell, Cedar Lake, Crown Point, Hammond and Hobart with Chicago. Matt Worden has moved back to Rensselaer from Remington, after a residence of several years at the latter place. The report that he has purchased a harness shop here is a mistake. The contract for a new bridge across the Kankakee river at Water Valley has been let to John Hack & Son, of Lowell, for $3,200. The bridge is to be completed on or before December 31, 1902. “Little Jasper,” T. J. McCoy’s new naptha launch, was launched on the Kankakee last Sunday in the presence of a large number of that vicinity, and also of Rensselaer. The launching was entirely successful. The Goodland elevator, which was destroyed by fire last week, will be rebuilt. The loss not covered by insurance will be about $15,000. About 30.000 bushels of oats were saved in a slightly damaged condition. B. S. Fendig, having moved into his new quarters at the river bridge, with his greater facilities, is now prepared to pay the highest market price for poultry, eggs, hides, etc. Would be glad to have his old friends call.

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 Speigg. The marriage of JohnH. Webber and Miss Riffle Norris took place last Thursday in the east part of town in a residence fitted up for the purpose by the groom. Squire Troxell officiated in the presence of a few guests. 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 tak* pleasure in showing samples and taking your order for the best nursery stock in the country. The Moore vs. Porter case has been compromised out of court. ' Mr. Moore takes the property at the original contract price, Mrs. Porter allowing him credit on the SSOO originally paid. She receives in addition to the S6OO originally paid, $2,000, with interest from March 1, 1901. 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 tobacco tag business has grown to such proportions that a Frankfort barber is giving a shave for ten tags. Down at Vincennes a“ girl allows two good healthy hugs for every ten tags brought in. Already she has enough tags to get nearly anything needed in a home. The hugs aren’t all gone, either. Wesley Price, of Barkley township, was fined $lO and costs, $27.60 In all, by Squire Troxell Tuesday, for whipping Othel Caldwell, an 8 year old boy, who had been left in Price’s care by the boy’s father, Allen Caldwell. Price came home drunk and beat the boy so severely that the bruises still show. The members of the county central committee In Iroquois township— Morton Ulrey, Luther Lyons and Fred Foresman—have filed a written request with the chairman of the republican central committee asking that the committee be called together to reconsider the judicial question.— Goodland Herald.

John Jones, of White county, another Iroquois ditch viewer, has resigned his position, as the amount allowed by law for the work, $2 per day, hardly pays expenses. It is thought that some arrangement will have to be made to pay the viewers more for their services before any one will accept the job. To the ladies: The new line of samples of ladies’ tailor made suits, cloaks, furs, dress skirts and silk waists of Chas. A. Stevens & Bros, have been received and are ready for your inspection. Call at residence, 112 N. Franklin street, or telephone 174. Genevieve Sprigg.

If you feel bad, out of sorts, sluggish, constipated, bilious, pale, sallow complection, you should take a course of Bailey’s Laxative Tablets; mild, pleasant, effective and natural in action. They are a tonic, invigorator and blood purifier. They are a new discovery. A tablet at night will make you feel fine in the morning and energetic. 10 and 25 cent packages at A. F. Long’s. Jesse C. Prudum, of Jordan township, and Miss Lulu Maxwell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Maxwell, living northwest of town, were married last Thursday noon at the residence of the bride’s parents, Rev. T. A. Hall, pastor of the Rensselaer Christian church, officiating. Mr. and Mrs. Prudum will make their home in Jordan township. Lewis 8. Alter, of Remington, was in Kentland yesterday giving an official inspection to about 1,500 feet of cement walk that has been completed on Allen street. Mr. Alter informs us that the proposed railroad from Remington to Rensselaer will not be an electric line, but instead the power used will be furnished by the new gasoline motors being manufactured by Senator Wolcott’s company at Logansport.—Kentland Enterprise.

There will be an eclipse of the moon tonight. For five hours the moon’s light will be partly or wholly smothered by the earth’s shadow. The opportunities for observation are expected to be first-class, since the eclipse will be visible all over the U. 8. Shadows will begin to creep over Luna’s face about 10 p. m. Complete darkness, however, will not ensue until an hour and a half later. For two hours the eclipse will be complete. At the first county Republican central committee meeting some of the same members who are now laboring to defeat their own ticket engineered a resolution endorsing the candidacy of one man forjudge, thus practically cutting out every other aspirant in the county. Now they are asking these men who were “knocked out,” and their friends, to assist in the defeat of Mr. Hanley, who secured the nomination over their protest. Magnificent politics, isn’t it?—Goodland Herald.