Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1902 — THINGS IN GENERAL! [ARTICLE]

THINGS IN GENERAL!

Dally Happenings Around the Prairie City. IffIELY TOPICS TERSELY TOLD! News Items Caught on the Run and Served While Warm Without Trimmings or Embellishment. Local and Personal Notes. D. B. Nowels baa returned to Lamar Colo. Rev. A. G. Work was at Brookston Monday. Miss Nellie Imes spent Sunday in Monticello. * Mrs. Charlie Parker is visiting at Roseville, 111. Mrs. Henry Randle is visiting her daughter in Chicago. A full line of the finest candies at <2IH. Cox’s news stand. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kays Friday. Joe Reynolds, of Delphi, visited his mother here Sunday. Guns and gun supplies at Lee & Poole’s, McCoy sburg. T. R. Daugherty has moved back to his farm southeast of town. Mrs. A. Lewis, of Lafayette, is visit* mg in Rensselaer this week. Leave your orders for daily papers and magazines with J. H. Cox. Powder 20c, shot 7c at Lee & Poole’s hardware store at McOoysburg. Mrs. W. J. Miller has returned to her home at Battle Creek, Mich. BlaUkets, robes and whips at Lee Jc Poole’s, McOoysburg. John Sharp is now working for a poultry dealer at Morocco. Geo. Barcas & Co. shipped a horse stocks Friday for England. The stove and coal dealers report a Big business in their lines this week. L. O. Richardson, of McCook, Neb , Is the guest of his sister, Mrs. L. Kaub. Father Babb has goDe to Reedsburg, Wis», to spend the winter with his sister; Thia paper and The Ohicago Weekly JbterOoean $1.40 for one year. * ‘Special deal.” The Ohicago Bargain Store is telling Rs annual holiday story in the Journal this week. Miss pianebe Hoyes visited her sister Mary at Aurora, 111. Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Mary Drake went to Ohicago Monday to attend the funeral of her ancle, John Oonly. The city council will meet in the assessor’s room of the court house during, cold weather. John Daugherty has rented the Sullivan House at Delphi, and moved there last week.

Cooney Kellner has rented the room formerly occupied by Carmichael’s harness shop for a pool room. Mrs. John Karsner, of Ohicago, is the guest of her daughters, Mrs. Peter Giver and Mrs. Harry Wiltshire. A. McCoy and Mrs. Dr. Berkley left on Friday for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Rinehart at Queen City, Mo. Call on John Jones, the busman when you want to make the train. All calls promptly attended to. Phone 257. Rev. Aspy, of Anderson, will preach at the First Baptist churoh Sabbath morning at 10:45 a. m. and 7 o’clock p. m. next Sunday. See or telephone Joe Jackson, the busman, when you want to go any place. Prompt attention given to all calls. Day or night. Alice Day witt, daughter of Barney Day witt, of Fair Oaks, died on Monday of inflammation of the bowels. The funeral was held Tuesday. J. M. Lewis has resigned the office of justice of the peaoe of Barkley township. This leaves M. P. Comer the only Justice in the township. Joseph Yeoman had a very severe attack of sickness Monday and for a time was unconscious, but at this writing is improving very nicely. Wanted: Manager for new branch of our business here in Rensselaer. Address at once, with references, Alfred Morris, Wholesaler, Cincinnati. Ohio. For the benefit of our subscribers in Cuba, the Philippines and other tropical countries we will Bay that we have been having zero weather this week. ~lt excites the wonder of the world, a magio remedy, liquid electricity, that drives away suffering and disease. Rooky Mountain Tea. 35c. B. F. Fendig. Earl Reynolds, of New York, visited his mother, Mrs. Hettie Reynolds, here last week. Sunday night he departed for New Orleans for a stay of a few weekß.

, It is now in order for the Remington Press and Wolcott Enterprise to stop “chewing the rag” over that game of foot ball that failed to take place on Thanksgiving. The bulletin of the state board of health for the month of October shows that there were seven deaths in Jasper county during the month, only one of which took place in Rensselaer. I’ll brave the storms of Ohilkoot Pass, I’ll cross the plains of frozen glass, I’ll leave my wife and cross the sea, Rather than be without Rocky Mountain Tea. B. P. Pendig. Advertised Letters: Mrs. Jane Wenric, Miss Alice DeWitt, Mrs. Lizzie Pass, Nicholas Wolf, Mr. Asa Hinkle, W. A. Porter, F. T. Dolsen, Prof. Jas. W. Clemons, Mrs. Jennie Howell, W. T. Oox, J. H. Stopleton. Qoodland has brought suit in the Newton circuit court to compel the county council and commissioners to do their duty in the eonrt house removal matter. The case will be beard at the January term. Ellis Jones, of Carpenter township, late Democratic candidate for treasurer, and Miss Hattie Besse, of Remington, were married last Wednesday afternoon at the home of the officiating clergyman, Rev. O. D. Royse, of Rensselaer. L. H. Hamilton, at the recent meeting of the Grand Lodge of Odd Pellows at Indianapolis, received the reappointment as district deputy grand master for the subordinate lodge and 8. 0. Irwin to the same position for the Encampment. Hon. A. A. Winslow, of Hammond, who has been consol at Liege, Belgium, for the past six years, has been promoted to the position of consul general at the city Gautamala, Central America. At one time Mr. Wilslow was engaged in the newspaper business at Lowell. The report that has been circulated that the oase of the State vs. Jacob Y. Wallick has been dismissed is incorrect. The case is set for hearing on the fourth Monday of the present term of eonrt. Another case that was on the docket against Mr. Walliok was dismissed and that is supposed to have given foundation for the report. —Montioello Herald.

People of Indiana pay $1,000,000 annually to maintain the courts in this state. The per capita expense amounts to about 40 cents. Over 35,000 cases are disposed of annually. Change* of venue cost $32,000; salaries for prosecuting attorneys, $29,090. For grand and petit juries the sum of $280,000 was paid.

The farmers of northern Indiana have begun to husk their corn crop in earnest, and they discover that much of the corn has moulded in the shock owing to , the extreme wet weather at the time of Cutting. Many farmers who expected (he greatest corn crop in years will be disappointed when they are ready to market their corn. Not all of the corn is mouldy, but much of the crop is affected.

Judge Baker, of the Federal Court at Indianapolis, administered punishment to two farmers of Newton county who were caught in the possession of plaster parts molds to make' counterfeit dollars, quarters and nickles, and also some of the spurious money. Alvin Merrill, of Lake Village, received a sentence of nine months, and Oscar Sorrenson, of the same place, ninety days, in the Marion county workhouse. Sentence was pronounced Monday afternoon. The men said they had been induced to go into the business by a man named Nottingham, who escaped arrest. The court believed this and minimized the punishment.