Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1902 — THINGS IN GENERAL! [ARTICLE]

THINGS IN GENERAL!

Happenings Around the Prairie City. TIMELY TOPICS TERSELY TOLD! Bows Items Caught or the Run and Served While Warm Without Trimmings or Embellishment. Local and Personal Notes" Mrs. G. A. Strickfaden is visiting in Chicago. J. 0. Chilcote is now clerking in a store at Mt. Ayr. Mrs. Charles Grow is visiting her parents at Wolcott. Gnns and gun supplies at Lee & Poole’s, McCoysburg. A full line of the finest candies at J. H. Cox’s news stand. White and colored mounting board for sale at the Journal office. Leave your orders for daily papers and magazines with J. H. Cox. D. A. Stoner is at Sbarpsville, acting as judge in a poultry exhibit. The public sale season has opened. Get your sale bills of the Journal. The Chicago Bargain Store is converted into fairy land. A. McCoy and Mrs. A. L. Berkley arrived home from Missouri last Friday. Mrs. J. F. Major went to Chicago Monday to attend the wedding of a cousin. The merchants are enjoying their ■Bual rush of business previous to the holidays. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Brubaker, of Parr, last Saturday. Perry Griffith has opened a barber shop in Dr. Horton’s new room on Cullen street.

Mrs. Jaoob Raub, of Obalmers, ipis the guest of Mrs. Hettie Reynolds tbis week. John Jones, the busman, answers all calls day or night. Your patronage solicited. Dr. Anna Franois opened an office in Rensselaer Monday for the practice ®f osteopathy. W. O. Sbead has sold his residence property on River street to E. L. Hollingsworth. Harvey Qrant, ofDeMotte, is moving into the D. L. Richardson property •n Cullen street. Candies to 40c per pound at the Chicago Bargain Store. W. C. Hopkins is making arrangements to move to Washington Territory in January. W. O. Shead has sold his news business to C.H. Vick. He is intending to go to Wisconsin. Misses Ida Milliken and Fannie Andrews, of New York, are the guests <®f Rensselaer relatives. Mrs. A. Gangloff has been called to Washington, III.;’ by the dangerous sickness of her daughter. T. F. Lang, of near Surrey, departed for Florida Tuesday, where he expects to locate permanently. J. E. Alter and Dave Yeoman left yesterday for Florida, where they will spend some weeks in recreation. Father 0. A. Gauzer, pastor of the Catholic church at Kentland for many years, died last week of consumption.

Gall on John Jones, the busman When you want to make the train. All calls promptly attended to. Phone 557. Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Farmer, after an extended visit with their parents in this vicinity, departed for their home at Yukon, Okla., Tuesday. See or telephone Joe Jackson, the busman, when you want to go any place. Prompt attention given to all •alls. Day or night.

Mrs. J. M Troxell is visiting in DeMo tte. The deftincL Goodtand Citizen outflit passed through town last Saturday on the way to Francesville, where a new paper is being started. A rummage sale was held by the Ladies of the Christian cbnrch last Friday and Saturday. It was well patronized and obout S6O was cleared. Schoolteachers’ headquarters for candies, nuts, fruit, etc., at the Chicago Bargain Store. Yonr attention is called to the joint public sale ad of Lowman & Yates in another column. This will be one of the largest public sales held in this vicinity this year. 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. Great tonic, braces body and brain, drives away all imparities from your system. Makes yon well. Keeps yon well. Rooky Mountain Tea. 35c. B. F. Fendig.

It excites the wonder of the world, a magic remedy, liquid electricity, that drives away suffering and disease. Rocky Mountain Tea. 35c. B. F. Fendig. Frank Davis, former editor of the Goodland Citizen, states that be hopes to revive the Citizen again the first of the year. Better wait until the county seat is moved to Goodland, Frank. I’ll brave the storms of Ohilkoot Pass, I’ll oross the plains of frozen glass, I’ll leave my wife and cross the sea, Rather than be without Rocky Mountain Tea. B. F. Fendig. The Indiana University Glee Club will be here again December 29th. Their previous entertainment here was well received and their r* turn engagement will probably be well patronized. Wanted— A married man, middle aged preferred, with no children, to work on the farm by the year, and board from one to four hands. Inquire of C. P. Moody, Pleasant Grove, Ind.

The fire company was again called out Friday forenoon. A hot furnace pipe set fire to the -basement ceiling but the slight blaze was extinguished before the arrival of the company. T. W. Grant, of Rose Lawn, has bought the Paris Daugherty farm south of town. Alvin Clark will be the tenant. Mr. Daugherty will move to the Big Horn country, in Wyoming. The small pox epidemic in Lake county is still growing, the oold weather having the effect of bringing out several new cases. Three new patients were taken to the pest house at Hammond in one day last week.

Dyer, Lake county, will hold an election December $2 to vote upon the question of incorporating into a town government. Hon. Johannes Kopelhe* of Grown Point, is at the head of the incorporation movement. Two hundred and fifty trainmen, conductors, firemen, brakemen and switchmen on the Three I railroad will reeeive an advance in wages amounting to an average of more than 10 per cent beginning January Ist.

Marshal Abbott was hustling for reelection last Saturday. He was out with a snow plow about four o’clock in the morning, and did not quit work until late in the afternoon, when every sidewalk had been gone over with the plow. Elmer Dwiggina, a former Rensselaer boy, but who has been for some years in Buenos Ayres, South America, visited relatives here Sunday. For the past six months he has been representing a New York insurance company in Paris. From here he joined his w.ife in Remington. Elmer expects to locate permanently in this oonntry now—probably in New York. His brother Jay is still in South America in the merchantile business.

Jacob Groet, one of tbe prominent Hollander farmers of Keener township, was in the city on business Monday. Himself and wife are making arrangements to take a trip to Holland, their native country. They left there twenty-two years ago. Tbe oounty board of education at its last meeting passed a resolution ordering all schools of the connty to close for the holiday vacation for a period long enough to inolnde both Christmas anp New Years, and all teachers are expeoted to obey this resolution. The Wise Tramp company didn’t materialize here last week, as advertised. Tbe company had also failed to show up at Rensselaer and Monon. They must be tramp, tramp, tramping in single-file along the highway for city winter quarters.—Winamac Journal. The Peabody tract of marsh land in Starke connty sold last week for sllO,000 or $52.80 per acre. Ten years ago the land was unsaleable on account of being so swampy that it was useless for agricultural purposes. The change in value was made by the deepening of the Kankakee and Yellow rivers. Here are some of the picturesque names of characters in “Tbe Tide of Life,” to be presented at the opera honse this evening: Ike Lott, Hungry Hank, Bumper Bill and Charlie tbe Dude. The play is as amusing as these names indicate, with sensationalism enough in it to make yon remember it for months. News was received here last week of the death of Miss Jnlia Smith, a former resident, on December 3rd, at her home in Kutawah, Ky. Miss Smith and her sister Elizabeth, who died in 1896, lived here for many years, their residence being just north of the M. L. Spitler place. They moved to Kentucky about eight years ago. Miss Smith was about 87 years of age at the time oi her death. Jadge and Mrs. S. P. Thompson and daughter Edna departed on a pleasure trip to the southwest Monday evening. They have not jnst determined at what points they will visit, but their first stop will be at St. Lonis. They will travel by day only and visit such points as they decide upon while away. Mr. Thompson has promised the Journal some interesting letters of his travels, which will be published in these columns. They will be gone all winter.

The entertainment given by the public school at the opera house for the purpose of raising money to pay for a piano for the lower grades was a success in every particular. The house was crowded and the net reoeips were about 950. The pleasure of the evening, however, was marred to a considerable extent by the action of a certain rough element in the gallery, which was allowed to go on unchecked. And still some "people wonder why shows are not better patronized in Rensselaer.

The poultry dealers have been paying 13 cents a pound for turkeys the past week. This Is nearly double the pricq paid last year. The strong competion has caused the local dealers to pay Chicago prices this year. Last week a New York dealer, who has heretofore secured his poultry from a former dealer here, dropped into town and being unable to secure a supply from the present dealers, a turkey war started and the price soon jumped from 11 to 13 cents. The farmers are not complaining, however, and those who have h crop of turkeys are reaping a harvest.

Only four oar loads o,f hard coal have been received in Lafayette since the strike. This fact would make it look like Rensselaer does not stand much chance of getting a full supply this winter. One big coal company in Chicago has plaoed a card in the Coal Traders’ Journal stating that they could not answer all the inquiries for anthracite coal and that for the dealers to lay in a good supply of soft coal as it would be many weeks before there would be much hard coal shipped to this section. The card states that the conditions in the east are worse than in the west. “When the Puritans,” says an exchange, “landed on Massachusetts Bay, the old Indian kipjft Massasoit, taught them to cultivate corn, planting three grains in a hill and in rows at right angles to each other. From that time to this there has been no change in this arrangement of importance, until a Kansas man made one this year. He began a 50-acre field, planting a row of corn in a continuous cirole, and had a row 25 miles long. His object was to attain a curiosity, but he found that his long row was a time saver, as there was no turning at the ends of the field. How he got out of the field when the dinner horn sounded is not stated.”