Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1903 — THINGS IN GENERAL! [ARTICLE]

THINGS IN GENERAL!

ftaity Happenings Around the Prairie City. ÜBELT TOPICS TERSELY TOLD! lews Items Caught on the Run and Served While Warm Without Trimmings or Embellishment. Local and Personal Notes Ur. and Mrs. T. J. Sayler, of Lamar, ®ote., are visiting friends here. Eugene Spitler is visiting his sister 31 Tipton. Mrs. Orlando Finney returned to Ewood Tuesday. A daughter was born to Mr. and Fred Bird last Thursday. Mrs. J. A. harsh is visiting her parsots at Kokomo. Mrs. Wm. Greenfield is visiting in Kemhigton. Lawson Meyers was home from Chisago Sunday. Galvanized bushel baskets at Lee & ftxde’s, McCoysburg. Philip Blue’s pension has been in«re»sed to sl2 per month. A full line of the finest candies at 18. Cox’s news stand.

The public sale season has opened. ®ei your sale bills of the Journal. Mark Foresman, of Brook, has been admitted to the bar of Newton counEd Mills was home from Purdue Sunday to spend the day with his par ants. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Vanatta, of Fowler, are visiting Rensselaer relatere». Mrsi G. K. Hollingsworth and son Tbomae visited in Englewood over Snday. This paper and The Chicago Weekly ArterGteean $1.40 for one year. “Speciedeal.” Jerry Healy is contemplating attending the Mardi Gras at New Or--IKUB. G A. Strickfaden got home irom Chicago Monday night, and he wasn’t “teat” either. Dr; Bernie Maloy, of Chicago, is naitiag his parents, Mr. and Mrs. JunesMaloy Mrs. W. H. Stevenson has gone to Oucago to make her home with her daughter Jessie. W. C. Hopkins will depart for his Insure far western home in Washingtern next week.

The Commercial State Bank will be »dy toebange into a national bank •bout April Ist. Miss Ella Ritchey went to Anderson. Jkmday, where she will probably Bake her home. Owing to bad weather the wolf hunt •tar Monon has been postponed until Thursday of next week. A. B. Rowley, of Mitchell, S. D., was here looking after his business aoierests this week. George L. Morgan is acting as janito at the court house during the abM»ee of Janitor Morion. Mr. and- Mrs. Joseph Corns, of Darlington, have been the guests of Hr. and Mrs. Frank Foltz.

J. H. Cox solicits your laundry trade. Call up phone 351 and your handle will be called for. The annual delinquent tax sale took place Tuesday. Sixty-eight pieces of was estate were disposed of. John Daugherty, the Lowell cemetery wrecker, was fined SSO and sentenced to six months in jail. John Jones has disposed of his hack line to James Rush, of Monon, who Will take* possession March Ist. A'hneJwmt drop head sewing ma--«&ine the McOoysburg Hardwares Lee dt'Pdole, proprietors.

Master Robert Johnson, of Lafayette, visited this week with his grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. E. L Clark. Mrs. Mary Osborne, of Remington, mother of Mrs. W. S. Parks, died Sunday night, on her 82nd birthday. Harry Beck, of the Gifford region, has moved to town, and occupies the Spitler tenant property on Weston street. Misses Orrie Clark, Anna Werkhoff and Grace Jakes, of Lafayette, spent Sunday with Misses Myra Clark and Mary Weathers. The Ladies’ Aid Society of the M. E. church will give a rummage sale in Eger’s shop on Friday and Saturday, February 27 and 28.

Ike Tutuer is making arrangements to attend the Mardi Gras at New Orleans. He will leave for there the latter part of the week. Miss Lora Rhoades has succeeded Miss Ella Ritchey as chief operator of the toll lines of the Jasper County lines centering here. An election has been called in Newton county to vote for the proposed Chicago, Terre Haute and Southern Railroad. Two per cent is asked.

The value of property in this vicin ity is decreasing rapidly, owing to the fact that it is about time for the assessor to begin making his rounds. Moody & Roth have purchased for $560 the six acre tract of land west of the Eiglesbach slaughter house belonging to the estate of M. F. Chilcote. John White, of Union township, has purchased the interest in the Halleck telephone line of the late James Halleck and is now a half owner in the system. Charles Moriah took his son Forest to a Chicago hospital Monday, where an operation will be performed upon the boy for a bone trouble in the arm and hip.

Commissioner Halleck, ofDeMotte, is making arrangements to become a resident of Rensselaer and will move here as soon as he finds a suitable residence The annual convention of the Lincoln League of Indiana will be held in Indianapolis today and Friday. Jasper county is entitled to len representatives.

H. P. Overton is making arrangements to move to Hammond in the near future, where he has taken a position as bookkeeper with an elevator company. “What’s the matter, old man? Been losing on wheat?” “No, not that, forgot to take Rocky Mountain Tea last night. Wife said I’d be sick today.” 35 cents. B. F. Fendig. The Blue-Phillips property on Weston street has been rented to Dr. Merrill. TJbe property now occupied by Dr. Merrill will be used by its owner, W. E. Moore, as a residence. Pimples, faded complection, chapped skin, red, rough hands, eczema, tetter, bad blood, cured in a short time, with Rocky Mountain Tea, the complection restorer. B. F. Fendig. The meetings at the Christian church are arousing much interest in religious matters and the church is not large enough to hold those desiring to attend the meetings. Up to date about twenty-five accessions have resulted.

The first death from smallpox in Hammond took place Monday. The victim was the two weeks’ old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herman. It was afflicted Wfth -confluent smallpox, its mother haying had the disease when it was born. Hammond has had 110 cases of the disease during the past season.

The firm of Atkinson, Warren & Henley, of Oklahoma City, of which J. F. Warren, formerly of Rensselaer, is resident manager, is about to establish a national bank in that city under the management of Mr. Warren. Gotlelb Makns, of Union township, died Tuesday morning, at theage of 57 years, 5 months and 19 days. The funeral was held yesterday afternoon at the German Lutheran church by Rev. Bauer. Interment took place at the Schultz cemetery. Mrs. Sarah Brown, mother of Dr. H. L. Brown and Mrs. E. O. English, of Rensselaer, died at her home in Danville, 111., Tuesday morning at the age of sixty-three years. Her children were with her when death came. The funeral will be held today at Urbana, 111.

At last the deal has been consummated by which W. 0. Milliton leases the Leopold room, now occupied by Warner Brothers, for a lunch room. Mr. Milliron will move back from Monticello when the room is vacated by the present tenants, which will be some time next month. The commissioners of Newton county have hired attorneys at the expense of the county to defeat the expressed wish of 65 per cent of the voters of the county in the Goodland county seat case. A rare spectacle indeed, when tax payers have to pay the bills to fight themselves. Mr. James A. Watson, of Gillam township and Miss Myrtle M. Bell, of Francesville, were married at the home of the groom’s brother, Lou Watson, of this city, at 3:30 p. m., Thursday, Feb. 5, 1903, Rev, J. A. Cochran performing the ceremony. Only a few relatives were present.

Anson Chupp has purchased the Widow Florence property on Van Rensselaer street, nearg the school buildings, for $1,600, giving as part payment his property on Weston street, which has been sold to J. 0. Passon. Anson, after making some improvements, will occupy the property as a residence. Mrs. Florence will make her home with a sister in Lafayette.

The divorce case of Ester B. Rariden vs. Elliott Rariden, a case first brought in White county, then venued to Jasper and from here sent to Newton county, was tried last week. It resulted in a divorce being given to defendant, and a finding that the plaintiff is entitled to alimony in the sum of SI,BOO and S2OO for attorney’s fees. The defendant was granted an appeal to the appellate court. '* Logansport is to have a new morning newspaper. Austin D. Fansler, city clerk, and David Loftus, his deputy, are at the head of the project, and already have secured contracts for over seven hundred yearly subscriptions, payable when the machinery is installed, which is to be by January 1, 1904. The paper is to be democratic and will be known as the Logansport Daily Democrat.

“Jack Orr,” Frank O’Mera’s colt which is entered for the American derby this year, is Indiana’s only representative. Frank stands to win nearly $26,000 if he starts his horse in the race, but as there are 120 entries his chance of winning is aboutas good as it, would be of winning the capital prize in a lottery. Out of the 120 entries it is thought that about a dozen will start in the race.

• ' O. K. Ritchey and E. F. Pullins, the Mammoth bronze turkey raisers, exhibited nine birds at the fourth annual exhibition of the Fanciers’ Association of Indianapolis in that city this week, and were very successful in carrying off prizes. They won the following premiums: Ist on cock; 2nd, 3rd and 4th on cockerells; let, 3rd, 4th and sth on hens, and Ist on breeding i pens in an exhibit of about 50 birds.

Goodland has purchased a chemical fire engine and a fire bell, but has no fire company to operate the engine. This reminds ns of an incident that happened in another Indiana town some time ago. The town was not provided with even a bucket brigade to fight fires, but as fire after fire took place, the council woke up and spent S4OO for a bell and tower, but forgot to provide any means of fighting the fires. And to this date the town has no fire protection other than the tower and bell.