Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1903 — THINGS IN GENERAL! [ARTICLE]

THINGS IN GENERAL!

Dally Happenings Around the Prairie City. TIMELY TOPICS TERSELY TOLD! News Items Caught on the Run and Served While Warm Without Trimmings or Embellishment. Local and Personal Notes. / Mrs. Mary Drake is visiting in Chicago. Remnant sale this week at Murray’s store. Miss Grace Morgan spent Sunday in Chicago. Mrs. R. E. Scott is visiting in Medaryville. The commissioners’ court will be in session next week. Miss Blanche Kenton, of Indianapolis, is visiting here. A full line of the finest candies at J. H. Cox’s news stand. Ed O’Connell and All Walace, of Chicago, spent Sunday here. Mrs. W. C. Milliron, of Monticello, spent Sunday in Rensselaer. Leave your orders for daily papers and magazines with J. H. Cox. Al Ramey’s pension has been increased from $8 to $lO per month. Bruner & Merry are putting in a telephone exchange at Remington. Mrs. W. H. Stephenson and W. M. Moore spent Sunday at Monticello. Miss lone Hunt, of Hammond, was the guest of Mrs. W. G. Slagel Sunday. The public sale season has opened. Get your sale bills of the Joubnal. Charlie Chapman, of South Bend, is the guest of his brother, J. H. Chapman.

A full line of the famous Devoe paints, at Lee & Poole’s McOoysburg, Ind. A 10 pound boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. I. L. Jones, a mile east of Surrey, Monday. This paper and The Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean $1.40 for one year. * ‘Special deal.” Sheriff Hardy has so far improved from his injuries as to be out on the streets again. Protracted meeting is being held at the M. E. church by the pastor, Rev. Clarence D. Royse. Misses Mattie and Katie Chupp, of Surrey, were the guests of Miss Mary Hoshaw over Sunday., Try Murray’s store for shoes. You can save money and get the best wearing goods made. Rev. A. G. Work has been at Monticello this week assisting in a revival at the Presbyterian church. W. O. Florence is moving to near Mexico, Mo., this week, where he has purchased a farm of 135 acres.

J. H. Oox solicits your laundry trade. Call up phone 351 and your bundle will be called for. Judge Hanley has been unable to hold court this week on account of sickness caused by vaccination. Special remnant sale of all kinds of piece goods, calicoes, muslins, dress goods, etc., at Murray’s store. Frank Hardy, of Oklahoma, has been visiting his brother, Sheriff Hardy and other relatives here. Father Andrew Geitl has returned from Ohio and will again take charge of the printing office at the college. Wm. Vedder has bought the T. J. Say let farm of 100 acres in Newton township. Consideration $55 per acre. Mr. and Mrs. Warrem Washburn, of Goodland, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Dr. I. B. Washburn over Sunday. Hennessey, the prize fighter, was fined SSO at Monticello last week for participating in the Wolcott prize fight. The meetings at the Christian church will close Friday evening. From here the evangelist will go to Hammond. Delphi is said to be on the verge of a big boom, as several large factories have been located by the commercial club, it is said.

Dr. J. W. Horton spent the past two weeks visiting in the gas belt. The Rathbone Sisters are making arrangements to give a rummage sale March 13th and 14th. John G. Moritz, of Wheatfield, will apply for a renewal of saloon license at the March term of the commissioners court. G. F. Meyers, the Kniman real estate man, was in the city Monday. He will move to Rensselaer about the middle of March. See or telephone Joe Jackson, the busman, when you want to go any place. Prompt attention given to all calls. Day or night. Charlie Morlan arrived home from Chicago Sunday. He reports his son Forest getting along very nicely from his recent operation. Non-trust goods always save you money. We can save you money on a non-trust binder this year. Lee & Poole, McCoysburg, Ind. Dr. A. J. Miller will visit Parr on Tuesday and Friday of each week, until further notice, commencing on February 24. Office at Dr. Kirk’s drug store. “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 anthracite miners have voted to raise $75,000 and give it to John Mitchell. This doesn’t look very much as though these fellows are working for starvation wages.

The old Free Baptist church building is being moved to its new location at the end of Van Rensselaer street, where it will be fitted up for the use of the Protestant Methodists. Baby sleeps and grows while mamma rests if Rocky Mountain Tea is given. It’s the greatest baby medicine ever offered loving mothers. 35 cents. B. F. Fendig. Wm. Burns, ofUnion township, was in town Monday with the hides of three old bears which he recently killed. Two were killed in Jasper county and one in Newton county. 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.

The Kentland Democrat says there is no one living in that town by the name of George Jordan, and if a citizen of that town went to sleep in a Chicago theatre he gave a fictitious name. The prospectors for coal near Wolcott have given up the project as a bad job, after drilling 300 feet at an expense of SI2OO. They are satisfied that there is no coal to be found in that vicinity. The Uniform Rank K. of P. has elected the following officers: Erastus Peacock, captain; J. J. Hunt, Ist lieutenant; U. J. Dean, second lieutenant; N. W. Reeve, treasurer; Jesse E. Wilson, recorder. Blackford postoffice over in Jasper county was discontinued Friday because no one could be found to act as postmaster. Who said the Jasper county people all wanted office?— Monticello Herald.

Persons mailing letters for delivery on rural routes should remember it takes two cents and not one cent. Failure to affix a two cent stamp causes delay and the payment of one cent by the person addressed. The “Cluster of Diamonds’’ production at the opera house Monday night came to a close after the first act. Two of the members of the troupe became intoxicated and as the play could not proceed without them the admission money was refunded and the audience dismissed.

Rex and Guy Clifton, of Chicago Heights, visited relatives and friends here the first of the week. The ladies of the M. E. church will give a rummage sale in Eger’s shop Friday and Saturday. The Newton county seat removal case came up for hearing before Judge Palmer at Monticello the latter part of last week. He took the case under advisement and will not render a decision for a week or two. “The Spy of Gettysburg,” which was to have been given here by Monon talent last Friday evening, was not produced. The troupe took fright at the small number of tickets sold, and failed to appear. The first meeting of the Pulaski county institute will be held at Medaryville Friday and Saturday. The state workers at the institute will be D. B. Johnson, of Mooresville, and O. F. Lane, of Bainbridge. The citizens of Fair Oaks are(trying to locate a pickle factory there, as are the citizens of Rose Lawn, Wheatfield and other points. An acreage of 150 acres is necessary for the location of one of these receiving plants. W. H. Parkison has been selected high counselor of the Independent Order of Foresters for Indiana. This is a high honor as well as a lucrative position. Mr. Parkison will look after all cases for the order in Indiana. Sunday was the 39th anniversary of the institution of the K. of P. lodge in Rensselaer. The order attended services in a body at the Presbyterian church, and listened to a sermon appropriate to the occasion by Rev. A. G. Work. Owing to the large increase in the membership of the Christian church, the congregation is talking a new church building. If built, which is very likely, the building will be of brick and will occupy the site of the present place of worship. Hard coal still retails here at $9 per ton, and some of the dealers have quite a supply on hand and are retailing it to customers from near-by towns. They do not care to parry a stock over at the present prices and are hustling to get rid of theft present stock. There are eleven new cases of smallpox in Union township, but they are all confined to the Moffitt, Garriott and Hopkins families where the disease first appeared. It is not thought the disease will spread any further, as all necessary precautions have been taken to stop it where it is.