Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1903 — THINGS IN GENERAL! [ARTICLE]

THINGS IN GENERAL!

Judge Parker reckons Mr. Bryan’s support of great value. Mr. Hill has a contrary opinion and advocates a sound money fight on Bryan in Nebraska and throughout the south and west. The United States Steel corporation is preparing to expend f 36,000,000 for improvements. This ought to cause considerable anguish among those who view the growth of American manufacturing interests with alarm. Senator Chauncey M. Depew, in his speech before the National Republican Editorial association at Washington, declared that “it is not what congress, or a legislature fails to do, but what it does that, ordinarily, injures the country.’’ This sentiment is commended to those who are excited because the Indiana legislature at Its session just closed failed to enact a large number of laws. The Democratic leaders who are advancing the argument that the American people will be willing to elect a Democratic president next year because the senate will remain Republican anyway and will block anything the administration may attempt to do, display a thorough understanding of the amount of confidence the people of this country have in the ability of Democratic leadership to make a mess of things if they should be given a free hgnd. • Delaware has at last elected two Republican senators. As the result of the struggle for supremacy among factional Republican leaders, in that state, Delaware has lost two years of representation in the highest lawmaking body of the land. The spirit of compromise which has at last taken possession of this factional leadership would have come with better grace two or four years ago. The futility of factionalism was never better illustrated than in the Delaware case, and the history of politics in that little commonwealth is. an object lessson for Republicans everywhere. The Republican party is greater than the ambitions of any leader. Despite the fact that the number of laborers in the Pennsylvania coal field already exceeds the demand by 25 per cent, it is said that the anthracite combine is importing workers from southern Europe in violation of the contract labor law. This brings to mind the fact that the anthraolte operators have brought their own trouble upon themselves by persisting in importing alien labor until there is not enough work for each man on the copy-rolls to ensure the earning of living wages. To defy popular sentiment may be an amusing performance for the coal barons, but recent proceedings ought to convince even a person so callous to public opinion as Mr. Baer, that it is not safe to keep whistling into the business end of a loaded gun.

Daily 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. A cigar factory has been opened at Monon. Remnant sale this week at Murray’s store. Judge Hanley is bolding court in Eentland. Ed Oatt spent Sunday with a friend in Monon. * Mrs. W. S. Parks visited in Remington the past week. Miss Clara Robinson has been visiting in Indian apoliß. Special 10 per cent off on all kinds of shoes at Murray’s. Frank Kressler began work on his new bouse this week. Mr. and Mrs. B. Forsythe are in Chicago baying goods.

A son was born to Mr. and. Mrs. John Albertson Monday. Wall paper and house paints at Lee and Poole’s, McCoysburg. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Maloy Sunday. Leave your orders for daily papers and magazines with J. H. Cox. W. A. Rinehart, of Queen City, Mo., visited relatives here this week.

Miss Mary Meyer spent Sunday at Danville, 111., with her brother Frank. Mrs. Charles Nichols and Miss Edna Dillon are visiting in Lansing, Mich. Miss Ollie Palmer, of Frankfort, acted as court stenographer last week. The public sale season has opened. Get your sale bills of the Journal. Earnest Middleton, of South Bend, visited friends here Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. 0. Hildebrand and Miss Mary Hordeman have been visiting in Lafayette. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Vermont Hawkins, of Anderson, Saturday. C. E. Nowels is at McOoysburg for the purpose of completing Lee & Poole’s elevator. The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Nuss, of Barkley township, died last Friday.' Representative Wilson and John W. Walker arrived home from Indianapolis yesterday. J. L. Turner, formerly of Carpenter township, is back from Colorado for a few days on business. Miss Abbie Wempe, of Cincinnati, was here to attend the trial of her fathor, Edward Wempe. It is said the water is now so high at Shelby that the inhabitants have to reach their houses by boat. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Holmes, of Pulaski county, have been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Warner. James Matheson last week purchased 35 acres of land just north of the corporation line, fronting Prairie street and Matheson Avenue. The price was $3,500. J. W. Paxton returned from Colorado Tuesday and it is reported that the second national bank will soon be established in Rensselaer in the Makeevar room now occupied by the Purcupile millinery establishment.

The schools and churches have been closed at Medaryville owing to smallpox. There are two cases in the town. A full line of the famous Devoe paints, at Lee & Poole’s McCoysburg, Ind. J. H. Cox solicits your laundry trade. Call np phone 351 and yonr bundle will be called for. Special remnant sale of all kinds of piece goods, calicoes, muslins, dress goods, etp.,,at Murray’s store. Mr. and Mrs. Simon Kenton arrived home from an extended visit with their daughter in Arizona, last Thursday. John May and brother Charlie departed last Thursday for the Klondyke, where John is interested in a gold mine. Miss Orrie Clark is home from Lafayette for the pupose of nursing her mother, Mrs. E. L. Clark, who is sick with the grip. A. 0. Scott has moved here from Illinois and now occupies the former Fred Waymire farm, which be purchased some time ago. News has just reached here of the birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Manley Bark, at their home near Loganeport, March 6th. Non-trust goods always save you money. We can save yon money on a non-trust binder this year. Lee & Poole, McCoysburg, Ind. A. Lewis, the cigar manufacturer, now of Lafayette, will move to Hoopston, 111., where he intends to establish a branch factory. Another case of smallpox has made its appearance at the Day witt home, near Parr. The latest victim is a young man by the name of Rondabush. 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. Charlie Morlan visited his little son Forest in Chicago on Sunday. It is thought that the boy’s condition will be such that he can be brought home in about two weeks. Puts roses in her sauoy cheeks, Makes her eyes grow bright with fun, Makes months seem like weeks; That’s what Rocky Mountain Tea has done. John Brady, proprietor of the Brady ranch, near Rose Lawn, was in the city Tuesday on business. He is making arrangements to have a big pnblie stock sale next Friday.

The Monticello Evening Journal has been sold to Ed F. Newton, editor of the Monticello Herald. He will publish both papers until the expiration of his lease for the Herald. Qreat spring tonic. Drives out all impurities. Makes the blood rich. Fills you with warm, tingling life. A spring blessing is Rocky Mountain Tea. 35 cents. B. F. Fendig. Last Sunday the following members were added to the staff of the Christian church congregation: Eder, Charles W. Coen; deacons, A. L. Branch, Albert Brand, Charlie Grow. Notice spring opening ad, Monday, March 16th to Saturday, March 28th. Chicago Bargain Store. Makes mother eat, makes father eat, makes grandma eat, makes grandpa eat, makes the children eat. Rocky Mountain Tea does it. A great spring tonic. 35 cents. B. F. Fendig. John Makeever is making arrangements to erect two more frame buildings on east Washington street. E. J. Murray, the steam fitter, will occupy one of the buildings and the other has been rented to a dressmaking establishment. Notice the decorations, grand spring opening, Monday, March 16th, to Saturday night, March 28th at the Chicago Bargain Store. John Hack & Son have purchased a new Featheratone dredge, with a yard and a half wide dipper, which with the cabins, engine room, coal bins, etc., will bring the cost up to $9,000. The dredge is of the latest improved make. They also purchased a dynamo and will light their old boat by eleetric light. They have $40,000 worth of dredging on hand at present. —Lowell Souvenir.