Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1897 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a Paragraph. | Daily Grist of Local Happenings Classified Ender Their Respective Headings. TUESDAY. A little son of Abe Wartena is quite sick with a fever. O. K. Yeoman returned today from a trip to Champaign, 111. Miss Hattie Yeoman spent Sunday and Monday at Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Omar C. Ritchie returned home to Anderson, today. Miss Violet McNett, of Chicago is visiting Miss Mary Meyer this week. Lowell and Gertrude Taylor, of Wolcott, visited friends here .yesterday. Bruce White and wife are attending the state fair at Indianapolis this week. Taylor Boicourt, of Wolcott, has accepted a position as clerk at the Chicago Bargain store. Clyde Comer is visiting his father and attending the state fair at Indianapolis this week. On account of the warm weather, Manager Ellis has decided to close the opera house until Sept. 27. Mr. and Mrs- E. P. Honan visited in Kentland over Sunday, going and coming by the overland route.

Mrs. Chas. Gundy, of Fair Oaks returned to her home yesterday after a few days visit with Mrs. Jos. Kight. The Stock Farm’s horse, Red River, will race at the state fair, today. Delos Thompson went down to see him go. A two year old infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Cooper, of Barkley Tp., died Monday. The funeral is held today, and interment in Prater cemetery. “Warmer with a hot wave today, followed by a rising temperature.” This is not just the way the w eAther bureau states it, but that is about the way it turns out. M. L. Spitler Jr. went to Crawfordsville, today, to begin his fourth and last year’s work at Wabash College. The Evening Republican will keep him right up to date in Rensselaer matters. Miss Ida Gibson returned to Lafayette yesterday, after a few days visit with her aunt Mrs. Mary C. Hopkins. She can not return to her missionary work at New Orleans until the yellow fever quarantine is lifted.

A three month’s old infant son of Mr. and Mrs. John Francis, living three miles west of town, died of brain fever yesterday. The funeral is held today, by Rev. C. D. Jeffries. Interment is made in Weston cemetery. Mrs. J. H. S. Ellis has gone to Marion to attend a party given by one of her special friends. She being one of a company of six who meet every year at the residence of one of them. She will also visit relatives in White County.

Frank and Bernard Maloy are well pleased with their surroundings at Notre Dame University. Frank’s job is maily to keep track of the trunk room, while Bernard is foreman of the University'printing office. Only a few hours work each day is required of them. Mr. and Mrs. S. H. ELowe and daughter Agnes, of Dwight, 111., after visiting her brother, James Pierce, south of town, and friends and relatives in Rensselaer a few days this week, returned home today. Those dreadful law breakers, the lampless bicyclers have drifted into Squire Bumham’s city court, one after another and entered pleas of •guilty, and have had entered up against them the customary $2 fine and $4.80 costs. Those not here-

tofore reported whb have plead ’ guilty are J. H. Jessen, Bruce White and Virgie Austin, Kenneth Morgan was acquitted. Capt. J. A. Burnham’s pension 'agency has just been notified of I pensions to the minor children of 1 Mrs. John L. Nichols, who before her marriage to Mr. Nichols was drawing a pension as the widow of Mr. Reed. The pension was i stopped when she married Mr. .Nichols, but is now resumed, for i her ihinor children. They draw i sl2 per month, as a joint pension I for all of the children, and $2 per | month, individually. The pensions date back to March, 1895.

WEDNESDAY. Byon Zimmerman is at Lowell today. / ’ Dr. Horton is at Wheatfield on business today. Mrs. Ed Hopkins is visiting her parents at Surrey today. Miss Sarah Dixey went to Evanston today on an extended visit. Miss Lily Troxell returned last night from a weeks visit at goMiss Mamie Dixon, of Chicago, is visiting Miss Lizzie French today. Mrs. Lizzie Hitchcock returned today from a two weeks visit at Chicago. John King will attend the shooting tournament at Morocco tomorrow. Mrs. Clarinda Coen returned to Attica this morning after a few days visit at this place. Geo. H. Brown, of Knox, Ind., is visiting his mother Mrs. Elizabeth Brown for a few’ days. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Mann are visiting relatives and attending the state fair at Indianapolis this week. The county commissioners have appointed Everett Brown to the scholarship at Purdue, made vacant by the resignation of Willie Parkison. Mrs. T. W. Grant and children, lately of Remington, after a few days visit with her parents went to Rose Lawn this morning, to which place Mr. Grant is removing.

Mr. and Mrs. Luther Creviston are back from a visit to Wayne County, and are now making preparations to permanently move back to that portion of the state. A number of German Baptist or Dunkards, from neighboring places arrived here- yesterday to attend the yearly meeting of their church to" be held at Pleasant Grove today. Here are some additional M. E. conference appointments of local interest: T. F. Drake stays at Mulberry. E. G. Pelley is at Trader’s Point; J. J. Claypool, Waveland; C. W. Postill, Wingate, S. B. Grimes, Zionsville. James Maloy has sold his grocery stock and business, near the depot to Harrison Wasson and James Creviston, and the invoicing is being done today. It is the intention of the new firm to add a meat market to the grocery business, in a few days. The customary 98 degree weather is with us again today. The extraordinary evenness of the weather now is remarkable as the excessive temperature. For over ten days there has been practically the same kind of weather, one day with another.

Col. D. F. Reamer, of Chicago, a representative of the A. H. Andrews Furniture Co., of Chicago, was here yesterday, conferring with the committee appointed some time ago by Judge Thompson, to take some action in regard to the_furnishing of the circuit court rooms, in the new court house. He will return Saturday and bring samples of furniture and also present plans and specifications of what he thinks is needed in the furnishing of the rooms. There seems to be a general disposition among Rensselaer college contingent to seek new educational institutions. Misses Grace Thompson, Sadie Leopold and Irma Kannal intend,,to go to Northwestern

University, at Evanston, 111. Moses Leopold will go to the law school of the same institution, at Chicago. Miss Edith Marshall will go to Bloomington, HL, to make a special study of primary teaching methods. Miss Louella McCoy will attend school at Buffalo, N. Y.. Miss Cecil Brown will go to St. Mary’s Academy.

THURSDAY. B. F. Ferguson is at Wheatfield today. Jos. Kight is at St. John, on business today. H. C. Bayless, of Foresman, visited here yesterday. Geo. Dunn is visiting his parents at Dunnville for a few days. Henry Watson is confined to his home on account of sickness. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Fry are spending today at Water Valley. Mrs. Bartley Lyons, of Delphi, visited the family of Sylvester Healy yesterday., Mrs. S. C. Ensminger, of Crawfordsville, is visiting her sister Mrs. Matie Hopkins. Miss Georgia Kight -went to Chicago this morning for a several week’s visit with relatives.

J. W. Douthit spent Monday and Tuesday at Winamac in interest of the Mansfield ditch. Miss Katie McFall returned to Hammond yesterday after a three w’eeks visit with Miss Etta Donnelly. Mrs. Eldon Hopkins and daughter Helen arrived home today from a months visit at Akron, Ohio. Mrs. M. E. Lecklider and son Clarence are buying goods in Chicago a couple of days this week. All interested in the organization of a foot ball team -are requested to meet at the city hall tonight. Mrs. H. V. Weaver went home to Lowell yesterday after a week's visit with her parents Mr. and Mrs. J. Flynn. Randle Overton is away on a week’s bicycle trip. He will visit Terre Haute, Lebanon, Crawfordsville and other places. The temperature was 20 degrees lower at one o’clock this afternoon than it was yesterday at that hour: but it is hot enough yet. Mrs. Ott Clark, of Goodland, who visited Mrs. Farrie Loughride at Surrey last week returned to her home this morning.

Will Mossier’s residence telephone, No. 99 has been discontinued and number transferred to McFarland & Nichols’ grocery. Frank Parker's new phone at residence is No. 217. * The little bluster of wind and brief but brisk shower of rain that came down from the north at 9 o’clock this morning, brought a blessed relief from the hot, dusty and stifling atmosphere that has afflicted the people for the last two weeks.

Randolph Wright, of Newton Tp., who has suffered so much the past eight weeks from a broken leg, had the misfortune to break it over again, yesterday. He was lying in the yard, trying to get some relief from the insufferable heat, and some manner, unknown to himself, but probably a sudden involuntary moving of the leg, it was again broken. His original injury was received from the kick of a horse while he was raking hay. Both bones were broken a short distance below the knee. One of the bones had li knit” together again and the other was well on the way, when yesterday’s accident, broke them both over again, at the same place. Dr. Alter has charge of the case. Mrs. Nellie M. Harris, who is devoting her time and labor to charitable works, and is especially interested in movements for the improvement of the condition of orphaned and homeless children, is preparing to go to Luray, Virginia, in a few days. She will pass the

winter there at an establishment known as “Whatsoever Home,” It is being established by Rev. Dr. Wharton, an eminent philanthropist of Baltimore, who* has already established many homes for that class of children. This one at Luray is founded on a new plan and has for its foundation principle the placing of the children in families, while still keeping them in one community.- By this means the children will groW up familiar with home and family life and thus be better fitted for the duties and enjoyments of life when grown up, than if they were raised in orpan asylums or similar institutions. V-y ■.

In yesterday’s daily we briefly alluded to the advisability of some changes in the location of the mains of our proposed waterworks. It is in our judgement a very important matter that these changes should be made. It is of course an important point in locating these mains to avoid “dead ends” as far as practicable but in a town situated as ours is, the importance of affording fire protection to as many parts, and the reaching of as many paying patrons as possibe, is still more important. For the present we believe that it would be wiser to relocate several long stretches of mains that can serve no otherjjurpose at this time than assisting the circulation of the water, and place them where they will give fire protection to houses not now reached and also increase the number of paying patrons of the plant. This had better be done, even though at the cost of making several more “dead ends.” There are also several places where a relocating of the mains would secure more patrons, and not increase the number of dead ends. It is especially important that the mains should extend farther in the west part of town, and also, if possible, in the southeast, towards the cigar, factory.

Reports . from New York seem to indicate a general belief there that the late failure of Elmer and Jay Dwiggins for a million or more, was an affair that was planned and contemplated to take place as it did. Here in Rensselaer where the records of the parties are well known it is almost the universal opinion. People here remember the Mexican gold mine scheme, and remember it to their sorrow. They also remember how 11 ae fake town of Griffith was boomed, how Elmer was connected with the monumental fraud Pennington in his air-ship fake. Later they remember the bucket shop firms of Valentine & Co., and Arbogast & Co., and Wright & Co., behind which the Dwiggins boys were ambushed, and also how they suddenly found it advisable to decamp from Chicago to avoid prosecutions for their bucket shop dealings. Remembering all these things, people here are not surprised that Elmer is accused of hypothecating stock, left in his care as security, nor are they disposed to believe that the failure was anything but a premeditated money-making scheme.