Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1897 — Page 3

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a Paragraph. ,1 • Daily Grist of Local Happenings ■ * , y i. ■ Classified Under Their Respective Headings. FRIDAY. 'Mrs. Geo. Hollingsworth is visiting in Chicago. Mrs. John Paxton is visiting at Hammond and Chicago. Rev. and. Mrs. baby is sick with scarlet fever. Mrs. Chas. Vorhees, of Monon, is visiting relatives here this week. Wallace Robinson’s son is recovering from an attack of scarlet fever. The Misses Williams, of Dunnville, are moving into their house on Front street. Miss ElizaJ Tenter is visiting relatives and friends in Peoria 111., for a few days. Miss Rosa Clayton, of Salt Lake City, Utah, is visitihg Miss Gertrude Hopkins.

Miss Jessie- Adams, of Monon, is visiting her grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Wm. King. Rensselaer vs. Watseka, 111., foot ball teams will play for a purse of SSO, at Remington next Thursday Nov. 4. Ben Smith has just begun the erection of a new house on the five acres he lately purchased of Austin & Paxton. Superintendent Hardy is. hauling some 365 feet of the old court house iron fence, out to the poor farm, to used there. The new Christian church at Fair Oaks will be dedicated Sunday morning. Sermon by Elder L. L. Carpenter, of Wabash. Halloween social, by Presbyterian ladies, at M. L. Spitler s, this evening. Admission only 10 cents. Everybody invited. Work on the light and water power house is again interrupted by non-arrival of brick. The well drilling is also still suspended by the broken drill.

Mr, and Mrs. Wm. Clifft, of Marshall, Parke Co., arrived here yesterday afternoon, and are making their home with their daughter, Mrs. J. C. Morgan. Rev. Albert Ogle, of Indianapolis, held the first of a series of meetings at the Baptist church, last evening. The meetings will be every evening, until Sunday, and Sunday morning and evening, and perhaps be continued next week. The 1 year old infant daughter of Reed Banta, of AlcCoysburg, died yesterday in Chicago, where Mr. Banta went with his children, after the death of his wife two weeks ago. The funeral was held this afternoon, at McCoysburg. It is understood that the cause of its dedth was typhoid fever.

An interesting case was on trial at the circuit court, yesterday and today. Last winter Miss Elmira Monnett was declared of unsound mind, by the court, and a guardian appointed to manage her property. She now brings suit to be declared of sound mind and to have the management of her property restored to her. For the first time in the history of the state statistician he is compiling a complete statement of the taxes placed ilpon duplicates of cities and towns and collected by treasurers. It is the future intention of the state bureau to obtain abstracts from the city and town duplicates annually for this purpose. State Statistician John B. Conner has made several innovations in the duties of his office which show his fitness for the position. \ Jailor Joyner has received another letter in regard to the record of John Easter.' This one is directly from the superintendent of

the insane asylum at Columbus, Ohio, and says that Easter has been in the asylum several times and wanted to get in still other . times, but the superintendent refused because he did not consider ' him insane, except when drunk. ! Easter, the superintendent says, is ' a bad character. It has been stated that he has been in the Ohio penitentiary, and some efforts are being made to ascertain the truth or falsity of that report. B. F. Robinson is here for a few days’ visit with his mother and other relatives. He has been, for quite a number of years, engaged in the stock raising business in Montana, near the North Dakota line, where he has been prospering very satisfactorily. But for the sake of better school privileges for bis children, and a less rigorous vocation for himself, he has sold his interests in Montana, and is moving to lola, Kansas, where his brother, Ad Robinson, is located. His family have already gone to lola, where Mr. Robinson will join them, after a few days’ visit here.

SATURDAY. David Thompson is at Lafayette today. J. H. Willey is visiting Rensselaer friends for a few days. Delos Thompson and T. J. McCoy are in Chicago today. Mrs. A. Graham, of Wolcott, is visiting Mrs. Wm. Powers. Miss Lily Lang is visiting her parents at Surrey over Sunday.. Mrs. Mary Peyton s children are reported considerably better, today. Miss Jessie Stevenson is visiting her grandparents at Frankfort. Miss Lenna Grant is visiting friends at Monticello over Sunday. A six year old son of Eudora Cottingham, of Fair Oaks, is quite sick with a fever. Bert Brenner of the Chicago school of Pharmacy is visiting here over Sunday. Thomas Middleton came home last night from a several weeks stay at Greencastle. Miss Lizzie Williams, court reporter, returned to her home at Fowler this morning. Capt. G. W. Payne returned to his home at Frankfort today after a ten days visit with relatives. Mrs. Chas. Madlong, of Monon, and Mrs. Ella Maloney, of Chicago are visiting Mrs. Jomes Drake. The last reports received of Jos. Nagel’s little girl it was feared she would not live through the day. Will Parkison and Geo. Collins wept to Lafayette today to see the Purdue and I. U. teams play football. A good second-hand wood heating stove wanted, at once. For name of party enquire at this office. Any one wishing family sewing done, give Miss Sarah Jakes, a call. Vine street, first house east of depot. 2wp. Miss Minnie Romine after a few days visit with Miss Mary Meyer returned to her home at Mt. Ayr this morning. Reuben Pettit, an old resident of Remington, is dead. The funeral will be Sunday, at 1 P. M. Many Masonswill attend from here.

Mrs. Edwin Bassick went to. Chicago this morning after a few visit with relatives hhre. She will leave Chicago for her home at Bridgeport Conn., tomorrow. A bigger force of men will be put to work on the waterworks trenches next week. If the men can’t be got here, they will be got elsewhere. We advise every Rensselaer man who wants to shovel dirt at 15 cents an hour to get after the job bright and early Alonday morning. Quarterly meeting services will be held at the Alethodist Episcopal church tomorrow. Communion services at 10:45 a. m. Love-feast at 2:30 p. m. Rev. S. Beck D. D. presiding elder will be present and preach tomorrow night. Quarterly conference will be held at 8:30 Alonday morning.

C. W. Crawford, of Nubbin Ridge, got back from his Tennessee trip, Friday. He liked the country well and wishes he was there with all his earthly and unearthly possessions. Uncle Charley would make a regulation backcountry Tennesseean, without changing a hair. *' Now that we'have such a prosperous and satisfactory home building and loan association by which a large number of persons havd been enabled to procure homes, why' may we not have home fire-insurance companies as well, right here in Rensselaer? They have them at South Bend and other places and the cost of insuring buildings and stocks of goods is said to be less than onehalf paid to State and National companies that are conducted at an enormous expense for agents, officers, fine buildings, etc. It would be difficult to compute the amount of money paid out by the inhabitants of Rensselaer and Jasper county each year for fire insurance, but it is safe to say that it would pay all the the losses occuring this year and for several years to come. Even if it is true that the rates for fire insurance are as low as they well can be under the present regime, but under established methods fully onehalf the amount paid by the assured goes toward liquidating an official expense that need not be incurred by a mutual home company. Before Rensselaer had a fire company, or other fire protection, people here were led to believe that after those were secured there would be a reduction in fire insurance rates, but there has been no such reduction, but rather, a quiet pushing up of the rates. If when our waterworks are completed, the insurance companies do not cut their rates here by about 50 per cent, there should be home fire insurance company organized at once. What other towns can do in that line can also be done here.

MONDAY. Marguerite Kenton is on the sick list. S. Al. Laßue is at Watseka, 111., on business. B. S Fendig is in Chicago on business today. Auditor H. B. Murray is in Valpariso today. Mrs. Chas. Coen is visiting for a few days at Knox. Miss Mary Ramp is visiting relatives at Hammond. . Will Clark of Goodland visited friends here yesterday. JudgeJThompson is still confined to his bed by sickness. Sim Dowell, just northeast of town, is laid up with lumbago. Will Douglas of Monticello, visited Rensselaer friends yesterday. V Bert Hopkins and B. F. Fendig spent Sunday in Sunday in Chicago. Mrs. Eliza Rock, of Lafayitte, is visiting her daughter Mrs. W. R. Nowels. Airs. William Williams, of Reynolds, is visiting her brother W. H. Beam. Born, Saturday, Oct. 30, to Air. and Airs. Chas. Gerth, Union Tp., a daughter. B. D. Comer’s little boy is still doing nicely since his dangerous surgical operation, Rev. Ogle will continue to hold meetings at the Baptist church every evening this week. Airs. Elizabeth Dowell returned home Saturday from a weeks visit at Huntington Ind. Born, Friday, Oct. 29th, to Air. and Airs. Victor O. Aloore, in Barkley Tp., a daughter. Airs. Julia Healey went to Alonticello yesterday for a weeks visit with friends and relatives. Airs. Charley Brown after a few days visit with relatives returned Sunday to her home near Alonticello. The feature of the season in the foot ball line will be at Remington next Thursday, between Rensse-

laer and Watseka. Patrons of the Rensselaer electric lights will take notice that the bills for October are now due and are payable at McCoy’s bank. The long and drizzling rain of last night will help wheat and rye, but there was not water, enough in it to relieve the water scarcity. The Monon passenger train due here at 3:30 yesterday afternoon, came in an hour and three quarters late. The cause of delay was a slight freight wreck semewhere down the line, in which no serious damage was done and no one hurt. The widely published statement that there was a woman section boss near Muncie has proven to be one of the numerous telegraph lies sent out from Muncie. Many city papers have even published alleged pictures of the woman section boss. This incident illustrates the utter unreliability of much of the special dispatch news in the city papers and the still greater unreliability of the pictures these papers publish.

No definite information in regard to Sebe Pride, the supposed suicide, has been received, his body, if dead, not having been recovered. His relatives here have received word from his mother, at Indianapolis, that she thinks he is husking corn near. Boswell. C. C. Sigler was in town today, and he thinks the letter he received from Pride was genuine, and that his body is at the bottom of the Chicago river, Mary, the three year old daughter of Joseph Nagel living two miles south of town, died Saturday, about 4 p. m. of scarlet fever. Funeral services were held Sunday morning, at the residence, and burial made in Mt. Calvary cemetery. This is the first death, resulting from the present epidemic of scarlet fever. Another of Mr. Nagel’s children, a girl 6 years old, has had it quite bad, but is now reported much better. Miss Blanche Alter gave a Halloween party last Saturday evening, at which about forty invited guests assembled and all thoroughly enjoyed themselves. The evening was spent in one continuous change from one enjoyment to another, beginning with pitching the apple through the horse-shoe. By this suspicions were established as facts, in that, some of our “School-marms” are to be, henceforward, confirmed “old maids, however, there are to be no “old bachelors” according to this legend. At 11 o’clock, refreshments were served and the party went peacefully homewards, except a few obstacles encountered on the sidewalks, which was no surprise, on this occasion. Halloween pranks of the usual character were indulged in extensively Saturday night. Such as the removing of gates, signs, vehicles &c. For the most part these pranks were of a rather harmless character, but the upsetting of numerous out-buildings, was not only very annoying but in some cases resulted in considerable damage to buildings as well as caused expense in having the building replaced in position. Writing on the windows of the business houses was also a prominent feature. For the most part the writing was a poor but harmless attempt to be funny, but in several instances it was simply disgusting obscenity. Evidently this Halloween business is reaching a stage in Rensselaer where it will be necessary to suppress it altogether, as other towns have been compelled to long ago. There will be an elocutionary and musical entertainment at the Opera House, Tuesday evening, Nov. the 9th, under the auspices of the Y. PS. C. E. of the Presbyterian church. Miss Nelle J. Finch, of Chicago, a humorous and dramatic reader of rare ability, has been .engaged, and she will be assisted by the best musical talent of the city. Every effort is being made to make the entertainment the best of the season. The price of admission will be but 25 cents for reserved seats. All school children JO cents. Seats on sale as Huffs.

DR hoore, ( The careful Specialist of 40 years constant practice, has located in Rensselaer, Indiana, and will devote his time and best skill in treating the following diseases: Consumption, Scrofula— Can be permanently cured if taken in time and often in the advanced stages by methods entirely our own, the result of years of careful research and large experience. Short delays are often dangerous. Heart— Hundreds are dropping dead every day from Heart failure, whose lives might have been saved by proper and timely treatment. In most cases relief is certain. StFniach— lndigestion, ulceration and all other troubles affecting this important organ are treated with absolute success. Old remedies and methods have been abolished, better ones have introduced. All are modern, safe and certain. } Nervous troubles of all kinds have been treated with remarkable success for 40 years. j Nose and Throat— With recent methods and applances affections of these important and sensitive organs are quickly relieved. Kidneys and Bladder— Brights disease, Diabetes, etc. These usually fatal maladies can positively be cured. Here a short delay is often fatal. Call and be examined while relief is possible. Private Diseases of both sex treated with the utmost delicacy and skill, and in strict confidence. Ear— All diseases of this delicate organ handled with care and success Piles and all other diseases of the Rectum cured quickly and with but little pain. . • . " 6 Females— -The Doctor has had a remarkbale record in treating successful- ,— ly all diseases peculiar to women; Failing Vitality from whatever cause permanently cured Ejdlepsy and Cancer— Formerly two incurable diseases are now treated with great assurance of success. The Doctor’s facilities and resources are almost without limit: Oxygen Gas, Oxygen Compound, Compressed air, Insufflation, Atomization with every appliance necessary to relieve the afflicted. Best of references given Office First Stairs West of P. O. OFFICE HOUKS. HOME AT THE NOWELS HOUSE. 9t012A. M. Sundays: No visits made during office hours 2to 5 P. M. | 2to 3 P. M. only in cases of emergenev. 7 to 8 P. M. | 7to 8 P. M.

CS “If the Shoe Pinches ’B w s 'K/ don't put it on.” That’s a safe 1 Sl\ / • way to secure foot comfort as Ml N. as P eace m * n d- There’s variety enough in our assortment | \ < gpy->of shoes for men, women and for children to avoid selection of anything except what fits just right. There’s s E E no pinching you on prices either, for we | „ t. C 1 want your friendship as well as your trade. OH the 001 c We have shoes that will not pinch, for .9* Bl J_ oes * ’ that you buy. men, women and children. Calf shoes, kid shoes, kangaroo calf shoes—shoes that we Selz Shoes guarantee and whose guarantee has the make yntir feet glad, backing of the world’s greatest shoe builders. ELLIS & HURRAY RENSSELAER, IND.

I McCoy & | | I WMBw j ;; < [ Have Stock Ewes to sell and Feeding ] > ! • Weathers in lots to suit. Call on James 1 > ]! McDonald at McCoysburg and he will ]! ] [ show them, or see A- McCoy. ; [

When you want a loan on your farm or town property, call on James H. Chapman. He has vh•usual facilties for placing loans promptly. Abstracts prepared carefully and promptly. Office over Ellis & Murray’s store. Tennessee Centennial and Inter national Exposition, May Ist to Oct. 31st, 1897, at Nashville, Tenn. Fare for the round trip from Rensselaer only $lO. Tickets on sale daily. W. H.. Beam, Agt. Now is about the time that you should get your flues cleaned before putting up your stoves and avoid fires. Any one wishing work done see Harry Wiltshire 1 the “chimney sweep.”

Ferguson & Wilson have plenty of money to make allthe loans required in Jasper county. We will give applicant choice from private funds or eastern funds. Don’t forget to call and get our terms. Boys you that want a nice buggy for your best girl call and see C. A. Roberts. “Those jobs are butes.’ For a first class buggy or carriage give C. A. Roberts your order. All work is warranted and prices to suit thetimes. J. P. Hammond has secured the agency for a first class buggy Co. See him before ordering as he can positively save you money. All work fully warranted. Also agent, for the celebrated “Peter Shuttier” farm wagons. Office with J. H. Chapman. 4tw.