Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1897 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a Paragraph. Daily Grist of Local Happenings Classified Under Their Respective Headings. FRIDAY. Mrs. Frank B. Meyer is visiting her brothers at Englewood. Miss Lily Troxell came home today from a week’s visit at Delphi. Mrs- M. E. Monnet of Evanston, is visiting relatives here this week. I( is now the intention to begin macadamizing Front street next Monday. R. W. Marshall is at Rose Lawn on legal business today. W. A. Rhinehart, of Buffalo, N. Y , is in Rensselaer today. David Thompson is in Chicago on a two days business trip. Born, yesterday Nov. 11 th, to Mr. and Mrs. James Garriot a ten pound girl. The Cleveland babe has got a name, and the world goes onward just the same. Born, Thursday, Nov. 11th, to Mr. and Mrs. Ancil Potts, of Barkley Tp., a son. A. L. Yeoman, of Chicago, is visiting his brother Sam for a few days this week. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Taylor of Lafayette made a short visit with Mr. and Mrs. T. J. McCoy yesterday.

Miss Jessie Adams returned to her home at Monon today, after a two weeks visit with relatives and friends in Rensselaer. The Crown Point —Rensselaer foot ball game is in progress as we go press. The Crown Pointers are no doubt the stiffest players our boys have yet run up against. Miss Jean Hammond after a week’s visit- with her sister, Mrs. W. B. Austion returned to her home at Lafayette today. Mr. and Mrs. Chas; Sigler returned to their home at Cedar Lake yesterday after a two days visit with his sister Mrs. G. W. Golf. A year ago today, the cornerstone of the new court house was laid. On the same day the Rensselaer foot ball team was done up by Delphi. There is no further complaint of insufficient rain. We are having enough for the wheat, enough for the wells and cisterns, and quite enough for comfort.

The Crown Point foot ball team arrived at 10:55 this forenoon. They are a fine team and like Rensselaer’s present team, have never been defeated. After the first of next week the postoffice of Puckerbrush, for two generations famed in song and story, will cease to exist, and the office will be known as Pioneer. It is in Wabash Co. Frank Hayden, the escaped jiilbird who accidentally shot himself, at Remington last Friday, was taken baok to Muncie, yesterday, according to a statement in today’s Indianapolis Journal. TheNowels House gets a change of landlords, today Wm. King, the former landlord is moving to Peru, this state, and J. C. Taylor, of Bloomington, 111., is taking his place as manager of the hotel. The Schofield buss didn’t slack up enough in crossing a partly filled water-main ditch, on Franklin street, this morning, and the hind wheels went down to the hubs and the horses pulled the tongue out of the hack. Now is the time of year to look after your chimneys and see that they are put in safe condition for •the winter. You have not been using - them much lately and they need repairing. They certainly need a rigid inspection. Very likely, also, they need the professional services of Dr. ’Arry Wilkshire D. C, the chimney physician. t

The annual November meteor exhibition is now taking place in the northaest sky. A little before daylight is the best time to see them—but 1 the worse time to look for them. These meteor showers are said to be increasing in magnitude each year, by way of a rehersal for the great tri-century production of November 1899. Herbert Fish, one of Porter county’s best known farmers, shot himself in the head a number of days ago, with suicidal intent. The bullet passed through his brains, near the eyes, destroying both of them and also destroying his alfactcry nerve, and with it the sense of smell. The bullet has been extracted and it is now probable that the man will recover. , Susie A. infant daughter of Rev. D. A. and Mrs- Sarah A. Tucker, died this, Friday morning, Nov. 12th at 2 o’clock a. m. aged 2 months and 27 days. The immediate cause of its death was brain fever. Short funeral services were held at the residence, shortly after noon today, and Mr. and Mrs. Tucker took the 1:55 p. m. train, for Greensburg, this state, their old home, where the babe will be buried, and where they already have relatives buried.

Peter Blanchard, the Benton Co. party who lately filed a suit for damages against the city of Renslaer for injuries from falling on a sidewalk, seems to be unluckly in such matters. He has only recently been thrown from a horse, and hurt worse than when the sidewalk flew up and hit him. His suit against the city, by the way, has been dismissed at the plaintiff’s cost. Therefore we can say goodbye to Peter and his little law suit.

Dept. Sheriff Robinson landed Albert Ropp in the reformatory at Jeffersonville, without any noteworthy incident. Ropp whimpered a little once or twice on the way down, but braced up afterwards and made no more fuss. He was full however of declarations that he would never have to take such a journey again. By the way, quite a good many people do not seem, as yet, to understand why a man old enough to have a family, as Ropp is. can be sent to a reformatory, the general idea being that only females and boys under 21 can be sent to the reformatory. The explanation is simply that the last legislature turned the*Jeffersonville penitentiary into a reformatory, and provided that convicts under 30 should be sent there and those older to Michigan City. The discipline is milder and more reformatory in its character at the Jeffersonville institution than at Michigan City.

SATURDAY. Rex Warner and Taylor McCoy are visiting at Lafayette. Ernest Clark of Goodland, is visiting Rensselaer friends. A three year old child of R. W. Schofield, of Fair Oaks, died yesterday. Mrs. Nora Shrier, of Newton county is visiting relatives in Lafayette. Mrs. H. H. Leonard, of Rantone, HL; is visiting the family of John McConnell. W. E. Moore went to Colborn today for a few days visit with the family of his son W. J. Moore. Rev. C. D. Jeffries came home today from a two weeks visit with his family at Apple Creek, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Calvert, of Mt. Etna, Ind., returned to their ' home this morning after a weeks visit with his sister Mrs. Noah' Arnold, north of town. Elder D. T. Halstead and wife arrived from Andover, S. Dakota, ■ today. They probably will spend the winter here, again. Mrs. Lizzie Shidler, of southern ’ Kansas, and Mrs. Frances M. Ward returned to Chalmers, the home of the latter, last night after a weeks visit with Mrs. J. W. Duvall. Mr. and Mrs. James H. Meyers desire to express their very sincere

thanks for the kindness and sympathy of many friends,, .'at the occasion of the recent death and burial of their baby. One of the Rensselaer players was knocked r unconscious by an elbow dig in the windpipe, at the foot ball game, Friday. But everything short of death or six months in a hospital goes as part of the sport, at foot ball. Fully 20 second hand base-burn-ing coal stoves have been reported for sale at this office, in answer to a three line local, of a few days ago. The party wanted only one stove, not a car load, and that one has been purchased. Today, just as the last scarlet fever house in town was disinfected and released from quarantine, a new case in a new family, is reported. It is David Alter’s 10 year old girl. It is the only new case since Oct., 29th. Mr. Alter lives in the east part of town. Mrs. W. B. Austin and daughter Virgie, Mrs. Geo K. Hollingsworth Mr. and Mrs. T. J. McCoy, Dr. Berkley and Jesse E. Wilson went to Englewood this morning to attend the great Hopkins’ reception and ball which takes place tonight. Others will go on the afternoon and evening trains. Trustee Barney Comer of Union Tp., is building an addition to the Fair Oaks school house, the educational interests of the village having grown into the need of an additional school teacher. This will make five places in the county, outside of Rensselaer and Remington, which have graded schools. They are at DeMotte, Wheatfield, Dunnville, Parr and Fair Oaks.

The new gas belt town, Arcadia, has just pulled off a lamp chimney factory, that will employ 200 hands. Brother Smith of the Arcadian, our old Harry, (not the Old Harry) feels much elated, and well he may, for it was largely through his exertions that it was secured. And he is now stirring up the people to go after another factory.

An exchange says: “A prospective subscriber wants to know if we will take chickens on subscription.” Yes—and wood and meal and meat and coons and ’possums and fish and tomatoes and peaches and billy goats and sheep and pigs and horses and hay and land and butter and mules and corn and calves and horses and rabbits and wheat and turnips and count}’script and —any old thing you’ve got. -We have, on rare occasions, even taken money on subscription.

MONDAY. Dr. Washburn was in Monon on business Saturday. A little son of Dan Roach in the east part of town is quite sick. Dave Alter’s little girl, sick with scarlet fever, is reported much better. Miss Emma Schroer, of Barkley Tp., is seriously sick with a lung trouble. Recorder Bruce Porter was able to get down to his office this morning after a weeks sickness. Mrs. Ida Miller and Miss Lucinda Price, of Barkley Tp., are visiting relatives at Peru, this state. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Perkins left this morning for a two weeks visit with relatives in Toledo, Ohio, and Flint, Michigan. Miss Bessie Burk entertained twelve Rensselaer girl friends at a dinner party at her home a few miles north of town, Saturday. Elder W. O. Moore, pastor for some time past of the Rensselaer Christian church, has closed his pastoral labors here. His future location is not yet decided upon. Uncle Mac is going into the fruit raising on his usual liberal scale. He has just had John Renicker set out 300 trees on his McCoysburg farm; and he has ordered 200 more for the Jordan township place. Isaac Parsons and sons have sold the Monon News to W. D.’Harlow, of Monticello, who takes charge this week. Mr. Harlow is an experienced newspaper man and

great things in the way of improvement of the paper are promised. The Hopkins boys’ big reception and dance at Hopkins’ hall, Englewood, Saturday night, was a great success. Those attending from Rensselaer not previously mentioned, were Mr. and Mrs. C. G- Spitler, Misses Maude Spitler and Martha Ellis, and W. B. Austin and Geo. Hopkins.'

In spite of all the mud the recent rains have made, the farmers say that there, has been none- too much rain. It is only since the last few days that the land was wet enough to plow in good shape, and the farmers are availing themselves of the opportunity. The liberal rains and the warm weather is bringing the wheat out in good shape. Mr. William C. Smith and Miss Sylvia I. Hardesty were married Sunday evening, Nov. 14th at the home of the groom's father, Wm. Smith, in the east part of town. Elder W. O. Moore performed the ceremony. The groom, though still young in years is quite old in matrimony, this being at least his third venture in that line.

The Russian thistle, which was lately noted in this paper as having obtained a foot hold in this county, having been found in Union Tp., and which has become such a pest in the Dakotas and adjoining states that Congress has been asked to appropriate 81,000,000 to exterminate it, is supposed to have come to this country from Europe in flax seed. We do not know how much of a foot-hold it has already obtained in this county, but even the few plants which ripened near Parr have no doubt produced seeds enough to infect a large scope of country. If our farmers do not get ported up on the looks of this weed and watch for and exterminate every specimen they see, it will only be a year or two before it will be spread everywhere and impossible to exterminate. As before stated there is a specimen of the weed in The Republican office, and farmers who wish to learn what it looks like are invited to call and examine it.

The members of the Rensselaer G. A. R. Post, having in mind the many times they have been agreeably entertained by the Women’s Relief Corps, are preparing to repay the obligation in kind, by a supper and entertainment, on the evening of Friday, Nov. 26th. The members of the post propose to do all the work involved in the entertainment, including the cooking, baking, serving and dish-washing. All ntembers of the Post and other old soldiers are invitsd to be present.