Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1898 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

’’"Minor Items Told in a Paragraph. j Daily Grist of Local Happtjr Ines >-.■ f . 'Ctasjrtflrd Uinirr Ihrir Headings. ,< FRIDAY. t'■ T>i—. Eli Arnold is reported a little better-.. Mrs. Mary Hartberg is visiting friends in Lafayette. A B- Cowgill, of Rosemont, 111., is visiting Elvin Overton. Clyde Coover is sick witl; the chickenpox at Remington. Joe Bennett is visiting at Pern and Logansport through the holi--dsys;-’ # Miss Ella Livingston, of Crown Point, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Yeoman. Eva Clark and Ethel Spriggs are visiting the Misses Warren at Parr a few days. Mr. J. H. Perkins and daughter Ethel are visiting relatives at Goodland a few days. Mrs. Angela Horner came up • from Lafayette, to attend the boys’ ball, last evening. Mr. F. A. and Miss Edith Parkhurst are visiting their parents at Francesville a few days. Mrs. Leslie Clark and children are visiting her sister Mrs. ChamA -pion at Frankfort a few days. Miss Anna Daugherty of Bloomington this state spent the day with Maud Daugherty yesterday. Will Thomas and Glen Wright after a few days visit with Merl Gwin left for their home at Idaville today. Some 25 or 30 young people enjoyed a pleasant crockinole and archarena party at Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Gwin’s residence, last evening. Miss Jennie Harris gave a six lii .ll werugi /er of friends, at the Henry residence. After supper games were played. Mr. Simon Hart and Miss Sarah A. Steele were married Wednesday, Dec. 29th, by Squire Driver, J. P., at the residence of the groom’s parents, in Barkley Tp. Mr. Mark A. Bryant and Miss Sarah Brenckendorf, of over about Lake Village, Newton Co., were married Thursday afternoon, Dec. 30th by Rev. H. M. Middleton, at his residence. Mr. and Mrs, C. M. Blue, the newly married couple, haye set up up housekeeping in their house near the south end of Weston St., built by Mr. Blue during the past year. Richard Lux, near Parr, had his hAnd caught in a corn cutting machine Wednesday, and lost the first joints of all four fingers. Drs. Hartsell and Washburn dressed the injured man’s hand. The metallic furniture for the court house is now arriving and also more wood furniture. It is all being stored in Leopold’s brick building west of the court house, formerly occupied by Randle’s impliment store. . * I Express Agent Reeve reports I that the business that went through | his office this Christmas season was ' fully double that of last year. Which is another of the countless | evidences that better days have at last. Rev. D. A. Tucker has been holding very successful . revival meetings at Parr this week. Meetings were held both in the forenoon and the evening. They are held in.the school house, which does not nearly* accommodate the numbers who attend, X. writer in the Indiana Farmer has ftwund quinine to be a good remedV for the cure of hog cholera. He'dofJbd the hogs heavily with the dnbg, giving it every two hours and sifter the third dose the hogs begap to eat and later all symp-

Went an the drug is an disease. - 9Rev. V. O. Fritts has receipted a 911 from the First Baptist chlirch ■I become their regular pastor! It ■ probable that the call will be acBpted, although as the church is ■iable to itself maintain a pastor Me full time, his acceptance will Mobably be contingent on securMg an alternating appointment in Mme neighboring town or station. Mor the present however he will mH' the duties of the pastorate. Several conventions will be held at Indianapolis during the first week in January. Tlie farmers will hold their 46th annual convention. The convention of- Wool growers of the state will Tuesday, Jan. 4, and the following day the state association of swine breeders will meet. The bee keepers of the state meet Tuesday, Jan. 4. and the Indiana engineering society holds its annual meeting Jan 4. SATURDAY Leslie Clark left for a few days visit at Frankfort. Miss Grace Jouvenat of Chicago, is visiting Mrs. Lottie George. Miss Ida Dixey of Evanston is visiting her parents a few days. Geo. Spangler of Peoria, 111., is the guest of Miss Eliza Tuteur. G. N. Dunn is at Dunnville attending a family reunion at his father’s. The glass for the fronts of the main doors of the court house was received yesterday. y Miss Bertha Nowels after a few days visit with her parents returned to Lafayette today. Mrs. Isaac Reubelt returned to Dana, Ind., today, after visiting her sister Miss Alice Rhoads. Auditor Murray gave a dinner party last night to a few of his friends. A very pleasant time was had. Miss Iva Bridges returned to Greencastle, today, after about a jtwo months visit with Ara Lee ’Glazebrook. Miss Rilla Osborne after spending the holidays with her parents ✓returned to her school at Medaryville today. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. McKelvey and family after a few days visit with T. F. Clark left for their home near Oxford today. Judge Thompson finished up the December term of the Newton Co. circuit court at Kentland, and came home, yesterday. Mrs. W. F. Osborne, of Lafay, ette, after a few days visit with her parents, John Humes and wife returned home yesterday. Mrs. C- C. Jones, of Grand Trunk, crossing and Mrs. Thomas Daniels from Lowell spent the day with Mrs. P. W. Clark yesterday. Mr. John Lewis West and Miss Fannie Bell Robbins wer.e married Dec. 29th. by Rev. H. M. Middleton, at his residence. The parties live at Rose Lawn. Quite a large crowd attended the Epworth League social, at- Capt. Wasson’s last night. A good musical and literary entertainment was furnished for the evening. The county jail is still without a prisoner. Advantage has been taken of its vacant condition to make some very necessary repairs and impiovements in its sanitary arrangements. A pleasant party with amusement features of music and dancing was given last evening by Mr. and Mrs. Delos Thompson, at their residence on Front street. The music was especially fine. The quail season expires today, and whoever shoots them after this date, does so at the risk of prosecution. It is said that the icy weather of the last two weeks has killed the quails faster than the hunters with their guns.- It prevented them from obtaining food. The January term of the circuit court convenes next Monday, with a rather large docket in civil caseM

There are no stAZcZes of any importanoe- The hope to be able to use the new court house is disappointed, and this is especially unfortunate as the court room in Odd Fellows halt is badly adapted for winter use, all the windows being with a northern exposure. County Superintendent Hamilton, who attended the late convention of county superintendents at Indianapolis, saysthat the reported dissatisfaction among superintendents as to the work of truant officers was not nearly so general as reported Neither was the sentiment in favor dt making the trustees the truant officers very general among them. This year 1898 is pretty well favored with eclipses, there being six in all, three of the sun and three of the moon. Among these wilbbe one total eclipse of the sun, the great phenonenon of all. Unfortunately, however it does not occur where it will be visible to any people in this portion of the world, but will be seen in Asia and Europe mainly. A partial eclipse of the moon will be seen here the 7th of this present moon, while at the far end of the year, Dec. 27th, a total eclipse of that luminary will take place and be visible all over North America and pretty much all the rest of the world.

MONDAY. Eli Arnold is reported a great deal better. Miss Jessie F. White is visiting Monon friends. Roy Blue began teaching school at Wheatfield today. Mrs. Sarah Miner spent Sunday with Monon relatives. Dan Lesh’s little girl is reported very sick with pneumonia. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. John Bourne, east Of town, Sunday, a son. J. W. Douthit and W. R. Nowels are at Knox a few days on legal business. Misses Blanche and Grace Brown of Danville, 111., returned home yesterday. Hon. C. H. Price, our old county clerk, now of Middlesboro, Tenn., is here for a short visit. Lena Washburn after a few days visit with her sister Mary at Chicago, returned home yesterday. Mrs. F. A. Ross and Mrs. D. G. Warner kept open house New Year’s Day, for their many friends. Mr. and Mrs. H. Crossley after a weeks’ visit with Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Newman north of town, returned to Chicago today. Rev. J. W. Clear, of Cerro Gordo, 111., is visiting his daughter, Mrs. Grant Renicker, for a day or two. He is on his way to Ohio. It is reliably stated that one of Geo. H. Brown's relatives here has received word from him that he will return in a short time. Miss Alma Hollberg who has been visiting Mrs. Ben Smith during the holidays returned to her home in Chicago today. Mrs. Robert Patton of West Superior, and George Moss of Madison. Wisconsin, returned to their respective homes today. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. McKelvey and family who have been visiting T. F. Clark, a few days left for their home at Oxford Saturday. The “Merry Makers” club met at J. W. Douthit’s Saturday evening, and the members enjoyed a pleasant time, playing games and pulling taffy. The Oxford Tribune confirms the statement that Geo. H. Brown was in that town one day lately.; He came in on one railroad and went out on another. There was a German given in honor of LuElla McCoy, at her parents' residences Saturday evening. About fifty being A pleasant time was had. Misses Nona and alb r a <!a\- xts 11 i; - ■ * • ■ - s ; i ; -1 - ■

official fcourt Porter and LaPorte superior 9 visited R. W. Marshall’s over Sunday. wPI If matters look place as previously announced and as presumably they did, our former townsman, Oliver M., Daugherty, ndw agent for the Wells-Fargo Express Co., at Hammond, was marriedxSaturday, Jan. Ist, to Miss bett. at Clinton, lowa. They will return to Hammond after a short trip. The non completion of the court room has compelled the officers of the farmers’ institute to secure another place for holding the forthcoming county institute, on Friday and Saturday of next week. The room secured is the front hall, in the opera house. This will probably be amply large for all ordinary sessions, and if the attendance at any session promises to be too large to be accommodated in this room, the opera house adjoining w’ill be available. Wm. Shanlaub, who is successfully teaching the largest country school in Beaver Tp., Newton Co., this winter, spent the holiday vacation with his parents here. The people of his district are evidently ready to co-operate with his enterprises for the good of the school. He recently gave two suppers at the school house and netted enough money to buy a good organ for the school, and to leave a snug balance for the school library. Among students tha have returned to their respective institutions today, are Misses Grace Thompson, Sadie Leopold, Irma Kannal and Della Harris, to Evanston; Flora Harris and Bert Brenner to Chicago, M. B. Wishard to Purdue and Ernest Wishard to Indianapolis. Rensselaer, by the way, has now fully two dozen or more of young people attending colleges and other advantod institutions of learning, in different parts of the country. Up to this third day of January a finer winter was surely never experienced in this section, and the same remark is probably true of the whole country. And this reminds us that those monumental weather fakers, Hicks and Foster prophesied all sorts of bad weather for November and December. These fellows really know no more about the future weather than a* goose bone, but as it is impossible to string together a lot of guesses on the future weather and not hit it once in a while, so that the faith of those who want to believe is kept in a healthy condition. People not only remember the few cases where prophecies are verified, but the many failures are not remembered nqr even thought of. The professional weather fakers know and flpt upon this peculiarity of the human mind.