Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1898 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a Parav - graph. 1 Daily Grist of Local Happenings Classified Under Their Respective Headings. - FRIDAY.; Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Miller of Stoutsburg, after visiting Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Newman, a few days returned home today. Air. and Mrs. James Halleck who have been visiting their daughter Mrs. Thos. Joyner a few days, returned home at Pembrook, today. The settlement of the loss on the Babcock planing mill still hangs fire. Mr. Babcock ought to have every dollar of his policy, but the adjusters seem unwilling to pay it all. The opening session of the county farmers’ institute was held in opera house annex, this forenoon. The attendance was an even 100, which is far larger than at the opening session of any previous institute. Mrs. Fred Chilcote and twins after a three weeks visit with her mother, Mrs. J. H. Kinney, returned to her home at Albany today. M. F, Chilcote accompanied her as far as Lafayette. The action of the combatants in the great prize fight shown in the Kinetoscope is wonderfully full of action and vigor every blow struck is plainly seen. —Morristown Herald. Wed. Jan. 19, reservA seats 25cts. Austin & Paxton have sold to David M. Worland, of Milroy Tp. 10 acres in their farm immediately north of the residence of R. P. Benjamin’s, place at §125 per acre. Mr. Worland will build a substantial residence thereon. The Statd Supreme court handed down a decision Wednesday, on the right to tax life insurance policies. Their decision was that such taxation was unlawful, and that life insurance policies are exempt from paying taxes. Two of the five judges dissented from this decision. B. H. Sheffer, of Parr, was in town today. He reports his son, Wm., to be still suffering greatly from the blood poisoning resulting from a cut foot. He also has just received a letter from Woodlawn, Kans., informing him that another son, Andrew, had just had an accident, resulting in a broken leg. "The new grocery firm 'of McFarland & Henkle now proclaim their location by means of a handsome sign, put up yesterday. The members of the firm are A. J. McFarland and Frank G. Henkle, and they are comfortably and conveniently situated in Leopold’s building on Van Rensselaer street, opposite White's livery barn.

Mr. and Mrs. David Alter have returned from their Clinton Co. visit. They report that Isaac F. Alter’s surviving twin baby, sick with scarlet fever, was much better when they left. The statement previously circulated that there was no scarlet fever in the neighborhood until after Mr. and Mrs. David Alter went there, was erronious, as many cases existed in the neighborhood, and the twins were. \ sick when they reached there. TUESDAY. W/St-Aufetin is at Frankfort, today. Miss Ura McGowan is spending • today and Sunday with Mia's Stella Shields of Monon. Mrs. John McColly and children are spending the day at Fair Oaks with her parents. Miss Pearl Hollister is spending this week with friends in Remington and Goodland. Mrs. C. \V. Israel has moved to Fair Oaks she will live with her sister, Mrs. T. J. Culham.

The attendance at the farmers’ institute, at the Christian church, is enormous, this afternoon. Every seat is crowded. Ezra Durham, of Onarga, 111., returned horde today, after several days visit with his cousin, H. O. Harris, and family. Born, Friday night, Jan. 14, 1898, to Air. and Mrs. Geo. W. Gorham, north of the railroad, twins, a boy and a girl. Commissioner John Alartindale, Mrs. Jared Martindale' and Miss Nina Martindale ate visiting relatives in Lafayette for a few days. Miss Emma Schroer, of near Blackford, is very low with consumption, and from reports received this morning, was not expected to live the day out..

Mrs. A. Parkison is slowly passing away, and yesterday afternoon it was thought she would not survive the night. She is no longer able to move, talk or take nourishment.

Rev. H. Al. Aliddleton, of Trinity Al. E. church, has sufficiently recovered from his sickness that he will occupy his pulpit again as usual, Sunday morning. Prof. T. Fukushima, of Tokio, Japan, will lecture at the Al. E. church Sunday evening on the subject Japan and Christianity. The Prof, is very highly commended for his abilities as a lecturer, wherever ,he goes. He will be dressed in his native Japanese costume. A free offering will be given at the clcse but no admission fee will be charged. The farmers institute is being held today in the Christian church, the attendance yesterday being too large to be accomodated in opera house annex. In the afternoon session yesterday there were 225 present at one time while it was estimated that fully 100 went away unable to obtain admission. It is a great satisfaction to note that popular interest is at last awaking to the importance of these institutes.

MONDAY. J. W. Douthit is at Knox a few days on business Albert and Elvin Overton spent Sunday at Mo*>n. Grant Hawkins at Fair Oaks, has a bad case of mumps. Mrs. W. B. Austin attended the Adams Earl funeral at Lafayette, today- ~ Miss Pearl Werner is visiting her parents a few days in Ora Starke Co. A little child of Theo Potter southwest of town, is very sick with brain fever. Mr. and Mrs. Warren Rowley and children after a three weeks’ visit with Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Barens and other relatives left for their home at Mitchel, South Dakota, today. Mrs. Wm. H. Meyer left today for an extended visit with relatives in Pittsburg and Alleghany City, Tenn. Her daughter Miss Mary Meyer accompanied her as far as Chicago. Prof. T. Fukushima, the Japanese lecturer, had an immense audience at the M. E. church, Sunday night, at his lecture on Japan and Christianity. He is a well educated and an able and interesting speaker. He wore the native Japanese costume during the lecture.

Mr. and Mrs. J, H. S. Ellis and children went to Carroll Co., Sunday, to attend the funeral of Mr. Ellis’ grandfather, Abraham Crowell. He was a very wealthy and very eccentric old gentleman, who for 30 years has lived the life of a recluse, never even going about his farm except in a tightly closed ’Carriage. He was 84 years old, And has lived m Carroll Co. for 55 years. James Maloy has sold his residence property on Main St. to David Nowels. The sale includes 85 feet front on Main.street, and a 20 foot lot in the rear fronting on the street east of Main. Mr. Nowels

pays §1,400 for the property and agreed to permit Air. Alaloy to move off the residence or Air. Nowels will build him another, just like it. Air. Alaloy has chosen the latter, and is now digging a cellar for the new house, on his lots in Weston’s Addition, not far from Air. Nowels’ residence. It is Air. Nowels’ intention to erect a business building on the Main street front, just purchased of Air. Alaloy. A planing mill in Rensselaer during the last year or two has grown to be such a great convience as almost to be an indispensible necessity, and it is therefore much to be hoped that Air., Babcock will either rebuild his, recently destroyed by fire, or if, as is very *probablethe magnitude of his grain business is such as to deter him from again engaging in the woodworking business, then it is to be hoped that some other party will take hold of the matter. In fact,it is understood that Frank Osborne, who built and installed the mill just burned, is considering the matter, and will secure ground and put up a planing mill early this season, if yiir citizens give him the encouragement the enterprise deserves.

It is frequently urged as a sufficient reason for doing nothing to secure the electric railrord, that its projectors are building it with “wind.” Well, lots of railroads are built on wind, and they help as much when you get them and hurt as bad when you lose them as railroads built any other way. Harry Crarwford built all his railroads on wind, and the Coal Road was one of them. Rensselaer people know now how much they missed in not securing that wind-built railroad. It makes little if any difference with the final value of a railroad, whether its original projectors themselves furnish the money to build it, themselves, or whether they secure it from others by the strength of nerve and. “wind.” Of course the electric railroad may never be built, but there is certainly considerable prospect that it will, and that prospect is more than sufficient to fully justify our people in making every reasonable effort to secure, if it is built. A general meeting in the interest of the road is to be held at Monticello the 26th of this month, and not only ought Jasper county to be well represented, but we ought to have the fund for the survey larger than it is, and something more done to secure pledges for the right of way. Closing out sale on crockery, chenile goods, millinery etc ,-at C. A. Lecklider’s. Don’t fail to call and price goods.

C. A. LECKLIDER,