Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1898 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a Paragraph. Daily Orist of Local Happenings Classified Under Their Respective Headings. ' - TUESDAY. Mrs. William Bittler is reported quite sick. G. E. Murray made a trip to Kokomo, Monday. Ira Morlan’s seven months old child is reported sick. Born, Monday, dan. 24, to Mr. and Mrs. Mark Yepman, of Barkley Tp., a daughter. The W. R. C. will have initiatory work next Monday night and desire a full attendance. Sidney Johnson, of Clayton, lud., is visiting friends, in this vicinity for a few days. Clarence Lecklider is still confined to his bed by sickness, but is reported to be a little better. Mrs. Mary O. Fisher from -south' of town, left today for an intended visit with relatives at Winston, Missouri. Mrs. Angela Horner after a few days visit with Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Austin returned to Lafayette yesterday.

Mrs. L. F. Potts and sou, who have been visiting friendsat Delphi for about two weeks, returned to their home near Pleasant Ridge, today. Walter Tharp returned to his school neat Monticello Monday afternoon, after two weeks stay with his parents here on the account of his sickness. Rev. N. H. Shepherd, of the Christian church, has gone to Wolcott, where, on Wednesday he will perform the marriage ceremony for an old friend, a Mr. Watson. The material for the water works tower has begun to arrive and some of it has been hauled down to the works. It is understood that the erection of the tower will be proceeded with at once. Mrs. Williams and her daughter, who lived on Front street near Warner & Thompson’s shop, have sold their residence to T. P. Haus, the restaurant man, and will move back to Dunnville. Landy McGee sold his household goods at auction Monday, and today he left for Grand Rapids, Mich., near wdiich place he has work et telephone construction. His wife has gone to Wlieatfield, to visit relatives for a few weeks. The weather this morning did not lack the charm of variety, whatever other qualities it might possess. There was rain, snow and sleet by turns and occasionally a mixture of all three, at once, and even a thunder clap now and then to further increase the variety. The name of the new pastor of St. Augustine’s church, to succeed Rev. Dickinan, who will go to Nashville, Tenn., has been announced. It is Rev. Edward Jacob, a member of the faculty of St. Joseph's College. He has already filled the pulpit of the church several times, and is a young man of fine talents.

The county jail is yet devoid of Jasper county tenants but it still futnishes accommodations to Geo. B. Callahan, the Rose Lawn young man whose paternity suit was brought here from Newton county, on change of venue. So far he has preferred to remain in jail rather than to provide for the payments required by the court. Clerk Humston, of Monticello and his companion, Rae Spenoer were released in Chicago, after a short detention. There seemed to be no disposition on the part of their Monticello acquaintances to prosecute them, which is a confirmation of the theory that it wns the other man in the mess that his Monticello friends- wore hoping to catch.

WEDNESDAY. Mrs. Pete Giver is visiting friends a £ew weeks at Greencastle. Mrs. William Kenton is visiting relatives at Delphi, for a few days. n Hicks’ storm and weather calendars, for 1898, at A. F. Long’s, free. dwlt. Frank Hardy and C. C Warner are making a business trip to Chicago, today. Dave Brockus, the postmaster of Fair Oaks, is reported very sick with lung fever. Mrs. Sarah Fisher who lives north of town, left for Champaign, Illinois, to visit relatives a few weeks. Mrs. Will Mossier is at Lafayette, today, attending the funeral of Leopold Dreyfus, a prominent citizen of that city. An eleven year old son of Nathan Eldridge,s miles northeast of town, is reported some better from a bad case of pheumonia. Quite a party arrived on the 1:55 train this afternoon for the TuteurSpangler wedding, which, takes place tomorrow. The party included Mr. Spangler, the groom, Dr. and Mrs. Well, and Mrs. Anna Tuteur, all coming from Peoria. Mr. Henderson, manager of the show which exhibits here Friday and Saturday nights, is a brother of Hon. J. 0. Henderson, present state auditor of Indiana, and has another brother who is the editor of the Kokomo Dispatch.- Ho is said to put up a great show'. The work of putting up the waterworks tower began actively this morning, the first thing being the erection of a derrick to handle the heavy iron beams. The larger pieces of iron are hauled around through town, on account of the roughness of the side streets, on the dix-ect route.

Again the advantages of being in the mild weather belt has been demonstrated. Yesterday was a pretty disagreeable day, in the matter of leather, but it was etherial mildness itself compared with the southwest blizzard that roared over Illinois and places further west. And today the weather is a perfect poem or something or other. It was just one year ago this morning when Long’s drug store and Several other places of business were burned out, and all of which w T ere, long ago, replaced by much better buildings. It was a “hot time in the old town” about then, and also a most infernally cold one, as the thermometer was way out of sight below the zero mark. Frank Hardy, of Remington has rented the room just vacated by Pearson, the tailor, and will open a merchant tailoring and gentlemen’s furnishing store there. Mr. Hardy is already so well known and popular in Rensselaer that he will no doubt, receive a liberal patronage from the first.

Jimmy Clark, the last of the band of hunters bold who did or didn’t go to Arkansas a while back arrived home yesterday. Jimmy showed admirable grit and perseverance in going and staying, but he did not reap his due reward in the way of large game slaughtered. The weather was against him, as it rained every day he was there, and would have rained more days if the weeks had been longer. The meetings at the F, W. Baptist church, conducted by Revs. J. L. Meads and D. A. Tucker are growing in interest right along, and at the night meetings especially the attendance is very large. Afternoon meetings also continue to be held. The indications are that these meetings will be productive of notable results in the way of conversions, and additions to the membership of the church. John Jessen thought for a while yesterday that all of the Hicks, Foster et al, misfit predictions of foul weather were to be realized all in a bunch. His barometer, which he says is a very superior one, stood at 2b.6b which was the lowest he'ever saw it. But the cyclonic like blizzard which the low presssure portended did not strike us.

very hard, but they got it good and 1 strong over in Illinois and in many ! parts of this state. THURSDAY. Rooms for to rent for light housekeeping. Inquire of W. T. Perkins. . d'2wtf. Born, Wednesday, Jan. 28th, 1898, to Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Warren, north of the railroad, a son. The Junior class of the high school was entertained last eveping at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Mills. The opening night of the Henderson Comedy Company is Ladies Night and <we may look for a packed house. Fred Iliff has shipped his household goods to Chicago Heights, 111., and with his family will follow the goods on Friday. Henderson's Comedy company at the opera house next Friday and Saturday nights is said to be one of the best repertoire shows on the road. Jesse E. Wilson went to Indianapolis last night and George N. Dunn, today. They go to take depositions in a case pending in our court.

Mr. and Mrs. Lemuel Hudlow (nee Miss Jennie Kessifiger) took their departure last night and expected to go at once to Mr. Hudlow’s home, on a farm near Lafayette. The meeting of the Old Folks’ Euchre club, set for Friday evening at D. G. Warner’s, is postponed on account of the theatrical performance at the opera house that evening. It is now stated on what seems good authority, that Landy McGee’s statement, that he was going to Grand Rapids, was a fabrication to deceive his wife, and that his. real intentions are to go to lowa. A look at the program for the Cornet Band's Musicale, for the next Thursday evening, Feb. 3rd is alone a sufficient guarantee of the merits of the performance. It will be a great entertainment. Don’t fail to attend.

Frank Nichols who has long been a sufferer from consumption,, died last Wednesday at his home in Wheatfield v The funeral services were held Friday morning at the Catholic church and the remains were then taken to Medaryville for interment. Nickum, of Logansport the alleged inventor of a perpetual light, still defers his promised public exhibition of the invention. Wonder what Nickum’s scheme is, anyhow'. Perhaps to get a lot of suckers to put money into a stock company, as Keeley did with his motor that never moted. In which case Nickum will nick-em, and don’t you forget. Evangelist Meads is drawing such great audiences at the F. W. Baptist church that many who go are unable to obtain admission. Last night, especially, there wore great crowds who were thus turned away. There is talk of either starting an overflow meeting in some neighboring place, or of obtaining another-and larger place of meeting.. A feature of last night’s meeting were two soloes sang by Mr. Bridges, of Logansport, a singer of remarkable ability.