Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1898 — Page 3

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a Para- .. .. graph. ■' Daily Grist of Local Happenings Classified Under Their Respective Headings. FRIDAY. Geo. t)uun is at Dunnville today. ; W. C. Babcock is in Chicago today. R. T. Robinspn of Urbafia 111., i is in town today. Miss Mary Wood of near Lee is the guest of Mrs. Henry Wood a few days. Delos Thompson, T. J. Sayler and Harrie Kurrie are in Monticello today. J. J. Montgomery and Frank Hardy are attending the band concert at Francesville this evening. Mrs. Joe Right after about two weeks visit with her neice, Mrs. Michael Shehan, of Chicago; returned home yesterday. A. Leopold has rented his vacant room in the Liberal Corner building, next door to Zimmerman’s tailor shop* to Miss J. A. Coad, of Chicago, who intends putting in a stock of millinery goods, next week. Fred Phillips cried a sale in Union township yesterday, for Adolph Schultz, now resident manager of the Rosenbaum saloon. The property, especially the horses and cattle, sold well. C. G. Spitler clerked the sale. Yesterday’s Indianapolis News prints a map showing the independent telephone lines in this state. The aggregate length of these lines is 4600 miles. Indianapolis is not connected with these independent lines but will soon be if a franchise is granted to a company now asking for it. Diamond, the monster elephant belonging to the Wallace shows, died Thursday evening from heart disease at Peru. He was but a few inches smaller than the famous Jumbo, and weighed over four tons. He was purchased by Mr. Wallace 14 years ago. His value ' was placod at SIO,OOO. The meeting at Trinity M. E. church last night was one of the best of the series. The pastor spoke on Soul’s question: “Lord, what wilt thou have me do?” There was a very deep and earnest spirit, in the congregation, and one conversion. Service again tonight. Everybody invited to come. The Monon is to have 250 fortyfoot. forty-ton cars built, to be used exclusively for lumber. The cars will be lettered “Monon lumber line ” The same number of cars will be built especially for the road’s coal business, to be lettered, “Monon coal line,” and the same number will be built for the iron business. About eighty lady friends were entertained by Mrs. H. J. Kannal at her home on River street, yesterday afternoon. There was excellent musio which was thorougly enjoyed; and the appreciation of dainty viands was heightened by the beautiful decorations of roses and sitnlax, while candles and gas light dispelled the gloomy light from out of doors. Mrs. Kannal was assisted in receiving by Miss Pauline Bejitly of Chicago and baby Gertrude, the little daughter of the hostess.

SATURDAY. John King is confined to his bed by sickness. Charley Stone is back from Tennessee, after a three months stay. Mrs. C. A. Cox of Chicago after a few days visit with D. T. Halsteads returned home today. Cyrus Smith, aged about 72 years, died Friday, ‘at Thomas

Lamson’s place, southwest of town. The funeral was held today. Misses Helen and Lynn Kelley entertained about thirty six young people at euchre last evening. Miss Maude Spitler winning the prize. Mrs. Geo. Pumphrey has gone to Rushville, Ind., to attend a birthday surprise to her father, William Morris, who is seventyeight the 13th. Meadow larks arrived quite a number of days ago, according to reports from the country. Now robins are beginning to arrive, and spring seems to have come for sure.v Mrs. Robt. Paris, of Yonkers, N. Y., is visiting her husband’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Berry Paris. Mrs. Lydia Kimball, their daughter, of Converse, Ind., is visiting them, also. The Old Folks Jolly Euchre Club met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth, last evening. There were twenty four present. Light refreshments were served. The Republican state convention will- bejenormous in size, consisting of 1616 delegates. Jasper Co. has been allotted ten delegates. The time of the convention has not yet been announced. The heavy rains of the last three days will not be a bad thing after all, according to what some of the farmers say. It was just what was needed to give the winter wheat a good start, which is small for the time of year owing to the bad start it got last fall. Delphi is rejoicing over the prospective location there of one of those pestilent stink and malaria generating institutions, a strawboard works. Rensselaer had one of these institutions offered several years ago, and we always considered that we escaped a calamity when we did not get it. The finishing up of the waterworks tank has been delayed by the rains of the lust three days. The tank would probably have now been completed had it not been for this delay. The tank, which is complete all but the cover, is 40 feet high and 22 feet in diameter. It holds 100,000 gallons To the top of the water level, when full, will be 140 feet. A Kouts item in the Hebron News says: “Gen. Lew Wallace arrived here Tuesday morning and is shooting ducks and fishing on the Kankakee He will stay here about two weeks. When asked about the Cuban affair he said, “I have my gun with me.” The General is in good health and would pass for a man of 45 years when he is rigged out for duck shooting.” J. E. Mohr, of Goshen, is here looking up the prospect for locating a machine shop and foundry. He expects to put in a shop with 2 lathes, drill press, planer and other tools necossnry to run a first class repair shop, employing 15 men. He also has in contemplation the manufacture of gas engines, especially for pumping and farm use. He has had 25 years experience in this line. He expects to locate in some town where the citizens are willing to liberally encourage him so doing. The Joseph Leonard will case was finished at Crown Point yesterday. Joseph Leonard, a bachelor, left all his property, amounting to several hundred thousand dollars, to part of his relatives, tc the exclusion of the others, and the excluded ones are trying to bTenk the will. After a long, hard battle, in which the leading lawyers of Lake and Porter counties were engaged, the jury has decided in favor of the validity of the will. The plaintiffs will try for a new trial, and that failing will appeal to the Supreme Court. Some considerable amount of the landed property affected by the will is in Jasper county.

MONDAY. N. W. Reeve spent Sunday with his son in Chicago. Glen Tharp and wife of Monti-

cello, spent Sunday here with relatives. Ferd, Hamilton is visiting his grand-parents, at Lee. Harry Murray spent Sunday in Hammond with relatives. William Daniels, of Barkley, is confined to his bed on account of sickness. Mrs. B. St. John of Chicago is the guest of Mrs. Frank King a few days. B. Forsythe is papering W. B. Austins and Dr. Berkleys’ offices this week. Miss Hattie Pearson of Fair Oaks, spent Sunday with Mrs. J. F. McColly. Miss Laura Fielder of Mason City, 111., is the guest of Harry Murray and family. John Martindale has been appointed administrator of the estate of the late Jacob Bierly. Mrs. A. M. Harrison after a few days visit at Sheridan returned home Saturday evening. Mrs. J. F. McColly was called to Chicago Heights by the serious sickness of some relative. Mrs. H. V. Weaver of Low6ll spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Flynn. Dr. and Mrs. H. J. Kannal entertained at dinner Saturday evening. Covers were spread for tyMr. and Mrs. Michael Robinson, of Medaryville, are the guests of Thomas Robinson and family today. Mrs. Mary Thomas after an extended visit with relatives in DeMont, lowa returned home Saturday. Misses Helen and Lynn Kelley entertained the young married people at progressive dominoes Saturday afternoon. M. L. Spitler spent Sunday with Judge Hammond’s family at Lafayette. It being his own and his sister Mrs. Hammond’s birthday. It is reliably reported than an irate woman severely thumped a young man, with a club, late Saturday afternoon, out in the New Oklahoma region. D. H. Yeoman has sued the Monon for the value of two horses which were killed on railroad, just north of town, one day last summer. Damages are asked for in the sum of S3OO. C. E. Nowels has located in Bourbon, where he has a good and permanent position with the Bourbon Elevator and Milling Company, as foreman of their lumber yard and planing mill. The Nowels-Sayler Lumber company have bought of R. W. Marshall the 40 acre tract lying on the west limits of town, on the south side of poor farm road, and propose to at once lay the tract out as a suburban addition, into lots of 3 to 5 acres in size.

Notice of Church Election. There will be an election of two trustees for the Vaughn F. W. B. church on the first Saturday in April, 1898, at 2 o’clock P. M., one to serve one year and oue to serve three years. Also the other officers of the church will be elected at the same time. D. A. Tucker, Clinton D. Thornton, Pastor. Church Sec’t. Ferguson & Wilson have plenty of money to make allthe loans required in Jasper county. We will ?;ive applicant choice from private unds or eastern funds. Don’t forget to call and get our terms. $25.00 in tickets gets a fine piece of silverware at McFarland & Henkle’s

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1 I ill poisoning . your system X. W I through that insidious habit —coffee and tea drinking. You may not bfc aware that coffee and tea contain much the same poisonous alkaloids as alcohol, whisky, tobacco, etc., which sooner or later develop some serious derangement of the stomach, liver, kidneys, bowels and nerves, causing headache, dyspepsia, constipation, nervousness, impure blood. Little do you suspect the cause. THINK it over. Does it pay to abuse your body thus? Perhaps the effect is not yet apparent to you, but the day will surely dawn with unmistakable evidence of I its presence. Better stop these healthI destroying habits. Science has given us 1 an ideal substitute —a health-builder— I without«ven denying us the same rich | flavor and aroma of Mocha and Java. J It is a pure CEREAL food drink, | made from choicest grains, and in such U a way that it looks like coffee, tastes | like coffee and can be freely used by I adults and chiiJren.To keep healthful DRINK DR. MARTIN’S Nervine Coffee The New Food Substitute for Coffee. u An invaluable replenisher of brain 9 and nerve waste. Endorsed and rcc-l-ommendcd by physicians. One pound 1 goes further than two of ordinary coffee 9 or any other substitute. At all grocers, lift). 20c., 2 lbs. 35c. Prepared Dy 1 Nervine Coffee Co., Elkhart, Ind.

The Monon's New Station in Chicgao.

All Monon Route trains now stop at the 47th Street Station, Chicago. Tickets will he sold and bagago -checked to that point. Passengers alighting at that Station can take the 47th Street Electric Line and reach any part of the great southern portion of Chicago within a. few minutes’ ride. The Union Stock Yards is reached in seven minutes. Tickets may be purchased and baggage checked at 47th Street Station.

Rensselaer Markets.

Wheat 95 to $1 Rye...../: 1 .. 35c Oats » 24£ to 26| C0rn...... 1 28c Butter 11c Lggs 12* Chickens 5o Hens 5c Turkeys 9c Ducks 4 to oc Geese 4c Potatoes 75c Hay $5.

Xatice to Building &. Loan Association Stockholders. Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the Stockholders of the Rensselaer Building, Loan and Savings Association will be held at the office of the secretary, in Rensselaer, Indiana, on Wednesday, March l(i, 18iJ8, at 7 o’clock, p. m., for the purpose of electing directors and transacting such other business as may be lawfully brought before the meeting. James H. Chapman, Secretary. Fine Langshan chickens for sale. H. A. Alter north of town. Imp

Appointment of Administrator. Notice Is liareby Riven that the undersign'd has been appointed administrator of the Estate of Jacob Bierly, late of .Jasper County, Indiana by the Clerk of the Jasper Circuit Court and ihat said estate Is aald to be solvent. Dated this the 12lh day of March 1H9.1, JOHN MARTINDALK, Mar. 15-22-5 B). Administrator. Survey Notice. Notice is hereby given to Lucietla Edlngor, Ira F, Branard, and q favorite that I own all of that portion of section 2H, Town 83 north, range « west, lying In Jusper County, Ind., except 135 forty-one hundredths acres belonging to the ahote named parties. And that I will proceed with the surveyor of Josper County, Indiana, on,the 22nd day of March. 1898, to make a legal survey of said section, or so much thereof as will be uecessary to establish the Hut s an I corners of my land according to 'aw. Nkxbon Mokkih. Jno. E. Alter, Surveyor. Notice of Final Settlement. In the matter ol the) In the Jasper Circuit Estate of Rebecca } Court. March Term Wood, deceased. ) 18DB, Notice 1* hereby given, that the undersigned, as administrator with the will annexed of the estate of Rebecca Wood doecsed, lias presentco and tiled hit account and vouchers In (Inal settlement of said estate, and that the same will come np for the examination and action of said Circuit Court, on the 21st day of March, lsiW, at which time all persons Interested In said estate are required to appear In said Court and show cause, If any there be, why said account an d vouchers should not be approved. And the heirs of said estate and all others Interested therein, are also hereby required, at the time and pti.ee aforesaid, U> appear and make proof ol their heirship or claim to any part es said estate. William. L. Wood. •* , Administrator. - roltc, Spltter & Kurrto. Attorneys. W. 11. Coover, Clerk.

: To : Wail Paper ; Buyers. i ; Pew | ■ v Facts ; 1 __ Prom ; ' Fendig*. ' , > > i We have an up-to-date line. We have a nice line 30 inch Plain Ingrain 1 Papers. 1 We have cheap paper for those who wish it. 1 We have a nice line of Moldings to match our i Papers. 1 We will contract for furnishing paper and hanging it. 1 We would be pleased to have you call and inspect our line. YOURS TO PLEASE, < B. F. FENDIfI’S ; CITY DRUG STORE. t

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. N.. WARNER & SON Dealers In Hardware, Stoves, Implements. A Great Reduction on our FAVORITE COOKING STOVE. We also handle the Coquillard Wagons A good line of • • • • BUGGIES, And everything in the linpleiml Line