Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1898 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a Paragraph. Daily Grist of Local Happenings jj'-'-.'. ' 9 • , Classified Under Their Respective Headings. FRIDAY. Miss True Yeoman is visiting relatives in Kentland a few days. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Sigler have moved to Monon for the summer. Miss Ruth Hanawalt and the Flagg children left for Brazil, Ind., today, their future home. J. F. Osborne and Willard Warfield left on their bicycles this afternoon on a tour through the gas belt. Mr. Wickey, of East Chicago, a Lake county candidate for the Republican nomination for joint representative, is in town today. Ernest Wishard went to Indianapolis this afternoon, and will spend the summer in the office of Dr.'W. N. Wishard, the specialist, as his assistant. The paper mail sack was run over and cut to pieces again this morning, by the 4:18 train, when it was thrown off. The newsmen lost most of their Chicago papers. Many other papers and packages were also cut to pieces. Young Johnny Chamberlain, the former Rensselaer toy who lately went into the army from Kentlapd, is in the Strike Light Artillery, now at Indianapolis. It is in the regular U. S. service. Johnny is a nephew of Mrs. S. E. Yeoman, of Rensselaer. The court house clock didn’t quit work last night, although it did go on a strike. About 11 o’clock it turned loose and struck 75 times. It is supposed that the clock was merely making up a lot of strikes it missed last week, before it got in full working order. An exciting incident of the clock’s big strike was that City Councilman Kight,. wakeful as usual in the city’s interest, heard the prolonged striking and concluded that Gen. Weyler was marching on the town at the head of a force of Spaniards, and rushed down town to see what the noise whs about. He was finally convinced that nothing serious was the matter.

SATURDAY. Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Long spent Friday in Lafayette. Miss Cecil Brown Tias receivod a new Malcome Love piano. Swaney Makeever is moving into his own house on Division etreef, opposite the Catholic church. Mrs. Henry Wood and Mrs. C. E. Pierson are visiting relatives at Wheatfield a few days. Mrs. A. M. Munden after a few days visit with J. C. Gwin returned to her home at Fair Oaks today. . Mrs. A. Halleck, of DeMotte spent Friday with Mrs. T. J. Joyner, whq accompanied her homo today for a few days visit. Fred Middleton went to Hanc-

mond today, to investigate an offered situation in a restaurant, and will accept if fqund acceptable. A Winamac company got clear to Camp Mount, but being short on numbers was turned down in favor of some other company that sized up to the full count. Johnny Leahy has been heard from again by his relatives, the Honans. He has been transfered from the first tq the fifth U. S. cavalry, and was still in Texas, but hoping soon to be sent nearer the scene of expected battles. The ancient cross roads town of Crown Point don’t see a Chicago daily until JO o’clock in the forenoon, and a newp agent is figuring on having the INilonon’s fast morning train bring the papers to St. Johns, and thrOw them off there, and the news agent will make the rest of the journey by push-cart or something, bjy six o’clock. Prof. W. F. Baughman, leader of the Citizens’, Band has moved into L F. Bartoo’s house, on McCoy Avenue, j just vacated by Sheriff Reed, j His friend, Joseph Sawyer, lutety from Charlotte, Mich., is also occupying a part of the same house. Mr. Sawyer travels for a poultry raisers’ supply house, andl himself is considerable of an adopt in the raising of fancy poultry and will engage quite extensively in that business here. * * * i Though the re has not been much warm weathe: • so far this spring, and in that ie6pect, the season is backward, ye t it has been a pretty good season 1 or farmers to do their work, in sac , an extra good one, and their wo; 'k is now correspondingly far ad vanced. Oat sowing which is not always finished by the last of A pril, has been done so long this yet r, that the oats are all up, and growing fairly well. Plowing for corn s very far along. The weather has been too cold for grass, however, and pasturage is still very poor. There is a great prospect for fruit, such as peaches and cherries, in this county. As for apples, it is a little too soon to tell what they w ill be this year. The news papers of the country have had tin fir labor almost doubled by the war The character of it, largely |iavfil, makes it necessary to depend op somewhat unreliable sources.! Ifhe press associations are not Jperilnitted to have representativ ?s on men-of-war. and the reports i n the main come from unofficial s ources. Next to the fisherman «tomes the jolly tar with his yarn 3, and when he reaches land now adays it is not a sen serpent he has seen but a flotilla. A large p iart of the work is in investigating rumors that have no foundatic: n in fact and prove to be false. T 1 ie majority of the newspapers l drnit to their columns only such facts as have been investigatec l and confirmed and the public sin juld depend upon newspapers of this character. There are no newspapers large or small that hav< 1 exclusive information and the orily advantage lies in an ability to j get at the truth and a desire to giive the public that and nothing more. MONDAY. L. W. Hankie, of Chicago Heights, isl visiting friends here a few days, j

Miss Florence Wood spent Sunday with relatives in Monon. Mrs. Louis Reprogle, of Monticello, is attending the funeral of J. H. Shields today. Mrs. J. A. Sharp is visiting relatives in Chicago*and Evanston for about two weeks. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Mell Abbott, west of the river, Saturday morning, April 30tli, a daughter. County Superintendent Hamilton had a class of 55 candidates for teachers’ licenses to examine last Saturday. N. F. Muir and family arrived from Monon this morning. He will occupy C. D. Nowel’s store room in the Nowels block. He has been in the dry goods business at Monon for several years. New recruits for the young men’s military company are, Harris L. Swartzell, of Rensselaer, Perry Burk, of Valma, Dan W. Reed, James Snyder and Evertt Merrell, of Blackford and W. Whited, of Parr. F. J. Sears, left for Storm Lake, lowa, this morning. He will close up his business there, in a few weeks, and return to Rensselaer to make his future home. He will probably visit Omaha during his absence. That Kentucky man who invented a water filter was about to be excommunicated from church, until he explained it was to filter the water from the whisky. Then they all bowed before him in grateful homage and made him senior deacon.

A large barn in Remington, the property of A. Leopold, was burned late Saturday night. The tenant of the property, a Mr. Edwards, lost a horse that was in the barn. The barn was worth S2OO or S3OO, and is thought to be insured. Lowell Gazette-Charles E. Mills, of Rensselaer, candidate for joint Representative of Lake and Jasper counties, was in Lowell building fences one day last week. Mr. Mills is a good lawyer and a pleasant gentleman and should Lake county fail to nominate their own man we need not have any fear, ns Mr. Mills will look after our interests. Van Rensselaer Chapter of the American Revolution have assumed the patriotic and proper duty of looking after the matter of displaping of flags, during the present time. They will request that flags be kept flying from all schools and other public buildings, and so far us practicable from business aad private houses. Mrs. M. L. Spitler is the chairman of a special committee appointed to have the matter in charge. Today is the time 6et for the final physical examination of the Indiana soldiers at Camp Mount, to determine their fitness to enter the U. S. army. Rensselaer’s three representatives, G. N. Dunn, Bates Tucker and Ernest Middleton, are all in Company 1., of the First regiment, and it is believed will all easily pass the examinations. Saturday the vurious companies were lined up, and those who wished to withdraw were given an opportunity to do 60. Not a man in Company I wanted to retire. It is said that not another of National Guard companies in the whole camp made so good a showing as this. Marriage License. 1 Mantord Ramey, \ Linnie L. Warren.