Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1898 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a Paragraph. Daily Grist of Local Happenings Classified Under Their Respective Headings. FRIDAY. Judge Reynolds of Monticello, was in town today. Miss LuElla McCoy is visiting relatives at'Lafayette. Mrs. Anna Burns is the guest of relatives at Frankfort. Miss Mary Porter is visiting relatives at Indianapolis. J. F. Osborne has gone to Rochester, by the bicycle route. Miss Harriet Yeoman is visiting friends at Veedersburg, this state. Thena Meyer is now visiting relatives in Hammond and Chicago. Mrs. C. E. Webster, of Urbana. 111., after a few days visit returned home today. Mrs. Thomas Grant after a few days visit here returned to Rose Lawn yesterday. Misses Ona Tyner and Bessie Foster are visiting relatives and friends at Monticello. Miss Nellie McGuire after a several weeks visit with friends here, returned home to Remington, today. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. John Keiper, two and one half miles north of town, today, July 8, a daughter. Miss Emma Ewalt, of Prairieville, Ohio, is the guest of Dr. and Mrs. H. L. Brown and Mrs. A. P. Burton. Mr. and Mrs. Will Gailord after a short visit with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Murray returned home to Chicago, yesterday. Mrs. Priscilla Hopkins was called to Lafayette to attend the funeral of her aunt, Mrs. Lupton, which will be held today. Measles continue to spread in Rensselaer. Some of the families in which there are recent cases, are C. W. Hanley, J. W. Horton, and J. F. Osborne. Mrs. Emma Hagins, of Minneapolis, Minn., who has been visiting Wm. Powers’ family, has gone to Wolcott for a visit there. She will return to Rensselaer before going home to Minneapolis. A considerable number of Free Will Baptist people have gone to attend quarterly meeting at Prairie church, near Brookston. The party includes Rev. and Mrs. D. A. Tucker and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Marion Adams, and from Surrey Clint Thornton and from Parr Ed Hudson. Messrs. Tucker, Thornton and Hudson made the trip on bicycles. The children’s social festivities of the vacation season began in good shape Wednesday afternoon and evening when John and Jim Ellis entertained a large number of their boy and girlfriends, at their parents’ residence, on Front street. Jim had his little companions with him in the afternoon, white John, who that day reached the mature age of twelve years, ; had his in the evening. All were I well entertained by games and refreshments, with a big paper balloon for a pleasing wind-up.

SATURDAY. Mrs. S. A. Royster is visiting her sister nt Boswell. Mrs. Nettie Hoover is visiting relatives at Monticello. Frank Kressler is visiting relatives at Lafayette a few days. B. F. Fendig. Delos Thompson and A. F. Hopkins have gone to Milwaukee, to spend Sunday. Mrs. John Jackson and daughter Miss Ida Jackson, of Logansport, are the guests of Mrs. A. F. Long. Mr. and Mrs. James Russell are moving to Upland. Ind., where Mr. Russell is working in a zinc factory.

Mrs. George Stnckfaden and children are visiting relatives in Chicago and Centralia, 111. They expect to be gone some time. Ray Thompson, our youngest attorney, is also our most recent notary public. He received his commission and notarial seal a day or two ago. Mrs. Anna Horner and daughter Miss Daisy, of Kingman. Kan., who are visiting J. F. Irwin’s family, have gone to Chicago for a two weeks’ visit. A new trouble has come upon our farmers. Reports are that the oats are being badly struck with rust. The extent of the trouble and the damage it will do, are not yet known. Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Woody, of Chicago, are in town today and will give a free concert, tonight, at the M. E. church. Mr. Woody is known already to many of our people, having been a member of the famous Woody Brothers’ quartette. M. F. Chilcote left this afternoon for an extended trip. He will go to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to visit his neices, Mrs. Jennie Cox, and Misses Edith and Marj T Miller. After a short stay there he will go to Los Angelos to visit his son Gaylord H. Chilcote, and family. He will be away until about Sept. Ist. The first issue of the Democrat under the new editor, F. E. Babcock, appeared today. The name is changed from the Rensselaer to the Jasper County Democrat. As was to be expected from a newspaper man of Mr. Babcock's ability and experience, it is a good newspaper. The editor announces that he will run a straigfit-out Democratic paper. A Thanksgiving service in conformity with the President’s proclamation will be observed at the Trinity M. E. church tomorrow night. Prof. I. N. Warren and Mr. <sreo. N. Dunn will deliver short addresses, and a general praise service will follow. Rev. Dr. Beck will preach tomorrow forenoon and administer the Lord’s Supper. Everybody Invited to come to these services. C. W. Gray, whose fall from a painting platform was previously mentioned, has been in a pretty serious condition, but is somewhat better today. He is badly hurt, however, and though it is how thought that it will not prove fatal, he is sure to be laid up for a long time, and it is likely he will always be more or less crippled, and perhaps totally disabled. Wheat cutting so far as Jasper county is concerned will be about at an end this week. A number of the farmers have already finished and others are rushing the work along. While it is generally believed that the yield will be good not much can be told about it until threshing begins, which will probably be next week. Wm. Huson, of Milroy Tp., and his aged mother, went to Chicago yesterday called by telegram stating that the latter’s oldest daughter, Mr. Huson’s sister, had been very dangerously burned, by lighting a match in a room in which gas had been escaping. Also that, only a few hours before the accident, the injured woman’s own daughter had died. The dead girl was thus a cousin to Wm. Huson's own daughter, who died a few weeks ago. Dr. H. S. Tanner, the once cele-, brated faster, who 19 years ago, at New York city, broke all previous records of fasting, by going without even a morsel of “grub” for 40 days; and then knocked the watermelon eating record silly for all time; is in town today. He used to be medical director at the Indiana Mineral Springs, and is now traveling agent for the Sterling Remedy Company, of Attica, Ind., and whose manager is manager also of the Springs. The Dr. is now possessed of such an extensive horizontal physical developement as would suggest the idea that he could stand another 40 or 50 days’ fast without reducing himself

much”|below the average abdominal expansion of ordinary men., MONDAY. Miss Minnie Berndt, of Michigan City, is visiting Miss Mary Weathers, this week. Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Sigler, of Webb City, Missouri, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Goff. Miss Myrtle Oram, after a week’s visit with Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Clark, returned to Goodland today. Uncle John Thompson has quit the Nowels House and now makes his home with his son-in-law, C. W. Duvall. « Miss Ethel Middlecamp, of Indiana Mineral Springs, spent Sunday with her sister here, at the Makeever House. $ Prof. Boyd Johnson, of Franklin college, Ind., and family are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Faris, east of town. Albert C. Brooks, of Fair Oaks passed through here this morning on bis wheel to Peru, where he will visit his parents. Mrs. Sidnal King who has been very sick.for some time is now reported very low and the end evidently not many hours away. Miss Maggie Kenton will preach at the F. W. Baptist church next Sunday morning, July 17, at the usual hour of morning services. Frank Minikus came into Squire Burnham’s court, Saturday evening, and got fined and costed $9.85 for his share in the four sided Fourth of July fracas Only one othe party remains to be dealt with for that affair. Rensselaer is to have a big circus this year, as our own Indiana show, the Wallace, is coming here on August 3rd. R. M. Harvey, the genial advance agent was getting in his part of the work here today.