Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1898 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a Paragraph. Daily Grist of Local Happenings ♦ Classified Under Their Respective Headings. FRIDAY. H. W. Porter is reported very dangerously sick. Tom Grant’s daughter at Rose Lawn is reported better. Judge and Mrs. S. P. Thompson are in Chicago a few days. Miss Maggie Kenton is spending Sunday at Badger Grove. Mrs. W. Brown left today for an extended visit with her father at Tuscola, 111. ' “ Mrs. Mark Phelps and Mrs. Hal Sheets, of Remington, visited Mrs. J. W. Paxton, Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wasson are -visiting their daughter, Mrs. A. E. Coen in Chicago a few days. Mrs. Mary Millft' and Mrs. Dr. Powell left today for their former and also future home at Alvin, 111. C. W. Duvall was ’ called to South Bend by tile serious sickness of his brother, C. H. Duvall. The telegram stated that the case was serious. Mrs. George Goff returned home yesterday from several weeks’ treatment at Hunter’s springs, near Attica, and is very much benefitted thereby. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Martindale left today for Terre Haute to spend the winter with Mrs. Martindale’s parents. Mr. Martindale will learn photography while there. Dr. C. E. Powell has moved ’ back to Alvin, 111., from which place he came here some months ago. His father-in-law, Dr. Howard, who has been conducting a general store in the Nowels’ block is preparing to return to Alvin, also. A Ball has received another letter from his son, J. C. Ball, stationed at Mayaguez, Porto Rico, in which he states he is in good health and highly pleased with the country. He talks of making that country his permanent home after receiving bis discharge from the army. —Monon News. James E. Felio was arrested at Michigan City yesterday on information furnished by Col Durbin, of the 161st Indiana, on a charge of desertion. Felio disappeared from camp in Florida, and was not heard of until he turned up in Michigan City. He will-be returned to camp under military escort and will be tried for desertion, a crime which is severely punished. It may be two years in the penitentiary.

SATURDAY. Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Warner are visiting friends at Delphi. Mr. and Mrs. John Rush are visiting relatives at Watseka, 111. Dr. Alter is looking after his practice again, after about a week’s sickness. Miss Bessie Foster is visiting relatives and friends at Monticello and Monon a few days. Mrs. Ada Yates is making an extended visit with her mother, Mrs. J. C. Norton, at Rossville, 111. Miss Pearl Slaughter, who has been attending school at Goshen, returned home today on account of sickness. Mrs. Abbie Green, after a weeks visit with Mrs. Anna Harrison and family returned to her home at Sheridan, today. Mr. and Mrs. Will Babcock and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Meyer are spending a few days on the Kankakee at Water Valley. Mrs. P. H. Lally and Miss Bena Paxton, after a short visit with Mr. and Mrs, Nate Reed returned home to Michigan City, today.

J. P. Hammond’s five year old boy caught one of his fingers in a lawn mower, yesterday afternoon, and it was cut off at the first joint. Mrs. Menerva Frances, after a two weeks’ visit with Mr. and Mrs. John Frances west of town, returned to her home at Vermillion Co., today. Rev. D. A. Tucker went to Ridgeville today, to enter upon his work as the settled pastor of the F. W. Baptist congregation at that place. Will Shanlaub came over from Morocco, to spend Sunday. He came on his wheel, but the rain will compel him to make the return trip by team. Albert Marshall has gone to Will county, 111., to visit relatives a few days and to accompany home his grandmother, who has passed the summer there. Mrs. W. H. and son Clyde arrived home today from their stay in northern Michigan. Mrs. Coover’s health is considerably the better for her sojourn in thd north. A moving party with two wagons went through town today, headed for Tennessee. The head of the party was named Reynolds, and they came from Laporte county, this state. E. Mayo, of Champaign Co., 111, returned home today. He has bought the Evans farm about 4 or 5 miles southeast of town, and will return with his family and occupy it, in the spring. He bought 100 acres at $36 per acre. Mrs. Dr. English entertained about forty ladies Friday afternoon at progressive dominoes, in honor of Mrs. T. H. Sellars of Chicago. Mrs. L. A. Moss carried off the trophy as the best player in dominoes. The house was decorated with smylax and palms .Dainty refreshments were served. J. H. Marshall, lately mustered out from Grigsby rough riders,’ at Chickamauga, is now sick in a hospital at Colorado Springs, Colo. He was sick when he left here, and hurried away with the belief that the mountain air would restore him to health. He is believed to have typhoid fever. Valpariso Star: —Porter county farmers are alarmed about the ravages of hog cholera, and well they may be; whole herds are dying off in all parts of the county. They are bringing their porkers to town for shipment by the local shippers in large numbers. At this rate pork will likely to be dear in the local market this winter.

This autumn weather is peculiarly beautiful. With a warm sun and pleasant nights and an almost entire absence of frost, Indiana is surely blest. And this is not the extent of the blessing, either, for with fine crops and good prospects of a Republican victory in November, the people should be, and are happy. There are only three states in the Union that have more Knights of Pythias than Indiana. Ohio has 55,318, Pennsylvania 41,347, and Illinois 37,485. Indiana ranks fourth 427 lodges and 37,029 there are 6,683 lodges with a membership of 468,266. Onethird of these live in the four states above mentioned. The band boys struck a small but very hot crowd in the band contest at Delphi, Friday, for they had to play against Michigan City and Monticello. The first named took first prize, and the second named the second prize, and left nothing for our band but the third prize, which they received and which was S4O. Our boys have no kick coming over the result of the contest.

MONDAY. Harry Kurrie is at Monticello, today. Mrs. Steve William's of Parr, is reported very sick. James A. Shirk, a banker of Delphi, is in town today. It looks like the Flora bank robbers had got away for good.

Miss Flora Harris returned to the art school at Chicago today. Misses LuElla McCoy and Virginia Austin are visiting a few days at Lafayette. John Ross, of Brookston, democratic candidate for congressman, is in town today. \ A five year old child of James McMannis, south of town, is very bad with dysiutery. • Editor F. E. Babcock lost a ten dollar bill on the side walk Monday forenoon. Reward. The theremoqjeter stood at 85 degrees again, at one this afternoon; which is very hot for October. About twenty-five or thirty young people surprised Flora Harris at her home Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Winters, after a few days visit with relatives here returned to their home at Hammond, today. William Mathesson, of Lucan, Ontario, Canada, is visiting his brother, James Mathesson, just north of town. Miss LuElla Boyd after a two weeks’ visit with Mr. and Mrs. Granville Moody and family, left for her home at Mt. Vernon, lowa today. The Fair Oaks schools opened today, with Miss McGowan teaching the larger pupils and Miss Lillie Nowels the younger ones. J. P. Hammond, who last year filled the position of county truant officer very satisfactorily and very economically for the county, has been re-appointed for another year. County Superintendent Hamilton went to Valparaiso, today, to attend the meeting of the Northern Indiana County Superintendents’ Association. Ira Washburn, of the First Illinois regiment, who lately returned to Chicago, has gone to Manistee, in northern Michigan, to care for his army chum, Ramsdell* who-has typhoid fever. C. W? Duvall has returned from his trip to South Bend. He reports his brother, S. H. Duvall as somewhat better, and now in a hospital for treatment. His sickness was caused by a bad strain, in lifting. D. J. Eastburu, who for fifteen years has published the Benton Review, at Fowler, has sold the paper to Charles H. West, who is the democratic candidate for joint representative for Benton and Newton counties. The foot ball season will open here next Friday, with a game at Riverside Athletic Park, between the Chalmers team, said to be the best in White county, and the Rensselaer aggregation. It will undoubtedly be a good game. Farmers complain of a mould or rot that is affecting the corn in many neighborhoods. The corn looks all right until they come to husk or snap the ears for feed, when the end of many ears are found to be rotting, caused by the

late warm rains —Fowler Review. The oldest person ’in Jasper county is undoubtedly, Mrs. Walkinson, of Remington. She celebrated her 99th birthday, on Wednesday, Sept. 28th. She is said to be still quite vigorous and able to perform many common household duties, and prospects are excellent that she will live considerably past the century mark. T. H. Robertson has started still another new paper; this last is at Hebron. His salutatory is the shortest on record, it is “How do you do.” Evidently, judging from his numerous past experiences, he has gauged the length of his salutatory to correspond with the probable length of his stay in the town. The oldest citizen can scarcely remember such another fall as we are now enjoying. Here it is well into October and not an autumn leaf hardly in sight, but the foliage almost as green, fresh and inviting as in the middle of June. It’s remarkable, truly. The absence of heavy frosts accounts for it. E. P. Honan went to Indianapolis this afternoon, to enter the Indiana Law School. He is pretty well read in the law already, and therefore enters the senior class and expects to graduate after a single year’s attendance. Mrs. Honan will join him at Indianapolis, to remain during his stay, as soon as she can be spared from the post-office. The grand lodge Knights of Pythias meets at Indianapolis, Tuesday. Charley Morlan is the representative from the Rensselaer lodge. Others attending from here are Erastus Peacock, C. W. Hanley, J. E. Wilson, G. E. Murray and A. T. Perkins. Mr. Peacock, who has held two or three grand offices is a prominent candidate for grand vice chancellor. Mrs. Anna Tuteur is the representative from Rensselaer to the Rathbone Sisters’ grand lodge. Mr. Mayo, of Champaign Co. HI., who has just bought a farm southeast of Rensselaer, for a residence, looked through the court house Saturday, and admired it unqualifiedly. Thought it the finest recommendation of the county he had seen. He was not at all scared at buying property and coming to live in a county where there is a fine court house to be paid for. Not a bit more soared than Brother Babcock, of the Democrat, was when he bought a newspaper and settled down here. The only Jasper county man who went to the Klondike this year, so far as known, was Luce Bond, a son of Mrs. Sallie Bond, of Remington. He left early in the spring with a party from Chicago, and, like the great majority of those who have gone there this year, nearly all in fact, he had no luck and came home on the last boat out. He was expected to arrive in Remington Saturday. Previous to going he held a responsible position with the Geo. A. Clark gasoline stove manufacturing company, in Chicago, and it is understood that his place has been kept for him.

Frank Hershman, of Walker Tp., had a bad runaway one day last week, as related by the Medaryville Advertiser. He had his three young children in the wagon, when the runaway occurred, two in the seat and one in the wagon box. When the horses got frightened and run, they soon struck a tree and the two children in the seat were thrown violently out. The youngest, an infant, had a leg broken; wh'ile an eight year old girl was so badly hurt that she was at first thought to be killed. Her injuries' were about the head, and one eye. At last accounts the physician hoped for her recovery. The women who invested in rain-water hair restorative some time ago, are now coming back at some of their male acquaintances in good shape. Quite a number of our smoothest young men invested largely in “linen” handkerchiefs, of a peddler, some time ago. He would show a nice linen hand-

kerchief, and offer to sell them at 25 for one dollar. When anyone agreed to take a dollar’s worth or more, the peddler would appear to take them out of the same package as the sample linen ones came from, but when the buyers came to open and examine their handkerchiefs later, they found them a very poor quality of cotton. Uncle Milton Makeever is probably the most conservative man in Jasper county. He also owns a pretty large amount of projierty, which he obtained by years of hard work and rough knocks; and he is very much averse to letting go of any of his good cash unless he knows he is getting good value in return. But if any one thinks that Uncle Milton begrudges his share of tax for the new court house, they are mightily mistaken. He knows a good thing when he sees it and he knows that the court house is a good things and the fact that he is an unswerving Democrat abates nothing of his appreciation of the building. He looked through it the other day, for the first time since it was finished, and was as well pleased as boy with his first pair of boots. The only regret Uncle Milton has in connection with the court house, is that his advanced age promises him but a brief time in which to enjoy it.