Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1898 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told a Paragraph. - 0 Daily Grist ot Local Happenings Classified Under Their Respective Headings. TUESDAY. Mrs. Dr. Johnson is on the sick list. William McCabe, fiom Watseka, 111., is the guest, for e. few days, of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Parks. Mrs. Warner, of Fowler, and Mrs. Coghill, of Remington, are visiting Mrs. W. S. Parks, today. Miss Susie Parker returned last evening from a month’s visit with Mrs. Grace Large, at Evansville. Monroe Banes and little daughter have <zonp to Attica, to snend Thanksgiving at his old homestead. Mr. and Mrs. Delos Thompson have returned homo from a visit with Mrs. Thompson’s parents at Battle Creek, Mich. Capt. G W. Payne, of Frankfort, who has been here looking after his farm interests, returned home yesterday. John Boaz east of town is still suffering from injuries received several months ago, by being jammed by a threshing separator. S. McGinnis, of DeMotte, who is putting in the Keener To. gravel roads, was a Rensselaer visitor yesterday. He reports the construction of the r-rn.d as mj'k : pg fair progress. Mrs. Nancy Davisson, of Fair Oaks, and her neice, Miss Alter, daughter of ex-surveyor, J. E. Alter, started last night for Dublin, Arkansas, where they will spend the winter with relatives. Russell Parker, of Two Harbors, Minn., now a locomotive engineer on the Duluth & Iron Mountain R. R., is visiting his mother, Mrs. Isabel Parker, and recuperating from a recent six weeks spell of sickness. U. S Villars returned home to Lake Bluff, 111., today. He is connected with the Home Finding Association, or Illinois, but was here in the interests of temperance work, and delivered a very able address on that subject at the Presbyterian church, last evening. Miss Maggie Kenton has gone to Ridgeville, this state, to engage in evangelistic work, in conjunction with Rev. D. A. Tucker, formerly pastor of the Free Will church here, and now located at Ridgeville. Miss Kenton will be absent several weeks. Rev. Villars addressed the audience at the temperance meeting last night. A large audience was present and quite a number took the pledge. The sheep skin band brought a crowd with them, as usual, Mr. Stanley will speak on prison life tonight. Monon's proposed big system of street improvement has been abandoned, at least for the present. Three bids were received, but all were deemed to high and were rejected. The Indiana Macadam Company was the lowest of the three. Their bid was $21,664.48. Jim Boyle, of Rose Lawu, was next on the list. His bid was $22,609.42. The womens' meeting at the M. E. church Sunday P. M. was largely attended. The list of the social purity books for the use of parents and teachers in kindergarden and primary grades has been placed in the hands of Mrs. Ara Penn who has kindly consented to send the orders for those who desire the books. The temperature made one of the biggest sudden drops on record, last night. Up to 10 o'clock the weather was very warm, and about that time the front end of the blizzard arrived, and by morning, the temperature was down to about 10 degrees above zero, or 22

below the freezing point. There was a fall of about 40 degrees in five hours. What is probably by far the largest and finest work of art ever executed in Jasper county, may now be seen in Dr. H. L. Brown’s dental office. It is a large copy in crayon, of Rosa Bonbeur’s most famous picture, the “Horse Fair.” The picture is on a large scale, being three feet by six in size, and shows a dozen of moije figures of horses, in the most spirited ar.d striking attitudes, and all drawn with a wonderful fidelity to life. The picture is the work of Mrs. Brown, and occupied a large part of her time for nearly 18 months. WEDNESDAY. Mrs. Simon Fendig, of Wheatfield, is the guest cf Rensselaer relatives. Mrs. Tom Turner ’’n the east part of town is sick with pneumonia. Cieiu Reed is moving odt into Barkley Tp., on Capt, G. W. Payne’s farm. The little child of Chas. Greenlee, who has been quite sick is now much better. Miss Bartha Nowols is home from Lafayette to spend Thanksgiving with her parents. The thermometer early this morning was down to within 4 or 5 degre- s of the zero mark. Miss Rebena Rumble returned last evening from Chicago, where she has been for the past few days. J. N. Timmons, from near Valma, is moving today, to Monticello, where he will engage in business. Ii jvu Huas seeing Boone the Hypnotist you miss one of the greatest men in his line of modern times. John King, Landy Magee and Christie Vick nre attending the turkey shoot at McCoysburg today. Mrs. H Lsndi.: rcturnM'o h.r home in Delphi, today, after a week's visit with her mother, Mrs. Silas Potts. Yesterday on account of the cold weather and high wind nearly every train on the road was from 15 to 50 minutes late. The family of Will Moss of Evansville, arrived today, for a visit with Mrs. L. A. Moss. Mr. Moss himself will follow on a later train. The Laporte Argus has been interviewing leading Democrats on the results of the election and what should be done by that party to regain public favor. The general expression seemed to be that free silver as an issue was now dead.— Valpo Messenger (Dem.) Clerk Coover received notice last evening of the immediate acceptance of Harry Noland at Longcliff asylum. He will probably be taken there tomorrow’. Miss Nellie Moss returned home Sunday from a month’s visit in New York. While gone she visited many of the interesting and historical sights in ihe east. Mrs. Alfred Thompson, R. S. Dwiggins and Rev. F. L. Austin returned today from Plymouth, where they have been attending the conference of the Church of God. A large number of little folks greatly enjoyed a dancing party last evening, given by Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth, in honor of her daughter Cecelia. A fine supper was served. Attorney General Griggs has decided that a person may draw money on a check without a stamp, provided the check be payable to himself, from his own funds on on deposit in the bank in question. Union Thanksgiving services will be held Thursday, at 10:30 A. M, at the Presbyterian church. Rev. H. M. Middleton will preach the Thanksgiving sermon, and all other pastors in town will assist. Everybody is invited. Henry Smith, the steam laundryman, had the misfortune to be again severely hurt by being kick-

ed by a horse. This time he was hit just above the eye, and a deep gash was cut, which had to be sewed up. He was hurt about the same way, and about the same place, a month or two ago. “No evil grows so rapidly as pauperism,” remarks the Indianapolis Journal. “The township officers who have been aiding what are called out door paupers will ffnd that the number will increase much faster than population. Once given public charity a sort of standing, by extending it to a large number, and the township will always face an increasing levy for support of the poor.” THURSDAY. “Boone.” Boone, Noy. 28, Ellis Opera House. L. S. Renicker is in Shelby on business today. Fred Sargeant is visiting friends in Monon, today. Maos j_<\ a iiiiuest oi Monon, is the guest of Miss Maud Jack. Fiank Bruner is visiting friends and relatives in DeMotte this week. Miss Mae Dunlap of Chicago, is visiting Miss Mary Belle Purcupile. C. P. Wright arrived home from Alexandria City, Ga., this morning. It is reported that there is good skating on the river, at Starr’s ice house. < Born, Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 23 to Mr. and Mrs. William Zea a son.' The firemen decided last night to have a masqeurade ball, the 30th of December. Mrs. Tom Joyner and children have gone to DeMotte to spend Thanksgiving. Miss Nina Hammond, Qf Lafayette, is the guest of her neice. Miss Virgie Austin. Mr and Mrs. C. F. Gay, of South t> n,.. r ,J., here for a few days. Geo. Moss from the law department of the State University, is home for a fe.w days. Misses Josephine Buckley and Mabel Hepp of Lowell are visiting Rensselaer friends. Many people remember Boone. He will be at Ellis' Opera House, Monday evening, Nov. 28. Mrs. Elizabeth Scott, of Monticello, is spending a few days with her sister, Mrs. Julia Healey. Geo Sharp has gone to Peru, where he has a job of painting Wallace’s show wagons this winter. Albert Overton and Chas. Growwheeled to Lafayette, today, and will take in the ball game while there. Miss Pearl Smith, of near Delphi, is visiting Jeff Smith and family, west of town, for a few weeks. There will be a game of foot ball between the High School and some other local team at Riverside Field, this afternoon. Miss Flora Harris, from the Chicago Art School, is among the students that are home for Thanksgiving. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. McCoy and son Taylor are spending Thanksgiving with Mrs. McCoy's parents, at Lafayette. Capt. M. F. Chilcote has gone to Albany to take Thanksgiving turkey with his son, Fred L. Chilcote and family. Misses Grace Thompson and Gail Wasson of the Northwestern University, at Evanston, are homo for a few- days vacation. A big crowd of foot ball people have gone to Lafayette, today, to witness the game there this afternoon, between Purdnc and Oberlin. Everett Brown, who was a student at Purdue last year, has gone there today, to witness their annual Thanksgiving day foot ball game. Nirs. M. J. Goldsberry and daughter Opal, and Miss Emma Bull, of Wdlcott, are spending

Thanksgiving with Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Coover. White & Marion have moved their plumbing and general repair shop from a room on Front street into the room next to Fendig's' drug store, formerly occupied as a fruit store. Ernest Middleton and Bates Tucker, late of the 159th regiment, arrived home from Indianapolis, last night, with their discharge papers in their pockets, and they are now again free citizens of the United States. Notice was received at the county Clerk’s office last night that the reform school at Plainfield would receive the Blake boy, whenever it was convenient for our sheriff to bring him down, which will probably be in a day or two. The unsportsmanlike manner in which the Valparaiso foot ball team has treated the Rensselaer team is greatly to be regretted. The game was well advertised and many people from neighboring towns will undoubtedly be here to see the game. And the worst of it all is that Valparaiso had no excuse whatever, they just simply fl unked. The annual Thanksgiving dance came off last night, in the hall over the telephone central office. There were 36 couples present, and participated in the dancing. The music was furnished by Prof. Eddy's band of six pieces, from Chicago, and was of a very high quality of excellence, The cos- j tumes of the ladies were especially elegant and tasteful. Supper was served at the Nowels House.

The Wallace show went into winter quarters at Peru Friday. The show this year has been out a little over six months, having started on the first of May. At the beginning of the season it made a few stands in Indiana and Illinois and then made a tour of the northwest, returning in about two months and showing at a number of towns in Indiana, Illinois and Ohio. From there it wont west again, touring Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Arizona, California and New Mexico, where the last stand was made. The season as a whole has been a successful one, and Mr. Wallace expresses himself as being satisfied with the result of the trip. In California the business was especially good.