Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1898 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a Paragraph. Daily Grist ot Local Happen HlffS L- ■ • Classified Under Their Respective Headings. TUESDAY. Frank Parcels came over from Monticello today. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. E. Murray went to Chicago this morning. Arthur Catt, of Hammond, is visiting his parents here for a short time. J. F. Warren is again quite sick with a recurrence of his former stomach trouble. < tile iivLxc son of A.be Warteua is very dangerously sick with bronchal-pneumonia. Arthur Kressler, of the Indianapolis Medical College, is spending [his vacation here at home j Ernest and Mary Graham, of [lndianapolis, are visiting Misses [Grace aud Ednh Thompson, this ('week. The total eclipse of the moon occurs this evening. The moon will be nearly totally in the shadow when it rises. County Treasurer Gwin is at Indianapolis today making his semi-annual settlement with the state treasurer. Harry Kurrie, who has been making his parents a visit in the southern part of the state, returned home today. I Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Martin, of Cincinnati, returned home today, after a visit with his mother Mrs. Caddie Martin. i The Citizens’ Band is preparing to give a big concert on the night of Jan. sth. They are aiming to make it one of the finest they ever gave. County Superintendent Hamilton and J. D. Babcock, trustee of Marion township, went to Indianapolis Monday afternoon, to attend the State Teachers’ Association. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wasson returned from their Chicago visit today. Their daughter, Miss Gail i Wasson, who is attending Northwestern University at Evanston, returned with them. Jesse Wilcox, of Gillam l'p., now the regimental bugler of the Ist Arizona regiment, is now at Albany, Georgia, with his regiment, and expects soon to be sent to Djiba. He is a grand-son of Uncle Jesse Osborne, of Rensselaer. Notice is hereby given that on Saturday January 7th, 1899 at 7 o’clock P. M., an election will be held in the Church of God at Rensselaer, Indiana, of three rtnistees for said church. James A. Burnham, Elder. The half mile of road just beyond the Burk bridge will be graveled next spring, if present irrangements are carried out. [This piece of road is so situated (that neither the people of Marion |t>r Union townships feel like [making it a gravel road, and the [arrangement is that Marion will jbuild about a quarter, Union about L quarter, and the county the fcther half. ■ In mentioning the Jasper county Loys who will soon go to the Philippines and in a sense, replace the ■two already there, whose regiments ■ire slated to come back soon, we ■or got to mention Fred Granger, of fceMotte. He is now a member of ■he 4th U. S. regulars, to which ■Arthur Lakin belongs, and which ■g under orders to leave Fort SheriHan for the Philippines on or be■ore Jan- 15th.' ■ Rev. F. L. Austin, pastor of the Khurch of God, left today on quite Kn extended trip, and one that is JL unlikely to cause him to remove to that far northwestern Kuntry. He .Ims gone to tbestate

of Washington, on invitation of some people there, who arecontemplating extending to him a call to become their pastor. They pay all the, expense of his trip. Mrs. Austin also left today for Michigan. When Mr. Austin comes back from Washington, he will join his wife, in Michigan, and together they will visit other points in that state. In all he will be absent from Rensselaer about 8 weeks. Mri and Mrs. E. H. Tharp, of Chicago, and family, are making a short holiday visit with their Rensselaer relatives. Mr. Tharp is one of the most prosperous business men Rensselaer ever produced. He is now sole proprietor of the old established South Water Street commission firm of Joseph Spies & Co. He employs about 25 men and 12 or 14 teams. He makes a great specialty of fruits and vegetables, and to make sure of the right goods at the right time, he raises much of it himself. Thus he has about 175 acres of tomatoes how growing and fast ripening at Tampico, Mexico, and will make a trip down there in about two weeks. He makes frequent trips southward in winter, including Honduras, the Bermudas, the Bahamas &c. He also has a very large peach orchard in Michigan.

WEDNESDAY. E. L. Hollingsworth made a business trip to Chicago this morning. Judge S. P. Thompson and daughter Edna went to Kentland today. Mrs. John N. Kern oi Indianapolis, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. H. S. Ellis of this city. Walter Willey is visiting friends in this city. He is in the law business at Terre Haute, Ind. ? Mary Washburn returSed to Chicago last evening after a few days visit with her parents in this city. Elmer McKinzie, of the firm of Judy & McKinzie was up yesterday visiting his cousin, E. M. Banes. Bert Goff went to Monon last evening to work on a telephone system that is being placed in at that place. Prof. Sanders went to Indianapolis this afternoon to attend the teachers’ association now in progress at that place. E. F. Short went to Remington today to meet bis wife and children who have been visiting relatives in Warren Co. Mrs. Zink and daughter Edith, of Wapakoneta, Ohio, are visiting her sister, Mrs. J. C. Borntrager during the holidays. Edward Tharp and family returned home to Chicago this morning after several days visit with relatives in this city. Mrs. A. T. Perkins, who has been confined to her home for a week past with neuralgia and nervous prostration, is reported some better.

Wallace Shedd, of east of town, arrived from lie Colorado trip, Sunday night. He brought back a car load of steers from Shedd Bros. Colorado ranch. W. 11. -McDoel, vice-president and general manager of the Monon, was married Monday at Milwaukee to Mrs. Catherine Neff. Mr. and Mrs. McDoel left at once for California, where they will remain two months. Their home * will be 3232 Michigan avenue, Chicago. Daniel Green celebrated his'Both birthday at South Bend Thursday and had 19 guests at dinner, all but two ranging in age from 63 to 83. Mr. Clem Studebaker made most happy reference to the time when Mr. Green kept flies off an old horsowhile he shod the animal. The eclipse of the moon which occurred last evening, was observed with considerable interest by some of our citizens, but for the most part but little attention was paid to it. An eclipse of the moon is not a rare* enough nor a striking enough phenomenon to create any such general interest as

does an eclipse of the sun. Hi this case the moon was well within the shadow of the earth when it arose, and probably most people had forgotten that an eclipse was due, and if they happened to observe the peculiar appearance of the moon early in the evening, they attributed it to some condition of the atmosphere. In total eclipse of the moon that body is never totally obscured from sight, in clear weather that is, but can always be seen, ‘‘as through a glass,” darkly. It is usually of a dull coppery red color when in total shadow. In this case the red was of a much brighter red than usual, and those who did not know of the eclipse and who were looking for “signs of the times,” might have concluded that the time when “the moon shall turn to blood” had got along.

THURSDAY. Harry Kurrie made u business trip to Monticello this morning. Mrs. Frank Foltz who has been visiting relatives in Oxford returned home yesterday afternoon. Landlord Bruner, of the Makeever Hsuse, is having a hard attack of the grip. Miss Ellen Gwin went to Monon this morning to visit a few days with relatives in that place. C. P. Wright arrived home this morning from an absence of several weeks in the Alabama mining regions. W. D. Robinson and daughter Emma of Hammond, came this morning to attend the funeral of his brother, G. M. Robinson. A lady’s pocket book, containing a small sum. lost between Nowels House, and Henry Harris’ place. Finder please leave at this office. J. S. Lakin went to Fort Sheri, 'dan, near Chicago, this morning, for a' few’ days visit with his son before the latter departs for the Philippines with his regiment. Charles Chipman, who is working in South Chicago for the Illinois Steel company returned home yesterday evening for a few days visit with relatives in this city. Trustees Babcock, of Marion Tp., Prevo, of Gillam and Bierma, of Keener, were all from this county who attended the meeting of the State Township Trustees’ Association at Indianapolis, this week.