Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1899 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a Paragraph. Daily Grist of Local Happen intra Classified Under Their Respective Headings. TUESDAY. Rev. V. O. Fritts will preach at the Meteachurch, near Logansport next Sunday. Geo. Murray and John Eger are attending Gore’s big auction sale of groceries and dry goods today in Chicago. Rey. J. L. Brady will preach at the First Baptist church next Sunday morning and evening in the absence of the pastor. R. A. Hopkins, who lately closey his school at Surrey, has gone to Indianapolis, today, and may remain there all summer. W. H. Beam, the station agent, is doing dispatching work at Monon, again. Frank Maloy is acting as agent here, in Mr. Beam s absence. Rev. and Mrs. N. H. Sheppard went to Valparaiso this afternoon, to attend a Christian Missionary convention, lasting three days of this week. The schools in Newton township have all closed after terms of little iqore than 5 months. An oversight on the part of the trustee in not raising the school tax levy was the cause of the short terms. B. L. Allen, state president of the Society of Christian Endeavor, will hold an Endeavor Institute at the Christian church, Wednesday evening, of this week. His subject will be “What Christian Endeavor Means.”

Rev. H. M. Middleton has gone to Thorntown today, to attend the funeral of the wife of Rev. G. W. Bowers, a well known Methodist minister, now on the superannuated list. Mrs. Bowers was also very widely known in connection with her work for missions. Geo Robinson has given up his job of firing on the Penn, lines, and come home, and Frank Morlan is expected too, today. The work is hard out of all reason, and beyond endurance. About 20 hours on duty out of each 24 is what it has been lately. The city council last night amended the telephone franchise extension resolution, by making the time ten years instead of twenty, and then passed it by a vote of three to two. Those voting for it were Meyer, Murray and Eger. Those against it were Spitler and McColly. Mr. Beam was absent. No provision is made for any compensation to the city for this valuable franchise. A copy of a little two by twice weekly paper reaches us from Indianapolis and bears the heading “The Peoples Pilot.” . It professes to be a re-established issue of another Peoples Pilot, established in 1891, being of course the defunct Rensselaer People’s Pilot. F. D. Craig, under whose ministrations that publication went to its final end, is one of the publishers of the L« • * There is nothing like having a

democratic Reformer, with a big R. on the city council. There is Mr. Eger, for instance. He has been talking hard against a long time franchise to the telephone company, and any franchise at all without compensation for the city. But when the matter was brought up for final action, and Mr. Eger’s vote would have turned the scale and defeated the proposed extension without any recompense to the city, he voted for the franchise. Great is democratic reform!

WEDNESDAY. County Superintendent Hamilton i§_ holding examination for graduating pupils this week at Dunnville, DeMotte and Wheatfield. The certificates of stock of the Jasper Library Association is now ready to be issued, at the Commercial State Bank. Elder J. L. Brady went to Valparaiso this morning to attend the Christian Missionary Convention being held there. The State Association of the County Assessors began a two days’ session at Indianapolis, this morning. Our county assessor, J. R. Phillips, is in attendance. F. B, Meyer and Bruce Porter went up to the Kankakee region this morning to join the rest of the Rensselaer sportsmen already there. They were equipped with an unusually good outfit and will no doubt make ducks scarce in that vicinity.

Barkley township schools will close this weak. This is another township in which there has only been about five and a half months of school. In this case the trustee was compelled, by a decision of the circuit court, to maintain one more school than he had made provision for, which cut short the terms of all the schools in the township.

Delbhi Herald: Last nights’ production of “Faust” by the Earl Doty company was witnessed by a crowded house and everyone was surprised'to see such a fine rendition by a repertoire company. As Mephisto Earl Doty was excellent and the same may be said of Rosa May Doty as Marguerite. The support of the whole company was good. The play was replete with electrical effects many of which were original with Doty, The costumes, too, and stage settings were elaborate, and taken as a whole the production is equal to that of many companies that make “Faust” a specialty. (Here all next week.)

THURSDAY. Oats 28 cents. Corn 24-26 cents. Wheat 55 to 60 cents. Mrs. Rena Peacock, of Goodland, is here visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. Peacock. J. F. Heinzmann, of the contracting firm of Heinzmann Bros, of Noblesville, was in town today. Reed Banta, who has been helping manage a saw mill in Shelby county for some time past, is in town today. I. S. Wade, of Lafayette, will lecture Friday and Saturday nights and Sunday at 3p. m., at Missionary Baptist church at Rensselaer. Harvey Kannal, Jack Montgomery and Charles Rhoades went up

to Rose Lawn this morning to try their hick at duck shooting. The funeral of the late Dr. J. L. Smith, of Valparaiso, was held at Lafayette, Tuesday. Six M. E. ministers acted as pall bearers. Mrs. P. W. Clarke has been very seriously sick for some days past, with a stomach trouble, but she now seems quite materially improved. Wm. Clift was very bad last night, with the asthma, and it was greatly feared that the attack would prove fatal, but he is now somewhat better.

Rev. F. L. Austin, pastor of the Church of God, arrived several nights ago from his protracted absence, and is again with us to remain permanently.

Mrs. Hester Grayson, living now in the east part of town, stepped on a sharp nail a few days ago, which pierced her foot, and has caused her great sufferings, ever since.

TheCochell saloon remonstrance case, from Monon, resulted as did the Dobbins case, in a victory for the remonstrators. The case was tried this week, before the White county commissioners, at Monticello. The Republican was misinformed as to the time the Jasper County Telephene Company’s old franchise has yet to run. It really runs until August 1903, or over four years yet, instead of two years as we were informed. This with the other ten years granted by the new franchise makes fouiteen years in all. We can not believe but what it is contrary to the best interests of the people to grant such a long time franchise.

The recent death of Charles B. Stuart, at Lafayette, having broken up the law firm of Stuart Bros, and Hammond, a new firm now takes its place, that of Stuart, Hammond & Simms. The mem bers of the firm are Wm. V. Stuart, Hon. E. P. Hammond, and David Simms.

There is strong opposition being developed among the property owners along the line of the streets which it has just been proposed to improve, and many of them are signing a remonstrance. We do not believe that there would be nearly so much opposition if the property owners knew that the store to be used was to be got out and crushed here, and thus the money for the work e xpended here. With a good stone crush ing plant here, we are confident that the improvement of our streets would proceed without interruption.