Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1899 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]
CITY NEWS.
Minor Items Told iiraPara--3 graph. Daily Grist of Local JJappeninsrs Classified Under Their Respective * Headings. TUESDAY. Lawson Meyer and Clint Brown are in Chicago today. Mrs. J. W. McEwen and daughter, Mrs. Bostwick, are at Chicago today. J. H. S. Ellis is making a trip to Logansport, and may include Kokomo. Miss Pearl Blue has finished her term of teaching in Wheatfield Tp., and has come home. Ross Grant, the commercial traveler for Reed, Murdoch and company, spent Sunday with his mother here. Homer Babcock is visiting in Rensselaer. He is now located in Chicago, and expects to enter the employ of one the banks there, at an early date. The April term of the Jasper circuit court convenes next Monday, for the first time since the law was changed and we have had an April term. Uncle Norm Warner returned from his several weeks stay at Mineral Springs a few nights ago. His rheumatism is much benefitted by the treatment.
Mrs. Dixey and daughter Stella and Mrs. Mary Kelley, who has been visiting them, went to Chicago today. Stella will remain there indefinitely. Mrs. B. O’Shaughnessy, wash lady, drew a large audience at the Opera House last night. The performance was highly amusing, the best of the season. J. B. Sayler, now of Tama City, lowa, arrived here last night for a visit with bis parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Sayler. His wife, who has been visiting at Medaryville for some time joined him here this afternoon. Married Monday afternoon, April 3rd, 1899 by Rev. H. M. Middleton at his residence, J. Harry Odle to Miss Stella Goldsberry. The groom is from,Fair Oaks, and the bride is the daughter of Frank Goldsberry, of Rose Lawn. Geo. Hollister, of Stoutsburg, is now in town engaged in his new vocation, which is canvassing for orders fur enlarging pictures. He intends soon to move his family back here, as being a more central and convenient location than where he now is.
Quite a party of emigrants left the northern part of the county Monday, for North Dakota. It consisted of Chris Drenth and D. Dekker, of Keener Tp., and Wm. Hinshaw, of Kankakee Tp., and their respective families. Five cars were required to convey their effects, and these five were in care -of five young men of the various families.' County Superintendent Hamilton reports that the meeting of the Northern Indiana Teachers’ Association which he attended at Fort Wayne, last week, was one of the best, as it certainly was the biggest, in the history of the association. Over 2500 teachers attended it. Next year the meeting will be in Logansport and therefore quite convenient for Jasper eounty teachers. The wife of Hon. W. D. Owen, ex-secretary of state, and formerly congressman from this district, died on the cars near Little Rock, Ark.,last Saturday. She and her [husband were returping from a [trip to Mexico, where Mr. Owen Ihas a big coffee plantatian. Mrs. lOwen was in better than her usual [health, but was stricken with parklysis, and died in a very short
has refused to pray for a murderer on the scaffold, because he does believe the murderers sins have been forgiven, may put a new idea into (he heads of condemned converts. The go-to-Heaven-from-tbe gallows scheme has always been a doubtful one. It is better, perhaps to get a start from almost any other point. Ex. Every one should attend the revival meetings in progress at the M. E. church during the rest of the week as they are growing more interesting and helpful each night. The meeting last night was opened with a very earnest prayer by Rev. V. O. Fritz, of the Missionary Babtist church after which, Bro. Reed spoke of the Savior’s wonderful promise to mankind. During the afternoon meeting much good work was done by the Christian workers present and the results were very gratifying. Let us have eveybody present to night. S. Easter Sunday this year fell on April 2nd. The establishment of the Christian festival of Easter, typical of the resurrection of the Lord, was a matter of much controversy in the church for centuries, but was finally established by the Gregorian calender adopted by the Roman church in 1752 and Easter is always the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upou or next after March 21, which date is the beginning of the ecclesiastical year. Therefore the earliest date upon which Easter may occur is March 22. If the full moon should fall on March 21 Easter is the following Sunday. The latest date on which the festival may fall is April 25. In 1761 and 1818 Easter fell on Manjh 22, but this will not occur again in this or the next century. In 1886 it fell on April. 25, and will do so again in 1918.
WEDNESDAY. Grover Mackey is sick with tonsilitis. Frank Foltz is in Lafayette today, on law business. This is the first really springlike day we have had so far this year. Art Catt is home from Hammond, recuperating after a spell of sickness. Miss Mary Goetz has gone to Chicago to visit her sister for several weeks. Siinon Phillips has gone to Grant County to visit his sister who is dangerously sick. The meeting of the Fiction Club will accur on Friday evening April 7th, by order of the council. W. T. McCoy. H. L. Gamble has gone to De Motte to do some engineering work on the Keener township gravel roads, J. P. Wood, of Chicago Dental College, returned to resume his studies this morning after spending his vacation with his parents, southeast of town.
On petition of the Fidelity Trust and Guaranty company, of Buffalo N. Y., a receiver for the Fowler Water Works Company was appointed, in the U. S. court Indianapolis, last Saturday. Aaron Wood will today graduate from the Chicago Dental College, after a most creditable course of three years. His parents Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wood, and his broth - Ray and Carl Wood have gone to the city to be present at the graduating exercises. Mrs. W. J. Miller’s health continues so bad and her spirits so depressed since hey return from Michigan that Mr. Miller is arranging to take her back there within a short time. She will probably remain there permanently, and Mr. Miller may also not return. Mrs. H. O. Harris and daughter, Miss Jennie Harris, arrived home last night from their winter’s stay in Southern California, most of their time being spent at Loe Angelos. They had a very pleasant winter and the climate proved very be M fioi.l to Mrs. Harris’ health.
James Yeoman, who has been located at Shirley, Ind., for some time past, in the employ of a lumber firm, is now visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Yeoman, and also looking about for another opening. The firm he has been with has gone out of the business. The Women’s Relief Corps is preparing to give the Jasper county members of the 161st Indiana a rousing reception upon their return in two or three weeks, by which time the boys are expected to have been mustered out. There are qnite a number of people coming in to the auditor’s office, now days, to file their papers for taking advantage of the S7OO mortgage exemption law. As the Jaw reads, the time for filing for this exemption is in the months of March and April. It is understood that this is a mistake and that the reading of the law was meant to be April and May. It is not likely however that the reading can be changed, and it will probably have to stay as it is until the next legislature amends it. Among the large congregation present to hear Bro. Reed last night we were to note several of our business men, a large number of young people and many of our school children. One teacher brought her class with her. This speaks well both for the teacher and her pupils. Tompkins one of the leading educators of today urges that spiritual growth ought to be the supreme object of all education. Oh that all teachers could be made to realize the fact that they are dealing with souls as well as the minds and bodies of their pupils. Let us have more of the school children present tonight. There were several conversions last night and much earnest work was done during the after* meeting. Remember all are cordially invited to attend.
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THURSDAY. Oats 24-26 cents. Corn 28 cents. Wheat 60 cents. J C. Harris is at Chicago, today. A revival is now in progress at Surrey and Miss Maggie Kenton gone to assist in the. work. Miss Mattie O. Cam mack, of Marion, Miss Bland, of Indianapolis and other prominent workers in the cause, will attend the W. C. T. U. normal institute next Monday and Tuesday. Carroll, the eight months old infant son of Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Marshall has been quite danger-. oUsly sick for some days past. It symptoms at present are somewhat more favorable. Delphi Journal—Professor L. H. Hamilton, superintendent of the schools of Jasper county, visited Professor Myer on bis way to Ft. Wayne to attend the meeting of the Northern Indiana Teachers’ Association.
The Wabash College Glee Club arrived on the 10:55 train, this forenoon. They will have a big audience at the opera house tonight, as nearly all the down stairs seats were sold before ten o’clock this morning. Capt. G. W. Payne, a well known former resident of Barkley Tp., but for some years past residing in Frankfort, has just moved to Monticello. He has bought a residence there but intends to build a better one, immediately. Miss Helen Kelley has gone to Remington for a few days, to teach the primary room, for Miss Minnie Bartoo, who was called to Rensselaer by the very serious sickness of her nephew, the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Marshall. Just 280 men, mostly sons of Indiana, enlisted at the recruiting station in Indianapolis, during March. There was only one month during the war when enlistments exceeded this. Every one of the 280 was sent to San
Franciso. They leave for the Philippines April 12. Brother Reed fti his able and convicting sermon last night brought forceably to the minds of his bearers the fact, that the inevitable and awful result of sin is death. He said that people sinned not because they were ignorant of the fact, or because they do not know what sin is or that sin is wrong, but because they were imposing from day to day upon God’s love and lenity to them. Because they think they put off God’s imperative demands until tomorrow. Bro. Reed will be with us only a few more nights and everybody from city and surrounding country should endeavor to hear him as often as possible.
Monticello has had quite a sensation this week. Tuesday night a man entered the room of Miss Lucy Mowrer, who lives at the home of her brother, east of Monticello and cholorformed her He was moving to some other part of the room when she recovered sufficiently to scream, and the man then fled. He left his hat and shoes and by them was supposed to be identified as one Charles Bridge, who had been engaged to Miss Mowrer a short time ago, but the engagement had been broken off. It was thought that he intended to kill the girl, and then possibly finish up by killing himself, after the prevailing fashion in crimes. The man was tracked by blood hounds to near Monon, but at last accounts had not been arrested.
The Citizens Band is now trying to get in shape again for another season’s fine music. Especially are they hoping to be in a condition to resume the weekly open air free concerts which proved so popular a feature last Summer. They desire as the first and most necessary step to engage a thoroughly competent director. To hire such a director and the other necessary expenses will of course, require quite a large amount of money, for which the generosity and public spirit of our business men will as heretofore be the main reliance. The subscription paper will be started around in a few days, and will, no doubt, meet with the generous response the merits of the matter require.
Mrs. Barcus, mother of George and Hugh H. Barons, of this city, died yesterday, April* sth, at the home of her daughter, at Chalmers. She lived near Brookston, but had been visiting her sons here, and on her wcy home stopped to visit her daughter and was taken sick there. Her husdand has just had a second stroke of paralysis, and is understood to be very low. George and Hugh Barens and their wives have gone to attend the funeral, which will probably be held Friday.