Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1899 — CITY NEWS [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS

J, . Minor Items Told in a Paragraph. i / -T- * Daily Grist of Local Happen- 1 - uurs I • ... I ' | I . V. tlaahified Undfcr Their Respective Headings. / # •' . . . . ‘s ■* V % FRIDAY. M. F. Chfloote is in Chicago today. Harry Gardner returned from Monticello this morning. slrs. Frank Boss is making a few days’ visit in Chioago. Miss Lizzie Williams returned to Fowler yesterday evening. Miss Mae Paxton, of Remingon, is visiting Miss Myrt Haus. Miss Bilia Cotton, of Chicago,* is in Rensselaer for a few days .1 visit. Emerson Reeve is down from Chicago for a few days visit with his parents. Miss Anna Dooley after a few days visit with Mrs. Nora Worden returned to Monon today. Mrs. Clarence Sigler returned home to Monon last night after a weeks visit in Rensselaer. Mrs. Ida Huffman and daughters, of Chicago, are visiting her sister, Mrs. T. E. McDaniels a few miles of town. John Sebring returned to Medaryville yesterday afternoon after a few days’ visit with his sister, Mrs. Wm. Washburn. Frank Fisher, of Wheatfield, was in town yesterday and made the sale of 320 acres of land .in Wheatfield Tp., to John G. Pierre, of Good land. Ben F. Smith from a few miles south, got the usual fine and costs for refusal to pay dog tax, in Judge Burnham’s court, Thursday. He stayed it for a few days. Mists Abbie. Harrison Jjas fe* signed her position as art teacher in our public schools and ha 6 gone to Chicago to take a course at the Chicago Art Institute. * Prof. Jas. N. Clemens received a message last evening that his mother Mrs. A. M. Clemens, of Dayton, Ohio, was not expected to live. He went to her side by %the first train. Albert Overton tested his new Cresent wheel once too severely last evening, when he bad. two large mpn and one not so large on it; with -the result of a.front wheel crushed Into fragments. Hie struck the wet opcfising at an angle, which was the*ause of the break-down. J. F. Warren is confined to his bed with sickness, understood to be a recurrence of the stomach trouble he has suffered from

several times recently. He was. taken Thursday forenoon, while on hi# 1 way to attend his father’s funeral, and was obliged to return home before the services | were held. The Rensselaer boys in Company I have come back, a fine ! manly, robust looking lot, eviderft!ly greatly benefitted by their year’s experience in Uncle Sam’s service. The Republican told them when they left that their war experience would be to them an inestimable benefit, and so it nas proved as everyone one of them gladly testifies. Yesterday Bert Brenner, at Long’s drug ''store, spilled some linseed oil and wiped it up with an old rag, and threw the rag out of doors on the stone steps, behind the store. In the evening there was a smell of smoke for some time which Mr. Long investigated, and finally found that it came from the rag, which had taken fire from spontaneous combustion. This circumstance shows how easy it is for fires to originate from oily rags lying around. Reports from over tbe county indicate that the prospects for the wheat crop have riot improved any, and many fields which their owners spared at oat sowing time are now being plowed up, for corn. There are here and there small fields and parts of fields which look well but on the whole the wheat orop is a failure in this county this year. The most favorable reports regarding its condition, come from the region a number of miles southeast of town. Whatever disappointment may have been felt at Rensselaer at the turning down of all Jasper county men, in the matter of officering Company I. of the 161st regiment, there is no disputing the fact that the officers that were chosen have proven' popular and able officers. This is especially true of Captain Guthrie, who has promised to, come over tonight, and make an address at tbe reception of the returned sokUets. SATURDAY.” Jim Ward, of Monticello, is visiting Frank Sayler. Wilbur Tharp has gone to Monticello to spend Sunday. Mr. and Mrs* I. N. Warren returned to LaPorte this morning. Miss Flora Ward, of Montice 110 visited friends here yesterday evening. Andy Ropp, Edward Moon and Isaac Glazebrook are in Lafayette today. i Mrs. Fred Schultz and children are making a week’s visit with her parents at Franoesvillb. Alf Hoover went to Indianapolis today to visit his wife who is taking treatment there. Jerry Schofield came home this morning from Monticello where he has been for several days. Born, Friday, May stb, to Jdr. and Mrs. L. A. Greenlee, 4 miles northwest of town, a 9 pound girl. Mr. J. L. Rosepberger and Oliver Stein of Lafayette were tbe guests of Miss Emma Mackey yesterday. Isaac Thompson, of Bluffton O. is here for a few days visit with his brothers, Judge and Thomas Thompson. ' Miss Martha Ellis returned home to Monticello today after a several months visit with Mr. and |Mrs;J H. S. Ellis. Mrs. O. M. Alien after a week’s visit with her daughter, Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth, returned to her home at Kalamaaoo, Mich., today. Fred Imes, of Montioello, and Charley Hubbard, of Francesville, two members of Co. I. went to Chicago this mqj’ning for a few days. The Longcliff asylum authorities refuse to accept James Bis--1< ltead ° n^CC^ UDt < j£- bei £ K M 1 \ ' Al n-A Inn L 2. g A. vl6?& UOOVpT 18SU6u 018 orst

today. It was to Albert H. Littlefield, a recent graduate of Indiana Dental College. He is located at Remington. Mrs. J. T. Penn is suffering from the effects of a severely sprained knee, sustained some days ago, from jumping off a foundation of a new house at Mr. Born’s place east of town. J. S. Patty, of Winamac, is deputy fish commissioner for the whole state north of Lafayette, and he says he intends to enforce the law. The new abolishes the local deputy fish commissioners. Word has been received from Mrs. Alfred Hoover, at a hospital at Indianapolis, that she is recovering very satisfactorily from a recent surgical operation, and great confidence is entertained for her ultimate complete restoration to health. We took a trip to Wheatfield last Friday; going Ly way of Shelby and returning by way of Fair Oaks. The country over which we traveled until quite recently was a dreary waste of marsh but now is dotted with nice .homes. At Wheatfield they have put in a new grain elevator and are rebuilding the burnt distriot. B. J. Gifford is doing wonders for that part of the country.—Lowell Tribune. We desire to thank the citizens who so liberally contributed money to defray the expenses of the, reception tendered the returning soldiers of the 161st Ind, and our esteemed townsman Mr. Goff, who served the refreshments in such an excellent and pleasing manner. Also all those who part in program and those who in any other manner assisted in making the reception a success. By order of Committee.

MONDAY. Harry Hopkins, of Chicago, visited Lawson Meyer yesterday. J. M. Lesh went to North Manchester, Ind., today on a business trip. Mrs. Way mire, of Momence, 111., is visiting Perry Caster and wife this week. Miss Hattie Besse went to Joliet, 111., Saturday, where she will spend the summer. Born, Friday evening May sth, to Mr. and Mrs. John Burnes, north of town, a son. Mrs. Chas. Brinley went to

Gibson City, 111., today, where she will spend the summer. Jim Ward and Dick Crowell, two Menticelio boys of Company I are visiting in Rensselaer. Miss Lily Earl, of Hammond, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Pumphrey yesterday. W. R. Stewart, of New York, visited his wife and mother-in-law, Mrs. Jane A. Sharp, over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Mel Laßue took their little son Emmet to Chicago yesterday to receive treatment. Grandfather Babb and son Edward left this morning on a three months’ visit at Reedsburg, Wisconsin. Sheriff N. J. Reed went to Lafayette today and from there will go on to Rantoul, 111., to visit his brother. Miss Marguerite Kenton held services at the M. E. church at Fair Oaks Sunday morning and evening. Mrs. Chas. Schleman returned home to Lowell Saturday after a week’s visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Malchow. Mrs. H. V. Weaver and son Hal, of Lowell and Hallie Flynn, of Chicago, spent Sunday with their parents Mr. and Mrs. Flynn. “You’re not so warm,” says April to May. „ “Oh, you’re a back number,” says May to April. And then the trouble ended, for the present. R. M. Vanatta, now an attorney at Marion, returned home today, after a few days visit with his parents. His mother Mrs. J. R. Vanatta, went with him for a short visit.

J. H. Cotfeen, of Troy, Ohio, is in town taking orders for steroscopic views, of various kinds. Himself and wife are making their home with Mrs. Kinney, during their stay here. A 17 year old Cuban boy, Francesco Soussa, came back with company I. of the 161st regiment, and Went to Goodland with Mr. Scott. An eleven year old Havana “coon” also came with them and is at Delphi, with Dr. Smith. These two were the company mascots. Another feature in the new time card on the Monon that will be quite a convenience to many Rensselaer people is that train No. 32, which passes liere, north bound, at 9:55 a. m. will hereafter stop at Cedar Lake. It will be the popular train hereafter for people going to Cedar Lake. We noted a few days ago that Dr. Johfibon’s birth record then showed seven girls in a string'The Doctor gave the facts from memory, and on looking up his record he the number of girls in hie practice, since a boy was recorded, was not seven but aotually, twelve. Number 13, of course broke the charm and was a boy. Mrs. Mattie Henkle has written back from Wichita, Kans., that she is staying there with her ohildren, Fred and Grace Bowman, for about two weeks, and will then move up to some point nearer their final destination, Fountain, Colo.-, where another stop will be made, it being necessary for the invalids to get accustomed to the rise in altitude, gradually. The girl Grace, whose 'condition was especially bad when they left here, stood the journey very nicely and was feeling well and enjoying a good appetite. The Fiction Club is sending out invitations tc its special friends to attend a lecture to be given before the club, this, Tuesday evening, at the Christian Church, by Miss Jane Addams, the widely known philanthropist, of Hull House, Chicago. Bhe will lecture on the subject of Tolstoi, the celebrated Russian writer and philanthropist, whose works the Fiction Club is now studying. Miss Addams, who is a great admirer of Tolstoi has visited him at his own home in Russia and no doubt will have much of interest to say of the man and his works.