Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1899 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a Paragraph. Daily. Grist of Local Happenings Clarified Under Their Respective Headings. TUESDAY. Earl Hausman is visiting in Monticello. Mrs. W. M. Clift is visiting relatives in Lafayette. f Arthur H. Hopkins returned to Chicago this morning^ Arthur Fendig is home from Chicago for a week’s visit. Mrs. P. H. Lally, of Michigan City is visiting Mrs. Nate J. Reed. Mr. and Mrs. Addison Parkison spent Sunday and Monday in Chicago. Uncle Bill Castor, of Sheldon, 111., is visiting his son Perry, a few days. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Austin and daughter Yirgie are in Chicago for a few days. Miss Pearl Blue went to Indianapolis Monday afternoon to attend Vories eßusiness College. Miss Chloe Stiers returned yesterday from Attica where she has been for the benefit of her health. Mr. and Mrs. Ladd and Mrs. Amanda Lewis, of Oxford, are visiting their parents Mr. and Mrs. B. Paris. Miss Iva Washburn, who has been attending school at Kimball Hall, Chicago, came home last night to spend the summer. Theodore Smith and Wm. Guss, constituting the firm of Smith & Guss, have opened their new grocery store in Liberal Corner, today. Mr. and Mrs. Danil Robinson, a recently married oouple, went to Chioago yesterday afternoon, where they will make their future residence. Mrs. J. J. Montgomery is in Rockford, 111., on a two month’s visit with her parents. During her absenoe “Jack” will devote his time to repairing the several toll lines of the telephone company. Ernest Lam son, who was teaching at Rose Lawn, came home last evening, on aocount of an aocident he met with the Friday before. He was riding fast on his bioycle when the front fork broke, throwing him forward on the gravel road with great force. His forehead, nose and mouth were badly cut and bruised. He dismissed his school on aocount of the injuries. There is quite a brisk competiin the ministerial market for the pastoral services of Rev. V, O. Fntts, of Rensselaer Missionary Baptist church. His contract here is for only half his time, and it is for the other half of him that the embarrassingly large demand has arisen. He now preaches the other half time at Mt. Ayr, and the congregation wishes to retain his services, while oalls for the same are now before him from Grand Prairie churoh, near Lafayette, > and Metea churoh near Logansport. He is naturally in quite a quandary to deoide which of the three oalls he ought to acoept. Mrs. N. J. Reed, wife the county sheriff, found one of the large upstairs room in the sheriff’s residence fastened from the inside, last evening, when she tried to enter it, and at once shrewdly surmised that there was a burgular in the room, who had fastened the door. Mr. Reed being absent, she sent to the town hall for Marshal McGowan, who was there attending the council meeting. He went over and forced the door opened, and fonnd nary a burglar, but tljat the catch in the look had slipped in some way, and fastened the door. There was a coal oil *r a £ ra i”s » h * K 8 8 00

hard and the stove was Ted hot and still heating, and also doing considerable in the smoking line.

WEDNESDAY. B. W. Pumphrey and wife, of Brook, are visiting his parents Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Pumphrey. | Lawson Meyer returned to Chicago yesterday evening after a few days visit with his parents. Charley . Grow and Schuyler Robinson, the railway mail weighers, are home for a week’s visit. Mrs. Geo. W. Casey, of Union Tp., went to Indianapolis this afternoon to take medical treatment. Mrs. John Earl, after a few days visit with Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Pumphrey returned to her home at Hammond yesterday evening. The Monon’s first cheap excursion of the season will be to Chicago on Sunday, May 21st. The rates and times of the train have not yet been announced. Miss Lona Flynn went to Lowell this morning to attend the wedding of her friend, Miss Nichols, and to vipit a few days with her sister Mrs. H. V. Weaver. Louis Gustave], a prominent Monticello man, lias been fined for violating the new fish law and an appeal will be taken to the Supreme Court as a test case. A. C. Beaman, principal of the Wheatfield schools, passed through here last evening, on his longdistance bicycle. He had started on a trip to Ohio, by the bicycle route. Mrs. Calvin Faris, hurt Tuesday in a rnnaway, as previously related, is reported as doing as well as can be expected. She has been taken to the heme of her uncle, John, Kessler, in the east part of town. Our townsman, E. P. Honan, has received the honor of being ohosen class orator for the graduating exercises of the Indiana Law School, at Indianapolis, this year. He also is on the program for an oration at the class banquet. The graduating exercises will be held May 24th. James De Long, one of the White county saloonists who brutally pounded Silas M. Headlee some time ago, has been sentenced to jail 6 months and a fine of S4OO. Wash Horner and Thomas Armstrong, implicated in the same affair, have jail sentences of two and four months, and fines of $lO and SSO, respectively. The grading of papers for pupils of the country schools who take the examinations for graduation is no small part of the oounty superintendent’s manifold and onerous labors. This year, for instanoe, Superintendent Hamilton has examined 364 sets of such papers, eaoh set covering eight branches. Thus he had to examine and grade 2912 separate papers. The fact that Judge Sylvester Healy is about to build another house near his own residence, has given* publicity to the pleasant intelligence that another wedding in the Judge’s family is an event of the near future. It was really Jerry’s turn this time, but he has been so deliberate making a choice that he has forfeited his place in the line to the young lady in the family. Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Laßue took their 5 year old son Ray, to Chicago Sunday, to be examined by Dr. Porter, an eminent specialist. The unfortunate little fellow has been paralyzed in one of his legs for a long time, and Dr. Porter was consulted in the hopes that a cure could be effected. He was unable to hold out any encouragement, however, farther than that persistent treatment by friction and electrioity for a few years and then the wearing of an iron brace until hia growth was reached, would considerably ameliorate his condition, but would not prevent him from being permanently crippled. Mias Jane Addams, of Chicago,

lectured at the Christian church, last evening, as per previous announcement, on the subject of Tolstoi, under the auspices of the Fortnightly Fiction Club. There was a very large audience present, all in fact that could be accommodated with seats. Miss Addams is quite an interesting speaker and all she said was listened to with close attention. While Miss Addams does not endorse all of Count Tolstoi’s views and methods she considers him a great man and that he is doing a great work for human advancement.

THURSDAY. Miss Lessie Bates went to Richmond, Ind., today for a several weeks visit with relatives. Mrs. William Johnson, of Lafayette, is visiting her son Robert Johnson, the Western Union telegrapher. Tom Parker, who lives just west of town on the river, is going into market gardening quite extensively, this season. Geo. C. Bruce, now a teacher at Meriden, Kans. is here for a visit of considerable length with his father Henry C. Bruce and other relatives. Zimri Dwiggins has lately moved from Cedar Rapids, lowa, to Lincoln Neb., where he has the responsible and desirable position of general state agent for the Aetna Life Insurance Company. The smallpox quarantine at the Northern Indiana Hospital for the Insane has been raised. L. C. Baum, the patient, is rapidly recovering, and will shortly be removed from the tent to his regular ward. The invoioers of the F. B. Meyer stock of drugs and druggists sundries have completed the work of listing the goods, today and the new owners, Hunt Brothers are in possession. To fix and compute the prices of all the articles on the lists will take nearly all of the balance of the week. The holding of the National Teachers’ Association-in Los Angelos, this summer, will afford people a fine opportunity to visit California and the Pacific slope, generally. The round trip rate will be only $64, and long stopovers and different choioe of routes going and coming allowed. It is likely that quite a number of Rensselaer people will avail themselves of this opportunity. Among those who have already decided to go are Judge Thompson and famiJy. The school enumeration of R'ensselaer shows, as heretofore stated, a falling off of 79 over last year’s enumeration. Last year the transfer pupils were counted, this year they are not. Up to this time enough transfers have been made to leave the shortage only about 30. We learn further that since the enumeration was reported enough children of school age whom the enumerators did not find, have been discovered to reduce the 30 to 15, if the enumeration can now be corrected to include the omitted children. It looks like all the chimney swallows in northwest Indiana had their lodging places in the two large and unused chimneys on the south side of the court house. The number of these birds which swarm about these chimneys at about dusk, when they are making their final gyrations before going to roost in the chimneys is astonishing. But there is no occasion for anyone to begin to devise or suggest means for getting rid of these birds. They not only do no harm of any kind, but on the contrary are very useful, being strictly insectivorous on insect eating, in their habits.