Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1899 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a Paragraph. Daily Grist of Local Happenings Classified Under Their Respective Headings. FRIDAY. Jennings Wright is spending a few days at Brookston. J. J. Hunt is making a business trip to Winamac, today. Mrs. Charley Ball is visiting relatives at Francesville. Geo. Strickfaden and Walter White are in Hammond, today. John Connely, of Monon, is visiting his sister Mrs. J. Drake. Sid Shanlaub has sold the Morocco Courier to Wm. Miller and J. H. Ham. Miss Mabel Barber left this morning for a several weeks’ visit at Knox and Plymouth. Mrs. John W. Paxton returned home yesterday from a few . days visit at Chicago and Hammond. Mrs. F. Monnett, of Evanston, 111., is visiting her daughters, Mrs. Dr. Brown and Mrs. A. P. Burton. Miss Mabel Sayler went to Chicago this morning for an indefinite visit with her sister Bessie. Mrs. Wash. Scott returned yesterday evening from a two weeks’ visit in Chicago Height? and Danville, 111. Geo. Spitler, the city bill poster, is at Monon and Monticello today, posting bills for the excursion to Chicago May 21st.

Misses Anna Beasley and Leona Swerdsman, of Remington, are visiting Hattie Eigelesbach and Bessie Eger this week. Johnny Callow, of Centralia, HL, is visiting his parents here for about a week. He is now agent for the Postal Telegraph Company at his place. 9 Mrs. S. A. Royster went to Kankakee, 111., this morning to visit the family of Geo. Royster and to bring home her daughter Ruth, who has been visiting there , the past month. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Nowels went to Chicago Heights this morning where ’they will visit their son Gaylord, and then go on for a two weeks’ visit in Chicago and Elkhart, Ind. A. Lewis, the cigar manufactorer, has lately been taking the baths at Indiana Mineral Springs for a nervous trouble. Handling and smoking too many cigars have proved highly injurious to him.

Charley Grow, who has been doing, mail weighing for Uncle Sam, was given a place in the regular railway mail service, and will begin his duties next week. His first work will be at “subbing” with headquarters at Louisville. James H. Hall, retired farmer of Sandusky, Decatur Co.', arrived here last night and will spend the summer with the family of his brother-in-law, Rev. V. O. Fritts. He reports that in his portion of the state there is a splendid prospect for a wheat crop, but all the way on this side of Indianapolis there is a very poor show for wheat. Constable Christie Vick was over in White and Pulaski counties, yesterday, serving witnesses for the trial of Martin the alleged false pretense man, set for Saturday. The man John B. Ellis, who was the principal offender m the affair has not been located, and it is now thought that the name was as fictitious as the property he gave a mortgage on. Kentland Enterprise: —The Hon. William Cummings, in behalf of Judge Thompson, entertained a party at the Hotel Kentland Monday evening, in honor of the Judges sixty first anniversary. After a long career at the bar and latterly on the bench it was deemed proper by the Judge’s friends to do honor to the occasion, especially as he will soon retire from public life and enjoy the fruits of his industry in the pursuits of private life. Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Hopkins arrived here yesterday afternoon, from their bridal journey through the south. They are the guests, of Mr. and Mrs. G, K. Hollingsworth, and who will give a reception in their honor, this evening. Their trip south was a very pleasant one, and included, on the homeward journey, a five days ride by river steamboat from New Orleans to Memphis, and also a visit to Mammoth Cave.

SATURDAY. Mrs. Alfred McCoy is visiting friends in Delphi. W. A. Rinehart, of Buffalo, N. Y., was in the city today. Miss Lavina Martin, of Monon, is today the guest of W. T. Agnew. John Ellis is visiting his grandparents at Monticello over Sunday. Miss Ethel Tedford is visiting her parents at Monticello over Sunday. Miss Lily Peregrine, of Dunnville, is visiting friends here for a few days. Mrs. P. Lally returned home today after a week’s visit with her daughter, Mrs. N. J. Reed. Miss Maud Barnes went to Frankfort this morning for a week’s visit with her parents. Mrs. W. 1. McKenzie and daughter, Mrs Ed Parr, of Chicago, are visiting Mrs. Will Smith. The people along the line of the Three I road, as DeMotte, Stoutsberg, Wheatfield and Dunnville are rejoicing in the prospect of a better passenger train service. Beginning with next Monday, a new passenger train each way will be put on. Thus after this there will be two regular passenger trains each way bn the road, every day, except Sundays. One decided advantage the people of the north tier will derive from these new trains is that they can come to Rensselaer by rail and get. home again the same day, a thing they could not do under the former condition. Amzie Laßue and Slaughter Bell returned home this morning from a three day’s visit at Strawn, Hl. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Branch, of Danville, Ind., are visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Wilcox of Surrey. / Mrs. J. E. Griffen who has been visiting Mrs. C. Larson, southwest of town returned to her home Iff SA TT L. 1

Indianapolis this afternoon where she will attend the graduating exercises of her son-in-law, E. P. Honan on the 24th. Dr. and Mrs. Ensminger and son Leonard and Mrs. Minnie McK night, of Crawfordsville, attended the reception of Mr. and Mrs. Louis F. Hopkins, last evening. The surpreme court has decided that telephone companies have no right to cut limbs off of shade trees in front of dwelling houses, and the owner of the property has a right to ownership in them which cannot be interfered with. The people of Rensselaer and vicinity are sure of having an able orator to speak to them on Memorial Day. Capt. Guthrie, of Monticello telephoned his acceptance of the invitation, today, and in order to accept the Rensselaer invitation he had to turn down four or five others, so great are his oratorical abilities now in demand. In a paragraph copied in Friday’s items from the Kentland Enterprise, referring to the banquet given in Kentland, in honor of Judge Thompson’s birthday, there occurs a reference to the Judge’s coming early retirement to private life. The natural suppostion from reading the paragraph would be that the Judge had formed and expressed an intention of resigning from the bench. • Such, however, we learn is not the case, and neither publicly nor privately has he expressed any intention other than of serving out the term for which he was elected, and which does not expire until Nov. 1902.

MONDAY. Rye 50 cents. Corn 29 cents. Oats 24-26 cents - Wheat 55—60 cents. James H. Chapman is at Monticello today. B. J. Gifford, of Kankakee, IIL, is in the city today. L. M. Wilcox and Louis Fendig were at Hammond yesterday. Joe Reynolds was down from Hammond to spend Sunday. C. W. Duvall is making a busi'ness trip to Indianapolis, today. Miss Hattie Dowler has gone to Attica for a protracted visit with relatives.

Miss Georgia Kight is visiting Miss Maud Barnes at Frankfort this week. Mrs. T. W. Grant, of Rose Lawn, is visiting her sister Mrs. George Smith. Spencer Vick, of Chicago, came down today to make his parents a ten day’s visit. Miss Hattie Fairchild, of DeMotte is visiting this week at J. P. Hammonds. Henry. Taylor and son, of Lafayette, visited with T. J, McCoy and family Sunday. Miss Sadie Haff went to Valparaiso yesterday to spend the summer with her parents. A. Lewis went to Huntington, Ind., today as a delegate to the camp review of the Maccabees of Indiana. Mrs. Dr. H. L. Brown went to Evanston, 111., today for a short visit with her father Fletcher Monnett. This protracted wet weather is greatly delaying corn planting, and the seasen for - which is already late. Bert Goff and Robert Hopkins are home for a week’s vacation from Voris Business college at Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Hopkins went to Chicago Sunday, and will set up house keeping at Englewood, at an early date. Lieut. Frank Mills, of Co. H, 3rd Neb. (Bryan’s Reg’t) stopped off here Saturday on liis way home, to visit Jay Stockton and other relatives.

Sylvester Healy left at 1:45 this afternoon, for Indianapolis, where he will spend several weeks as a member of the pettit jury in the U. S. district court. Harry Meyers, General Secretary of Young People’s Society of the Free Will Baptist church was here Saturday and Sunday the guest of Rev. Watkins. He gave an address to the Young People Society of that church last evening. • A very interesting program was rendered by members of the Epworth League last evening at the M. E. church to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Epworth League, which was organized at Cleveland, Ohio on May 16, 1889. An interesting event to take place next Wednesday, will be the wedding, at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Hopkins, some miles north of town, of Miss Dema Hopkins and Mr. Wm. Oeschyer. The groom is a minister of the Christian denomination, and located at Valparaiso, Neb. The preliminary hearing of W. A. Martin, the Monon man charged with helping another man to get a lot of property from Wood and Judy, of Parr, by false pretenses, was held Saturday, before Squire Burnham, in the east court room. The hearing lasted all day, and was strongly contested bn both sides. It resulted in Martin being held to the September term of the circuit court, under bonds of S2OO. Martin thinks he can give the required bail, but has not done so as yet, and is now held in the county jail. The Republican has received through the cdurtesy of Mr. E. P. Honan, a member of the class, one of the very elegant invitations sent out by the class of ’99 of the law department of the Indianapolis University, to attend the annual commencement, on May 24th. On consulting this invitation we find that we were previously in error in stating that Mr. Honan was one of the class orators. What we should have said was that he is one of the class officers; his position being that of marshal. As the class has 63 members and five class officers, it is conclusive evidence of Mr. Honan’s high standing that he should have been chosen one of the five, especially as he had attended only one year, whereas most of the class are, presumably, two year men. There are no class orators on the program, as all the speaking will be done by eminent outside talent. .......a ~ ... .. .. ->-«■>. ■' * -