Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1899 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a Paragraph. Daily Grist of Local Happenings Clat>»Hh-<l ThMr Respective Headings. TUESDAY. Harry Kurrie is at Indianapolis on a business trip. Miss Lily Troxell, of DeMotte, is visiting relatives here this week. Mrs. John R. Huffman is visiting her sister Mrs. C. S. Nichols. Abe Hardy and Dr. Harts* 11 made a business trip to Delphi, yesterday. Born, Monday, May 29th to Mr. and Mrs. August Rosenbaum, on Cullen street, a daughter. Miss Maggie Shonkwiler returned to her home at Raub, yesterday, after spending several days here. Jay Zimmerman, of Hammond, and Harry Zimmerman, of Fair Oaks are spending today in Rensselaer. Frank Maloy is working as night operator at Medaryville for a while and Mr. Cave, of Frankfort, is working in his place here. Miss Florence McCoy, of Frankfort, and Mies Lizzie Bayler- of Mulberry who have been visiting with Mrs. Jay Lamson went to Lafayette today. Mrs. Daisy Brown and children after a week’s visit with hej parents Mr. and Mrs. D. H Yeoman, returned to their home st Kokomo today. •Joe Jeffries, who has been attending a business college at Indianapolis, has completed his course, and now has a place as a book-keeper for a hardware firm in that city. Born, May 23,1899, to Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Burns, of near Aix, a daughter.. This is their thirteenth child though not all of them are living. Joe Sharp and Benhart Fendig were up at Cedar Lake one day quite early iu the week! and they made the great fish catch of the season, at least for fishermen from this vicinity. They went after the sun fish and caught about 160 during the day. Ernest Fritts, who clerks in Forsythe’s department store, ran foul of a piece of barbed wire. Monday, in the store basement, and cut himself very severely <>n one of his legs. It is a remarkably long and deep cut to have been made by such an instrument The will of the late Edward Ravenscroft, of Carpenter Tp leaves all his property to his son Sampson, who has remained nt home and cared tor his father, many years. This disposition of the property is understood to be satisfactory to the other members of the family. Delaney Martin returned last night from a five months’ attendance at Vorhies business college, at Indianapolis, having completed bis course. He has been offered a good position in the M. K. & T. railroad office, at Cincinnatti, where his older brother is located, but will not begin his duties there for some little time.

WEDNESDAY. C. W. Coen is at Lafayette today, on,business. C. P. Wright is home from Alexandria City, Alabama. Miss Ola Landis, of Delphi, is the guest of Miss Minnie Abbot. When you a good binder and mower buy the Deering. Frank Brinley and Will Towers are at Cedar Lake fishing today. Bernie Goodman, of Monticello, visited friends here yesterday evening. Prof. H. E. Osborn went to his home at Sterling, 111., today to spend the summer.

Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Nowels have returned from a three week’s visit with relatives at Elwood and Chicago. The Citizens’ Band will give an open air concert, Friday evening, if the weather is suitable, being the first under the leadership of Prof. Mochel. Your Prescriptions will be accurately and carefully compounded if taken to George Hopkins at Hunt Bros, drug store. Mrs Lydia Stevens returned to her home at ‘New Albany today after a months visit with the family of her uncle, Wm. Bringle. Mrs. Wm. Meyers left today for a protracted visit with relatives in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Her son Frank accompanied her as far as Logansport. Miss Snyder, Supt. of the Fowler high school, Miss Vanauker, and Mrs. Jones and Williams visited with Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Brady last Sunday. Rev. I. A. Shanton, manager of the Terre Haute orphan’s asylum, was in town Tuesday. A girl, who had been given a home by Chas. Pullins, in Union Tp. was taken by him to Mr. Zimmer, near Wheatfield Mrs. Lydia ‘ White J who has been visiting her sen C. C. Starr for several weeks returned home to Lafayette today. Mr. Starr and daughter Floss, who will visit a few weeks there, accompanied her. The Knights of Pythias decorated the graves of their deceased brethren, at Weston cemetery, Tuesday afternoon, after the close of the regular decoration exercises. There are some ten K. of Ps buried in the cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Brady left today for an extended eastern trip, which will include more or less extended visits with relatives at Baltimore and Philadelphia, with briefer visits to various points of interest in the east. They will be away about a month. Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Bott and children went to Monticello last night and will visit relatives for a few days. Mr. Bott has several good offers of positions in printing offices in other towns and has not fully decided which he will accept. T. J. McCoy and his son Taylor left this morning for Manlius, New York, where Taylor will enter St. John’s Military Academy, for the summer term, and perhaps also the fall. The summer term is devoted mainly to drilling and includes an outing in some suitable place. This year it will be at “The Thousand Islands,” in the St. Lawrence river. Alfred Anderson is laying out a $10:75 fine and costs, for a plain drunk. A boozing companion of his, hamed Snyder, who lives in the Gifford district got so drunk Monday that he forgot where he had tied his team, and went home with a livery rig. The team was in the alley back of Eger’s grocery and nobody happening to notice them, they stood there all night. Marshal McGowan found them later in the day and took them to a livery stable where they were cared for at Snyders expense.

THURSDAY. Mrs. Hiram Day and Mrs. Laura Guns are in Chicago today. Mrs. Frank Randle and children are visiting her parents at Monon for a few days. Dennis Gleason is here this week, buying a car load of horses for shipment. Mrs. Simon Leopold and daughter Selma, went to Peoria, HL, today to visit her sister. Dr. Triplett, of Morocco, was here yesterday, called to prescribe for Mrs. John Waymire. Mrs. A. W. Cole and children and Mrs. Cole, of Englewood, are visiting Rensselaer relatives. Mrs. J. Q. Alter and son Frank, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Gaylord Nowels, at Chicago Heights.

Mrs. Ruth Thorntoil returned to her home at Tipton today, after a week’s visit with relatives here and in Newton Tp. Mrs. Dora Lyons and daughter Nina, returned to Delphi yesterday after a week’s visit with her mother, Mrs. Julia Healey. Mrs. Spencer Vick and children returned to Chicago this morning after an extended visit with relatives. Dr. Aaron Wood, the dentist, went to Chicago this morning for a few daye°stay. ‘ He has secured office rooms at Brook and is preparing to locate there, next week. Mrs. Geo. Strickfaden and children went to Chicago this morning to visit a few days and will then go to Champaign, 111., where they expect to spend the greater part of the summer with relatives. Delphi Times:—Mr. and Mrs. Harry Badorf, who have been residing in Rensselaer, arrived in this city on a short visit to the former’s parents I. S. and Mrs. Badorf, before moving to Indi anapolis where Harry has a position with the Parry Man’f’g. Co awaiting him. John O’Conner, of Knima.i, writes that the “Rag-Weed Central,” will have to try again before people can come by train from Kniman to Rensselaer, and get back the same day. He says that by the change of time, ns ordered, the south bound train will connect With the Monon at Fair Oaks, all right; butthat there is no such corresponding change in the north bound trains, as will permitdhem to get back home the same day. The big new flag, bought for the court house flag staff, some tinn ago by popular subscription is now practically in tatters. It was put up for Decoration Day and owing to the state of the wind that evening and yesterday, Janitor Joyner could not get it down again, without great difficulty and and the aid of an expert climber. It was therefore left flying last night, but without any anticipations of damage to it. But the big storm that came up early this morning whipped it into rags. A big wind, rain and thunder storm that passed over town early this morning, left its mark in many places in the shape of broken branches of trees and in some cases, whole trees were broken down; telephone and electric light wires also suffered. No doubt the storm was still more severe in some other parts of the county. In fact some reports to that effect have already been received. For instance some miles east trees and fences were blown down, in every direction. Gaar, Scott, & Co., threshing machine manufactors of Richmond, the second largest concern of its kind in America, has been receiving daily reports from all middle and Western states on the condition of the wheat crop. The prospects in the northwest are good, but in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois the Hessian fly is playing havoc with the grain and not over half a crop will result. Orders placed with Gaar, & Co., months ago are being countermanded and Saturday night a large force of workmen were laid off. The annual rally of the Sunday Schools and Baptists Young Peoples’ Union, of the Monticello Baptist Association is to be held here on June 7th and Bth. These rallies represent quite a large number or churches and Sunday schools, and bring together quite a good many people. The program covers six sessions in all, forenoon and afternoon and evening, of each day. The most prominent name on the program is Rev. Dr. W. H. Geistweit, of Chicago, who will speak Thursday evening on the subject of “Essentials.” Hammocks, croquets, base ball goods and everything in the sporting line at the old reliable.

HUNT BROS.

Once in a while I find a demo cratic editor that has a lucid interval, and can talk sense on the question of territorial expansion. Here is what Editor McKelway, of the Brooklyn Eagle said at the annual meeting of the Associated Press, last Wednesday evening, and which I heartily endorse: “I take it, we are going to hold those islands. I doubt not we shall find difficulty. Difficulties, however, alter not duties. • No man living knows what we will do with them, for we are learning as we go along. The situation was not of our making, could not be of our preventing, and will not be one which we will abandon or run away from. The Phillippines are a finality. We will govern them under the universal right and obligation of the capable to govern the incapable, cast upon their bands. We will do them the good which the Pilgrims and the Quaker, the Hugenot and the Cavalier would have done to the Indians had the Indians bad sense enough to accept it. They had not, and the rest followed. Good, or the consequences of the rejection of it, will follow in the Philippines. The world will not stop it; it will go right on. The higher races will school or harness the lower ones to the work of the ages, and American newspapers should not captiously forget that fact in their long outlook on events.”-The Lafayette Sund< y Times,