Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1899 — Page 3

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a Paragraph. Daily Grist ot Local Happen mes ___ t Classified Under Their Respective, Headings. FRIDAY. Geo. H. Brown, of Knox is in the city today. Chase Kelley returned today from a two weeks’ stay at Plymouth. C. E. Mills and Delos Thompson are in Chicago today, on telephone business. Mies Eunice Fritts went to Anderson today to make an extended visit with friends. Mrs. M. B. Alter went to Dima, Ohio, Thursday to visit hei daughter, Mrs. W. W. Watson. Mrß. Fred Summers and chil dren, of Hammond, visited Mrs. August Kosenbaum, yesterday. Charley Chamberlain, the city electrician went to Monticello yesterday to make some repairs iD the Tharp Bros, electric light plant at that place. Dr. Hartsell took Chris Weurth ner, a young man from Newton Tp., to Hahnemann hospital, Chicago, today, for treatment for a nervous trouble. Mrs Dr Merry, of Mt. Ayr, her brother, Capt. Chilcote, Mrs. Robert Johnson and Mrs. Gertie Robinson are jChicago visitors today. Walter, the four year old son ol Frank Minikus, fell off a wagon, Wednesday, and broke one of the bones of the right forearm, neai the wrist. Geo. H. Healey, of the Brookston Gazette, is in town today visit ing his mother, Mrs. Julia Healey., who is quite sick with a fever M. S. King now has a good sit uation in a oabinet shop in Aurora, 111., and bis family will remove there in a short time. The Citizens’' band gave a fine street concert, last evening, and which was enjoyed by quite a large crowd of people. A sudden quite heavy shower however caused many to go home and miss the latter part of the program. Miss Sophia Karnopp, of Michigan City went to her home Thursday after a few days visit with her friend, Miss Mae Farmer- Mist Karnopp has been employed by the government as a nurse, for the past nine months, at Savannah, Georgia.

Jake Melcer and Chris Zimmerthe Wheatfield parties charged with assaulting with intent to kill John Klinger, were tried yesterday, by Squire Burnham. The Squire announced that he would render his decision at 8 o’clpck next Monday. The Rensselaer base ball boys ywbo battled with Brookston yesterday, escaped with their lives and that was about all. They scored only three runs while Manager Healey’s terrors pounded out thirteen and would have made more but for dislike of the labor of keeping the count. ’ Over in Newton county W. L Kellenberger, principal of the Brook schools was elected couAty superintendent to succeed W. W. Pfrimmer. There was quite a contest as 147 ballots were required. Still that wasn’t much of a scrap compared with two years ago, when Mr. Pfrimmer was re-elected to his fifth term on the 267th, ballot. Mr. Pfrimmer was not a candidate this time, and intends to devote his time to lecturing and operating his poetry machine, which is now as always, in fine working order. L. S. Renicker will sell you a top buggy for S3B. Come and see it before buying elsewhere. Twenty-five to thirty per cent, off on trimmed hats, for Fourth of July. Mbs. Pubcupilb.Boy the - light running and' Deerrng % 'a-*' - viw . „ . ’

SATURDAY.

W. H. Waterfall, of Lafayette, is the guest of j Miss Bertha Nowels. □Miss Nellie Huffman,' Monon is visiting her aunt Mrs. C. S. Nichols. ' ' l; Found, a man’s heavy black glove. Owner please call at this office. Mrs. John Makeever is making a visit to her son sister at Indianapolis. Dennis Gleason shipped another car load of horses to Cint * cinnati, last night. Born, Friday evening, June 9th to Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Hurley Jr, of Barkley Tp. a daughter. Born, Saturday morning June 10th to Mr. and Mrs. A 1 Daugherty, southwest of town, a son. And now pugilism has a new idol. Jeffries knocked out Fitzsimons too easy, last night. Dr. Frank Hemphill is home from Ft. Wayne to visit his mother Mrs. Rebecca Hemphill, just west of town.

M. L. Spitler Jr, of the law department of the state university it Bloomington, is home for the ■summer vacation. Miss Grace Thompson came home today from Northwestern University, at Evanston, for the the summer vacation. Little Elizabeth the smallest bicycle in town. It was received last night, and was made to order, in Goshen. Mrs. J. T. Randle and grandson Marion Stoner, went to Sheldon, 111., today to visit her daughters, Mrs. Fisher and Mrs. Warner. Mrs. Lena Tutedr and daughter, Mrs. Louis Wildeberg arrived home yesterday evening from a six weeks visit at Peoria, 111., Mrs. Eliza Spangler came with them for a few weeks visit. Miss Kitty Harrington was called home today by a telephone message, from DeMotte, stating that her father, B. W. Harrington, who lives near DeMotte, had been hurt by falling off a scaffold. The nature and extent of his injuries we did not learn, but he is understood to be badly hurt. The exterior of the. Makeever House is being repainted to a stone color, and the trimmings a terracotta color. The ‘interior has also been repainted and repapered in fine shape.

Monon News: —E. H. Wood and brother Harvey of Rensselaer, started yesterday for Dayton, Ohio to attend the re-union of the 83rd. Just before leaving they received a telegram calling them to Columbus, Ohio, to the bedside of their brother, who is dangerously ill. Mr, and Mrs. Warren Washburn arrived last night from American Falls, Idaho, where they have lived for about three years, and are now visiting his parents, Dr. and Mrs. I. B. Washburn for a short time. They expect to locate in Chicago, where Mr. Washburn will follow his vocation of electrical and civil engineer. ) It must have been a funny spectacle, when the fat Grover Cleveland was chased by an irate Connecticut farmer, armed with a club, from a private fishing stream. It was “a condition and not a theory” that confronted the exPresident, and he time to interpose a veto, or even enffer a protest. He just left, and in a most hurried and undignified manner.—Arcadian.

The Monon temperance people have won another great viotory over the saloonists. The applicants, Chas. Coohell and Cbas. Baker, were defeated by a remonstrance, before the White county commissioners, at Monticello. A Brookston applicant withdrew his application on learning that successful remonstrance was ready to file against him. The safest place in a thunder storm is said to be in yoor house, with closed doors and windows, away from chimneys or other material leading direotly to moist earth. —Ex. But what is the matter with some other person’s house 6 t as safe as your owt

wilk the same precautions? We never beard, for instance, of the thunder getting a young fellow in the house of bis best girl. Where insolation is most needed in that oase'is where the old man’s cowhides area most I‘bely to get in their work. *,

MONDAY. Curtis jPierce, of Chicago, was here yesterday visiting friends. Mrs. J. C. Porter is visiting her relatives .at Sheldon, 111. Mrs. George Spitler is visiting relatives in New Haven, Michigan. Mrs. C. W. Hanley is visiting friends in Chicago, this week. 2c gMiss Maud Jacks came home today from a two weeks’ visit at C edar~Lake. £££ “Mrs. Clara J. Brown, of Onarga, 111., is visiting her sister Mrs. T. J. Sayler, Miss Amanda Hoyes attended commencement exercises at Dunnville Saturday evening. Uncle Billy Bussell has been having a bad time with rheumatism, and now navigates on crutches. Col. and Mrs. E. P. Hammond and daughter Nina, of Lafayette visited at W. B. Austin’s yesterday. Miss Lydia Shirk, trimmer for Mrs. Hershman the past season, left for her home at Winona, Minn., yesterday. Dr. Aaron Wood, the Brook dentist, was over today to get his new dental chair, which by mistake was shipped here instead of to Brook. Mr. Ora V. Clevinger and Miss Lucy Ellen Ellis were married Saturday afternoon, by Squire Burnham. They were both very young, very pretty and very little. D. B. Nowels left for Manilus, N. Y., today, to attend the commencement of St. John’s Military Academy, at which his son Auburn is a student. He will be absent the entire week. O. Leon Reid, assistant principal of the Rensselaer High School went to Chicago this morning where he will remain a few days and then go on to his home at Dayton, Ohio. t Mrs. M. S. King and children left Sunday to join Mr. King at Aurora, 111., which is to be their future home. \

Amos Bourne, of Decatur, 111., is here to spend the summer looking after matters on his farm, the former Ike Hemphill place, a few miles east of town, and upon which he has a new house nearing completion. Geo. E. Mitchell, a former Rensselaer boy is stopping here for a few days visit. He has been principal of a school at Niles Center, 111., the past school year, and is now on his way to visit his father, in Randolph county, going by the bicycle route. >

A nine year old son of Wm. Brinley, landlord of the Foster House, is very bad sick from blood-poisoning, resulting from a cat in his heel, from stepping on a piece of broken glass. The result of his siokness is yet in doubt, but strong hopes for his recovery are still entertained. Elder N. H. Sheppard, paster of the Rensselaer Christian church, has resigned his pastorate, and bis resignation has been accepted to take effect July Ist. He intends going to Indianapolis where he will have charge of a suburban congregation and at the same time pursue studies at Indianapolis University. The Chicago excursion Sunday was not so weU patronized from here as was the former one, a few weeks ago. The number of tickets sold here was 130. There were about 12 coaches on the train, when the three set off here were taken on, and all were comfortably filled, but not crowded. It was an entirely well-behaved crowd, both going and ooming. The return train arrived here .boat 3:30 thia s morning.

, v iii qjjr *0 ! * r **® r Big Value Hearts Quick Honey I ’99 VICTOR s9£ BICYCLES » July Ist we are to reorganize our Company. To provide the necessary ready money we give bicycle riders the greatest bicycle opportunity ever offered. These bicycles were made to to sell at SSO, and are of the best character and grade in every respect. COME EARLY. OVERMAN WHEEL COMPANY. Ellis & Murray LOCAL AGENTS. rfa»--cOi—-tQi-<Vi rPI rP>..« -da_<a>—AV rQ»_ d*. rg> di. a <O. A ,0, d, d% d, .<Q> A

“Jimmy de' monk” is now occupying his summer residence, namely the whole of one of the big show windows in his owner, Mr. Eger’s grocery store. Jim is quite a Jimnast and his residence being well provided with ropes and poles and other paraphernalia for the proper performance of monkey gymnastics, he keeps up a continuous performance, tjo large and delighted audiences.

, Mrs. Mamie Porter and Miss Lois Robinson left this morning on their long journey to the west. Mrs. Porter will join her husband at Heron, Montana, only eight miles from the Idaho line, while Miss Robinson will go still farther namely to Spokane Falls, Wash., where she will spend the summer with relatives. The ladies can travel together only as far as St. Paul, from which place Mrs. Porter will take the Great Northern Railroad, and Miss Robinson the Northern Pacific. J. W. Williams, Mrs. Porter’s father, accompanied them as far as Chicago.

Help... Nature Babies and children need proper food, rarely ever medicine. If they do not thrive on their food something is ; wrong. They need a little help to get their digestive machinery working properly. s^SW 1 COD LIVER OIL WITH HYPOPHOSPH/TESofUMESSODA ! will generally correct this j I difficulty. If you will put from one- | | fourth to half a teaspoonful | I rn baby’s bottle three or four j times a day you will soon see I a marked improvement. For larger children, from half to a teaspoonful, according to age, dissolved in their milk, if you so desire, will very soon show its great nourishing power. If the mother’s milk does not nourish the baby, she needs the emulsion. It will show an effect at once both upon mother and child. t 50c. and SI.OO, all dnigglats. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York.

Bay the Deering binder and mower, best on earth. Sold by L. S. Renicker. Near the the depot. L. S. Renicker bandies the Lafayette wagons and Harper buggieß and surreys. When yon are in need of a corn planter or cultivators or harrows, call on L. 8- Renicker, at depot.

Am Eye Opener.

Fou bth of July hats going at abi iin at Mis. L. M. Imes. CK-.

DR. JACQUES DESSLER, The Optical Specialist. My thorough experience in the profession and with the help of the the latest improved instruments gives me the hope that I shall be able to give my patients full satisfaction and can promise with responsibility that every case will be treated with speoial care. )■ EXAMINATIONS FREE. NOTICE —I call your attention to the fact that eyes can be examined with the same accuracy at night as at day time. DR. JACQUES DESSLER, Optical Specialist, Office in Arcade Bl’k, over Leopold’s store.

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