Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1899 — SATURDAY. [ARTICLE]

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.

“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.