Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1899 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a Paragraph. Daily Grist of Local Happenings Classified Under Their Respective Headings. TUESDAY. Sheriff Reed is at Valpaiaiso, today. J. F. Warren is at DeMotte cn business today. * Dr. Hartsell is in Lincoln, 111., on a two days’ business trip. Miss Mae Dunlap, of Chicago, is visiting Rensselaer friends. Mrs. John Ward, of Monticello, is the guest of Mrs. J. G. Reynolds. Mrs. Emma Gray, of Logansport, is visiting her father, J. C. Thrawls. Mrs. Mary Lowe, of Monon ,Js visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bussell. Born, Monday, June 12th, to Mr. and Mrs. Chesley Wray, of Barkley Tp., a girl. Born, Sunday, Jun§ 11th, to Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Conoway, northwest of town, a son. Mrs. Nate J. Reed and brother Wilbur Lally are at Monticello, visiting. Mrs. Walter Clark, of Carrol Co. visited her neioes, Rosa and Ella Culp last Thursday and Friday. James Fess, of Chicago, visited his sister Mrs. James W. Douthit, yesterday, and today went to Medaryville to visit his mother. Miss Lorine Vanatta, of Fowler, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Fred Phillips and other Rensselaer relatives. Mayor T. J. McCoy, Delos Thompson, Jesse E. Wilson and Councilman G. E. Murray, left last night for West Baden where they will rejunevate themselves for about a week or ten days. White & Son are building a store building on their lot on Van Rensselaer street, south of their livery stable. It will be a one story frame building, covered with iron, and its dimensions are 26 by 70 feet. The same firm will also enlarge B. S. Fendig’s poultry store, on Weston street. The following parties are delegates, who left today for Columbus. Ind., to.attend the three days session of the State Sunday School convention: Bertha Hammond, representing the Free Will Baptists, Helen Kelley the Presbyterians, Merl Gwin the Methodists, and Wm. Day, the Christians- E. L. Hollingsworth is also attending. Sam Roth and his new bride, late Miss Julia App, arrived from Tippecanoe Co., last evening, and are temporarily stopping with Mr, and Mrs. Milton Roth, on Forest street. Their arrival was celebrated by the early appearance of a band of boys with bells, and a little later by a large company or young people, Mr. Roth’s associates. The latter were provided with heavy artillery in the form of giant fire crackers, and they made a noise to be remembered. The newly married couple will set up housekeeping in Mrs. W. T. Perkins’ house, on Dayton street.

WEDNESDAY. Will Paxton, of Hammond is in Rensselaer today. Mrs. T. J. McCoy is in Chicago for a few days. Mrs. S. A. Royster is visiting her husband at Shelby today. Mrs. Frank Minikus and sou are visiting at Chicago HeightsMrs. A. Yates came home last evening from her yisit to Danville, 111. Charley Sigler, of Hebron visited his aunt, Mrs. G. W. Goff, a few days this week. Miss Hazel Warner tame home f yesterday, from a twcr weeks’ visit at Hammond.

County Treasurer J. C. Gwin is in Indianapolis on a few days b isiness trip. Miss Gail Wasson, of Northwestern University,JEvanston, returned home last night, for the summer vacation. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Ray returned home to Lafayette today after a week’s visit with Mr. and Mrs. Mel Powell, of Brook. Paul Wood, of the Chicago Dental college returned to Chicago this morning after a few days’ visit with his parents, south of town. Miss Clara Raise, a graduate of the Chicago Northwertern music school, is the guest of Misses Della Harris, Irma Kannal and Grace Thompson. Home grown strawberries are a fine crop this year, and among those who have been especially successful in both quantity find quality of crop, N. S. Bates will not take a back-seat to anyone. < Mrs. Eliza Gillam, who has been visiting her nephew, Louis Striver of Newton tp., and other relatives, the past three months, started today on her journey home to San Diego, California. Capt. M. F.JChilcote and Wm. E. Parkison have formed a partnership for the practice of the law. They will have their office in the room [so long occupied by Capt. Chilcote. The partnership will date from June 15th. An entertainment worth half a dollar of anybody’s money has been prepared for the benefit of the public library, and will be given Friday evening, and cost only 10 cents. The full program will be published tomorrow. O. C. Halstead, of west of town, -hipped three full blood Polled Durham heifers to a man at Shawneetown, in southern Illinois, a few days ago. Mr. Halstead is getting a wide reputation as a breeder of fine farm stock and poultry. Geo. A. Burroughs has resigned the presidency of Wabash College, at Crawfordsville. He has been trying to bring that fossiliferous and moribund institution in line with modern ideas, but the mossback element was too strong for him, and he has given it up as a bad job.

Henceforth the down town Western Union telegraph office will be found in the Makeever House building. It was moved yesterday afternoon z and today, to the room in the west side of that building, opening on Cullen street. By the aid of three line men from Lafayette the office was moved without at any time breaking the outside connections. The office will still be in charge of Bob Johnson, who has managed it to the entire satisfaction of our people, ever since a down town office was established here.

THURSDAY. Mrs. Joe Kight is visiting relatives at Fair Oaks. Miss Ethel Sharp is at Burnettsville visiting. O. P. Benjamin, of Lafayette, is visiting at W. R. Nowels. Miss Ernest Burns, of Monon, is the guest of Miss Maud Jacks. Mrs. W. W. Karsner, of Chicago, is visiting Mrs. E. D, Rhoades. Mrs. Charley Rhoades is visiting Mrs. O. K. Yeoman at Fair Oaks, today. Mrs; Angeline Horner, and son, of Leadville, Colo., are visiting her sister, Mrs. W. B. Austin. Ed. O’Connel returned to Chicago yesterday, after several days’ visit in Rensselaer, Mr. and Mrs. Charley Malchow are [visiting their daughter, Mrs Swartz, at Brookston, John Eiglesbach came home, today, from the commercial department of Notre Dame University at South Bend. Frank Foltz is building a residence adjacent to his own place, on Work street, to be occupied by his mother. Dr L. Page, of Honey Grove Texas, is visiting his relatives Mrs. M. E. Kolb and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Foltz. Mose Leopold and Geo. Moss, of the law department, of the State University at Bloomington, are home for the summer vacation. Ernest Stewart resigned his position in Wade & Wood’s barber shop and went to Hammond yesterday, where he has secured another position. Mrs. A. Wartena went to Hammond yesterday to attend the wedding of her brother-in-law, Lorenzo Wartena, and visit relatives a few weeks. Mrs. Mary E. Kannal and daughter Irma returned home last evening. The letter is a student at Northwestern University, at Evanston, 111., and her mother has been visiting her for a week or two. The following parties are picnicing at Cedar Lake today: Misses Grace Thompson, Sylvia Robinson,] Iva Washburn, Mary Bates, Della Harris and Clara Raise, of Chicago, Messrs. Harrie Kurrie, Albert Overton, Schuyler Robinson, Charley Grow and Orren Parker. W. D. Sullivan, of Lafayette, a former graduate of the St. Joseph’s College and an ex-editor of the Collegian, is here to attend the college commencement exercises, which], begin this evening. Mr. Sullivan is now a student at St. Mary’s/Theological at Cincinnati. John Steinbrunner, of Fort (Recovery, Ohio, also a former student of the college, is here also for the commencement. Countyj [Treasurer Gwin is at Indianapolis today,! settling with I the state treasurer. By-the-way, it mayj be added that the simi--1 annual settlement sheets taken from this county, and prepared by ' Auditor Murray,'Jhave the credit of being the neatest settlement ; sheets sent out by any county in the state.