Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1899 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in* Paragraph. Daily Grist of Local flapi>ciiinsrs Classified Under Their Respective Headings. FRIDAY. Miss Lona Flynn is visiting at Lowell. Mrs. LandyMeGee, ofJMonon, is visiting relatives in Reneselaer. Miss Grace Pulver, of Lowell," is visiting her sister, Mrs. P. W. Clark. Isaac Thompson, of Bluffton, Ohio, is visiting his Rensselaer relatives. Miss Mabel Brown, of Crown Point, is visiting her aunt, Mrs. G. W. Goff. John Kohler, the brickman, is still another to be added to the list of dog tax unfortunates. Judge Thompson and family have given up their contemplated summer trip to California. Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth' and children went to Kalamazoo, Mich, today to visit her parents a few weeks. Mrs. Simon Leopold and daughter, Selma, returned home last night from several weeks’ visit at Peoria, 111. A 14 year old boy named Charles Brown Was killed by lightning, near Brookston, Tuesday night. The two teams of colored ball players arrived on the 10.55 train, this forenoon. They played at Rochester yesterday. A. Leopold is preparing to open a branch store in Kentland, on July Ist. Simon Leopold will be the resident manager. Three SIO,OOO suits against the Monon were filed at Frankfort, Wednesday. They were brought by a Mr. Barton, for the killing of his wife and two children, at a crossing in Frankfort, one evening last August. - A I. 8. Wade, of Lafayette, state grand lecturer of the order of Good Templars, spent last night with his Rensselaer relatives. He spoke Sunday at the all day temperance meeting at Surrey, and was at Wheatfield Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. He was a grand chief templar for Indiana for nine years. County Superintendent Hamilton attended the two days’ session of the annual meeting of county superintendents at Indianapolis Wednesday and Thursday. He was honored by being appointed by the meeting to the chairmanship of an important standing committee, that on preparing questions for diploma examinations. The exploding of fire-oraokers on the streets, especially those of the cannon variety, has grown to be such a nuisance in town lately that the city authorities have decreed that it must be stopped. A notice by the mayor to that effect js published elsewhere in this payer. Parker Overton is the local agent for “The Indianian,” a monthly magazine, published at Indianapolis. As its name seems to indicate, it is devoted to Indiana affairs, exculsively, and ■makes a specialty of Indiana hisItory. Another special feature is a ■series of articles devoted to different cities, which are illustrated ■with pictures of the principal ■wildings, and, where the natural ■rarroundings make it advisable, of ■he scenery of the adjacent country. The publishers have, promised to give Rensselaer and jasper county one of these Illustrated "write-ups” at ■ay, if subscriptions sufficient to ■ustify it were taken in!the county, ■nite id I A t ili ‘ •’♦ lumber will be obtained.

Fred CHiuibl says he paid on his dog tax suit $lB.lO instead of $15.20 as stated in The Rkpubl.icamThis is the case but we understand that $15.20 was the amount that should have been charged, and a mistake of $2.90 was made and which we supposed had been t refunded to Mr. Cissel, as it of course will be. A horse hitched to a buggy, driven by Mrs. Floyd Robinson, got scared Wednesday night, in front of Laßue’s department store and started to run, but was caught by Jefisa Fox. The horse was frightened by cannon fire crackers which some boys were unlawfully exploding in the street. The order of the mayor to put a stop to the cracker firing was issued none to soon.

SATURDAY. Florence Sayler is visiting her father at Monon a few days. Mrs. Ed Warren and children are visiting relatives at DeMotte. Miss Emma Williard, of Chicago, is visiting at Austin Hopkins. A. Mossier, of Cincinnati, is here for a few days visiting with Mrs ■ Will Mossier. Misses Mary and Pearl Comer are visiting relatives in Benton county a few days. Mrs. S. M. Fraelove, of . Good, land, visited her daughter, Mrs. F. E. Babcock, this week. Mrs. Angela Homer returned to Lafayette last night after a few days visit with Mrs. W. B. Austin. The Daughters of the American Revolution will meet Monday, at 2:30 p. m., with Mrs. F. B. Meyer. Miss Iva Wash bum will graduate from the Gootschalk Lyric School, Chicago, next Tuesday evening. Miss Lena Washburn came home yesterday from a month’s visit with her sister, Mary, in Chicago. Mrs. Emma Rannells, of Rochester, district deputy of Rathbone sisters was here a few days this week, inspecting the order here.

Miss May Dunlap, of Chicago, who has been the guest of Miss Marybelle Purcupile the past week returned to Chicago this morning. Marion Learning, of Goshen, who is here visiting his grandparents, Mr, and Mrs. M. L. Spitler, went to Goshen this morning, where he will remain for a few days and assist, as page, at a notable wedding. Mr. and Mrs. George K. Hollingsworth and children left this morning for Bay View, Michigan. Mr. Hollingsworth will return in a week or two, but Mrs. Hollingsworth and children will probably stay through the summer. The salaries of postmasters in this vicinity have beenincreased as follows: Fowler, $1,400 to $1500; Goodland, $1,300 to $1,400; Monticello, $1,600 to $1700; Remington, $1,200 to $1300; Lafayette, $3,000 to $3,100. Remington very narrowly missed a S2OO boost.

’ Dr. and Mrs. Clayton, of Mdnon I came over yesterday to attend the ball game. r Misses Bessie JBork. Lessie ( Bates, Adaline Chilcote, Clara Parker, Mrs. Ida O’Mera and Messrs. John Hayes and Merl Gwin left today for Terre Haute where they will attend the summer term at the State Normal. | Rev. H. M. Middleton, of Trinity iM. E. church, went to Lafayette, today, and will preach at the St. Paul’s church, in that city, j Sunday morning. In the afternoon he will assist in the dedication of a new M. E. church at Mt. Zion, near Lafayette. His pulpit here will filled, Sunday, morning and evening, by Rev. L. B. Apllegate of South Bend. The,annual Christian Endeavor convention for Rensselaer District, comprising the counties of Jasper, Benton, Newton and Warren was held at Fowler Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. A large attendance is reported and a suc- , oessful and interesting meeting. The 1900 convention will be held | at Rensselaer. In the matter of the dog tax cases, it should be explained that . when the fine and all costs are t properly charged up, that the amount for one male dog is exaetly $15.45. For a female dog it is $17.45. The law is complicated, .and in two cases Squire Bumham made a mistake and charged $2.65 ’ too much, which will be refunded. r In some other cases, one fee was ■ charged 25 cents too little, but 1 the exact lawful charge is what is t given above. In these cases the • lowest fine the law allows is $5, > and the Squire has assessed this j minimum fine in every case, anc i made all the charges only wha ; the law compels him to charge.

MONDAY. W. B. Austin is in Chicago for a few days. Mrs. Holdridge Clark has a severe case of malarial fever. Edna Dillon is the guest of Miss Jessie Adams at Monon this week. L. H. Hamilton’s little boy has the measles, as well as his little girl. Miss Bessie DeFrees, of Indianapolis, is the guest of Mrs. Frank Ross. Miss Jennie Bernard has returned home from a protracted visit at Centrallia 111. John Gwin and Miss Ura McGowan visited Mr. Gwin’s sister at Monon over Sunday. Mrs. H. C. Wallace and little girls, of Chicago, are visiting her neioe, Mrs. S. C. Nichols. Mrs. Matie Hopkins has gone to Hunter’s Springs, near Attica, to take treatment for a few weeks. W. L. Loveland, of Evanston, visited his wife, who is the guest of Mrs. Frank Ross, over Sunday. Miss Stella Parkison arrived home Saturday from her winter’s stay in California and other points in the far west. ' The Sunday schools of Gillam township will hold their township convention on Sunday afternoon, July 2nd. at independence church. Miss Emma Burgett left this morning for Newman, 111., and Carmen Penn, for Murdock, 111., where they will spend the summer.

County Superintendent Hamilton had sixty candidates for teachers’ licenses, at his regular monthly examination, last Saturday. , ; Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Peters, of Monticello, returned home today after a few days visit with their daughter Mrs. S. W. Prince north of town. Mrs. Maggie Ferguson and children, of Mt. Ayr, returned home from Monon this morning where they have been attending the funeral of a relative. A. J. Knight, the well known painter and decorator, and his wife left here Sunday morning, on a long journey. They are going to Glenn’s Ferry, on the southern border of Idaho, and where Mrs. Knight has relatives.

Mr. William Shoup, of south of town, and Mrs. Charlotte Reap, of Monon, were married Saturday afternoon, June 24th, by Elder N. H Sheppard, at his residence. Squire Churchill heard the case against Uncle George Kessinger, charged with assault and battery by Constable John R. Warren, and assessed a fine of $1 and costs, amounting in all to sl3, this morning. , C. P. Hopkins, formerly of Rensselaer, and at one time editor of the Remington News, is now conducting the McEwan (Tenn.,) New Era, has just celebrated his sixtieth birthday .—Printers’ Auxiliary. There will be a Fourth of July celebration in Gillam township, at Comer’s Crove, under the auspices of the Gillam band. There will be an oration in the forenoon by Grant A. Waller, and in the afternoon, more speeches, music, racing and divers other sports, and fireworks, dancing and a bonfire in the evening.

Quite a notable delegation of Rensselaer ladies left this morning for Hunter’s Springs, near Attica (Indiana Mineral Springs postoffice) for medical treatment. The party was composed of Mesdames J. N. Lea th dr man, Catherine LaRue, Matie Hopkins, Chas. Malchow and Anna Tuteur. They will remain at the Springs several weeks. People from the, fragrant onion belt in Gifford’s district report that they can not get help enough to kepp the weeds out of the onions. Wages for onion weeders

are good, $1.25 a day and board for men and 75 cents a day and board for boys, but still there is a great shortage of hands. Weeding will contihue until about the middle of July, and then in a little will come the pulling and putting up of the onions, then help will be needed even worse than it is in the weeding. There are about 350 acres planted to onions in the

Gifford oniop region, and where the farmers have help enough to keep tiie weeds out, the prospect is good for a big crop.