Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1899 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a Paragraph* Dally Grist ot Local Happen- , mars Classified Under Their Respective • Headings. TUESDAY. Madge Beam came borne this morning from a visit at Reynolds. , Mrs. Geo. Healey, of Brookston, is the guest of Mrs. Jlilia Healey. Miss Sadie Haas, of Valparaiso, is visiting her sisters here this week.

Miss Bessie Sayler, of Chicago, is visiting her parents east of town. Miss Clara Raise after a two weeks’ visit with friends returned to Chicago this morning. Mrs. Minnie Cleaver, landlady •of the Cleaver Hotel, near the depot, is quite seriously sick. Dr. Pothiusje, of Remington, took the train here this morning, for Chicago on a few days business trip. \ Miss Bessie Moody pame home today from Boston, Mass., where she has been attending a music school. Mrs. Alfred McCoy went to Buffalo, N. Y., this morning to visit her daughter, Mrs. Will Rinehart.

Miss Lily Peacock, who has ’been the guest of her mother since Saturday returned to Connersville this morning. Born Tuesday morning June 27, to Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Joyner corner Washington and Cullen streets, a son and a ten pounder. Gus Phillips has gone to Des Moines, lowa, to spend a few days with Mr. Spooner, the principal man*of his theater company.

Mrs. McCoy and son, W. T. McCoy, principal of the Rensselaer High school, have gone to Chicago to spend several weeks. Judge and Mrs. S. P. Thompson and daughter, Edna, and Miss •Glenn Robinson have gone to Eagle Lake to spend a week or ten days. Mrs. Al Catt and her sister, Mrs. John Ulrey, of Brook, went to Greenfield today to visit their aged parents who are both in very poor health. F. L. Hunt, of Hunt Bros, the druggists, has just received his household goods from Flora, and will occupy the residence vacated by Elder H. N. Sheppard. E. P. Honan arrived home last i night from Burlington, Vt., where he has been for the past ten days, attending the biennial, convention of the Catholic Order of Foresters, he being a delegate for Indiana. Messrs. Frost Trout and Tom Corn, of Chicago, were the guests of Miss Della Harris, Saturday and Sunday. She gave a pleasant party in their honor Saturday evening, at which about 30 young people were present. Mr. and Mrs. John Sullivan went to Francesville today to visit Mrs. Sullivan’s brother Peyton Davidson, who was hurt very , seriously last week by falling from a tree. Dr. W. Augustus Pratt, of a Chicago specialist, came here today, to counsel with Dr. English, in the case of Mrs. Minnie Cleaver, whose sickness was found not to be immediately dangerous, but not likely to be materially improved except by an operation. Milt Chipman is the latest man to be entangled in the meshes of the dog tax drag net. His case is to come np tomorrow. Ed. Parcells, the barber, was another. He wasn’t honing for any such experience, and went to pay the tax to the trustee but was too late by a close shave, as the case had been already begun against him and he had to razor cash for about the whole amount except the oonsta-

Gorman and Malchow, who lately retired from the management of the brick livery barn, in favor of Job. Schofield, the previous owner will move back into the country at an early day. C. W. Hanley returned home last evening from Valparaiso, where he has been engaged most of the time the last two weeks as one of the attorneys for the defendant in a big law-suit, that of the Commercial Electric Co. and Chandler & Taylor, of Indianapolis vs George Fisher, of Lake City, lowa. The case went to the jury last evening. A few panicky towns in northern Indiana and some in Michigan have been clamoring to have a quarantine declared against Valparaiso, on account of the small-pox but our State Board of Health has refused to take that severe step. All reports indicate that the people there are conforming to the orders of the Board in all respects, and there is but little danger but what the epidemic will soon be stamped out. /

Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Priest, of Chicago, and Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Priest, of Francesville are making a short visit in Rensselaer today. R. F. Priest was formerly in business here for quite a number of years and is well known and himself and wife are most kindly remembered by many of our citizens. He is now in the coal business in Chicago, but is greatly at a disadvantage on account of poor health and which in winter especially almost Wholly incapacitates him for any active business. It is his first visit here for seven years.

WEDNESDAY. Mrs. J. Drake is visiting relatives in Chicago. Mrs. Mel Abbott is visiting her parents near Delphi. Mrs. Oscar Anderson and children are visiting relatives at Attica. Mrs. Hugh Lowe, of Monon, is visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bussell. Miss Nellie Muster, of Valporaiso is visiting the family of her brother Louis Muster. Miss Nora Gardner came home this morning from near Attica, where she has been teaching school. Steve Barnes, of Fowler is in town today, in company with Mr. Mclntosh, with whom he is engineering a land sale. Mrs. C. E. Nowels and daughter Edith left today for their home at Bourbon after several weeks visit with her parents in Rensselaer. Frank Maloy, the night telegraph operator has gone to Brooksten to work a few nights. Will Douglass of Monticello is filling his position here. The regular weekly band concert will be given Friday again, this week, and it is now thought that Friday evening will be the regular concert night throughout the season.

J. W. Douthit is vacating his law office, upstairs in the postoffice building, and temporarily taking bis books and furniture to his residence. The room he is moving out of will be occupied by E. P. Honan. Mrs. Alfred Hoover, who has been at St. Vincent’s hospital, Indianapolis, for several months, arrived home this forenoon. She is understood to have been considerably benefitted, but is still unable to walk. The celebrated Turpie-Lowe case will be called for a hearing in the circuit court on the 27th inst. If it is agreed to go on with a full hearing of this case there will be no vacation of the Cass circuit court, the long pending action being of such dimensions that it require all of the ordinary vacation time and then some, probably, in a hearing. The big array of lawyers interested in this suit are marshalling their forces for a strong fight and an interesting trial is in view. Logansport Journal.

1 Mrs. E. P. Hammond, of Lafayette is visiting her daughter Mrs. W. B. Austin. Prof. W. H. Sanderh feturned from Winona last night. He was there attending a meeting of a state committee of highischool superintendents, appointed some time ago, for the purpose of arranging a uniform course of study for the high schools of the state. A family comprising seven persons left Scranton, Pa., the other day, the whole party traveling on ; one full fare railroad ticket. There were the mother and her three pairs of twins, none of the children being up to the half-fare age of 5 years. Mrs. Rebecca Porter has gone to Indiana Mineral Springs, where she will not join the already quite populous colony of Rensselaer ladies, at Hunter’s Springs,' but will take treatment at the Indiana Mineral or Cameron Springs, for rheumatism for several weeks. Rensselaer and its immediate vicinity had quite a heavy shower, early last evening. It seems not to have been of very wide scope, however, as it reached southward only a mile or two. It extended much farther north and west however. Another rain today has made rain enough for the present. The ladies of Robert H. Milroy Circle, gave a pleasant surprise party at the home of Mrs. Hemphill to Mrs. E T. McCoy, on the occasion of her leaving Rensselaer for the summer. The evening was spent in social converse, and in partaking of the refreshments provided

What is known as the San Jose (Cal.) scale has been found in eleven counties in Indiana, and in each instance the infested trees have been traced to nurseries that received stock either directly or indirectly from California. The scale is an insect that is death to any tree and the best remedy is to cut down the infected trees and burn them up. J. L. Fatout, the well known contractor, of Indianapolis, was in town Tuesday. He has two big school houses to build in Indianapolis, of about $20,000 each. He also has the contract for the proposed $20,000 school building at Monon, but that project has encountered a serious difficulty, in a recent decision of the Supreme Court, and it may be abandoned for this year, at least. It has heretofore been the practice to get around the two per cent debt clause, in the state constitution, when new school houses were in contemplation, by bonding the town corporation for two per cent and the school corporation for another two per cent, but the Supreme Court holds that this is illegal.

A letter from Mrs. M. E. Henkle at Fountain, Colorado, written June 20th has been received. So far her children Fred and Grace Bowman, had improved very little but she was still hopeful of the final results. -Grace, who was the worst off of the two,, stood the journey well, and at first had a marked improvement of appetite. This again fell off but at the date of the letter was reviving again, and she was able to sit up a little. Fred has lost considerable in weight since leaving here and had consulted a doctor for the first time. Mrs. Henkle has no doubts of the value of the Colorado climate, provided she got her children there soon enough, and she mentions the case of her other son Sanford, who is now well and strong, and though be has only one servicable arm he is foreman on a ranch at S2O per month. THURSDAY. Miss Frankie Porter came home this morning from her visit to Goodland. Mrs. Florence Brison of Lowell visited with Mrs. Joe Kight a few days this week. Mrs. W. L. Loveland, of Evanston, and Miss Bessie DeFrees, of Indianapolis, who have been visiting with Mrs. Frank Ross returned to Evanston, today, i

Mayor T. J. McCoy and Delos Thompson are at Lafayette today. F. B. Learning, of Goshen, is spending a few days here, with his family, who are here for the summer. Ruby and" Ellis Abbott, of Goshen, are visiting Mrs. Nellie Learning’s and C. G. Spitler’s children. Mrs. Mary Learning and her grandson, Fred Learning, of Lafayette are visiting M. L. Spitler and family. L. Strong took his little granddaughter, Clara Yeoman, home to Ambia today. She has peen here the past six weeks. C. W. Hanley has accepted an invitation to speak at Rose Lawn on the Fourth. He will fly the eagle in fine shape. Joe Marshall, who recently joined the Ist U. S. cavalry, is now with a portion of that regiment at Fort Russel, in Wyoming, near Cheyenne, a location with which he is well pleased. An early order to go to the Phillipines is expected.

Rev. Samuel Beck D. D. will be here next Sunday for the last Quarterly meeting of the M. E. church. He will preach Sunday morning and hold Quarterly Conference Saturday night. Communion exercises also, Sunday morning. Love-feast at 3 p. m. and preaching at night. Perry Marlatt.Jwho has built a house near the Alter tile mill, north of town, this spring, has just moved into the same from his other place in Barkley. He has less than 40 acres in the place he moves upon, and himself and wife will now take life easier than they have been accustomed to do. Parr will have a celebration on the Fourth in the form of a Sunday school picnic, at which at least three or four Sunday schools will paiticipate. It will be handy for Rensselaer people to attend, and will be especially attractive to that large class of people who like a Fourth without racing and other like sports.

Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Spitler were married 40 years ago Wednesday June 28th, and the day was pleasantly observed, at their home in the grove, north of the railroad. Their four children, with the families of the two married ones, were all present, and also their five grandchildren. Also several from around town and a few from Lafayette. Rev. J. T. Abbett, of Eureka, Oregon, formerly Recorder of this County and a resident of this city will visit our city next week. He will deliver bis popular lectures on “The Ascent of Mt. Hood by Three Preachers” and “Crater Lake” in the Methodist cfihrch on Friday and Saturday nights, July 7th and Bth. These lectures will be given under the auspices of

the Epworth League. They will be withifi the reach of everybody. Let everybody turn out and give our former esteemed townsman a rousing ovation.