Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1899 — CITV NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITV NEWS.

Minor Item* Told in a Paragraph. i Daily Grist of Local Happen-' mars Classified Under Their Respective Headings. FRIDAY. Miss Alice Bates is visiting relatives at Ladoga. Mrs. Mattie Bernard, is visiting in Chicago a few days. John Ellis went to Cincinnati today to visit relatives a few weeks. Mrs. Jane A. Sharp returned yesterday from a visit to Sioux City, lowa. An infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Parkison of Barkley Tp., was buried yerterday in Barkley cemetery. Simon Leopold went to Chicago today to buy a stock of dry goods. He will soon start in business at Kentland. ' Mrs. F. B. Meyer and daughter Thena and Mrs. Nate J. Reed and brother Wilbur Lally are camping a few days at Water Valley. Madge Beam went to Lawton, Mich., today to visit relatives a few weeks. Her mother accompanied her as far as Chicago. Misses Grace Hansenberg, of East Aurora, N- Y.. and Anna Derschell, of the Goodland schools, are visiting Rensselaer relatives for a few days. Miss Mary Johnson, of Ladoga, is the guest of Mrs. W. H. Coover until Saturday and she will then go to Chicago to take a course at the Chicago University. Mr. and Mrs. William Ewalt, after several days visit with relatives here went, today, to Hoo.pston, 111., where they will visit awhile before returning to their home at Shelby, Ohio. Official notice has been received that after July 23rd, the star route mail service to Mt, Ayr will be discontinued, as by that time the Coal Road will be ready to carry I the mails.

On account of Fourth of July, the Monon will sell excursion tickets to all stations at one fare for the round trip, on sale July 3rd and 4th, good returning until July sth inclusive. J. W. Horton returned today from Terre Haute where he has been attending the Indiana State dental society. The doctor reports that the meeting was largely attended by representative dentists. This is the last day of June, and we wish to put it on record that, take it clear through, the weather this month has been the finest of any month, June or not June, any one can remember in this region of Indiana. There has been some rather too warm days and some too windy days and a very few cloudy and gloomy days, but there have been so many gloriously beautiful x days, like this one for instance, that the other kind seem too few too need remembering. And even most of the worst had more good than bad weather in them. The fine and very large Newfoundland pup belonging to Miss Georgia Kight, has come to ah untimely end, through poisoning by strychnine. The poisoning was done maliciously, by some person who threw the poisoned substance into the yard. We are pleased to announce that the biographical history of Tippecanoe, Warren, Benton, White, Jasper, Newton and Pulaski counties, which has been in course of preparation ‘for some time, is now in the press and will be published some time this yefir. Therein a rather old and but little used but still able bodied law on our statute books, passed in 1885 which prescribes a fine of not less than $lO for selling or giving away toy pistols of any kind used for exploding caps or the like.

Mrs. H. R. W. Smith of Arcadia nd. was the guest of her brother, J. * W. Paxton and family last night but joined her husband, at Chicago this morning, to go with him to the Pacific slope. , D. A. Coffeen, of Troy, Ohio, arrived today to visit bis parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Coffeen, who have been here for some time past, and where Mr. Coffeen is engaged in taking orders for stereosopic pictures. The young man was a meAiber of the 160th Indiana reg* iment and this is bis first visit to his parents, since the regiment’s return from Cuba. Uncle David Hilton has received notice through Capt. Burnham’s pension office, that bis pension has been increased from sl2 to sl6 per month. The application was made about two years ago, but rejected by the pension department. Capt. Burnham appealed to the Department of Interior, and the decision of the pension bureau was over-ruled and the increase granted.W. S. Parks, the drayman, met with a painful accident, yesterday. He was unloading a new piano, at W. H. Beam’s residence, and it slipped off the skids and fell upon Mr. Parks. Luckily it, caught only his foot, and the heavy shoe sole protected that, so the injury was not nearly so bad as it came near being. As it is his foot is quite badly crushed and bruised, but no bones broken. He is able to be out, but will be unable to walk for some time. The National Editorial Association, the great end and object of whose existence is to work the railroad and steamboat companies for big free excursions, meets at Portland, Oregon, this year, and a big train load of the members left Chicago today. They will spend several weeks in viewing the wonders of the great west. Among those on the excursion are our former townspeople, Mr. and Mrs. H. R- W. Smith, now of Arcadia. A. B. Crampton of the Delphi Citizen, is also with the excursion. One ’of the new drinking and watering fountains is already being placed in position, on Van Rensselaer street, opposite Wade & Wood’s barber shop, it having been decided not to wait until the street is improved. The location of the other will not be settled until the commissioners meet, next week. In view of the fact that the primary and principal purpose of these fountains is for watering horses, we think the vast majority of people will agree in thinking that the right place for tins other fountain is not on Washington street at all, but on Cullen street, about as far from Washington as the one on Van Rensselaer is to be. There is no occasion at all for placing one of these fountains where it will have a tendency to block up the principal street of the town, and especially on big days. And it will be objectionable always, not only because of the teams standing about, drinking and waiting to drink, but also on account of the dirt it will make in the street.