Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1899 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a Paragraph flatly Grist of Local Happenings I Classified Under Their ICespective Headings. TUESDAY. Mrs. Able Grant is visiting at Monon. R. S. Dwiggins is in Chicago on a few days’ business trip. Miss Freda Kohler is visiting relatives at Chicago Heights. Mrs. M. E. Thompson is in Chicago on a few days’ visit. Miss Kate Wood, of Monon, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Frank Randle. W. B. Austin returned from Petoskey, Mich., last evening, ■where Mrs. Austin and Virgie will spend the summer. Miss Boyce and Wilbur Lally returned to Michigan City today, after an extended visit with their sister, Mrs. Nate J. Reed. Mrs. Bell Cleaver and daughter, Mrs. Minnie Burns, of Kankakee, 111., were the guests of Mrs. Cyrus Haas yesterday and today. Miss Dora English has been attending the International Christian Endeavor Convention, at Detroit, and returned home Monday afternoon. Editor Ingrim, of the Winamac Democratic Journal claims that bis bible is 300 years old and still in good state of preservation. We fear that some editors, especially of the persuasion, don’t read their bibles very much if they last like that. The monthly entertainment for the benefit of the Public Library will be given Friday evening July 21st at the Court House. This entertainment will be given by the college students of Rensselaer and will be a unique and interesting affair. A full program will be published later. It is thought that the small pox trouble at Valparaiso is about over. Ncf new cases have developed for some days, and those that have it are all recovering very satisfactorily; and vaccination has been, so general that there is practically none left for the disease to affect. Of the numerous cases that have occurred only two bad been vacoinnated, one of them 17 years ago, the other 20. Both had it very mild. Bids from 3 firms were before the City Council last evening, for the various proposed street improvements. They were the Brownell Improvement Company, of Hammond, the Indiana Macadam and Construction Company, of Rensselaer and Monon, and Heinzmann Bros, of Noblesville As the work is divided, eight seporate bids were required, and on every one of these the Macadam Company was the lowest. No decision was reached but a special meeting for the purpose will be held Wednesday evening. Every person of middle age or past who has been brought up in the west must - have noticed the progressive decrease in the number of birds, says the Indianapolis Journal. It is not merely the wild pigeons and the old fashioned martins and swallows that have almost wholly disappeared but the wood birds of all kinds have become scarce.—This is partly due to the encroachment of city life on country, but more to the destruction of birds in mere wantonness or for sport or for commercial purposes. WEDNESDAY. Miss Merle Beam is visiting her aunt in Chicago. Addison Parkison is in Chicago on business today. Mrs. Andy Minicus has retume 1 from a visit to Chicago Heights. Miss Emma L. Maokey is now e ijoying the most perfect health. ■s/.. - !

Miss Grace Brown, of Danville, 111., is visiting Relatives in Rensselaer. Miss Mildred Harria went to Kalamazoo, Mich., today to spend the summer. Mrs. Stewart Gwin, of Delphi, is visiting with Mrs. D. B. Nowels and Mrs. Wallace Robinson. Mrs. A. M. Harrison arrived home today from a visit to her sons at Rollo, North Dakota. Mrs. Geo. Spangler accompanied by her neice, Miss Edna Wildberg, returned to Peoria, 111., today. Misses Ethel Ferguson and Harriet Kerr are visiting Mr. and Mrs. George Ferguson at Logansport. A man named Tyler, living at Brook, committed suicide last Sunday, by shooting himself in the head. Mrs. Bayard Clark, of Lima, 0., is visiting the family of E. L. Clark, and other relatives in Rensselaer. A party was given, in honor of Miss Grace Brown, of Danville, 111., last evening, at the home of Dr. and Mrs. H. L. Brown, just north of town. We desire to thank the neighbors and brother Foresters for the kindness and aid rendered us during the sickness of Mr. Scheurick and sons. Mr. and Mrs. J. Scheurick.

Hon. E. P. Hammond, of Lafayette, has accepted the invitation to take part in the Old Settlers’ Meeting to be held here September Bth and 9th. Governor Mount writes that it will be impossible for him to be present. We have just learned that one of the small-pox patients in the detention hospital, at Valparaiso, is a Jasper county resident. It is Miss Marybelle Moore, daughter of John Moore, of Barkley Tp. She contracted the disease while attending the Valparaiso normal school.

Mrs. W. A. Groves, of Culpepper Va., started for her home today accompanied by her son Orren, who is just recovering, being yet very weak, from an attack of typhoid fever, contracted seven months ago. The young man had come here, a short time before he was taken sick to visit his sister, Mrs. Albert Duval, of Sharon. Frank O’Mera, engineer at the River Queen mills, has for some time past had the distinction of owning the finest “gentleman hog” ever brought to our city. He now has equal distinction in another direction. He now owns a bicycle which in elegance and perfection of build and elevation of pedigree is as much on top of all other wheels as his pig surpasses in glory all others of the porcine tribe in this vicinity. It is a new 1899 chainless Columbia, and was bought yesterday, of B. Forsythe, the local Columbia dealer.

The City Council had an informal session, Tuesday afternoon, to figure a little on the street improvement bide. It seems to have been practically decided not to accept any of the bids for the three blocks around the public • square. They are all much higher than was expected, probably because the bidders figured on having a' lawsuit on their hands with the county if they attempt to improve those blocks against the commissioners’ protest. The bids on the streets are not thought to be excessive and they will probably be accepted.

THURSDAY. Mrs. Tom Walters is visiting relatives at Monon. Miss Bert Griswold of Valporaiso, is visiting at W, H. Egers. Mrs. Mary Taylor, of Cedar Rapids, la., is visiting her mother Mrs. Helen Peacook. Walter V. Porter arrived home this forenoon from his trip to Pratt county, Kansas. Mrs. Catherine ■ Watson came home yesterday from a visit to Pontiac and Mantoon, 111.

John Paxton and children Herbert and Florence went to Albany this morning on a few days visit. Miss Telie Lynn returned home to Attica, last evening after several days visit here with her sister. John Carr went to Hammond this morning, where he has sesured a position in a butcher shop. Mrs. Harrison Wasson and children left yesterday for Chicago Heights where they will make their future residence. Work on the superstructure of R. W. Spriggs’ house begun today. Monroe Banes has the contract for the carpenter work. Mrs Allen Catt and sister, Mrs. John Ulrey, of Brook, arrived home last night from an extended visit to their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Smoot, at Greenfield. Mrs. Will Eger and two sons and Mrs. F. B. Meyer and daughter, Thena, and Frank Crosscup went to Water Valley this morning for a few days’ outing. Prof. S. E. Sparling, of Wisconsin University, has just returned from a several hundred miles bicycle tour in the southern part of this state, and is now visiting his parents south-west of town. Monroe Banes has sold his residence property, in the west part town, to John English, who will occupy it as a residence. Mr. Banes is thinking strongly of looking for a location elsewhere and moving from Rensselaer. Albert Overton went to Columbia Heights this morning to visit his sister Mrs. V. V. Nowels. The latter’s infant child which was thought to be dying some days ago, is still living, but also still very sick.

Geo. V. Moss, heretofore mentioned as having graduated at the law department of Indiana University, left today for Frankfort this state, in which fine and flourishing little city he has decided to locate to practice his profession. Mr. James Yeoman, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Yeoman was married to Miss Ver Sourwine, of Wilkinson, Ind-, at her home on June 28th. They will make their home at Ambia, Ind., where Mr. Yeoman is engaged in the lumber business.

Belle and Wade, the children of Mr. and Mrs. Amzie Laßue entertained about fifty children yesterday, the former from 2 to 5 p. m. and the latter from 5 till 8 p. m. The children, both sets of them, were a jolly company and enjoyed the games and songs and refresh* ments, as only children can. Little Belle sent them home to the strains of Home, Sweet Home, played by herself upon the piano. D. W. Green, attorney and realestate man, of Ligonier, was here yesterday visiting his niece, Mrs. W. H. Coover. He drove over from Remington with his sister, Mrs. J. H. Allman. They returned to Remington, this morning, Mrs. Coover and son Clyde going with them. The Chicago Times-Herald saj s that Bishop Rademacher, of the Fort Wayne diocese, who has been sick for several months at St. Elizabeth’s hospital, suffering from mental disoiders, is improving gradually, and it is expected he will soon be able to resume his duties. His reason is entirely restored.

There will be no meeting of the Epworth League next Sunday evening as our chapter has accepted an invitation to conduct a League Rally at Barkley on that date. There will be an all days service and a basket dinner. Dr. Edwin A. Schell, General. Secretary of the Epworth League will deliver th? address in the evening. Yeoman & Woodworth already have a force of men at work clearing away the upper soil preparatory to getting out rock for their newly bought crusher. They are uncovering a very fine ledge of most excellent rock. There are not wanting good judges of such matters who pronounce the rock here better for macadam purposes, than any other in this section of the state.

The editor was out of town yesterday and therefore not present to read the proofs, hence where the word porcine should have been in the article about Frank O’Mera’s new wheel and old pig it appeared as “porcupine.” Now a porcine and a porcupine are both bristly fel lows but they are by no means the same thing. And speaking about bristles, we should not wonder if Frank got his own brieties up a little when he learned that his famous swine had been called a porcupine. The Indianapolis News was sold yesterday, at auction, by order of the courts, to terminate a partnership. The property sold for the very large sum of $936,000 or nearly twice as much as it was expected to sell for. The parties bidding it in were acting for two of the partners, Dowling and Smith* and there will therefore be no change in the management or editorial policy of the paper. The News is no doubt, the most profitable newspaper in the world published in a city no large? than Indianapolis. Some of our local exchanges are publishing alarming articles about the terribly poisonous character of the “electric light bugs,” which they declare to be far worse than the more recent .but also much more active “kissing bug.” But it is noticed that only one hearsay case of electric bug poisoning is reported, and that by no means recent, while bad cases of poisoning by the kissing bugs are heard of every day. By “electric light bug” is meant the enormous water bred insects that fly around the electric street lights at night, and which in shape resemble an enormously large cock-roach.