Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1899 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a Paragraph. fraily Grist ot local Happenrail s A- ■■■ Classified Under their Respective Headings. TUESDAY. Gus Phillips is spending a few days at Monticello. Mrs. T. W. Haus is visiting relatives at Westville. Mose Tuteur was in Knox on business yesterday. F. L. Snyder of Monticello was in the city yesterday. Mrs. Lily Smeltzer and son are visiting relatives at Delphi, Miss Katie Wood of Monon is visiting her sister Mrs. Frank HandleMadge Beam came home today from several weeks visit in Lawton, Mich. Mrs. J. T. Penn left this morning to visit friends at Crawfordsville and her parents at Murdoch, 111. Robert Patton, of Veedersburg, is visiting Alvin Coen, of Chicago, who is visiting his grand-parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wasson. Geo. Dunn left this morning for Wichita, Kan., after three weeks visit with his parents at Dunville and friends in Rensselaer. Mrs. Granville Moody and son Tom left this morning for several weeks visit with relatives at Buffalo N. Y., and Boston, Mass. Congressman Crumpacker is mailing the year books from the Department of Agriculture. This office acknowledges the receipt of a copy. The Misses Behning, of Cleveland, Ohio, who have been spending a few days in the home of D. E. Hollister leave tomorrow morning for a visit at Brooklyn, lowa. Mrs. Thomas Thompson and son Ray went to the springs at Attica today Mrs. Thompson will take medioal treatment there for several weeks and Ray will return home Thursday.

Over in Germany the horseless carriage is called “automobiletaxameterdroschken.” It would be «imply tempting fate to let a thing with that name run more than six miles an hour. Mrs. Clara Butoher and daughter Mellie, returned to their home at Waveland, this morning after several days visit with Geo. W. Burk north of town and other rel- ■ ■ ' f atives in Rensselaer. Acting upon a suggestion in a recent issue of The Republican John Makeever is going to make a trial of the red cement walks , in front of his property on the south side of Washington street. It is an experiment that will be watched with interest, as it is claimed these walks do away with the bright glare which is so painful to the eye. It is reported, the big Illinois steel plant at South Chicago has commenced to employ nothing but [ English fcpeaking people. The foreign employes will be gradually weeded out and no more of j them will be employed, on the score of its being more profitable and pl&asant to employ AmericansI For several years foreigners have been employed to a large extent and there is now to be a complete revolution in this respect. The Laporte Bulletin says: "The silver tongued orator, Wm. J. Bryan, was in our midst.” To the happy contented workmen who are earning good wages all I over the country this ocourenoe I would have about the same effect | that an over-dose of green apples "in our midst” used .to have on us when we were a boy A WEDNESDAY. G. K. Hollingsworth is in Chicago today. James Shafer, of Brook, is in ♦ Ii A rtifv

Bom to Mr. and Mrs." John Rash, .Tuesday, a seven pound girl. ! Attorney H. R. Kurrie is spending a couple of weeks at his home in Paoli. | Mrs. M. L. Imes is spending a , couple of weeks at Indiana Mineral Springs. i Mrs. Eliza Rock, of Lafayette, is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. W. R. Nowels. Foreman Litke, of the Wheat- ; field section gang had an arm broken last Friday. The Board of County Commissioners will meet in regular session next Monday. A little boy named Glascoefell off a porch at Wheatfield, Monday, and fractured an arm. Mrs. Hester Cripps, of Marion, Ind., is visiting her parents, Mr. Mrs. Elias Hammerton. B. F. Fendig and T. J. McCoy will go to Wheatfield Friday evening to interview the town board. The people with “Money to Burn’’ will appear at the opera house on the evening of August 28th. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Sigler left this morning on a several weeks’ visit to Wheeler, Ind., Chioago and Milwaukee.

D. L. Halstead, of Newton township, is recovering nicely from the recent fracture of his collar bone. Miss Lelia Middleton went to Indianapolis this morning where she will take charge of the Deaconess school. J. H. Coffeen and wife went to Kentland this morning where Mr. Coffeen will resume his work of selling stereoscopic views. Mr. and Mrs. S. Sigler, of Wheeler, Ind., who have been visiting with their nephew, J. R. Sigler, at Mt. Ayr, returned home today. Capt. G. W. Payne and wife and daughter Mrs. John M. Timmons returned home to Monticello today after visiting with Mrs. W. H. Stevenson.

County Superintendent' L. H. Hamilton will attend the state meeting of County superintendents to be held at Rochester to. morrow and Friday. B. J. Neil the pioneer real estate man of Wheatfield sold $20,000 worth of Jasper county real estate to the International Oil Co. last Saturday. The land lays out in Gillam oil field of northern Jasper. Brook had an expensive fire Monday night. The large elevator, belonging to Lyons & Esson was burned, together with 12,000 or 15,000 bushels of grain whioh it contained. Origin of the fire is unknown. Loss will be] about $15,000. The people of Wheatfield are making all proparations for a grand time at the farmers’ picnio to be held there Aug. 26. Congressman Crumpacker has consented to deliver an address: there will be music and amusements of all kinds and a crackerjack time. c , When a girl gets wrinkles in her brain and goes to monkeying with the good old fashioned way of spelling the baptismal names of Ler sex it is to be regretted.. Maye, Grayce and Minnea are bad enough but a young lady at Winimao has cast discretion to the winds and her name appears in the local paper as Pha. We were just a little premature in regard to the red cement walk on Washington street. The contractor has put down about one hundred and twety-five feet of it so that people oould see the difference between it and the white walks, but as Venetian red sells at three cents a pound and it took about one hundred and thirty pounds of it to color that amount of walk he does not feel inclined to bear the expense, so the rest of the walk will be unoolored. There is no question but what the I wallrtt uta m nreffiMblfi to range is it in&w

’ We are in receipt of the catalogue of DePauw University for | the year just closed. It seems that DePauw has had a prosperous year. About $30,000 was collected, pledged, or bequeathed to the University this last year, for en- ' dowments and sustaining funds, in addition to the regular income. The student enrollment was large, coming from many states of the Union, and some from foreign countries. The faculty will be increased. The DePauw estate will be settled soon, adding $200,000 more to endowments. The University has really entered a brighter day. Catalogues will be sent on application to the Registar, Greencastle, Ind.

THURSDAY, B. J. Gifford, of Kankakee, 111., is in town today. J. L. Fatout, of Indianapolis, was in town today.' “ Mr. McDaniels, of Chicago, is visiting at A. Parkisons. Reorder R. B. Porter and daughter Mary were in Lafayette today. Miss Graoe Wellington, of Goodland, is the guest of Miss Sadie Haff, for a few days. The band boys have moved their headquarters to the room ever Leopold’s Day Light Store. Mrs. M. S. Dewey of Maoon, HI. returned home today after a visit with her sister Mrs. A. Willis. , ' Mrs. Harry Wemple returned to Chicago last evening. Her brother Park Kelley accompanied her. Miss True George went to Chicago today visit several weeks with the family of her uncle Chas. J ouvenat.

Mr. and Mrs. Dye, of Monticello, are here visiting with Mrs. Bales and son of the Sayler-Bales Lumber Co. Martin Howell, a young man twenty three years of age, died at his home in Monticello yesterday of heart disease. Miss Bertha Horn returned to her home at Logansport this morning after 'a few days visit at Frank Cbilootes.’ Miss Mary Callahan left for her home at London, Ohio this morning after several weeks visiting with her cousins the Misses Callahan of Valma. County Supt. Hamilton and wife and children went to Rochester this morning to attend the meeting of County Superintendents held there today and tomorrow, Louis Fendig, J. A. Hopkins and Charley Rhoades left last night for Niagara Falls. From there Rhoades will go to Buffalo for a short visit and the other boys will go on to Toronto and Orillio, Canada and spend a couple of weeks.

Mrs. R. B. Harris and daughter Ruth and Mrs. Nelson Randle and Delos Coen left this morning for Petoskey, Mioh. Mrs. Randle and Mrs. Harris will spend three weeks there, and Ruth and Delos will be joined- by Miss Mildred Harris, who is now visiting at Kalamazoo, and will spend the remainder of the summer there. • * A gentleman named {Wagner, from Tipton County, brought his threshing outfit into this neighborhood a few days ago and yesterday while at work on the Dr. Alter farm, just east of town, the separator mid about 1000 bushels df oats were destroyed by fire. The engineer had taken the top off the smoke stack of the engine and the sparks therefrom did the mischief. Capt. William Astor Chanler, Congressman from New York, is the president of The New York Star, whioh is giving away a forty dollar bicycle daily, as offered by their advertisement in another column. Hon. Amos J. Cummings, M. C., Col. Asa Bird Gardner, District Attorney of New York, exGovernor Hoes, of Texas, and Col. Fred FiJfof New York, are among the well known name in their Board of Directors. ..*» ... . - •