Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1899 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

Minor Tterns Told in a Paragraph. Pally Prist of Local Happenings Classified Under Their Respective Headings. FRIDAY. Will Scbanlaub is indisposed today. The Monon News man wants to sell his office. Frank Woodin wa#. over fro m Forseman yesterday. Mrs. Geo. W. Goff is visiting a few days at Crown Point. Jim Drake is visiting a few days at Monon and Michigan City. Miss Ora Yeoman, of Fair Oaks, is visiting Florence Marshall. Miss Margaret Brosnahan, of Chicago is the guest of Miss Dora English. Jim Pierce and daughters, Carrie, Mary and Gladys are in Layfayette today. Charles H. Chapman of Bridgman, Mioh. is visiting his brother James H. Chapman. Mrs. J. H. Fishel will leave tomorrow morning for Blaoklee Ohio where she is oalled by the siokness of her son’s wife. Frank Jacks and son of Harper Kans., left for their home last evening after a two weeks visit with relatives in Rensselaer and vicinity Mrs. Shannon and ohildren returned to their home at Greensburg today after several weeks visit with here sister Mrs. G. E. Murray Misses Elizabeth Hartmen and and Lenora Richl, of Chicago are here the former the guest of Miss Anna Borntrager and the latter the guest of her brother. C. P. Cline, who is spending a few days in the city in the interest of Frank Leslie’s Literature Club went to Chicago today to spend the Sabbath with his family. Herbert W. Axtell, a young man who, a few days ago, was peddling wire coat supporters on the streets of Valparaiso and neighboring cities, with poor success, is being sought by a Chicago lawyer. He has fallen heir to $250,000. Sayler and Perkins sent out another gang of eleven young men today to work on C. & N. W. R. R., at Sioux Falls, lowa. The young men were from Monticello, Monon and Mt. Ayr. Mr. Sayler accompanied them to Chicago. A Kansas printer recently tried his hand at farming, but couldn’t make things work right, and is now baok at the case. He had a wrong front team —a mule and a horse —and this would not justify. He said the farmer fired him after he had “pied” three or four rows of potatoeik He showed his limited experience by. asking the farmer’s .wife if she wanted the hens set leaded or solid.

SATURDAY. Miss Austa Trussel is visiting at Frankfort. Mrs. J. Austin is visiting Lafayette relatives. , Vern and Dolly Shock are visiting in Chicago. _ Miss Nelle Smith is the guest of . Monticello friends. Every cloud up North Judson way has a sugar beet lining. Alfred Hopkins is down from Chioago for a few days. Mrs. Clarence Sigler, of Monon is visiting relatives here for a few days.

: Miss Harriet Haas, of Tipton, Ind„ is the guest, of Miss Sadie Leopold. Bom, this morning to Mr. and Mrs. Joe C. Thorton in town, a daughter. Miss Kitty Shields oame home last night from two weeks visit in Monticello. Arthur Tutuer returned home yesterday from several months visit in Peoria 111., - Miss Eva Morgan and daughter Grace are visiting in Battle Ground and Lafayette. C. B. Stewart spent a couple of days in Racine, Wis., this week returning Friday, Mrs. Jean Tyner, of Cedar Lake visited her father Hiram Jacks this week. A rainfall of 2:53 inches occurred in Indianapolis yesterday. The heaviest in four years. The Ross elevator at Brookston was destroyed by fire Thursday night. 50,000 bushels of grain was also consumed. T. B. Middleton left this morning for Uniontown, Pa., where he has seoured a fine position in a photograph gallery. A 1 Watts, near Monticello, had his right arm drawn in between the belt and pulley on a threshing machine and mangled in a manner necessitating amputation. A freight engine blew up at Winamac yesterday morning, the engineer and fireman receiving injuries which will prove fatal. Cause of the accident is unknown. Gus Phillips, who haa been spending several weeks at his home here left this morning for Binghamton, N. Y. where he will again join the Spooner Dramatic Company. Mrs. Nellie Learning and son Harry returned to Goshen this morning after spending several weeks with her parents, |Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Spitler. Wood Spitler went with them for a few days visit. , T. J. MoCoy and B. F. Fendig went to Wheatfield J yesterday evening and wrestled Jlong and patiently with the town board and as a result the Jasper 'County Telephone Co., was granted a ten years’ franchise. B. F. Fendig has displayed his friendship for wheelmen with oollapsed tires- A | large sized bicycle pump nowjf occupies a position on the walk , inJfropt of his store, and though it is an advertisement for a band of cigars that doesn’t interfere with its merits as an air jammer.

MONDAY. A. Lewis is in Ohioago ’today. The Commissioners are in session today. Ernest Stewart is visiting RenEselaer friends. Delos Thompson has beenlquite ill with pleurisy. H. A. Flynn, of Chicago visited his parents here yesterday. Miss Edna Wilberg has returned from her visit to Peoria, 111. N Dr. Horton went yesterday for week’s outing in Michigan. Misses Anna and Mary Meyer are visiting a few days in Chioago. Mrs. W. J. Moore of Colburn, Ind., is visiting in Rensselaer and vicinity. M. H. Sales, of Delphi, was in Rensselaer yesterday, the guest of friends. Mrs. Joe Long, of Medaryville, is visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. Joe Rowen, The trustees are making their annual settlement with the Commissioners today. Elvin Overton left today for Freeport, 111., after a week’s visit in Rensselaer. Baxter M. Murphy left for his home at Union City, this morning to visit his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Osborne, of Kirklin, Ind., are visiting their relative, hero thi, week.

Mr. and Mrs. George Macy, of Indianapolis are visiting his mother Mrs. John Makeever. Miss Belle Tanner returned to Chicago today after a five.yyeeks visit with Mrs. Henry Wood. Dr. and Mrs. L. S. Ensminger of Crawfordsville, spent the Sabbath with Mrs. Matie Hopkins. Mrs. Gertie Robinson has gone to Chicago to take a more thorough oourse of training in hair dressing. Zimmerman is moving his tailoring establishment into thej White building on Van Rensselaer street. There are letters in the postoffice for Miss Mary Jones, John Foreman, John S. Murrill, John Murphy. Miss Etta Maloney returned to Chicago Saturday evening, after an extended visit with her sister Mrs. Drake. Mrs. Henry Sayner returned home today, to Ft. Wayne after a few days visit with her sister Mrs. Chestnut, a mile north of town. While Ellis Walton was chopping wood the axe caught on a clothes line and rebounding dealt him a severe blow on the head. The Dramatio Recital at the Opera House, Thursday] evening Aug. 10, will please you. Mrs. G. M. Kessinger and' daughter Susan and Mrs. Harry

Mr. and Mrs. George Murray and family, Alfred Hopkins, of Chicago, and F. B. Meyer went to Shelby and spent the Sabbath on the banks of the Kankakee.