Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1899 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a Paragraph. Daily Grist Local Happenings Classified Under • Their Respective Headings. FRIDAY. Mr. Hodebire is quite ill. Jesse Wilson is in Chicago today. Frank Hanley is down from Chicago. Mrs. 8. J. Austin is spending today at Chicago. C. B.- Stewart has been quite sick for the past few days. Mrs. S. A. Royster and children are spending today at Shelby, Mrs. Henry Holmes, of Delphi is visiting Mrs. Marsh Warner. Miss Theresa Carson, of Valparaiso is the guest of Bessie Eger. Boy, born last evening to Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Fiddler at Pleasent Ridge. Miss Edyth Kelly left this morning for her home at Springfield Ohio. 60 cents for round trip to Shelby August 2nd for the Odd Fellows Celebration. Mrs. J. Bronson and daughter of Lafayette visited Mr. and Mrs. Hoshaw and family this week. Miss Funk, of Lafayette visited her cousin Mrs. Sam Roth last week and returned home today. Rev. R. D. Utter, of Crown Point stopped over night here on his.way home from Rattle Ground Mrs. James Griswold and son, of Valporaiso are visiting her sister Mrs. W. H, Eger and other Rensselaer relatives. Mrs. William Washburn and daughter Iva have gone to Bay View, Mich., to spend the remainder of the summer. Mrs. Lydia Kimball after a two weeks visit with her parents Mr. and Mrs. B. Paris has returned to her home at Yonkers, New York. Luther Ponsler, Joe Groom and Bruce Day left this mornning for lola, Kan. Mr. Day expects also to visit at Kingman before returning W. B. Austin went to Oden, Mich., this morning to spend a few days with his wife and daughter who are spending the summer there.

SATURDAY. . Ben Coen is home from Madi* son, Wisconsin. Miss Louie Stoner has returned from a visit to Sheldon, 111. Ray Thompson will visit his mother at Attica over Sunday. Brook will have an Old Settlers’ Meeting Thursday August 24th. Miss Ethel Rider, of Kentland, is the guest of Miss Grace Thompson. Mrs. Neifel and soh of Chicago are the guests of Miss Maggie Healy. Mrs. Chas. Warner, of Sheldon, 111., is visiting her sister, Mrs. D. A. Stoner. Mrs. C. E. Tyner is down from Cedar Lake visiting her father, Hiram Jacks. ; / Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Nowel, of Hammond are spending a few days here with relatives. Rev. Robt. W. Strickler is spending a few days here with his cousin M. L. Spitler.

Mrs. Elizabeth Brown and daughter, Mrs. Rebecca Porter, are visiting relatives at Knox. Robert Smith returned home to Delphi today after a visit with his sister Mrs. Will Hoover south of town. James Hodshire in the east part of town is seriously sick and but small hopes are entertained for his recovery. Mrs. Edward Baech, of Ma toon, 111., is visiting her sister, Mrs. J. F. Watson and other relatives in Rensselaer. Mrs’Julia Healy left last evening for her future home at Brookston She will be joined tomorrow by her daughter Maud Uncle Eph Fleming had h;s trials, on the charges of cruelty to animals and drunkeness in a public place before squire Churchill this morning. On the first charge he was acquitted. On the second he was fined $1 and costs, amounting in all to $16.37. Rev. Midin Appleby, of Hammond, stopped off here today on his way to Indianapolis and visited his neice Mrs. Charles Spitler. Mr. and Mrs. George Michel arrived last evening from Bloomington. Mr. Mitchell will teach science in our city school the coming year. Ernest Middleton left today for Indianapolis where he will endeavor to get into a regiment bound for the Phillipines. He is a former member of the 158 Indiana regiment. Mrs. McDonald, of Chicago, who has been the guest of her sister, Mrs. W. H. Beam, left yesterday for a visit to Caro, Mich. She was accompanied by Merle and Gladys Beam. Misses Ivah M. Wills and Amelia Barleon, of the Chicago Musical College who, gave a very interesting dramatic recital here last week gave the same enter-* ment.at Wolcott last evening. An unsuccessful attempt was made to rob the post office at W biting Ind., last Saturday night. Had the robbers accomplished their purpose they would have secured about SIOOO, in money and stamps. The annual enrollment of the Northern Indiana Normal School, Valparaiso, for the past year was 3,247 students. The average daily attendance was 2,231. The school had representatives, during the year, from every county in the state of Indiana, as well as from every state and territory in the United States. Under the new pension law half of the pension granted a soldier may be set aside for, the family upon application by the wife of the pensioner before a justice of the peace or other authorized

court. The law is certainly a good one, and there are women in every community who should take advantage of it. (

MONDAY. James F. Irwin is in Chicago today. John Eger is spending this week at Rosedale. John Carr has accepted a positionat Morocco. Rev. H. M. Middleton is in Chicago today. Miss Blanche Hoyes spent Sunday at pafayotte. H. W. Jackson and daughter are in Chicago for a few days. Mrs. Simon Fendig, of Wheatfield, is visiting relatives here. G. E. Murray has gone to Kenosha, Wis., for a two weeks sojount Mrs. Lewis Muster and daughter are visiting her mother at Valparaiso. Fred Parcells has returned from Sioux City, lowa and other western points. Mrs. T. J. Joyner arrived home yesterday from a weeks visit in Chicago. Misses Tillie and Madeline Ramp are visiting relatives a Hammond. Roy Peacock, another Rensselaer boy has gone to Indianapolis to Coin the army.

Mrs. W. J. Moore and children returned yesterday to their home at Colburn. Ind. Father Max, of St. Joseph’s College will leave tomorrow for Ft. Recovery, Ohio. Miss Maud Barnes returned yes’ terday from a week’s visit with her parents at Frankfort. Jim Parker and Frank Kressler arrived home Saturday from their trip to Niagara FallsArthur Kressler, of Indiana State Medical school at Indiana* polis is home on a three weeks visit. Miss Elizabeth Reeve returned, after a three weeks visit, to Chicago, yesterday. Beulah Yates went with her for a few weeks visit. Fred Gurtner returned to his home at Pioneer today after a short visit with his cousin Miss Lulu Sample. Miss Bird Griswold returned to her home at Valparaiso this morning after a five weeks visit with Rensselaer relatives. Miss Ollie Fredrick and Mrs. John Fredrick, of Medaryville, Visited their sister, Mrs. C. E. Hershman, last week. The advance agent is here billing the town for the play “Money to Burn,” to be given at Ellis’ Opera House Monday Aug. 28. J. F. Bruner landlord of the Makeever hotel requests us to an-

ounce that the report circulated that he has sold out his hotel business is wholly false. James M. Hodshire died at his home in the west part of town, this morning at 2:30 o’clock aged 65 years last March. The notice of time of funeral will be published later. Ernest Middleton, who left here Friday for Indianapolis has succeeded in getting into’ the 33rd regiment, and will leave Indianapolis, with his regiment, in a few days for Housten, Tex. Corporal Jack Leahy writes to his uncle E. P. Honan that he is now in the employ of the goverment, as a clerk in the Commisary Generals Office at San Juan,Porto Rico and is receiving a large salary Dr. J. H. Honan, brother of our townsmen E. P. Honan, is now attending, as an American delegate the inter-national conference of j gynecologysts at Amsterdam, Hol- ' land. He has been honored by being placed on a committee of high importance. Mrs. Taber, wife of ex-commis-sioner O. P. Taber, of Remington died yesterday after a long, lingering, paiaful illness. The remains were interred at 2:30 p. m. today from the M. E. church at Remington. Mrs. Harry Bennett, Misses Daisy Bennett, Gertruda Parral la, of Monticello, and Miss Nellie

Calvin, of Delphi, were the guests of Mrs. John O’Neil (nee Miss Bertha Parcells.) Fountain Park Assembly closed yesterday after a 15 days session with a splendid program and a very large attendance. The meetings this year have been the most successful since the organization of the Assembly. J The State Meeting of the Catho- : lie Order of Foresters is being held at Lafayette. A banquet, will be given this evening at the Lahr House which about a dozen of Rensselaer’s Foresters will attend. Father Charles Notheis, who was appointed temporary pastor to St. Augustine Catholic church was called Thursday to Sedalia, Missouri, where he is ASRiatant to Father Stanilus Neiberg, the former pastor of St. Augustine church. Until a pastor is appointed early in September the puplit will be filled by Father Gietl of the Indiana School and Father Benedict of St. Joseph College. Father Geitl filled the appointment yesterday. Our new quarters enables us wi handle a larger and better stock than ever. We entreat you to call. B K. Zimmerman. | We are settled in our new building and are sowing some beauti-