Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1899 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

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lasgifled Under Their Respective Headings. TUESDAY. . Born, Friday, Sept., Ist, to Mrs. ra Morlau a son. Mrs. W. T. Perkins, is visiting datives at Chioago. Miss Jackson and Miss Mary ell Purcupile have gone to hicago to study the latest styles f milinery. Mrs. D. E. Hollister arrived lis afternoon from her summers ;ay at Brooklyn lowa. Her ealth is still very* poorly. D. A. Stoner has gone to Vatseka, 111., and will also go to jafayette, where he will attend le Tippecanoe county fair. Miss Edna Dillon has been very Lck Ihe past two weeks at her ome in the north east part of own, and at this writiug seems io better. W. B. Austin has returned from everal weeks sojourn in northern fiohigan. Mrs. Austin and Miss Virginia will not return until after he heated spell is over. Mr. and Mrs. G. K. Hollingsworth and family and Mrs. T. J. ilc Coy and daughter LuEUa .rrived today from a protracted ojourn in northern Michigan. Bev. P. H. Foulk will deliver his ecture on “Raohels Tears” at the ?irst Baptist Church next Monlay night Sept. 11th. He is an >rator and his lecture is fine. Mrs. E. D. Rhodes and daughter jillian spent last week in Chicago, risiting relatives. It was Mre. Ihodes first vaoation as deputy rosimistress, since last November.. \ Mrs. Chas. N. Porter, whose home at present is at Missoula, Montana, is now at Portland, Dregon, visiting an old school friend and also Judge Peter H. Ward's family. The Jasper County Council is in session to-day, being its first important meeting. The full souncil, Washburn, Spitler, Yeoman, Strong, Bellows, Eldredge, »nd Welch are all present. In Ihe rear of the Nowels blook, where an addition is now being xmstruoted, a thermometer was put out this afternoon, in the direct as well as reflected heat of the )un, and it soon registered the mormous heat of 140 degrees. Squares or other steel tools left a ittle while in the sun soon became so hot as to fairly bum anyone that touched them. | Today has been, without doubt the hottest day of the summer. At half past 2 this afternoon, thermometers in the shade, and well protected from reflected sun heat registered 96 to 98 degrees. Others aot so well protected, easily reaoh»d or exceeded the 100 degree nark. At three o’clock the mercury had gone down about a de gree. The "wind has been like the breath of a furnace all day. The Ladies of the R. H. Milroy sircle plsnned a surprise on Mrs. [Catherine La Bue, and accordingly net on Monday at 3 o.clook at the residence of Mrs. Hopkins and proceeded in a body to the home >f Mrs. La Bue, where the afternoon was delightfully spent in g»n, and in partaking of its. adies separated at the ere were many express* isureat the Bucoees of Pass, a former i well mown .Barkley boy, has just left [vaster, lowa, to enter the School )f Pharmacy, at Valparaiso, this rmmlfj-LL T-_. n _-l_ *- CA poruon pi jLOwa obis average ou 1 ' * nir i | ii j lrt^lra

modated in Grundy county, lowa. Last year the pay for husking there was $2.50 per 100 bushels. Rev. H. M. Middleton, pastor of Trinity M. E. church went to Frankfort this afternoon to attend the annual conference. The question of his return here for another year is depending on the action of the conference. His physician strongly recommends that he rest from ministerial labors for a year, for the benefit of his health, and perhaps the conference will assign him to some field of labor less onerous than the ministry. In case it does not, he will probably be returned to Rensselaer that being the desire both of himself and his congregation. New years cards and congratulations, and weather at 100 degrees in the shade do not seem at first thought to be at all in keeping but we have all been experiencing the 100 degrees of temperature today and a part of our population have been receiving the New Year’s rememberances. Today is the Jewish New Years or “Bosh Hasbonah. ” It is the beginning of the 5,660 th year of the Jewish calendar, and the most religious period of the Jewish year. All our Jewish citizens found their mail loaded with New Year’s cards this morning. WEDNESDAY. Mrs. Mary Drake is visiting in Monen. Judge Sylvester Healy is on the sick list. Miss Emma Linn is visiting her parents at Attica, Ind. William Parkinson has gone to Lafayette to attend the fair. D. B. Nowels and family have gone to Lake Maxinkuokee for a short outing. Miss Pearl Wason has gone to Veedersburg Ind., where she will teach school. Miss Keturah Coff, of Millersburg Ohio, is the guest of Miss Abby Harrison. E. B. Hopkins of Vernon, Ind., is visiting Mrs. Maria Hopkins, and other friends. Ethel and Opal Hardesty of Danville, 111., are visiting friends and relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. Conte and family, returned to their home, at Wabash Ind., after a few days visit with friends here. Miss Emma Henry, of Lebanon Ind., who has been the guest of Miss Lessie Bates, has gone to Danville, 111. Mrs. Elizabeth Hardy and . Mrs. Frank Hardy of Remington are visiting the latter’s mother Mr 3. Maiia Hopkins. Mrs. Defoe Spenoer and son, and Mrs. Jim Spencer are the guests of Mrs. N. 8 Bates, return ed to their home at Monti cello, yesterday. Joseph Thorne, grandfather of our townsman, Philo W. Clarke, was buried at Lowell, yesterday. He had reached the very great age of over 90 years. Charles E. Nowels,' who has been at Bourbon for a year or two past, has now removed with his family to Elkhart, where he has a good position in a planing mill. H. E. Osborn, of Sterling, 111., a former soienoe teaoher in the Rensselaer schools, visited here Sunday and Monday. He intends to enter the law department of Northwestern University, this fall. Homer Babcock is down from Chicago for a few days visit. Next week he will begin his duties as a derk in the Bankers’ National Bank, at Chicago. It is a good situation. Geo. V. Moss, the young Frankfort attorney is still visiting Rensselaer relatives and others—especially “others” and it is a j Vwick to Pronkfort ho will I not go alone. j «•. -a. - • i i *r i •t i * unties to circulate, jjesc oigm,

in very bad shape, and this morning he was even reported to have died. As a matter of fact however he is recovering very satisfactorily from his injuries and this morning was able to answer in person telephone enquirers as to his condition. THURSDAY. ' Mrs. Charles Rhoades returned yesterday from a visit at Fort Wayne. Mrs. Walter Porter, Mrs. Nate Reed, and Mrs. Tom Walters have gone to Lafayette so attend the fair. Premium lists of the Indiana state fair may be had by parties interested, by calling at The Republican office. St. Joseph’s College reopened this morning for the college year of 1899 and 1900. The attendance is about 125 to 135. The county council is still work ing on the appropriatiations for next year, and will hardly finish their work before Friday. The directors of the old settlers’ association ask that Rensselaer business houses, and residencees so far as possible, be decorated during the two days of the meeting. The special train for the Lafayette fair, which started from here at 7.30 this morning, bad a large patronage ai this place, the number of tickets sold being 42. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Montgomery arrived home last evening from a weeks trip on the lakes, including a visit to Macinao Island and The “Soo”. They were much benfitted in health by the trip. Arrangements have been made to sprinkle the streets and roads out to the old settlers’ meeting place Friday and Saturday, unless there should be rains sufficient to make the sprinkling unnecessary. Miss Addie Clark of Marion, Ohio, who had intended to spend the summer with the family of her aunt Mrs. H. Mackey with whom she formerly resided, has been detained owing to the severe sickness of her grandmother. Misses Edith and Mary Miller returned here after several years’ residence in the west, mainly in southern California, and will again make their permanent home with their uncle, M. F. Chilcote. Miss Mary’s health which before going west was very delicate has seemingly been completely restored by by her residence in California. The young lawyers have evidently been pleading their cases to good effect. Another to win his suit, with no probability of an appeal, is Will E. Parkison, junior partner in the firm of Chilcote & Parkison. A report, generally credited and supported by considerable corroborative evidence, is that he will be married at Attica, this evening, to Miss Emma Linn, lately stenographer and typewriter in the office of W. B. Austin. The corner stone of Morocco’s fine new school house, now in process of erection, is to be laid next week, with appropriate ceremonies and an imposing public demonstration. The date for the ceremonies, which had been set for Wednesday Sept, 13th has been changed to Tuesday the 12th, and the Morocco Masonic lodge, which is to conduct the ceremonies, has sent official notice of the change, together with the request that the change be noted in the papers here.