Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1899 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a Paraz graph. Daily Grist ©t Local Happening's Classified Under Their Respective Headings. TUESDAY. Lora and Ernest Frazee are I visiting at Wabash. Mrs. Elizabeth Cripps is visiting her brother at Francesville. Mrs. F. M. Abbott, and little daughter, are visiting relatives at Delphi. | The Hildebrand saloon is closI ed awaiting the adjustment of the I fire damage.

Born, Sunday, Sept. 17, to Mr. and Mrs. Tom Zimmerman, sos l Blackford, a son. i\ Born, Saturday night Sept. 16th rtb Mr. and Mrs. Geo. McCarthy, in town, a daughter. Mrs. J. M. Troxel,, of DeMotte’ returned home today, after a visit with Mrs. E. D. Warren. A son was born Sunday to Mr and Mrs. Emanuel Harshbarger, near Parr, but it lived only a few hours. Born, this, Tuesday, morning, Sept. 19, to Mr. and Mrs. Lee I Jessup, north of the railroad, a I daughter. I Born, Monday, Sept. 18th to I Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Borntrager, ■ south of town a son, and their I first child. I Mr. Charles Booth and Miss I Nancy A. Gross were married I Sept. 3.4, by Squire James A ■ Burnham. I Robert Davidson, of Jay county ■lnd., and W. J. McDowell of I Dark county, Ohio, who have ■ been the guests of Mr. WashingIton Scott, have returned home. I An eight months old infant ■child of Mr. and Mrs. John E. ■McClanahan, in the .north part of ■town, died Monday ’afternoon, of ■bowel trouble. The funeral was ■held this morning by Rev. H. M. (Middleton. I According to the Indianapolis (journal the running time of Monon (Route train No. 30, between Indi(anapolis and Chicago is to be (shortened 20 minutes between the ■two cities. The train is the oue ■that now passes Rensselaer at K:32 p. m. I Wm. Greenfield, better known kis Uncle Billy Greenfield, and Miss ■flora Hodshire obtained a marmage license last night and to-day ■irove to Remington with the indention of having the marriage ■jeiemony performed there. Uncle Killy is close ontq 70 and his bride ■lot far from 30. || S. S. Longabayh. of Lima,Ohio, ■epresenting a large oil firm of his Bate, is here obtaining oil leases Bn land in the vicinity of Pleasant Bidge. If he obtains leases for Beveral thousand acres bis comBany agrees to sink one or more Beep wells, right away, in search Bf oil or gas. It is thought that Be will secure as much land as is Bqnired. IJ. H. S. Ellis went to Chicago Bn business this morning.' II Mrs. Geo. E. Murray has returnB 1 from her visit at Greencastle. Mrs. Elvia Gwin has gone to Bdianapolis to attend the State ■air. ■ Miss Grace Thomson has gone Bick to Evenston to attend college Bain. ■Clifford Shot, returned to bis (ime in Chicago after an extended Bsit with relatives here. ■I. P. Wood returned to Chicago resume his studies in the Bental College until next May. ■ ■Uncle Mac is preparing for anBier big public sale at McCoys|Brg, next Saturday, Sept., 23rd., ■ve hundred head of stock and Bding cattle will be offered. ■Rev. P. H. Faulk, of Morocco, Bivered his celebrated lecture, * **

Baptist church last evening, to a good audience. It is an extra fine lecture and more than extra well delivered. Charles Bridge, the young fellow who entered the room of Miss Lucy Mowrerer at Monticello several months ago was charged at the time with an attempt to murder the girl, was supposed to have been his sweetheart, was tried last week at Monticello and, got off pretty easy. The jury found him guilty of attempted assault and sentenced him to six months in jail and assessed a fine of two hundred dollars. The two blocks of Washington street from the Makeever House to Divison street have been repaired by the use of some of the new stone crusher’s product. The material is excellent and it has been carefully applied by the city marshal, and will greatly improve the street. Still, to make a good stone street a special and very heavy roller is a first necessity, and though the heavy farm roller that was used did some good, it lacked a great deal of making such a street as a regular road roller would make. *

WEDNESDAY. Mrs. J. C. McColly is quite seriously sick. Mrs. Eugene Wemple, of Rockford, HI., is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Mountgomery. Mr. and Mrs. A. McCoy and Mrs. Mattie Rinehart have gone to Delphi to visit friends and see the street fair. Joseph Yeoman went to Indiana polis and Johnson county, this afternoon to attend the fair and visit relatives. Sixty-five tickets to Indianapolis on account of the state fair have already been sold at this place this week. Miss Maud Grant returned to her home in Chicago, yesterday after an extended visit with Miss Carrie Woodworth. Rev. N. H. Sheppard, of Indianapolis, former pastor of the Rensselaer Christian church, is here to attend the ministerial convention and to visit friends. Mr. Hiram M. Crawford and Miss Jennie Punter, both of DeMotte, were married at 1.30 Wednesday afternoon by Rev. H. M. Middleton, at his residence. Rev. H. S. Kester and wife have arrived and are the guests of Rev. H. M. Middleton. Mr. Kester is the pastor of the new Barkley M, E. circuit, and will preach at Barkley, Osboriie and Gillam churches. r

Miss Flora Wharton, who taught in our city schools for five years, the last two of which she de voted to teaching music has just been elected supervisor of music in the public schools at Ord and St. Paul Nebraska. She divides her time between the two towns. The Hildebrand saloon which was damaged by fire last Saturday night was insured in the Hanover Insurance Company, in Warren and Irwin’s agency. The adjuster was here yesterday and settled the damage for $377, which looks like 8 very fair settlement. Charles J. Barley, of Delphi and the head man of the Delphi Lumber Company and so well known here from his former numerous business trips, was married last Saturday, to Miss Anna Ricketts, also of Delphi, and well known as a former missionary to Siam. Judge Sylvester Healy continues to suffer greatly from his sickness, and the exact nature of which seems very difficult to determine. Last night he was specially bad and to-day a Lafayette specialist has been sent for to consider the case. The semi-annual convention of the Ministerial Association of the Christian church, for their 2nd Indiana District, held its first sessions at the Rensselaer Christian church this afternoon. The district is composed of the counties of Lake, Porter, LaPorte, Starke, * I

Pulaski, Jasper, Newton and White. The convention will continue until Thursday. Rev. J. L. Brandt, D. D., bf Valparaiso, is president of ithe association. He will preach at the church to-night, and the public is invited to attend.

THURSDAY. Mrs. C. G. Weathers has gone to Monticello for a couple of weeks visit with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Eli Sigler of Hebron, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Goff. Mrs. John Chamberlain, of 't. ’ Kentland, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. S. E. Yeoman. J. R. Wilcox left today, for an absence of some length, including the state fair and a visit to his daughter, at Danville. There was another quite sharp touch of frost last night but neither that nor the one last week has wilted the cornstalks. Miss Lenna Grant has gone to Chestnut, 111., to visit relatives, and will also visit at Springfield, that state, before her return. Trustee Babcock, of Marion Tp. gives notice that he will pay township poor orders, for the last quarter, if presented next Saturday. Mrs. Wm Arnott, from east of town, took t|ie train here for Indianapolis yesterday afternoon, to see the state fair and visit relatives. Rev. H. S, Kester, pastor of of Barkley circuit, will begin his church work next Sunday, and preach at Barkley church that day morning and evening. Delphi Herald: —Harry Bott has severed his connection with the Journal and has moved to Bloomington where he has accepted a similar position on a morning paper. The Jasper County Telephone Company has just finished its new lines to northern towns. The places reached and the rates for messages are Kniman 15c, Wheatfield 20c DeMotte 20c, Rose Lawn 20c Fair Oaks 15r, and Surrey 10. Rev. Billhorn of Chicago, who preached at the F. W. Baptist church Sunday, has, in connection with Rev, F. M. Watkins been holding meetings at Vaughn church this week, and which closed last night. Mr. Billhorn will return and resume the meetings at some future time. Mrs. Susie Moss is up from Frankfort to visit her mother Mrs. Isabelle Parker and help the latter move, as she will break up housekeeping and live with Mr. and Mrs. Rowles. Her son Jimmie is the only oneof her family left with her, and he intends going to Frankfort to live with Mrs. Moss. John Kressler arrived home Tuesday from his visit to the G. A. R. encampment, at Philadelphia, after two week’s absence. He met 40 members oi his old regiment, the 127th Penn., at Philadelphia. They presented him with an interesting souvenir, in a cane, made from a stick cut on the battle field of Seven Pines, and the head from a piece of wood from Libby prison, and fastened in by a screw from Lincoln’s cabin.. Our former townspeople, Dr. Willard Stockwell and son, now of Manchester, Tenn., continue to prosper and branch out in their sunny southern home. Their latest enterprise was the purchase of a large flouring mill at Manchester, and which they are now in" control of. Another former Jasperite, in their employ, is J. G. Dodd, who has charge of the engines and boilers of the mill. Mr. Dodd was for many, years commodore and chief navigating officer of Mr. Gifford’s fleet of steam dredge boats, in this county. The Indiana Oil and Asphaltum Company of Lafayette have preparations about completed for drilling their first well. It is just over the line in White county a few miles southeast of McOoysburg. This company has 14,00 Q acres leased in White county and in Hanging Grove and Milroy Tp., in this county. The Inter State

Company has large tracts leased north of the Lafayette company’s leases, and now Mr. Longabangh, representing the Ohio firm is leasing large tracts west of the other two companie’s leases. Dr. Wetherell, of Lafayette, came up last evening to consult with Dr. Berkley in regard to Sylvester Healy’s sickness. He finds that Mr. Healy has an acute attack of an old chronic liver trouble, and which may result from gall stones or from a formation of pus, but which cannot be exactly determined for a few days. Dr. Wetherell considers Mr. Healy very critically sick, but hopes the treatment combined with the patient’s strong constitution will carry him through, Dr. Wetherell is a young man, a recent graduate of medicine in both Berlin and Vienna, and a specialist as a diagnostician. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Chapman, are visiting at Indianapolis.