Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1899 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

- TUESDAY. / • Joe Lakey arrived home today from several months stay in lowa. Mrs. Ralph Spriggs, of near Indianapolis, is visiting relatives here. Miss Della Harris who has been visiting in Chicago, returned home yesterday Bernard Maloy, the newly married man, is making a brief business visit in Rensselaer, to-day. Mrs. O. C. Halstead, of Newton tp., is at Indiana Mineral Springs, taking treatment for rheumatism and liver troubles. J. C. Gwin and daughter Ellen, went to Chicago this morning to meet Mrs. Gwin who has been visiting her son Lacy at Marshfield, Wis. Miss Daisy Willis arrived home last evening from a week’s stay in Indianapolis, attending the Baptist state convention and visiting friends. 15 The wedding of Dr. P. J. Pothuisje and Miss Renette Taber will take place at Remington, this evening, and will probably be the greatest social event in Jasper county thisr year. A number of Rensselaer people are invited. Henry Babb of Rensselaer, who spent last week with his daughter, Mrs. Rufus A. Lockwood, returned home yesterday afternoon. The gentleman is 87 years old, and is as spry as a man of 50. He form* erly resided here, going to Rensselaer in 1852. —Lafayette Call. Homer Babcock, on account of his Saturday night’s outbreak, was arrested last evening, on warrants issued by Squire Burnham. He took change of venue to Squire Churchill and the case is set for trial next Monday morning at 10 o,clock.

Presiding Elder James Beck and wife, of Valparaiso, arrived this morning and will remain for quarterly meeting Wednesday and the district convention of the Women’s Foreign Missionary, Society Thursday. Rev. and Mrs. H. M. Middleton will leave on the 11 o’clock train tonight, on their six weeks vacation trip. They will spend about a week in and around Chattanooga, Tenn., about two weeks in Kewanee and Dublin, in Laurens County, Ga., where several Rensselaer parties are investing their savings in fruit farms. On their return northward they will come back through Ohio, and visit old home places for about three weeks. The first heat of the international yacht race came off at New York yesterday, and the American boat, the Columbia, won by a long lead. The Shamrock, the British boat, is far the the best yacht they ever sent over, but it looks very much now as though it was no match for the Columbia, and that the big scare she has given us, had no good grounds to rest on. Still it is admitted that she may do much better in different conditions . of weather, and may give our boat a hard run for it yet. The race is over as soon as either boat has won three heats, and one will be sailed every day that the weather permits, until the contest is decided. WEDNESDAY. Gus Lowe, of Monticello, is in town today. Born, Tuesday, Oct. 17th, to Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Brasket, at Aix, a daughter. Black, one of Crown Point’s great foot ball team was pretty badly hurt in a game last Friday. F. M. Ross, of Kentland, representing the Electric Co. of Chicago, is visiting J, W. Williams, today. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Alter are attending » state convention of the Indiana Institute at Purdue Universitytoday. f Joe Reynolds, of Conkey’s big printing establishment at Hammond, is taking a lay-off and spending it here. * .

** 4 Miss Grace Thompson, who has been visitingher parents, returned to her school at Evanston, WK morning. Wayne Parker, one of the ’99 class of our high school graduates, is now a student of Indianapolis University (formerly Butler) at Irvington. The only child of Mr. and Mrs. Scott Richardson, of Aix, an infant four or five months old, was found dead in bed this morning. The child was apparently in good health the night before, and the cause of its death is not known. J. H. Chapman has followed the lead of his neighbors, Hollingsworth & Hopkins, and migrated eastward. He has moved hiß office fronK up-stairs in Leopold’s corner building into the rooms in Makeever’s block formerly occupied by R. S. Dwiggins. Wm. Miksell, a 13 year old boy, fell off a pier of the Pan Handle bridge, at Monticello, and was killed. The accident is supposed to have occurred about 10 a. m. Monday but the body was not discovered until 10 a. m. Tuesday, but no one saw the accident. He was an orphan and made his home with the Orr family. Mrs. May Jordan of Hammond, who was the guest of Mrs. Hale Warner, returned home this morn* ing.

Mrs. Sarah Wright of Mazon, 111., and Mrs. Nancy Wright of Enid, Oklahoma, who have been visiting relatives here returned home this morning, Mrs. Judge Ibach and Miss Metta Shattuck, of Hammond, are visiting Mrs. J. F. Warren and attending the district convention of the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society. Mrs. Hettie Reynolds has moved from Mrs. Hammond’s house, corner Washington and Division streets, into Marsh Warren’s house next to her father Joseph Callow’s residence, on Weston street. Joe Lakey made but a short visit this trip, and left for Chicago this afternoon. He is still in the employ of the Chicago Bridge & Iron Works, and expects to be sent at once to help install another waterworks plant, and either in Kansas or Cincinnati. He has just finished helping put in a complete system in the north central part of lowa. The Indianapolis Sentinel says that the skeleton of that extinct animal, recently found north of Kentland, doubtless belonged to the megatherium family. Next thing we hear some old settler along the river will be claiming that he knew the family before they moved to Kansas and will be ready to swear that old Bill Megatherium was the most consummate and finished liar that ever roamed “these here parts.”—Morocco Courier.

The District Convention of the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of the M. E. church, will hold its opening session at the Trinity M. E. church, Thursday, at 9:30 a. m. Session will also be held in the afternoon and evening. Mrs. A. C. McKinzie, of Thorntown, the conference secretary, Miss Frank Barker, of Detroit, Mrs. Samuel Beck, of Valparaiso and other noted workers in the society will be present. Miss Baker will deliver an address at the evening session. Some thirty people from near Remington attended the services at the Church of God here last Sunday, and after the services the rite of baptism by immersion, was administered to twelve of them, at the hands of Rev. F. L. Austin. Several others from the same neighborhood were baptized the Sunday previous, by Mr. Austin. These were all the result of a series of meetings held at a school house near Remington, by Mr. Austin, some time ago. As an evangelist Mr. Austin is very successful and his decision to engage in that work exclusively is one very properly made. SIXM) buys a fine leather bound teachers Bible at A. F. Longs. rI 4 ‘" "1 " ' I

Inc XVcUbbeiaer QIgU OCUWI foot ball team will play with StJoseph’s college best team, next Saturday at 3 p. m., on the college campus. No admission is ever charged for games at the college. The high school team is an extra good one, and has been making great improvements lately under the able coaching of Frank Maloy, formerly of Notre Dame foot ball team. The College team, is of oourse, a good one and a rattling good game can be looked for. Rev. F. L. Austin has resigned the pastorate of the Rensselaer Church of God, which he has held so satisfactorily for several years past, and accepted the work of state evangelist for Indiana and Illinois, and will leave for the latter state next Friday, for a six weeks absence. Rev. A. H. Zilmer, Plyndouth, former state evangelistwill probably succeed MrAustin as pastor of the church, a movement for that purpose being now undei way, with good prospect of success.

THURSDAY. M. L. Spitler’s condition has improved very materially during the last two or three days. Preaching at the Free Baptist church by the Pastor next Sunday morning and evening. Young peoples meeting at 6:30 p. xjx. Joshua Norman, north of town, has been very sick wiih blood poisoning but is now getting better. Rev. F. L. Austin, who, as before mentioned, has resigndd~tfie pastorate of the Church of God to enter the general evangelistic work, will continue to make his residence in Rensselaer. A black and white spotted pig, weighing about 75 lbs., has strayed from its pen at Mrs. Alfred Thompson’s place. A suitable refer its recovery. Uncle Mac’s bigcattle sale at Frankfort takes place to-day, and he is down there looking after it. Abe Hardy is also attending and John Martindale. Sheriff Lawrence, of Lake County, came down from Crown Point yesterday afternoon and took away the horse that was left in the Adamson pasture, as heretofore related. She proved to be one stolen from a Lake county party, a few days ago. Mrs. Chipman’s mare, which this Lake county animal was left in place of, has not been heard from. Next Friday night’s band concert will be the star number of the season. The Mount Ayr band, one of the best in this section of the state, will be over, under the lead of Prof. Baughman, and with our own Citizens Band will give a joint concert.

Rev. A H. Chase’s leeture at the Free Baptist church was postponed one week on account of the weather and will be given next Monday evening, Oct. 23rd. He will relate bis experiences as a missionary for 13 years in the wildest parts of Africa. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Chenowith two fanatics of the Dowieite, persuasion, who allowed their child to die some time ago for lack of medical attendance, have been tried for man-slaughter at Frank fort. But Judge Kent, at the close of the state’s evidence, directed the jury to find the defendants not guilty. He holds that there is no law in Indiana requiring a parent to provide medical attention for his children. Geo. R. Wendling’s lecture, the first of the Fiction Club’s winter’s lecture course, was given at the opera house last evening, to a large audience. The subject was “The Man from Gallilee.’.’ He is, without question, one of the ablest orators that ever appeared before a Rensselaer audience. The foot-ball game tomorrow between the Bennett Medical College and the home boys promises to be a good one. The home boys are in good condition and will put k? t black and red, which they have so

often carried to victory. The following players will be in the line at the call of play: Z. Wright, Thos. Cain, Leopold, Woodsworth, O’Neil, Whiting, J. Wright, Rhoades, Parcels, Marshall, Brindley, Myers, Wm. Clarke, Humphrey, Postill and Thomas. Manley one of Rensselaer’s old players is expected to be in uniform. Gwin and Yeoman, both high school players, who have shown their worth on their team, may possibly be used in part of the game, they are both very fast Geo. M. Belcher, from that rather remote region, the extreme east line of Kankakee Tp., was in Jtown yesterday and today. Though he lives in the region of the sugar beet excitement, he thinks that for the present he will not raise beets, but instead devote some of his natural garden soil to the wholesale .production of cucumbers. There is a pickle factory at North Judson, ten miles distance, and many people out that way have made plenty of mopey raising cucumbers, and Mr. Belcher thinks there is no reason why he should not do the same where he is. In the meantime he will prepare a large field for raising sugar beets the next year if the proposed factory at North Judson materializes.