Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1899 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

FRIDAY. Jasper Kenton is in Lafayette today on business. Miss Nellid Soott is spending a few days atMcCoysburg Mrs. W. H. Miller has gone to Lafayette to visit her brother. Mrs. Lora Flanders of Mount Ayr, is the guest of Miss Maude Irwin. Mr. and Mrs. Ducharme, of St. Anne are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Calvert. E. M. Paroels took Thanksgiving dinner with his mother at Monticello. Curtis Randle has gone to Seafield to visit his sister Mrs. Bert Josserand. Miss Mabel F. Doty, the delsarte teacher, of Chicago is visiting Aunt Jane Shaw. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Sayers of DeMotte are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Hanley. Mrs. Gertrude Robinson and son Harvey are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Cole at Lafayette. Miss Mae Dart has gone to Sheldon, 111., for a week’s visit with her brother, Frank Dart. Mrs. K. Vent who has been visiting her niece Mrs. Mary returned to Monon today,

Mrs. C. Watson and children left today for Attica where they will make their home hereafter. Misses Ada Sayler and Ida Ham are attending the Christian Endeavor convention at Richmond Ind. Mrs. Julia Healy after a pleasant visit of two weeks with friends and relatives, returned to Brookston today. Theordore George is borne for a Thanksgiving visit* He is now in the employ of J. V. Farwell & Co., Chicago. Oliver Stoner of Morocco was over to visit his brother D. AStoner and witness the football game yesterday. Mrs. Willis West, of Lincoln 111. who was>here attending the funeral of her father James C. Norris returned home today. Mrs. Daniel Sterns of Danville 111., returned home today, having been here to visit her sister, MrsWinterfelt,.who was sick.

Harry Gardner is visiting Mends at Lafayette Mr. and Mbs. D. B. Nowels ar-. rived home today from a visit with their son Auburn, at St. John’s Military Academy at Manlius N. Y* Miss Etta Gargen, after a short visit ’with Miss Mabel Cooper supervisor of drawing in our schools, went to Lafayette yesterday. - Job Harrison today, from over a years stay, near Rolls, North Dak. He has a claim there and expects to go back in the spring. Misses Floss Wright and Dolly Shock, delegates, are attending the Christian Endeavor convention at Richmond, Ind. It will last over Sunday. Hanley & Hunt are moving today from their ground floor rooms on Van Rensselaer street south of McCoy’s bank to the corner room over Ellis & Murray’s store. The room formerly occupied by Hollingsworth & Hopkins. A good many of the players in Thursday’s two football games here Thursday received pretty hard thumps and kicks, but no bones were broken and no fatal injuries sustained, all reports to that.effect being premature and erronious. Mr. and Mrs. John Chamberlain came over from Kentland to spend a few days with their relatives, Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Yeoman, and returned home today. Mr. Chamberlain recently sold his residence property in Kentland, but has bought lots and is building again There was an extra large attendance and a program of more than ordinary merit, at the temperance meeting last night. The expeoted presence of a considerable number from Mt. Ayr, was not realized however. Of those from that town advertised to take part in the program only the Hammond children, and Virgie Clow and Grace Yeoman were present. The Heavenly Twins show failed to come, last night. They were advertised for Valparaiso also, last night, and presumably showed there As an explanation for being advertised in two places for the same night, they sent word that there are two companies giving the same performances, an eastern and a western, and that the eastern company was billed for Valparaiso and the western for Rensselaer. The more probable explanation however is that they made a mistake in billing two towns, and went to the one they could reach the easiest.

SATURDAY. Mrs. James Brown, of Sharon is quite sick. John Carr is spending a few days at Delphi. Miss Ona Tyner, of Cedar Lake, returned home yesterday. Wm. Smotzer, guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Brown returned to Lafayette today. Mrs. Wm. Grey and children, of Monon, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Grey. L. M. Devualt, who has been visiting Mrs. Cora Hopkins returned to Monon today. Mrs. Mollie Gundy, of Fair Oaks, was the guest of Mrs. Joseph Eight yesterday. Mrs. Lizzie Hitcdcock is recovering from a severe and danger|i|gjf attack of sickness. W. J. Payne came over from Remington yesterday, and took the train here for New York. Mrs. Wm Zigler and daughter Zulu, of Lafayette, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. James Gardner. Mrs. A. S. Davis and Miss Emma Pruit.of Chicago are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Foltz. Miss Margie Long who has been visiting friends and relatives here for a few days returned home today. * John Burns and family returned to Delphi yesterday after a short visit with Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Nowels. Mrs. Hattie Villen returned to Chicago yesterday.

visit with her mother, Mrs. Wm. Blankenbaker. Mr. and Mrs. Lois Grantham, after a short visit with Mr. and Mrs. J. H. S. Ellis, returned home to Delphi yesterday. Mrs. Frank Carleton, of Chicago, who has been visiting a few days with Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Beam, returned home yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Clark, of Camden returned to their home today after a pleasant visit with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Clifton. Mrs. Wesley, son and Mr. John Wesley,'of Fort; Wayne, who have been visiting the former’s son at St. Joseph College returned home yesterday afternoon. Miss Mary Haohtigall went today to be present at the wedding of Miss Sarah Bnrns and Geo. Collins which will take place tomorrow at 3 p. m. Elder W. R. Nowels went up into the Gifford region, on Thanksgiving day and preformed the marriage ceremony for Mr. Arthur W. Meckling and Miss Minnie M. Funk-

A student at St. Joseph’s College got his hand terribly burned by a powder explosion, Thursday night. The powder was to be used at a dramatic representation, and the student firedit accidentally. “The boys speak highly of the courteous manner in which they were treated by the Rensselaer people,” is the dosing remark of the Lafayette Calls account of the football game here Thursday. Crown Point papers and the Brookston Gazette please copy. That big husking match that Charley West, of the Fowler Review was trying to pull off didn’t take place. Bro. West intimates that the husky huskers are husky only in their wind-pipes, and that when it comes to the scratoh they were not there. He says the corn will all be cribbed in ten days more and then the wonderful windwork huskers will begin to talk again.

There are fifty-nine routes for rural free mail delivery in Indiana. These routes have a total length of 1,475 miles, or twenty-six miles each and the carriers who make trips six days out of every over them are serving 50,150 country people, or an averag eof 850 to each route. *

North Judson News, —Warren J. White of Dunnville and Miss Elsie May Brown of San Pierre were married yesterday at Knox. The bride and groom are of the very best young people of their respective vicinities, the former being the estimable daughter of O. D. Brown of San Pierre. They will make their home near Dunnville, and there may they live long and prosper. The Brook Reporter claims to know that three weddings will take place in Brook before the old century pegs out. Must be that Brook is a very slow town in the matrimonial way or else the Reporter editor lacks the rubbernecking quality in a painful degree if he can’t spy out the premonitory symptoms of more than three weddings for the next thirteen months.*' It is just possible however, that Bro. Stonehill is figuring on winding up the century within the next thirty days. If so he will be up against a pretty hard proposition. The people in general have their eyes “sot” on another whole year yet, besides a few weeks of bad weather, in the 19th. century, and it will jbe difficult to argue them out of it. Our former well known townsman, Capt Frank W. Babcock, now of Chicago, is in a very discouraging condition of health. It was very poor during his visits here a few months ago and has evidently grown worse ever since. He is not able to leave his house at all, and scarcely to be up. All of his physioians have announced their inability to help him any, and as a last resort, it was intended to try the treatment of Battle Creek sanitarium He was too weak to make the trip there, and a nurse from the institution was to

— be sent for to treat him at home. He has a chronic liver taonble. The dropsical tendencies usual in snoh cases, have been manifesting themselves in his case of late. MONDAY. J. J. Hunt went to South Bend on a business trip today. Unde Henry Bruce is confined to the house on acoount of sickness. Miss Flossie Starr, who has been sick for several days is some better. A very pleasant party was' given at the home of Miss Lessie Bates Saturday evening. Miss Nancy Hufford returned to Wheatfield today, after a few days visit with friends.

Miss Gail Wasson, after several days visit with her parents, returned to the Northwestern University today. Fred Chapman, of Bridgeman, Mich., guest of his brother James H. Chapman, for several days, returned home today. M. L. Spitler Jr., returned to Bloomington today to resume his studies in the Law Department of the State University. L. 8. Renicker left this morning for a four or five days’ business trip to Columbia City, LaPorte and Chicago. There was a pleasant little dance in Warner’s hall, Friday night. About 25 couples were present The Citizens band furnished the music.

The ladies of the M. E. church will hold a bazaar, at Liberal corner, opposite Rensselaer Bank, Wednesday Dec. 6th. Dinner and supper will be served. Rev. A. H. Zilmer, the new pastor of the Church of God, has his family here now, and resides in Mrs. W. T. Perkins’ tenant house, near the north end of Van Rensselaer street. At the next meeting of the Ladies of the G. A. R., Thursday evening, Dec. Bth., the officers for the coming year will be elected. A full attendance is desired. By order of the President.

The Macadam Company have quite work for the winter on its big road and stone street contract, in and around Lowell, and T. J. Sayler who has been superintending the work, has come back home. In our report of the big Thanksgiving football game, as it appeared Friday, the names of the Rensselaer players making the touchdowns were not quite all correctly given. Those making the touchdowns were Paroells, Meyers and Wright, in the order here given. Last Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, was the thirty-fifth, wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. T. F, Clark. And was duly celebrated by the presence of the relatives of St. Anne, HI., and Oxford and Benton Co. And at about nine o’clock in the evening 54 of the Relief Corps, and others arrived in their grotesque masked costumes, and spent a very pleasant evening playing games and conversing etc. Refreshments were served. They received some Very handsome presents. f Services at the Church of God tonight at 7 o’clock. Mr. Collins, the Seventh Day Adventist evangelist conducting these service has secured the Primitive Baptist ohurch and will transfer the meetings to that place Tuesday evening. Kentland Democrat: JFrank Davis was over from Morocco yesterday. He reports that bis four children who had the scarlet fever had recovered, but two of them have relapsed into the same fever and are again very ill. Also that there is a new case of the fever— Oscar Lyman’s daughter and that she is very sick. Fred Parcells, the “little but oh gosh!” football player, got one of the hardest of the many hard bumps that were dealt out with such impartial frequency at last Thursday’s big football game, and proves to have been worse hurt than was supposed. Saturday vening, while working in' his

father’s barber shop and after suffering greatly all day, he fainted. He was taken home and Dr. English was sent for. He found two ribs more or less fractured and pressing inward upon the lungs. He applied the usual methods and replaced the ribs, in their right position, and the young man in now doing well. The Chicago Record published a long article of another Lake county swindle in lots, near Miller Station, where John P. Hopkins, ex-mayor of Chicago, laid out another suburb to Chicago and has been selling thousands of dollars worth of worthless lots and blocks to eastern people. The tswn looked well on paper, showing that it was on the lake shore, with churches, schools, drives etc., and finally the bubble has been pricked and John P. wants to know what they can do about it?

The attention of the local liverymen is respectfully called to the following: A Kansas City judge has just rendered a decision that will interest young fellows, who take their girls out riding. A young man hired a team for this purpose, telling the liveryman the fact, and in the course of the drive the team ran away and demolished the buggy. The owner sued the young man for damages, and the judge gave the verdict to the young man, saying that it was the duty of the liveryman, knowing that the young man was going to take his girl out riding, to give him a team he conld drive with one hand. That judge is worthy of the supreme bench.