Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1900 — THURSDAY. [ARTICLE]

THURSDAY.

Arthur Catt is on the sick list. Mrs. J* Y. Wallick is on the sick list. Fred Yeider’s little boy, aged five years has the lung fever.

Mrs. Levi Clouse, 3£ miles south of town is very sick. Geo. Hosmer went to Winamac today, and will remain a few days. The Fiction Club will meet this, Thursday, evening with Miss Stella Parkison. - , '• Rev. D. T. Halstead returned last evening from Moriah, 111,, where he has been holding meetings. T. F. Clark, superintendent of the County Asylum, is able to be around again after his bad attack of t msilitis. Miss Alary Meyers is in Chicago this week buying a complete stock of millinery and getting ail the latest ideas. M iss Maggie Kenton, after two weeks visit with her parents, left last evening for Murphysboro 111., to assist Rev. J. L. Meads in revival services. Mrs. J. P. Hammond is now, improving from her .sickness and it is thought sho will be able to • move to Wheatfield, the first of I next week. ! Mrs. W. B. Austin aud daughter Virginia, and sister, Miss Eugenia Hammond, of Lafayette, went to Chicago this morning to spend a few days. Ira Washburn came home last evening, from Rush Medical College to spend the spring vacation with his parents Dr. and Mrs. Washburn. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Babcock went to Freuch Lick Springs, last evening, for the benefit of Mr. Babcock’s health. They will be there about two weeks. Mrs. G. H. Brown, of Knox who has been visiting for a few days with her mother-in-law Mrs. Elizabeth Brown who is seriously sick, returned home last evening. The Masker hitch and feed barn ; trouble has been settled without j further hostilities or resorts to j | law, and Mr. Masker will resume j j peacable possession on April Ist. The end of the public sale sea- I ! son has not been reached yet. ! | R. B. Porter and his tenant Calvin j : T. Farits, have arranged one to take j i place Friday, March 30 th, on Mr. | ! Porter's farm, southeast of town, i M. M. Tyler, now of Star City., I formerly of DeMotte, who was j : here yesterday and part of today, i ' rep- rt*rth ! his three children an* just recovering from severe cases ; of scarlet fever; and one of them! has been very bad, and is not yet I | proving. C. W. Coen is in, Chicago to- ; ! day. 1 W. H. Adams, of Lafayette, ! made a short call in our city today. R. S. Dwiggins weut to Marion j j today for a few weeks visit with j s his sisters. ! J Senior Hopkins went to Chicago, today, for a weeks visit with his brother, Louis Hopkins. Miss Grace Caldwell, of Mt. Ayr, took the train here today, for Chicago to purchase millinery goods.

J. M. Gwin returned to McCoysburg today after a two weeks’ visit with his son, J. C. Gwin and family. Mrs. M. Farrell returned to Chicago, this morning, she has been visiting her mother Mrs. Dr. Merry, of Mt Ayr ~ ' Mrs. A. B. Tincber, of, Hartford City, came last evening and is the guest of her sister, Mrs. W. H. Sanders. Mrs. Benjamin Harris went to Mt. Ayr this morning, having received word that her mother was very dangerously sick. The weather is the most springlike today, we have yet had; end the weather bureau says Fridsy will be still warmer. “So mote it be.” Richard Sykes, of Manchester, England, and Sykeston, North Dak., attended G. W. Burk's sale, yesterday, and bought considerable stock for his North Dakota ranches. Today is the day for the Tenth district Republican convention to re-assemble at Lafayette, t» select delegates and alternates to the national Republican convention, and to nominate a candidate for presidential elector. T. J. McCoy, C. W. Hanley, W. B Austin, F. B. Meyer and E. D. Rhoades are attending. The latter was accompanied to Lafayette by Mrs. Rhoades, who will visit her aunt, Mrs. Lockwood. C. B. Steward is at Kentland, today, as a witness in a law suit, J. F, Warren, who has been sick all the week, with a recurrence of a chronic stomach trouble, was worse last night, but is reported as some better again, today. Joseph Nagel was in last evening and took a look at George Tolson’s celebrated check, at Ellis and Murray’s. It was the first time Mr. Nagel had seen it. He says Tolson forged his name to an order once before. Tolson is not working for Nagel, as hr claimed, but for some one else in the neighborhood. Alfred E. Barr, a Chicago at torney, and the owner of the former D. D -kker farm, in Keener tp, was in town yesterday, and attended the Burk sale, buying considerable live stock, for his farm Tie \vn accompanied by \V. C. Stanwood, an alderman Horn the 13th ward, in Chicago, and an inspector of stock at the Col. B. J. Gifford was in town last night and returned home to Kankakee, ill , this morning. Ho has been spending a few day* along the line of bis railroad, arranging for the resumption rs work on its eitension southward, from Lewiston to Pleastanf Grove, and oa still further southward to the old Elsworth farm, at which point, if any, the road could be deflected to Rensselaer, if tbo proper encouragement was extended.