Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1900 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

TUESDAY. S. W. Thayer of Chicago is in our city today, on business. W. A. making a business trip to Chicago, tod a) I Miss Juno Kannal enUrtiuLccl 45 <Jf her girl friends at dominoes 1 Monday Evening. 't Ethel Ferguson was able t.i eat at the table, today, for tlie first j time since her long sickness Cope Hanley, the six year ofd sou of Mr. and Mrs. C. W . Hanley j is quite sick with sore tliruat. Charles Elder of near Pafr v has gone to Idaville, to spend Christ*- j mas with his grandfather J. B. Elder. Mrs. Irene McC-onahay returned home this morning from two weeks visit with nlativesat Idaville.

H; rry Smythe of Clm ag >. who has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Maik Reed, south west of town, returned home today. John W. Miller of Columbia Height-, 111. who has been purchasing returmd In me ■ last eyptfttig; Mrs. Letitia Benjamin accotrpanied her son Merle to Attic.,' today, where he will take three \ weeks’ treatment at the Indiana Mineral Springs for rheumatism, Mrs. Nora Pierson, after a weeks’ visit with relatives here, returned home to Fowler, todayHer brother, Charlie Cordray accompanied her for a few weeks’ visit.

Dr. W. W. Hartsell accompanI ied ,by Air. and Mrs. Charles ! Reed, eight miles north of town jto Chicago this morning where ! Mrs. Reed will take treatment at 1 the Hahnemann Hospital. It is reported that a well known • young man lias found it conven- | ient to have business out of town. : And that officers from Hammond | had also been here looking for the I defendant in certain paternity pro!ceedings. Mrs. Juba Healey of Brookston, |is making a 6hort visit in Rensselaer today. She reports that ; her daughter, Miss Maude, has | sold her interests in the Chalmers Ledger to her brother and partner George H. Healey, and that she and her daughter contemplate an early return to their Rensselaer residence. . A marriage license was issued Nov. 24th to Mr. Win, J. Reed, of Jordan tp., late democratic candidate for county treasurer and a well known teacher, and Miss Ella Longwell, long well known as a teacher in Carpenter. Their marriage is understood to haye taken place about the time the license was issued, but was not made ! public until a few days ago. Mr. James Lefler and Miss 1 Nellie Bussell were married Thursday evening, Deo. Oth, at the home of the bride’s grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Win. Bussel, on Grace street. Rev. J. L. Brady performed the ceremony. It was a very quiet affair, but not j more quiet than it has been kept since until today. They will make their borne at Mr. Bussel’s for the present. We have the most complete line of millinery ever shown in this town. ""Call and see us before buy fag. * Meter Sister.