Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1901 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

FRIDAY. •J. H. Chapman is in Lafayette on business today. E. G, Warren is in DeMotte on "Business today. C. J. Dean went to Streeter. 111., on business this morning. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Knrrie went to Paoli today to visit revives. Mrs. Barbara Seelman, of FairIniry, 111., is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Emma Auspurger. M iss Lula Green r eturned yesterday afternoon from a visit with her grand-parents, at Thorntown. J. P, Overton left this morning for an extended visit with relatives at Chicago Heights, Freeport and Woosung 111. Miss Clara Goetz, west of town, went to Chicago yesterday afternoon to visit her sister, Mrs. B. Graf. Mrs. Agnes Kelley returned to Rockford, 111., this morning, after a three weeks’ visit with relatives and friends here. Rev. P. H. Faulk will speak at the Mothers’ Meeting, Saturday afternoon. The ministers Hre specially invited. J. F. Warren is in Wabash doing business with A. M. Atkinson today, preparatory to going to Oklahoma next iuesday. Spitler will leave for Cincinnati, 'Sunday, to join the bill posters’ crew of Robinson’s circus, for the season of 1901. Miss Louise McMullen, of Chetsworth, Ill!, is acting as Miss Cordia Jackbon’s assistant trimmer in Mrs, Purcupile’s millinery store.

Frank .Kresler, who has sold his aews stand, the former Kelley stand, to Willie Barkley, went to Chicago Thursday afternoon to look lot a situation. He has heretofore been employed in several of the large retail stores, but this time he hopes for a place Farwell’s big wholesale store. Mrs. Eflie Myers, of DeMotte and Mrs. Belle Garrott and children north of town, took, the train here yesterday afternoon for Delphi where they will visit relatives. Miss Tillie Fendig has accepted a position with Loeb & Foust at Delphi. She has had a good experience as a store clerk, in the Model here. The city council of LaPorte Monday night made a contract with their band to give a series of twenty open air concerts during the summer for the sum of S6OO. “A p. d. q. marriage license was is a line that appears so often in the Valpo papers that it looks like they would save time and money by having it stereotyped. Rev. Mcßride, Misses Bertha Hammond and Millie Sayler and Claude Sayler went to Brookston today to attend the F. W. Baptist Quarterly Meeting. Mrs. Monta Trant, who has been visiting relatives in Chicago and her aunt here, Mrs. Bailie Reece, returned to her home in Hartford City today. % A. Leopold has the frame up for a good, 5 room dwelling, on Front street, opposite his own residence. He is building it for rent. R. Y. Dowler is doing the carpenter work.

The Carpenter Quo Vadis company arrived on the 9:45 train, this morning. They played last night at Monticello. They, had a packed house, and people turned away, y.. The Terre Haute Tribune-im-pertinently remarks the advent and 1 spread of the so culled order of the Buffaloes but goes to show that all that is required r'qr the ordinary man to make an idiot of himself is half a chance. Miss Floy Nowels. student at, the Metropolitan School of Music, S Indiauupolis, returned to her j studies there yesterday afternoon, after a week’s visit wi h her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Nowels. John F. Judy is in the newspaper business as well as everything else and theu some. He has owned the Covington Republican until the last few days, but lias now traded it to T. A. Clifton for the Williamsport Review. Irvin Lewis, of Barkley tp. still continues sick and>confined to his the home of his uncle, J. P. Simons, north of the railroad. His father, J. Q, Lewis, still remains to care for him. He had appendicitis and has been bed-fast six weeks. It seems probable that the news dispatch,: that W. J. Spruce, purchaser of the Kokomo News, had struck oil on his Jasper couuty farm, was a Kokomo fake. At least several persons havejtried in vain tojlocate any land owned by Mr- Spruce in this county. Hammond Tribune: State GeologistjJßlatchley has taken the counties of Porter, Newton and Jasper out of the jurisdiction of Dr. Schutt, of Michigan City, and added it to Dr. T. E. Bell’s territory. The change took effect Monday, April 1, and gives Mr. Bell all of Lake in addition to the three above named counties. Miss Orrie V. Clark has just purchased a beautiful Mahogany Everett piano. The instrument represents one of the finest in the market. It was furnished by the Geo. L. Bruce, Music House, through their representation, T. Alonzo Dem&rcus, Lafayette, Ind, Quite a large delegation of Brook Ladies took in the sights of Jasper’s beautiful capital today; and also did considerable trading at our unequalled stores. In the party wore Mesdaraes Wm. Strole, Lacy Davis, John Westfall,- Henry Wolf; Misses Lizzie and Anna Kaefner.

Lake county has over $20,000 in school money on hand, which can’t be loaned at the rate fixed by law, 6 per cent. The county is paying interest on it to the amount of over $1,200 per year.' Why don’t they advertise and loan it in other counties, as the law now permits? \ At the Logansport Presbytery which closed its annual spring session at Logansport Wednesday evening, Rev. H. G. Rice, of Monticello, and Mr. William McDonald, of Logansport, were appointed commissioners to attend the general assembly of the Presbyterian ohurch to be held in Philadelphia next month. An effort is being made at La Porte to colonize the city pet squirrels, patterning after Kankakee, Ills., where thousands of the little animals run about the city and are unmolested. The ordinance committee of the city council has reported a protective measure which prescribes penalties for the shooting of the squirrels. Big land deals in Jasper county are again becoming frequent, The latest such to come to a head is the sale of Hon. W. E. McCord’s land in Hanging Grove tp., and also partly in Monon tp., White Co. to J. D. Rich, of Brook. There are 730 acres in the tract and the price was $22,000. Mr. McCord lives at Martinsville. W. B. Austin negotiated the deal. The Rev, L. L. Carpenter, of Wabash, who dedicated the Christian church here some years ago and is a well known minister, has dedicated almost 600

Christian churches, and has engagements ahead for the spring and early summer to round out the number. The money raised by him at these dedicatory services is said to aggregate more then $1,000,000. ' , ' ' r 1 The contract for the big Kankakee ditch, generally known as the Place ditch, which was ordered established by Judge Beeman last Friday, will be let Friday April 26, at Knox. Nearly all of this big drainage canal is in Laporte county. It is only the beginning of the work of straightening the Kankakee, but-it is predicted that all of, the Kankakee marsh lands in Indiana will be drained within three years. That tough gang of Gipsies who were egged out of town one day last week had another experience up about Rose Lawn. Mortensoa, who sold the western horses here last Saturday, was on his way dowm here with the horses. They stopped him and crsjhvcling around bird tried to compel him to trade'horses with them. They finally crowded him into a wire fence, hurting one of his horses. He then pulled his revolver and'shot a hole through oue of the scoundrel’s hats. That convinced them that they were after the wrong man and they tumbled into their wagons and struck out. Omer Mailloux, a young boy living near Earl Park, has brought suit-in the Benton Circuit Court against Messrs. Little & Little, who are constructing tbe Richland township gravel roads, claiming SIO,OOO damages. He alleges that dynamite caps were carelessly left in a shed, and that while playing with them, not knowing their dangerous character because of his youth, they were exploded and his hand was permanently crippled.

, SATURDAY. John Kohler of Chicago Heights is here on business today. J. J. Bunt went to St. Joseph, Mich., on bueiuess this morning. A. W. Huff, of Crawfordsville, is visiting his brother, W. A. Huff, for a few weeks. Miss Dora Moore went to Monon last night to see her grandmother who is quite sick. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Mitchell of Jordan township returned today from a week’s stay in Chicago. Mrs. A. M. Churchill went to Monticello this afternoon to visit relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Will Morris came down from Chicago Heights today and will ugain make their home here. Albert Carter went to Chicago today, where he has a good position in a drug store awaiting him. Mrs. Bertha Long, who has been the guest of Mrs. Isaac Glazebrook for the past month, returned to Chicago this morning. Miss Cecelia Hollingsworth returned to school at Kalamazoo, Mich., today. Her mother accompanied her to Chicago.

Mr. and. Mrs. B. Seelnian, of Fairbury, 111.,, have bought the Jones property on Milton street, and will soon make this their permanent residence. Mrs. Minnie Crisler and son, of Mt. Ayr, took the train herA this morning for Monon, where they will visit the former's sister, Mrs. Etta Robinson. Mrs. E. H. Wood of McCoysburg who was called here by the dangerous sickness of her grandson, Cecil Randle, returned home today. Communion services will l>© held at Trinity M E. church, Sunday morning- In the evening Dr Beck, the presiding elder will preach. Regular quarterly meeting will be held Monday morning. E7F. Short lias sold his newly built hitch barn to King, who took possession today. Mr. Short will look for a location for a similar business in. some other town. .Mrs. E. FI. Kr. of W .rsa-v. who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. J, F. Major, went to Engie.wood this morning to visit relatives. A Mrs. George Hoover, of this place, and neiee, Miss Ara Griswold, of Hammond, arrived here yesterday afternoon from a three month’s stay in Pensacola, Florida. George -W. Dyer, agent for the Monon at Bainbridge, has been witli that company since the road was laid out. He helped build the road which wae completed in 1856 and in 1868 he went to Bainbridge as agent. During that period the road has had sixteen different general managers. He has two sons that are telegraphers and a son who is general yardmaster of the Lake Erie & Western at Tipton. Under the pension law passed March 3,190 J, a widow who was the wife of a soldier during the rebellion and as a widow drew a pension at any time, and on account os her remarriage her name was dropped from the pension rolls, and her second husband has died or she has been divorced upon her own application and with no fault of her own,* may have "her name restored to the roll and receive a pension of twelve dollars a month. This is provided that she does not have a net income of $260 and depends upon her labor-, for supp ortThe trustees of Iroquois lodge Odd Fellows have sold the old frame building on their recently purchased lot to Isaac Kight, of Fair Oaks for $125. It is to be removed within 30 days. We understand Mr. Kight will move it to lots he owns near the depot. The former joint tenants of the building, Express Agent Reeve and Squire Troxell, have not been separated by their removal as they now jointly ocoupy the room in Dr. Horton’s building lately vacated by Vick's news and fruit store. a

MONDAY. ■ Eugene Donnelley went to Chicago on business this morning. Attorney Cummings, of Kentland, is attending court here today. Mrs. Sam Yeoman is suffering from a badly sprained ankle. Mrs. A. Lanndry, of Mommence, 111., is visiting relatives here. J. W. Williams spent Sunday with his daughter, Mrs. C. H, Porter, at Delphi. Romeo Underwood, of near Greencastle, was the guest of friends here yesterday. Joe Reynolds, of Delphi, spent Sunday with his mother, Mrs. Hettie Reynolds. Miss Kate Wood, of Monon who visited her sister, F. E. Randle yesterday went to Chicago this morning. Miss Dora Cragan returned to her home in Logansport, this morning, after a week’s visit with her cousin, Mrs. W. F. Osborn. Miss Belle Chamberlain, of Kentland, who has been here in the interest of the tax ferrett cases, : left yesterday for Hammond and i Crown Point where she will be engaged in the same work.

Mrs. J. E. Winters and children returned to. Hammond Saturday after an extended visit with rela-t-ves here. Fame, Haas returned Saturday from a three months' <-tnv with her sister, Mrs. B. G. Oglesby at M7daryville. .. - y. Capt. M. F. Chiicote returned Saturday from a stay of three weeks’ duration at Mt. Ayr, where lie has been laid up with his great toe affliction. Mr. and Mrs. Wm Weston and daughters Lizzie and Mrs. Grace L’umi.hrey, of Brook, spent Sattirday and Sunday.with Rensselaer friends. W. H. Kn’pple, KM Lexington Ell- returned home' this morning after a short stay looking after his 240 acre farm in Jordan. Gevrge Spitler., the gr. at bill sticker, left f r Cincinnati Sati rday, being u day sooner thru expected. The circus could not do j bueiuess without him and sent him | a come-at-ouce telegram. — „ / - •- • ■ I George' Wood has sufficiently recovered from iiis lameness result- 1 irig fro:-, his badly broken leg that he lias resumed his old job of caring for Dr. Hartsell’s horses. He succeeds Frank King, who has bought the Short hitch barn. James Drake has returned from ; Chicago, having been called here Ijy'the dangerous sickness of his brother John, who is very iow with pneumonia at the home of his mother Mrs. Mary Drake south of the river. The three-year-old daughter of Tom Turner fell from the front door step at their home yesterday and suffered the fracture of her left collar bone. Dr. English gave the necessary medical attention. Rev. I. N. Grisso, of Winamac, will arrive this evening and will assist Rev. A. L. Ward in a series of revival meetings at the Christian church to begin tonight. Mr. Grisso is an exceedingly able speaker and minister. The Souther-Price company arrived this a. m. and jyill present “Ingomar” tonight with a change of play nightly. Mr. and Mrs Southers will be remembered very kindly by their many friends here when they summered here, eight ago. The Valparaiso Vidette h&s the following in regard tq a young man who was raised in Keener tp. this county: Ernest Shortridge was ed mitted to the bar in the Lake sup erior court yesterday afternoon. Mr. Shortridge lias for the past four years been court reporter, during which time he studied law. He will undoubtedly make a success in the practice, as he is possessed of all the necessary qualifications to make a lawyer. _____

S»iifrniHv niglit m) me twenty of the Ladies of tbe Women’* Relief .Corps surprised Mrs. Wm. Warren at her home arid spent a very pleasant evening. The occasion was Mr. and Mrs Warren’s intention to mhve Tuesday, out to the Charles Brontrager farm, some miles south of town. The Southers-Price Company arrived here on the 9:55 train' this moaning from Monticello. where they spent Sunday. Mr. Soothers and family are well remembered by many people here, they having made week stand-' some years ; ago From ai 1 aecou hta they put jup a good sho w. - There is good authorify for -Stating, that a large sn n of mon y will be expended on the Monon the present year, and when completed there will be iio be ter r. ad crossing|lndianapolisdivinion. Fifty miles of new rails weighing eighty live pounds to the yard willbe laid This division, from Indianapolis ,t-> Monon, is laid larg ty with that weight of rails. In many places tresths will be retnev d and stone . arches substituted, n- d a great deal will be done in the way of building new stations and reballasting the road bed.