Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1901 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

WEDNESDAY. Samuel Fendig is in Chicago today. Attorney Frauk Foltz is today in Hammond. W. C. Babcock and A. R. Hopkins are in Chicago today. Mrs. Peter Zea, of Fair Oaks, was in Rensselaer yesterday. Mrs. Charles Nowels is spending the day with her sister at Parr. Mrs. Rae Mosler returned last evening from a visit in Chicago. R A. Hamilton, the new railroad promoter, i 9 today in Chicago. Roy Blue has completed his school at Wheatfield and returned home. Mrs. William McClintock, of DeMotte, was in Rensselaer yesterday. Miss Mary Rowen today went to Winamac for a few days’ visit with friends. H. M. Grant and wife returned today from a several days’ visit in Chicago. Mrs. McGlinn and Mrs Holle of Kniman, were yesterday in Rensselaer. George F. Myers, the Kniman real estate agent, was in Rensselaer yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth went to Chicago yesterday on the 3:31 train. Mrs Mary Laps and Mrs. William Holme-, of Delphi, are the guests of M. P. Warner and wife. Geo. H. Brown, formerly of Barkley, was elected a town trustee at Knox, at Monday s election. Rev. A. G. Work last evening attended the commencement exercises at Brookston, his former home. l&iss Ethel Rush, who haa been visiting the family of E. M. Banes yesterday returned to her home in Monon.

W. F. Forbis, the wan who owns the large new hotel building in Monticello, was in Rensselaer this morning. August Reichert returned to St. Joseph oollege last evening after a short visit with his parents at St. Rose, Ohio. John W. Burns, A. D. Burns and Mrs. Ed Gay are today in Monticello, attending the funeral of Miss Clara Reynolds. James MfcColly has removed from Wheatfield to Virgie, where he will engage in business as a c<*roenter and contractor. Mrp. Lora Flanders and Miss Grace Caldwell, of Mt. Ayr, stopped off in Rensselaer yesterday on their way home from Chicago. The ladies of the Christian church will hold a Handkerchief Bazar May 30th, in Leopold’s room next to Fendig’s drug store Edwin R. Jones, of Indianapolis, brother of State Superintendent Jones, is spending the day with County Superintendent Hamilton. The regular bi-weekly Mothers’ Meeting will be held next Saturday at the east court room, at 2:30 p. m. Rev. A. G. Work will deliver the principal address. A jbaseball team of young fellows from Mdoon arrived this morning and 18 thie afternoon engaged in a gAtne at the Riverside Athletic .the boys from St,

Alfred, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. Delos Thompson is quite seriously sick, so bad in fact that on the advice of Dr. Berkley, a trained nurse from Chicago has been employed to care for him. It is a great pity that the farmers of Jasper county got discouraged on wheat sowing just when they did. The few fields that were sowed last fall are promised the best yield ever seen in the county.

State Auditor Hart announces that the debt of Indiana will be reduced $300,000 by the first of July. The exact date of the payment of the debt is not yet known. It will be the largest that has been made for some time, although the debt has been reduced steadily in the last few years. W. J. Wright today went to Indianapolis to take a ten days post-graduate course in embalming. He will also attend the Indiana Undertakers’ Association which meets iu that city May 13, 14 and 15.

The old house on the Misses Comers’ lots on South Cullen street, where their big new house is to be erected, is being moved to lots on South Weston street. It belongs toW. W. Watson who will make it into a tenant house.

O. A. Yeoman reports a tie vote for mayor in the city election at Virgie. There are four residents of the city and each one was a candidate for the office. Ora has great hopes of being selected to the office by compromise.

“Little Isaac” Parker, a former bus line owner here but who has been doing the prodigal son of a gun act for the past 18 months, returned to the bosom of his family, this morning. He has been in Minnesota and other northern states.

Mrs. G. W. Goff has been very painfully and seriously sick for some time past, with subacute pleurisy, but is now considerably better. Her improvement is the result of a surgical operation by Dr. Berkley, yesterday. He opened the pleural cavity and removed three pints of fluid from the same.

Alf Donnelly, the great and only successful raiser, packer and seller of onions in Northwest Indiana has put in 25 acres to that crop this year, on his famous black muck land, just north of town. This is 10 acres more than he ever raised in one year, before. He got them planted in fine shape, and they are all now up and growing finely. B. F. Ferguson has had five acres on his farm near Virgie prepared for the growing of sugar beets. The raising of the beets will be experimental and will be supervised by the Shelby Sugar Beet Co. If the result proves profitable Mr. Ferguson intends to devote the entire farm to beet growing in future years.

No company that we have ever heard of has ever come to this city with such favorable comments as “A Wise Woman.” They have the unanimous endorsement of the press, and this you may rest assured will be your only chance to see this superior company, as they make but few stops going from New York to San Francisco. We have no doubt of their success here.

J. H. Salter, traveling representative of the Shelby sugar factory, is in town today arranging to have the seed drills start here next Monday. Their first start will be at F. W. Bedford’s place. Mr Salter reports that the beet aoreage right around Rensselaer will be from 100 to 150 acres. He also states that work on the foundations of the main factory building at Shelby is now in progress. Jefferson township, Newton Co., in which Kentland is situated, took a long step in the march of progress, last Saturday. They voted for the construction of some 30 miles of gravel or stone roads. The vote was about 3 to 1 in favor of the roads, There are to be three roads across the township north and south and two east and

west. Next Siturday Grant Tp., (with Goodland) and Beaver (with Morocco) will also vote on extensive systems of good roads. j THURSDAY. Mrs. Florence Young has removed to Hammond. Born, Tuesday, May 7th to the wife of Leroy Hurley, of Blackford, a daughter. Delos Thompson’s son Alfred is * reported considerably better, today. A sou was born to the wife of Wm. Dilts, on Smoky Row, Sunday. ! T. E. Willey and wife, of Mt. ( Ayr, formerly of Arkansas, are in Rensselaer today. A 12 year old daughter of Wm. Moore, near the railroad, has a bad case of erysipelas.

Robt, Goodrich, the ex-saloon keeper, thinks of braving all Carrie Nation dangers by moving to Kansas.

County clerk Major returned yesterday from a business visit at Lafayette, Mulberry and Frankfort. _____

C. D. Nowels and wife returned yesterday from Geneva, Ind., where they had visited their son, Arthur Nowels and family. Mrs, M. L. Spitler and daughter, Miss Maud, left today for a two weeks’ visit with Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Learning at Goshen. Fred Gilman, of Goodland, was in town today. He took out letters of administration on the estate of the late Joseph Putts. All our neighboring counties seem to have received their quotas of the new state laws, but so far Jasper county lias been overlooked. Mrs. Lucius Strong returned yesterday from Ambia, her daughter Mrs. Dallas Yeoman accompanied her home for a short visit.

Mrs. H. V. Weaver and children returned yesterday to her home at Lowell, after having visited her parents, Mr. ancl Mrs. J. Q. Flynn, for several days The baseball game yesterday between Monon and St. Joseph’s College teams, resulted in a, victory for the College, by a score of 17 to 3-

Negotiations are pending for the sale of the ludiana Macadam & Construction Company’s big stone crushing plant, at Monon, to a Louisville party, but the deal is not yet fully closed. A Mr. Jordan, an experienced hotel keeper of Hammond, has leased the Makeever House and will take charge in a few days. He has been running the Monon House at Hammond for a number of years past. The scaffold from which Joseph Keith, murderer of Nora Keifer will bo executed on Friday, May, 24, i 3 being constructed at Michigan City prison. The death watch has been placed over Keith. His case has been taken to the supreme court, but it is believed he stands no chance of being saved from the gallows. Rensselaer is now a great trading point and people come right through or even from neighboring towns to trade at Rensselaer. This fact was illustrated this forenoon when a party who lives right in Remington bought a huge load of furniture at J. W. Williams’ furniture store.

Monday night, at Rookfield, a little town in Carroll Co , Wilber Miller shot his sweetheart, Bertha Timmons, twice, and then put a bullet into his own head. He died the same night, and the girl died Tuesday night. The two were engaged to be married but are said to have quarried frequently and were likely to break up the engagement. Miller was of an insanely jealous disposition. The Indianapolis News gives en abstract of the Supreme Court’s decision in the Win. Brown vs Monon Ry. case than that previously given by the Journal, From this it appears that Mr. Brown will not be- required to scale his SIO,OOO verdiejt very

materially. A ruling of the trial court is held errouious in regard to a small Item vs personal property, and the amount allowed Mr. Brown on this ruling must be remitted if he wants the verdict to stand. The amount to be remitted is not large.

A wedding of interest to a considerable number of Rensselaer people took place at Crown Point on May Ist. The parties were Mr. Elmer Roberts, of Kankakee, 111, and Miss Marie Jones, of Shelby. The bride is a daughter of E. E. Jones, who formerly, fora Dumber of years, resided in Rensselaer and previous to that lived in the Gifford district. She is a very estimable young lady and her husband is also very well spoken of. The ceremony was performed by Rev. T. F. Drake, pastor of Crown Point M. E. church and himself formerly located in Rensselaer.

The people of Remington and also of Monticello and probably various others towns, were recently badly done up by a skin game. A man and woman, purporting to be husband and wife, came along selling baking powder. They sold it at 50 oeuts a can, delivering the stuff right there, They also took from each family a photograph of some member agreeing to make and deliver, within a certain time, a medalion pioture, for which there was to be no charge further than the 50 cents paid for the baking powder. The pictures have never come and the baking powder turns out to be worthless stuff. It is estimated that about one family in three were taken in by these frauds.