Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1901 — City News. [ARTICLE]

City News.

TUESDAY. Mrs. L. Bauer, of Morterey, Ind came today to visit her daughter, Mrs. John Newccmb. Miss Emma Mackey went to Lafayette today , for a short visit with relatives and friendsMrs. Ura Pearson and Mrs, Malinda Burson, of Winamac are guests of their sister, Mrs. Thos. McGowen. J. J. Fry, president of the bank at Rose Lawn, was in Rensselaer today and called at The Republican office. The excavation for the new elevator has been completed and the work of laying the foundation will begin with a day or two. Mrs. J. W. Paxton and children, Herbert and Florence, left today to visit relatives at Anderson and Arcadia. R. B. Harris and Mrs. C. L. Benjamin and son Merle went to Chicago this morning to consult a specialist about Merle’s rheumatic troubles. Misses Julia, Mary and Katheryn Lamb and Mrs. Wm, Sullivan, of Delphi, came yesterday to attend the St. Joseph College commencement exercises. Mrs. J. B. Maiion returned from Hammond today, where she attended yesterday the marriage of her sister, Miss Bertha Payne to Mr. Fred Middle ton. Dr. Ira M. Washburn went to Lafayette today to attend the commencement at Purdue University. Dr. Ira graduated frcm that institution in 1896 and has not visited the school since then. A. Lewis the cigar maker, the sale ot whose property and probable removal to Lafayette has been previously mentioned, will transfer his factory to that place on July Ist. J. A. Hopkins and wife, who are both experienced cigar makers, will accompany him to Lafayette, as will probably several others of bis assistants. Charles Paxton, of Lamar, Col., was in Rensselaer a short time today. He went from here to Albany, Ind., and will probably be here again before going back to Lamar. Mrs. Alex Bruce and two children of Edinburg, Ind., came to Rensselaer yesterday, and will remain during the summer at the home of Shelby Grant, west of town. Emory Mills, who bad a good job at Terre Haute as a telephone lineman, returned home last evening. There is any amount of labor troubles at Terre Haute now and the union linemen all wen ton a strike, ' and the non-union men were compelled to quit, also. r. The linemen were getting 12.50 a day for nine hours work and struck for the name pay for eight hours work. F. D. Knotts, of Medaryville, has been arrested on the charge of violating the‘interstate commerce law. He is charged with shipping forty-five quails from Hammond

to Chicago. The arrest was made by the United States marshal and the accused was released on bond furnished by his son. 'Mr. Knotts is the father of ex-Representative A. F. Knotts, of Hammond, The decoration of the graves of the deceased brothers of the Knights of Pythias order is taking place this afternoon. The band the members of the K. of P. lodge, the Rathbone Sisters Temple and of the G. A. R., formed a good sized procession and the abundance of flowers and the ideal day makes the event a most pleasant one. Not only the backbone but all the rest of the cold weather anatomy seems to have suddenly given way to warm mid-summer weather. Today is hot but breezy and farmers, long discouraged by the unfavorable weather, can now • fairly see the corn grow. The kinks that the deceitful days of this year’s spring had fastened on man and nature are now expected to withdraw and all will enter vigorously into the pleasures and profits of the warmer season.

Charles Yeoman returned yesterday to Pullman, 111., where he is employed in the car shops and to which place be will in a few weeks remove his family. He has decided to tender his resignation to the school board at Dana, to the position to which he was chosen, and has filled for the past two years, and expects to permanently give up school teaching. He is able to make from $3 to $3.50 per day in the car shops the year through. u The final base ball contest between the halls at St. Joseph CoDege yesterday morning resulted in a victory for the St. Aquina hall, or the boys in the red suits by a score of Bto 15. During the spring term the two teams have played six games and each has won three. They are quite evenly matched and, as all are young students, with several years of college life before them, it is quite probable that within a year or two the college will have a very able representative team and they may be able to secure games with some older colleges in the state. Miss Ivah M. Wills, a talented young lady of Brookston, who will be remembered by a number of Rensselaer people as having given an elocutionary entertainment at the opera house two years ago, passed through the city last evening on her way to Brookston. Miss Wills has for the past ten months been a member of a very excellent theatre company that played entirely in Canada and the northeastern cities. Next year she will be with Marie Bingham in a New York stock company. About August Ist, she will remove with her parents to New York City, but before that time will visit Miss Maud J. Healey here.