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

WEDNESDAY.

M, Y. Slaughter, south of town, is quite seriously sick. Thompson Ross went to Indianapolis today to visit relatives. Misses Lillie Sayler and Lillie Rowen went to Parr this morning for a weeks visit. Miss Harriett Yeoman went to Terre Haute today to visit her sister, Mrs. M. V. Brown. Miss Clifford Moody returned today from Mt, Vernon,'lowa, where she has been attending college. Mrs. Chaudoin, of Pontiac, 111., is visiting her son Joseph, 1 mile northeast of town. Grace and Wilma Peyton went to Monticello today to visit the Tharps for about a week. Lawrence and Claud Sayler went to Crystal Falls, Michigan, this morning, where they expect to secure employment. County superintendent L. H. Hamilton went to Indianapolis today to attend the meeting of county superintendents of the state. Rue Parcels is captaining a juvenile base ball team that is playing a team of equal age at Mt. Ayr today. Miss Adda Chiloote returned home yesterday from a weeks visit with her sister, Mrs. J. R. Sigler, at Mt. Ayr. Mrs. George Hilton and two children, of Detroit, Mich., came yesterday to visit the family of David Hilton. Mrs. C. L. Holley, who has been the guest of her sister, Mrs. Elnora Israel, for several days, returned to her home in Pittwood, 111., today. Miss Ella Egleson returned to Battle Ground today, after having visited the family of Thomas Ward south of town, for a few days. Mrs. Alfred Lowman, who has been visiting Mrs. Mary Lowman north of town, returned toaay to her home in Paris Tenn. Mrs. Anna Clark, wife of Robert Clark, is very low with general tuberculosis, at the home of her parents, near Parr. Her death is hourly expected. Mrs. T. J. McCoy went to Lafayette yesterday evening. Paul Brewer and Clair Alkire, of Francesville, came to Rensselaer yesterday evening. Frank Moore and daughter Miss Lizzie returned today to Indianapolis and Mrs. Elmer Berry returned to Frankfort. Miss Mary Richardson, of near Valma, returned home yesterday from Marion, where she had been attending Normal school. Mr. and Mrs. B. Forsythe were in the city this week attending the clearance sale of the wholesale dry goods houses. Vern Robinson, Fred Parcells, Kent Morgan, Will Woodworth, Jay Sayler and Jim Meyer are at Water Valley on a few days outing Herbert Edwards, of Pontiac, 111., spent a couple of days with his brother, Ben Edwards, returning home this morning. Festus Chupp, of Surrey, who has been very seriously sick with uraemia for some time past, having 12 or 15 convulsions, is now slowly recovery. Wesley Baker, who works for Floyd Robinson, east of town, is threatened with brain fever at the home of his parents, 3 miles south of town. The Kankakee Valley Medical Society will meet in the M. E. church in Culver, Maxinkuckee Lake, June 25th. The program j will be a good one.

Tom Burrin, who has been clerking in B. F. Fendig’s drug store, has resigned his position and will probably remove from Rensselaer. Himself and wife are now visiting relatives at Flora. Rensselaer Masons will observe St. John’s Day, June 24th, by a picnic at Cedar Lake. It is expected to secure very low rates for that day, that any one can take advantage of. Rev. S. C. Fulmer, of Indianapolis, State Secretary Home Mission Society #ill hold services at the First Baptist church Sunday evening June 16, 1901, at 7:30 o’clock p. m. All invited. Rev. P. H Faulk, the Baptist minister of Morocco, who had arranged to locate here in charge of Ist Baptist church, has been in poor health for quite a long time and is staying with his father at Rockville, and taking treatment of specialists at Indianapolis.

Mrs. Peter Scallan returned to Lafayette yesterday after having visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Hordemann, for the past two months. Will Hordemann, who recently came home from Cincinnati, convalescent from an attack of typhoid fever, is still quite poorly. The trouble among the fast horse men has broken out again. There was a race this forenoon, at the stock farm track, between the old opponents, Ike Glazebrook’s Queen of the Turf and Duvall Bros’. Irene. It was a single mile heat, and the Queen won by several rods. B. S. Fendig, our popular, pushing and prosperous poultry, pelt and produce dealer, will soon cease from the pursuit of the pecuniary profits of prosperity long enough to take to himself a bride, in the person of a most estimable young lady, Miss Rosye Oppenheimer, of New Orleans. It has been shrewdly suspected for some time that Bennie contemplated a move of this kind, and the suspicion is now fully confirmed and the engagement was formally announced, by the young lady’s parents, last Sunday. The date of the wedding has not been fully settled but it will be before October Ist.