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

City News.

THURSDAY. \V. R. Lee is in Chicago on bittiness tod a j . Frederick McGee, who lives 1| miles west of town, is recovering from an attack of lung fever. Mrs. J. R. Phillips, of McCoyeburg, is visiting the family of George R. Robinson in Barkley township. Mrs. M. C. Jouvenat returned to Chicago today, after having visited her father Ellis M alton fur several days. Lewis Poyer and wife, of Chicago, who had been visiting relatives at Peru, are now visiting their son Elmer Poyer, near Kniman. —W. B. Chilcote, of the national soldiers hoire, at Marion, is here ■ on 9 days leave of absence. He likes life at the home, very well. I Lida Allman daughter of Monroe Allman and wife, returned from Indiannp >lis today,' where she attended die school for the deaf"%nd dumb. Subjects at the M. E. church ' for Sunday June 16th. Morning, ' “Jesus' Idea of His Missions.” ( Evening, “A New Plan of Church Union.” |

Mrs. J. C. Paxton and little daughter arrived today from Kingman, Kansas, for an extended visit with her father, Squire W. E. Moore and other relatives. H. W. Wood went to Richmond, Ind., today to attend a reunion of of his regiment, the 93rd Ohio. Quite a number of the regiment reside in and around Richmond. Guy C. Hanna, until recently a partner in the the publication of the Monticello Daily Journal and Weekly Independent, was a Rens seller visitor this morning and a pleasant caller at the Republican office. Landy McGee reports that he caught two buffalo fish in the river, the other night, that together weighed 20 pounds. Also 3 channel cat that weighed SJ, 6| and 7 lbs respectively.

The Rensselaer Tennis Club, which is composed of a number of decidely clever players, is looking for a few match games for the summer. If neighboring towns have any pretentious clubs, they will find it an easy matter to arrange a “racket cross” with Rensselaer. People who contemplate going to St. Joseph Mich., should pratice expectorating some other place than on the sidewalks, if they desire ’ to keep out of trouble and not break over the rules of society, as seen by the St. Joseph councilmen. ' To spit on a St. Joseph sidewalk is to make one’s self liable to a fine of from SI to $5 A “toy shower” is the latest; It marks the advent of the first new baby and friends who have studied hard over some suitable kitchen or linen or china gift for “showers” of that kind, can then get even with the noisiest toys they can buy. The reason it is only for the first is probably due to the family limitations of modern society. Bates Tucker, eon of Rev. D. A. Tucker, now of Ridgeville, arrived at San Francisco June 9th. with his regiment, the 31st U. S. volunle’rs. He enlisted from this county and has completed hie term of service in the Philippines. He landed in excellent heath, and seems to have been in that condition all the time. He was 27 days making the passage. He is expected at Ridgeville June 2611 i, where a public reception will probably be given him. Echoes of the Lyda Cox trial still comes from Fowler. The latest is in the Fowler Leader and it is as follows: “Mrs. Lyda took an appeal from the verdict of the local lodge df Rebekahs, which suspended her from the order, to the higher lodge. The W. R. C. took a shorter and sweeter cut and dropped her from the roll. And now there is a commotion in the ranks of that order, as it has been ascertained that she has gained ad-

mission to the Boswell Corps on a transfer card purporting to have been issued by the Fowler Corps with the signatures of. the president and secretary. The officers state emphatically that they never issued the card, and the Corps has no previous knowledge of its existence”