Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1901 — City News. [ARTICLE]

City News.

FRIDAY. Mrs. I. B. Washburn is visiting her daughter Mary, in Chicago. Lester Warren and family spent the 4th at Chalmers. John F. Bonnett spent the 4th in Kentland. W. F. Osborne and family spent the 4th in Chalmers. Frank Hunt, of Knox, spent the 4th with his mother and other relatives here. J. C. Porter spent Wednesday with his son, C. H. and wife, in Delphi. Wm. Holmes and wife of Delphi, spent the 4th with M. P. Warner and family. Perry Campbell, in the east part of town, is quite sick today, from heat prostration. Mrs. A. J. Hopkins and brother, Russell Harmon, are spending a week in Chicago. J. W, McCabe and family and Henry Reed went to Romney Wednesday to visit relatives. Ed. Warren went to Laporte Wednesday to see about securing some cement walk contracts. Miss Hazel and Mary Hale of Wabash, Ind., are visiting Miss Hazel Warner for some time. Wm. Maloney and family, of Chicago, came Wednesday for a a short visit with hie sister, Mrs. Mary Drake. • Rev. G. P. Mcßride, the F. W. Baptist minister, now located at Lagrange, came Wednesday to visit Rensselaer friends. J. W. Meharry of Mt. Ayr, is here having his house repaired. It is the one struck by lightning, last Tuesday. ” Miss Bessie Grubb, of Greencastle and Mrs. C. L. Karsner, of Chicago, are visiting Mrs. Peter Giver. P. J. Bridges and family, of Putnamville, came Wednesday to visit the family of Isaac Glazebrook. They returned home today. F. W. Mahin and wife, of Tipton were visiting her mother, Mrs. Jas Donnelly, north of town, over the 4th returned home today.

Uncle Charley Platt and wife and son George went to Chicago Heights Wednesday to visit rela-

tives. Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Mauck and children of Anderson and Mrs. Charles Thompson of Delphi spent the 4th guests of D. H. Yeoman and family. Dr. Reagan, of Monon, left for Chicago this week where he will take a boat for a trip over the Great Lakes. He expects to be absent about 60 daysThe fourth was as quiet in Rensselaer as the store of a man who don’t advertise. In the evening there were quite a number of individual displays of fireworks that were very creditable. It is marvelous how the hot weather of the past two or three weeks, combined with plenty of rain, has brought forward the corn crop. Oats blsckare. much better than they promised to be a few weeks ago. Gus Bushong, whose alleged remarkable actions created such a sensation in southwest Barkley a month or two ago, has returned from his trip to Kentucky. As to his purpose in we are not informed. S. B. Grant and son, of Chesnut, 111., returned to their home this afternoon, after a short visit with his father, Shelby Grant and family, one mile west of town. Miss Hattie Grant accompanied them for an extended visit. There was quite a family reunion at Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Coover’s residence, on Dayton street, Thursday. The visitors, all from Remington, were Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Allman, Jesse Allman and family and C. H. Peck and family. Erastus Peacock has moved into his rebuilt house, on the west side of town. It is the one which was badly damaged by fire some months ago, and has been rebuilt and enlarged. His son-in-law, Oscar McClure, occupies the house Mr. Peacock moved out of. A force of hands like unto a swarm of bees in number is now working on the new Babcock & Hopkins’ elevator, putting up the wall thereof. They are built of the usual 2by 6 lumber, laid fiat and spiked down strong. Great progress is being made.

An inch of rain, in one shower is a big rain and that is almost exactly the amount of rain-fall here Tuesday, and that was. a big rain. In Remington the same day, three inches fell in just an hour, Hence, by comparison, an idea may be had of the way it rained there at that time. About 500 people went away from Rensselaer to spend-the 4tb, by railroad, besides large numbers who went on shorter trips by team. Fair Oaks was the great objective point, and the good people of that village have no kick coming on the way Rensselaer helped o,ut their 4th of July celebration. The number of tickets sold here for that place was 300. For Lowell 81, for Cedar Lake '2l, for Mqnon 22. And a smaller number for a whole lot of other places. The U. 8. thermometer at noon, today, was at 91 degrees. That, for these days, is comparatively cool weather. On the 4th, the highest was 100 degrees. That heat together with the excess of moisture in the air made the day a very oppressive one. Perhaps the worst day we have had since the hot and humid day of many heat prostrations, seme weeks ago. It was the hottest day since last Sunday, when the U, S. thermometer went crazy from heat and ran to 107 degrees. SATURDAY. Newt Pumphrey was in Chicago on business two days this week. Will Klingener, a Brookston cigar manufacturer, is in Rensselaer today. Dr. H. L. Brown and wife returned from theirstay at Danville, 111., evening. Mrs. Harvey Moore returned today from a visit with her sister in Reddick, 111.

Miss Mabel Brown, of Crown Point, 5 arrived today to visit her aunt, Mrs. G. W. Goff. Jasper Guy, of Remington, had business in ’Squire Burnham’s court this morning. Miss Mary Porter went to Crystal Falls, Mich., today to visit her sister, Mrs. Will Clark. F. .Sharpe and wife, who have been' visiting John Hordemau, returned to Chicago today. T. J. Zimmerman and James Fay have each completed new houses in the neighborhood of Blackford. Mrs. Zimmer, on the Madison Makeever faun west of town is very seriously sick. Misses Minnie and Mae Thomas returned yesterday from a short visit with relatives in Peru. Miss Mary Goetz returned today from a weeks visit with her siste Mrs. B. Grof, in Chicago. Roy Peacock has completed his work as night agent at Shelby and returned here to assist agent Beam.

Cocoanut taffy, newsboy lemon gems, iced Homestead cookies, lemon cream biscuit, fig-bar, chocoate creams are all fresh at Starrs Miss Anna Cragon, who has been visiting W. F. Osborn and James Thrawls and families, returned to her home m Logansport. Miss Minnie Thomas, who has been spending several weeks with her mother, Mrs. Mary A. Thomas returned today to Wabash, Ind., where she has factory employment. R. 8. Dwiggins, now of Jacksonville, Ohio, is here for a few days business visit. He reports that his wife, who has never visited Rensselaer, is now taking treatment in a hospital, for an eye trouble. The sudden change to cooler which began yesterday afternoon, affords a very welcome relief. The temperature this afternoon is about 15 degrees lower, and several hundred degrees more comfortable, than yesterday this time. Jim Randle, who is working at the painters’ trade in Indianapolis, came home yesterday for a few days’ visit with his parents. Mrs. Em ma Hagins and daughter Nina, of Minneapolis, Minn., are visiting the former’s sister, Mrs. W. F. Powers.

Mrs. S. Peterson, of Chicago came today to visit the family of Albert Dickinsdn over toward Remington. Frank Gant, of Union tp., who was paralyzed several weeks ago, is now improving very satisfactorily. He is unable to walk, however, and his physician thinks he never will be. Mrs. Elvira Tilden and daughter, Miss Eva, who have been visiting the former’s brother, A. L. Willis and family, left today for Verona, 111., to visit relatives. From there they will go to theirhome in Marysville, Tenn. Gus Bushong, whose return here was noted in Friday’s items, made but a short stay and returned to Romney, Ind., where he is working. He intends making a fight on the divorce suit against him, and came up to secure evidence in the case. Louie Wilcox, of Surrey, stopped off in Rensselaer yesterday evening on his way home from a business trip to Springfield and Dayton Ohio, in the interest of "The Sulphuretic Mineral Water C 0.,” located at Surrey and of which he is the manager. Albert Overton is up again after a very severe attack of quinsy. It was bis first experience with that very unpleasant malady, and it came very near being his last, as he had to be worked with constantly during the whole of one night, to prevent his choking to death. Judging from the reports of Lewis 8. Alter, of West Carpenter Tp., who was in town today, all the lightning in last Tuesday’s big storm, which could not be used on telephone poles, was fired off on his place. He thinks not less than 20 or 25 bolts struck the farm, and three of these were within a few hundred feet of his house.

Home grown strawberries still appear on the Rensselaer market, every day, which is unusual for so late in the season. They come from John Renicker’s place, and he attributes the late crop largely to th* severe pruning his berry patch received by the hail, several weeks ago. These latest berries are quite small but are well flavored. Uncle Jimmy Overton and his son Randle, are now located at Carlshad, New Mexico. Randle, for whose health they are there, is doing very nicely, so far, and his condition affords great encouragement. Frank Phillips, son of Fleming Phillips, who joined them at Tex., is still with them. He is not improving in health as well as could be wished. J. F. Irwin is suffering considerably from a severe fall he received on the 4th. He was looking over the work at the new elevator, and walking along the walls, he stepped over an open space left for a doorway, and landed on a loose board

and got a bad fall backwards, striking on a sharp corner of rock He got a very hard blow on the ribs, and more than likely some of them are fractured. James 8. Alter, of Carpenter tp. the constant traveler, has now got a little farther away than ever before. He is in the state of Washington and probably in Seattle by this time. Previous to going there he worked along the great lake region for quite a long time. He sells books and other articles and makes money in his journeyings. The Monon is having nine new engines constructed by the Brooks locomotive works at Dunkirk, New York. Four of the machines will be the heavy freight engines, three will be large switch engines and two are designed to pull passenger trains. They will be patterned after locomotives now in use by Rock Island railroad that have developed a speed of eighty-seven miles an hour, and will be used between Chicago and Indianapolis

James Wiseman, Jr. keeper us the store and postoffice at Aix, 8 miles north of town, was arrested by Constable Vick, on the charge of following his ordinary business on Sunday. * Otherwise keeping his store open on that day. A Mr. Potts is the complaining witness. There is a United Bretbern church right across the road from the store, and it seems that the prosecution is instigated by the church people, because of the annoyance to the congregation caused by the boys and young men who gather at the store on Sundays. The trial is in progress before Squire Burnham and a jury, as we go to press.

F. R. Briggs, of Cleveland, Ohio who represents the men who are to furnish the finance to build the Chicago & Toledo Transfer railroad, arrived in the city this morning to remain until after the railroad subsidy election on Monday. He says that his company are furnishing the money for a number of railroads and that the company’s president? who recently went over this route, is enthusiastic over the matter and that the assurance of the road’s immediate construction as furnished by R. A. Hamilton, the engineer, is backed by the unfaltering purpose of the company, the voting of the subsidies being the only consideration. Bates Tucker, previous to his visit here, had received official notice of his appointment as a 2nd lieutenant, did not receive his commission until yesterday when it came to him here. It appoints him a 2nd lieutenant in the regular army and states that the appointment dates from February 2nd, last. If the salary also dates back until then, as probably it does, it will be quite a nice financial windfall. The appointment, of course, is in the infantry, and like all such appointments is indefinite in time. Officers in the regular army hold their office during good behavior or until they resign. If they remain in the service until 65 years old, they are retired on half pay during life.