Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1901 — City News. [ARTICLE]

City News.

TUESDAY. J. 0 Porter went to Winona Lake this morning for a short stey. Warren Robinson if in Delphi this afternoon. Ed Parcels, the battier, is sick, with liver complaint. Attorney W. R. Parkieou is in Lafayette today. James Randle went to Chicago today for a few days’stay. John Murray, 4 miles southeast, of town, yesterday suffertd a severe attack of enteritis. D. Thacker and wife, of Motion, visited relatives here yesterday evening. Mies Lillian Saylor weut to Medaryville today to visit her sister, Mrs. Ed Deweeee. Paul Wood, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wood, is now practicing dentistry at Mulbury, Miob. Mies Elizabeth Ewry, of Lafayette, oame yesterday to visit Miss Luella McCoy. Noble York, wife and bod, of MonoD, came yesterday for a short visit with Rensselaer relatives. Mrs. C. H. Porter, of Delphi, is spending the week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Williams. The 4-year-old child of Abner Foster, 7 miles east of town, is quite sick with inflamatory sore throat

Mrs. W. A. Jordan and daughter Miss Bonnie are the guests of the former’s daughter, Mrs. W. L. Slagle, at the Makeever House. Esper McClarey, Joseph Durant Arthur Armstrong and Ralph Lewis left today for South Dakota to work in the harvest fields. Walter Nobles of Mankota, Minn., came yesterday, for a short visit with his nephew, George B. Ketcham, east of town. I. N. Hemphill, the drayman, is incapacitated for labor by a large carbuncle on his right shoulder blade.

Ora Watts returned to Indianapolis today, leaving bis wife at the home of her parente, Mr. and Mrs. Larkin Potts. John Medicus, who is working at cement sidewalk buildinir in Miohigun City, was home Sunday and Monday.

Mrs. Dora Detta and little grand-nephews,-.Harry and Artie Hess, of Chicago, came today to visit her .niece, Mrs. Henry Hildebrand. Mißees Helen McFarland, of Camden, and Lorene Yanatta, of Fowler, came yesterday to visit Misses Mabel and Ida Randle.

George Spitler went to Chicago today to join other bill posters for the Wallace shows, with whom he will work the remainder of the season.

Mrp. Ora Bushoog is considerably worse again, and Drs English aod Berkley held a consultation on her case, tjiis morning. She is still very seriously sick. C. D. Thornton, formerly of this place, now located at, Grand Horn, Mich , returned yesterdfiy to that | after a week’s visit with relatives here.

Mrs. F. O. Griecbow, who has been the guest of Mrs. Charles Robinson, for the past week, returned to her home in Michigan City today. M. A. Gano and family removed today to Forest, Clinton county, their former home, Mr. Gano has has been superintending the kilns at the Wolf & Alter tile mill. John Hordeman has moved back hie old house, corner ofMilroy and Clarke streets, and is preparing to build a new 6 room house, the older part being used as a kitchen, wood bouse etc. J. R. Hazen, wife and daughter, of Jordan township, went to Seymour, Ind., yesterday, near which place, in Jennings county, Mr. Hazen recently purchased a farm of 120 acres. Mrs. Robert He)feu and two daughters, of Danville, 111., were guests a short time yesterday of J.. M. McDonald and wife, and went from here to New Puffalo, Mich., to visit relatives.

Morocco and Beaver township will vote on the railroad subsidy proposition, next Saturday, for the Tippecanoe Route. The proposition is to vote a two per cent. tax. There is thought to be very little opposition to the tax there. Wm. Pauley, of Chicago, whose wife died about two months ago and three of whose children have been staying with their grandparents, Mathew Zehrden and wife came to Rensselaer Sunday and yesterday took the children and their nurse home with him.

G. F. Meyers, the Kniman real estate man, is here today, and reports the sale of 00 acres of land miles north of AVheatfield. Abraham Miller was the seller and F. Guy Barnard, of Benton county, was the purchaser. The consideration was $35 per acre, cash.

The remains of Mrs. Henrj,of Hastings, Neb., were brought to Remington today and interred in the cemetery there. Deceased was 89 years of age and was the mother of Sam Henry, formerly of Rensselaer, and ulso the mother of Mrs, Haver -Cherry, formerly of Remington, now of Hastings, Neb. She wus also distantly related to Robert Parker and John Burger, of Remington. She had until her removal to Nebraska, 22 years ago, been an old resident of Carpenter tp., this county.

'■ T • ' W. *.■ Rev. A. L. Ward, wife and eon left today for Indianapolis and wili go frote tcere to Arcadia, to. visit .Mrs. Ward’s parents lie®, j Ward will attend the PethaDy j Park Assemby and later al ! , including the family of Mrs, Ward’s parents, will go to Buffalo to attend the Pan American Exposition l The railroad oompany has been continuously engaged for about, a month in building a substantial track foundation across the sink hole north of Cedar Luke, and ; Wednesday it .was deemed stroDg enough, but as eoon as a train oi flat cars went on to it, the structure went oot of sight, and much mere work will Jxs required.—Lowell Souvenir.

WEDNESDAY. Dan Day went to Danville, 111, today by the way of Delphi. Mrs. Mark Phelps, of Monoc, is spending the day with Mrs, John Paxton Frank Hunt, formerly located at Knox, is here to visit his brother Jud Hunt. \ Mrs. Ezra Switzer is quite sick with cholera morbus at her home northeast of.Aix. Rev. C. D. Royse and children Julia and Charles, are attending the Battle Ground cemp iheeting. Mrs. Dora Bauman, of Ads, Ohio, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Ray Thompson. Mrs. Geo. W. Golf returned yes terday from a two weeks visit with her sister at Crown Point, Enquire J. A. Burnham and little grand-daughter Doris Morl.an are in Chalmers today. Leo Myers, who has been visiting his cousins here for the past three weeks, left today for hie home ia Pittsburg. Miss Leona Biggs, for the past, two years a clerk at the Ellis & • Murray store, has resigned her position. Dr. C. L Bartholomew and Miss Louise Elliott, of Morocco, took the train here for Lowell yesterday afternoon. Mrs. A. L. Willis and daughter, Lettie, went to Anderson today to visit the former’s daughter, Mrs. Vermont Hawkins. Misses Hazel and Elpha Plake of Tipton, came today to visit their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Timmons in Jordan tp. Mrs. E. Fidler and children of Pleasant Ridge, left today for a month’s visit with relatives in Terre Haute, Ind., and parents at Paris, Til. Mrs. F. E. Mauck returned to Anderson today, after having visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Yeoman, for the past three weeks.

George W. Jenkins, of Barkley tp., went to Monon today to visit his daughter, Mrs. Wm. Deere, whose three children are all quite sick. Glenn Bates, of Rock Island, 111., is home for a short visit with his parents. He hem been working on the Rock Island & Peoria railrailroad. Services at the Free Baptist church Sunday morning at 11 o’clock by Maggie Kenton, in the evening atßM)y the pastor, Rev. Meads. □June Henkle, of Williamsport, came to Rensselaer today for a short vi-it. He is working for a firm of stock dealers at Williamsport aiid has been i-n rather poor health for the pest two weeke. H. P. Baker, of Onarga, 111., came yesterday to visit his brother-in-law. Lucius Strong. He was a former resident of Jasper county and comes back about once, each year to observe the town’s growth. Fourteen young ladies participated in a slumber party at the home of Miss Bernice Warren, last night. The out of town guests were Miss' Anna LoDg, of Vincennes, and Misses Sarah Smith and Julia Bernhardt, of Chicago. ’‘Slumber not” was perhaps a more appropriate name for it, and it was so thoroughly enjoyed that the young people are finding it neoeeeary to employ today in oatohing up lost sleep.

Mrs. F. W. Lester, who bus been visiting her relatives, the keevers, for ti e pest six weeks,) went 1o Chicago today. Before returning to,her home in Alliance, Neb , she will visit Buffalo. N. Y , and Milwaukee, Wis. Rensselaer stock-dealers and feeders had about a dozen car load of cattle on the Chicago maiket today, aud Granville Moody with a load of fancy fat cattle broke all this year Rensselaer price records by getting 5<3.20 per hundred A soaffokl has been constructed at the Michigan City penitentiary for lhe execution on Aug 23rd, of Joha Rmkard, the wife murderer. The attorneys for Rinkard, however are asking a stay of the sentence that an appeal to tte supreme couit. may be made, Bud the same will probably be granted. • Indianapolis Journal :-The chief engineer of a road which is a competitbr of the Mouou recently came from Chicago to Indianapolis over the Monon. He had not been over it for a couple of yt htb, and he says he could not have believed, had be Dot eeen.it, that its- tracks were so perfect.

Mr. md Mis. Alfred Crieler, of Mt. Ajr, and Mies J< robe Lardner. of Goodland, who have been visiting the daughter i f Mr. anc Mrs. Gribler ct Big Rapid.-, Mich., for the past two months, returnee joeterday to Renssela* r. and wil pay a short visit with their daughter. Mrs. Will Wish a.', before going to then - home.

Potatoes will be high priced this yeur. There are among the new home grown potatoes on the market no large smooth surfaced ones, but all show t,be result of the drought. The later putatots are practically a failure ar d lhe ioca demand will have to be largely sup] lied from other localities, where from all reports the crop will not be up i<> the genera average. Within a week ihe quotations have risen ficm 70 emts to SI. 10

Frauk O'Brien, better known as ‘ Gumption Cote,” a character o: some local renown, yesterday divested of a suit of Jjtheß he had worn long without change, given a much needed bath Bnd fitted <-ut in new overhauls, suependers and shirt, and left in an out-of-the-way place to off a cnee of excessive imbibing Marshal Simpson with a crew of assisstante engineed the transformation, and ‘•Gumption Cu.e” clad in his new apparel locks doubly distinguished today.