Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1901 — THURSDAY. [ARTICLE]

THURSDAY.

J. R. Vanatta is confined to his house with rheumatism. Win. Burns, of Fair Oaks, is quite seriously sick with dysentery. Miss Margaret Bresnahan, of Chicago, is the guest of Miss Dora English. Miss Julia McKee, of Crawfordsville, is visiting her aunt, Mrs. J. R. Vanatta, for a few weeks. The Riverside Juniors warped it to Lee Kepner’s team, at A thletic Park, yesterday afters odd, to the tune of 14 to 4. A 6 year old son of Mrs. Sarah E. Miller, in the northwest part of town, has a case of scarletina. He is doing well. Rev. Father Dentinger, of Pulaski, who was here visiting his brother^ 1 the music professor, returned home today. The Paris family re-union today was not as complete as was hoped for, as John was unable to come, on account of his wife being sick. B. Meyer returned to the Meyer summer cottage at Water Valley, yesterday afternoon, and was accompanied by Mrs. Mell Abbott. • ..... .

Prof. Bernard Dentinger, the new music instructor of St. Joseph’s College, is moving into Dr. Hartsell’s property, the former Douthit residence, on Cullen street. Mr. and Mrs. Luther Ford, of Elwood, the latter formerly Miss Bessie Foster, of this place, are visiting relatives and friends south of town. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Watson and family returned to Chicago this morning, after a visit with Mrs. Watson’s mother, Mrs. M. B. Alter and other relatives. At the morning services the M. E. church next Sunday morning probationers will be recieved in full Connection and baptism will be offered for both infants and adults. No evening service. Born this, Thursday Aug. Bth, at the home of the happy grandpappy, Ed Parcells, on Front street, of course, to Mr. and Mrs. John O’Neill, a daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hammond and son and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pierson and daughter, of Kansas and Mrs. C. J. Dean and son, of Rensselaer have gone to Crawfordsville and Indianapolis for a week’s visit with relatives. Henry Amsler and son arrived from Pontiac, 111., last evening, and he is now getting his household goods into his future residence, the former W. H. Coover property, on Weston street. The rest of his family will come later. J. L. Foster, who, with his family, have been at Elwood for several months, has returned to get his household goods and will remove there, permanently. His latest residence in this vicinity was ou a farm, a few miles south of town, on the Remington road.

venerable Mrs. Minerva Glazebrook, who has been sick a long time, has been in a comatose condition since yesterday afternoon, and her end is hourly expected. Her son Isaac, at the Buffalo exposition, has been telegraphed for. T. J. Penn will retire from the management of the Nowels House on Sept. Ist. His successor seems not yet to have been selected. He has not fully decided upon h:s

future residence and occupation but may continue in the hotel business at some other place. Mr. and Mrs, W, H. Coover have vacated their farmer residence on Weston street, now the property of Henry Amsler. Mrs. Coover will leave for northern Michigan in a day or two, to escape the hay fever season, and Mr. Coover will soon leave on an extended trip westward, looking for a suitable location for a permanent residence. A Logansport woman left her biby sleeping in a church pew while she enjoyed a church festival. She went home and did not think of her baby until she reached the house. The janitor had to be found and the church had to be opened up to secure the still sleeping offspring. If she had been dancing so hard as to forget her baby, what a fine moral it wculd have pointed for the preachers. “The J. Stevens Arm 3 & Tool Company, of Chicopee Falls, Mass , are offering to distribute the sum of SSOO to the 60 young persons sending them before October 1, the 60 best targets made with Stevens rifles. The prize range from SSO to $5. Send them 10 cents in stamps and state the calibre of of your rifle and they will mail 12 official targets and conditions of the contest.”

The “ankle bug” is all the rage now in certain parts of the country. Women are his favorite food and he fe£ls especially kindly toward those who who wear open-lace work hosiery. He only bites once, but the “bitee” has no doubt about being bitten. The victims are all alike. They scream and kick and attempt to grab the spot selected by the “ankle bug” as his own. This bug is the product of the twentieth century. An insect resembling him is known in South Africa, but only real, genuine, blown-in-the-bottle, “ankle bug” was born in the year 1901. T. F. Kramer, for six years a student at St. Joseph College, and for some time the editor of The Collegian, the college paper, left yesterday for Toledo Ohio, where he will visit relatives for a few weeks. This fall he will enter the Carthegenia theological seminary to take a five years’ course a necessary step before he can be ordained a Catholic pastor. His work as editor of The Collegian proved him of considerable journalistic talent, and during his college life here he made a large number of friends, whose best wishes will accompany him in his future studies.

The old post-office building has at last reached its final anchorage on Vine street, about a block east of the depot, and close io the old railroad water tank. The people up that way do not easily recognize the storm and time battered old hulk, and some of them think it is the lost lake steamer, Chicora, which a Chicago clairvoyant lately claimed to have located by the help of spirits, at the bottom of Lake Michigan. In this connection, inasmuch as there have been conflicting statements made as to the age of thi^building and the time of its construction, we may now state positively, that it was built by Tom Spitler, some years after the civil war, and either in the year 1868, or very close to that date.