Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1901 — MONDAY [ARTICLE]

MONDAY

Miss Maud Irwin is visiting in Chicago and LaPorte this week. Misses Graze Gee and Jessie McCarthy are spending® few days in Chicago. Mrs. Delila Myers, of Reynolds, came Saturday to visit Mrs. Marsh Warren, north of town. Mr. and Mrs. Lorenza Wartena, returned to Hammond, today, after a short visit with his mother here. Thomas Thornton and wife returned Saturday from their visit in Pennsylvania and New York states. Miss Della Henry, of Zionsville, Ind., came Saturday, and will teach school this winter in Kankakee tp. Mrs. Jos. Larsh returned Sunday from a few days’ visit with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hardy, at Goodland. W. C. Miliron and wife returned from Wabash They will locate there with a new bakery, Sept. 15th.

Mrs. Conrad Hildebrandt returned Saturday from a two weeks’ visit with her sister, Mrs. Peter Scallon, in Lafayette. Miss Agnes McElhoe, who has been visiting the family of J os. Adanis, went to Monon today to visit relatives. Mrs. J. E. Henderson and children, of Tipton, came Saturday for a week’s visit with her brother, Charles Montgomery and family Mrs. Harrison Tyler, near Brook, took the train here Sunday for a week’s visit with relatives in Louisville, Ky. C. A. Stephenson, of Chicago Heights, spent Sunday with his parents, W. H. Stephenson and wife. M. M. Heil and family, of Preston. Ind., came yesterday to see his brother, Peter Heil, of this place. L. J. Birge, a traveling salesman is here today. He is 6 feet and 8 inches in height. He travels for the. Yeast Foam company. Mrs. A. F. Long and children, George and Martha, are spending the week with Lafayette relatives, and Mr. Long spent Sunday there. W. B. Austin last week purchased of Timothy Benjamin, of Whitd county, a half section of land three miles northeast of Lee, for which he paid SIO,OOO.

M. F. Chilcote and Willis J. Imes went to Louisville, Ky.. Sunday to attend the big conclave of the Knight Templars there this week. Misses Rosa Platt and Della Hollingsworth returned to Danville, HL, Saturday, after a week’s visit with the former’s parents here. Joseph Hammond, of Wheatfield, and Mrs. C. B. Harold, of Hammond, came Saturday to attend the funeral of their sister, Mrs. Daniel Way mire. Mn. Jacob Maier and Mrs. Garrett Smith, of Thomosboro, 111., came today to visit the family of Chas. Maier, of the eastern part of Hanging Grove tp. D. C. Warren, prior to fourteen years ago a resident of Rensselaer, but since then a resident of Nebraska, arrived here this morning for a visit with his brother, Harrison Warren, and other relatives. He is engaged in'the harness business at Beatrice, Neb. Mrs. M. Schneider and daughter, Miss Ella, of Cleveland, Ohio, returned today to their home, after a two weeks’ visit with the formers’ father, John Bislosky and family, northwest of town.

There were only 52 tickets sold here for the Michigan City excursion Sunday. Which is a pretty large falling off from the 321 sold for the previous excursion to that place. Miss Margaret Quinlen, of South Bend, left for her home today, after having visited St. Joseph college and arranged for her brother to enter that institution the coming term. Miss Joeva Green went to Valparaiso today and will go from there to Crisman, where she will teach school this winter. Her mother will leave next Saturday for Ohio, to visit relatives. The T. H. D. club was enter tained last Friday afternoon from 2to 4, by Misses Muri Beam and Lola Clift, at the home of the latter, in honor of Miss Hattie Lear, of Monticello.

Mrs. Sophia Ponsler, who is spending a few days with her daughter, Mrs. Lucius Strong, and will go from here to the home of her son, Luther Ponsler, in lola, Kans., tc make that place her permanent home. Rev. and Mrs. Frank Hobson, of Marshall |Mich , spent Sunday guests of Mrs. Hobson’s sisters, Mrs. John Jessen and Mrs. Alfred Hoover. Miss Ooia Jackson, also a sister of the above named ladies who accompanied them here, will remain for a longer visit

L. L. Randle, better known as “Curtis” Randle, has left Enid, Okla-, and gone to Humbolt, Kans, where he is engaged in business. John Leahy, nephew of E. P. Honan, and a former Rensselaer boy, is now with the W. 8. ship “Yankee” off the Porto Rico coast. Owing to the fact that the Citizens’ Band will be at Walter Valley all day Thursday, the regular band concert this week, will be postponed to Friday evening. A synod of the priests of the Order of the Precious Blood will begin at St. Joseph’s College tonight and continue until Friday. About 40 priests are expected, including some from Ohio, Missouri and other states, besides Indiana. The six-year-old son of Spencer Greenlee, living six miles east of town, fell from the yard fence at his home last Saturday forenoon and fractured both bones of his left forearm. Dr. Berkley reduced the fracture and the little patient is getting along nicely. ■ Rev. S. E. Sines and family, left today for Annapolis, Park county, going overland in a buggy. The distance is about 150 miles. They will be absent until Sep. 25. During his absence Rev. Sines will attend the annual conference of the IL B. church, which convenes Sept, 11, at Lebanon. .

| Ernest Zea, the blicd cripple I received the invalids’ wheel chair I he has been looking for, last Saturi day night, and is much pleased j thereby. It is not wholly satis- , factory however and some changes will need to be made in it before he can propell it himself, to any advantage. The fourteen delegates from Rensselaer and nearby points to the Primitive Baptist association at Sheridan, returned home this morning. The meeting was very largely attended. The next annual meeting will be held in Gilgoe, in the southern part of state. The Indianapolis News has an elaborate description of the work of harvesting a 50 acre onion field near Indianapolis, which it says is the largest field of onions in Indiana. Evidently the News has not heard of Horace Marble’s 180 acres! of onions, in Wheatfield township Jasper county. Lowell Souvenir.—The new K. P. lodge at Morocco will be instituted Tuesday night September 3, and Lowell lodge has been invited to be present and confer the work in the first rank. Rensselaer and Goodland lodges will conduct the work in the other two ranks.

Crown Point Starr: —Horace Marble, of Wheatfield, was here this week. He is a thorough farmer now, and one of his crops this year is 180 acres of onions which are expected to turn out 300 bushels to the acre. They are quoted now at over a dollar but he is expecting a decided drop before market time. Geo. W. Davis, of Lowell, has returned from a tour of his territory which comprises the counties of Lake, Porter, Newton and Jasper. Mr. Davis reports that the game law is being enforced with little trouble throughout his territory. But perhaps by the phrase “little trouble” he means that he is giving violators of the law very “little trouble.” The body of Frank L. Phillips arrived here Sunday, on the 10:55 a. m. train. His death occurred Tuesday night, August 20tb; at a hospital at Carlsbad, New Mexico. He has been taken there from a place 75 miles distant only the day preceding the night of his death. A telegram was received from his brother J. R. Phillips, this morning, who with Frank’s mother, are hurrying back to be present at the funeral. The telegram was sent from Florence, Kans, and stated that they will not arrive here until Tuesday night The funeral will be held Wednesday- ]

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