Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 24, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1901 — City News. [ARTICLE]

City News.

FRIDAY. Mies Marie VanNess went to Francesville today for a short visit. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rowen went to Delphi today to visit relatives. J. H. Chapman and wife returned today from a short visit in Chicago. Miss Mary Rowen went to DeMotte today, where she will teach school the coming term. Mrs. H. W. Prince, northwest of town, is improving from a severe attack of general neuralgia. Miss Gertha Arnett, of Barkley tp., returned yesterday from a two weeks’visit with relatives in Delphi. Death sentence was pronounced on Czolgosz, yesterday. Re will be executed some time during the week beginning Oct. 28th. Mrs. Glenn Babson returned to her home in Seward, Neb., today, after a week’s visit with her uncles N. W. and W. W. Reeve. Rev. B. F. Ferguson and Marion Adams and wife went to Brookston today to attend the Free Will annual association near that place. Rev. 0. L. Chivington and son returned today from their visit in Ohio, and Mrs. Chivington returned from a week’s visit in Monon.

A. J. Smith, of Milroy tp , went to Dixon, 111., yesterday to visit hie daughter, Lillie Deeter, and he may decide to remain there all winter.

Rev. A. W. Smith Methodiet pastor at Mt. Ayr for the past two years, carted his goods here, a day or two ago to ship to Michigantown, his new appointment. A few days ago, a thief ransacked the house of Wayne Gwin, now living over towards the west end of Jordan, while the family was away. They carried away nothing except a few dollars in cash. Louie Fendig, after several weeks stay here, left again for the south, last night. His first objective point is Union, S. 0. He is still in the employ of the town booming company, of Brunswick, Ga. Sheriff Hardy reports an uneventful trip to Jeffersonville with Fred Glackin, The young fellow kept up his nerve pretty well until the time came for the sheriff to leave him and then he felt pretty well broke up. has been received from Mr. and Mrs. Mark 11. Yeoman, now of Kingman, Kans., that they had the misfortune to lose their youngest child, last Tuesday, Sept. 24th. It was a boy, about 8 months old, and died from summer oomplaint. Mr. and Mrs. John W. S. Ulrey left yesterday afternoon for Jennings county, 'after three weeks visit here and in Newton county. In another week they will return to Washington D. 0., where Mr. Ulrey has a firm grip on a good job in the census department. Some Mt. Ayr horsemen will be over here Saturday, with their horses, and have two races at the stock farm track. There will be two horses in one race and four in the other. Only Mt. Ayr horses will enter. The races are to begin at 2p. m. Ne charge will be made for admission. Formal announcement has been made of still another October wedding. Mr. 0. E. Duvall and Miss Leona Biggs will be married at 13Q p. m., on Wednesday, Oct, 16th. The wedding will take place at the home of the bride’s

parents, Mr. and Mrs. Biggs, about 31 miles southwest of town. Thomas H. Jessup, of Richmond, Ind., present Grand Master of the Odd Fellows of Indiana, attended the picnic at Fountain Park, yesterday, and at its clese accompanied the Rensselaer members over here. In the evening he attended the Odd Fellows lodge and made an address which was greatly appreciated by the brethren.

Sales of big and valuable farms still continue. The latest is the sale by J. E. Clary of the former Geo. W. Burk farm, in Marion tp., four miles north of Rensselaer. He sold it to Noah Zeigler, of Benton county. The farm contains 237 acres and the price was 175 per acre. It is ajfine, well improved farm. Mr. Clary bought it about two years ago for 159 per acre. He gives possession the Ist of next March. The several frosts here of last week were none of them severe enough to wilt corn stalks, much less leaves on the trees. In rather remarkable contrast with this, was the severity of the same frost, at points considerably further south, where naturally it would have been less severe. Thus from Kokomo south to Indianapolis it blackened all the green cronstocks and pretty nearly every thing else that was green. George Newman, son of R. T. Newman, north of town, attended the funeral yesterday, northeast of Monticello, of his special friend Ralph Scott. The latter, an exempary young man, 20 years old, met death in a tragical manner, Tuesday evening. He engaged, in a playful scuffle with another young man, and almost immediately afterwards fell dead. Death resulted from a ruptured blood vessel. He was the only son of Theodore Scott.

Rev. W. H. Sayler, of Avondale, Mich., arrived this forenoon, hoping to be in time to attend his father, Henry Say let’s funeral, but was, of course, a full day too late. A telegram was sent to him immediately after his father’s death, but the operator at Avondale did not deliver it until after a long delay, owing to his supposition that Mr. Sayler was in Buffalo, to which place he had been, but had returned. Mr. Sayler, before starting sent a telegram here, asking that the funeral be delayed until his arrival, but for some reason, that telegram also was greatly delayed in its delivery. Mr. Sayler will remain here a few days. He has been engaged for another year by his congregation at Avondale.

SATURDAY. John T. Sayler returned to Monticello today, after a few days’ stay in Rensselaer. John Gwin and wife and Miss Ellen Gwin went to Chicago today to see Ben Hur. Hal Burroughs and wife, of Fair Oaks came today to visit the family of Doss Norman. Mrs. Amy Ritchey, of Fair Oaks, is visiting the family of 0. K. Ritchey, south of town, Eugene Kepner returned to his home in St. Elmo. Hl., after a few days’ visit with relatives here. Mrs. B. W. Pumphrey and children went to Kentland today for a two weeks’ visit with relatives. A. O. Fletcher, of St. Anne, 111., returned home today, after a week’s visit with his uncle, Ed Heath. Mrs. Ida Reed, of near Parr, went to Frankfort today to visit her parents for about two weeks. Mrs. Lyle Shepherd, of Kankakee, HL, came today to visit the family of G. H. Maines, northeast of town. Mrs. R. M. Vanatta returned to her home in Marion today, after a two weeks’ visit with J. R. Vanatta and wife. Mrs. O. B. Wolf returned to Forest Ind., today, after a three weeks’ visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Trussell, north of town. Her brother, Fred Trussell accompanied her home for a week’s visit.

John Kohler, now a prosperous grocer at Chicago Heights, is spending a few days in Rensselaer. Thos. Driver, of Barkley tp., returned today from a several days’ visit with his daughter, in Chicago-

J. E. Spalding and wife andlittie daughter, of Mattoon, 111., are visiting his sister, Miss Elizabeth Spalding. „ . Mrs. Joseph Tyler, of DeMotte, whose sickness has been mentioned, is now very low with septiciemia. W. J. Reed, who teaches the Egypt school in Jordan tp., went to his home in Monon yesterday, to spend Sunday, Rev. W. H. Sayler, of Avondale, Mich., will occupy the pulpit at the Free Will Baptist church, tomorrow morning. Miss Auna Grose, of Richmond, Ind., returned home today after a visit of six weeks with her sister, Miss Ida Hamm. J. A. Knowlton and wife, from north of town, returned this morning from a week’s visit with relatives in Lafayette. H. G. Clark and wife and John Barton and wife returned this morning from a week’s visit with Lafayette relatives. Miss Hazel Herrington returned to her home in Lafayette today after a short visit here with her brother, A. C. Herrington. C. H. Koppmeyer and Miss Nina Cox, of Chicago Heights, returned home this morning, after a few days visit with John McColly and family, in Rensselaer.

Nathaniel Henson and wife returned to their home in Grant Park, 111., this morning, after a week’s visit with their son, Nat Henson, in the east part of town. Subscriptions to the Benjamin Harrison mounment fund at Indianapolis amount to over $27,000. Subscriptions will now be taken throughout the state and in other states.

Mrs. Cora Hopkins and daughter Hazel, and Mrs. Emma Town sley, of Corning, lowa, who has been visiting relatives here, went to Monon today for a visit with relatives.

Miss Fannie McCarthy and Mr. Frank McCarthy went to Dunnville this morning, the former as principal of the Dunnville schools, and the latter to teach the Oak Grove school, near that place. The count at the Michigan City prison is now 845, low water mark figures. The count from this time on will begin to climb up owing to tho fact that the courts have commenced to grind all over the stateUncle Mac says Strick is buying cider at 10 cents a gallon and selling it at $1.50 per quart. Uncle Mao is figuring on Strick’s per cent, of profit, and will report when he gets the calculation completed.

M. F. Cbilcote returned from Dyer today, where he had been to

see l his nephew, Chase Thomas, of lowa, who is visiting Dr. Albion Miller and sisters there, and who for several years resided with Mr. Cbilcote in Rensselaer. < Elliott R. Burr, of Nameless, Va., was in town today. He is visiting his brother Howard Burr, in Jordan tp., and other relatives and old friends in this vicinty. Also renewing acquaintance with old army comrades. H. J. Bartoo and family arrived home today from 10 days’ stay at Buffalo, Niagara Falls, and with relatives at East Aurora. N. Y. His cousin Jesse Bartoo, is a deputy sheriff at Buffalo, and was one of the officers who conveyed the assassin Czolgosz from Buffalo to Auburn prison yesterday. G. W. Wright, of Fresno, Cal., who for several weeks has been visiting his daughter, Mrs. W. H. Beam, in Rensselaer, left for his home this morning. Mr. and Mrs. Beam accompanied him as far as Chicago. C F. Snodgrass, of Lafayette, is in charge of the depot work during agent Beam’s absence.

The predictions of J. N. Hurty, secretary of the state board of health, made some weeks ago, that after the warm weather, and particularly during September and October, an epidemic of typhoid fever could be expected, is being realized in various places in northern Indiana, there being an unusual number of cases at present.

Crown Point Register: “Candidate” Bozarth, of Valparaiso, has announced that he will be a candidate for the democratic nomination for congress from this district next year. We knew he would be a candidate for something, we know not what, on some ticket, we knew not which, and he stands as much show of being elected as any other man they could nominate. Still one more October wedding can now be formally made public. On Tuesday morning, Oct. 22nd, at 9 o’clock, will take place the marriage ceremony of Miss Blanche Alter, of Rensselaer and Mr. Ernest Eugene Fritts, of Dunkirk. The wedding will take place at the residence of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Alter, on South Weston street.

Rev. Z. T. Sweeney, state fish and game commissioner, says that he is receiving 1,000 applications a day for hunter’s licenses. Applications are in from all parts of the state, and Mr. Sweeney has all the work he can attend to. He thinks that the office of fish and game commissioner is overcrowed and that some help should be given during the time the hunting licenses are being issued. The citizens of Wayne and Tippecanoe townships, Kosciusko county, petitioned the county council to make an appropriation for the holding of an election to vote aid for the building of the Chicago <fe Toledo Transfer railroad, the Tippecanoe Route. The county council refused to make the appropriation and the citizens brought mandamus proceedings to compel the council to act. The case was heard by Judge Biggs on Tuesday and decided in favor of the petitioners.