Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1901 — TUESDAY. [ARTICLE]

TUESDAY.

Ed Heath has gone to Oxford on a business trip. G. K. Hollingswoath i 6 in Knox on business today. John Hunt, of Sheldon, lowa, entered St. Joseph College yesterday. Mrs. Whitsell Lewis went to DeMotte today for a few days’ visit. Rev. E. C. Miller went to Roseville yesterday to attend a Dunkard meeting. The Meeting will be held at 2:30 o’clock Saturday afternoon at the court house. I Miss Myrtle Chipman returned Sunday from her visit at Buchanon Mich., and other plaoesMrs. M. J. Berry, of Monon was the guest yesterday of her daughter, Mrs. W. M. Baughman. The ladies of the Presbytertian •huroh will serve dinner to the publio on Thanksgiving day. Mrs. T. F. Clark, matron of the county asylum, is now able to sit up a little after her long siokness. R. T. Newman went to Rochester Ind., today, near which .place he h figuring on the purchase of land. Mrs. Rose Ladd and Mrs. Frank Lewis, of Oxford, are visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Berry Paris. Mre. C. H. Porter, of Delphi, came yesterday to be present tomorrow at the Perkins-Steckton wedding. Mrs. P. W. Nelson returned to her home in Lafayette yesterday after a short visit with friends at the Nowels House.

Mrs. George Minniciis of Chicago Heights, went to Monticello yesterday to visit relatives, after a short visit with relatives here. W. H. Suedeker and wife, of Barkley tp., returned yesterday from a visit of five weeks with relatives in Coshocton, Ohio. Jas. H. Howarth, of Oxford, visited yesterday with his daughter Misa Lillian Howartb, one of the teachers in the city schools. Mr. and Mrs, Robert Simmons, of Greenfield, came yesterday to visit Felix French and wife, J. Q. Alter and wife and other relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Day went to Tolono, 111., today, to visit hie father, T. B. Day, who is very low with palsy. Bev. Father Lambert, of Dunnißgton, Ind., returned home today after a visit at St. Joseph’s College. Today is the 40th anniversary of the wedding of Uncle Felix French and wife. The day was observed by a large dinner party. Mr. and Mrs. I. d. Porter and son Boyd and Mr, and Mrs. Bert Brenner are all in Chicago today, and will attend Ben Hnr, tonight. Uncle Wallace Shedd left for Julesburg, Colo., today, to. spend a couple of weeks looking after Shedd Brothers’ ranch and cattle there. Mrs. Cecelia Perkins, of Morris lU., oame today, to visit her broth er-in-law, J. H. Perkins and to at tend the Stookton-Perkins wedding tomorrow evening. Mre. Emma Townsley, who has spent the summer here with her Bißter Mrs. T. F. Clark and other relatives and friends, left for her home at Corning, lowa, today. James Mullins and his mother Mrs. Catherine Brown of Swayzee, returned home today, after a visit with his half brother Dr. R. Brown, near Laura, on the Gifford road. A freight car jumped the track and also tore it up some, up about St. Johns, last night, causing the morning paper train, from Chicago, to go over the 0. & A. and the Michigan City division to Monon.

1 j A fpeoial train passed through the city ever the Monon Monday afternoon carrying the general passenger agents of Chioago to Asheville, N. C. to attend a convention. A. E. Zook, whose application to run a saloon at Gifford was defeated by a remonstrance, has left that place and is working s farm near Fair Oaks. His brother is now conducting the Gifford pool room. The organization of the William McKinley National Memorial Association is being perfected in Washington for the erection of the two million dollar structure at the Washington approach to the bridge over the Potomac. Purdue tied Chicago University at their foot ball game last Saturday, the soore being sto 5. Ed Mills, of our town, played with Purdue, and hi 6 good work was specially mentioned in the Chicago papers.

8. M. Lemoine, the Fair man fined for whipping little Junk Daywitt bad the deputy prosecutor draw up a complaint for arresting the boy for profanity, but after his own case was ended that profanity proceeding was dropped. Babcock &' Hopkins are now putting a blower in their elevator, It will collect the floating-dust and dirt from the elevator, and especially the ends and chaff from the oats clipper, and blow it into the furnace under the engine, where it will be burned up. Rev. Father Meyer, pastor of St 'Augustine’s Catholic church, left for St. Louis, today, to attend a priests’ convention. He will be away until next week and Father Hahn will occupy his pulpit, and preach an elegant sermon at St. Augustine’s church next Sunday. Michigan City Dispatch: Governor Durbin is expected to visit the penitentiary here. He is making a tour of all the state institutions and was in Lafayette yesterday. Next week he will spend several days at South Bend and will probably take in Michigan City on the same trip.

J. F. Eubanks and wife and John Moyer, who have been visiting ’Squire Troxell, went to DeMotte today for a short visit with relatives. They will probably return’here the last of the week for a few Hays’ longer stay before returning to their home in LaFontaine, Wabash county. When it comeß to farming and stock raising the firm of Thompson & Lawler is in it good and strong. They are raising 2000 acres of corn this year, about 500 acres on the Jasper county farm and 1,500 in Newton county. It is fine corn for this year, and much of it is expected to yield from 40 to 50 bushels to the acre. They are now feeding 1,200 head of cattle, and it takes 600 bushels of corn every day to keep their jaws going.. The K. N. Club was very pleasantly entertained by Miss Irma KannalJ at her home on McCoy Avenue, last evening, in honor of Mies Della Harris, one of its favorite members, who on Wednesday leaves for Chicago as one of the many October brides. The Club presented Miss Harris with a very handsome plate and followed the presentation of the plate with a shower of many valuable and interesting presents.

There is trouble on the new brick streets already. It seems that the late big rain washed the sand filling under the bricks down nto the interstioes between the crushed rock below and this le the bricks settle down in a number of places. This sand cushion or filling under the brick is said to be several inches thick, in places, and if it should mostly wash down into the crushed rock under it, the street will be left decidedly uneven.