Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1901 — MONDAY. [ARTICLE]

MONDAY.

Joe Reynolds, of Delphi, wire here Sunday. The rainfall here Sunday was slightly more than a third of an inch. I. N. Hemphill, the dray man, severely mashed two of his fingers Saturday. Mrs. H. J. Bartoo returned today from a week’s visit with friends in Goodland. Miss Chloa Baughman of Monon oame today to visit her brother, W. M. Baughman and family. W. W. Shedd, of Fairbury, 111., visited his brothers, east of town, from Saturday until today. James Clark went to Monticello today, near where he will run the engine for a corn shredder. Mr. Romeo Underwood, of Greencastle, was the guest Sunday of Miss Lillian Howarth. Mrs. Kate. Gangloff, of Chicago, cune Saturday to visit her sister, Mrs. Cbas. Guttrick, near Sharon. Bert Hopper, of Rose Lawn, was the guest Sunday of the family of Arthur Trussed, north of town Theo. Scott and wife, of Monticello, came today to visit R. T. Newman and family, north of town for a few days. Mr. Frank Wells and Miss Nan Callahan, of Lafayette, were guests Sunday of Miss Kathryn Jones, at the Bedford farm.

Mies Margaret Micks, of Seneca Falls, N. Y., returned home this morning after a several days' visit with Mrs. A. L. Berkley. Prof. Neber was in Indianapolis Saturday and witnessed the defeat of his Alma Mater, Indiana or four bottles and what it will cost University by Illinois by a score of 18 to 0. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene W. Fritts have moved from Dunkirk to Hartford City, where Mr. Fritts is the manager of a new store recently installed there by the firm he had been working for at Dunkirk. Miss Elizabeth Spaulding, manager of the Western Union telegraph office here, returned Saturday, from a one month’s vacation, sp.ent with relatives and friends in Indianapolis and Greencastle. It is now definitely settled that T. J. Sayler will remain in Lamar, Colo., where he now is, and that his family will join him there in a short time. He is assisting in the mangement of the grain and feed business he bought there last February.

Paul Elijah, the 5 years-Old son of Lewis Elijah, residing on the Henry Harris’ farm, west of town, fell off a work benoh Saturday and sustained a fraoture of both bones of the right leg below the knee. Dr. I. M. Washburn reduced the fracture Sunday. J. N. Baker of Barkley Tp., has just bought a 160 acre farm in Fulton oounty, a few miles from Rochester. Mr. Baker owns a fine large farm in Barkley, but we understand he has some thoughts of moving to Fulton oounty in the course of a year or two. The rain storm of Sunday was followed by a sharp and sudden ohange to colder. The lowest temperature recorded nere, by U. S. thermometer, was 18 degrees, whioh is. 14 degrees below the freezing point, And 9 degrees oolder than it had been before this season.

Reed, of Union tp., who has homesteaded a quarter section of land near Surrey, North Dakota, will go there in a few weekß to ocanpy it. He has recently elected a new house and barn thereon. His brother, Frank Reed, will accompany him. Miss Lena VanScoy, of Helena, Mont., daughter of Rev. W. T. Van Sooy, a former Methodist minister here, whose death occurred in Montana about a year ago, is here visiting the family of Ezra Clark. After a short visit here she will go to Flora, Carroll oonnty to remain during the winter with her grand parents.

Miss Mildred Field who is here organizing a school in shorthand and typewriting will open the same next Monday, in rooms over the Harris bank. From present indications it seems certain that her school will be very liberally patronized. U. M. Baughman, of the law firm of Baughman & Williams, has bought of the administrator the Aunt Jane Shaw residence, on Weston street, and will move into the same this week. His family is now living in the former E. F. Short property, on Franklin street. Mrs. Elizabeth McKinley and granddaughter, Miss Donna McKinley, of Tremont City, Ohio, who have been visiting the former’s brother, J. C. Thrawls, went to Csss county today for a short visit before returning to their home. Fred Duvall, who resided in Rensselaer a great many years ago, during the life of his father, Dan Duvall, is here on a visit with his relatives. His home is now in Pueblo, Colo., but he has been working in the printing department of a Buffalo, N. Y., newspaper, for several months. C. F. Reigel, who managed the "Western Union telegraph office here, during Miss Spaulding’s absence, went south on the night train, Sunday night, although he left word that he had gone to Cedar Lake and would be back Monday. He took his consuming thirst with him, but didn’t take any receipt for his room rent.