Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1902 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

FRIDAY. Mrs. Fibre Pullins went to Frankfort today for a week’s visit. Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth is in Chicago today. Born, Wednesday, Jan. 15th to Mr. and Mrs. George Hurley. of MoCoyeburg, a son. Paul Weging of Aix ia suffering from at attack of inflamation of the middle ear. Mrs. John Bislosky has gone to Chicago for a week’s visit with relatives. Mrs. Margret Cooper of DeMotte returned home yesterday after a few days visit with her brother Wm. Stephenson. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Nichols returned to Lowell yesterday and will go to housekeeping in a few weeks.

Some 20 members of the Rensselaer Relief Corps, No. 39, went to Monon, this afternoon to attend the funeral of their late member, Mrs. Mary Gray. Wm. Daniels, now living in the John Greenfield property, in the east part of town,, has bought Harrison Warren’s place north of the railroad, and will make that his family residence, after March Is.t. The price paid was $1,500. George Healey left for Washington this morning, to begin work in the government printing office. He went somewhat sooner than expected, on account of a hurry telegram from Congressman Crumpacker. W. H. Kinpple, of Lexington, 111., was in town today. He has sold his grocery business at Lexington and is now looking after his 240 acre farm some 6 miles southeast of town, preparatory to moving upon it within a few weeks. He will manage it himself, hereafter, and also largely improve it, in the way of tiling especially.

0. C. Starr finished filling his ice house, today. He found the ice even better that he expected, it being 9 to 12 inches thick, and very dear and hard. He has about 700 tons put up. Superintendent Clark of the county asylum, is filling his ice house from Mr. Starr’a pond also. M. P. Warner is also filling his house, further up the river, and also has a very fine quality of ioe. A very bad accident happened to Gus Wartena a former Rensselaer resident, at Hammond, this morning. While engaged in his occupation as a linesman he fell from an electric light pole, and broke both legs. It is feared that his injuries will prove fatal. His brother Abe Wartena, the blacksmith, went up to see him on the 3:27 train this afternoon. Gus’s wife was Miss Emma Robinson, also formerly of Rensselaer.

Mr®. Isaac Banes, died at Monon, Wednesday, of consumption. Her husband is a half brother of Monroe Banes, of our city. The funeral was held at Monon this, Friday forenoon. Her age was about 24 years. A specially sad feature of her death is that she leaves three young children, all under 5 yean of age, and the youngest, a girl only 3 weeks old. Mr. and Mn. Monroe Banes have taken this baby, and will raise it as their own. It is an almost phenomenally small baby, but Mrs. Banes believes she can raise it. The father will ke»p tne two little boys. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Farlow a! Asphaltum, returned home today after a <ew days visiting with various relatives here. They are one of our numerous holiday mar-

ried couples, and Mr. Farlow has had things coming his way in good shape lately, as not only has he won for his bride one of Gillam’s best and fairest daughters, formerly Miss Flora E, Wilcox, but he has also just been appointed Field Superintendent of the New York Oil Company, one of the leading companies now operat ing in the Gillam field. It is a good and responsible position, but one Mr. Farlow has demonstrated his fitness to fill.

SATURDAY. Born yesterday to Mr. and Mrs. Yeiter of Barkley, a son. Miss Maggie Kenton is visiting friends in and around Parr for a few days. A. J. Abbott was called V Tawanda, 111., this morning on ac count of his brothers death. Joe Sharp returned home today after a week’s visit with his sisten Mrs. L. C. Devlin, at Burnettsville.

Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Jenkins of near Blackford, went to Monon today for a few days’ visit with relatives. Mrs. F. E. Wert, returned homi to Bluffton, Ind., today, after a few days’ visit with her parents, Mr and Mrs. George Tullis, near town John Rinkard, the Marion wife murderer, was hanged in the stab prison, shortly after midnight, Friday morning. Uncle Bill Baker is so far recovered from his injury of several weeks ago, that he is able to be out again. r All the boys who were members of the Junior class at the Gymnasium last year are requested to meet Mr. Work at the Gymnasium Monday evening after school. Enos Timmons, of Jordan tp., who has been very sick for the

past week with appendicitis is much better today, and seems on the sure road to recovery Mr, Frank Thurston and Miss Mabel Thurston were married Wednesday, Jan.,l6th, at Remington by Rev. Jacob Dyke, pastor of Remington Presbyterian churoh. Mr. and Mrs. J. Zerfaeand children, who have visiting her brother Newton Gunyon, north of town, returned to their home at Michigantown, Ind , today.

Miss Alice Wartena also went t< Chicago last evening, on account of her brother,. Gus’s injuries. The accident occured at Chicago Heights and Gus was taken to h hospital in Chicago, Wallace Parkison arrived home from his latest Kansas trip, today. He bought 1,100 acres in Kiown Co. for $3.50 per acre, and has se cured the use of about 3,000 acres more for stock raising purposes He will move out about Feb. 15th C urtain, Sowards and Fie min . s he three Valparaiso young met charged with the Davidson murder have taken a change of venue, and will be tried at Crown Point, if at all. George Wind and Anna Storm were recently married in Gibson county. The clerk remarked after issuing the license. “If there’s anything in names, there’ll be a cyclone in their house before many moons.”

Conrad Kellner will go to Oklahoma with Charley Murray, next Tuesday. Charley’s intended trip □as already been mentioned. “Cooney” is going along to try to enter a claim, or failing that, to >uy one. The Indiana Supreme court Thursday, in affirming a lower court judgment, held that an em ployer cannot by any contract he may make with his workmen reieve himself from duties and labilities which the law expressly imposes on him. Elmer and J. C. Fisher, who will make a public sale on Jan. 29th, will rent their farm southeast of town. Elmer is going jack to Champaign Co., 111. » to take charge of his father’s 320 acre farm there, and J. C. is ooming to town to help his brother, Zell, run their big feedgbarn.

A Mt. Ayr item in the Kentland Enterprise says that “Felix French has sold his 160 acre farm just east of Julian to J. D. Rich, considera- i tion $13,000.00. Ike French who has beenkfarming the place for sometime, will have a sale Jan. 30th, after which he will move to Hutchinson,‘.Kansas, where he hat, purchased 160 acres of land,” President Hamilton, of the Tippecanoe Route, sends word that work will begin just as soon as spring opens. It is to be hoped this promise will be fulfilled, as people along the line have had old promises replaced by new ones until they are wearying of many promises and no performances.

J. B. Hemphill, of Valpariso, Neb., who has been here some days visiting his mother, Mrs. 8. A. Hemphill, went to Danville, 111., today, to visit his brother Jim, before going back to Nebraska. He is still editor of the Valparaiso Visitor. He went to Nebraska about 18 years ago, and this is bis first visit back here for 12 years. Pat O’Dea, the great football kicker, has been in hard luck again. He is now employed as a reporter on the Chicago'Ameri can, and a few nights ago wm-sand-bagged and robbed. Then, very soon afterwards he got badly scalded by an accident. He is

c i : , ■ i y ' r ■ now in a hospital at Chicago and will be laid up for some weeks. The average yield of corn reported by the Department of Agriculture is the lowest ever made in the .United States. It is sixteen bushels and a fraction against twentyfive a year ago. The poorest crop in average per acre prior to this year in this country was in 1881, which stood for twenty years the lowest on record, and wee a fraction over eighteen bushels. Knox Democrat: Henry Clements the boy who killed Mrs. Davis, last week, appears to be getting well at the jail. The bullet is still in his head but is causing ijo trouble while the wound coused by it is he rapidly healing. He does not show any worry or anxiety, and from his appearance one would suppose that had less to bjther him than the average man. The T. H. D. Club gave a “Hey Rqbe” masquerade party at the home of Miss Ethel Ferguson last evening. About twenty five were present. The evening was spent very pleasantly by all, and about 10 o’clock an old style supper was

erved on red table cloths, and the refreshments were, weinier-worst, baked beans, pickles, dough-nuts, apples and bread and butter. Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Makeever, of Stromsburg, Neb., are visiting Rensselaer friends and relatives, >ver Sunday. Mrs. Makeever is he well known poet, Idael Maaeever, and she is taking a course in classic literature, at Valparaiso Normal College, and Mr. Makeever •ame back for a few days’ visit with her.

In his annual report to th® governor the state entomologist, James K. Troop, of Purdue University, says the San Jose scale is spreading in the orchards of the state. He thinks it comes from young trees shipped into Indiana by nurserymen of other states and recommends that the appropriation of SI,OOO a year, made by the state for the inspection of orchards, be increased to $2,000. It would seem that, for some reason, the region around Cedar Lake had always been a noted place for crimes, sensations and ■asualties. Thus the Crown Point Star, in its old time news column, intely gave the particulars of the murder of a little baby, whose body was found in the lake, and this week, it mentions the stealing ut a child in that vicinity, in the same old news column. These events took place in 1859.

The Kentland schools will not oe dismissed, for long, because of the burning of their school house Three of the town churches, the Methodist, the Presbyterian and the Christian, have been tendered to the school board, and schools will be opened in them Monday, Regarding the original cost of the burned building, the Enterprise says it was $23,000. It was built in the inflated times of *lß7l, and probably as good a building could be put up now far $12,000 to $15,000. The land selling industry has not entirely suspended in this immediate locality. Two more having just been closed up. Wm. Ausperger, sor 6 miles northeast, has sold his 160 acre farm to Albert Bertrand, of Kankakee, 111. The price was $66 per acre. Following this, Mr. Augsperger has bought of A. Harmon, in town, his 105 acre farm, the former Jaoob Sayler place, 8 miles west of town. The price was S7O per acre. C. J. Dean negotiated both these deals.

Work on the new mile of gravel road, north of town, is now being rushed right alorfg. As before stated, it starts from the north gravel road, at Norman’s corners, and runs a mile east. It is being built of gravel from the Phegley pit, southwest of town, and not of the gravel from the old Stackhouse pit, four miles north, as \\afi first intended. The reason the latter is . not used is that while there is still ! plenty of good gravel there, no more can be taken away, without ' getting dangerously close to the buildings.