Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1902 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

FRIDAY, J. H. Perkins, returned yesterday from h few days’ visit with his brother. R. E. Perkins, of Mishawaka. Mrs. C. H. Porter, of Delphi, re* turned home yesterday, after a week’s visit with her parents, Mr., and Mrs. J. W. Williams. Chas. Ready, of Connersville, having discontinued his studies at St, Joseph Col 1 egp, returned home yesterday. Two candidates for state offices were in town today, and it was not such a very good day for candidates either. Miss Mollie Rayburn, of Me daryville, came yesterday to spend the spring and summer with Mrs. 0. E. Hersh man. Miss Dessie Cowden accompanied her father, J. W. Cowden, to his home near Logansport, to day to visit over Sunday. Mrs. C. B. Steward, went to Monon yesterday, for a few days’ visit with the family of Newt. Imes, who are moving to Joliet, 111., this week. Sherman Richards went up to Gillam tp. today, where he has a week’s painting on a new house A. McCoy has just had erected and on which Lee Jessup did the wotk.

Mrs. M. E. Webster returned home to Westville, today. Her brother Ernest Cookerill, will remain here, and may conclude to buy another farm here. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Sprague, the Spiritualist missionaries, went to Lowell yesterday afternoon, where they will hold a series of meetings. Geo. O. Bales, our former lum- . ber dealer, now of Goodland, has been a business visitor in Rensselaer today. He is well pleased with his present location and prospects. Griffith A. Dean, of Marion, is here today, looking after his chances for help in his race for the Republican nomination for state Attorney General; and makes a very good impression. Roy Stephenson left today for Birmingham, Ala., where he will begin his season’s work as a bill poster for Harris’ Nickel Plate circus; his engagement with which has previously been mentioned. Mrs. Albert Dunn, of Wolcott, and Miss Grace Herbst, of Remington, were here today on their way home from Hammond, where they attended the funeral of their father, Joseph Herbst. Mr. Herbst was well known in this community. Bluebirds are being seen <quite frequently this spring, after many years of almost absolute absence. Robins are now quite common, and occasionally a meadow lark has returned from his southern sojourn. Mr. and Mrs- H. J. Reeder and family arrived here this morning from Harrison Co., West Virginia. They expect to be residents of Jasper county, hereafter, and will occupy a farm in Union Tp., rented for them by Thomas Florence, who is a brother-in-law of Mr. Reeder’s.

John Maxwell and J. A. Hodgjns, the two men frdx Kouts, who were charged with swiping some of Nelson Morris’ Jasper county timber, plead guilty to trespass and were jointly fined S2O, which they paid. Ed Maxwell and Sheridan Williams, who came in voluntarily, on the same charge, were discharged by the court. Mr. and Mrs. O. R. Derby, who recently sold their big farm in Hanging Grove Tp., are today visiting their cousin, Mrs. Dr. Johnson, previous to going to Morgan Park, 111., their former home. Mr. Derby does not expect to remain at Morgan Park, however, bui will probably go to Southern Illinois, in which place, also, he has a large tract of land. F. A. Cotton, of Indianapolis, deputy State Superintendent of Public Instruction, was in town today, in the interests of his candidacy for the Republican nomination for State Superintendent. He is well known to, as his abilities are greatly appreciated by the educators of the state, and he is therefore a very formidable candidate. If nominated, as now seems very probable, his popularity will add groat strength to the ticket. Rev. W. T. Carpenter, pastor of the Baptist church at Goodland, is now in Rensselaer and will begin a series of meetings at the Missionary Baptist church to-

night, to continue until the beginning of the Union revival meeting, nekt Wednesday night; after which Mr. Carpenter will assist in the Union meetings. His subject tonight will be: “God’s larger blessings come to us through our use of what we already have.”

SATURDAY.

Dr. I. B. Washburn still continues to improve, very satisfactorily. James Maloy is able to be out again after his recent very serious sickness. Mrs. Charles Platt Cr., is suffering from a severe attack of inflammatory rheumatism. L. H. Meyers, whp has been living in town, has moved out to his farm in the west part of Jordan tp. Saturday, March Blh, to Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Prince, northwest of town,- an 11 pound boy. Jim Meyers now holds a good job in a drugstore at the corner of 43rd street’and Cottage Ave., Chicago. Miss Floy Fuller is visitidg her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. M, Fuller, of Fair Oaks, for a few davs.

F. M. Weis, of Tonica, HL. came today for a short visit with his brother-in-law, Oscar Hauter, southeast of town, Mrs. Bert Hopper, of Rose Lawn, after a few days’ visit with her father, Arthur Trussel, returned home yesterday. Joe Schofield, the livery stable proprietor, went to the Kramer Springs today, to take a course of treatment for rheumatism. An infant son born last Sunday to Mr. and Mrs. Bennie King, on the Makeever farm in Newton tp., died Friday afternoon. Rev. Frank Wilcox, of Barnesborough, La., will preach at the F. W. Baptist church Sunday, morning and evening. He is a noted evangelist, and comes to this state to work in that capacity. Another of the many business changes of this season was consumated Friday. It was the sale by Joseph Schofield of a half interest in hie livery stable out-fit and business to Dan Way mire.

Rev. Ed. Meads has returned from Chicago, where he has been assisting in meetings in that city. He will hold his meeting as usual in his church here, Sunday morning, Rev. Hoover having been unable to come at this time. A floor team from Monticello Lodge, K. of P. will be over here Tuesday night, and do work in the Third rank with the lodge here. The Monticello team is reputed to be very fine in that work. Dr. Christian Fenger, Prof, of Surgery in Rush Medical College, and who operated on Dr. I. B. Washburn two years ago and again last month, * died last night, of pneumonia. He was one of the world’s greatest surgeons. W. H. Gardiner, the new owner of the J. V. Parkison farm, at the Ridge, has already put two car loads of tile into the land and has two more cars ordered. The big tract ;of rich pasture land will be broken up and planted to corn. Mrs. Wm, Imes, returned here from Monticello, today, for another short visit with relatives previous to going to her home at Bozeman, Mont. She report that David McQuaig a well known resident of Monticello, was thought to be on his death-bed when she left there. C. W. Duvall has just received from his . brother-in-law at Emporia, Kans , a picture labeled “a Kansas It is a photograph of Clare Cooper Thompson, 10 years old, weight 110 pounds. The lad is dressed like a prize fighter, and in build is a reduced copy of John L. Sullivan in his palmiest days. Rochester Republican: About the rankest aute-deluvian mossback 'Democratic paper in Indiana or the United States is the Stale Sentinel, published at Indi-

anapolis and distributed without money and without price to every family or person who will take it out of the post office. Some families get two or three copies and the mails, and especially those who carry the mail on the rural routes, are bqrdened with this worse than worthless sheet. The principal purpose is to influence the popular vote and if possible put Indiana back into the Democratic ranks. Its advertising patronage pays the expenses. Wallace Parkison has arrived at Bucklin, Kansas, with his car load of goods, mules and other live stock but judging from the adventures he had during the trip, the next time he goes he will leave the mules and load up with dynamite, in preference. The dynamite would only explode once, but the mules were in chronic eruption. They kicked out thb partition between them and Wallace’s drawing room compartment of the box car, and then added both insult and more injury by kicking his cook stove into scrap iron, and no Scrap Iron Benny there to buy the remains. Wallace now thinks as did the the colored brother whose mule threw him off in the d?rt, and then turned tail and kicked him for falling “That’s what makes me ’spise a mule.”

MONDAY.

Gus Grant is visiting friends at Edinburg, Ind., this week. J. B. Wor km an ret urn ed home today from a business trip to Indianapolis. Mrs. L. M. Imes has gone to Chicago to finish buying her spring millinery. Aus Moore moved last week to his new farm, the former Headley Brown place, in Barkley. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Laßue eturned today from attending Mrs. Seber’s funeral at Milford, 111. March is one-third gone, and the oldest inhabitant can not remember a finer first third of March in this region. Logan Wood came down with a string of teams, today, and moved the whole stock of the Judy & Wood branch store here, to Parr. Mrs. W. A. Jordan and son of Hammond, spent Sunday with her daughter, Mrs. W. G. Slagle, of the Makeever House.

Rev. Frank Wilcock, of Orangeburg, 8. 0., preached at the F. W. Baptist church, Sunday, and will preach there again tonight and Tuesday night. C. O. White, who formerly lived on the Swartz farm, south of the Ridge, has moved to Henry Amsler’s place, the former D. B. Nowels farm, some miles north of town. F. L. Hunt, now in the drug business at Lowell, spent Sunday with his family here. He has prepared a residence there and his family will move there this week. Capt. and Mrs. G. W. Payne, the recently married couple, finished packing and shipping their goods to Monticello, last Saturday, and Sunday left for that place, which will be their future home. Grant Warner returned from the Mudlavia springs, Saturday evening, with his rheumatism much benefited. Today himself and E. G. Warren went to West Baden to try the watertrXhere for stomach troubles, Silas Swain went to Indianapolis again, today, on a business trip. He is the patentee of the smoothest article in the way of farm gates the eye of man ever looked upon, and be is figuring with some firms there to have them manufactured on a laage scale. L. A. Bostwick, the civil engineer, left Sunday for a pretty long-distance trip westward. He has gone to Salt Lake City to accept a situation in his line on theRio Grande & Western R. R. He thinks he has a permanent position in prospect there. Mrs. Bostwick will remain here with her parents for the pre sent. F. J. Gardner, who with his family have been spending the

winter at St. Petersburg, Fla., ie now visiting bis father, W. H, Gardner, of this place. Mr. Gardner has recently 'bought property in Benton County and will shortly remove to the same. Here are some more unusual early bird facts than any we have yet related. Two orchard orioles were seen here Bunday, which is at least six weeks earlier than their usual time of arriving. Even more unusual‘‘than that, is the fact Wm. Powers saw a “red bird” a cardinal grosbeak, in the woods some place down the river. They are the rarest of rare birds here at any time of the year, but to be seen here this early in the spring is unheard of. Sangamon county, Illinois, Republicans bad their county convention last Saturday, and we see by the Chicago papers that a'l the delegates to all district, congressional, state and other conventions were elected by that convention.JJThis is the method which the sagacious Brook Rporter says is entirely unheard of. We have personal knowledge of other Illinois counties where the method has been the firmly established rule for.years, and we believe it to be the almost universal custom over that entire state.

The parties here who sent the Telegram to Guss Phillip®, at the Park Theater, Brooklyn, as related in a previous issue, have received their answer by mail. The letter came addressed to “Bennie Fendig, Frankie Russ and Freddie Phillips, town Scandalers.” In the letter Guss Fays the threatening letter was received, and that he is not killed yet but badly scared. The letter he thinks was written by some jealous fool or a crank. On the interesting question of bis being married to Edna Spooner, as was intimated in the threatening letter, Guss maintains a profound silence. And silence, as has been said, sometimes speaks louder than words.