Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1902 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

SATURDAY. S. M. Laßue went to Frankfort today on business. Mrs. Geo. Sharp is visiting her parents at Peru, Ind., this week. Miss Belle Fendig is visiting her sister Tillie, at Delphi. Attorney Emory Sellers was here today from Monticellp on business. J. J. Hunt went to Logansport on business today. Rex Warner has been very sick the last few days. Miss Myra Clark is visiting friends at Milwaukee. Mrs. Mary Peyton and children are visiting at Monon. Mies Anna Young is in Hammond for a few days’ visit. Mrs. Lyman Zea and children went to Lafayette to spend the fourth with relatives. Mrs. John Kohler went to Chicago Heights Thursday fur a few days visit. Mrs. Lovisa Hopkins is able to be up and around again after her recent very dangerous sickness. Miss Nelle Smith, of Chicago, is here for a short visit with friends. ' Mr. and Mrs. Bert Guff and her sisters, Mary and Edith Adams, are in Chicago for a few days. * Miss Mary Hyland and Earl Housman of Chicago, are here for a few days’ visit with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Win. Maloney, of Chicago, came Thursday to make a short visit with Mrs. Mary Drake. Mr. and Mrs. Luther Hemphill went to Chicago Heights Thuiaday for a few days’ visit with their daughter, Mrs- Dolly Randle. Owing to the absence of the pastor, there will be no services of any kind at the M. E. church, tomorrow. There will be services at the Free Will Baptist church Sunday morning and evening by the new pastor, Rev. Joseph Cochran, of. Johnsonville, 111. Mr. and Mrs. R. fiallagan of Ottowa, 111., returned home today after a two weeks visit with his father P. Hal lagan and family near town. Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Hiatt left this afternoon for a six weeks stay at Winona Lake where Mr. Hiatt will take a special course in nature study, under Prof. Coulter, of Purdue. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Walker and Mr. and Mrs Chas. Harris, of Chicago, are here for a week’s visit with Floyd Robinson and family. Thomas Wickens, of Whiteside Qo., 111., was here Thursday and closed up the purchase, from Ed. Randle, of the Isley farm, in Hanging Grove. It is an 80 acre farm.* The price is 53,600 and possession is given next spring. At Wheatfield, today, Joe Stump son of Asa Stump, was run over by the cars and had one leg mangled so badly that amputation was necessary. It is also stated that bis bead was hurt, but it was not known bow badly.

The Fourth was a very hot day, the- highest temperature here being 93| degrees, or half a degree higher than June loth, the hottest day of the summer, heretofore. Today is still hotter, an even 94 degrees. The members of the Odd Fellows and Rebekahs lodges are requested to meet at the lodge hall at 10;30 a. m. tomorrow, from which plape they will march in a body to the church there to listen to a special services. Johnny Harmon, 7 year old son of Jerome Harmon, was severely and painfully injured Friday, by the explosion of powder, in a toy cannon. His face, one eye and one ear are badly burned. None of the injuries will be permanent, however. Two travelers from beyond the ocean arrived this afternoon and will visit at St. Joseph’s College, for a few days. They are Revs. Aloysius Santozzi and Joseph Schaeper, both of Rome, Italy. The former is an Italian, the latter an American, though living in Rome. Isaac Morgan, of Kingman, i Kans., who has been here for some ; weeks visiting his mother and brother George and other relatives, I took his departure this morning; but will visit his daughter at Valparaiso, Mrs. Nellie Hanscomb, a few days before returning to his home in Kansas. Married by Samuel M. Lemoine Justice of the Peace, at his resi- 1 dence near Fair Oaks, Ind., on ' July 2nd, 1902, Abraham DeKoker of DeMotte Ind., to Mist) Lulu M. Clifton of Fair Oaks Ind. The ' groom, Abraham DeKoker is one of Jasper county’s school teachers, the bride a daughter of James Clifton of Fair Oaks.

The river has gone down about 18 inches, from its high mark. The water has mostly disappeared from yards, gardens »nd barn lots, but many pastures and fields are still flooded. On the Fourth Rensselaer people, out in boats, below town, rowed over sweet corn in the tassel, over pig lot fences and in some cases over pastures 10 feet under water. The preponderance of evidence is clearly that such high water was never known here in recent years. Uncle Henry Fisher, now of Jennings County, visited here over the 4th and went to Hammond today, to visit other relatives there. He says crop prospects are fine in Jennings now. , He has been there two years, and both previous years were crop failures, on account of drouth. His son Joe had better luck, and bud such good crops both years that he cleaned up an even SI,OOO each year. Joe has now sold his farm there and has moved into Shelbyville, where he has invested in business property.

MONDAY.

MiBB Blanche Hoyes went to Chicago today for a week’s visit Gns Phillips is in Chicago for a few days. Mies Gertrude Demmer of Rushville, Ind., is visiting Miss Carrie Randle. Miss Nellie Smith returned to Chicago this morning after a few days visit here. Mr. and Mrs. Ora Wiles, of Barkley tp., returned today from a week’s visit at Sheridan. See Dr. Merrill, over Moody & Roth’s meat mark** Boin, Sunday, July 6th, to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Tanner, of Barkley Tp., a daughter.

Miss Blanche Lvon of Lafayette spent Sunday with Mbs Maude Healy. Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Ira Brown, of Foresman, a boy Saturday, July sth. Born, Saturday, July sth, to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Price, of Aix, a daughter. Mrs. I. B. Washburn came home today from a short visit at Logansport. n Born, Saturday July stb, to Mr. and Mrs. Chess Castor, of Barkley, a daughter. James Knight, in the east part of town, who has been suffering from a severe inflamation of the eyes, is now improving. Mrs. J. A. Beck, of Fairfield lowa, returned home today, after an extended visit with Mr. and Mrs. B. Forsythe. Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Warner and daughter Hazel, returned today from a few days’ visit at Monticello. B. Forsythe is building a fine large barn on his lots at the corner of Washington and Division streets. Mrs. A. Leopold went to Hammond this morning for a weeks visit with her daughter Mrs. Leo Wolf. Mrs. James Randle of Chicago Heights is here for a weeks visit with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Lute Hemphill.

There was a brisk shower here at noon today, and at 2 p. m. a regular soaker. Total rainfall, at both showers, two inches. Mrs. Willard Shields went home with her brother, Henry Hodshire today for a two weeks’ visit at Cullom, Ind. He has been visiting here for about a week. People began to cross Burk’s bridge again, Sunday, but the water over thq grade on this side is still deep enough to come into the wagon boxes. Henry Randle is building himself a fine large residence on the large tract in the grove north of the railroad which he purchased last fall of Mrs. Nellie Harris. John Andros is doing the carpenter work.

The site for the new court house at Goodland has been secured ? , and Judge Thompson has approved the deeds. The tract is 2J acres in extent, or about the same as our our public square, and is just north of the Pan Handle R. R. depot. David Marion, of Chicago, joined his family here Thursday night and visited relatives until Sunday, when all returned home. Dave has a good job as a lineman for the Commonwealth Electric Light Contrpany, of Chicago. * Quite a large company of ladies had a swimming party, Saturday

afternoon,' below the creamery bridge. Though' not strictly observing the injunction of the woman in the song, to not go near the water, they kept where it was shallow enough to be entirely safe. Jim Parker has finished ; the commercial course at Notre Dame, and is visiting relatives here. August Ist he will begin working in the general offices of the Duluth & Iron Mountain R. R. at Two Harbors, Minn. As the result of his recent conviction of jury bribing Pat O’Donnell has been removed from his office of public administrator, in Chicago, by Gov. Yates. He was appointed in 1897, and is understood to have made the office very lucrative. During his recent trip to lowa Constable Christie Vick met for the first time John Shannon; an uncle of his who was located at Des Moines, as book-keeper for the Capital Insurance Co. He was a big, fat jolly fellow whom Christie was much taken with. Today a telegram informed Christie that he had died suddenly. Sunday was the fourth successive day entirely without rain, and the longest dry spell here since the last week in May. The waters, though still high, had gone down a great deal, and the land had dried off greatly, and the prospec s for crops had improved fast, in proportion. But the rainy conditions have returned again today, and everything is "off” again,” for the time being, at least. The three new arc lights, on Weston and Dayton streets, were turned on Thursday night. There are now 22 arc(street lights and about 60 inoaiidescents. The number of incandescents in residences and business houses is about 2,000. All the arc lights' have showed quite a disposition to [ blink frequently since the new ones were turned on and it seems probable that the arc dynamo is overloaded.