Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1902 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

TUESDAY. .; Mrs. L. W. Henkle is reported seriously sick. J. Q Alter is in Delphi attending the Carnival at that plan > Mis. Julia Healey is in Delphi for a few days. Miss Maggie Healy is visiting relatives in Delphi for a few days. George Macy, of Columba* 0., 'is visiting his mother, Mrs. John Makeever. Mrs- M. P. Warner and son Jim are visiting Mrs. Warner’s brother in Delphi. Mrs Mary Jane Hopkinris visiting her brother Oscar Tharp of Monticello for a week or 10 days. Born, Monday night, s o Mr. and Mrs. Wm, Newberry, of Barkley tp., a daughter. Mrs 1 . G. A. Thomas and children returned to their home in Monticello today after a weeks visit with J. 0. Gwin and family. Mr. and Mrs Frank Snyder, and daughters Frankie andßdith, returned home last evening, after a visit with Mr. end Mrs. G. P. Daugherty. Mesdames J F. Warren, R. W. TSprggs and A. W. Cole, and Miss Ora Clark, are visiting the family of John Osborne, brother of the three first nam-d, near Lee, today. Rev. Albert Ogle, of Indianapolis, Superintendent of State Baptist Missions, wi 1 preach at the First Baptist church, at the usual morning hour, next Sunday. Col. Fred Phillips left on a westward business trip this morning. It is to atti-nd. in the capacity of auction- er, a big Hereford cattle sale a» De* Moines, lowa, andanjthera’ Linc< lu Nrb He will be gone about 8 da* s ' Mrs. Id * Nowels, of Lansing, 111., who was here to attend the funeral of htr brother, Randle Overton, returned home this morning. She states they are contemplating removing to a western state, prob Colorado. Mrs. A. J Abbott, whose sadden very sevt-r* sickness with cholera morhu* w«s mentioned M/nday, got much worse again last night, and reqiirrd »be services of several phyfi-'ians. Ab tut 9 p. m. her . condition was such that she was

given up for dead, but she rallied again, but her condition today is still very seriois. There was an enormous crowd at Fountain Park Assembly, last Sunday, the closing day, to hear Sam Jones. It was the biggest day of the Assembly in point of attendance. But in point of excellence of entertainment, people who heard Hobsonthe Sunday before, rank his address far above that of the Rev. free-spoken Ham’s. Fowler had a general jail delivery ou Wednesday night, of last week. Four prisoners escaped by sawing off a window bar. Two of the escaped men were Henry Lewie and John Meyers, traveling thieves caught on John Robinson circus day, another was John Burton. an all-around kcal thief, and the olhrT Walter Cunningham, a 17 year old boy who came from Illinois with .stolen money in Lis possession. State Geologist B’atchley is investigating road materials for use in making country highways. He says many farxers haul gravel and other materials long distances when a little investigation would disclose an ample supply of gravel near at hand. He is trying to locate these areas so the supply' may be made available at small cost. He says also there is much stone that could be used for the same purpose.

Mr. James H. Anderson and Miss Julia McGee, a young couple from Giffoid, were married about 3 p. m. Monday, Aug. 25th, 1902, by Squire Jacob M. Troxell. The marriage took place in J. VV. Williams’ furniture store; and during the intervals in the ceremony the bride and groom took occasion to inspect articles of furniture, of present and prospective need, not forgetting to bestow many ad. miring side glances on Mr. Willium? file line of baby cabs. Skeeters have quit biting on the Kankakee, and pickerel are taking their innings. They don’t bite anyone that keeps away from there, but that fact has not deterred quite a number of Rensselaer people from venturing into their midst. Among these is Dr. I. B. Wasburn, who hasn’t gone a’fishin there for 48 years. The fish will find him an easy mark, sure. Others now at the river are Mr. and Mrs. Bert Brenner, Mrs. D. G. Warner and son Rex, Meyers, which is the P. M., and Jennings Wright and Albert Marshall. Such tall tales of pickerel catching as have been drifting down from the river region lately have not been equalled since lo! these many years; and then some.

WEDNESDAY. Miss Lizzie French returned yesterday from a few days’ visit at Goodland. W. A. Huff returned this morning from a few days’ visit at Logansport. . Mias Clara Smith returned to her home in Chicago after an extended visit with friends here. Earl Duyall is now one of the Chicago Bargain Store’s smiling clerks. Born, yesterday afternoon to Mr. and Mrs Millard Frose, of A'x an eightfpcund daughter. Mr, E. E. Lenox, of Harvey, 111, dropped off this morning for a short visit with his friends here, and also to transact a little business. Miss Opal Hardesty, of Danville, 111, who has been visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Wash. Scott, here for some time, went to Me.

daryvil'e i<dej 'MStlne weeks v'sit. J. M. Dickey, of Rose Lawn, lost a pnrse contain in a passenger coach between there and Chicago. He did not know of his loss until the conductor. A. J ’ Johnson, retnrn“<| the purse to. him. I Misses Harriet Yeoman. Louise , Harmon, Grace Nowels, Rattie ’ and Frances Eigt-lsbacb and Mr. Frank K r essL r ere Htteudiug the Delphi O.iTiiival Miss Nowels is t on tier w»v home to Flora, Ind., but will t-t jp at Delphi for a few dajs. The d-com ions put up tor the Carnival are getting decidedly I faded and streaked, and with J ja e very itnoightly. It is’nne now 'to get the t-tuff iff the buildings I and get cleaned up for regular business again J Mrs. Emma Sayers, who has /been here to attend the funeral of J her nephew Randle Overton, returned to her Lome a’ Hemher, 111., today. Her father, Grandfather J. M. Gwin, accompanied her home for a short visit. I W. S. Parks’ faithful old horse, •’old Muck” w-is ltd out into the sand bills of Jordan township yesterdaj, and given a dose of chlorofrm He Las nach d an age I when bis nsefulnts-* was past, and rather than, sell or turn the faithful 4>ld CTeH’ure out to S*Hrv». he chose to kill him in this human m-inner • The New ; on county seat injunctiou suit which has been looked | fur today, has not as yet m Serialized. It can not come up now until Friday, as Judge Thompson informs us that be will be away from home until then. Should it not come up-theo it may be prac’ioally considered as “called off ” .' Burglars made an effort to enter the residence of C. H. Porter early Saturday evening. One of the I screen doors was ripped with a knife and screens were removed from severe 1 of the windows, but the in'ruders were frightened away before they bad secured any i valuables Th» knife us. d in cutting the door was found in the yard.—Delphi Herald.

At a meeting of the Knights of Pythias Lodge last night, the treasurer of the lodge made h s s report, showing the total am uut ‘of net funds receivedfr< m Caruiva sources to be 11.364 20. The receipt of this amount after all expenses have been paid, goes a long j ways to show that there was good business management exercised in the various committees having the Carnival in charge. At 10:15 this morning Norman Brothers laid ti e last stone io completion of tha foundatiou of the new Knights of Pythias building. The foundation is now practica'ly completed only the pointing up of a section of the wall remaining, which is a short j jb. Sumething li re 600 percu of stone went • into the ou’side wall, and, owing to the mnny rains, nearly two mouths w-re required to omplete it. The work of laying the large brick center piers is now well un der way. Lost: Saturday evening tn Rensselaer, a steel beaded chatelaine , bag; owner will pay reward; finder please leave at thia office.

THURSDAY. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Simpson and daughter are visiting in Monon for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Brenner and BOyd Porter are down on the Tippecanoe fishing. ~ = Mrs. John Healy and children are visiting in Chicago until school The hay fever victims in this vicinity are snuffing and sneezing now, “good and proper.” Born, a boy, to Mr. and Mrs. John Ward, of Milroy Tp., August 27th. The new cit y effioers, Mayor ’ Ellis, Clerk Morlan and Marshal Abbott will begin their terms of office next Monday, Sept. Ist James Thompson is preparing to start a restaurant in James Maloy’s brick building, on Main street, near the depot. Isaac Reuhelt and family returned today to Perryville, Ind., where he will have a good position as principal in a large high school. The viewers filed their reports on the Iroquois ditch today. Tt is 1 set for hearing at 2 p. m. on next' Monday Sept. Ist, 19J2, before the county commissioners. Mrs J. W. Duvall and daughter Ora arrived home last evening from a three weeks’ visit with relatives and friends iu Oklahoma and Kansas. < - Misses Gertrude McGinnis and Lizz e Shortridge returned yesterday to their home in Chicago after a3or 4 weeks visit with Henry Watson and family. 7S J - 4 The hearing of the application for an injunction against the new court house at Goodland, will begin here at 7 o’clock, this evening, before Judge Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Coen and family returned this morning to their home at Berwyn, 111., after two week’s visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wasson and other relatives here. I Mrs. A. J. Abbutt continued very bad all day yeeterday and at 9 p. m. had another very dangerous sinking spell. Today she is much easier and her physicians hope -he will sion be out of danger. Other Rensselaer people going after Kankakee river fish, today, are Mr. and Mrs. Pmllip Blue, Mr. and Mrs- Charles Blue, Roy Blue, Benhart Fendig, George Boott and Conrad Kellner. <

Lowell Tribune:—Mrs. Flynn, of Rensselaer, visited her daughter Mrs. H. V. Weaver here Friday and assisted her in packing her household goods preparatory to moving them to Rensselaer, where she will make her future home. Mrs. Nancy Shuey, aged 86, of Kouts, has reared and educated twenty-five orphans, fourteen boys and eleven girls, nine of whom were married at her residence, and all but three are living and doing well. Mrs. Shuey had no children of her own, but for sixty years has aided others. The Old Settlers Meeting wjll be held one day, Saturday, September 20, 1902, in Rensselaer Grove. The committee of arrangements will meet et 2 p m. next Saturday in Clerk’s office, to complete the preparations for the meeting. Delphi Herald: Both toe Monticello and Rensselaer militia companies are drilling especially for their appearance here Friday, the big day of the carnival. At least a thousand people are expected from Monticello that day, «bile Rensselaer will also send a big d,*l tion.

Edgar L. Bruce has sold: again. He has just sold his 120 acre farm, 1| miles southeast of town, to James W. Amsler, of low ~ the price being 17,800 or 565 per acre. Mr. Amsler will move here and occupy the farm about Feb sth, 1903 The sale was negotiated through B. O Gardner’s real-estate agency. See our glazed building block for all kinds of foundation work The cheapest and the best. Also all sizes of sewer pipes ; Donnelly Lumber Co.