Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1902 — MONDAY. [ARTICLE]

MONDAY.

Ed. Jakes spent Sunday at Brookston, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Amsler are at Fairbury and Pontiac, 111., for a weekte visit, ' Mr. and'Mrs. H. Ballard of Lebanon Ind., are here for a few days, visit with relatives. ' 1 5 F. W. and David Mauok returned from a'few days’ visit at Indianapolis and Anderson Robert Johnson went to Chicago today to work for the Western Union, where he expects to have a permanent situation. Mis. E. T. Harding is very seriously sick at the home of her brother-in-law, I- J. Porter, across the river. Mrs. J. J. Eigelsbaoh and daughters, Mrs. 0. Chamberlain and Miss Hattie Eigelsbaoh, are in Chicago today. uMrs. J. T. Hardman and son Frank returned home Saturday evening after a six weeks stay at West Surperior, Wis. Simon Leopold, who has been at Wolcott assisting his brothers in their dry goods store, has concluded to locate there, permanently, and has bought a grocery store. Mrs. Lulu Vaughn returned to Hammond Saturday after a three weeks’ visit here with her sister Mrs. Geo. Nedler north-east of town. Mrs. Nedler returned with

her for the winter. Mrs. H. T. Bott and children after a few days’ visit with friends here, went to Joliet, 111., Sunday, to rejoin Mr. Bott, who is now employed on the printing force of the Joliet Republican. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Willey, of Cherokees Co , Kansas, are visiting his sisters Mrs. 1. J, Porter and Mrs. E. T. Harding, in Rensselaer, and his brother, Tom Willey at Mt. Ayr. They have been residents of Kansas for 35 years. Mrs. Etta Baker, formerly of Rensselaer, now of Chicago, states that her husband has been away for 20 months, and has done nothing for the support of the family. She is doing the supporting herself with the aid of her oldest boy. It is now claimed that the law to make county officers’ terms uniform by all ending on Jan. Ist, is inoperative as to county clerks, because it speaks of them, in the law as “county clerks” whereas their legal title is clerk of the circuit court.

There was an excursion to Chicago over the Monon from down the line towards Lafayette and beyond, Sunday. When the train passed Rensselaer it was crowded to the platforms, and was a big long train at that. It did not stop here. The pickerel fishing on the Kankakee is still good but not what it was a couple of weeks ago. A great many Rensselaer people spent Sunday on the river and caught some pretty good strings. The champion fisher of the day was Mrs. W. C. Babcock. She caught 28, which was the biggest catch of any one person. Mrs. Garrett, of Hoopeston, 111., is visiting her father some miles east of town,-. She by the way, is tbs owner of the packet-book found by Theodore Warne, and which she recovered through a notiob in The RiiFiyßiacCT.' The book ©onMrs. SallieK. Jones of Corydon, Ind., state organizer of the Christian Woman’s Board of Miknious, willgivs a free tfkat lh® Christian church this evening at 7130 o’olock. There will a short program consisting of recitations by Miss Maude Healey and others and music. Everybody cordially invited.

At the 2nd district convention of the Christian obcuroh at Winamac last week, Rev. J. JH. O. Smith of Valparaiso was chosen president andT.A Hall of Reneeelaervioe president of this district comprising eight ooaniiee via: Iraporte.Newton,-daspejr, Pwter, ■•Cu JI ••’aiv*wc V» “l.U*

and Pulaski. The next cot Mention will be held in Rensselaer some time in March. The - Wright Carnival people continue to be killed with remarkable regularity according to reports in some of the newspapers. Here is the latest from the Rochester Republican: “Vivian Esaiok received a letter from Mr. Burly manager of the wild animal show band of Wright’s Carnival, .which stated that Zelda, the enakecharnaer, was killed by the large boaconstrictor at . New Albany, last’ week. ' J. Cecil Alter, son of John E. Alter, who has been at Atlanta, Ga-, for some months, as an assistant in the U. S. weather office there has be&h transferred to Salt Lake City, a pretty big jump. The Atlanta Constitution of last Saturday gives Cecil quite a nice article, of which the following.is a part: J. Cecil Alter, one of the efficient helpers of Forecaster Marbury in the local weather office has received notice that he is soon to be transferred to the office in Salt Lake City, Utah. Mr. Alter has any number of' friends in this city, and especially among the newspaper men, for he has never been too busy to stop and look up records or be any other assistance possible.