Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1902 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

TUESDAY. Frank O’Meara went to Mattoon, 111., today on business. Sheriff Hardy took Willie Btone to the reform school today. Mrs. J. B. Sayler went to Franoesville yesterday for a two weeks’ visit. - —— . G. 0. Barnes of Kokomo Ind., ' is here for a short visit with his sister Mrs. J. A. Larsh. Mr. and Mrs. John Brown went to North Platt, Nebraska, this morning for a week’s visit. Warren Robinson and his mother f Mrs. Margaret to Lafayette today for a few days’ visit. Misses Ara Glaze brook and Lora r ‘ Rhoades returned this morning after a short visit with friends in Ohioago. T, H. and Able Grant and Mrs. R. 0. Hemphill left for a week’s visit at Garden City, Kansas, this morning. Mrs. Chas. Ro bio eon is representing Rensselaer Temple at the Rathbone Sisters Grand Lodge at now in session. Mrs. Sam Parker Jr., south of town, was taken to the Presbyterian hospital, at Chicago, Sunday, where she will undergo an operation. Sylvester Gray has gone to Wells 1 oounty fyr about u two weeks’ stay, looking after the farm he owns there, and also to look for a farm to buy for a friend. John O’Donnell, a student at St. Joseph’s College, got his collar bone broken this afternoon, in a foetball scrimmage. Dr. 1. M reduoed the fracture. The city public schools will be dismissed on Thursday and Friday of this vreik, to enable the teachers to go on their annual sobool visiting trip 3 to other towns. ? Frank O’Meara has shipped his thoroughbred running oolt, Jack Orr, to Chicago to be trained, preparatory to entry for the American Derby, next year. R. B. Porter, P- W. Clarke, and E. G. Warren went to Indianapolis, this morning, to attend the K. of

P. Grand Lodge. . Mr. Porter is representative of the Rensselaer lodge and Mr. Warren the DeMotte lodge: Oar young townsman, Ted Eger, probably had a chance for his share in a glorious ol&ss scrimmage at Wisconsin University, Monday night. lt/was sophomores against freshmen and the latter won the victory and doused about 200 sophs into Madison lake, The foot-ball game between Rensselaer and Monticello high echools, which was to have come off last Friday afternoon, but was called off on aooount of the bad weather, is now set for next Saturday afternoon, at Monticello. The fine 6unny weather of yesterday and today is greatly appreciated after two weeks of bad Veather that preceded them. People are now beooming quite confident in the hope a good spell of fine weather is now ooming our way. Dan Waymire has been pretty bad since he went to the sanitarium at Attica, and his friends were beooming very mnoh discouraged over his condition, but later reports received this week are much more^favorable. > Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Long left Sunday on an extended eastern trip. They will go first to Washington fbr a short stay, and from there to New York City, where tbey will visit her brother F. A. Purcupile and family, and see the sights of New York and vicinity. They will be gone from 10 days to two weeks. Valparaiso Vidette: The Ninth Indiana Regiment, wbioh closed its annual reunion at Laporte, ,is planning to erect a monument to the memory of George Milroj, $t Rensselaer, and to raise a monument on the site of Camp Colfax, whioh was the rendezvous of the famous "Fighting Ninth.” Capt. G. W. Payne, now of Monticello, has been here a few days, dosing np the sale of his old home farm, in Barkley tp. He has sold it te-Mr. Peck, of Milroy tp., who will ocoupy it himself after next Maroh. It is a fine well improved farm, of 80 aores, and was sold for what seems the comparatively low price of $65 per aore. The Monon on Sunday had three trains out of Chicago for Washington D. C., carrying G. A. R. people and their friends. One train hauled eleven coaches and the other two ten coaohes each. O. A, Jones, city passenger agent at Chioago, accompanied the party and the train was rnn on as fast time as regular passenger trains.

WEDNESDAY. Mrs. J. C. Gwin went to Monti oello today for a few days’ visit; Mrs. Kebeooa Porter went to. Lafayette today for a few days. Ed Moon is running a black* smith shop at Parr. Frank Foltz is in Rose Lawn today on business. The 20 year old of Mr. and Mrs. John Brown at the Foster House is very siek. W. H. Parkison and G. A. Williams are at Virgie today on legal business. Mr. and Mrs. John Thornton’s baby is very sick with bronoho pneumonia. Mrs. J. A. Fleming and son Edward returned to St. Louis today after a months visit with her parents at'Blaokford. Mrs. A. C. Rowe and Miss

Mildred Larson of Rose Lawn I oame today for a short visit with Mrs. Louis Muster. Miss Elizabeth 3paulding re- . turned last night from a month’s vaoation which she spent at Greencastle and other points in Indiana. The> marriage -of Mr. Blaine Wood Mies Mande Brooks was solemnized by Squire Malachi P. Comer, of near Aix, on Got. 2nd. Tney will, live on a farm in that neighborhood. The tobacco tag business has grown to such proportions that a Frankfort barber is giving a shave for ten tags. Down at Vincennes a girl allows two good healthy hugs for every ten tags brought in. Already sh 6 has enough tags to get nearly anything needed in a home. The hugs aren’t all gone, either. Prof. Albert Marshall, instructor in athletios at Highland Park Military academy, has written to Coah Maloy wanting to arrange a foot ball game between the aoademy team and the Rensselaer high school, one of these fine days. It is thought the Prof, and his proteges will be an Bffair to be remembered.

THURSDAY. MieS Harriet Yeoman is in Chicago today. Miss Thena Meyer went to Chicago today for a few days! visit, Mrs. B. O. Gardner went to Harvey, 111, today for a fe* days visit. Mrs. Win. Warren went to Logansport today for a few days’ visit. Mrs. D. Reotorjjame today from Maxinkuckee Lake for a visit with her sister, Mrs. Chas. Simpson. Mrs. P. J. Lagen, Mrs. Junes Randle and Miss Mamie Fleok went to Chicago today for a short stay. - Fred Rishling, nf Nebraska, but who was raised in this county is now visiting friends in this vicinity. It is his first visit back here for a long tim°. There is still good piokerel fishing in the Kankakee, but it is neoessary to go up stream quite a distance above Water Valley to find it. The water has been pretty thoroughly fished out in that vicinity. T. J. McCoy’s fine new gasoline launch has arrived at Water Valley, where it is now in care of Mr. Ahlgrim. Tom has not given

it a trial in the Kankakee, river yet, bnt will, within a day or two. It is an elegant craft of its kind. The oldest inmate of the state prise n is George Wilson, who was sent there from White county a few days age- Wilson, who gives his age aB 82 years and is gray and bent with the weight of years, was convicted of stealing grain and various other pn perty. D. C. Warren, *uho ha# been visiting bis relatives here for several weeks, went to Logansport, today, to visit hie sister, Mrs. Oram, for a short time, afttr wbioh he will return to his home at Auburn, Neb, where be conducts a harness shop. ( The Rensselaer teachers are all out of town for today and tomorrow, visiting schools in other plaoes. They have gone to various different points, snch as Chicago, Indianapolis, Marion and Lafayette. Prof. Sanders is attending a Superintendent’s meeting, at Ply month. ■ Two parties went to the Kankakee for several days’ fishing this morning. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Babcock and Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Kannal constituted one party and Uncle Clint Hopkins and sons ! Nim and Reete the other. They were all headed way np the river where the good fishing now is. As two freight trains were passing at Surrey about 2:30 this morning, five or six oars jumped the track and tore the track np 1 considerable. No damage was done to the oars, bnt the track was blocked for some hoars, causing the paper train south and the 4 30 I north to go around by Wheeler. The milk train got through all right.