Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1903 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

FRIDAY. Harry Kessinger, of Crescent City, 111,, returned home today after a short visit here. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Louie Leopold, at Wolcott, last Saturday. Alf Donnelly left for Danville, and other point last evening, on an onion buying expedition. Born, Thursday, Jan. 29th, to Mr. and Mrr. Henry Gowland 4j miles north of town, a son, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hodshire, of Wolcott, attended Mrs. John Hodshire’s funeral here yesterday, going home in the evening. Dan Waymire, who was so greatly afflicted with rheumatism for so long a time, now gets about on crutches, with considerable facility.

Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Sayler, of Cullom, 111. who were her to attend the funeral of her sister-in-law, Mrs John Hodshire, returned home, yesterday afternoon. The. members of the Evening Star Chapter, Order of Eastern Star, had a supper party at Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Meyers’ residence, on River street, last evening. An erronious impression prevails that Joseph Cowdin, whose wife is buried in Delphi today, is dead. This is a mistake as he is still living and in quite good health for a man of his age. The Winamac papers talk as though $3.25 per cord was a big price for dry four foot ooid wood over there- Here they charge $4 for wood about 3| feet long, and never bat an eye. There is quite an epidemic of measles down near Egypt school house, in Jordan Tp., and quite a large number of children have the disease. Leonard Keister, 16 year son of Leonard Keister, is quite seriously sick with it.

Mrs. Flo Johnson, formerly Miss Flo Milliken, of Atlanta, Ga., arrived last night to visit her aunt, Mrs. Alfred Thompson, and other Rensselaer relatives. Capt., G. W. Payne and wife were over from Monticello to attend the funeral of his son-in-law, W. H. Stephenson, and are remaining for a few days to help arrange the affairs of the estate. Elmer Foley, on the Gardner farm, the former J. V. Parkison place near Pleasant Ridge, is advertising a public sale for February 10th. He intends moving to Hoopeston, 111.

The Presbyterian ladies opened a two days’ rummage sale in Eger’s shop, on North Van Rensselaer today. It is stated that they have ’ more goods than were ever before got together in a rummage sale here. Ex Mayor George W. McKee of ! Logansport, who waa appointed door-keeper at the piesent State Legislature, has been discharged from the position. Too much “ booze” is alleged as the cause of his dismissal. James Rodgers, who has been located at Willsboro, Ind., as a station agent for some time past, is visiting his sister, Mrs. R. A. Parkison. He is now taking a layoff from railroad work, and passing the time at his old home in Gillam tp. Miss Zoe Hopkins, of Aydelotte who is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Hopkins, has been suffering greatly with a very severe palmer abscess, or in the palm of | the hand.lt ‘was opened today by Drs. Johnson and Kresler, and great relief thereby afforded. / The Indiana National Guard is now a branch of the Federal army The militia bill, signed by the President on Wednesday of last week, went into effect Thursday, The War Department is trying to effect plans by which to provide the militia of every State, not already so supplied, with modern magazine rifles. All of which will be good news M. A new assessment bill before the legislature will propose that the assessment of property shall begin March Ist, instead of April Ist, and that the assessors have 75 days in which to complete their assessments instead of 60. The bill will be with special reference to personal property. Next Monday is Ground Hog day. So many people have heretofore complained of The Republican’s allusions to the little beast, claiming that we rubbed his quills the wrong Way and caused him to queer the weather worse than he otherwise would, that we have about concluded to ignore his annual first grand appearance of the season entirely, this year. There are now two young men down with severe oases of lung fever, in the Lowman family, on the Delos Thompson farm, east of town; Will Lowman, who has been very bad, with typhoid complications, but is now somewhat better, and Ed Reish, who has just contracted the disease.

Mose Tenter went over to Logansport yesterday and last evening returned home accompanied by his wife. The greatly afflicted lady has been detained at Longohff asylum for about 15 {years, and it is ten years since she has been in Rensselaer. She is now so very much better, and her faculties so completely restored, that it is believed she oan now remain at home permanently.

Avery notable surgical operation Was performed here Thursday, and wholly by resident physicians. The patient was Mrs. J. W. Norman, of Barkley Tp., and the physicians were Drs. Johnson, Kresler and English. The operation is called abdominal hysterectomy, and is always a severe and dangerous ordeal. Three small ovarion tumors were found and also removed. „. Rev. Geo. Knox, a former Presbterian minister at Delphi, and known to many of our citizens, i had his home burned a few nights I ago, in Indianapolis. All the i furniture, clothing and his big . library were burned, and some • members of the family narrowly escaped. Mr. Knox had S7OO insurance on his library. His loss was over $2,000. | Crawford Fairbanks, of Terre i Haute. Las made a gift of SSOOOO to his home city for a library, the stipulation being that it shall be known by the name of his mother | Emeline Fairbanks. This Fair- . banks is very wealthy several time a millionaire probably, and made the big end of his pile out of « brewery, He is a rough and gruff old tough, and no resemblance and no relation to the suave add eloquent Senator Fairbanks. He is generous and public spirited though. An exciting slander suit from Carroll county, is now on trial at Frannfort, on change of venue. Miss Ella Patterson, a school teacher, is the plaintiff, and Jesse Martin, a township trustee, is the defendant. Martin charged the girl with having gone to Logan- : sport with a young man named Moore, and having spent the night ( with him at a hotel. .He dismiss- j ed her from her school and caused ( the county superintendent to revoke her license. She has sued < for SIO,OOO. Miss Patterson says ( that she and Moore took a brother of her’s to the hotel in a stute of , intoxication, and that she stayed with her brother and Moore went , on to Lafayette. Martin says the brother was not there at all and that Moore did not go to Lafayette until the next day.

SATURDAY. Mrs. J. E. Bislosky went to Chicago today for a few days visit. Mrs. Jane Green went to Chicago today for a months visit. G. A. Williams went to Monon today on legal business. Frank O’Meara went to Chicago and Mattoon, 111. today on business.

J. B. Workman the tax ferret of Lafayette is in town today on business Born this Jau. 31st 1903 to Mr. and Mrs, W. W. Reynolds, north of the railroad, a daughter. The 18 months old child of Wm Dunn, of South west of town is very sick with measels. Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Strickfaden and son George went to Ambia today for a few days visit. Mrs. Maude Reed of Remington went to Michigan City, today fer an extended visit with her parents. Uncle Henry Murray, of east of Monon, is here for a short visit with his nephew, H. 8., and his brother Unde Wallace Murray, out in Barkley. The steel ceiling is about all in place in Warner’s new building, and the room will apparently soon be ready for occupancy. It will be about the finest and most capacious single business room in town. This is the last of January, and like most of the month has been a very mild day for winter. The cold spell which came Thursday night proved of short duration, and of only moderate severity. Rev. A. G. Work will be out of town over Sunday, and his pulpit at the Presbyterian church will be filledby Mr. E. A. Oldenburg, student at McCormick Theological Seminary, at Chicago. It is now stated that the bill extending the terms of city officers back to four years will not be reported by the senate committee

A which has it in charge unless the authors consent to an amendment to exclude present city officers from its provisions. Uncle Felix French has begun to load his car with household goods, preparatory to moving to ■gwwwrwHi will flulHb tile job Monday. Aus Moore, who has bought his house, is also getting ready to move in, by the way of hauling in hay and grain for future use. The talked of bill to do away with the blanket remonstrance features of the Nicholson law has been introduced in the state senate. Temperance people, and especially church people are bestifing themselves vigorously to defeat this proposed bill. Already blank petitions, against it have been received by the ministers here and will be at once put in circulation for signers. John Ross, a resident of Benton county since 1854 and known personally or by reputation to many of our older citizens, died suddenly at his home at Oxford, last Wednesday morning, He was in the 83rd year of his age. He was a pronkinent and most highly respected citizen of bis town and county,

The venerable Bartlett Woods, of Gown Point, was a prominent and intelligent volunteer speaker at the Farmers’ Institute’here, this week. He is passing thejwinter with his daughter, Mrs. Dr. Merrill. He is one of Lake county’s] best known and best informed farmers, and writes a great deal for the papers there on subjects of interest to farmers. The Monon Mandolin Club came over in full force yesterday afternoon, and m the evening at the opera house, the Rensselaer and Monon dubs gave a joint musical entertainment. It was very successful from an artistic point of view, but the attendance was disappointing. The program was entirely musical and nearly all instrumental, thus making, for] the ordinary, not very musical auditors rather too much of a good thing.

MONDAY. Joe Reynolds of Delphi spent Sunday here. George Catt of Monon] is here today on business. Mr. and Mrs. B. Forsythe have gone to the city this week to buy goods. Mrs. H. B. Murray and daughter Clara went to Chicago today for a few days visit, Mrs. Martin Gillam of Monon, returned home today after a short visit with her sister Mrs. Nora Worden.

The rummage sale given Friday and Saturday by the Presbyterian ladies was a great success, and by it they cleared the comparatively large sum of $132. Mr. and Mrs- Will Rinehart returned to their home at Queen City, Missouri, today after an extended visit with her parents Mr. and Mrs. A- McCoy. Dr. Anna Francis, the osteopath, over the Harris bank, has given up her visits to Monticello and will spend all her time here hereafter, The meetings at the F. W. Bap-, tist church closed Sunday night, with a large attendance and a good interest, at the last meeting and 8 additions to the membership of the church. The most successful box-supper in the history of the district, was held at Newland last Friday evening. The crowd was small but the proceeds were over $45.00. The school will probably purchase an organ. Two bouses built by Hiram Day for tenant purposes, are now nearly completed in Leopold’s addition in the southeast part of town. They are seven room houses, and good buildings. New barns and woodsheds in connection with them have just been begun, by Monroe Banes. Indianapolis has two big high schools, between which there is

naturally considerable rivalry. On Saturday night, after a basket-ball contest the buys of the two schools, to the number of 300 or more, got together on Monument Park and bad a time which made our recent big class rush here, look like 30 cents. It took a big force of police to subdue the disturbance. Elmer Fisher, now of Champaign 111., was here the latter part of last week and closed up the sale of bis farm, miles southeast of town, to V. R. Crabb, of Boswell, Ind. The farm is 160 acres in extent and the price was SSO per acre, The land is considerably in the Big Slough region and still needs a good deal of drainage, hence the seemingly low but really very reasonable price. The sale was negotiated by B. O. Gardner’s agency. Today is Ground Hog Day. The ground hog crawls out of his hole on the morning of this day, rubbers around to see if he can find his silhouette mirrored on the surrounding scenery, and not finding it he concludes that he is too blamed poor to cast a shadow and decides to stiy out and rustle for grub like the rest of us. That decision on the part of the little hog let is supposed to put a surer cinch on the weather for the next six weeks than even Prophet Hicks ever secures. When the ground hog stays out there is always something doing in the weather line, and usually a whole lot. And if ' he goes goes back it is still worse and more of it.

Never Sweat out at McCoysburg, always wakes up on Ground Hog Day, and today was no exception, only he woke up at 9:30 a. m. which was about three hours ahead of his regularjschedule time. He explains this phenomenon by saying that he wanted to get up in time to meet his old neighbor, the ground hog, once more, but he missed connections by several hours, the ground hog being up and gone long before. Finding there was no chance to swop winter’s dreams with the ground hog, Never Sweat telephoned the Republican office to enquire if there were any sassafras roots yet on the market in Rensselaer. „ Finding none was to be had be crawled back under the counter and cheerfully sought his snooze again, and let the ground hog flicker.