Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1903 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

FRIDAY. A. Leopold and son Mose went to Wolcott today on business. Christie Vick is in Chicago today on business. Mrs. M. J. Phelps, of Monon, is here for a few days’ visit with Mrs. J. F. Watson. Born, Thursday, Feb. oth, to Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bird, in the west part of town, a daughter. E. J, Marray the tieam fitter went to Chicago today for a short visit. Mrs. J, Larsh went to Kokomo today for a weeks visit with her parents. Mrs, G. K. Hollingsworth and son Thomas went to Englewood today for a few days visit, S. E. Yeoman’s pension agency reports that Philip Blue’s pension has been increased to sl2 per month. Zern Wright went to ton, 111., today where he will begin work on his permanent job in a cigar factory. Lowman and Rush, the young men sick with lung fever, at the Thompson ranch, east of town, are getting well. Mrs. W..H. Stephenson went to Chicago yesterday where she will make her home with her daughter Jessie. G. A. Strickfaden and E. P. Honan went to Michigan City yesterday to attend the State Court of Foresters today. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Baicourt returned from their bridal visit to Chicago, this forenoon, and wept on to their home at Wolcott this afternoon. The meetings at the Christian Church are still attracting very large audiences, and cresting a constantly increasing: r-interest. There were five additions to the church at the meeting last evening.

John White, now on the former Loughridge farm, in Union Tp„ will quit farming and engage in the telephone business.- He has bought the shares of the Halleck lines belonging to the heirs of thd late James Halleck, making him a half owner of the Halleck system, proper. That is of that part of the independent lines north of Rensselaer and Mt. Ayr. Mr. White will make a public sale on March 3rd. I A, Leopold has rented his busi- | ness room now occupied by ! Warner Bros ’ hardware store, to , W. C. Milliton, now of Monticello, i who will return to Rensselaer and again engage in the restaurant and bakery business The time of his | return is a little indifinite, as ; Warner Brothers can not be certain just how soon they can move into their own building, and ester they move out the room will be refitted to suit Mr. Milliron’s needs.

SATURDAY. Mrs. Wm Greenfield and baby went to Remington today for a few days visit. Miss Jennie Brunswick, of Hammond, is visiting Rensselaer friends for a few days. Representative Jesse E. Wilson, came home today from Indianapolis to spend Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Corns, of Darlingtons, Ind,, came yesterday for a few days visit with their cousins Mr. end Mrs. Frank Foltz. Mrs. T. F. Clark and granddaughter Hazel Hopkins wont to Lafayette last evening for a few days visit with her daughter. The match game of basket ball between Rensselaer and Monon high school teams, set for tonight at Monon, has been called off.

E. G. Warren and son Merl left for Kingman, Kansas, yesterday afternoon to visit his sister, Mrs. M. M. Yebman for two or three weeks. Harry Beck, who has been living up about Laura, on the Gifford road moved into town today and occupies the Mrs. Spitler tenant property, on Weston street. Uncle Alf McCoy is now improving right along from his recent spell of bad health from liver and stomach troubles, and bears evidence of his better health in his appearance. James Rush, of Monon and Wm. LeMar of near Lee, are here today visiting their brother-in-law, Monroe Banes, and both figuring on engaging in some line of business here. James Shindlar, of Foresman, and son J. C. Shindlar, of near Brook were in town today. The old gentleman has been in pretty poor health this winter, but is now improving. W. C. Hopkins has already shipped his household goods to Washington state, but himself and family will not leave until February 15th. He shipped his goods from Parr. He sent 1800 pounds and his freight bill wus >SO. He goes to Wenatchee, some 150 miles west of Spokane. Wm. Kenton and son Elmer are preparing for their intended removal to the neighborhood, of Mitchel, South Dakota, where they bought a fine half section farm of W. B. Rowley, some months ago. They will make a public sale on the old Riley Noweb farm, four miles north of town, on Thursday, Feb. 19th.

The attendance at the revival meetings at the Thristian oh uroh was very large again last night, and five new members were taken

_» ; J —, - ... ... . - , in. There was some talk of transfering the meetings to the opera house, but the proposition has been abandoned, as it was decided that there would not be a sufficient gain in room to equalize the possible disadvantages in other ways The Philip Blue property, on South Weston street, vacated by his taking charge of the county farm, has been rented to Dr. W. W. Merrill. The property the latter now occupies belongs to Squire W. E. Moore, who will move into it when the Docter moves out. Mr. Moore now lives

about a half mile north of the depot. J. C. Frazee, of Barkley Tp., is preparing to move to . Miami county about the Ist of March, and where he bought a farm some time ago. He will live on the farm but not work much, having rented most of it out. He has also rented his farms in Barkley, and will take things easy for a while. He is advertising a sale for Feb. 20th. He and Harrison Warren will be rather near neighbors in Miami county, and will move over together.

As was to be expected, there are other case# of small pox developing in the neighborhood where S. B. Moffitt lives, in Union Tp, Three cases are now reported in the Garriott family. Two girls of that family and another girl named Hopkins. It is probable thatsome pretty rigid measures will have to be adopted to compel the observance of quarantine before the spread of the disease is checked.

C. P. Wright states that our statistics regarding former cases of triplets in Jasper county were somewhat erronious in respect to the Smith set in Milroy tp. He says there were two boys and one girl in the lot, instead of being all boys. He states also that their names were Ulysses Simpson Grant Smith, William T. Sherman Smith and Jessie Fremont Smith. They went to school to Parm two years and he says they were the “biggest little d—ls” he ever had in his school. They are about 33 years pld now, and when last heard from two were living in Missouri and one in Kansas.

The Rareden vs Rareden divorce case from White County, which was pending in the court here for about a year, on charge of venue, and then sent to Newton county, was tried Tuesday at Kentland, before Judge Hanley. Rareden lives near Brookston, and is well off., and the money there was in it was the chief bone of contention. She filed the original suit, and he followed suit, with a cross-com-plaint. In the final show down of evidence he seems to have made out the best case for he got the divorce. Still he has to pay her >I,BOO alimony and >2OO attorneys’ fees.

The people up at Fair Oaks, are. very naturally and properly, much disturbed at the out-break of smallpox near their town. As an instance of their agitation it is related that this morning, when the train from the northeast on the Coal Road arrived at Fair Oaks, the people gathered around and asked the train men if they saw anything of Bruce Moffitt as the train passed his house, which the road runs near to. The train men replied that when they came past Bruce was out doors, barefooted, and bareheaded, in hie shirt sleeves and standing on a cake

- .... . of ice. Of course the train men exaggerated a little, but Moffitt does plug around in his yard, talking with everyone that comes along, and caret u 1 neith er whether he gives the disease to others, or gets his death of-cold himself.

- Rev. A. G. Work and his mother are in Chicago today. ,J. H. S. Ellis went to Monticello today on business. Charles Cain went to Spencer Ind, today for a few days visit with his parentsToday’s warm sun bids fair- to Soon use up the sleighing. Tomorrow rain or snow is predicted. Ed Mills of Purdue spent Sunday here with his parents Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Mills. Mr. and Mrs, Frank Vanatta of Fowler are here for a short visit with relatives. Miss Ora Clark of Lafayette spent Sunday with her parents Mr. and Mrs, Ezra Clark. Miss Rose Scheurich returned to Chicago today after a two weeks visit with her parents, southeast of town. Misses Grace Jakes and Anna Werkhoff of Lafayette spent Sunday with Misses Mary Weathers and Myra Clark. James Rush, of Monon, has bought John Jones’ hack and team and will take possession of the same the Ist of March. Mr. and Mrs. A. Halleck came down from DeMotte, today. They contemplate moving to town, and are now looking for a suitable residence.

Born, Sunday Feb. Bth, to the wife of Ivor McCormick, of Chicago, a daughter; at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. N, Jordan, of near Newland. Miss Lora Rhoades succeeds Miss Ella Ritchey to the chief seat in the telephone central synagogue, otherwise to the management of the toll lines switchboard. The weather got decidedly cold again, last night, down to 6 degrees above zero. Before morning, however, the wind changed to southward and it warmer rapidly, and at 7 o’clock was 20 above. Miss Ella Ritchey went to Anderson today, where her brother Omar is in business, and where she will remain permanently, unless she goes to Peru, where her brother’s firm is starting another big furniture store. The big slander suit from Carroll county of Ella Patterson vs Jesse Martin, a township trustee, ended Saturday night, at Frankfort, after the jury had been out 28 hours. The verdict was for the defendant. Those litigious Raredens, of Brookston, of divorce case fame, are very hard to satisfy. Both plaintiff and defendant asked'for a new trial at Kentland, and on being refused, appeal was taken to appellate court.

Monticello claims to have had in their midst, both those sweet harbingers of spring, robin redbreast and hobo rusty-back. Here, we have heard of one man who swears he saw two blue birds last week. Mrs. Mary Osborne of Remington, mother of W. 8. Parks of our city, died Sunday night, Feb. Bth 1903, on her 82nd birthday. The funeral will be held. Tuesday, at Remington. Mrs. Parks was by her side when she died. There was not room in the Christian ohuroh Sunday night for all who wanted entrance. There were four new members Saturday and four more Sunday, making 19 in all since the meetings started. The subject tonight will be “A Chart Sermon on the Church,” A six acre tract of land just west of the Eiglesbaoh slaughter house, on the Bunkum road, west of town, which belonged to the estate of M. F. Ohilcote, has just been sold to Moody & Roth, for >SOO. B. L. Gardner’s agenoy conducted the sale.

A geologist named Chamberlain predicts that the human race will continue to inhabit thjs earth for a million years yet. It might be just as well to keep tab on that prediction, to see if' he is a better guesser than old Hicks, the weather mixer. A Missouri editer is responsible for the assertion that at a recent church entertainment in his town the master of ceremonies made the announcement that “Miss Jones will sing: ‘O! That I had an Angle’s Wings That I Might Rise and Fly,’ accompanied by the minister.” It is now stated that Carrie Nation, the Kansas saloon smasher, is a direct descendent of the Duke of Argyle. This pretty nearly makes Carrie a Dutchess, And being pre tty nearly a Dutchess, ought to make her almost a Dutcher But the other Dutchers whose beer saloons'she disfigures wbn’tjlikeher any the better for dot already.

Wilson Clark arrived home Saturday afternoon from a trip through eastern Kansas and down into Oklahoma. He saw lots of good country in both regions, but that around Kingman, Kansas, pleased him the best of any. Wilson has no present intention of moving out that way, however. Is G. A. Strickfaden strayed or stolen. Ever since Saturday afternoon, when he telegraphed from Chicago for the sheriff here to look tor Wempe at Huntington, every effort to locate him has failed. The sheriff wanted him bad, on the Wempe matter, and his family is very uneasy, fearing some misfortune has come to him. His brother Tony went to Chicago this afternoon, to look for him.

Anson Ohupp, of the Chicago Bargain Store force has bought the Mrs. Eleanor Florence residence property, on north Van Rensselaer street, and will get possession of the same the Ist of March, and after some alterations and repairs occupy it as a residence. The price was $1,600 and he gives in part payment his present residence on Elm street; which by cne of the provisions of the deal will become the property of 3. C. Passons. Mrs. Florence will go to Lafayette and live with her sister.

► Dr. Don Sang, an old Chinese physician who was located at Crown Point for many years, but moved to Chicago, some time ago, is the husband of a wife with the Melicanized name of Jessamine. Some of her ideas seem to be very much Melacanized also, for a few weeks ago she deserted the old doctor and ran off with her young Chinese cook, and went with him to New York. He too, seems well up in the ways of civilization, for when her money ran out he deserted her. The old doctor is about 80 years old, and quite wealthy. His wife is about 35.

Hon. A. B. Rowley, of the South Dak., legislature, is here for a day or two, seeing how the affairs of the Barcus Horse Stock Co., of which he is a largely interested member, are progressing. The death of the governor’s son caused a few days adjournment of the legislature, thus giving the opportunty for this visit. He reports that the joint resolution removing the state capital from Pierre to Mitchell passed both houses and was signed by the governor, It is now submitted to the vote of the people, and if Mitchell gets more votes than Pierre, it will get the capital, and a capital building will be erected, which will clinch matters.

In a neighboring town a high school graduate secured a position as a reporter on a paper and the following was the first and last copy he turned in. “A bad boy caught a dog with a freckled face and red hair bent on having fun, after fixing him up to his liking sent the poor creature down the street howling at every jump. He ran over a horse with a tin can tied to his tail and the horse took fright and tore off up the street, knocking down a lady carrying a bucket of milk with a buggy and

broke her ankle at the corner of Fifth street and doing other dam* ages besides spilling the milk which was not stopped till the mill was reached owned by Mr, Jones who was killed while walking down the street by a stroke of lightning with a fence rail on his shoulder so far back that a few of the oldest inhabitants knew of the sad occurrence residing in our. - .