Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1903 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

TUESDAY. | * Judge Win. Darroch, of Kentland, was here on court business, today. ■ Mr. and Mrs. Charles Tuikerof, Logansport returned home today after a few days visit with her relatives at Surrey. Mr. and Mrs. J.' 0. Frazee and dauhgter took their departure Mon- ! day afternoon, for their future home in Miami County, near Peru. Excellent reports continue to come of the progress little Forsest | Morlan is making at the hospital, I He is doing as well as could be hoped for, in every particular. The matter of the cleaning of ( the Marble ditch is before the , Commissioners today, and brought'

down a large delegation of leading citizens from Wheatfield and Walker Tps. The smallpox quarantine at Logansport has been lifted and all the public meeting places, which have been closed for several weeks, are now open. Services were held in the churches Sunday for the first time in several weeks. Mrs. Wilbur Florence and chit- 1 dren left for her new home at Mexico, Missouri, yesterday ac>| oompanied by Tom Florence of Parr, as far as Chicago. Mr. Florence went Thursday with the goods.

Ed Rhoades’ stove that has been going down the price toboggan at the rate of 25 cents a day since February 2nd was sold this morn* ing just as it hit the sl7 50 mark. Geo. Hopkins (the carpenter) was the lucky man. The original price of the stove was $24. The bill introduced by Representative Wilson, at the request of the Iroquois ditch people, to increase the pay of ditch viewers from $2 to $3 per day, has gone the way of most other salaryraising bills, and been inceremoniously killed. Yet it was a good bill, for $3 per day is none too much for viewers who have to go out on long ditch-viewing jobs, and pay their own expenses- It is thought that the killing of this bill will cause another hitch in the Iroquois ditch.

Dr. and Mrs. H. J. Kannal arrived home from Cincinnati, last evening, where Mrs- Kannal had been for two weeks visiting friends and the Dr. for one week, seeing the sights and attending the annual convocation of the 32nd degree, or' Scottish Rite Mason’s of Ohio. Cincinnati has the biggest loflfee of that order and the best trained in team work in the oo untry, Cincinnati’s big $2000,000 fire ocoured while they were there to see it, also. The following from a late New Orleans paper shows that Uncle Bill N, Jones is still making good his claim-to the old bowler championship of the -U. 8.: “The second series of games between Sobutten’s bowling team and the

the New Orleans bowling team resulted in victory for the latter by 123 pins. '‘Father” William N. Jones, aged seventy-one years champion of the United State, his age, bowled an exceptionally fine game, making 234 pins in one game. Admiral Freemantle of the British navy recently called attention to the fact that owing to the decline of domestic production, England had become a country of middlemen, and would be helpless in case of war, owing to her dependence on outside nations for foodstuffs. If Mr. Gladstone had lived a few years longer, long enough to see the markets of the world "being captured by the United States under protection to

an extent that prompts European ! nations to form a commercial al- ; liance against us, and long enough to see Great Britian become a commercial dependent, he might not have taken the free-trade side 1 of a tariff debate with Mr. Blaine. Mrs. Nancy Hutchinson, of Plymouth, formerly Mrs. Nancy Snodgrass, is visiting her friends here for a few days. She was married to Mr. George Hutcb-inson at Plymouth about six weeks ago. The case of her former marriage last fall, also at Plymouth, has been mentioned. It was to a Mr. Thomas, who then had a divorced

wife, and she was married to another man. But this divorced wife seemed to think that if some other woman wanted her exhusband, she wanted him also, and so she proceeded to coax him away from his new wife. Mrs. Snodgrass, that was. The latter then procured a divorce from Thomas and as before stated, has a new husband in Mr. Hutchinson. Prof. Eldredge, the impersonator, had a very targe audience at the opera house last night, at the entertainment given under the' auspices of the Christian Endeavor of the Presbyterian Church. Prof. Eldredge has been here several times before, *but his popularity waxes rather than wanes by repetition. And really it is not repetition either in his case, for he has such a large range of characters at his disposal that he seldom repeats a characterization in any place. The audience was most excellently well pleased at his performances last night, and freely testified to their pleasure. A fine variety was added by musical selections by Mrs. G- K. Hollingsworth, and Misses Genevieve Potter, Jennie Bernard and Ethel Ferguson.

WEDNESDAY. W. J. Bryan is booked for a lecture at Yalparisoon March 12th. A. S. Laßue went to Colfax, 111., yesterday for-.a few days, on business. The Newton Brothers, Charles and Ed., have bought the Monticello Daily Journal of Cads Reynolds and Clark. A. P. Burton returned last evening after a week’s visit with his parents at Urbana, 111. Miss Ella Watson went to Stoutsberg yesterday to teach for Miss Jessie McCarthy, who is sick and unable to teach at present. Mrs. Mary Jane Hopkins returned home last evening from a several months’ stay with her son Homer, at Alexandria. Miss Nettie Needham went to Newcastle the latter part of the week to attend her grandfather’s funeral, but owing to the blocking of the road by the wreck at Cambria, she did not get there in time.

Mrs. Rutherford, who owned and managed the “Cafe”restaurant on south Van Rensselaer during the winter, has moved back to her former home in Pulaski County near Lakeside postoffce. Attorneys Saunderson, of Fowler and Cummings of Kentland were here today, in connection with the sale of the old Paxton farm, in Newton Tp, certain features of the title having needed the action of the Cirout Court. Edward Ranton, of Hoopeston, 111-, is here this week looking after the property he owns, in this vicinity, being the large farm southeast of town, he bought of P. C, Wasson, The farm is now rented to Harrison Wasson, who will continue to occupy it for another year.

J. W. McConahay, for some time past keeper of the store at Pleasant Ridge, but who sold the same to Clifford Parkison, has moved in. to town, and occupies the Henry Randle property, north of, the depot, recently vacated by Squire W. E. Moore. That basket ball is as strenuous in its waj as foot ball an accident to Miss Stella Shields, teacKer of the 2nd roim, illustrates. She struck her left hand against a wall, while reaching for a ball, a few evenings ago, and broke the small bone in the forearm, and sprained the wrist. It is a painful injury. Mr. George W. Kennedy and Miss Arthena Rosella McGee, a couple from Jordan Tp„ were married, this, Wednesday, forenoon, March 4th, at 10 o’clock. The cei'bmony was performed by Rev. B. F. Ferguson, at his residence. The newly married couple took the 10:55 train for a bridal trip to Fort Wayne, and other points.

Architect Weatherhogg, of Fort Wayne, was here today, figuring with the commissioners on a possible settlement o' bis long pending claim against the county, in connection with the court house; a suit for which is now pending in the White circuit court. The case was thrown out by Judge Palmer, on a demurrer by the commissioners, but the Supreme Court reversed Judge Palmer, and ordered the case back for trial.

THURSDAY. Mrs. C. M. Blue is sick with a severe case of inflamation of the of the bowels. Dr. W. W. Hartsell is confined to his room by sickness from grip, but is mending rapidly. Miss Mary Weathers, deputy postmaster, is confined Jo her home with tonsilitis and vaccination. Subject Sunday morning, at the Christian church, “The New Jerusalem.” Evening, "The foolishness of preaching.” Born, Frjday night, March, Feb. 27th, to Mr. and Mrs. Erbardt Weurthner Jr., of Newton Tp., a son.

The Methodist ladies know about "where they are at” now in the net proceeds of their rummage sale of last week. The amount is the very satisfactory sum of $lO5. or within a fraction of a dollar of of that amount. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Halligan, the latter formerly Miss Maggie

Healy, arrived home today, from their extensive and extended bridal trip and sojourn in Florida. They will be home in the Healy homestead, on Front street, Tuesday night some one got into Prebble’s bowling and pool room, by prying open a window, and then committed highway robbery on his penny-in-thb-slot peanut machine, by breaking the same open. Wealth to the amount of several dollars, all in pennies or iron washers, was taken. March so far has been somewhat muggy, moderately mild, and decidedly muddy. The birds are coming back, and it looks a good deal like an early spring was ahead of us. But March is a shifty month, and the moat it can be counted on, for certain, is that one day will follow another.

“Gentlemen,” said a judge, addressing the jury in a recent Irish case, “You have heard the evidence. The indictment says the prisoner was arrested for stealing a P’g- The offense seems to be becoming a common one. The time has come when it must be. put a stop to, gentlemen; otherwise none of you will be safe. Geo. Tullis, southwest of town, father of Jerry Tullis, the boy fined for assaulting hie teacher, states that the boy’s age was 13 years and 9 months, and that he is a small, slender lad, for his age. Also that the statement that the boy had previously been expelled was a mistake, but that he and a number of others had taken ail their chHdren out of school.

The smallpox quarantine on Bruoe Moffit’s family will be lifted next Saturday. The Hopkins family have a few square yards more of loose cuticle to shed before they can be released. Harvey Daywitt, near Parr, is doing well. The seed he has sown in the rest ■of the family has not had time to germinate yet, but the orop will be sure when the time comes. _" Charley Schleman’s little three year old boy is just beginning to walk, again, after_his long sickness with meningites. The boy was in bed four months, and unconscious' or out of his mind for three months. Some of his physicians feared he would never regain his mental faculties again, but on the contrary he is as bright as a new dollar. The little fellow’s wonderful recovery is, of course, a great joy to his parents, but not less so to his grandfather, Uncle Charley Malohow, whose special pet he is.

It is only once in a long while that a non resident’s hunter’s license is issued in this county. Those getting such licenses in this portion of the state are mostly Chicago parties, and Lake county catches the bulk of them. One such license was issued by Clerk Major, today, which is only the 4th or sth since the hunter’s license law went into operation. The party to whom it was issued is our former townsman, L. F. Hopkins, ot Chicago, Theee licenses cost $25.50.

The commercial college of Logansport has given public notice to the proprietors of the various billiard and pool rooms of that city that they will prosecute them if they do not forbid the admittance of the minor students of the school. The faculty of the college asseits that the lads have been wasting much time that they should have spent at study and squandered money that they needed for books and materials, and that they deem it wise to enforce the law upon the keepers of these resorts. From the faculty it is learned that the keepers of the places have been most reasonable and have promised to use their influence to keep the boys away from their places and will not in any case allow them to play.

Uncle Augustus Stimson, of Wheatfield tp., near Stoutsburg, whs in town today finishing up his affairs in Jasper county. He sold his farm some time ago, and in a few days himself and family will move over into Kankakee Co., 111. They are not locating there permantly, but only until they can find a suitable permanent location. He has strong thoughts of moving clear to the Pacific coast. His oldest son, C. I. Stimson has only very lately returned from an extended visit to that region, and brings back very favorable reports. Uncle Augustus, by the way, has lived on the farm he is now vacating for 28 consecutive years. He has hosts of friends all over the county who will be sorry to know he is moving away, but wish him well wherever he goes.