Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1903 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

TUESDAY Charley Herehman is attending a shooting tournament at Bass Lake today. / Mrs. E, J. Duvall aud children are visiting relatives in Chicago for a feW days. • Mrs. E. A. Aldrich visited relatives at Francesville all of latt week, returning home Monday. Miss Edith BaMz. of Hoopston, 111., returned home today after a week’s visit with G. H. Maines and family.

Mrs. J. B. GdSawav and children returned to taeir home in Delphi yesterday after a ehoit visit with relatives here. Mrs. F. B. Wilhite and son, of Orawfordsville, arrived this afternoon! for a several weeks’ visit with her brother, M. V.Burk and family. Mr. and Mrs. Jfccob Smjsor, of Windsor, 11l ~ were in town Mr. Smysor owns a quarter section of land in Keener Tp., and was here looking after it. T&e McOoysburg base ball posers, who have challenged the loest team Rensselaer can piok ap, played a team from Pleasant GroVe, Sunday, and beat them -67 ta 0. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Blue, the latest bride and groom, arrived here from their bridal trip, yesterday, and will remain here for a few days before going to their horns in Wueatfield. Mr. and Mrs. G. K Holliogewjorth and sons left this miming ior a three or four weeks sojourn in their favorite summer resort, in the inland lake regions of northern Wisconsin, at Conover. A light in the uortltast, last ynight, oaueed a supposition of more fires by lightning out that way, but so-far asoonld be learned it was only the barning of soms old straw stacks, on Bam English’s farm, which be set fire t>, to get rid of. ’ The rainfall here during the big thunder storm, early this morning, was 1.17 inohes, which is a big rain at any one time; but farmers arfe not yet saying it is too muoh. Oat in Jordan it seemed to rain much more, and besides there was another big rain there this forenoon, which did not reach Rensselaer at all. One other teacher for the oity sohools has just been secured by Prof. Banders, which leaves only one vaoanoy. The new teacher is Ohas. Sands, of Kankakee Tp., who will teach the 6th year, succeeding Mias Ralston. Be has had several yenra’ experience in oonntry schools, anc has also had some training at the state normal. Other oases of recent damage by lightning, not heretofore reported, waa the loss, by Wilson Shaffer, of some miles west of town, of a good horse from that oanse. Which ooourred last Sunday. Another was daring the big storm Wednesday of last week, when some 6 or 6 head of oattle were killed with one stroke, on the Nelson Morris ranoh, near the Kankakee river.

Mrs Ben. Preble is v siting relatives in Wolooit for a few weeks. WEDNESDAY. Mrs, J. F, Major has gone to Warsaw to visit her mother for a week cr two. Mrs, Arthur Kelley, after fl week’s visit with Wm, Dixey’s family, left fur her home at Kansas City, today. Mias Mary Yates and her nephew and niece, John aud Beatrice Yates went to R >Bsville, 111., today to visit relatives for some lime. There was another thunder storm here last night, with about a quarter iach of rain. A few miles north east there w u .s no rain at all. » Nitty Seott has improved very slowly for soniH daje now aud though st 11 very sick, his final recovery is confidently expeit d. - Mrs. Al Padgett, aud daughter Esther and sister Miss Maude Daugherty, went to Loganspoit today to see the Rensselher horses in the races.

Senator Parke, at Ply mouth, has over 100 sores of oatalpa trges planted for wood on his farm. This tree matures promptly'and is said t) be a profitable tree to ruise. Bert Brook, who left here a while back on aooount of his health and went to Phillips, Wis., is now in South Dak da, doing light work on A. B, Rowley’s farm. He is reported improving in his health. A six or seven year old son of Ed Tanner 5 or 6 miles northeast of town, fell Tuesday afternoon, while playing, and broke his right oollar bone. Dr. English was oalled cat and reduced the fracture. Nearly all reports agree that Jasper oounty no v has one of the best prospects for corn ever seen here at this time of the year. Even the lat) corn has taken such a big spurt that it oan hardly be told from the earlier, except for the oolor sf the a'lk. O P. Taber of Remington, has began suit in the oircuit oourt against the P. O. C. & St. L. R. R., otherwise the Panhandle, to collect an ass easement for street improvement in Remington, and which the railroad refused to pay The amount assessed against them was S6OO.

Superintendent Blue has thrash* ed Jasper, oounty’s crop of oats at the poor farm, and got 1261 bushels of a pretty good quality of oats off from about 35 sores. This is 36 bushels to the aore and about tbe best yield we have heard ot this year. Mr. Blue also raised 859 bushels of good wheat from about 20 acres, which is about 18 bushels to the aore, and a good yield for wheat in this county. Todd Shafer, of Lafayette a traveling man who visits Rensselaer regularly is reported in tbe Indianapolis Journal as having just won $30,000 in a lottery. If tbe report is true or partly true, Todd will be able to fly high for a while unless his daddy? 1 John Shaffer, also a traveling man well known here, gets charge of the pile. The application made July 25th for the reception of Mrs. Julia Graadgeorge, of Wheatfield tp. in Longoliff asylum has been hung up all this time, through failure of the physician to send a certificate of vaccination. It was finally received today, by Clerk Major and forwarded to the asylum. The delay has been a very trohbleeome matter to tbe old .lady’s family as she is very difficult to take oare of.

A man darned Barns from about Wheatfield came to town a few days ago with the end of a big crooked sack needle embedded deep in the4)alm of bis had. He had been using the needle, and while bolding it in bis hand, tripped and fell, and the needle entered bis handover two inches and broke off, leaving fully an mob and a half of its length in the hand. Dr. Berkley located the needle by a skiagraph or x-ray pioture, and then had no trouble in cutting in. to its biggest end, and removing it;

J THURSDAY. t Bom, Wednesday, Ang, sth to Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Beonghter, on Clark street, a daughter. f Mr, and Mrs. J. 8. MoColly, of WWerly, Tenn., are visiting the family of her uncle, George Hopkins, in the east part of town. Mrs. Ralph Sprague and son returned home to Montezuma, Ind. today, after several weeks’ visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Woodworth. Rev. A. G Work, pastir of the Presbyterian church, and mother, arrived home today from a month’s stay in Denver, Colo., attending the C. E. convention and visiting relatives

County Treasurer Parkison and wife went-up into Gillam Tp., yesterday, to meet her brother, Rev. D A. Rodgers, of Westyille, who ii visiting relatives there for a few days. The usual oburob services will be held at the Presbyterian ohurob Bnnday morning Owing to Fountain Park Assembly being, in session, no servioes will be held in the evening. Col. D. J. Foster, who is government postal inapooter for this vioinity, has added another title to his name, that of Brigadier General of Illinois. He was appointed to that position Monday. Since Anthony . Watt, of Connersville, has laid olaim to being the oldest Elk in the state, Levi M.ck, of Bluff ton. has put forward the claim of being the tallest Elk. He is more than seven feet tail and a pretty long “EUiok” for a fact. Van Wood, the McOoysburg barber, was in town today. He plays in the McOoysburg ball t»am, and intimates that John Phillips was the unauthorized daddy of that bold base-ball challenge to Rensselaer. But he aaya their team will stand for it all right if Renssslaer wants to pick up a team and play them.

Mr. and Mrs. A. Halleok went to Fair Oaks this morning to attend the funeral, at 2 o’olook this afternoon, of Mr. Halleok’s niece, Mias Viotoria Buntain, who lived Wdst of Fair Oaks. Her death oocurred Wednesday, of oonsdmptioD, and she had been aiok about two years. She was about 19 years old. Interment was made in Fair Oaks cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Nate Keen returned home from Goodland yesterday evening. They were there to attend the Medworth funeral, whioh was held at the Lewis Spaulding residence, whose wife is Mrs. Medworth’s sister. Mr. Keen is a brother-in-law of the murdered man, he being a brother of Mrs. Medworth’a. The latter is ®*Bl greatly prostrated and distracted but is slowly regaining her ordinary oondition.