Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 123, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1903 — Page 3
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CITY NEWS OF THE WEEK
FRIDAY. Mrs. G. W. Miobaels went to Chicago this morning to spend the day. A. F. Long and family are making a few day's stay in Caioago this week. Mrs. Candace Longhridge went, to Chicago this morning for a short stay. "** Mrs- Otto Heyden, of Terre Haute, is making a week’s visit here with herj'sister, Mrs.* John Eger. s ■ Mrs. Lyman Baroe, living a few miles northwest of town, is slowly * improving from a severe j3pell of sioknets. Unde Billy Pieroe went to Lafayette this morning where he expects t). visit friends for a couple of weeks. Miss Louise Harmon left yesterday evening for Milford, 111, where she will visit for some time with relatives and friends. Mhs Alfie James, who, has been making a week’s visit here with friends, returned this morning to her home in Woloott. J. F. Miohaels, left this morning for Monmouth, 111,, to attend the funeral of the wife of bis brother, Dr. E. L. Michael. Will Barkley and Bob McGregor went to Brookston this afternoon to make some of their friends a short visit. Miss Lillian Rhoades, who has been spending the past six weeks jn Cincinnati, with her aunt Mis. C. D. Martin, arrived home last evening. Rtv. R. A. Harper, state evangelist of the Free Will Baptist Oburoh, preached an excellent sermon here last evening to a large audience. Mrs Carrie Johnson, who has been visiting for the past two weeks wi’h Miss Eunice Adamson, north of town, left this afternoon 1 for her home in Indianapolis. , Prof W H. Sanders went to Montioellu, this morning to attend a meeting of the Northern Indiana Superintendents olnb whioh convenes there today and tomorrow. Rev. Jos. Cochran of the F. W. ohurob, has gone to Brook<Bton to attend quarterly meeting but will return Sunday morning and hold his regular church service, as usual. ’ Miss Kate Marshall went to Elkhart this morning where she Visit with her sister Edith who is teaohing school there. She will spend a short time with friends in Laporte before returning home. G. C. Grey, who has been for -Abe past week looking after business matters pertaining to the old Baker farm, south of town, whioh be putohased two years ago, left this afternoon for his home at Paxton, Ills. * Sam Demarous, of Crescent City 111., a fjrtner resident of Jasper county, who has making a short vistt here with friends left this morning for a several ■ , week’s sojonrn at his old home near Knoxville, Tenn. The Indiana soldiers had their share in another big sham battle, Thursday, in whioh they again made a fine showing. The boj a will break camp Saturday afternoon, and ars expected to arrive omeaome time, during Sunday If the time oan be known long enough before hand, the military jfcjhand will meet them at the depot
Mrs. Effie Fairchilds of DeMotte, was in town Thursday and making preparations to go to Indian Territory, with her daughter, to spend the winter with a married daughter, Mrs. Elmer Baboook, at ParoelJ. Mies Lillie Witham and her cousin John Witham, who have been making a several weeks’ visit here with T. J. Mauok and family, also relatives in Newton County, returned to their home in MontiThursday afternoon. The theatrioal company who produce the play, “Slaves of the Mine” at the Ellis Opera House this evening, arrived here this morning on the 11 o’olook train. They are a fine ljoking crowd of aotors and their performance tonight will undoubtedly be of a high standard.
The High Bchocl offioals are doing tbeir utmost to stoure a large orowd of rooters, who will go to Montioello tomorrow afternoon, and help cheer the boys to victory in their animal game of foot ball with the Montioello High Sohool. Every person in town who is loyal to the team and oan possibly go, should attend the game and assist ihe winning another victory: — Delos Thompson is inj classic Boston with his trc tters, this work, and both Kindest Kind and Billy Smith will stait today. Next week they will be at Johnstown, Pa. where their oirouit will eiid for this year, after being out just four months. He has owned Kindest Kind all but two weeks of that time. The horse has proven a great suooess aud a valuable purchase for Mr Thompsoa, Jay Siylor, an old Rensselaer boy, now a student at the Chioago Dental College is one of the star foot ball players on the team representing that institution. He received special mention in all tbe Chicago papers yesterday for his excellent woik in the game against Northwestern Uuiversity. Jay is an ex-member of our once famous athletio team aud still evidently retains the knack of tearing them up as he did in the old days.
Our former resident Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter’s book, “Overflowing of the Waters” descriptive of the fljodsat Topeka, Kane., last June, was soldyfor the benefit of tbe flood sufferers. Three thousand .copies were sold for this purpose, and the prooeeds used to supply books to sohool ohildren who lost theirs] in the flood. Some 380 pupils were fully and 142 partly famished with sohool books, from the prooeeds of her book. Mrs. I ois Dun [Ogden, L T tah, is here for a protracted visit with her neioe. Mrs. J. A. Grant, of Barkley. Mrs. Dunbar, as Mies Lois Harding, was a] very early resident of Rensselaer, living here as far back as 1847, and she was a neioe of that former well known resident, Squire E. T. Harding. She has had an interesting experience in liffe, especially daring the great oivil war, when for three years she was near the front in the capacity of an army nurse.
■ SATURDAY. Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth went to Hammond this morning to speod tbe day, Mrs. Seemie Fendig of Wheatfield is making short visit here with relatives.
morning to her home in Chicago. Mme. Lillian Ballagh of Chicago, will sing at the Presbyterian churoh tomorrow morning. And Montioello is going to have a ‘‘street fair” after all. Only they call it a “corn ftstival” to “take the onss off.” Batn Elby left this fflorning for his old home at Johns, Mich., where he expects to spend a week or two in visiting relatives, Born, this, Saturday morning, Oct. 10 th, to Mr. and Mrs. Jay Stookton, at their summer home a mile west of town, a daughter. Miss Edith Berry, teacher of the
fourth year class in the public schools, went to Chioago this morning to remain over Sunday. Squire Troxell and John Kressler returned home last evening from a week’s fishing trip on the Kankakee. They oaugbt 22 big ones during the week. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Reed, returned home last evening from Lafayette, where thSy have been visiting relatives and friends for the past week. Miss C< ra Conway who hasbeen visiting here for tbe past week with her brother, W alter Conway and family rtturned this morning to her home at Eaton, Ind. Harvey Robinson was dowu from Gillam, today, advertising a big sale, he intends to have, on Oot. 21st He is going to farming and move to Monticello. where he runs a hitoh barn.
Clyde Comer arrived home this morning from West Point, Ky. He says the 3rd Indiana will be the last to break camp and that Co M. will not reach home before Sunday afternoon oa the 3.30 train. The big red*iJdevil wagon” whioh went north through town this afternoon, was the same one that got laid out here for rapairs, for several days, about two weeks ago, while its Chioago owner and his wife were on their way to Mudlavia Springs.
• • Lif". Attorney Schuyler C. Irwiu left this toreuoon for Minneapolis, Minn, where he has an important engagement for next Tuesday, and dont want* to miss it Namely he is to be married that day, to Miss Effie Stillwell.
Toe Rensselaer High Sohool foot ball team acoom pained by a good sized orowd of rooters left on the 201 train for Montioello, where they expeoted to give the High School of that town a good trimmiDg this afternoon. A hard fonght game of fcotball t jok plaoe at Remington yesterday afternoon, between the Williamsport Plungers and Fred Parcels Remington Athletio team. The game resulted in a 0 to 0 score. Several Rensselaer people went over to see the oontest.
Mrs. W. A Huff arrived home last evening from ludianspolis, where she has been acting as a delegate, to the Convention of Rathbene Sister whioh was held
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" there thTsweeif. SBe" wjSi" pained home by Mrs. Emma Beaver, of Franklin, Ind who wil make her a few days’ visit. A large crowd of Pnrdue foot ball rooters* passed through here this morning on the milk train, on their way to Chioago, to witness the big oontest this afternoon between Pnrdne and Chic igo Universities. The team did hot aocompany the rooters bat left Lafayette early this mornnig ovejr the Big Four railroad. Nioholas Aroher, the insane man from Wheatfield, who waa taken to the asylnm at Logansport about a yearagor-but who later improved to suoh an extent, that he was sent home on a furlough, took another of his spells yesterday and was brought here last night. He was taken back to Logensport again this morning by Oliver Robinson.
There was a rather sharp frost last night, but not a killing one by any means, and there is no longer anything that can be materially damaged byf frost if it had been. The minimum theremometer of the local weather bureau station registered 35 degrees as the lowest temperature during the night, and whioh still prevailed this morning. It was the same as the lowest reaobed on the morning of Sept. 19th, but the cald lasted later in the morning and some more frost was to be seen. The death returns reoieved in the office of the State Board of Health, whioh are filled out by physioians and sent to looal health officers, who in turn send them to ;he State Board, reveal some startling ohuses of deaths, or at east the spelling is startling. The ollowing are samples on returns recently received in the office of Seoreiary Hurty: Colery inpban“tum; hooping coff, suiside; newmonia; information of brain; tenility; stopped breathing; log rolled on him and never breathed afterwards; eptalipteo oonvnltions and pertiessis.
The venerable Mrs. 8. J. Austin met with a severe aooident at the home of her son, W. B. Austin, in Chicago, last Monday night. She got up during the night and mistook the stairway for a door, and fell tbe length of a long flight of stairs, and rolled down another shorter flight. She was nnconsoious when found, and was very badly shooked and bruised, and is still oonfiued to her bed, bat is now improving very satisfactorily.
The play “Slaves of the Mine,”, was produced at Ellis opera house last evening to a very small audience. The show was one of the best that ever came to Rensselaer and was greeted with probably one of the smallest orowds that have witnessed their performance th{s season. The company ia certainly deserving of crowded bouses, wherever they go for they are all artists, high up in their profession and have been playing in towns much larger than Rensselaer, during the greater part of the season Another important land sale near town was negotiated through C, J. Dean. J. W. Shuck, of Urbanna, 111., has sold the former Bergman farm, just northeast of town, to D L. Hogan, a retired business man of Joliet, 111. The farm contains 269 acres and the price was S7O per acre, or 118,830. Mr. Hogan will not live on the farm himself, but will probably move to Rensselaer, to be near it. It will be worked lyr Nat Heuson, now on one of the Amsler farms. Isaac Deavel, now on tne farm intends to move oat of the oounty. ' MONDAY. Attorney W. H. Parkison went to Ohioago this morning on business 4 . Riley Tullis, of near Egypt sohool house, in Jordan Tp., is sick with malarial fever. Gonnty Auditor Babcock is getting sronnd again after about two weeks sioknees, with malarial lever.
North Manchester, today where he will visit relatives for a some time. Miss went to Chicago this morning to make some of her friends a short visit. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Goff returned home this morning frooj a week’s visit with relatives in Hebron and DeMotte.
The Rensselaer oity sohools will dose Thursday and Friday of this week, for the teachers to visit other sohools. County Surveyor Myrt Price ar rived home yesterday from 'a two week’s visit with relatives and Heads in St. Louis and Chioago.
Alva Clark connected with the grocery department of the Chicago Bargain Sjore, is recovering from a severe attaok of remittent fever.
Mrs. Thomas Daugherty who has been visiting for the past few days’ with relatives in Brookston and Lafayette, came home this morning. Judge Hanley and Court Reporter Walker went to Kentland, his morning, for the opening of the October term of the Newton oironit oourt. They drove across the country, Mrs. Will had prepared to go to Florida, for tbe )enefit of bhr healtn, hat has had a stroke of paralysis, in both arms, and is obliged to defer her trip, for a while. Miss Edna Thompson who is ;aking a course in musio and painting in Kenwood Institute Chioago spent the day here yesterday with ler parents Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Thompson. Steward Hammond and daughter, Mrs, Marion Adams, can iome this morning from Brooks;gd, where they have been attending a series of meetings of the Baptist church. 0. E t Hershman was os lied Sunday, to the home of his brother Alva Hershman, in the Gillam oil district, on account of his father, John L. Hershman, who it was feared, was very dangerously sick-
A revival meeting will begin at the F. W. Baptist church, tonight, Wnd continue indefinitely. Rev. Harper, of LaGrange, state evangelist of the denomination, and Riiv. Cochran, the pastor, will conduct the meetings. A party of Woloott fishermen, five in number, passed through here yesterday on their way home from a week’s fishing trip on the Kankakee. They had 110 big piokeral with them whioh they had landed daring their trip.
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Andrew Kaight.a painter by * occupation, and son of A. J. Knight, a former well known resident, and Dora Stone, daughter of the late Richard Stone, and bis widow Mrs. Mary Stone, were married last Saturday, Oot. 10th* by Squire 8. E. Yeoman. He is 22 years old bis next birthday, and ahe IX—- ‘ -
The work of changing the boilers: at the oourt house and jail heatings station is not yet completed and the oooupants of the oourt house are beooming greatly disoommpded for want of heat. Treasurer Parkisou has relieved the situation in his office somewhat,, hy putting in an oil stove and the other offices are following his example.
Rensselaer people now have a chance to sample elk venison. One of the big cow elks on the Nelson Morris ranoh broke a leg Sunday, and was immediately shot and dressed, and tbe oaroass sent to Rensselaer and is now on sale at Eiglesbaoh’s meat market. It is very fat and will weigh 400 to 500 pounds, dressed weight, and makes fine meat. It was one of the number Winfred Pnllins bought some time ago, bat had not yet moved to bis park in Barkley Tp;
Comrade Fox, who always has abventureß, was the only man hurt in Company M., during their stay at West Point. Hp was run into and knocked down by a regimental surgeon, on horseback,and his left shoulder pretty badly hurt, but he is now oarrying tha mails as usual. - The surgeon claimed the horse was so headstrong he could not ooutrol it. He was duly sympathetic with Comrade, and did all he could to help him. Last evening while going home, Robert, the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Fendig, was suddenly attacked by a severe fainting spell and fell unoonscioas on the side-walk in front of MoCoy’s bank. He was carried into B. F. Fendig’s drag store, where it was found that he had sustained two severe outs, from his fall, one on the left cheek bone and the other dangerously near the left temple. He was taken home about 11 o’olook but did not regain conoiousness until 4 o’clook this morning bat will probably be all right again in a day or two.
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