Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1903 — CITY NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS OF THE WEEK

WEDNESDAY Ed Parcels went to, Montioello this afternoon to take in the Corn Carnival. A Dr. and Mrs. Johnson are spending the day with relatives in Remington. Miss Helen Gwin went to Monti cello today for a week’s visit with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Brown went to Reynold this morning for a week’s visit. Miss Nora Morlan ia spending a week with some of her friends in Lafayette. Mrs. J. T. Randle 16 making a short visit in Eentland with relatives and friends. Mrs. 0. G. Hammond is making a week’s visit with relatives in Hsmmond and Ohioago.

Attorneys Sellers and Guthrie o( Montioello, transacted legal bnßineas here today. Born, last evening to Mr. and Mrs. Charley Weiss, living 7 miles southwest of town, a boy. Mrs. M. C. Burke arrived home yesterday after a three weeks* visit with relatives in Crawfordsville. E. F. Honan left this afternoon for Ft. Wayne where he will look after some business matters for several da) s. Mrs. J. F. Watson arrived home, last evening from a two weeks’ visit with relatives in Indianapolis and Anderson. Miss Bell Mains returned home last evening from Delphi where ■he has been spending a few days with friends. Miss Louise Harmon, who has been visiting for the past few days with friends at Milford, 111., arrived home last evening. Mrs. Thomas Thornton left this morning for Kankakee, 111., where ahe will visit for a month with relatives and friends. Grandmother Weathers who has been visiting for the past few day’s with relatives and friends in Lafayette, came home yesterday. Attorneys, Geo. Williams, Frank Foltz and Jesse Wilson returned home this morning from Kentland where they have been attending oburt.

Mrs. Geo. Daugherty and daughter, Miss Maude, went to Mouticello this afternoon, where they expeot to visit for a week or two with relatives. Work on the foundations for new oity power station engine is now in progress. It is supposed the engine will be here in about two weeks. > •

It was annonnoed yesterday that Mr. Fassett Allen Cotton, State Sopt of iPnblio Instruction, and Miss Lena Dobson of Indianapolis, will be married soon. The revival meetings the F. W. Baptist ohurch are increasing in interest and attend&noe. Mrs. Harper, wife of the evangelist, arrived this morning, and will assist in the meetings hereafter. Lieutenant-Governor Gilbert is Tory ill and is confined to his home at Fort Wayne with an attack of rheumatism. His arms are seriously affected and he has temporarily lust the nse of his bands. Rev. D. A. Tucker of Hortonville Wis., formerly pastor of the F. W. Baptist ohnroh here, will preach at the ohnruh next Sunday morning, at the regular hour for church •enrioee.

Mr. and Mre. John j GwiD Luoius Strong and Korah Parker all went to Lafayette this morning to attend the big farmers institute that is being held there this week in the agriculture department of Purdue University, Mr-’. Lillian Ballagh who was here last week organizing a school of musio will be here again next Saturday in the Lecture Room of the Presbyterian oburob from 11 a. m. to 8 p. m. to try voioes and give leasons. Perry Gwin, one of the star players on the High Sohool foot ball team last vear, who has not not been able to play so far this season on aooount of rheumatism, is in good shape again and will be gin praotioe at once. Perry will be a great help to the boys in their future games. Miss May Andrews who has been visiting for the past mouth with her unole and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. H. Andrews, northwest of town, left this morning for her home at Hart, Mich. She baa aoooGapanied as far as Hammond by horarint Mrs. Andrews, who will remain there for a week’s visit.

W T. Steadman, a blind man, who has been looated in Delphi for 15 years in the ooonpation of a musio teacher, is in town today with a view of organizing some olasses and looating here permanently. He givea instruction on piano, organ, violin, mandolin, guitar and zither. He is very highly recommended by the leading oitizens of Delphi.

The oorn in this seotion is mnch better than in Southern Indiana and Kentuoky. Much of the oorn in that region being left standing in the fields as worthless. North of Indianapolis the oorn begins to look better and is nearly all shocked. A oontinued drouth is the oause of the poor orops there, no rain having fallen for several months Many of the walls are dry and the inhabitants are foroed to haul water for miles. "The serious defeot in sooialistio movements," says the South Bend Times, "is that work is treated as a hardship and that individual riohes are regarded as a wrong and an evil. Both assumptions are radioaliy false and wholly untenable, Work and accumulated wealth are essential elements of industrial and sooial progress. This world would be in an unenviable predioament if all were situatedexaotly alike. It is the variation fn conditions that impels to effort and notion."

H. W. Prinoe, formerly of a few miles northwest of town, but now west of Mt. Ayr, was in town today on his way home from St. Joseph oonnty, Michigan, where he was was looking fer a good farm to pnrohase. He snooeeded in finding one to suit him, in St. Joseph oounty, which is the first county north of Elkhart oonnty, this state. It ia a highly improved farm of 193 scree, two miles from Whitepigeon, and Mr. Prinoe considers he bought it at a great bargain, at SSO per aore. All kinds of crope do well there, and it is $ great fruit country besides. Mr. Prinoe will move on the farm next spring.

THURSDAY. A saloon keeper’ at Hartford City has offered the county commissioners SI,OOO a year rental for the use of a room in the basement of the oourt house.

Mr. and Mrs. Will Powers are spending a few days with friends in Montioello. Meadames Lucius J. R, Wiloox are visiting mends in Lafayette today. “"Mias Clara Mitohell, of Monon, is the guest for a few days of her aiater, Mrs. J. J. Shay. Born, this morning to Mr. and Mrs. Marion Cooper of Barkley township, a 10 pound boy. Mrs. Sophia Ponsler is making a week’s visit with relatives and friends in Remingtop. Alton Grant is taking in the Corn Carnival and visiting relatives in Montioello this weekr Mrs. James Flynn went to Lowell yesterday evening for a short visit with relative 2 . Mrs. Harvey Phillips of Delphi is paying her nephew, Marsh Warner, and family, a few day’s visit. Mrs. Mary Porter left today for Wataeka, Ilhwhere she will visit relatives anarriendafor a week ok -kWG

J. H. Leavel went toJWabish this morning to look after a pieoe of land which he is thinking strongly of purchasing, W. C. Milliron went to Rochester this morning where he will vi-it for a oouple of days with his father, J. E. Milliron. John W. Holtzman, the newly eleoted Democratic mayor of Indianapolis, waa formerly a White county man, having been a resident of Brookston. Meadames Jane Vestal and Mary Makeever of Mt Ayr. went from here to Lafayette this mornin; to pay .their annt Mrs. Hanna Barton, a week’s visit. Mrs, Fred Sanders returned to her home at Lebanon this morning after a several week’s visit here with her sisters, mesdames, J. H, Jessen and Alfred Hoover.

Osoar Welty, of Kokomo, who was deputy fish commissioner, for Northern Indiana several years ago, was shot and killed in a brawl at Denver, Colo., a few days ago. Most of the lady teachers of the oity schools here left last evening on the 6:30 train for Chioago, where they will spend the next two days in visiting the various schools of that oity. Joe Sharp, the.photographer, is unable to be at his place of business on aooount of sickness. Jenial Joe is always lame but for him to be sick is as unusual as it is ie;:retable.

A great tennis contest has been raging for the past few days between the Bachelors and Benedicts at the Presbyterian tennis oourts. The soore at the present time stands 5 to 2 in favor of the Baohelors. Mr. and Mrs, John Malchow who have been visiting hare for the past few days with Mr. Malcbow’s brother, Chas. Malohow, and family, left this morning for their home near Burlington, lowa. Ross Hawkins for several years past connected with the Milliron resturant, has resigned bis position, to take effeot the 25th of this month. He expects to move to Anderson about the Ist of November. Mrs. Anna Hey den who has been making a week’s stay here with her sister Mrs. John Eger, left last evening for Lafayette, where she will remain for a few day’s visit with friends before returning to her home at Terre Haute. D. A. Stoner, now of Wiohita, Kans., arrived last night and will spend a few days here, in closing up his business affairs. He is well pleased with the Kansas olimate, but has not yet engaged in any permanent business. Mrs. Fred Hammond, who for the past three weeks has been visiting here with her mother, Mrs. Mary Porter and her brother Will, left this morning for home at Goals, Kansas. She was accompanied to Chicago by Mrs. Walter Pdrter. For popular priced, oorrect styled cloaks and skirts. See the "Better Made Garments" at Bowles & Parkbr’a