Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1903 — CITY NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS OF THE WEEK

FRIDAY. B. S, Fendig is transacting business id Cbioago t xiay. Geo. Strickfadea attended a meeting of the Foresters Lodge at Lafayette last night. Mrs. W. J. Hoover left today for a week’s visit with relatives in Monticello and Delphi. A large orowd of Rensselaer people took in the Corn Carnival at Montioello yesterday afternoou. Little John Knox sustained a badly dieLciled thumb this morning while playing foot ball with some of his boy friends. Mr. and Mrs 0. D. Nowels went to Flora this afternoon where they will visit for some time with Mr, Nowels’ brother Riley Nowels and family. Mrs. Jennie Qendrioks who has been visiting here for some time with Geo. Barons and family left this afternoon for her home at Maywood, 111. Mrs H jraoe Henkle left this afternoon for Cjlorado Springe, Colo., after a weeks visit here with her brother-in-law, June Henkle, and wife. Mrs. Eva Morgan and daughter, Miss Graoe,’ came home last night from Ohioago, where they have been visiting relatives and friende for the pest few days. 4 Mrs, Sylvester Gray went to Monticello this afternoon to meet her aunt, Miss Mary Frost, who is on her way here from Carmichaels Fa., to spend the winter. A masquerade surprise party was given last night in honor of Miss Cena Karr, living four miles west of here. A large crowd of ycnng people from town were in attendanoe.

lahbo Thompson, who has been making a visit here with bis brother, S. P. Thompson, and family, left last night lor his home at Bloffton, Ohio. N. W. Orumrine and wifo who have been spending the past two weeks with their son-in-law, Charles Arnold and family, living northeast of town, returned this morning to their home at Wabash. A dispatch arrived here this morning from Delos Thompson, stating that his horse, Kindest Kind, won first money yesterday afternoon at Boston, Mass. The horse has only lost one race since he was taken east. Bert Bine and Ernest Brandt, of Franoesville, stopped off herejthis morning on their way home from the Red River Valley, North Dakota, where Mr. Brandt has pnrohased 400 aares of land, fie expects to move there in a very short time. This is the middle day of October, and though today’s weather is not of the choicest brand, the month has been very fine so far, as September was before it. There has been no killing frost as yet, and the leaves are still green on the trees except such as have * i _ ripened naturally. " ■ Alfred MoOoy has sold to his Hanging Grove township partner, James McDonald, his original farm in that township, the old Oeorge MoOoy farm, adjoining MoOoysburg on the west. There are 268 acres In the farm and the price is $20,100. Qnole Mao has still got plenty of land left ip Hanging Grove.

The members of the Rensselaer City Council have received an invitation to attend the twelfth session of the Mnnioipal League of Indiana, to be held in the -city of Terre Haute on November litb, 12th and 13th. The mission of the League is to discuss plans for the betterment of town and city government.

The depot hobo football team went to Morocco this morning where they will play the Morooco Athletics this afternoon. Morooco had a game scheduled .with the Judy Tigers of Williameport, to. day, but the Tig r backed out this morning and the hoboes went over to take their place. It is stated in a dispatch from Washiaton. that Representative Landis, of Delphi, will probably succeed Me j->r St j ele, of Marion on the ways aud means committee. The appointments will be made by Speaker-to be Cannon immediately after hie election. The appointment is one of the meet desirable to be made by the speaker. The 9:55 train was three hours late this morning, on aooount of several freight oars whioh ran off the trick at Frankfort. The blockade happened to occur just between the Vaudatia and Clover Leaf Y’s so that the ouly recourse left in getting around was to go over the Vandaliato Colfax, from there over the Big Four to Clark’s Sill and then baok to Frankfort over the Clover Leaf, mrkiDg in all a distance of 26 miles covered, to get around an obstrnction of not over 300 sett.

SATURDAY.

Geo. Goff is traoeaoting bueioefs in Chicago t >day. The school teachers of Union township are boiding an institute at Parr. Louis Hopkins oame down from Chicago this afternoon for a short visit with relatives and friends. Jim Drake of Ohioago is making a few day’s visit with his mother, Mrs. Mary Drake, south of town. Mrs. H. C. Heffner entertained her Sunday Bohool class last evening at her home on Van Rensselaer street. E. H. Harley has movedj into one of J. T. Randle’s new houses, north of his own residence, on Cullen street. Gov. Darbin went to Ohioago today, on the train passing here at 9:65 a. m. Col. T. J. MoOoy met him at the depot for a hand-shake. The Remington and Brook foot* ball teams pl&yed at Remington yesterday afternoon, the former winning by a soore of 23 to 0. W. P. Bethel, representative of the Indianapolis Morning Star, who has been in this city since Tuesday, leaves tonight after completing his work for that paper. Superintendent W. H. Whittaker, of the Indiana reformatory, has under consideration a plan to oonvert the institution into one big print shop, where all* the schoolbooks used in the state of Indiana can be printed. Mrs. James Flynn returned home last night from Lowell and reports her infant grand eon, Mrs H. C. Nichols’ little baby, whose very serious sickness called her there, as very much better, and folly expected to ieoover.

Ebraoe Marble of Wheatfield transacted business hare todav. B. S. Fendig ia preparing to open np a branch poultry business at Kankakee and Streator, 111. Mrs. R. A. Parkiaonand obildren went to Monon this morning to spend the day with friends. Geo. Daugherty went to Montioello thia afternoon to visit friends and take in the Carnival. Mrs. E. J. Sayler went to Ham • mond thia morning to pay her sister, Mrs. L. L. Daughtery, a week’s visit. B F. Fendig and Harry Parker went to Lafayette this afternoon ti witness the big foot ball oonteat between Purdue and Illinois Universities. James Whitcomb Riley was recently offered $20,000 by a theatrical manager of Cleveland to give reoitatiems in vaudeville for twenty weeks, but declined the proposition.

Mrs. Jqhn App of Mulberry is thegnett for a few days of her daughter, Mrs, Sam Roth. Mrs. Roth’s anot, Mrs. Mary Back of Maxohe, Tex., is also paying her a sboit visit. Dr. Johnson who is taking oare of Harry Willets, of MoCoysbnrg, t ie young fellow who had the heel of hie right foot so badly orushed in a corn cotter a short time ago, says that he is doing very nicely, and that he will be able to go to work again in a few weeks. Elvin Overton who has been confined to bis bed for the past six weeks with a complicated oase of typhoid fever, is now able to be up and around the boose, Dr. Johnson who is attending him, thinks that in a few days he will be able to go oat of doors. A tract of land southwest of Salem, Washington oounty, has the record of prodneing 96 good corn orop, It was entered ■> in 1807 by J.- A. Beck, and ha 3 been owned by the Beck family and' been in corn ever sinoe. The an-’ nnal overflow of Bine river aooounts for its oontinned fertility. Rev. D. A, Tucker arrived here afternoon from Hortonville, Wis., and will visit for sometime with his daughter, Mrs. Anson Ohupp. He will also visit friends in Greensburg; Ind., before returuing to hia home. He will preaob at the Free Will Baptist oh arch here tomorrow morning-

The High School fcnt-ball team accompanied by Profs. Hiatt and Headlee drove to Goodland this morning where they will play the third game of their schedule with the Goodland High School this afternoon. This is the last game the boys will have away from home, Mrs. Mildred Powell, who hss been making her home here for the past few months, went to Montioello today where she will visit friends for a short time before leaving for Pittsbnrg, Pa., where she will remain this winter with her daughter, Mm. Dr. W. E Griffith The farmers of Clay oonnty have deoided to refuse to pay the $1 for a hunter’s license. They deolare the state has no right to tax them for bunting on their own premises. The deputy game warden for Clay county however, declares he will arrest all persons be finds in the fields with a gun and without a license whether they are on their own premises or not. At the city election in Indianapolis this week quite a number of preoinots were provided with voting machines, and they worked with perfect satisfaction in every case. There is now a strong sentiment in Indianapolis to provide every voting plaoe in Marion oonnty with a voting machine. Mies Nelle Smith, former stenographer for Fergnson & Wilson, here, is now private secretary to Dr. John Dewey, head of the department of Philosophy in Chicago University, and a noted author along bis special lines.

She fcai a good place, with a salary of about S2O per week. «i The depot Hobo, foot ball team got trimmed at Moroooo yesterday afternoon by a score of 22 to 0. From all reports, there were only ? of the original Hobo aggregation that reached Moroooo, the others having apparently fallen by the wayside in the vicinity of the Mt, Ayr Wayside Inn. The Moroooo team loaned them enough of their substitutes to make np the eleven men.

Hebron News: It will soon be the time of year when the dnok hunter will make his rounds on the Kankakee marsh for the ducks which have already made theirappearanoe ia small numbers- If ail the nimiods turn out who. have seonred a lioenee the timber lands along the river will be thiokly inhabited daring the hunting season, Up to date over one hundred hunting lioenses have been issued to parties in and near Hebron.

W. H Parkisen, the attorney and B. O. Gardner, the real-estate dealer, have moved their office from the Makeever building, into the rear room on tbe second floor of the Odd Fellows’ new building. Th>-y have there a very large and well lighted room, one of | the pleasantest in faot in the city. The rooms they moved out of will be oooopied by J. H. Chapman, who is now in the same building but wants more room.

Mr. and Mrs Sohuyler C. Irwin, the latest bride and groom, arrived from Minneapolis last evening, on the milk train, having spent two days in Chioago. They repaired to the home of Mr. Irwin’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Irwin, in the west part of town, and in tbe evening some 30 or 40 of their neighbors participated in a pleasant reoeption in their honor. They will go to housekeeping at onoe in Mrs. Perkins’ tenant property, on north Cullen street.

Rensselaer people who bav been there speak very highly of the “oorn festival” now in progress at Montioello. It seems to be in faot, about after the modle of the original Street fairs, before they digenerated into mere money-mak-ing, amusement giving shows, with none of the fpir element left Tbns at Montioello there is not only a big oorn exhibition, bat other agricultural products |horses, etc, as well as plenty of shows, both free and for prices, the shows all being, as reported, meritorious and free from objectionable features. In faot it seems to be about the kind of a show Rensselaer ought to have if we ever have another street show.

MONDAY. Will Parka went to Ohioago this morning on business. John Eger is transacting business in Ohioago today. Mrs. Mary Drake went to Chicago this morning to be gone fer several day.

J, H. 8. Ellis and aon John, are making a short stay in Chicago this week. Mesdames Vernon Newels and Ray Thompson are spending a few days in Chicago this week', H. O. Heffner and wife aye visiting for a oonple of days with relatives near Fowler. Mrs. Vermont Hawkins, of Anderson, ia the guest for a few days of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Willis. Misa Tillie Fendig of Delphi, spent the day here yesterday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Fendig. W. W. Watson of Chioago spent the day here yesterday with relatives and friends, teturning home thismorning. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Whittaker returned to (heir home in Hammond this morning after a short visit here with friendsMrs William Bussell returned home this morning from MonoD, where she went several days ago to visit her son-in-law Hagh Lowe, who is dangerously sick. Born, yesterday morning to Mr. and Mrs. James Britt, of Barkley tp., a 11 pound boy.

Mrs. L. H. Rhineforih of Grinnei, lowd., is the guest for a few days of Rev. A. G. Work and mother. Mrs. A. Oppenheimer left last night for her home in New Orleans, after a several weeks’ visit here with her daughter, Mrs. B. 8Fendig. Frank Meyers, who is holding down en excellent position in the shoe business at Uaaville, 111., was here yesterday for a short visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Meyers. A three months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jay MoMnrray, on tbe Makeever farm two miles north of town was bnried Saturday, at Band Ridge oemetery. Mias Grace Brown, who has been visiting here for the pabt few weeks with her sister, Mrs. Dr. English and other relatives, left this morning for her home at Danville, 111. Mr. and Mrs. Oren Parker celebrated their seoond wedding anniversity, Friday evening; at their home on Front street, by a very elegant six o’clock dinner. Eight invited couples were present. Three oovered wagons which trekked through town this morning, came from Oklahoma, and were headed for Kosoinsko county this state. They had been jost seven weeks on the journey. Rev. Dr. D. N. Wood of Valparaiso, presiding elder of the Valparaiso district, will be here and preaob at the M. E. obnroh

this evening at 7:30 followed by the quarterly conference- ~ * Mra, Joaeph Francis and daughter, Mrs. 8. O. Black went to Danville, 111., thia morning for a two week’a visit with relative*. After completing their visit at that place Mrs. Blaok will leave for her home at Faxton Oklahoma. Mra. Will Martin who has been spending the past six months here with her mother. Mrs. Mildred Powell, left this morning for Detroit, Mich., where she will spend a short time with friends before returning to her home at Washington, D. 0The tribunal that has been sitting in London to pass upon the Alaska boundary dispute with Canada, has rendered its decision. Pxaotioally all the land and water in dispute is deoided to belong to tbe United States.

< The first “killing frost’’ of the season ooonred Saturday night and Sunday morning. The thermometer registered 30 degrees, whioh was five degrees oolder than the lowest previous cold mark, whioh was 35 degrees, on September 18th, just a month earlier”

Ross Hawkins reoeived 2 boxes of cigars yesterday, direot from the Phillipine Islands. They were sent by his brother Frank who has been stationed there for the past year with the regular army. The oigars are very large and made from the best of tobacco and wonld probably retail in this country for about 25 oenta apiece.

Gen. Lew Wallaoe, with his son Henry, of Indianapolis, and a party of friends from Crawfordsville, arrived for an outing on the Kankakee. These trips of Gen. Lew Wallaoe to tbe Kankakee began before the civil war and have been oontinned semi-annually without interruption, save during the time that tbe general was in tbe army m New Mexico and in Turkey.

Rensselaer Wilkes, the famous trotting horse onoe owned by the Rensselaer Stook farm, and sold a few years ago to parties in Buffalo, N. Y, is entered in one of the leading events at the big horse show which will begin next Monday at the Colisenm in Chicago. He will compete for the Fiohenor Cap, an event for gig horses, in whioh class he is considered one of the finest horses in the world.

The party of Rensselaer hunters and their wives who went np to tbe McCoy camp on the Kankakee river Saturday afternoon returned home this morning, bringing with them 41 big fat duoks, whioh is an excellent showing, considering the earlinees of the season for good dock shooting.