Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1898 — Page 10 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Isaac Kepner’s new house, in Benjamin & McGee's add., is rendy for the plasterers. I T. P. Wright has moved into the Lampson property near the creamery. 1 The brick work on A. Leopold’s new building, will be completed this week. John Hodshire is the contractor. Rev. N. H. Sheppard’s subjects for next Sunday are as follows: Morning, “Spirit controlling the i body.” Evening, “The true and i false faith Cure.” Every one invited to come out and hear him.

Joseph Jackson, porter at the Nowels house and Miss Nora Mar- j latt daughter of Perry Marlatt of Barkley township, were married at the residence of the officiating minister Rev. B. F. Ferguson in Rensselaer, Sunday evening. Remington has granted a 25 years franchise. to the Eagle Company, an Illinois corporation to establish an electric light plant at their plnce. The town is to pay SSO for each arc light per year, and business and residence light at rates below the general prices. Last Saturday morning two slicklpoking individuals arrived in this city, and proceeded to canvas among the business men to secure advertisements, to be painted on bill-boards, to be put up on the four gravel roads leading into the city. Quite a number of the merchants subscribed to their scheme and everything was working fair with them until the 9,30 train on Tuesday morning when they were arrested by Deputy Marshal John M. Denton of Frankfort, on a warrant charging them with beating a board bill of sixty dollars, at that place. They were placed in the jail here, and taken to Frankfort the same evening to await trial. Logans port Presbytery met at Goodland in the regular Spring session, the Rensselaer Presbyterian Church being represented by ; Rev. C D. Jeffries and George K. Hollingsworth. One of the important items of business was the appointment of two Commissioners to represent the Presbytery in the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church which meets at Winona in Kosciusko Co.. Tnd. tm May 19. 1898, one Commissioner being selected from the Clergy and one from the laity. Our townsman. George K. Hollingsworth, was accorded the honor of the appointment as lay commissioner. Logansport Presbytery includes many important an influential ehurehetp as will.be seen from the list of counties which are included in its jurisdiction as follows: Lake. ! Porter. LaPorte v St. Joseph, Marshall, Fulton. Starke. Pulaski. ; White. Cass. Newton and Jasper. Hon, Clias F. Griffin of Hammond | was also an aspirant for the ap--1 pointmont of Lay Commissioner.