Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1881 — Not Gone Out of the Business [ARTICLE]

Not Gone Out of the Business

Fish oil at Tharp's. * Neat’s foot oil at Tharp’i. Ground oil cake, 3 cent* per pound, at Tharp’a. Go to Tharp’s for the very best •ondition powders; only .25 cents per pound. Try that eutta percha paint, already mixed, any shade you want, at Tharp’s. # Pure white lead andlnl at Tharp’s. Paint brushes at Tharp’s. Window papers, only ten cents, at Tharp’a. Please remember the place and give me a call before buying elsewhere. Hemphill building—opposite the Trade Palace.

x Try Bedford’s 60 ct. tea. New carpets at Sears A Son’s. N. Warner A Sons for furniture. Peacock’s harness are warranted. New furniture at Sears A Son’s. Bedford keeps all kinds of garden seeds. Fine line of Box Paper, Stationery etc. Imes A Meyer. Try that corned beef at C. C. Starr k Co’s. Syrup in 6 gallon kegs at C. C. Starr k Co’s. Clothing to suit everybody at the Trade Palace. * > Best brands of tobacco and cigars st Ferguson's. 'TheDayton collar is the best. Peacock sells it. A, Babbitt’s .1776 soap powder at C. O. Starr k Co’s. v Genuine maple molasses at C. C. Starr & Co’s. I The Republican and Indianapolis Journal for $2.25. Anything you wai?t in the grocery line at Ferguson’s. Screen doors all complete, to order, at Ferguson’s. Ferguson declares he will no* be undersold on nails. Bill Childers is the boss. wolf catcher this spring. 12 lbs. new dried peaches for $1 at C. C. Starr & Co’s. . A full 'line of groceries, at bottom prices, at R. Fendig’s. Buggy cushions neatly and cheaply trimmed by Peacock. * Dayton collars the best manufactured, at Peacock’s. Let every Republican attend the caucus Saturday night.,' The county Board of Education convenes next Monday. Whips of all kinds and prices at Peacock’s harness shop. Lowest prices on sugars, v teas, coffees, etc., at Ferguson’s. Gents’ hand sewed shoes, warranted, at Willey k Bigler’s. Go to Bedford’s for canned salmon, sardines and cove oysters. John Makeever’s new barn is receiving the finishing touches. B. F. Ferguson went to Michigan city, Monday, to buy lumber. Game taken in exchange for ammunition, at B. F. Ferguson’s. * Curry combs, brushes, every thing in the harness line at Peacock’s. Art Cole will do your paperhanging promptly and in neat style. It is safe to bny harness of Peacock. All of his work is warranted. Plymouth Rock eggs at SI,OO per setting for sale by Norman Warner. Reuben Pettit, of Remington, was in town' the first of the week. Whips! Whips!! WHIPS!!!— at Peacock’s is the to get them. Jud Porter has built a neat barn on his farm. South east of town. The Grand Detour Sulky—buv no other—N. Warner & Sons sell it. * Mrs. Mary Ralph now assists her father in the postoffice at Remington. Calling and visiting cards—beautiful designs at the Republican office. Schuyler Thornton has to walk light now for fear he will wake the baby. Hanging baskets and flower pots —perfect beauties—at C. C. Starr k Co’s. Buy your groceries where you buy lumber, and Bell grain at Ferguson’s. . At the Trade Palace is the place to procure the nicest fine shoes in the market i DouH send away for your carpets. Ton can save money by patronizing Sears k Son.

Et-Recorder Wood is preparing to build a house and barn the present season.' fT\ Ornament your homes with shade trees, and get them at the Rensselaer Nureery. A full line of new dry goods just received, at the very lowest prices, at R. Fendig’s. Paints, all colors, in any desired quantity, quality or shade, sold by Imes k Meyer. Capt. Wasson is putting up a two story milk house in connection with his wind pump. Go to Bedford’s for French Mustard London Bauce, catsup and and pepper sauce, A Good Farm Wagon for sale cheap. * Call at the Republican office lor information. If you want to get a bargain in groceries, don’t fail to go to C. C. Starr & Co’s to get it. • Get your buggy cushions of Peacock. He gets them up in fine style, and very cheap. Brushes —paint brushes, whitewash brushes, anything in the brush line at Imes A Meyer’s. Harper Snyder went last week to New York city on legal business., to be gone several days. Henry Bruce is putting an addition to his barn, and adding other improvements to his farm. R. S. Dwiggins will lecture in the Presbyterian church next Sunday. Subject, Enthusiasm. And now the busy housewife goeth about and sweepeth the dust from every nook and corner. Michigan jell—a good substitute for butter—only 10 cents a pound,’ at C. C. Starr & Co’s. Try it. Those who have papering or kalsomining to do will find it to their interest to patronize Art Cole. Made by the old process—Eckstein Hills & Co’s lead. Imes A Meyer have the exclusive sale. Any one wanting a good farm wagon cheap can be accommodated by calling at the Republican office. Elder Hennegar is to preach at Randall’s school house, in Barkley township, next Sunday at 11 A. M.

Gate and barn door hinges, only 5 cents a pound. They can not be bought so low elsewhere. B. F. Ferguson. Low prices and a good assortment are the inducemeuts we can offer to customers, in wall paper. A Meyer. Wm. Meyers of Walker township was in town yesterday evening, and made the Republican an agreeable call. Jasper Guy the stirring druggist of Remington has sold his stock of drugs to E. H. Briggs of the same place. ' . •, On the Chicago road, Thomas and James Grant, Sayler and others are making improvements. N. Warner A Sons sell the leading sulky plow —the Grand Detour —highly recommended and fully tested. What! A door lock for 30 cents! Surprising, but it is even so. Ferguson sells them complete, for only oQ cents. Mrs. Hopkins will give up Austin’s Hotel next week. We hear that Duvall will then become landlord. •« > , Big assortment of nice spring and summer clothing, at 25 per- ct. less than ever sold in Rensselaer, at R. Fendig’s.^* •Go to Bedford’s for peaches canned in sirup> pie peaches, cherries, blackberries, tomatoes, and canned corn. N. Warner A Sons bought their farming implements early and secured low rates. They are thus enabled to sell lpw.

McCormick Self Binders—twine or wire, and the McCormick reaper and paower combined, at B. F. Ferguson’s. William Cotton has bought a house of Ham Wood in the east part of town, and is repairing it preparatory to moving in. Peacock is the man that makes them, and, his harness shop is the place where you get the test harness at the lowest prices. We stand good for all sales of Rinehart’s Worm Lozenges and refund money if not satisfactory. For sale by lines .& Meyer. C.*C. Starr Sc Co. will give you more coffee for $1 than any house in town. If you don’t believe it, try them and be convinced. Dr Ira C. Kelley went to Newton County Tuesday, to perform some dental work. The Doctor’s reputation as a dentist is excellent. Mr. Burt. Hudson, living in the north part of town, can entertain the curious by the exhibition of a chicken that goes on three legs. Housekeepers all want Johnson’s Prepared K. also mine used on their walls; it is the best, therefore the cheapest I mbs Sc Mxyeb sell it. Eating half-cooked victuals induces dyspepsia. Guard against the disease by purchasing a new cook stove of N. Warner <fc Sons. Rick Stomache at once relieved by. Rinehart’s Liver Pills. Only one for a dose. Sample dose free. For sale by lines Sc Meyer.

| The narrow gauge railroad has been removed but .the mammoth stock of dry goods and clothing still remains at Willey A Sigler’s. | Warner A Sons have a corner on hardware —always up with the times—always down with the prices—they merit your patronage* We are authorized to annonunce. the name of Wm. Warren as t candidate for town Marshall, subject *to the Republican nominating caucus. Mr. James Broedie of Remington has been improving his property by building an nAtihnn to hIS honse, and by the erection of.a new barn. Pasture fob 1881. —The * undersigned will take cattle. of all ages on pasture at one cent per day per head, also furnish salt W. E. Templeton. I bought my boots and shoes cheap, and I propose to give my customers the full benefit of low prices. Come and see. R. Fendiq. Buttermilk —nice and fresh at the Creamery, every day; for cooking purposes, 5 cts. per gallon; for feed, 1 ct per gallon. Perkins A Son.

The Krick wagon, manufactured at Niles, Michigan, is for sale bv B. F. Ferguson, at his lumber yard. A warranty goes with each wagon sold. * v M. E. Baylor is “a drummer man.” He has engaged as a commercial traveller for a Chicago boot and shoe house, success Mr. Baylor, s , Bring your marketing to the Trade Palace. Willey A Sigler will pay the highest market price, and will sell goods at the lowest possible figures. The superior class of goods they carry, and the low prices at which they offer them, make things lively around the furniture store of F. J. Sears A Son. Go to Bedfords for “Mable” “Golden Eagle,” “Spotted Fawn,” “Climax,” “Star” and other choice brands of plug, fine cut and smoking tobaccos. Perfection, ' Coochook and celebrated Rubber paint: We have the exclusive sale for the above paints. Imes A Meyer, Druggists. • Go buy a bottle of Dr. Marshall’s Lung Syrup if you have a cough, cold, or any lung complaint, and be cured. Price twenty-five cents; large size fifty cents. Druggists sell it

M. B. Scott and son, of Kankakee township, were in town Friday imd Saturday of last week. They have been in Keener township through the winter getting out ties for tne railroad. Henry Lewis and Mary Mainbrook were married in the Catholic Church last Tuesday rqj>ming. May their married life be as happy as the day they were united was beautiful. Married, at the residence of the brides mother, Mrs. Joseph Remington, in Springfield, Mo., April 19, 1881, by Elder H. W. McPherson, Anna B. Marsteller to Luther G. Henkle. Thd season is advancing and those who would plant trees should do so soon. Don’t forget that Rensselaer has a nursery where you can get a fine assortment of trees of all kinds. Those who come to Rensselaer to buy spring goods will do themselves an injustice if they do not call at Ralph Fendig’B and examine his large stock of clothing and dry goods, just received. Married, W ilson Ferguson, in the Presbyterian church of Meadow Lake, White County, Ind., by Rev. A. Taylor, of Rensselaer, Apr. 26, 1881, Mr. M. G. Wilson and Miss Belle Ferguson. | •> Soon the ravenous fly will be on the war path and the hungry' mosquito be after your blood. Be wise in time. Fortify yourself against the intruders by purchasing a screen door of B. F. Ferguson.

Mrs. Lizzie H. Chilcote, has just returned from Chicago with a fine assortment of millinry goods and notions, the latest Spring and Summer styles. They are' all in the market cheap for cash. While George Sigler is enjoying the fragrant zephyrs of the sunny South, Ed Rhoades may be found at the Trade Palace, where he is still selling goods so low that it will astonish aQ that call on him. We are authorized to announce the name of James C. Morgan as candidate for the nomination for town clerk, subject to the .Republican nominating convention to be held Saturday evening, April 30th. The Remingtori~Lodge of United Workmen initiated thirty five members in one meeting. All because the Grand Lodge paid the policy so promptly on the life of Mr. Church who was a member of that order. { * F. J. Sears Sc Son’s sales were immense last Monday. • Charley was kept busy until late at night delivering goods. Their big sides of late are the result of low prices and a large variety of the best goods to select from. A Good Farm Team Fob Salk. Any one who would secure a bargain may do so by calling at the Republican office. We have a good team which we are willing to sell cheap as we have three horses and need bat one in our business.

* W. W. Watson is opposed to being (tagged out of bed after his return on Sunday night and forced to tell where he has spent the evening, bat then he should not be' unnecessarily stirred up over such thingß. They think it strange —some peo-ple—-that Ferguson sells fence wire bo low. But there’s nothing so strange about it. He buys low and that enables him to favor his customers with low prices. He will Tiot jbe undersold. ‘The assessor should be very particular that none of the young men who were twenty-one at the time of the election, last fall, escape. They should all be listed and required to contribute to the running expenses of the government. Cap Redmond don’t come to town as often as *he did, but when he does come, a very broad grin is disoemable on his goodnatured Countenance. The reason of it all is that a little stranger boy has come to stay with the captain and Mrs. Redmond.

. Ralph Fendiq' spent last week in Chicago buying goods for the spring trade. He was fortunate enough to strike some first-class bargains, and took advantage of the opportunity in the interest of his customers. He returned Saturday evening from the city. . An old time festival will be held in the Percupile store room, Tuesday eveiling, May 3,1881. A Loan Exhibition will bo held in connection with the festival. The members of the society will appear in costume. Supper for one, 25 cts.; for each couple, 35 cts. /'

Go to Kern’s for lima beans 10 ct a can; string beans, 10 cents a can; yarmouth corn, 15 cents a can; Cook’s tomatoes, 15 cents a can; standard peaches, 18 cents a can; pie peaches, 12£ cents a can; California fruits, aprioots 30 cents a can; green gauges 30 cents a can; grapes, 30 cents a can. . Mrs. E. R. Gisrel, on Vanßonsselaier street, is now p - epared to accommodate tjotli regular and day boarders. Pleasant rooms, good tables, clean beds and reasonable rates are her recommendations to popular favor. Persons desiring to secure a number one boarding place will do well to call at Mrs. Cissel’s. Don’t forget— that the Rensselaer mill is in is doing a booming business... The flour that is now being ma le -is giving perfect satisfaction. Let every one bring their wheat, for Saylor A DeHaven will guarantee a good yield per bushel and good flour. They will also deliver flour, bran, chop, or anything in their line, anyw here in Rens ofke>r. 27-st. The Blessing. —A simple, pure, harmless remedy, that cures every time, and prevents disease by keeping the blood pure, stomach regular, kidneys and liver active, is the greatest blessing ever conferred upon man. Hop Bitters is that remedy, and its proprietors are being blessed by thousands who have been saved, and cured by it. Wiltyou try it? Sec another column. —[Eagle; ) O. B. Mclntire lias purchased the Remington News. Under Bis careful and business like management the News will surely live and prosper. The merchants of Remington have pledged their hearty cooperation, and last week’s issue of the paper gives evidence that they have materialized their pledge by filling its columns with lively advertisements. They feel the necessity of a local paper to represent their interests and* they well know that the paper can uot exist without tlieir united support. Success to the News.

We take pleasure in referring our readers this week to the business announcement of Imes A Meyer, druggists. Both members of the firm hSVe long been residents of Rensselaer, Mr. Imes conducting thfe drug business in which lie has built up a good trade; lie also Enjoys an enviable reputation as a man and citizen. Frank Meyer-everybody knows frank —has been in our town for ten years past and has been during all that time in the drug business, and for the last five years with Mr. Imes, always striving for the attainment of superior knowledge and ability in his chosen occupation. He has recently graduated from the College of Pharmacy, receiving a diploma showing a high grade of proficiency. Since his return from College he has entered into partnership with Mr. Imes, at the old stand. Mr. Meyer is a native German and aline German scholar, and our citizens of that nationality can transact business with him in their native tohgue.

• »Tbe announcment of lines Sc M would have appeared in the Republican, before this time, but they have been busy rearranging their goods and putting in a new, large and well selected stock of every thing in their line. They have selected their goods and secured prices with a tiew to securing the best possible advantages for their customers. People wishing anything, kept in a drag store would do w«ll to call on Imes Sc Meyer, see their stock, and learn their prices. The Republican predicts for the new firm' abundant success.

“Where are all those people go> ing?” said a young lady, standing on the street corner, as she saw the crowds of people rushing along, all going in the same direction. “They are going to Peooock.s to buy some of his reliable harness” said an honest old fanner who was placing a set of Peacock 7 * best on his hoites. Our rbaders are respectfully referred to the notice in another column, of the Summer Normal to be held at Purdue University. The instructors have had a life long experience in teaching. Prof. Smith is a leading teacher in the University. Mr. Caulkins is county Superintendant of schools in Tippecanoe county, and has* the advantage of many years actual experience in the school room and of observation in the schools of others. Messrs Smith and Caulkins have been very fortunate in securing the assistance of Prof. Cyrus W. Hodgin, an instructor in the State Normal at Terre Haute. With this array of educational talent the success of the school is already assured, but in addition to this, persons who attend the school will have' access to the museum, apparatus, library and all the other advantages of the University. Those who wish to make a thorough review of their studies preparatory to the work of another year, could not do better than to attend the Sommer Normal at Purdue.

Last week we refered briefly to a document which waS handed to us by General Vanßensselaer. He unearthed it from some of his private papers,* and kindly submitted it to us for publication. It will be of interest, to the older citizens of the county because of incidents it will recall of scenes familiar; to younger persons, as a matter of comparison between things of the past and of the present. We give the report entire, excepting some items of the cost of Vhich we give only the total.

REPORT ON THE SLACK-WATER NAVIGATION OF THE IROQUOIS RIVER, * BY 8. HOLMAN. Messrs. John D. Work," Geo. W. Spitler, Jared Benjamin, Johri Lyons, Benj. Henkle, J. G. Parkerson and Benj. Welsh, Committee on behalf of the Citizens of Jasper County, Indiana. Gentlemen: —At your request I have made an examination or the Iroquois river from Rensselaer to the Illinois state line, for the purpose of ascertaining the practicability and cost of improving the navigation thereof, by means of dams and locks. And I . herewith report the result of said examination, and submit an estimate of the cost of said improvement. /

A line of levels was run from Rensselaer to the state line at the crossing of the Iroquois river, touching the river at several intermediate points, from which it appears that there is thirty-three and a half feet fall from a point two feet higher than Mr. Van Rensselaer’s mill dam, to the surface of the river at the state line, when four feet deep. This fall it is proposed to overcome with five dams and locks. The precise location of which Cannot be properly determined without a more close and minute examination of the river than has been made by the undersigned. Enough, however, lias been ascertained to know that one dam will have to be at or near the state line, which it is proposed to raise feet above, 4 feet water below it, requiring a dam 10£ feet high. This will set the water back about ten miles to a E)int near the residence of Samuel yons, where it is proposed to erect a dam 10 feet high and a lock of 6 feet lift. This dam will back the water to a point knowns as Whittaker’s timber, where it is proposed to build a dam 9 feet 9 inches, and a lock of 5f feet lift. This dam, will raise the water 4 feet deep at Mr. Peck’s mill dam, two miles below Rensselaer, at which point, if slack water is continued up to the ford on the rapids, a dam 13| feet high will be required, giving a lockage of feet, and then the next and last dam would be at the ford on the rapids, which it is proposed to raise 12 feet. This would probably set theowater back to the mouth of the Pinkamink, or perhaps above'. It is believed that a better plan of improving the navigation and water jxjwer near the town would be to place the upper dam at or near the site of Van Rensselaer’s mill dam, and convey the water down to the mills through the town, or in the present mill race after making it large enough to admit boats. By this arrangement a fall of feet would be obtained at the mills, the ford would be kept open and the dam at Peck’s mill would then be 10 feet high with a lock of 6 feet lift, and the upper dam only 6 feet 9 inches. «

It is proposed to build the dams of wood in the following manner: First, prepare the bottom by leveling it, and then place brush the whole length of the dam and about 40 feet wide, 'so that it shall be one foot thick when the weight of the dam is upon it; upon which place a tier or layer of poles from 5 to 8 inches in diameter, and.4o to 50 feet long, lengthwise in the direction of the stream, one foot thick, then another tier in like maimer one foot thick, but with butts 5 feet farther up the stream, and still another tier one foot thick with butts 5 feet farther up, making in all 4 feet high. This will be kept always covered by the back water of the dam below, and may therefore be considered imperishable. Upon this foundation is estimated a crib work, in the form of the roof of a house, covered with 4 inch plank and filled with stone. This crib work will be made principally of round .timbers crossing each other at distances of 8 feet and securely pinned together. The estimate contemplates locks 20 feet wide by 130 feet long in the clear, built of timber with the cribs on either side ten feet wide, filled with gravel. For a space of 100

feet in the middle of the locks, it is proposed to raise the walls only to the height of the water in the lower level, and allow the water when the lock is full to follow back to the embankment which should be protected with stone. The river- is believed to be now navigable for steamboats of the site contemplated to be used on tins improvement from the state line to “Whittaker’s timber,” and it iasaid to have been at the same stage or higher, nearly or quite all the time since the breaking up of winter, and, therefore, I would suggest that the construction of the upper three dams will probably secure navigation a sufficient length of time in each year to accommodate the trade of the country until its business demands a complete improvement. * • * • * Total' cost of 1 improvement, $31,583.78. %

No estimate has been attempted to ascertain the probable amount of revenue which may be derived from the improvement when completed, because it w&uld be entirely conjectural, depending upon the increase of population and wealth of the country. The river was gauged at Rensselaer on the 18th inst., and it was found to pass at that time 6,000 cubic feet per minute, which is sufficient to turn ten run of mill stones with 6 feet fall. From the representation^-made to me of the stream, by inhabitants, I presume it will' be safe to calculate upon 6 run of stones at the two upper dams, and 8 at those below for 9 months in the year, and at the lower dams some 3 or 4 ran all the year. A level was also run from the mouth of Curtis Creek to Beaver Lake, to ascertain the practicability of turning its waters into the Iroquois at Rensselaer, and it is found to be practicable, but for want of time its cost is not ascertained. The lake is 18 feet above the pool of Van Rensselaer’s mill dam, and 30 feet above the mouth of Curtis’ branch, down which stream it be turned by cutting a ditch 3 feet deep at the deepest point, and probably 3 miles in length. S. Holman. Rensselaer, June 26, 1847.

16 lbs. good prunes for $1 at C. C. Starr «fc Co’s.

But we have the largest stock of undertaking goods of every grade, ever brought to Rensselaer.

F. J. SEARS & SON.