Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1882 — PERSONAL MENTION. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL MENTION.

i Remington Fair this week everybody says it’s good. Teachers Institute at the Court House. Mr. AV. B. Austin went over to Fowler on legal business last Monday. • F. M. Parker of Barkley town ship rented his farm and will move to Reno county Kansas. W. H. Coover has resumed his old'position of editor of the the Remington News. The young M moke” and Would-be ravisher, Henry Jones, has been taken to the White County jail. It was a mistake ab-uit E. H. Tharp going to Rose Lawn. He has no such intention. Misses Amanda Osborne and Lydia Parris, the teachers, are moving into the comer rooms over Priest’s store. ( Miss Mollie Babcock returned from Plymouth Ind., where she has been staying for the last three months.

Mr. A. M. Van Sickela, of Cleveland, Ohio, is visiting his old time friend, Mr. A. W. Cleveland, in Rensselaer. The Rev. A. Taylor and ladies, “are home from a far and foieign shore” having returned from their pleasure trip to Wisconsin. Mrs. Austin has the lumber ready to build a side walk in front of her property on Van Rensselaer street. Mr. A. L. Willis put his cider mill into operation for the first. time this season yesterday, making’ several barrels of cider. Thanks for a pail of the same. George Kannal is building an addition to the house on the Hope Miller farm east of town. He has rented it to Geo. M. Johnson Who proposes to start a dairy. Don’t forget the Tippecanoe Fair, which begins Sept. 4, A gala week. Three or four cows “in soak” Tuesday morning may be taken as evidence that Marshal Dicky is home again. The baptist people have budt a new fence m front of their church and are having the house improved by papering and painting the inside.

Read the notice to contractors in regard to the new school building in another place. In another year we expect to have a new school liouse ready for use. The Teachers Institute convened’ in the Court house Monday with an able corps of instructors and a large attendance of the teachers of the county. State Superintend ent, Bloss lectured to the Institute Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning. Mr. Bloss has had a large and varied experience in school work, and is a man of brains and culture. His addresses were full of ripe thought and valuable suggestion. Full reiiorts of the Institute will be given next week. The following named persons are appointed to organize the Soldiers of Jasper county, in the localities named: Hanging Grove and Milroy, 1). D. Redmond; ' Gillam, A. G. Robb and F. F. Farris; Walker, Larenzo Tinkham; Barkley, G. W. Payne; Marion, D. H. Yeoman and Shelby Grant; Jordan, John Waymire; Carpenter, Part Lally and John A. Thomas; Newton, Sam E. Yeoman and Chas. R. Benjamin, Keener, Dr. 1. B. Robbins; Kankakee and Wheatfield, John M. Hfek mic; Union, Thus. Davisson. By order of Ex. Cpm.

Town Trustees:—The regular’ meeting of the Board of Trusteed will take place next Friday. Speoial meetings were held Tuesday, and Wednesday, the meetings lie-, ing held at the time more especitilly to enable the trustees to meet the State superintendent, Mr. Bloss. On Tuesday the Board phased an order providing that teachers who attend the annual Teacher’s Institute for five days should receive, above their contract salary, five cents per day for each day ’s pencilingduring the year: and those who attend the Institute for ten days to receive ten cents per day extra, A very commendable provision. — The reunion of the Kenton and Arrowsmith families, noticed some weeks since 'in this paper, was held last week, near West rille, in Champaign county, Ohio. The following Jasper county people attended: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Parkison, Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Kenton, Mr. Simon Kenton, Mr. Warren Robinson, of Marion Tp.; Mrs. Addison Parkison, Miss Mary Murray, Messrs. W. K Parkison, and Wallace Murray of Bilrkley township. The party, with the exception of Jasper Kenton, wife and child’ and Simon Kenton, returned home Monday Afternoon. The Kentons have gone to Kentucky to visit friends and relatives near the scenes of old Simon’s hair-raising exploits. 500 people, it is estimated attended the re-union, 400 of whom were related to one or both of the two families.