Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1883 — A New Bureau! [ARTICLE]

A New Bureau!

"V The common council met MonMay evening in regular session. ■ An ordiance for a sewer on Har■rison street was passed, and a nummber of claims allowed.

Knights of Fythias:—Rensselaer Lodge, No. 82, K. of P., elected the following officers last Thursday evening, for the eusueing term: W. H. Legg, C. C.; N. H. Warner, Y. C.; B. F. Dern, P k ; E. Peacock, M. of E.; W. B. Austin, M. of T.: J.C. Morgan, K. of R. and &; R. B. Patton, Trustee; M. F. Chilcote, Representative to Grand Lodge. Rail-Road Meeting: —There will be a Railroad meeting of the stockholders at Rensselaer on Saturday Jan. 6, 1883, to take further subscriptions of stock, and elect a board of directors and organize a company to build a Railroad from Rochester, Ind., to Gilman 111. A full attendance, and’especially from Newton County, is solicited. Meeting will be held at Court House. By authority of Telegram from Rochester, Ind , to S. P. Thompson Signed John Lee. Time of meeting 1 o,clock p. m .

The lines of the Chicago & North-Western Road embrace more than 3,300 miles, touching all the principal cities of the West and going through some of the finest country on the continent. Its Dakota Line penetrates a rich and fertile region of the public lands, which are now being surveyed and opened up to homestead settlers, to whom the North-Western Road grants special and very low rates for both passenger is and freight. ——— — Protracted Meetings. —Th« Rev. J. J. Claypool, pastor of the M. E. Church, on Tuesday night inaugurated a series of.meetings which he expects to continue indefinite for some weeks. There will be no meeting on Saturday night, after this week meetings will be held every night during the week. The meetings ordinarily will begin at 7 o’clock but on Friday (tomorrow) might it will begin a half hour. earlier in order to give the members of the congregation, who desire it, an opportunity to attend the Opera of Belshazzar to be given at the Opera House that night. "Bkmhazzab is king, Belshazzar is lord And a thonsand dark nobles all bend at his board." In using Vitalized Air in the extraction of teeth Dr. Kelley takes great Pains, but gives none. Dr. Kelley is touch afflicted after the manner in which Job was, and votes himself the sorest man in Jasper county, not even excepting defeated candidates.

Frank W. Babcock has established, and now has in complete working order, in his Law Office, a Bureau with 8 drawers. It represents the following well known and reliable companies: . NAME. ORGANIZED. ASSETS, .stn& of Hartford 1819 $'9,000,000 Hartfoid, of Hartford,lßlo 4,100,000 Franklin of Indianapolis ...1851 360,000 North American of Philadelphia 1794 9,000,000 Springfield, Fire &M. of Springfield Mass ..1849 2;255,000 Home of N. Y ...1853 7,000,000 Travelers, Life and Accident, of Hartford,lß63 6,000,000 -(Etna, Life of Hartford,lßs3, over 27,000000 Mr, Wm. W. Watson is in special charge of this Bureau, and will be pleased to write indemnity against loss by fire to property, land against death, or accidenta injury to the person, at the lowett rates compatible with safety. A policy in any of these companies is a good as a deposit in the soundestßank. Mr Thomas Robinson has been suffering for many months from an obstinate and mysterious sore upon his right hand. In Rensselaer it was treated as a cancer, in Indianapolis it was pronounced to be an Aggravated Sore, Uncle Tommy liimself calls it “h- of a bad hand,” a forcible diagnosis if scientific, Mr. Robinson is now in Indianapolis for treatment.