Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1883 — PERSONAL AND OTHER MENTION. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND OTHER MENTION.

No mail agent on the train last night either. The Iroquois is rising and the ice breaking fast. The bridge here will soon be in great danger. Mr. Bruce'White is sick with the measles. This disease seems very likely to spread widely. Mrs. S. R. Nichols, Mrs. Nate Eldridge and Mrs. Fred Stires, of Barkley township, are on the sick list. John Nichols of Barkley tp., has built a substantial barn, and proposes to build a dwelling next spring. Mr. John Zimmerman wrestled with a heavy log Monday and wrenched his back so severely as to intirely disable him for the time being. Mr. E. N. Dern is in Alabama looking after a piece of land he owns in that state. He has some thoughts of removing there, we understand. • Mr. F. J. Sears has sold 160 acres of his Jamestown Dak., land to Mr. Carl Koeller of Hanging Grove tp. Mr. Koeller will remove to Dakota in a short time.

Frank Batson and family, of Barkley township, have been very sick, and are likely to have to be taken to the county asylum for the balance of the winter. Mrs. W. B. Price, nee Draper, now of Horon, Dakota, is visiting friends in Rensselaer this week. She has just returned from Ft. Wayne, where sue had also been visiting friends. Dr. Samuel Miller, for many years a resident of this county, but for the past twelve years a resident of' W itoka, Minnesota,died, recently, at his home, from the effects of an over dose of morphine. Father 'ZumbueH(a of the Catholic church expresses the 'opinion that a slight shock of Earthquake was experienced in Rensselaer about the last week m January, and thinks the seam in the church was made at that time.

Mr. William Nolan, of Barkley township, ha 3 purchased and presented to his son Frank a half interest in the Boot and Shoe store of T. J. Farden. The style of the new firm will be Farden & Nolan. It will be a solid firm, and successful without doubt. - Two of Mr. Philip Blue’s family are sick with the scarlet fever. Mi. M. E. Baylor has not yet fully recovered from his attack of the same disease, and one of his children is sick with it also. All of the cases reported seem to be be of a mild form. It is understood that Mr. Jay Williams, of Kentl and, son-in-law of Mr. John Makeever, will soon move to Bensselaer, and build a residence near the Catholic church. He will probaly occupy one of the business rooms in new building. Mr. John Gueldenzoph, of Pilot Grove, Newton Go., has just returned from a visit to his old home in Germany. He reached Rensselaer Monday evening, and brought with him three young men who intend, as we are informed, to make their home in the land of the free and easy hereafter. Mr. Gueldenzoph has been to the phi country for the purpose of settleing up his father’s estate, and it is reported that he will fall heir to a considerable fortune. ■■■ V »' ' Communicated.— The scheme to fasten a “night watch” on tfie town at a round salary failed at the last meeting of the Town Board. The citizens of the town should not be compelled to pay three hundred dollars, a year to watch the property on Washington street. The Board did right in laying it on the table, when it should rest forever. Bensselaer is too small a town to commence anything that wonld be of no more use than a night watch at the town expense.

CITIZEN.

Mr. T. J. Farden, senior partner in the new firm of Farden & Nolan, started for his old home {in Warren county Tuesday morning, to visit friends and look after his interests there. He will be absent for about two weeks. Dr. O. C. Link started for Hitchcock, Dak., Monday morning. Some one has been trying to jump the doctor’s claim out mere and he has been feeling a little nervous about it. He trill build a house qn his claim, and if necessary will administer to the unregenerate jumper an allopathic blue pill.