Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1883 — JERSCNAL AND OTHER KENTION. [ARTICLE]

JERSCNAL AND OTHER KENTION.

Mr. R. F. Pritb.t is con Sued to his bed with sick Less. Mr. and Mrs. R. F. ns passed Sunday in Oxford. Miss Genie Osborne is recovering from an attack of lung fever. Several of Sheriff Powell’s children are sick with the measles. The public Schools reopened Monday with a veiy good attendance. Mr. C. W. Clifton, the insur- : adee man, passed Sunday with his family in Rensselaer. The Rev. Geo. Havens has been in Indianapolis on business since Monday of last week. It is stated now that the C. & I. air line will be opened for business between Chicago and ‘lndianapolis on April first. Circuit Clerk C. H. Price started for Huron, Dak., Tuesday morning. He will be absent about .two weeks probably. 5 • ; Mrs. A. W. Cole came up from Louisville to visit 4fends and hunse her sick sister, Wuss Genie Osborne. ' Mr. Joseph Williams has so far recovered his health as to be able to be upon the streets again. He talks of returning to Kansas in a short time. The “boys” are free to say that if anybody wants to wee a right fine model of a row-boat, he had better call around and make his wants known to Mr. M. D. Rhoades. Mi. Chas. H. Reed, the plasterer, returned from Dakota last week. Like most other Dakofians, he lays it on thick when discussing the wild West. He wouldn’t be dead in Indiana—to hear him tell it. Remember the G. A; R., Camp Fire at the Opera House, next Saturday evening. The Old Soldiers have laid out to give our people a noble entertainment that evening, and are bound to succeed. Ex-Treasurer H. I. Adams, of J ordan tp., who has lived in the county for twenty-five years, says’that he never saw Jordan’s waters roll so high, within three feet, as they did during the late flood. Mr. P. S. Corkiils writes from Reedsburg, Wis., that he is snowbound there for an uncertain time. The snow, in the north-west has occasio&’ed great inconvenience to travelers in that section.—“ Valparaiso Vidette.”

< A brother of the late J. G. Kerr came from Fountain county, last week, and took back with him, starting on the Sunday morning train, the remains of his brother, for permanent burial in the Kerr's family cemetery near Newtown, in Fountain county. Judge Babcock.—The Winter term of the Newton Circuit Court opened Monday last. Judge Hammond, being detained at home by sicknessjin his family, appointed F. W. Babcock Esq. of Rensselaer, to preside in his absence. Mr. Babcock is in every way well qualified to discharge the duties or the place. About two weeks since, a number of the members of Iroquois Lodge, I. 0. O. F., made preparations to go to Lowell, to make a fraternal visit to their brethren there. The bad weather prevailing at the time appointed having prevented a visit then, the Lowell Lodge has renewed the invitation and appointed Friday evening of this week as the time. It is expected that a considerable number of the brethren will accept the kind invitation. Mr. “Jack Albert of Hennepin 111., arrived at the home of his sister, Mrs. C. P. Hopkins on Monday last, Jack, has tried the state of 111. for the past * two years, and, as is the case usually with those who go elsewhere to make a home, he comes back to old Jasper, to stay. His family will come as soon as the high water of the Illinois river subsides.

,Marshal Dickey’s wife is on the sick list. Dr. I. C. Kelley went to Indianapolis, last Monday. Abe Warne of Union tp., is having the measles in his old age. Mrs. Dan. Fairchild, of DeMotte, Keener township, is recovering. A young child of Mr. Hamaker’s of Union township, has been very low with lung fever. Mrs. M. H. Rhoades and Mu J. W» Talbert, both of Indianapolis, are visiting their cousin Mr. James T. Abbett. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Freeman, of Chicago, visited Mr. F. J. Sears family last week, going away on Saturday, Mrs. Freeman is a sister to Mr. Sears. Mr. W, F. ShaKner, the capable trustee of Wheatfield township, ,was in town Monday. He reports a continuance of the glacial period in Wheatfield. James T. Randall, of Barkley township, has moved to town, and will superintend, in person, the construction of his six thousand dollar brick residence. Mr. Joseph D. Cowden, formerly Deputy, Auditor but now Clerk of the State Prison at Michigan City, was in town this week, shaking hands with his many friends. Miss Lola Moss, who has been attending the Conservatory of Music at Detroit, (Michigan, for several months, returned to her home in Rensselaer last Tuesday evening.

Miss Linda Severely of Rochester Ind., Has written an original drama and given to it the name of “Corine.” The Rochester papers speak of the drama in a very commendatory manner, and say that it is in preparation for the stage. The Rev. B. F. Ferguson has accepted an offer to act as traveling salesman for a wholesale lumber house in Michigan City, and began his duties Monday. He will be pbsent from Rensselaer about three fourths of his time. Marriage license since last reported: Benjamin F. Fisher, Mary O. Nichols; Geo. Roberts, Laura A. Belcher; Stephen B. Coen, Alda A. Fulton. The Swedish Lady Quartette and Miss Eda Eliel gave the performance at the Opera House Tuesday evening in accordance with previous announcement. The entertainment was of a character to answer the most sanguine expectations. It is a matter for the keenest regret that the people of Rensselaer do not show a greater readiness to encourage, with Jtheir patronage, the bringing here the high class entertainments. Editor Hooper.—We have received the February number of “The Telephone” a literary magazine published in Indianapolis. It bears upon its title page, as managing editor, the name of W. De M. Hooper, the former principal of the Rensselaer schools. The editorial page tells us that Mr. Hooper is also a part owner in the magazine. The Telephone is purely a literary publication and in its mechanical “make up” and in the character of its literature it will compare very favorably with others of its class and character. Mr. Hooper has many friends in Rensselaer who will wish him abundant success in his new vocation.