Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1883 — PERSONAL AND OTHER MENTION. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND OTHER MENTION.

Mrs* Livermore, at the Opera House, Saturday evening. CoL L. F. Copeland, at the Opera House next Tuesday evening. Mr. N. 8. Bates started for Nebraska on a business trip Monday. Measles, measles, nothing but measles, in this community at present. Mr. A. Leopold is in Chicago this week buying a large stock of goods. Mrs. Dr. Deming is slowly recovering from a long and painful illness. Mr. W. N. Jones of Francisville was in town Tuesday and favored us with a OtU. Misses Della aild Arilla Cotton are intending to > go to Dakota within a week or tiro. . The Ladies literary Society wDI meet at the residence of Mrs. J. J. Claypool, Saturday afternoon, March 17th, 1883. Mrs. J. C. Morgan has gone to Georgetown, 111., with the intention of remaining for several months with her friends there. Mrs. Jackson Phegley is very low from paralysis. Her friends say ip will require a long time for her to recover if the attack does not prove fatal. Isaac W. Porter and Frank Henkle, two of our enterprising young men, are improving their property by building early, this spring. Mr. Thomas Robinson returned from Indianapolis evening. He has recovered from the effects of the amputation of his hand and appears to be enjoying good health once more. We learn with regret of the death of John Smith of Barkley township. He exposed himself to cold to soon after an attack of measles, with fatal results. Mr. W. T. Jones received information by telegraph Tuesday of the death at Kingman, Kan., of his brother’s wife. The intelligence did not reach him in time to permit his attendance at the funeral.

Mr. P..S'. Corkins, formerly of The Republican, has bought Mrs. P. D. Corkih’s interest in the Fowled Era and has also made arrangments to purchase Mr. Mock’s interest in thd same, and will take charge of paper in June. Mrs. Livermore speaks at the Opera House Saturday evening next. She is the leading female lecturer of the day, and a large minded and noble hearted woman, withal. Rensselaer ought to give her a good house. Mrs. B. F. Wade, of Lafayette, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Rial Benjamin of this place, is very low with the consumption, with the certainty of the end not far off. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin dre both at her side in Lafayette.

D. J. Eastburh, late of the Newton county News has accepted an offer to take charge of the Fowler Review. Mr. Eastburn states that he has leased the News office to a responsible person who will continue the publication of the paper. Henry Aldrich of Carpenter tp. has purchased five acres of R. 8. Dwiggins opposite “Swain property” and will soon erect a dwelling upun it. Mr. Aldrich has chosen a good place to spend the last days of a useful life. Long may he live to enjoy his possession. One of our exchanges very pointedly says: Patronize your own village blacksmith, carriage maker and storekeeper; help each other along; cultivate a pride in the piogress and thrifty appearance of your own community; cast out that selfish jealousy of a neighbor’s prosperity. It is the mutual interest of all to have the largest possible number of prosperous men in each community.

Mr. C. H. Price got home from Dakota last Sunday morning. His reports are favorable. . Mr. Joseph Williams and family, started for Kingman, Kansas, the first of the week. The “sum” of pike in the river at the present time is immense and the boys have fine fishing by moonlight. Prof. L. S Mitchell, principal of the Monon schools, visited his brother, C. P. ,Wednesday . night. . The country roads are the best, they have been for vears in the month of March. Make a note of this, ye grumblers who are always finding fault. “A Dream of To-morrow” at the Opera House next Saturday evening- Mrs, Livermore.

“Slobs and Snobbery,” Col. Copeland, at the Opera House next Tuesday evening: There is a perfect epidemic of measles in town, the cases being quite too numerous to mention in detail. So far as learned none of the cases have as yet assumed a dangerous form. After an all-winter’s hybernation the Makeever House opens for business to-day with our friends Mr. and Mrs. Philip Blue as host and hostess. The Republican wishes them abundant success. Marriage Licenses. —Marriage licenses have been issued at the circuit clerk’s office, since the first, of March, as follows/ Franklin Grant, Flora Warran; Elkanah W. Pulver, Mary E. Muffley; Geo. E; Long, Matildo Culp; Benjamin Thomas, Katherine Page; Braziller F. Ferguson, Harriet W. Coen; William B. Long, Estaline Elliott; Janies R. Parkinson, Mary E Collins. * Married ;—At the residence of the bride’s parents in Rensselaer, Ind., on Wednesday afternoon, March, 14,1883, Elder D. T. Halstead performing ceremony, Mr. J. B. Mackey of Streator 111., and Miss Lovina Platt, of Rensselaer. The newly married couple took the evening train for their Streator home, going by way of Chicago The best wishes of the Republican, and many Other good friends Will go with them-