Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1883 — Railroad Talk. [ARTICLE]

Railroad Talk.

Circus next Monday. Several communications from Township correspondents are crowded out until next week. King, Burk & Cos., Great American Allied Shows, will exhibit in Rensselaer next Monday April 30. Read their announcement in this issue of The Republican. The Illinois Secretary of State on Saturday, licensed the incorporation of the Lockhart Elevated railroad company of Chicago, with a capital stock of 10,000,000. The lowa 'Supreme Court on Saturday rendered its decision on the question of the validity of the prohibition amendment. The former decision was reaffirmed and the amendment declared invalid. The dance at the Opera House last Friday evening, for the benefit of the base ball club, was well attended, and, by all accounts one of the very pleasantest for many months. The music under the leadership Prof. Davis, of Michigan was especially excellent.

The Daily Inter-Ocean now holds an assured and unquestioned place among the great papers of Chicago. The Inter Ocean issued the first number of a Sunday edition last Sunday, an immense paper of 20 pages, and equal in all respects to any Sunday paper we ever saw. It is the intention of the publishers to confine the size of the Sunday • edition to 16 pages as a general rule, and which will be large enough for any use. The Draining Association. — The Association received its seal, certificates and records and is now ready to receive subscriptions, “bequests” and to issue stock at par. Mr. Hyland has made a very fair offer to the association and the same will probaly be accepted. The directors have the matter under advisement. If one or two families whom might be named, would subscribe for an amount of stock proportionate to the benefit they will derive, there would no longer be any question of the success of the association, and the dam would be removed next month. The association needs aid.

The April number of the “District Reporter” edited and published by Presiding Elder Cissel, at Battle Ground, came to hand last week, but to late for notice then. We clip from it, for this column, several items of interest to ..Jasper county readers. Bro. J. T. Abbett, of Rensselaer, was licensed to preach by the last quarterly conference of that charge. —“District Bep.” Bev. W. H. Vance was offered the position of chaplain of the Michigan City prison, by -the new Board of Directors, but refused to accept.—“iritttrict Bep.” The last quarterly meeting at Rensselaer, held March 24 to 26, was largely attended and was a gracious meeting. In the love least many young converts gave testimony. The charge is in a prosperous condition, and the church on the up grade. There is a strong feeling in favor of building a new church and parsonage, and the quarterly conference elected a building committee for that purpose. Rensselaer is a growing little city possessing much wealth and culture, but greatly behind in the way of church buildings. < The begin to feel that they owe it to them selves and to society to liegin to provide better church edifices. We sincerely hope that our people at Rensselaer will be successful in the work of building b.th church and parsonyge. “listiict Bep.”

i The Republican committee of the Town of Rensselaer have thought beet to change the time for the Republican nominating convention from Monday evening, April 30, to Saturday evening, May sth. The change was made partly because of the circus which is to be in town on the evening first appointed, and partly because a convention on Saturday will accommodate many laboring men, who might be out of town any other evening of the week.

A meeting of the stockholders of the Rochester, Rensselaer & St. Louis Railway Co., for the purpose of electing directors of the company, was held at winamac, last Monday. S. P. Thompson, of Rensselaer, was regularly elected one of the directors. A meeting of the directors is to be held at the Frain Hotel, at Winamac, to-day, for the purpose of electing officers of the company for the ensuing year. General Superintendent John McLeod, of the L. N-A. & C., reports a vigorous effort to get the Chicago & Indianapolis Air Line tracks in order, with the hope of putting passenger trains on about the 15th of May. The tracks of the Chicago & Western Indiana, of which road the L. N-A. & C., is part owner, and over which it enters the city, have been laid several blocks further north in Chicago, thus bringing the terminus of the road much nearer to the business part of the city.