Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1883 — PERSONAL AND OTHER MENTION [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND OTHER MENTION

Mrs. John Goetz is reported seriously sick. Bro. McEwen, of the “Sentinel,” took a trip to Chicago yesterday. R. P. Benjamin is visiting the schools in Carpenter township this week. Assesssor Warren has deputized Squire Wood to assist in the prossecution of his work. Mr. F. L. Cotton talks of having his elevator torn down and taken to Mount Airy on the C. & G. .Si road. The Ladies Literary Society will meet at the residence of Mrs. F. J. Sears, at the usual hour, next Saturday afternoon. Cole Grant has gone to Danville, 111., to engage in his business of copying and enlarging pictures. Tuesday night was made memorable in the house of Mr. A. Trussel„ north of town, by the advent of a daughter. Miss Libbie Walton, of Rensselaer, is in Rochester visiting the Tribune family and other friends.“Rochester Tribune.” Visiting Statesmen.—Dr. Maxwell and Lawyer Snyder, of Remington, were in town Tuesday, as was also Mr. H. S. Travis, of Fowler.

Some of the brick-layers working on the new school house, got “awfully tired” last Saturday night and some of them have not y et resumed work. Messrs M. B. Alter, E. C. Nowels, L. C. Grant, J. J. Waterbury and C. P. Wright, all took the 10:10 train for Indianapolis, Tuesday night. Our young friend, T. E. Price has settled in St. Lawrence, Dakota. Has gone into the law and real-estate business, is doing well, and likes the country.. Decoration Day.—As is eminently proper, Decoration Day this year will be observed under the auspices of Rensselaer Post, G. A. R. Full details of the proposed exercises will be given next week. Mr. G. W. Owens, of Brookston, a former resident of Jasper county, was in town Monday,, and favored us with a short call. He takes The Republican, which is good, and pays for it in advance, which is better. Mrs. Ilemphill’s room on Washington Street, lately vacated by Mr. Grauel, the harness man, is. receiving a new front, and a general repairing. When the work is completed, it will be occupied by Hardman, the jeweler.

Mr. Willis Imes started for Bridgewater, Dakota, Monday morning. At Bridgewater he will meet Mrs. Imes, and in her company will go to Gage county, Nebraska, to attend the large sale of reservation lands to take place there in a short time. “Sweets to the sweet.” —Well hardly. The expression is Shakesperian, but not quite appropriate. “Sweets from the sweet,” however, will fit the case exactly, in-as-much as we refer to a beautiful boquet left, on the editor’s table by his charming little friend, Miss Birdie Hammond. Mr. C. H. Jones, of Chicago, publisher of the “Youths’ Examiner”, a juvenile religious paper passed Saturday and Sunday among the brethern of his denomination, the Christian church, in this town. Mr. Jones is also a dealer in printer’s supplies and, as we found from experience, an excellent man to deal with. Auditor Nowels'has completed his annual May Settlement, and in company with the Treasurer started for Indianapolis Tuesday, where the latter will make settlement with the auditor of Sate. And pay §6,86.02 into the state Treasury. The Settlement shtet shows a balance of county Revenue of about §6,500.00 with wh|ch to redeem outstanding orders.

A brilliant affair that took place at Valparaiso on the 3rd, inst, was the wedding of Lawrence L. Letherman, to Miss Louise DeMotte, daughter of Ex-Congressman De Motte. Sweet Sixteen.—The young friends of Miss Belle Powell celebrated the advent of her sixteenth birthday by a very pleasant masquerade ball at the Sheriff’s residence, last Monday night. Some 25 or 30 couples were in attendance, all en-costume. A number of tasteful and valuable presents will long keep fresh the memory of the happy occasion. The Lafayette Courier “gives away” the information that Mr. John P. Carr, jr., editor of the Oxford Tribune, will on Tuesday, the 29th inst., be married to. Miss Mattie Bell, daughter of Mrs. Bell,, of the Ohio House at Oxford. Bro. Carr has the earnest congratulations of The Republican. . —a Married:—Millen—Kirk. On Wednesday, May 16th, 1883, at the residence of the bride’s sister, Mrs. F. P. Jackson, at Butler, De Kalb county, Ind., Mr. John C. Miller to Miss Eliza Kirk, both formerly of Rensselaer. Miss Kirk, having lived for most of her life in Jasper county, needs no introduction to readers of The Republican. Mr. Miller is a brother of D. B. Miller, until lately a resident of Rensselaer. He is now the agent of the Traveler’s Insurance Co., with head quarters at St. Paul, Minn.

Kellet—Hancock.—On Thursday evening, May 10th, 1883, at the residence of the bride’s half brother, Mr. O. C. Dickey, in Rensselaer, Mr. Frank Kellet to Miss Sarah M. Hancock, the Rev. B. F. Ferguson performing, the ceremony. Bitters—-Stockton:—-At Hie residence Of Mr. W. S. Stockton, in> Lafayette, Ind., West side, on Tuesday afternoon, May 15th, 1883, Dr. F. P. Bitters, of Rensselaer, to Miss Anna Stockton, of Lafayette. The Rev. H. A. Buchtel, of Trinity M. E. church, Lafayette, officiating. The Doctor and Mrs. Bitters are spending a few days with the friends and relatives of the former,, in Fulton county, but expect to ix>turn to Rensselaer next Tuesday. Between Two Days.—Fted Webber, the famous tooter of the E flat cornet, came to town Saturday to take a situation, on his own terms, as baker for Henry Purcupile. He worked Monday all day, and went to bed as usual that night, but got up missing, so to speak, the next morning, and has not since been heard from. No one is able to offer any reasonable explanation for his strange conduct. Mr;. Purcupile has secured another baker, and as yet there is no- danger of a bread famine.

A New Lodge:—Last Monday nighty at Starr’s Hall, Deputy Grand Master, W. P. Green, instituted a lodge of The Ancient Order of United Workmen, and installed the officers of the same. The nameand style of the Lodge' will bet Rensselaer Lodge, No. 100 s A. Oi U. W. Tho charter members now number about 18, and by a special dispensation, all' who enter the lodge within 30 days from its in r stitution, will be ranked as charter members. The principal officers of the new lodge are as follows: Passed Master, B. F. Priest. Master, F. W. Cole. Secretary, N.J. York. Treasurer, A. Leopold. A permanent lodge room has not yet been secured. “The Rensselaer Republican,' in» noticing some recent changes. the papers hese, says that the, Valparaiso ‘ Messenger, and its republican contemporary, the Porter County Vidette, are iwo of the ablest and. best county papers we ever saw’. The character of the Republican is such in our estimation as to'render its opinion worthy of a high appreciation.”-Valpraiso Vidette.