Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1883 — PERSONAL AND OTHER MENTION [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND OTHER MENTION

Judge Hammond started for Indianapolis Monday. He will be absent for two weeks. Mr. A. Purcupile will soon move into the Kohler house, near the jail. Mr. Jas. H. Honan, of Lafayette, visited his brother, E. P. this week. Mr. J. H. Hardman has bought Mr. J. C. Morgan’s house and lot, and is now occupying the same. Mr. and Mrs. Zimri Dwiggins, of Oxford, passed Sunday with their friends here. Mr. J. J. Waterbury has moved his tailor shop into the rooms above Wright’s furniture store. Mr. Robert Paris has engaged in the land, law and loan business at Ree Heights, Hand Co., Dakota. A ten and a half pound boy contributes largely to the general vivacity of the household of Mr. Ed. Erwin. A. Mr. Hanes, from Westville, is about to open a restaurant in the room tormeriy occupied by Farden & Noland’s boot and shoe store. Mrs. Shields, of Peru, this state who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. M. O. Cissel for several days, returned home yesterday. The County Superintendent held his regular monthly examination last Saturday. Some sixteen or seventeen applicants for license to teach, were in attendance, Ex-County Commissioner I. D. Dunn, was in town last week. He intends making a visit to Bangor, Maine, and pother Eastern points during June. One more week of school, after the present, and the Summer vacation will begin, and the old and musty school-building will be closed, for school purposes, forever.

The G. A. R. Post at Monticello thought to have stuck Judge Hammond for their Decoration Day oration, but he couldn’t get away from his court duties, at Indianapolis. Elder R. 8. Dwiggins passed the, Sabbath in Chicago, and preached morning, and evening, to the people of his religious persuasion, at the Green Street Tabernacle. Col. Granville Moody the “fighting parson” together with his son, Granville Moody Jr. of Barkley tp., registered at the Makeever house last Thursday. Col. Moody formerly lived in Ohio, but he now registers from Mount Yernon, lowa. Mr. J. I. Mather, lately of Pilot Grove, but now residing at Muskegon, Michigan, was in Town Tuesday. Mr. Mather has formed a partnership with the county recorder and The Hon. F. W. Cook, of Muskegon, and has engaged in the real estate and abstracting business. Mr. George Alter, of Barkley tp. with his wife and child, took the early train, Tuesday morning, for Hutchinson, Reno county, Kansas, where he expects to make his future residence, should the Grass-hopper state meet his expectations. Mr. Alter is a good citizen, the like of whom The Republican regrets to see leave the county, but we wish him good fortune all the same. After the water was let out of the mill-pond, last Thursday. Our friend Hyland, proprietor of the mill, assumed an atteunated visage, and a doleful tone, and solemnly assured his friends that he had reached a lower depth of poverty than any other man in Jasper county and in fact wasn’t Worth a dam.” A. Mr. Noble, of Piatt county, HI., a well fixed man, financially, made a pretty thorough examination of the lands of Jasper county, last week, with a view to investing, if the prospects please him. . His scheme is to buy about two sections of wet land, and to thorough - ly drain the same, and mafo his money out of its consequent rise ip value.

Thos. Jordan and Hiram Day are building dwellings in town. Drs. Kelley & Horton, Dentists, have an abundance of work. The family of Robert Kepner is afflicted with the measles. A daughter, Mrs. John Sohanloub, of Mount Airy, is reported very bad with them. . *