Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1883 — PERSONAL AND OTHER MENTION [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND OTHER MENTION

Miss Rachel Leopold is visiting friends at Attica. Miss Belle Powell is visiting friends in Lafayette, this. week. Picnic at Alter’s Grove, Carpenter township, next Saturday. Prof. W. S. Domer, principal of the Milford schools, is making a short visit among his friends here. The Rensselaer Base Ball Club went to Monon this morning to play a match game. Wm. B. Austin attended the commencement of his alma mater at Crawfordsville yesterday. M. F. Chilcote has greatly improved the grounds around his residence lately. Born. —Sunday morning, June 3rd, to Mrs. William Nichols, a daughter. The time of meeting for the Ladies Literary Society has been changed to Thursday afternoon, instead of Saturday, as heretofore. C. P. Wright has been helping the. appearance of his part of town \yf painting his house and putting up fences &c. Mr. Ludd Hopkins, wife and daughter, Nora, went to Crawfordsville, Tuesday, to attend the commencement exercises at the Wabash College, and visit friends.

Edward Purcupile is home for a few weeks visit with his friends here. He is now engaged in business in New York city, as agent for a patent article. The Hon. 8. H. Busey, of Urbana, HI., spent Saturday and Sunday visiting his cousins, Mrs, G: M. Wilcox of Surrey, and Mrs. E. C. Nowels of .Rensselaer. Gen. J. C. Van~Bensselaer returned to his New Jersey home last week, starting Friday evening, and going by the way of Chicago. His visit here was very pleasant to his friends and they express themselves anxious to have it repeated at an early day. R. B. Patton returned to town, from Nebraska, last week. He has bought a half section of land near Franklin, in Franklia county, Nebraska, which he will occupy as soon as he can dispose d his interests here. Mrs. C. P. Mitchell, who has managed the Grammar department of the Rensselaer public school so successfully during the past year has determined to \ rest from the arduous labors of teaching during next year.

Mrs. W. B. Austin met with a fall at her residence Saturday evening and sustained injuries which confined her to her bed for several days, and which at first threatened serious consequences; but which were happily averted by prompt and skillful medical treatment. Miss Minnie Bartoo, Miss Stella Griffin and Mr. Herbert Blood, all from Remington, and all cousins, took the early train, from this place, Monday morning for Fredrick, Brown county Dakota, where they already have claims secured and houses upon the same. Sheriff Powell delivered James McColly, the horse thief, over to the authorities of the Michigan City prison Thursday. Jim’s sentence is for two years, but by uniform good conduct he can re* duce the time to one year and nine months. • *v « ~ , The venerable Mrs. Sharp, mother of Joseph Sharp, the artist, met with a severe accident last Thursday. She fell down the stairs and fractured’ the radius, one of the bones of fore-arm, near the wrist. Dr. Loughridge was at once called, and the fracture was reduced before it had time to swell. It is now doing well. Fifty-six people from Rensselaer availed themselves of the excursion rates on the L. N-A. & C. to attend the Railway Exposition and Barnnm’s circus last Tuesday. A large number of tickets were sold yesterday, also, tint we did not learn the number, V

Frank S. Olmstead, the City Passenger agent for Louisville, of the L. N-A. & C. railway, was in town looking after the interests of his company last week. Mr. Olmstead, a genial young Kentuckian, was much pleased with Rensselaer and its people, pronouncing the latter to be the most like hie fel-* low Kentuckians in the matter of courtesy and affability to strangers of any people he had visited. The School Board of the Town of Rensselaer, met on Friday June Bth at the law office of M. F. Chilcote, and after receiving, the certificate of election of Dr. I. B. Washburn, who was elected Trustee, to succeed Hon. R. S. DwigS' ns, proceeded to re-organize the i>ard by the election of M. F. Chilcote president, Ezra L. Clark treasurer and Dr. I. B. Washburn, Secretary. Each t(o hold his office for the ensuiug year.

Mr. and Mrs. W. J. lines returned from their Western trip last Friday. Mr. Imes attended the sale of the Otoe Indian reservation lands in Nebraska, but finding the lands were selling at prices above their real value, he did not invest in them. He bought at private sale, however, 220 acres near Franklin, in Franklin county, in the state above mentioned. He will renfove to his newly acquired Eroperty as aoon as he can adjust is affairs in Rensselaer, or within a couple of months at the longest. Mrs. Imes’ health, we are glad to learn, has been much benefited by her journey.

Our enterprising Druggist, F. B. Meyers, of the late firm of Imes & Meyers, desires, on part of both, to thank their old friends for past patronage and invite them to call and see him, at the old stand, where can always be found a full and complete stock, comprising an assortment of druggist’s sundries, both domestic and inported, as well as a full and complete line of drugs, chemicals, patent medicines and all such goods as are usually kept for sale in * all well regulated drug stores, at the lowest prices, and where all will receive the same corteous treatment characteristic of the old firm.

Hardly a dozen year ago Frank came ornong us, young, unknown and almost friendless, with no capital except his own manhood, which, however, included plenty of grit and pluck, indomitable perseverance and inborn upright-ness-capital enough for a young man in this progressive country, if only he has good health, and habits as well —Frank possesses all these advantages, ana one thing more, a good education in German and English. He is of German extraction, coming from that industrious stock of Germans that have produced so much of the wealtli and stalwkrt character in every locality where they have settled throughout the United States, especially the great state of Pennsylvania, where Frank graduated in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, in 1881; this fact, coupled , with several yedr’s practical experience in business, gives him a peculiar fitness for the business he espoused and is a guarantee of competency in dispensing drugs. The association of Messrs. Imes & Meyers in the drug busiues, some two years dgo, was.ah acquisition to the town of .Rensselaer of which the people were justly prowd, both being practical business men, and experienced druggibts. In consequence of which they were eminently successful from the first, both in building up a large and increasing business, and in meriting the esteem of their fellow citizens. Mr. Imes, who has severed his relations .with the firm, having bought a farm near Franklin, Franklin county Nebraska, and will remove there in about sixty days. His presence in Rensselaer will be missed, and we regret his removal. He was a corteous, practical business man, a good citizen, a genial friend and an honored member of society, and we wish him good luck and success in making as many friends in Nebraska as he lea res in Indiana. ***