Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1884 — Personal and Local. [ARTICLE]

Personal and Local.

Mr. £ero Fayeuheit was in'team tins morning" Mr. W. B. Price, of Carper, ter township, called upon us yesterday.. LI C?>arlie Warner l etnrn'exLlo BePauW college, Greencnstlo, yesterday. Mrs. J. W. Horton has gone to Michigan to visit friends at Grand Rapids, and other places. Go to the new bakery sor 1 your Bread, he keeps the best bread in town, always trash. Mrs. M. A. Marshall, mother of the editor, returned from her visit at Garson, lowa, last Friday. 11. B. Smith, watchmaker with Emmet Ksnnnl, passed Sunday and New' Years with friends in Logansport. — 1 Notice is given, in another place, that the long standing accounts of lines & Meyer must be settled forthwith' 1 Conductor C. A. Cos escaped entirely unhurt from the wreck at .Salem last week, apt being even slightly injured. I will pay you the highest mark et price for all kinds of Poultry and Game. Give me a call. J. Sharp. Trustee Meyers, of Wheatfield fcp., was in town Tuesday. He reports tlrat Wheatfield station, on the Three I road, is growing right along. Married. —On Wednesday morning, .Tan., 2nd, 1884 at the M: E. parsonage, in Rensselaer, Ind., Mr. Charles I. Dean to Miss Minnie W. Troxell, tile Rev. Ts C- Webster officiating. — A joyful little dance was giyefi at Starr’s Hall. on Tuesday evening. About 21 couples were in attendance, mainly members of the old Q. A. M.,, Club. Prof. Levino’s Orchestra furnished the music. - . ... -—i .i . . .i ■ iW - i—— ■ ■ ■■■— Drs. Kelley and Horton, the dentists, have changed their minds in regard to the rooms they intend removing into, and will, in a short time, take posseSssion of rooms fitted up for their use up stairs in Leopold’s new building. Clark Price, now a law student with Behm and Behm, Lafayette, spent Sunday with Rensselaer friends and New Years with his parents near Remington. Mr. Price reports himself well pleased with his situation with Behm pud Behm. CreaAeby Closed. —We much regret to be compelled to announce that r embarrassments have caused the Rensselaer Creamery to suspend operations, ’For how long a time the suspension will continue we are unable to say, but presume that it will be any very extended period of time. Prof. P. H. Kirscb, principal of th,e Rensselaer public schools? attended the State Teachers Association, at Indianapolis on Thursday and Friday of last week. Himself and Superintendent Nelson, Were Jasper couutiy’s sole representatives at the meeting. The Prof, reports a very interesting and profitable session, and himself as greatly pleased with the work of the association. A Small Fire.— One evening la-1 week, while Frank Leuers and | family, in the southeast comer of , the town, were absent making a vis- j it to friends, their house took fire, j probably from a defective Hue, and | before the fire wps discovered was I damaged to the extent of about fifty ] dollars. A mueh greater loss however resulted from the burning of clothing and articles of furniture. TlmYlamage to warte*--paireil.by the Phoenix insurance cbfcpfeiiy,ifi which it was insured, but these was no insurance upon their 'contends of the .hojnse and tbe destacnctipn is a serious loss to Mr. Luers wfio is a section band on the railroad. The bouse bad teen left tightly closed, and want of air caused the fire to smoulder and nearly die out of itself, before it was discovered. V

Judge Hammond resumed liis labors on the Supreme bench this week. —r—: Go to La Rue’s for bargains i;i Queensware, glassware and- fan*\v Dishes. • G. M. Juiic-io!] has Sold hh| milk business, but dees not inte4| going to Kansas, ns was reported. - Samuel M-. Ohiltnito Esq litre, of Wood county, Ohio, is visiting the families of John C. ativl Mordecai P. Chilcote. E. •H. Stall 1 man has resigned the iiosition of traffic nnumger on the L., N. A. <t C. an«l A. B-.-SouLli-ard Jbas.flgnin|taken tlie position. M. F. Chilcote started for Lincoln, Neb., and points in Kansas, Wednesday morning’ He will be absent until next Monday. The Glitten Barbed wire at Cleaver’s is the most economical fence wire, it won't break. Call and see it. E. S. Woods has shftt up his meat shop for a few weeks, and himself aud family are away visitiug old frieAdffi r Treasurer Alter went iffi Indianapolis Tuesday on business connected with liis office. He was accompanied-by Mrs. Alter. Remember the course of lectures at the Opera House next week. Bueli a rare opportunity for intellectual development sliou-'d not be neglected. Mr. David AYa rue, an old resident of the northern part of Marion township, started yesterday with his family for Hutchinson, Kansas, near which place he expects to make his residence. Tlie Rev. Phillip McDade has resigned the pastorate of the Missionary Baptist church, and thesociety is now without a minister. We understand that efforts are being made to secure the services of a yoqng man fr6m Chicago, a divinity student, to supply the jrMpit. <mm ••• —- Major Bitters, after having run the Rochester Tribune for just one year has sola it to the Hon. W. I. Howard aind his son Arthur. The elder Howard will have charge of the editoral department of the establishment, and the younger of the mechanical. Mrs. Kirsch’s Entertainment, at the Opera House, Friday evening, '■was attended by the largest house of the sdlson. * The receipts from ‘tickets exceeded seventy dollars. Circumstances prevented our attending the entertainment, b"t all accounts appear to agree in pronouncing it a decided success. "Jim Lamb having served his time in the county jail, to which he was sentenced for complicity in the stealing of Sellick’s horses, was releasetLlM. Thursday, anti, toot the north bound train for Keener tp. that evening. Jim thinks he has no desire to serve the county in the capacity of a free boarder any longer. %. ♦--- * . A Solid Week.—'-The Opera House was utilized every evening of last week, excepting, of course Sunday evenirft'. The Dramatic Company occupied it on Monday, Tuesday* Wednesday and Thursday evenings. On Friday evening Mrs. Kirsch gave her entertainment there, and roller skating closed up the week on Saturday night f 7 : The Rev. T. C, Webster closed, a seines of eight evening and five day meetings at W atson’s school house, south east of town, last Monday pight. The meetings were attended by crowded houses, and much interest manifested throughout the entire series. Jlr. Webster expects, if his health permits, to begin a protracted meeting at the M. E. church in town this evening. E. A. Perkins, late of Goodland, with dm wife, Myrtie Heafele- that was, visited friends of hnmelf and wife iu this vicinity fett'a iew days last, week, and on Sunday eveifing took the train for Datonla, Flbri-' aa, where Mr. to engage in the mange cuitpre business, and to make lfis. home in future. Considerations of Mrs. Perkin’s health, we understand to be the reason of. his emigration to ; tlie Sonny South. ” ■ I