Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1884 — Something Still Doing on the Ft. W. P. & G. [ARTICLE]

Something Still Doing on the Ft. W. P. & G.

Circuit Clerk elect, James T. Irwin, was iu “town yesterday. He reports that Mrs. Irwin has been confined to. her bed for several weeks by sickness. Mr. Irwin will become & resident of {Rensselaer, about the Ist of March.} * The Ladies’ Industrial Society of the M. E. church, has already secured the use of the Opera House for February 22nd, and propose giving a Martha Washington supper and entertainment on the afternoon and evening of that day. The Rev. J. W. Baiilett, pastor of tho Medaryville circuit of the M. P., church, called upon The Republican Tuesday. At his request we announce that the second quarterly meeting of the Medaryville circuit M. P. ( church, will be held at Brushwood school house, Union township, on the second and third days of February, 1884. M. F. Chilcote returned from liis sudden trip to Kansas last Sunday night, on the first train after the blockade. He went and came over the C. B. & Q. road from Chicago, and that is too big an instution to allow its mam line to be interrupted by a snow storm. They put a snow plow and half a dozen engines on a train and go through anything in the shape of enow drifts that can be piled up. Mr. Chilcote’s journey was required by legal business.

Fort Wnyne.Tonrhjtl. (.‘ary A, Wilson, chief engineer of the Fort Wayne, Peoria & Galesburg railroad, and his assistants, are busily engaged at the company's headquarters, corner Berry aud Clinton streets, making profiles and maps of the proposed route and computations of the excavations and fillings necessary.