Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1884 — Persconal and Local. [ARTICLE]

Persconal and Local.

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Mr. N. White, of Kankakee township, and a steady reader of The Republican made this office n pleasant call yesterday. - * The Rev. J. J. Claypool, pastor of the Rensselaer circuit of the M. E. church last yed.r, hits been in town a couple of days. Drs. Kelley and Hoitoil have moved iheir dental office across the street into Leopold’s new building and left Dr. Washburn to reign in solitary splendor. Judge Atkinson, of Indinapolis and W. F. Stillwell aqd DeWitt 0. Wallace, of Lafayette, attended to cases in the circuit court, this week. > . Messrs, Dr. Maxwell, W. H. Goover and P.. H. Lally, all of Remington, were in town yester dsy. Business in court, Was understood to have been the caixse of their presohee here. Mis. Madisbh Makeever, on Tuesday, At Monticello, attended the funeral of her father) the venerable Sylvester Healv, who died Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Healey's health is also very poor, and wlie is not expected to long survive her husband. ~ Married.— At the residence of Mr- Jacob Saylev, in Newton township, Jasper -county, Indiana, T.desday, January 2nd, 1884, Mr. Jacob C. Sayler, of Jasper county, to Miss Malinda S. , Barker, of Newton countyi , Ceremony performed byjhe lt’ev'. M. Q. Miner, Of Llenseelaer. ——■ -■ r 1 r A Business tTi nor:—The firm of McCracken ATKirk Is no more. Their partmu'ship lias been dissolved, and their stock if good:soil to Mr. A. Leopold, who will continue, the boot and shoe business in the same place. Mr. Xatiian Fendig vvill, probably, have charge as salesman. Dr. and Mrs. M. B. Alter were passengeis on the Indianapolis train which should have reacli xl here on Yfednesday evening, January 2nd, but which was frozen up at Monon. To remain at Monon. was too much like being buried alive aud the doctor accordiugiy hired a team to bring him home, on Thursday. The Boss Hog.—E. A. Griswold, who lives twd ‘or threfe miles north of town, sold last week to S. It. Nichols, what he believes to be the boss hog of the season. It was a sow, she was thirty months old, weighed G2O pounds, and during her brief, but interesting career she had been the mother ot thirty pigs. Will and Bert Small, of Idaville, the twin sons of the Rev. Gilbert Small, who lias charge of the Presbyterian church at this place, received a substantial New Year’s present from their uncle, \V illiam D. Robertso’ri 1 , qi Argyle, N. Y-, m the sliopfs ot a draft for one thousand dollars to be divided equally between the boys when they are twenty-one years of age. —Dr, Everett W> Fish, of Cliicago, a gentleman of undoubted great scientific attainments, began a course of four lectures, at the Opera House Monday. His audiences are very small bat intelligent. The doctor makes a specialty of combating, on scientific grounds, the theory of Evolu\ tion and of reconciling Genesis with what he believes to be the true facts of geology. ■ Mrs. P. H. Kirsch and Messrs. Mv F. Chilcote, S. E. Nichols, Dr. Hartsell, G. W. Burk. 0. G Sigler and Geo. Goff, all came in on the Sunday night train from Chicago, where they fiad been snowbound for a greater or less length of time. Several of these, including Mrs. Kirsch} and iffAsrs. Nichols and Burk wele iifcoard the Wednesday night Gain which was snowed ill at St. Johns. They got back to Chicago Saturday night, Tiie ReV. M. C. Miner, of the Free Will Baptist church. Has just -closed a protracted meeting with the Newton church, Newton tp The meetings opened wife good interest. The church was lunch revived, anil sinners were awakened and manifesteti a desire for a better life; but the extreme cold weather, together with the snow drifts in the roads, made it advisable to close the meetings for the present; #