Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1884 — Personal and Local. [ARTICLE]

Personal and Local.

Girard & Flynn tire running their new mill, near the d--po f , right along. ' ’ —-r. *--■«»• . The doctors have plenty to do in this vicinity; colds, coughs and inflammation. Mr. and MpT/pTh. Lally, of Remington, visited their Rensselaer friends for nearly the j whole of lust week. The pay car on the L., N. A. <t C. passed Rensselaer, Monday. The company keeps its employee> paid up in good shape. * > The Knights of Pythias will expose to secret work of their Initiatory Degree, at the Opera House, Friday night, Feb., 15th. The weather is capable of any extremity this winter and the remarkable celerity with which the snow has disappeared during the last few days is a case in point. So many of the school children were sick with colds and kindred complaints last week, aa to leave several departments of the school almost “without a quorum”. Miss Hattie-Gibson left Rensselaer Saturday night. She intended to stop for a few days in Lafayette and then to return to her home in Brooklyn, New York. The Rev. D. J. Huston, of Goodland, formerly of Rensselaer, will preach at the Baptist church in Rensselaer, on the second Sunday in February, at 10:30 o’clock, a. m. ■ The Ladies Industrial Society of the Presbyterian church, will have an oyster supper at the residence bf M. F. Chilcote, (to-mor-row,. ) Friday evening. Everybody invited. The good coasting on Chauncey Hill has been killing- off the boys pretty fast,/'nt Lau- • tte lately If we couldpick the boys we should like to borrow Chauncey Hill, for Rensselaer’s use, for a few weeks. The Rev. T. C. Webster returned last Saturday from a businessdrip to Crawfordsville, and upon reaching bis home found awaiting him a telegram calling him to the bedside of his aged mother who was thought lo be dying, at Waveland. Mr. Ellis Walton, of this place, has received by telegraph the melancholy intelligence that bis son-in-law, Cornelius George, died at Knoxville, Tenn., last Saturday, from the effects of an accident received Thursday, in his lumber yard. , «-4 • • Mr. Stacy English, of Hanging Grove township, has lately returned from a two week’s visit among old-time friends and scenes in Champaign and Logan counties, in Ohio. It was his first visit for ' twenty-five years, and of course he I fdffnd dirid ofteylly j different place from the Ohio of • twenty-five years ago.

1 Monticello Herald: 2»1. N. Harris, of -Jasper county, was brought before Esq. Hamnieil Saturday [for stealing lap robes, harness and ! other articles from Henry Buni nett, of IdaviPe. —He plead guilty . and was bound over to the circuit ' court in the sum of Officers Beniiett and Ballinger had a hot jchaso after him and caught him (near Remington with some of the ‘ stolen goods in his possession. The. 125th anniversary of the [birth of Robert Burns was approi priately celebrated by the Intermediate department, Miss Osborne i teacher, ■ l.aat ' Friday afternoon. Sketches of the .poet’s life, seleci Hens from bis writings &c. The ■practice of observing the birth- ■ days of the great poets by the public schools i« a wise and beau* . tiful,custom, which should not be allowed to fall into disuse. Mr. Samuel H. Spitler, of Lurfiy, Page county, Virginia, who was yjsitinghis many relatives in this “county for three weeks past, left here Friday to see relatives at Rensselaer, and from thence returns to Virgin in. This was his first visit to Newton county, an I he . traa highly pleased wit h our part of the country. Mr. Spitler is a * voung man of mucu ability- and a redever-gentleman withal- -{ Kent- , land Gazette.

Henry Luers counts daughter number 2 since Sunday Corning. Prof. Levino is doing }irofcssioaal work, in the picture line, at Lowell, for a few daj ; s. lii a south wind that raises the thermometer to fifty-four degrees the snow goes “like hot cakes. Ed O’conner and Jack of Pleasant Ridge, have gone to Kingman county, Kansas, to grow. The Ladies’ Missionary Society of the M. E. church, will meet at Mrs. J. \V. Williams’ Friday, a: 3 o’clock p. HL Mr. Joseph Sharp, the poultry dealer, with his little daughter, visited friends at Burnettsville over Sunday. W. J. Florence Esq., of the law, firm i f Florence Bros, of Delphi, passed Sunday with his relatives in Barkley township. All who contemplate joining a Secret Society, should not fail to witness the Initiation of a candidatc at the Opera House, Friday night, Feb,, 15th. The county superintenclect examined quite a large number, from sixteen to eighteen, of applicants for t'eacEer’s license, at the school house, last Saturday. —■ A big, bad, bold boy, named Bob was bounced bodily by Capt. Burnham, from the Grammar department of the public school, last Friday. The members of Rensselaer Lodge, No' 82, K. of P., will cede bra to the 2Gth anniversary of Pythianisin by Initiating a candidate, at the Opera House, Friday nigO, Feb., 15th, 1884, ( has. W. Lee came down fn.m Elwood and spent Sunday visiting his friends in Boswell. If Charley would only hurry up and marry, it Avould remove several old Women from -the anxious seat.—[Oxford Tribune. Mr. James Welsh is no longer a commissioner of drainage in this county, having last week resigned that position, A desire to devote his time to private business, we understand to have been the reason for the resignation. The. Rev.,.Jas. T. Abbett was over at Monon Sat ar day and Sunday assisting Dr. Dunham pastor of the M. E. Church at that place, in his work of carrying on a protracted meeting, which has been in progress for a couple of weeks. _ - - The members of tiie Knights of Pythias lodge in this place are making extensive preparations for republic entertainment, to be given by them, at the Opera Houses February 15th, Judging from the preparations, it will be an unusually entertaining affair- | —— ■ A new twelve and a quarter ■■PQiijLid - daughter.. at- . the. „house. Ulem Timmons of Pleasant Ridge. On Dec., sth his children celebrated his sixty-fifth birthday, and presented him a nice easy Crocking chair. He can rock himself and his fifteenth baby at the same jtime. May lie live long and his | tribe still increase is the wish of i The Republican. The proverbially agitated course ;of true love has been Hewing in ian unusually turbulent manner i lately, m the case of a* certain couple in Rensselaer, if the I tongue of rumor is to be trusted. | “Sterruparients” have, according to the story, forbidden the presence iof the ardent swain, ujwn their i premises, and even resorted to the ; time honored, but invariably un- ! successful, expedient of incarceratled the maiden fair within a gloomy dungeon in their turretted ( castle’s t°p most towers. ! 111 the absence of the regular s pastor the Rev. George Havens : supplied the pulpit at the Al. E. 1 Church last Sunday morning, llie “old man” -is a "good’ one.’’ <Wi tli a good head to start with . and now full of the rich remiii--1 scences of over fifty years in the •ministry, and a flat-footed, .bare- ! hviided'way of saying just what he 1 thinks in the clearest and most * forcible language, we are Milling I to «ay, without intending, any disparagement to any of his b:other ; vkrgy meu, that we had rather : listen to a sermon from him than ; from any other man in the county.