Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1884 — NEWS AND PERSONALS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS AND PERSONALS.

Jules Jouvenat, of Chicago, visited his aunt, Miss Libbie WAlton, over Sunday. A democratic mass convention is called to meet at the court house on Satuiday afternoon, March 29th. The Marion township republican mass convention, meets next Saturday afternoon, at the Court house. * Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Thomas, of Flora, Ind., are visiting their daughter, Mrs. J. T. Abbett, in this place, Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Woods returned from their six weeks’ visit among friends in Will county, 111., last Monday. Mrs. Sheriff Powell has been seriously sick for some time, but is now making some progress towards recover) 7 . Dr. Triplett, the ponderous, of Morocco, was in to.vn Saturday. Ho had been buying cattle in the vicinity, it/was said. The democratic party of Newton county,—what there is of it —will meet in mass convention at Mount Airy, next Tuesday.

The Stock-holders, of the Jasper County Agricultural Society, will hold an important meeting at the court house next Saturday afternoon. J. W. Mann, of this place, left on the 10:36 train for Hamilton county, Ind., Sunday night to attend the funeral of liis sister, Annie V. Mann, whose death took place on that cla^. The town was remarkably full of country people last Saturday, the streets presenting a very animated appearance, and business ill the stores being correspondingly lively. Miss Annie V. Mann, the youngest child of Mrs. S. Y. Me Cullough, lately of Grillam township, died at liei home In Hamilton county, Ind., last Sunday, March 16th, at the age of 17 years.

The Republican and the ican Farmer one year, for $1.75. The Farmer one year and The Republican two years for $3.00. Sample copies of The Farmer may be had at The Republican office* upon application. The Hon. L D. Ptlnn, Of Kankakee township, was in town last Thursday attending to various business matters. The northeast corner of Jasper county seems to be reasonably prosperous, to judge from his reports thereof. The Free Will Baptist Industrial Society will j meet to-day, March 20th, at the residence of Mrs. Ellen Hinkle, at 1:30 o’clock. All are invited to attend. Mrs; W. 11. Sayler, Pres. Mrs. S. T. Warren Secy, It is not generally known that Wilber F. Storey, owner of the Chicago Times, founded the first Democratic newspaper ,eve r pub-, lishecf in La Porte' county, but such is the fact, nevertheless.[Valparaiso Messenger. C. H. Price-has tendered ills resignation as clerk of Jasper county. We desire to give this fact prominence as it is the first instance on record of a democrat hesignin g an office. It .is proper to state tha t Mr. Price was formerly a republican, which may in part account for the singular freak.— [Montieello Herald.

Trustee Yeoman, of Jordan township, writes to request us to say that the examination of the pupils of the fifth grade, in tlia-i township, at Egypt school house was Tor gradation instead of graduation, and that the graduating will be held at Egypt school house on Wednesday, Mar. 26th. The old joke about tli9 man who put a cent into the missionary collectiou for the benefit of the heathen and a dollar to pay for getting the cent to them, has lost its force, if it ever had any. The Rev. T. 0. Webster during the exercises given by the Women’s Board of Foreign Missions at the M. E. church, last feunday evening, stated that the cost of collecting and . forwarding all the contributions of the M. E. church of the United States, to foreign missions, was than - one cent on each dollar so Collected and iorwarded.

Hon. U. Z. WTiley, of Fowler, was looking after cases in the Jasper circuit court, Tuesday. Judge S. A. Huff and Alf. Reynolds, nf Montieello, and Dan. Frazer, of Fowler, are attending the circuit court here this week. Uncle Jeduthan Hopkins, of Dayton, Ind., and his sister, Mrs. Lucy Penoyer, of Englewood, 111., are visiting friends in Rensselaer. Capt. De Witt C. Wallace, of Lafayette, has been .attending the Circuit Court this week as associate counsel in the Van Rensselaer street appeal cases. A post office is to be established at Fair Oaks, the junction of ther L., N. A. & C., and the C. & G. 8. railroads, in Union township, with Thos. J. Mallatt as postmaster. The funeral of Thomas Coen, of Attica, took place yeste’rday. He was a brother of William S., John and Hugh E. Coen, of Rensselaer, all of whom attended his funeral. From the Joliet 111., Republic and Sun, we learn that Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Woods, and Miss Fannie Sharp, of this place, attended a swell wedding of a relative of theirs, Miss Emma Hyland, at Plainfield, 111., on Tuesday of last week. Mrs. Rebecca Prather and Miss Rue Norton, both former residents of Rensselaer but now of Ressville, 111., returned to the last named place last Tuesday, after a two weeks visit to their sister, Mrs. Ada Yates, and other relatives iu this place. Fannie Thompson, a bright girl of about ten years of age, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Thompson, died at the home of her parents, near the depot, last Thursday, and was buried the next dav. at the TOrplian farm cemetery, after the rites of the Catholic church, of which Mrs. Thompson is a member. It was Dr. Loughridge and not Dr. Washburn who went up into Keener township last Wednesday to sob Recorder-elect Antrim. The latter was found to be in a pretty feeble condition, but in ho danger of committing so impolitic an adt as depaiting this life just as hd is about to enter upon a four ye'tttß term of a good office. During the mouth of FebHialry the circuit clerk in this coJfity is-

sued seventeen marriage lil&hses. During the first half of March he issued but one. February, as everybody knows, is Saint Valeidline’s month and in the presence of the above facts we can do no less than retract the derogatory remarks we lately made in regard to his Saintship.

A postal card from M. B. Scott, the pioneer settler of Kankakee township, requesting his copy of the Republican to be sent to Lake Village hereafter, we take to be sufficient evidence that that good old man lia3 turned lift back on Jasper county, after all these years, and taken up his residence in the wilds of Newton. W r e suspect that „the old man finds Jasper county too polished for Us tastes, aud he, therefore, seeks a-more primitive and uncivilized region. The prospects for the wheat crop in this county ai e pronounced, by good judges, to be excellent; the best for several years. In this connection we wish to emphasize the opinion of a prominent citizen, who is not of a character to speak whereof he has not knowledge, that early sown wheat is muchmQrs likely to make a good crop than the late sown. The example of the Hon. G. W. Burk, one of the most successful wlieet growers lfi the county, is cited as a case ifi point. He sows his wheat as early as August, it is said. This day being the 20th of March, is the date of the Vernal Uquinox, and to-day the Sun “crosses the line” and also enters the sign Aries, and if the promises of the almanacs are carried out, Spring will begin in reality. On this latitude the sun rises to-day at 6:3 o’clock and sets at 6:13, and the moon rises at 1:23 a. rn., and gets when it has no other place to go. (We would like to remark, right here, that we fail 1o see how a person of the Moon's habits can presume to make any claims to respectability. She i gets fullemagoose at least once I every month, remains in about that j dition for. several days, and is jneyer Knowii to keep regular 1 hours.) . . . .

Theßev.M.C. Miner.will return from White county in time tp hold services at the Free Will Baptist churoh, next Sunday. The Odd Fellows’ lodge in this place has been having considerable of a boom lately, and is taking in new members every once in awhile. Ex-Senator' Keiser, of ;Wiuamac, an old newspaper man, and once a resident of this place, made his first visit here for seventeen years last week. Coming on Wednesday and going away on Friday. The gTound hog’s six weeks of seclusion came to an end last day. As a prognosticator of the, weather G. H6g, Esq., is a bigger man than old Vennor, and ought to supersede Gen. Hazen as chief of the weather bureau. The only child of the Rev. and Mrs. M. C”. Miner, a girl of about two years, died, near Badger’s Grove, in White county, last Sunday, and was buried at Brookston, on Monday. The Rev. B. F. Ferguson conducting the funeral. Mr. S. P. Thompson is getting a large amount of material upon his lot; in the grove south of town, , near the “coal Gil” well, where he expects to lay the foundations for a comfortable and fairly spacious brick Residence during the coming fall, and to complete the same next year.

Died :-Merrett Brown a promising young man, about 19 years of age ,died from a disease of his digestive organs, at the home of his father, Elmer Brown of Wheatfield township, on the 15th inst. The funeral took place on tbe 16th and was conducted by. Rev. Bradbury, of Keener township. Some eight or ten couples of Rensselaer’s brightest society pecpie enjoyed a very pleasant social party at the spacious residence of Mr. F’ W. Bedford east of town last Saturday evening. The p^ r ly was given by Miss Lizzie Warner grandaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bedford.

The next Quarterly meeting cf the Rensselaer circuit of the M. £; church will be held at church building, in this place, next Satttrddy diid Sunday;.. The first service beiilg held at 2:30 p. m. next Saturday. • > The Rev. J. H. Claypodl, the presiding elder, will preach Saturday evening and SdMay morning and evening. Misses Lydia and Amanda Paris made final proof to the claims they have been living continuously on for the past six or eight months, at Miller, Thursday. It is said their farms are exceedingly choice, and the young ladies are now in shape to commence farming in earnest—or would be by taking advantage of leap year privileges. - [Ree Heights (Dak.) Free Press. The Women’s Board of Foreign Missions society of the M. E. church, of this place, occupied the evening hour at the M. E. church, last Sunday, V/itli an interesting and instructive series of exercises. The aims and objects of the society, its past' work and “present condition were clearly set forth. The great work already accomplished for the heathens by the missionaries, and the still greater yet to be done were properly dwelt upon. Births.— On the 14th inst, to the wife of A. Leopold, of Rensselaer, child number eleven, a twelve pound daughter. - To the wife of Nathan Eldridge, of Barkley tp., twins, son and daughter. To the wife of Frank Moore, of Barkley tp., on the 14th inst, a daughter. To the wife of Chas. A- Leonard, of Hanging Grove tp., on the 13th inst., a daughter. Our old townsman, Willis J. Imes, struck Rensselaer last Friday evening and was kept busy receiving the greetings of his many friends, Saturday. He has formed a partnership with J. I. Purcupile, of Clarinda, lowa, for the purpose of engaging in general merchandising in North Auburn, Nebraska. They will open business within, a few weeks. During his stay on his Nebraska farm, Mi*. Imes had the misfortune to fall and so badly injure two of the fingers oi his ! right hand as to nearly lose the * use of that member. Mr. Imes ! brings encouraging reports as to the health of his family,'especially ;of Mrs. Imes? Will is j still at Franklin, where he u j learning 4§§ telegraph ttefiness.