Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1884 — NEWS AND PERSONALS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS AND PERSONALS.

Mrs, Mpggie C. Talbert, of Indianapolis, is the guest of her nephew Recorder Abbett., 1 William Bergman returned last week from an ail winter’s .stay at his old home in Ohio. Mrs. S, J, Austin is now making a protracted visit to her relations,the -Bassieks,Ftt Br-i<:igt^ftort,'OoTrix:‘'' Sanford Makeover started for, Huron, Dakota, last Friday.- He thinks of remaining- in that territory for the summer. A man from Logan sport, Mr. Newt. Jackson, by name, was iii town last week looking up the prospects for another saloon. Mr. James T. ITandal has been appointed ditch commissioner, by the circuit court, in the place of James Welsh, who lately resigned. Lewis Day and bis brother-in-law, Jefferson Corns, .are both erecting dwelling houses in the vicinity -of the depot. Messrs JS. P. Honan and J. F. Hemphill went to Chicago Tnss- j day morning. Honan Lb buy i goods and liemphiii to take in the j ! town. The democrats of Marion toivnshipwill hold their- township convention next Saturday, immediate-'' ly after the adjournment of the county convention. Mr. John B. Clemaus, of Surrey, who is making a public 1 sale today, intends going to- Kansas during the -year, with a view to removing there 11 pleased with the country. Mr. and Mrs. John T. Sayler. of ! New ton township, are rejoicing | themselves in the possession of a I fine, new boy, a ten pounder, whose Ifirthday will 'be. celebrated on the 20th of March. The Winamao Republican- givesnotice tiiat hereafter it- will charge local advertising rates for publishing obituary notices, lists of wedding presents and other articles of a like character.' The Boswell Courier ban departed this. The insatiable Carr,' of rhe Oxford Tribune, has taken it in and done for it. Its former editor C. H. Miller will conduct a Boswell page iu the Oxford Tri bune. The democrats of Newton county : held their convention at Good!and. ! instead of Mount A iiW, as at first advertised. The reason for the change was because no train runs north on the 0. & G. S. until evening. Miss Ora Thompson, Elmer Dwiggins. and Delos Thompson are home from Michigan i niver■sity, and Charlie Warner from De Pa aw. Mr. Dwiggins expects to graduate at the close -of the ensuing term. s Mr. Emmet Kaimr.l has, erected j a,telegraph wire from tiro depot to his storo-and placed a telegraph instrument in his store. Connections have not vet been made with within a short lime. New Babies: —At Mrs. Xelcon Randal’s, Barkley township, a girl, j born Monday. j At Mr James' Fisher’s, northof i town, a gill, born Tuesday. At Mr..]arnes Payne’s, in Barklev; a girl, born last week. The store at Mcnon formerly J the property of Leopold, Hejdel- ! berger &Co , is now the' property |of Mr, A. Leopold, of this town, | solely, he having lately bought the | interests of the other partners, iMr .- Noble J . York lias principal I charge of the Mouon establislijmentrd r h , Mr. J. T. Hemphill, of El Paso, i Texas, has been visiting his relaIcivesTh Rensselaer, since last Thursday. A watcr-spou: os) the i Bila-river which, washed out a vast J stretch -of the , Southern Pacific •ra i Iroa d com par y’ s track, and a leave in,of a tunnel upon the same line, has given him an enforced vai cation which he is utilizing as ! above indicated. i We are glad to learn that Arj.bor day is to be extensively ob--1 served by the public schools of !Rensselaer. The 11th of April is , the day that has been set apart for the very praiseworthy purpose of beautifying the school grounds of itbe state and the sciiooi children j shem'd lie enconi'.'iged day’s work m . planting trees aucl - otherwise ornamenting the school '.grounds. . ;

.Spring weather is numerous. Mrs. J. W. Powell is still very sick but making some little imprevement. !: , \ Everybody dias ceased swearing about the mud. Xo one feels able to do the subject justice. ' Miss Stella Paddock, cousin of the editor, is learning to set type .in Tke BErrEi;i'::A'N'''biltce. Christopher Plath who lately removed from Morocco, is buildinga dwelling house in the east part of town, in Leopold’s addition. Mr. James Mills of Leon, lowa, a nephew of tho elder Makevor brothers, is visiting in this vicinity, for the first time in eighteen years. Y oiing-man -afraid -of-tlie-leap-year, who keeps the post-iTffice store has found it pfuilent to diminish his personal attractions and has cut off his luxuriant and ornamental mustache. The agricnl'fcnral society met in the anditiov’s ojlicfi at the! eamt house last Saturday. They decided to i hold the fair in the second weekin j September.; Tue.s lay, Weduesday, Thursday and Friday the fith 10th Idth and 12t!i of the month being the days xrpon which it will be held. The Rev. J. H. Clnyiiool the ' presiding elder of Lafayette circuit, was in town over Sunday attending the quarterly conference at the M. E. church. —He preached twice on Sunday to v ery, large congregations. His ability and eloquence as a preacher are so well known to the people of Rensselaer so to always insure him of a large and i n tel 1 i gen l audience; - Rev. ?I. G. Miner returned home on Thursday- last—and remained, over the Sabbath, filling, his regugnlar appointment. Mr . Miner, prior to the death of his little girl, was engaged m a revival meeting: with the Badger’s Grove church, in White Co. lie reports the cl)ui’ch much revived, back-sliders' reclaimed and a goodly number converted. Thirty four joined the church, nineteen of them whom he baptized on Sunday March 2nd. A lively wind and hail storm created considerable- -excitememt and alarm iii this place at an early hour Tuesday morning. Some : fences and out buildings were blown down, Mi’. Corns’ rtevv Im-use incur the depot was moved from its ; foundations and some empty | freight cars, which were standing i ou the side track, were blown down by the wind and-run off upon the | ties at the end of the switch. j A young stranger has taken j permanent board and lodging at ! the house of the genial landlord of -'the Xowels House, Goo. J. Dexter, i He has been at the hotel since last | Friday and, strange as it may seem, j he has, so far, studiously refrained ' from divulging either his name, .business or former place of resi!deuce, to anyone. It is not be- , hived by anyone acquainted with ..the ttircußistaß'ses, -i-hat the young intwnthm" us e-lrey i pay-ing-a-single cerit ffirhtiA-board 1 - but that consideration has not the ' .dig]dost effect in diminishing the pleasure with which Mr. and'Mrs. ; Dexter welcome’ the. young man to their establishment. I Mrs. J. H. Clay pool, wife of the presiding elder of this district has rather pronounced views upon the subject of dancing as the following from her pen in a Delphi iiaper ; will show: 1 desire to enter my public protest against dancing. I know that it is immoral and degrading in all its tendencies; that no person engaged in it is-pure personally; that those outside of the church do not place a very high estimate upon the religion of dancing church members; . that dancing is one of the causes of the moral standing of this city as we know it and as it is held .abroad by many people ; that dancing is one of the causes of tic low state of religion in this "city; that dancing lias a.tendency to infiame the passions of men and women in a stronger degree than any other amusement, and that more young • people, have sacrificed tiiier personal parity under its inflammable oh:amice than by any. or all amusements engaged in by them. The fact that the sin touches, the most Sacred, the most delicate ofliumauitv’s ci.dowincnto closes-the lips, of many whose hearts ache as it encroaches upon the “anctitv of their vest homes.”

Mr. H. C. Henkle commonly known in this yicinity as Coke Henkle, writing from Wichita Kansas to renew his suhsription. remarks incidentally that Spring 1 is under full headway in that part of the country and fanners began work in. earnest there last week. Mr. Henkle is holding a good position in the Kansas National Bank at Wichithl" .'HeMtimks 1 1 i| town is to be The City of tbe_ Sovt.li-west some day.