Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1884 — NEWS AND PERSONALS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS AND PERSONALS.

The boys are looking for the L. N-A & C. pay car this week, on Friday, probably. ; Birtlis.—At E. J. Smith’s, Marion township, on the 16th, a boy. At Ed. Gay’s, Rensselaer, bn girl. Eider I). T. Halstead returned last Thursday from a four weeks’ stay in Kingman and Sedgwick counties, Kansas. He brings back favorable impressions of Kansas. Capt. Bnrnham was called to Lafayette yesterday on business connected with,’ his application for ft pensisn, and his, school, the grammar department, was dismissed for the day. Mr. H. C. Allison, of Franklin, Ind., formerly editor, for many years of the Franklin Jeffersonian, was in town yesterday and went north in the evening to look after some landed interests he holds in Wheatfield township. Bishop Knickerbocker, bishop of the Protestant Epicopal church of Indiana, will visit Rensselaer next Monday and hold divine services at the Church of God in the evening, as per notice elsewhere. The Bishop ought to have a crowded house. Big Mortgage.—A three million dollar mortgage given by the L., N. A. & C. railroad company to the Farmers Loan and Trust company, of New York, was put on the record books of Jasper county, this week, by Recorder Abbett. It is a second mortgage, as the same company already holds a 22 million dollar mortgage on the road. The members of the Ladies Literary Society, of the W. C. T. U. and of the Ladies Industrial society of the M. E. church, of all which Mrs. W. T. Jones was a member, jointly gave a party in her honor, upon the occasion of her removaljfrom the town, on last Thursday evening, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Sears, across the river. Some fifty or sixty persons attended the party, and literary exercises, games Ac. made it a very pleasant occasion. About Tile Bridge.—Work on the abutments of the new bridge is now ia full blast. The derrick for swinging the huge blocks of stone into place ,was erected Saturday, and on Monday the old bridge was torn down. On the same day Marshal Platt set to work, and out of the old material, in a few hours constructed a serviceable and sufficiently substantial foot-bridge, a short distance above the old bridge. The stone-work is to be completed not later than June Ist and it is expected that the iron-work will be put up and the bridge ready for travel in about 15 days thereafter. The W. C. T. U., at their session last Saturday afternoon, adopted a series, of resolutions upon the removal of Mrs. W. T. Jones from the community, and her consequent withdrawal from the society. The resolutions compliment ber of the Union, and, in appropri-f ate language, express regret at her departure. The resolutions were intended for our Temperance column, but the large amount of space already occupied by temperance matter, compels us to leave them out.