Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1884 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN.

. VOL. XVI.

THE REPUBLICAN. i*ser.i> p.vittrY thurspax ns 1 GSO. ±3. 2/Lu&.33,SJsZJiL3LiXj, fUBUSittK AND PIiOVEIETOB. OFFICE —-ttp stairs above Hemphill & Honan’s, opposite Emmet Ktruual’s drag store. Terras, of Subscription. * me yet.? 51 60' Six months 58 I'liree moirtbs 00 The Of-lual Paper of Jasper County.

• pholkssionAl. cards. PHYSICIANS. •y^ 1 W. II ARTS ELL M. D. s HOMEOPATHIC Uplxysicla-aa. a-zid. S’u.xe’ssu, It ensselafk. .............. i Indiana. Chronic Diseases a Specialty Office East Washington Street. 8-Jan-84. Residence, ilakeever House. * TAR. iTb7 WABHEUPN, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Rensselaer, Indiana. Gives special attention to Diseasesof Women atd Children and Chronic Diseases.— : j Itemembcccalls are promptly attended when not professionally engaged. ATTORNEYS. Simon I’. Thompson, David J.Tmo pso-n A ttorney at. Baits. Aotary I‘ul/Uc. rnHOMPSOK & BRO., ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Rensselaer, Ind. . Practice in all toe courts. We pay partioul .attention to paving taxes, selling and leasing lands. > M. L. SPIT LID It Collector and Abstractor JAMES W. DOUTUIT A TTQRNE Y A T LA W\ Renssei.akk. Indiana. •ft«g»Oiace wp stairs in Maheevcr’s now brick, buudii)g, three doors cast o£ Post-office.as-?# XV- 40. W. SNYDER. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Remington, Ind. Practice In the courts of Jasper, Newton and Benton counties. jARANK W. BABCOCK, attorney at law, A nd Beal Efiiate Broker, Office next door to PostoUie.o. Practices in tl-.e courts of J itsper. Newton and Hen toil counties. Lands examined, abstracts of titles prepared, taxes paid, and collections made. F. CIIILCOTE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Rensselaer, Ind. ttehds to all business in the profession with prouiptueisamt dispatch. Office in second story of the Makcever building, rj. Du KiniNs. Ztmhi Dwiogins. JR. S. eSc S. XD-wi^g’in.s, Attorneys at law, Rensselaer, Indiana. •Special attention given to collecting, and practice m t'ountv Commissioners’ nun Justice femirta. Practice under the feevv pitching l aw, a specialty. . ~ MISCILLT .ANEOUS. .ID'RP!) MCCOY. THOMAS TnourgoN Banking house of a. McCoy & t. THOMPSON,(successors to A. McCoy & Thompson, Bankers), Rensselaer, Ind. Ho a general banking business. Buy And sell ex clmiigc. Collections made on all available points. Motley loaned. Interest paid on specilicd time deposits, etc. At the same place as the old linn of A. McCoy & Thompson* K, 2. Dwiogins,Pres’t. Z. DwiggJnh,Cashier. rUTIZRNS’ BANK, Vj RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Dors a general bankingbusincss : gives snccia attention to collections: remittances made on day ot payment at current rate of exchange ; inttffest paid on balances; certificates bearing interest issued : exchange bought and sold. Vollmacdteu angefertigt,Eebscliaftipj.Shu 1 d- > f reieli. Denmark, Sohweden, Norwegcu und tier Seweis: Wocescl an die uecleuteston Bankgeselifljjftfr in alien Saeitten Eurbpa’s augesteilt Blllefteu von,und nueii Euroniiuelier die Damplschifl'Liiiienzu verkaulen. ’*- ‘ O John Makekvkr, Jay W. William?, President. Cashier. FARMERS’ BANK, j&gfMJpposite Public RZNXSELA Elt -- 4 - INDIANA

Receives Deposits. Buy ntirt .'sell Exchange. Collections made and promptly remitted. Money Loaned, and does a general Hanking Business. X V-IS-v. TIIA C. KELLEY A DENTIST, RRNfS.SKL.AEIt. INDIAItA. * Dr. Keileyltns had ttrirtv yent-s’'m'perienee 'Tn' the practice oi Dentistry, ami refers to liis niiiner ous patrons us to the quality of work turned out. He uses no “Granite Teetlif nor any spurious and ■worthless material. .Special' attention given to tlie preservation of the natural teeth and the inmiral and useful adjustment of ftrtitlcisi teeth* AH operatioimvjr minted, and priersto correspond •with quality of work. Ofllcc over Leopold's new store. ■Hl)'.’ fsrerw and LOC&SMITH Shop op River bailie, south of School House, Rensselaer, IrPiana. '.All kinds of Iron and Woo'j turning, and fine work in Iron, Steel amt Brass, on short notice, ujkLat reasonable rales. Give mea call. ( Tlxe ILTeTXr mmwm mousb. Rensselaer, Ind. OPENED. Newly furnished fgy Cool and pleasant rooms. Table tupjiliecl with the best the market affords, flood Sample Booms on first floor. Free. Bus to and from Depot. RHIUP BLUE, . i XV-80-tf.' _ -^Proprietor.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA, THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1884.

COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.

GILL AM ITEMS. Mr. Rufus Rayburn has charge of the West Vernon school instead of Aliss The saw-mid has at last made its appearance and is set up ready for business. It is located on Mr. Conard’s ifigjßv. ZJT-G'T A Sabbath school is fully .organized at Independence Chapel. All seem to be greatly interested and we hope much good may be accomplished,. Mumps are considerably scattered, causing t’uo attendance of the schools to be cut short. Miss Etta Massey has be so me a victim tothem and had to stop her school the second day. Mr. D. B. Coppess closed his school at East Vernon on Friday, the 18th, after a successful term of six weeks. He commenced school again, last Monday at Pleasant Ridge. An examination was held at Independence school house on Saturday April 19th for the graduation of advanced pupils, under the superintendeney of D. B. Coppess, as Mr. .Nelson could not be present. There were fifteen. applicants all of whom worked diligently both early and late. Good Templffcr’s Lodge is progressing favorably. Two new members were added Saturday night. We trust many more may be added to help fight the battles for the great cause of temperance.

FROM SURREY. Henry St. Clair and John Nelson also have made improvements. Mr. Sparrow, of Monon, has rented and moved into the Lyons property; Mr. Lewis Fleener begun school in Barkley tp., last Monday. Miss Emma Dern begun school at Union the same day, Weather all that can be desired and the farmers’ countenances loom up with a cEerry hopeiulhess. Mr. Bruce Moffit is teaching a very interesting Arithmetic school at Sorghum Valley on each Saturday eveOata through this vicinity look very promising generally. There is a great deal of plowing done ready for corn planting, Mrs. Goo. M. Johnson and two daughter;! started for Arapahoe, Neb., on Tuesday of this week, where she will join her husband. Rev. Win. Saylor preached at Sorghum Valley last- Sabbath to a crowded house. Bro. S. is stirring up the interest of this community in the work of the Lord. $ Mr. Masterson and family moved .from hero to Knox, in Starke county Ind., where he intends to engage in the stock business. We are badly in need of a good olacksmith. Our farmers arc compelled to take work to Rensselaer, a distance of live idles. d'X, . Our eitkens are determined to be up with the times. G. M. Wilcox has a new glass front in his store, has remodeled the counters with panels, yepainted the woodwork inside and altogether it presents a very handsome appearance.

KEENER AND DE MOTI'E. Fires raging all over the woods and marshes. s .1 E. D. Fairchild is happy, feels big enonglrToT" Two* men.it is a boy, ten pounds. B * # Mr. Fred Rowe, who has teen living in North-eastern Minnesota for the past two years> has moved back to Keener. Fred says, “all the country is good. Jor, up there, is -lmating and raising babies.” Mrs. Fanny Joiies, widow of Lee Jones, is very sick, a complication of diseases, chief of which is St. Vitus Dance and delirium, so bad that she requires constant. care and attention. She is at the home Of her brother-in-law, Mr; Henry Granger, who, wish his family, art doing all in their power for her, spacing neither time nor expense in her behalf; which commendible conduct is. in delightful contrast;, to the brutal and inhumane treatment and neglect which the poor sufferer has received at the hands of some of her own relatives. Our candidate for Treasurer, R* .W. Marshall, bad a red-hot time of it last.

Sunday. Ho bad been watcMifg and fighting fires for several days; Sunday was the climax. The wind was blowing a gale, and two fires came for himlu the forenoon, while the wind was from the south, a fire from that directioa baraed up oonsi durable fence and" fitly tons of hay. R. W. was on hand and did what he oould, but the furious wind was too much for him. In the afternoon the wind shifted to the west, and another .fire came sweeping up from that direction, and for a while it looked as though ’house, barn and every thing would go; but the whole family went to work, and, water being plenty, they saved the buildings, but

not all of the fences.

A Building, Loan Fund, and Savings Association.

Editor Republican:—As there is strong talk among the citizens of Rensselaer, of the formation of a Building, Loan Fund, and Savings Association, it might not be amiss to give your readers a brief synopsis of the aim, mode of formation, and woikings of such an organization. The object of the association may be said to be, “to provide its members a safe and profitable investment of small weekly installments, • and to loan them money on easy terms, to enable them to purchase a home, or make other investments.” The mode of formation, and workings of such, an organization is regulated by law, (see Acts 1881, section 3407), and is briefly as follows: The organization must have a capital stock, . say of $50,000, divided into shares of, say SSO each, and each person can subscribe for not to exceed a certain number, say ten shares, and lie pays into the treasury a Certain installment per week on each share of stock held by him, usually 25 cents per week on each share. In addition to this there is usually a system of fines and penalties attached for certain delinquencies, for instance a a fine of 5 cents per week per share, upon failure ’to pay- a weekly installment, and a small tine for failure to pay interest on loans when due &c. These, together of course with accumulated interest, are the source of income to the association. When a certain amount, say .#2OO is accumulated in the treasury it is loaned to stockholders only, at the rate of six per cent per annum, and is secured by first mortgage, or other substantial security, the money being auctioned off, and the member who pays the highest premium per share, secures tne preference, the premium being so much per share per week, during the coni innance cf the loan. Any- stock-holder who wishes at any time to withdraw from the association will have the amount paid in by him returned, with six per cent interest thereon. When the total amount of installments paid in, together with the accumulations amount to a sum sufficient to make out standing shares equal their face valiie or in this case SSO each, the shares shall be cancelled, and each owner Of a share shall receive its face valaei Tn money. .

Thgt these organizations are beneficial to a town no one doubts, and no more forcible illustration of this fact can be given than that there has been a statue in the State reghlating them for years. An association of this kind is a stepping stone for the poor man, and a good investment for the rich man, and. is benelicial to all parties. It is a savings bank on an extended, scale in which all are stock-holders, and share in the profits, and is entirely safe. In conclusion allow me to quote from a letter recently received from the secretary of an association where the capital is •’*•300,000. ‘‘Next to schools and churches a well conductedJouilding and loan associaftjon wilL rin. more I’m-..a cammunli^, than anything else."

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Summer Teacher’s Institute.

A summer Teachers’ Institute will be held at Rensselaer, beginning July 14, and will continue six weeks. The last week will be the Regular County Institute Classes will be organized doing beginning and advanced work in each of sjie common branches.,' An able assistant from abroad will ba secured.. For further particulars addretw, P. H. KutacH. Supt. Rensselaer school. D. M. Nulson, Co. ' Superintendent,

WILLIAM B. AUSTIN.

NEWS AND PERSONALS.

Ramember the Camp Fire, at the Opera House, to-morrow night. A fourteen year old daughter of Wm Castor, of Milroy tp., iai very sick of heart disease und dropsy. - Sells Brothers circus ia Advertised to exhibit at Logansporfc, on May 12th, 1884. Uncle Sol Wells, of Troy/ Ohio. is making another visit to his. relatives and friends in this vieinity. The F. TV. Baptist Industrial Society will meet at the house of Mrs. Allen Catt, ou Division St,, next Thursday afternoon. Bishop Knickerbocker and his companion the Key. Pettis were entertained at the house of Judge Hammond during their visit here. James T. Abbett’s term of service as .Recorder of Jasper county, expired last evening, and Dr. Thomas Antrim will succeed to the position to-day. Mr. C. J. Brown returned last Friday from the Sanitarium, at Battle Creek, Michigan, where he has been staying for a few weeks for the benefit of his health. t r- ——— : : Mrs. T. J. Jordan is able to be up and about the hofise, since the removal of a large tumor from her breast, by Drs. Washburn and Hartsell about two weeks ago. The Fort Wayne papers speak of the Fort Wayne, Peoria & Galesburg railroad as though its construction during the present season were a foregone conclusion. Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Brown, stated for California last Thursday. They have several near relatives in that state and will remain with them for several months. ~ •~ :r

Mrs. Mary Clark left Rensselaer Tuesday morning for Nebraska, to join her husband Alvin Clark and her brother Frank T. King, who had preceded her to that state. T -*T The Winamac Republican expresses confidence in the building this season of the Rochester, Rensselaer, & St. Louis railroad, the company to which Marion township voted aid last year. Mr. C. A. Brown, special examiner for the Pension bureau, who lias been iu Rensselaer and vicinity for several weeks examining into a number of applications for pensions, completed his work here and departed last Saturday. Mr. A. W. Cleveland returned last Wednesday evening from Cleveland, Ohio, whither he had been called by the sudden death, of his father, Abner Cleveland who died at his home near that city on the Bth of April, at the advanced age of eiglity-seven years. Mr. F. M. Roberts, lately a salesman in a ary goods house in Cedar Rapids, lowa, is making a protracted visit To his brothers Chas. A. and Lewis Roberts, of this place. Poor health has compelled him to take a vacation of a j few months from the dry goods business. -• -Y .... • ,• .

. - V- . * At Fowler last Thursday Luke Beesett, a Frenchman and- a bad man, was tried on the charge of rape in debauching his ijeice, a girl of less than twelve years of age. The prisoner took change of venue from Judge Ward and S. P. Thompson, of Rensselaer, Hied the case -as special judge. Bessett was convicted and sentenced to the pehetentiary for'five years. R, E, Moffit and R R. Moffit are not 410 same man taken twice,as might be inferred from the identity of their names, but they are-«twiii:"WofelteFs,'” , who -formerly lived near Remington; where their parents still reside. The young men are school teachers, but are employing their SpriDg vacation as book canvassers. They arenow at work in the vicinity of Rensselaer.

The Rev. M. C. Miner, pastor of 1 ! the F. W. Baptist church, admin- 1 i istered the rite of baptism by ; immersion, to tlie following reamed persons, last Sunday, at the close of the morning serviced, in the rivet, a short distance auove the coal-oil well: Mrs. Geo. Hoover, Mrs. C. F. Wren, Mrs. W« W. Wright, a deaf mute, Mrs. Chas. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Johnß.epner and Mr. 8. T. Warren.

The town election occurs next Monday. Theproposed change in the railway time table, has not yet been made. Mrs. C. H. Price will take the train for Dakota, to-night, to join her haaband. -. 1 4 ■ vk f :un Brother John Reynolds, of Indianapolis, editor of the Odd Fellows Talisman, was in town over Tuesday night, and made us a call Wednesday morning. P. S. Corking has retired from his connection with the Fowler Era, and gives his entire attention to the office. G. W. Mellish has full charge of the Era. Mr. John Yeoman, of Newton township, who went west, about two weeks ago, on account of his health- died at Silver Cliff, Colorado, last Tuesday.. His body will be brought here for interment, Messrs. Rial Benjamin, Jared Benjamin and Mrs, D. Nowels started for Warsaw Tuesday morning, called there by the supposed fatal illness of their brother, the Rev. Samuel H. Benjamin, the widely known and highly esteemed Baptist minister, of that plflce.

Among those wlio have made, or are now making, mbre or. less ex : tensive improvements to their residence properties, in tile line of additions to houses, rebuilding, new fences and the like, may be mentioned: Ml’s. S. A. Hemphill. F. B. Meyer, Joseph Hardman and Henry Platt. Rife is becoming a burden to August Fritz, of Wheatfield township. He has just given bail for his appearance before the next term of the Circuit Court, to answer to seven different indictments for ■ the unlawful sale of liquor. J. G. Reynolds, of this place, has been bound over to answer to one indictment of a like character. Shoals of Scholars.— M. F. Cliilcote has complete l the enumeration of the school children of the school town of Rensselaer, and reports the total number at 483. This is an increase of 10 over last years figures; but had not the formation of a new school district on the western border of town taken six or seven families from tf'.e school town, the increase would have been considerably larger.

During the baptismal services last Sunday, at the river, a number of young hoodlums congregated together, on the easl bank of the river, and insulted the feelings of every right minded person present, by making all sorts of jeering and irreverent remarks, not even sparing the feelings of the delicate ladies, who, in obedience to the dictates of their co'nciences, were passing the trying ordeal of immersion m the chilling waters of the river. A number of the older hoys engaged jn the outrageous conduct, are well known, and ought to be prosecuted. In accordance with previous anthe. Episcopal bishop of Indiana, held divine services in the Church of God, last Monday evening. The sendees were conducted according to the rites and forms of the Episcopal church, and the bishop was assisted by the Rev. W. W. Pettis, of Lafayette. The congregation was fairly large, though much less than would have been the case had not the Republican town convention been held on that, evening. The“bishop is making a systematic canvass, so to speak, of the entire state; visiting all towns of importance, where there is no organized Episcopal church, and, . where enough of that denomination are found, organizing church societies.

The Knightij of Pythias lodge in thrn place is very popular, especially with the young men and l is in an exceedingly flourishing condition, generally.. That exposition of the terrors of the Initiatory degree, of that order, made at the Opera House a month or two ago, does not seeih to exercise any deterring effect to prevent others from joining the lodge. Two new members were taken in last Thursday evening: Messrs. C. D. Nowels and Charles C. Warner. At tlie same session pf the lodge some resolutions were adopted appropriate to the occasion of the removal from the town of Mr. Chas. H. Price, the first Chancellor Commander of the lodge, and always since its organization one of its most active and zealous members. — ~ -

Knisomine and IVhitn.wr.sh brushes at Kanuai’s. — : — . 1 : Ready-mixed White Lead and dine Point at KnuSaTs. Ladies,.bring in your ordera for to Jtfcmphill & Honftifc - : - - A new and welt assorted stock of S RKCTAOLEf, all grades and; pices; perfect Jit guaranteed. Gd! on Era met Ivannal "‘The OpCi elan.” Go to EmmetuKaunal’s for Fishing Tackle.; he carries a large stock of Joint Rods, Fine Reels, Braided Silk and Linen Lines, Hooks; Floats and Sinkers- - Goto Sear’s Jumbo Furniture House to buy your Furniture Carpets Gil Cloths and and House Furnishing Goods he has everything you want from a cradle to a coffin, Prices dow. *•<#*-- -—- Farm Loans.— s3oo to slO,Oob Partial payments. Reasonable terms. The Rensselaer Loan and Insurance Bureau, opposite Court Rouse, next door, to post-office. ' 15-39 ts. I want to say to every one that it is my aim always to gi ye Um largest Quantity, 'the best Quality and the lowest prices dn Furniture, Carpets, Window Shades and Coffins. Chas. G. Sears Hemphill & Honan, os evei ahead in Millinery, are the first to show, spring goods on their counters. Oh, they aTe beauties! Call and see the'ih. t *"•" ' V-- - ■ t - —n — - . * - I have the freshest, largest and most complete stock of Furuitnre, Carpets and Window Shades in the cotrpft V- Come and see for yourself. C. G. Sestrs. ' Did you sec the. new Furn iturc Carpets and Curtains that Charley Sears just received? If you havn’t goto Iris store at once: They are Beauties and. at prices Cheaper than . the Cheapest. V... :.-sfc i#W- - - - Athlophorous:— — I The great Rheumatic Cure, for which I refer you to Norman Warner, oui fellow townsman, who has used this great medicine with the most desirable results. For sale by Emmet Kannal. The Grand Protector of Knights and Ladies of Honor will be at Rensselaer, Wednesday evening, May 7th, to institute a lodge of that order. The petitions all eady amount to 39 with a prospect of 50 and the Grand Protector requests that all be there at that time. Please meet promptly at A. O. U. W. Hall, at 7 o’clock p, m. W. P. Green. To the Public;— We have secured the services of Miss Emma McCormick, of Crawforclsville Ind., who coupes to Us with the best of references as to being a first class dressmaker and is a lady known to some, of onr best ■ Wizens; LadieS desiring work done artistically would do .veil to give this lady a trial. Please call at once, Ever yours. Hemphill A Honan.

T. J. Farden invites an inspection of his £ne line of SPRING* GOODS including LudloW, LeviS St Broxholxn and Newport warranted fine shoes for Ladies. All kinds of Shoes” and the celebrated Chaplin Hand mad©, solid whole stock Calf Boot at S2.SO» DEM'IgTRY. - .. ■ ■ __ I. C, KELEEYi Rensselaer - Indian!, t Teeth, inserted from one tcote. to an entire set. Satisfaction guefantecS, or no pay. With our Vitalized am apparatus we will extraet teeth, without pun ©r'tfinSi. - -

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