Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1884 — NEWS AND PERSONALS. [ARTICLE]

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. — ~ -