Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1884 — NEWS AND PERSONALS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS AND PERSONALS.

Frank S. Davidson’s elocutionary and dramatic entertainment at the M. E. Church, to-night. Mr. and Mrs. William Taylor, of Lafayette, passed Sunday in Rensselaer with their daughter, Mrsj T. J. McCoy. Mr. Ira M. Trussell, the aged gentleman whose serious sickness was noticed several weeks ago, is fast recovering his wonted health. That new Lafayette accommodation train will be a great convenience to .Rensselaer people desiring to go to Chicago or other points north in the morning. Baptist Preaching —The Rev. J. W. Rushy from Chicago UnivcJsity, at the Baptist church place next .Sundaymorning. The many of Miss Minnie Norris, in this vicinity, will 1)0 interested in learning that she has ripened into a school maam since leaving this place. She is now teaching near Franklin, Nebraska. Messrs. Rial and Jared Benjamin have returned from their visit to Warsaw, and report that their brother, the Rev. Samuel Benjamin, is much improved in his health, with prospects excellent for complete recovery. Grandfather H. M. Babb has lately quit the hotel business at Kentland, -find has purchased property in Remington, where lie proposes to end his days, which we hope may be many. The fine old gentleman was in Rensselaer over Sunday. Mack Caldwell, of Mount Airy, has just bought out the interests of James B. Givens in the saloon in the Nowles block, and will apply for a saloon license at the June term. Mr. Givens expects to go to Westville, in LaPorte county. Another Lawyer. -r Mr. AY. L. Rude, with his family, has just moved into Mrs. N. E. Spitler’s house, on Cornelia street. He has t lately come from Warsaw, Mo., although lie is a native of Morgan county, this state, and has lived there most; of his life. He is a lawyer by profession. MonoU) an exceedingly busy town, located 12 miles north of Monticello, is somewhat torn up, caused by the discovery of strong evidences of coal oil. An expert from Pennsylvania has been operating there for some days past, and is so encouraged by the result of his experiments that' he has started for Oil City for a complete supply of machinery to further liis investigation. —[Rochester Republican . All for Carpenter. —The people of Carpenter township not Only favor putting their own resiinto office but they stand by them when they get them there. As evidence we cite the - fact that all the marriage licenses yet issued by the new circuit clerk, Mr. Irwin, four in number, have 'all been to parties belonging in Carpenter township. The last of the four (Was issued Monday and authorized tlie marriage of James dowry and Katie O’Conor. Both the parties live in Remington. Orange Judd, Editor of the American AgiiiculTuist for some | thirty years, but not connected with I its business mauageinent for a j year or two past,, has lately retired i from its editorial department and I located in the West He desires :to gather a complete “Postal- ! Card Album” of his old Readers I and Friends, and requests them all ito send him now a Postal giving : their present location and address, ! naming also, when convenient, the | years in which they were ' his subj scribers. Mr. Judd’s addreks is; ; Chicago, Illinois, ' I A Broom Brigade.— A “broom 1 brigade” has been organized in ; Rensselaer and l is receiving daily ! instruction from their competent drill-mistress, Mrs. J. P. Dunlap, 1 every afternoon in the Opera j House. The male portion of the community need not break for the -tall timber-bn- - reading this—announcement, for tlie intentions of the ladies organizing the brigade j are entirely peaceful. An enter- ; tainpient ri to be given at the • Opera* House on the evening of May 30th, and the broom brigade is to be among the attractions, i There will also tu literary exericises, ice cream, andothei interesting features at the entertainment.

Mr. Madiau H. Appleby, lately from Kossville, this state, is also studying law in the office of Thompson & Bro., in this place. R. S. Dwiggins will preach at the Christian church, next Sunday at half past ten oclock a. nr., cm the subject: “Shall Gentiles keep tire Sabbath day.” All are envited. We are informed upon pretty good authority that Mr. J. A. Lambom, of Carpenter township, will not be a candidate for county Treasurer. Wm. Davis, at Monticello, on Saturday, was Found guilty of black-mail upon Wm. H. Hamelle. and sentenced to the penitentiary for six years. On the first trial Ire UAr>mvcil only fiv» years. Motion has again been made for a new trial. "The funeral of Johir Yeoman, whose death at Silver Cliff, Colo., was mentioned last wock, was hold at the Presbyterian church last Sunday afternoon. It was attended by a very large congregation; the Rev. B. F. Ferguson preaching the sermon. The remains were buried in the Makeever cemetery, west of town. A Good Residence . —Mr. John C. Chilcote has the frame-erected for ihe largest and best residence yet begun in Rensselaer this spring, on the.site of his former dwelling, on Weston street It will he a good sized and handsome building containing some nine rooms, and will add much to the architectural appearance of his part of town. Little People but a Big Surprise.—Some twenty or twentyfive of the school children frie.ids of Miss Lille Bartoo, the teacher, gave her a pleasant surprise party, -at her room s on D ivision s treet, last Saturday evening. They “spoke pieces”, sung songs, ate nuts, candies and oranges, and had an enjoyable time generally. A Bad Cut.— Mrs. Henry Platt, while inspecting the work on her new residence, on Division Street, last AYednesday evening, had the misfortune to cut her hand, very badly, on a sharp nail. The cut was on the back ot the hand, between the second and Ihird fingers, and severed an artery. The flow of blood was, of course, very great, and had not prompt measures been adopted to arrest it, she would have soon bled to death. Dr. Hartsell, who dressed the cut, reports that it is doing excellently. The officers of the Jasper County Sunday School Union intend to hold Union meetings of all the Sunday schools. The first of these meeting will be held at the Methodist church at half past two o’clock next Sunday. It is very desirable that all churclr members, all Sunday school scholars and everybody else attend this first meeting. Come out and let us have a genuine revival of the Sunday school interest in both the town and county. R. S. Dwiggins, Pres’t. > Miss. A. AY. Osborne, Sec’y.