Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1884 — NEWS AND PERSONALS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS AND PERSONALS.

Notice oiiv new Time Table. It is a daisy; A Summer Normal will beheld in Gillam township this year, as per notice given elsewhere. S. P. Thompson attended court at Fowler the greater part of last week, v. He officiated ffe judge in several cases. “Band of Hope” Entertainment at the Opera Hoyse to-morrow night. See programme in the W. C. T. U. column. Victor Loughridge had a runaway Tuesday evening, with the results of a bruised and battered body and a badly broken buggy. The Piev. Peter Hinds, of this place, has accepted a call to preach for the Baptist people, at Mount Airy, every alternate Sunday, for one year. Elder D. T. Halstead returned Tuesday morning from Dundee, in the eastern part of the state, where he was holding a series of meetings for the last two weeks. Dr. Owens, the erratic homeopathic physician, who formerly practiced in this place, was located at Las Angelos, California, at last accounts. The new train makes goocf connections for points oh the Chicago & Gt. Southern road. People can go to Oxford, Attica, &c„ and return the same day, verj easily. Miss Ella Dwiggins returned to her liome in Jasper county, Tuesday. Miss Dwiggihs has been very successful with her school work in Oxford. —[Oxford Tribune. At The Church of H. V. Reed, of Chicago, will be in Rensselaer over Sunday and will hold services at the Cliiireli of God on Saturday evening and on Sunday, morning and evening. The largest gun in the United States was cast at the South Boston Iron AYoiks Wednesday of last week. It is thirty feet long, weighs 212,000 pounds, coot $28,000, and will throw a ball sii miles.

An excursion train, of some kind passed north over the railroad, at a very early hour Sunday morning, and returned late in the evening, having spent the day in Chico go. There were five loaded coaches in the train. The west abutment for the new bridge is now Completed and is a fine, substantial looking piece of stone-work that looks as though it would “stand the racket”. Work on the east abutment is going forward at a rapid rate. •. ■

Mr. Ben Smoot has gone; South to look for a location more likely to agree with his health, than does Northern Indiana. He was in Hancock county, this state,, at last accounts, but expected to go to Tennessee, in a short time. Married. —On Thursday, May Bth, 1884, at the residence of the bride’s father, Mr. Holdridge Clark, in Rensselaer, Mr. Zebedee L. Swaim, of Union township, to Miss Ida A. Clark, of this place. The Rev. M. C. Miner officiating. That venerable couple, Mr. arid Mrs. Aleck ttowen, have lately moved into Rensselaer, from their farm in Newton township. They are now occupying Mrs. Cissel’s old residence, on Van Rensselaer street, but are thinking of building a house of their own. An official of the L., N. A. C. railway says that the road will not pass into the hands of the Big Four combination as once contemplated. Thousands of dollars, he says, have been expended this year in improvements and equipments, and the L., N. A. & C. is not for sale. Births: —On Thursday, May Btb, to the wife .of F. W. Babcock Esq., of Rensselaer, a son. On Saturday, May 10th, to the wife of Mr. Frank Luers, of Rensselaer, a son. On Monday, May 11th, to the wife of Mr. Peter Giver, of Rensselaer, a son. On Tuesday, May .6th, to the wife of Mr. Francis LaLin, of Unfjion tp. a daughter. Died- -Clara Belle Castor, daughter pf Win arid A. E. Castor, May fifli, 1 aged 12 8 months and 12 days. She had beqn sipk for nearly a year, dropsy being the cause of her death. ■; The remains were interred on Wednesday in the Crocket cemetery. The fpnerai services were conducted Ly the Rev. M. C. Miner, of Rensselaer.

The 10:36 train of last Sunday nignt was four hours late, having been kept back, at Dyer, by obstruction of the track, caused by the moving of a water-tank, on a flatcar. .... __ Mr. T. E. Willey, now of Long Point, Ark., but formerly of Rensselaer, where he still has many near relatives, is now the Republican candidate for county judge, in his county, with, a fair chance of being elected. ' The G, A. R: post, of this place, will hold Memorial services at the M. E. church on the last Sunday of this month*the lisv. T. C. Webster preaching the sermon. All ex-soldiers* whether they belong to the posi: or not, are earnestly requested io meet with them, at their Post Hall, arid iiiarch to the church. The Rensselaer school house has been protected by lightning rods, since oar last issue. There are four ground rods, and ten or a dozen points, and all connected in one system. 1c there is any virtue at all in lightning rods, the building may surely be considered safe fi om that danger. Some 900 feet of rods have been used, and at a cost of 15 cents per foot. The Broom Brigade,— There . are no privates among the members of the broom brigade, but all are officers of high rank. Like the exConfederates in Congress, --they, are all brigade-dears. The brigade now receive their military instruction from no, less capable a commander than Capt. J. A. Buinhanl. By all accounts they are making splendid progress. Prepared for summer. - Among the improvements that have been, and are being made, to make our city more inhabitable and pleasant, are those that the Purcupiles have made upon their Restaurant and Ice Cream parlors. They have enlarged and beautified their dining room, and their Ice Cieam parlor is handsomely fitted up. New carpet, new tables, new chairs, newly painted and docorated, and new ice cream and cakes ©very day. Now, with Mi& Honor, Esq. R. H. Purcupile in command, how easy it wilLbe to be made comfortable and happy. Yont see, yon can go into their pleasant parlor, order ice cream and cake, the Squire will “tie the knot,” should you desire it, and all be done in fine style, and in good taste.