Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1884 — NEWS AND PERSONALS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS AND PERSONALS.

Cover their graves with flowers. A heavy frost last night, bat no great damage reported, except to garden truck. • Mr. P. H. Williams, of Peoria, 111., is visiting his nephew, Jay W. Williams. Mrs. W. J. lines, now of North An bum, Neb., is visiting her parents, and other friends in this vicinity. ~r

Ira Gay “monkeyed with a buzz-saw,” at Perkins creamery last weeks and lost the ends of two of liis fingers. Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Honan gave a pleasant party in honor of Miss Emma McCormick, last Friday evening. The Drill Corps of the K. of P. lodge is arranging for an exhibition drill and festival on Friday evening, June 13th. The Spring Trotting Meeting, at Chicago, begins the same day as the Republican Convention, June 3rd, and continues five days.

Married. —At Rensselaer, Ind., May 21st, 1884, by the Rev. M. Zumbuelte, Mr. John Lonorgan to Miss Norah Murphy, both of Rensselaer. Some of the passenger locomotives dti the Lij N. A. & G-rail-load have been fitted with steamboat Whistles; lately, and their deep, silllen loar sounds strangely to unaebustdihed bars. Dr. Hartsell ititends, within a few days, to move his office upstairs into Makeever’s new building, over the vacant business room therein. H« will use two rooms, and be well situated.

Messrs. S. P. Thompson and F. VV. Babcock went down to Kentland to attend court the first of the week. ML Thompson went thence to Indianapolis to look after a case in the supreme court, Next Monday.— The Circuit court, the Commissioners’ court, the Board of Equalization and the Grand Jury, will all meet next Monday. The latter body is likely to have considerable business, it is whifJpeted. Until further notice the Rev. J. W. Stark will hold religidus services at the Mission dry Baptist church in this place, every Sunday evening in the month and every Sunday morning except the 2nd and 4th of each month.

A successful donation party met at the hoiise of the Rev, T. C. Webster, Tuesday evening. A pleasant time was enjoyed by the guests, atid many substantial tokens of*tlieir good will left to cheer the Hearts of the parson and his family. ' Miss Almira Moimett, of this place, is an artist of much ability, as the matiy of our citizens who have seen , the large display of pictures, of her own painting, at her rooms at the Makeever house, will bear witness. She has just finished a life size portrait, in oil, of Miss Della Hull, of Bucyrus, Ohio. The picture was on exhibition in Hemphill & Honan’s store room for several days, last week, and attracted much admirihg attention.

A Baptist Minister. —The Rev. J. W. Stark, late of the Baptist Theological Seminary, at Morgan Park, 111., has accepted a ealj from the Baptist congregation of this place and will remain with them for at least three months. Hiiiiself and wife will, for the present, occupy rooms in Perkin’s Creamery building. His appointment in Rensselaer will be for every Sabbath evening, and every Sabbath moving except the 2nd and 4th in every Iponth, upon which days he will preach, in the morning, at Mount Airy.

DiEjn:— At his home in Gillam township, May 25,1854, Mr. James Nash; in the 72nd year of his ag‘e. , Mr. Nash was born in North Carolina, but come to the Northern states ah soon as. he was of .Rge. S married to M. G. Keesling, \ came to the vicinity of „ ville, in 1850, and a few years later moved into Gillam tp. die was a mAh of good morals, unexceptional honesty, a member of the M. E church, and a kind husband and ,Esther. He leaves a wife and teh children to mdtim their loss. L.

Decoration Day, to-mdrrow. liet the whole afternoon be devoted to |he memory of our patriot dead. A public entertainment will be given at the Opera House, by the Rensselaer schools, on Friday evening, of next week. On account of Decoration Day the Rensselaer post-office will be closed to-morrow from noon till 4 o’clock p. m. All places of business should be be closed during the same hours.

Testimonials of Sharp’s Grub and Stump Extractor will be found in another place. We saw the machine at work out in the “bush” last week, and are free to say that it is a “ripper”, and we believe it to be a good thing for the purpose for which it is manufactured. The Court Docket.—The Republican job printing office has just printed the bar docket, for the June term of the circuit court, which'meets next Monday. There are but twenty-one new civil cases on the docket this term, one new ditch case, and nine new state cases.

Mr. M. F. Chilcote, of Rensselaer, was in Fowler yeslerday and made us a pleasant call. Mr. Chilcote will probably be placed before the Judicial convention as a candidate for Judge. He is a lawyer of experience and ability and no doubt wo’d make an able and upright Judge.—*[Fowlel: Era. Births:— May 16th, to Mr. and Mrs. Wash. Cook, Hanging Grove townfehip, a son. May 18th, to Mr. and Mrs. Chas. W. Bussell, Hanging Grove tp., a son, ahd a big one, 11 pounds. May 25th, to Mr. and Mrs. H. I. Adams, Jordan township, a son, 10 pounder.

The stone-work on the new bridge was completed last Thursday, and the contractors and workmen thereon have departed. The abutments look like good, substantial pieces of masonry, and those whom we take to be good judges in such matters assure us that the work is as good as it looks. Mrs. Esther McCurtain, a former resident of this county, who died in Newton county last week at nearly 84 years of age, Was the mother of 13 children, 7 of whom still live, and at the time of her death she had fifty-nine living grandchildren and forty-six living great-grandchildren.

Miss Bertha Funston concluded her term of school at Pleasant Grove-, in Barkley township, last Friday, and Miss Lizzie Funston will finish her term at Canada, in the same township, next Friday. Both the young ladies intend to start fbi: Kansas, to join their father’s family, on June 3rd, The memorial services at the M. E. church, last Sunday, were attended by a congregation which fijlfed the building to its utmost capacity. The Rev. W ebster preached a powerful and appropriate sermon, and the singing of the choir whs largely of a patriotic character. The G. A. R. Post attended the services in a body.

A Birthday. —Squire Clark Me Colly, of Union township, reached hii. 66th birthday on May 24th, and the occasion was celebrated by a surprise party of large dimensions. Nearly one hundred persons being present, from the townships of Union, Barkley and Marion. Among other features of the affair was the presentation of a fine, rocking chair to the old gentleman.

Board of Equalization.— The county Board of Equalization meets, next Monday. The board, as now constituted is made up of the three county commissioners, members ex-officio, and the fol-j lowing gentlemen appointed by i Judge Ward;, dames Yeoman, of Newtoh township, Thomas H. Robinson, of Gillam township, Lewis Rich, of Wheatfield township and Henry Marsh, of Carpenter township, -P \ Mr. M. O. Halloran Indianapolis, last night, on his way home from Cincinnati; and from Indianapolis to Lafayette, he was in the company of M. F» Chiicote, who visited the. Green-back convention, yesterday, and e<\ that Butler had the bulge, „All hi# followers wore (silver spoons for badges. ,

The iron for the new bridge has arrived. Price & Price, Attorneys at law, is the name and style of a new firm which hhs just open6(l in business at Highmore, Hyde county, Dakota. The members of the firm are none other than our former fellow townsmen, 0. H. and Titus E, Price. They have no lack of good wishes for- their success in their old home. Judge Hammond has been invited to deliver the Fourth of July oration at Kewanna in Fulton county and as we understand Has accepted the invitation. Many members of the Judge’s old regiment live in that vicinity and the judge feels naturally a strong inclination to meet again his old war companions.

The town council of Remington is now quietly swearing over the failure of a sure remedy for putting out fires. A gentleman selling some bottled fire extinguisher succeeded in selling the town dads of that place a number of bottles, and one night last week they gave the stuff a trial. Building a lively fire of boards and boxes they proceeded to throw on the extinguishing liquid, which was supposed to possess the qualities to put out the fire at one. - But the more liquid they ptii on the fiercer the fire burned, find the last bottle assisted the fire in consuming the last binder. The town board is now lookifig foi- somebody to take the Contract of kicking them the balance of the fiscal year.—[Goodland Herald.

When the roof of the Presbyterian church was repaired, a few months ago, the grouod connection of the lightning rod upon the building was taken down and has naver been replaced, and now the rod extends from the top of the spire down to and along the roof a few feet, and there “breaks off short.” It certainly looks to be as fine a chance for a streak of lightning to “raise thunder as need be. It may be that the good brethren of the church take the same view of this matter as did ascertain honest old dutchman, in a case We have heard of, A church to which he belonged had just erected a new house of worship, and the question whether it shoiild have a lightningrod was up for settlement, and the old dutchman took the ground that, inasmuch as the congregation had been to a vast amount of labor Afid expense to erect the building for the Lord, and if, after that, he was willing to “dunder down his own building, I say let him dunder den.”

Marriage Licenses —Since last reported Clerk Irwin has issued marriage licenses to the following named couples; j James CloWiy, Jr.', \ Katie O’Conner. \ Ida A. Clafck. \ Chas. W. Lowe, ( Ada Gray. • •* j John Eohorgan, 1 Noi'ah Murphy.