Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1884 — NEWS AND PERSONALS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS AND PERSONALS.

Festival at the Presbyterian church to-morrow (Friday) evening. Ice cream, Strawberries and cake. Mrs. S. J. Austin returned, last Saturday, from her several months stay with her relatives at Bridgeport, Conn. Mr. Frank Eaker, of Chicago was the guest of his sister, Miss Rosa, with F. J. Sears, oyer Decoration Day, and Sunday. The Ladies’ Missionary society of the M. E. church, will meet at the home of Mrs. Jay W. Williams, on Division street, next Saturday afternoon.

Mrs. Charles Taliman and children, of Syracuse, N. Y., came in on the 7 p. m. train, Tuesday evening, for a short visit with her father, Mr. G. B. Con well. Mr. Erastus Peacock went tn Indianapolis, Monday evening, as representative of the Rensselaer lodge to the Grand lodge of the Knights of Pythias, which met Tuesday. Married.— On Friday, May 30, 1884, at the Auditor’s office, in the court house at Rensselaer, Inti., by the Rev. T. C. Webster, Mr. James K. Spencer to Miss Lacy Ann Foulks. A destructive hurrycane (kurieane) passed through Butcher Woods’ back yard, one evening last week, destroying all the fence on the north side. The other damage was slight. The quarterly conference for the Northern Indiana district of the Church of God meets this week at Antioch, Marshall comity. Elders Halstead and Dwiggins, of this place, will attend.

A Slip of the Pen. —Our statement week that the school entertainment would take place in the evening was a mistake. It will be held to-morrow afternoon, in the Operd House. No admission fee will bo charged. The ladies of the i Presbyterian Industrial Society will give a supper, - T Jf T>a 6th, 1884, at the church. "Tee cream, Strawberrif% and Cake,, will be served. to be used for the building of),a fence on the north side of the church. It was stated last week in the Indianapolis Journal that a change in the time table of the L., N. A. & C. railway was to have gone into effect last Sunday, and that the new express train would make its daily round trip to Chicago from Crawfordsville, instead of Lafayette, but the changes have not been made nor is it likely that they will, it is said.

There is some prospect of a wedding in town next Sunday, as a young man from Carpenter township wrote to Clerk Irwin asking him if he could fit him out with a liceuse on that day. The obliging Irwin comforted the ypußg mail’s anxious ‘ soul with the assurance that he was ready to issue marriage licenses on any day of the week, and at nil hours ois the day, from four hours before moon-rise on Sunday morning til thirteen o’c lock Saturday night. CmbuiT Court.— Judge Ward came from Rentlaud Saturday eveinng r ... Court was opened Monday raonpug axfd the grand jury organized and set to work. In view of th§ small amoun tof business upon the docket the judge then acceded to the general wishes of the bar and adjouriied the court uutil Friday, when he will be present to receive the report of the grand jury. Of the latter body, all of the original, panel, as published last week, were present, except Nelson Anderson, who is not in the county. Holdvige Clark, of Eensselaer, was drawn to fill the vacancy. > ’• A Red-Cross knight in g’earring armor, with blazoned shield and yellow mantle floating wide, astride >a gaylv caparisoned war steed from John Lonorgan’s livery stable, cavorted wildly through the streets, last *Friday morning, distribat ng largesse among the waiting people in the shape bf diminutive nuggets of plug tobacco, of a particular brand, W ere it possible to believe that any mercenary motive ever found a lodgement iu the heart of so noble a kuigbt as he appeared to be, we shonlil he itMdluedJp M?t the whole allitif d'twn as an iage.iiwa.:. rMverlisiufl vtlieiiic'.

Public Entertainment, given by the Rensselaer schools, at the Opera House, tomorrow afternoon. Two county commissioners must be elected next November, to fill the places no occupied by Hons. Waynaire and Erevo. The Town Board made provision for an ornamental iron fence for the school grounds, at their meeting Monday night. Mrs. Dr. Ensminger, formerly Miss Ttidie Austin, of Crawfordsville, is visiting friends and relatives in this place. Young Earl Reynolds, of this place, is now train boy on the new Lafayette and Great Southern express train, on the L., N. A. & C. railroad. “He is a good one.

Mrs. Margaret Boothe, a venerable lady from Sardinia, Decatur county, this state, is at the home of M. F. Chiicote, Esq., the guest' of her sister, Mrs. Hannah H. Hammond. Mr. VV. I. Florence, of the law firm of Florence Bros., Delphi, was in Rensselaer and vicinity last week, having just returned from a rather extended trip through Missouri and Kansas. Broken Arm.—A six year old son of L. C. Grant, while after the cow, with an older brother, fell from a gate and broke both bones of his arm above.the wrist Dr. LoUghridge set the firrd, and it is doing well. Reports as to the condition of of the wheat crop throughout the county still continue favorable, iu the main, although some pieces are poor. It is safe to predict a pretty fair crop of wheat in Jasper county, this year.

The graduating class of Marion township for tjlis year will hold their graduating exercises on Friday afternoon, June 13tft>. at Union school.house, five miles northwest from Rensselaer,. The public are invited to be present. Ur. imteipk ..the Recorder, we 9WH recovery of hfs health. The Dr. and Mrs. Aiitrim returned, last Monday morning, from a week’s visit among relatives and friends in the east part of the county. Mr. E. N. Morris, formerly a resident of this state, but for the past two years living in the vicinity of Little River, Kansas, has got his fill of wind and grasshoppers, and returned to end his days m Jasper. He came thrpugh with teams, traveling 800 miles in five weeks.

Sunday Services.—ln the morni ing: By Rev. M. *C. Min er, of the F. W. Baptists, at the Presbyterian church,. In the evening by the Rev. J. W. Stark, at the Baptist church. At the.M. E. church, Children’s Day services, under the auspices of the Sunday School. A new case of filing boxes has lately been put into the Auditor’s office, at the court house, and several other new and necessary articles ot office furniture also. These-, with a general re-arranging of the appointments of the office have added greatly to its convenience both for auditor and county commissioners. At the M. E. church last Sunday morning the Rev. T. C. . Webster preached a sermon in the interest of the various benevolent societies t-of the church; namely, the Missionary society, the Church Exteu- ; sion society, the Freedmeu’s aid society, and the Conference i Claimants society. Afier the serImpn contributions Were solicited and some thirty-five Jol/ars pledged to the various chamtiea above named. v Mr. E. L. Clark’s term of office as School Trustee; > for the school 5 town of Rensselaer, having expired his successor was elected last Monday evening by the Town Board. Mr. Clark is not only a man of ability, high character and intelligence, but he hr,s also, from having s himself been a teacher, a** thorough practical understanding of what is required to make a good school, and Without .intending any disparagement of the excellent and able gentleman who was elected to succeed him, we can but regard his retirement from the office a misfortune to the nci.o > piicr'cA-ts jji the town. ; y ■ .'" 'v . ■