Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1884 — NEWS AND PERSONALS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS AND PERSONALS.

: rJir., and Mrs. S. P. Thompson weht to Chicago Tuesday. Mr.,E. C. Nowels went to Chicago Tuesday to attend the Democratic Convention. Mr. Daniel Jtfuvall is lying very low with consumption, without prospects of surviving more than a few days. „ ' . ’ • The Ladies’ Literary will meet Thursday afterhbon: Jhly 17th, at the residence of Mrs. M. B. Alter. Della Cotton, Secy. The friends of John W. Paris, cashier of the Citizens’ Bdiik, of Attica, will be interestingin learning that he is now the father of a son.

A Colored Camp Meeting will be held at the Rensselaer Fair Grounds, beginning Saturday, July 19th, and continuing ten days. It will be a novel experience to most of ortr people. Messrs, Judge Hammond, S. P. Thoiiipson aiid B- 8. Dwiggins, to Chicago Monday to take id wHHt they could of the preliminary work of the Democratic Convention. The Fifth Annual Report of the Department of Statistics has been received at this office, and is a valuable volume. Any one desiring a copy of the report should address Wm. A. Peele, Jr., Chief of Bureau, at Indianapolis and enclose 15 cents in postage stamps.

Prof. P. H. Kirsch, Superintendent of the Rensselaer schools, returned from hi§ travels last Saturday. He has visited many places in this state during his ab scence, and also Cincinnati, Clevaland and Toledo, in Ohio. Mrs. Kirsch is attending school at Crawfordsville. Basket Meeting.-Iu my grove, at Alter’s Mill, Union township, seven miles northwest from Rensselaer, on July 20th, 1884, at 11 o’clock a. m. and 4 o’clock p. m. Subject: “Is God in his Word and Works?” A ‘Planetarium will be used to represent the Solar System. Material aid will be wanted. Isaac Alter

libb Lfemaster of this vicinity; met with a queer but painful accident at Monon, last week. He was walking Along the street and met a stranger carrying his coat oii his arm, and just as they pwsse.c!, a revolver, t dropped from tiie cijat pocket and was discharged, the ball penetrating Mr. L.’s foot qpd inflicting a painful, |hougb nbt dangerous wound.— f Remington News.

. ..i, The Fourth pf July celebration at DeMotte, id Keener township, was, by all accounts, one of the largest and most successful ever held in Jasper county Col. M. L. DeMotte was the principal orator; and the Rensselaer parties who heard it pronounce it one of the best they ever listened to. M. F. Chilcote and W. L. Rude, of Rensselaer, made good speeches; as did also Rev. L> Shortridge and R. W. Marshall, of Keener. . >3

A SuicibE. —Stewart R. Heath; ad. old resident of Francesville committed suicide, by taking poison, last Saturday. He was a carpenter by profession, and is understood to have been a mail of dissipated habits - He leaves a family of a wife and several children, some of the latter being still young. This is the fourth case of suicide that has occured at' Francesville during the past seven or eight years.

Miss Baljcock wjip has occupied part of Mrs. Larue’s Millinery store finds ,her present quarters too small to accommodate her customers, and will move her stock of Ladies Furnishing goods next Monday; into rhompson’s building, formerly’ occupied by M. O. Cissel, second door west of Mrs. Laßue’s Millinery store, where she hopes to see ail her old customers and many new ones. Almost every person has some form of scrolulouS poison latent in his veins. When this j developes in scrofulous sores,- ulcers, or , eruptions, or takes the form of rheumatism, or organic diseases, the suffering that ensues is terrible beyond description. Hence the gratitude of those who discover, as thousands yearly do, that Ayer's Sarsaparilla will thoroughly etadicato th'3 evil f-om tiie system. >’ •

On July 13th a Basket Meeting, will be held at the Galey Grove, six miles south by west of Rensselaer, by the Rev. S. Bloomer. Mrs. F. C. Loomis, of Chicago, visited her niece, Mrs. H. E. James over Sunday, returning to Chicago Tuesday morning Miss Sarah E. Tarney, of Auburn, this state, has been engaged to teach in one of the departments of the Rensselaer schools, during the ensuing year. The Siiffimer Normal Institute will opeii next Monday. Prof. Kirsch wishes tis to request all who design attending to be present at the first day, if possible. Mrs. H. R. W. Smith and Mr. Ralph jPaxfon, of Cincinnati, are making their regular slimmer's visit at the home of thbit parents, in Newton t]s. Mr. Ellis Walton is receiving a visit from fiis brother; sister and nephew; from Sumner county, Kansas. Their names are S. V. Walton, Charles Walton and Mrs. Martha Burton.

Miss Babcock’s new store will be known “The Ladies’ Bazar.” Call there when you are in town, if for nothing else, but to get some hints how to make an old building into a new. The Hon. R. 8. Dwiggins started for Little Rock, Ark., yesterday, on a business visit. Should He not find the weather too oppressively hot he will make a stay of a couple of weeks, or so, in that state; Kansas and Missouri.

The dbowN Board.—The regular meeting of the Town Board was held last Monday evening. The business disposed of was all of a routine character. A special session will be held at an early day for the purpose of providing for sidewalks at each end of the new bridge on Washington street The Citizens, Bank of Attica, was last week reorganized as a state bank, with a capital of SSO, 000. Among the stockholder we notice the names of |R. 8. Dwiggins, of Rensselaer; Z. Dwiggins, of Oxford, J. W. Parris and Jay Dwiggins, of Attica. j( Z. Dwiggins is president of the bank and J. W. Paris, CashieE

By request of the President of Purdue University I will hold an examination for admission to that University in connection with the regular monthly examinations of teachers on the last Saturday of July and August. Those wishing to pass should ndtify jaie on or before the 15th of the month. D. M. Nelson, County Supt.

To The “Potter's field.”— James D. Clark died at the residence of Joseph Coons, northeast of town; last Monday, and on Wednesday morning was privately buried in the strangers’ comer, in Weston Cemetry. The cause of his death was obstruction and inflammation of the bowels, and his illness was of very qhort duration. He, with his fppijly and two teams was moving some place in Missouri to the vicinity of Three Rivers, Michigan.

Ladies of Rensselaer and Jasper county, I expect ; to move by stock of Ladies Furnishing goods on the 16th iust, into Thompson’s building, two doors weqt of Mrs. La Rue’s millinery store; when I will have room to keep a greater variety of goods than yet carried. Among other things will hava a variety of cheap laces, lace curtains, bedspreads and pillow shams. Please call and sae me in my new store. Yours Respectfully. M ollie W. B abcock. •, l-S •• A New Church.—lt may how be announced as a settled fact that the Free Will Baptist people will erect a church building this year, on their lots near the new school house. The amount subscribed exceeded SIOOO last Saturday and with the energetic ahd persuasive ; promotion of the Rev. Miner was increasing fast. The buiding will be of wood, and cost about $1500., and be oominodious and ' tasteful we have no doubt Work l on it will probably begin in about i a month. The subscription list i'M headed by<the name of Daniel Daugherty, who givek the magnificent sum of SSUO.. 8. C. Ham- | inond comes next with SIOO.