Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1884 — NEWS AND PERSONALS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS AND PERSONALS.

Mr. Edward Herbert, of Joliet, 111., was the guest of E. S. Woods’ family over Sunday. Miss Fannie Sharp, after jt stay of several months in Joliet, 111., has i eturned to the home of her parents Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Woods, in this place. . The if. E. church people will hold the adjourned session of their qugWtely meeting next Tuesday, at wWb’clock p. m. Presiding Elder Claypool will be present. The Attica Ledger, recently established by ex-Senator Jacob Keiser of Winamac, and a Mr. Atchison? has suspended publication after an existence of six weeks; Mr. Sam Nichols, the night operator at this place has gone to bis home at Medaryville, for a couple of weeks’ rest, and his place is filled by Mr. Ed. Sampson, of Brookston. The Rochester Republican says that the celebration at Kewanna was a grand success, and pronounces Judge Hammond’s oration a fine effort, whiph wds listened to by a large audience. The Baptist people of this place have a donation social next Thursday, at the pastor’s rooms, at the Creamery. This is the first time they have ever called upon our people for assistance in this way, and we hope they will receive a liberal patronage. The Old Soldiers’ Association of of the counties of White, Pulaski, Jasper, Benton and Newton will hold their annual reunion at Monticello on the 23d, 24th and 25th of September. She “ojd soldiers” of that section always have a good time at their annual gatherings and the coming one will be no exception. —[Attica Herald. a Two yoilng meii were drowned in Cedar Lake on July 4th. They had gone out to a “bumboat” or floating saloon, anchored out in the lake, and got drunk, and, setting out to return to shore alone, were in some manner upset, and Inst. Their bodies were subsequently recovered. So much indignation was felt against the keeper of the bumboat that there was much talk of lynching. Mr. Lewis P. Shiver, of Wheatfield township, one nf our many new subscribers by the way, was in town Monday, He reports the prospects for crops in his vicinity still very encouragiug, although by some ill chance they have failed to receive their full share of the summer showers which have been so copious in most parts of the county during the last few weeks Mr. Zimri. Paris, of Bridgewater, Dak., hae been among his relatives and friends ‘here since lapl Saturday- He reports that the . present is . a very, favorable, season in Dakota, and that the emigration to the territory this year, although not so large in numbers as for several, seasons past, is of a more healthy and desirable character, consisting mainly of people with some capital who are able to develope and improve the lands they purchase, and who go to stay.

Ditch Commissioners Alter, Parkison and Randle, accompanied by Attorneys Thompson and Babcock visited the far north-east corner of Jasper county Tuesday, for the purpose of examining the Tritt ditch, in Kankakee township. They speak well for the crop prospects in that locality, and were especially struck with the magnitude and system of Hon. I. D. Dunn’s farming operations. In the item of hay, for instance, he has four mowing machines constantly at work, and expects to put »up 3000 tons of hay, dming the season.

The Remington News claims that Remington was entitled to the soldiers’ reunion this year, and complains that no opportuniny was given for competition, the committee holding a secret meeting and deciding in favor of Monticello. This is a mistake. The members of the committee were notified of the meeting both by letter and publication, and the failure of Jasper county to be represented was alone due to its own negligence. The unkind fling of the Newstat Monticello is uncalled for and not calculated to inspire friendship. With a fair statement of facts we have no fears of a slim attendance of Jasper county soldiers at the .coining reunion.— [Monticello Herald. -

Mrs; E. P. Honan i< visiting Mends in the north-eastern part of the county, for a week or two; Mrs. W. J. Imes took the cars for her home in Franklin, . Neb., yesterday. She has visited with friends in Indiana for about two months. William Seagraves, Sheriff of Starke county, and Democratic nominee for county Treasurer in the same county, died July 7th, after a long illness. Mr. F. L. Cotton, now of Franklin, Neb., came to Rensselaer for a few days’ stay last Thursday. He reports himself as well pleased with his western location. Mrs. C. M. Hopkins, and Mrs. Tom Pritchard, of Kinsey, Kan., are staying with their Itensselaer relatives for a few months, until houses can be erected by thenrespective husbands on their new farms in Kansas. Mum Festival.—A Mum Festival, for the .Jjenefit of the M. E. church will be held at the Opera House this , evening. No admission fee will be charged, apd refreshments will be on sale nt the usuil prices.

I ■ ' 4 ' • A donation sdcial, for the benefit of the Rev. J. W. Stark, pastor of the church, will beheld at his residence, at the Creamery, on Thursday, July 24th, in the afternoon and evening. The public are cordially invited to attend. Refreshments will be served free. Judge Hammond was down to Indianapolis the first of the week, on business. . He will leave on the morning train next, Sunday with his family, for Minneapolis, Minn , where he goes as a delegate from the 10th district, G. A. R., to the National Grand Encampment, which will convene on the 23rd iinst.■ ------—--- - - Down at Oxford, with a colossal display of cheek, worthy of a better cause, the great Fourth of July celebration of the age was advertised. The real celebration was a very ordinary affair and instead of orations from the TL Calkins aud W. D. Owens 'the people were fain to content themselves with the tamer eloquence of Capt. Alexander Rice, of Lafayette. The Grand Army Post at Rensselaer are working up a plan for a cheap excursion to. Chicago, at an early day.. Matters are nbt yet in shape to permit any definite announcement to be made in, regard to it, further than to say that negotiations with the authorities of the railroad are in progress and that they will undoubtedly bo earned gto a successful termination. To Cedar Lake.—The L-> N. A. & C. railway will run a special, low rate excursion train to Cedar Lake, on Sunday, July 27th, 1884. The round trip fare from Monon, Pleasant Ridge and Rensselaer will be one dollar; from Rose Lawn seventy-five cents. The train will pass Rensselaer at 10:32 a. m., and reach Cedar Lake at noon. Returning it will leave Cedar Lake at 7p. m. The train will be handled on time,

The Louisville, New Albany & Chicago railroad has been taken out of the hands of its former old fogy, Southern management, entirely, and is now conducted in a modern, business-like, enterprising manner.. Less than one year ago it was .a distinctively Southren organization, with aIX its chief officers residing in Louisville. Now the president’s office is in New York, the General Manager’s and General Superintendent’s in Chicago, the Superintendent of Transportation’s at Lafayette, and only the General Traffic Manager re-» mains at Louisville. ; The time is not far-distant, we doubt not, when the general offices of the road will all be located in Chicago. In this connection we may properly mention the facts that the company will soon complete the short, but difficult and expensive, line of track between Hammond and the terminus of the Chicago & Western Indiana, of which the L., N. A. & C . is part owner, and that therefore the trains of the latter will soon reach Chicago over its own tracks exclusively. The elegant and commodious new Union Depot now in process of construction, in Chicago, by all the roads which own the Western Indiana, is fast approaching completion, thus assuiing passenger depot facilities equal, to those of any other roads terminafihg there.