Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1884 — NEWS AND PERSONALS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS AND PERSONALS.

Hon. John M. Butler, at Rens - selaer next Tuesday evening. Miss Wilkinson, of Chicago, is the guest of Miss Libbie Walton. The frame of the Free Will Baptist church, on Van Rensselaer street, was raised Tues lay. Mrs. Nellie Learning is visiting her husband’s relatives, at Romney, this state. Mr. F. W. Babcock went over to Kentland, Monday, to attend to some legal business. Mrs. Susan Chilcote, of Fostoria, Ohio, is visiting the families of F. M. and J. p. Chilcote. Mrs. Samuel Rogers and her little daughter, returned to their home in Frankfort Monday, after a two week’s visit with old friends at this place. : Mr. E. H. Tharp was kt town the first of the week, on ms way to Indianapolis and will probably take in the Louisville Exposition before he returns to his place of business, in Chicago. The new union passenger depot, at ( jthe terminus of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago railway, on Polk street, in Chicago, is fast approaching completion, and will ,be a spacious and elegant struc- ■ ture. I I Mr. Ci F. Wren, our ex-Staticn Agent, started on an extended | western tour yesterday. He will 'go through Kansas, Colorado, and ■ probably New Mexico and Utah, j before he returns. He hopes to J strike a good position as a station agent, somewhere in the West. The town has lately boen pretty thoroughly “billed” for the next 1 annual reunion of The ex-soldiers of Jasper, Newton, Benton, Pulaski and White counties. The reunioii will be held at Monticello this year on the 23rd, 24th, and 25th of this month. Mr. D. Jv* Thompson returned from his annual camping out in Northern Michigan, last Friday evening, after an absence of about six wefeltk He reports a very pleasant time, and that his physical man has been greatly benefitted by his sojourn i.i the wildwodd. Mr. AV. W. Watsdn has been assigned to duty, as special Examiner in the Pension Buretta, in Missouri, with his headquarters at Chilecothe, in that state. In addition to his regular salary of $1,600, he receives liberal allowances for traveling and other necessary expenses. $ Virgil Verne, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Henkle, died last Monday morning, of some disease of the brain, we are informed. The funeral took place Tuesday forenoon, and was conducted by Rev. B. F. Ferguson. The child was something over three months bld at the time of its death. There is no citizen too exalted to feel above owning land in Jasper county. A tract in Union township is still held in the name of James A. Garfield, and Mrs. Garfield pays the taxes upon the same. Postmaster General Gresham owns 160 acres in Wheatfield township, -and -Gererner—Oerter holds 60 acres in Walker. The rest of the townships &fe yet to be heard from.

The Hon. John M. Butler, the author of that grand speech we | sent out in pur last week’s sup- • plement, will speak in Rensselaer (next Tuesday evening. He is rhe isenior partner in the law firm of 1 which the best 'democrat in Indiana, ex-Senator McDonald, is a member. He is not orfiy one of the greatest lawyers in the state, ‘but one of our very ablest orators. ! Come and lie ar him if you have •to drive 20 miles to do it. i" . ' i We took in tiie Inter-State InI mistrial Exposition at Chicago, past Friday, and 'are“fi;ed to say I that we look upon it<s a splendid j exhibition. A\ e have seen many iof its predecessors in the same i building, and believe this year’s i Exposition to be fully as good as ; any of them, and that is saying a good deal. I’be Art Gallery, as ' always, is one..of the leading features of the Exposition, and many hours may be pleasantly und profitably spent in examining its countless l>eautiful new oil and i water color paintings, and Hie i permanent gallery of fine, | Copies of famous Greek and EomaH statuary.

Mr. W. B; Austin has been made a partiier in the law and land firm of Thompson & Bro. " MARRiED.-On Wednesday, Sept. 10th, by the Rev. T. C- Webster, at his residence, the M. E. parsonage, in Rensselaer, Mr. George Webb and Miss Etta High. Mrs. Elizabeth A. Chilcote, mother of M. F. and J. C. Chilcote, who has been visiting in Michigan and Ohio, for the past two months, returned home on Tuesday. ‘ The Remington Fair managers paid the Rensselaer Cornet Band S7O for music, at their late fair. The managers of the Rensselaer Fair went it on the cheaps, and notwithstanding it was advertised on the fair bills that a good band would be in attendance, “every day,” there was no music at the fair. ~~7“ % Changed Again.—A new agent was placed in charge of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway depot, at this place, last Monday. Mr. AV. T. Treadway is his name, and his former residence was Linden, near Lafayette. A brother of Mr. Treadway takes the place of assistant agent, formerly held by Mr. F. G. Henkle. Our neighboring town of Monon at last has a newspaper. The Monon Dispatch is its name and the first number was issued last week. It is a five column quarto in size and style, and promises fair to be a good local paper. Stokes & Martin ace the proprietors; Mont J. Stokes being editor and business manager, and Chas. E. Martin, publisher. The changes in the church services at the M. E. church, resultthe Rensselaer charge having been made a station, has made a change in the hour of holding the Sunday school desirable, and it will hereafter be he Id at half past nine o’clock in the morning. Mr. T. J. Farden fills the* place ©f superintendent, left vacant by the removal from town of Mr. W. AY. Watson. Mr. Frank Hengesbach, with a little daughter, started for his old home, Dusseldorf, Germany, last evening. The little girl will not be brought back, but will be lef t with Mr. Hengesbach’s sister, a 1 wealthy Catholic nun. We learn from good authority that Mr. Hengesbach will be largely benefited from a monetary point of view, as a result of his foreign trip, a fact which his many friends will be glad to learn. He will be i away until January or February. The* Republican will follow him across the wide waters and keep him informed of the course of events in his Indiana home.

In the absolute absenc.e of any means for fighting firefi, in this place, every precaution to prevent them should be taken by all onr citizens. Especially is this the case during the dry, windy weather often prevailing in the fall I • months. There have been days 1 during the present w'eek when a 1 fire, if it broke out in certain lo- j calities would, be almost certain j jto make a clean sweep oi the whole business portion of the. town arid probably a good deal ; ' besides. Our town could illy as- ; ■ ford to meet such a calamity as, j that and too much caution cannot, !be exercised by property owners ' ' in guarding against fires. |'■ .- - '' ’ ’- ■ < j Our ex-Circuit Clerk, C. H. I Price, has just been appointed I i Judge of Hyde county, Dakota, 1 i and has entered upon the dis- • charge oFthe duties of the posiI tion. Mr. Price’s niany friends in ! this county will be glad to hear of j Iris good fortune, and- more es- • pecially as the appointment was ; not soughLfor nor expected. In this connection we take the liberty of making a quotation from a letter lately written by Judge Price to a friend in this place. We quote from the letter: “Do you remember what the bov who went West wrote to his father in the East? It was this: ‘Come West, Father, as soon as you can; some d—n mean men get into office out hear, and you will stand a good chance.’ Mr. Price is not of the class above spoken of, Hout quite the contrary, but he is an , joker.