Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1885 — NEWS AND PERSONALS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS AND PERSONALS.

1 Miss Lottie Peacock has lately joined tlie M. E. church, on probation. Largest stock of Milliner goods ever in Rensselaer at Mrs. Sadie Laßue’s. One of the t win babies of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Pay, of Union township, died last Monday night. A complete summary of all the laws enacted by the late Legislature will be found on pne of onr inside pages. James H. Houan,of Delphi, is making his semi-annual visit to his brother, E. P. Honan, of this place. The “Old Reliable” Trade Palace store has a big new advertisement in this issue. Please give it a good reading. Clerk Irwin gives notice of tli9 revocation of the marriage license of John Borham and Oappie D. Sands. The parties live in Kankakee township. Born. —April 16th, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Warren, of Newton tp. A son to Mr. and Mrs. Ed Parcell, of Rensselaer. April 19th, a son to Mr. and Mrs. John Kohler, of Rensselaer. Messers. Richard Sparrow and Chas. W. Newbold, of Monon, and A. R. Rishling, of Lee, were initiated into the A. O. U. W. lodge, of this place, last Monday evening. Rentland Gazette: The sentence of Stitz convicted ou a charge of arson last week, does not give universal satisfaction at Remington, as the people believe he should have been punished more severely. The Goodland Herald is waxing wealthy by announcing candi - dates for Town Marshal. Five citizens of that town have already proclaimed themselves candidates for the office, and the campaign has only just opened. Ex-Sheriff Powell has lately returned home, after an absence of several weeks, during which he has been engaged in the search for the missing Mrs. Harley* of Delphi, going at the request of the unfortunate lady’s afflicted husband. New Store,! New Stock! —The ladies of Jasper county are respectfully invited to call and examine the new stock of Millinery just opened, in the room (lately occupied by Paris Bros. Shoe store) and see the very latest styles and get lowest prices. Mrs. E. Wilson. Rev. Abbett drove over from Mount Airy, Monday morning. He reports his family, including the new boy, as doing well. He also informs us that the new M. E. church, at Mount Airy, was not dedicated at the time appointed in the winter, "owing to bad weather, but the ceremony will take place May 17th, 1885. The magnificent new union depot, on Polk street, Chicago, at the terminus of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway, is now completed, and is soon to be formally opened by a grand banquet. Readers of The Republican who have occasion to go to or from Chicago, over the L., N. A. & C. road, will be glad to learn that the road will hereafter have first class depot privileg es in the city. - Judge Woods in the Federal Court, at Indianapolis, has ordered the removal of Wm. Foster, of Goodland, from the receivership of the Chicago & Great Southern Road and has appointed in his stead, George C. Kimball, of Attica. The change was made on .Jhe grounds that Mr. Foster’s age and failing powers incapacitated him from performing the duties of the position. R. S. Dwiggins and family left Florida on the 15th inst., and will probably reach home about the Ist of May. We are glad to say that a winter’s stay in the sonth has proved very beneficial to Mr. Dwiggins’ health, and that his friends here report him to be quite well. The reports from C. G. Sears are not quite so favorable, although his stay in Florida has, without doubt, been qn advantage to him. x He and Mrs. Sears are still at Braidentown and are not expected home much before Jane Ut, ’

The Progressive Eucfjre club met last Saturday night at the Cotton House. k “Just Look Here Will You,” is the text of F. B. Meyer’s new “ad” oh an other page. a ‘ Mra Dr. Espey, the artist, who was lately in Rensselaer, has opened a studio in Delphi. Marshal Platt has done a big job in good shape, in cleaning up Washington street. Miss Minnie Murphy, of Indi - anapolis, Mrs. Sadie Laßue’s new trimmer, arrived last Tuesday evening. Squire Lorenzo Tinkham, of Wheatfield township, is very sick, with prospects of recovery said to be very doubtful. Services will be held at the Church of God, next Sunday morning, at the usual hour, by the pastor, Elder D. T. Halstead. The L., N. A. & C. people are intending to put the Lafayette Accommodation train on the road again, within a short time, We understand. Elder David Halstead returned home, last Friday, after a trip of several weeks’ duration,'through Dakota. He bought a quarter section of land, near Redfield.

Remington News.—Mr. and Mrs. William Cotton, of Rensselaer, (formerly of this place) and their daughters, Della and Arilla, attended the fuueVal of Miss Ella Cotton, last Thursday. The English sparrows skip and fight, and flirt and flutter about the streets and buildings just as saucily as though the State Legislature had not declared them outlaws and enemies of the human race, whom any man may destroy. Thanks. —We gratefully acknowledge the kindness, charity and sympathy of friends at Oxford and Rensselaer in our bereavement. Mrs. Mary Foltz. Frank 1 oltz. Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Thompson. Kingman County, Kansas, the residence of so many former Jasperites, was visited by a waterspout Tuesday which caused such a sudden and enormous rise in the Ninnescah river at Kingman as resulted in the sweeping away of many houses, and the loss of several lives. Mrs. S. A. Matthews, of bouth Bend, secretary of the Home Missionary Society, of the Northwest Indiana Conference, will deliver a missionary address at the M. E. church, next Sunday morning. She is an able and interesting speaker, and well worthy of a large hearing. - Lost. —On Saturday, April 18, north of Rensselaer, on the road between the new mill and Thos. Monnetts, house, a package containing a lady’s silk finished skirt. The finder will confer a favor by leaving it at The Republican office. A. H. Arnold. The Free Will Baptist Sunday school is meeting with remarkable success. The attendance usually exceeds 100 in number, and several of the classes are so large as to require two teachers. Its hour of meeting, 3 p. m., has mnch in its favor, as it is the only Sunday school in town that meets in the afternoon. The advertisement of Dr. Chase’s New Recipe Book, appears in another column. It is a book that is crowded full of valuable information on every subject which may arise ia the house, the farm, workshop or the office. It certainly seems to us that the person who secures the agency of this valuable book in this section, will not only have a gobd chance to make money, but will be doing a good service to community. At Idaville, in White county, on Monday of last week, an old man named Rudolph Kepfer, 70 or 75 years of age, committed suicide by shooting in the head. He had been patronizing the Idaville saloon pretty regularly, for some weeks, and on the Friday previous had a personal difficulty with a nian named Kistler. On Saturday a constable went to his house to arrest him, and was thrust in the side by a pitchfork, and quite severely wounded. On Monday morning on being assured by a justice that he would have to be tried for his acts, he went to his room and shot himself, as above stated.

Miss Jepnie Gant, one of Union townships best teachers, is quite sick. John Yeoman, son of the sheriff, concluded his siz month’s term of school at DeMotte, Keener tp., last week. Johnny Green concluded his term of school, at Pleasant Valley, Keener tp., last Friday, and returned home the same day. Mrs. Nellie Learning has just bought Lyman Zea’s house, near the creamery. Lyman has already begun work on a new house. Mrs. Wm Comer, of Newton tp., is so bad with abscess of the lungs, that her friends say she is liable to die at any time. James Erwin has progressed so far in the dental art under Dr. Kelley’s instruction, that he ‘can extract a tooth, root, branches and tail feathers. Mrs. S.chanlaub, daughter ot William Bissenden of this place, is dangerously sick of a .fever, at her home west of Rensselaer, just over the line in Newton county’. The past winter has been a hard one for prairie chickens and quails. The quails, especially, are just abouti obliterated and the merry whistle of “Bob White” is no longer heard in the land.

A remonstance is in circulation In the northern part of the county asking the Goyenoy pot to grant the petition for the commutation of Wartner’s sentence. It is being very largely signed. Mr. Val Seib has just completed extensive improvements in his house and grounds, on River street, in the line of papering rooms, draining grounds &c. He and Mrs. Seib will set up housekeeping this week. We know we can please you as we have just received our spring stock and have one of the best trimmers from Griffith Bros. Wholesale millinery establishment of Ihdianapolis, call and see goods & prices. Mrs. Sadie Laßue. Treasurer Alter received a cheek Monday, from the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago railroad for $2223,23, the same being the first installment of taxes for the current year. The first installment of taxes against the Pan-handle road was $1837,81, and against the “Three I” road was sßll,lO. Saturday was a big day for taxpaying. Treasurer Alter, with all his regular and special force were kept busy until 10 o clock at night, receiving money, and making out receipts for taxes. Upwards of $4,500, of taxes was paid during the day, of which amount over SI,OOO was in county orders and road receipts. Superintendent Nelson went to Indianapolis last Friday to attend a meeting of the executive committee of the State Teachers Association, of which he has the honor of being a member. The committee mwle the necessary preliminary arrangements for the next meeting of the Association, which ia to be during Holiday week, next December.

S. S.r'Barnes, of Fowler, son-in-law of Simon Phillips, the Poor Farm Superintendent, passed Sunday in this place, and returned to Fowler Monday, taking with him his wife and his sister, who have been staying with Mr. Phillips, while Mr. Barnes has been making an extensive prospecting tour through the south and west. He has visited Florida, Louisiana, Texas and Kansas, and thinks of removing to the first named state, in the fall. Cyrus Foltz, whose mortal sickness was mention in last week’s Republican, died at Oxford on Sunday, at 11 o’clock, at the age of fifty-three years and about six mouths. Funeral services were held at the residence at 1 O’clock, Monday, and the body was then brought to Rensselaer for_ burial, reaching here on the 5:18 p. m. train. From the . train the funeral proceeded at once to Weston cemetery, where the burial services were conducted by the Rev. T. C. Webster, in the presence of quite a large company composed of mends from- Oxford and this place. Mr. Foltz leaves a wife and two children, a son and a daughter, the latter being the wife of S. P. Thompson, Esq., of this plaoe.