Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1885 — NEWS AND PERSONALS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS AND PERSONALS.

Alfred Hoover has been worse tli,e past few days. Watehes and clocks repaired and work warranted at Kannal’s. Jim Morgan has commenced the erection of a Tonsorial Hall next Perch pile’s "restaurant. v Farmers.— Leave your orders for fruit trees with “Turkey Joe” <4 Allen Catt.

Plymouth Rock and'Black Leghorn eggs for sale at 50 cents per setting. I. B. Washburn. Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Sears, now at Braideptown, Florida, intend to start for home to-day, the 14th. Farmers notice the advertisement of the Home Nursery, located at Champaign, Illinois. 1 mo. Mrs. Wm, Comer of Newton tp., died Saturday of abscess of the lungs, after an illness of over one year.

B. h. Ferguson is the man who ADVANCES .the PRICE OF GRAIN. Farmers should patronize him with what they have to sell. Elmer Dwigginp has thrown up his position in the bank at Attica, and, for the present, is staying with his friends in Rensselaer. Geo. Brown and Wm. Daniels, of Barkley township, are pushing the work of building. The frames of botn their houses are up. The teachers of Jasper county should aid in making the excursion to Crawfordsville, Friday, June sth a success. See notice in another column.

Dr. I. C. Eelley is also intending to build a commodious residence this spring!. We understand that he intends to build a single two-story upright, to which his present building will be attached as a wing. The Rev. B. F. Ferguson will preach at the F. W. Baptist church next Sunday evening. There will be no other religious services in toAvn that evening we understand, and a general invitation to attend this meeting, is extended. Elder D. T. Halstead announced in his sermon last Sunday, in the Church of God, that probably next Sunday’s sermon would be the last time he would* fill a regular appointment in the church. We understand the Elder thinks strongly of moving to Dakota. Father Zumbuelte tells us that the pair of out-landish looking fellows that went through town and out to the Catholic farm a week ago last Sunday, ware Arabs from Palestine. They wore red turbans and stockings, and baggy trousers. They were Catholic in religion and were selling beads &c. They went to Remington the next day, and from there journeyed Westward.

Drs! W. H. & G. W. Thompson, assisted by Drs. Jones and McCanlas, of Medaryvilie, on Thursday of last week amputated the limb of Mrs. Charles Rux, near San Pierre, the lady who was accidentally shot by her newly married husband some days ago. Tbe limb was taken off just below the knee, and at last accounts the lady was doing well. — Winomac Republican,

The new corporation officers assumed their offices at the special meeting of the Town Board, last Monday night; John Q. Alter is an excellent, energetic and most straight-forward man, and will, doubtless, make a good Marshal. T, J. McCoy, the rustling young councilman from Jhe Fifth ward, is just the ih,an needed to put vim and energy into the somewhat slow’-going Town Council; while everybody knows that E. L. Clark is one of the safest and wisest men for places requiring fidelity, experience and discretion that could be found anywhere.

The carelessness of some people is astonishing. The following letter, mailed at tiie Rensselaer postoffice, reached us the other day: “Mr Editor,. Please send my papar to Corbitt, Ford Co., Kansas.”

And that was all. Of course we have no way of determining who wrote the letter, and in the course of h few tveeks we shall probably receive a wrathful letter! from “Corbitt, Ford Co., Kansas,” asking why in we don’t send tbftt wptr Recording ft orders

Elias Griswold has sold his farm to Alfred Collins. Wall paper, window shades and window fixtures, at Kannal’s. j Mbs. Frank Osborn of Barkley township, is on the sick list Those “new clocks” at Kannal’s are fine, and he sells them cheap. , Found:— rMoney saved by buy" ing at the new Millinery Store of Mbs. JT. Wilson’s. Miss Anna Hinkle, who was teaching the North Lawn school, in Barkley township, is sick. Miss Lillian, daughter of Clem Timmons, of Pleasant Ridge, died suddenly on Saturday last. Farmers. —Refer to Granville Moody as to the responsibility of the “Home Nursery.” A daughter at the house of J. C. Shindler, iu Newton township, last Sunday. Lovers of Fruit. Secoro a few of the Mallory’s Red Russian and the Robinson, of “Turkey Joe” and the “Catt.” 1 mo.

Mr. and Mrs. A. Purcupile reached this place, from their winter’s stay iu the east, last Friday. # Buy the best of Fruit Trees, and in doing so leave your orders with “Turkey Joe”. Satisfaction guaranteed. Babies —At the homes of Dr. F. P. Bitters, S. B. Coen, Pet«r Kessenger of Rensselaer, Wm. Stevenson of Barkley township.

House to Rent. —In the rear of Citizens’ Bank, suitable for dwelling or a business house. Call on S. Haley. The Authorities ought to have the town cleaned up; who knows but there is a cholera genu lurking in some of the piles of dirt. We hear that B. F. Ferguson has bought R. S. Dwiggins’ brick house, on Division street. The one now occupied by C. C. Sigler.

Mrs. W. W. Watson came back from Missouri, Monday. She expects to pass the summer here, we are informed. The- Ladies’ Industrial Society, of the M. E. church, will meet at the residence of Mrs. Sheriff Yeoman, next Wednesday afternoon. The Town Board of Trustees at a special meeting, reduced the levy for taxes for the next year, fifteen cents on each one hundred dollars.

Geo. Brewer, of Medaryvilie, has filed an affidavit against Wm. Dolliver for manslaughter in the cause of Zach. Letter man. — Ifuia,mtic Republican. • Fulton county continues to hold the championship for the greatest number of divorces, in proportion to population. There are ten applications for divorce - now pending in the Circuit Court, at Rochester.

Tho Nickel Concert did not come off last Sunday night, owing to the fact that many of those prominent in its management desired to be present at the wedding at Mr. Wright’s place. The concert is said to be indefinitely postponed. -

G. E. Marshall, editor, is off to Michigan on a big law, suit, his wife and her sister are off to Remington on a big visit, and his Sand Ridge brother, bald headed foreman and the devil, are holding the fort, denying all alligations and defying the alligators. L. Nay Wheeler, representative of the Indianapolis Sunday Sentinel, visited our town this week, looking after its interests and preparing a write up of Rensselaer. The paper is an excellent home journal, and has a large corp of correspondents. H. J. Dexter is the agent here.

Trustee Fred Schwankie, of Keener tp., brought a young fellow named Chester Brockway down, and left him at . the poor house. He is more or less demented, but not violently insane. His girl went back on him they say, and that overthrew the wits that were none to strong, at best. The Silver Question is to be thoroughly discussed in the June number of the North American Retime, by Prof. Sumner, Geu. Walker, and Prof. Laughlin—the champions of three great Educational Institutions, viz., Yale the Massachusetts Institute \ of Technology, and Harvard,

And now Dr. F. P. Bitters ijs a happy pappy. It is a ten pound boy and first saiv the light of existence last Saturday evening.