Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1885 — NEWS AND PERSONALS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS AND PERSONALS.

Prof, and Mrs. Kirsch returned horn Terre Haute and Crawfordville last Friday. Miss Lorena Wilson of Goodland, is visiting Misses Della and Hattie Hopkins. Mrs. Al. Keister, of Jordan tp. has been suffering from a severe attack of epilepsy. An increase of sl£,ooo in the net earnings of the L. N. A. & C. is reported for the month of May. Several tony w eddings are still in prospect, and one or two of them promise to be of a rather sensational character.

Grandmother Chilcote and' her grandson, Fred L. Chilcote, went to Kansas last week to visit friends and on the part of Fred to see the country. * . Mr. J. C. Dunn, of Kankakee tp., was in town Monday. Mr. Dunn is the son of Hie Hon. L D. Dunn, our capable member of the State Legislature. Hon. Ch ns. H. Pf i ce, of Highmore, Dak., delivers the oration at St. Law'rence, Dak., at the Masonic Celebration and Basket Pic-nic, on St. John’s day, June 24th. Mr. Richard Butler, living- near Surrey, advertises his fine farm for sale in this issue of' The Republican. He desires to move to town to spend the balance of his days. Twins. Mrs. Nannie Goat lately gave birth to a pair of fine twins, at her residence in the far corner of ' Halloran’s livery stable. They are most “amoosin little cusses.”

The Indiana County Superintendents Association meets, at Indianapolis, June 29th, and 30. Supt. Nelson, of this county, has been selected to read a paper on the subject, “Some Further Words on Graduation of Schools.” The third annual commencement of the Gillam township public schools will be held at Independence Chapel tomorrow, Friday evening. To judge from the contents of the printed programmes, the occasion will be well worth attending. v _ Mrs. Oscar Tharp, of Newton ,tp.,gbt up from her bed during a late heavy storm 4 to close the windows, and becoming confused in the darkness, she fell down' the stairs and sustained very severe and dangerous injuiies; but she is reported to be recovering now. The W. C. T. U. will meet at Mrs. S. A. Henry’s, June 23rd, at 3 o’clock p. m., to transact important business. All of the members and especially those of 1884, are urgently requested to be present. Rosa Paris, Sec’y.

Last week the Washington county circuit court gave a judgment of §12,000 against the L., N. A. & C. railway company, in favor of Miss Lizzie Woods, who was jerked off a platform, by a conductor, in 1882, and so badly injured as to paralyze the lower part of her body, rendering her entirely helpless. The case will be appealed to the Supreme court. Our neighboring county of Lake is a ripe old field for an unlimited number of able bodied temperance organizations to labor in; to judge from the number of saloon licenses, granted at the June term of Commissioners Court it that county. The number granted was twenty three, which anybody will admit is a pretty large number to be granted at one term in a county of no greater population than I Lake.

The estate of the late George Kannal amounted to about SIOO,000. He left no will, and his property thus goes to his legal heirs. These are his widow, who receives one third, his son Mr. Emmet Kannal, who receives a third, and his grandsons, Louis and George Hollingsworth, who jointly inherit the remaining third, as representatives of their mother, Elizabeth Kannal Hollingsworth, deceased. George Hollingsworth; is still under age, and Mr. Alfred Thompson has been appointed, gjiardian of'hisestate. Mr. Thompson gives bonds for the faithful management of the estate in the sum of §60,000, this sum being, as the latv requires, twice the amount of Valtts of th* property, of which he to guerdiun,

Misses Bertie Yeoman and Nellie Wasson returned from Terre Haute, last Friday. The prospects for crops through out the county in general, are reported to be unusually good. - The L, N. A. & C. are running two accommodation trains daily, between Lafayette and Mitchell. The Rev. D. J. Huston, of Goodl'and performed the marriage ceremony for Miss Frankie Adams and Mi, J. S. Williams. The L. N. A. & C. place# three Pullman parlor cars on the road last week, to run between Louisville and Chicago. An Aultman & Taylor Traction Engine will be sold, by the sheriff on Saturday, June 27th at M. F. Chilcote’s residence, in Rensselaer.

Miss Carrie Winters, who has been the guest of Dr. Washburn’s family for about two weeks, returned to her home at Logansport, Monday morning. Miss Amanda DeHaven, a lady, of Rensselaer, is enjoying a pleasant visit with Idaville friends. —ldaville Independent. The Brookston Reporter says that Ed; Sampson, our night operator, during his recent visits,to Brookston, was suffering from a severe attack of the Blues, contracted at Rensselaer.

A ten horse po ,ver traction engine, Aultman & Taylor,s make, with all the fixtures thereto belonging, will be sold to- the highest bidder, at the residence of M. F. Chilcote Esq. in Rensselaer, pn Saturday, June 27th. Miss Leona Pettit, a teacher in the Goodland schools and Miss Emma Hayworth, of Quaker HUI, Vermillion county, are guests of Miss May Miller, with whom they were formerly “hums” at the State Normal Schools,

The rapid growth of water moss ip the public trough, at the court house well has made such frequent cleaning necessary that Marshal Alter has tried the experiment of eover&g tha’bottom of the trough with lime. It seems to be a good idea. Uncle Sol Wells, of Garrettsville 0., who has been making a protracted visit to relatives in the west, and also the Worlds Fair at New Orleans, after spending a few days with his neice, Mrs. R. H.Purcupiie, started for his home in Ohio, Monday morning. Gaylord H. Chilcote took the 4 o’clock train Monday morning, for Chicago, to accept a position as Solicitor for the Acme Copying Company, of that city. For a week or ten days, for the purpose of being instructed in the business, he will work in the city, after which he will be assigned to duty elsewhere.

On Saturday, June 27th, M. F. Chilcote will sell a fine traction engine, now standing in his barn yard He will also on the same day at Remington, sell a fine Standard engine. These engines were made by the celebrated AutlmanTayler Co., of Mansfield, Ohio, and are first class in every particular. For information about them and tertns of sale see M. F. Chilcote.

H. W. Snyder Esq., of Remington, was in town Monday and Tuesday. His health has long been so poor, that his visits to the county seat are few and far between. Mr. Snyder, in company with Mr. Lock is doing a big business in the blooded horse and hog line, and making scads of money, in spite of occasional runs of bad luck, like that. of last fall when himself and partner lost §2,000 of fine hogs, in two weeks, by the cholera. < - ■ ,! ■: Ike Parsons is perfectly disgusted with the civil service blank forwarded him to fill out before he is eligible to appointment as Pension Inspector. The first question he struck was—-“If a man borrows $19,342,86f at 9 11-16 per cent, interest. payable monthly and principal, interest and » portion of the original investment are compounded with two-thirds of the latter so as to partially settle and renew a second mortgage three months before the former is multiplied by two and divided by a fraction of the whole what color is the man’* hkir whw did the original borrow" tog Journal. , •

Children’s Day will be observed at the Cullen Street Baptist church, next Sunday evening, exercises beginning at 7:30 o'clock The public is‘cordially invited to be present ,-1

To Threshermcn. —B. F. Ferguson has a good, light running horse-power threshing machine, which he will rent for the, season; either for a share of the profits or for cash. Call upon or address him before J uly Ist. 2t. Big Strawberries. —Mr. Norman Warner sent us a box of big strawberries last week, of the Wilson variety, which were from 1 to 14 inches in diameter, and some of the very largest even a little bigger than that, Mr. Warner has found a few berries in his patch that were very nearly two inches through. Married.—At Kokomo, Indiana Thursday, June 11th, 1885, at the residence of the bride’s, sister, Mrs. Byron Haskett, by the Rev, Robt. McCune, Mr. James Ellis, senior partner in the firm of Ellis & Murray, dry-goods dealers, Rensselaer, Ind:., to Miss Jessie Dayhuff, of Kokomo. The happy couple came to Rensselaer Monday morning, of this week and are putting up Hie Makeover House, for the present, but will 1 soon, begin housekeeping in the Hammond house, comer Washington and Weston streets.

As-always is the case after so much very hard freezing as occurred last winter, farmers have no end of trouble with their seed corn. From the reports we have received from all parts of the county, it would seem that at least half of the earlier planted corn fields have had to be replanted, this spring. We hear occasionally of men who have no trouble whatever with their seed corn. If some of these men, will, for the benefit of their brother farmers, write a statement of their manner of keeping the seed, for publication in The Republican they will be doing a good service.

The Traction Esgine that» now in Captain Chilcote’s barn yard, will be sold at Sheriff’s sale, on Saturday, June 27th, 1885, to the highest and best bidder, for cash, or op time, the purchaser giving his note, with approved security, drawing six per cent interest from date, waiving valuation and appraisement laws of the state of Indiana. This engine has been used for about one year only, and is in good order. Those who want a good traction engine, for running a threshing machine, or other purpose, will do well to be present at the sale.

Superintendent Nelson attended the graduation exercises of the schools of Wheatfield township held at Wheatfield school house last Saturday. He reports the exercises as very interesting, and attended by people from all the surrounding townships. The graduates were four in number, their names and subjects of essays being as follows: Andress Crawford, “Reading.” Milroy Sexton, “Thinking and Testing,” Flora Ferrin, “How to Make Home Pleasant.” Rosa Sbortridge; “Education.” All the graduates belong to Wheatfield-tp., except Miss Shortridge, who lives in Keener tp. The diplomas were presented by Miss Tillie Caeon. Mr. Nelson is unstinted in his commendations of the exercises in general, and of the essays, in particular.

The funeral of George Kannal, was pronounced by some who were present, to be the largest in the town for more than 20 years. The number in attendance from the surrounding country, was especially large. The many spacious rooms of the family residence, where the services were held, though packed to their utmost capacity, would not contain more than half of those who were present to show the last tribute of respect to their esteemed townsman. The Rev. B. F. Ferguson conducted the religious services; and Messrs. David Nowels, John Coen, Addison Parkinson, G. H. Brown, Rial Benjamin and A. Purcupile were the pall-bearers. The hearse was followed to the cemetery by a procession of about fifty vehicles. The general management and conduct of the funeral was of the moat admirable character,