Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1885 — NEWS AND PERSONALS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS AND PERSONALS.

Friends of The Republican are requested to call upon us in our new location. The frame of the Barkley tp. M. E. Chapel was raised last Saturday. It is located near H. A. Barkley's. An Aultman & Taylor Traction Engine will be sold, by the sheriff on Saturday, June 27th at M. F. Chiicote’s residence, in Rensselaer. Miss Anna Des Elms of Gillam township, has just returned from a year’s teaching in Philander Smith College, at Little Rock Ark. Eger & Smith have the contract for building Berry Pari’s residence near the Perkins Creamery. The contract price is a little above $1,500.

S. T. Warren, the Assessor of Marion tp., and little daughter, are now visiting friends and seeing the country, at Ivearney Neb. They left) hero on the 11th inst. Post Chancellor Geo. M. Robinson, has been appointed District Deputy/ Grand Chancellor, by Grand Chancellor H. H. Francis in the ibvder of Knights of Pythias. , Mai/ried. —At the Catholic in Rensselaer, Ind., on Tuesday, June 23rd, by Rev. Father Zumbuelte, Mr. Frank Mingus aud Miss Millie Seible, botl l of Rensselaer. M. A. Hester, a graduate of Du Pauw University, and lately a teacher in Illinois, was in town looking up the chances ffir the superintendeucy of the Rensselaer schools.

VA ten horse po ver traction engine, Aultnmn & 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, on Saturday, June 27th. Dr. Hart sell returned from his two weeks’business and pleasure visit in -Nebraska, last Saturday evening. He reports a very pleasant time, and that he run on to quite a number of old Jasperites, during his absence.

Marriage Licensee since labt reported: ( James N. Tanner, l Florence Hinkle, ) Frank Minikus, j Millie Seible. ' Basket Meeting. —We are requested to announce that a Basket Meeting will be held at Barkley Center, in Barkley township, next Sunday, June 28th, conducted by Eider Hennegar, of Francesville. Services at 10:30 A. M. and 3 P. M. The Grant School, Miss Ida Coons, teacher, just west of town, closed its spring term, last Friday with a big picnic, and a good time generally. Among the large number of guests present, some 80 in number, was Miss Ruby Bruce with her whole school, the Watson. The good health which Mr. Dwiggins brought back with him from Florida, has failed so fast since he came back, that he has again found it necessary to try a change of climate. This time he goes to his old health resort Petosky, at the head of Lake Michigan. The newly married couples, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Warren and Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Ellis, have set up housekeeping. Mr. aud Mrs. Wanen in their house at the south end of Cullen street, and Mr. and Mrs. Ellis in the house on the corner of Weston and Washington streets.

The Executive Committee of the Soldiers’ Reunion Association has again selected Monticello as the place for the next reunion. August 15, 26, and 27 are the days chosen for the reunion. The Association now embraces seven counties, Cass and Carroll having lately uuited with it. -■ r The Republican office, has been moved into its new* quarters, corner of Washington and Weston streets, since our last issue. To remove the multitudinous articles in a printing office is a pretty (large undertaking, and requires mufch time ."and labor, and our readers will for that reason, doubtless, be reaily to grant us their indulgence if the paper is not quite up to its usual standard I this week, in the extent of news j and other matters.

BaiJkl'T Meeting. —There will be services in the grove near Center .school house, Barkley township, nest Sunday, Jinne 28, morning and afternoon. Elder Wm H. Hennegar* of Francesville, will conduct the meeting. All are invited to attend, bringing their well filled baskets. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Thompson have gone to. Ann Harbor, Mich., to witness the commencement exercises of the Michigan University, and to be present at the graduation from the University of their son and daughter, Delos and Miss Ora, who this year complete their course there. The £# Mouon Route”( Louisville, Mew- Albany & Chicago Railway,) will seM excursion tickets at Half Ratea on July 3d and 4th. These tickets will be good to return untii July tith inclusi ve,-and-caa be-pur-cliased between all stations except between Chicago and Indianapolis, Chicago and Louisville and Chicago and New Albany. 2t. JChe Panorama of the Battle of Gettysburg, on exhibition in Chicago, is considered by everybody the greatest attraction oE the Garden Grty. It is visited daily by hundreds of people, and everybody says'it is the greatest exhibition they ever saw. We can only say that nobody should fail to visit it while fn Chicago. ts.

Lucian Massey, of Jasper county, was trading at a small store in Winamac, on Tuesday, and carelessly left a twenty-dollar bill on the counter. He had not gone more than- a square away when he thought of the bill and returning to get it was informed that he had loft no money there. Somebody’s s2oahead.-‘-Winamac Journal. The afternoon mail train was two hours late, Tuesday, and ran like Sancho to make up what it could of its lost time. For instance the run between Crawfordsville and Rensselaer, a distance of 72 miles, was made in 2 hours and 20 minutes. Allowing 40 for stops, which is not, too much, gives a running rate of about 42 miles an hour.

The spirit of improvement now so strongly prevalent m Rensselear, seems to have spread over the com&y, geneially; aud we hear of many new house and barns being built, and others extensively repaired. The new residences, in Barkley township, of Wm. Daniels and Geo. H. Brown Jr. r now erecting, will be among the finest country residences in the county. The last quarterly meeting of the present Conference year of the M. E. Church of Rensselaer, will be held on next Saturday and Sabbath. Presiding Elder Claypeol will preach on Saturday evening, Quarterly Conference, at 6:30 {(o'clock Saturday evening The Quarterly Conference far Rensselaer circuit will meet at 2| o t clock the same day. The rains of last Friday nignt caused a general suspension of farm work, in this vicinity, and as a result the. country people were all at liberty to come to town on Saturday, and they availed themselves of the opportunity to such an extent that in the afternoon th e streets and stores were crowded in a manner seldom witnessed, except on some great public occasions. On Saturday, June 27tb, M. F. Chilcote will sell a fine traction engine, now standing in his barn yard. Ho will also on the same day at Remington, sell a fine Stan dard 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 terms of sale see M. F. Chilcote. A

A venerable lady, Mrs. Elizabeth McLaughlin, quietly breathed her last at the residence or her son-in-law, Mr. Henry Fisher, last Monday morning. The cause of her death was old age, and general failure of the vital powers. She has been a resident of Rensselaer but a short time, having come to this place, from Indianapolis on May 12 last. She was among the oldest residents of Indianapolis liaviDg lived in that city since 1823. age was 80 years and about six .months. The funeral was held at Mr. Fisher’s residence, Tuesday. The Rev. Geo. Havens a Life-time friend and associate, preaching the sermon.

The new postal rates go info effect July Ist. People will still have to pay two cents on a single letter, but they will not have to pay double rates on all letters that happen to be a little larger than common. f To Threshebmen—B. F. Ferguson has a good, light running horse-power threshing machine, wliidh he will rent for the season: either for a share of tlid profits or for cash. Call upon or address him before July Ist. 2t. Mr. C. W. Slieppy, of Crawfordsville, was in town Tuesday night, as an applicant for the position of Superintendent of the Rensselaer schools, made vacant by the acceptance by Prof. Kirsch, of a position in Franklin. Mr. Slieppy is a native of Crawfordville and educated at Wabash College, in that city. For- the last four years he has been teaching in Illinois. Mr. and Mrs- Philip Blue, the pleasant host and hostess of the Makeever House, with 'their little daughter, Pearl, started for Kansas and- Nebraska, for a two weeks absence, jesterday morning. Their principal object in making the jourrfey is to visit friends, especially Mr. Blue's aged father, who resides with a son, at Norton, Kansas. The old gentleman is 85 years old, but still hale and hearty;

The Romney mob case, on change of venue from Tippecanoe county, will be tried (luring a special term of the. Circuit court at Fowler next Tuesday. Judge E. P. Hammond as special Judge, will preside in the case, a very large number of witnesses will be present besides the array of parties interested in the case, and the eminent counsel. If the case “goes of” some interesting court scenes may be expected.—Fowler Era. —An exchange gives a no/el method of clearing out rats from the premises. It says: “Shut up a number of rats in a cage together and. leave them without food. Ih process of of time they will eat each other, until all but one are eaten, and he may be let loose. He has got stjch a love for his cannibal diet that in a very short space of time he will clear your premises; and then in the end take himself off in search of fresh fields and pasture*.”

We have in our hands an interesting article upon the early history oLßensselaer, a subject to which we have already lately devoted much space, but which is of so much interest to nearly all readers of this piper, that we have no present fear of wearing it out. The author is John C. Van Rensselaer, the only man living who is able to speak, from bis own knowledge, of all the facts iu the very earliest days of the town. The article will be published at an early day. Improvements. Dr. Kelley’s new house is making good, progress.—A. Leopold is repainting his residence, on Front Street.— W. W. Retve’s improvements to his house are complete —The addition to Uncle David Nowel’s brick house is about complete.— Work on S. P. Thompson’s big brick residence, is still proceeding vigorously.—The foundation walls of Berry . Pari’s house are about finished; — The Republican’s new building, corner of Waseington and Weston streets, is nearly completed.

The Traction Engine that is now in Captain Chilcote’s barn yard, will be sold at Sheriffs sale, on Saturday, June 27th, 1885, to the highest and best bidder, for cash, or on 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* Avoid by .ail means the calomel for bilious complaints. Ayer's Cathartic PiUs compounded entirely ot vegetable ingredients, have been tested for forty years and are kQOWledffed to be the, bett remedy aver devised for torpidity i f the liver, costiveness, and. all derangements of digestive apparatus. .