Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1885 — NEWS AND PERSONALS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS AND PERSONALS.

Miss May Miller is visitiug friends in Goodland, this week. Miss Allie Windle, of Wanatah, is staying with relatives in this place. The contractors on Mr. Berry Paris’ new house resumed work, last Thursday. The Hon. pred Hoover has just sold 400 acres of land in Carpenter tp. to Treat Durand, for §IB,OOO. Mr. W,J, Miller,«of Litchfield, Mich., made his brother-sn-law, i A Woodw jrth, a visit last week. Miss Louise Platt was dPwu to Frankfort over Sunday, visiting her old friend, Mrs. Sam Rogers. Sells Brothers big show, which exhibited in Rensselaer a couple of years ago, will be in Lafayette Aug. 4. Henry Eiglesbach has sold his property at Kearney, Neb. and has returned to Rensselaer with his family. He has about concluded to remain here. An.infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs S. H. Duvall, was buried Tuesday. The cause of death was c holer a infan turn. The baby was about two months old. Superintendent Nelson got upon his feet again last Friday, after his attack of cholera morbus, and this week resumed his duties in the Normal Institute. Dr. Washburn took out the first Physician’s License, iff Jasper county, under the new law regu lating the practice of medicine and surgery? Bishop Dw< mger is now at Luzerne, Switzerland, but will return to Rome in August. He does not expect to get home until October. His health is good. On the last Saturday of August, I will hold an examination for admission to Purdue University. D. M. Nelson, Co. Supt. 17-47-St. a . . The democratic leaders of Remington informed Sheriff Yeoman, yesterday, that N. S. Bates had got the post-office at this place. The statewient U#ks confirmation. Miss Alice Irwin has resigned the position of First Primary teacher in the Rensselaer schools, to attend the State Normal next year. The Board has plenty of applications for the vacancy. Miss Lydia Dwiggins lias been elected to teach in a grammar depaitment, in one of the Lafayette schools, during the next school year. Miss Ella Dwiggins will again teach in Oxford. Uncle Tommy Robinson, since, his return from Kansas, wants to sell his farm. He says that if lie can get his price he will play this country a trick the devil never did —he will desert it. Misses Luella Blue and Hattie King, two of Rensselaer’s belles, came down Saturday to visit friends in Brookston and attend camp meeting Sunday. Jim and Ed were correspondingly happy. —Brookston Reporter. The will of a the late Samuel Odom, of Gillam tp., was lately filed for probate. 400 acres of land comprises about all of the estate. It is all willed to the widow as a life estate, with the proviso that if she marries again, the sons will receive two thirds of the estate. Misses Lydia and Amanda Paris have sold out their hotel business at Ree Heights, Dakota, and have left that place. They are now visiting their sister, Airs. W. J. lines, at North Auburn. Neb., but will probably return to Rensselaer within a short time. & A succession of very heavy rain storms passed over locality during the last three days of last week, and the parched earth was thoroughly soaked. The rains were a fine thing for the corn and pasture lands, although many tons of newly cut hay were ruined by them. Mr. M. L. Spitler is of the opinion that the process of hatching chickens with an incubator definitely settles the question of the maternity of the chickens, as between the hen that lays the egg, and the one that does the hatch' ing, ih favor of the one that lays the egg. He thinks that the nearest relationship to the chicken tllat can be claimed by an incubator man. is that of step-father; v

Miss Frank G. Pym, of Cambridge City, the new teacher for the 2nd Grammar Department, attended the regular monthly teachers’ examination, last Saturday- ; A fire in Moses Solomon’s residence, in Remington, was promptly extinguished by the hand fire engine, owned by that town. A band fire engine is a good WBys ahead of ho fire engine at all. Card of Thanks:— We desire to express our thanks to the kind friends who assisted us in our sad bereavement. We feel very grateful to. all. F. P. and A. M. Bitters. | Mr. R. H. Yeoman reports that he has sold twenty-nine Empire mowers and binders, since June 2Gth. Mr. Yeoman has been a liberal advertiser during the seajsptv which largely accounts for j his success., Chaa. Coen, a couple of miles or so north of town, lias the most i land to the acre of any man in | this part of the country. In a ; well now being made at his house, lit was 180 feet through the dirt I down to the rock. J —Born>—ln Barkley |to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Gray son/ | July lgth, a sffn. In Marion tp./ to Mr. and Mrs. Shelby Grant/ July 22nd, a son. To Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Kohler, July 26 th, a daughter. Auditor Robinson has been laid by the heels, by rheumatism, jin the back, for about two weeks. During most of that time he has been entirely unable to rise from his bed. He is now considerably | better, though not able to be out. It is reported that Mr. J. W. Roberts, lately with Thompson & Bro., of this place, has the promise of a position as assistant or deputy, under Mr. Hoover, the newly appointed agent to the Osage Indians, in Indian Territory. Despite the excessive heat, the Summer Normal continues to flourish in a most gratifying maimer. The attendance luas increased to fifty this week; and all, seem to take hold of the work of the luaTfijite with commendable zeal. - C The “huckleberry’' crop is reported very slim this season,. Around the Walker ton marshes, there will not be more than one eighth of a crop, we are informed. Consequently, we presume, there will be less “sheol” raised down there by the followers of the “Huckleberry Queen” this year. Now that the Governor has issued his proclamation declaring the laws passed last winter to>be in fierce, the übiquitous English sparrow is an out-law, and his “head is forfeit to the first tile that falls”—if it hits him, which is not likely. Dr. Washburn is uttering dire threats of poisoning the little villiaus a little later in the season. “ The Chicago & Gt. Southern has placed six “Eyetalians” on Alfred Oleson’s section, and Oleson now has his duties complicated bj' having to shout: “Giovana Inferno Solferno, you maccaroni chawing son of a Bologna sausage, catch hold of that shovelo and tampo upon this tyo.” There are two hundred extra laborers engaged in ballasting the entire line.—Oxford Tribune. The Presbyterian and Free Will Baptist Sunday schools pooled their , issues last Thursday, and with many other friends, went out to C. D. Stackhouse’s grove, a few miles north of town, for a picnic. They were fixed for having a splendid time, but the heavy and long continued rain-storms of that day spoiled the picnic and drove the picnicers into Mr. Stackhouse’s residence for shelter. The ram was too wet for even the Baptist portion of thecompany to enjoy. Dr. and Mrs. F. P. Bitters have had the sad misfortune to lose their infant son, Frank Chalcy. The death occured last Saturday morning, the disease being cholera infantnm. The littl e fellow had been showing symptoms of the dread disease for some weeks, but was seriously sick for only about two days. His age was only eleven weeks’? The funeral was held on the evening of the same day £of the death. Thu afflicted young parents have the heartfelt sympathy of. all, in the loss of this their only child-

The Logansport Journal reports that work on the new insane asylum at that city, is in good progressIf the party who took the fine lap-robe from the carriage, in the rea,r of Roberts Bros, shop, will return the same, all will be well, but if not, look out for the law. - • L— —~—i ... Prof. Reubelt has rented Mr. E.. L. Clark’s house, on Van Rensselaer street, near his residence. The Prof, has a wife and three children, and expects to go after them Friday night, and on his return next week to set up housekeeping. J. M. Hodshire, Stone Mason, and Bricklayer. All kinds of brick and stone work, m town and country, done promptly and satisfactorily. Special attention given to cistern building. Residence south end of Yan Rensselaer St., Rensselaer,'’lnd. 17-47-ts. Mr. H. C. Henkle, better known in this vicinity as Coke Henkle, formerly a well known resident of this place, but later connected with a bank at Wichita, Kansas, was lately married, at Topeka, Kan., to Miss Rose Cox, a teacher of Wichita. Coke has many firm friends in this community, who will heartily wish him joy in his new relation. - Mrs. Sarah Jane Greenfield, wiie of Jesse Greenfield, died at her home in Hutchinson,, Kan., July 18th. The cause of ffer death was an internal cancer, from which she had suffered great agony for six months. Mrs. Greenfield, whose maiden name was Warne, and her husband were for many years residents of this vicinity, where they still have many relatives and hosts of friends. July Licenses. —The Circuit Clerk has nearly concluded to tbrow the marriage license record into the waste basket; so little use has he had for it since the heated term began. Only thiee licenses have been issued in July. Th,e parties are as follows: j Jim C. McColly, 4 Lillie M. HalL . ( John E. Deer, j Louisa M. Warren. j Geo. M. Stoudt, > -L l Ella M. Pettit. ■ v - .... ■■* : ... ; t: : Z Large swarms of Grasshoppers are reported as doing considerable damage in different parts of the county. Their cheif depredation consists in attacking the standing oats and cutting off the grama. Some fields in Jordan tp. .are reported to have been damaged to the extent of 15 or 20 bushels to the acre. In the east part of Marion tp., we hear of fields that have suffered’to the extent of two or three bushels to the acre. In the southern end of the county the hoppers are also r eported to be quite numerous. The heavy volume of smoke that was observed rising upward at a certain point west of town, last Thursday, during the thunder storm, came from a burning stack of hay, belonging to Mr. John Brown, situated on the faUu belonging to .Jonathan Peacock. It had been set on fire by a stroke of lightning, and was entirely destroyed. Several other stacks were standing near, and would also have been burned but for the prompt exertions of John Kohler, the brick-yard man, and bis corps of bauds. Mr. Peacock, who gives us the above facts, requests us to express for,him his sincere thanks, to Air., Kohler and his men, for their efficient aid. \ Farmers and all others having the care of horses, should exercise great care to not overwork them this hot weather, as it is a pretty easy matter to entirely use up a spirited horse, during such weather as this. The Fowler papers report several fine horses killed in that county by overheating, and it is more than likely that the valuable horses lately lost by Alessrs. Collins and Parkinson, in the vicinity of Pleasant Ridge, were overworked in the hot weatner. But in numberless cases where horses are not killed or injured permanently by hard working or driving in hot weather* they are com pelled to undergo a vast amount of needless suffering, which no man with right feelings should be willing to inflict.