Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1885 — NEWS AND PERSONALS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS AND PERSONALS.

Ron. I. D. Dunn, of Tefft, was in town Monday. Spear Head Plug Tobacco, at Kannal’s. The “Linked sweetness long drawn out” of the premium list, will be completed next week, sure. T. J. Farden came from Chicago last Saturday night, after three days spent in buying goods. Jasper Kenton, the man with a broken leg, was taken to his home near Surrey, Tuesday evening. He is doing well. Councilman A. W. Cleveland is fencing his 240 acre farm in Milroy township, and intends to make something out of it as a stotjk range. A very pice lot of evergreens, 3 to 5 feet high, eight varieties, at the low rates of 12 to 20 cents per foot, at the Rensselaer Nursery. : . Mr. Philander Hopkips and family are visiting their numerous relatives here, while on their way from Witoka, Minn., to near Richmond, Va., at which last place they expect to reside. Mr. E. Kannal is preparing to erect a fine new barn at his residence across the river. Its probable cost will be about SI,OOO. It is understood that next year he will put up a fine residence where his present dwelling now stands. Miss Lydia Paris has accepted an offer of a position in the public schools of Attica, to take the place of another lady who retires on account of poor health. She went to Attica Monday, and was accompanied by her sister, Miss Amanda, whose school in Oxford will probably begin next Monday.

Donavin’s Tennesseeans have sung in the city of Chicago 148 nights. The Chicago Evening Journal says: “No Colored Company ever gave as good satisfaction, sang to as many people or filled as long an engagement in this city as have the Tennesseeans.” We are pleased to announce their appearance at the Opera House on Saturday, Oct., 24th. Marriage Licenses:—Since last reported the Circuit Clerk has issued marriage licenses to the following named couples: j Amanzo Thomas, ( May Miller. j James W. Pierce, (Ida A. Coons. ( William Steele, ( Annie Hurley, j Benjamin Geesa, ( Sarah B. Francis,

“If local paper.” writes an old journalist now long out of the business, “happens to tread on jour toes a little in performing its mission, don’t you get your back up and abuse its editor,, but stop and take a good breath and think for a season, and see if you can’t' remember some of the favor's and kindness it has shown you in the past. Then reflect that it may not be long before you want some favorsagain.” The Republican has no trouble in calling to mind several instances in the past, where some of our friends might w,ell have profitted by the above suggestion.

Donavin’s Tenesseeans ■ A new school house in Milroy tp., is nearing completion. Donavin’s Tennesseeans, Oct, 24. Jim McDonald, of Milroy tp., is reported as having a new boy, since last Saturday? A little daughter at the home of A. L. Willis,the gunsmith, since Saturday last. Dr Hartsell has fixed himself out with a sleeping apparatus, and intends to lodge in his office hereafter. Mr. and M l *s- Amanzq Thomas, the “bride and groom” departed for their Minnesota home, last Thursday evening. Ad parties knowing themselves indebted to me ou account of thresh- * ’V ing will please call at once and settle. B. F. Furguson. Everybody should buy their school books and supplies at the P. 0., because you can get just what you want for the least money. F. W. Cole, now of Lafayette, formerly ot Rensselaer, was in town last Friday. He reports business as very dull in the Star City at this time. Seven sons straight running have been born to M l . and Mrs. Joseph Fisher, just north of town. The last, one Monday night, of this week. Joe doesn’t despair of a daughter yet.

A party consisting of Dr. afid Mrs. M. B. Alter, and daughters Ollie and True; Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Starr, and Mr. and Mrs. John L. Nichols, the last of Barkley tp., started for Kansas last Tuesday. They go partly to see the country and partly to visit friends. At the new mill, north of the railroad, foijl be kept on hand a stnck of mill feed, at reasonable prices; also stock of good flour, to exchange for wheat. Bring in your wheat and get good flour. Remember, our feed will be sold cheap, but for cash only. Douavin’s Tennesseeans, who are to appear here soon, is one of the very few Troupes who performed eyery night last season. This is great evidence of popularity, for it was a season in which many of the traveling companies failed to draw audiences sufficiently large to present their There has been another change in the corps of teachers in the Rensselaer Schools. Miss Yantis, teacher of the Second Primary, finding the work too hard for her, there being some seventy pupils in the room, and besides having a position offered her in the schools of Chicago, has resigned, and Mrs. Madge Warren, nee Osborne, has accepted the vacancy, and began teaching last Monday. If there were any practical means ; whereby Jasper county could be tipped up at one side to an angle of about 30 degrees during wet times to let the superfluous water run off, then the necessity of ditches and gravel roads would not be so great, but in the absence of any such means, they have become an absolute and ever increasing necessity.

Mr. Jacob M. Troxell who has been the proprietor of the Eagle Hotel for the past two years, vacates this week. Mr. T. and his amiable family remove to DeMotte a station on the L I. & 1. Railroad I and take with them the well wishes of all. While they have resided in our midst they have endeared themselves to their neighbors and made friends who will always remember them. We are sorry to lose them as citizens, wish it were otherwise but as it is not we wish them happiness and success in their new home.— North Jud ton Bonner.

Saturday night Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Sears returned Tuesday night from a visit with friends in Ohio. Remember* the post-office is the place to buy your schopl books. Those “new clocks” at Kannal’s are fine, and he sells them cheap. A. F. Long, eJerk with F. B. Meyers, the druggist, is in Chicago attending lectures in a school of pharmacy. Mr. Makeever bought a new fire and burglar proof safe in Cincinnati last week, and it was put into the Farmers’ Bank, yesterday. Its cost was S2OO. / That show case, for sale at Mrs. E. Wilson’s, belongs to Miss Babcock, but the new styles of Millinery are Mrs. Wilson’s, and she asks the ladies to call and examine. » The Ladies Literary Society are already making preparations for their annual Thanksgiving entertainment. It promises this year to be the most elaborate and attract! ve ever given by the society. Thomas Toberty, boss of the Goodland gang, on the C. & G. S. was killed last Sunday, while taking a car of posts to Fair Oaks, by falling from the car, and being run over and horribly mangled by the whole train. He leaves a wife and eight children. Another communication upon the subject of the Makeever postmortem appears this week. While we greatly regret that this controversy should have arisen, we see no fair couif-efor The Republican except to give each side a fair chance to express their views, with the hope that no one will say anything which they will afterwards have cause to regret.

A young fellow from Nubbin Ridge was into the Treasurer’s office to pay his taxes a day or two ago. His front name is Samuel, and though he signs it with an x himself, he has his own ideas as to how it ought to be spelled, and when the Deputy Treasurer found it on the duplicate, spelled in the ordinary way, he declared it did not mean him for he always spelled it S-a-m-v-1, Samuel. Like name-sake and prototype, Samuel Weller, he thinks the spelling of a name depends upon the taste of the speller.- - —t —— In the way of putting up new buildings the present year in Rensselaer has been very satisfactory for a dull year, and the same can be said of the county generally. From present indications next year, however, will be even better, at least in the town itself. A list of the men who are reasonably certain of erecting good residences in Rensselaer next year would include the names of C. C. Starr, Emmet Kannal, H. W. Porter, Wm. Eger, Henry Barkley, R. B. Harris, and others whose names escape us.

Mr. I. S. Wade, of Lafayette, a son-in-law by a former wife of Mr. Rial Benjamin, with his wife and children, visited with his friends here over Sunday, and until Tuesday. The report lately published, that Mr. Wade was about to accept a position as local editor on the new democratic paper at Lafayette, is a mistake, as he is doing well in the real-estate business, and intends to continue in the same line. Mr. Wade has seen but little of Rensselaer for the past four years, and is very much struck with the improvements made here during that time, and is very pronounced in the opinion that the town is fairly launched upon a career of permanent prosperity. „ 7

at the Opera House. 1 Miss Ruby Bruce is quite sick of fever. Alvin Clark is putting up a dwelling,-near Lyman Zea’s house north east from the Creamery. Mr. Frazee of Barkley township, is building a comfortable and nice appearing dwelling on his farm. Judge Ward was fifty years old last Tuesday, and a mighty good looking man for his years. Auditor Robinson is just commencing the erection of an extensive addition to his pleasant residence, on River street. The Rev. J. JJ. Cissel, D.D.was in |own a short time Friday evening, visiting Mrs. M. O. Cissel. He is filling his third year in one of the Greencastle Methodist churches. Felix Lester, the man whose unexpected departure was mentioned last week, returned as unexpectedly last Tuesday night. It is reliably stated that he will pot go back to his family, however. I "■ Frank East, of Jordon tp., has been missing for several days, and with him two teams of horses and other portable property. It is probably another instance of a swindler running away from his debts. The erection of Mr. Leopold’s new business building, on Washington street is now nearly completed. The cornice is of zinc, and of an ornamental character, with a heavy arched top piece, upon which is cast in large letters, the name chosen for the building, “Arcade.”

The execution of J ohn W. Coffee for the murder of the McMullens, in January last, took place at Crawfordsville last Friday. Sheriff Yeoman and his son, Orlando, were present. The galiows was patterned after the one erected in Rensselaer last Spring, and the iron portions were made by a Rensselaer blacksmith. The rope used was also a part of the one bought by Sheriff Yeoman, i i anticipation of a similar duty,-at the time above mentioned. The gallows worked perfectly, but as it turned out, the rope was defective, and broke twice, thus making the execution a truly horrible affair.

The Monticello Herald says that many of the * farmers of White county have determined not io permit any quails to be killed on their premises this year. In view of the fact th.t the hard winter weathei of last winter nearly exterminated the merry and harmless “Bob Whites” it surely is a pity to subject them to a ruthless slaughter now. We advise Jasper county farmers to follow the example of their White county brethren, and to save the quails from extinction, if they can. Hunters, also, ought to look at this matter in the same light, and make it a point of honor not to fire at a single quail for at least one year. Give them a chance to multiply and replenish the earth.

James Givens, the saloon and horse man, whose departure was mentioned last week, was arrested last monday at Decatur 111., at the instance of N. V.Cleaver, of this place, and is now in the jail at Lafayette. We have not yet learned the exact charge upon which the arrest was made, but it is understood that Givens was shipping out of the state some horses which were partly the property of Mr. Cleaver, and upon one of which was a mortgage of S2OO. It is said that the matter looks pretty serious for Givens*