Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1885 — NEWS AND PERSONALS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS AND PERSONALS.

N. M. Wen rick, of Jordan tp., has a new daughter, born Nov., 6; Beautiful Box Stationery and Letter pads at F. B. Meyer’s. Sam Nichols, the night operator, has moved into Thea,-Jordan’s house, on Main street. A full line of Scarlet all Wool Ladies’ Underwear at Ellis & Murray’s. Chicken cholera prevented by the use of Haas, Rog and Poultry remedy. F. B- Meyer, sole agent. John Makeever shipped two car loads of cattle to Chicago, Monday night. You will be sorry if you buy a cloak, before you look, and get prices at Ellis & Murray’s 'Dr, Washburn’s family are happy in the possession of a fine new ten pound boy. Born Wednesday night of last week. - > .■ Mr. J. J. Eiglesbach, the jolly meat-market man has a new daughter. Born last Thursday morning.

W. W. Watson has been building an addition to his house on River street. He will occupy his house this week. The ladies of the F. W. Baptist church are preparing to give a supper on the evening of Dec., 3rd for the purpose of assisting in buying a bell for the church. Since Leopold reduced his prices, on all his Diy Goods, Clothing, Boots and Shoes, below all competition his goods go off like hot cakes.

All persons indebted to us by note or otherwise, will please call and settle. We need our money, and must have it. N. Warner & Sons. The SIO,OOO damage suit against the L. N. A. &C. railroad,by Mrs. Bennett for the loss of her .husband, was taken to Benton county by the Company, on chftnge of venue. Union Thanksgiving services will be held at the F. W. Baptist church at 10:30 a. m. next Thursday. The Rev- D. Handley preaching, and Rev- Dwiggins and Ferguson, assisting in services John B. Carson, general manager of the L. N. A. & C., went to Philadelphia to attend the funerfd of John McCullough, the great actor, of whom he was an ardent admirer.

Li Dr. I. C. Kelley has opened a branch dental office m Monon, to which place he will go every Tuesday. He is talking of getting another man to help him in his office in Rensselaer, and of opening branch offices in Medaryville and DeMotte. i t- - ■

Hog cholera is reported from various portions of the county. F. B. Meyer has been sole and exclusive agent for Haas’ Hog and Poultry remedy, that was rdvertised in this paper last season, and reports that it proved successful in every case where used. Save your hogs and chickens, by using it. F. B - Meyer, sole and exclusive agent. r -

Special Invitation. —Every body is respectfully invited to call and price my goods, and I will guarantee, that out of every 25 customers, 24 will be bound to buy of me, as I have reduced my entire stock to such prices that my customers are bound to purchase of me unless they have mbney to throw away. I mean business, and am bound to get, by the above method," new friends- Don’t be misled, but come at once and convince yourselves of the truth of this Statement Very respectfully.

A. Leopold,

Chicago Grocery. Bev. Ferguson will preach at the F. Vi. Babtist church next Sunday morning.

The best 3-for 25c., Toilet Soap in the land, at F. B. Meyer’s drugstore.

Bed Comforts and Blankets cheaper than ever at Ellis & Murray’s.

Miss Etta Spitler is teaching school in Milroy tp.* Miss Etta is one of the last graduates' of the Rensselaer High school. Fowler & Vannatta, of Lafayette, have been very successful in taking premiums at the great stock show, in Chicago.

It is a notorious fact that Leopold gives the greatest bargains of any other house in town. Call and examine for yourself. Do not be deceived. F- BMeyer sells School Books and other standard books as cheap as anybody, and has a very large stock to select frpm. -IJie ladj whose place Miss Lydia Paris has been supplying in the Attica schools, has recovered her health, and resumed her position, and Miss Paris will return to Be n s s el aer ===========

Z. T. Hatfield,"of Michigan City, the “Old Reliable” plan o tuner, gives notice that he will be in Rensselaet for a week or ten days, and states that orders for his professional services may be left at The Republican office. He guarantees satisfaction.

Mrs. Sadie Laßue, with the able assistance pf Miss Louisa Platt, will do the trimming in Mrs. LaRue’s Millinery Establishment, this season. As Millinery Artists they have already taken front rank. Ladies, call and see the late wi irter' styles. _W.H. Peters, of La fay et te, who had sued the commissioners of White county for $2,000, his charges for analyzing the bodies of Alva Spencer and Mrs. Schweitzer, who were believed to have been murdered at Monticello about a year ago, Friday received a verdict ■ at Delphi for $450.

Very Particular: —All parties knowing themselves indebted to M'. H. <fc C. Rhoades, either on account or note are requested to call at once and settle, wn do not mean next year—but this, we wish to close onr accounts before Jan., Ist 1886. W. H. <fc. C. Rhoades.

Capt. J M. Wasson, of Marion tp., has been having bad luck with his horses lately. He has already lost two grown horses and one colt, and three other fine young animals are sick in the same way. The disease seems to be something in the nature of inflammation of the stomach.

John F. Stone, the agricultural impliment dealer of Remington, is in hafd luck. In addition to several heavy executions have been collected from him during the last year or two, the late term of court found several judgments against him, aggregating to the large sum of $4,153.17 and a-large amount extra for costs.

Mrs. Catherine Webster, sister of N. W. and Webb Reeve, of this place, died at her home near Kalamazoo, Mich., last Friday, of consumption. She leaves a husband and a young child. The body was sent to this place for burial, and not arriving until Tuesday evening, was taken at once to the cemetery, and buried. The funeral will be held at the Christain church on Sunday Nov., 22,1885, at 10:30 A- M; The services will be conducted by Elder R. 8= Dwiggius. All friends of deceased ate invited to bo protent.

New Chicago Grocery. A daughter was born at Geo. McCarthy’s house, in town, last Tuesday, You should see those all-wool, factory-made Blankets at Ellis <t Murray’s.-

Ellis & Murray are selling Canton Flsimels cheaper than ever before. ,

The wife of President Jordan, of the Indiana State University, died of pneumonia at Bloomington, last Sunday.

Mrs. Dunlap’s silk quilt was drawn at the Court house last evening. Wm- Comer, of Union tp., was the lucky winner.

We are needing money badly and will, sell goods for the next 30 days at cost. Come and buy now. Hemphill & Honan. Mrs. A. Purcupile, Grand Lecturess of the O. E. S. returned Monday night from an official visit to the chapters of Indian apolis and Richmond. The excursion to Chicago yesterday was a success, and Chizum & Bruff are good men for that kind of business. The number of tickets sold at Rensselaer was 45.

The Turpie Bros., of Monon claim that it was mainly the machinations of enemies that caused their financial embarassments. They claim to have assets far in excess of their liabilities.

Fowler & Vanuatta’s sale of Hereford cattle at Dexter Park, Chicago, Friday, realized, about SB,OOO. The principal, purchaser was A. McCoy, of Rensselaer.— Tjufaj/elte Courier. ✓ * ' A new went into effect ’oif'th'ff’ Montffi line Instr Sunday. The principal change is in the afternoon mail train, which now passes Rensselaer at 4:38, or 15 minutes earlier than before.

The big slander suit from the northeastern part of the county of David Linton against Francis M. Hershman was dismissed at the late term of court, by agreement of parties. The alleged slander consisted in Hershman saying, at various times, that Linton had cut down and destroyed about half a mile of wire fence belonging to Hershman.

If you want a bargain in furniture, now is the time to secure it, by calling on W. J. Wright. For spot cash you can get the best bargains ever offered, in the Furniture line, in Jasper county. I mean business. My undertaking line is complete, and prices that defy,* competition. Hearse furnished without extra charge. Willis J. Wright. A recent number of Harpej’s Weekly devotes considerable space to an article descriptive of the magnificent new jDearborn depot, in Chicago. The JleeA/y seems to regard-the depot as one of the. most beautiful and convenient i specimens of depot .architecture I in America. The depot is the! joint property of five railroads, of j which th&L. N. A. <t C. is one.

Capt. Abram Gant, a solid citizen of Wabash county, and Uncle of John L. Gant, the Deputy Sheriff 1 , is about to settle in Jasper county. He will engage in the stock raising business on one of the big Makeever farms, in Newton township, for a fe .v years, with the ultitoate intention of buying a place of his own. Mr. Gant is one of those stealing men whose qualities are a blessing to any commun. ity. He was a gallant soldier in the late war, captain of a company in thd 101st regiment, and during the famous “Match to the Bea” a member of Qw, ShemaM 1 # etoft

New Grocery from Chicago. ■I . • C. D. Nowels is out of business for the time being, having sold his coal business to B. F, Ferguson. Among the most interesting social events of next week will be a “Thanksgivind” dance, at the Opera House Thursday night. W. W. Watson has rented the front room, ove r Mrs. Hemphills millinery shire (the one formerly occupied by The Republican) and has fitted the same up for a law office.

Marriage Licenses :*-Bince last reported the circuit Clerk has issued marriage licenses to the following couples. j Wener Miller, | Maggie Nagel. J William H. Tyler, | Ellen Frame. t JohnKonze, } Alfaretta Jones. j James E. Norris, | Sadie E. Kays.

The Lafayette (omet attempts to work the chestnut of making sport of the “small talk” with which the columns of the average country paper abound. All the same, no country paper could maintain it’s existence long without it. “Small Talk” to a country paper is like the small of salt: “It’s that wliat makes yer victuals taste so bad when it aint in ’em.— Michigan City Enterprise Another splendid addition to the fine stock of Jasper county was made last week, in the purchase at the great stock show, at Chicago, by Mr. A. McCoy, pf a fine herd of blooded Hereford cattle. They were bought of Fowler & Vannata, of Lafayette. The herd consists of 7 cows, 2 calves and 1 bull. They have been taken to McCoy’s farm in Hanging* Grove tp. The price paid is under stood to h ave been in th e neighbor hood of $3,000 for the herd. Major C. C. Bennett,, the crippled old lecturer on the subject of the Sandwich Islands, liafcl but poor luck in Rensselaer. On Thursday night, when he was first ’announced to speak, the weather was so wet that the lecture was postponed till Friday. A small admission fee was charged, and the attendance was very slim. On Saturday night he tried the experiment of giving a free lecture, with a collection at the close, with even worse success, financially, than before.

One of the parties in Monon who felt himself aggrieved by the manner in which The Republican spoke of the prosecution of Mr. Banta, the Monon school superintendent. calle out nttention to the account of the affair given by the Monon Dispatch. That account, which appears to us as a rather one sided statement of the matter, seems to make the prosecution justifiable and proper, but also in- j timates very plainly that improper means were imployed to induce the boy’s father to withdraw - the, prosecution.

I?he Jones women have come back to town, looking well dressed : and prosperous, and on Monday' Dept Sheriff Orlando Yeoman went up to their place and took Mary in custody, on the old milkstealing charge. Mary accepted the prospect of going to jail again with much cheerfulness, but Pet waxed mightily ' wroth over the prospect of seeing her beloved daughter again torn from her material armstand cast into a dungeon, and vented her feelings in a torrent of billingsgate and profanity that turned the air blue. She wound up by declaring that the —— town wasn’t fit for decent women to live in, no how.

School Books and school supplies of all kinds, at KannaPs. Spear Head Plug Tobacco, r-t Kannal’s. Goods at cost, no chestnut, •t; Hemphill & Honan’s Wall paper, new, nobby designs at Kannals’. Moth-proof Carpet paper in stock fft tne Trade Palace. Those “new clocks” at Kanna -i are fide, and he sells them cheap. You can buy Childrens Underwear in union suits, at cost, { t Ellis & Murray’s.

Goods at cost for cash, for ts e next 30 days at Hemphill & Honans’. Once More: —I ask all indebted to me to call and settle at once. N- V. Cleaver. V.'all paper at greatly reduced prices, to make room fcr new stock. Now is the time to buy. F. B- Meer. Save your hogs and chickens. Haas’ hog and poultry remedy will do it. F. B. Mever, Sole agent. „ Hangin g Lamps, Lanterns, Hand and Stand Lamds,fine Stock, beautiful goods, at Frank B. Meyer’s drugstore.

Oh, Say! look here, they are selling goods at cost, for cash, at Hemphill & Honan’s. Call and see them, they mean what they say. It is evident that Leopold means business, and everybody would do weJJ to avail themselves of this opportunity of saving 25 per cent on all goos sold by him. I manufacture my own baking jiowder, and use only the purest of ingredients- Try one pound, you will find a pure article the cheap est. F. B. Meyer. At the new mill, north of the railroad, will be kept on hand a st n ck 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 wall be sohl cheap* but for cash only. All persons knowing themselves indebted to me oh account six months old or over are hereby requested to call and settle at owe. as I can’t do business on promises, so walk in. and adjust and save

costs.

W. J. Wright.