Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1886 — NEWS AND PERSONALS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS AND PERSONALS.

John Chamberlain has moved back into his own house, on siver street. 1 D. F. Yeoman removed to Kansas, last week, and will settle near Greensburg in JSdwards county. The remains of the late Judge Huff, of Monticello, were taken to Lafayette for burial. Miss Libbie Walton, of this place, and her sister, Mrs. Jouvenat, of Chicago, have gone to Knoxville, Tenn., to visit relatives. A five-yeaf-old daughter of the Rev. J. H. Cissel, now of College Avenue M. E. church, Greencastle, died of scarlet fever, on the 3rd inst.

Maggie Wright 13| years old and a former resident of Remington, was lately married in a western state to a man of 40 years and 400 acres. Go west, young womens Go west! L. K. Yeoman has sold his farm, near Pleasant Ridge, to B. F. Robinson, anc| intends going to Kansas next month. We understand that Jas. A. Yeoman, also, will probably go to that state soon.

The widow of the late Alonzo Pride, of Hanging Grove township, has just received $2,000 from the A. O. U. W. grand lodge of Indiana. Mr. Pride, when he died, was a member of the Rensselaer Lodge, of the Workmen.

Nightly meetings are now baing held in the M. E. church, with a good attendance, and an increasing interest. Communion services will be held at the church, next Sunday morning. S. E. Yeoman united with the church, by letter, last Sunday.

It is stated on what seems to be pretty reliable authority, that Mr. Grant Warner, of N. Warner & Sons, is soon to lead to the Hymeneal alter a prominent River street belle. It is also generally reported that two other River street young ladies ate soon to become brides.

Three of the four couples, whose marriage licenses are published this week, live in Carpenter township, and in two of these three cases the licenses were ordered by telegraph, and forwarded by mail. The other license is for a Union township couple, William Hochbaum, alias “Muskrat Bill” and Anna Pauli.

The disposition to get married, which has always been strongly prevalent on River street, has now actually assumed an epidemic form, and is very contagious. Two young ladies living on that street are to be married next week, two others within a short time, and if rumor is not badly off, two of the most prominent young men on the street will take wives before many months have passed away.

Another big railroad mortgage was filed for record in the Record er’s office, in this county, last Friday. It is for ten million dollars, (or almost three times the entire assessed valuation of Jasper county.) It is given by the Louisa ville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Company, and is in favor of the Farmers’ Loan and Trust Co., of New York, and John H. Barker, of Michigan City. The mortgage will cover about twenty pages of the mortgage record. Francis Phelps, of Jordan township, who was mulcted last week, by the Ciicuit court, in the snmtff S2OOO, for alienating and debauching the k wif eof Reuben V- Haas, is a bachelor, about 50 years old, and at the time of his moral direlictions was boarding with Haas It is stated that Phelps has absconded, leaving behind him a fide farm, and a Urge amount of per* •9MI property.

W. H. Eger, with N. Warner & Sons, is happy over the of a new boy, born Monday.

For Rent. —200 acres near Marlboro, N. E. 4. 28. 5. Address E. E. Post, Indianapolis, Ind. ts. Mrs: F. M. Oswald and Mrs. E. G. fchnith, of Kentland, Ind., are yisiting the family of Jay W. Williams. Wm. Barkley, formerly of this county, is now post-master , and a prosperous and influential citizen of Okahoma, Kansas.

Drs. Loughridge & Bitters are still deferring removing to their new room in Leopold’s new building, until the paint is tho-oughly dry.

Don’t fail to examine the World’s Encyclopedia of Wonders and Curiosities, when it is presented by the agent, Mr. Payne. It is a valuable and interesting work.

Mrs. Elizabeth Purcupile, State Grand Lecturess of the O. E. S., left on a lecturing tour, Monday night. She will visit Lafayette, Terre Haute, and several other cities. Mr. W, B. Payne is meeting with excellent success in taking oiders for his unique and valuable work, the Worlds Encyclopedia of • uriosities and Wonders, having taken upwards of twenty orders the first week.

County Commissioner, Pitevo and Nichols, met yesterday as County Board of health, with the Secretary, and elected Dr. F. P. Bitters secretary for the present year, provided he would perform the services for SBO.

From the new time table of the L. N. A. & C. Railway, it will be seen that one of the night trains, the through Indianapolis train, has been abandoned. In its place, in the table, we have added the time of the way freight, which addition will, we think, be found a great convenience to such of our readers as have occasion to patronize that train. The changes in the mail trains are but slight

The Presbyterian church is having a season of great prosperity. Last Sunday six new members united with-it Their names are: Mrs. Alice Dunlap and daughter May, Mrs. F. J. Sears, Miss Lizzie Purcupile, Miss Carrie Eger and Mrs. J. H. S. Ellis. The membership of the church is now fifty in in number, and, if a permanent pastor can be secured, for which negotiations are now in progress, several other persons are proposing to unite with it also.

Wesley W. Karsner, now employed on the Dodge City Kan. Live Stock Journal, was married in Dodge City, on New Year’s night, to Miss Emma Warren, a young lady belonging to one of the leading and most wealthy families of that city. The papers there give very flattering accounts of the wedding, and publish also a long list of valuable presents given the young couple, on the occasion. Wesley took his first lessons in the printer’s trade in the Republican office.

Conductor Al Catherwood, of the L. N. A. 4 C., who was disabled in a wreck near Rensselaer, on the 9th day of last February, from which he was laid up six weeks, was treated to a pleasant surprise on Christmas day, when he received a check for $135, With the compliments of John B. Carson and W. R. Woodard. The

company was under no obligation to reimburse Mr. Catherwood for the loss of time, in consequence he feels highly complimented at the way the head officers of the road remembered him Michigan City Dispstsh. '

It is 'announced that Miss Adda Cleaver, youngest daughter of N. V. Cleaver, the hardware dealer, is to be married next Wednesday, the 27th, |o Mr. Q. P, M. Butter, of Denver, Colorado.

A reliable gentleman who has recently talked with Mr. Kimball, of the Chicago & Great Southern, gives it as his opinion that Mr. Kimball favors the Rensselaer route for the LaCrpss extension of the above road, but that Mr. Porter, the chief owper, will be swayed entirely by considerations of the future advantages of the company. The gentleman above referred to states that it is his understanding that the surveying corps who are now surveying the lines from Fair Oaks," will return through the county by way of the Rensselaer route. The southern extension of the road, to Brazil, is being laid at the rate of a mile a day, and when that is completed, the LaCross extension will be pus through with corresponding celerity. The owners of the road are bound to make it first class ip every respect. They have added large quantities of the best of rolling stock, and have ballasted the track in most excellent shape, built good bridges, and fenced it, on both sides, for its entire length.