Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1886 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

Miss Emma Wigmore, of Monticello,, is visiting friends in Rens-i selaer. ’ X For Coal for Thjleshing Purposes call at J. C- Porter’ssCoal Yard. Miss Lucy Healey is Lome after an extended visit in Delphi and Lafayette. q Three brick business buildings are now in process of erection in Rensselaer. Miss Sallie Hogan, of Kentland, is the guest of Mrs. E. P. Honan, on Front street. Born.—Monday evening, J uly 12th, to Mr. and Mrs. Sam Duvall, a 10 pound daughter. Miss of Terre Haute, is the guest of Mr. Alfred Thompson’s people. '

Miss Hattie Hopkins went to Indianapolis last week, to make an extended visit to friends./ } Frank Foltz, of spent the 4th in Oxford. Frank Is looking well and Tribune. . Mr. Kilmer, of Kewaunee, Fulton county, visited his daughter, Mrs. Geo. Grauel, the latter part of last week.

The W. C. T. U. will hold its next meeting on, Friday of this week, at the residence of Mrs. La Rue, on River street. Elder R. 8. Dwiggins found const a n t e van geli cal labor too much for his health, and has gone to Petosky, Mich., for the rest of the summer. E. C. Nowels got home from Washington Terr., Tuesday night. We understand that he was not so well pleased with the country as he anticipated. That venerable but enthusiastic Republican “Daddy” Vondersmith, of Remington, was the first man to holler when Our Simon was nominated at Goodland.

Victor Lee, a prosperous young cattle man of New Mexico, but a native of Rensselaer, is visiting his grandmother, Mrs. M 0. Babcock, a few miles south of town. Mr. Phelps, of New Albany, owner of a large tract of land in Kankakee and Wheatfield townships, is in town looking after I matters connected with the land. I Uncle Henry Smith and Reese Goddard, of Rensselaer, will receive $8 dollars a month from the .provisions of the Mexican war pension bill. Robert Erwin, of Carpenter tp., likewise. Messrs. David Nowels and liib son C. D. Nowels returned from their trip to the far North-west, on Wednesday night, of last week. E. C. Nowels was left at Tacoma/ Washington Terr. —Mr.- Joshua Paris, of Hanging Grove tp., and a brother of Berry Paris, of Rensselaer, has been dangerously sick lately, but is now improving, with good prospects for complete recovery. —-MissJEllaJMcHatton, the young ladj\ lately married to E. H. Tharp, formerly of this town, is the daugiiter.of the Rev. McHatton, the Presbyterian minister at Kentland. Vai Selb and Geo. E. Murray star ted for Toronto, Canada, Monday, to witness the ceremoniesmnd lexercis.es connected with the meeting in that city of the Grand Lodge of the World, of the ordr of the Knights of Pythias. Wra. Bissenden, the painter, and family have moved into Allen Gait’s house, on Van Rensselaer street. The Bissendeus are building a house of their own, which Will probably ba ready for eceupwwy is or eight weeks.

The fairs at Morocco and Rensselaer are both set for the same daysL Namely, Sept. 7,8, 9 and 10, It is certainly unfortunate for both fairs that they should be held upon the same days. A young son of D. H. Yeoman, of Marion tp., has had a serious time lately, resulting from a broken ankle join f, received while jumping at school, a few weeks ago. His condition is now improving, we ar© informed* Profs. Campbell and Coulter, of Wabash College, Crawfordsville, were in town last Saturday, in the interests of the institution. They were the guests of Mr. IV. B. Austin, an alumnus of the college, and a'friend of the professors.

Mr. Walter F. Smith, a young attorney of Fargo, Dak., was in town Monday looking after some .200 acres of land he own& near DeMotte, in Keener tp. It has been in possession of his family since 1849, and none of them had ever seen it. Rev. Frank Taylor and wife, of Chauncy, are home ifrom a week’s visit with friends in Rensselaer. They were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Blue, of theMakeevpr House, who are making a tip-top reputation for that well-known house.— Lafayette Call.

A Mount Airy correspondent of the Kentland Gazette intimates that the Rensselaer boys among them dropped S6OO at the above town, on the day of the democratic convention. Forty or fifty dollars looks mighty large to the excitable Mou.»tJ¥i&dyiinagination. Schuyler Spencer, a gifted young theological student of Monticello, will preach in the Presbyjterian church next Sunday, mornjing and evening. Mr. Spencer is I a son of J a s. Spencer, of Monticello, a well known former resident of Rensselaer.

During the thunder storm of last Friday evening the lightning struck the barn on the farm of Geo. 0. Hoover three miles south jof town. Chas. Phegley was in I the barn and was considerably shocked. Two team of horses Were also shocked. The damage to the barn was slight. Geo. Er—Gibault, the popular 'traveling man, from Kankakee, ‘and Ainzi Laßue, the grocery merchant, are among the latest accessions to the K. of P. lodge, of Rensselaer. They both took degrees last Thursday night. J, P. Hammond, the teacher and canvasser, is also taking the degrees of the order. The following is taken from, the Lafayette Cdiirier, of 30years ago: “Jacob Benedict, of -Oxford, am nounced himself as a candidate Mor Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the counties of Warren, Benton and Jasper, his announcement. . closing wißi—“l will be thankful for vbtesTrom all parties without distinction. "-Oxford Tribune.

Mr. M. O. Hallorap. claims to have been greatly belied and misrepresented in the corn mon accounts of his famous wrestle with - . , •■, ; _■ ■ . . * ..... i Joe Gains, at Mount Airy. He says that they put up Joe as their best man and that he downed him, and that was all there was in it, There was he says, no “Injun talk” nor was he thrown over Gains’ head. ’ M AB IUAGE LlC£NSE:i.—Sinlas \ . reported?tlie t*'ork of the Jasper Circuit Court has issued licenees authorizing the marriage of the following named couples: J. * 1 Thomas E. Turpin, j Isabelle 0. Nearl.oofJ’ J John H. Cosgrqve, j Minnie Herrick. j Gfcoi'ge AV Crjtcliler, " IDeHlaB. Norman.

The Kids will play the Delphis, at this place, this afternoon. Call and Settle.—The many expenses of a 1 long sickness, ami incapacity for labor, the necessity that has arisen that I should go north for my health, and a desire to settle with my creditors, makes it imperatively necessary for me to notify all persons indebted to me, for blacksmithing or other matters, -to call and settle their indebtedness without delay.

S. ERWIN.

The Kentland Gazette. intimates that there are ball clubs in Goodland and Kentland which could down the Rensselaer Kids, without difficulty. It is very likely. The Rensselaer people have turned the base ball business over to the young boys, where it properly belongs, and it is scarcely to be expected that a club of boys, of from 12 to 15 years old, could compete with a well practiced club of young men, averaging 7 or 8 years their seniors.

Last Thursday a couple of men were out hunting northwest of town and their dog killed and frightened away about ten dollars worth of turkeys, most of them young ones, belonging to Mr. S. A. Fulton. The men were in a buggy, and we presume from Rensselaer. We don’t know who they were, but we do know that if they are worthy of the names of true sportsmen and honorable men they will pay Mr. Fulton for the damage their dog did to him,%nd shoot the worthless cur that did it.

The succession of accidents from horse kicks was succeeded by another accident of that kind last Saturday, which just missed being fatal. A. two or three year old ' ehildrof ,Geo. E. Nichols, two miles north of town, was kicked by a horse, the hoof just missing striking the child fairly upon the head. As it was, the side of the hoof cut one ear entirely off, so that it only ! hung by a little skin. A large ! piece of the scalp was also taken i off. Dr. Bitters was called, and .‘after administering chloroform, be 'sewed the ear in place, and the child is now doing well and will mot be much the worse, permanently, for the accident. ! The Brookston Reporter claims To know in that town of a “Whole j family that chew tobacco including husband, wife and children ■five years old.” The Reporter 'makes the interesting fact that the whole family, chews tobacco clear enough, but there is a pretty large indefiniteness about the Term “children five years old.” That all the children of the family should happen to be just five years ' old is rather remarkable, and especially so, if their number is at all great. The spectacle of say five of six five-year-old children of the < same parents, wrangling together ■for the fi¥s.t turn at the family quid must be a remarkable sight, even in Brookston. ~ T

The Town Board held a special meeting Tuesday morning, and j closed the contract with Sigler A: i Goff' for-enough sewer pipe, to! make the’sewer along Hairisoij I street from the ri/ei to Leopold’s addition. The price paid for the pipe was only 16 and 8 tenths cents pel 'foot. The Board also contracted ' with Michaels, of Logansport. for T2O- <k feei of BO inch I concrete pipe, td $1.20 per foot, j 'This pipe will be used to conduct" > the water of Makemself ditch jacross street, near G. -If. ■ Browns’s residence. • Thii bridge at that place, built 7 or -8 years ago ::t a</ o£ gbout 7 1 IS already used Up; These tiles will lake its place a? a cost of about S2OO and arc expected to last f ex’ generations. 7 V——„