Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1886 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

, Fifty cents for the Republican from now till January Ist. Qrlantlo Yeoman, the Sheriffs son, has resumed his attendnne at Bryant & Stratton's Business college, in Chicago. -Another Day dawned in Rensselaer last Friday. It was in the -family of. Lewis Day*.... the jolly plasterer, and a fine boy. Next week occurs the Grand Military EucampmenV- of the state Militia, and the Reunion of old soldiers, at Lafayette. The big sham battle is on Saturday. "A herd of 18 or 20 Texas ponies have been herded west of the river for a few days, and been the center of considerable attraction. A number of them have been sold here. /-U . . D. J. Thompson is off on his regular annual fishing and hunting excursion, in Northern Michigan. He left Friday night, and went by way of Columbus, Ohio, where he will join a party of friends. Wo gather from what appears in the Delphi papers in regard to the matter, that the people of that town are mighty backward in contributing the funds necessary to meet the expenses of the Soldiers’ Re-union, to be held at that place this year. A former citizen of Rensselaer is in luck. Major L. A. Burke, landlord of the Makeover House, before Mr. Blue, lias just been appointed Receiver of the government land office, at Aberdeen, Dakota. It is a good- appointment, and we are glad to be able to chronicle the Major’s good luck. Last Thursday John Stillman, who lives in Jasper county, about three miles from Goodland, ivas severely injured by a big derrick falling upon him. His shoulder blade was fractured and a gash three inches long cut in his scalp. Dr. Humston was called to attend him and* left him resting quite com for tab! and Herald. M. M. Tyler, of DeMotte, was m town Saturday. Mr. Tyler has lately bought the.general store of Hollet in thar, - town, nndwill hereafter conduct the same. He is a young man of fine business capacities and unquestionable integrity and will doubtless soon work up a good trade at the place he has decided to locate.

S. Swain, the enterprising agent for the Detroit White Bronze Monuments, had a very handsome sample monument on exhibition, on the Ayest side-walk of the Makeever house. The monument has been inspected by large numbers of our citizens, all'of whom, so far as we have learned, have expressed themselves as well pleased with its appearance. v -- The Rev. B. Saylor, of Watseka, 111., president of the Grand Prairie HofiffSlg Association gives notice that the great tabernacle of the association will be pitched at Rensselaer, on Thursday, August 12th, for a ten days masting. Families knd parties are invited to come with their tents, if they have them, if not to write to Mr. Sa.yler, at Watseka, and he will provide them with tents. A Gospel Temperance meeting will be held by the W. C. T. JJin the grove near the Neverfail school-house, five miles south of Rensselaer, on next Sunday, July 25th. An entertaining program will be given by the ladies and their able gentlemen assistants. Everybody is cordially invited to attend, and bring well filled baskets with the intention of spending a pleasant and profitable {day -in “God’s First Temple.” By order of W- C. T. U.

E. N. Parcel Is has a new son, born Monday, Zimri Dwiggins, of Oxford, is now rejoicing over the advent of a sou, a fine boy, boin last Friday. The magnificient rain-fall of Tuesday morning will be the making of the corn, crop, and a fine thing for late potatoes, and for pastures, Prof. F. W. Raubelt, principal of the Rensselaer schools, returned, with his family, from their vacation visit in Marshall county, last Friday. Win Guthrie, of Monticello, exsuperintendent of White county, started for south-western Minnesota Monday evening on one of Coen & Warren’s land-seekers excursion tickets. It is stated by those who have an opportunity to know that the extending of the C. k I. C. Ry. through northern Jasper is having a booming effect on the value of real estate along and near its proposed line. Rev. W. H. Saylor, now of Troy Groye, 111., is visiting his' old friends and acquaintances in this place. He is well pleased with his present location, and especially so as the change has greatly benefited Mrs. Saylor’s health, which had long been delicate.

Messrs. Henry Marsh, E. E. Rockwood and G. W. Goff, appraisers appointed by Judge Ward to estimate the amount of damages sustained by different, persons whose lands are taken for right-of-way by the extension of the C&I. C. Ry., went over the line and performed the duties for which they w«re appointed, Monday and Tuesday, of this week. George Welch, of Carpenter tp, is building a fine residence, in the midst of a tastefully arranged lawn nnd oilier pleasant surroundings George has one of the finest and best arranged farms on the Goodland and Remington road, which is saying a good deal for him, especially when he has his neighbor Henry Marsh’s beautiful place to compete with. —Goodland Herald

Mr. Schuyler Spencer, of Monticello, now studying for the min--mtry--m~WnbgsK:-€bllege,-Rt' Cravvfordsville, preached to large congregations, in the Presbytrrian church last Sunday, morning and evening. Arrangements have been made with Mr. Spencer to preach in.this place every second week until he returns to his college, in September. His next appointment will be on Sunday, August Ist.

... . --- , .-7- .. . . &■; The estate of the late Isaac Parker, of Hanging Grove township, consists of 1,500 acres of land, worth about $40,000 and SIO,OOO worth of personal property. There is no will, and the proprty will go. to the widow and children, the lawful heirs—The children, are six in number, all under the age of ,21 years. W. A. Rinehart, of Rensselaer, lias been appointed administrator of the estate. The bond he was required to give was for $20,000 or twice the amount of the personal property. Frank Matchett announces his retirement from the management of the Goodland Herald, in the last issue of that paper. In indulging in a little would-be fine writing to grace the occasion, he remarks that “the ‘tri|)6d’ is again in the hands of Bro. Kitt.” Now when it is remembered that the “tripod” is the three legged stool upon which editors are popularly supposed to repose their manly forms while committing to paper their oracular opinions, it becoihes a question whether Bro. Hatchett does not mean to imply that Bro. Kitt armed himself with the tripod, aforesaid and fired out the said Matchett, bodily.

The Republican from now till January Ist, —5 months —for fifty cents. Clothing! CLOTHING,!! kept by sample, call and See us. Hemphill k Houan. The Jasper county Normal Institute will begin a five week’s session, in the Rensselaer school building, next Monday. Simon Cook, of Hanging Grove tp., counts another son since last Sunday. Simon may yet verify the old saying: “Too many Cooks spoil the broth.” W. D. Myer, the jovial ex-trus-tee of Walker, was in town Monday. He has just purchased about 500 more land, adjoining his already goodly estate. The democratic conventions to nominate candidates for State Senator, Representative and Prosecutor will be held at Goodland on Wednesday, August 11th. Slim dudes now carry marked papers in their pockets containing accounts of whole families being poisoned by eating ice cream. They take pains to read these articles to their dudines before gaing out for a promenade. —Valparaiso Messenper. _

The Kokomo Division, Knights of Pythias, took the first prize, SI,OOO, at the prize drill at Toronto, Canada, last week. The people of Kokomo gave them a grand reception, Saturday, and the Gazelle Tribune, of that city, was printed in red, in honor, of tlie victory. ' Two or three members of the Delphi base ball nine, which was expected to play tliq Rensselaer Kids last Thursday, came over the night before, but for some unknown reason the balance of the 'club failed to appear the next and the game of course, did not take place. On Friday a nine came over from Monon, and with “them the Kids had a spirited and closely contested game in the afternoon. At the close of the last inning the score stood 37 for the Monon boys to 33 for the Kids. The latter will go to Monon to play the return game, to-day. A monument which will rank among the very finest in Weston cemetery, was erected last week, to the memory of the late Georg* KannaL It is of beautiful proportions, but in design is simple and unostentatious, as well befits the character and tastes of him Whose name and virtues »it commemorates. It was made in Indianapplis, and the material is the finest Vermont granite. - It is about 16 feet high, weighs 3| tons and rests upon a solid lime-stone foundation, four feet square and five feet under ground. The cost of the monument $350.

Three men were brought from NewtoTi county Monday afternoon and placed in the Jasper county jail for safe keeping, until Th© September term of the Newton circuit court. They were arrested Saturday, at Fair Oaks, in this county, and are charged with breaking into and- robbing the hardware store J. T. Gray, at Goodland. The crime was committed last Thursday night, and it is stated that about S2OO worth of cutlery &c. was stolen. The men gave their names as Otto Brainard from Chicago, James Howland, from Lawrence, Kans., and Geo. Winfield, from New York. Their appearance does not indicate that they are habitual criminals aud it is not unlikely that this is one of their fii’st attempts in this line of crookedness. There is probably no doubt but'Uiat they are the parties who committed the robbery as considerable quantities of the swag is stated to have been found in their possession. They are young men, their ages ranging from 18 to 24yea».

The boring for oil or gas at Lafayette had reached the depth of 1066 feet, Saturday. Nothing but a good stream of water has yet been struck. Messrs. Val Seib and Geo. Murray have returned from their excursion to Toronto. They report themselves much pleased with their trip. ~ __ Prof. Gui/lhtg’s marvellous skill in illustrating his 'lectures with ciayon pictures, on the blackboard, astonished and delighted all who were present at his lecture Monday evening. Cunningham k Temple, a well known firm of iron workeis of Lafayette, have failed. The general depression in business is assigned as the cause. Coen k Warren, the real-estate men, have rented C. G. Sears’ small frame building, just east of the Stockton*Williams’ building, and occupied the same as an office. Messrs Cobb k Gundy, the enterprising proprietors of the Rose Lawn Hotel, at Rose Lawn, intend to give a glass ball shooting match, on Saturday, August 7th, to be followed by a dance in Tanner’s Hall, in the evening. Most of the Chicago and Indianapolis dailies of Monday contained dispatches from Rochester, this state, announcing the discovery near there of a small cave in which there were 12 or 15 petrified men, one of them seemingly in the aet of making a speech. It was doubtless nothing more than a private caucus of Fulton county Bourbon democrats. We would say to our customers that the price of Photographs was reduced for the months of June and July only. The first of August they must- go back to the same old prices, as we cannot do first class work at second class prices. Remember we always use the best of material and take great pains to please our patrons and guarantee satisfaction in every particular. Respectfully, J. A. Sharp. A new time-table took effect on the Monon route last Sunday. The changes .in, JhfiL times .. of the various trains passing Rensselaer' are mostly slight. The morning passenger south now passes at *10:38, a. m., ten minutes earlier than before. The night train south passes at 10:31 p. m., or four minutes earlier than before. The afternoon train north passes at 4:53 p. m., or 15 minutes later than before. The early morning train north passes at 4:39 a. m., or 3 minutes earlier. Prof. William D. Cunning,, of Cambridge, Mass., an eminent and widely known writer and lecturer on scientific subjects, is in town, with the double purpose of examinfng into the geological status of this vicinity, and of giving our people the great benefit of a course of lectures upon geological and kindred matters. He gave his first lecture in the court house, Monday evening, and intended to have gone on with the course, but several reasons have induced him to accede to the -wishes of many of our citizens, and to defer the course until next week, when so many of the teachers of the county will be present in attendance at the Normal Institute. That the professor’s lecture will be of great of fair intelligence, no one who was present at his {lecture Monday evening can doubt. He intends to make a careful examination of the geology of Jasper county and will give his hearers at the lecture the benefits of his observations and conclusions. The announcement of the lectures, with their subjects, appears in another place.