Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1886 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

It is the greatest year for berries on record. Bruce Banta, of Hanging Grove tp., has a new girl, born August 1, Prof. Gunning departed Tuesday for Valparaiso, where he expects to remain during the week. Miss Hattie Hopkins reached home from her protracted visit in Indianapolis and other places, Tuesday evening. The ladies of the Presbyterian Industrial Society will give a lawn party, this evening, at J. M. Hopkins’ residence, across the river. Miss Lerie Benson and Miss Leota Hennegar, of Francesville’ returned home last Monday, after a ten days visit with R. F. Priest’s family. E. C. Nowels began work on the Harrison street sewer last Monday, with a force of ten men, and expects to complete the job this week. The change in the assessment made by the State Board of E qualization will cause at least 15 days hard work for two men in the county auditor’s office. The Normal Institute still continues to increase in interest and attendance. The increase since last week is 6, making the entire number in attendance 55. C. H. Zeis is by far the heaviest advertiser in Benton county, and as a result his sales are larger by by many hundred dollars than any retailer in the county. —Oxford Tribune, ' A Gospel Temperance meeting in the M. E. church, last Sunday, evening was attended by a good sized audience. Mr. Daniel H. Guild, of Gillam tp., one of the instructors in the Normal, was the principal speaker. Rev. Mcßeynolds also made a brief address. - ~f The TV. C. T. U. will meet at the residence of Mrs. Berry Paris, next Friday afternoon, and the following question will be discussed : Resolved, That labor cannot have its own reward, without the destruction of the saloon. All are cordially invited to attend. A petition was in circulation last week, and extensively ; signed by all classes of citizens, requesting Postmaster Bates not .to remove the post-office to a location on one of the side streets, aS it has been generally reported that he had contemplated doing. Mrs. Chas. P. Mayhew, formerly of Rensselaer but now of Red Bluffs, California, with her two little girls, is now spending a few months with her brother, R. B. Porter, of Pleasant Ridge. Mr. Mayhew, with his son, is now engaged in the rather remarkable undertaking of driving a flock of 3000 sheep from California to Wyoming territory, a distance of about 1000 miles. About half the distance has, already been gone over. Of course progress is very slow, as time has to be allowed the sheep to pick their living as they go-

Ex-sheriff J. W. Powell, the popular livery stable man, has taken a contract for grading a couple of miles or so of the extension of the C. & I. Coal Railway. His section lies directly north of Rensselaer, the southeast end being at Ephiam Sayars’ place, in Union township. Mr. Powell has begun work upon his contract Isaac Alter, of Union tp., also has taken a contract for a [couple of miles, his section being the one next north from Fair Oaks section. The contracts require that the grading be finishedJ by October

Win. GrauV lias returned from the West. '* f A Robt. Paris, of Attica, passed Sunday with his parents in this place. Efforts are being made in both Monon and Francesville to form companies to bore for natural gas. Sam Fendig is now comfortably housed in his new residence on I ront street. The house has six rooms, and cost about SSOO. • « Under the new arrangements on the railroad the mails will. hereafter close at the post office at 10:50 a. m. -for the south bound train and at 3:30 p. m. for the north bound train. About 50 or 60 applicants for teachers’ licenses were examined at the school house, last Saturday. In the absence of D. M. Nelson, the county superintendent, the examination was conducted by Exsuperintendent D. B. Nowels. A special meeting of the Ladies Literary Society is called to be held at the residence of Mrs. J. H. Ellis, corner of Washington and Cullen streets, Saturday afternoon. Important business will be transacted and a full attendance is requested. The premium lists of tha Remington fair are printed and ready for distribution. The Secretary of association, Mr. O. M. Vickery, has left in our care about 50 copies of the lists, and any person wishing to obtain one of them can do so by applying at this office, The dates of the fair are August. 31 and Sept. 1, 2 and 3. Mr. N. Warner, the hardware merchant, when out driving about a mile west of town, on last Sunday evening, in company with his wife, met with an accident which resulted in a. dislocated shoulder. It was caused by the horse shying at something at the side of the road and upsetting the buggy. The accident will be likely to confine Mr. Warner to the house for several days. Mrs. Warner was not hurt. B- L. Sayler, of Newton township, went to Logansport Tuesday, to consult Dr. Thomas, the oculist, in regard to one of his eyes, which is giving him great trouble. Ben shot himself in the eye with the sharp end of a big bullrush, while charging on the rebels, at doublequick, through a swamp, in war times, and it has given him great trouble, at times, ever since, and he now thinks it will have to be removed.

Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Douthit returned home last Thursday morning from Dearborn county, in the southeastern part of the state, where they had been to attend the funeral of Mrs. Douthit’s brother, Alvin B. Robertson, who was killed instantly in a railroad wreck near Columbia, Tenn., on July 20th. He was the travelling passenger agent of the Monon line whose visitjto-,Rensselaer a short time before his death chronicled in this paper. His age was about 30 years and he was unmarried. He was one of tfie most trusted and popular agents in the employ of the company, which fact was attested by the words of W. P, Baldwin, the general passenger agent of the road, who was present at the funeral, and by the many other employes of the who were present, and by the vast display of floral offerings sent in by his friends and companions on the road. Accompanying one of the floral tributes from Louisville, was the following inscription: “If every kind thought were a bud every good wish a blossom, he would sleep to-night in a wilderness of roses. From his Louisyille friends Mhoje name is Lioios.”

Miss Gertie Clark is visiting relatives in Whitehall, Mich. Work on John Eger’s building is at a stand-still, waiting for iron columns. ■i ! ?; : We learn that Ex-Senator Hoover has got himself settled upon his Kansas farm. Jacob Parker, of Hanging Grove tp., rejoices over a first son, since last Thursday, the 29th ult. F. B. Meyer, the druggist, is feeling larger than Jumbo. It is a girl this time, a fine baby, and born Wednesday •. Mrs. E. C. Bessick, of Bridgeport, Conn., visitedher sister, Mrs. Austin, last week, going to Lafayette on Saturday. The Rensselaer Cornet band has been engaged to furnish music for the couuty fair, this year. They will play three days, and receive §6O therefor. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Thompson started for Glendale, Montana, Monday to visit their daughter, Mrs. F. A. Ross, who lives at that place. They will be absent SW 8 weeks, we are informed. That estimable couple, Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Hemphill, 2| miles east of town, who have enjoyed 15 years of wedded life, are now rejoicing over the advent of a first born. A son, born Saturday, the 24th ult. B. F. Miller, living west of Rensselaer, just over the line in Newton county, harvested a field of 9| acres of oats' that yielded a little more than 63 bushels to the acre. Can any of our J asper county farmers beat that yield? Married, on Saturday last at Monticello, E. M. Bains to Phebe A. McAhren. They will go to housekeeping at Rensselaer next Monday. Mr. Bains is a house carpenter and says that work in his line is much more plentiful at that place than at Monon. on Dispatch. Capt. F. W. Babcock, the attorney, got so much “stuck” on LaGrange, when he was there for several weeks last May that he has since been engaged in closing up his business here, preparatory to a final removal to that town. He has now succeeded in disposing of his business here, and will go t 6 LaGrange within a very short time, next week probably. His successor in the loan and insurance department of his business is his clerk, C. Warner! In his law practice he will be succeeded, and his office occupied by W. H. H. Graham, a well known attorney, formerly of Kentland and later of Crawfordsville. Mr. Babcock has hosts of warm friends here who will learn with regret of his intended departure from our county, and will wish him abundant success in his new location. The new time table which went into effect on the L. N. A. & C. road two weeks ago was superseded by another last Monday. In this last m>le are some very decided changes. A new through passenger train has been put on the road. It carries the mails but does not stop at Rensselaer. It goes south at 11:20 a. m. and north at 4:02 p. m. It is of no earthly account to the people of this vicinity. The times of the other day trains have been changed considerably. The morning train south now passes this place at 9:21 a. m. or about 1 hour and 17 minutes earlier than before. The afternoon train, north, passes at 5:36 p. m., or 43 minutes later. The time of the night trains remains as before. The way freight on this division is no longer per- | mitted to carry passengers.

Mr. Edgar Cox, of Plainfield, is visiting his sister, Mrs. H. J. Dexter. Miss Ella Ryan returned from Richmond, Monday, and is attending the county normal. .j ■ G. W. Houser, who lives on J. C. Porter’s place, two miles northwest of town, counts a new girl since Sunday. ’, • * Only one marriage license was issued in the county from July Bth tq August Ist. It authorized th& marriage of Frank Guss and Emma J. Helsel. Isaac Reubelt, teacher of the Grammar room, returned to Rensselaer Friday. He was accompanied by his sister, Miss Katie Reubelt, who is a teacher in the schools of Detroit, Mich. We hear that Jay Dwiggins has about concluded to sell his store in Florida, and enter the service of the Loan and Trust company for which his brother Elmer is now working. A large, smooth-faced, elderly gentleman went past the Republican office Tuesday, talking like a 60 horse-power wind-mill, with the throttle valve open, and in our prophetic soul we knew it was Major McFadden, of Logansport, and that he was here looking after his political fences. The Major is trying to down Tom Wood, in the race for the Democratic nomination for candidate for Congress, in this district A Mr. Scott, of Crawfordsville, has the sub-coatract for grading about four miles of the roadway of ;he C. & I. C. extension, immediately southwest of Wheatfield, while between Wheatfield and the Kankakee* river, four miles, the sub-contract is let to Mr. Petersen, of South Bend. Both men are hard at work upon their contracts and it is stated that Peterson has 50 teams and a corresponding number of men already at work. The acquirements of the “educated hog” are usually the results of long and patient training, but Mr. L. F. Bartoo, who, lives near t Remington, is the possessor of an able and intelligent porker whose accomplishments are the result of its own natural powers of intellect. It is emphatically a “self-made hog.” The achievement which especially distinguishes it above the common herd of plodding grunters is its habit of standing at full height upon its hind feet and in this posture picking off and eating the apples from the trees of the orchard in which it has been allowed to run. In case none of the fruit can be reached directly the ingenious animal will take firm hold of a limb, with its teeth, and give it a vigorous shakings and then coolly proceed to eat the aapples which are thus shaken to the ground Prof. Gunning introduced his lecture of last Thursday evening by a little talk regarding three strange looking fishes whose forms he had depicted upon the blackboard. One of these was a newly discovered species which inhabits the very lowest depths of the sea, and where, in the extreme scarcity of eatables adapted to fish nature the need of a big mouth supercedes nearly every other anatomical consideration; with the result, in this case, of a ereature that was nearly all mouth. It was like a Bohemian or Hungarian Anarchist in the respect that its name alone was the only thing about it that was at all commensurate with the size of its mouth. The name was mentioned at the request of a lady in the audience, and was given by the professor coupled with the stipulation that the lady was to remember it when she had heard it It whs Macro-petalychthys Raphoidolabus.