Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1886 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

Hiram Day, the plasterer, hat still another son. Born yesterday. The Francesville fair begins next Tuesday, October sth. Francesville Fair next week. Hon. W. D. Owen speaks Friday on the subject <?f? Agriculture. * Life is one long picnic to our hotel-keepers and hackmen. Trains to meet at all hours of day and night Elder R. 8. Dwiggins went up to Lowell yesterday to officiate at the funeral of a young daughter of Chas. Day witt, of that town. Married, —In Rensselaer, Ind., Friday, Sept., 24th, 1886, Mr. John F. Minikus to Miss Mary Burk. The Old Squire performed the ceremony. Zimri Dwiggins and family have just removed from Oxford to Chicago. He is general manager of the United States Loan & Trust Company and removes to Chicago in the interest of that institution. Mrs. S. J. Williams, of the vicinity of this pljace, reached home Tuesday evening from Milwaukee, Wis., where she has been staying with her daughter, Mrs. C. A. Edmonds, for the past two years, Uncle David Nowels caught a pike in the river near Mr. Clint Stackhouse’s last week, which weighed 13 pounds. Several-other big pike have been caught there lately. One by a person whose name we did not learn is said to have weighed 16 pounds. . We are sorry to have to state that Elder R. S. Dwiggins is so badly afflicted with weakness of vision as to wholly incapacitate him from his evangelical labors. He had many important appointments, in this state and Michigan, which he has been obliged to cancel. ■

Tom McCoy’s true-blue republican goat arid Mike Halloran’s white prohibitionist Billy, fought nearly all the forenoon Tuesday, but the republican butter finally won a complete victory. A. Me Coy was the chief backer of the republican animal, while Uncle John Makeever banked on the prohibitionist. - - ■ : - - __ . Some low-down scallawags got in the cellar of Mrs. S. A. Hemphill, on Front street, on Wednesday night,’ of last week, and carried off about thirty quarts of canned fruits. Similar depredations have been committed in the same vicinity heretofore, and it is to be regretted that the parties who are the perpetratorH caiL no t be caught and properly punished. It is noticeable that the mumber of persons who are having surveying done, in this county, is on the increase. People are beginning to appreciate the fact that in our present county surveyor they have a man who can do as fine and accurate work as any man in the stute. The new transit instrument, too, is as fine and accurate an instrument of its kind as can be found in any county in the state. Mr. Joshua Paris, of Hanging Grove tp., died last Saturday, at the age of nearly 65 years. He had long been in poor health but the sickness from which he died was brief, he attended the soldiers’ re-union at Delphi, two weeks ago. The cause of death was inflammation of the bowels, oy some similar malady. The funeral was held Sunday afternoon and the remains deposited in the Osborne cemetery. Mr. Paris leaves a widow and a very large family of children, the oldest of whom are of adult ige, and the youngest an infant. He was a brother o£ Berry Paris, of this place* . .

Mose Tutuer went to Chicago Monday, on business. C. R. Benjamin, 2| miles west of Rensselaer, will make a public sale to-morrow. The W. C. T. U. will meet at the residence of Mrs. Ada Yates, next Friday, at 3 o’clock. All invited. Misses Edith Miller and Mary Chilcote returned from their summer’s visit in Minnesota, last Thursday. Hon. W. D. Owen will speak at the Francesville fair, on Friday of next week, upon the subject of “Agriculture.” Mrs. Thomas A. Knox and two children, of Chilicothe, Ohio, are, visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Pierce, of this place. . Messrs. Ellis & Murray, the dry goods merchants, moved into their elegant and spacious new room, in Hemphill’s new building, last Monday. The wife of Mat Yeager, a German, of Milroy tp., died Tuesday, of a puerperal hemorrhage. She leaves a husband and a large family of young children. Ed. Perkins and family removed into town, this week, and haye taken up their abode in the house Mr. Perkins lately purchased of' Mrs. Monty.— Goodland Herald. Mr. T. C. Barnes, editor of the Times a new prohibition paper just started in Logansport, was in town Tuesday and called upon The Republican. Miss Lydia Paris went to Attica last week, intending to remain for several weeks with the family of her brother, Mr. John Paris, cashier of the Citizen’s bank, of the above town. Licenses—The county clerk issued the following marriage licenses since last reported: ( John F. Minicus, | Mary Burk. j Francis E. Marion,. ( Hannah M. Davis, j John T. Snodgrass, I Martha Wood.

Advertising in a newspaper pays. Advertising on fence rails and in traveling snaps does not. If you have any doubt as to the reading of newspaper matter, put some scandalous item concerning yourself in the southwest corner of an advertising page, and note how quickly you will hear from it.— Delphi Times. Erast us Peacock, the mail route agent, reports that the train he was aboard of, ran into several detached ears of a broke-in-two stock train, last Saturday night, gave the people on the train a dreadful jolt, but hurt no one except the engineer, who j’umped off and was considerably bruised. A lot of hogs on the stock train were killed and injured. A tramp full of whiskey stopped at the house of Grandmother Kannal, on the West side, last Friday night, and while some supper was being prepared for him, he talked in an insulting and threatening manner, and Mr. Emmet Kannal thereupon caused the fellow to be arrested and put into the jail. He was sober and very repentant by noon of Saturday, and on making faithful promises to get right out of tor,n, he was released. Win. A. Binehart has bills out announcing a big sale of personal property belonging to the estate of the late Isaac Parker, of Hanging Grove tp., of which estate Mr. Binehart is administrator. The list of property to be sold is very large and includes such items as, 125 young cattle, 20 cows, 15 horses, 90 acres of corn,

100 tons of hay &c. t Ac. The date of the sale is Thursday, October 14th, at the Parker homestead.

Dance at the Opera House, tomorrow night. Mrs. A. W. Cole, of New Albany, made a short visit in Rensselaer last week. Mr. J. F. Bruner, Jlate postmaster at DeMotte, orders his paper sent to Surrey. We understand he will engage in business there. Dr. O. C. Link has just made another removal, to a larger city, this time going to Lincoln, the capital of Nebraska. Orth Stein has been taken from California to El Paso, Texas, where he will be tried on a charge of forgery. M. F. Chilcote will go to Logansport today, to attend a meeting of the Congressional central committee. , Emerson Reeve has got a steady ; ob, this time ? as night operator at Fair Oaks. He works for both roads at that place. Supt. Simon Phillips’ condition was almost desperate all day Tuesday, but by yesterday his sickness rad taken a much more favorable turn.

The old school house property has at last been sold. Grandfather Babb has brought the building and lot for SBOO, and will rebuild it into a big boarding house. Charley Benjamin’s public sale in JTewton township takes place to-morrow, beginning at 10 o’clock. A large amount of property will be sold. A broken engine on the fast mail train, of Monday afternoon, delayed that train until 9:30 p. m. and the 5:36 passenger until 10 p. m. ‘ The Cass county fair is SIOOO short this year, owing to rains and the prevalence of the diphtheria. Persons who took premiums will have the honor but no cash. Mel Laßue, of the firm of LaRue Brothers, was in Chicago last week and: bought an immense new stock of groceries; queensware &,c. Call and see them. Senator Harrison’s great opening speech, delivered at Indianapolis Sept., 15th, appears in full on one of our inside pages. It is the effort, of a great statesman and a great leader. Rollin Anderson, of Royal Center, and a brother of the cigar manufacturer of this place, has just bought the Ben. Oglesby farm in Hanging Grove tp., and will occupy the same within a short time. Married.—ln the office of the County Clerk, in the court house, in Rensselaer, Jasper county, Ind., very early Wednesday morning, Sept., 29th, 1886, Mr. John T. Snodgrass, of Jordan tp., to Miss Martha Wood, of Marion- tp. R. H. Purcupile, J. P., performing cereihony. The Valparaiso papers, the Ftdeffe and Messenger, have just introduced the rule of charging three cents per line for publishing marriage and obituary notices, cards of thanks &c. We can not wholly commend this action of our neighbors. For local papers published in small towns, where a large proportion of the readers of the paper have, in some degree, a mutual personal interest, notices of marriages and deaths are fully as interesting to the majority of readers as almost any other local news matters, and as such should be published without charge. Of course if the notices were of inordinate length a moderate charge for their publication might not be unreasonable. As for cards of thanks and similar matters which have no general interest for the public, it is no more than right ; perhaps, that they should be paid for.