Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1886 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

Simon Phillips ip getting much better. - Underwear for everyone at Ellis & Murray’s. Only $1,50 to Chicago and~b»ek, next Wednesday. Jim Fisher is building a house on Elm street. Ellis & Murray are showing a nice line of Dress Goods. Mrs. Ik B. Wilson is visiting friends in Indiananpolis and Tippecanoe county. A vote for Dr. Patton or for James Yeon&an is a vote for Isaac P. Gray for-United States Senator.

The new office and vault for the use of the county clerk, are noartJy ready for occupany. The clerk will have a very comfortable and convenient location. Don’t miss the best and last chance of tha year to go to the city, but take- in the excursion Wednesday, Oct. 2ftth; fare $1.50. Train leaves at 9.:30i Sam Chilcote, now of Winamacspent Sunday with his. relatives in this place. Sam has a good job as salesman in a meat shop, in Winamac.

We Lear on good authority the owners of the C. & I. C. railroad will send out a surveying party yet this fall, to look for a favorable route for a line into Chicago from hair Oaks. • 4* ' Jim Swisher was the man arrested on suspicion of having dynamited the whiskey shop at Wheatfield, and who slipped away from the justice and has not since been caught. James Lane and James Parker, both of Newton tp., are building good- residences on their rarius. They buy their lumber in Rensselaer, the best place to buy lumber in three counties adjoining. There will be a Prohibition meeting at the Court House next Saturday evening,. which will be addressed by the Rev. L. S. Bickwell, of Indianapolis. All are cordially invited to be present.

R. S. Dwiggins. Chas. R. Benjamin and- family made their start for the South yesterday. They will go first to Asheville, N. C., and remain there for the winter if the location seems favorable to Mr. Benjamin’s health, which his many friends most earnestly hope may be the case. The W. C. T. U. will observe the National Temperance day in Rensselaer, Oct. 17th, 1886. The address by Rev. L. W. Bicknell of Indianapolis, in the Missionary Baptist church. Subject: “Is there not a cause?” We request j all the pastors with their congrel gations to unite with us in this I service. Services will begin at 7 o’eloejg, p. ra.

That blue colored, old, man-eat-ing Billy Goat, which is probably an escaped African hyena in disguise, still roams defiant through the streets, seeking whom he may devour, in spite of the goat ordinance of the town fathers. It is probable that nothing less formidable than a well ariged sheriff’s posse da . a attempt his arrest. He is a bad old butter from way back.

A Mr. Hoffman, a blind man from Chicago, spoke in the court house last Monday evening to a rather slim audience. His speech was announced in the churches as simply the “Celebrated lecture entitled Wet or Dry;” but those who hearii it generally agree in calling it a political prohibition harangue. If a Republican or Democrat were to adopt that mean's of getting an audience the result would be a sized howl 1 all alcng the line.

The October term of the circuit court begins next week. The docket is unusually light. Miss Belle Barkley, of Barkley tp., is building a fine residence on her big farm. Ellis & Murray, the dry goads merchants, have A new display advertisement in this paper this week. Miss Mary Washburn will teach the Wasson school, Marion tp., this winter, beginning next Monday.

The largest lot of overcoats ever shown at any one store in this town, oan now be seen at A. Leopold’s. They must be sold, as he needs the money to complete the new corner building. Two cases of diphtheria have been reported in town. A son of Thomas Thompson and a daughter of K: H. Purcupile. Neither case has been very severe and both are recovering. Mr. Jesse Greenfield, a prosperous manufacturer of Hutchinson, Kansas, and a brother oFUncTe Billy Greenfield, of the RensselaerTown Board, and of James Greenfield, of Surrey, is now visiting hia relatives in this place. A BIG EXCURSION TO CHICAGO!—Let everybody take ; a day and go to Chicago, Wednesday, October 20th. Fare round trip $1.50. Train leaves Rensselaer at 0:30 a. m.; leaves Chicago at 11:3U p. m. Fine chance to go to theaters.

Chas. F. Griffin, of Crown Point, the. eloquent and popular young candidate for Secretary of State, and Jasper county’s favorite candidate on the state ticket, is advertised to speak in Remington next week, on Tuesday evening. He ought to have a big audience. Mrs. J. M. Hopkins wishes to say to her customers that she will give a grand opening Friday and Saturday, the 22nd and 23rd of this month. Everyone is invited to attend and see one of the finest displays of millinery ever shown in Rensselaer. We learn that Bro. Kitt, of the Goodland Herald, is about to provide himself with effective consolation over the prospective defeat of his candidate for State Senator, taking to himself for a wife the charming daughter of a -well known and wealthy citizen of Goodland. We congratulate Brother Kitt, most heartily.

The Hon. I. D. Dunn, the true, tried and capable Representative in the state legislature, was in town yesterday. He is makifig a thorough and effective canvass of the district—not in his own interests, for he knows they are in no danger, but in the interest of the whole ticket and Republican principles in general. '■ ; V.,

Mr. W. W. Sage, a former Jordan township boy, and Miss Orpha M. Farmer, daughter of Rev. A. G. W. Farmer, of Jordan, were married last Sunday evening, in Remington. To-day the young couple will start for the home of the groom near Corbett, in Ford county, Kansas, and where The Republican will visit them weekly and keep them will posted in Jasper county affairs. Varnum J. Card, one of the men who visited Rensselaer a little more than two years ago in the interest of the snide railroad, tlie Fort Wayne, Peoria & Galesburg, is now in the state prison at Michigan City, for forgery. He was formerly a respected hardware merchant in Warsaw, bat misfortune brought him to crime and crime Jto the p»?niteutiary. The people of Warsaw are now moving in an effort to obtain his pardon.

Miss Lottie Peacock will teach the Pleasant Ridge school, this winter. The cheap excursion train next Wednesday stays in the city until after the theaters are over. Better go. The place to buy blankets and comfortables is jat Ellis A Murray’s. Rev. L. W, Bicknell, of Indianapolis, will preach in the Missionary Baptist church, next Sunday morning. F. C.' Pad git- & Brother, from down about Otterbein, have leased the Halloran livery barn, lately occupied by J. W. Powell, and are now in charge of the same. Frank Minicus, a hand on Conner's section, was fined one dollar and costs, last Thursday night, by Judge Purcupile, for assaulting Noah Ralston, a fellow- section man. The Literary Society will meet in their new room next Saturday evening at 7 o’clock. The members are all cordially invited to attend. . - M. W. Babcock, Sec’y.

If you need anything in the line of Men’s, Boy’s and Youth’s clothing, and will call at Leopold’s you will find a stock that will make your heart glad to look at, and selling at prices to suit your purse. Rev. D. W. Jessee, the Pastor of the Rensselaer Circuit, will preach at Pleasant Grove church, iu Barkley tp., at 10:80 next Sunday and at Pleasant Ridge School house, at 3 p. m. R. W. Marshall, candidate for Prosecuting Attorney, was in Benton county last week; is in Newton county this week, and next week will be in Jasper county, .as see the notices ot his speecht s given elsewhere. Mrs. J. M. Hopkins, of the MIL linery store, has received the agency, for this town, of Madam Griswold’s celebrated corsets for ladies and waists for children. The ladies of Rensselaer are requested to call at the store and examine into the merits of these goods.

W. S. Hoblit, an intelligent and well-to-do citizen, of Dean, Montgomery county, Ohio, and a man who lost a leg in the Union army, was in the county the greater part of last week, looking after a fine piece of land he owns in Wheatfield township, and made Rensselaer his base of operations. He has owned the land for 27 years and never saw it before. He was well pleased with the advantages and prospects of Jasper county.