Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1886 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

The two reported cases of diph-, theria in this place have recovered; The Bissendens have moved into their hew residence in Leopold’s add ition. Mrs. B, F. Ferguson is again able to ride out after a long and seemingly hopeless spell of sickness. Col. R. 8. Robertson, of Fort Wayne, Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor, will speak in Rensselaer next Thursday evening, Oct. 28th. Mrs. 8. N. James, Pittsburg, Kansas, is visiting her son Horace EL James. She came to Indiana to recuperate failing health and may conclude to remain permanently.—Message. ■ The Rev. D. AV. Jessee, pastor in charge of the M. E. church for the present year, resides at Jamestown, in Boone county, and will not remove his family to this county during his appointment here. The Women’s* Relief Corps of the G. A. R. are preparing to keep open a lunch and refreshment room, in Makeever’s building,, on election day. Coffee and other refreshments will be on sale at nearly all hours of the day and night, and regular meals will be served at dinner and supper. The last gas well reported from the gas regions of White county, was struck two or three miles from Wolcott, last Friday, by Perkins & Son, the well borers of Rensselaer. It was struck at a depth of about 60 feet, and the flow is reported as being decidedly strong, and the gas burns readily. Jas. Turpie, of Monon, and his attorney, Alf. Reynolds,, Esq, of Monticello, were in town Monday and Tuesday, taking depositions of witnesses, in the celebrated and long-contested case of the Monnetjs against the Turpies, which is soon to come up for a second trial in the Carroll circuit court, where it has been taken on change of venue. The title? to a large amount of real-estate is involved. The town of Fowler was visited by flre last Sunday night. The fire is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary. It burned the buildings occupied by Breen’s shoe store, Jones Bros.’ drugstore, Hitzie’s jewelry store and the residence and shoe store of Ben Shaffer. The estimated loss, as telegraphed to the city papers, was $15,1)00, but this is, doubtless, much exaggerated. Licenses.—Since last reported the Clerk has issued the following marriage licenses: ( John T. Snodgrass, ( Martha Wood. 1 James Pickner, | Sarah E. Snider, ( William R. Willets, | Ida Eldredge. 1 John Konze, ( Rebecca S. Sanders. 1 Warren AV. Sage, | Orpha M. Farmer, j Andrew T. Wiseman, ] Lillie M. Cooper. Three young men of this place, Alliert and Tom Bissenden and George Hollister, are now making a rather unusual and romantic journey. They are travelling towards the South, by an rtll-water route. They left this place on a boat built here, and about twenty feet long and five wide, and Expected to follow the tn any convolutions of the Iroquois until it unit-es with the Kankakee, a few miles east of the city of the same name, and down that stream to the Illinois and then southward arid westward to the Old Mail of waters, and from there to New Orleans or I Flat Broke.

' Mr. Nathan Fendig, of the boot, shoe and furnishing store, counts another boy, since last Friday, Mr. Russell Chilcote, of Fostoria, Ohio, visited his cousins, M. F. and J. C- Chilcote, of this place, oyer Sunday The diphtheria still rages as. an epidemic in Logansport, and all efforts to stay ite ravages have so far proved unavailing. Grandfather Babb has moved into his new residence, the old school h<?use property. He is fitting it up in great shape. Rev. Peter Hinds was in town yesterday. He has bought a nice little farm near Shelbyville, and there expects to end his peaceful days. The track-layers on the new road do not seem to be rushing matters very fast, as only about five miles of the iron were down at the end of last week. T_ J. Farden was in town over Sunday. He is still traveling for the Lafayette Temple of Music, and for several weeks past has been in Illinois in the interest of the house. Squire W. E. Moore and Dr. S. W. Ritchey will talk Greenback doctrines to the people of Union township, next Saturday evening, Oct., 23rd, at 7 o’clock, at Brushwood school house. It has cost about $125 to repair the damage done to the roof of the Makeever House, last Thursday by the big wind.; and to repair Duvall’s building will cost about half of the above sum.

The Rev. Mr. Tucker, of Chicago, will preach twice every Sunday in the Presbyterian church for a period of one year. He has a family and will remove them to this place in the Spring; we are informed. Mr. and Mrs. E. Fendig have issued elegant invitations to the marriage of their daughter, Miss Tillie Fendiig to Mr. Samuel Borchardt.. It will take place at the Nowels House, next Thursday afternoon, Oct. 28th, at five o’clock. The big administrator’s sale in Hanging Grove tp., last Thursday, of the personal property of the 1 ate Isaac Parker was attended by a large crowd, in spite of the bad and unpleasant weather, and the property sold at excellent prices. Mr. Frank Foltz, the promising young law student with Thompson & Bro., of this place, was married yesterday at 11 o’clock a. m., in Oxford, to Miss Eva Kolb, of that town. The young couple will make their permanent residence, and will shortly set. up house-keeping in the vacant rooms in the second story of McCoy’s bank building, adjoining those now occupied by Thompson & Bro. The gale of wind of last Thursday was of more than unusual severity, for & long continued wind. From all parts of the county come accounts of damage done by it, in the way of hay stacks torn in pieces, and corn shocks scattered about the fields. The standing corn has also been blown flat, to a great extent, and in case of protracted wet weather the damage that will result to that crop, in the aggregate, will be enormous. Elder Turner, of Illinois, will commence a series of religious meetings at the Free Will Baptist church, in Rensselaer, beginning tomorrow night. Further announcements will be made from night to night as the meeting progresses. Elder Turner is an old school Baptist and a good reasoner, upon the subjedt of the Christian religion.'- He will be assisted at times by Elder W. R. Nowe’s. Everybody invited to attewl. -

The Ladies’ Literary Society will meet every Saturday afternoon until further notice, in their new room, in the Nowels house. The W. C. T. U. will meet at the residence of Mrs. Carrie Clark to-morrow afternoon, at three o’clock. All are invited. Mr. A. L. Willis and family returned last Saturday night from a five weeks’ visit with relatives in the vicinity of Morris, 111. H J. Dexter, of th,e post-office store, had frequent calls to setemup last Friday. Cause why, a nine pound baby, all boy, at his house. The Ladies’ Literary Society propose to give an art loan exhibition in their rooms in the Nowels house,, about the first of November. Emerson Reeve, the operator, has been transferred from the station at Fair Oaks, and given permanent charge of the night office at Rensselaer. Mr. Ezra C. Nowels publishes a card to the effect that he wil 1 attend public sales in this and neighboring counties, in the capacity of auctioneer. Cards have been received announcing the marriage, in Goodrand, last Monday afternoon of A. J. Kitt, editor of the Goodlaud Herald and Miss Hattie M. Spoor, daughter of C. S. Spoor, proprietor of the Goodland bank. The ladies are pariicular’y i&quested to bo sure and attend the grand opening of Millinery goo Is, at Mrs. J. M. Hopkins’ millinery store, on Friday and Saturday, of this week.