Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1886 — County Correspondence. [ARTICLE]

County Correspondence.

DVNNVILLE AND VICINITY. Three hay presses are running in Kankakee tp.■ (. “ . Mr. Thresher has sold his store to a man from Winamac. Sleds and sleighs are the only conveyances since the recent snow falls. Parties are shipping hay already on the C. «fc I. C. It. It., from Dunn's side track. The children met Santa Claus at the Christmas tree at the South Grade school house last Friday night. The north and south grade sohools ftre progressing very rapidly, this winter. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Dunn are both good teachers. Four engineers .have tried steaming up the “tea kettle” last week, at the C. <fc I. C. li. It. bridge. The last one let it freeze up and burst. K. K. HANOI NO O DOVE AND VICINITY. Miss Lizzie Ewen is visiting fiiends in Barkley. Mr. P. H. Overton spent Saturday and Sunday in Walker tp. Mr. Will Stiers returned from Illinois last week, where he has been husking corn. Literary at Fairview every Thursday evening and at Dixie every Friday oveniug. The schools are all dismissed for holidays and the boys are improving the time hunting rabbits. The young folks of H. G. and vicinity enjoyed a social dance at Mr. Mason Kenton’s Christmas eve. Mrs. T. A. Knox, after a long illness, died Saturday evening, Dec. 25th. Her remains were laid in the Osborne cemetery, Sunday, at 2 o’clock. Reporter FROM If II EAT HELD. Oyster supper at Jno. Tilton’s, Christmas eve. - Schools of the townships closed on Friday last, for a short vacation. G. W. Ingram is spending holidays with his parents at this place. A shoe maker’s shop in running older in the building that was occupied by - tlie post-office; Jas. Huston, who has bee* staying with us since last fall, departed from Wheattield, last Friday, for his home at Huntington, Ind. A few of our people were at the Christmas tree at the North Grade school house, in Kankakee tp., ou Christmas eve. They report a good time. Martin Heil this morning started for Valparaiso. He lias been attending the Northern Indiana Normal school at Valparaiso and has returned there to resume his -studies,-after a pleasant visit .with his people in Wlieatlield tp., Adrift. REMINGTON ITEMS. Rev. E. B. Woodson is visiting friends in Delphi tliis week. Miss Jessie Draper is spending her vacation at her hi me in Remington. . r" It is hinted that one of Remington’s noblest young men is about to lead one of Rensselaer’s fair daughters to the alter. Old Boreas came in earnest last Monday, the mercury sinking way down almost out bf-sight. It was too cold even for sleigh riding. Mrs. Williams, who. accompanied her son Wright Williams to Los Angelos, Cal., where he died, i> quite sick in that city and unable to come home. Amazing quantities of corn (for which there is n.> adequate transportation)'nre being brought into town daily. Every crib and granary is tilled, and if cars could only iie obtained when, wanted, money would be more plentiful Tbere will be a “wateh night’ ’ meeting at the M. E. Church, on Friday evening, beginning at 9:30 and continuing until midnight. Hie program for the exercises is wry interesting anil the meeting will doubtless be enjoyed by all , present. ! Great preparations are being made for the Grand Army Post’s festivities on Saturday next. The ladies of tlie town, not to be outdone in patriotism, will present the Post with a handsome Hag. Everybody that wants to have a good time, had better turn out. A public installation of officers will take place.in tlie evening. Ira C. Kingsbury, of St Lawrence, Dakota, for several years a prominent merchant in this place, made a flying vuut hare last Sat-

urday. He, with his wife arid i three children, and Mr. and Mrs. I A. B. Clark and daughter, took tlie 1 afternoon train for Monticello, after partaking of Christinas cheer with Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Wells. Mr. Hoops died at his home a few miles from town on Sunday evening last, after a lingering illness, of typhoid fever. His son, whose snudeu death was chronicled in the otter of last week, preceded his father to the land of shadows only a few days. The doubly afflicted family have the sympathy of mauy friends. Tlie three entertainments in town and the one at Mr. Albert Bellows’, in the country, all passed off pleasantly and profitably. The little people had royal good times and only regretted that Santa Claus coyld come so seldom; in fact the ‘children of a larger grQwth’ enjoyed the several occasions as heartily as the smaller and younger ones. Mr. Jacob Bhew, one of the oldest residents of this place, died very suddenly on Thursday night last, of heart disease. He had retired, seemingly in good health, but about 12:30 his son, who slept with him, discovered that he was dead. The grief of the family, to whom he had been a kind father, was overwhelming. He was buried ou Saturday in tlie Welsh graveyard. Remingtonian.