Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1887 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

Lent began yesterday. Call and see the new shape dishes at Laßue Bros. The town schools willdia'"e their spring vacation next week. A fine line of canned and evaporated fruits cheap at Laßue Bros. S. R. Nichols, of Barkley, is preparing to build a big barn this year. The new shape dishes are daisies, Call find see them. Larue Bros. Mrs. S. P. Thompson is making very satisfactory progress in recovering from her late severe sickness. Parents, don’t fail to see our spring heel shoes for the infants, children and misses, just the thing, at Hemphill & Honan’s. AV. H. Rhoades will begin work on bis new residence on Milroy street, across the river, in a short time. The foundations of the building were constructed last fall, N. Warner & Sons are laying in an enormous stock of plows for the Spring trade, and are preparen to sell them at the Very rockbottom prices. Miss Anna Parker, of Remington, has been appointed official reporter for this judicial circuit, to succeed Clarence Park, who has got a good government appointment.

A couple of men were in town last week looking for a location for a drug store, and it is now reported that they have rented the vacant room in Nowels’ block, and will soon open in business there. Surveyor Tffrawls is making a map of the town; the largest and most accurate ever made. It will be about four and a half feet square and will include territory one and a quarter miles in extent, north and south. It is said that the people of the little town of Foresman, on the C. & I. 0. road, in Newton county, are raising money to bore for gasWhat use they would make of the gas after they found it, is probably a question they have not stopped to consider. Our old friend, Aleck McDonald, of DeMotte, wasTfftePfflffTast Friday and Saturday, for the first time after many long months of sickness. He was very badly wounded by a Rebel bomb shell in war times, and still suffers constantly from the effects of injuries that would have killed anybody but an extra tough. Scotchman.

T. J. Farden was in town over gjunday. By-the way it is reported on what ought to bo pretty reliable authority, that Mr. Farden will cease to be a bachelor next full. The luck}’ young lady who is to make this happy change .has already been selected, although, as yet, she has had no intimation of the blissful fortune which awaits ffien

«/Ihe Davis family, from near Winamac, passed through town last Thursday, in two covered wagons, headeil for Washington county, lowa. The wagons were fitted up with all the nfbdern conveniences, including a stove in the forward end of one of them, the pipe of which extended upward through the oil-cloth cover of the wagon. Although a constant fire was kept burning in tlte stoye, the party can not hope'- to escape a great deal of suffering jnd discomfort from the weather during their journey. There were some .women - and children in the party,besides five voters,all straight • repnlLeans, and. v;h;T w* i>e. moving ffom a state wher *. r -pub--1 leans votes are badly otrevdfe4-and into a state where there arg plenty and to spare.

If you bargain call on Laßue Bros. ‘A young son of J. C. Passonfc is very dangerously sick with a lung trouble. T. J. McCoy has been appointed guardian of Dr. Martin’s two sons. Mrs. W. H. King, who lives north of the depot, is recovering from a long and dangerous sickness with peritonitis. John Stw an, of Newton tp., has sold his farm and intends moving to Washington Territory in a short time. T. H. Paris, the boot and shoe man of Monon, formerly of Rensselaer, was in town over Sunday, visiting his relatives in this place. Ingrain Carpets.—Twenty-five cents a yard. Cheapest ever offered in the town, at the Trade Palace. Prof. H. B. Fellows, professor of nervous diseases in Hahnemann College, Chicago, was in consultation with Dr. Hartsell, in Mrs. S. P. Thompson’s case, last week. We have just opened the largest and best selected lot of Gilt Band Dishes ever brought to Rensselaer. Call and see them. Laßue Bros. Mary Baker, of Monon tp., still lives' and has been taking some nourishment since the 105th day of her long fast, and there is said to be a possibility that she will recover.

A very elegant altar for the Knights of Pythias hall has just been presented to the lodge by Messrs. C. D. Nowels and Frank Osborne. It is the workmanship of the latter and made of ■white and black walnut. Rev. Ira J. Chase, the new department commander of the G. A. R., for this state, is a minister of the Christian church. He was a private soldier in the Nineteenth Illinois regiment, which for some time was in the brigade with the Thirty-seventh Indiana Another dance for the benefit of tneCornet Band was held at the Opera House Monday night. About fifty couples attended it and enjoyed an exceptionally pleasant evening. The net profits of the dance, about 820, will go into the treasury of th e band. Ulysses S. Grant, aged about seventeen years, and son of Frank Grant, who lives a couple of miles or so west of town, was riding a fractious horse Sunday, and the animal fell upon him and badly broke his leg, just, above the an- . kle. Both bones were broken. Dr. Loughridge was called, and set the fracture, in good shape.

.Chas. F. Qiierry, of Gillam tp., son of William B. Querry, has befen suflering greatly since Feb. 8, from the result of a horse kick.The kick inflicted a deep cut near his eye, and came very near fracturing the skull, and so great was. the force of the blow that the concussion badly broke his lower jaw. At one time fatal results were feared, but at last reports he was improving steadily. The convention and institute of tile Jasper County Sunday School Union, a£ the Presbyterian Church, in Rensselaer, conducted by- Mr. Win. H. Levering, president of the State Union, on'Wednesday and fliursduy of last week, wort* of an interesting character, and deserved a much better attendance than was "given, is a gontletiian of ability and national reputation in his line. Ji«' devotes his entire attention t$ this work, without any remuneration; but it must nA tamiPßSr'o jiiiw' ±itnis£Cra.eT anti Jasper county did not manifest a very great appreciation of his work—a fact not very creditable to our people, *>*

Elder D. T. Halstead and family expect to return to Dakota, next week. David Nowels. is ready to head a subscription for a gas well fund with two hundred dollars. Jerry Hess, who has lived in the vicinity of Rensselaer fol’ a couple of years, will remove to Mount Ayr, March Ist Daniel Fairchild, of DeMotte, was in town yesterday and rejoicing greatly over over a fine boy, born to him last Saturday. The contract for boring a gas well at Delphi has been let to a man who drilled the Kokomo wells. Work is to begin by the 7th of March. Mrs. H. AV. Porter had so far recovered from her long and dangerous sickness with the inflammatory rheumatism as to be able to get down town last Saturday, the first time for five months. The small building erected last week on the back end of the county lot, on Cullen street, was built by order of the Town Board, and is for a storage house for the gasolene to be burned in the street lamps. Dr. AVashburn last week attended the commencement of Rush Medical College. The meeting of the Alumni association and banquet given the graduates at the Palmer House, Chicago. The graduating class this year numbered 133 and 21 failed to pass.

Dr. J. S. Owens, formerly of this place, but now ot Los Angelos, Cal., made a profitable real estate deal lately. He bought a small tract for about 81000 and sold it for 810,000. The doctor has been fortunate in business since going west and is now worth about 820,000 and has a big practice. C. Shindler, of Newton tp., gives notice of an auction sale of personal property next Tuesday March Ist. Mr. Shindler has sold his farm and intends moving to Rush county, Kansas. -8. P. Eppy, of Marion county, Ohio, has bought Mr. Shindler’s farm, and will settle upon the same within a short time. (Horace Peacock, the night watch, attends to filling-and lighting the -street lamps, at present, although no permanent contract ■has as yet been made with him. The. lamps are filled every eve|ning, with enough gas.olene to burn !as late as desired, and thev then go out of themselves. The lamps give a good light,-and though, nee-, essarily, pretty far apart, the light they give is a vast improvement over' the primeval darkness which heretofore held undisputed sway.

Rensselaer has always been the 1 luckiest town in the state, in respect to immunity from destructive fires. But our good fortune in the past is no guarantee forfhe future, and it is contrary to all experience to expect that we shall always escape a bad scorching and when that day comes the people of the tow-n, who can not now be induced to say a word in favor of a fire ; protection, will then not be able to I find words strong enough in condemnation of the policy yrhich left us unprotected. , The Knights of I’ythias Lodge of Rensselaer celebrated the twen-ty-third anniversary of the instiitntion of the order, last Friday evening, in their elegant new Casthe' Hall, by a literary and musical entortainmciit and a banquetaiitl invited’ a much more than ordtnarily pleasant entertainment The order of K. of P. is in a very Nourishing ■teenditiorrthTOUgfipnt the country j generallyTTufd The lodge in Rens selaer is enjoying even more than its full share of the general prosperity of the order,

Rubber goods as cheap as the cheapest at Hemphill & Honan’s. Born. v To Mr. and Airs. John Minicus, a son, last Tuesday morning. Come and buy underwear, yarns, hosiery and mitts at wholesale prices at Hemphill & Honan’s. ’ Edward and Ira Gay wilt build houses in Dwiggins’ addition, north of th.e railroad, in the spring. Mr. Charles Leob, of Attica, Ind., was the guest of Mr. Leopold’s family, over Sunday. Mr.. Leob is a famous musician. Suiveyor Thrawls froze the end of one of his fingers so badly, coming in from Milroy township three or four weeks ago, that he will lose it. * A few days since AVm. Deming, soil of Dr. Deming, of south • Marion, received a kick from a horse, which fractured one bone of his right leg. The lunch supper given by the ladies of the M. E. church, Tuesday evening, was very liberally patronized and netted a clear profit of very nearly thirty dollars. The Commissioners of Newton county appointed Henry T. Parsons, Recorder, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Elisha Parsons, father of the appointee. Senator and Mrs. S. P. Thompson and Mrs. Frank- Foltz went to Indianapolis on the 11:22 train yesterday. The ladies will spend the balance of the week in the capital. The case of Sam Young, the Delphi editor accused of a forgery, will come up before the AVhite circuit court, next Monday. The acts for which he is to be tried were committed in AVhite county. E. L. Clark haying resigned the position of councilman for the third ward, w special meeting g£ the Town Board was' held Monday night, to elect a successor. The choice fell upon E. D. Rhoades.

James and George Antrim went over to Medaryville Sunday, to visit their brother-in-law, Reuben Cox, who is in very poor health. His troubles mainly result from an old war-wound, in the back of his heal, and often affect his mind. ...A. ...q-.-- - The plate glass for the front of ?.Ir. Leopold’s new Ideck will arrive about March ,Ist. It was made in New Albany, and bought through Daniel Stewart, of Indianapolis. Except for the glass front the building is now complete j We understand that the postoffice known as Culp, in Barkley tp., and o-f which the late John G. Culp was postmaster, stands a large chance of being discontinued on account of no suitable person being willing to act as postmaster. Earl 8. Stone has just received back pension to the amount of 811100, the largest ever received by an Indiana soldier. He was made insane by the explosion of a shell, and his pension is allowed at .840 month, and dates back more than 24 years. He was a private in the Seventy-fifth Indiana. He now lives in Washington. G. W. Goff, of the firm of Sigler, Goff A Powell, the railroad contractors, was home from ’"Kentucky from Friday until yesterday nbonb He reports that good progress is being made.in railroad building and that the above firm had over 49 men and 10 teams at tvorki Mr. Goff took six or seven niore men with him yesterday. The following marriage, licenses t Lewis Meyers, 4 Minnie L. Dunn. ( Robert Wilson, j Bus an A. Na.-h. W. Haskill ' | Alfaretta Jones, j Paris T. Robinson, ’ j Emma D. Tillett.

Our stock of hats and caps arc complete. N. Fendig. Abe Long will soon return a graduate in Pharmacy, as he has passed -the necessary exami nation. E. D. Rhoades, late salesman in the Trade Palace, will, begin clerking with Ellis & Murray next month. Air. and Mrs. J. T. Randle went to Asheville, North Carolina, last week, to visit Charles R. Benjamin, and his family. The M. E. Sunday school elected new officers last Sunday. J. F. Warren, Supt.; J. AV. AVilliams, Assistant Supt.’; W. W. AVatson, Chorister. Goodland is going to bore for gas, and no foolishness. About $1,500 was subscribed last week, and two meetings held to arrange the preliminaries. The “Indiana Chemical Company” of Crawfordsville, is a fraudu lent concern which succeeded in getting advertisements inserted in a great many papers, by a bold use of bogus references. Robert McCurdy, charged with burglary, escaped from the Fowler jail on Monday ot last week, the day before his trial was set forHe escaped through a ventilator in the floor, by the help of an outside accomplice.