Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1887 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

Peek’s Bad Boy. A daughter was born to Eli Creißtler, north of town, March 9th. If you want a bargain call on Laßue Bros. Our stock of hats and caps are complete, N. Fendig. Peck’s Bad Boy. At the Opera House, Saturday night. A beautiful line of fancy goods just in. HEMniiLL A Honan. Emmet Kannal was in Chicago Tuesday, on business. A fine line of canned and evaporated fruits cheap at Laßue Bros. Notions to please all at Hemphill & Honan's. Charlie Porter is filling a temporary vacancy in the telegraph office at Dyer. An infant daughter of Perry Marlatt, of Barkley tp., died Tuesday night, of lung fever. Make turnpikes in the Spring and ditghes in the Fall; is the beginning and the end of wisdom, in regard to road-work in this locality-

R. P. Benjamin gives notice that he has transferred his stock of lumber to Rawson, Root & Co., of Michigan City, but that he will continue to conduct the business. It was Curtis Randle, a fourteen or fifteen year old son of John Randle, of Hanging Grove, and not John b imself, whose foot was so badly cut, and mentioned last week. The Rochester gas well had reached a depth of 738 feet, last week, when a temporary stop was put to drilling, for the purpose of casing to prevent the entrance of water. Dr. Chas. N. Huston haß completed his course at the Ohio Medical College, at Cincinnati, and received his degree last w r eek. The Doctor was formerly a resident of Rensselaer. Messrs. C. C. Starr, T. J. McCoy, F. B. Meyer and M. D. Rhoades are off on their regular spring hunt at Beaver Lake- They left very early in the week, and expected to return by Friday. The horses of most of the farmers w'ho drive into town now days are sleek and unctious and rolling in fat; but they won’t alHook and feel quite so scrumptious when the Spring plowing is done, tra! la! B. F. Ferguson has sold his grain business'at Foreeman, to p. W. Hartley, of Goodland. His agent, Bayard Clark, came home last Thursday. During the three months of his stay there, he bought 15,000 bushels of corn. Our announcement of last week that A. D. Babcock had purchased the Goodland Herald seems to have been premature (although it was made on the authority of Mr. Babcock himself ) for the last is- ' sue of that paper announces that it has passed into the hands of W. W. Miller. - _fc. ..

The good book says, "Thou shalt not take thy children’s bread and throw it unto dogs.” The man who spends in the saloons the money, winch his wife and children need, does that very thing; and if there be any hereaf- i ter in which men will be held to : account for the deeds done in this | , life, he will not be held guiltless, j The railroad companies are now | moving for the general adoption j of the 24 hour system of counting time, and a time convention of all ; the railroads in the country will! be held April 13, to consider the subject. If the railroads adopt the system, and they probably will, it is likely that the people generally will follow suit, and the old and awkward distinctions of a. up and 1 p. m, will be abandoned,

Peck’s Bad Boy. Saturday night. The March term of the Circuit Court begin? next Monday. Old Mr. Fayler, who lived op J. M. Troxell’s place, in Union tp., died last Monday. The cheapest place in town to buy carpets is at Hemphill A Honan’s. Hon. Chas. Harley, of Delphi, the able Representative of Carroll county, in the State Legislature, was in town Tuesday night. Zimri Paris, the prosperous lawyer and land agent, of Bridgewater, Dak., is making his Rensselaer friends a short visit. The Remington News adds the names of T. J. Turpin and F, R. Donnelly to the list of t)ie Mexican war veterans, of Jasper county. We have a large variety of horse cuts, suitable for all kinds of horses, including several new ones, and are ready to print horse bills on short notice, and at low rates. The Cleaver family has temporarily broken up housekeeping, and yesterday morning, Miss Belle apd her brother Johnny departed for Mason City, 111., tp visit relatives. Another fine boy came to gladden the household of Auditor G. M. Robinson, yesterday. He is boy number seven and the eleventh child of Mr. and Mrs. Robinson’s family, now living.

Among the many other eminent owners of Jasper county land is now to be reckoned Prof. Wm. A. Bell, editor of the Indiana School Journal, who has just acquired 80 acres, in Keener tp. The Clerk has issued marriage licenses to the following persons since last reported: ( Fritz H. -Zard, 1 Belle R. Stiers, i Jay 8. White, | Sadie Hilton. Simon Phillips, the ex-superin-tendent, moved in from the poor farm Monday and Tuesday. He will temporarily occupy a portion of Mrs. Josie Irwin’s house, near the Church of God, until his own house is rebuilt. The room formerly occupied by Dr. Loughridge as an office, but now the property of Ralph Fendig, is being fitted up for the acj commodation of Mrs. J. M. Hopj kins’ millinery store, which will be moved into it in a short time. Messrs. J. H. Willey and J. H. S. Ellis; went over to Mount Ayr Monday morning to take an inventory of the goods saved from Wilj ley & .-Sigler’s store, at the late ; fire. They returned Tuesday evening. Tne yalue of the goods ‘Saved was about 85,000. C. A. Roberts will not-build his brick agricultural implement and | carriage warehouse, on Van Rensselaer street, until Fall. In the mean time he will continue to do business at the old stand on Front street. His announcement tor the Spring season appears in another column. - i The state cases in the Newton circuit court were disposed of at Kentland, last week. Homer Danger, accused of stealing Abe Hal- | leek’s watch, and who was arrested jin Rensselaer, was acquitted The ! evidence against him was very | strong," but he swore himself that J he was not guilty and the jury ev- ! idently thought that he was tec inice a man to lie about a little t thing like that, and voted to acquil him. Edward Hugo Shultz, a Kentland tailor, got two years foi bigamy. Samuel Hendrickson received a jail sentence for steal' ing a harness; and two or thret others wgre convicted of misde | meanors.

It is now almost impossible to find an empty tenant house, in the whole town. A Congress of cute customers are daily passing bills in our favor. Willey A Sjg ler. Ingrain Carpets.- Twenty-five cents a yard. Cheapest ever offered in the town, at the Trade ace:~'Come\n and see the latest styles in SpringVnillinery, just received from Chicago this week, at Hemphill A Honan’s. J. Q. Alter has just bought Mrs. Julia Healey’s tenant house, near the old school house, and will soon ocupy the same as a residence. Mrs. Hemphill and Mrs. Honan went to Chicago Monday to buy goods and study styles in millinery, for a few days. A gold-headed cane is to be voted to the most popular gentleman at the forthcoming fcjcott Festival. We nominate David J. Thompson for the honor. Mr. Willis Pruett, of Marion tp., will move into town and occupy J. Chamberlain’s house, on River street, just vacated by N. V. Cleaver. Prof. Robinson, principal Union Business College, of Lafayette, has arranged a Spring term for teachers. Our young teachers should improve this oppoitunity. The total contract price for furnishing medical attendance to the poor of the county for 1887 is $343. In 1880 it was $359, and in 1885 it was $691.

Ladies wishing straw hats sewed in latest soring shapes will call on Hemphill A Honan. They have blocks on which to press hats and can do first class work. Try them. The first of the big cisterns built tor the town by W. D. Robinson now stands in the street before M. Eger’s shop, on Van Rensselaer street. It is a pretty large cistern for the kind. Watered with the dew of good intentions. Warmed by the sunshine of fair dealing, the dollars I you bring us will grow and expand to colossal proportions. Willey & Sigler. ~ --- * N " ' ' ■ - ; ' Uncle Isaac Barkley, who lives on Main street, lately raised by subscription a sum large enough to pay for a good washing machine for Mrs. Kissenger, a poor but deserving widow, with a large family, who lives on Weston street.

On Friday, March 11,* Charles H. Price, formerly clerk of the Jasper Circuit Court, was appointed by Gov. Church, one of a commission of three to compile the laws of the Territory of Dakota. This is a lucky strike for Mr. Price, as there is a right liberal salaiy attached to the office, and besides is a very valuable advertisement to him in a professional way.

A mechanic who had been in the ; habit of droppibg into a beer saloon twice a day and spending five : cents a time for a glass of beer,, was captivated one day by a new thought. “1 am poor,” he 6aid to himself; “my family need every cent I can earn; it is growing more and more expensive every year; soon I shall want to educate my children Ten cents a day for beer! Let me see: that is sixty cents a week! That is thirty-one dollars and a year! And it does me no good; it may do me "harm. Let me see”—and here he took a piece of ehalk and the problem on a board —“I can buy two barrels of flour, one hundred pounds of sugar, five pounds of tea and six bushels of potatoes for that sum.” Pausing for a moment, as to allow the grand idea to take flill possession of himself, he then exclaimed: “I will never waste another cent on beer.”

Some of the farmers in the southern part of the county began sowing oats last week. Economy and solid satisfaction is guaranteed if you trade at the Trade Palace. A Commercial Teeter.-— We are at the top, but our prices are at the bottom. Wjllley A Sigler. Shelby Grant, the now Superintendent of the county poor farm, took possession of that institution, last Tuesday. Timothy Seed.— J. E. Ilollett, hardware dealer, at Remington, has five hundred bushel of choice timothy seed for sale at $2 per bushel. 3t.

Quarterly meeting at the M. E. church, on Saturday and Sunday, March 26 and 27. Rev. J. L. Smith, presiding elder, will be present and conduct the services. We understand that Kannal has decided not to build his proposed new residence, on the Martin place* op South River st., until another year. Come iu and see our carpets. Our samples are all new and cheaper than ever. We can save you 10 per cent, on carpets if you call soon. Hemphill A Honan. A good farm of 120 acres in the southeast part of Jordan township, known as the Green farm, is for rent for a term of five years. Enquire of Mordecai F. Chilcote. Rev Ferguson went down into Tippecanoe county, Sunday, Mch. 6th, and performed the marriage ceremony for Mr. C. M. Henderson, of White county, and Miss Jackson, of Tippecanoe. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Fendig died last Friday evening, of a bowel trouble. Its age was about five months. The funeral was held Sunday, at Lafayette. The executive officers of the railroad companies, all over the country, seem to be making every preparation for a full compliance with the Inter-state commerce bill, which goes into effect April Ist.

Wall papering and decorating of all kinds, done promptly and in a workmanlike manner, and at reasonable prices. Satisfaction guaranteed. Leave orders at Kaunal’s or Meyer’s drug store. Wm. Lester. Later accounts from Mary Baker state that after partaking of a little food for * a short time, she relapsed into her former condition, 'and is still diving without sustet nance, and without, prospect of recovery. j Alice, the beautiful five-year old • daughter of Ernest C. and Catheri ine Owens, died Sunday night, of 1 membraneous croup. The funeral ! was held from the Catholic church : Tuesday morning, the burial be- ; ing in the Catholic cemetery, south [of town..

U. S. Graut, of Newton tp., has been having a great deal of trouble with the broken leg, we mentioned a short time ago. The tissues j of the foot and ankle were badly ' broken, and the bone was much splintered, w&h the result that gangrene hail set in to such an extent last Sunday that his physicians, Loughridge and Bitters, feared that the limb would have to be amputated; but on a second examination, Tuesday, there were indications of considerable improvement The Chicago & Indiana Coal road managers are still negotiating for a lease of the Chicago <t West Michigan track, with which their road connects at LaCrosse, Ind., as well as the Evansville & Indianapolis from Saline City to Evansville, In case of the failure of the latter —the lease of the former is said to be assured—they ! will extend their line from Brazil south to Rockport via. Jasper,— J Indianapolis Journal.

The benevolent neighbors and friends of the family of Mr. Edward Webb, who were burned out, in Barkley township, last winter, have lately contributed and handed over to them eighty-two dollars in cash, besides numerous other useful presents. Mr. Nelson Randle was the prime mover in raising the money and was also a liberal giver. It is a truly blessed thing to relieve the distressed and the unfortunate, and we rejoice to be able to record such acts as the above. Prof. Curtis, of the Chicago Theological Seminary, preached at the Presbyterian ehuroh last Saturday evening and Sunday morning, and evening, and held communion services at the morning meeting. At this service six persons united with the church, namely, Mrs. J. P. Hardman, Miss Norah Hopkins, Libbie Walton and L. Hollingsworth, by profession, and Mrs. J. W. Powell and Mrs. Rosa Seib, by letter. Orton Wendell Bitters and Frank Finley Hardman, infants, were christened. Barton, the man in whose saloon the Mt Ayr fire originated has received $414 in settlement of his claims, the full amount of his insurance being SSOO. It is rereliably stated that he offered to. sell the building and all its contents lor S4OO, a short time before the fire. The insurance company hesitated a little about paying without further investigation, but being threatened with an immediate lawsuit, and knowing the proclivities of juries to decide all cases against corporations, regardless of evidence, they concluded tq pay it and have done with it. The drawing of Mr. Kannal’s music box took place at three o’clock last Saturday afternoon. Two disinterested spectators opened the sealed envelope, which held the lucky number, BDd which had been placed there by the person in Chicago of whom the box was purchased, over three months ago. No one in Rensselaer knew what that number was, until the envelope was opened. The number upon the ticket was 1728, and upon referring to the book in which the numbers were registered, it was found that the name of Mr. J. H. Willey, the merchant, was written opposite that number, and of course he received the box. The six numbers nearest the lucky one also belonged to Mr. Willey.

The circumstances . connected with the late fire at Mount Airy are such as to raise a strong suspicion that it was the work of an incendiary. If such was the case, the most reasonable explanation for the motive of the act would have been a desire to obtain the insurance upon the undesirable and unprofitable property in which the fire originated. The matter ought to be investigated and the truth found out, if possible. If some unspeakable wretch has started this fire, and caused all this distress and irreparable loss to i others, for the sake of getting ja lew hundred dollars insurance money, he ought either to get a long term in the penitentiary or a sbori term in a slipping noose.