Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1887 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

Friday, April 1st —The Scott. Zimri Paris started back for Dakota last Saturday. Henry Watson, of Pleasant Ridge, has been granted a pensionIf you want a bargain call on Laßue Bros. For Davis’ 1886 Quilting frames call on Clark & Wood, Rensselaer, Indiana. Our county correspondents have come up to the work nobly this week. New shades in Dress Goods at Ellis & Murray’s. Wedding outfits a specialty. See how much you can eat and spend at the Scott entertainment—especially spend. Agents Wanted. Good wages and easy work. Apply to Clark & Wood, Rensselaer, Ind. Chas. Cook has withdrawn from his connection with the Monon Leader, and Dr. Reed is now sole editor and manager. l’he shortage of Warden “Jack” Howard, ot the southerix prison, now aggregates about 8200,000, and is still increasing. With the aid of Davis’ 1886 quilting frame one lady can make a large size quilt within three hours on any sewipg machine. Mrs. J. M. Hopkins’ millinery store was removed into its new location, two or three doors east, last Monday. The white owl shipped to Chicago last week, found a glutted market and was returned to the shipper, Dr. Bowman, of Blackford. Cephas Atkinson, of Benton Co., drought a large bunch of cattle, mainly in Barkley and Gillam tps., this week, and went home yesterday. .He will gather up the cattle later. Walter Holder, a young married man, from Otterbein, Benton Co., is the tenant on Mr. Bond’s newly purchased farm, north of town. Mr. Holder, like Mr. Bond, is a good citizen and a stanch Republican. Barney Woodworth went over to Beaver Lake Friday and brought home the hunters, Messrs. Starr, Meyer, McCoy and Rhoades. Their success was not phenominally great, 3 as they bagged only about a half dozen geese and 30 or 40 ducks.

Rev. R. C. Mclteynohls, now the i pastor of the Foresman circuit, j Newton Co., was in town Friday j night. He has had good success in his few months of work there ] and has added .31 persons to the four congregations under his j charge. Win. Eisner, lately proprietor! of the store known as the Chicago , Fair, in the Wiliiams-Stockton building, has assigned the stock to Chas. K. Markman, of Chicago, and the latter advertises a sacrifice sale of the goods, for next Saturday and Monday. Mr. Eisner intends removing to Chicago in a short time, we understand. A gentlemaD, who was on the last grand jury in Benton county, informed the Argus reporter Monday that he considered Prosecut- | ing Attorney Marshall one of the fbest, most reliable and efficient ; State’s Attornies this Judicial District has had for years. He regards him as an honest, faithful and obliging public servant, and a man who will see that the law, when necessary, is fully executed so far as lie is individually concerned. — Boswell Argus. D. W. Green & Go., of Remington, have the right ©f Jasper county for the celebrated Mitchell Washer. It has taken immensely in Remington, and is now to be offered to the people of Rensselaei. The agent is making his headquarters at Wright’s furniture! store, where a number of the machines are now on exhibition. Call and j examine them.

.•■ ' . Strive to get the dish, young lady, at the Scott entertainment. Gd and see the new hats and clothing at Ellis & Murray’s. A son was born to Geo. Nicholson, the meat market man, last Monday. The L., N. A. & C. people are building at their own shops one hundred gondola cars of 46,000 pounds capapity. Miss Mollie Babcock has the agency for Jasper county for Gen. Logan’s last book, “The American Volunteer Soldier.” Mrs. Warren, teacher in the first intermediate room, in the Rensselaer schools, is sick this week, and her place i 3 filled by Miss Mai’y Washburn. Mr. YY ood sold four Davis’ 1886 quilting frames the first day’s canvassing. This is a valuable attachment to the sewing machine, and, something that every family ought to own who have any quilting to do. Sixty-two Mitchell Washers have been sold in Remington during the last"few months. - They have given satisfaction in every effse. Two weeks trial given and satisfaction is guaranteed or no sale. T. J. Sayler, of Newton tp, means to keep up with the procession, in the matter of fine horses, and has just purchased a fine, full blood English Draft horse; that is fast growing into general popularity. A missionary convention for the Valparaiso district will be held at Rensselaer, commencing Thursday, April 14, at 2p. m. The purpose of the meeting is to have a hearty co-operation in the grand movement to raise “a bullion for missions.—Monticello Herald. TsaacAlter,Sf.andlsaacAlt&r, Jr., of Union tp., came home from j Clinton county Saturday evening, and the latter had with him a newly wedded bride, nee Miss Phebe Willielm, of Clinton county. The wedding took place last Thursday. It is no longer Jim Morgan, but Squire Morgan, may it please the | court. Squire Jim filed his bond and qualified yesterday. His bond is signed by seven leading citizens, including several of the “best heeled” men in town, and represents an aggregate wealth of more than 8200,000.

W. N. Jones cried the Posey estate sale in Gillam tp., last Saturday. The property all brought excellent prices. Mr. Querry, the administrator, and the widow of |the deceased, join in requesting jus to extend their thanks to their neighbors for their liberal patronage, and to their old neighbor, !Mr. Jones for bis able and suc-cessful-manner of conducting the sale. Reuben H. Cox, son in-law of Dr. Tlios. Antrim, the county Recorder, died at his home in Pulaski county, near Medaryville, last Friday morning, after a lingering illness. His age wag 50 years and 6 months. He was a member of the 20th Indiana regiment, daring the war, and injuries received in ! the service, were the causes of his •death. The funeral was held Saturday, at Medaryville, and was very ; largely attended. Mr. Cox leaves j a widow’ and four children; the latter all grown, except a son of nbout 12 years. We understand that the friends of Pro!. Reubelt do not propose to | let David Thompson have a walki over in the race for that goldheaded cane, at the Scott festival, !on Friday of next week. And it is no way certaiu but that some • “dark horse” candidate, like Char- : lie Warner or Abe Long, or some otiiW pretty and popular yonng fellow, irAll come out at the last minute and mak.e both the afore--1 mentioned gentlenren hustle then [paces to get away with cue prize.

Strive to get the cane, young man, at the Scott entertainment. See Ellis & Murray’s new stock of clothing and hats. * Henry Crawford, of Chicago, has the largest and most lucrative railroad practice in the West. Mrs. Rachel Cox, widow of the late Reuben H. Cox, of Medaryville, is visiting her father, Recorder Antrim. ~ f The Scott will surpass all entertainments of its kind. Don’t fail to honor it with your presence, and make merry with the crowd. Sheriff Burton and his wife, of Pulaski county, who were recently divorced under scandalous circumstances, have been re-united, through the efforts of friends. Miss Alice Havens, assistant in the post-office, went to Richmond, Ind., last Thursday, and has some thoughts of staying there, with relatives, for the summer. Ira W. Yeoman gives notice in the Goodland Herald that he ha 9 sold his law practice in Goodland to A. D. Babcock, and has remoted to Remington. The Scott entertainment and supper, Friday. April Ist. Supper will be ready at 5 o’clock and continue until 8 o’clock, and then the literary exercises will begin. Quarterly meeting at the M. E. church on Saturday and Sunday next. Go and hear Dr. Smith, the presiding elder, on Saturday night and. Sunday. But don’t fail to hear him on Friday night. He will talk about n new church at that time. The first number of the new Francefiville pape", the New Hr a. was issued last Friday. Mr. C. W. Woodman is the editor and publisher and he starts out as though he wanted to give the people a good, reliable psper, dnd had the ability to do it. The work of boring for oil qt Monon has temporarily suspended. The borers went down nearly a hundred feet, mostly through shelf I rock, and as might have been exj pected, the well caved in within 'fifteen feet of the top. The work i will be resumed at once, and tub•ing used. —Loganspmi Journal. A horse'buyer from New York has been in the vicinity for some days, and among other purchases was a good young horse from R. P. Benjamin at 8180. The buyer says he has a match for him, and expects to get 81,GOG for tiro Team, in New York city. _ a ■ «•» A-. -T1 ’

McClure & Frazer, owners of the Lafayette Journal, and Henry W. Wilson, mortgaee of the property, baue been having no end of trouble, contentions and lawsuits about the paper and its outfit, for the last few weeks, and it is now in the hands of receivers and will be sold at public auction, April 2nd, by order of court. Henry Mackey, the marbleworker, requests us to publicly extend his thanks to the many Fiends who weie so kind to him in his recent severe and dangerous sickness, and also to say that he bias now so far recovered his health as to be found every day in his shop, where he invites those needing anything iu his line to call upon him.

We must add still another name to the list of Mexican war veterans, living in Jasper count)’, which is that of Jocob Clouse, who lives in Barkley tp., a few miles northeast of Rensselaer. Sneaking of war survivors, we see it stated that the Commissioner of Pensions is authority for thp statement that, owTng lb the failure of Congress to give him additional clerks, he will be unable to begin placing Mexican war pensioners on the rolls before April, 1888. ' The appropriation for these clerks 1 was included in the deficiency bill, ■which failed to pass in time to bejcome a law.

From 5 to 8 o’clock p. m., April Ist, supper at the Scott. If you are going to buy a new hat and want the latest blpck, go to Ellis & Murray’s. Leslie Clark and Win. Wood have bought Jasper and White counties on Davis’ 1886 quilting frame. Come in and see thelatest styles in Spring millinery, just received from Chicago this week, at Hemphill & Honan’s. Why pay 830.00 for a suit of clothes made to order, when Ellis & Murray will order you one just as good and guarantee a fit for 820. 'Twelve spirts can bo washed as quickly and with less labor, on the Mitchell Washer, as one on a washboard. Two weeks trial, and satisfaction guaranteed, or no sale. Since ihe Mitchell Washer has been introduced in Remington, you couldn’t sell any other kind at any price, nor hardly give them away, Everybody wants the Mitchell and will have it. Twenty-five cents will procure you a seat at a gorgeous table, laden with viands of excellent qualify and flavor, whereat you can satisfy right royally the inner man. Don’t fail to take your supper at the Scott. Mr. J. W. Douthit has let the contract for his new residence on Cullen street to Eger & Smith. The building is to cost about sl,500 and will be very similar in size anc| appearance to H. W. Porter’s residence, north of the school house.

The four or five persons calling themselves the Anderson & Williams Dramatic Company played Peck’s Bad Boy, at the Opera Houser, list Saturday night. The audience was thin but not so thin as the performance. The company is a good deal of a snide.

Auditor Batnett, assisted by Mr. E. L. Clark, of Rensselaer, is accomplishing the labors of the office in a very satisfactory manner. To attempt to discharge the duties without any direction from the retiring officials was somewhat of a hazardous undertaking, but they have gone through with it successfully Mr. Clark has had much experience with county records, though the plans differ considerably at each county seat. -Rochester Republican. F. G. Henkle appears to lie taking care of the street lamps in good shapev The lamps work even better than they did* at first, and are a gre.it comfort and convenience to all honest people who have occasion to be on the streets after, dark. Whatever alleged sarcasm has been levelled at' the lamps has mainly come from those, who, in Scripture parlance, “Love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil.”

Last Sunday, March 20th, was] the date of the Yernal equinox] and at about 5 o’clock in the after-; - noon the sun crossed the Equator At that time and a number of days j preceding ana also during several of the days that have since elapsed, the winds have been from the north. According to old and careful observers of the weather these facts indicate that during the next three months the prevailing winds will be from the north; and a cold dry Spring season be the Result. The people of Benton county have already done considerable in the way of gravel road building, and have reaped such substantial benefits from them that they are about to build still more. The county commissioners have ordered two roads to be built, one running south from Fowler to the ; county line, distance ten miles, and j one running west from Oxford to I Boswell, seven miles. The contract for the fowler road will lie let on the 6th of April and for the Oxford and Boswell road on the 1 7th.

John Hurlßy r of Blackford, Jiabeen granted a pension. E. P. Honan visited his Delphi relatives over Suudny, for the first time in more than two years. Dr. J. L. Smith will address tlm meeting at the M. E. church, in the interest of the new church building, on Friday night. All the old enginas on the L. N. A. & C. are to be rebuilt as fast as they can be put through the shops. Already six have been rebuilt, and are doing excellent service on, tin main line. Ladies wishing straw hats sewed in latest spring shapes will call on Hemphill & Honan. They have blocks on which to press hats and can do first class work. Try them. It is announced that after April Ist, the night passenger trains will become regular mail trains, with mail cars and-route agents. At present they only carry through mail, and in the care of the bag-gage-men . Mrs. Jerry Pence, widow of the Newton county man who was kilL ed in that freight train collision near Cedar Lake, last Fall, has cepted $4,000 from the L.. N. A. C. Ry. Company, and withdrawn her suit asking for SIO,OOO. Last Friday was the fortieth anniversary of the marriage of our esteemed townsman, W. E. Moore, and his excellent wife. The day wus not made the occasion of any festivities, .or celebrated in any way, owing to the serious ill-health of Mrs. Moore.

The News, of Remington, is earnestly advocating the building of gravel roads, from that town to the surrounding county. It is especially anxious for a road into the Gilboa region, in Benton county, Thi News claims, and no doubt correctly, that the salvation of the trade of the town depends largely upon the building of better roads into ij ■' / ; .'/ Chas. Harding and John Olsen, alias Butter-milk, of this place, joined the “Anderson & Williams Dramatic Company,” which gave “Peck’s Bad Boy” in the Opera House, last Saturday night, and are now travelling with the company. Harding goes as advance agent, and Olsen as one of the performers.

Nothing can be done by our citizens at the present time that will add more to our town as a place of residence, and consequently a place for business, "and make the place appear more attractive to i strangers speking a location, than ’the erection of neat churches. Hence we are glad that our Methodist people are beginning to move in this direction. Let every busi- ! ness man in town turn out to the ; meeting, at the M. E. church, on : Friday night. r —t In response to a request we * again publish' the names of tfie books upon some one of which ! teachers are now required to furnish a review or an essay, of not less than 000 words: Tales of Two Cities, David Copperfield, Ivanhoe, Heart of Midlothian, Henry Esmond, The Spy, The Pilot, The Scarlet Letter, The Sketch Book, Knickerbockers of New York, The Happy Boy (by Bjomson), Twice Told Tales, poems of Longfellow', Whittier, Bryant and Lowell.

Among otner good jobs in the 1 horse ehromo line lately executed in The Republican office, was ono for the Gil lam Live-Stock Association, for their fine Clydesdale and Norman horses. They are very particular gentlemen, but our bills suited them to aT. We have a good collection of horse cuts already on hand, and a vast assortment of specimens to select from, ■ and are confident that we can get l up a satisfactory bill for any kind i of a horse. I r \