Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1887 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

Capt. Benj. Faris, of Gillam tp., has been granted an increase of pension. Geo. O. Hoover is building a : tenant house opposite the Hoover j school house. ' [ The youngest child of Simon | Chupp, who lives north of Surrey, i ' is very low ivith lung fe’*cr. You can’t go to the Dickens, but you can go to the Scott to-morrow evening. Do not fail to see the fifty costumed Scott characters, Friday evening, at the Opera House. Three fine new postal cars are being built for the night mail service, an the L., N. A &C. Railway. If you want a bargain call on Laßue Bros. Father Freeland, of Newton tp., is recovering frbm a spell of sickness. Mr. Freeland is 78 years old. Mrs. Jas. Querry, of Pleasant Eklge, has gone to Tipton to care for a sister, who has the consumption. She expects to remain there for several months. New shades in Dress Goods at Ellis & Murray’s. Wedding outfits a specialty. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Porter took the train for Ivansas, Tuesday, with the intention of examining into the prospects of a number of towns, with a view to possible removal. ** j Married.—At the residence of j the bride’s uncle, Mr. S. Erwin, in Rensselaer, Ind., on Wednesday evening, March 23,1887, Mr. Chas. Vondersmith and Miss Alice Er- i win, both of Remington, Ind., Rev. David Handley officiating. > Yaas S%A D*-t are, Mitchjsß’Sr washer jes takes d© cake. Mitchell’s Washer takes the lead of all others in this country. J. J. Stowers, of Fairbury, Neb., a former resident of this county, is spending the spring season with his many friends and relatives in this vicinity. His health is poor. His father, who came east with him, is now in the southern part of the state. j Elder E. O. Sharpe, of the Discipler church, will commence - a series of meetings, in the Christian church, next Monday evening, to continue for one week or more. □Sir. Sharpe held a very successful meeting at Remingfon last year and more recently at Fianeesville. All are invited. Let the house be full the first night. Bill Green, brother of the man who murdered Lueila Mabbitt, was arrested in Kansas, a few days ago. He murdered a man at a picnic, at YYmng America, Carroll county, four years ago. He got into a row with the young man and was thrashed; then went home, got bis revolver, returned to the picnic and shot the young mam dead. The number nine is an important digit in the in the life history ot our venerable and esteemed friend, JjTS. V. Dutton, of Jordan tp. He was born on the twentynip th day of the ninth Ynonth of the ninth year of the Nineteenth century. He has nine living children and has had twenty-nine grand-children. His age is noweight times nine. L. M. Spotts, while at hw.', , corresponded with the president ; and secretary of-the Rochester, Rensselaer &, St. railway company in regard to the building of the road this season. All the satisfaction he received was that: the contract had been let to tire | construction company, work to be- : gin April Ist. and that it lay entirely with them. In all probas.nlity work will not begin until July ] ] or August, and, perhaps, not at all, j i this Beason. —Rochester Tribune . j

Let every citizen of Rensselaer and vicinity take supper at the Scott festival. •James Welsh was in town Tuesday, the first time since his leg was broken, a couple of months or so ago. ' ; ■ Rev. D. A. West, of Flora, Ind.. will preach in the Missionary Eapjtist church, -next Sabbath, April j 3rd, morning and evening. Go and see the new hats and clothing at Ellis & Murray’s. S. L. Swain, formerly of this place, but later of Rose Lawn, has gone to Chicago to enter ,the employ of tire Osborne Reaper Company. Let father and mother, brother land sister, beaux and sweethearts, the aged and the youth, the rich and the poor',' all attend the Scott to get a royal supper and have a grand, good time. Married. —Sunday afternoon, March 27th, at the residence of the bride's mother, in Barkley township, by Rev. David Ilandly, Mr. John Koadifer, of Jordan tp., and Miss Lydia Grafchc-r, of Barkley tp. What shall I get my dnckic dove, my sweetest angel from above,-to prove to her my won-! drous love? A Mitchell Washeiv Park Wright, manager of the ‘-Old Reliable” Wright. Furniture and Undertaking establishment, has made arrangements for a firstclass cabinet maker, who will be- j jgin work about April 10th. j Please bear in mind, gentleman, l that Hemphill & Honan carry a: dafidy line of samples in foreign and domestic clollis. Give them a call if needing a spring suit, A ! saving of from five to ten dollars on each suit. Christopher Favler. whose death in Union tp., March was noticed in this paper, was over 68 years old; and was born in Columbian Co., Ohio. He was the father of twelve children, seven of whom survive him: the grandfather of twenty-one and great-grand-father of three. Thp through trains on the L., N. A. & C. road will in a few weeks be equipped entirely with new coaches, now building for them, • and the old-coaches will be pub in use m their excursion business, which, during the summer months, to Cedar Lake and other points on the road, reaches large proportions j and really is limited by the passenger cars they can command.' — TDelvhi Timesr ’ The “shooting” of the Frauees- ' yiile- ml well toSlf ptnneiasUTliursday. We hare not learned the full effects, but have pretty good authority for saying Unit the report that the well is ruined, or nearly so, by a large How of salt water, its icorrect. The” boring is still going on, however; 'and the citizens are said to ha raising money for a second well. . The'Clerk has’issued the followtewing marriage licenses since” last J teported. t Martin O’BvUn. '( Mary Mullen. . i Win. F. Osborne, i ;' gMarietta A.. Copper. | • j Chas. A. Yondeismith, i I Alice M. Erwin. i f S John Roadiier, | I Lydia Gratner. j • t .fohn W. Clemans, j Emma M. Gant. Miss Babcock._ for th;.? county for Gen. Ikogan’s last and j.greatest work, “ilu.- Volunteer. So:rdier of. America” has received her J jtgeni~s i:iutiit r -and-pmspeci.n3 ead Jjfegan the;sale of the work. The •book giaafee'ii masterly .history of MlWdseds iisd~gat!unitt- 75f ttei"voT- _ . -W. : -V —e —.— j unteer soldiers of all our wars; and | also contains Gen. Logan’s personYd reminisc-mces of ■ file - Civil War. It is surely-a surpassing!)- | valuable and interesting work, a: t (can not fail of a large sale.

The home ol L. R. Florence, of Barkley township, was gladdened the 23d by the advent of a daughter. Mrs. Warren had so far recovered het health as to be able to re- . sume her' place in school,, last Monday morning. See Eilie & Murray’s new stock of elofching and hats. The making to order of picture frames, book-cases and window curtain hangings, a specialty, at Wright’s furniture store. Miss Della Hopkins is now in Indianapolis, learning the latest style of trimming in the wholesale house of Fahntey & McCrea’s millinery establishment. John Allman is in Rensselaer in-) tvoducing the Micthell Washer.. With John at the helm we predict that his tubs will sail last into the market. There will be no question as to their sale wherever they are introduced. —Itemiiujtoa Xeics. I Dr. Mary Jackson has completed her medical course in Indianapolis, and returned to Rensselaer, where She thinks of permanently locating It is rumored that herself and husband think of erecting a large sanitarium at- this place. i Why pay £30.00 for a suit of ! clothes made to order, when Ellis & Murray will 1 oMer you one just as good and guarantee a fit for S2O. Come in and see the latest styles in Spring mi!l inery fi just received -from Chicago this week, at Hemphill k Hoßan’g. | The board of Assessors met in the Auditor’s office, yesterday, at ten o’clock. The official report cf their prbeedings, and tabular, state, merit of the bases of assessments agreed upon appears in another place in this week’s Republican. The Grand Jury organized Monj and has been hard at j workover since. Henry 4 Grow is l-foreman. But very little business |of importance has been done by jibe circuit court. The casd'of Dan lColeman is set for next Tuesday; | and that of McGregor for Wednesday. Messrs. J. W. Williams and Frank Osborne spent the last three iclays of last week in Chicago, buying a large stock of furniture with which they intend to open a partnership store in the east room of The Williams-Htocktom building. ;Mr. Osborne will have imme- ! diate charge of the business. ! • | The Makeover Bros., John L. l and Sanford, who have been doing : a prosperous law and loan broking | business..at Osceola, Neb., for two |or three years, have been extend- ! ing the sphere of their operations, I and now have a branch business !at Strom berg, Neb. The latter is managed by the junior partner. i Ladies of Jasper comity, we have. : so., ured the services of Miss Hattie • | Wiley, from the widely known j ieery house of D., B. Fisk k 1 Co., of Ciiicago. who~ comes to N us with the beot of reference. She ' will take charge of our millinery department L>r.theemsuingseason. Please reserve vour. orders for us. j Hemp Hill a Honan. ; ; Km Emi .Kennedy's greet frr.ns- ; continental railroavl company has been put in the hands, of a re eery-; er, and a few oi j its stockholders mihatcity are to! cMted-uponJiv tlie courts for ateii ; ;■ cmd: - .-’s-nuent, to pay p’ug--irr<ndsnrgairiM tlmeoigpany. Among the names of .these sstockh-olders aro wadi Jbuywk pipftla Aim •Jame-H H. Rice, John ?r. Rev.Myroh W. Reed and John |Hv Stewart. Il ill' be reanembem -J that was oil the main V’i of Kennedy’s road, and that- : try to defeat the by Marijpn tp., to the Rochester, jßensselaer & St. Louis Railroad.

A son was born at Frank Luers in town, yesterday morning. i Married. —By Rev. T. E. Webb, Marcli 21 th, 1887, Wib. F. Osborne •and Miss Marietta A. Coppess, rbotli of Gillam township., ' B i John O’Conner, of Walker tp.Cs the first person to order his copy of The Republican sent to Kniman, the new ’post-office in I\ r al-! ker. The only successful washier ever 1 invented will wash an armful oU clothes at a time. It is the Mitch- 1 ell.- ; Don’t- fail to examine the Mitchrj ell washer, at Park IVriglit’s furniture Etore. Neil Brusnahan, formerly of Surrey, orders The REPUBLICAN j sent to him at-E mpire, in Lewis an d | Clark county, in far off Montana. ; A herd of Ido or more young dtit- j tie lately purchased in this county | by Wm. VanNatta, of Fowler, | weie driven through town on the ! way to Beaton county, Tuesday. 1 IE you are going to buy a new hat and want the latest block, go j to Ellis & Murray’s. Ladies wishing straw- hats sew- ; ed in latest soring- shapes will; call on Hemphill k Honan. They ! have blocks on which to press hats anti can do first class ivork. Try j them. -s . | The people of Hebron, in Porter county, n few miles north of the borders of Jasper county, have organized a company and are about to bore for what they can find. They .expect to go 2,000 feet, if they can’t find anything valuable at a less depth. Charles R. Benjamin and family returned from their winter’s stay in Asheville, N. C. last Saturday, and are now stopping with, Mrs. Benjamin’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mieah Sayler, in town. Mr. Benjamin is very feeble and wa are sorry to say that his southerp sojourn does not seem to have been of much permanent benefit. Mr. John Cooper, widely known to a large proportion of our readers as “Uncle Johnny Cooper” died at his residence in Barkley township, last Saturday morning. His sickness was the result of chronic indigestion, ancl had been loDg continued. He was born in Guildford county, N. C., and was nearly 75 years old. He had been-a resident of Jasper county for 47 years, being thus one of our oldest settlers. He was the father of nine children, eight of whom, four sons, William, John, George and Harrison, and four daughters, Mrs. Jane Platt, Mrs. Anna Guss, Mrs. Sarah McCleary and Mrs. Abigail Call, survive him. These are all resiof Jasper county and are the parents of large families. The funeral was held Sunday and was largely attended. The remains j were buried in the Prater graveyard, in Barkley tp. Rev. BeWitt Talmnge sizes up the evils of intemperance and especially the fearful end foolish waste of it, in the

| following linking. maimer: : rt C»alh-' ! er up the money the working class- ! es have spent for rum during the S last thirty years, and I will build j for every workingman a house; - \ • and lay ouf for’liim a garden, and J | clothe his sons in broadcloth and 1 his daughters in silks, and stand at his front door a prancing span • of sorrels or bays, and secure him ■ j a policy of life insurance, so that [the present home may be well | maintained alter he is dead. The most persistent, most overpower- | ing enemy of the working classes \is intoxicating liquor* It is *the Tnnarchist of the centuries, and has j boycotted and is now boycotting ihe body and mind and soul of American labor. It is to it a worse foe than monopoly, and worse than associated capital,’'