Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1887 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

! Oats are nearly nil sown. Rain is needed to bring them out. Mrs. Hale Warner is in Hammond tliis week, visiting her relatives. If you are going to buy a new hat and want the latest bloek, go j to EIHb & Murray’s. Mrs. Jennie Itaudle, wife of John Randle, of Kansas, is visiting her husband’s family, in this place, * Come in and see the latest styles in Spring millinery, just received from Chicago this wees, at Hemphill & Honan’s. The long dry spell has resulted in many dangerous fires in the northern portion of the county; of which particulars will be found in our county correspondence. The Pan Handle railroad has just reduced its passenger fares in this state from four cents a mile to three cents. Fares on the L., N. j A. &, C. have long been three cents a mile. Forget your own age, forget your wife’s name, forget how many children you have but DON’T forget that Willey & Sigler are still selling the best of goods at the lowest prices. Taken Up. At the farm of Jas. Ritchey, 4 miles southwest of Rensselaer, a red and white spotted yearling bull. If owner will call at once he can have the animal by paying for this notice and a moderate sum for his keeping. Omar Ritchey. Harry Zimmerman is learning telegraphy in the express office, the school-from which those able and successful young operators; Emerson Reeves and Charley Porter graduated. Harry is a good, steady boy and we think will make it win. Squire Jim Morgan got in his first work in preforming the marriage ceremony, Saturday afternoon. The parties united were Mr. Henry Wales and Mrs. Franciua Spitzer, both of Pair Oaks. The ceremony was preformed in the parlors of the Antrim restaurant. That little boy who purchased his new school suit all by himself at Willey & Sigler’s, secured just as good a bargain as his father or mother could for the reason that this fair dealing firm have but one low price for every body, and every garment they sell is of sterling quality. The Valparaiso District Missionary Convention begins to-day, in the M. E. church, at this place: A mass meeting is to be held this evening and will be r addressed by Rev. G. W. Boydjand others. The M. E. church of this country has laid out to raise a “Million for Missions” this year,' by collections alone. If any doubt the level headedmess,and integrity of the jury which tried Dan Coleman, last week, let them read their names and be conviueeil oL-theiji' error; they were* Berry Paris, S. C. Hammond, Jared Benjamin, D. S. Makeever, C. B. Steward, J. M. Hopkins, N. A'. Snodgrass, O. M. Vickery, Stacy English, Archibald Shand, B. L. Sayler and D. H. Yeoman. Dept. Sheriff Orlando Yeoman was out near 0. J. Brown's place, south of town Sunday morning, and got out **f his buggy, and between the wheels, to adjust something that was out of order, when hfg-fgam tlTrgn 7 " him to the ground and bruised him a little, but not seriously. The team ran about two miles, and wer9 caught near J. Robinson’s place, east or town. They were attached to a bran new top buggy, but broke nothing. One of the horses was somewhat injured.

The prospects of the wheat crop in this county are excellent. J. H. Ellis and family visited his father’s family, near Monticello over Sunday. Ernest Owens did the papering in Mrs. Kannal’s house and Weaver & Lester the painting and graining-

The two Mrs. Porters, wife and mother of H. W. Porter, went to Onarga, 111., Tuesday, to visit friends for a few weeks. Rev. W. J. Buchanan of Belleville, Ind., will preach in the Missionary Baptist church, next Sunday morning and evening. All are invited. The walls and ceiling of the G. A. R. Hall have just been papered and decorated in a most beautiful and appropriate manner and a handsome new carpet put upon the floor. The plank walk in the public square caught fire Sunday afternoon, just in front of the court house entrance, probably from the lighted stub of a cigar. Itwae extinguished before any damage was done. Win. Eisner i 3 packing that portion of his stock of goods not traded to Win, B. Austin, consisting mainly of clothing and furnishing goods; and will soon remove the same to Chicago, in which city he expects to make his future residence. Sheriff Yeoman was down to Brookston last week, and bought of Alkire, the noted short-horn cattle breeder, a yearling full blood short-horn bull, paying $l5O for him. He was only a year old in March, and weighs 960 lbs. He was sired by the well known Commander 2nd.. ~ lC Elder Sharpe, the Disciples evangelist, now at Rensselaer, intends to rembve his family from Englewood, 111., to 4 his old home at Watseka next week, and hereafter to devote himself entirely to evangelical labor. The whole of the month of May he expects to spend at Lemont, 111.. His meetings here will probably close next Sunday night. Regular mail service was established on the night trains on tire" L. N. A. (i C road last week, the first trains* having the mail cars being Thursday night. The experinced route agents on the road were mostly transferred from the day trains to the night ones and new men were put in charge of the day mails. These last made mighty poor work of handling the mail, at first, and on two or three occasions failed to put off any mail at Rensselaer at all. Lowell Tribune. Johnson & Co. came here about the first of September last, since which time they have renovated 300 feather beds, exclusive of pillows etc. The work has given entire .satisfaction to those who had work done by them, While here they have proven .themselves to be gentlemen'in the strictest sense of that terra. We have hot heard a muimur against them. We take pleas* lire in recommending them .and their work to the people whereVer they go. They have the new steam power process. The tiles for underdraining the public square have been distributed, and will soon be placed in position. There is no doubt ’out whot these tiles will be an excellent improvement fqnjueiim?; but there is a well grounded fear that the roots of the many trees in the squarC' will grow down into ftlid fill up the tiles, after a few’ years. These fears find a strong confirmation in some tiles recently dug up neffr the McDade house in Newton’s addition, from a depth of 3 or four feet. These were found grown full of roots, and entirely blocked up. •

E. G. Warren is preparing tc remove to Kansas in a short time. Henry Watson, near Pleasant Ridge,4ias a new daughter; born last Thursday. Mrs. Chas. Johnson, of Whitehall, Mich., is visiting relatives in Rensselaer. / • Geo. E. Murray of Ellis & Murray, went to Chicago yesterday to buy goods for a couple of days. - The thermometer was up in the eighties, yesterday and Tuesday; which is pretty warm for the second week of April. N. Warner went to Dixon, 111., yesterday to lay in a further stock of agricultural implements, to meet the demands of an unusually brisk spring trade. Charley Hurding lias completed his engagement as advance agent for the Peck’s Bad Boy company, ancl is now at houre busy at his trade, painting.

Dr. W. W. Hartsell and Thos. J. McCoy are recent additions to the prosperous and popular Knights of Pythias lodge, of this place. Ex-Surveyor, L. S. Alter, was in town Tuesday. He has lately removed with his family to near Kentland, where he owns a half interest in the tile factory of Alter & Ilarriinan. “A Million for Missions” is the motto of the Methodists. Attend the missionary mass-meeting at the Methodist meeting house to-night. It is a most meritorious money-making measure. Last Sunday, in the M. E. church, after a powerful sermon by li ev. Handley, the regular annual missionary collection-was taken up , and amounted-to S4O. Members who were not present will probably swell this amount to at least SSO. Danl. Coleman was given two years ip the penitentiary. The absence of the girl,’who was the main witness for the state, threw great responsibility upon Prosecutor Marshall, who was equal to the emergency, and deserves special 1 notice for the able manner in which he handled the case.—Remington News. An old settlers reunion will soon be held at W illey & Sigler’s store, as this enterprising firm are desirous of proving that at no time within the memory, of the oldest inhabitants have goods been sold so low as the prices they are now asking for their stock of strictly i first-class goods. “Let the parties join hands. By the authority vested in me by the laws of the State of Indiana, I pronounce you man and wife”; were the words used by Squire Morgan, at his first wedding, the other day. The Squire, who’is a barber, evidently believes that in this warm weather, marriage ceremonies, like hair, should be cut short. Drs. Loughridge, Bitters and Victor Loughridge successfully | amputated young Grant’s leg, at a i point a few inches above the ankle | joiHt, last Thursday. 'J. he operation was successfully and skillfully [preformed, and the young man ! now seems well on the road to a i prompt recovery; but*it is a hard i blow to a young man to lose a limb, i just at the beginning of life, k Last Friday afternoon Elder ! Sharpe administered ordinance “of ; baptism to Mrs. Ella Rcubelt, Miss iDora Healey and Miss Maud | Green; and on Sunday afternoon to Mrs. YY. W. Reeve, Misses Jennie Miller and Ola sigler, and George Healey, Rue Priest, Lacy Gwin and Warren Washburn. The ‘"gsreinony took place-m- tho river, ' about 80 rods below Hyland’s mil] ; profFwasTof course, by immersion, as the Disciples do not recognize ' any other method of baptism R 3 valid. A large crowd of people witnessed the ceremony, at both occasions, but the utmost good order and decorum prevailed.

Park Wright’s hew cabinetmaker has arrived apj begun work. Miss Hattie Wiley, Heihphill & Honan’s new trimmer, from Chicago, arrived last Thursday. That same “oldest inhabitant” never savy so long a dry spell, at this time of the year, as the present. Oil has lately been discovered at Peru, this state, but not yet in paying quantities; but the indications are thought to be very encouraging.

Fine shoes a specialty at Hemphill & Honan’s. Plow shoes cheaper than over at Hemphill & Honan’s. All interested in the organization of a Sunday School in the Church of God are requested to meet there next Sunday, at 3 o’clock p. in. The W. H. Wood whose announcement as a candidates for town marshal appears this week, is the railroad man ot said name and not Bill Wood, the constable. •J. F. Warren's stable caught fire yesterday afternoon, from burning garden rubbish, and was burned, together with grain, harness and a cutter. Loss about s lo °.

Two fine gas wells were opened in this state Monday. One at Kokomo and one at Portland, and each is the fourth in its town. Both these places are booming immeasurably. W. N. Wilson and family, who have occupied the Schneider property, opposite the Makeever House, since last fall, returned yes terday to Hegewisch, 111,, the place from which they came, near Hammond, in this state. About 60 frieght train conductors and brakesmen of the Pan Handle road have’'just been arrested at and near Pittsburg, Pa., for robbing freight cars. It has been a stupendous and systematic business, for years; and the value of the goods stolen will reach enormous figures. The News, some time ago, advocated the erection of a telephone line between Remington aud Rensselaer. For fear that it lias been forgotten, we desire to bring the matter before our citizens again. It would not only be a great convenience, but would pay a good interest on the money invested. By all jmearis let us have a better and quicker way of communicating with Rensselaer than we now have.—Remington News. The above very sensible and timely suggestion of the News, we heartily endorse. Considering the great actual nearness of the two towns and yet the comparatively great distance and bad connections by rail, there is a special need for telephone communications between them. State Geologist Maurice Thompson published a long article o n the subject of oil and gas, in Indiana, in the Indianapalis papers of Monday. Ho seems to think that the prospect for obtaining gas or oil is worth boring for, almost any plaoe in Northern Indiana. He thinks gas goes in “spots” rather than baits, and is liable to be found most any place in the region mentioned. There will especially be hope for success in boring wherever the Devonian rocks come to the surface, as they do in Rensselaer. The principal gas regions of the state, we gather from Mr. Thompson’s statements,lie along a certain line or axis of disturbance, which extends from the southeast corner of Allen county to Kentland, Newton county; and in certain offshoots of this central axis. Atfer a careful reading of Mr. Thompson’s article and also of what .is said about gas in the State Geological report just published, we are more than ever convinced that the chances for oil or gas in Rensselaer are certainly worth investigating, without further delay.

Carpets at HemphiH A Honan's. Millinery and notions at Hemphill & Honan’s. Our millinery has arrived. Hemphill & Honan Sheriff Yeoman will take Dan Coleman to Michigan City, to-day. Next Monday, April 18, is the last day of grace for paying the • spring installment of taxes. , Let no soldier give his order for any book until he has seen Gen. Logan’s last book, “The Volunteer Soldier of America.”

Ladies’ and gents’ summer underwear at Hemphill & Honan’s. Ladies, stop at Hemphill & Honan’s and jjee their embroideries. Nearly the entire family of Trustee J. L. Nichols, of Barkley tp., have been seriously sick this week with a disease resembling cholera morbus.

The circuit court adjourned Friday. The case of McGregor, charged with burglary, was continued, owing to the absence of several important witnesses. Dr. Bitters went up to Gillam tp. Monday to council with Dr. Jones in the case of Grandfather Poieel. The old gentleman has dropsy and he art disease. He is 87 years old. Some men are so constituted I that they will go five blocks out of [their way to pick up a ten cent ( piece but they won’t walk half a block further to gain the half dollar Willey & Sigler would save for them on a pair of boots or shoes. The American Volunteer Soldier is Gen. Logan’s last gift to the American people. The admirers of the old veteran can not pay a higher tribute of respect to his memory than to purchase a copy of his book that comes warm with the breath of patriotism. It is affectionately dedicated to his companions in arms. The Monticllo Herald, of last week, has an account of Mary Baker’s condition which seems to exonerate hex from the suspicions of fraud which have lately become current, in connection with her case. The Herald says that during her whole sickness she has made daily attempts to take food and that, while all was apparently rejected, enough was probably retained to sustain what little life she has.