Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1887 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

Elder E. 0. Sharpe jfvi.il preach in Remington to-morrow evening. Boston ice-cream at Allman’s restaurant. Go and see the new hats and clothing at Ellis A Murray’s. Miss Ollio Alter reached home from her extended southern visit, Saturday afternoon. J. C. Allman sets a good table at Iris newly furnished restaurant Farmers, give him a trial. . “Make hay while the sun shines.” Buy you clothing at R. Fendig’s while the price is low. Mr. and Mrs. Zimri Dwiggins and Miss Lizzie Purcupile, of Chicago, spent Sunday and Decoration dav, in Rensselaer. Why pay $30.00 for a suit of clothes made to order, when Ellis & Murray will order you one just as good and guarantee a fit for S2O. Miss Della Cotton visited her parents here, over Sunday. She now has a good situation as cashier in a mercantile establishment, in Chicago. It is 3,500 miles across the U. Sbut only a short distance to R. Fendig’s where you can buy a suit of clothes that will last the rest of the way. A Grand Donation Party will be held by B. Fendig at his store for the next 15 days. He proposes to donate | of his profit to cash buyers, by selling everything 10 per cent, less than anyone else.

The Remington gas company is now a legally incorporated body. Their articles of association having been duly hied with the Secretary, of State, at Indianapolis, and recorded in the record books of Jasper county. The Monon Leader states that. it has investigated the alleged accident at Monop, whereby John Lockhart, a brakeman, was said to have lost a foot, and declares that no such accident occured. The incident was first related in the Indianapolis papers. A heavy coal and freight train broke through one of the low! bridges, 'in tfie marsh north of Shelby, on the Monon, last Friday, and many cars were utterly demolished. The-- traek was impassible Tor Tiborrt' 24 hours. We have not heard that, any person was-injured in the accident. Isaac Fowler, a brother of Moses Fowler, of Lafayette, the wealthy founder of the town of Fowler, in Benton county, disappeared from, his home in California, more than two months ago, and his body has just been found under the limb of a tree, which fell upon and crushed him, while he was passing under it. The TeAchers.—Prof. Reubelt and family will visit relatives in Pulaski and Marshall counties, for a few weeks, and will do their traveling by their own horse and carriage. Miss Hill will pass her vacation with her friends in Carthage, Ind., Miss Pym in Indianapolis,' Mi ss H ester in Greenfield and Mrs. Warren at Whitehall, Michigan. “John, I fear you are getting reckless.” “How so. father.” “You have had four suits of clothes this year and you wore only two_last ■•rear.' Wi::ri i.-ii? A. change in

fortune? j-»more money?” “No,-father, but Willey andSiglOr ' are making less money, and sell clothing so much che a per than the store I used to trade at that I buy four suitstow; for what two used to cost/’ . ■ Over .1,000 stoves and grates are burning gas at Kokomo. —ln the j grate a small quantity of broken pieces of fire biick are laid over the perforated gas-pipe, partially filling the grate. When the gas is turned on these bats, in a short time, become red and look like burning coal. A slight flame is diffused oyer the whole mass, and the heat can be regulated to whatever degree desired.

W. H. H. Graham went to Crawfordsville Monday. Everything neat and clean at Allman’s restaurant. ' .. Fine cigars, smoking and chewing tobacco restaurant. Gents straw hats from sc. to $2 at Hemphill & Honan’s. D. S. Willey is still confined to his bed the gi eater part of the time with rheumatism. The largest stock of millinery in the county at Hemphill A Honan’s. All you can eat for 25 cents at Allman’s restaurant. Give him a trial. It is good.' Mrs. A. Parkison left last evening for Long Point, Arkansas, where she goes to visit her daughter Mrs. T. E. Willey and family. What boots it if I shoes to buy bargains,” said a delighted customer at Willey & Sigler’s shoe store the other day. Bro. Ingrim, of the Winamac Journal, who has been a widower for some years, was married last Thursday to Miss Alice V. Drake, of Linden, Ind. We buy .by the carload, and carry away our profits in a vest pocket. The customer gets all the benefits at Willey & Siglet’s, .

According to the Francesville Era, Medaryville given has up the attempt to bore for oil. Subscriptions could not be worked above the SI,OOO notch. B. Fendig makes three cuts on, the price of every article he sells. One to keep honest, one to be generous and one to draw and retain steady patronage.

A great deal of complaint has by farmers in some parts of the county as tq the ravages of the cu|; worms in the corn. They havebeen especially destructive during the cool weather of the j last two weeks. j Messrs John Henkle and John j English returned home from Kan-, sas Tuesday morning. They are well pleased with that state, and we understand that Mr. Henkle has sold his farm in Barkley tp., and proposes to remove to Kansas, in a short time. - ;—-— : —L—— An exchange remarks that “a budding youth who has probably thoroughly tested the ‘substance,’ and knows whereof he etmksy hands us the following; Somebody claims to have discovered a subi stance that is three hundred times jas sweet as sugar- It is not known I what that substance is, but it is [supposed to be about eighteen •years old and wears a bustle.”.

We are always busy as a B, but ) .customers delight to C. Leave; breakfast, dinner, lunch or T, drop! in and buy and save a V; we have everything from A. to Z. Our., hive is full of busy Bis; he buys who once our bargains C’s. ' We like competitors to T’s, and like to: live a life of E’s. Letters represent our sentiments here' but- figures and very low ones represent the prices on the superb stock of clothing at IL Fendig’s, People who intend to build, should inquire among their local builders until they find one who has The Builders’ Portfolios. Such a builder can show the inquirer an immense number of excellent plans for modern houses, barns etc.; and also can give correct local prices Builders who have not yet _ procured The Builders’ Portfolios

should write at' ®nce to :'?■ Cooperative Building Plan Assr.eii--tiun, 63 Broadway, New York. it -WjFn -iex^rhnge^S^mS—ns- t:hatanother new swindling scheme- is being worked on the farmer. A j stranger is traveling about the eeuntry representing himself as an agent for a,society for the protection of insect-destroying birds, and is calling on farmers to secure their co-operation. The farmer is requested to signa pledge not to kill any song or insect-destroying birds, and the pledge- is transformed into a promissory note in the hands of an innocent third party.

A fine calf boot for $2.50' at Hemphill & Honan’s. Plow shoes from $1 to $1.75 at IJemphill A Honan’s. If you are going to buy a new hat and want the latest block,' go to Ellis & Murray’s. Elder Kendall, of Monon, preached in the Missionary Baptist church, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday evenings. A set of those fine dishes would birthday or wedding present. Call and see them. Laßue Bros. If the people of Rensselaer intend to celebrate the Fourth of July this year.it is time preparations were under way The Monon Leader thinks that good progress will be made in the boring at that place, hereafter, as necessary casings have arrived’. The subject for the Sabbath morning sermon at the Presbyterian church is “The Poor Widow,” in the evening “The Rich Fool.” Children’s Day missionary service, by the Union' Bible sch 001, next Sunday morning, at 10:30 a. M. All other Sun day schools of the town are invited to paticipate. A very pleasant Social, with icecream and cak e accompaniments, was given by the Yoqng Peoples Christian Association, of the Presbyterian church, Tuesday evening, at Mr. Vai Seib’s residence, on River street. Lost— A lady’s valuable gold

breast-pin last Friday. Design of a horse shoe, with a dagger and chain attached'; small diamond in center of pin. The finder will confer a great favor, and receive a reward, by leaving the pin at Hemphill & Honan’s store. Bev. D. Handley, of the M. E. church, administered the ordinance of baptism to twelve persops, last Sunday. To Mrs. Melle Medicus, Misses Stella Parkinson, Emma Bundle, Anna Erwin, Emma Kline, Allie Flynn, and Messrs. Martin Cook and Oliver Bhbads, by sprinkling, and to Misses Ida Shriver, Lucy Ann Marion, Lizzie Warner and Floy Inez Hutson by immersion.

At J. €. Allman’s new restaurant you 'will always find canned table peaches, pie s peaches, apricots, tomatoes, sweet corn, jersey sweet potatoes, sardines, cove oysters, salmon, baking powder, raspberries, Leans Ac., nuts of all kinds, finest assortment of candies, oranges, lemons, pineapples and cocanuts, pies, cakes, bread, cheese, boneless ham, chipped dried beef, bologna, lemonade, ice-cream, soap, coffee, matches, California orange wine, fineacigars and tobacco, also Mitchell Washers and all kinds of soft drinks. Give him a gall. Wilson and Dillenger, the oil men, of Toledo, Ohio, are still in this place and vicinity and Fran-

oesville. Although they statedherec that they had secured leases of large tracts of land near Francesville, the New Era, of that town, and also the Francesville correspondent of the Winamac Republican, declare that they did not secure anyrtatses near that place. They express the opinion that the scheme of AVil son and liidenger was simply to get large tracts of • land tied up by leases, ' and, with--■”'fcß izh £ id s cl v 6 $«• L___ * VVV/AAQ to wait until other;parties had discovered oil or gas, provided it ex-

out their leases to other parties, at a big speculation*.We do not' know whether they have secured | .any leases, at Rensselaer or not i .Neither have w-e sufficiently exam-1 ; ined. into the. nature of the leases ■ they expect to have, to be ready to express any opinion as to the probable nature of their plan; but in ‘any case we should advise landlowncrs to consider well and thoroughlyinvestigate: before signing .! any leases or agreements, which : i may possibly involve them in financial losses. g •a_ j- ~ " "• to—ro_.^. .- 7,"7 ’' by.

Call at the new restaurant - New man, new goods and low prices. Kid shoes f< ( r the Kids at Hemphill A Ronans. A fine hand turned French Kid shoe at $4.00 at Hemphill A Honan’s. Rev. S. W. Workman of Shelby- i ville, is in town, with a view of! permanently locating. His.family will join him in a short time. C. F. Overacker has bought an old-establisEeSTand prosperous paper in Peoria county Illinois, and is now in charge of the same. B. F. Ferguson got home from his Kansas tour, Tuesday evening. He too, was well pleased with the prospects of the. Grasshopper State. “Come where the roses are sweetest,” is the name of a new song. Willey, A Sigler think it should be, come where bargains are cheapest. Joe Anderson, the cigar man, has bought a lot and is building him a comfortable house, on “the east side of Main street, just north of Isaac Calborn’s residence.

Sam Young, ex-editor of the Delphi Journal, was tried again, in Monticello, last yyeok, for forgery. This time the jury was unanimous in favor of acquittal. George M. Green, the Monon engineer, injured in the wreck at Greencastle Junction, two weeks ago, is much worse, and his physicians fear he can not recoyer. The party who caused the wreck has not yet been apprehended.— Lafayette Call. A Mr. Forsythe, of Frankfort, this state, has rented the room in Leopold’s Bazaar building, the, one from which Mr. Leopold himself has just removed, and will occupy the same, after J une 13, with a stock of boots, shoes, millinery, &c.

Tell me, ye angelic host, sengers of love, shall swindled printers here below have no redress above? The angles Happed their wings and said: To you a hope is given; delinquents on a printer’s book can never enter heaven. The Dicken’s Library wifi be open each Friday afternmn, from 2 o’clock until 4 o'clock, for the accommodation of such pupils as desi re to get bocks to read. Mr. Walter Willey will act as librarian during the suinme.’as well as during the coming winter. F.JiV. Reubelt. We hear . that potato bugs are very numerous at, this time, and that in many places they threaten t<J* entirely clean out the growing potato crop. ’Such being the case

perhaps it would be worth wmle ; for some of the afflicted potato; growers to try the following plan; for dealing with the potato bugs,; said by the New Era, of Frances-, »/ ........ ... , 8 , . | ville, to be successfully practiced' by a farmer in the vicinity of that town: Take some raw potatoes. and mash them quite fine and mix ! with paris' -gr een place - over; the patch in spots. The old bugs i will eat- and bed os’ roy ed, allowing no chance for a second Aop of the enemy. Local summer showers have the past week, in this vicinity, and there are probably but £ev.’, if any, portions of the cougty which have not received a much needed drench-

ing, during the past. six or. seven 1 days. Of course some localities' have been much more favored in this -respect than others, and in isome piarts o£ the county,.th ere. j ; has been even an excess of rain- ■ fall, while 'in other parts it has 'been very inadequate. In Rens- ! selaer and its immedaite vicinity ' there were showers Sunday night I and on Monday and Tuesday, in all of which combined there was a pretty satisfactory amount of rain fell.

W. H. Hinkle, of Greensburg, accompanied by his brother, John A. Hinkle and two friends, Rev; B. F. Furguson and John English, of Rensselaer, Ind., have been looking over southeastern Ford county, the past few days. These gentlemen are much pleased with this country and are making in- | vestments. Rev. Ferguson purI chased lots in Bucklin, and Mr. John A. Henkle is dealing for a half section southwest of town, about five miles. Mr. Hinkle is a farmer of the right sort, the kind any community is glad to welcome. He informed us, if he made this purchase, he would develop it. These gentlemen were the guests of their old Indiana friend, D. L. Prichard.-Bucklin, Kans , Standard. The follpwing concerning a former well known citizen of Rensselaer we clip from the Greensburg, Kansas, Rustler: At an election held on the first Tuesday in April for city officers L. K. or “Kos” Yeomap, one of ten candidates for ppuncilmen, stood sixth on the list in number of votes, although on another ticket. Ten votes from the weakest man on the successful ticket or nineteen more votes than he received would have made him councilmen. This being the fact, that he received such a large complimentary vote, we think he is the/ proper man to be put in the place, now made vacant by the inelligibility of C. P. Fullington, who was county commissioner at the time he was elected councilman, which was not permissable by law.” Qur gifted townswoman, Miss Elmira Mqnnett, is just completing one of the finest productions of her artjstic talents. It is a life, size portrait, in oil, of Bev. John E. Earp, D. D., for many years a professor in De Pauw University, now president of Southern Kansas College, of Wingate, Kansas. It is a most lifelike and speaking likeness of a remarkably handsome and intellectual appearing man, and in color, expression and perspective seems to us almost simply perfect. Miss MonnAtt has designed it as a present to the De Pauw University and has spared no labor or pains to make it a fine work of art and perfect in every detail. The picture is not yet quite complete, in some minor details, but will be within a day ar two. It will be sent away next Tuesday. In the mean-time, we i>fe’happy to be able to announce with Miss Monnett’s permission, ! that she will take great pleasure 'in showing the picture to all who (wish to see it, at her rooms in the jMakeever House.