Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1887 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

Judge Ward will orate at Mo, rocco, on the Fourth. i n A fine calf boot for $2.50 at Hemphill & Honan’s. Go and see the new hats apd clothing at Ellis & Murray’s. A daughter was born Sunday to to Mr. 6nd Mrs. E. M. Banes, of Rensselaer. 1 A fine hand turned'French Kid shoe at S4OO at Hemphill & Honan’s. The abortive gas well at Rochester was 1179 feet deep when it was abandoned, and has since filled up 54 feet, with quicksand.

Slippers, 10 cents a pair, clothes pins 1 ct. per dozen, at the Chicago Bankrupt Store, Leopold’s Bazaar building. “Come where the roses are sweetest,” is the name of a new song. Willey & Sigler think it should be, come where bargains are cheapest. Mrs. Webster, wife of Rev. T. C. Webster, formerly in charge of the M. E. church at this place but now now at Plum Creek, Neb., is here visiting old acquaintainces. We buy our goods by the carload, and carry away our profits in a vest pocket. The customer gets all the benefits at Willey & Sigler’s. The Chicago Bankrupt Store has arrived with a full line of boots, shoes, millinery, tinware, notions etc., that must and will be sold at astonishingly low prices for cash. A band of serenaders discoursed some very sweet and excellently well rendered music beneath the porch of The Republican’ building last Friday night. W. W. Watson filed his bond Tuesday, as county ditch commissioner, to which place he was appointed by the commissioners, at their late session. It is an excellent appointment. Mrs. A- has notified the of her decision not to accept a position ip the schools for the ensuing year, and the board has engaged Miss Laura Rathfon, of Gillam tp., to fill the place. Quarterly meeting at the M. Echurch July 3 and 4. Presiding Elder J. L. Smith, D. D. is expected to be presept and preach ou Sunday, July 3- A largo class of * probationers will be received into full membership at the same time. The cellar walls and foundations of C. C. Starr’s new residence, a 4 the south-east end of Cullen street, in the grove, are now completed. The building will be a large and handsome structure, and occupying so prominent a position will add much to the appearance of the town.. . ■*- Sunday, June 2G, will be a gala day. In the morning at 10:30 the sacraments of tne Lord's Supper and baptism will be administered and at the close the doors of the church will be opened to all wishing to unite. 'At 3 o’clock will be the Children's Flower Service, and at 7:3Q r. m. a grand gospel and soDg service.

Tills year’s catalogue of the State Normal school credits Jasper county with only four students, whereas it should have been credited with 14 or 15. The entire Gillam contingent, about ten iu number, was credited to Pulaski county, because they get their mail at .lawjis.m iliat county, and one- student from Remington was credited to Clinton county. “John, I fear you are getting reckless.” “How so. father.” “You have had four suite of clothes this year and you"wore only two last, year. What is it? A change in fortune? Making more money “No, father, but Willey and Sigler are making lees money, and sell clothing so much cheaper than the store I used to trade at that I buy four suits now, for what two used tocost,"

The Rensselaer Cornet Band is open for engagements for the Fourth of July. Plow shoes from $1 to $1.75 at Hemphill & Honan’s. Mrs. Judge Ward and her little son have been staying with the Judge, at the Makeever House, since last Thursday. The largest stock of millinery in the county at Hemphill & Honan’s.

Women’s Kid Shoes, silk worked button holes, at $1 per pair, and mens plow shoes, 50 ets. per pair, at the Chicago Bankrupt Store. Mrs. Lola Patton started for her home at Omaha, Neb., Tuesday morning, after several weeks stay with her mother’s family, in this place. A free museum of 5 and 10 ct. counter goods at the Chicago Bankrupt store, Leopold’s Bazaar building. The meetings at the Presbyter;erian church still continue, being under the lead this week of Mr, Todd, from Chicago, an evangelist who came in the stead of Mr. Nicke.

Members of the Womens’ Relief Corps are notified that business of special importance will come up ‘or action ngxt Monday evening, and all members are requested to be present. Mrs. Etta Hotkins. Sec’y. %>■ Hon. A. C. Prevo, of Gillam, was in town yesterday, for the purpose of taking homo his daugliter-in-aw, Mrs. Carrie Prevo, who has been hare for some weeks, under medical treatment for a lung trouble. Her condition is not encouraging.

A Mr. McCormick, a wealthy grocer and produce dealer of Lafayette, has just bought a building lot of Rial Benjamin, in the southeast part of town, and proposes to erect a residence there, at once. We learn that he will engage in the grocery and produce business, in this place. Mr. E. L. Clark, who has been assisting Auditor Barnett and inducting him into the mysteries of his office, has just returned to his home at Rensselaer, Ind. Mr. Clark, during his stay, has made a very favorable impression. His many friends here wish that “he may live long and prosper. —Rochester Tribune. Jake Eigleshach intends to offer his customers some truly giltedged beef this week, in the form of the meat of a thorougli-bred young Hereford cow. The animal is one which Win. Esson, of Jordan tp., paid several hundred dollars for, but having failed to produce calves, she is to be brought to the slaughter house. Her meat will be on sale Saturday. . ' ■ °. Mr. Wilson,* the oil man of Tiffin, Ohio, lias been lately soliciting oil and gas leasos in Barkley and Walker townships, but we do not know with what degree of success. The discovery of oil ’at Frances?ville and also the existence of substances of the nature of petroleum in some of the wells in Walker and Barkley, are the circumstances which lead Mr. Wilson to believe that oil may be found in those townships. \ - r

’■* ‘ ... ,a.: : _ A ball club came over from Monon, last Friday, and iu the afternoon they pounded the Itensselaer Blues until the latter were more properly “Black end Blues.” Figuratively speaking the visitors fairly mopped the earth with- "lire home nine. They made 38 runs, and would have made more but their wind failed them, while the Blues only made 14. ♦ The Monon boys were provided with a mascot, andperhaps their good luck is attributable to his presence. He was a tough little stub of a fellow, about four years old, with a red cap and breeches baggier than a Turk’s. He was a hard specimen of the genus gamin.

The Ladies Literary Society will meet Saturday afternoon, at their rooms over Fendig’s store. Kid shoes for the Kids at Hemphill & Honans. A prominent and popular young couple of Rensselaer will meet at the matrimonial alter, next Wednesday evening. Farmers wanting a binder will do well to call and examine the Triumph before buying. Sold by R. F. Ferguson. Mr. Emery Aldrich and Jiis sister Miss Lucinda Aldrich, from Londonderry, Vermont, are visiting the family of their uncle, Henry Aldrich, at this place.

D. S. Morgan & Co., manufacturers of the Triumph Hinder and New Clipper Mower, are one of the oldest in the country, established in 1847. \ A. F. Long, the pleasant and popular assistant in F. B. Meyer’s drug §tore, is now a memtmr of Rensselaer Lodge K. of P. im\full standing, having tal>en the final degrees last Thursday night. Ladies Hats. From 5 cents to £3.00, and all the latest styles, at iiankrupt prices, at the Chicago bankrupt Store. W. B. Austin has just received notice that the trustees of, Wabash College, of which he is a graduate, lave conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts. He is the :irst member of his class to be thus honored. 1 /

Religious Service.— A Bible Reading service will be held at the Christian church on Sunday next at 10,30 A. M. The Public are invited. The Young People are especially requested to be present, as an organization will be per. fected that will be of interest to them.

The Monticello Herald is clamorous for an annual county fair. We are disposed to believe that Jasper coupty will have such an institution for sale or rent, in a short time, if its further continuance here depends on the adoption of the proposition to assess the capital stock ten dollars: a share, at the meeting next Saturday. The people of Francesville aud vicinity are becoming constantly more excited on the oil question. The oil from their well, which was afterwards ruined in the shooting was examined and tested by many experts, and pronounced an unusually fine quality of lubricating oil, worth in its native state $3 a barrel and 9, well w’hich would produce even 50 barrels of such oil per day would be a big thing, and they believe that their well would have done much more than that.

During the thunder storm of last Monday afternoon, the lightning struck a tree in the yard of Allen Catt’s tenant house, on Van Xiensselaer street, just south of Dr. Alter’s residence. * The liou&e was temporarily occupied as a residence by Mr. Nathan Fendig, while his own house is being rebuilt. His family were consider-. ably frightened, but not otherwise injured. Some geese were near the tree and one was killed and another was permanently deprived of what little goose sense it was previously possessed of. A young 6on of Rev. David Handley, whose house is but a short distance from where the bolt struck, happened to be-outside at the timeptSnd was quite severely shocked, but soon recovered. The spot where this bolt fell is only a block from the house in which young Claud Baylor was killed by lightning, a little

Jess than a year ago, and the coincidence is made the more remarkable from the fact that the Baylors themselves were formerly occupants, for several years, of the same premises where the bolt struck last Monday.

The town miarshal is fencing the county lot, east of the public square, for a publi.c pound. Gents straw hats from sc. to $2 at Hemphill & Hppan’s. Mr. Emmett Kannal and family returned Tuesday night from Chicago where they made a pleasure stay for more than a week. What boots it if I shoes to buy bargains,” said a delighted customer at Willey & Sigler's shoe store the other day. The new gas prospecting well at Delphi will be located a mile south of town, and at a point 200 feet higher than the first well, which failed. The Triumph Binder was tried Tuesday in grain even too green to harvest, and found it to be a complete success. Every part of the machine doing its work well. Tho heavy showers of last Sunday and Monday nights, have given the land a thorough and much needed drenching, and greatly cheered the hearts of the farmers.

A fine line of canned and evaporated fruits cheap at Laßue Bros.: Rev. M. A. Chui chill, of Morgan Park, 111., will preach in the Missionary Baptist Church, next Sunday morning and evening. All are invited to attend. J. B. Bunnell, of Monticello, offers S2OO reward for the arrest and conviction of the person or persons, who poisoned a valuable rinare belonging to him, on the night of May 30. The gas well at Hebron, a few miles north of the Kankakee river, in Porter county, was reported clown 500 feet, last week, and going, deeper at the rate of 5 feet every hour. About 400 of the 500 feet were through limestone. During the storm of Monday afternoon the lightning struck a fence on the premises of John Wood, a few miles south of town, on the Range line road, and severely shocked his wife, an elderly Indy, who was out of dooTs, at the time. She soon recovered from the effects of the shock, however. The number of paupers at the! poor farm is now fourteen. Two new ones were added last week. John Reed, of Newton and oue Haley, of Remiugton. Both are incurable mental cranks, we under- j stand. Reed’s confinement was made necessary by his destructive pranks about his mother’s residence. He is very averse to staying at the farm and has made two or three attempts to escape, getting one time as far as Remington. A fire broke out among the old boxes and other inflammable rubbish, back of Nathan Fendig’s store last Thursday, but was discovered aud extinguished in time to prevent any damage. A lighted cigar stump was the probable cause of the origin of the fire. Property owners, and especially merchants, should be careful about allowing inflammable rubbish to accumulate about their premises, and smokers should never throw a cigar stub or empty the ashes of a pipe, in places where they may cause fires.

We are informed on good authority that there are several bad patches of that most noisome plant, the Canada Thistle, in this county. Two in Union township, and one on the line of the Three I railroad, in Keener township. The parties upon whose premises these pernicious plants are found ought to spare no effort in their extermination and if they neglect such efforts they ought to be prosecuted under the statutes of the state, which provide heavy fines for allowing the thistles to grow and mature without attempting their extinction. It iB the duty of road supervisors, under heavy penalties, to prevent the growing and maturing of These plants in the highways under their charge.

Granville M&ody is preparing to build a new residence on h?s fine farm in Barkley township. The Triumph Binder, sold by R. F. Ferguson, is. the lightest gunning machine in the market The K of P. drill corps of this place is being re-organized, and a large number of new uniforms will be ordered within a few days. The corps will number something oyer 40 members. Geo. M. Green, of New Albany, the L., N. A. <fc C. engineer who. was injured some weeks ago at Greencastle, has since died, from blood-poisoning, resulting from amputation of four toes of hi/3 right foot.