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

County Correspondence.

FROM TFFFT. \ Miss Eskridge afid daughter are visiting relatives in Winamac. Mr. Erikson returned liaise last Saturday from Wisconsin. Hans Pauleson and L. G. Branson have become the owners of a new separator and steam engine, we understand. Mate Gibson is once more with us. New officers were elected at South Grade Sunday school last Sunday. \_ Bell Chestnut. UMOX IT£M&. Farmers who have been longing for rain which was much needed are rejoicing at present. A .cop* ious shower having lately, decentled. The huckleberry season has come and it is said that the crop is plentiful. Some of the young peeple are enjoying the season to its fullest extent. An interesting sermon was listened to lust Sabbath morning at Brushwood. The evening service was well attended. Rev.. Margret will preach there next Saturday and Sunday. Miss. Berth a Alter of Rensselaer is visiting her cousins, in the family of John E. Alter. The Sabbath school at Floating Palace is making remarkable success under the administration of an able corps of teachers and officers. The music in particular, demauds the attention of casual observers. —— J ROM SURREY. Crops are looking better since the last rain. Preaching was conducted last Sabbath at Union school house by Bros. Withern and Lyons. Oliver Daugherty was visiting’ in our community Sunday. There must bo an attraction up this way. S. B. Nichols shipped hogs from this place last week. Last Friday was the day appointed for the raising of Mr. Lang’s big barn, which, with the help of about thirty men, was raised in about two hours and a half, but the storm of Saturday almost leveled the rafters. There is talk of tho Sabbath schools in Union township joining schools that are e ear, uniting in a grand jubilee, spine time in the near future. We hope this will be a success.,. G. M. Wilcox and J. F. Bruuer had a wood sawing last Friday. John Clouse, one of the hands, reached beyond his boundaries and his thumb came in. contact with the saw and was almost severed from his hand. Mr. Clouse took the noon freight to Rensselaer, where Dr. .Lough ridge dressed the thumb and at last accounts it was doing well. HoßoKen. "T'LLj/L; ILLAJSL Anna Guild and Elmer Pullins are improving slowly. Dan Cbppess is breaking his colt, suppose hecontemplatep a trip to Barkley. D. K. Guild, accompanied by his mother, returned from Ohio last Saturday. “A charge to keep I have,” and “What shall the harvest be,” are the favorite songs s os Mr. Charles Odom, of late. His “charge” is a little girl and his anxiety about the “harvest” is caused by a new reaper and binder. State Nobmalites Return. — Judson Hunt and Mattie Paris returned Saturday, June 11. Emma, Lois, Gertie and Millie Robinson, Ella and Charlie Hanley stopped at Lafayette to visit their Uncle John Hanley, over Sunday, and came home Monday. Laura Rathfon came last Saturday: v Rev. D. A. Rodgers, of Camden, luck, spent last week with her parents and friends in Gillum. He He had just returned from Little Rock, Ark..- where ke delivered the Annual Lecture to the students of Philander Smith College, Sunday, May 21), He went from here to Green castle to attend the cpia* mencement of DePauw University, his Alma Muter. Katie attended school tli-3re during the past year.. . Loto Fern Hazel. It EMIEG TOE ITEMS. Mr. Sheets, lately employed as sfction boss of the wei-t end, v£cejieed injuries on Monday last, at the Tax mill, which will disable him for work for a long time, if not peuu'auei.tly. His right arm is now a m ass of torn ind bleeding flesi 4 , and his hand and finders fall

of broken benes, caused;, by some irregularity in the work of the brake at the £ax mill. Ha wps taken to Dr. Maxwell’s offioe, and as comfortable as possible under existing circumstances. His injuries are considered serious but probably not fatal. Miss Helep Kemp left on Saturday morning for Dayton, Ohio, to spend the summpr vacation, prior to entering upon her duties as teacher in the Springfield public schools. I ; j There will be no services at the M. E. church next Sunday, pastor and people having accepted a written invitation to be present at ,the dedicatory services at the new Presbyterian church on that day. Win. Townsend is adding an up 5 per story to his house. Dr. Maxwell has also enlarged his dwelling and many others are improving their homes and surroundings. Masonic picnic to-morrOw. •—As John Heickle was running across the street, on Sunday evening, to find shelter from an impending storm, he collided with the tongue of a buggy, being driven rapidly. He was taken to John Harmon’s residence and a physician summoned, who at first thought his injuries were not serious. t Later symptoms however, show that he bad received severe internal injuries and at this writing (Monday evening) his condition is considered critical. Johu and Bert Crowe are home for the vacation. As George Myers and wife were driving into town from their home about three miles distant, their spirited young horse became flightened and dashed at breakneck speed along the road leaving parts of the buggy at different places, by the wayside. The occupants were painfully bruised and scratched but fortunately |io bones were broken. Rev. J. C. Kinnear, of the S. E. Indiana Conference, spent Sabbnth last in Remington, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Turpin. Mrs. Barnes, whose husband died last winter, fell down the stairway of Isaac Levell’s cellar on Tuesday morning and received severe injuries. One of William Rich’s valuable cows cows was struck by lightning Monday night. The temple of Justice presided over by his his honor, Justice Tharp, Weis thronged on Monday evening last. There had been an unpleasantness for some time past between two families living in the western part of town, which culminated at last in dire threats and drawn revolvers, and later in their appearance before the bar of justice.. One was bound over to keep the peace and the other to the bastlle, otherwise known as the calaboose . Later there was a more pleasant duty performed by the venerable justice, that of performing the rfiarriage ceremony for Joseph Ellis and Mrs. Fhebus. Rev. Thomas Moore, of Wolcott, occupied the pulpit of the M.. E. church, last Sunday morning. Bear in mind that the Odd Fellows will have a Festival in Exchange Hall on the evening of July 4., and the Masons a picnic in Chappell’s grove, June 14. ■ The house of. Esq. Sutton, a few miles south of town, was badly damaged by lightning during the storm of Monday. The inmates escaped uninjured. , Remingtonian.