Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1887 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

Mel Lniluc is making a week’s visit in Bldomington, 111. Zimri and J. AV. Paris are about to start a new bank at Alliance, Ohio. C. P. Wright and wife and Sampson Erwin started for Minnesota, Monday morning, for a short stay. Miss Kit Kendall of Delphi, is here making her regular summer’s visit to her friend, Miss Emma Martin. Messrs. 0. B. Mclntire and EL C. Goldsberry, two prominent business men of Remington, were in town Tuesday. The rains in this vicinity of Saturday and Sunday were very much “in streaks.” Some sections had a copious rainfall and others almost none.

Mr. Bucklin, the new owner of the old gas well at Francesville, examined the well last week and found its present depth 800 feet, 186 feet of its original depth h aving filled up. Mrs. Klosebeyer and her three amiable daughters called at Willey & Sigler's yesterday, and made some extensive purchases from their large and brilliant display of of summer suitings. Mrs. Madge Honan went to Chicago Monday, for a week’s stay with friends. Her trimmer, Miss Wiley, went with her, having completed the term of her engagement here. The name of the young man killed by the switch engine, at Monon, last week, was Jefferson Sparrow.’ He was the son Richard Sparrow, of. Lee. His age -was 22 years. The Leader reports that the drill is fast again, in the gas well at Monon,’ caused by-smail pieces rock falling from above, and wedging the drill fast. The'Leader hopes to know tlie result of the boring this week. Samuel Young, the former ed itor of the Delphi Journal who was ! lately tried and acquitted on the' charge of forgery in Monticello, has just been arrested on a ’similar charge, in Delphi, and placed under 81,000 bonds to answer at the next term of court. The Monticello people worked all the spring to get a good well of ' water in the public square and after getting it could not get a pump that would raise it to the surface, until last week when Perkins & Son, of Rensselaer, put in a pump that worked to’their complete satisfaction. The picnic held by the M. E. S. S. last Thursday, proved to be> a very pleasant affair, under the very able management of D. J. Thompson. W. E. Moore, master of transportation, honored his calling in an eminent degree. Thanks are due also to Jno. AV. Duvall for kindness in furnishing conveyance on that occasion.

There was pretty nearly a serious accent, at the depot Saturday■ evening. - Two Rensselaer ladies, Mrs. Belle Kerr and Mrs. Geo. Hoover, came on the accommodation train from Chicago, and when thejrain stopped at the station, the steps _dt__their car haclnob reached the platform of the depot, and they accordingly passed through theiorward car, but before they could get through, the train had started, but they jumped oflf, and both received severe falls. Mrs. Kerr escaped without injury but Mrs. Hoover received a severe scalp wound, which bled profusely and she was considerably dazed by the shock. The neglect of the conductor in not seeing that his train was brought properly to the depot, is reprehensible and ought to be reported to the officials of the road.

Mrs. J no. AV. Mann is visiting friends at Sheridan, this state. Gents straw hats from sc. toJB2 St Hemphill & Honan’s. The Rensselaer. Cornet Band played for Rose Lawn, on the Foiyrth. A fine son was born to Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Coen, northeast of town, last Tuesday. Mrs. Wm. Lestet has just recovered from a severe and very dangerous spell of sickness. Mrs. Bettie Webster, who has Veen visiting Mrs. EL P. Benjamin and other friends in Rensselaer, has gone to Crawfordsville.Percy S. Taylor is a hustler. He markets more hay than any other man in the state. His shipments average about 20 cars per week.

A fine calf boot for 82.50 at Hemphill & Honan’s. The Triumph Binder, sold by B. F. Ferguson, is the lightest running machine in the market. A fine hand turned French Kid shoe at 84.00 at Hemphill & Honan’s. Notice.—All members of the S. of V. lodge are requested to be present at the regular meeting next Saturday night. Important business. * Allen May, on 6 of our substantial citizens, living northeast of Remington, is building a large hay and cattle barn, one of the largest in the county. Lyman Zea began his first trips with’the mail on the star routes from Rensselaer last Friday. He now has the contracts for both the Pleasant Grove and the Blackford routes. The • Crawfordsville people are laboring with Harry Crawford to induce him to *&tiild his Lebanon Midland railroad through that town. Of course Crav ford talks subsidy to them, pretty .strong. The boring for gas at Remington was to have begun yesterday, but the contractor did not get his job in Monticello completed in time to begin on that day. It will probably only bo a few days before he begins at Remington, however. If you want wedding cards of the very latest and most beautiful styles,' handsomely and carefully printed and at just and reasonable prices, call at The Republican office. AYe do all kinds of job work carefully, promptly, honestly and cheaply. Uncle Jonathan Peacock and wife, Dr. M. B. Alter and wife and Miss Rena Peacock started for York Stale Monday, ’Where they will visit relatives near Rochester, for a few weeks. They also expect to attend the golden wedding of a brother of Mr. Peacock,fesrho lives near Lincoln, in New York. The flouring mill of Horner & Slocum in Medaryville was burned Sunday, together with 700 bushels o's grain, and a considerable quantity of flour and feed. The loss was 87,500 and no insurance. It io said that nothing but the rairiß which occurred Sunday saved a large part of the town from destruction. The Indianapolis Journal of Monday copies from the Cincinnati Enquirer..-a list of the Indiana banks, thirty-three in number, which did business with the wreckJed Fidelity National Bank, of Cincinnati, and all of which, of course, have sustained loss through the' connection. Among . these thirty-three is mentioned the Bank of Remington; also the First National Bank, of Crown Point; the Farmers National Bank, of Valparaiso, and various others in the -northern portion of the state. The bank at Paoli, of which two citizens of Rensselaer were the I founders, and until lately th( (owners, is also among the list.

, Uncle Billy Parkinson, of Pleasant Jfirove, is still having very poor health.

Henry Barkley, of Barkley tp., is still in very poor health. He is suffering from a largo tumor. Rid shoes for the Kids at Hemphill & Honans. . .4 ' 7 ' ■ A horse fell dead from fright in Lafayette Monday, on being driven up close to some elephants belonging to a circus. John T. Green, now’ with the U. S. bank, of Chicago (Dwiggins’) visited his friends; here over the Fourth. He is well pleased with his place. The Rensselaer Blues will go to Monon next week, to play the re-„ turn game with,, the club at that as they did Monday the Monons will have to hustle to beat them,

Many summer showers passed over Jasper Co. last Saturday and Sunday. One struck Rensselaer Sunday evening, and soaked the ground and filled the cisterns, to a very satisfactory extent. The gas wells at. Valparaiso and Monticello, are failures. The borings at Monon, Oxford and Hebron have all progressed so far that we shall be able to report next week the success or failure of most or all of them.

There is no royal road to fortune, but you are pretty sure to “get there” if you commence trading at AViUey & Sigler’s Popular Dry Goods Store. AYe are requested by the Rens-, selaer Blues to extend their sincere thanks to the merchants and others who contributed the funds necessary to secure the attendance here of the club, from Chicago, July 4th. Rev. J. M. Belding, of Pullman, II!., a well known young PresbyteA'iaA evangelist, preaefied at the Presbyterian church last Sunday morning, and received into the church ten pew members, all young people. He also preached in the evening. The gas well at Hebron reached a depth of over 1,000 feet and Trenton rock but no gas was struck. The boring is suspended for want of cash, but the stockholders think they will go deeper

some time. The Valpariso well has been ■ aL’ancloned and the machinery removed." The AYhite county Quarterly Meeting, F. AA T . Baptist church, will be held with Newton church, six miles west of Rensselaer, from Friday, July Bth, to the 10th inclusive. There will be a basket dinner on Sunday, in H. E. Coen’s grove. All are invited to come, and with full baskets. Several ministers will be present. Frank Osborne, the handsome and popular widower, of the furniture firm of AV illiams’& Osborne, couldn’t find any Fourth of July to his satisfaction until he got clear to Medaryville. AVe -are beginning to suspect that our Gillam correspondent was pretty close to the truth in hinting that Frank finds a powerful attraction up in that direction. And still another hair breadth escape from a big fire! A little child of Park AVright’s fired a fire cracker in the back room of his fire to some “excelsior” and other inflammable substances there, and immediately quite a blaze was started, and which in a few minutes more would have been be-

yond control, but Mr. Ralph Fendig happened to go into the . room and discovered the fire, and the prompt application of a few pails of water served to extinguish it. About three minutes later and the building would have been a “goner” and with it all the buildings on the north side of the block, east of Leopold s Baaaar building.

Jno. Reed, of Jordan township, is making extensive improvements in his farm buildings. A. J. Yeo’mon is gtill imptoviug his already .beautiful farm in Jordan, with convenient out-ibuildings Elder El ward. O. Sharp will preach in tliie Christian Church next Sunday morning and evening. All are invited.

The gas well is down over 1,000 feet, and is in a fine sand stone At the present rate the 1,400 feet will be finished early next week.—, Oxford Tribune. B. F. Ferguson has on hand now a splendid Threshing Engine for sale cheap. Come and see before you, buy. Will make you loyg time on good notes. The Voice’ was not publislredlast week, owing to the pressure of other duties upon its editor, Ray. Duncan. It will be issued this week, however. Rev.iE. O. Sharp, wife and son propose spending July and August in Rensselaer. Mr. Sharp preaching each alternate Lord’s day in the Christian Church, during the time. > H, E. Bucklin, of Chicago, the wealthy “arnica salve” man, has bought the Blair farm, with the old gas well, near Francesville. He intends to develop the gas and oil of Francesville. The Town Board did not meet Monday night, owing to the absence of several members and the town clerk, and their meeting was held last evening, which was too late a period for reporting the proceedings in this week’s issue; Rensselaer people left home to spend the Fourth in considerable numbers. The following numbers of tickets were, sold at the depot, that day, for the places mentioned: Fair Oaks, 14; Chicago, 21: Rose Lawn 48; Monticello 8; Monon 13; Lafeyette 1 0. Tot.il for the six places 134. Editor Republican:—The ladies of the Presbyterian-Industrial Society, wish to tender their thanks to the public for its liberal patronage, at their late social and entertainment. Notwithstanding the several mishaps, and alniost a fire, the receipts were about 850. Mrs. Etta A. Hopkins, Secy. AV. AV. AVatson, the attorney, has just received notice that pensions have been granted, under the Mexican pension Kill, to R. F. Goddard, of Rensselaer, and a

comrade of his, John McFeely, who now lives at Kokomo. They get $8 per month, with back pen-' sions from January 29, Mr. Goddard is the first regident of this county to obtain a pension under the bill above mentioned. The ladies of the Presbyterian society abandoned the idea of holding their carnival over until Friday night. Their receipts for Wednesday night were about 850 of which about half will be cleared above expenses. The destruction of the ice cream palace by fire, was a rather serious loss to some of the ladies, as 16 or 18 bed sheets were among the articles destroyedTwo of thdse sheets were made of hand spun and woven linen, and ,had long been in the possession of F. J. Sears’ family, and were highly valued as keepsakes.

Carr, of the Oxford Tribune, lias “the courage of his convictions’’ in regard to the average countyfail’s and expresses his views freely; and we must admit that there is a good deal of truth in what he which is here given: ■ The Tribune is not public spirited enough to give notice of a fair for an advertising almanac called a fair premium list. The ’average county fairs do little more than fleeced by gamblers. All the fairs of Indiana have not increased the yield of wheat one bushel per acre or one peck, or one quart. Notice of “boss races” printed at regular advertising rates.

Mrs. Thoa. Thompson gOt. ir >i.: from Kansas, Monday evening., ’ ,_ Newjhades in Dress Goods .a* Ellis A Murray’s. AY-.U :■ fits a specialty. The tliermomoter wi, 98 in tke shade yesterday afterfioon, but the heat was tempered by a bfeefce. Henry Daugherty has completed his summer term in Porter county, but will begin teaching th’efe again in September. John Florence and family mow ed into their pleasant new house, corner of ASTesioh and R i streets, yesterday- » ’ All the passenger trains of Monday were from one to two hours ‘latey-owing to tlie-grest -crowds; of. - people that loaded them down. Miss Sallie Hogan visited her friend, Mrs. Madge Honan, over Sunday. She is in Lowell this summer, teaching music. There will be no preaching ii A M. E. church next Sunday, owing to the absence of the pastor, who - is going to Cincinnati, on business. Mr. and Airs. AY- H. H. Graham and family will go to Crawfordsville today, to visit friends. Mrs. Graham’s visit will continue for a month or more. Mrs. Sornberger, of Victoria HL, sister of Mrs. J. AV- McEw’en, will go home to-day and her niece, Miss Frankie McEwen, will accompany her, for a few weeks visit. Hon. AV. D,. Owen, of Logans- . port, was in 'Oxford, his former home, Sunday. Hisiroatth isgood. In his opinion Cleveland will be re-nominated, but will not be able to carry Indiana.-Oxford Tribune. The L. N. A. & C, railroad company contemplate the erection c £ a hospital for the benefit of the employes of the road. Its Icciiion is not yet decided upon.—Delphi Times.

The man who organized and led a mob to resist the draft, in Blackford county, in war times, now holds a good position in the pension department. There are hundreds of similar cases. Rev. David Handley has just been tendered the presidency or AViley University, of Marshall, Texas, by the Freedmen’s Aid Society of the M. E. Church; and he will go to Cincinnati to-day, to consult with the officers of the Society, whose headquarters are in Cincinnati, .

N. AVarner & Sons have torn down the several old buildings , of theirs, on Ffont street, just north of Liberal Corner, including their old W’agon shop and the old implement shed, and are erecting in their place an agricultural implement warehouse, 30 by 75 feet, in dimensions. The challenge of the insurince men for a game of ball with the ' business and professional m>n of the town is published in this paper. AVe suspect this move is a • sly scheme in the interest of the 'life insurance men: their object being to get a lot of our ,/iomineut citizens permanently crippled and so not able to escape from the ' chin music of the agents. AVe unMerstand that the game will ccrne i off at the time mentioned in the challenge. - -

Rev. AV, H. Sayler is nowenjoying a month’s vacation from his arduous and successful ministerial labors, at Troy Grove, 111., and -himself-aud-wife-ai-eA’isifiiigjmiong rtends_.andrelaGonsp in this vicinity. Mr. Sayler’s labors are highly appreciated by his people, and they have engaged him for another period, with an increased salary. His regular eer.gregations are very large, numbering, in fact, several hundieds, . every Sabbath, y A” fine ktd shoe, worked buttonsoles, for 8L75 at Hemphill Honan’s.