Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1887 — County Correspondence. [ARTICLE]

County Correspondence.

Dr MOTTE and. KEENER. Tlie big rain Saturday nigld: will help late planted corn and potatoes and stop the fires. * Taylor’s hay gang, 8 men and o teams, are pressing hay oh School section- Tfiny are boarding with Squire Shortridge. Miss Alpha Purdy, of Lowell, is visiting with her Aunt, Mrs. Squire Shortridge. Mrs. R. AY. Marshall and her twins' came home Monday last. They have been visiting relatives and attending the “Martin Picnic,” at LaPorte. Mrs Abe Ha-lleck, of Fort Wayne, isyiMting her husband and receiving her friends, at the Troxell house, in BeMotte, this week. A. O. Marshall, of Joliet, Ills, Suudayed with his brother’s family, the 7th; lie brought with him liis nephew and niece, George and Sadie Giilott. Miss Beutly, of TeiTt, is visiting in Demotte this week." Their Royal Nibs, Prosecuting Attorney Marshall, of the 30th circuit, Lord Chief Justice Troxell, of BeMotte, Busy Blowhard Bruner, of Surrey, and the venerable and dignified Old Boy, Hugh AVilliamson, of Newton county, went to the river on Saturday last, on a fishing trip. They had fine (|) sport and made a big catch—of dog fish. GILL AM ITEMS. A glorious rain Saturday, night and Sunday. « Mrs. May Pumphry, and three children, Fann, Ray and Carl, of j Centerburgh 0., and Mrs. Bella Condit and daughter Edith, of Condit, O. are visiting their parents and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Couard and Lessie. ‘ The gentleman referred to last week as being so over-burdened with partnership furnature wishes' to say for the benefit of tiiat correspondent,/that as to the weight and amount -of sttid furniture- itcould be down in mid air at the_ •tail of E. G. Llathfon's kite, ortaken in a top buggy to San Pierre, Via Medaryvilto (by starlight at 2 o’clock a. in.) and stored away in a box-car, like the music teacher j from De-Motte. Come again. A Sudden Beat m.—On last | Fi'idayeveidng the peoplegof the ; neighborhood were shock- ) t d by"thersudden death of Mrs. j Sarah Hewlett. Whep the men : came from . the field,- about six ; vfidock, Ereyfeand-dierJyi-ngm the road, between the house and barn, 1 dead. She had turned the pat-tie j in the yard, watered them, turned j them out and shut the gate. Her j daughter, Mrs. N iggle had been at tiie house for a drink a short time before and she seemed all right. Her supper was on the stove, so that she could not have been dead long when found. She -Imt-} been troubled with heart do-.-sense for about twenty years and j. that is thought to have bean the i cause of her death. The funeral j was preached-at-tire-house Sunday \ atTernooh and her remains interred ] at Independence grave yard. She i was the mother of ten children, 1 seven of whom, four sons and three daughters, survive her. Two of these a sen, and daughter, are;in ; Bak.ota. She also leaves,, a lius- ; ban (Land many friends to mourn her loss. Logo Fern. \ ■ RIMING’LON J JIM.I Prof. L. N. FohtL wife ami di ugh tor will spend tliis . c.-' ' with friends in Remington ua-i-au so? their now .home in Kans'c-. Charles Chamberlin wi'o hi-' been teaching in McLean Co. 111., is at home for a short vacation.’ The Ft- R. horror near Chatswoiih 111. is still the all engrossing theme of conversation and the (management of .the road on which ; it occurred is severely condemned:'] i One 61 the .young Normalitps ' from this neighborhood, Miss Al- : luim Wilcox is at home suffering j from’iv-seve.ro attack. of malarial ' • fever.. Jhe others r- port a pleas-jia-rj't and profitable time: and think their money well inverted. J. M Briggs an 1 wife of Albany N. Y. are visiting relatives and ; friends in this place.' " • d.B, Stiller is viai differ end 1 parts of Illinois this week, bon a ■prospecting jbuiy ‘ W'e ■ hope- that lie may return, well satisfied t;> ! ■ - ■* , • . ! stay in Remington. * * 'Groliam of Eton, :Okio;'| lies charge of the News, this. week. | A? T*.- -Go-ham—has -many friends ' but ;-e glad id T;- ,t----him return herce permanoiitly. _ The gas wed had reached s evening. They arc drilling through , lime rock and Their progress is {

necessarily & little slow. Doubtless the good people of ReuShelaer will soqu b,e piping gas from our well to illuminate that pleasant little city. Dr. S. C. Mhxwell left on Monday evening, for: Duluth, Mihn., to visit professionally, his sister-in-law, Mrs. J. If. Shaw. He expects to be absent abbut two weeks. . Mrs. Shaw’s many friends will hope to hear of her restoration to; health. G. Smith, of the firm of Smith & Ealthis has purchased of S. Solomon, his handsome property, and, will occupy it at once, the Sol-i| onion’s leaving for Dubuque, this week. J. T. Ford will take pos- j session of his old headquarters i when it is vacated by Mr. tomith. A. son was added to the household of Agent Morris last Sunday. Mrs. Will Bunnell is seriously sick with a low grade of fever. The inembers of the Christian church grve a social at the suburban* residence of Lyman Zea, last Tuesday evening, and the Methodists one at Mrs. B. AV. Pecks on Tuesday evening of this week. — Rev. Thomas Moore, of Wolcott, occupied the pulpit of the M. E. church, last Sunday, vice the pastor Rev. E. B. AYooclson who assisted in the quarterly meeting services at AA’olcott. The Lyon dramatic troupe, an excellent company, will entertain our theater going people oh Thursday and Friday evenings of this week. The Remington Base BaH -Club is scooping everything that comes before it. ■ The Goodland and Monticel]o Club 3 met them and played bravely but victory perched on the banners of the Remingtonians. “Rah for the boys.” Remingtonian