Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1887 — County Correspondence. [ARTICLE]

County Correspondence.

FROM SURREY. Uncle George Thornton is sick. Meeting at the Union school house by the Primitive Baptist last Sunday. Their association will begin Friday, lasting three or four days. 'All are inyited to attend. J. F. Bruner and family will move to Rensselaer soon, where he expects to engage in the grocery business. —-A-—.7-—L._ G. M. Wilcox gets his English badly mixed since he„ began ..the study of the Bohemian language. Pete. GILLAM ITEMS. D. H. Guild returned from his visit to Hagerstown last week. A. C. Robinson has returned from his western trip, and is spending the week at institute. Al has travelled over a good portion of the states of Illinois, lowa, Kansas and Missouri. He says Kansas reminds him of the ‘’bottomless pit with the fires extinguished,” but thinks Missouri an excellent country. Aunt Hanna Freshour has been dangerously ill for the last few’ days, but is now reported better. Wm. Ramey and AVm. Querry are in the well business, and are at present working at Joseph Long’s. It has been rumored that E. O. Rathfon has lately conceived of a hew improvement on kite flying. He proposes to secure through the Medaryville operator’s appi’en tic e, a few yards of Lafayette balmoral and white laundried goods, shipped to Medaryville in a common travelling trunk, from which he proposes to construct a variegated tail for his kite. Vve also think that two return tickets to Monon should be attached, and the music teacher employed to play “Yankee Dodie” and “P. A. D. le” your own canoe, during the ascent, and the outfit would be complete. x.h., .;... We CUyF, FROM WHEATI lELD. Not so many cases of sickness in this part at present, as .were a few weeks ago. The Depot carpenters have finished their work at this place; also at the river and have taken their depar tui e southward. S. W. Bentley closed his work in photographing at Wheatfield Monday. He will move to Dunnville where he will remain three] weeks. Jus. B. Graham islmilding quite i a fine residence east of town; also A. Hamilton near the 3. 1. depot. ; Mr. Chas. Baker made a flying visit with us a short time ago. We wonder what the attraction at Mr. S ? Died.—John A. Dolcli died at his Father’s residence, Jacob Dol.eJ.i’s 'Wednesday August 17th. He had come out from Chicago thinking a . clwigg.. Diight. better his health. Ho had been at his father’s but a few duys before his death. The remains were taken j to Chicago for interment. Mr. Samual Seegrist and Miss Carrie Dunn made calls among friends.in town Monday. * Jacob Melser is the possessor of ; a very cunuiug litde.pet, -ayoung ' raccoon which he captured in the Kan kakee - swam ps. Adeift. 7?7;j/ZAC/7Y>A ITEMS. -John-Tlasilnirn, son or Daniel Eastburn, who was injured by failing into a well 351 feet deep, is getting better rapidly. (.ho. Hascdl and Bert Blood are rigging up a hack, which will carry multitudes to and from our beautiful fair grounds. Active pre;»;i.rtioHs are being made to lend.u' this fail’ as attractive as any that have gone before it. Consider yourselves cordially invited. Mr. Durand is able to I e upon lire street- again. The gas well has reached a depth of 500 feet. Th ;, y passed i.ov.gii a stratum-or marble, <>£ fine ({uality, but too far beneath the s; ;11 f ace of th e earth to-puy f’ > r the expense of quarrying; at present. .Deputy Sheiifi’ Yeoman, and wife, were; in town Monday the ‘former looking up witnesses in the' case of the State versus George liobinspn.. The Remington Base Ball Club met the Country .nine on the field last Friday, and like the youthful ■warriors of tlie fame “they routed them, they scouted them, nor l;>st a single man.” Mrs. Graves; tniiL daughter Mary, of Louisville , Ky., arc the guests ot Mr. afid Mrs. O. B.

Mclntire. W. H. Wells, and family have moved into the M. Solompn property, and Z. K, Smith and family, into that formerly owned by. S. Solomon. > Joht> Tharp will move into the house vacated by W. H. Wells, and John 1\ Ford into : that vacated by Mr. Smith. -, . J The ladies of the.M. E. Church i will give a hrwn social onthespac- | ions and handsome- grounds of i Albert J. Bellows, on , Thursday evening of this week- "‘ J ■* ’,lt speaks volumes for the nporitli!y <;£ our, people when, we say : that in all this' thickly settled country we can furnish but one i prisoner for the jail, and that a ! lad of. twelve years old arrested on a charge of horse stealing, sent up —We are sorry to . say—from Remington. Memorial services- were held in j the M. E. church , last Sunday | evening, for Rev. T. J. W. Sullivan, pTformor resident of this place, i who died at his home in LoganI sport on the 10th of the present ] month. His daughter Mrs. Pati ton of Fairbury 111., while on the i way ip her father’s funeral, was I slightly w’oundod and dreadfully i shocked, in the terrible -accident l at CL’atsworth. Mrs. Sullivan ’ passed through here on Monday last, enroute for her daughters bedside. , Harry Thomas started for Kansas, on Monday last. He expects to perform part of his journey on his bicycle. He is an expert bicyclist and a good boy generally. M. J. Phelps is ' seriously sick, ! but is a little better dvriti ing, ( Monday evening. ) ; wlrs. Charles Peck is~on~~th6 i sick list. Remingtonian. A full rig of derrick timbers, boiler and machinery for drilling tire firstwell of the Trenton Rock Company arrived Tuesday. The company thinks that’drilling will be under full headway by the middle of next week. This looks like business. AVo wish this company iirueh sucsess: as- a -great dwal depends upon their endeavors.— Francesville Fra. The Francsville Natural' Gas, Oil and Coal Company paid J. J. Itobinsoix their indebtedness last week and were released from the contract with him for well No. 2. It is reported that the company saved by having the contract cancelled, as drilling can be got cheaper now than y.Tien they contrqcted.—Francesville Era. , An excursion to Chicago will be run over the L., N. A. A C., next Tuesday Augu.-J DGtb. The fare for the round trip is, only 61.50, from Rensselaer, Pleasant- Ridge and Marlborough; for two day tickets $2.50. This train will afford the unusual advantage of staying in the city late enough to enable the excursioiiist's. to attend theatres or other evening amuse"ments, It will pass Rensselaer at 8:50 a. m., and reach Chicago at 11:50 a.' m., and returning, will leave Chicago at 11:50 p. m , thus giving 12 hours in the city. “♦ O ; The case, of--Winifred Maicidiy vs. James t. Givens w’hich- was ‘ sent from the’-Jasper circuit court; to Newton, on change, of venue and was thrown out of-court by Judge Ward, wiio sustained a demurrer on the part of the defendants, has been appealed to the The- Jj.u3b.-uul. of the plafnfilf came to l-tnussohor ; and while-drunk, as, alleged, wh.sold more liquor by ti:- 1 d.-ltnd-ant, and as.a consequence was unable to properly control his team, and sleigh i and was badly and permanently injured. » The plaintiff therefore sues far d:i;nages ami au.ee, under that provision <>f ( the law which makes saloen' keepers liable for which may oc<mr inDii s;-llli,g Ji.jii >r t > an toxicated person, defendant, JLiimselu is_ unpoeunious,; ;'.nd . a judgement against him wornd l>® •no good, but his bondsmen David No.vßs anil Ralph Fcd-lig are, well I'.'led, -tij|id wiil be insbliiig fqF any judgement that in iy be got against Giveins. E. P. Hr.mnon.l is attorney for Mrs. Ma'cnliy and S. P. Thonqxson for the other, si!('. ? ■ - Frockies can’t l>e v. .ish-’-d out, hut they can“b^prevoi;t.'d by -Tying ~nne of those -tuvrJy --httkparasols which Willey & Sigler are sell mg at such low prices. ,