Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1887 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN.

VOL. XX.

THE REPUBLICAN. ISSUE!) KVKUi* THURSDAY RY nriS. SS. I’DBl.lSir.KI! AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE- In lUpuUlic:.:! Dublin?. on corner of, Washington ami Weston streets. Terms of Subscription. One year •■•••••••••- ?l six months. '>■> Three months.. .... 0/A.. 60 The Official Paper of Jasper County.

PROF-KSSIONAI. CARDS. _ T PHYSICIANS. W W ' HARTSELL, M. L)., * * __HOMEOPATHIC ZFl'x’ZS'lciaxi a-rtcl Svixg'eexi., Rensselaer .Indiana. ggynjhroatc Diseases aSpecialty Office EttH Washington* Street: R-.lar.-S!. Residence, Makeover House. |“\R. 1. B. WAS HE'.MN, 1 PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, Rensselaer, Indiana. Gives special attention to Diseascsof Womea and Children ami Chronic Diseases. Rc-mcir borealis are promptly attended when not professionally engaged. ■p p. in I’l 1 2RS, M. I)., riiYSICJAN AND SURGEON, Over Ellis & Murray, Rensselaer, - - - Indiana £C? T(.depho.no to 'yr ARY E. JACKSOX.AL D. .4 PHYSICIAN AND* SURGEON. — : f ■ Special attention given to diseases of women and children, Olli .*(? on I rout street, corner of Ange’iie'.i.

ATTCR N E Y S. ATTORNEY AT LAW. 1:7.1: a c'. A’« mt - i MMHICVatI.i'.w. Estate and Tnsvraiiee .ALrif,' will] sv <>Y;acial :'lt< Mion lo iiWnffit-'i ill", n'llil’.g hind and paying taxes; Probate, niul'i oljeidicn business attended to promptly, Office in Jffiopold’rf Block, tip stairs, fti-ji;. tr. - Eiiwitt B. Hammond. W:-t. B.Avstin HAEMOED •& AUSTIN, fljnr.xlll's AT'riEW.— Rinsi BAER, - -•-- - JHDia na . ftC-p*Office second Poor of Leopold’s Block, .citer V/a.-iliing.tbn tutd Van lieiisselaer streets xv v k. Ai.-sriN vureliases. sells and lensesreal estate and deals- in. negotiable iiisti'unients. IS-37-U. |XAl.f'!l W. MARSHALL, J T7OLXLYA t la w, Practices in jasper. Nev.ton add adjoining 'counties. 1>) trial attcrdiel) given to settle mi nt of Decedent’s I states, Collections, Cenveyances, Justices’ Clises, —Etc-.—Etc. F.te. Addbexs, - - Hose Lawn. ImSDrokr r . _ TfiTs>n r ?o'K, Trxvrrrd .-Trt-wrrses- *! Di/r.oqi <i£/.<wc. .Notary 1 uhlic, rpLOAiI'SON & BRO.. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Retisiio] ter, Ind. Practice in all tae courts. We pay particul attention to paying taxes, selling and leasing lands. M. L. SPITLER Collector and Aujtr.tctor—■yy il n. graham, VVtttrrrndnrLa Loan and Beal Estate Bureau. Office opposite Cour jiotise, on V> asliington street, fornieriy occupied by Pi link W. Bab cock, Esq., Special attention to collections and Probate business. Is-48. JANES W. DOVTIIIT * ATOLXXY AT LAW, RENSSELAER. - - r -» INDIANA. rgjy»Office up stairs in Maheever’s new brick . building, three doors east-of-XV-b.i. f . ' , ■yy M. W. WATSON, Jitter s>F&¥ t Office up stalls in. Leopold’s Bazar tjSSJ Rensselaer, Ind. y-ORDECAI F. CiXILCOTE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Renwjfel:<er, Up'. Attends to-all business in the profession with pr<;ni)itr.essand dinpaUTi-. Office ie'second story ol'dlicAia'icever buiuling. . • MISCEI 4-A.NEOUB. R. S. Dwigo /• •’, F.'-J. Sears, V al. Sktb.President. Vice President. Cashier CITIZENS’ BANK. Rensselaer Ind. Does a general banking business; certificates bearing interest itsueti: . ocliitnge . bought aiid soil; ntoiiry loaned <n> farms at lowest rates and on trust .favorable terms. 17-IJ-tf.

John Makekvkr. Jay W. Williams. I’rcsi'ieiit. Cashier. -p AI! MF. RS’ IhANK, £ BST Opi’osiie I’tihiie I?ecfjvesDc]N)xils. ENehang*. Colli ctH’iis Wille and vTcniwly i-emitteilj. . ■ M< I.( J Lr.i'i:, .:. .‘i v.eneßil ■ BaLkir." BiibiiicssXV. 48 y A-XleCoy. T. J. y, E. 1...-noyiing-.wortli. k, McCoy G Co, Bakkrs, ibuc.-usKn-a to A. M<C< y A T. Tlicmiitoil.) Rensselaer, Indiana. I . . • - ■■■ i f . ■ ■■»-- Do a general, b&iiking bu-ine-.s. Ex<-]tan*ge hiinght and nolil. Money loancil. ('otillchtci> bearing interest issveii. C'-iUect-lons niatleou alPavalkiblepoints. 3fifee-t»ttnio pkree — as' old llfin of ‘MeCoy ~jt lUompiOQ, u . ■ 1 8-W-y.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1887.

Locals and Personals.

J. W- Duvall is sick, with a bilious trouble. Don’t forget, scratch books for 1 cent at the post office. Active work on Uncle Tommy Robinson’s new residence, just west of the cemetery, has begun. Wanted. —Five hundred ‘families to buy their books at the postoffice. Au infant child of M. B. Cox, of Fair Oaks, is very sick, with summer complaint. The Drs. Jackson are rebuilding their lately purchased residence, on Front street. They are making it a practically new house.' Dr. Antrim, the recorder, is in very poor health again. He has not been able to get down to his office for several weeks.

Remember to .give Mr. C. C. Starr’s new importation of Jewel Tea a trial. It is a pure, uncolored tea of great merit. Last Thursday the Old Squire united in * marriage, at his residence, a couple from Newton county, Mr. Wa!t?rEwauand Miss 1 Mattie Arhie. Emerson Reeve started for Milwaukee, AV is, , yesterday, and from there will go to some point in 1 Dakota, to take a situation as tele-. J graph operator on-the Chicago, i Mil. & St. Paul railroad. ! Uncle Billy Beck, the universally esteemed sexton of Weston cemetery, rejoices with exceeding great--joy^over4hc birth -of- a fi mr boy, which took place Tuesday morning. Billy’s licit youngest I chjld is fourteen years old. Aery soon the leaves will, according to precedent, begin to do their annual falling to the familiar tune, but Willey A. Sigler’s prices are as usual just ahead and have } not only commenced to fall but have reached the bottom already. A siu dl culvert was burned on the L., N. A. C,, in. the swamp,. "noftlTof Shelby, List Thursday,': and the 4 p. m. mail train went to Chicago, via the Michigan City division and the Chicago & Atlantic. The bridge was rebuilt before Friday morning. The Remington ball club came over last Thursday and played with the Rensselaer Blues, at the latter’s ball grounds, in the presence of a small crowd. The game went to the Remingtons, after a long, close contest, by a score of 28 to 31. Only eight innings were played. Gen. Van Rensselaer is a remarkable man in many ways and hn instance in point, is the fact that after he was sixty-three years old he began the study of* the French language, and now can both speak and write, it with a ; fluency and correctness equal to that of an educated native Frenchman. ' ■,

A Swanington correspondent of the Oxford tribune, claims to have knowledge that the railroad surveyors have reported that of the different lines that have been surveyed for the connecting link between the C. & I. C. and the C. <t E. I. roads, the Fair Oaks to Momence line will cost £35,000 less to construct than the one from Goodland to Momence.

Landlord Peacock painted a big placard last week announcing in bold letters, “Boardsl.oo per day” and placed it near the entrance of his hotel, the Nowels House, but directly under one of the windows of the Citizens’ Bank. The boys around soon caught on, and for a time there was a pretty constant stream of callers at the bank, asking for hotel accommodations. The astonished and indignant manager, Mr. Sears, finally discovered the misleading and misplaced sign, and removed it in high-dudgeon, but not before the boys had got considerable amusement, athis expense.

Mark Reed, of Jordan tp., has a new daughter, since Monday. ,„ 4 . Call in and see the fall styles in millinery, at Hemphill & Honan’s. Two companies are already boring for oil at Francesville and another company is being organized Look to your best interests and buy your school books at the post office. Cheap! Cheap! James Donnelly, north of town, had a field of wheat which yieldecjabout thjrty-two: bushels of excellent wheat to the acre. The jewel is an Emblem.of purity. This is one reason why Mr.., C. C. Starr’s brand of pure uncolored leaf is styled Jewel lea. The boring for gas, at Kentland, was brought to a temporary standstill, last week, by the drill becoming fast in the hole, at a depth of 450 feet.

Miss Mary Washburn departed yesterday for Butler University, at Irvington, but will visit relatives at intermediate points, for a few days. L, K Yeoman, of Groensburgb, Kansas, is visiting relatives and old friends, in this vicinity. He, like nearly all who have gone from this place to Greensburg, has struck it rich. Rumors have been n umcrous ' this week, regarding an important - business change of an old-establish- < ed business. The deal is said to be a sure thing, and that the. transfer will take place this month. r Clarence EgHOll, whose arrival from Kansas, sick, was mentioned’ two weeks ago, has since been lying very low at the house of J. C. Porter, in town, with malignant typhoid fever. His condition is still said to be very critical. C. C. Sigler and family reached home from Kentucky Tuesday afternoon, Laving sufficiently recov- j ered from their sickness To enable'them to- make the j oigs6y,~~~Mr. j • ■ I iSigler was sick two months, with typhoid fever, and Mrs. Sigler and I two of their sons also had the same ' disease.

Otto Folant, of Marlborough, dropped in to renew his subscrip-. tion, Tuesday. He has been two i months with a thresher, in Tippe- ’ canoe, Warren and Benton connties, but mostly in Tippecanoe. In the last mentioned county, lie says wheat this year averages 30 bushels to the acre and oats 69. Corn next to nothing. The clerk has issued marriage licenses to the following couples since last reported: I Wm. I. Cullen, ( Elizabeth Geigrich. \ John I. Remley, ] Lizzie H. Lebold. i Daniel H. Guild, - ] liessie A. Conaid. i Fred Loye, 1 Estelia M. Bartlett. Last week’s Gazette chronicles the disappearance from Kentland, the Sunday previous, of Fredi Kenoyer, a 13 year old boy, and with him a valuable grey mare, belonging to the boy’s father. The ■ dffoyis~ described as- having blue 1 eyes, dark hair and wearing dark clothes. Information as to his whereabouts will be thankfully received by his father, or the sheriff of Newton county.

Col. John Ritchey, a brother of Drs. James and Samuel Ritchey, of this place, died on of last week, Aug. 31st, at his home i in Topeka, Kansas.” His brother,! Samuel, who left this place on Wright’s excursion, on Tuesday of last week, reached the Colonel’s! residencejust in time to attend his funeral. We have been handed a copy of the Topeka Daily Commonwealth, of the date of Sept. Ist, containing an extended but very interesting sketch of this remorlroKlA rn.frn ail'd fihflll' ■TPD'llb—l_l.lt.* A AttVlV AAA Ct J EMACIAA XV 1 J M lish it, next week

Mrs. Sol McQurtain, of Blackford, is seriously sick. Miss Tbeona Ward has entirely recovered from her recent illness. —Kentlan,d Gazette. Four pounds of C. C. Starr’s roasted coffee is, equal to five pounds of the best green coffee. E. L. Hollingsworth is off on another trip to Michigan “for his health.” His case is surely growing serious! Tlie rstjns of Monday night have revived the pastures, and also put the roads and the atmosphere in good shops for the Remington fair.

McCoy & Rinehart shipped several loads of cattle to Buffalo, last week, and Mr. Rinehart has gone to that.city to see to the marketing of the cattle. The articles of association of the gas and oil company have been duly filed with the proper officials at Indianapolis, and the company is now legally incorporated; The suit of Geo. Faylor, of Union tp., against the L. N. A. & C. Ry., for damages for injuries received in the wreck at Cedar Lake, is set. for this week, at Monticello, to which place it was sent from this court, by change of venue.

The town authorites have decided that financial considerations will prevent any considerable further expenditure of money on the streets this year, and whatever ; is-xlono - furtlrer in the way of graveling will be mainly to repair defective places in what has already been done. Elder Lemuel Shortridge, of Keener tp., was in town last Friday and Saturday, visiting his old friend and neighbor, Dr,. Antrim, the I'eeorder, who is sick. The; elder reports that the late, rain shave revived the hay crop in Northern- " Jasper andthal the peopte~ttiCTS~ ■ai'-eqMvtiing-imt hei r best efforts,-ill-harvesting the same. Messis G. M.Cooper, AVm. Durand, Wm. Babb and I. C.'Kelley: are the latest accessions to the G. A. R. post, at this place. Thepost is now in a very flourishing condition, with a total membership of nearly 140; and about 80 of whom are in active membership. No other secret order in the town begins to equal the . G. A. R. in number of members. Young John Bicknell and Geo. Besse, two prominent citizens of Jordan tp., got into a dispute last Friday, over a calf trade, and the result was a black eVe embellishing the countenance of the party first mentioned. Besse was fined for assault and battery by a Jordan justice; and on Tuesday Bicknell was tried before Squire Morgan, of Rensselaer, fpr provoke, and was fined one dollar and costs.

The railroad surveying party from Grant, 111., a town a few miles > north of Momence, Reached Fair Oaks, last Saturday. They made the survey with great care, having. been ten days in making the 26 : miles between the two points. The i good• still , firm in the faith that their town ) will yet be‘selected as the eastern • terminus of the connecting link between the Coal Road and the | Eastern Illinois. We sincerely, hope their wishes may be fulfilled. Joe Halligan was tried Before Squire Morgan Monday, for assault and battery upon eld Mr. N. S. Hazen, of Francesville. The of- , sense was committed in Gillam ■ township, and grew out of a dis- ! pute over the measuring of some ' oats, raised by Halligan on Hazen's land, on shares. The assault consisted of a single severe blow in Hazen’s mouth, by Halligan’s fist. It was committed August 22. The verdict was a fine of five dollars and costs, amounting in all to about $32.

Davy Warner is now selling and■ delivering groceries, for Laßue' Bros. Roasted coffee gets tough and i loses flavor by standing. C. C. 1 Starr’s roasted coffee ,is always fresh and good. 1 , The Sunday school at Fair Oaks will have a picnic, next Saturday. The Sunday schools of Rensselaer have been invited to participate. The best and cheapest roasted coffee at C. C. Starr’s; He roasts all his own coffees, and they are always fresh. t

J. T. Hemphill went to Lafayette Tuesday, on request of the officials of the L. N. A. & C. and intended to resume engineering on that line. Since the operation described last week, Dr. Loughridge has inproved right along. He may now be considered as practically out of danger. The fair officers met yesterday to pass on the awards, and sum up the financial results of the fair. All expenses will be paid, all premiums paid in full and a small balance left in the treasury.

Mr. and Mrs. Abe' Havens and their sister, Miss Alice, departed for Ladoga, Tuesday, and the old gentleman will follow shortly. It is With regret that we chronicle the permanent departure from our town of so estimable and pleasant a family. Cards are out announcing the wedding of Mr. L. T. Sapp and -Miss' Lillie. Thomas. . A reception will be held, for the young couple, next Saturday evening, at the residence of the grooin’s Wm. Sapp, in Newton tp. The wedding took place last evening, at Cadiz, Ind. According to the Oxford Tribune, live divorce cases are to come before the September term of the Benton circuit court; and in one of the Rev. Bryant, of the church of holiness, in Gitboa township, is indirectly charged with being too. familiar with the bed-room of the plaintiff’s wife.” Samuel E. Sparling and G. W, Ingram, two promising and ambitious young men, left this place Tuesday morning, to begin a year’s study, in the State University, at Bloomington. , Sparling graduated in June from the Rensselaer high school, at the head of his class; and Ingram is well known as a successful teacher in our county schools.

Jno. Gilmore, Fish Gilmore and E. Griggs, scions of some of the noblest stock of Nubbin Fudge, were arrested last Friday, charged with; disorderly conduct, on the Fair Grounds, the day previous, while i under the influence of their accustomed stimulants. Justice Morgan heard the evidence and did. not think it sufficient to warrant a; conviction and the prisoners were discharged. McCoy’s shefep sale at the fair Friday, was one of the features of the day. He sold 22'0 grade Shropshire and 70 grade Cotswold •ewe lambs, in lots of ten each. They found buyers from all parts of the county, and at prices winch averaged about $2.50 per head. It would seem from the manner in which these lambs were brought up, that the sheep raising industry was on the increase, in this county. i ThelG. A. R. post of this p’ace has just received ahd hung in their lodge room, a very large wall picture of that hell hole of horrors* i Andersonville prison, as it looked !in war times. The picture was made by a man who was himself confined in the loathsome place, ■ and is undoubtedly a fairly corI rect representation, so far as any • picture can represent, that fearful spot, the. memory of which is one of the very foulest blots on the pages of history.

The town s; h?< Is opened Monday under auspi ses most encouraging for a splea l"d year's work. Mrs. W. D. Cox,, of R issmvilTe former’y Miso Louisa Platt, of this place, has lat-ly become the mother of a fine boy. An infant son of Mr. and Mrs. ’ Banfield, of Fair Oaks, died last Friday. Eider A. Pierson ■ preached the funeral sermon, Saturday. i. Fred Chileote intends going to Eastman’s business college, , at--Poughkeepsie N. Y., this winter. His brother, Gaylord H., will teach the Bowling Green school.

Elder Henry N. Reubelt preached Sunday and Sunday evening, to good congregations, in the Christian church, last Sunday. He is an exceptionally able preacher. A notable wedding took place in. Gillanf tp., last Thursday, the parties being Mr. I). H. Guild, one of the best known and most estimable young men in the county ami Miss Lessie Conard, daughter of one of Gillam’s most esteemed citizens.

The game law expired last Thursday;4)ut the prairie chickens in this vicinity were about alt ■ .'laughtoyed, weeks ago, under Tlie ' name of “stubble ducks.” It is a ! shame t > kill all these birds, so, ij’ouug, and in violation of the law, at that. e Gon. Van Rensselaer departed for his oastern home last Monday, much improved in health by his stay in Rensselaer, and in lent spirits over the organization during his stay, of the Gas & Oil Company and to which his own exertions and generosity so largely contributed. Miss Ella Dwiggins, vdio has. taught the same school for five or six years, in Oxford; with great success and to the entire satjsfae- ’ tion of all her patrons and pupils, i-fimls it-advisable La lay- off for -a" iyear for the benefit of her health. Her place will be filled by her sister, Miss Lydia Dwiggins. The people of Rensselaer and , vicinity will go to the Remington fair today, iu considerable ■ numbers; and that fact reminds us, i that the ticket seller at the Rensselaer fair last week, says that he did not sell more than six or seven tickets to Remington people during the entire fair. The “Grand Prairie Holiness Association” people erected their big tabernacle, at the old location ’ near the railroad, last week, and are ‘ now holding meetings daily and 'nightly. The night meetings are pretty largely attended. The proi gram of previous years is somewhat extended, by holding a brief meeting in the streets early every j evening.

E. L. Warren and W. D. Bringle both well known former residents of this county, lately opened i a real-estate business in Cincinnati, the new town in Grant county, Kansas but the dry season hav- ; ing left things Hat, in that section, iMr. Bringle has returned to this ! county, arriving yesterday, and Mr. ' Warren has returned to Larned., . Kansas. Mr. Bringle talks as though the drouth had pretty thoroughly knocked out the Kansas booms, for the time being. Mrs. E. R. Burr, of Jordan tp., is now in a very bad condition of health, from her old troubles, and Tuesday was in great danger of. i death.' Her husband intends taking her to Tennessee shortly if she regains strength enough to endure the journey. Mrs. Burr, by-the-way is the lady whose marvellous cure by a faith doctor, last spring, was heralded so loudly. Mrs. Eckles, of Remington, who is now ' just at death’s door, with consumption, was-anotfrer remarkatyecure/ by the same person.

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