Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1887 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

Uncle :£om Robinson’s new residence is progressing finely. . Cheese and Dried Beef, at Allman’s Restaurant. Oysters, Lunch and Warm meals at Allman’s Restaurant. J. C. Passons is building a dwelling just outside the corporate limit of Rensselaer, on the west. # Fresh bread, buns, pies and cakes, always, at Adman’s Restaurant.

Only $1.50 to go to Chicago and back next Tuesday and no extra charge for the privilege of staying three days. So far as heard from, the question of the location of the new branch of the Coal road, has not yet been decided. 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 Tea. The L. N. A. & C. Ey. Co., will build a branch line into the Indiana Coal fields, at once. The contract for building the line has already been let. Mary, a little six year old daughter of M. P. Walker, in Leopold’s addition, died Saturday morning, of inflammation of the bowels, after a week’s sickness. The funeral was held Sunday afternoonFred Chilcote started for Poughkeepsie, NT. Yl, last Tuesday. He intends taking a course in the big business College there. Swaney Makeever, who has been at Poughkeepsse since last June, returned last week. C. M. Hubbell, of Monon, who. was bound over by a justice of the peace to await the action of the grand jury, for an alleged attempt to shoot A. K. Sills, was discharged. The grand jury having failed to find an indictment against him. He now brings an action against Sills for malicious Monticello Herald. A large quantity of desirable household goods, kitchen, parlor and bedroom belonging to Mrs. A. M. Quivey, will be sold at auction, at 2 o’clock next Saturday afternoon, near Bedford & AVarner’s grocery store. The terms of the sale are favorable. ~

John W. Dewees, now teaching id Jordan tp., and Prof. Dickerson principal of the Remington schools, obtained three years licenses at the J nly teacher’s examination. None did that well in August, but I. C. Reubelt, ieacher of the grammar room in the Rensselaer school, reached,, the three year glade in September. Still another cheap excursion to Chicago. It goes next Tuesday Oct., 3, and the tickets are good going on all trains of that day. and good coming out on any trains of that day andkntil Thursday Oct. ,6. The farejs only $1.50 for the roumUtrip, and no extra charge for "stopping oter. Tickets will be on sale at all stations .in Jasper count}-.

It is not always easy to get the straight facts about a saloon row and the fracas between the McDonald boys and Jimmy German, reported last week, is a case in pointi The “boxing match” betweed Gorinrii and younger McDonald was an entirely one-sided affair, as German was, doing all tha boxing and in a rough wav at that, and McDonald only tried to avoid him. The elder McDonald, who pasted German with the billiard cue, did so through wrath at German’s annoying and perhaps bullying pranks* and though he had been driukmg some beer, he was not drunk. The whole trouble seems to have been largely an outcome of the feud which Ims exist£kfl IIAfwPAII \ Kill n T» DICTA QfDl vti UCbnCCu IX UDDIII Irltigv ttlitt Pleasant Ridge, ever since the big row at tlie spelling school in the latter place, last winter, T

The Fj ancesville fair will be held this Week. AYm. Stephenson, whose postoffice is Rensselaer, has been granted an increase pf pension. W. B. Auet m has bought a lot in Benjamin’s addition, and wilfy at once proceed to erect a tenant house, thereon. Country dealers can buy Stationery at the post-office at whole-, sale- Try me. H. J. Dexter.

Twenty-six applicants for teacher’s license were examined by Superintendent Warren, last Saturday; two gave it up, however, before finishing the work. We still continue to hear from that fair and fertile reigon which lies a few miles south-east of Rensselaer. This time it is a fine boy, born to Mr. and Mrs. Harvey W- AYood, last Saturday. The first frost of the season occured last Friday night. It was a big one for a starter, but there was little opportunity for damage to result. Corn in this county was all out of the reach of frost some time ago. %■

The elder of the two McCormick brothers who were expecting to open a .store in the Stockton room, some weeks ago, is just recovering from a severe sickness with the typhoid fever, at his present home in Burton This fact accounts for the delay in opening the store. Finest assortment of candies in the city, at Allmans Restaurant., An elegant smoke. The little Daisy, at Allman’s Restaurant , The Lefier school house, in Hanging Grove tp., was burned last Thursday night. Cause of fire, unknown. The building was old, and insured for $250, pretty near.its full value, in the Continental. The furniture in the building was also burned. No school was running in the building.

The 10th and 15th Indiana regiments held a reunion at Crawfordsville, last week, which wasvery largely attended, not only by members of those two regiments, but by many other ©ld soldiers. Messrs M. F. Chilcote, W. H. H. Graham, R. F. Priest, R. B. W - son and Johnny Sullivan, of this place, attended. They report a grand, good time. The twenty-four hours and more of slow but steady rainfall, which began Monday afternoon, and the less protracted but nearly: equally nopious rains ot yesterday afternoon and last night ivere a most welcome termination to a drouth of several weeks duration. Pasturage and wheat were needing rain badly, wells were failing, cisterns getting empty, and stock water getting very scarce. This rain will amply supply some o! these needs and alleviate the others.

Last Monday w r as the fiftieth anniversary sll the married life of that most estimable old couple, Mr. an<J Mrs. Joseph Robinson, who live just east of town, on the Pleasant Ridge road. A number of the friends and relatives of the old people did not wish to see so interesting an anniversary pass unnoticed and accordingly an elaborate surprise party was organized, and these friends and invited guests, to the number of about 60, met at the residence at noon, of the day mentioned. A very bountiful dinner was partaken of* and a pleasant time enjoyed by all present. A considerable number of valuable presents attested the good will of the friends present. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson are both considerably past their 70th years* but are still strong and vigorous- They are the parents ot Auditor G. M. Robinson, W. D. Robinson, Q. P. Robinson and Mrs. Thos. Thompson, *ll of this place.

W- E. Moore has built a neat bain on liis lot where he lives. Country people pan get bargains in school books at the post-office.. Circuit court closed in Benton last week and is now sitting in Newton county. Geo. P. is home from Kansas. He thinks it is a fine country, but it has not much of auy corn this year. Clarence Fulton has improved considerably since last week, and his prospects for final recovery are very encouraging. Mrs. Rosetta Sloniker, late of Randolph county, is seriously sick, with asthma, at the home of her father, Squire Clark McCoJIy, in Union township. The very best quality of stocking yarn at Ellis <fc Murry’s, every pound warranted. I buy my stationery direct from the factory, buy cheap and sell cheaper, try me. H. J. Dexter. Mr. Edward E. Yeoman, son of A. J. Yeoman, of Jordan township, and Miss Jessie Draper, were married at the home of the bride’s parents, in Remington, last Friday evening. About 18! town cows depredated in the corn fields of A. M. Baker, nprth of town, Sunday, and the owners, thereof-were called 1 upou to put up a dollar- for each bovine, by way of recompense for damages done.

Married. —Thursday evening, Sept 22, at the residence of Mr. S. E. Yeoman ,■ brother of she bride in Rensselaer, Mr. Buren Wyatt, of GarroU county and Miss Melissa J. Yeoman, of Rensselaer, Rev. W. R. Nowels officiating. The forty or fifty girls and their attendants belonging to the Catholic orphan asylum, were removed to PVAWayne last Thursday, in accordance with previous announcement. They left Rensselaer in the morning by a special' train, of two cars. The excursion rates of next Tuesday, Oct 4th, are the most liberal ever offered. Round trip, tickets will not only be down tothe rock bottom price of $1.50 but they are good on any train of that day going in and good on any train coming out until Thursday Oct. Gth

The Uncle Tom’s Cabin company which showed here last week also exhibited at Francesville and Motion. The performance at the latter place was highly commended by the Leader; while the New Era, of Fraccesville, jumped on to the company, with both feet. The bad acting of the dogs seems to worry the Era man, worse than anything else. A curious find was made one day fast week, in cleaning out the Nowels House well, in the shape of eleven silver Mexican dollars. It is supposed they were thrown there by a man who was arrested here seven or eight years ago, charged with robbing the house of Mr. Hufty, of Newton county, and who is now keeping a hotel at Mt. Ayr. The man was sent to the penitentiary.

Geo. B. Antrim was in town yesterday. He has just been called from Kansas by sickness in his family, who are notv at Rose Lawn. His wife and Tittle girl are sick but on the way to recovery. His youngest child, however, a girl of 18 mouths, died on Tuesday, the2oth iust. The disease was whooping cough, following the summer complaint. Mr. Antrim, by-the-way, is now a full-fledged candidate for county clerk, in Gray county, having been nominated last week. Party lines in that county are now drawn upon the question of the location of the county seat, and he is the candidate of one of the liVal tow&fl, —— 7- '

• . ■ .. r " ' *' Ephriam Fleming is building a comfortable-new dwelling, on his farm in Jordan township. Call, in and see the fall.sty.les. in millinery, at Hemphill & Honan.s. Pure Cider, Yinegar at Allman’s Restauraut. M. L. Spitler is building a large addition to his house on Front street, occupied by J. A. Burnham. Look to your best interests and buy your school hooks at the post office. Cheap! Cheap! Bowler is to have a new paper devoted expressly to the business of booming Fowler and Benton comity. J. W. Powell and G. W. Goff got back from their long job of railroad making, in Kentucky last Saturday. Their teams are being driven through. The Rochester Shoes for Ladies Misses and children will soon arrive, and Miss Rachel Leopold will be pleased to show them to you. The many times transferred store in Pleasant Ridge, is again in the hands of a new owner. Avmand Lewis has just bought out the Lowman brothers, and is now running the store.

Messrs J. H. Willey, I. J. Porter and James Antrim; also R. L. P. hfassey of Gil-lam, all started fop St. Louis, Monday morning, to be present at the national meeting of'the Grand Army of the Republic. Mr, G. M. Wilcox, the well known merchant of Surrey, was married last Thursday evening, at the Cotton House, in Rensselaer, to Miss Rose Shindler, an estimable young lady, daughter of Mr. James Shindler. of Newton tp. Rev. S. E. Grimes performed the ceremony. v The Catholic orphan asylum at thjs place, now deserted by the removal of the children to Wayne, was located here about twenty three years ago. There is a fine farm of 920 acres attached to the asylum, still owned by the Catholic church; also a good farm of 480" acres in Jordan tp., and some smaller tracts in other parts of the county-

This is an era of progress and one of the most progressive features of the age manifests itself in the care which is taken in the preparation of food-stuffs for human consumption. A signal instance pf the extent to which this most praiseworthy practice has been carried is seen in the Perfection Process of curing tea. Jewel Tea, of which Mr. C. C. Starr is the sole importer for this district has been uniformly and scientifically cured by Prefection Process so a 3 to develop its aromatic and nerve-stimulating virtues. and then packed in Perfection Tea Cans to preserve them in the completest manner.