Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1887 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

A girl at Harry Wilkshire’s last Monday. The place to buy cheap groceries is 'at C. D. Nowels’. . The book store of Reusselaer is at the post-office. Gold tooth picks, pencils and pens at Hardman’s the Jeweler. The Trenton Rock Company expect to comolete their second well at Frances ville, this week. Buy a bos of that pure unadultrated candy at Long A Eger’s. Just the thing for X-mas. See me. lam bound to please both eye and pocket, Hardman the Jeweler. Mrs. A. M. Quivey, with her little grandson,.Kenneth, is spending the holidays with her sister, in Lafayette. The largest lino of fancy cups' ; and saucers ever brought to Rens- | selaer nt rock bottom prices at, LaRae Bros. I.a , 1 Christmas tree entertainments j will be held Saturday evening in I the Methodist, 'Pro.ebjtericn and] Christian churches. Ail letters nd,dressed to Santa Glaus by the good little children j of Rensselaer should be left at • Long A Eger’s. Postmaster Bates has just made 1 another addition to the facilities! of his office in the shape of another i case of call boxes. *; You are invited to look over my stock of laco pins, cuff and collar buttons and ladies chains. H All DM AN THE JEWELER, The members of the Cornet Band are preparing to give. n. grand holiday dance, on Wednesday evening, of next week, in Roberts’ hall. LONG & EGER. All the novelties in toys, dolls and Christmas cards are now included in the magnificent display of holiday goods at Long A-Eger's. The Masonic lodge elected new officers last Monday night, aw follows: M. L. Spitler, W. M„ B. F, Ferguson, S. W., A. Leopold, J. W„ Ralph.Fendig, Treasurer, J. W. Williams, Secretary. WiR A. Lowman, general agent! for Hie Lafayette Morniug News, j was in town last Thursday and j Friday pushing the patronage of i that lively young Republican publication. He met with considerable success. Lost. —On the 18, Inst.,between the Presbyterian church and the residence of J. R. Yanatta, a hair switch with net and rubber pin. The fioder will be rewarded by leaving the same at the latter’s residence or place of business. J. M. Vanatta. The projected consolidating oE the C. & 1. C. and Eastern Illinois railroads, now owned by essentially the same parties, hangs fire on account of the difficulty experienc- j ed in circumventing the laws of.j Indiana and Illinois which forbid the consolidation of parallel lines of railroad. N. H. Harris, Medavyville, has traded the Medaryviile tile works to William Dollivar, and some stock for a farm in Jasper county, to which he will soon remove. We are sorry to lose Mr. Harris as a citizen and assure the people of Jasper that they gain an honorable and upright man. — Wiuamaci Republican. The funeral of Mrs. Werner! Mueller, who lived two miles south j of town, was held at the Catholic church, Tuesday forenoon. Her name before marriage was Miss I Maggie Nagle, and she was a| daughter of Geo. Nagle, who lives ! a few miles west of town. The; cause of her death was child-bed i fever. Her sickness was of about ’ a week's duration. J, Y. Takasugi, a native Japa-j nese, now a student at DePauw j University, Greencnstle, will lecture in the M. E. Church, next; Sunday night, on the subject of the customs, morals and religion j of his native country. No admission will be charged, but a collection will be taken up, the proceeds of which will be «aati in .help. defray the educational- expenses of Mr. Takasugi uud hie fellow Japanese at DePauw, who are preparing to return as Christian missionaries, .to their native land. Mr. Takasudi will wear his Japanese costume daring the lecture.

■ r Silverware, Musical Instruments and Optical Goods, at Kannal’s. Mr. Bucklin wifi begin boring for gas, near the old Blair well, near Francesville, in a short timeIf your clock, watch or jewelry needs repairing take it to Hardman, the Jeweler. Pope’s, Burn’s, Scott’s, Poe’s poems ect at the post-office, for 50 cts. Squire E. T. Harding is in a very bad condition, at his home iu j Newton’s addition. His mind, especially, is greatly affected. Call and see the new musical instrument, the zither, at Ivannal’s. Anybody, old or young, can play it, without instruction. The Presbyterian social will meet with Mrs. Wilson Porter, ! Wednesday evening, Dec. 28,1887. All are invited. • j Uncle Daniel Grant, the pa-j riarch of the county, is mortally ! sick. His tongue or throat is par--lalyzed, rendering talking 'impossible aud swallowing nearly so. Call at Kannal’s jewelry store and procure a free sample copy <>E fiis beautiful illustrated Holiday | paper, the Repsselaer RoUdayMessenger. The M. E. church was crowded to overfiiuviug, last Sunday oven-, 1 11 g, by people to hear Rev. S. B. : Grimes’ able discourse on the sub- 1 ieet of dancing. ; ! Edward E. Yeoman, of Jordan tp., is preparing to go west in the I spring, lie and fiis mother, Mrs, A. J. Yeoman, give notice in this paper, of a public sale to be held i January 3rd. .. j. John Hall, of Jordan tp., was locked up last 'Friday,' charged' with grand larceny. He is said to | have stolen !ii. : 2o a year or so ago, ■ from a man in that township. He is a young fellovy .possessed of but little sense. The Rensselaer pub-lie schools are doing good work now, in all departments. The attendance, which is very regular anft punctual, averages 340 every day. The average attendance at this lime, a year ago, was 300. S Nettie Sleaster died of tyfever, at the house of her father, Win. Grimes in Walker tp., Dec. 14, age nearly 28 years, tine came from Monticello only two weeks before lief death. The remains were buried in Harsh man j cemetery.. In the year of 188 S there will be five eclipses, three of the sun and : two of the moon. A total eclipse of the moon January 28th. Visible more or less to the whole world generally, except on the j Pacific Ocean. The ellipse of the j sun will not be visible in any part of the United States. A very pleasant affair which took place on Tuesday, Dec. 13, \.us the : celebration of the China wedding | of Mr. and Mrs. Win, Jordan, at I Jordan’s Grove, White county. A j large number of guests were pres-! cut, ami many useful and ornamental presents were received. Mrs.; Jordan was formerly a resident of Jaspei county, being the daughter j of the late Doctor Moffitt. i The I;, N, A. & C. By., with ac- j enstomed liberality is preparing to j sell round trip tickets for the Hoi- j idays at the rate of one fare for the round trip. The dates upon which the tickets are to be sold at that rate are Dec., 24, 25, 26 and 31. and Jan. I and 2. Tickets; gopd returning until Jan. 3. The ; rate for children between 5, and 12 is half the adult rate. ' M. O. Halloran’s appeal case for a saloon license came up in the circuit court in Iventland, last Friday and he was granted the license. No one opposed the license. Mr. Halloran applied for a license to the county commissioners, last June but they refused it to him and Halloran then appealed to the circuit court and at the October term thj case was senpto Newton county on a change of venue. An important change with the Citizens Bank goes into effect Jan. 1 1st It is to be reorganized as a state bank and be subject to examination every year, by the state bank esaminer. The full tffcse "Of > the re-organized institution wfll be ! The Citizens State Bank of RensIZfinri Dwiggins will be president, F. J. Sears vice president and Val Seib cashier. Solomon Wells, of Ohio, is a large stockholder.

Green apples at Nowels’ grocery, at depot. A grand display of silverware &t Hardman’s, the Jewelep. Rev. K. J. Duncan will fill the Presbyterian pulpit, next Sunday morning. W- R. Parker has a stray umbrella, at his livery stable, which the owner thereof is requested to call for. 4 ■■■'■• The best dressed and the best looking men in town are those who buy their clothes of Willey & Sigler. The Inter-State railroad law made fearful havoc among traveling theatrical companies, and there are but few of them left on the road. The Presbyterian church and Sunday school will observe Christmas iu the usual merry manner. ; A Christmas tree on Saturday evening anil a Christmas concert on Sunday evening. A cordial invitation to all.

Mrs. Harriet E. Davis, widow of Dan E. Davis, is now living in Granville, Licking Co.,‘Ohio. Her husband- will be remTnubVrert by 1 many oi‘ our older residents as tho | editor of the Rensselaer Gazette, 1 a Republican paper published in ; Reassalaer 25 or jjO years ago. Mrs, E.'mqet K.imml is keeping! social m'liters lively on the west,.! side. Last evening she gave an | afternoon tea and evening party;) to-night will give another, also j gave one last week and is preparing for still another some evening of next week. One of the Mr. Blakes, of Jor-j dan tp., was in town Monday, lab- j oving under considerable distress ! of mind consequent upon the sup- j posed stealing from his pasture j of two horses and.a colt, the night: before. Later the- horses were } found at a neighbors, whither they J had wandered, of themselves. - Squire Morgan entered up judgment against L. T. SappTafikSfetrst day, in the attachment case pieu-; tiofled lai-t weak in favor of four, or five diffhn-ut Cl editors, to the j extent of nearly 870 ipid costs.} Sapp lias returned from Summit- : vilte anil announces bis intention j to appeal the case. The attempt 1 made to attach Sapp’s harness and ; buggy, in Goodlatul, was.a failure,; as he had previously disposed of j the property. Martin Burns, of Barkley »p„ ! dropped a memorandum book,con- ! Taming 870 in money, on the sidewalk in front of the court house, last Saturday afternoon,-and, luckily for him, it was found by Toiumy Bissenden, who promptly returned the property as soon as he was satisfied as to the ownership. Bums forked out a fiver to young Bissenden, to reward him for Iris honesty, which was none too march, nor hardly enough, considering the amount contained in the book. A Knights of Pythias lodge was re-organizeil in Remington, last Thursday night, with a large number of old members and about six--teen new members. Large numbers of visiting Knights were present, from Rensselaer, Goodland, Monticello &e. The number from Rensselaer was twelve. They report a splendid time, throughout, and are especially commendatory and iudeed enthusiastic over the superb supper furnished by the Remington brethren.

M. O. Halloran is selling two| beers for a nick and other liquors' at proportionate prices. The knowledge of Hire fact will, doubtless, throw a bright light of joy into many a darksome heart; but at the same time perhaps it. would not be a wholly correct conclusion to sup- j pose that Mike is taking this Course j from motives of pure j and love of his thirsty fellow men. It is just possible that a desire to, figuratively speaking, rais9 the scalps of some ot Ins numerous eompetitois in the liquor business may have had some share in causing him to make these great concessions to the needs of his dry and impecunious townsmen. The brightest gems contain some flaws and the purest gold some dross.

Cranberries at N ow els’. Beautiful jfiwolry , Kt~i£annaLg. ’ Fresh butter and eggs at Newels’. For choicr canned fruits go to Nowels’. Over soar hundred books at the post officr for 50 cts.