Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1887 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

Miss Mollie Babcock is visiting with her friends in Plymouth. A grand display of silverware at Hardman’s, the Jeweler. Dr. Mary E. Jackson is just recovering from a very severe attack of erysipelas. For Bargains in Watches and Jewelry go to Kannal’s Jewelry Lee Glazebrook rejoices over a first born. It is a boy, born Dec. 16. Fire! out your old suit and buy a new one at reduced rates. R. Fendig. Mrs. Dr. I. 0. Kelley is sick with a stomach trouble and Mrs. J. W. Ddutbit with neuralgia. An elegant selection of Mufflers and silk handkerchiefs can be i seen at R. Fendig. Miss M. M. Hill spent Christ, mas with her Rensselaer friends She is well pleased with her present position in the Goshen schools. The best dressed and the best looking men in town are those who buy their clothes of Willey & Sig*, ler.

8. H. Howe has burnished and' brightened his meat shop, for the beginning of the year. His terms tor meat are still “spot cash.” Miss Dell Carpenter, of Whitehall, Mich., who has been visiting relatives in Rensselaer, for some weeks, returned home last Thursday. Delos Thompson had bis ankle badly hurt, last Thursday, by his horse falling upon it, while on his way to Gillam, tp., to buy cattle. The injury will lay him up for some time. Mr. Samuel S. Calvin, a young gentleman from Kansas, obtained a license from Clerk Irwin, Monday, to marry Miss Anna E. Henkle, daughter of L. W. Henkle,- of Newton tp. Rue, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Zt>ll, died last Friday morning, of congestion of the lungs, after a very brief illness. Its age was one year and 13 days. The funeral was held. Friday afternoon, from the M. E. church. It costs money to run a licensed saloon in Rensselaer. The county license is $100; the town license the same sum and the government license $25 or a total of $225 for licenses, while other costs such as attorney, publication and auditor’s fees will swell the total for each year to $250 or. S3OO. Christmas was very pleasantly and successfully observed Saturday evening by four of the Sunday schools of Rensselaer; Those connected with the Methodist, Presbyterian, Christian ard F. W. Baptist churches. In all of them handsome Christmas tiees were erected and large numbers or presents distributed. The children and grand-children of Mr. and Mrs John’Coen gathered at the pleasant residence of that excellent couple, in the grove north of the railroad, Monday evening, to celebrate their forty-third wedding anniversary. A Christmas tree adorned with desirable presents, was one of the principal features of the affair, which was an enjoyable one, in all respects. Ihe latest thing in the line of a swindle, says an exchange, for the farmers to steer clear of is a very innocent looking individual who wants to paint the roof of your barn for a night’s lodging, and in the morning wants you to sign a recommendation as to his qualifications. The recommendation turns up at a neighboring bank in a few days in the shape of a promissory note. , "iff ; • Monticello Herald: Keep your boys off the streets at mght unless you want to acquaint them with vice and fit them for wicked lives. Boys, like men, are in search of happiness, and if they do not find it at home, they will attempt to secure it elsewhere, unaware of the penalty that awaits a street educaious and easy victims of crime. Teach them that every wrong has its penalty, and that true happiness is attainable only by right living. It is easy to predict the career of boys who spend their evenings on the streets, though it is Hjfficqlt to convince them of the misery which u in ■tore for them.

Squire Harding is considerably improved from Iris sickness. For choice canned fruits go to Nowels*. Clocks! Clocks!! Clocks!!!. At Hardman’s the Jeweler. Miss Brittie Hyland of Chicago, is spending the holidays with her friends in this place. Look for Hardman’s big gold Watch sign, opposite Eger’s grocery. Mi. and Mrs. Frank Foltz spent Christmas in Oxford, where the latter still remains, visiting friends. Miss Mary Washburn is home from Butler University, for the holidays. You can buy more goods for one dollar at L. Bros, than any place in town. S. E. Sparling, student at the State university, Bloomington, is spending his holiday vacation at home. The papers of Tuesday announced that a cold wave was coming and befere night the county clerk had issued five marriage licenses. The plain gold? rin gs, band rings,, and set rings n ust be seen to heap predated, at Hardman’s the Jew- ! eler.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. ZiJl request us to extend their thanks to their many friends for the kindness and sympathy shown them during their late affliction. Clark Price, now a rising young attorney of Ashland, Kansas, spent. Saturday night and Sunday in Rensselaer. He has been visiting his parents in Carpenter tp. The January term of the circuit court begins next Monday. The pettit jury is called for the third day. It is doubtful if the grand jury will be summoned. Charley Porter has gone back to Arkansas, having a situation, as operator at Arkadelphia, 60 miles south of Little Rock. It is a good job and pays SSO a month. M. A. Makeever is spending the : holidays in this vicinity. He is teaching at Boone Grove, in Por-, ter county. He has lately recov-: ered from an attack of lung fever. ; W. J. Haff, senior editor of the Monticello Herald, is about to go to Riverside, CaL, in the hopes [ that a change of climate will- alle- [ viate his long standing eye trouble.' J. L Pierce, of Lebanon, visited [ his parents here, last Friday. He [ is now in the newspaper business, being a part owner of the Lebanon Mercury, a sprightly and prosperous Republican publication. Iroquois Lodge, I. O. O. F., elected officers Tuesday evening for the ensuing term: J. R. Vauatta, N. G., Hiram Day, V. G.; Isaac Reubelt, secretaiy; C. C. Starr, treasurer; M. L. Spitler, M. B. Alter, I. B. Washburn, trustees. The market for fat cattle in Chicago took a b iom, towards the end of last week, owing, we understand, to the snow blockade in the west, and some of our resident shippers who were lucky enough to strike the market at the right time,- made a good thing. We hear, for instance, that 8. R. Nichols and Granville Moody cleared SI,OOO from several loads ot steers they sent in at that time. They bought the bulk of these cattle pf Messrs. Alfred Thompson and A. Parkison and it would probably be no great exaggeration to say that those gentlemen are now, figuratively speaking, kicking themselves for not having shipped their own cattle and got fife benefit of the rise in prices. Charley Roberts, the “Parke county desperado, has just been sentenced to two yeais imprisonment, in Terre Haute, for a burglary committed in Parke county several years ago. He has beeh ! tried for this offense three times, i At the first trial he got seven years and ufter serving eighteen months got a new trial at which he got seven years. The local court gave him still another trial, od some technicality and the case being taken to Vigo county, by change of venue, ne got two years, as Abava stated. Roberta is well re- ■ membered in this county in con- ! nection with his. arrest hbre at the time of the soldiers’ reunion, for pocket picking, hia subsequent escape from the Monticello jail, his final re-arreat by Sheriff Powell and his ultimate acquittal through the inscrutible decision of a jury.

Miss Julia Lauman, of Attica, is the guest of Miss Ray Leopold. John Macy, of Indianapolis is visiting his mother, Mrs.’ John Mak ee ver. Mrs. A. McCoy is wintering in Los Angelos,. Gal. She does not like the climate over much. The Citizens Bank and A. McCoy & Company’s Bank will be [closed next Monday, Jan. 2nd as a The Cornet Band's dance, last I night, was a right pleasant affair ■ although the intense cold diminished somewhat the attendance, and the comfort of those present. x The Trenton Rock Company’s Second well, at Francesville, was abandoned Tuesday. No oil, but [ salt water at 920 feet. The boring for gas near the old Blair well is ; making good progress. The snow and half rain storm of [Tuesday afternoon, with the cold wave succeeding, was the diminishing end of what was a fearful blizZ ird in loWa and further north. The thermometer here was 6 below zero Wednesday morning and 12; below this.morning. The Masonic lodge apd theEas'ern Star chapter installed their newly elected officers last:Tuesday night. The officers of the chapter are: Worthy Matron, Mrs. M. E. Baylor, Worthy Patron, M. L. Spitler, Associate Matron Rachel Leopold, Secretary Miss Lizzie Percupile, treasurer Miss Edie Miller. .

! L. T. Sapp did not finally take [an nppeal in the attachment case against him, owing, it is said, to the difficulty in giving the requisite bonde for costs. The goods j attached are now ‘advertised for 'sale, one day next week. It is probable that their proceeds will not go a great ways in liquidating the claims against their owner. Mr. Takasugi, a handsome and talented young Jap, lectured at the M. E. church, last Sunday evening Ito a large congregation. He gave his hearers a very interesting and instrqptive talk about his natiye 'country. He is studying for the ' ministry, at DePauw university [ and is trying to pay his expenses by lecturing. David AV. Garard, formerly of [ Rensselaer, and a partner of the [Rensselaer mill, met with a very ! severe accident, lately, while work|ing. in a saw mill. One of his ! arms came in contact with a circular saw and was cut in two, length--wise, from the elbow downward. One finger was also cut off! It was thought that the accident would result fatally.