Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1888 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN.

VOL. I.

THE REPUBLICAN ISSUED EVKIIY tnUMDIT BY 3-EO. lE. Publishkk and Profhiktob. OFFICE In Republican building, on corner of Washington and Weston street?. Terms of Subscription. One year .........fl 50 Sir months 7.5 ftiree months <■>........ .. .. .....i _ 50 The Official Paper of Jasper County,

PROFESSIONAL CARDS. PHY SI CIA N 5. txt W.'HARTSELL, M. D., ’ HOMEOPATHIC—. ZE’liysicia.n. axxd. Sixrgreoaa.. Rensselaer. Indiana. Chronic Diseases a Sj’ccialty„©3 Office East Washington Street. 3-Jan-81. Residence, Makeever House. Llß.l. B? W ASHBUFN, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, Reueselaer, Indiana. Gives special attention to Diseaeesof Women and Children and Chronic Diseases. , Rcir.embercalls are promptly attended when not professionally engaged. P. BITTERS. M. !>., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, . Over Ellis & Murray, Rensselaer, - - - Indiana flggpTelophone to y|,\RY E. JACKSON. M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Special attention given to diseases of women and children. Office on Front street, corner of Angelica. 19-33. ATTORNEYS.

at law. EZEA C. NOWELS. Attorney at Law, Real Estate and Insurance -Airent, will pav especial attention to abstracting. selling kind and pnyuig taxes. Probate and collection business attended to promptly. Office in Leopold's Block, up stairs. dll-26, ts. Edwin P. Hammond. Wm. B . ArsiN HAMMOND & AUSTIN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Rensselaer, ----- Indiana. ftTKSf-Office second floor of Leopold’s Block, corner Washington and Van Rensselaer streets WM. B. Austin purchases, sells and leases real estate and. deals in negotiable , ijistrupients. 18-B<-tr. pALPH W. MARSHALL, ATTOENENAT LA TF, rractiCosin Jasper, Newton and adjoining counties. Especial attention given to settle meat ol Eeccdent’s Estates, Collections, ; Conveyances, Justices’ Cases, Etc. Etc. Etc. address, - - - Rose Lawn, Ind Simon P. Thompson, David J. Thompson a ttarney at Law. Notary Public. rpHOMPSON & BRO., ATTORNEYS AT LAW, „ Rensselaer, Ind. Practice in all tne courts. We pay particill attention to paying taxes, selling and leasing lands. M. L. SPITLER Collector and Abstractor

yy 11. 11. GRAHAM, ATTOPATE Y AT LA W, Will conduct a Loan and Real Estate Bureau. Office opposite Cour house, on Washington street, formerly occupied by Frapk W. Bab cock, Esq., Special attention to collections and Probate business. 18-48. JAMES W.DOUTHIT ATTORNEY AT LAW, Rensselaer. Indiana. 'fggyOfllce up stairs In Makeever’s now brick 'bunding, three doors east o£ Post-office. XV-46. W. WATSON, Aftsw-ey St Ew» J&g" Office up stairs in Leopold's Bazar .®S RENSSELAER, IND. F. CHILCOTE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Rensselaer, Ind. Attends to all business in the profession with promptnessund dispatch. Office in second Stbry. of the Makcever building. Miscellaneous. Zixni Dwiod t, F. J. SEAWt, V AL. SF.Of. President. Vice President. Cashier Citizens’ State Bank ‘ Rensselatr Ind. - M ' . . \ Does n general bunking business: certificates bearing interest issued: exchange bought and soil: money loaned or farms at lowest rates and on must favorable terms. I’-H-tf. JuHN MAKEKVER, J AY W . WILLIAM?. President. Cashier pABMEKS’ BANK, 4 £ gfgp Opposite Public £ £.V*S£Z J £7? INDIANA Receive* deposits. Buy and sell Exchange. Collections made and promptly remitted Money Loaned, and does a general Bunking Business. XV. 48 y P E. qt'IVEY. _ £ii s«s.t*st ( 2~y~~“ w ~ ''-j' ji,--- - ■ —Speeiftl ftHe-ii I ioti ftlveft ftlA>rfe»erv»tioß ui the aatsral teeth. Artillclal teetn fcserted from oiw to an entire set. All worK ’wArh anted orer W arHers’ ti«cdsure Store, Rensselaer Indiana’

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, IND., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1888.

Locals and Personals.

This is Ground Hog Day. John Clouse got back from Kansas last Thursday. Seven applicants for license at examination Saturday. Two gave it up before completing the work. The lowest possible price for cash, is our motto. Hemphill & Honasl The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Adams, of south of town, is recovering from a severe and very dangerous brain disease. W. A. Rinehart has sold the Reynold’s saloon building to ifs present occupant, Lorenze Hildebrand. There are two or three of those alleged noble and certainly rare and interesting birds, bald eagles, wintering in the vicinity of Rensselaer. A considerable number of peopel who have gone west from Jasper county have come back already, and still more wish their affairs were in shape to permit them to come back.

Samp Erwin has sold his residence, on Front street, to Benjamin Harris, of Newton township, and has bought a farm in Keener tqwnship, and intends to move thereon, in a short time. His son Tom add family will also remove to Keener. Chas. Goetz, a prosperous young farmer living near Franklin, Neb., called on us Monday to renew his subscription for The Republican. He is a son of John Goetz of Newton tp., and had been visiting him for a short time. He started for his Nebraska home, Tuesday. A White Cat.—A lady in town has lost a beautiful white cat (not a roving, rakish Thomas but a demure and high minded Tabby ) and would be very grateful for its return, and no questions asked—even of the cat. Information may be left at this office—but no cats. The final order fortlie construction of Schwahkie ditch, m Keentp., was made by Judge Ward, of the January term of court. The ditch will be constructed under the provisions of the new ditch law. W. W. Watson is the commissioner in charge. The ditch with its laterals will be 3| miles long. The death of Squire Wm,. Medicus occured at his home in Lafayette, at 10 o’clock on Wednesday forenoon, of last week, or before his son John, of this place, reached bis bedside. He was a little more than 75 years old and had lived in Lafayette since 1837. Three sons and six daughters survive him. C. A. Roberts has been working the drawing racket for all there was in it. In addition to the two cutters previously disposed of in that manner, he also sold chances, for a pair of bob sleds, ahd the drawing was held Monday evening. D. B. Coppess, an able wilder of the pedagogic cudgel, of Bferkky tp., was the winner. That Small Paper.—Owing to a break-down of machinery, in otir supply house, at Indianapolis, our bundle of print paper did not reaMi us last week, in tifne'for use, and in consequence most of our patrons received, a paper of only half the usual size 3 but containing all the homejmatter, however. W 6 think we can give positive assurance that the circumstance will not, occur again. 8. P. Thompson t went over to Plymouth Monday, to attend the trial, Tuesday, of the suit of the surveying engineer's against the stockholders of the Rochester, Rensselaer & St., Louis Railway. Such of these stockholders as are financially responsible will probably be stuck for the face Value of their stock, with perhaps something extra for costs. S. P. is unlucky enough to hold SSOO worth of the undesirable paper. N. Warner & Sons disposed of a handsome cutter by a drawing last week. Judge Sylvester Healy, the genie! shoemaker, won the prize, and having no use for the eutter he i n turn again disposed of it, in thp same manner. George H Brown Jr., of Barkley tp., was the lucky winner at this second drawing. It is said that he came to town for the very purpose of buying a cutter, but learning of the draWing ii« boaght one of last tickets sold, and, with customary good Tuck, drew the prize.

5 Hany Phillips will send another big load of horses out of this place, this week. Felt Boots, the best id the world, at Hemphill <fc Honan’s, selling now at $2.25.«. Mr. Ferguson’s little girl is getting better of her datagerous sickness. „ ' ■/ Gee! Whiz! Bill they are selling Mens’ Arctics at Hemphill & Honan’s for a dollar, let’s bhy a pair. Wm. Daniels, of Barkley township, is credited with- ( Another daughter, since. Wednesday, of last week. They struck Gas at Francesville bu tit don’t effect the price of Boots & Shoes at Hemphill & Honan’s. We tapped the telegraph. wire, yesterday morning, and caught the following on its way to Monon: “A daughter, come and see us. D. S. Willey.”

Sells Brothers circus was sold and broken up, in Cincinnati, lately. Ben Wallace, of Peru, purchased a consideiable portion of the outfit. The Era reports the shipment from Fowler, last week, of 48 Hereford cattle to the Argentine Republic, South America. They have 7,000 miles to go and the freight is $l5O per head. The , official report of the proceedings of the County Agricultural meeting, of last Saturday, is published elsewhere. An excellent board of oflicers was elected and we are confident that they will make this year’s fair a big success John Vant Woud, formerly a well known citizen and a county commissioer of this county, has lately removed from Brooklyn N. Y. to Chicago. His son, W. D., former superintendent of our county poor farm, has also just moved to Chicago, from Dakota. The district organizing convention meets at Logansport, to-day. Messrs M. F. Chilcote, S. P. Thompson, H. W. Porter and Philip Blue are among the representatives attending from Jasper* county. Hon. I. D. Dunn, will also he there, without doubt. . • Wm. Bussell and son Charles, of Hanging Grove, were in town Monday, and brought with them the scalp of a big she-wolf, which with the help of their dogs, they killed a few days before. Mr. i Bussell has killed many wolves in I his day but he says he never be- ; fore saw so large a she-wolf as this one. The state soldiers monument commissioners have accepted a design for tne monument. It is by Bruno Schmitz, of Berlin, Germany. Seventy designs were submitted, and the commissioners, ten in number, without consultation, unanimously favored the Schmitz design. By all accounts it is a wonderfully successful design. The Rev. A. C. McKinley has beefi holding a protracted meeting in district No. % Carpenter tp. with “wonderfuljsuccess.” In conjunction with that other successful revivalist, Rev. fc. C. McReynolds, he will soon liegin a revival at Foresman, Tke two Mc’s. combined will, in the language of our informant, “take the kingdom of Satan, Gy storm.” • The eclipse of the moon, last Saturday evening, was watched with a good deal of intei est, by many in this place. Et was a beautiful and interesting sight, althoughthe clouds interfered somewhat during a portion of the time. The eclipse was total when the moon arose, and only a few close watchers were lucky enough to see her during the continuance of that phase of the phenomenon. The F. W. Baptist 6'u.nday School had a jolly sleigh r ride, around town, Tuesday afternoon. Three large sleighs> crpwded full of children and teachers, were hitched, one behind the other, and a four horse team drew the whole hilarious outfit. There were upwards of 70 persons on the three sleighs. A stop was made at a convenient place 1 and dandy set up for the whole crowd. A 1 arge number of children, not inembers of the school, were anxious to participate in the ride, but no extra provision having b^®n. ( made for them they had to be disappointed. f Mr. Ferguson says if they will come to the Sunday..they .will be provided fox', the next time.

A new Christian church will be dedicated at Morocco, next dayStriking natural gas won’t effect prices in Boots and Shoes at Hemphill & Honan’s. Harvey M. Grant, just west of town, rejoices in the possession of his first boy; born Tuesday. Khlcr Vaughn is holding meetings every evening in the F. W. Baptist church. They will continue all the week. At 0. A. Roberts’ second cutter drawing last week, I). C. Bond was the lucky holder of the winning number. Dr. S. C. Maxwell has already left Remington to take charge of his new and lucrative position, at Two Harbors, Minnesota. Miss Lydia Paris is staying with her friends here, for a few weeks, her millinery business at Westville being left in charge of a clerk.

Phillips & Bridge bought 17 horses and 4 mules in this vicinity, during their late visit here. The animals were shipped to Atlanta, Ga., in charge of Mr. Bridge. Rev. th M. McGuire held meetings at Neverfail last Fridayjnight, Saturday night and Sunday night. Great interest was shown and the room was crowded every meeting. Homer Langer, whose an est by Sheriff Yeoman was lately mentioned, has been sent up from Elk- ' hart county, for two years, and an- ' other indictment is hanging over him. •- • Corn 43 cents. Oats 28 and 30 cents. Rye 60 cents. * Wheat 80 cents. Timothy Hay, $6.50 @ $8Wild Hay $3 @ $4. Auditor Barnes, of Tippecano county was. in town last Thursday, i While here he accidentally met an j old school-mate in the person of our able town marshal, Henry Wood. . Boring operations at the gas well have been suspended, to wait fpr more casings. The operators have expected to resume, to-day. Progress has been very slow owing to the great amount of water, encountered. The present depth is about 1,040 feet. David Burnett has skipped for the west and left numerous creditors in the lurch. He is supposed to be stopping in Joliet, 111., for a few days, and C. C. Starr and S. E. Yeoman have gone thereafter him, in the hopes of squeezing a settlement out of him. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Rinehart will cease to be residents of Renssselaer, in a few days. They will remove to Buffalo, N. Y., where Mr. Rinehart becomes resident partner in the big live stock commission and hog slughtering firm of J. F. Sadler & Co. ; TemPEiiANCE Meetings.—The Eensselaer Temperance Union will meet at the Presbyterian church Sunday afternoon, Fell 4th 1888. The* young People’s League and J uveniles Temperance Band at the Christian church Feb. 11th. 1888. Secretary. A “progressive domino” party was given at T. J. McCoy’s residence, last Thursday night. It was an entirely elegant and entirely pleasant occasion. Mrs. E. P. Honan took the prize as the best lady player and Mr. J. Hardman as the best gentleman player. Marriage licenses since last reported. | Jas. Williams, j Geo. Smith, | Jessie L. Clark, j Joseph Fish, ( Katin Gunnay. ...

A Coining Event.

The entertainment by the Ladies Industrial Society of the Presbyterian church, Feb. 22, at the court bouse, will consist of a musical and literary programme. Procession of Days en costume, accompaniedby the band, and other interesting features? Twenty five cents admission, including refreshments and entertainment. In our little store we sit Thinking farmers dear, of you, And of.the Boots and Shoes >- You are going to buy We. are. selling no cheap t-rash JKe-BjqxaL yatt’lLpay .the-fissb. j Hemphill & Honan are the oner, try.

MNWL-MLE. $15,000 — — DRY GOODS, WOOLEN GOODS, MIK, M, TOISHIK OVERCOATS, ' FOR SALE at-' ' ' 11 , I—— .—— RENSSELAER, INDIANA, Washington street, one door west of Tutuer’s grocery storey sale to commence Jan. 27,1885. gSeF’A sweeping sale will be made to close out the entire sliock, re-' gardless of cost. ...

Death of Henry Barkley.

The long sickness of Henry Barkley ended in his death, last Saturday night, at his residence in Barkley township. The funeral was held Monday, in Barkley church, near his late residence. It, was, undoubtedly, the largest country funeral ever held in the county. Tile church was crowded to its fullest capacity and scores of people remained outside, unable to obtain admittance. The funeral was conducted by Prairie Lodge, F. & A. M., of Rensselaer, df which the deceased was an honored member, of long standing. The number from Rensselaer, in attendance at the funeral, was very large, including most of the members of the Masonic and Eastern Star Lodges. The Cornet Band was also present Rev. K.,J. Duncan preached the funeral sermon. Mr. Barkley was one of our oldest settlers, having come to this county in 1837. Barkley township was so named in honor of his father. t Mr. Barkley has long been a prominent citizen; and has filled many publie positions, including the office of county auditor, for one term. His age was was a little more than 58 years. His surviving family consists of a widow and two , ( sons. He was very prosperous, financially, and died in affluent circumstances. Personally he was a'just and upright man, and possessed the respect and esteem of all who knew him.

Report of Agricultural Society Meeting.

’ —±t~a-Tneeting-of-the stockholders of the jasper County Agricultural Society held January 28th. the following Board of Directors was elected: David H. Yeoman, T. J. McCoy, George H. Brown, Jr.,; Robert Randle, H. W. Porter, Addison Parkison, Moses B. After, John W. Duvall, William M. Hoover, Emmet Kannal, D. C. Nowels and G? W. Coen. The New Board then elected the officers for the ensuing year. Pres. David H. Yeoman, Vice Pres. Emmet Kannal, treasurer T. J. McCoy, Secy. C. W. Coen and Supt. M. W. Porter. A committee consisting of the following was appointed to revise the premium listi M. B. Alter, G. H. Brown Jr., C. D. Nowels E. Kannal. D. H. Xeoman, and W. H. Hoover; an $ in the ladies department, Mesdaihes T. J. McCoy, E. Kannal, C. D. Nowels, J. M. Wasson, Geo. H. Brown, Jr. and M. B. Alter. Said committees will meet at the office of Ezra C. Nowels, Jleb. 11, at 1 o’clock p. m. Any one wishing to make suggestions as to the revision, please confer with some member of the committee, before that time. ~ By order of Board.

A Card.

Photos, can.be had in all zt|les and sizes at my gallery at prices as low as good work can be 'Satisfaction guarnteed. Especial attention givfen to copying and enlarging. (gallery on south side of W street, near ( .Makeever House Cal! and see mdV - , _

J. C. WILLIAMS.

Photographer;

Clear and bright as a jewel—the spirits after drinking C. C. Starr'S J ewel Tea. Say! Pap! you’d better buy a pair of. Arctics at Hemphill and Honan’s, they’er sellin em fer a dollar, Tiger Bros, have the agency for the celebrated Owens Stove, the best wood heating stove made. Call and see it. For hardware go to Eger Bros. They have a full and complete stock, at prices that defy compel tition. The sparkling effect of a delicate stimulant upoli the jaded system is never more apparent than it is when drinking a cup of Mr. C. Ci" Starr's pure Jewel Tea, -- If you are going to buy a new stove this fall don’t fail to call on Eger Bros, and look through their stock of wood and coal stoves and get their prices.

Depot Grocery and Restaurant

Henry Fisher & Cd., in the building near the depot, (Sparling’s ola stand) has now a full and well se- • lected stock of groceries which he is selling at close prices. Warm meals at his at all hours, from six a. m., to seven p. m.; also lunch of all thiifgs usually kept in a first class restaurant Give him a call; ■ '

Great Closing Out Sahi in Leopold’s Bazaar Building The entire stock of Clothing, Boots & Shoes, Hats : Caps, and Gents’ Furnishing Goods, formerly owned by NATHAN FENDIG, itoist and will be clbsed out, rS&anF less of coSt. Sale will begin at once, and continue Until. the stock is entirely disposed bf. ~ Callat 'onCe aw pr’octtre BIG BAB 7 -' GAINS. Raniomm

C. W. COEN,

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BUSINESS LOCALS.