Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1888 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

Albert Hopkins is now clerking in F. B. Meyer’s drug Farmers, call on Ferguson and buy a Deering binder. Swiss Bell Kingers, Saturday evening. Walter Willey bought out the insurance business of Charley Warner. My boots and shoes are noted for durability - and cheapness. R. Fendig. Mrs. D. C. Bond has gone to Denver, Miami county, to visit relatives for a few weeks. The prohibition county mass ! convention of last Saturday was a, failure, from non-attendance. They will try again March 10th. Girl Wanted. —To work in restaurant. Two dollars per week and steady situation, to a good girl. T. W. Haus.

Mi s. Sarah Williams, of Plainfield, Ohio, came to visit her son, the photographer, during his late sickness, and will start home tomorrow. The new post-office in Walker tp., Kniman, on the extension of! the Coal Road, enjoys railway mail facilities, at last. The C. & 1. C. began to carry mail on the ex tension, last week. Remember that I will not be un-' dersold in any line of goods in my ' stock.. All winter goods will be sold at a very small margin. These are facts. Try and be convinced. R. Fendig. A fair was in progress in Savannah week, which had for its object the laising of funds ! for a monument to Sergeant, Jas- 1 per, the revolutionary hero in whose honor our county received its name. The meetings of the F. W. Bap-1 tist church still continue, although Rev. Vaughn, of Ligonier, who has been assisting so long, has returned home. 'J'here have lieen ten accessions to the church, and the interes': and encouragement greatly increased. Lucinda Porter, of Pleas-! anfllidge, has been granted a well deserved pension, as the moth er of -AsaAV. Porter. The-peHsion-dates from October, 1886. Two of her sons, Asa W., above mentioned and Jonah G., were killed in battle. One at Shiloh, Miss., the other at Green Briar, West Virginia. The regular periodical cold wave set in Saturday afternoon and did not begin to lose its grip until Tuesday morning. . The temperature got as low as -1 or 5 degrees below • zero,» Monday morning, which is pretty low for the last of February. The high wind Which accompanied this low temperature made it a very severe spoil of weather. Wan ted .- —I ntormat ioh wan ted of Abraham Snyder, who with his mother, Barbara Snyder, removed to Indiana from Lancaster county, Penn., in 1802-5. He is supposed to have died, about twelve years I ago, and is not known to .have been ! married. Will remunerate hber.ally the-first person sending correct information. Address, Thad ; Butleb,. Huntington, Ind. The Republicans of Barkley township nominated township candidates, last Saturday, by primary, election. There were three voting places, at Saud Ridge, Center, and Pleasant Grove,school houses. The turn out was very large. At Sand Ridge alone 52 votes were cast. Two good men were candidates for the nomination for trustee, Jos. F.„llifl and Chas. Gartner. Mr. Iliff carried the day by LabouLSQ majority.

j F. B. Meyer’s drug store wasj badly torn up, all of last week, but' by the end of the week e-verythingl was in ship-shape once more. Great' improvements were made during the week and great energy shown in the making of them. The entire iioor of the room was taken out, including even the sills upon which it rested and a great many wagon loads of soil beneath it. The new iioor that jeplaces the old one, is a very fine < ne. The old front has also been removed and fbplaced with one of the most elegant and expensive plate glass fronts in town. A twenty-five foot addition td the rear of the room is now being niade, but t.lns ylnos not, m any wi«y, interfere with or disarrange H ie business of the store.

Mrs. I. B. Washburn is in Cass county, visiting her relatives. John Kohler, the.jolly brickmaker, has another boy, since the 25th, inst. There werb seven applicants for teachers license, at the monthly examination, last Saturday. Rev. Tressler has accepted a call from the Presbyterian ch arch lat this place, and will enter noon ; his duties about April Ist. See those Hew suits just opened at E. Fendig’s. They are nobby and durable, My prices will meet all competition. O. M. Daugherty was home ovor Sunday, for a short vacation; and in his company was L. W. Stevens, of Valparaiso. Estey Organ.—Splendid instrument, in prime condition, for sale or trade. Enquire of Mrs. G. J. Dexter. Rev. B. E. Ferguson had a wedding at Badgers’ Grove, White Co. last Sunday. The parties were Mr. Cary Henderson and Miss Ella Digman.

The new executive officers of the democratic county central committee are Lee E. Glazebrook, Chairman; Victor E. Loughridge, Secretary ; C. D. Nowels, Treasurer.. A two-year old son of George Long, of Monon, was scalded to death on Saturday, the 18th inst., j by falling into a pot of hot lye,; which its mother had prepared for scrubbing purposes. H. W. Wood, of Marion township, has been granted an increase ■ of pension, from §l4 to §lB per month. Mr. Wood was in company K of the 93rd Ohio, and got a bad wound in the left thigh, from the effects of which he still suffers. W. A. Rinehart is now fully es-; tablished in the live stock commie?-1 sion business at Buffalo, N. Y., ■ where lie is the sole representative ' of the firm of J. F. SadlOr & Co., which does business also at York, Cincinnati and St. Louis* Marriage licensessince last week: • j Albert Timmons, ] Evaline Payne. ( Chas/ F. Querry, I Rebecca M. Osborne, j Elias Pullins, ““JdSlafy' Millage. 1 William L. Adams, 1 Jessie Hedge, j John E. Brown, ( Barbara E. Clark. A. M. Munden, of Union tp., was a member of the 53 Indiana regiment, of which Judge Gresham was colonel, for about 22 months, previous to his,promotion to be a Ibridadier general. Gresham Was a fearless and able commander, and although a strict disciplinarian, his justice-and generosity gave him tho lasting esteem and. friendship of his m en.

D. M. Nelson, the ex-superin-tendent, is back and was in town last Friday. Of the Jasperites''in Omaha he. reports that Frank -Cotton is doing an immense and. very lucrative business in the coal R. B. Patton is taking contracts for grading streets &c and doing well, while- R. IL Percupile and family are running a well patronized boarding house. A mysterious young stranger who went under the name of Fred Brown, lately committed suicide at Logansport, with morphine, after several months residence in that city, and left no information as to his real name and place of residence, was identified last week as J. Vv. Elston of Sterling Colorado. He left his home last fall on account of a disappointment in a marriage engagement. —n ““ '

The process of improving the ilive-stocK of Jasper county still ’ goes on, and the latest item in this movement, worthy of record, was 'the bringing to the”’county last i week of a Galloway bull. He was bought at Millington,- Micb., 80 miles north of Detroit, by B. F. Robinson, and is the joint property of J. A., Wallace and B. F. Robinson and Walter Ponsler. He*Ts eomingithree years old, is light in flesb-and weighs 1340 pounds. The price paid was §l5O. The Galloways are black, heavy built cattle, characterized by long, shaggy hair aifd an entire absence of horns. His purchasers expect to eliminate the horns from their future cattle, by his services. The of whom they bought him offers §2O for any calf of his get that has horns.

i Corn 42 cents. Oats 27 and 29 -cents. Rye 50 cents. . . Wheat 78 cents. Timothy Hay, $6.50 @ §§• Wild Hay §3 @ §4. A daughter at Albert Parker’s Hanging Grove, sincq.Feb. 19. The cheapest prices, the largest stock and the loveliest variety ot‘ dress goods at Leslie Clark, The Republican typo, visited his relatives in New Albajny, Arthur W. Colo and family, Saturday and Sunday. T. J. Sayler took charge of the Duvall livery stable last Monday. Russell Parker the late owner, is preparing to go to Colorado. The other papers at Winamac announced, last week, that the new democratic paper at that town would soon make its appearance. The chemical fire engine, contracted for nearly a month ago, is expected to arrive this week and the test of its working efficiency is to be made next Tuesday. Hon. U. Z. Wiley, of Fowler, is holding court in Kentland, this week. Judge Ward was called to Kansas City on business of his broth er-in -la w, living at that place. Those “glad harbingers” of spring, the robins and the bluebirds, have- retired precipitately from the -harbinging business, since the cold wave of last Sunday and Monday.

C. C. Starr has let the contract for finishing up the inside work in his new residence to the Delphi Lumber Company. Mr. Starr wants a fine job done and this company is well capable of doing it. ' ; The entertainment given W&d-’ nesday evening of last week by the Presbyterian ladies industrial society, was a brilliant success, in, all respects, and especially so, in the financial point of view. It netted a clear profit of §4O. A great many people take the word “fair” as Used by the weather Bureau in their perdictions of weather,’ to mean the same as clear. This is not the case however. It means weather that is not stormy, whether clear or cloudy. The wife of Fred Graves, brother of John Graves, of Wheatfield and Claus Graves, of Fair Oaks, [ died at Rose Lawn, -Tuesday night, iof consumption. Her maiden name was Frame and she has sev;eral brothers living in Keener tp. I A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Jake Bierly, of Newton jp., Tuesday morning. The mother of the babe is very low with lung fei ver. -U Later.—Mrs. Bierly died Tuesday. Burial to-day, in Weston Icemetery.- The infant also is dead. Theodore E. Clark has lately sold his farm, five miles west of Mt. Ayr, and has rented a house west'of the river, opposite T. J. will occupy the same Lin a few.days. He is in cjood shape, 4 financicUxg-an old soldier, a Republican from the ground up and , a right good man generally. !' There is but little more to be •told about the gas well, this week, Ahan to repeat “Big Mike’s” cusjtomary answer to all inquiries in regard to it: “The hole is still lihere.” Some little progress has i been made sipce last week, 40 or ;50 febt, perhaps.. The engine : froze during the cold spell and ■’caused a complete - suspension of boring, for a few days. ....

Heflry Smith, of Nubbin Ridge, an 18 year bld bpy, was fined §5 and costs, a total of §44.80, by, -Squire Morgan, last Thursday,-for disturbing a religious meeting. He was in liquor when the offense was committee. Ah the trial tb.c{fact was shown that the boy’s father, Jas. W. Smith, ’ gave him the whiskey and proceedings were instituted. against him for giving, liquor to a minor.. He plead guilty and was fined §2O and costs, the lightest penalty allowed by the law. No man has any moral right to give intoxicating liquor to his minor ehikken, but a great manymen suppose that, they have the legal right, so to do. This is a mistake. The law which makes it a penal offense to sell or give I quor to minors makes no reservation in favor of parents. It is just as much a violation of the law to give liquor to their own sons as to give it to any other person*a sons.

Daughter at James R. Parkison’s, Barkley tp., Feb. 27. *'* Bill Childers is moving to Walker tp. He will got The Republican at Kniman. Judge Hammond’s youngest daughter celebrated her second birthday yesterday although she is eight years old. . Rev. J. A. Mackelvy, of Chicago, lectured on temperance, at the Baptist church, Sunday evening. The attendance was large. “Jasper county lands are in demand of late. Quite a number of sales have recently been made* to parties from elsewhere, who expect to become residents of the county.