Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1888 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

A son at Geo. Day’s, southwest of town, Monday. ' Mrs. E. P. Honan is in Cnicago making her spring purchases of millinery goods. D. L. Bishopp came over from Kentland Tuesday, to look after some cases in the circuit court. Ladies, call and see our spring styles farmillinery at Hemphill & Honan ? s. ‘ ; . . - •> t Opera House, to-night and tomorrow night, “A Soldier of the Union.” : Oh, Girls, have you seen all the pretty things at Hemphill & Honan’s?

0. A. Yeoman was lately invested with the spurs of knighthood, in the castle hall of Rensselaer lodge, Knights of Pythias. A beautiful line of millinery and fancy goods, purchased this week at Chicago, now on sale at Hein pi) ill & Honan’s. Thad P. Varney, the comedian, in his great specialty, “Eph Buffum, the Contraband,” at the Op-' era House, to-night. Ladies, bur fancy ■ goods and millinery have arrived; please call i aud examine them. •Hemphill k Honan. We hear that the F. Yd. Baptist j people are intending to build a! church in Newton tp.. ii) the neigh- i borhood of Sorghum valley, to be called Vaughn Chapel. . * Reduction in Coffee:—C. C. Starr has reduced prices on his roasted coffee Sets per lb, making them the cheapest coffee in the market, quality considered. Mrs. May Miller Thomas •Will return to her home at YVitoka, Minnesota, to-day and her sister, Miss Jennie Miller will go -with! her, with the intention of spend-! mg the summer. - "

• 11. P. Phillips departed for Min- j neapolisj Colorado, last Tuesday. There lie expects to engage in the red-estate,' loan and insurance business in partnership with C. C. Warper who went to the same town several weeks ago. Miss Alice Havens, formerly of ReiisseTaer, but now of . Ladoga, has spent the past winter at Eldorado Springs, Mo., for the benefit of Imr health, which has been very poor. Her winter’s sojourn at this healing resort has proved beneficial, we understand. Wm. Hanley, %lio now keeps a prosperous general store at Hogan, in Walker tp, is a grand juror He reports his town as making encouraging progress. Several buildings will be erected, this spring. Mr. Hanley was, until lately, a well known citizen of Gillam tp, - —v* ■- —— ; • - Owing to the fact that a number of persons have withdrawn their subscriptions for shares in the Rensselaer Building & Loan Association, and others having reduced their number of shares, from tire ofigiiml saliscriptiops, there is still a limited number of shares, about 50 perhaps, that are still at' the disp<Xtl of any one desiring to

subscribe. . j The officers and mo inhere (if the j Rensselaer WV-neu’s Relief Uorps j ure hereby be prompt in assembling at Post ( fail <m Monday evening, Mar,cli 2b, at 7:bO o’clock. We. have ” ihr-~ portant work before us. A ..full attendance is demanded. ByAer-di-r tis the. Tncps. Vi:.\a F. Antrim, Pres. Bnn.ur. Bammoind, &ec’yi ■ Wo ni't tint ancient and inwL urate fakir. 01). Gissely in La fayette the other day. He was just I back from some kind pf a predfl-. tory excursion in Texas. While in that state in. tlie city of Huston, he met a late, but not greatly lamented resident of Rensselaer, in the person of C. P. Harding. He was about to undertake the vocnHbn of traveling for a wholesale /reit house. 1 f The work of organizing.the fire company ami collecting subscriptions for a hook and ladder out tit, is making slow but evidently sure progress. The number of members secured for the fire company ia now 25. The amount subscribed fertile hook and Tackier ontfify included the §75 appropriated I>y the County Commissioners, is £l7O. Something over a hundred dollars is still required, and the larger-he sum is made the better will be the outfit purchased..-

Mrs. Flynn is in Shelby county visiting her mother, who is sick. Womens’ fine shoes at Hemphill & Honan’s. A daughter was - born to Uncle Billy Haley, of southeast Marion tp., last Monday. Ornaments and fancy goods till you can’t count em, at Hemphill & Honan’s. Mrs. Jane Shaw, of Barkley tp., is TepoTtstbtabe -greatly afflicted with rheumatism. Say, boys, w hen you need a nobby tie, or the latest iu a liat. call at Hemphill & Honan’s. A Soldier of the Union, or Woman’s Devotion, a thrilling play, at the Opera House, to night'. Harve Robinson, youngest son of Thomas Robinson, will enter Purdue University, at Lafayette; next week. Ladies, don’t forgot we have the nicest fine shoes for the money in the place. Call and see them at Hemphiil & Honan’s. —- Henry Robinson, the new blacksmith at Surrey, has his shop completed and is now ready for business. Russell Parker also started for Minneapolis, Colorado, Tuesday, in company with I|. P. Phillips. That good luck may go with the boys is a very general wish. Robert Gregory, A. W. Reynolds and T. F. Palmer, three legal luminaries of the White county bar, liave beau, looking after business in the Jasper circuit court, this weak.

.The Rensselaer lodge of Knights o’:' I'ythias have taken five shares in the Rensselaer Building & Loan Association. Perhaps some other of of the benevolent orders of the town might take a valuable hint from this action of the K. of P. To the dear friends and neighbors who so kindly helped me ■during my Sad affliction,' I desire to express my heartfelt thanks. May the dear Lather bless ward you all, is my prayer. Mbs. Mellie Clifton. Uncle John Catt, father of Allen Catt and Mrs. CL- M. Robinson, is visiting those relatives, for'a short time. His homo i i now in Port. Scott, Kansas. The old gendeman in well along in the seven- : ties, bat is as strong and act ive as mobt men twenty years his junior, r? - - _■ Marriage licenses since last reported : ] j John Pitson, ( Martha Ellen Reed. ' A ib.rry 11. Baltins, Independence French, j William 11. Yedder, l Josie G. Troxell.

The type in the original call for j tlie Jordau township Republican i convention was , accidentally “thrown down” and when it was re-set an unnoticed typographical error crept into one of the dates. The mistake is corrected this week. Their preliminary school house, conventions are held to-morrowj March 20, and the delegate convention on Batuiday, the 2-ith.

Mrs. Tthetta Steele, widow of John Steele, who was shot last fall, by Hannah Rutherford, has; brought suit a gainst Thenbold Oarew keeper of the saloon in which Steelh got lnpior the cueuing he waa.killer!, .mill (Vrew’s; b,in.ds-._ men, A. Leopold and •>. Wi .Duvall, for damages sustained in the death of her husband. The •Rmtmjit'pliriffierHg l gr3,o33r''''' Lyman Zea had a conflugratitm at h-s place hist Saturday. An inverted barrel in which he- was ; smokin g some meat; took fire and was burned up, together with the ' meat and also a big Lack box, ; wherewith Lyman used to ; transform his lumber wagon - into |an elegant hack, in fair times. ; The fire followed the fence’ and i was pretty near the house when discovered. , , Moses Fowler, the wealthy banker of Lafayette, offers to build a £2 ; L000 school house in the town of Fowler, if free tuition is guaranteed to every pupil in Benton county who reaches the high school grade. M o understand that this, seemingly-, very liberal pmpositr ion is coupled with suctr conditions fthaf hb one has legal authority to accept it. If Mr. Fov.lcr is in earnest about the mutter he will probably so modify the terms of his proposition that it can be accepted.

A son at W. H. Stephenson’s, Barkley tp:, since last Monday. Judge Hammond has been "’suffering greatly wlih rheumatism, 3ince last Friday. The celebrated “Down’s” adjustable corset for one dollar at Hemphill & Honan’s. Mrs. L. A. Moss started for Omaha, Tuesday, to visit her daughter, Mrs. Lola Patton. April 16th is the last day for paying the 1st installment of this year’s taxes, without the penalty. Chas. C. Brown, of Milroy tp., cut a bad gash in his foot, last Thursday, with an ax. Will Ferguson was the lucky holder of the number which drew the gold watch at C. C. Starr’s last Saturday. Don’t miss Mr. Varney’s humorous but wise lecture and his wonderful impersonation of Eph Buffum, at the Opera House, to-night. A. T. Perkins has a residence nearly enclosed, north of the Per--kins’ creamery. It is a one story building, but large enough for five or six large rooms. Clara, the three-year old daughter of Mrs. Mellie Clifton, died last Thursday of brain fever, after a long sickness. The funeral was held Friday and conducted by Rev. S. B. Grimes.

The republicans of Walker tp., nominated their township ticket, last Saturday. For trustee they nominated, Andrew Boston) for Justices Alston Nichols and Slmdrach Brown. Marion township Republicans hold their primary conventions tomorrow evening, March 23, at 7 o’clock p. M., and their delegate" convention on Saturday. Notice the official call, for particulars. Stockholders in the Rensselaer | Natural Gas and Oil company are | notified that the last installment !of thirty per cent, is due upon I their stock, and must be paid at Eonce. By order of the Board of Directors.’ Alva, the three year old son of James Querry, a former resident of this county, but now living in Tipton, this state, cjiec] at that I place on the 10th, inst. Ilis disease was lung fever and he was i sick only one week. A resident of Barkley tp., informs us that our correspondent was mistaken last week, in stating that G. H. Brown Jr., was. now a candidate for township trustee for the third time. This is only the second time.

Mr. G. W. Castlen, of New Richmond, Ohio, who owns property at Rose Lawn, and generally makes his home there every summer; was in town Tuesday and in his company Mr. John M. Good-, win, of Cleremont county, Ohio. Mr. Goodwin has long been a property owner in Jasper and Newton counties, having first come hefe in 1856. jjU U Emerson Ree\e, the young telegraph operator, son of N. W. -Reeve, an 1 m»\v located m Sioux Falls, Dakota,is carttyihg ten shares in’the Rensselaer Building A Loan Association. There Vis ho better | way in the world for a young man to invest his savings where they will be safe raid at tlm same time, uieturn a good profit, than in a w,ellfh'ganized building and loan assoiciation. - . ~r- ■ '■ ‘ ■ : ‘ ; •■ . ~ v Tuesday woo tko :; dhry»-of —the Spring Eipiinox, when the stur crossed tile Equator. 'The -prevaihng wind at the equinox and for tlie"'fdTlbwing day, was from TRe north. According to some very intelligent observers of the weather, this indicates that the ! prevailing w inds, for the next three months will be from the north, : and the result be a cold and backward spring.

Shareholders in the Rensselaer Building k Loan Association are requested to keep in mind the fact that the monthly installments of one dollar per share are payable on the last Saturday of each month. The secretary is required to be in his office on that day from 8 a. m. to O p. m. to receive payments. He is not required nor indeed, authorized, to receive payments on any other day than the one day set aside for The. purpose, hor at any other place than in his office. The first installments will J)e paid on Saturday of next week, March 31st

Rev. S. B. Grimes, pastor of the M. E. church, of" Reneselaer, will resign his station here and accept home mission work, in Milwaukee, Wis., in a very short time. A d,e#fre to be nearer Kenosha, the place where his wife is receiving medical treatment, is tlie reason why Mr. Grimes takes this action. His 'place will be ' supplied' by Rev. E. G. IViley, from the Garrett Biblical Institute, Evanston, 111. Mr. William 11. Yedder, of Streator, 111, an eugineeiv on the “Three L” railroad and Miss Josie Troxell, daughter of J.M. Troxell, of DeMotte, were ihkrrihd yesterday afternoon, at the residence of the bride’s brother-in-law', Mr, Isaac N. Hemphill, in Rensselaer, Rev. S. B. Grimes performing ceremony. The young couple departed, at once; tier Streator, in which place they will make their residence. / - - -W

Early as the season is, at least four or five residences are now in process of erection, in this town, and some of them are far towards completion. Pretty good houses, too, the most, of them. Several other houses will be commenced in a very short time. All indications point to a year of great progress in building in our town; and \Ve Opine that our new but solid building and loan association will render great service in this good work.

The musical entertainment at the Gpera House, on Wednesday evening of last week, at which Miss Anna Miller, the lady violinist and her sister Mrs. Schbt, the pianist, were the leading attractions, drew a pretty large house, but rnd large enough, we understand, to add very mrich tolhe high §ehool library fund, foi the beuefit of which the-entertainment was advertised t-rbe. Miller is, beyond question, a marvellously skillful player of the violin, but as she confined her repertoire wholly to the difficult and but-little kiiowii and understood music of tie great composers, site-failed to strike the popular-chord, to any marked dek greei No cite that did rfot thentBt4ve.-» a very superior underst aiding of music could fully -appreciate' her performances. The same""" geiiOial statement might, with considerable truth, be mado regardiTTg tlie perforniancesof M rs. Schilt upon thei, j)iaue>. The i>oT--I*o.l'inaie-e s us the Hfialv. family, two brothers and three sisters,, upon the cornet- 1 we re, by far tlie most 'popular features of the evening. These y-ung people, are remarkably gifteel with inusical talent. 'Besides the performances of tlie above mentioned were songs by the Presbyterian church choir and by Dr. E. E. Onivey and a recitation by Miss M. Hiil, edl of which were hell received.