Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1888 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN.

VOL XX.

THE REPUBLICAN ISSUED KVERV THURSDAY BY 3-£2O. S. PUBI.IHHKK AND FROVRIETOR. OFFICE In Republican building, on comer ol Washington and Weston streets. Terms of Subscription. One year... ■■■■••. , f-LJi 60 Six months. f....... • 75 Tliroe months ;• ■ p -.w •: 50 The Official Paper of Jasper Coytity.

PROFESSIONAL CARDS. PHYSICIANS, W.'HARTSELL, M. .... I' . ". .homeopathic axxd. Saixgpeaax* RENBSBDABR .) INDIANA. g@j“ Chroii ic p»eases a;' Specialty Office East Washington Street. 3-Jan-84’.- Residence, Makeover House. ’ \R. 1. B. WASHEUFX, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, Rensselaer, Indiana. Gives special attention t<> Diseasesof Women ai d Children and Chronic Diseases. 1 Remcmboi ciills are prcpiirpfly attended whan ( not prolesaionallv entfa&eil. j' ( p I*. BITTERS. M. !»., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, 1 Over Ellis & Murray, Rensselaer, - - - Indiana Telephone to yjARY E. JACKSON, JI. 1). * PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. . J Special attention given to diseases op women • anil children. Vfli eon Front street, corner of J Angelica. 19-38-. ATTORNEY S. Edwin I’. Hammond. w.m . ”. Austin HAMMOND & AUSTIN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Rensselaer, Indiana. second floor of Leopold’s Block, corner Washington and Van Rensselaer streets Wai. B. Austin purchases, sells and leases ■real estate and deals in negotiable instruments. ’ z 18-8. -tt . ~OALFH W. MARSHALL,

ATTORNEY A T LA W, Practices in Jasper, Newton and adjoining counties. Especial attention given to settle meat oi Decedent’s Ketti-tcs, Collections, Ceitveyanc.es, Justices’ Cases, Etc. Etc. Etc. Address. - - - Rose Lawn, Ind, Simon P. Thompson, David J. Thompson Attorney at Late. Notary Public. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, - Rensselaer, Ind. Practice in all tne courts. We pay particul attention to paying talcs, selling and leasinglands. M. L. SPITLER Collector and Abstractor H. H. GRAHAM, ATTORNE Y AT LA W, Will conduct a Loan and Real Estate Bureau. Office opposite Cour house, on Washington street, formerly occupied by Frank W. Bat cock, Esq., Special attention to collection’s and Probate business. ls-48. JAMES W. DOUTIIIT ATTORNEY AT LAW, Rbnssklaeh. - Indiana. tip Stairs in. Makeever’s new brick tvuilding, three doors east of I’<‘,st-onice. u s?<J XV-48. M - W- WA.TSO N, 'Mteww St £@“'011100 up staus in Leopold’s Bazar REnsselaer, Ind. WORDECAI F. CHILCOTE, ~~ ATTORNEY AT LAW, ~ Rensselaer, Ind. Attends to all business in the profession with proniptness and dispatch. < Office in second ■ storv of theMttketiyer building.

miscbia:aneous. , - .1 *——— 'l. 1m nI Dw i« G. E. K Al: , v A • s F , T P• President. Vitfe President• Casiner Citizens' State Bank .Rensselaer Ind. Does a general banking business : certificates bearing interest. issued , excliange. bought and sol i; money loaned oi> larin.i at lowest rates and on most favorable, teems, u-u-tr. . t John Makerver, Jay W. Williams. —-r- President. ■——• — j—- CastiiJli pARMERS’ BANK, i. Public REISSUE LA ER - - IXi'IAAA ■* ' - - - 1 z Receives Deposits! Bn? and sell Exchange. ColJectionsanade and promptly remitted. 1 Money Loaned, anti does a general ■ Banking Business.' XV. 48 y

' A. McCoy. T. J. McCoy, E. L. HolUiugsWorth. A. McCoy & Co-, Bankrs, (Successors to A. McCoy ,t T. Thompson.) Rensselaer, Indiana.Do a general banking business. Exchange bought nufl sold. Money loaned. Certificates Bearing interest issued. C»>jlteCfr. --- g Ilu £j e bA all available points: Office same place as old firm of McCoy & Thompson ./ IRUtO-y. EE. QU IVEY. . <> Xseatlst, , Special attention gfven to the preservation of ibe natural teeth. Artificial teeth inserted from bine to an entire set. all work warranted ®pß*“ Office over Warners’ Hardware Store,* \ —— ——Bensselaer Indiana.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, IND., THURSDAY, APRIL, 12, 1888.

Locals and Personals.

A complete stock of furniture at. Jay W. Williams’, Joseph Anderson and Emery Grant, the cigar makers, removed to Plymouth, last weefcD Parties wishing furniture cheap will do well tp‘call on Jay W. Williams. Wolf & Co., dealers in all kinds of lumber, doors, windows &c. Give them a call. John Baker, of Newton tp., is preparing to erect a fine residence, this year. Chamberlain & Zoll Jaaxailia contract. l -

Jay W. Williams is still in the furniture business and will continue to sell furniture cheaper than ever. Don’t forget the place/ The Presbyterian chhrch is now undergoing a process of repairs which will,-.when completed, make the appearance of the building quite respectable. “The flowers that bloom in the spring tra, la,” have nothing at all to do with the cases of fine shoes just in from Portland, Me., at Hemphill & Honan’s. Long and Eger are the manufacturers of the purest and best baking powder in the city. It has been tried and highly recommended. To Patrons. Be prepared to meet the soliciting, committee on next Friday or Saturday. These committees will solicit eatables for the Shakesperean supper. Norman Warner lost three of his fine Jersey cattle, a week or two ago. They were probably poisoned, either from eating garbage or drinking wdter that had been poisoned by garbage.

There is a rumor about town that the firm of Long & Eger are displaying the finest line of toilet articles of all kinds ever shown in the city. This grave matter should be investigated at once. ~ Remember the proceeds of the Shakesperean entertainment will be applied to the high school or Dickens, library Be freehand liberal towards so noble, so grand, an enterprise. The first loan of tjie Building '& Loan Asssociation was sold at the Directors meeting, last Wednesday evening, at the surprisingly low rate of a fraction over 14 per cent premium, Only a very few bidders were present. Having the finest and most elegantly furnished room in Northern Indiana, we can keep our goods in a clean and saleable condition. Yqucanrelyon them being genuine. Long & Eger. The following persons went to Indianapolis, to attend the meetings of , the Grand Chapter, O. E. S,: . Mesdames M. L. Spitler, M.E. Baylor;Misses Hattie Hopkins, Floy Powell, Lizzie Purcupile; Messrs. MjL. Spitler and D. J. Thompson. We learn that the Presbyterian people are figuring on erecting a residence for their minister, techijieallycailed a “Manse,” in the near future; probably this . season. It will occupy the south side of the church lot, which extends 20 feet farther south than the present enclosure.

Mollie Hamilton has begun suit against her husband, Janies A. Hamilton. The complaint alleges that James is a habitual drunkard and that ho has also abandoned and fai'ed .to provide for his wife. The case will be tried in June. The plaintiff lives in Rensselaer, at present, but the defendant, is supposed to be out of the state. The new arrangment of trains on the Monon will not be quite so convenient for Rensselaer people, as was the old arrangment. In ■ one'respect, however it will be .ai very great accomodation. Thej late hour, 11:10 p. m, at which the i last tram leaves Chicago, will be very convenient for persons desiring to remain in the City to attend the theaters. J. G. Reynolds moved last week out of J. W. Duvall’s house, on Front street, into Mrs. Judge Hammond’s tenant house, corner of Washington and Weston streets, which bad just been vacated by E. E. Grant, the cigar maker. Mr. Duvall moved from the rooms over his livery stable building into the house vacated by Mr. Reynolds, while T. J. Say lev occupies-'the rooms in the.livery stable building! vacated by Mr. Duvall.

Millinery—latest styles and lowest prices at Hemphill & Honan’s. Mrs. W. A. Huff is recovering from a severe sickness, with erysipelas. Mothers, get yojrr school hate for the children, boys and girls aft Hemphill & Honan’s. The largest variety of fishing .tackle in town is shown at Long & Eger’s drug emporium. The Ladies Literary Society will give a dime social, at Mr. Alfred Thompson’s residence, April 20tli. All are invited to attend. Shoes for infants, children, youths, misses, boys- and ad wits, all sizes and kinds, at Hemphill & Honan’s.

New and well selected stock constantly arriving at J. M. Hopkins’ furniture store. Call and inspect his goods and learn prices,. W. R. Parker writes back from Minneapolis, Colorado, And says that there are already 26 Jasper I county people, in that new town, and allapparently well satisfied. Tickets for supper will be sold by all high school pupils. Only 25 cents for a royal supper; far better than is usually given in cities for 82. Farmers, dont forget to call on J. C. Allman for a square meal. He sets a good table; all you want for 25 cents. He can accommodate all that will give him a trial. W. A. Rinehart is back from Buffalo, on business, for a few days. He is doing lots of business and himself and Mrs. Rinehart are well pleased with Buffalo as a place of residence. Don’t order your lumber from Chicago until you have given Wolf & Co. a chance to figure on your bill. They believe that they can do as well or better for you, than any foreign dealers. Friday evening, Apr. 27, is the , time appointed for the grand [Shakesperean supper and entertainment Don’t fail to be present. ! You will be satisfied in more ways than one. Geo. Worden, thStfArness maker with John Vanatta, has bought of S. P. Thompson, a fine lot on Front street, adjoining A. Leopold’s residence, and will erect a good residence, forthwith. Wm. Smith has the contract. A Card. —I have decided to make Rensselaer my permanent home. All orders for work in my line, house painting and decorating, in all its branches, will receive prompt attention. W. J. Miller. The members of the High School graduating class of this year, fifteen in number, have secured their class badges?" They are beautiful gold scarf pins, with the design of a crescent encircling a four leaf clover, with chain attached. They were furnished by J. F. Hardman. Mr. W. W. Reeve fully appreciates the kindness and generosity of the friends who “chipped in” to raise money to buy him a new horse, -to partly replace those killed by lightning, last Friday, and requests The Republican to publicly express to them his earnest thanks.

John C. Allman, the restaurant' and bakery man, was in Reming-1 ton, last Thursday, and while; watering his team a train came along and so frightened the horses that they broke away and ran three or four miles, towards Rensselaer, before they were caught. The carriage -was pretty badly broken up but the horses were not hurt. The Francesville New Era says that six wells have (>een drilled near Francesville, within little more than a year, at a Cost of from $l,lOO to $1,900 each; and that most of the money was raised at home. As the Era truly says, it is a record of persevering enterprise, of which the Francesville people may well be proud. And we may add that still another well has been begun.

The Fowler Building & Loan Association has been in operation Ljust one year. During that time it has made loans on forty-five shares qf stock, at an average pre•mium of 33 A per cent. The payments and the interest are no more favorable to borrowers than they are in the Rensselaer Association, land yet our first loan sold at only >a fraction over 14 per cent. Thirty per cent. would be,none too,, high for loans during the first yean

Especial attention given to children at the new grocery. Pure Early Rose, potatoes, for sale at J. W. Duvall’s. The Widow Ball is building a large addition to her residence in the northwest part of town'. Go to Wolf & Co. (Benjamin’s old yard) for anythirig needed in the lumber line.' Percy Taylor, the hay and grain dealer, thinks of moving to Remington, where he has considerable business Interests. We have got to the front and shall endeavor to stay’there. Our goods are bought, so we can’t be undersold. Long <fc Eger. Mrs. Louisa ox returned home ,t.Q Russiaville, yesterday, after parents here, for several weeks.

Mel Laßue was down to Lafayette, last week, selling some h< raes, And while there bought a fine imported Messenger trotting mare, of Jeptha Crouch. Quotations on men’s shoes at Hemphill & Honan’s: ——plofr shoes, 81. 125, F.-50,1.75. Fine.ihoes, SI. 2. 2.50, 3. 3.50 4. 4.50 and 5.00. Thos. McGowan, of Will Co., 111, has rented Al. Catt’s tenant house, on Division St. and will occupy the same, in a few days. He lived in Rensselaer, for a time, about 12 years ago.

John Paxton, lately in the lumber business at Mt* Ayr, has bought a half interest in R. F. Priest’s grocery store. The new firm has rented Leopold’s Bazaar building, and will occupy the same, in a short time. T. J. Sayler brought a fine imported Norman horse to town, last Tuesday. It was bought of Mr. Monnette, in Illinbis, and was imported by James Perry, of Wilmington, 111., the leading importer! of Norman horses in. the country. A fire in our neighboring town of Monon, early last Thursday morning, burned three small buildings.sv4W..occupied by a„ saloon, one by a butcher shop and the other as a dwelling. -The loss is estimated at about $2,000, partly covered by insurance. Mr. and Mrs. John-Marshall, of Saratoga York, visited their cousins in this town and vicinity, Rial and Jared Benjamin and Mrs. David Nowels, for several days, going away on Tuesday. They are on their way home after an extensive trip in the Southwest, as far as Galveston, Texas. The long pending divorce suit of Mary E. Oosley, or Woosley, against Joseph Oosley, was ended in the March term of court, by the grant in gos the d i vorce. Th e plain 1 iff . charged Joseph with cruel treatament, abandonment and failure to provide. They were married in August, 1882, and lived together only until November of the same year. No children were born. Father Zumbuelte preached his farewell sermon in the Catholic church T last Sunday, and on Monday took his final departure, his ultimate destination being Germany. He has been in charge of the Catholic congregation here for twelve years and has gained land retained the affection of all ibis parishoners and the respect ' and esteem of the entire community.

“Kramer’s Specialty Company,’ a variety troupe of large numbers and considerable merit, gave an entertainment in the Opera House, last Thursday evening, to a slim audience. It had been their indention to perform Friday evening also, but a big row ..broke out among the meiAbers, and the company brokeUp, Friday morning. I Some of the members left on different trains, during the day, and two or three were, obliged to get out of town on foot.

The State Normal school building at Terre Haute, was burned to the ground, last Monday morning. The fire caught in the mansard roof a little before 9 o’clock. Eight hundred pupils were in the building, 175 of whom *were small children in the training school. All got out in safty with a portion only of their books and wraps however. In pursuance of the policy of the State, there was no insurance, on the-structure. It cost $189,000, of which! tljie city ,pf.!T-^ rre .v^^ u^e gaye .1.50,000, in addition to the grounds. ‘

’ Those white onion pickles, at Duvall’s are the finest ever sold. The bankrupt clothing store of Mossier & Co., pulled out of town, Monday. , Just think of it, ladies/ A genuine French kid, hand-turned shoe, for 53.50, at Hemphill & Honan’s, Next Monday is the last day for paying the first installment of taxes, without the penalty. . I pay cash for produce at the new grocery. Give rhe a call. J. W. Duvall.

'■ Frank King has accepted the position of salesmap for J. W. Williams’ furniture store. Henry Daugherty has completed his school at Boone Grove, Porter County, and is now at home, but will begin a new term next wetk. Paintl Paint! Paint! A brand new stock at Long & Eger’s. Remember they keep the best and none kept over from last year. Mrs. Stockton’s black driving horse went the way of all mortality, yesterday. It was a fine horse, valued at $l5O.

Dear reader, .if you are owing Hemphill & Honan, please call and settle with them, as they are needing money. Spring time has come, gentle Annie, so please get an Elgin movement on you and call at Hemphill & Honan’s for that lovely hat you were going to buy. Mr. qud Mrs. Geo. J. Dexter will go down to Battle Ground, today, to attend the marriage,, near near that place, of Mrs. DextSr’s sister, Miss Hattie Dunlap, to Mr, George Henderson. Marriage licenses since last reported. j Joseph Leßold, ( Lizzie Flugel. - John E. Bisloski, ( Anna L. Bryant. Persons disposed to help a couple of poor and worthy women, who have to earn their own living, ,will do a good turn by sending their washing, sewing etc. .to Mrs. Steele and Miss Sea, who live next door to'Lyin an Zea, n Our trimmer has arrived and would be pleased to have the ladjes of Rensselaer and vicinity (Sall and see her work and, of course, Vint above selling some of it if you are determined to buy. Hemphill & Honan.

Miss Anna Krbeger, of Hogan, a young lady who combines in her person the two very honorable and exceedingly lucrative|functions of school teacher and type setter, favored The Republican, with a call yesterday. She has two brothers running a large job printing office, in Winona, MinnF Prof. Reubelt, superintendent of the Rensselaer schools, and County Supeiintendent Warren, will again conduct a summer normal, in the Rensselaer school building. The great success of their last Summer’s term is a sufficient guarantee for the excellence of what this year’s term will be. The HonSA Building & Loan Aff< sociation of Goodland sold its first loan on Wednesday evening, of last week, the very evening when the Rensselaer Association sold its first loan. At the Goodland side the stockholder who bid off the first share had the privilege of taking all he desired, (to the limit of his shares) and the loan sold at thirty per cent, premium and $80) were taken, at that rate. Next year will be the semi-cen-tennial of the town of Rensselaer, it having been laid out in the year 1839, under the name of Newton. The next year 1840, by a special act of the State Legislature, the name was changed to the .much less hackneyed and common-place name it now bears. In the act legalizing the change, which was published in The Republican, a few weeks ago, the name isiyrpngly spelled, having a superfluous 1, thus, “Renssellaer.”

The firm of Elli'ott, Huss & Co., railway contractors, of .Chicago, has been awarded the contract for the grading and r . bridge work on the new railroad from Goodland toMomence. They state that work' will begin all along the line this week. The present headquarters of the contractors is at Momence, where they will receive bids .from responsible parties, for gyaditig or pile driving. Any number of teams, they sts. can be used, at good, wages,

County. Superintendent Warren examined nine Applicants for teachers’ license ahd fifteen applicants for township graduation, in Gillam township, last Saturday. The fifteen applicants for graduation were all from Gillam. People of Rensselaer surely have no right to complain of our railroad, so fat as facilities forgets ting to or from Chicago, are concerned. Three train? 6ach way} every day, and at widely Separated hours, give facilities that bdght to satisfy the most exacting. If, for

instance, one wishes to "make a day of it,” in the city, they caß leave here at 4:39 in the morning; reach Chicago at 7:40, and have 10 hours in the city and get home at 2:55, the next morning; ot if A much shorter stay will satisfy their wishes, they can leave here at 10:36 A. M., have nearly 7 hours in the city and get home at J about 11 p. M. If a night in Chicago is desired, they can leaVe here at 4:10 p. m. and get home the next day At 11:20 a. m.

The directors of the Building & Loan Association, at their meeting on Wednesday evening* passed an order authorizing the secretary to receive n&w subscriptions toj the stock of the company, until the next monthly pay day, upoii Vhe same terms as all previous snbscribors have complied with? Namely, payment of 25 cents per share entrar.cA.fees, 20 cents for pass book, and\ the firs'! mdnthly installment.of one dollar per fihyre. It is probable 8 that the at tlieir next ifleeti'ng will either .declare the series closed, and eri-’ tirely forbid the issue of anymore shares, or they will add a small premium to all Shares issued afte) that date. It will thus be seen, that persons desiring to invest ift the shares of the Association should not fail to secure them before the last Saturday of the pryent month.

Fair Oaks is not the only tdw6 that gets a black eye by the selection of the Goodl&nd-Momeiicc route for the new railroad. The prospects of Mt. Ayr, J ulian and Foresman can not fail to suffer, and the effect ttpon Goodhind itself is pi'dbTdwatical, to say the least. The new line doesnot leavh the Coal Road directly at Goodland, but at Percy, a station miles north, and if the companies interested locate their switchyards,, engine houses, tanks, &c., at the place of the junction and not at Goodland, the result will be very injurious to that town. Kentland can not fail to be the loser by the road, to some extent, and even the ultimate loss of the county seat is not improbable. In fact, about the only hope the town has of escaping such a misfortune is in the building up of rival towns at or near Beaver City and at Morocco.

The thunder storm of last Thursday afternoon resulted seriously to one of our citzens. W. W. Reeve was harrowing in oats, in a small field in the northwest corner of Newton’s addition, and had just started upon the, last “round” necessary to finish thp ■job,..,when a bolt of lightning struck and instantly killed both of his horses, Mr. Reeve had the reins in hie hands and received a sufficiently severe shock to throw him on his handstand knees and to leave him considerably dazed for a “short time. One of the horses had a blackened mark on one shoulder where the lightning struck and both of them had streaks, where hair stood the wrong way,down all their legs, where the lightning had passed down them, into the ground. The horses were young and valuable. One was Mr. Reeve’s own property and one the property ol his pon, Edward Reeve. Mr. Reeve, who is an industrous and most worthy man, is not in circumstances to easily, withstand so considerable a financial loss p,nd in view of this fact a number ,cf his neighbors circulated a subscription paper, among' our helpfully disposed citizens, and sufficient money was contributed to purchase one good horse, the amount being about sllO.

Notice. of Election of Trustees. - Notice $ hereby givefi that at the regular business me st ing p f Rensselaer Baptist Church, ..(jn May 1?, 1&88, at 1:30 p. twy trustees of said church will b© elected. - , > - W,. T. Perkins, j , LJ.Joktiu. Warm meafe for’&i cents al'Atl man’s restaurant.

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