Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1888 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

Next Saturday is pay day for the Building A Loan Association. ©pent Eamise, to-morrow Blight, the Shakespercass. A complete stock of furniture at Jay W. Wiyiaips’. The tomorrow isiglit. , . Mrs. J. W. Douthit is recovering, but very slowly, frtfm lierj loirg sickness. J The finest and largest, stock of I carpets ev&r sieu in Rensselaer,.! just received at A. lieopold’s. Bennie Fendig, lately salesman 1 with N. Fendig, went to Hammond, Tuesday, in search ota situation. Parties wishing furniture cheap will do w ell to call on Jay \V. Williams. J. W. Porter went to Logansport, Tuesday, tlT'nppear before the pension examining board of physicians. An immense stock of carpets, including all the newest, handsomest and most fashionable patterns, at A. Leopold’s. The finest and largest stock of dress goods ever brought to the town, just received by A. Leopold, from Fowl well Bros., of Philadelphia. The Newton County Republican ! claims that GoodlanaThas a sure j thing on getting the switch yards,: coal chutes, tanks Ac., of the new ; road, from (ioodland to Momence. \ “The flowers that bloom in the spring tra, hi,” hove nothing at all to "do with the cases of fine shoes just in from Portland, Me., at Hemphill & Ilonan’s. The ladies of the Presbyterian church will give a carpet rag social at M. F. Chilcote’s, Tuesday, May 3. Each ball of carpet rags sold, w'ill contain a souvenir. Come everybody. Meyer bought his enormously large and well selected stock of wall and ceiling paper direct from the manufacturers, and he gives his customers the benefit of the jobber’s profit thus saved. Henry C. Johnson, of Williamsport, Ind., spent last Saturday at this place, his daughter, Mrs. Wolf. Also here in the interest of the lumber business, being the senior member of the firm ot Wolf & Co. Our trimmer has arrived and would be pleased to have the ladies of Rensselaer and vicinity call and see her work and, of course, ’aint above selling some of it if you are determined to buy. —.— H.E3rrniLL & Honan; ~ Miss Ida Kesler, daughter of Hezekiah Kesler, Trustee of Milroy tp., died on the 17th inst., of consumption, aged 21 years. She was a very estimable young lady. The funeral was he’d on the 18th and was conducted by Rev. B. F. Ferguson. A “Sunday School Teachers’ Excursion"’ will run into Chicago, over the Monon, to-morrow (Friday) evening. Fare for round trip, from Rensselaer, including admission to the panorama of Je--rusalern at the Crucifixion, only 81.95. Tickets good returning on any train of Saturday. Uncle Jared Benjamin, of Newton tp., is greatly alHicted by an eye disease, which already causes him great suffering and inconvenience and threatens to destroy his sight entirely. It is probable that o ha will go to Chicago soon, and have, fin Operation performed by some of the eminent oculists in that city. Geo. B. Antrim, county clerk MY Gray county, Kansas, visiting his ; "Jas per county frieadgjfpr a short time. tGeoige is not only holding a lucrative office, but he liaa_ also, lately become the proprietor of a prosperous newspaper in Ingalls, j county scat bf 'his county; and t newspapers m new'western towns-* are very profitable property sorne- ' times. Mr. and Mrs. :R. S. Uwiggins got home last Thursday, from i their winter’s sojourn in Mexico, which they have found very pleasant and very healthful. Mr. Dvviggiils’ stay at home wits very .Jjnef, as he departed Monday, on a bus- ! iness trip to California and Colora,do, and may be absent several months. . His son, Elmer, joined him at Chicago and is making the journey with him. < . -

Remember the Shakespef ean, to-morrow nightCarpets at all prices at Willey & Sigler’s- j E. L. Hollingsworth is meditating the erection of a residence, this summer. ~TI Don’t forget fi!»e Shakesperean, Friday evening at the Opera Mouse. The celebrated and long tried Sherwin-Williams mixed paints, at j the Old Reliable drug store. | Maj. H. H. "Woods, of Michigau I City, was in town last week, the ! guest of Mi. and Mrs. Wolf. I Just think of it, ladies. A' genuine French kid, hand-turned shoe, for $3 50, at Hemphill & Honan’s. D. 0. Bond has sold, his well known running horse, “Frank Goodrich,” to Dr. Me Lane and Geo. Ljnfoot, of Kentland. A. Leopold is iu Chicago this week, adding to, his already immense stock of spring and summer goods. o Fred Duvall, son of the late | Dauiel W. Duvall, of this place, is | now a compositor on the Kingman, i Kans., News. A large new stock of the celebrated Rochester shoes* just received aud for sale by Ray Leopold. The contract for a new school house at Goodland, has been awarded to James LongweM, of Fowler. The contract price is 810,487. Spring time has come, gentle Annie, so please get an Elgin | movement on you and call at Hemp- j hill & Honan’s for that lovely hat you were going to buy. • County Supt. Warren and his sister-in-law, Mrs. E. L. Clark, went to Fulton county, Friday, to visit the aunt of the latter, Mrs. Mcßride, who is sick beyond hope of recovery. The parties who .contracted to furnish the hook and ladder truck to the Rensselaer Fire Department have sent notice that the outfit will be shipped iu a short time, but not earlier than the last of the present month. Cow for Sale. —A fine young Jersey cow, grille, good milker, and perfect in .every way. Has an extra fine Holstein male calf by her side. Apply to the MiSses Smith, in the grove, north of the railroad. Delphi had a pretty big fire, last Saturday morning. Two business buildings, a two' story frame and a two story brick, the first the property ofSJChas.' Braugh and the other of John Burr, were destroyed, entailing a loss on buildings] and contents, estimated at 825,000. \ Two of the school house bonds j of 8500 each, pome due and will i be paid, in Juiy, of this year. The ; other bonds of 88,500 have four 1 years yet to run. It is, perhaps ! too much to expect that they can j all be paid at maturity, but it ’fsj not likely that more than 83,000 or ! 84,000 will have to be refunded. The Standard Oil Company is laying a pipe lino from the Limn, Ohio* oil fields to Chicago. The route is along the right-of-way of the Chicago & Atlantic Ry. The pipes will be 8 inches in diameter and the line will ba 208 miles long; will cost 87,000 per; mile and is expected to be in op- j eration early this summer. Tra Morlnn, the carpenter, met with a severe accident, nesday, of last week, lie ~was sliingiiug on A. T. Perkins’ new house, near the creamery, and. slipped off the roof, falling clear, to the ground. His left collar j Iwrfre 'Wfiw brokeu and one hand j badly bruised by the falling upon it of a board, besides, other bruises. Dr. Victor Loughridge, his phy-; sician, reports that he is doing -ffifill. An adjourned meeting of tEF Logansport Presbytery will be held in the Presbyterian church of this pTace'Tili Friday, MayTth, at 4:30 p. m. At.7:30 p. ra., will take place the ordination and iustallatio.u of M. L. Tressler, pastor elect. The moderator Rev. D. P. Putman, D. D., of the Presbyterian church of Logansport, will -preside, deliver the sermon, and ask- the constituted questions. Rev. E. S. Scott, of the 2nd church of Logansport* will deliver then charge to pastor, and Rev. S. C. Dickey, of.Mopticello, will deliver the charge to the people. A general invitatiou is expended. - -N I

E. P. Hpnan is seriously sick with a throat disorder. Shakespcrean, Friday iiight. Uncle Henry Henkle, of Barkley tp., is very sick. The death of Mrs. George Stowers, of near Surrey, is reported. It occured last Sunday. Mothers, get your school hats for the children, boys an 4 girls at Hemphill A Honan’S. The W. C. T. U. will meet with Mrs. R. S. Dwiggins Friday; 3 o’clock. All are invited to attend. F. B. Meyer is sole for the thoroughly reliable, Heath A Milligan prepared paints. J. \V. Duvall has been seriously sick with hiß old kidney complaint, but ,is beginning to get better. Died.—Barbara Pullins, wife of Win. Pullins, died at her home in Barkley township, April 5, 1888, aged 74 years and 6 days. Jay W. Williams is still in the ! furniture business and will continjuetosell furniture cheaper than j ever. Don’t forget the place. A little son of J. W. Mann was very sick, last week, with croup and billious fever, but is now improving. Ferguson handles a superior quality of binder twine. Farmers, don’t forget the place, \Vest of depot, on Main street. Shoes for infants, children, youths, misses, boys and adults, all sizes and kinds, at Hemphill A 'Honan’s. | Died.— April 22,1883, iu Wheatfield tp. Jasper Co., Ind. of congestion of the lungs, Walter E. son of August and A.ugusta Krull, aged 1 year and two months. A fine ring will be placed in a cake, and the pieces of cake sold for 25 cents a piece. In that you take a chance on the gold ring. At the Shakespereaii. Judge and Mrs. Hammond are greatly improving the appearance of their two tenant houses, on Washington and. Weston streets, by about 500 feet of handsome picket fence. The baccalaureate address to the Rensselaer high school graduates will be delivered on Sunday, May 20, in the Opera House, at 10:30 A. M., by Prof. Bryan, of the State University of Indiana. His subject will be “A Theory of Life.” Nathan Fendig moved his boot and shoe store out of Leopold's Bazaar building, into E. L. HoL lingsworth’s room, adjoining Tutuer’s grocery, last Friday, and on Monday the room he vacated was occupied by Priest A; Paxton, the new grocery firm. Mrs. I. B. Washburn and little daughter are off on a Florida trip, having started last Monday. They go in company with Mrs. Wasliburn’s mother, Mrs. Moore, of |Cass county, and will visit another daughter of the latter’s, at Chipley, in the above state. They will be absent about a month. Afy f ■ Mrs. Frank Foltz will go to Oxford in a few days, to attend the celebration of the GOth wedding anniversary of her grand parents, Wm. Kolb and wife, which will occur May sth. The old people are the parents of nine children, | all of whom are living aud the youngest being forty years old. Their grand-children and great-

grand-children are like the sands of the sea, in number. Fred Hasselbriug, of Walker, ornamented the visual organs of Lewis Newcomb with the sable l.iue pf mourning, last Friday and jon Monday Judge Morgan assess-., ; ed him one dollar for the benefit of the school fund and seven dollars for the benefit of the suffering orphans who are the instruments for administering justice in such cases made and provided. -Fred put up the cash for~the whole- | amount. / ] Intelligence lins been received* of the death, at Kingman. Kansas, Apiil 13th of J. 8. Cox, a former aid-mid, well .known, resident of Jasper county. The cause of his. death was typhoid fever following lung fever, the latter resulting from exposuie and over-exertion =aTl.hn hwming nf his house, a few weeks before his death His age was something over 67 The only member of his family still remaining iu Jasper county, is Rie wife of J. D. Babcock, bf Jordan tp.

Friday night, OporaHouse, Shanespereart. W f A. Rinehart’s big sale of personal property will take place, near Marlborough, to-day. Jas,. H. Fisher moved into his neat and convenient new housS, in Weston’s addition, last Monday. Frank A"f Ross is back from Montana, visiting his wife and infant son. Mrs. Mattie Bowman, of Newton tp., has been given a pension as the widow of Henry Bawman. Emerson Reeve is now telegraphing for the Atchison,Topeka and Santa Fee Ity., in New Mexico. J. T. Hemphill, of Hemphill A Honan, is at home this week, -on accouut of the sickness of Mr. Honan. The new F. W. Baptisjjr church, known as the Vaughn, will probably be erected at Surrey, and during the present year. The Heath & Milligan and the Sherwin- Williams prepared paints are the best. F. B. Meyer is sole agent in Rensselaer. The Ladies Aid Society, of the Christian church, had a pleasant and profitable social and supper, atC. W. Coenls residence, Tuesday evening. Lieut. W. 11. Rhoades is still greatly afflicted with paralysis, is confined to his bed most of the time, and has not been to his store for over six weeks. J. W. Powell i 3 rushing matters on his grading contract on the new railroad, at Morocco. He has twelve or fifteen teams at work now, and will add largely to the number, next week. The prospects for the wheat crop in Indiana, generally, is the poorest for years, but Jasper county is pronounced, by good judges, to be somewhat better off in that respect than the rest of the state. Rev. M. L. Tressler, the new pastor of the Presbyterian church, is making his home with Mrs. Moss, for the present./Mrs. Tressler is teaching in Chicago, *»d WilV not join him here until the conclusion of the school year. Dr. Lopp, of Indianapolis, a former member of the official examining board of physicians, was in town Tuesday and Wednesday, examining into the physical condition of a large number of soldiers, who have applied or will apply for pensions. Next Saturday is the second monthly.my day of the " Building A Loan Association; On the Wednesday evening following, the Directors will loan the money, at the Citizens ißank. Stockholders who contemplate borrowing on their shares should make a note of this fact. The Monon Route people have finished the large and costly work of laying their track with new and heavy steel rails and the next thing on their program of improvement is the building of new and strong bridges to replace the many old j and weak structures on their line. This work is already well under way and at least one new and very substantial bridge is completed; that over the Iroquois River, just, east of the Rensselaer depot. The Supreme Court decided a “School supply” case from Fountain county last week, .holding that

although the trustee ordered the goods and the seller sold in good faith, the township not needing the goods, the sale was’ void and the plaintiff „ could nob recover. This is ;i good decision and one that should be kept in mind by tax-payers. Inexpeiienced trus*teefrWe. often The victims of' unscrupulous agents who sell them, school supplies at two prices, o which perhaps are, not needed at all.

The wolf crop ofISSS is beginning to lpe harvested. Since the beginning of the, year tlib following persons have received ten Tfcfrlnrs —ertebj from—the—countv auditor as bounty on old wolves, killed by them, now being ten dollars .on old wolvesi. W. W. Bussell, John Zimmer, Wro. Burns, John \Y. Cooper, Henry Courtney, S. P. Layirider, Acton H. Fairchild, Nicholas Summons and Jarses T. Jones. George Hfesk'dl has been paid-the bounties on two old :wolves, amt Etvi.n Overton ou six young ones, the bounty on these -laS't btilrt? oiily £1,50 each, - - 1; ■ ■ i I' i " -v V --’~ ■:v

Tomorrow night, Shakes' perea n. Wm. Smith anil son are builda house for Jesse Smith, iif MariofiTownsh i p. J. W. Porter is making a largif well on the Catholic farm, for tin* usb of the proposed Indian school. 8. 11. Howe has sold hid meat shop to Geo. Nicholson, who lately kept in the room next to Hans’ bakery. Wile Duvall has changed the motive power on his new freight wagon, to a pair of double action badger colored mules. I). C. Warren now lias his REPUBLICAN sent to Beatrice, Nebraska, at which place he expects to remain until next fall. B. F. Ferguson has already begun to place binders, for the season of 1888. Four machines have already gone out. The members #f the F. W. Bap tist church voted thanks, to the friends who contributed towards buying an organ for the use of the church. Thomas McGowan, wife and daughter, late of Will county, 111., moved into Allen Catt’s tenant house, near his residence, last Thursday. Farmers.—Call on Ferguson and buy a D.eering or Triumph Binder, or a Mower. Every Binder entitles the purchaser to a free excursion ticket. The people of Jasper county have talked “gravel roads” a good while; why would not the present year be a good time to begin acting gravel roads? Earl Reynolds did not pfo clear into the hyperborean regions of British America but accepted s position in the telegraph office at Milton; Dakota. A fine silver fruit dish will be voted to the most popular lady the Shakesperean. The lady may be old or young, married or nm married. Mrs Josie Irwin returned to her home k£r,e ffcst Saturday, from Terre Haute, where she- has resided with her daughter, Mrs. Alice Thompson, since last fall. C. B. Hoffman, of Hogan, plead guilty to m charge of selling liquor without license, before Squire Morgan, Monday, and was iihed 820 and costs. (Total 838.40. He took a stay of proceedings for 90 days. .Elder Brewer, of Danville, the able and popular preacher of the Christian denomination, will be gin a series of meetings, in Hens selaer, next Saturday evening. The meetings will be held iff the F. W. Baptist building. Misses, Dellie and Hattie kins and Messrs. Ed. Reeve and J. Arthur Hopkins went to Good" land yesterday, to attend the wedding of Mr. Fred Gilman, cashier of the Goodland bark, aud Miss Lorena Wilson. The talk regarding the building of a new. Methodist church, is stronger than ever, this spring, and matters*are, indeed, now assuming a shape which gives good grounds for believing that this much needed building will be erected this year. Dr. Smith, the presiding elder, will be-in town today, to meet with the trustees and building committee, in regard t<r-t-he matter. *■ -

— r Notable baptismal services were held, in the river, last Sunday, at the close of the morning services of the F. Yd. Baptist church. liev. Ferguson, the pastor,administered the ordinance to twenty persons. They were Mr. and Mrs. Okas PfT'xt'On, IVfr.—and M rs* ■ J osepti Bowen, Mr, and Mrs. John Nowels, Shrum, Misses Emma King, Anna YYebhe-iv hllla Hughey, Nora Preston, Alice Morton, HDd Win. Shram, Chas- Platt Chas. Thornton, and five other f whose tianrea-ftro uot given. Kill of the above belong to the Bsn v ' selaer church and the others toth«no'.vly organized Vaughn church.