Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1888 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

A sou is reported at Alplieus Hu&ton’s, in Barkley tp., April 30. A complete stock of furniture at | Jay W. Williams’. Rev. E. G. Pelley, the new M. E. minister, will move his -family to town on Friday, of next week. Tiie finest and largest stock of carpets ever ssen in Rensselaer, just received at A. Leopold’s. Parties wishing furniture cheap i will do well to call on Jay W. Williams. 11. J. Dexter has bought of Mrs. L. A. Moss the house, and four acres of land attached, where he now lives, across the river. For Sale. —A twin baby cab, on very reasonable terms. Apply to Mrs. E. N. Hyland, over Nicholson’s butcher shop. An immense stock of carpets, including all the. newest, handsomest and most fashionable patterns, at A. Leopold’s. The ; Heath & Milligan and the Sherwin-Williams prepared paints ye the best. F. B. Meyer is sole agent in Rensselaer. Geo. W. Spitler, now of Kansas, was in town over Sunday. We understand he was on his way to New Jersey, in oare of a shipment of cattle. L.. ~ The finest and largest stock of dress goods ever brought to the town, just received by A. Leopold, from Eowlwell Bros., of Philadelphia. “The flowers that bloom in the spring tra, la,” have nothing at all tp do with the cases of fine shoes just in from Portland, Me., at Hemphill & Honan’s. Dr. Smith, the Methodist Presiding Elder, did not come to Rensi selaer. last week, as expected, in the interest ofifthe proposed new cWfcfi^7d» ; of his wife, with a paralytic stroke. Meyer “bought his enormously Inrge and wgll 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. Elder W. A. Brewer’s meetings which began last Saturday evening came to an unexpected termination, Monday evening, the Elder Jiaviug been called home by the sickness of several members of ! his family. 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. Hemphill & Honan. A state meeting of the Lincoln League wa-s held at Indianapolis, yesterday. Messrs. E. P. Hammond, S. P. Thompson, M. F. Cbilcote, I. B. Washburn and W. W. Watson were appointed to represent the Jasper county branch of the organization. The subject of the sermon, on Sunday morning, at the Presbyterian church, will be: The Question of the Ages. Job 14-10. “Man giveth up the ghost, and where is he ?” Those having no regular place of church attendance are always welcome. . The town of Kentland has contracted with- .the Eclipse Wind Engine & Pump Co., of Beloit, Wis., for the erection of waterworks, at the price of §3,595. The works are as described some weeks ago, except that no steam engine will be put in at present, the sole power being an eighteen foot wind mill.

The directors of the County Agricultural Association, at their meeting last Saturday afternoon,' -settfed-upon-tha-Slst 22nd, 23rd. and 24th days of August, for the fair, this year. The premium list the purses in the -horse departments largly increased. The board will meet again next Saturday,, to complete the workr J. W, Horton, dentist, has received the new preparation for freezing gums in tooth extraction. This is the time of year to have worthless teeth extracted for plates. Deep seated roots and shells of teeth 1 will extract without forceps. All work warranted. Thai means, all itork'done by me must (jive entire satisfaction-or money refunded. Office over La Hue's grocery. ~ r ’ J. W., Hobton.

r ' The “Musical.” Society will meet this week, with Mrs. Kerr. Carpets at all prices at Willey & Sigler’s. The . late rains were greatly needed and more of the same kind would not be amiss. The celebrated and long tried Sherwin-Williams mixed paints, at the Old Reliable drug store. Just think of it, ladies. A genuine French kid, hand-turned shoe, for §3.50, at Hemphill & Honan’s. The Hook & Ladder outfit was shipped from Detroit on Monday and will probably arrive within a day or two. At Priest & Paxton’s the pazaar building grocers, is the place to buy fresh vegetables and all kinds of canned goods. Shoes for infants, children, youths, missep, boys and adults, all sizes and kinds, at Hemphill & Hfcman’s. J. L. fierce, son. of “Uncle Billy” is tfie Republican candidate for Mayor, in Lebanon. He has already held the office for several terms, some years ago. Priest & Paxton, the new grocery firm in Leopold’s Bazaar building. A magnificent room and a splendid stock of goods. Call and see. 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. Pecko, one of Percy Taylor’s famous short tailed dogs, got his tail cut off a. great deal shorter than ever, Monday morning,—in fact clear up to his ears. He ran under a locomotive, at the depot. J. W. McEwen, of Rensselaer, Ira Yeoman and James Peffley of Remington, Thos. McCord of Milroy and McGuire, of Kankakee, represented the-Jasper countp Democrats, at their state convention, last week. The family of D. C. Bond were made eeriousiy sick on Wednesday night of last week, by the escape of coal gas from a base-bur-ner, and some members of the family narrowly escaped being asphyxiated. Phe general store of J; J. Frederick, of Medaryville, was burglarized, the fore part of last week. A quantity of silks, silk handkerchiefs &c. were taken. Perhaps the gentlemen who cracked Mr. Eiglesbach’s crib, made a call at Medaryville. A large number of Jasper county soldiers met at the court house, last Saturday afternoon and elected delegates to the soldiers’ * state conyention, described last week, and held yesterday in Indianapolis. Messrs. S. E. Yeoman, I. B. Washburn, M. F. Chilcote and J. H. Willey were the delegates. The “Little Big Horn” massacre was repeated on a reduced scale, ai Rose Lawn, Monday night, or rather Tuesday morning? A freight train ran into a drove of cattle that were the track and killed a great number. The number of killed being reported at eleven and the injured five-or six. E. M. Parcells desires to inform his many friends that on Mondaynext he will remove his shaving parlor and bath ■ rooms into the building on Washington street, one door east of Starr’s grocery. He would also thank them for their past patronage and solicit a continuance of the same, in the future. E. M. Parcells.

The next eclipse of the moon will occur on the night of July 22, and will be more interesting than the one of January 28. Thediameter of the earth’s shadow will be much larger at that time in proportion to the diameter of the moon, darkening its surface-more generally. It will take place at mi d nigh t,When Ihe moon wilt be higher in the heavens, and will be visible in this section. At two o’clock, last Thursday" afternoon, Mr. Wm. 8. DeArmond and Miss Lottie B. Peacock, were married at the. residence of the bride’s father, J. H. Peacock, just west or town. Only a few friends and relatives of the parties were present. The young couple took the 4p. m. train, sow after the ceremony, going directlv io their future home, in Kankakee township. The wedding ceremony was performed by Bev. E. G. Pelley.

J. C. Allman is moving his shop and restaurant into the rooms. two doors west, lately vacated by Priest & Paxton’s grocery. Priest A Paxton, the new grocery firm, have the largest and cleanest grocery store in town. Call and examine their goods. Jay AV. Williams is still in the furniture business and will continue to sell furniture cheaper than ever. Don’t forget the place. The Free Will sewing society will meet at Mrs. Mary Hopkins’, Friday afternoon, at two o’clock. Allie Shriver, Secy. Ferguson handles a superior quality of binder twine. Farmers, don’t forget the place, west of depot, on Main street. A freight train knocked C. D. Nowels’ cow off t|ie track, Tuesday morning, and injured her so that she had to be killed. A large new stock of the celebrated Rochester shoes, just received and for sale by Ray Leopold. Wm. Greenfield the new Township Trustee of Marion township, has his office in the court house, ir the Surveyor’s office; the same that used to be the Clerk’s office. Farmers.—Call on Ferguson and buy a Deering or Triumph Binder, or a Mower. Every Binder entitles the purchaser to a free excursion ticket. Isaac Tutuer, the commercial traveler, has just finished a several weeks trip through the southern part of the state, with a line of hats, for a Chicago house. He had good success. The Rag Social at M. F. Chilcote’s, Tuesday evening, was a success. The am°unt of cash realized was §12.66 and a splendid supper and a pleasant social time was enjoyed by all present. Chamberlain A Zoll have- taken tb.Q . contract" for building Capt. Marshall’s house, adjoining Newton’s addit]on,'on7Ee'west. Work has begun already and the building is to be completed by Aug. 1. Marriage licenses since last re-' ported: T Win. J. Thompson, ( Delphia Cotton, j Wm. S. DeArmond, ( Lottie B. Peacock. Mrs. Louisa Brockway, the insane woman of Keener tp., whose ease was mentioned last week, was accepted at the Insane Asylum and taken to that institution, Tuesday night, by Sheriff Yeoman and Trustee Bruner. The ladies of the Free Wid Sewing~SocieW will give a supper on Wednesday evening, May 9. iThe patronage and services of all who feel disposed to lend a helping hand, will be thankfully received. Allie Shriver, Secy. S. H., Howe was going out to his farm, south of town, one day last week and accepted an invitation to ride, with a mau in a light wagon. A little further on, the man turned out to pass another vehicle, and his team took fright and ran away and running up a steep bank Mr. Howe was thrown out and ran over by the wheels of the wagon and considerably Cut and bruised. We have received, this week, a lengthy report of the Jasper Co. W. C. T. U. convention, held at Lee, in White county, April 14 and 15. The “news” in the report, such as it is, is thus about three weeks old; and as we know of no good reason why the report should not have been forwarded to us within a reasonable time after the oCcurence of the event reported, we must decline to publish it.

Q nr Pg mocra^c f i q eil j^iqj l a V e also nominated a town ticket. The eall-foF their convention, as published by our esteemed con ternpory, gave Saturday, April 3Qj as the time for holding it, but as the brains of the fp.ifhfnl were unequal to the task of figuring out whether under the call, Saturday, April 28, or Monday, April 30, would be the mi.sf proper feth dates were passed by and the convention held Tuesday evening. About a dozen Democrats were present, and made the nominations, in the presence of 25 or 30 Republicans. Wm. Meyer was nominated for Councilman for the First ward, Hiram Day for the Second, Geo. H7Brown for the Fourth. J aS. T. Randle for Treasurer, Jerry Healy., for Clerk and Shorty Simpson for Marshak r ■

Miss Ida Wittenbarg, the yOung lady of Reynolds who was shot by Edward Chamberlain, did not rally from her injuries, But died last Friday. .Young Chamberlain hail previously - been confined in the Monticello jail and after the girl’s deajih there were fears of- a lynching.and he was first removed to Delphi and later to Lafayette, where he now la. As another sad result of thia deplorable ocpurence it was stated Tuesday ihat the young man’s mother had gone insane with grief concerning it. Miss Celia Wilkinson, of Westville Ind., a fofnier teacher in the Rensselaer schools, was in town from Friday till Monday. She has been teaching in Monon, this winter. Miss Wilkinson is a very bright lady, of considerable literary attainments and also very mucji of a traveler, having visited, at different times, all the principle places in the United States and Canada, except those on the Pacific coast, and she is strongly meditating making the Western trip this summer. The robins have nested again and thfe lazy, lousy, dirty tramps are infesting the kitchen doors asking in lugubrious tones for a “bite of something to eat.” The way to deal with, these fellows is to set the bull-dog on to them and let him give them the|“bite” they are asking for; t>ut if the bull-dog is not handy show them the way to the wood-pile and tell them to earn their meal before they get it. They generally get out of the front gate about as fast at sight of the wood-pile as of the bull-dog. W. A. Rinehart’s big sale near Marlborough, last Thursday, was attended by an immense crowd of people, estimated at 600 in number. There were buyers present from Carroll, White, Pulaski, Tippecanoe, Newton and Benton counties. The amount of property sold and the gross sum realized, was very large. Of horses 38 were sold and brough.t an Aggregate' of §6,000. A large number of cattle also was sold, at fair prices,, The character of ,the stock was good and an honor to Jasper tyAn exchange gives the following advice, applicable to almost any community: “Be less selfish, less stern, less brutal in your daily lives. Live as though it was a delight and pleasure for you to contribute to the well being of some of those who are victims of this world. Overlook the delinquencies of your fellow men, and give them credit for the good they do. Forgive your enemies, and pity the cranks; steer clear of fanatics bestow your be- . nevolence upon those eminently worthy and when another year shall have drawn to a close you will think more of pourself for having thought more of others.”