Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1888 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

Corn, 50 cents. ’ Wheat. 85 cents. Oats, 32, cents, f The Fairy Grotto td-ffiorrow evening. M. L. Spitler has taken out letters of administration on the estate of the late Joseph Morelan. The finest and largest stock of carpets ever ssen in Rensselaer, just received at A. Leopold’s. Don’t fail to hear the chorus of seventy-five children’s voices in the Fairy Grotto, Friday evening. Geo. W. Spitler has returned from his eastern trip, with cattle, and expects to remain here this summer. An immense stock of carpets, including all the newest, handsomest and most fashionable patterns, at A. Leopold’s; t The beautiful scenery painted by the talented artist, Mr. Miller, can be seen to-morrow evening at the Opera House. ty. W. Pfrimmer, the Kentland poet, alias is a candidate for the Republican nomination for Recorder in Newton county. ----- Priest & Paxton, the new grocery firm in Leopold’s Bazaar building. A magnificent room and a splendid stock of goods. Call and see. About nine or ten young couples went over to Remington, last Friday evening, ( to attend a dance in' Exchange gotten up by Simon Leopold. They report a good time. Goodland is bracing up considerably this spring;. The town has contracted for a fine new school house and the papers there say that seventeen or eighteen dwellings are now in process of erection. The communication from Dr. Washburn on the subject us gravel roads suggest a practicable and inexpensive method whereby the farmers and property owners of Marion township may, if they will, accomplish a very desirable result.

The incorporation of another railroad projected to cross Jasper county, is recorded this week. If all the railroads that have been encorporated during the last eight or ten years had been built, Jasper county would now be nothing but a huge grid-iton. James Maloy started for the southern part of the state last Saturday, with two of his running horses, to begin the racing season. He also expects to buy another fine runner, a£ Louisville. Mr. Maloy had big luck last year, his winnings having aggregated a very large sum. . * : v, \ > The delinquent tax returned uncollected at the May settlement 1877, was $15,775.39. That for 1888 $10,294.39 a decrease in the total delinquency of $5,481. The decrease in the delinquency l is owing partly to a decrease of the duplicate and partly to a greater effort having been made to collect old delinquencies. We are glad to state that Squire Wm. E. Moore is now well on the road towards recovery from his late severe and dangerous sickness. It has been a long and painful seige and all the harder to endure from the fact that the Squire never knew before what sickness was, this sickness being the first time in thirty, years that he has required the services of a physician.

*» t Messrs. Lewis & Morgan, publishers of the Fowler Era, have just begun the publication of a monthly magazine, under the name of “The Kitchen.” As its; name indicates, it is mainly devoted to matters pertaining to that portion of household art, connected with the great subjects of cooking and eating. The first number is a Very creditable prodgCtion. The publication office is in Chicago. —The maid building of the Catholic Jhdian school, preliminary work upon whidh has already begun, will be 80 by 78 feet in dimensions, with an open court in the- Center, 3G feet square. 11 will be three stories high, the Idwer story being of stone and the two upper of brink. The work of quarrying the stone is now in progress, at the PlPrce quarry, three miles east of the site of the proposed building.

Some beautiful costumes will be displayed in the Fairy Grotto. 0. F. Overacker is bow publishing a paper, the Preets, at Rossville, Vermillion county, Illinois The celebrated ahi long tried Sherwin-Williams mixed paints, at the Old Reliable drug store. The old as well as the young can be highly entertained by attending the Fairy Grotto. Mrs. Lola Patton is back from Omaha, vftiting her mother, Mrs. Moss. It is now stated that the new state asylum for incurable lunatics, lat Logansport, will be ready for occupancy by July Ist. Fresh flowers for Commencement on sale by the Flower Mission Society at Hopkins Millinery Store. - ■ . w. ' ~ . Only’fifteen cents to see one of the most popular operettas of the season. Opera House, to-morrow evening. E. M. Parcells, the barber, is having a serious “unpleasantness” with the rheumatism. Mr. Brown, of Brookston, keeps hisshop mean-, time. Mrs. John Platt intends leaving for Defiance, Ohio, to-day. Her health has long been very poor, and she hopes the change of residence will prove beneficial. The Goodland bank lost $l4O on the counterfeit $5 silver certificates. As near as can be ascertained only $420 of these bills were put out at that place.—Kentland Gazette.

The pensions lately received by , Mrs. Mattie Bowman, of Newton tp., both for herself and her deceased husband, aggregated about $2,700. Mrs. Bowman’s many friends rejoice m het good fortune. ■ ' . 8. L. Swain sold two of his road gibers,., the r Little Wonder in Newton county, last week, and expects to sell several more. Uncle Billy Greenfield thinks of buying one or two more for Manon township. AVe think they are, a good investment. * *» The hen and a half and egg and a half problem hasi been supplemented by the Mobile Register as follows: “If a man aQ d a half throws a boot jack and a half at a cat and a half in a night and a half, ( how many cats and a half will tie hit in a month and a half?” Mrs. Jasper Ravenscroft, sister-in-law of Mrs. Jas. F. Irwin, left the residence of the latter for her home at Wessington, Dakota, Monday morning. She has been visiting friends in this county for some time. She is a niece of the Michael Harris whose whole family were burned to death, last fall, near Wessington. L ± About six men began work in the Pierce quarry, Tuesday, getting out rock for the Indian School building. Four of the men came with the sub-contractor from Chicago, the others are residents of this vicinity. It is understood that this quarry will be much more fully developed, both as to extent and character of the stone, than ever before.

The witnesses for the government in the Sapp-Banes counteifeit cases have been summoned to appear before the U. 8. ’ grand jury at Indiaiiapolis on May 16th. James SAbp, one of the defendantsis at nis home at Goodland, and John Banes the other defendant is in Canada, and some entertain the opinion that he • will not return.—Kentland Gazette. Geo. O. Hoover is in a hospital in Chicago, where he lately underwent a sevefe and dangerous surgical operation for a disease of his hip joint, frdm which he has long been a sufferer. Several pieces of diseased bone were removed from the places affected. Mr. Hodver’s disease was long supposed to be rheumatism and has been extensively treated as such.’ 1=

D. B. Coppees, of Gillam tp., was in town Monday and dropped in to order The Republican sent to him at Valparaiso, where he is going to take a special course in the big normal, for a few months. Nest September he will take tfie prfndpalship of the East Gertcpntown, Wayflb Co., schools, smkweding D. H. Guild, who isHW’/a, full fledged Methodist minister, iiv I charge of;a, at Pfiila- | delphia, near Indianapolis.

To-morrow 'evening the ‘curtain will rise at 8 o’clock Tickets for the Fairy Gpotto can be procured nt Hardman’s, the jeweler. The Ladies Industrial Society of the Presbyterian church, will give a Quaker entertainment on June 1. Priest & Paxton, the new grocery firm, have the largest and bleAnest grocery store in town. Call and examine their goods. Don’t fall to see the wonderful and astonishingly natural Fairy Grotto, at the Opera House, Uriday evening. Two blind tramps were given' lodging m the jail Monday night and sent on the next day towards Chicago, which place they claimed was th air destination.

W. J. Miller, the painter, was , last week joined by his wife, from Michigan, and they are now keeping house in the Widow Michaels’ place, on Van Rensselaer street. The supper in Makeever’s building last Wednesday evening, by ! the F. W. Baptist ladies, was a success. The net receipts dwere about s2l. 8. E. Nichols, station agent on the Monon at Ladoga, was in town Tuesday, on his way to Chicago, where his wife had preceded him. He is taking a few weeks vacation from his duties &s agent. Bitty Wood, tie constable, gets about bn crutches. He sprained an ankle getting over a fence, last week, When looking for the peddler Stene, whosb arrest and removal to Chicago was mentioned last week. The McDade property, in Newton’s addition, consisting of fine lots, large, conveniently arranged house, well, cistern, cellar, barn and all modern improvements, for sale at a sacrifice. Inquire of Wm. B. Austin, agent. Mr>? Julia D. Godfrey has ' brought suit in Lafayette fpr a divorce from her husband, the Rev. Sanpiel Godfrey, an eloquent Methodist Minister, well known in thjs county, a former presiding eider, in this district. The charge is cruel treatment. Fire Chief Honan was causing some alterations to be made in the fire alarm attached to the, court house bell, Tuesday, whereby a great improvment was effected, therein; but the frequent jangling of the alarm during the process; set our burghers’ nerves on edge with thoughts of fire. Uncle Milton Makeever came to town last Thursday, and remained several days. This was his first visit to Rensselaer since the time he waff str deadly injured, bjr the falling of his horse, nearly seventeen months ago. His injuries kept him in his bed for five months and in bis house more than a year.

The Monon Route is doing an immense and constantly increasing passenger business now. The through night trains are especially well patronized. It is not uncommon for some of these trains to consist of eight or nine loaded coaches. The new Indianapolis and Chicago train also does an immense business—in fact is the best paying train on the road, says the general passenger agent. Miss Frank G. Pym, principal of the High School, has . signified to the school board her, intention not to apply for the position the next school year. She is contemplating taking a course at Cornell University, at Ithica, New York, we understand. Miss Pym has been employed in our schools for the last three years and has proved a most efficient teacher, of thorough scholarship and a lady of the finest qualities, in fill respects. ■ Shelby item in Crown Point Register: The I. I. &I. Ry-» are making preparations to extend their “road from Knox to South Bend, Ind., and intend to begin operations as soon as they possibly can. Their engineers staked out the line a year or more ago, and, everything is in readiness to start ihe_ .grading* .JThia.—sdll..--aßcare-still belter connections/ for them east, besides giving them an Increased local trfiffic. It is stated ; that South Bena haS very liberal inducements,“as itwill make weste r P outlet for the manufactures of that place.

Some reports of cases of measles ih town, were without foundation. The Fairy Grotto hafi been prepared by some of the best Home talent The Xlisses Smith will start to-day for Dayton, Ohio, to visit their uncle, Mr. Schenck. The annual expense of lighting' the towny counting cost of gasoline, and expense of filling and lighting lamps, is at least $350. The sickness of Miss Mary Healy has suffered a serious relapse, since last week, and her condition is now very critical, p Miss Anna Honan, of Delphi, returned home Monday, after a week’s Visit Vrtn the family of heri cousin, E. P. Honan. NeWfon circuit court is in session at Kentland, this Week. The members of the Jasper county bar have attended in full force. As yet no one has reported any solution of the Keener township mystery, the unaccountable disappearance of Chester Broekway. Lacy Gwin has xeturned from .Monticello and is now learning telegraphy with, and adting as messenger for Station Agent Wren. Mrs. pizzie Lester left Tuesday, for Alliance, Nebraska, with the expectation of making her residence there. Park Wright, our successful and progressive undertaker, attended the meeting of Undertakers, at Indianapolis, Tuesday and yesterday. Mrs. Col. Learning, of Lafayette, who has been here. visiting her sick granA children,?eturned home this week, the childm being much better. Judge J. C. Morgan is now the only justice of the peace in Marion township, the two other gentlemen who were elected at the April election having failed to qualify. Uncle David. Nowels and his son Dallas, intend starting, probably to-day, on an extended we.stem trip. To Kansas, Colorado and clear to California. A good deal of the weather this week has not been what the signals called for. The‘signals were all right, however, it was the weather that was out of whack. The spell which ended lest Friday the soil 'pf Jasper qounty mqre ,thoroughty .water soaked, than for a ’year previous. In many parts of the,county there was an excess of waler. It is stated that ths work of repairing the grade at Burk’s bridge is proving, a herculean task for the contractor, J. W. Powell., A big sink hole is swallowing up the sand and dirt, by the hundreds of loads.

We have received the first number of the Greentown Watchman, a very neat little monthly paper published in the interest of the Greentown M. E. church, by the pastor, Rev. T. M. Guild, formerly of Gillam tp. Percy 8. Taylor has bought one of the grain elevators at Remington and removed to that town. He is occupying Dr. Maxwell’s resiidence and thinks of buying it. He will be in Rensselaer every Saturday, to look after his business here. A bail stoim which was pronounced by many the severest they ever saw, passed through a portion of Union and Barkley tps., last Friday. The quantity of hail that fell was enormous, but no damage is reported. The region traversed by the storm was about a mile wide. Thad P. Varney, the theatrical manager, is drilling a company here, under the auspices bi the Sons of Veterans, to produce a play on or about Decoration Day. The title of the play is “The Blue and the Gray.” We understand that it is in contemplation to reproduce the Union Spy, at about the same time. —■■ .

Last Saturday night two men, James Foster and Frank Alkire, were engaged in that nefarious practice, killing fish with dynajnite,iutheTippecanoemekw Battle Grouful, when two charges accidentally exploded and both: men were .terribly injured. Each oftheM’teßta'hand/onekstbollieyes and the other lost one eye. I| js.npt unlikey.that Foster’s injuries will ’prove fatal.

All who wish to see and heal* & great deal, for a sin all sum, can dd so by coming to the Fairy Grottth The School BoiWI will add art’ other teacher to the, educational corps, ih tTrd Rens?fera'Jr ?teftdoia next year. Edward Griggs, of hartley tpj was arrested lately by Sheri ff Yeoman and is tow held to await th& orders of the Newton circuit court?, Ho was indicted at the lAst terih of thk't court bn tTie nhaVgo cf burning Ben Staoot’s bartr. E. L. Hollingsworth reached home Monday evening from ah eV tensive business tripj during which he visited the iron regions W northern Michigan and and then went to southern’Kansal. He was gone about two weeks and traveled about two thousand miles. The Winamac giiet Sheriff Burton, of Pulaski 'county, a big “stiff” for the alleged adrdif and fearless manner in which hb captured the ‘peddler, Steine, near Rensselifer, lajst week. But the fact is that Burtbn and the Uh'iijagd detective never set eyes on the peddler until after he was arrested and brought to town by Constable Billy Wood. The entertainment at ths OperA House |o-htiprrow evening has beeh gotten up at tfle cost of a Vast amount of painstaking labor, and considerable expense in money. The performers haVe been drilled into perfection and the performance willdoubtlessbe Very enteitainiflg, and as such, Worth mS.ch more than the trifling admittanti fee. Tlie object , for which the entertainment is given fs niost del serving, namely to procure sorai greatly needed ’educational appe.ratus for the priiiiary of the public school; pVe earnesV ly hope our citizens wjjl dell wits this enterprise with more than the it accustomed liberality , and/give it a most generous patronage. One James Jesse Shank wasde> 4maiiant iaw jrait oils lately, and when ph, the, witness statd showed a lack, of Information that was truly rhafvellotti He admitted he could neither rbad nor write and did not know the nature of an oath. When ques,tioned by Attorney Cihypodl, for the purpose of testing his intelligence, it developed that he thought Franklin was the seat of Mario n county, and that Cleveland wag v the governor of Indiana. He di£ not know when or where he wa s bprii, apd, said he did not know what was meantby politics. However, when asked how he voted, he readily answered, “the Democratic ticket always.”