Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1888 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

Corn, 50 cents. Wheat. 85 cents. Oats, 32 cents. A little son, of C. W. Coen is quite sick witli a fever. .feCafl and learn prices at Coen & Paxton’s before selling your grain. A large addition to the residence of Mrs. Ball, on the Chicago Road, is nearing completion. Wednesday evening, ~May 30, will be the last and only performance of “A Soldier of the Union.” Work on George Worden’s house, on Front street, is now under full headway. Smith & Son are the contractors. The patriotic military drama, “A Soldier of the Union,” at the Opera House, next Wednesday evening. Priest & Paxton, the new grocery firm, have the largest and I cleanest grocery store in town. Call and examine their goods. There was considerable frost perceptible in this locality, Sunday morning, but so far as reported it did not.injure fruit prospects very materially. Mr. and Mrs. AValter Holder, who live on the Bond farm, just north of town, have rejoiced over the birth of a daughter, since last Saturday. “A Soldier of the Union,” under the auspices of the local camp of Sons of Veterans, and for the benefit of their relief fund. At. the Opera House, next Wednesday evening. The. condition of Uncle Billy Parkison, of Barkley tp., is now such as to leave but little grounds for hopeing that he will rally from his present attack of his old trouble, heart disease. Next Saturday will be the third monthly pay day of the Rensselaer Building & Loan Association. The monthly meeting of directors, at which the next loans will be sold, will not occur until a week from next Wednesday. Thomas Bissenden, the photographer, is now prepared to give prompt attention to orders for photographic views, of residences &c., in town or country. Satisfaction guaranteed. Leave orders with Long & Eger. Dr. Quivey, the dentist, h,as accepted a proposition froin Dr. Crowell, of Monticello, ai?d will remove to that town, with his family, this week; The Monticello people will find in Dr. Quiyey a thoroughly competent and always reliable dentist. Simon Bowen and Sylvester Greenfield, with their respective families, reached this place from Kansas, last Saturday, . having made the trip by wagons. They went to Kansas several years ago, and are now well satisfied to make their homes in Jasper county. The. weather bureau was mighty near out of weather, yesterday, and sent‘out only “Slightly warmer, followed by cooler.” It would have been just as well to have sent none at all, there being no possibility of representing that combination by the signals in use. "y The School Board has engaged Miss Carrie Irwin, of Remington, for teacher for the proposed-new department in: the public school. She is an experienced teacher, with an excellent reputation for efficiency, and has taught several years in the Remington schools. She is a.sister of Mr. J. F. Irwin, the County Clerk.

The Detroit parties from whom the hook and ladder wagon was ordered, have written Councilman Rhoades to the effect that a representative of the firm would be in town next Monday, by which time it was supposed , that the truck would be here and tested by the fire company. Hence the arrival of the truck may be expected this week. Indianapolis Journal: The report of tb e Louisville, New Albany & Chicago road for !887 is out in pamphlet form. It shows that it operates 600 miles of its own . line and twenty-nine mues additional under contract. Its capital stock is $5,000,000; funded debt, $9,000,000, gross earnings in the last fiscal year, $2,265,623; increase in gross earnings over corresponding ■iii■■ IOQg < n At. AAnU ings, sßos,92s;increase, $236,329.

j Laugh and grow fat next Wednesday evening. If you want a good three inch well bored, go to Perkins & Son. The hook and ladder truck was shipped from Detroit for Rensselaer, Monday. Talk right out loud to-night, young people, if you would have your efforts appreciated. Mr. Thad P. Varney goes with New York Madison Square Company next season. Rev. D. IV. Jessee will hold a Basket meeting at the M. E. church in BarkleV township, June 3rd. Fresh flowers for Commencement on sale by the Flower Mission Society at Hopkins’ Millinery Store. Mrs. Mattie Bowman is building a house in Newton township, and in Barkley township H. B. Murray is putting up a new residence. The venerable Mrs. Mar ilia Porter is seriously sick with a heart trouble, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. R. H. Yeoman, on Front street. Thad P. Varney, the great comedian, as Euh Buffum, at the Opera House, next Wednesday qvening. A wonderful and delightful impersonation. Chester Brockway has turned up again, in Keener township. An account of his experience will be found in our DeMotte correspondence. Chester’s brains are a poor lot. There are now eight men working in the Pierce quarry getting out stone for the Indian School building. They are able to keep about a dozen teams at work, hauling the stone to the building site. The ladies of the W. R. C. request .all friends of soldiers to meet with them in the court house, at 8 o’clock, next Wednesday morning, to assist in preparing boquets, floral emblems, &c, for the decoration of the soldiers’ graves. A very large audience listened to the baccalaureate exercises, at the Opera House, last Sunday morning. The address by Prof. Bryan, of. the State University, was a fine discourse, full of deep wisdom and sound counsel. The performance of “A Soldier of the Union,” was very highly commended, when given several* months ago. It will be repeated nextAVednesday evening,only much better trained., Don’t faiLto see it, at the Opera House, next AVednesday evening. Foster and Alkire, the two men injured by dynamite, with which they were trying to kill fish, near Battle Ground, are likely to recover. Both will be permanently crippled by the loss of an arm, but the reported total blinding of their eyes, was an exaggeration. The Monon Leader says that a number of persons in that town were badly “taken in” and done for, by an agent of a Logansport dye house. The same chap! picked up considerable custom in Rensselaer, and a number of his patrons are complaining bitterly of the Work done. Medaryville has had still another fire. List Sunday the stock of merchandise belonging to . Frank Dunn was entirely burned up, as was also the building they occupied. The building belonged to Chas. F. Hines. The goods were insured, the .building not. Mr. Dunn, is the son of J. D. Dunn, of Gillam tp.

A windy fellow from ‘ hicago was in town last Friday, trying to work up a circulation for a new democratic daily, the Chicago Globe. He was passing around free- copies, endorsing them as “undiluted democracy.” In the afternoon he proceeded to fill his skin with the genuine “undiluted democracy'’ and got about as much of it as he could carry. Rensselaer is not'having a building boom this spring, we must fain admit Yet six or seven dwelling houses are now in process of erection, and five or six have already been Completed. Still others are in contemplation and it will be a pretty safe estimate to say that by the time the season closes next fall, at least twenty new residences will have been erected within the limits of the town. Many minor improvements also lend their help in proving the spirit of progress full strength.

Tickets fqr “A Soldisr of the Union” on sale at Kannal’s Jewelry Palace. , Water tanks and cisterns, of the best quality, cheaply and expeditiously made, by rerkins & Son. A marriage license was issued Tuesday to Lewis V. Sayler and Hetty F. Bowman. The parties live in Newton township. The alumnii association of the Rensselaer High School, will give a reception to the graduating class to-morrow evening, at the residence of Dr. M. B. Alter. The wheat prospect in Jasper county is now estimated at about half an ordinary crop. Throughout the state in general the estimate is below a quarter of a crop. Paris Harrison intends to move back to Rensselaer, from Newton county,? and intends to build a house in Thompson’s addition, near James Antrim’s residence. Persons visiting the city Decoration Day should remain in the evening and witness the great play, “A Soldier ot the Union,” at Opera House. Admission only 10, 20 and 30 cents. Miss Ada ’ Daugherty, who lately collected a considerable sum, by subscription, for the purpose of purchasing an organ for the F. AV. Baptist church, is now returning the money to the donors, through dissatisfaction with the organ that has been purchased. Marshal Simpson broke through; a hole in a side-walk, last week, and injured his foot so badly as to lay him up for several days. Shorty bears down pretty heavily on his feet, in any case, and on this occasion his weight was increased by several heavy planks on his shoulders. The : competition for the highest honors in this year’s graduating class was a pretty even contest between Miss Mattie Moore and Robert Vanatta. The young lady finally won, but by only three . hundredths of one per cent, difference. Her standing is 97.52. and that of her principal competitor is 97.49. From the number of complaints that have been made by patrons in this place of the character of the work done for them by the Logansport dye house, the agent of which was here lately, the concern must be a fraud of the most unblushing character. P eople in other towns should be Tin the guard against it. A young man named Jacob High, aged about 21 years, committed suicide in Monon township, AVhite coqnty, on Wednesday afternoon, of last week. The act was done, at the his brother-in-law, George AVebb. He shot himself, through the heart, with a musket. No cause was given for the deed.

There is a house full of sick people, at the residence of Samuel Moore, at Pleasant Ridge. Mr. Moore has a bad gathering in his head, his oldest son has the erysipelas, Mrs. Moore has a fever and lastly Mrs. Morgkn, of this place, who went out to nurse them, is down with the chills, or was a few days ago. All are sick-a-bed, but none dangerously. The death of Hesekiah Chambers, father of Chesley Chambers, the man accused of the famous Monon express robbery, took place last Wednesday morning at his home near Bloomington, Ind. He was 76 years -old. Up to a few years ago he was a vigorous, hale and hearty man, but the sorrow and shame brought on through his son’s crime hastened his decline and death. •We are glad to be able to state that the operetta, “A Fairy Grotto” given at the Opera House, last Friday evening, was a most gratifying success, both in respect to its qualities as an entertainment Und from a financial point of view. The performance fully justified all The Republican previously said in its recommendation. The scenery was simply wonderful in its perfection, ffihe performers were thoroughly drilledand every part was well rendered. The attendance was all that the most sanguine could have anticipated, the seats being all occupied and even standing room at a premium. The receipts of the evening will leave a neat little sum to be devoted to the good purpose for which the entertainment was planned, the amount being S4O, or about - Lime at Wolf & Co’s.

Rumors of an inp pending big deal in AVashingion street business property are in circulation. Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Mason and Mrs. Ghas. Johnson, of AVhitehall, Mich., are visiting relatives, in, Rensselaer. Monon Leader: Mrs. Woodworth, of Rensselaer, was here over Sunday to attend tne funeral of her sister, Mrs. Beck. M. L. Spitler was in Indianapolis Tuesday.and AVednesday, representing Prairie Lodge in the State Grand Lodge, F. and A. M. Daniel O’Connor, of Remington and Wm. Helsel, of Fair Oaks, publish notices of intention to apply for saloon licenses, at the June term of the Commissioners’ Court. The finest and largest stock of dress goods ever-brought to the town, just received by A. Leopold, from Fowlwell Bros., of Philadelphia. Edward Griggs was taken over to Kentland Monday, to answer to the charge of burning Bea Smoot’s barn. He was given a change of venue to the Jasper circuit court, and brought back. His bail was fixed at the not at all excessive sum of SSO. ' Bro. McEwen was a delegate to to the Hammond convention, last week, and was made a member of the committee on resolutions. Of the two papers of the district which have mentioned this fact, one gives his name as James McCune, the other as James McKeod. Such is fame. AVe are informed that the men working in the tile factory at Foresman struck on last Monday morning... Some of the men went to Jasper county, some to Wadena and one is in this county. The factory is closed and no telling when it will again commence work. —Fowler Republican. John L. Gant formerly of Newton tp., and deputy .sheriff for a time during Mr. Yeoman’s first term, is now sick with consumption at his home in Keener township. He has been sick since last fall. Previous to that time he had always been the very picture of robust health. The different committees having in charge the making of preparations for a due observance of Decoration Day, have their work well under way and will have everything in complete working order by next AVednesday, without doubt. The people of Rensselaer and surrounding country seldom fail to pay due honor to the Nation’s dead, on the day set apart for that solemn and patriotic duty. The indications now are that this year will be no exception :to that praiseworthy practice, and that a large concourse of citizens will participate in the ceremonies. It is right and proper that it slyfuld be so.

W newly drilled well at. Francesville, near the Bucklin gas tvell, last week reached the level of the gas in the other well, but without striking gas, and it seems that it may be pronounced a failure. The company will not give up yet, however, but will bore again, four miles southwest of the old *Blair well, which location will bring it over near the Jasper county line. Mr. Bucklin intends to know if it is a gas field or not and if it is he will develop it. We have the further information, and direct from Francesville, and from reliable authority, that the company of which Mr. Bucklin is the head have it in contemplation to pipe the gas to several neighboring towns, of which Rensselaer is one, provided it can be found in sufficient quantities.

An entirely unfounded and unjust report has been circulated about town, lately, to the effect that the Opera House was insecure and even that Mr. Willey and his family would not go into the hall when it was occupied by a large : audience. The specific charge was I evep made 1 that on the occasion of j the late Shakespearean entertainment Mr. Willey remained out of the room and all members of his family. There is no truth whati ever in any of these reports. The floors of the hall are absolutely secure, and always have been, and Mr. Willey has never dreamed of doubting their stability. On the occasion of the Shakespearean for t instance, himself and all his family were present during the whole evening, he and Mrs. Willey being the last to leave.