Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1888 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

Corn, 48. cents. Wheat. 8o cents. Oats, 32 cents. Miss Mamie Spitler went to Ladoga Tuesday, to visit friends. Durham coffee at Allman’s restuurant. Mrs. P. H. Ward is spending this week here, with her husband, the Judge. The McCormick mower and binder, for sale by 0. A. Roberts, is the finest in the land. Lemonade, Ice cream* oranges, candies and all kinds of softdrinks at Allman’s. John Makeever is doubling the dimensions of his’brick house in Newton’s addition, by a frame addition. Just Received.—A very fine hand made buggy, from A. S. Peret, Lafayette, Ind. Chas. Roberts.

The warm, dry weather of the pa,st few days has greatly benefitted the corn and much encouraged the farmers. t.mA large new stock of the celebrated Rochester shoes, 'just received and for sale by Ray Leopold. Postmaster Bates has a tame crow which he feeds high on angle worms and such. Perhaps the P. M. is getting; ready for a dish of “biled crow” in November. Osborne mowers and binders are sold by C. A. Roberts. The machines are guaranteed to give satisfaction, but no railroad fares thrown in.

The Sunday school of the Missionary Baptist church will meet hereafter at 9:30 a. m. Persons, old or young, not in regular attendance elsewhere, are cordially invited, U. M. McGuire. Bro. Jenkins issued his valedictory as editor of the Winamac Republican, last week, the paper having been rented to A. E. Atchison, lately city editor of the Michigan City Enterprise. Our former well known townsman, Geo. B. Conwell, now in Greensburg, Kansas, is about to remove, with his family, to some point in Colorado, the exact place not having been fully, decided upon.

Miss Cannie Priest, lately telegraph operator for the L., N. A. & C., at Michigan City, was married last week to Wm. 8.. Manny, traveling auditor for the above KPad, Miss Priest is a sister of R, F. Priest, of Rensselaer The regular passenger trains south Monday night, and also one special, were loaded with Knights of Pythias bound for the big convocation at Cincinnati. It was expected that the Monon would eftrry 1,500 Knights..from Chicago to Indianapolis, on this occasion. Lilly, the ten-year-old daughter of Rev. Riley Nowels, who lives a few miles north of town, was attacked by a vicious cow and quite badly injured last Saturday morning. Her collar bone was broken and also two ribs. She is doing well, however, and will soon recover. A special train consisting of 14 cars loaded with fast horses went oyer the Monon, yesterday morning. They came from the races at Cincinnati and were going to Chicago, for the great race season Which begins next week. The cars were very fine, built especially’ for the purpose. A regular cloud of young darkeys accompanied the horses.

The Monticello Herald , notes that the ladies of two oft the churches of Monticello have rais- i ed each S6OO, during the past year, j for various purposes connected with the churches, and that the ladies of another denomination have raised $225 during the same time. The church ladies ofßensselaer are zealous and . active but they can scarcely be. able to equal the Monticello record. We call the attention of all persons in want of binders to the fact that we do not warrant our Deering and Triumph binders; but the companies that manufacture them do, and they are not ashamed brtticir goods. Their= guarantee goea with every machine, and we throw in the railroad fares; and will sell you a binder as cheap as ally other firm in town—and charge nothing extra for wind.

B.F. FERGUSON.

Geo. Moss is learning the Ranking business, in the Citizen’s bank. Geo. Hollingsworth has lately bought an elegant, high bred, saddle horse. Go to J. C. Allman’s reptaurant if, you want a good square meal for 25cte. Its the place to get it. ,T. J. Sayler’s street sprinkler started out Tuesday morning, and does good work. Allman’s restaurant and bakery, Percupile’s old stand, in old Hotel Building. Try him. Special services of a novel character will be held at the M. El church next Sunday evening. All are invited. J. P. Warner’s wagon and carriage painting and repairing shops, in the old Shanghai building. Give him a call. Mrs. Carrie Clark reached home Tuesday evening, after an extended lecturing and organizing tour in the north part of the state, in the interest of the T. U. All kinds of wood work, wagon, carriage and farm implement repairing, done promptly and <? in the best manner, at J. P. Warner’s shops, in old Shanghai building. Mrs. A. M. Baker and daughter Mattie, left for Huron, Qhio, last Saturday to attend, the funeral of Col. Skinner, Mrs. Baker’s brother-in-law. J. C. Allman has now a good lunch counter in full* blast. Hot coffee, sandwiches, cakes &c at all hours. A boss place to get a quick meal. Try it. A social will be given by the Ladies Industrial Society of the M. E. church, at E. P. Honan’s residence next Wednesday evening. Refreshments will be served. Everybody cordially invited.

J. H. 8. Ellis had a severe recurrence of his -old eye trouble, beginning with last Sunday, and Tuesday went to Chicago for treatment, but the inhumation was too great to permit of an operation at present. The L. N. A. & C. Ry. will sell round trip tickets to Chicago and return, on the 16th, 17 and 1 Bth, inst. Fare for the round trip from Rensselaer <82.20. Tickets good returning up.to and including June 23. Taken Up.—By Joseph Potts, 1| milbs south of Rensselaer, one Hereford yearling heifer calf, branded with the letter “M” on left hip and with the letter “S’’on right side. Owner can have-kame by paying far this notice and for the trouble of caring for the calf. It Joseph Potts. . There are now fourteen inmates TiWthe county large number for the season of the year. The new state insane asylum at Logansport will, it is now stated, be ready for the reception of patients n sxt month, at which time it is hoped that two or three of the incurably insane inmates of the county asylum will be received at that institution.

■) '» • J. P. Warner has fitted iip a very complete wagon and carriage making and repairing shop in the old Shanghai building, in the rear of Willey & Sigler’s store, and a wagon, carriage and sign painting shop in the second story of the same building. His stock of wagon and carriage material is probably the largest ever in town. All work in his line promptly done, and satisfaction guaranteed. The proposed Davisson ditch, in Union township, now working through the preliminary stages, will, if completed, be the largest in ■» the county. Its total length will be 6} miles. Its greatest '. depth 9i feet and greatest breadth 30 feet It will cost'about $6,000 and will reclaim about 2,000 acres of land, M uch of this land is now worthless, but will easily be worth $lO an acre, when the ditch is doner

Hon. M. A. Mills, of Osceola, Neb., visited his the elder Makeevers, over Sunday.. He had been attending the St. Louis Convention, in the capacity of alter“nafe"delegate, and came this way r in going home. He was raised in Jasper county but has not lived bare Jot, more than 20 years, and has not seen the town- for 13 years. He said the change was so great that he did not know’ the’ place. He is a prominent politician, jn Nebraska and pas been a state senator. „ - * £■

C. B. Steward has not got away on his northern trip yet; , If you want a good three inch well bored, go to Perkins & Son. , Paris Harrison has begun work on his new house', in Thompson’s addition. A party of six or eight local sportsmen went to Cedar Lake fishing, yesterday. My line of candies canhot be beat, call and see for yourself. J. C. Allman. Cheap round trip tickets to Chicago, next week, to attend the great convention. M. L. Spitler is recovering from another severe attack of his old complaint, biliousness. Fresh bread, pies and cakes al-1 ways on hand at Allman’s bakery and restaurant. J. C. Morgan and Amzi Laßue' have gone to Cincinnati, to attend the Knights of Pythias celebration; also Ben. Tutuer and M. L. Warren. Geo. O. Hoover seems to have been greatly and permanently benefitted by his .recent surgical treatment in the Chicago hospital. Rev. R. C. Mctleynolds has resigned the pastorate of Foresman circuit, of the M. E. church, and accepted a charge at Rushville Neb. Mrs. Mattie Bernard has lately come from California and is making her home with her sister, Mrs. J. G. Reynolds. Her husband, Chas. Bernard, died in cisco, May 20, of* Bright’s disease.

On Monday June 18th, the* L. N. A. &0. will run a special low ■rate excursion train to Chicago, to enable all who wish to attend the National Republican convention. Tickets good returning until the 23rd. Councilman Bennett and Marshal McCuaig, of Monticello, were in town last Thursday, to inspect our new hook and ladder truck. They were extra well pleased with it and think their town will buy ene*oif the same kind. Reed’s European Circus, a small affair with a big name, exhibited across the river, near the bridge, Monday evening. It is a pretty good show, for a small one. It travels across , the country, in five or six wagons. A. McCoy thinks it a big joke on Mr. Sickles, the new democratic editor, because the latter saw a young screechrowl in a tree near Mac’s, place, and thought it was a squirrel. Mae oughtn’t to expect a man who has lived in a big, city all his life to discriminate between two such similai critters ts screechowls and at the first glance.

The rapid development of the waste lands of Jasper county is strikingly shown in the Igrge number of new highways <hat are being opened up in different parts of the county. At the last week's session of the Commis- ■ sioners’ court, for instance eight separate petitions for new roads were acted upon, and viewers apeach case. Abouf. 24 miles of ntyv.highway are asked for in these petitions. The directonßhof the Building and Loan AssocSSbon sold loans on five shares of 'stock, at their regular monthly meeting last week. J. E, Spitler was the successful bidder. The premium paid was 32 per cent. David Nowels, one of the directors, having sold all his stock, .and thereby ceasing to be a member of the association, the directors appointed M. F. Uhilcote to fill the vacancy. B. F. Ferguson was appointed a member of the building and appraisement committee, to succeed Mr. Nowels.

The festival and social by the ladies of the M. E. church, in the court house last Friday evening, was successful as an entertainment and reasonably so from a financial point of view. The novel feature of the affair was a sewing match between a dozen men, more or less. The first and second prizes, for- fine work, wer t e. oarded to Revs. B. F. Ferguson and E. G. Pelley, respectively, although there was little to choose between thehrworkanffE/'E.-HonHus. The booby prize, for the worst seamster was unanimously awarded to J. W. Williams. Jlhe net prqpeeds of the .evening were about twenty dollars.

The people of . Union township and vicinity, will have one of their old-time celebrations, at Comer’s Grove, on July 4th. Dr, Jas. Ritchey w;as 84 years old on Wednesday of last week. Tbe day waa .observed by a small dinner party. Considerable county correspondence reached us this week, too late for publication. Correspondents are especially requested’ -to get their favors in, as early in the week as possible. The proceedings of the Circuit court, since our last issue, have been of but little public interest. The Lowe vs. McLean case from White decided last term, has occupied a great deal of the attention of the court, on motion for a new trial. The arguments were concluded yesterday and occupied nearly three days in their delivery. Decision has not yet been rendered. The present term will be unusually inexpensive, as no grand jury was called and the pettit jury was dismissed on Friday of last week.

The members of the Eyening Star chapter, O. E. 8., had a grand picnic and lawn party in M. L. Spitler’s spacious grounds, last Monday afternoon. All kinds of out-door amusements, common to such occasions wsre enjoyed and a magnificient feast partaken of by about 200 persons. Among these were 17 visitors from Lafayette, 4 from Delphi and 2 from Monon. In the evening the festivities were continued by a social and entertainment in the chapter hall, which was also a very pleasant occasion. The visiting friends left on the 11 p. m. train, well pleased with the hospitality of the Rensselaer brethren. The team of Shelby Grant, the poor farm superintendent, ran away in town last Friday, with the running gears of a wagon. They started from L. C. Grant’s house, near the old school building, ran out into Newton’s .addition, beyond the Broad Guage Church, then turned and came back through town, running the whole length of Front street up Washington street as far as the Hammond tenant house, occupied by J. G. Reynolds, where they tried to turn the street corner and got the wagon fast between Mr. Reynolds’ fence and some shade trees, Team and wagon were soon extricated, and neither seriously damaged.

A Mr. Rickelson, a queer man with a queer look and a queer name, came over from Remington last Thursday, on a queer errand. He is £ great checker player and came over to engage in a game with our local champion, M. L. Spitler, and beat him most thoroughly. Mr. Rickelson belongs in has been in Remington a couple of months. During that time he has vanquished a mfen from Kentland who claims to be the champion of the state, a horse doctor from Lafayette who is a famous checker-man and also a travelling and well educated Indian lecturer, who had thought himself invincible at checkers. Mr. Rickelson handles polled Angus and Galoway cattle and expressed the intention of bringing a car-load of those breeds to Rensselaer, in a short time.

A thrilling incident occurred near the court house well Monday afternoon. Jared Benjamin’s team was tied at the hitch rack and one of his horses was kicking and “thrashing” and turned over J. F. Iliff’s buggy, standing alongside. This not . only broke the top off Mr. Iliff’s turnout, and so frightened Mr. Benjamin’s team that they broke. loose and started to run away, but it also scared ;Swaney Makeever’s team, standing on the other side of the buggy, and they also broke from their moorings and started away at a lively rate, in the direction opposite to that taken by Mr. Benjamin’s horses.—Matters for a moment looked favorable for a double runaway, of large dimensions, but luckily two men with strong muscles and steady nerves were on hand, and E. P. Honan caught and succeeded in stopping the Makeeverteam, white C. C. Sigler did a like good service for Benjamin. Both teams were large and spirited -and under considerable headway, aqd a good deal of courage was shown in capturing them. ■ . ", If a cheap cistern call on Perkins & Son. .