Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1888 — County Correspondence. [ARTICLE]

County Correspondence.

FROM WHEATHELD. Corn doing well. Oats will be a full crop. Rye was never better. Wheat will not be over 50 per cent* Mis. Nettie Evans has been very low with measles but is now recovering. - Patrick Smith has been down with bilious fever but is fast recovering. We understrfbd that the Catholics will have a picnic in the grqve near tjieir church on the 4th. G. Q. Stembel is making preparations to build a large warehouse in Wheatfield. / VVan^ed. —IQQO customers to buy their groceries and dry goods at the new store of Myers & Marble. Mr. Wm. Evans, of Kansas City, arrived in town Saturday night, called here by the sickness of his wife. • Tuesday morning E. T. Biggs drove to the depot of thS Three I railroad, with passengers going away on morning train,leaving his team in charge of his brother Marshall, who had hold of the lines as the train pulled up to the depot. The horses became affrightened, drawing the buggy against a sgpling, whence they became detached from the buggy apd driver, coursing toward the north they ran but half a mile or sp and stopped, where Mr. Biggs caught them and brought them bapk. No seriofis damage.

jREMFJVGTOE ITEMS, Elaborate preparations are being made here to observe “the day we celebrate” in grand style. One of Indiana’s most gifted orators, the Hon. Geo. W. Julian, of Indianapolis, will speak at the Fair Grounds to the assembled multitudes. There will be also a display of the finest horses and best travellers in the state. In the evening there will be fireworks that will astonish the beholders. J. F. Warren was in town last week, looting after business interests and also after the comfort Mr. Benjamin, whose sickness is mentioned elsewhere. Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Lally have recently purchased the lot adjoining their property on the north side. Rev. J. 0- Kinnear and wife are visiting the family of Mr. Turpin. Mi” Kinnear belongs to the S. B. Ind. Conference and is an able and fearless speaker, preaching from the pulpit of the M.E. church last Sunday evening, during the absence of the pastor. Rev. A. W. Dooley addressed the same congregation on Sunday morning.

Mrfe. S. F. Courtright, daughter and adopted son, of Valparaiso, are visiting friends in this place and vicinity. j Mrs. J. H. Tribby returned to her home in Greencastle, last much benefited by her yisit. Her friends will -regret to hear that her health is seriously impaired. Mise Orpha Timmons is recovering from an attack of malarial fever. We are waiting with bated breath for news of a decisive character from the convention at Chicago. Any one of the men for whom they are now balloting would ‘make a good president, but it will take “a long pull, a strong pull and a pull all together/’ to elect him. It can be done, however, and it must be done. Robert Parker, James Sheetz, Will Bunnell and D. H. Coover were among those from this place who attended the convention. Myrt Price and Charlie Haskell took advantage of low rates to visit their old stamping grounds for the first time after many year’s absence. Notwithstanding the heavy rain of last Thursday afternoon, a large crowd gathered in the spacious grounds and house occupied by A. G. Hardy, that evening, to attend the lawn fete and enjoy the cream, cake, berries and lemonade furnishedby the ladies of the Presbyterian church. The receipts were over $lB.

REMINGTONIAN.