Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1888 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

Corn 38 cents. Wheat, 60(&j70 cents. Oats, 18@20 cents. Rye, 38 cents. The “milk' shake” at Golf’s is becoming a very popular drink. A stone foundation is being put under the town building—the fire engine house. Mrs. J. H. S. Ellis is visiting her husband’s relatives, i n Carroll county.

Thirty-five applicants,for teachers’ licenses were examined by Superintendent Warren, last Saturday. *©SE BINDER ON HAND, and it will be SOLD CHEAP and on NEXT YEAR’S TERMS. B. F. Feegoson. J. W. Starbuck, of Yerseilles, Ohio, is visiting his lmlf sister, I Grandmother Dwiggins, and other i relatives in this town. ■* The present heated term is the hottest since about the third week in June. The thermometer has been about ninety ovory day, for a week. , , - C. C. Starr has removed the large barn which formerly stood on the alley, in the rear of his store, to his new residence in the south grove. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wolfe desire to express, through The Republican their most sincere thanks for the great kindness and sympathy shown them by many friends, during their late affliction. John Shortridge, of Momence, HI;, a former resident of Keener township, was in town- Tuesday. Hens prosperous in his new location; but reports having had much sickness in his family. The-Freucesvillo New Era notes.

j that the uit.ll is already m motion on Union Co’s, well No. 4, on the old Blair farm. It is 600 feet south of the. successful well, opened a few weeks ago. E. L. Hollingsworth intends to enjoy the benefits cf the bracing air of northern Michigan, for a few weeks, starting for Charlevoi, to-day. His wife and several of bar friends have been there for a . a \onth.- ——: Mr. George Worden, of Rensselaer and Miss Katie oliea, of j Barkley township, were married i Tuesday morning, July 31. by j Rev. Father Willard. They will ! setup housekeeping in Mr. Worden’s nerd little house, just completed, on Front-street. The- saw--aider walks on the north ; side of. Washington street, oppoJ site the public square, have been constructed in aecordauee-witfe the | order of the Town Board, except front of the C. G. Sears property, on the east corner. The ! walks, so far as built, are a great i iinprovmsnt. Tne Bruton Republican, lately the Fowler Ere, bad again changed hands; and being succeeded bv W allace & LefFew, publishers oi; the Fowler ] Nutshell, for some time past. The | last named paper will be managed | by Frank Matehctt. . It W. S. Brewer, a former resident of Frances y ill e, where many relatives still reside, was drowned

iii tbo -Platte liivev. as Belhvobd, Neb., Job? 19, wb'Ue fishing with a seine. AnoUm* mcu,\F. C. Buehaunan,'was drowrefi ul the same time. Brevier left a widow and fearmatt children. His mother Jives at Medurjwilie. Four deaths in Bengklaer were recorded last week, and it is now our sad duty to add stiil another to the list: * £aby, tire bright infant daughter <-t iUir. and Mrs.' Frank Wolfe, died at home in addition, on Frirlry. duly 27, of btiolora-.iufhntum. Its age wag G moiuL.; and 16 days. Tils funeral was U*!d Saturday afternoon, JRev. F. G. Tolley conductir y the sen iebs. Indianapolis Journal;. On the Ist of next month a number of important load;; will commence using the new desired duplex ticket A passenger failing to par-chase-a ticket before boarding the tretn will be charged ten CrmlrTiTO"ls Tt^ f ttrftj ..m fora wi?! him a duplex ticket When he presents thh ticket to an agent of the company the ten cents will be refunded. The railirnad companies are said to have the law on their side in this inode •of doing business. '.7 ■ p ; 7

A fine- boy at Jim Babcohk’a, Jordan tp., last Friday. Frank Sibley; of Chicago, will address a prohibition meeting, at the court house, August 15. T: J. McCoy has been improving his residence lately—by a big new cellar and otherwise. “Daddy” Wm. Cotton and his estimable wife will celebrate their golden wedding on the 20th of this month.

T. J. Eqrden was in town Tuesday and yesterday. He is spending the summer on his farm, near Pine Village, Warren county. Prosecutor Marshall will become a permanent resident of Rensselaer, this week; occupying his new house, just west of Newton’s addition. The L. N, A. & C. Ry., is assessed at the rate of 86,000 per mile, and is askmg the state Board of Equalization to reduce it to 85,000. Miss Arilla Cotton is back from Omaha, staying with her parents. Shej/ill not return to Omaha, but may take a situation in .Chicago, after a few months. u

Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Tliompson reached home Tuesday, after about ten days absence. They visited the Exposition at, Cincinnati, and other places in Ohio. A. funeral propession thatpassed through town Monday, was that of a* three-year old son of Alfred LowmaD, of Jordan tp. The burial was in Smith Cemetery, in Barkley tp. A meeting will be held at Saylor’s school house, next Saturday night, to organize a First Yoters Club, for Nev/tou township. A large delegation from the Rensselaer club will be in attendance. Mrs. Wm. Wolfe and Mrs. JBE. C. Johnson, mothers respectively cf Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wolfe, were present at the death and funeral of the letters’ little girl, last week. They returned home yesterday,' McCollum i; Turner, the oldest and most extensive dry goods firm at MontiGello,lnd., have made an assignment for the benefit of creditors. Liabilities unknown, ex"cept as. to home creditors, which are placed at 810,000. Rochester had another fire lest Thursday night; a carriage manufactory belonging to J.. B. Fieaer having been destroyed v/ith a loss of several thousand dollars. fire is supposed to havo. originated from spontaneous combustion, in the paint room. All efforts to preserve the life, of Mr. and Mrs. French’s other twin boy proved unavailing, and its death occured Mond&y evening. Tuesday morning it -was laid beside its brother, in Weston cemetery. These twins were very fine babies, at birth, and their death is a hard blow to their parents. J. J. Stowers and wife, . Moses Stowers, their brother and their father, the venerable John Stowers, all of Nebraska, are visiting friends and relatives iu this county, .their old home, mainly in Barkley township. They live in the fertile southern tier of counties of Nebraska, and report grand crop prospects,for this year.

Mr. and Mrs. >V. AY. Pmmmer of Kc-ntland, were in town Monday. The former on business and the latter to 1 visit an aunf, Mrs. Liam, who lives in Thompson’s -addition. Mr. Pfrimmer is special agent for seven counties, of which Jasper county is one, for the Home Fire Insurance Company of New York, and it is hie intention to devote considerable attention to Jasper county, for a while. The company works excTusiVely in the country. Twoj>ersoiis at Rensselaer were recently adjudged insane—James Teom&n and Thomas Robinson—both very werdthy citizens of that place, piv. Yeoman was the can-didatfi-for joint Representative on the Prohibition ticket* between iLb and Jasper, county, -a few years ago. It.is believed that.the continual strain upon his mind of this one question has Thriven, hi in insane.—Goodtand Republican. The Goodland paper might have aekle4rLoo tiTabMr, Rohinson was a most enthusiastic adherent of the party, and that , a great many persons attribute his ratal affliction to the continual dwelling of his mind upon that [one subject, to the. exclusion of. j almost everything else

Miss Eva Harding arrived from her long stay in New Orleans* Tuesday. Her sister, Mrs. James Turne, came north-with her and Will remain several months. C. G. Sears has just left Denver, Colorado, after several month’s stay, and is- now at La Junta, in that state. His health is, generally,' much improved. - The attendance fit the Summer Normal this week numbers 47. They are a remarkably earnest and intelligent body of young people and are doing excellent work. In The Republican’s mention of the proposed new M. E. church, last week, the amount subscribed was somewhat overestimated, —to the extent of seveial hundred dollars. L. S. Mitchell, a former resident of Gillam township, has a five year contract as superintendent of a graded school, in Tennessee, at a salary of 81,500 per year.. Ho is in luck. We have received a copy of the first number of a new paper just started, at Minneapolis, Colorado. Its name is the Minneapolis Republican and its politics are tfhat its name would indicate.

Marriage licenses since last reported: ( Theodore C. Potter, j Lilian doff. ( George Worden, ( Khtie Shea. Eight or ten persons Yvent to Cedar Lake, with the excursion, ast Sunday. Another excursion rain to the Lake will he run, next Sunday; at whibh time there will 3e special attractions at the lake, in the shape of a grand aquatic exhibition, given by some celebrated swimmers, from Chicago and elsewhere.

The “masked tea” nt T. J. Say- ' er’s, Tuesday evening, was a right jolly time, socially, and much amusement was created by the many edd and fanciful disguises, worn at the occasion. The stormy wea'her interfered seriously with the financial success of. .the affair, and tfie net proceeds were only about sl3. u. •>, •? j - There wa3 ji big break in the value of tbs L., N. A. & C. By. last week. The tumble was from $66 to $35 per,§hare. In a paragraph commenti ug oh this circumstance, the Indiapapolis Journal incidentally remarks, that it has “information which the belief that this road will in the near future, be leased to cue of the large railroad syndicates on very favorable terms. . NegotiatiSh® looking to such a deal are at least pending ”

The annual'‘catalogues for the schools of Rensselaer are now printed and in the hands of the President of the School Board, Mr. E. L. ..Clark, and are ready for distribution. Th.e Catalogues were printed and bound in The Republican job printing office and we feel justified in saying that no neater, stronger or more accurate job of pamphlet work, was ever dohe in the and, we may also, add, for any institution or individual in the* county, whether the work nos done, here or elsewkere.

G.eo. E.. .Antrim ban resigned his office as clerk of Gray county, Kansas, as J. F* Male, the sheriff of that county, and a for mer resident of, Benton county, this state: Antrim and Mclo were elected ac partisans of the town of Ingalls in a county seat war between lugalls and Cimarron. If ic stated that the two men rcsigned'inl the interest, cf Cimarron and the Ingalls papers ‘are very outspoken in their denunciations, openly charging a “sell xnifYlfcßg e t large sum of money. The Cim arron side of the story has not been recef/ed. The sad intel i i gence of ike death of Mrs. May Milieu Thomas has ■been- received. It-occurred last Sunday afternoon, at her home at Witoka, Mian.* Her', age was 98. years, 5 months and 28 days. She leaves a husband and an infant son, of two'years of ago, to mourn her. early and nntiioely death. Mrs. Miller was a niece of M. F. Cliilcote, Esq~ of had-lived most oh hm’ LiL-. 4u-~a memlier of his family. was well known by needy everybody in Rensselaer and most highly esteemed by all who knew her, for her maiiy excellent and most amjahle.qualities osYnind and dispoaitiem. Njf,

The Township Trustees will meet with the. County Commissioners, next Monday, to make their annual settlement. The Directors of the building and loan association sold loans last night, on three shares to Jas. Thompson, at 27 per bent, premium; and on three shares to Wm. Smith, at per cent, premium. James Yeoman waß taken to the "Indianapolis insane asylum, last Thursday, by Sheriff Yeonian, assisted by J. W. Powell and Ben Thtuer. He was Very unwilling to go and made considerable resis taube.

A club of young Republicans who will cast their first Presidential votes in 1892, (Harrison’s second term) is being organized, in Rensselaer. A meeting to perfect the organization, will be held in the court house next Monday evening. All young Republicans, elegible for membership, are invited to be present at the meeting.

The preliminary work on the proposed M. B. church continues to make satisfactory progress. Subscriptions are still increasing. Plans and specifications for the building have been received, and now under consideration, by the building committee. A meeting was held last night, at the church, to form a permanent building committee,, whose duty it will be to adopt plane and proceed with the work of erecting the building, as soon as practicable. It was an odd co-incidence, but one worthy of mention, on account of its strangeness, that the funerals of six persons should have been held in Rensselaer, during the eleven days qnding with last Tuesday, July 30, and that three of these persons should have been persons of advanced age, who went in the fullness of. years, and the other three infants, called in the very dawning of life J and, furthermore, that one and the same minister should have conducted the religio.us services at all these mournful occasions.

H. W. Porter returned home last Thursday, from an expedition which is fully deserved of that ancient and much used term, “A wild goose chased’ His errand was, to take one of W. A. Rinehart’s fine tifares to its purchaser, a person in Wisconsin. The name of tte station to which the mare was billed was Lakeside, and when, after many long .and weary hours of travelling, ha got to fhe'place, with the mate, ha found himself at a little station, on the shore of Lake Superior, in the extreme northwest corner of Wisconsin, and that the only inhabitants- were one white family and a good many Indians. The man to whom the mare was sold was not there and never had been. By means of a persevering use of the telegraph for a couple of days, Mr. Porter succeeded jn locating his man at another Lakeside, in YZaukesha county, not far from Milwaukee, and to that place he returned with the mare, after an unnecessary journey of about 600,miles; and a loss of five days time. It was a wild place at Lakeside, number one, and while there he went hunting with a noble red brother and got £a shot at a deer, —but didn’t get the deer. The Indians told him that deers and bears were plenty, a lew miles back,;ffffl ..k,■ : :