Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1888 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

Davy CVucivvit, Monday night. Corn 33 cents, j Wheat, 60(d|70 -cents. Outs, IS^iOjCfehtij. Rye, 38 cents. Rev. E. G. Pelley has attended the Battle Groilnd camp nine ting. Monday night. Davy Crockett. Don’t miss it. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Coefi, of Greensburgli, Kans., are visiting their relatives in this vicinity. The Free Will Baptist society will meet at the hdhie of Mrs. Wm. King, to-morrow at 2 o’clock p. m. S. P. Thompson went to Indianapolis, yesterday, to look after a patent-right case, in the U. S. Court. * The hot weather we have been having is just the thing for the growing corn, which is booming right along for a big crop. ONE BINDER ON HAND aud it will be.SOLD CHEAP and on NEXT YEAR'S TERMS. B. F, Ff.ro usqn, A movement is now on foot to raise several hundred dollars to refurnish the Presbyterian church. It is a cornhicndible enterprise. Mrs. Susan Lane, of Lafayette, and Mrs. Martha Lupton, of Champaign county, Illinois, are guests of their neice, Mr 3. E. D. Rhoades. S. L. Swain has completed his job or hay pressing, at Marlboro, and shipped his pVees back to Rose Lawn, where he has an 800 ton contract, for Mr. Taylor. The Ladies of the Presbyterian church will give their monthly lawn party at the home of Mrs. J. M. Hopkins to-night. Ice cream and cake. The public are cordially invited. The trotter, Billy Wonder, started in for his racing season, this week, following the fairs in the southern and central part of the state- A*- Padgefctsia-bis driver and the colored boy, “Shine,” is groom* Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Francis, of LaPorto, came to Rensselaer last week, to visit their daughter, Mrs. R. W. Marshall. Mr. Francis returned home yesterday. Mrs. Francis will stay, sometime.. The established grade of the side-walk along the north side of the block opposite the public square, was lowered sis inches by the Town Board, Monday night. It is our opinion that the Board has put the grade about as much too low as before it was too high. The oats crop, in this section of tiie- country, is now all cut, but a large portion of it is still standing in the shock. Jasper county has raised a big crop, big acreage and big yield. Through the central j part of the county, considerable ; damage was done by the heavy wind and rain storms.

Our Commissioners are not the sleepy, slothful kind/ Messis. Provo and Tabor each have about j twenty miles to come, which they ! drove over in good time, with Mr. Prevo the winner. Mr. AYatson, not having so far to come, got up and did a half day’s work before he started. Last Thursday evening about a dozen Democratic voters and four or five small boys assembled at the CGurt house, for the purpose of organizing a Thurman Club, tor Jasper county. J. H. Jessen was elected president; Eugene Bpitler, ; Vise President; John Paxton, See- ! retary aud Benj. S. Fendig, Treas-

I Mr. and Mrs. C. 3?. StswatjTs j daughter Mary is quite sick with; scarlet fever. She was visiting at j Monon, when taken sick, but was' brought home. As is usttal with; scarlet fever, the case is com plica- j ted with other diseases j in this , case it is kidney trouble. The ] j family have taken special pains to i prevent the fever from spreading. 1 Robert Schofield,. of Fair Oaks, was before Judge Morgan, Monday, charged with having committed an assault and battery upon William JohnSbu, of the same village. The Judge put fines and costs upon the defendant, to the amount of Johnson then took his turn in the justice' mill and was ground out to the extent of one dollar and costs, for provoking Schofield to commit the assauit.

Elder G. W. Ingrahi will preach at the Christian church, next Sunday evening. Mrs. B. F. Fergusdu is visiting friends in the vicinity of Brookstou, for a week or two. John T. Green, now employed in the United States National Bank, Chicago, visited friends in in Rensselaer over Sunday. % A bote taken on the excursion ! train to Cedar Lake, last Sunday, resulted in 34 votes for Harrison, 12 for Cleveland and 4 for Fisk. S. E. Nichols, who has been station agent at Ladoga for some time past, will assume charge of i the Medaryville station, his home place, August 15. A basket meeting will be held at Barkley church next Sunday. Rev, Geo. W. Ingram will preach at 10:30 a. in., and Rev. M. Li Tressler at. 3 p. m. The Morocco Courier says that our enterprising townsman, B. F. Ferguson, has purchased land in Morocco and will erect a commodious grain elevator, thereon.

A number of premium lists of the Remington Fair Association have been left at The Republican office for distribution. Anyone desiring copies of the same will please call and be supplied., John Esper, tinner with N. Warner & Sons, will return to Lafayette, to-day, with his Family. Mr. Esper is not only a good tinner but a good citizen and an upright man, and one that we are sorry to see leave the town. The names of the members of the building committee, appointed to superintend the erection of the M. E. church, are Dr. M. B. Alter, W. E. Moore, Jas. T. Randle, Wallace Robinson, J. F. Warren, T. J. Sayler, E. L. Clark. It is an ex-, cellent committee. A Republican club of young men who will cast their first presidential votes in 1892, was organized, in the court house, Monday evening. The officers of the club are Geo. K. Hollingsworth, president; Edward Irwin, secretary; Fred Cissel, treasurer; Lacy Gwin doorkeeper. . ■ Miss True Alter accidentally struck one of her fingers with a sharp hatchet, Monday, and cut the hone entirely offj so that ’the finger was attached only by some or the" skin and muscles. Her father, Dr. Alter, gave the injury immediate attention and it is now doing well and the finger will be saved.

A season like the present strike ingly exemplifies the necessity o£ more thorough drainage in many parts of Jasper county. The country lying between the town of Wheatfield and the Kankakee river, for instance, is now -said to be pretty near one continuous expanse of stagnant water, and many other sections are in about the same condition. A goodly number of our leading liepublicans went down to the State Convention, at Indianapolis. M. F. Chileote and J. W. Powell went on Monday night. 11. Hr Graham went to Crawfords-, ville on Saturday, and from there to Indianapolis on Tuesday. On the 11 a. m. train Tuesday wore Geb. M. Robinson, Capt. Marshall, Col. Hammond, Chas. Dean, Capt. Bayne, Elliot R. Burr and several others. The Hon. Board of County Commissioners met on Tuesday for the purpose of settling up with the township trustees. The trustees were all on hand and had I their business and accounts in such 'good shape that they all got 'through and went home Tuesday inight. Jasper county is justly j proud of her present Board of ; Commissioners and Township | Trustees. They are the right men : in the right places. j Quite a number of Republicans met at -the Baylor school house, in ! Newton township, last Saturday i evening, for the purpose of organizing §, “First Voters Harrison and ! Morton Club.” The meeting was called to order by O. M. Daughjerty, who was elected chairman, ’ and A. H. Hopkins was elected | secretary. Upon inquiry it was ’ found that theife were only five i “First Voters” in ’the township, ! and it was thought best not to orjganisft. They will join the Itens- | selaer clnb. After several stirring j and rallying speeches, the meeting ■.adjourned, with three rousing | cheers for Ilaxdspn and Morton,

R. E. French and Eva Earle French, the two very able actors who gave Rensselaer people so much pleasure ou the occasions of their former visits hero, will favor I our people with another performi once next Monday night, for,,.the : benefit of the Comet Band. They I deserve a crowded house. Benefit next Monday night tendered by the peoplo of Rensselaer to the Rensselaer Cornet Band. It. E. French and EvA Earle 1 French will appear in their celej crated Frontier Comedy Drama', | Davy Crockett. Mr. and Mrs. | French will assume the twoprinci- ' pal characters and be assisted by well trained home talent. The Republican job office has lately turned off three nice pieces lof brief work for Judge Ham- | moLid, and that reminds us that | the Jndge.luis a great deal of pracj tice before the Supreme court. As much we'are almost willing to say, as any lawyer in the Tenth congressional district. His practice extemkapto all the neighboring; counties The-gam 9of base ball played' last Saturday between a club of Rensselaer and the Curtis club resulted rather disastrously j to Ira Washburn, who, instead of ; getting curves in his pitching, got a curve in his nose by he and Geo.! Healey colliding when trying get the ball. The Curtis creekers* ■won the game by a large majority,.; the little fellows wind and muscels was not equal to the country boys. Mrs. Chas. W. Coen and Mrs. Belle Kerr went to Bethany Park, Morgan county to atteudjhe meet- j ing of the Association of the Christian church that meets there Aug. 2d to 20th; They will have the privilege of lectures and addresses by such men as ex-GoV. Porter, Gen. Thomas H.'Nelson, Elder B. B. Tyler of N, Y. city, Profs. Rodford, Burton, Lucas and Garrison, and the meetings of Missionary,-Sunday Schools and Temperance Associations of that deuon araticu. .......