Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1888 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

The state fair will be held next w r eek, at Indianapolis. David Culp, of Hanging Grove tp., is sick with lung fever. The Free Will society meets with Mrs. W. D. Robinson, Sept. 14th. Jas. Thompson is extensively improving his residence oh Elm street. Call and see we I will be reasonable with you in school Books. H. J. Dexter. Edward Pierson, wife and childaen, of Kansas, are visiting old friends in this vicinity, for a short time;

R. P. Phillips has returned from the west, arriving last Saturday night. He has just recovered from a severe spell of sickness. A welcome break in, the feather came in the form of a brisk* sliowi er last Fridayj and another; Tuesday night. It was the first rain for six weeks. J. C. Williams attended the Tippecanoe county fair ; at Lafayette, last week, with his picture tentj and did well. He is at the Moroc-> co fair, at the same business, this week. Dear Parents: Don’t give the children their death of cold by letting them go barefooted all winter, but bring theni into Hemphill & Honan’s and got them shod all around. Ed. Chamberlain has been taken from Michigan City to Monticello for trial. He has been ing to starve himself for about three weeks, and is so Weak as to be un- 1 able to Walk. The late rains in this vicinity were merely local showers, not extended far, in any direction. Neither of them reached the vi- ! cinity of Remington, for instance, where no rain has fallen since J uly 5 th. Mr. and Mrs. N. Warney started for Minneapolis, Colorado, Tuesday, to visit t-beir son, Charley. Miss M. M. Hill, the teacher went in their company as far as Topeka, where she is engaged to teach, this year. ... Rev, Chas. Rice, a former pastor of the Baptist church, in Rensselaer, visited f-riends here Tuesday and went to Monon to .attend the meeting of the Montjcello Association, yesterday. He is now in charge of a congregation at Orlena, Ohio. — ~ Billy Wonder was out of luck again, at Lafayette, last week. He -got only fourth place in the raceJ there. As was the case at Rem- 1 ; ingtoa, he was unlucky enough to draw the outside place, .iu the race. There were eight good horses in the race. The.4oth Indiana Piegiinent will; hold a regimVnial re-union at Frankfort, on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, of next. week. There are a few members of this regiment now living in Jasper courry, among whom is R. 13. Wijson, of this town. He intends ; to a’tend the reunion. !' The charges against Rv. *L H. Siddall. the loathesome moral leper, were tiled before a committee ! appointed for the purpose, at the Northwest Indiana Conference, at i Rochester, last week, com- ; mittee ieported the charges susi tained,and recommended expulsion; and the Conference so ordered.

C. P. Wright segt west another excursion, over thejßurliugton and Same Be routes, .Tuesday. The names and destinations; of the paities from Eensselaei, who went with the excursion are ns .follows: N. Warner and wife, Minneapolis. Colo*; Miss M. M, Hill, Topeka, Ivans.; Mrs. James Comer, New Haven, Ivans.; Ed. Kaiii. McCook, Neb.; Mrs. Theodore Clark, and Mrs. M. Calvert* Omaha, Neb.; Geo. Nichols, Earlton, Kansas. , The Marion County Ti ppecanoe Club is taking the le§d in organizing for a convention of the surviving Harrison voters of 1840, to be held at Erdtie Ground on Oct. 8 and 4. It is expected that Col. }L W. Thompson, the most distinguished Tippecanoe voter liViu* will address the meeting, and that General Harrison will deliver a non political, address on the ! second day. i Jasper county will ; lie represented by one of the lavgi eat Tippc-c ip;v in .the state, j ip proper*mr the population 6i f the county & 9 ■

The frrancesville fair will be held the fast week in September. To Rent:—A nbat seven room cottage, new and nice. R. P. Benjamin. H. J. Dexter is stilH Oh hand with a complete line of school books. James Burns, of Barkley township, well known as ‘‘Big Jiih” Burns, died of typhoid pneumohia last Monday. Fred Phillips is back again from the west, having come to Chicago with cattle. He has been in Utkh during the past two months. A. Leopold gives notice that lie has sold his stock of goods to M. M. Fletcher, of Lebanon, who is to take posession Oct. 15. Miss Lydia Dwiggins began teaching in Rochester, this state, last Monday. Her position is that of assistant in the high school. C. G. Sears arrived Monday night, from Colorado, where he has spent a year. ,He reports himself as feeling well enough to meet the best man in town, insid e a sixteen foot ring. A speakers’ platform, with seats has been arranged in the public square,, for the use of political meetings,, at the 'joint expense of tbs Republican and Democratic central committees. v.‘. The Rochester Daily Republican, Major Bitters’ bright , apd newsy publicsition, reported the daily proceedings of the M. E. Conference, just closed, in an excellent manner. Miss Birdie Ham mo Dd went to last Thursday, to enter ,pt. Mary’s Academy, as a student. She was accompanied by Mrs. Hammond, who returned home Sunday night. The man who took the shovel out of myt wagon,, last Thursday, from before Tulpur’s grocery store, is knowii and will save himself trouble and exposure by leaving it at Warner’s hardware store. Henry Barlow. The Monticello Baptist Association met at Monon, at 10:30 a, m., Wednesday, the 12th mst. • The organization includes eleven Baptist churches in Jasper, and adjoining counties. Quite a number of people from Rensselaer and vicim ity are attending. The Republicans of Remington had a meeiingrlftst Saturday night, which filled Exchange Hall to its utmost capacity. D. L. Bishop, of Kentland, was the principal | sp.eaker. The preliminary Avork, of organizing a strong mid active Republican club, was performed. ' ' ' M „Rev. *l. Zumbuelte former director of the Orphan Asylum and pastor of the Catholic congregation at Rensselaer, has returned jfrom. Germany, where lie went i last spring,, and is now in charge of the Catholic church, at Reynolds, White coupty. He> spent several days at the Catholic farm, last week. - r - Francesville New Era: We pre told that Geo. Brown, Jr:,- of Pleasant Grove, Jasper county, was the lucky man last week. He invested in a lottery-ticket which brought him iu $250, and a check for that amount is in the Rensse-! laer bank awaiting Mr. B.’s return : from Missouri where he is at pres- j ent on business. - People from Rensselaer and vicinity have taken advantage of the low rates to Columbus, to, go to that city, to attend the re-union or to visit friends, in considerable numbers. The following are the names so far as learned: Mrs. 1. C. Kelley, Mrs. T. ,P. Wright, Messrs J. M. Wasson, H. W. Wood, W> W. Murray, Shelby Grant. R. D. Wilson, J. C. Porter. Isaac Hemphill, M. H. Hemphill, Durnham, W. IT.Gwiu, Joseph Sharp. Robt. .HcCßhtoek, whose, wife was killed and. himself badly injured by a Monon train while op j his way to a soldiers re-union; at Monticello, as mentioned last week, will, it is stated, bring a suit for big damages,, against the railroad company. It is a.peculiar circumstance of the accidpbt that the only external mark ofL injury upon the person of the lauy. whb was killed was a small cut upon the back of her Lead. It wamAhe opinion cf her physician that .her death resulted more from nervous : shock than frgpa lief Hctnal IVt* juries.

Miss Mary Washburn Went back to Butler Univer&ity, Mbnday. Judge Hammohd went tbCrown Point, apsterday, to act as Special judge in a case for whioh Judge Field was disqualified. Work on Wm. Warren’s neW house, on Dayton street, on the banks of Makemself, is making good progress. Thfe, “Pumpkin Ylue” fair, of Newtoh County was pretty near a failure, thie year, and the directors have decided not to hold another, according to the Morocco Courier. - 1.. Last Thursday, at North Salem, this state, Blue Wing, a four-year old colt, out of Pluto, owned by the Rensselaer Horse Company, trotted a mile, over a half mile track, ih heavy condition, in 2:27. The following named promising young people have left this town this week, to begin or continue a collegiate education: S. E. Sparling, State University, Bloomington; Geo. Bruce, Franklin College, Franklin; Gaylord H. Chilcote, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Mary Washburn, Butler University, Indianapolis; Chas. Porter. State Normal, Terre Haute. In addition to these may be mentioned Harvey Robinson, who went to Purdue, last week. The name of Jacob Cashner, of Gillam township, must be added to the long list of Jasper county 1840 Harrison voters who are enthusiastic for the Harrison of 1888. He, voted for,W. H. Harrison in 1836 and in I§4o. His name has been enrolled as a member of the Jasper County Tippecanoe Club. Another ’member of the club, whose name has not yet been published, is B. C.McCoy, for a long time a resident of Jordan tp., but since last spring living just west of Rose Lawn, in Newton county.