Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1888 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

Mrs. Lyman Zea is just recovered from a dangerous sickness. Leave your order for grapes at Laßue Bros. Rev. Father Stephens was in town last Saturday looking after the affairs of the Indian School. You can get those ’large, swdet Concord grapes in any quantity, at Laßue Bros. John Kohler is furnishing the bricks for the County Asylum building. You can save money in buying Hosiery and Underwear of Hemphill & Honan. Call and see me I will be reasonable with you in school books. H. J. Dexter.

The Jasper county fair paid all premiums and all bills in full, this year, but will hot have any surplus. i The largest and cheapest line of underwear for the money we ever carried. Call and £ee them. Hemphill & Honan. Not less than 500 torch bearers will take part in the torch light procession, at the Grand Bally, next week. The threshing machine .and engine in the court house,square will be sold at Sheriff’s sale, next Thursday afternoon. S. P. Thompson addressed large and attentive audiences at West Vernon, Gillam tp., Saturday night and at Wheatfield Monday night. Hemphill & Honan are divided in politics, but they are undivided in their anxiety to have yourgtrade in boots, shoes, millinery and no-, tious. There was a pretty heavy frost | on Wednesday night of last .week, | but no gieat damage has beep reported. Late corn in low places suffered badly however. Say Friend, you will make a mistake if you don’t cafi at Hemphill & Honan’s before buying your gloves, underwear and hosiery.; They can save you some money. One L. P. Meyers was sent to the penitentiary, from Winamac, last week, for two yeais, for attempting to to blackmail Father | Dominic Skunk, the Catholic priest of San Pierre.' W. De. M. H ooper, former sup- j erintendent of the. Rensselaer schools, has resigned the position of city librarian at Indianapolis, on account of ill health. He hAs held the place for five years. A district convention of the 7th district of the Christian church, will be held in Rensselaer on Oct. 2,3, and 4. There are four conn- ■ ties in the district. It promises to-be an interesting and important meeting. Hon. W. D. Owen will open his canvass in this district on Tuesday, Oct., 2nd, with a speech at Remington, at 2 o’clock p. m. At 7:30 o’clock of the same day, he will speak in Rensselaer and on the next day, Wednesday, Oct. 3rd) at Wheatfield, in the afternoon. Hemphill shouts for Harrison, Honan shouts fbr Cleveland, biit we we are paying for these lines Bhouting for ypur patronage id boots, - shoes, hats, caps, gloves, underwear and millinery. Come and help us shout.- Respt. Hemphill & Honan. Rev. Father Scallon, of St. Paul, Minn., is a new teacher ajb the Indian school, ajftd is as a great a physical curiosity as .the In,diahs. He is a pure Albino, with hiair and beard ipf snotfy whiteness and. the pibk and restless eyes whic characterize people of that strange clasS. f

A great many, people from town visited the Indian School; building Sunday and we hear, that a npmber of. young fellows behaved in a very, rowdyishi and disgraceful manner—by spitting tobacco juice on the new, cleen floors, throwing rocks at the Indians &c. If their conduct was as reported v it was certainly, very reprehensible. Miss Eihtoa Martin went to Carroll county, Tuesday, to visit her cousin, *a young man named O’Donnell, who has just received serious injuries in a runaway. One leg was broken and serious internal injuries were feared. The young man is a brother d£ Patrick O’Donnell, the sgifted yiAmg Ilepublican orator, who Jias made several speeches in this ebunty, in the present campaign.

John Healy hus goiiq to Frankfort to play with a band, during a soldiers re-union. Those grapes at Laßue Brok., aro nice and sweet, land hard to beftt. Try’them. 'r*%L To Rent:—A neat seven room and nice. R. P. Benjamin. * i a Miss Grace Carpenter, hall, Mich., is visiting the family of E. L. Clark. H. J. Dexter l is still on hatid with a complete line of school books. T. J. McCoy received a Shetland pony 'from Lafayette, Tuesday. 'ft is intended for his little son, Taylor. John Robinsoh’s circus will exhibit in Rensselaer, Oct. Bth. It is over two years since the town has had a first class circus.

Base Burner For Sale: A Crowning Glory base-burning coal stove for sple cheap. |Enquire of Dr. F. P. Bitteis. Every member 1 of the Free Will society is requested to be presejcit at the meeting, Friday, Sept. 28, at Mrs, W. D. Robinson’s. Next Tuesday, Sept., 25 is the day when the next company qf homeless children will be brought from Cincinnati, by G. T. Green, agent of the children’s Home. Try those fine Concord grapes, from Castlen & White’s vineyard, They are the finest ever brought to Rensselaer. For sale by LaRue Bros. Young Republicans of both, sexes all over the county should begin to prepare to attend the Big Rally, at Renssqlaer, next week, in full force, on horseback. Mr. and Mrs. Honan wept to. Chicago early this week ,t° buy ■ their fall goods. Ed returned Tuesday night. f Mrs. Honan will: stay the week out, copying styles in millinery. Prosecuting .Attorney returned last Saturday, "from attending court at Fowler, and has . been prevented from going backj this week, by an attack of bilious i fever. Patrick O’Donnell, the Irish orator of Carroll county has been obliged to cancel his appointments for speeches in this owing to a severe accident which his brother met with, a few days ago. The Democrats in the town of W heatfield had a pole raising, not long since, and there not peing Democrats enough present to raise the pole, the ever accomodating Republicans turned out and. helped on the job. This is “straight goods.” : . ’> V " The Monon Route will rufi- a $1.50 excursion to Chicago, next Wednesday the 26th. It is the .train which passes Rensselaer at 11:11a. m. The city will be full of attractions at that time, including the Inter-State Exposition, base ball, <fcc. Rev. . Father Willard, of the Indian School, requests /The Republican, to publicly extend his sincere and grateful thanks to the members of the fire department itud other citizens of Rensselaer for their great and efficient assistance during the fire at the Orphan Asylum, last Saturday night. The “Australian Colossal Circus.” exhibited in Rensselaer last Thursday and, Friday evenings. It was a pretty thin show bid perhaps worth all it cost for .admission. The attendance wax very small both evenings, and receipts doubtless, failed to equal espens--es, by a large figure.

! ' v, W . Professor Rock Wilkinson, poet and philosopher, has at last dis-1 covered the quiet retreat that he; lias so long sought. It is located i south of hetp in the,. Kankakee I swamp. He has the lumber on; the ground and will soon erect a shaDty that will be in keepingwith the surrounding scenery.—Valparaiso Vidette. - »” ~ — . .f». .y ... .* f. „ Ed. Chamberlain took a change of venue last Wednesday, from Monticello and the case was taken to Logansport for trial. At the time of his appearance at Monticello he was in a condition of mental and physical imbecility, caused probably by his long abstention from food. Upen hie arrival at Logansport he brriced up and,began tp eat again, continued to do so, ever r since, :.-■ - ■ -

j R. P. Phillips has resumed the barbering business, in his old Ideation, next to the post-office.* H. J. Dexter 'is'the boolr man Rensselaer, fifty your books of nim. • - z ■— An immense hbxll board has been erected along the west side of the phblic square, t 6 hccomodate the Coining circus. Come in on horseback by the hundreds, to the Grand , Rally, Fe'xt week, yotmg Republicans, df both sekes. The ladies of the Missionary Baptist church and congregation are requested to meet at the home of Miss 'Mamie Spitler, Saturday afternoon, at 2:30 o’clock p. m. There will be a meeting of the Republican Marching Club, in the court house yard, Saturday evening to practice for the rally. Every member of the club should be present.

[ The and torches for the Republican marching club have been received and they are “daisies.” 'John D. BissChden has charge of them, and he is the man to call upon, for an outfit. The Republicans Rally of next we9ku?riday, promises to be the biggest and best political demonstration ever held in the county. Republicans all over the county and in adjoining counties shduld begin to prepare for it, at once. The grand jury for the present term of the Benton circuit court takes the banner. It remained in session for two solid weeks, and returned 27 indictments; a considerable portion of them being fqr serious offenses. Superintendent Warren has received from the proper authorities, at Indianapolis, 200 copies of Township Institute Outlines and teachers may obtain them by cal ling at Mr. Warren’s office,' in the court house. The ladies Republican Club will at the residence ol M rs, M. E. Baylor. Friday the 2lst inst, at 2p. m. to perfect arrangements tc participate in the Porter RallsHfrn the 28th inst. A cordial invitation is extended to all republican ladies to join the club at that time. Marriage licenses since last reported: j John Weiss, | Louise Krull. j Henry Clo^sin, \ Cal Kepner. j Peter lsouey, I Alice Lindsey. The room in the Nowels block, lately occupied as an office for the Nowels Hotel, is being fitted up fqr,£ business ropui. If rumor is correct, C. D, Nowels will occupy the room with a store of some k’;nd, and it is even currently reported that the post-office is to tfcke a move down that way. .The newspapers are calling the attention of owners of traction engines to the state law which requires a man to be sent along tbe highway in of their apprpach, thus lessening the probability of runaway accidents. Also if an engine be stationed near a highway it must be stopped while teams are passing, v Besides the immense big barn now in process of erection, a* the Indian School, another very large building will be erected, ai once, to contain a carpenter shop, a blacksmith shop, Ac. The purpose of which being the training the Indians to the use of the tools used in The building will be about 80 feet by 30 in size and two stories in height. Kanff, of Chicago, who built the main building, has the contract. An exchange admonishes its readers nqt to forget the editor when you have a news item. If your wife lickß you let us know of it, and we will set it right-before the public. If you have company tell us if you are not ashamed of your visitqrs. If a youngster arrives at your home, begging for raiment, buy a quarterns worth of cigars and come round, and if you ‘ are a cash subscriber we will fur*|nishp a suitable name for the kid, and if you have a social gathering jef a few of your friends, bring | around a big cake, seven or. eigh t 'pies and a ham, not necessarily to i.eat, but as a guarantee of good ►-Taith. You need not bother to_ invite ns, for it is a little arm For our wardrobe. We mention i these little for we want I news. v

Mrs. Hattie Mo wery, of Burkett, Ind., is visiting her sister, Mrs. Philip Blue. Heltbn, aged 9 months, only son'or"Ja'y and Sadie White, died at the residence of David Hiltdn, Saturday Sept. 15th, 1888. The old soldiers who attended the National Re-union, at Columbus) t)hio, last week report themselves well pleased with their experience there. The follbtHng are some whd 'attehded froih 'this place and vicinity whose names We fst’le'd to obtain last week: Thos. Thompson, Henry Watson, B. L. Sayler, T. J. Sayler. An exceeedingly dirty act Was committed in Wheatfiela, lastSnnr day night. Tbe Republican ladieS of the place decorated the school house, Sunday afternoon, for S. P. Thompson’s meeting of Mond&y night, with ferns, evergreens, Ac; Suuday night a paity of Demo-' crats tore down the decoration's and replaced them with deffiberfitic emblems, namely tobacco plants',’ bottles and tobacco juice, aud left the room in a shameful condition. Tne persons are known and will probably be'prosecuted as’’ they de-" serve.

Joseph McGiihsey writes xrom 'Gillam tb„ to say that himself and Elias Tdrif of. lh*at township, voted for W. H. Harrisoh.in 1840 and in his own words “are still With the that saved the 'Union, gave us good mon’ey, and is in favor of projecting 1 hoftie industry.'’ “We are in favor” continues Mr. McGimsey, f‘of letting old John Bdll look out for himself for a while yet. We expect to vote for Benjamin HarrisbU this fall and want our names entered on the rolls of the Tippecanoe Club'.” The death of John L. Gant, son of Noah M. Gant, of Union township, pcciired several weeks ago, on Tuesday August 23, to be exact, but intelligence of the death did not reach The Republican uutil a fbw/cUys since. The deceasedi had been 'sick f<Sf many the news of his death was not a surprise to anyone. Mr. Gant was deputy sheriff‘during a portion qf Sheriff Yeo&an’s first term and became pretty well known in Rensselaer and throughout the county generally, at that time. He was o far more than ordinarily robust appearing young fnan and, to all appearances, was V6ll assured of a long lease of life. The 6ause. 6f his death was' consumption. His age was about 28 or 29 years. , r He< was unmarried. Two of his listers has preceded him to the grave, within the past two or three' years.-—-