Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1888 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

A daughter at F. G. Henkle’s Sunday morning. A complete stock of furniture at Jay W. Williams’. ’The venerable mother of Mr. Lucius Strong, of Newton township, died last Saturday. You can save money - in buying Hosiery and Underwear of Hemphill & Honan. Morris Thomas has opened a meat-market in the shop next door east of the post-office. A hard coal base burner for sale cheap. Hardman, the Jeweler. Elder R. S. Dwiggins will preach in the Christian Church, Sunday, Oct. 27, at 10:30 ar m. The public is invited to attend. Jasper Kenton gives notice of a public sale, miles north of Rensselaer, on Saturday, November, 3rd. The largest and cheapest line .of underwear for the money we ever carried. Call and see them. Hemphill & Honan.

C. P. Mayhew is making his relatives and many old friends.Jn this vicinity a short visit, the first since his removal to California, in the spring of 1882. Say Friend, you will make a mistake if you don’t call at Hemphill & Honan’s before buying your gloves, underwear and hosiery. They can save you some money. J. A. Pierce has sold his farm, south-east of town, to Andrew Yeoman, and has returned to Nebraska. The land sold was 260 acres ahd the price was S6OOO. A boy baby of Mr. and Mrs. J as. Flynn, born last Friday, was taken with spasms, - and died Monday. The remains were taken to Shelbyville, Mr. Flynn’s old home, for interment, j ' .Squire J. B. Clemens, of Newton tp., and Mrs. Fidelia [Bennett, of Rensselaer, were quietly married, on Wednesday afternoon, of last week, by Rev. M. L. Tressler, at his residence. C. P. Wright started for the southwest, Tuesday, in charge of his last excursion of the season. He will visit New Mexico and probably old Mexico, during his absence,, which will be of several weeks duration. We are selling Greswold Parlmer & Co’s, tailor made plush wraps at the very lowest possible margin, and invite comparison with any line of plush offered to the people of this vicinity. "“Ellis IK Murray. Hon. I. D. Dunn is putting in this entire week in speaking for the Republican cause, One speech in Newton township, one in Jordan and four in Carpenter. His plain and lucid manner of handling the present issues tnakes his speeches a valuable help to the party. Prosecuting Attorney Marshall is putting in a solid week for the old party in ’ Benton county, this week. His appointments for this week are, Monday night, Templeton, Tuesday, Talbot, Wednesday, Otterbein, Thursday Boswell, Fowler. ii« : • *

The members of the Republican county, convention, which met last May, have been called together by Order of the county central committee to meet this (Thursday) afternoon, in the courthouse,, to nominate a candidate for County Recorder. Tnis action has been made necessary by the death of Dr. Antrim. Mrs. W. H. H. Graham, of this place, met with a bad accident, during the progress of the -Voorhees meeting, yesterday afternoon. One <?f the plank teats, full of people, creeled over and caught Mrs. Graham, who was standing at the end of the plank and broke one of the bones of her left leg, just above the ankle and dislocated the ankle joint of the other bone. It is a bad hurt Next Saturday is the regular monthly pay day of the Rensselaer Building and Loan Association! The monthly meeting of the directors for the sale of loans, Will not occur until Wednesday of week after next days after the pay day. The by-laws of the association need amending in this particular, in order that the directors meetings should .always be held within a day or two after the monthly pay day.

Born, to Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Paxtop, Oct. 19, a daughter. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. John Kohler, Marion tp., Oct. 20, a soft. Monday, Nov.,sth is the. Uet day for paying the November tax-'’ es. The Free Will Society will meet with Mrs. B. F. .Ferguson, Friday, the 26th...—————— H. J. Dexter is still on hand with a complete line of school books. ___ An infant of John Minnicus was very badly scalded, this morning. Spilled a tub of hot water. t J To It ent:—-A neat seven room cottage, new and nice. R. P. Benjamin. Long, 6f Gillam township, will sell a large amount of personal property, at public auction, next Thursday, November 1. Miss Lizzie Warner left for Aquade Loba, New Mexico, Tuesday, to visit relatives. She will be absent a month or more. The Republicans will have a big rally at Goodland, next Monday, Oct. 29. Gov. J. A. Beaver, of Pennsylvania, will be the principal orator.

J. C. Porter started, for Minneapolis, Minn., Tuesday, to visit his son, Charles, who has a situation in the dispatcher’s office of the Northern Pacific Railway. S. A. Fulton, 1| miles northwest of town, will make a sale on Wednesday, Nov. 7. It is his intention to remove to Chicago, where his son, Clarence, is now located. Mrs. John Day, Mrs. Yeoman, and Miss Tillie Burns, of Kansas, are back visiting friends and relatives. They expect to remain six weeks or more. They landed here in the rain, Oct. 18th. The bills for a Democratic barbecue at Morocco, next Saturday, are unique specimens of the printer’s art. They are, without ques-’ tion, the worst looking bills ever seen in Jasper county. Dear Parents: Don’t give the children their death of cold by letting them go barefooted all winter, but bring them into Hemphill & Honan’s and get them shod all around. < . Republicans all over the county should attend the maas-meeing at Rensselaer, next Thursday. It will be the last big’meefing of the bampaigp; and will be addressed by two of the ablest orators of the Uncle Daniel Grant, of Rensselaer, is the boss Republican patriarch, beyond a doubt. Himself, his sons-in-law and grand-sons-in-law have 31 votes, among them all but one, or possibly two, of which will be cast for General Harrison.

The Republicans of Carpenter township and adjoining portions of Benton county, are fully roused up to the importance of the political conflict. On Saturday night Hon. U. Z. Wiley, of Fowler, had an immense meeting in Remington, and at the same time, Capt. R. W. Marshall, of Rensselaer addressed a crowded and- enthusias-tic-meeting at Gilboa, a few miles south of Remington, in Benton county. G. W. Spitler, who has been with Robinson’s Circus Advertising company for the last five or six weeks, returned home last Friday; The circus is now exhibiting in Kentucky, and George reports that the people in' that region do not wait until circus day before they begin to gather the places where it will exhibit, but that many of them come a. day or two beforehand, and camp out and wait for the show. The circus will, close its season at Belmont Ky/, Nov. 3, after which it will go into regular winter quarters at Cincinnati, The democrats had fine weather for their rally yesterday, and a large crowd was in attendance. The street parade was very creditable. The number of persons on horseback in the procession was, by careful count, 150. In yehides there were 7 four- horse turnouts, 6 six-horse, and one eight-horse, and 173 other conveyances. ! The number of persons, all told, in the procession was almost exactly 1100 by the actual count of several different persons.