Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1888 — Localsand Pergonals. [ARTICLE]

Localsand Pergonals.

A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Hodshire, last Tuesday. The ladies of the F. W. Baptist church will give dinner and supper on election day, in the Stockton room, opposite the public square. Workp.nß. E. Ferguson’s residence is under full headway and it is expected that it will be completed this season. Chamberlain & Zoll have the contract. The members of the /Women’s Relief Corps will give a dinner and supper on election day, in C. A. Roberts’ building, near thepolling place of the North Precinct. Mrs- Judge Green, of .Tipton, Ind., is ia attendance of her sister, Grandmother. Irwin, whose broken hip has already been mentioned. Mrs. Irwin is doing welE The wife of George McElfresh, of Barkley tp., died last Sunday morning, of puerperal fever. The funeral was held Monday forenoon, at St. Augustine’s church, in Rensselaer. J. H. Willey, of this place has bought the interest of W. L. Wishard in the Mount Ayr firm of Willey, Sigler & Wishard. The style of the firm hereafter will be Willey & Sigler. D. J. Thompson Peached home from his stay in the wild region of the northern peninsula of Michigan, last Thursday. His record as a deer-slayer was increased by only a single specimen, this trip. Uncle, Jimmy McEwen, after many, many long years of faithful service asked the Democracy for for bread and they gave him stone. He wanted the post-office and they gave him—the nomination for County Recorder! The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Minnicus, whose accidental scalding wasnjentioned last week, lingered in great agony until Friday afternoon, when death put an end to its suffering. Its age was about 21 months. — ~ Jas. F. Antrim, whom the Commissioners .appointed County Recorder to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Dr. to Indianapolis, Friday,, and obtained his commission from the Governor. , John W. Groom, sog of John Groom, of Newton tp u who has been at Sedgwick, Kansas, for several years, now orders his Republican sent to Winona, Mississippi, to which place he has removed. T Learn to make your own portraits, and beautify your homes with pictures you learn to make yottrsolf. A beautiful, landscape and a life-size, handmade, portrait guaranteed the first term. Call and see the work at the Art School, over Priest & Paxton’s. - The building Committee of the M. E. church very respectfully request that all subscribers to the building fund pay the one-fifth, one-fourth, one-half of the whole of their subscription, not latet than November 15,1888. E. I,i. Clare, Secy.

Commissioners met in special session, last Thursday, on call of the Auditor,-, for the purpose of appointing a County Recorder to serve until the the office could be filled at the. coming election. They appointed Jas. F. Antrim, son and deputy of the late Recorder. . t Last week’s Republican had 17 columns of politics and-3‘"cqlumns of news in its local pages,: which, it must be admitted, was going in for politics pretty strong; but the Kentland Gazette, of the same date, beat that record clear out of sight.- It had 12 columns of politics and only 20 lines of news. Thestown of Remington has" a patriarchal Republican who also deserves special mention. The venerable Horace Blood voted for the elder Harrison in 1836 and in 1840, and in 1888 will vote for his grandson, in company with four ' sons, four sons-in-law, five grand sons and two grand-sons-law. Seventeen in all.. The regular monthly meeting of the Rensselaer, Building . & Loan Association-is next Wednesday night. Loans to the amount of about 8500 will be disposed of. All persons desiring to attend the meeting should make a note of the fact that the time of meeting is now-7 o’clock, instead of 8, as heretofore.

'twenty Hellions of die every year who have never heard the Gospel. Are all such persons eternally Jost?' R. S.Dwiggins will , preach upon this sub-, ject, at the Church of God, next Sunday morning. the National Fat Stock Show opens in the Chicago Exposition building Nov. 13. 'the Monon route will sell round trip tickets tor one and one third fare on Nov. 12, 14, 16, 19, 21 and 23. On Nov. 22 a special low rate of one cent per mile, from all points, will be given. —-— —-—.

The case of Enos M. Hibbs, of Kankakee tp., charged with , rape committed upon Miss Sarah A. Wood last August, was set for trial Monday and the jury empannelled. , The accused, .was on hand and allowed to go home after witnesses—and he is still looking for them. His bond was declared forfeited, and the jury discharged. His bail was SSOO and his bondsmen were John Graves, Henry Turner, Rebecca Graves and J. H. Graham. The County convention did the right and proper thing in nominating Jaines Antrim for Recorder, last Thursday. He has had charge of the office for a long time, as deputy, and the work of the place was never kept up in better, shape than it has been under, his management. The Republicans of Jasper Co. also owe it to the memory of that unflinching old Republican and true and honest man, Thomas Antrim, to give to his son I the unexpired term of the office to which the father was elected. The M. E.* church people have already secured and got the deed for an excellent location for their new church, even though they failed on the Barkley lots. They have bought of Miss Almira Monnett the two splendid lots on the east side of. Cullen street, cornering on Cordelia street just north of the Cotton lioueb? The lots are 100 feet front on Cullen street, by 150 feet .deep. The price paid was $450, a sum much below their' real value, considering their location and the fine new fence which surrounds , .them. In fact Miss Monnett would not have sold the lots for any other purpose, for less than SBOO. There could not be a better location for the church in the town, except for the one objection that it is so close to other churches, being just across the street from the Presbyterian’s building, and not much farther from the Baptists’. Work on the foundation will begin at once, and be pushed vigorously as long as the weather will permit.

A special train was sent out from Chicago, over the’> Monon route, last Sunday morning, to carry the Sunday Inter-Ocean to Indianapolis and intervening points. The train cnnsisted only of an engine and tender and one car. > It took out 15,000 copies of the paper, distributed half of them in towns along the line and reached Indianapolis with the other half. The train left Chicago at 3:23 o’clock and reached Indianapolis at 8:25. It made but few stops and ran at a terrific rate of speed. Between Lowell and the Kankakee river that rate was 65 miles an hour. From Rose Lawn to Fair Oaks 6 miles were made in 5 minutes. A. W. Cole, formerly of Rensselaer and J. H. Rynearson, of Fowler, were two of the three persons in charge of the papers on the train. The train did not-slack up at Rensselaer, but a bundle containing 115 papers was thrown oft The 16 miles from Rensselaer to Monon was made-- in 15 minutes, including a stop made for coal. Another special will be run next Sunday. 7 '

The Methodist people havobeen disappointed in their hope of securing a lot for their new church in the block belonging to the Henry Barkley estate, and. -which lies east of the public square and south of the Makeever House and The Republican building. The lots in the block were sold* last Saturday, and although the building committee of the church had a representative present, he was outbid in all cases by Mr. John Makeever, one &f the oldest and by far the wealthiest member of the church, and who, for reasons best known to himself, would not permit the church to secure a suitable location on the block. Members of the church and, the citizens of the town generally are greatly ■ disappointed, hot to Bft y indignant?, over the failure to secure one of

these desirable locations for the proposed building. The prices paid by Mr. Makeever for the lots purchased were, for the corner of Washington and Weston streets, 75 feet front on Washington street by 100 deep the price was 8730. For the next 75 feet west, of the same depth, $600.. For the two lots at the corner of Cullen and Haarieon and fronting on Cullen street, S9OO. All these prices were very much above the appraised value of the lots.