Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1888 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

The root is now being put bn the county asylum building. J. E. Lam son, west of town, counts another boy, since last Monday.

Uncle Daniel Grant got in hid vote for Harrison, Tuesday,, all right. Heas 92 years old. Mr. W. A. Colman, of Crawfordsville, will open a tailoring establishment here next week arid asks for a share of the trade. The Day Bros, have their brick house in Benjamin’s addition almost completed. Mrs. J. G. Culp will occupy it. Grandmother Rowen has gone to Mahomet, Champaign coiinty, 111., to visit a daughter. She will be gone all winter. Mr. J. E.-Flynn and family return sincere thanks to the many friends who showed them so much kindness and sympathy in their late sad bereavement.

James Maloy has the contract for building the stone work of the M. E. church, and began work yesterday. He will push things as long as the weather permits. Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Richardsori, and their daughter, Miss Beth, will leave to-day, on a visit,of six or eight weeks, to friends in LaPorte, Fulton and Randolph counties. t - R. S. Dwiggins has gone to Plymouth to attend a state" conference of the Church of God. Next week he will go to Philadelphia, to attend a meeting of the national conference. \¥. H. Rhoades was brought over to the polls, Tuesday, in an easy riding phieton, and voted the straight Republican ticket, of course. It.was the first time Mr. Rhoades had been over to the town for more, than six months.

Henry O. Harris, a wealthy citzen of Newton county, has purchased three lots in Newton’s addition, of Holdridge Clark, and intends to erect a fine residence thereon,* next Spring, and to become a citizen of Rensselaer. """"The following college boyecame home to vote: S. E. Sparling from the State University, at Bloomington, Chas. W. Porter, from the State Normal, at Terre Haute, George Bruce, from Franklin College and Harvey Robinson, from Purdue.. All voted the Republican ticket. The Presbyterians are now improving the interior of their house of worship by changing the partition at the rear so as very latgly to reduce the size of the auditorium and to make a lecture room in the reai; of the building. A 'further great improvment is to be the refurpisfiing of the room, with elegant new pews, the order for which has already been given to a manufacturing firm at this state. The Inter.-Ocean’s special train last Sunday made even better time than the one of the previous Sunday. In fact the fastest time ever made between the two cities. From Rensselaer to Monon the 16 miles were made in 14J minutes. A. W. Cole had principal charge of the papers on the train. Of the portion which were sent South from Monon, to Lafayette and^ntermediate points; Leslie Clark, of The Republican, was in charge.

The Women’s Belief Corps gave dinners Tuesday, in bdth Roberts’ warehouse and in the Stockton room—the F. AY. Baptist ladies having generously given way to the Corps, in case of the latter place. They had good patronage in both places, —a patronage which was, undoubtedly, much increased by the free advertising given them in the form of a vjcious attack upon both the Corps and the G. A. It, bv the, Rensselaer Democrat, of last week., ■ ■ . A young rii/n named Girard was arrested Tuesday, charged with illegal voting. His vote was objected to by Republican challengers, on the grpunds of non-agej and was then, sworn in by James Donnelly, for whom the young working. He promptly gave barf, and was released.. We sincerely hope the young fellow can prove Limself innocent, but if guilty the punishment provided by the law should be meted out. There are few crimes which it so much behoves the people to rigidly repress, as illegal voting.

-‘D. Ik; Hopkins has begun Work on a good residence on Ebn street, near Lyman Zea’s place. The fire, compapy will meet only on the 2nd ana Ith Wednesdays of each inonth, hereafter. A daughter was born on election day to Horace Bailey, of Hanging Grove tp. J. M. Burns giVcs notice of a public sale at his place, in Barkley township, on next Wednesday, the 14th inst. Mr. W. A. Colman, of Crawfordsville, will op'en a tailoring establishment here next week and asks for a share of the trade. Btfr. and Mrs. M. L. Spitler left Tuesday to visit their daughter, Mrs. Learning, at Auburn, for a couple of weeks. v A. M. Baker, one mile north of town, will make a public sale, next Tuesday, Nov. 13. His notice of the sale appears 'in this week’s Republican. J. W. Duvall was the successful bidder at the monthly sale of the Building and Loan Association, last night. He .bought 5 shares, at 26 per cent, premium.

Owing tp repairs in progress in their own building, the Presbyterians will worship in the F. W. Baptist churcli, next Sunday, morning and evening. Clinton county, which gave Cleveland 243 majority four years ago, gave Harrison 300 last Tuesday. In the town of- Frankfort the-Republican gain was 500. Mr. S. A. Fulton, northwest of town, has found it necessary to postpone the date of his sale. It will be held next Thursday,. Nov. 15, beginning at one p. m., without fail.

Miss Hester, one of the teachers in the Rensselaer schools, is sick with the measles, as is also one of her pupils.. There is considerable fear of a further spread of the disease. R. P. Benjamin, the Republican Coroner elect, was taken with a severe attack of his old digestive trouble, Monday night, and greatly to his disappointment was unable to vote Tuesday. Jasper Kenton’s auction sale, near Suney, last Saturday, was well attended and the property brought good prices. The aggregate amount of the sale was about SI,BOO. In addition to this he has sold, or will sell, at private sale, about $1,200 more of personal property. Lost.—A set of Anatomical Charts, labeled, “Our Body,” believed to have been left at some house or place of business in Rensselaer qr vicinity, one day last spring. The finder will confer a favor by leaving at The Rei’UBLTCAN office. __— —. J. P. Hammond. The big ten-horse liberty wagon, from Jackson township, Newton county, at the Republican meeting, in Rensselaer, last Thursday, was upset in turning 8 street corner, not far from J. W. Williams’ place, The young lady occupants of the wagon were all badly frightened and one of them was quite badly bruised. It was thought, at first, that one of her legs was broken, but the injury did not prove to be so great as that. Twenty-six members of. the Marion township First Voters’ Club formed in double line Tuesday morning and marched to the polls and voted in' a body. They I first went to the polling place of the south precinct, and those who voted there put in their ballots; and then they visited the north precinct polling place and those who belonged there put in their ballots. The'Tioys were greeted wrth hearty cheers, at both places. The valuable brood mare used by Mr. and Mrs.. E. P. Honan as a family driving horse, met death under peculiar circumstances, Mondry night. She occupied the same stall with a Texan pony, belonging to Charley Honan, acd separated from it by a heavy swinging pole. It seems that sometime during the night the Texan’s native ferocity broke out, and he kicked the mare until she backed out through the end of the barn, and was found dead in the morning, lying half inside the barn and half out She also was the property of Charley Honan and was a valuable animal, worth nearly or quite S2OO. « :