Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1888 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

Another daughter at Henry I. Adams’, in Jordan tp., last Thursday. PAY DAY of the Rensselaer Building, Loan & Savings Association, next Saturday. Loans sold the following Wednesday night Mrs. Geo. Peck, of Carlinville, 111., is spending the winter with the family of her -father, S. L. Sparling, southwest Of town. The eclipse of the sun occurs next Tuesday afternoon. Positively no post-ponement on account of weather.

An immense variety to select from, at popular prices, at. Santa Claus’ headquarters. Long A Eger. The chief surgeon of the L. N. A. & 0. Ry. will visit Crawfordsville, this week, with a view of establishing a company hospital there. Auditor Robinson now has everything in shape for the distribution of the township funds,—orders made out Ac. Township trustees should make a note of this fact and act accordingly. Mr. J. H. Willey got one of his fingers caught in the cogs of a feed cutter, on Wednesday of last week, and it was so badly injured that Dr. Hartsell amputated it at the first joint. ■

McKinney, the Lochiel, Benton county rapist, mentioned last week, was arrested in Tippecanoe county, and at last accounts was in jail at Fowler, in default of of SSOO bail. The charge against him is only attempted assault.

The town of Moiocco is still booming, greatly. In fact, reports indicate that the booming business is likely to be overdone, and ' the town receive a set back, accordingly, Our neighbors in the west should not grow to greatness too rapidly. The people of Minneapolis, Col. are moving to have a new county organized, to be named Rice county, and Minneapolis to be the county seat. Of course the members of the Jasper county colony at Minneapolis are taking a leading part iu the movement. There is no longer any question as to the L. N. A. & C. people building commodious, first-class shops at some point on their system next year. Their present shops at New Albany are entirely too limited to do the work the road requii es, and can be utilized to do the repairing for the Louisville Southern road.—lndianapolis J ournal.

Mr. and Mrs. U. M. McGuire were agreeably surprised a few evenings since, by a number of Jthe young people of the town, who executed a successful raid upon the parsonage. Plenty of merriment and “pounds,” and things, and sundries, r characterized the,, event. Mrs. McGuire returns thanks, and the Pastor regrets that his absence prevented him from sharing the pleasure of the evening.

We hear that there is a report in circulation, through some portions of the adjacent country, that an epidemic of measles prevails in Rensselaer. There is hot the least foundation for the report. There have only been four cases of the disease in the town, this season, and they have all been well for several weeks. There are no contagious disease of any kind in Rensselaer and now, as always, it is about the healthiest place in the known world.

The new steel postal car which has been in process of construction at the shops of the.L. N. A. & 0. road for ninety “days, has been placed on the road, and is attracting a good deal of attention. It is built of plates of steel, lined with asbestos, and is admirably braced , by means of steel rods running! the entire length of the car, the rods being fastened by an ingenious device into the steel posts. The floors are of steel, as are. the platform and steps, and there is no wood whatever about the car except the.tiraberrs of the trucks. The car was built by the American Fire-proof Steel Company, of Chicago, under the supervision of J. C. Bailey, superintendent of the corupany, and W. W. Green, the inventor. Is absolutely indestructible from fire, and in case of accident much less liable to injure the occupants.

The late heavy rains have filled many cisterns that were waxing low. We want to impress this point upon the public: We won't be undersold. Long & Eger. E, G. Coen, of Greensburgl), Kans., is spending a few days with his friends in this place. Wm. H, Tyler has been appointed administrator of the estate of the late Alexander L. McDonald, of DeMotte.

The M. E. Choral Union are preparing to give the popular Dairy Maids cantata, in the near future. Jas. H. Graham has just had lecorded a large addition to the town of Wheatfield. Wheatfield is a thriving town and gives good promises for continued prosperity. Mr. Enoch Rinehart and Mrs. Ed. Rinehart, of Delphi, spent Sunday with Mrs. W. A. Rinehart, from Buffalo, N. Y. who is visiting her parents in this town, during the holidays. Mrs. Maty Watts returned home to Indianapolis Monday, after a month’s stay with her mother, Mrs. S. A. Irwin. Mrs. Watts’ niece, Miss Frankie Irwin, accompanied her to Indianapolis, for a week’s visit

At the inquest held last Wednesday "night, in Keener tp., on the body of James Bennett, whose sudden death was mentioned last week, by Coroner Benjamin, assisted by Dr. M. B. Alter, the cause of death was found to have been paralysis of the heart. Mr, Edwin Harris, a worthy young citizen of Mt, Ayr and Miss Mary A. Weurthner, of Newton township, an estimable young lady and a well known teacher in the public schools, were married at the Presbyterian parsonage, by Rev. M. L. Tressler, on Monday morning, Dec. 24.

The Christmas season in Rensselaer was made pleasant for the children by Christmas tree entertainments by the various Sunday schools: The Methodist, the F. W. Baptist, "the Presbyterian find the Union. The most interesting feature of all was, of course, the distribution of presents to the young people Tuesday evening the Knights of Pythias lodge elected the following officers for the ensuing term: Wm. Babcock, C. C.; Vai Seib, V. C.; H. Warner, Prelate; N. W. Reeve, K. of R. & S.; E. D. Rhoades, M. of E.; J. C. Morgan, M. of F.; Frank Osborne, Master of Arms; J. H. S. Ellis, Trustee; N. H. Reeve, Representative to Grand Lodge. Will Edwards, a batchelor, of Logansport, was found dead one year ago, leaving ah estate of SIOO- - Since then numerous claims have appeared, the most novel being a due bill for $2,000, held by ex-Fostmaster Winkley, of Monon, who says it was given him as recompense for poulticing the arm of deceased while he suffered with cancel’ in 1870. The defense alleges that the due bill is a forgery. Some - time ago a man in a neighboring county wrote to the secretary of his county fair association as follows: “Please offer a premium for the biggest fool in the county. I stopped my county paper and three weeks later a traveling swindler done me up fpr SBO in money. I renewed mv subscription and secured all back numbers, and by the beard of the prophet, the very next issue after I had quit taking the paper contained a full exposure ot the trick that got away with me. I want to hire a dozen men to kick me all around my new barn.”

An agricultural paper says: Every paper in the United States ought- occasionally to keep the fact before its readers that burnt I corn is a sure cure for hog cholera. I The best way is to take a pile of corn and effectually senreh it and give the affected hogs free access to it. This remedy was discover-* ed by E. E. Doke at the time his distillery was burnt in Lewiston, 111., together with a lot of Stored corn, which was so much injured as. to be unfit for use. It was greedily eaten by the hogs, several of which were dying Jdaily. After the second day not a single hog was lost, and the disease entirely disappeared. The remedy has been tried in a number of sases since, and has never failed.

Mrs. Peter Giver is sick with a gathering in her head. Misses Maud Green and Brittie Hyland, of Chicago, are spending the Holidays in Rensselaer. Treasurer Washburn left on the 2:30 a. m. train, yesterday morning, for Indianapolis, Muncie and other points. 8, F. Brown, an old time resident of Walker tp., has just removed to Medaryville, Pulaski county. 8. E. Yeoman made a trip to the lead and zinc regions of southern Missouri, last week, to visit his cousin, A. J. Yeoman and family. The Presbyterian and Methodist churches will unite m observing the week of prayer. Let the attendance be large. Rev. Father Godfrey, professor in a leading Catholic University, at Dayton Ohio, and a remarkably eloquent speaker, preached in St Augustine’s church, last Sunday.

The new bank at Lowell, established by the Dwiggins syndicate, opened in business last Monday. Jay Dwiggins is cashier, R S. Dwiggins president Attention School Teachers! —We can sell you candy and nuts cheaper than anybody. Call and see us and learn prices. —, Laßue Bbos. Robert McClintic, of Monticello, whose wife was killed in September by a Monon train, is preparing to bring a damage suit against the road. Judge Gould, of Delphi, is his attorney. What is probably by far the finest ice-house-in the county was lately completed at the Indian School. It is a large, two-story building, and cost in the neighborhood of $2,500. The building season of 1888, in Rensselaer began in February, on F. G. Henkle’s house, and has lasted clear up to the present time work on the interiors of several houses being still in progress.

The Missionary Baptist Sunday School will celebrate its seventh anniversary by a New Years’ entertainment, of a unique character, next Monday evening, at their church. Remember the Old Fashioned Spelling Match, at the Court House, by the M. E. Industrial Society, on New Years night. Admission only 10 cents. Prizes for best spellers. Come everybody. The -following relatives are holiday guests of Mrs. G. J. Dexter:' Her father, H. J. Dunlap, of Battle Ground, her sister, Miss Hattie Dunlap, of Wanatah, and her aunt Mrs. Harriet Northcut, of Lafayette. Frank Shields, ot Marion tp., south of town, returned last Saturday from the West, where he went in the spring for the benefit of his. health. He has the consumption, and has not been benefited by his trip. The disease, measles, has been prevailing in Barkley township, to a great extent. So much that four schools in the township have been closed on account of it. One of the teachers, Harry Wade, has it and at last accounts, was in a critical condition.

Miss Jennie Miller came home from W inona, Minn., Monday, bringing with her, her deceased sister’s little boy, Chase Thomas, who will have his home with his uncle, M. F. Chilcote, hereafter. Miss Jennie is attjnding the Minnesota State Normal school, at Winona, and will return there in a few days.

So far as the present winter has gone, it promises very strongly to be a warm, wet, open season, like a number of winters that were experienced a number of years ago, the last being the winter of 1881 -2, when, as our recollection serves us, there was scarcely any opportunity to gather ice during the whole winter, while the mud in town and country was unspeakable and unfathomable. -

At the Chistmas Entertainment, at the Opera House, Tuesday evening an extensive and very interesting program was excellently rendered. , The attendance was not very satisfactory in point of numbers, but surely all that could have been expected, considering the very unfavorable character of the weather. This is evident from the fact that the net proceeds of the affair were over $53.