Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1889 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

The Free Will Society will meet with Mrs. Willis, Jan. 11, at 1 p. in. Mufflers wortfi $1.50 for 75 cts, at the Economy Store. A few far caps left yet and for sale cheap at Hemphill & Honan’s. A daughter of John Wolfe, of Milroy tp., is very sick with lung fever. Cloaks way below what the raw material would cost, at the Economy Store. Jas. Flynn has removed into Grandmother Morgan’s house, >a block west of his former residence. Remember its ’B9 now. Call in and settle your account. Hemphill & Honan. The condition of Geo. O. Hoover is now much more favorable than it was some time ago. Rubber goods, every pair war-; ranted for two months at Economy Store. John Burns is in jail serving out a fine of $18.35, including costs, for thumping Bernie Maloy, a boy of 12 or 14 years old. Have you seen those blankets Ellis & Murray are selling for $5 a pair? Nothing like them ever seen in this country for the money. Mrs. C. W. Robertson who resides near Lawrenceburg, Indiana, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Jas. W. Douthit during her illness. Rev. A. Hill, the State Evangelist, preaches every night at; the Missionary Baptist Church. Day meetings at 2p. m. All are invited to attend and participate. We have the nicest fitting, best wearing line of ladies fine shoes in the city. Every pair wife a water-proof, patent, flexible inner sole. Economy Store. Henry Daugherty came home for the holidays and is sick and unable to go back to his school in Porter county, but his brother, j Charley, is teaching m hia stead. Union Company’s Gas Well No. 4, at Francesville, proved to be a failure, water being Struck at the level where gas was expected. The boring will be continued into Trenton rock, in hopes of striking oil. Notice: All those knowing themselves indebted to me are respectfully asked to ca|l in and settle, either by cash or note, as my books must be closed for the past year. R. Fendig. M. L. Spitler returned from his Virginia visit last Saturday. He left Mrs. Spitler at Auburn, this state, with her daughter, Mrs. Learning. She was sick, but with indications favorable for early recovery. Ladies in masks will be admitted free to the Firemen’s dance, next Thursday night. All other poisons will-be required to pay for admission. Onetdollar if dancers, 25 cents if spectators. The latter will be expected to occupy : the galleries. The Rensselaer Republican has procured a new power press upon which The Republican will be printed hereafter. It gives us pleasure to see deserving publishers suitably rewarded. Thei Republican is a good paper and i has done good work.-Crown Point j Register.Brookston Reporter: About 50 or the most prominent farmers of this vicinity met Saturday evening, December 22, and formed themselves into a “Farmer’s Protective Union,” their object being to handle their own grain, lumber, coal,* etc. It will be a stock company bf 1,000 shares, with a capital stock of $25,000. Schuyler 0. Spencer, formerly of Remington, later of Monticello, 1 but now a lawyer in Valparaiso, was married on Jan. Ist, to Miss Blanch Stoddard, at 'Fassinong. Mr. Spencer just missed being minister, (far aS he is from that now) and he even preached some, two or three years ago,—several times in Rensselaer. The latest church novelty enter tain mentis as nearly an exact representation of the old-fashion-ed “district school” as it is possible to arrange. They get in the collection of beech gads, the benches, primitive dress, the lickins’, dunce blocks, tamarack gum, slippery elm bark and all the paraphernalia of the old-fashioned school, and it makes a very laughable entertainment

Miss Jennie Miller returned to Winona, Minn.,, last Friday. A line of rubber goods on sale at Hemphill & Honan’s. Geo. Nicholson i s bad off with the rheumatism. Enquire at the drug stores for the horse doctor. 4tp. Mary Baker, the fasting girl of Monon township, has married James Orcutt, lately. A. E. Kirk performs .all surgical operations on animals skillfully and scientifically. 18-4tp New line of gents’ fine shoes, wide shoes and heavy shoes at the Economy Store. Rev. W. H. Sayler, of Elbarn, Hl., is in town and will remain over Sunday, to attend the F. W. Baptist Quarterly Meeting.

Those wishing to fiuy blankets, flannels and yarns will do well to call on R. Fendig. He is bound to close them out. Mr. Steward. ofWilliams county, Ohio, is visiting his brother-in-law, Rev. M. L. Tressler, and looking the country over with a view to a settlement in this county- L The ladies of the Presbyterian Industrial Society, will give an entertainment entitled “Five and Twenty Black Birds,” in the near future. | Mrs. Monett, Pres. Elder D. Tj Halstead arrived from Dakota, Tuesday night, and will spend then remainder of the winter with his |many old friends in this vicinity. Mrs. Halstead has gone to California, for the winter. | l q ■. Di. H. B. Fellows, professor of nervous diseaseppn Hahnemann College, Chicago,Tame down Monday to consult with Di. Hartsell over the case of Swaney Makeever, who is not leaking very encouraging progress towards erySome fellow greatly frightened Mrs. F. P. Bitters, the other night, during the Dr’s, absence, by lepeatedly shaking her cellar door. Mrs. Bitters;is possessor of a good revolver and proposes to send a bullet in the direction of the disturber, if the demonstration is repeated. Constable Wm. Al. Wood has bills up for a sale, at constable’s sale, of the remainder of H. E. James’ printing material, taken in favor of a large number of creditors. The sale is advertised for next Tuesday, but is not at all likely to take place! as papers for a set-off are said tq be in process of preparation. I Big wolf hunts are becoming quite frequent in dome of b the surrounding counties. In White county, for ijistaface, there have been two hunts lately. At the first three wolves weie taken, at the second only one. There are probably portions of Jasper county where a well managed woli drive would corral a go,idly number of the voracious critters. i The new brick '.county asylum building is now virtually completed, all that remaiiis to be done being a little painting and the testing and regulating of the heating apparatus Ac. The commissioners visited the building Monday and found i® hi all respects, satisfactory and built according to contract. Its total cost, including all incidental expenses, has been almost exactly $8,580. We hear, from an entirely reliable source, that a movement is on foot for organizing a gravel road company, to build a pike from Rensselaer northward to Burk’s bridge or perhaps farther. A fact in connection with the movement was the visit to Rensselaer, Tues- ' day. of an experienced and professional gravel road builder, who ' inspected the gravel at Stackhouse’s gravel hill and pronounced ijt excellent.

! The Wabash Times has lately published a paragraph regarding Major Major Bitters, editor of the Rochester Republican, which has raised his ire to a white heat. He ' gives vent to his wrath thus: “The paragraph published in the Sentinel, copied from the Wabash Time®, is a rotten falsehood* That ! maggotty Times man slanders | every editor in the land who reJ fuses to exchange with his polluted ■sheet We will give him a five ; dollar note for the opportunity to slap his snoot and pay all addit- | ional expenses,

Mrs. J. G. Culp is very seriously sick. , ’ Dr. Alter is an the sick list, but is improving. r ~ Mrs. J. W. Douthit is sick, and her condition said to be very serious. The Republican was in error in stating that Miss Mary Washburn had returned to Butler University. Owing'to her mother’s poor health, she is remaining at home. The present cold weather, if it continues, though not nearly so pleasant as that which has proceeded it, will undoubtedly, be more healthful and blso to many persons, more profitable. Mrs. Green, of Tipton, is now; attending her aunt, Mrs. 8. A. Irwin. The latter is recovering from her broken limb very satisfactorily, although she received a fall last .week which considerably retarded her progress.

The F. W. Baptist Quarterly Meeting will convene Friday evening of this week. There wjll be preaching during the sessiofi by Bevs. W m. Sayler and F. J. Mawhotter. A cordial invitation to all to attend. They have a good one just at present on a well-known Fowler lawyer who is noted for his absent mindedness. He went up his own stairs the other day, and seeing a notice on his door, “Back at 2 o'clock,” sat down to wait for himself. For further particulars interview John T. Brown. —Boswell Argus. Mj. and Mrs. W. B. Austin arrived home from their southern trip, last Tuesday. They did not go to Florida, as they found, on arriving at New Orleans that no boats were running from there to! Florida, on account of the Yellow fever. They came home, as far as Louisville by river steamer, and had a very pleasant trip. Frank Osborne began work on his new house, on Division street, ou Jan. 3rd and got the foundations all completed and everything ready for raising just before the summer broke in two in the middle. His foundations are as fine as there is in town, and in digging for them no frost whatever wes encountered. An unusual circumstance for January. Services will be held in the Presbyterian church during next week, beginning Monday evening. Otis A. Smith, of Frankfort, Ind., will preach every evening. Mr. Smith is a clear, forcible, enthusiastic, practical speaker, and will interest all who hear him. The singing will be a prominent feature of the meetings, and the “Gospel Choir” will be the book used. An earnest invitation is extended to all. The Firemen’a masked ball, to be given at the Opera House, next Thursday night, will be the social event of the winter, without doubt. Every preparation is being made, by persons fully competent for the task, to make the affair a thorough success. The object for which the ball is given, namely to purchase needed uniforms . for the company, is one that should commend it to the support and encouragement of all public spirited citizens.

Dowell, the man at Francesville with a bullet in him, has for along time stpod in such fear of the hostility of his neighbors, that he never ventured out of his house after dark, and when abroad iii the day time habitually went about like a regular walking arsenal. His usual armament being a shot gun and two big revolvers. The last time he visited Rensselaer, which was not long ago, he deposited his guns, during his stay in town, with, T. J. Sayler, the livery man, remarking that he would probably not have any need for them While in this town. Grandfnother Caroline Crockett is very dangerously sick with lung fever, at the home bf her son W ill, at Springfield, Neb. So sick indeed, that news of her death has been expected hourly, by her friends here, for the last two days, but a telegram received yesterday morning stated that- she was still living. Later: Since the above was in type, a telegram has been received stating that Mrs. Crockett died yesterday morning;. The remains will be brought home and the funeral held in the Presbyterian church. Grandmother Crockett’s age was about 75 years.