Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1889 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

Dr. Washburn has moved into the house lately vacated by J. Q. Alter. Every Rex Hyr is branded on the sweat band. The artesian well at CriQwn Point is over 2500 feet deep and good for nothing. * Rex Hats are guaranteed as rep- - resented. Elmer Dwiggins is home from Mexico for a short visit. He will return there in a couple of weeks, or so. Rex Hats are made in soft or stiff. Lieutenant Governor Chase preached two sermons in Fowler on Sunday thp' fefch inst., which were highly commended by the town papers. ' Give the Rex Hat a trial. It will please you. Two shares of stock in the Rensselaer Building, Loan & Savings Association for sale. Paid up to date. Enquire at this office. John Randle, who has been living in Remington for some time past has become a resident of Rensselaer, . occupying the Widow Ball house, near N. S. Bates” residence. ReX Hats—newest shape—soft or ; stiff. T. J. Sayler has now at his stable a i fine coach horse, just irnjiorted from Canada. Parties interested are in, ▼ited to call and see him, at the brick livery stable.

There was a good attendance at the sale of the late D. S. Makeever’s personal property, last Saturday, and a great deal of property was sold, at satisfactory prices. The aggregate amount of the sale was about $4,000. Try a Rex Hat and you will never buy any other make. The statement that tne McAuliffMeyer praeJhght took place within the confines of Porter county, is a mistake. North Judson is in Pulaski county.—Valparaiso Vidette. Wrong again; North Judson ‘ n Stark county. Marriage licenses since last reported. ( Jphn W. Horton, '( Ada Moles, j Wm. H. Grant, ( Inez Hutson. J Samuel W. English, • ] Emma J. Murray, j John C. Reed, ( Christina M. Kissinger, For style and quality Rex Hats are the best. John McKinney, the man who attempted a criminal assault upon Mary Thompson, a nine year old girl, was sentenced to four years in the penitentiaryj at Fowler, last week. The sheriff there holds a United States warrant charging 'McKinney with counterfeiting. Every Rex Hat is branded on the sweat band.

Why the street lamp at the corner j of Washington and Weston streets has not been lighted for a week or more is a querry which disturbs the minds of several interested citizens. If the Town Marshal labors under U, the impression that people in that part of town do not go to church these times, he is way off in his calculations. We are sole agents in Rensselaer for the Rex Hat. Ellis <fc Murray, The Rev. E. B. Woodson, late pastor of the M. E. church at Remington, made many warm friends in Rensselaer during the few days in which he insisted in the revival work here, a short time since. These have all learned of his death with deep sorrow. Further particulars of his " death vnd funeral obsequies will be found in our interesting Remington * correspondence.

East Friday night a small tenant house on Miss Almira Monnett’s land, about a mile east of town, took > fire and in a very short time was •totally destroyed. It was occupied by a family named Dragoo, the memhere of which saved but little except themselves. It was an intensely cold c night, and tliey suffered much from the cold. They are now stopping with the family of Wm. Lester, a relative, in town. The origin of the fire is supposed to have been coals dropped from the stove.

John Minnicus is now cutter and salesman in Paxton’s meat shop. 3 Men’s arcties only $1 at Hemphill & Honan’s. ■ s The March term of ComiAissionets court is held next week. k Dowell, of Francesville, is up and ■ around as well as ever. ,He is \,a ‘•tough cuss from Bitter Creek.” Zimri Dwiggins of Chicago and Jay Dwiggins of Lowell with- their 1 respective families visited Rensselaer * friends over Sunday. Still the Clothing sale goes on at the Economy Store. Fred W. Job, a rising young- Chicago lawyer was in town over Sunday visiting his college friends in the Thompson and Dwiggins families. Big bargains in toilet soap, cutlery, glassware and queensware. Laßue Bros. Miss Emma Martin is about to move her millinery shop from the Economy store into the room lately occupied by Mrs. Maria Hopkins.; The people of Remington have raised about $5,000 by subscription, towards building a new school house. All honor to their enterprise and public spirit I Charley Meyers, the Wheatfield ' merchant, was in town Tuesday, and ; reports that business in his lively burg g>t a black eye when the bottom dropped out of the hay market a , few weeks ago. i We are making low prices on dried 1 fruits, call and see our stock. Laßue Bros. The revival meetings at the M. E. churclt closed last Sunday, but peri hails will be resumed again, after a I short time. The membership of the : church was increased by nineteen accessions, during the meetings. Buy a cloak now at less than one third what you will pay next fall. Economy Store Co. Fritz Zard, son of Fred Zard, will , hereafter have the* management of A. ; McCoy’S big farm, in Hanging Grove tp., which W. W. Kenton hhs so long ! been in charge of. Mr. Kenton moves : upon his own recently purchased : land, in that township. I J. H. Childers, of west Jordan, ini tends to make a sale of personal prop- : erty on Tuesday, March 5. He has sold his farm, in Jordan and bought one in Carroll county, although he I will not get possession of the latter . until next year. Col. Terrell, of the U. S’ I regular army, was in town last Friday looking after some Land his family have owned in Union tp., for the last .30 or 40 years. The colonel, who .was a distinguished officer during ' the late war, was also a warm personal friend and a great admirer of Gen. Milroy. i Sunday n ight when certain members of Mrs. S. A. Hemphill’s family returned home from church, thev found a flourishing fire in progress, under and around the dining room stove. At was promptly extinguished, with .a ' damage to the floor and carpet of not more than five dollars. It was a pretty close escape from a destructive fire.

! • Mr. J. D. Brusnahan and his new bride, nee Miss Martha, J, English, (laughter of John English, of Barkley tp., departed for their home at Rockford, Spokane county, Washington Thrr., last Tuesday. The ! young man became acquainted with his bride during her late visis to her friends in Washington. The Re publican will keep them informed on Jasper couiity matters.

O. B. Mclntire, of Remington, was jin town Tuesday, and talked enthusi iastieally regarding the prospects of i the place in Alabama, to which he 1 intends to remove at a very early' I day. D. M. Nelson, the Ex-County also intends remov- ; ing to the same place. Alfred Thompson, of this place, who went south with Mr. Mclntire, a few weeks since, invested largely in the place to which Mr. Mclntire is about to go, and the latter thinks so well of the prospects that he says he would give Mr. Thompson a bonus of $6,000 for his bargain. '• A

Wm. M. Wood is very sick with the lung fever. Ex-Sheriff Yeoman’s business id Lowell is prospering’ so well that this week he has removed his family there and become a permanent resident. The meetings at the Presbyterian chiirch still continue, Dr. , Wells having. concluded to remain another week. The meetings are attended by very large and very interested congregations, and the nnmber of those who have expressed a desire to unite with the church is constantly growing larger. A butcher shop; an open door; cut beef in chunks of pound or more; slab-sided dog slips in so sly; grabs two big hunks and out does fly.. Big Butcher John, back door comes through, then swears at dog, till air turns blue. Then gets big club, stands back of door, but dog too smart to come for more.

The Republican received a telegram from Medaryville last Thursday, but too late for publication, announcing that gas had been struck the day before, on J. R. Guild’s farm in Gillam tp., at the depth of 50 feet; and also stating that the gas, when set on fire, would burn with a flame 30 feet high and 15 feet wide. Residents of Gillam tp., who have visited Rensselaer since last Thursday confirm the report of the striking of gas, but .they were not informed at to the magnitude. It is safe to conclude however, that, like all similar finds so near the surface, the flow will soon be Exhausted.

A rather peculiar accident which happened to a new fourteen story building, in Chicago a week ago last Sunday, was telegraphed over the country as a total collapse of the building. The facts of the case were lowever, that the accident was not at all serious, the total damage not being over S6OO in amount; but the very ill-natured comments made upon the accident under the false assumption that the wreck was total, by certain papers in Indianapolis, must have been inspired by a small spirit of jealorfs envy, and were anything but creditable, and still less creditable was the failure upon the part of the offending papers to correct the false information, when the true facts became known.

Bert Hutson, in the role of “stern patient” forbade the marriage of his daughter Inez to Billey Grant, the dashing lover, and with stony heart and .purpose grim, put a clinch on the command by locking up the distressed damsel’s finest dress in the lower-most depths of his iron bound trunk and then forgot the combination. But even this rigorous measure could not forever separate these, loving hearts and on Saturday evening, while suspicion slept, the young lady quietly stepped out of the doof met the waiting lover near at hand and together they repaired to the fresidence of Rev'. Ferguson and were married even before their flight had been discovered. Mr. Hutson, like the sensible man that he is, accepted the inevitable, gave the young couple his parental blessing and remembered the combination to the trunk lock.

The electric light plant is to occupy the lot near the school house upon which the gas company bored their experimental welL The well will be utilized to supply . the engine with water. The big new engine and boiler for the light plant has been placed on Ute site, but is not yet in its proper location. In' addition to this Mr. Ferguson has also moved to the same place the engine and boiler with which the burned mill w'as formerly operated. This, we understand,, will be used to furnish power for the lights in case the larger engine gets out of order, in any manner. This second engine is an excellent thing as otherwise it might sometimes happen that the town would be left in darkness, for a greater or less length of time, in case of accident to the en , gine. With a second engine for such emergencies such a contingency is very unlikely to happen.

W. J. Miller, the painter, is back from Michigan. Feast of the Lanterns, at the Opera House, next Wednesday evening. Col. Geo. W. Freidley, of Crawfordsville, and well known as the attorney for the Monon road, and also a prominent* Republican politician, dropped dead with heart disease Tuesday, in Bloomington, this state. Judge Morgan had a wedding yestefday, at Charley Platt’s residence, on Van Rensselaer street. The parties wefe Miss Christina M. Kissinger and Mr. John C. Reed. Kissinger is now Reed and Reed is now Kissmg’er, and that is the long and short, of it

Charley Brown, of Milroy tp., was brought before Judge Morgan yesterday afternoon, on the charge of bastardy, preferred by Mrs. Sarah T. Eldredge, a grass widow. The child was bora several! months ago. The defendant. was bound over to the circuit court, in the sum of SSOO, w hich was given. He is a widower. Matters look a Tittle as though Rev. B. F. Ferguson had got a corner on the matrimonial business. lie had three weddings within a little more than 24 hours, ending with last Sunday evening, while none other of the resident clergyman had a single one.

Rusco & Swift’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin Company exhibited in the Opera House, last Wednesday night. The audience packed the house, front, rear and galleries. This is a very good company, and has exhibited in Rensselaer before, Their version of Unde Tom is ran rather too much into burlesque to suit the tastes of the more fastidious; but it seems to strike the popular chord. A. feature of this company’s present aggregation is an elderly mulatto, who is said to be the only and original George Harris. He made a short but very interesting address to the autftence, not the. least sensible part of which was an expression of re? joicing over the election of Harrison and Morton. The members of the company nearly all of them support their parts well, and the donkey especially, is an ornament to his profession.

Faith in the ground hog is like any other superstition, in that one apparent confirmation, counteracts the effects of a dozen failures, in the minds of those who believe in it. The present winter is $ case in point. It has been more than usually mild and fine winter weather since the 2nd of February, but still there has been a little bad weather since that date, and on the whole, it has been more severe than during the preceding part of the winter. In short, Feb. 2nd was a clear day and there has been enough severe weather since then to keep in robust health the faith of those who believe that six weeks of fiard winter always follows a clear ground hog day. At the same time, there has been a sufficiency of good weather to have had the same effect upon the ground hog believers, had the day happened to have been cloudy. And thus it is with all superstitions. The facts which seem to confirm them are retained, those which disprove are rejected.