Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1889 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

Rex Hats are made in soft or stiff. Billy Wood, the constable, is recovering from the lung fever. He has had a pretty tough time. Call and see our new line of chamber sets, the finest we could buy in the city. Pkiest <fc Paxton. A daughter was born at George Nicholson’s, across the river, last Thursday. i S. O. Duvall and wife, of Chicago, visited their brother, J. W. Duvall and family, over Standay. Hemphill and Honan have just received a beautiful stock of Millinery. Mrs. Sarah Arnold, lately of Indianapolis, is visiting in the family of her cousin, Prosecuting Attorney Marshall. Try Priest & Paxton’s sugar cured hams, something fine. Miss Hattie Webb, of Hillsdale, county, Michigan, is visiting her relatives, Sheriff Blue’s and M. E. Baylor’s families. Ladies: See the new Hading Vailing at Hemphill & Honan’s. Mr. Geo. A. Lowman, of Marion tp., and Miss Rebecca Nichols, daughter of Yankee Nichols, of Barkley tp., were married last Saturday, by Squire Morgan, in his office. Every Rex Hat is branded on the sweat band. The ladies of, the Presbyterian Industrial Society are preparing to give , the ()p-pie-retta ‘‘Four and twenty Blackbirds,” in the Opera House, on Friday evening, March, 15. The latest styles of vailing, the Hading at Hemphill & Honan’s. Rev. B. F. Ferguson will preach in the F. W. Baptist church, next 1 Sunday morning. Subject: The Or-1 dinance of Baptism. After the ser-' v ices the rite of baptism will be ad- • ministered to several candidates. Rex Hats are guaranteed as represented. The removal to town of Chas. M. J Paxton left vacant the office of I Township Assessor, in Newton tp., i and Auditor Robinson has worthily ' filled the place, by the appointment of Chas. A. Dean. He will hold the office for two years. New spring millinery now at Hemphill <fc Honan’s. E. D. Rhoades Went to Chicago last' Thursday and ordered the uniforms ' for the fire company. He bought ■ 4 helmets, 26 caps and 30 belts. They ! have to be manufactured to order • and a week or two will elapse before ■ they are received. If you want a good cup of Coffee buy a package of our celebrated Kot- j asa coffee. Priest & Paxton. Fred Phillips having been tendered an engagement with Rusco & Swifts ' Uncle Tom’s Cabin Company, left Tuesday morning to join the company at , Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. Fred’s brother, Will Phillips, h&s long been a leading member of the company. „ Dr. J. 11. Loughridge went up to Fair Oaks Tuesday to.: visit the 10 year old son of Wm. Helsel.. He is in a very desperate condition as the result of an injury on the knee, received two weeks or so ago, by a fall on the ice. We, understand that the injuries are very likely to result fatally. Mdses and Eliza Tuteur left for Peoria, 111., Monday, called by the intelligence of the death of their brother-in-law. Max Weil, husband of their sister Sarah, which occurred on the morning of that day. The cause of his death was Bright’s disease. Mr. Weil’s marriage took place no longer ago than in November last The state cases in the Newton circuit court are set for trial this week. Among them is that of Jack McDowell,the drunken ruffian who did the indiscriminate shooting, a few miles from Thayer, last September, lie has been out on bail during most of the time since the shooting, and has availed himself of the privilege his liberty afforded by marrying one of the most important witnesses in the case. A pretty shrewd move.

J. 11. Baylor and son Elwood, of Portland, Oregon, are visiting M. E. Baylor, brother of the former. " Give the Rex Hat a trial. It will please you. . , *~ Mrs. Clias. W. Coen has been suffering greatly with the rheumatism, for some time past. Rex Hats —newest shape—&oft or stiff. David C. Makeever started day for his home at Knobnoster, Missouri, after a stay here of about two months. Every Rex Hat is branded on the sweat band. Marriage licenses since last week. . ’ ( George A. Lowman, | Rebecca Nichols. | Wm. A. Gibbs, ( Cora A. Smith. For style and quality Rex Hats arc the best. Frank Osborne has resumed outdoor work on his spacious new resi dence, on Divission street, and with a few more days of fine weather will have it enclosed. -x , Try a Rex Hat and you will never buy any other make. The Benton county bar has petitioned the Legislatu re to extend the term of the Benton circuit court to four weeks, claiming that Yor the want of tune many cases are carried over from term to term. We are sole agents in Rensselaer for the Rex Hat. Ellis <fc Murray.

The post-of fee at Goodland was lately made a presidential office, and a little while before the democratic administration expired, A. J. Kitt, the then incumbent, was renominated to the office and the nomination confirmed by the Senate. Come, buy a pound of our evaporated raspberries. Something delicious. Priest & Paxton. Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Ilenkle request us, through the columns of The lUkWcak, to express their gratUftfr thanks and appreciation of the great' kindness and sympathy shown them by tlieir many friends in Rensselaer,'during their late sad affliction. We keep the finest Drum Head cabbage in town. 6 cents per head. Priest <fc Paxton. M» A. Makeever, now of Valparaiso and his new bride, nee Miss Ida Childers, are visiting their friends and relatives in Rensselaer and vicinity. Their wedding took place on Tuesday of last week, at Valparaiso, at which place Mr. Makeever is now engaged in teaching. Just a few more tickets left on our sls prize. Come buy $1 worth of goods and secure the lucky number. Priest & Paxton. The subject of the denominational sermon at the Baptist ch urch, next Sunday morning, will be k *The Organic Elements of the Christian Church.” The sermon will be an attempt to define the essential characteristics of a scripturally valid church organization. The usual gospel services at night. All are invited. Lawrence Baker, son of Win. Baker, of a few miles north of town, has secured a situation in an art establishment in Chicago, at good wages. The young man’s natural predelictions have always been very strongly, for an artistic career, and for which he is said to have always evinced remarkable talents. It is not unreasonable to predict that he will achieve a marked success in his chosen field of labor. ! To the People:—We will make it pay you to call and see us when you want anything in our line. Respct. Priest A Paxton. L* T. Kirkpatrick, of Kokomo, was in town yesterday to take depositions in a law case. Mr. Kirkpatrick, besides practicing law, discharges the, ' with that, rather incongruous functions of a Sunday-School superintendent, and a very notable fact Connected therewith, is that the Sunday School over which he firesides is. i with one exception, the largest in the I world of any appertaining to the Christian church. Its m embership h upwards of 500.

Twenty-three persons went from Fowler to witness the Inauguration. They had a special car. The property offerai at J. T. Hall’s sale in Union tp., last Friday, went off with a rush, and at big prices. S. N. Stevens, reading clerk in the Senate Chamber, Indianapolis, was the guest of Dr. C. R, Eddy and w ife, oyer Sunday.

/ Two shares of stock in the Rensselaer Building, Loan <fc Savings Association for sale. Paid up to date. Enquire at this office. Mattie Cissel, daughter of Rev. J. H. Cissel, presiding elder of the Lafayette district of the M. E. church, died lately at her father’s residence with typhoid fever. She was 16 years of age. The new bank at Brookston is in full blast. Vai Seib, cashier of the Citizen’s State Bank, of Rensselaer, Is president, and Mr. Barnes, lately connected with the Wabash Valley Bank, at Covington, is cashier. Uncle Billy Reed, southwest of town, is going to quit farming and will sell his stock and implements at public sale, March 15. His sons, Natlian J. and Wesley have gone into the meat business at West Lebanon.

Shorty Simpson, the Town Marshal, says that it is through no fault of his that so many of the street lamps are now unlighted. The town Board, it seems, have concluded not to buy any more gasoline, in expectation of an early inauguration of the electric light system. . Monticello is now reaching out after electric lights, water-works and a new railroad. The Herald thinks there is.danger of losing all in trying to grasp too much, and advises concentrating all efforts on the electric lights, as the iriost feasible of the three enterprises. The town of Minneapolis, Colorado, in which several of our ex-citi-zens are so largly interested, has ceived a blackeye, in that a rival town has been made ' the temporary county-seat, of the newly established county, a choice which Minneapolis was ambitious for.

South Bend Times: Residents of Northern Indiana who have Michigan matrimonial proclivities are interested in the fact that the Michigan Senate has passed a bill making the marriage license law applicable only to residents. Under the present law residents of other states are not required to take out a license to marry when they come over to the Michigan lirfe. < Emmet Kannal bought a young trotting stallion, during his recent trip to Kentucky, and expects its arrival in a few days. It is of extra fine breeding/ and already strongly evinces his trotting proclivities, although only a year old. The colt is said to be a beauty in appearance, is a bright bay in color, marked with one white foot and a-’Star on forehead and a stripe on the nose. Our local horsemen will watch for the advent of the colt with eager interest An exchange says: “If we were to | put a two-line local in the most ob- : scure corner of the paper, which ; stated that a certain business man charged more for his goods or kept an inferior quality than his competitors, that man would employ a bullheaded slugger to come around and kill us the next morning. But if we I were to ask that same man for an advertisement of his wares he would 'say: I don’t believe in adver- • tising; no one reads the paper.’” I H, E. James has removed with his family to Hariimond, this state, where he again enters the newspaper field. He has entered into a business relation with A. A. Winslow, and will henceforth have an interest and assist in the publication of the syndi-

cate of papers established and now published by Mr. Winslow, namely: . The Hammond Tribune, The Lowell Tribune, The Hobart Tribune and The Hegewisch, 111., Journal. To these it is intended to add a paper in i East Chicago, a new suburb of Chii cago, about 2 or 3 miles northeast from Hammond. ■ r

A. E. Kirk’s sale in town last Saturday, was not very satifactory, the horses especially, failing to secure satisfactory bids. Work on the electric light plant is now proceeding with a rush, both in placing the engines and boilers in| position and upon the building itself. Ed. Randall and Moms Thomas are about to open a butcher shop, in in Geo. Hollingsworth’s room, adjoining Hardman’s jewelry store.

The 2500 foot well at Crown Point is to go still deeper. Theprice per foot for the next 100 feet is $6, and 75 cents per foot increase for each additional 100 feet Two or three parties of Children from the Cincinnati Orphans’ Home have already’been disposed of at Monticello, and another i»rty will be there on the 12th inst Sheriff Blue is not exactly in the, saloon business, although he is now in possession of a saloon. It is the oue in Wheatfield; lately run by Au-' gust Krull, and has been taken on an execution for debt. The elegant new seats for the Presbyterian church have arrived and are being put in position.. Interesting rededicatory services will be held at the church, next Sunday, for notice of which see elsewhere in this paper. The fire and the school house bells were shipped from Cincinnati last Saturday. The former weighs 459 lbs., and costs $97.24; and the latter weighs 729 lbs., and costs $1,71.26. It will be no small job to mount the school house bell. Seldorii of late years have the roads in Jasper county been in a worse condition than now. To illustrate: Commissioner Taber, in coming from Remington Monday morning, was obliged to put in over four hours in making the 12 miles between the two towns.

Moses Monroe, of Newton county, who has been furnished with free accommodations in the Jasper county jail for the last five or six weeks, was taken to Kentland for trial, this week. He is charged with pettit larceny, such as robbing clothes lines of their fruitage, <fcc. Moses says he don’t care what the court does with him so long as it stops short of hanging and refrain from putting at him the ancient conundrum of “Where was Moses when the light went out.” Grace M., the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Henkle, former residents of Rensselaer, died last Sunday, at St. Johns. Ind., where Mr. Henkle is now filling the position of station agent,’on the Monon Route. The baby’s age was exactly 5 months. The remains were brought to Rensselaer for burial, the funeral being held Monday at 3 o’clock p. m., at the residence of Dr. J. H. Loughridge. Rev. B. F. Eerguson conducted the religious services.

The Stockholders in the Building and Loan Association should remember the annual meeting tp be held in the court Monday night, the 11th inst. The* important duty of choosing three directors to serve for three years, and to succeed M. F. Chilcote, Hiram Day and Addison Parkison, will be devolved upon the meeting. In addition to this, full reports of the workings of the association for the first year of its existence will be presented. Stockholders who take a proper interest in the welfare of the association should make it a special poiiU'to be present. Null Harris, a former resident of 1 of Carpenter tp., died near kGood--1 land one day last week, after a short illness. He will be remembered, by ihany people in this vicinity, as the 1 person who passed several weeks in, ■ the county jail last summer, on a

sentence for trespass we believe, procured at the suit of his wife her friends. The Goodland Herald, in announcing Iris death, states that he told a story of bad treatment on the jmrt of his wife which savored .of systematic persecution; and the HerI aid says that it understands that his friends propose to investigate the ■latter. x

The monthly social and meeting of the Mite Society, of the F. W. Baptist church will be held at the residence of Mrs. E. M. Parcells, Friday evening. Dr. “Washburn’s old house has been torn down, preparatory to the erection of his new one. Work on the latter will begin at an early day. Frank Osborne has the contract for the carpenter work. J. R. Smith, late of Fairbury, UL has just moved to Rensselaer, with his family. He will engage in handling poultry, <fcc., in Judge Healy’s building, on Front street.. As a residence he will occupy the McCormick house, in Benjamin’s Addition. " The nightly meetings at the M. E. church, were resumed Sunday night, with the assistance of Frank Long, an evangelist from' Chicago, and Rev. Cooper a venerable worker from Michigan. Mr. Cooper still remains but Mr. Long returned to Chicago yesterday.

W. P. Rea, a boot and shoe traveling man from Chicago, met with a painful accident last Thursday evening. He had just come in from Mt Ayr with a livery team, with his sample trunks in the back part of the buggy. In taking them to the depot the king-bolt of the buggy broke, as the vehicle struck the crossing near J. W. Williams’residence. The front wheels drew out of course and let front of the buggy fall to the ground. The men and the trunks were thrown

forward and out of the buggy, and one of the heavy trunks fell upon Mr. Ilea; bruising him very severely in various parts of 1 his body. He returned to the, Makee ver • House for the night and the next day went back to Chicago to lay up for repairs. Excepting the injuries to Mr. Rea the accident did not result in any damages worth mentioning. All who are in need Of dried or canned fruit should call at Laßue Bros. They are giving special bargains. i

A sad coincidence was the death, in Gillam tp., last Monday morning, only a few hours apart, of the wife and the 16 year old daughter of Geo. W. Faris. Their disease was a pulmonary trouble, allied to consumption and had been of long duration. Last Friday night Dr. Wells closed his series of meetings in the Presbyterian church, preaching a powerful sermon to a very large and attentive congregation. An interesting feature of the meeting was the presentation to Dr. Wells, at the close of the sermon, of a thank offering, by the congregation, of a purse of >lOl, and in addition to this an elegant

gold-lined silver cup, appropriately inscribed. The presentation speech was made by Mr. W. B. Austin, in a very happy manner and to which Dr. Wells made a fitting and a feeling i-esponse. During Dr. Wells’ meetings here 33 persons have made application for admission to the church, and these include 10 married couples and seven other families. Altogether, a very notable strengthing of this congregation, and over which all good citizens will rejoice.