Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1889 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN.

VOL. XXI,

Locals and Personals.

Misa Nellie O’Donnel, of Delphi, is visiting friends in Rensselaer. «$. For Albatross dress goods, in all shades and prices, call at Jjeopold’s. Remember the big horse" exhibition and stock sale, at Rensselaer, April 12. G whiz Pap! U ’ot to see them air boots and shoes down at Hemphill A Honan’s, they air rip snorters. The sowing of oats was about completed in this section, last week. Nearly a month earlier than common. Never before were we so well prepared to give you bargains in boots and shoes. Hemphill & Honan. J. R. Smith, the poultry and produce dealer, has occupied as a residence Mrs. Martin’s houses on River street. Shoes for the infants, shoes for the children, shoes for the boys and girls, , shoes for pap and mam at Hemphill A Honan’s. Mr. Ulyat, of Milroy tp., son-in-law of Rev. Peter Hinds, is sick with Bright’s disease. His condition, we understand, is very critical. A summer normal school will be held in Rensselaer, this year, as usual. It will open July 15 and be under the principal management of Prof. Reubelt. Long'A Eger are this year handling a paint which far excels any paint ever put upon the market. All local painters recommend it. Give them a trial.

A large quantity of stone for the new church, for comer stones, window, and door sills, buttress caps <fcc., have been received from Ellettsville. They are very fine stones. ISome considerable work yet remains to be done, before the electric light plant is in complete running order, and at least two weeks will elapse before the lights arc put in operation. Mrs. E. P. Honan has secured the services of Miss Ella Buchanan, as trimmer for the ensuing season. Miss Buchanan has had several years experience under the instruction of one of the bestjnilliners in the state, at Logansport. . One of the largest sales of unimproved Rensselaer property, recorded for many years, is the sale, noted in this week’s report Of real estate transfers, of 240 lots in Weston’s and Dwiggins’ Additions, by Zimri Dwiggins to Joseph R. Jackson. Delphi has contracted for another bore for gas. J. J. Rbbinson of Francesville does the work, at $l5O per foot. It is stated that Wright Williams, the divining rod enthusiast, located the well with his little forked stick.

The old “soap . racket” . game was successfully worked in Renpngton ** ■* ' -'"r • and Goodland, last week. That is a more ancient and more obvious swindle than the, so-called, “Skocum Oil” game, of which so many Rensselaer citizens have a very vivid recollection. Wild geese and ducks are now on their travels and the spectacle of a weary hunter trudging into town with a heavy gun on his shoulder and gum boots on his feet is very common. These articles seem to comprise their principal burdens, however, as none of them seem very heavily loaded with game. Lorenzo D. Bright a real-estate dealer of Winamac, was arrested last week, by the Federal authorities and is now under SI,OOO bonds to answer to the charge jfWnding obscene matter through tire mails. He wrote a lot of filthy peters to a woman in Goshen and also to the woman’s husband ; also some to his own wife from whom he is separated/ John T. Sayler, of Newton tp.,met with a seripuS accident last Saturday, while working around his steam wood saw. His right hand accidentally came in contact with the circular saw, and was so badly cut that Drs. Hartsell and Washburn found i/necessary to amputate two fingersV the index and the second. The/thumb and third finger are also brfuly cut, but can be saved.

‘ RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. THURSDAY. APRIL 4,1889.

April 15th is the last day for paying the April installment of taxes. 18,000 Bolts of Wall Paper at Long A Eger’s. ' - Miss Mary Washburn went to Rochester last Monday, to visit relatives. < We still continue to best cabinet photos at $2.50 per dozen. J. C. Williams. Brick-laying on the new Methodist church commenced Monday and is being pushed rapidly forward. For Silks, Satins and Plushes go to A. Leopold’s. No better, larger or finer assortment in the country.

That infallible harbinger of spring, the sassafras peddler, made his appearance in town last Saturday. Insure your life in the old reliable Union - Central. W. W Watson, Agent. The Rev. Dr. McMullen, of Lafayette, is expected to preach at the Methodist church on Sunday. Go and hear the versatile orator. C. C. Landon of Remington has Partridge Cochin chickens and eggs for sale. All high grade birds. Eggs guaranteed to produce show birds. The corner-stone laying, of the new M. E. church, will take place next Monday, and will doubtless be a very interesting and impressive ceremony. W. J. Huff, formerly editor of the Monticello Herald and later of the Valparaiso Vidette, has now bought an interest in a job printing establishment in Indianapolis. Having purchased a mammoth stock of wall paper at slaughtered prices we are going to give customers the benefit of it. Long A Eger. Mr. Hufty, merchant and postmaster at Mt. Ayr, was the victim of a burglary, last week, losing about $35 from his safe. No clue to the robber has been found. The many friends of Miss Tillie Cason, formerly of Wheatfield, and a well known school teacher, will be glad to team that her residence .in San Diego. Cal., is proving very beneficial to her health.

Thirteen applicants for teacher’s license were examined by Superintendent Warren, last Saturday. Those of the number who fail to pass will probably be confirmed in the belief that thirteen is an unlucky number. C. C. Sigler and C. P. Wright have put a stock of groceries into Hollingsworth’s store room, next door to ; Hardman’s jewelry store. The goods are not on sale, at present and are said to have been disposed of to i other parties. Indications continue to multiply that the -stock exhibition and sale day, on April 12, will be a splendid ■ success. It is surely to the interests I of our whole neighboring population, I especially the merchifnts and farmers, to make this sale a success and the precursor of a regular succession of successful market days. Kentland will have a fair this year for sure. The grounds, are immediately adjoining the corporation./The first week in September is the time fixed upon. The Fowler people also are still talking strongly about a fair. By-the-way it Ipoks pretty bad for Rensselaer to drop out of the ranks, •just as these other towns are getting ready to come in.

The new railroad company which is expected to build a road across : this state, along the line of the old ’ Continental, has just changed its name from “American Midland Railway Company” to Newcastle, Fort Wayne and Western Railway Company. This company already has a line completed from Newcastle, Penn., across Ohio to Fort Wiyne, Ind. A good share of the population of Rensselaer must be after Hie postoffice, for the aspirants have agreed to settle the question as to the nominee in a mass convention, to> be held April 6th.—Fowler Nutshell. •Your another, Brother (Chest) Nutshell. There are only six candidates, for the Rensselaer office, all told, and with none of them is it a ground hog case; while Fowler has an even dozen candidates for the post-office, there, and they are all out of meat

Mrs. R. F. Priest is sick with pneumonia. V isit Dr. Horton’s office for the latest in practical teeth fillings Ac. Daniel Waymire, of Jordan township, is on the sick list A gdod brood mare for sale. Enquire of Erastus Peacock. 2t-p. The County Treasurer reports tax collections as being good, just "at present. * - ‘ Persons in heed of work horses are requested to call on A, E. Kirk, as he still has several he wishes to sell. - Every business man and all politicians should hear Dr. Parkhurst on Monday afternoon. Owing to our large discounts on paper this year we are offering it at cost « Long A Eger, Miss Anna Sigler, daughter of Geo. Sigler, and Mr. Lee Hascall were married in the Methodist church, at Mt. Ayr, last Sunday. The rains of Saturday night and Sunday were greatly needed in this vicinity, as the ground was unusually dry for the season of the year. The Rochester Republican intimates that signs of life have been detected in that supposed very dead corporation, the Rochester, Rensselaer A St Louis Railway. 4 Come early and have a large assortment to select from. We are bound to suit you as we have all grades and prices of wall paper. Long A Eger.

So far as we are informed, Williamport, in Warren county, is the o nly town in the state of no greater population than Rensselaer, that is lighted by electricity. Drs. Eddy and Kirk, the veterinarians, have dissolved their partnership. Their “beats” lie in opposite directions, largely, and they have concluded that it would be more advantageous to each work for himself. Joe Sharp, the photographer, who, by-the-way, is still lame, is making a big picture of all the members of the Rensselaer Lodge Knights of Pythias. Joe would like to have the members drop in, as soon as convenient, and get themselves “took.” # Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wolfe wish to express, through the columns of The Republican their sincere sense of gratitude to the many kind friends who gave them sympathy and assistance during the sickness and death of their little son. 8 The Treasurer’s office, in the court house, having been doubled in size and handsomely papered and repainted, is now a very pleasant and commodious room. So fine m fact that no further fears need be entertained by the people, that another good ten- : ant cannot bd found when the present occupant gets move out*.

In sizing up a chronic kicker, an ■ exchange says: “If this paper were i printed on gold and with ink made ■of silver, and the subscription price ; was only 50 cents a year, some poor ; deluded specimen of humanity would I kick because there was not a diamond ■ set in the comer of each page, and ! want the subscription price to be only 25 cents a year.” The Monon Route people arc now laying track on their independent entrance into the city of Indianapolis. They have always got into that city, ; over other company’s tracks, hereto- ’ fore, and at great cost in money and much inconvenience. The new line has cost a deal of money, especially for the right-of-way, but it probably will be worth to the company all that it will cost.

The demand for Indiana stone from the southern part of the Stale promises, this year, to be largely in excess of any fornier one. The L. N. A. & C. is already hauling from stone quarries on its line fifty car-loads of stone a day, most of it going to Chicago and the Northwest, some as far as Omaha. The company expects, when the season fairly sets in, to load 100 cars a day. The stone, which will be used in the soldiers’ monument at Indianapolis, will come from quarries on its line.

M. M. Parkhurst D. D., speaks at the- Opera, House on Monday eve. Clothing sold on time, at A. Leopold’s. Ladies’ fine shoes $1.50 to $5 at Hemphill A Honan’s. H. R. W. Smith, of the Chicago Tribune, is spending a little vacationin this? vicinity. For henriettas in black and other colors, collar silk warp and-silk fur ish, call at A. Leopold’s. Rev. M. L. Tressler is in Chicago, attending the commencement exer®, ewes of McCorihick.Theological Seminary.

Mrs. J. W. Douthit has not been able to take any nourishment whatever, for a week, past, and it is evident that her long sickness is fast nearing its inevitable termination. B. F. Ferguson, superintendent of the electric light company, has not yet gone to Chicago to arrange for a larger dynamo, but will go to-day, nothing occuring to prevent. Marriage licenses since last week. ( Chas. S. Roberts, / Jessie M. Harris. j Wm. H. Deer, I Mary I. Jenkins, Geo. Nicholson, the ex-butcher, has removed to Redkey, a gas town in Jay county. He will run a boarding house and work in a hub and spoke factory. The electric light company has trouble in making the poles stand, in some places across the river. The bed-rock comes so near the surface that there is not sufficient soil to hold the poles.

Married. —Saturday, March 30, 1889, at; the home of the bride’s father, Henry Harris,, in Rensselaer, Miss Jessie M. Harris and Mr. Chas. S. Roberts, of Kentland. Rev. U. M. McGuire, officiating clergyman. Hou. Frank Swigart, of Logansport, is trying some cases in the circuit court, in the capacity of special jujjgjf; Mr. Swigart is a prominent citizen in various ways, being a leading lawyer in Logansport and Vice President for Indiana of the National Protective Tariff League. During the late campaign he was the Republican candidate for presidential elector, for the Tenth Congressional District. The W. C. T. U. met last Friday at Mrs. R. S. Dwiggins and raised their “State Fair Cottage Fund” for Jasper county, and elected Mrs. Smith delegate to the joint county convention which meets April 11, 12 at Goodland. The following resolution was adopted! “Resolved, That we extend our warmest" sympathy to Sister Wolfe in her bereavement, in the loss of her son.” The Society adjourned to meet with Mrs. Berry Pa ris, Friday.

Preparations are being completed for an entertainment, which promises to be of unusual excellence, to be g iven at the Opera House, next Monday evening, April Bth. Some specially fine music, and plenty of it, with an address by Dr. M. M. Parkhurst, D. D., of Greencastle, will be among the leading features of the entertainment Dr. Parkhurst has beep an extensive traveler in foreign lands, and the subject of his talk will be “John Chinaman, at Home and Abroad.” Admission 15 and 25 cents.

Prosecuting Attorney Haywood, of Tippecanoe county, is beginning a large number of suits’ against property owners of that county who are be-! lieved to have made false returns of, their property for taxation. The cases already begun are considered as test cases merely, and the beginning of a long series of suits in that county. They are also believed to be a starter of a movement which will involve monied men in every part of the state. The penalty for a false schedule is a fine of not less than SSO nor more than SSOOO, and the taxes can be collected as far back as 1881. These investigations will be big things for the prosecutors, as they receive a $lO docket fee aihl 10 per cent, of the collections, in each case.

ELLIS I MURRAY. Cheap Store No one need return from the place of departed spirits to tell us that THIS EARLY SPRING! And if you will come in and see our stock of SPRING GOODS you will be convinced we are not behind the season in our lines of DRESS GOODS, I DRESS GOODS, EMBROIDERIES WHITE GOODS, FRENCH AMERICAN SATEENS, SATEENS, GLOVES, HOSIERY, NFOTIOWS, RIBBONS, dfcc. A new line of SPRING JACKETS wjll be in - s i THIS WEEK. We continue to be headquarters for WWinißM ELLIS & MURRAY.

Come in and see the big parade of fine stallions, at the stock exhibition. and sale, on Friday, April 12. Loren Sylvester, manager of the Economy Store, gets about with the j help of a pair of crutches. He has a ■ sprained ankle. Chas. Fagan gives notice to the ■ people of Newton county that he has thought better of it, and will not be a candidate for school superintendent. Kichard McKinstrey, lately of Morocco, is clerking in Long & Eger’s drug store, in the place of B. F. Fendig, who is attending the College of Pharmacy, at Chicago. Ephriam Sayefs, of Union tp., has traded his fine farm for a stock of merchandise and intends to engage in the mercantile business, at Hogan and DeMotte, we are informed. Mr. Wm. H. Deer, of Monon, and Miss Mary I. Jenkins, of Blackford, were married in Rensselaer on Monday last, by Rev. U. M. McGuire, at the residence of Mrs. Jennie Hawkins, on Main street.

The Old Deestrict Skule, in the Opera House last Thursday evening, was one of the most mirth-provoking performances ever given in the town. It two hours of solid fun and the audience enjoyed it, beyond measure. It was given under the auspices of the Ladies Aid Society of the Christian Church. The attendance was very satisfactory, as were also the net profits of the entertainment The : performers were and i the performance too long to ren- ! der practicable any just mention of all, but it will not be considered invidious to mention specially the two youngest “A. B. C.” scholars, Mordecai Chilcote and Abbie Roberts, who, on account of their extreme youth and diminutive size were the recognized favorites, among all the performers. They were dressed in

costumes becoming to their "tender years, and were under the special care and protection of their older sisters and brothers. The combined weight of these two midgets would probably not tip the scales at more than 480 pounds.

Some effort is now being made to call the attention of the right parties to the bed of marble on 11. C. Bruce’s farm, south-east of town. This was discovered .quite a numbdr of years ago, by the parties who drilled the well in the public square, they being prospecting for marble. The bed on the Bruce farm is about 15 feet thick, and lies 15 feet beneath the surface. It is not of the finest quality, but a firm and compact stone, and would, doubtless, be excellent for building purposes.

A resident of Kiowa county, Kansas, writes back to The Republican with two objects in view. ’Primarily he wants.to skin a certain individual whom he suspects of having spoken disparagingly of Greensburg and Kiowa county, and secondly, he wishes to say a word or two in defense of these localities. The skinning process can be dispensed with and what he has to say for the town will take but little space. He says: “We will admit that there are a few vacant houses in our prosperous little city but we will soon have one of the finest salt plants, and then sugar works will soon follow, and they will not be vacant then.” _ a ’ • .. .

Farmers are everywhere combining to fight the conspiracy known as the binding twine trust, and are pledging themselves not to use any binding twine this year, unless it can be bought at a price not above 15 or 16 cents per pound. Some such move as this seems to be the only practicable means of defeating this audacious and conscienceless robbery. In a great many cases the farmers have held county or township meetings and have publicly agreed not to use tiie twine until it is sold at a reasonable price. there has been no such meeting in Jasper county the farmers here are in sympathy with the anti-trust movement, and are almost universally determined to use no twine this year, unless the price comes down, but will bind their grain the old way or stack it loose. T Julies if you wish to see one of the finest stocks of imported dress goods, call at A. Leopold’s.

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