Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1889 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

Don’t fail to see tlie~ram-bow. Zepher Dress Ginghams at Ellis & Manay*' A new girl at Harry Wilkshire’s since last Frida}'. Go to Ellis & Murray’s for summer clothing. Fire made to burn under water, Friday evening. Look put for bargains ,at Priest & Paxton’s. Sheriff Blue has done a good job in mowing the court house yard with a lawn mower.

FARMERS. Sell your wheat and buy the Michigan Flour of Priest & Paxton. See water turned into wine, and wine into water at the Opera House, Friday evening. The largest and cheapest line of embroideries ever shown in Rensselaer, at Ellis Si Murray’s. Do not fail to see the rain-bow tableau at the Electrical Entertainment On Friday evening. Never before were we so well prepared to give you bargains in boots and shoes. llemiuiill & Honan. Prof. Wilson, manager of a big art school in t Danville, 111., visited his friends, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Brown, last Monday.

The finest assortment of Carpets in town, is at A. Leopold’s. Call and see them, whether you wish to buy or not. See the electric dancing babies, see the electric spiral flash, see the Geisler and auroral illuminated electric tubes at the Opera House. Friday evening. Shoes for the infants, shoes for the children, shoes for the boys and girls, shoes for pap and mam at Hemphill & Honan’s.

E. O. McCormick has resigned as general passenger agent of tlie Monon and accepted a similar position in the Cincinnati, Hamilton Dayton Ry. Co. The Flower Mission Society will have flowers on sale at Ellis Murray’s for Commencement. Beautiful baskets and also a few choice cut flowers. The long talked of and long prepared for, “Milkmaids’ Cantata” will be given by the members of the Choral Union, of the M. E. church, on Wednesday evening, June sth, Monday was a big day in the “New Oklahoma,” as Mr. Leopold sold seven lots in his" Addition, on that day. Four to Peter Wagner, two to Peter Giver, one to Anna* Mossmiller and one to John C. Hodshire.

Waited. —ln the next ten days, a car load of Poultry and eggs, and for which riill pay the"very highest prices in cash, at my stand on Front street. Don’t fail to call and see me. - J. K. Smith. Don't fail to attend the Experimental Entertainment at the Opera House, on Friday evening, May 17th, given by Prof. F. W. lieubelt and the members of the Senior class. The proceeds go to the Library and Laboratory.

It will pay one, it will pay all, to attend the Experimental Entertainment, at the Opera House, Friday evening, as many fine experiments will be performed, and their explanation given, so that much valuable knowledge may be gained by those who attend, A Leopold has just received one of the finest stocks of Summer-cloth-ing, consisting of Alpaca coats and vests, of all Tcfflofs. Trap-to-dae coats and vests; Seersucker and Seaside Linens. Call soon as they will be sold at such low prices as will astonish you.

Do not let any person stay away from the Electrical Entertainment thinking the exercises will be appreciated by the students of physics and chemistry only, that the scientific will be the only ones benefitted, but come and every explanation necessary to the full understanding of the experiments will be given. Everything will be made plain. Some 6f the experiments wifi suggest their own explanation. Yon will be greatly benefitted by being present You can’t afford to stay away.

The rain-bow at th& Opera House. Friday evening. ~ Everything in men’s and 4 boys summer at Ellis & Murray's. See water and wine poured from the same pitcher at the same time, at the Opera House, Friday evening. FLOUR • Flock! Flour! Michigan White Wheat flour sold by Priest & Paxton, only 7 Mind, valuable and practical information can be gotten by attending the Experimental Entertainment tomorrow evening. Boots and Shoes can be obtained at Leopold’s for at least 25 per cent, less than at any other house. All goods warranted. Maud Lally, Miss Forbes, Daisy Reed, Jas. Forbes, Frankrllardy and Bert Van Voorst, of Remington, were the guests of Miss Gertie Clark, last Sunday. No lady can afford to miss calling on Ray Leopold and examining her stock of Dress Goods, Shawls, and ladies’ and children’s Hosiery, in all grades and at the lcpyest prices. • Miss Laura Rathfop, who taught in the Rensselaer schools last year, is now teaching in South Cliicago, a big suburb of that big city. There are 55 teachers in the school.

A writer in the Delphi Journal from the Milk River Valley, Montagives that much advertised region a very bad send off. It is a mighty good place to stay away from according to the writer, aforesaid. The weather during a poition of last week was uncommonly hot for the time of year. On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday the thermometer was above the nineties every day. Brisk winds however, tempered the heat to the unshorn lambs. The funeral of Anthony Leuers, a German citizen, was held at the Catholic church last Saturday. His death occured on Frida} 7 . He leaves a widow apd several children. He lived in Marion township, south of Rensselaer.

Jasper County item in Goodlapd Herald: Mr.'Lacy Alter, who left' this count} 7 to join the Oklahoma boom, writes to a brother here that he got there just in time to secure a claim. He says that thousands who failed to get claims are pulling out for other localities, with teams, afoot and on horseback. > Rev. E. G. Pelley reached home last Friday, after a week’s absence. A portion of the week was devoted to resting and feasting »with his friends, but a larger portion was given to an extensive trip through the west and northwest, during which he went almost to Denver, Colorado, and to North Forks, in Dakota,

—The Indianapolis .Tourirat saysthat * “Superintendent Woodard, of the L. X. A. A C. Ry-- waited Until all its competitors had got out their timetables and then made his schedule 15 minutes quicker than either of the other roads between Chicago and Indianapolis.” The “Old Man” is about as slick as they make ’em. Rochester Republican: Judge Slick, of Chicago, was here this morning lie has considerable interest in the Rochester, Rensselaer A St. Louis Railway, and he says the prospects for its immediate construction are very flattering, but cannot say positively until after the meeting of the stockholders at Wmamac on the 13th inst.

Two or three notable weddings are on the tapis, and while we are, “naming no names,” we may remark that if the school board finds itself obliged to hire a new teacher for next year, to fill a place made vacant by Cupid’s arrows, it will be only a repetition of a familiar experience. Neither will a wedding in the sheriffs residence be an event wholly without precedent The graduating class of the Rensselaer high school, is six in number, this year, Nellie G. Coen, Allie Kinney, Walter S. Willey, Eddie W. Irwin, Arthur S. Nowels and Lerie O. Wilson. Miss Coen took the first honors of the class and will be the valedictorian, at the coming graduation exercises. Miss Wilson took the second place, with the honor of delivering the salutatory.

Every person that desires can take an electric shock, tomorrow evening. New stock spring jackets at Ellis & Murray’s. Clothing sold on time at A. Leopold’s. Get your tickets at Hardman’s Jeweliy store for the experimental entertainment, tomorrow night. We still continue to make best cabinet photos at $2.50 per dozen. .—• J. C. Williams. - Rev,. Ferguson went to Chicago Tuesday, to- visit Mrs. Ferguson, whom lie found to be making excellent progress. A fine display of buggies at C. A. Roberts’ agricultural store. Call and examine and learn prices before purchasing elsewhere.

We arc sorry to have to state that James Yeoman’s mental afflictions have returned and that application has been made for his reception in the Logan sport asylum. It is stated that the Standard’ll Company will establish the largest oil refining works in the world, in Lake county, this shite, and, of course, near Chicago— Yankee Nichols, of Barkley tp., has had his pension increased from $8 up to S3O. Harrison Cooper, of Union tp., has also had an increase, from $lO to sl6, in his case. The work of extending the electric light facilities to those who have not heretofore been served, is now in progress. The popularity of the lights with those heretofore supplied, increases every day. Wiukley’s • paper at Mon on lias winked out. A single number of which was issued several weeks ago, and since when nothing has been jseen or heard of the paper. The number which #ai~ishued was printed iu some other place. North Judson had the biggest fire in its history, on Wednesday of last week. It was not a $25,000 blaze, however, as reported in the daily j papers, but a pretty big one Tor all that. The loss was about SB,OOO with insurance of $3,000.

The entertainment by the mein- ; bers of the Rensselaer schools, for the benefit of the school library and lab* [oratory, at the opera House, last ; Friday evening, was very good, of ; its kind, and well patronized, although ! interfered with somewhat, by unfavlorable weather. The gross receipts i werein c&cess of fifty dollars.

Dr. McMellen, specialist in the treatment of diseases of the eye treats all diseases of the eye with medicine and has been successful where many eminent oculists have failed, and in no case has ever injured an eye. Will visit Rensselaer every two- weeks: Dates of next visit. May 23, 21. Office with Mrs. Mary E. Hopkins, on Front Street. Miss Kate Drexel. one of the three wealthy sisters of that name, in Philadelphia, has entered as a postulate in the Catholic order of Sisters of Mercy. At the end of six months she can finally renounce the world and become a full member of the order or she can withdraw from it entirely. She is, as most of our readers will remember, one of the young ladies who endowed the Indian School at this place.

A neighboring exchange says: | “One of our prominent church members who has an over-weening desire to get rich, saw an advertisement ! which promised that on receipt of 15 cents the advertiser would in return send a receipt for making money rapidly, lie sent the 15 cents and bv return mail received the reply: ‘Catch d d suckers like we do.’ He told a friend about it and said he would thank somebody to .kick him all over tnwp, The elocutionary entertainment, !in the Opera House, last Thursday evening, by Mrs. Lucia Martin, of Indianapolis, did not draw a very large house, and in fact, the Ladies Literary Society, under the auspices of which the entertainment was given, was left in the soup to the extent of a few dollars, for expenses. As an elocutionist and dramatic reader Mrs. Martin has many strong ]x>ints and is especially excellent in humorous selections.

John Eger has just. presented bis wife with 3 splendid •new. Weber* piano, which was received this week. 7 For a first class smoke ; go to Ed. Pa rcells’barber shop. He makes a specialty of the Mascott and K. of F. ■ The newly married couple, Mr. and Mrs. Yanice, nee Miss Birdie Daugherty, left Monday for Monori, which is their place of residence. Alfred Thompson, one of the local stockholders in the R. R. & St. L. Ry. Co., expects to attend the stockholders’ meeting, at Winamac, to-day.

Wm. 11. Smiley has been appointed postmaster at Wheatfield, to succeed Douglas Clark, resigned. It will be a very popular appointment among the patrons of the office. A report appeared in the daily papers of last Friday, that Will Johnson, of Fair Oaks, and son of 51. F. Johnson, bad been shot in Oklahoma. We have not learned whether the report has been confirmed or not. Lafayette may lose her car-works. The company has received good offers from three other cities, and if Lafayette doesn’t get up and dust the car-works will, and the dust will be

kicked into the eyes of Star City residents.—lndianapolis Sun. The condition of Archibald Purcupile,. which was apparently beyond hope for several days previous, took a turn for the better, Monday, and is now quite hopeful. His sons, Frank, from Brooklyn, and Ed. from Connecticut, are now visiting him. The services at the Church of God next Sunday morning Ivill be conducted by R. S. Dwiggins. The subject of his discourse will be “The Commencement of the Ministry of our Lord and Savior; what he preaehed about first.” The postmaster-general has issued an order modifying postal regulations so that hereafter letters not stamped will be forwarded to those addressed, from whom postage will be collected. Heretofore notice of postage due has been sent out and the mail withheld.

Lafayette Courier: Prosecutor Hay wood states that with the filing of the last batch of tax suits on Monday, the larger number of cases have been put on record. Altogether over 400 have been filed, and there will probably be forty or fifty more. A vigorous contest is expected in the prosecution of some of the suits, and Mr. Haywood has engaged the services of Hon. R. P. Davidson to assist him in all of them. Last Saturday evening the graduating exercises of the schools of barkley tp., were held tet the Burns school -Rouse. The graduates were Mary. C. Jenkins, Lizzie Reed, Eflie Cowden and Rosette Hurley. Besides the essays of the graduates the exercises consisted of music, recital tions <fec. Superintendent Warren was present and delivered the diplomas.

Lafayette Courier: In the case of Stockton vs. Stockton in. the Superior Court, over the ownership ..of real estate and the grocery stock in West Lafayette, which has been held under advisement for some time by Judge Everett, was on Friday decided in favor of Mrs. Stockton, as to the ownership of all the real estate in dispute and also as to a portion of the grocery stock. As to the balance of stock, wlnclfis claimed by a son of Mr. Stockton, Frank Stockton, the question of ownership is still under advisement.

The Reftblican’s job department has just turned out another fine piece of brief work for Judge Hammond. It is in fire case of Geo. R. Faylor vs. the L. N. A. <fe C. Ry. Co., which the company lias appealled to the Supreme Court* Faylor was badly hurt in the well remembered stock train wreck, at Cedar Lake, in the fall of 1886. He sued the company, and the case was tried in White county, on change of venue. The jury* gave him a $5,000 verdict which was cut down, by his consent^to $3,000, in order that a motion for a new trial should not be granted. The attorneys associated with Judge Hammond, on the side of Faylor, are Wm. B. Austin, of Rensselaer, and Alfred W. Reynolds and Emory B. Sellers, of Monticello. Every mother should sec the stock of boys’ suits at Ellis k Murray’s.

The F. W. Baptist* church is now lightcdby electricity, and wRh most satisfactory results. : It is conceded that Priest A Paxton’s Michigan Winter Wheat' Flour has the lead. , See tfiß Electrical Executions, illustrative of the New York process, at

the Opera House, Friday evening. Talk about Clothing 1 Just call at Leopold’s and look at styles and qualities ami learn prices. Uncle Billy Carmichael, of Mt. Ayr, father of John C. Carmichael, of this place, is thought Jo be in a dying condition, from dropsy.

Wool Wanted. —For which the highest market price will be raid. See mk he folk selling. J. R. Smith, Work on the new church has been suspended for want of hard brick for the outside course. The interruption will probably continue for about two weeks. "—'*7t - ; —~—• —§ ~———- 1 ir . nf ' —— -- The baccalaureate sermon, to the high school graduates, will be preached- next Sunday, at 2 p. m. at the Opera HousCyby Dr. Tuttle, President of Wabsjßli College. ~~ A much needed rain, which appears to have been general in its extent, visited this section Sunday night. There was great need for the rain as the ground had become exceedingly dry and many cisterns were becoming empty. , i In the mad race for the biggest list of marriages performed, between Rev. Ferguson and Justice Jim Morgan, the clerical gentleman led the judicial by several laps, at last accounts, but it must be admitted that he has kept the lead by virtue of some pretty cheap work. For instance his emoluments for one job, recently performed, was only 25 cents. The Squire can’t get much under that figure unless he will do the work for nothing and throw in a shave for the groom and an extra kiss for the brides; and whatever inducements he may offer, Mr. Ferguson’s backers are confident that their champion will meet them and go them one better.

A good many parents of school children can find some valuable suggestions in the solo wing clipping from an exchange; “Before listening to the complaints of j our children about the partiality and general fiendishneess of their teachers, and getting all worked up and excited over it, it is better to reflect a little. Remember that your one or half-a-dozen cherubs drive you crazy about half the time, and bear with the teacher who is making fgr you intelligent meq and women of as unpromising material as you were yourseirtwentyor thirty yeafs agd.' Remember that besides your boy, who, of course, everybody knows is an angel, she has to contend with that awful boy of your neighbor’s, and you know full well what a terror he is.”

Auditor Robinson was in Indianapolis last Saturday, mainly for the purpose of learning what could be learned regarding the school fund money to be distributed as soon as the finding loan, authorized last winter, can be realized upon. It was the opinion of the state officers that | the money should be ready for distribution to the several counties some time in June. The amount each county is to receive is based upon the vote cast for Secretary of State, in 1888. This vote in Jasper county was 2,687, And the amount alloted for each vote will be $7.28£. This will give this county a total.of $19,481.51, which will be loaned out, on farm property, at 6 per cent, interest, the same as other school-fund uionty.