Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1889 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

Amanzo Thomas, of Witoka, Minn., is visiting at M. F. Chilcote’s. Zepher Dress Ginghams at Ellis & Murray’s. Took out fqr bargains at Priest & Paxton’s. Rev. Pelley went to Monon, Tuesday, to attend a district ministerial conference. FARMERS. Sell your wheat and buy the Michigan Flour of Priest & Paxton. Wm. Kitely, an uncle, and Mrs. Kalb, a sister, from Sharon, Wis., are guests of Mrs. M. L. Tressler. The largest and cheapest line of embroideries ever shown in Rensselaer, at Ellis & Murray’s. Mrs. John Paxton is in Chicago visiting friends and relatives. She will be absent from home several weeks. The finest assortment of Carpets in toWn. is at A. Leopold’s. Call and see them, whether you wish to buy or not. '' ; lb'' *• \ Treasurer Washburn went down to Indianapolis Monday to make his spring settlement with the state treasurer. Our former townsman and excounty clerk, Charles 11. Price, has been elected a delegate to the constitutional convention, of South Dakota. Shoes for the infants, shoes for the children, shoes for-tlie boys und-g+i’ls, shoes for pap and mam at Hemphill & Honan’s. , Noble J. York, of Monon, has been appointed a mail agent, on the Monon Route from Michigan City to In dianapolis. The F. W. Baptist society will meet with Mrs. W. D. Robinson, Friday afternoon. It being the time to elect new officers, all members dre requested to be present. 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 lowest prices. The R. R. & St. L. railroad company has opened offices In the rooms recently accupied by" Zuckerman’s cigar factory, near the Republican office.—Winamac Republican. Grandmother Wright met with another accident, last Sunday. She made a misstep and fell with such force as to break off a piece of bone from one of her arms. It was ain exceedingly painful injury. Prof. L. H. Gould, the optician specialist, is at Dr. Washburn’s office, intending to remain until Saturday evening. It is worth a visit to his office to see his outfit of appliances and illustrations of 4he- eye, — The directors of the R. R. St. L. R. R. met in Winamac on Thurdsay and ratified the contract for building the new east and west road and work will begin at once.—Winamac Journal. Lot jumping in Leopold’s New Oklahoma still goes on briskly. To the names mentioned last week may be added C. A. Ball, who has boughti two lots, Chas. Paxton also two and Jesse Gwin, who is trying to content himself withone. A Fort Wayne paper is authority j for the statement that Mrs Emma I Molloy Barrett -writes from Washington Territory that she and her newest husband are about to leave America for St. Petersburg, where they propose to open a hotel.” Marriage licenses issued since last reported. ” j Clarence S. Lintner, | Elma A. Crawford. ( Lewis R. Newsom, ( Jane Smith. V Charles Worden, ~ ( Nora Gleason. Rev. Edward C. Bill, ]>art proprietor of the Fairbault, Minh.. Episcopal University, was in town Tuesday, looking after property interests, in this county. He is the only surviving son of Chas. E. Bill, of New York city, a wealthy man and at one time principal owner of the K N. A. &C. Railway. The present Mr. Bill owns property to the value of about 16,000 in this county, in lands and mortgages. Spring wraps at Ellis <fc Murray’s.

A daughter at Geo. Worden’s last Friday. Fora good smoke try PneSt & Paxton’s three for a nickle. Go to Ellis & Murray’s for Rummer clothing. Hiram Day is in Indianapolis as Representative to the Grand Lodge of Iroquois Lodge, I. O. O. F. Never before were we so well prepared to give you bargains in boots and shoes. Hempheli. & Honan. J. M. Hopkins has sold his stock of furniture to Nowels & Son, who have transferred it to their furniture store across the street. Boots and Shoes can be obtained at Leopold’s for at least 25 per cento less than at any other house. Jul goods warranted. f The Rev. Samuel Godfrey has moved back from Chicago to Tippecanoe County, and accepted a pulpit charge, at Stockwell. A fine display of buggies at C. A. Roberts’ agricultural store. Call and examine and learn prices before pur- . chasing else whe re. Li—........... John Kohler fired a kiln of brick, last Thursday. It will probably be at least another week before the brick will be ready for the resumption of work on the new church. Kentland Gazette: The case of G. D. Kifer vs. Newton county has been changed to Jasper county. In this case Mr. Kifer demands of the county about S2OO for the care of a relative which "h edeclareswas"a pauper. The Town Board of Kentland has availed itself of the new law and raised the -rate on saloon licenses to $l5O. The Town Board of Rensselaer will probably do likewise before any new licenses are granted in the town. A Leopold has just received one of the finest stocks of Summer clothing, consisting of Alpaca coats and vests, of all colors. Trap-to-dae coats and vests; Seersucker and Seaside Linens. Call soon as they will be solcNjX such low prices as will astonish you. . Charles Worden, of Rensselaer, and Nora Gleason, of Francesville, were married at the latter place, in the Catholic church, last Monday morning. . Rev. Father Zumbudte performing the ceremony. The young couple have set up housekeeping in Dr. Loughridge’s tenant house, on Van Rensselaer street. Three vacancies have toccured .in the Rensselaer Fire Department, recently. T. J. McCoy was expelled for non-attendance and non-payment of fines; Lewis Day resigned, and the death of L. C. Grant makes the third. It was expected that at least a part of the vacancies would be filled at the meeting of the department, last evening. Dr. J. F. Tuttle, D. D., president of Wabash College, Crawfordsville, preached the baccalaureate sermon to the graduating class of the Rensselaer high school, at the Opera House,, last Sunday afternoon, ft was a very able and interesting address and attentively listened to by a very large audience. The doctor preached in the Presbyterian church in the evening of the same day. According to the Hammond Tribune, the little town of Whiting, in which the great oil refining works are to be located, is situated 4 or 5 miles east of Hammond. The state maps locate the place about 6 miles due north of Hammond, which is probably a mistake. The big pipe line constructed from the Ohio oil fields to Chicago, last year, will supply t he crude oil for the works. The graduating exercises of the class of 1889 of the Rensselaer High School, will be held at the Opera Honse, this (Thursday) evening. The graduates and their exercises will be as follows: Lerie O. Wilson, salutatory • and essay, “Pandora’s Box.” Walter L. Willey, oration, “Heroism.” Arthur S. Nowels, oration, “My Ideal of an American Hero.” Allie Kinney., essay, “A Visit io Venus and Mare.” Eddie Irwin, a history, “The Class of ’89.” Nellie G. Coen, essay and valedictory, “Know Thyself.”

Grandfather Ira Trussell is in very poor health, at his home north of town. His advanced age makes. his sickness a very serious matter. Wool Wanted.—For which the highest market price will be paid. See me before selling. J. R. Smith', The trial of Ida Peterson, wife of Jack McDowell, for bigamy, was to have come off in Kentland this week, and Clerk Irwin went over as a witness, but the prosecuting witness, Peterson, of Momence, 111., was not present and the case was dismissed. The School Roard has engaged for another year all the pressent force of teachers except Mr. Taylor, Mrs. Warren and Miss Hester, none of whom were applicants for another year. Miss Lizzie Faris, of Gillam tp., has been engaged to fill one of the vacancies, but the others are as yet, unfilled. Prof. Reubelt placed tickets for the electrical entertainment in the hands of his pupils, for sale, and offered a prize of a gbbd book to the one selling the largest number of tickets. Lewis Hipriiltem the onearmed boy, took the prize, with the sale of 45 tickets. His nearest competitor was Miss Lerie Wilson, with a sale of 10 tickets. The Doctors Loughridge removed an encephaloid cancer from the hand Qf Mrs. Britton, of Barkley tp., last Sunday? In so doing it was necessary to remove the entire thumb clear down to the third joint. It was a severe and difficult operation, more so than would have been an amputation of the entire hand. To control the bleeding was especially difficult. Mr. Zack Spitler was in town last Thursday with his head full of railroad talk. Uncle Zack lives a mile or so from Brook, on the Coal Road, and his idea is to induce the proposed R. R. & St. L. to take a straight shoot for Gillman, 111., its western objective point, after it leaves Rensselaer. In that case it would cross the Coal Road branch near or upon Uncle Zack’s farm, and the crossmg would be a fine place to build up a new town, and the future county seat of Newton county. Judge Morgan had a case, in the police court, Monday afternoon. It was an assault and battery case, and from Nubbin Ridge, as usual. Wm. S. Durant and John Shrorer, two near neighbors, had a scrapping match, last Saturday, in which Shroror was pretty badly worsted, and “he therefore appealed to the law for redress. Durant was assessed the usual $1 fine with the usual big costs annexed; and took the usual stay for 90 days and furnished the usual security in the person of Michael O. Halloran. A young boy threw a stone and broke ohe of the globes of the electric street lights, Tuesday night. Mr. Ferguson followed the matter up and ; found out who the boy was, but it being the first offense he let the matter drop, by the boy’s father paying for the lamp and repremanding the boy. In the future, however, it is his intention to prosecute every person who maliciously destroys any of .the projiefety of theeleciric light com pany, to the extent of the law; and mischieviously inclined boys and older persons will do well to give heed to this warning. PA little paragraph which is floating around among our exchanges and which was reproduced in last week’s IlErtnftAcAx to the effect tliat the Postmaster General had issued an order that letters not stamped should be forwarded to the persons addressed, of whom the postage would be collected, seems to have been an error. It probably grew out of an order directed that special delivery letters, with the 10 cent stamp on, but not the additional two center, as required, slia.ll be forwarded and the unpaid postage be collected of the recipient This at least is the opinion of Postmaster Bates, who is very careful to keep himself posted on all new rulings of the Department

No -business man -or citizen who : fails to attend the meeting at the courthouse, to-morrow evening, to make final arrangements-for tlie Fourth of July celebration, can have any right to complain if the celebration is not conducted in a manner to suit his ideas. All should turn out and do their part towards making the celebration satisfactory to all. R. S. Dwiggins received a telegram last Saturday, from his son Elmer, at San Felipe, Mexico, in which the new leaching process, in the Republic mine, was stated to be an entire success. : This, means a practical increase in the capacity of the mine, to" nearly treble its present capacity without any additional outlay •worth mentioning. Mr. Dwiggins states tliat it also means that the mine will begin to pay dividends a year sooner than it could had the leaching process proved a failure. Preparations are now Being made for the arc lights, by the electric light company. The current for these arc lights will be supplied by a special ‘ dynamo, of smaller size, and which has already been received. Its capacity will be for six lights. At present arrangements, one of these will be located over the intersection of Washington and Van Rensselaer streets, and‘another, over Washington and Front streets. One will be in Hemphill <fc Honan’s store and one in GreenNßiniard room. The locations of the other two have not yet been decided upon. The Monon company paid over to Hammond Austin, last Tuesday, $4,000 in good cash, that being the amount of the judgment and accrued interest in the case of Fidelia J. Bennett, now Mrs. Clemens, against the company, for the death of her former husband, Wm. Bennett, a brakeman, who was killed at La Cross, in November, 1883. Suit was brought in this county, taken to Benton on a change of venue, where a judgment for $3,500 was obtained. The inevitable appeal to the Supreme Court followed, which tribunal affirmed the judgment last January. A young man from Gillam, Mr. Comer by name, called upon us Tues-1 day and presented us a half-pint bot-! tie of the product of Mr. Campbell’s I oil well, in that township. The well I is a hundred feet deep and is situated about a mile from J. R. Guild’s gas well. The oil is obtained by skimming it from the surface of water pumped from the well, a considerable quantity being thus obtainable from every bucketful of water. The oil I is black and heavy and a good quality ' of lubricating oil, although perhaps | a little too heavy and sticky. In; reference to the Guild gas well, Mr.l Comer tells us that it still gushes in undiminished volume, and that Mr. Guild was now utilizing a portion of the flow by using it in his kitchen stove. ———- The entertainment at the Opera House, last Friday evening, given by Prof. Reubelt and the mem here of the senior class of the high school, was a novel and instructive affair. By means of the large and well selected philosophical apparatus belonging to the school, helped out by a very large and generous loan from a dealer in such apparatus, in Chicago, a large nttmber of striking and beautiful experiments were perform ed, illustrative of the wonders of natural philosophy, chemistry, and especially of that wonderful and subtle force, electricity. The experiments were introduced and interspersed by short essays, explanatory of the subj ject matters of the entertainment, by I each of the six members of the senior class. The attendance at the entertainment was very satisfactory, all the reserved seats Wing filled, and large numbers' in the other portions of the halL The gross receipts from the sale of tickets were apont SSO. The combined net receipts of this entertainment and of the preceding week will add from $75 to SBS to the library and laboratory fund of the school. 1 ; Everything in men’s and boy’s summer clothing at Ellis & Murray’s.