Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1889 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

. . MissUra McGowan is attending the Winamac Summer Normal. : New stock spring jackets at Ellis & Murray’s. Frank Baker, a former resident of Rensselaer, is now located in Salt Lake City, Utah. -—Never before were goods sold so cheap as those now being sold by R. Fendig. • Rev. Jessee will hold religious ser- ' vices next Sunday morning, at 10:30 ’ o’clock, at Pleasant Ridge. Mowing Machine.- —A good, second hand mowing machine for sale or trade. I. B. Washbukn. Gaylord Chilcote. of Michigan University and Binlie and Willie Hammond, of Notre Dame, are home for the summer vacation. Shoes for the infants, shoes for the children, shoes for the boys and girls, shoes for pap and mam at Hemphill & Honan’s. The congregation of the church of God have engaged Elder Conner to preach to them regularly, after September Ist. John Martindale, of Newton tp., was obliged to go to Inpianapolis again, Monday, to put in another week’s service as a member of the Federal court jury. The Monon Times has braced Up and is now a very respectable looking paper, typographically, and is a good paper generally, forking up the local news in good shape. The gas well at Delphi was shot with nitro-glycerine, last Saturday, but nothing came of it but a big gush of water, and all hope of gas in that hole has been given up. M. A. Makeever has turned minister and is now an evangelist in the Christian church. He is located at Detroit, Mich., in a missionary appointment that pays a salary 0f51320 per year. If you want the best binder on earth, 1 have it. It is the McCormick. Or if you want a mower, I have different makes; cut from four and one half to six feet. C. A. Roberts. J. H. Childers, who moved from this county into Carroll county last i Spring, was in town last Thursday. He reports the addition of a eleven pound boy to his family since his settlement in the fertile regions of Carroll county. The lawn festival given by the ladies of flic. ...Presbyterian...church, last Friday was very much of a success, in spite of the cold and clammy weather. Measured by the pecunistandard, the affair succeeded to the extent of about S2B, gross receipts. ■ . 1 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 sold at such low prices as will astonish you. —Mr, Ferguson-is—new—giving the town 50 incandescent lights and one arc light, for S6OO per year. If he would make the service four arc lights and 25 incandescenfs. for the same price, the town would be vastly better lighted than it now is, and the payment be apparently as good for 1 him.

By the middle of July the Louisvilje, New Albany tfe Chicago people expect to get their Louisville Southern line opened to Lexington, Ky. This division of the system they will operate is deveToping' An unSx^SCW*. - ly large business. Within the last 30 days 170 car loads of live stock have been shipped to Chicago from the distilleries on that division. The post-obituary card of thanks holds its grip upon the misplaced gratitude, of many persons, and will probably continue to afflict communities until newspapers, in the interests of good taste, decline to publish it. A less offensive outlet for this worse than worthless gush might be found in a card of thanks signed by guests who have attended social entertainments.—Logansport Journal. ’ Zepher DrcAs Ginghams at Ellis* A Murray's.

Mrs. Berry Paris is visiting in Ox-, ford and Attica, for a few weeks. A beautiful line of 5 cent lawns at Economy Store. The merchants have all agreed to close their places of business on July 4th, from 10:30 a. m. to 1. p. m. Only a few more of those, beautiful beaded wraps left at the Economy Store. Call and see them. The F. W. Baptist Sewing Society will meet with Mrs. B. F. Ferguson, Friday afternoon. Eggs from fine Brown Leghorn fowls, $1 for setting of 13 eggs. : 43-3 m. Isaac Reubelt. Judge Vinton, of Lafayette, was in town Monday night, the guest of ; his relatives, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. McCoy. The only place in the county to get strictly pure roasted coffee is at C. C. Starr’s. No extra charge for grinding. = The Indian School entertainment comes off at the Opera House, next Monday evening. We think it will be a great success. Choice, fresh, home-roasted coffee, at C. C. Starr’s, at no higher price than you pay for inferior grades, elsewhere. Simeon Dowell was in town last Friday, to be on hand in case the Remleys should be brought to trial. Apparently he has fully recovered from his wounds. “EcTGreen has moved from Judge Hammond’s tenant house, corner of Washington and Division streets, into the Thornton Hooven, house, near the south end of Division street. Bishop Dwengcr, yesterday morning, at the Indian School, ordained to the priesthood Mr. Wierz, of that institution, whose previous position in the church has been that known as a deacon. The Monon is now shipping a great deal of stock from the blue grass regions of Kentucky to Chicago. This is a new business for the Monon and is a gain for that road.—Lafayette Journal. A good many persons: are anxious to borrow some of the six per cent, .school fund money, soon to be placed in the hands of the county auditor. The applications are already far in excess of the sum he will have to Joan. Clerk Irwin has received as an answer to the application for the rereception of the old man Reasoner, of Remington, in the insane asylum at Logansport, the statement that the; a pplication is suspended for further consideration. Paris Harrison has sold his great menagerie of living wild birds to J. W. Williams, who has shipped them to Marion, Ohio, where they will adorn a lake in a cemetery. The collection consisted of a wild goose, two brants and a swan, all fine, healthy birds. The people of Kentland are felicitating themselves over the fact that i their school house is, at last, paid for. I It was built in 1871 at a cost of $22,0(>0, since which time interest and other items have swelled the total cost of the building to over $45,000. A similar building could be erected now for $12,000, or less. Andy Say ler. us Newton tp., has I left with The Republican, for exhibition, a curious rock, about the size of a large dog’s head and marvelously like one in shape. He is confident that is the head of a dog or some other wild beast, turned to stone, but Dr. J. Lougbridge, our leading local geologist, says that it is a fossil coral, and that its resemblance to a dog’s head is simply a curious accident. The Amcnipan Agriculturist sttys, and we think correctly, that the frequent close cutting of lawns by lawn mowers is fatal to good growth of grass. People about town whq are' trying haid to keep their lawns in a handsome condition by, the frequent use of the lawn-mower and have for their reward only avery thin growth of grass and a thick grqwth of weeds, bad better throw their machine into the junk pile and mow their yards once a month with a seythT.

l R. R. Purcupile arrived in‘town Tuesday evening. His health is, apparently, fully restored. | We won’t be undersold on anyI thing in our line. * Economy Stoke. The marriage of Miss Anna Parker, ! of Remington, will leave vacant the ! position of stenographic court reporti er, in this circuit i ■ . The finest assortment of Carpets in town, is at A. Leopold’s. Call and see them, whether you wish to buy or not The two M. E. societies, the Ladies Industrial and the Society of Christ- i ian Endeavor, will jointly conduct a refreshment stand, in the public square, July 4th. Giel Wanted. —A good girl is wanted for general house-work. A good place with good wages, for the right person. For further information enquire at this office. Miss Ida Gibson lias lately completed a special course of study to prepare herself for missionary labor among tlie heathens, and is expecting to depart for Africa in a short time. Postmaster Bates is a pretty nice sort of a man, if he is a Democrat, and we have especially been of that way of thinking siiice he left us a sample box of the finest strawberries, one day last week. Ed Griggs, of Barkley township, was splitting kindling wood, last Sunday eveningand cut his wrist pretty badly with an ax, severing an artery., He came to Rensselaer and Dr. Washburn fixed it up for him. Mr. McKearney, an electrical expert from the Thompson-Huston Co., was in town Tuesday, looking after the street lights. We understand that the lamps will soon be in .order again, as the result of his visit. The town Board had a special meeting Monday night, to take further action in regard to the conduit for Makemself Ditch, across Front street. The results of the meeting will be found'in the advertisement for sealed proposals, in another place in this paper. The people of Union tp., and vicinity have abandoned their proposed celebration at Comer’s Grove, and will come to Rensselaer, in full force. As one of the chief promoters of their celebration remarked, “The Rensselaer fellows have got out a program and will catch everything in the county.” Marriage licenses issued since last reported: : J Festus P. Sutton, =- ; - Allie L. Cover. —— - ( James S. Sheffler, '( Anna Parker. " Isaac N. Rodgers, ( Sarah J. Eldredge. I i Sherman ‘Erwin, ( Mary E. Goble. Tiituer Bros, have had .the electric ' lights put into their grocery, store, ’ which pretty nearly completes the ■ conquest of the business portion of ■ the town. Long & Eger’s drug store •is now about the only place of imijiortancc unprovided with the new 1 lights, and that has long been lighted ! with gas, but Mr. Long has about i determined to abandon the gas and ' adopt the electricity. Mr. George E. Murray, of the firm of Ellis <fc Murray, find Miss Lottie O. Hester, lately a teacher in the Rensselaer schools, were married last I evening, at the home of the bride’s parents, at Charlestown, in Clark county. The happy couple are expect to arrive here on the 4 p. m;, train, and cards are out for a reception in their honor. this evening, at residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. 11. S. Ellis. I Rensselaer is havinga regular monI key and parrot time with its electric ! lights. Its the inevitable fate of a “country Jake,” who trie? to put on city airs.—Fowler Nutshell. None of your envious jibes, there, j brother, because happen to live iin a town where enterprise all runs to keeping saloons - and squabbling for offices. The electric lights in Rensselaer are a howling success in the stores and residences, and the little trouble with the street lights will j soon be overcome.

i PQ>f. Beu belt, superintendent of the Tuscola, 111., schools, is here visiting his brother, Isaac, and family. Those satine prints are just the thing for hot weather. See them at the. Economy Store. Charlie Porter is through telegraphing for the Monon, at Lafayette, and thinks of going northwest again, in a short time. Mr. and Mis. W’. H. H. Graham are spending a short time with relatives near Crawfordsville, .after which they intend making an extended jouriiiey through the West and Northwest.

M. O. Halloran is replacing the ancient doors in his saloon front, with large windows. The old front is thought to be 40 years old, and is, by far, the oldest business front in the town. '“m Rt. Rev. Joseph Dwcnger, bishop of Ft. Wayne, administered the ordinances of confirmation to about forty young persons, 18 boys and 23 girls, at the Catholic church, Tuesday forenoon. In the morning of j the same day, eight young Indians were confirmed, at the Indian school. The oil prospectors near Thompson's switch struck a big flowing well, last Saturday at the depth of 200 feet The water is said to pour out of the well in a tremenduous big stream. The borers lost their drill Saturday, and had to lay up until they cpuld send to Cliicago for tools. > The proper way to stop a news-: paper is to pay up and then stop it. If you are a gentleman and don’t owe a cent, walk into the office and ■ candidly say you do not wish the' paper or can’t afford to take it. If I you are on the swindle chuck it back ! into the post-office and mark it “refused.” That’s a sneaky way. A new wheat pest that is creating much alarm in several localities in ■ this State, proves to be the “green I midge,” an insect which destroyed a great deal of wheat in the summeFof 1865. It locates itself on the outer surface and preys upon the small stem that supports the grain, causing the latter to shrivel and fail to mature. It is feared that the Ipss from this pest will be very great wherever it has made its appearance. An observing citizen, who is traveling over the county most of the time, says that tlie prospects for wheat in Jasper county were never so good as now, and that the acreage is fairly large. The prospects for oats axe simply, immense while even corn, after all the groaning about the rains, is looking well in most places. He has not heard any Ecportg of the little green bugs yet, in this county, although some reports of their appearance in Barkley tp.. have been in circulation. The Female dogs of Jasper county must be a marvellously prolific race, ■judging from the reports of the assessors of the various townships, some figures from which are published elsewhere. There are 1099 dogs assessed for taxation in the entire county and only 53 of these are females. In some townships the disparity bejtween the two canine sexes is much I greater than in the county generally. | Thus in ‘Walker township, for in- ' stance, there are 92 male canines and jonly one lone, lorn female. In Kani kiikee the male dogs number 87 to 1 j female. In Barkley the figures are ; 118 males and two females.

1 A child born recently near Clinton, ■ this state, which lived but two hours, fwas granted before iis death with the gift of speech long enough to prothe fallowing words which were sjioken as plainly and distinctly as if bv a child 6or 7 years old. It said: ~ “The present season’s crops will be partly a failure, next year’s crops will be tin entire failure, and the succeeding year the world will i liave that long looked for and pre- ! dieted time—the end.” The truth of , the above is vouched for by many of the citizens of that section of the country, and the most superstitious predict that it is the fore-runner of some great calamity. The above paragraph js circulated extensively among our exchanges, but without its projKT laliel of champion light-weight lie of the season of 1889.

ArchibaldTurcupile ii? not making any progress towards recovery, is slowly growing worse, in fact, instead of better. I Julies c&n save money by looking at our line of beaded wraps, before buying. Economy Store. Allen M. Eldredge has been appointed postmaster at Delphi. He succeeds A. B. Crampton, former editor of the Delphi Times. Rensselaer Lodge, K. of P. elected the following officers, Tuesday evening: N. 11. Warner. C. C.; Frank Osborne, V. C.; Joseph Hammond, Prelate; Russell Parker, Master at Arms.

John Randle, of Hanging Grove, did not geFover the effects of his 'in-' I juries, nearly so quickly as our re- ■ port of last week indicated. He was able to lie in town yesterday, however. . The impression seems to prevail, hereabouts, that dirt throwing has already begun on the Rochester, Rensselaer &. SL Louis Ry., between Winamac and Rochester, but a letter was received, last week, by a citizen of our town, from Mr. Holsinger, the secretary, who stated that the engineers were still surveying but that actual work had not yet begun. Norman McCurtain, the young man confined in the jail as insane, has been very wild ever since his incarceration, last week, Wednesday—His ' father, Newton McCurtain, has come from Kansas to look after him. An inquest in lunacy was held on his case, yesterday, and application has | been made for his reception in the Logansport Asylum. He imagines 1 that he is Jesus Christ, that be can perform miracles, <kc. His age is 22 years. « B. F. Ferguson, siqxirintendent of the Rensselaer electric light plant, j has found the electric light business so much to his taste that he has gone to work with characteristic push and enterprise to extend the field his operations. He has already secured the contract for a large plant at Hammond, which will be installed at once, and has several other towns in view, which will be looked after as soon as the Hammond matter is got into shape. His contract there is for 25 arc lights and 300 incandescents, and is for a period of five years. Mr. Ferguson got the arc light circuit in running order and lighted them up last Saturday night, for the i first time. The arrangements for power sufficiently so to run four ar<» in pretty good shape. ()ne of the lights is suspended above the intersection of Washington and Van Rensselaer streets, another above Washington and Front streets. Of the other two ! one is in Hemphill & Honan’s store and the other hi Green’s billiard room. Tlie two in the streets are burned without globes affd the amount of light they throw is almost Ixjyond belief. Writing and newspaper print may be read by their light at a distance of three or even four blocks. Six of these arcs, judiciously distributed, would, doubtless, light the town better than the 50 incamloiceiits have done.