Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1889 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

The county commissioners will be fc session next week. For a nice box of note paper go to long & Eger’s. A daughter was bom to Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Worstell, of south Marion tp., last Thursday. Wanted :—Large tract of grazing land in Indiana. J. W. Hkdenbebg, 102 Washington St. Chicago, 111. 2tp. Chas. M. Paxton has sold his meat market to Morris W. Timmons. The transfer took place last Monday. Circuit court in Benton county opened last Monday. The terms in that county are now of four weeks duration. Patrons and teachers of the schools of the county are invited to call at the Post Office book store, before buying school supplies elsewhere. A good judge of base ball playing says that “Bee” Hopkins, of the Rensselaer Blues, is developing into a remarkably good pitcher, and after scientific methods. Mrs. Charles Van Nice, nee Miss Birdie Daugherty, of Monon, spent a few days of this week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Daugherty, east of town. S. C. Irwin has succeeded Arthur Hopkins as clerk in Hammond & Austin’s law office. Mr. Hopkins intends entering the service of the Lowell bank, in a short time. Reports from the Logansport insane asylum are to the effect that the recent patients from this county, Jas. Yeoman and young McCurtain, are making very slow and unsatisfactory progress towards recovery.” Rev. L. E. Conner, the new pastor of the Church of God, arrived Tuesday, with his family. They are residing in Rev. Geo. Havens’ house, near N. S. Bates’ place. He will hold services in the Christian church,next Sunday morning-and evening. The next Presbyterian social and entertainment will be given at F. B, Meyer’s residence, on River street. It will be a “lemon squeeze” social, a novel and very amusing and interesting form of entertainment. All invited to attend. Next Friday evening. Augustus Yeoman, son of Mi’s. John Yeoman, of Newton tp., cut his arm badly, Monday evening, while cutting 1 bands for a threshing machine. The cut was in left arm, near the elbow and as an artery was severed, a considerable loss of blood, resulted. He was brought to town and Dr. Bitters dressed the wound. Medary ville is the banner huckleberry town. On Monday ahe.shipped 205 baskets of the berries, equivalent to about 3,000 quarts, and it wasn’t a very good day for huckleberries, either. The week before one family living in that vicinity picked and 'brought to town 40 bushels. The current price for the berries is 5 cts. a quart.—Francesville Era. If the Monticello and Delphi papers are correctly informed, A 1 Robinson, the Medary ville runner, and his friends were badly done up, financially speaking, in his race with the professional sprinter, at Delphi. The stakes, according to those papers# were SSOO a side, while very much 1 more than that sum was put up in bets. The northwest Indiana M. E. conference will be held next week. The pjpee of meeting is at Brazil, in Clay county, the center of the Indiana coal mining regions. The town is near the extreme southwest comer of the conference, and about as inconvenient a place for the majority of the ministers and lay brethren to get to as could be found in the conference. Simon Phillips left for Grant county, last Sunday night, called by a telegram announcing the death of his brother, Jacob Phillips, who lived near Wier, in that county. He was and was thrown from his cart and so badly injured that be died in fifteen fit cfclldftp* 'A:* 1

The F. W. Sewing Society meets with Mrs. Mary Shrum, tO-morrow. Long <fc Fger have the finest line of stationery ever brought to town. The Rensselaer Stock Farm is making a big display of trotting bred horses, at the Remington fair. You said you would pay for that binder twine by Sept. Ist. See that you do it. N. Waknek & Sons. A “Lemon Squeeze Social” at F. B. Meyer’s residence, Friday evening. An absolute novelty in entertainments. All are invited. Women’s hand-turned shoes, men’s kangaroo, dongola and calf shoes, all standard brands, a specialty at the Chicago Bargain Store. 2t The progress of the new church has been delayed by the fact that the parties who had the contract to do the plastering have abandoned their contract. Walter L. Willey has sold his insurance business to S. C. Irwin, and intends entering the State University, at Bloomington, at the beginning of the collegiate year. The post-office front has been so brightened by new coats of paint that the building is scarcely recognizable. The front of Williams’ double furniture store is also resplendent in a new covering of paint, in gorgeous red and gold. Two aged ladies have died in Barkley township this week. On Sunday Mrs. Norman died of heart disease, at the age of about 68 years. On Monday occurred the death of Mrs. Garriot, her age being about 70 years. The cause of her death was a cancer. The Rensselaer public schools resume business at the old stand, next Monday morning. -,Supt. Reubelt has some important observations, anent that subject, in this week’s Republican. Patrons of the school should giye careful consideration to what he has to say. The Pullman Car Company is building for the Monon Route two complete trains, which are to be put on to run between Chicago and Cincinnati via Indianapolis. The parlor cars and sleeping coaches are to be of the latest pattern as to elegance and conveniences. The Winamac Republican says that a syndicate, of which W. A. Rinehart, now of Buffalo, Nv Y., is the head, has been formed to pipe gas into Francesville. The entire cost of the enterpise is figured at $7,000 of which $3,00.0 is paid for Bncklin’s best well. Mr. Rinehart, according to the Winamac authority, puts up half the cash and the citizens of Fran-ees-ville- the other half. - A serious shooting affair occurred at Brook, in Newton county, last Saturday. A section hand on the Coal Road shot the water pumper for the same company, the provocation being undue familiarty'of the latter with the section man’s wife. The injured man is shot in the abdomen and at last accounts received, was thought to be in a very critical condition. We have not learned the names of the parties concerned. That most amusing and withal ridiculous of all performances, “The Old Deestrict Skule” was repeated in the Opera House last Thursday evening, by substantially the same performers who gave it several months ago. There was a fair attendance and the net profits, which accured to the benefit of the Christian church, were about $27. The performance was very well rendered and enjoyed beyond measure by the audience. The intelligence of the lamentable suicide Of Mrs. O. W. Church may be found in our correspondence from Remington. The unfortunate lady had, so we are reliably informed, been subject for some weeks to brief periods of mental aberration, daring which the tendency to take her own life was overpowering. In tact die made a previous attempt* at suicide, only a few weeks ago, by drowning in * cistern. When in her right mind she abhorred the thought of mU imtmMrn, mi ***4 tar (tomb to wrfc* iod taw tar ham

J. G. Reynolds has got enough of the Chicago races, and is at Frankfort, this state, with his race horses, this week. All persons owing the firm of N. Warner & Sons are requested to call and settle, by cash or otherwise, at once. The seats for the new church have arrived and been stored in the old church. The pulpit has also arrived and been plaoed in the parsonage, for safe keeping. Both seats and pulpit are very fine, and especially so the pulpit. The Rensselaer trotters continue to take everything in sight, at the races they are entered in. Last week they were at Lebanon, this state, and took first money m the two principal trotting races. Leo won the free-for-all race and Joe the 2:35 trot. ■

A man named Perry Gillam, who was tried at Delphi about a year ago for criminal assault on a young girl, named Cora Starkey, and escaped by disagreement of the jury, on two trials, is now under arrest for two cases of attempted rape in one day, one’of them upon a woman sick in bed. He seems to be in a fair way now to receive his just deserts in a ong term in the penitentiary. Winamac Journal: Father Henry, who went from here to Rensselaer this week, contracted with Jos. K. Boyles to make 500,000 or more jrick for the new Catholic college in hat place. Mr. Boyles, who has returned from Rensselaer, says he will make the brick adjoining the college grounds, and that he and Mr. Harlan, lis foreman, expect to begin work quite soon. Mr. Boyles secured the contract after sharp competition with home brickmakers. Convicts in the Michigan City penitentiary are allowed candles, by the light of which they are permitted to read until nine o’clock at night. Now it is proposed to put in an electric light plant at the prison, ancFplacing the incandescent lights in the prisoners’ cells to take the place of candles. It is said to be cheaper, and there will be an advantage in the certainty that all the lights are extinguished on time. In a good many portions of this state, the new oats crop is weighing out very light, the number of bushels when weighed falling much short of the measured bushels from the threshing machines. This light weight is attributed to the ravages of rust and the green midge. In Jasper county, so far as reports are in, there is no complaint of light weights in the oats crop. On the contrary, all reports agree in pronouncing ffie oats to be unusually heavy, this year. Rensselaer Lodge A. O. U. W. has been brought back from Monon to its original mid proper abiding place. Deputy Grand Master Spaan, of Evansville, assisted by C. M. Smith, of Terre Haute, are in town this week assisting in re-organizing the lodge in this place. A considerable number of new and desirable members are uniting with the order here. The Monon members of the order have formed a new lodge in their town, under the name of Monon Lodge. The following marriage licenses have been issued by the County Clerk since last reported: k Bolislaw F. Dluzak, } Nellie McFall. j Robert Platt, | Sarah A. Knight, j Edward Roney, ( Eulalia Lindsey, j William H. Nichols, ( Hannah Potter, j John J. Ulm, ( Oilie May Sage. The Christian church people are figuring pretty strongly on erecting a church building at an early day. Their design is to erect a commodious and tasty wooden structure, at a cost, including site, of about $2,500. Of this amount more than half is already subscribed. It is pvobftUc that the foundations of the boflding will be constructed this fill and the structure be completed early next Spring. This is an enterprise that de* serve* the good wUhes and liberal jCftoearemcpt of the entire eons-

r A very promising movement is on foot to have two days of big racing at Rensselaer, this fati. The project is feasible and the proper energy and enterprise will make the occasion the the biggest race days Jasper county ever had. O. B. Mclntire was in town yesterday. He reports great prospects for races at the Remington Fair. The race horses were there in shoals. For yesterday’s races, for instance there were 14 entries, and all the other races are full to overflowing. The Fair Oaks base ball club came down and played a game with the Rensselaer Blues, last Friday. The Fair Oaks boys looked very pretty in their red uniforms, but they can’t play ball. The score was 31 to 4, in favor of the Blues. On the same day the second nine of the Blues went over and played with the second nine of the Remington club. The result was a victory for the Remingtonians, by the close margin of 22 scores for them to 21 for the Rensselaer boys.

The breeding of trotting horses by the Rensselaer Stock Farm has grown to be an enterprise of a good deal of magnitude. Besides their two standard and very fashionably bred stallions, Pluto and Royal Cossack, they own not less than fourteen well bred brood mares, most of them standard under one or more of the rules established by National Association of Trotting Horse Breeders, and all of excellent breeding. They also own a goodly number of very promising colts and fillies, and also the young trotter, Leo, who is making such an excellent record on the race course, this season.

Tuesday witnessed the beginning of what may develope into the biggest drainage enterprise Jasper county ever saw. It is the scientific preliminary survey of the upper branch of the Iroquois river, from its head waters near thq town of Hogan down to Rensselaer. v TB& survey is conducted by I. Lincoln, Jr., a surveying and engineering expert from Chicago, and assisted by County Surveyor Thrawls, and John I. Alter, of Union township, with other assistants to the number of eight or ten, making a very competent surveying corps. The expense of this preliminary survey, about SIOO, is paid by contributions from interested land owners. The syndicate which owns the Chicago & Indiana Coal Railway has lately purchased the projected and partly built road known as the St. Louis, Strugis & Battle Creek road. As projected this line was to run from Bay City, Mich., to St. Louis, Me. It has 89 mile of road, from Strugis', Mich., to~txOskeh, Ind., constructed and in operation. Its purchase by the Coal road will, doubtless, put a final end to its extension towards St. Louis, and bring disappointment to such towns as Winamac, Monticello, Oxford Ac., which were upon *or near its projected line. The Coal Road people, will, it is supposed, build a connecting line from LaCross to Goshen, thus giving them a valuable northwestern outlet for their coal. An extraordinary accident happened last Saturday evening, to Miss Ella Green, a young lady who lately learned the telegraphing business of Station Agent Wren, at Jthis place. She was in the L. N. A. & C. depot at Chalmers, where she holds the position of night operator. About 8 o’clock in the evening a cow, which a butcher was driving into town, and which had become mad from running and beating, ran into the depot and into the office room and attacked Miss Green, threw her across the room and trampled upon her. Fortunately Miss Green was near the freight room door and succeeded in escaping through it. Miss Green’s injuries are, not'thought to he serious, although she was confined to her bed, at last accounts, as modi, perhaps, through the results of her fright as from her actual injuries. We we not pushing out old style paper at “daeghtcrod prices,” but m« good* at a living profit. . • • 1 • Low A Boss.