Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1889 — Page 5

COMMISSIONERS’ PROCEEDINGS.

The Board of County Commissioners met‘Monday, in regular September Session. The full Board, Hons. Taber, Watson and Querry, present, with President Taber in the chair. Monday.’—Saloon licenses were granted to Edward O. Green and Joseph R. Eight, of Rensselaer, and James F. Ellis, of Remington. Luther H. Patton and Merrill Fisher, both of Carpenter township, were appointed to the vacant scholarships at Purdue University. Twenty-seven claims against the county were examined and disposed of. All were allowed, in full, except one of John K. Stoudt, of Remingson, for relief of poor of Carpenter township, which was cut down from s2l to sls. Tuesday. —Thirty-four claims were examined, and all found correct and allowed to their full amount. A petition by Daniel T. Cresse and others, for a highway in Carpenter tp,, was dismissed. Wednesday was devoted to road and bridge business, a full report of which will be given next week. ——S

Presbyterian Church Notes.

The pastor thinks it is not good for man to be alone, for it is at least very lonesome and he is anxiously looking for the return of Mrs. T—. A series of sermons will now be given, on Sunday evenings, more especially for the young folks, and it is hoped the young people will all 'turn out and hear them. Subject Sunday morning next, “My duty to the church of which I am, a member.” Evening subject, “The Young Men of the Bible.” The church has just received an elegant pulpit Bible, as a gift from Mrs. Jane A. Sharp, of Sioux City, lowa. Mrs. Sharp is a daughter of Rev. Thomas Chestnut, the first pastor of this church. He was a carpenter as well as minister and assisted in the erection of this church building. He was an active, faithful pastor and did valuable service to the town and vicinity.

Can’t Find Any Philanthropy In It.

Fowler Review. We publish elsewhere the will of the late Moses Fowler which contains provisions that materially concern the people of Benton county. According to its provisions the Benton county lands can not be sold for twenty years yet. This provision, as we view it, will materially operate against the development of our county, for a body of 20,000 acres of land is not likely to be managed so fully in the interests of the people as if it were divided into small holdings. Again, it will be seen that no bequests for public institutions were made, and the much talked of college which was to be erected in Fowler to perpetuate his memory failed to find a favorable response when the will was written. Wabash College, of which he was a trustee, was also left out and so was Purdue. The will is a carefully drawn document and its provisions are calculated to benefit nobody but the blood kin of the late departed.

A Fight to a Finish.

Chicago Inter-Ocean. Ae coldest-blooded passenger rate war on ’ record is that now going on between the Pennsylvania road and the Monon on business between Chicago, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Louisville. It half apparently developed into a case of freeze-out. Ordinarily the road with the largest bank account would win, but in this oase the active the Pullman Company with the Monon about evens up the contestants. The rates have now been reduced about 60 per cent., the Monon and the Pennsylvania yesterday quoting as 7 round-trip rate between Chicago and Cincinnati and Louisville. Assurances come from both sides that the tate will be still fur-, ther lowered before the epd of the week. The fight has 'how been going on for four weeks, and the Monon claims in spite of it that its passenger earnings for the first twenty-nine days in August show an increase of over SIO,OOO. An employe of one of the roads said yesterday that the whole trouble originated in the delay of the Monon paying a $30,000 claim to the Pennsylvania. Suit has been brought on the claim, but this method was taken of hurrying matters.

Attention, K. of P.

Yon are hereby notified that there will be a special meeting on Saturday, September 7, 1889, at 8:30 o’clock P. M., for the purpose of meeting with Grand Instructor James B. Pugh. yALBMB.au Attest: N. W. Breve, K. of B. & S. “It goes right to the root” said an old gentleman, who founa great benefit in Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. He was right. Derangements of tho stomach, liver, and kidneys are more speedily remedied by this medicine than by any other. It reaches the trouble directly.

CORRESPONDENCE.

From Remington.' Mre. C. E. Marshall visited the fair and many friends in Remington during the past week. Chief among the display of paintings in the art department of the fair, was a picture by Mrs. Marshall, of her little son. Homer Hardy left for a business trip to Englewood and Chicago last Monday. When he returns he will be accompanied by his sister, Mies Lizzie, who has been in the city for the past few weeks for the benefit of her health.

The highly successful fair is over and done with, and the people and the dust have alike settled down. The attendance although very large was not quite up to our expectations, owing doubtless to the extreme heat and the terrible dust. The display ip the Floral Hall was not quite as fine as on former foccasions, but the horse and cattle department and especially in the speed ring, it was beyond any previous occasion. Statistics would doubtless give a satisfactory shewing as to the financial gain from the Fairjbut your correspondent has not yet been able to ascertain the net receipts. Miss Matttie Culp, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Culp, of whose sickness mention was made in a previous letter, died last Monday night. She was an amiable and excellent young lady, endeared to many friends who will mourn her as one “whose sun went down while it was yet morning” as Miss Culp was only seventeen years old. Her mother is still dangerously sick although her condition is somewhat improved. The Salvationists folded their tent last Monday, and like the Arabs, silently stole away to their respective homes and to new fields of labor.

Rev. W. H. Kearns preached his closing sermon last Sunday morning to a large and appreciative congregation. In the evening the exercises consisted mainly of music, well selected and well rendered, interspersed with a few earnest remarks from the young pastor and Rev. E. Cones of the M. E. church, who left for conference on Monday evening. Mr. Kearns took his departure for Chicago on Tuesday morning. It is a notable fact that the three ministers who have been with us this summer have been men of superior attainments. Remingtonian.

From Wheatfield. The town is still improving. Max Ahlgrim is building a new dwelling house. Wm. Slump is building an addition to his house. Henry Miller has a contract for grading the streets in the east end of town. Geo. Stembel has an addition to his family since the 24th, the new comer is a son. Born, also, to Mr. and Mrs. Roe Neir, the 20tfa, a daughter. Mr. Scott, the C. & I. C. agent, has moved into the house lately vacated by John Hollett. Silas Graham moved from White county to Wheatfield, last week. Mrs. Melser has rented the Melser Hotel to John Graves. Matilda Cason, since her return from California, has been failing very fast, Hemorrhage of the lungs has set in, and she is so weak that she can not speak above a whisper. Her parents and friends are expecting her to pass away at any time. Tlie Largest Farm ill Jasper County. A few day 8 ago your correspondent had the pleasure of spending a night on S. P. Thompson’s 5,000 acre farm in Union township, the largest in the county. I had the impression before visiting this farm that it was little else than a succession of sand ridges and swamps, but what was my surprise to find a very large part of it the very best of land. The improvements are of the most substantial character. The farm house is a nice, roomy, twostory cottage, finished off in good style and pleasantly situated, surrounded by commodious and well painted out-buildings. The four large barns furnish shelter for about 153 head of stock and mow capacity for 300 tons of hay. These buildings are all constructed in the most substantial manner* The farm has about 35 miles of fence, much of it being hog-tight, built of boards and wire. The Iroquois river flows through the center of the farm, at this point being a small creek of living water, with good land up to the banka. In addition to tnis water privilege, which is of great value in handling

stock, the farm has a number of good wells, one of which is an artesian, with a very strong flow of water, similarjto our well at the electric light works. : The farm at present is handling about 1,250 head of cattle, in fine condition. Among them was noticed the Shorthorn, Hereford and Polled Angus. There was on the farm 150 head of nice young hogs that were in fine condition aDd would weigh about 100 to 125 lbs. The superintendent informed me that they had beeß fed very little corn. The farm horses are fine specimens of general purpose animals, and their condition showed generous feeding. 1 must not forget to mention that here is found as fine a young orchard as I have seen in the oovnty, and just coming into bearing.

The farm superintendent is Mr. Walter Ponsler, partner with Mr. Thompson in the profits of the farm. He seems to be the right man for the place, energetic, and watchful for the interest of the firm, and yet not so much ‘'stuck on himself” but what he can be courteous to those in his employ. Mi. Thompson has certainly at no very distaat day a large fortune in this farm, and so it should be, for such enterprise deserves a large reward. Visitor.

Protecting Home Interests.

Monticello Herald. The Town Board of Rensselaer has passed an ordinance requiring transient concerns like the “Chicago Bankrupt Store” to pay a license of $lO a week, $25 per months or SIOO for six months. This is practical common sense and a step which no town board should be atraid to take on account of sentimental free trade talk. A town has a right to legislate in the interests of its own citizens, and bankrupt stores., junk shops andlpeddlers, unless restricted, are prejudicial to the interests of the town. They unsettle trade, discourage investments and impair the reputation of the local market. They are here a brief season and gone again, leaving the regular trade, upon which the community depends the year round, to pick up what they have left and to make the best of the dull season. The mercantile interests of a town subject to these spasmodic raids without restraint will naturally deteriorate for the merchants who have invested their all in one place, paying their taxes there and contributing to every enterprise for the general good, cannot be expected to adopt the methods of these transient concerns and at the same time build up a permanent trade. It is impossible, and a town thus afflicted will soon find its trade reduced to “transient” basis. Therefore it is entirely proper that defensive measures should be taken against such a state of things. The cry of “sell where you please and buy where you please” sounds well on paper, but let a town be thrown open to peddlers and merchandise fakirs, and it will see the most desirable class of its trade pleasing to buy elsewhere. The Herald is in favor of a wise protective tariff in local as well as national affairs and believes that a little discrimination in favor of the’home dealer as against the tramp is strictly in order..

Preaching at the Ridge.

Rev. Peter Hinds will preach at Pleasant Ridge School House, Saturday evening, Sept. 7th, at early lamplight and at the same place Sun day at 10:30 a. m. and in the evening.

_ NOTICE. The Rensselaer Commercial Agency will meet at the Town Hall, Friday evening, September 6, 1889. Every member should be present C. D. Nowels, Pres. C. W. Coen, Secy. ADVERTISED LETTERS. Grover Curran. W. H. Martin. Mrs. G. W. Mellans. W. J. Smith. Notice To All Concerned. Public notice is hereby given to all parties concerned, that whoever buys grain, hay or other farm produce of John Dragoo or his son, Ben Dragoo, tenants of my farm situated east of Rensselaer, near the railroad bridge, may gxpect to be holden for the rental of said farm, to the fall value of all such grain, hay or produce so purchased, as the said Dragoos are not proceeding in accordance with their contracts made with me. 2t Almira Monnett. To the farmers’ wives of Jasper County: Do you want the highest market price for your poultry? If 80, bring it to Farneman k Co., on Front St., opposite Mackey’s marble shop. Smoke the Mascot cigar. For sale everywhere.

The Favorite Medicine for Throat and Lung Difficulties ha* long been, and still is, Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. It cores Croup, Whooping Cough, Bronchitis, and Asthma; soothes irritation <rf the Larynx and Fauces; strengthens the Vocal Organs; allays soreness erf the Lungs; prevents Consumption, and, even in advanced stages of that disease, relieves Coughing and induces Sleep. There is no other preparation for diseases of the throat and lungs to be compared with this remedy. V wife had a distressing cough, with pains m the side and breast. We tried various medicines, but none did her any good until I get a bottle of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral, which has cured her. A neighbor, Mrs. Glenn, had the measles, and the cough was relieved by the use of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. I have no hesitation in recommending this Cough Medicine the best the world knows.”—R. Horton, Foreman Headlight, Morrillton, Ark. ‘‘l have been afflicted with asthma for forty years, and last spring was taken with a violent cough which threatened to terminate my dayß. Every one pronounced me in consumption. I determined to try Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. Its effect was magical. I was immediately relieved and continued to improve until entirely recovered.’’—Joel Bullard, Guilford r €onn. j “ Six months ago I had a severe hemorrhage of the lungs, brought on by an incessant cough which deprived me of sleep and rest. Itried various remedies, but obtained no relief until I began to take Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. A few bottles of this medicine cured me.”—Mrs. E. Coburn, 19 Second st., Lowell, Mass. “For children afflicted with colds, coughs, sore throat, or croup, I know of no remedy which will give such speedy relief atad comfort. as Ayer’s- Cherry Pectoral. I have found it, also, invaluable in cases of Whooping Cough.”—Ann Lovejoy, 1257 Washington st., Boston, Mass. “Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral is the only cough medicine to he relied on in dangerous cases.”—H. B. Hilton, Kittanning, Pa. § Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral, PREPARED BY Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. Sold by Druggists. Price $1; six bottles, $5.

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NOTICE + TO i ALL! : .1 ' : ■ - •• —-- •' -r .. , ! ■MSALE> j The stoek df Merchandise, consisting of , Boots & Hhoes, Hats and Caps, Clothing, and (Cuts, Furnishn m I Wim r 'IUSWHfWIX ISBaBSSSMHBBSBXBMBBWBBBW—I v »*♦ ' ■ - • : ing Goods will positively be'CLOSED OUT REGARDLESS OF GOST. IN ORDER TO QUIT BUBINEBa Call in and learn prices before buying elsewhere. Remember the place—2 doors west of McCoy & Co’s. Bank, N. FENDIG, Salesman. All parties ifioWing themselves indebted to the above firm will please call and settle, as all accounts remaining unsettled will go to the hands of a collector by October 1,1889 L

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