Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1889 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

A daughter at Isaac Kepner's, in the “New Oklahoma,” Saturday. Wanted. —A good girl to work in restaurant. T. W. Haus. Another son was added to the family of John H. Jessen, one day last week. The trust on high prices blown up at the low one price cash store. 1t Chicago Bargain Stork. Jndge Sylvester Healy and family moved into their roomy and handsome new house on Front street, this woplr wyyu* —■—...... _ The Free Will Baptist Sewing Society will meet with Mrs. James Yeoman, Friday, Sept. 6th, for the purpose of re-electing officers. The Kentland Agricultural Assocition is holding its first fair, this week, at Kentland. The Newton county fair will be held at Morocco, next week. The front rooms over the Citizens’ Bank have been handsomely fitted up as an office, by B. F. Ferguson, superintendent of the electric light company. He moved into them yesterday. The Total amount of Jasper county’s share of the money derived from the sale of the state school fund bonds was about $1,950. The entire sum has already been loaned out, as required by law. The new bank in Nowels’ block, the old stand of the Citizens bank, opened Monday, under the name of the Rensselaer Bank. Henry O. Harris and David Nowels are the copartners. Emmet Mulholland is the cashier. The Monon Route is making a new track at Cedar Lake, in order to avoid the big, troublesome and dangerous hill there. The new track will leave the old one at the north end of the lake, and follow up a ravine east of the track, for a long distance. J. L. Fatout, the contractor, was in town Monday, and went out and inspected the new County Asylum building, the heating apparatus of which does not work as it ought. Mr. Fatout is putting up two large school buildings in Evansville, this season. Guy, the only child of John W. and Stella Duvall, of Chicago, was buried in Weston Cemetery, on Friday afternoon, last. He was four years old and an unusually bright and attractive child. Rev. E. G. Pelley conducted the burial services, which were held at the cemetery. The name of the man shot at Brook, mentioned last week, was Charles Jenkins. Patrick Tadlock was the man who did the shooting. .The Kentland Gazette says Jenkins, although shot through the body, was able to be around. Tadlock was arrested and lodged in the Fowler jail. . ■ . • ■ .' ' • The figure. “9” in our date is with us and has come to stay. No man or woman now living will ever date a document without using a 9. It now stands on the extreme right—--1889. Next year it will take second place—lß9o, where it will remain for ten years. It will then move to tile third place—l9oo, and there will rest 100 years. With the beginning of the present week a remarkable period of calm weather came to an end. During the previous two weeks, there was an almost total absence of wind, with the result that the motive power of wind pumps was lacked, and they failed to supply the accustomed amount of water, much to the inconvenience of many owners of jfaflfee stock. C. P. Mitchell made his regular animal visit to his parents and other relatives, in Gillam township, last week, and passed Saturday and Sunday in Rensselaer. He will shortly enter upon his sixth consecutive year as principal of the schools at Ridge Farm, DL, a good town in Vermillion eonnty, of about 1000 population. Mrs. Mitchell also teaches in the same .. waa V--

Arthur H. Hopkins is among the new members of the now rapidly growing Masonic lodge, at this place. He received his fall membership, Monday night. Geo. Strickfaden expects to engage in the saloon business at Ambia, Benton county. His petition for a license comes up before the Commissioners, in Fowler, to-day. The Kentland Fair managers know a thing oar two about bow to adverttise in the cheapest and most effective way. They occupied the entire first page in the Kentland Gazette, last week. We put it on record that the year 1889 has been on of the biggest years for huckleberries since the beginning of time. It has also been an exceptionally good year for almost all kinds of small fruits. The trial of the celebrated Turpie -Lowe ease, from Monon, involving an immense sum of money, which was partly tried in June, was resumed in Logansport, Tuesday. Judge E. P. Hammond is the principal attorney for Mr. Lowe. About 23 young Indians arrived Tuesday to enter the Indian School. They were from the Menominee reservation, in Wisconsin. We understand that there will be as large an attendance at the school this year as can be accommodated. A young son of Henry Mackey, the monument man, went up behind his brother, Monday morning, while the latter was chopping with an ax, and received a bad gash in the forehead. If the blow had struck an inch or two lower it would have split the eye-ball and probably killed the boy. A very pleasant occasion at the Masonic hall, last Monday evening, was the presentation by the brethren to Rev. E. G. Pelley of a very finely bound volume of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary. The presentation speech was made by Jndge E. P. Hammond, in a very neat manner, and it was fittingly responded to by Rev. Pelley. Rev. B. F. Ferguson intends going to Cold Springs, Whitley county, today, to attend the F. W. Baptist Yearly Meeting, which began Wednesday and will continue over Sunday. Mr. Ferguson is the delegate for White County Quarterly Meeting, which includes White, Pulaski, Jasper, Newton and a portion of Tippecanoe counties. The fall term of the Rensselaer public schools began- Monday, The attendance the first day was 360, an increase of 13 over the first day of last year, and that was an increase of 50 over the first day of the year before. The increase this year would have been much greater, had not a number of children been kept at home by whooping cough and other sicknesses. The Grammar room is the most crowded of any, at this time, the attendance in that room being 65. The Rensselaer Stock Farm did well at Remington. They took first premium on high-bred stallions, with Royal Cossack; first and second on high-bred 2-year-olds, and first and second on high-bred yearlings. In the races they took first money in the 2:30 class, by Douglas Girl; first in the 2-year-oH trot, by Lanra Belle, second in the 3-year-old or under, by Laura Belle, and second in the 2:35 trot by Leo, after a hotly contested race. The farm is exhibiting at the Lafayette fair, this week. Judge W. D.* Lee, of Las Vegas, New Mexico, is visiting his mother-in-law* Mrs. M. C. Babcock, and other relatives in the vicinity of Rensselaer. He now holds the honorable position of Associate Jndge of the Supreme Court of New Mexico, to which he was lately appointed by President Harrison. The Jndge was a former resident of Rensselaer, and was married while living here. In 1861 he was prosecuting Attorney of the circuit comprising the coonties of Tippecanoe, White, Jasper, Benton and Newton. We understand he will remain in the vicinity hot a few days, and will then return home by way of Chicago;

Owing to the rate war between the Monon and the Pennsylvania roads, the fore from Chicago to Louisville or Cincinnati is $4, or $7 for thei round trip. - Several of our leading citizens are investing in real estate in the Capital of South Dakota. In fact, should they all decide to move there, Rensselaer would be quite well represented. ! The oecultationof the bright planet, Jupiter, or its passage behind the moon’s disc, Tuesday evening, was a beautiful astronomical occurrence, and was watched with interest by many of our residents. Frequent and heavy summer showers since last Saturday have relieved the pressing need for rain in many parts of the county, while many other parts have received but little rain, or none at all. Rensselaer is among the favored portions. The infant child of W. S. Richards died Tuesday, of whooping cough, Its age was 25 days. Mr. Richards lives with W. L. Richison, in the east part of town. Mr. Richison’s own infant has been very dangerous - ly sick, but is now somewhat better. The Curtis Creek base ball nine came to town Saturday afternoon expecting to meet and play with a nine from Nubbin Ridge, but the latter failed to show up, and a picked nine from town played with the Curtis Creek boys. The Creeks won, by a score of 16 to 15. , Isaac Colbom will go to Goodlan d Friday, to take charge of the Colbom lumber yard, at that place. Th e people of Goodland and vicinity will find Mr. Colbom a square man to do business with, and a pleasant and accommodating gentleman. Mrs. Colbom is visiting friends in Michigan, but will join her husband at Goodland, in a short time. The Jasper county requisition so r the new school books was sent in some considerable time ago, but tb e books have not yet been received, although Supt. Warren has received notice that they have been shipped. Although the books purport to/be the “Indiana Educational Series,” they are printed and bound in St. Louis, and are shipped direct from there to the consignees, as the bills of lading conclusively prove. Several weeks ago Trustee Win. Cooper, of Union tp., gave to J. H. Barker, of Fair Oaks, a check on McCoy & Co’s. Bank for $6, in payment for work done on the highways of the township. On Saturdays when the cancelled check was returned to Mr. Cooper by the bank, he found that Barker had erased the $6 and inserted SBO in its place and had cashed the check and skipped the country. The check was written with a lead pencil, and was therefore easy of alteration. Monday evening James B. MelJ ser, son of Harmon Melser, of Wheatfield, and Charley Swain, of Fair Oaks, both trainmen on the Coal road, got into a row at LaCross. Melser, who was much the larger man, knocked Swain down, and the latter then got up and cut Melser pretty badly with a pocket knife. One cut was over the heart and had it not struck a rib would have d one Melser up. He has four other bad cuts in his back, and is thought to be in a dangerous condition. The extension of the incandescent electric light system into the residences of the town is now proceeding as fast as possible, with the number of capable hands at the command of the company. Among those who baye recently received the lights or aboat to do so, may be mentioned T. J. McCoyvN. Warner, Berry Paris, A. Parkison, E. L. Clark, F. W. Reubelt, F. B. Meyer, E. L. Hollingsworth and Sylvester Healy.- Lite everyone who tries the tights in their dwellings, they all find them the most perfect house lights made, and entirely indespensable- Two other churches also are now lighted by electricity, the Presbyterian and the Church of God.

j There was another excursion to ; Chicago, yesterday. About 10 or 12 tickets were sold at Rensselaer. The holiness people erected thei r tabernacle in the wilderness, better known as Thompson’s Grove, yester- | day, and are now holding meetings ' daily and nightly. M. F. Chilcote attended the National Encampment, at Milwaukee, last week. He is enthusiastic in his praises of Milwaukee’s treatment of the old soldiers. Marriage licenses issued since last j Chas. I. Medworth, \ Lillian Keen. , j William Gratner, { Emma Lewis. A dispatch from Rensselaer to the Chicago Herald of yesterday, stated that the day previous an iron-boun d box had been unearthed in the Kan - kakee swamps, containing large sums of old gold and stiver coin, and a vast collection of old watches, jewelry, pistols, knives Ac, and all supposed to have been left there by a gang of robbers who formerly had their habitat in that region. The story would be no great discredit to Joe Mulhatton, except that he would scorn to resort to so ancient a chest - nut as a robbers’ buried treasure’ box. The re-constructed Rensselaer lodge of the A. O. U. W., is getting upon its feet in good shape, under the able efforts of Messrs: Smith and Spaan, the representatives of the grand lodge. Among the new members are, Dr. Y. E. Lough ridge, M. E. Baylor, C. B. Steward, T. F. Clark, T. P. Wright, John Kohler, A. Woodworth, John Vanatta, Harry Karlsberg, Jesse Grubb. The lodge holds its meetings in the G. A. R. Hall. The lodge elected the following officers, Tuesday night: Past Master Workman, A. Leopold; Mas - ter Workman, J. Vanatta; Foreman, J. Kohler; Overseer, T. P. Wright; Recorder, C. B. Steward, Finanoie r, Jesse L. Grubb; Receiver, N. Fendig; Guide, T. F. Clark; Inside Watchman, John Osborne; Outside Watchman, R. F. Priest. The total attendance at the Remington fair, last week was 250 less than the total of last year. A prominent member of the association ascribes the falling off to the poor crops in many places around Rem - ington, this year. It is also probable that 4he great heat and dust had much to do with the decrease. The total attendance on Thursday, the biggest day, was 4255. The fair was, probably, up to the average, in ex - Mbits. The cattle show was pretty small, but for all other kinds of stock quite large. There is a variety of opinions as to the merits of the races, but the prevailing verdict is that they were very good. The association is to be commended on the stand they took against admitting all the worst kinds of skin games. Next year they intend to go a step farther in the right direction and keep out all the fakes. Mr. Lincoln, the engineering ex - pert, and his assistants, completed the survey of the upper branch of the Pinkamink, as mentioned in our issue of last week, to within about three miles of Rensselaer. The survey began in section 24, township 31, range 7, in Union township, and pro-, ceeded to section 23, township 29,1 range 6, between Marion and Barkley j townships, showing a fall of 20 feet. Mr. Lincoln his been called away for a few days bat will complete his work! next week. The fond owners on the j upper Pinkamink will petition the ‘ Board of Commissioners in the near j future for the construction of aj dredge ditch. The survey shows fall j enough if properly utilized to close) the reign of the mosquito on the! marshes of Marion, Hanging Groye, j Gillam, Barkley and Union. As a single fact showing the great necessity of this drainage enterprise, we mention the big Pinkamink marsh, which covers eight solid sections of fond, and which is so imprerible that) it has never even been.surveyed. Gixl Wjumso.—To work in restaurant. T. W ■ Rice.

The Lemon Squeeze soda), at Mr and Mrs. F. B. Meyer’s residence last Friday evening, was as pleasanl an entertainment as it was noveL A prominent feature of the entertainment was that every guest was sopplied with a lemon. These were made into lemonade and as each lemon was squeezed the seeds were counted, and the lady and gentleman whose lemons had the most seeds woe entitled to prizes. Wm. M. Wood took the gentleman’s prize and Miss Grace Vanatta the lady’s. Another interesting feature of the evening was that the guests were taken into a room in which had been placed an endless number of articles of all sizes and descriptions, and allowed to remain and look about them for just one minute. The persons who, from that brief inspection, wrote out the largest list of articles, seen in the room, were also entitled to prizes. C. G. Spitler won the gentleman’s prize and Mrs. Mann the lady’s in this contest Phillip Balser, the Carpenter tp. supposed barn burner, has always, it seems from all accounts, borne an excellent reputation among his neighbors, as a peaceable, quiet and indus - trious man. In Remington, near wMch hejhas lived for the last year or two, he and his family were wel 1 thought of and he was a member of the G. A. R. post In Gtiboa, Benton county, where he lived before he moved to Carpenter township, a correspondent of the Fowler Review says he always stood well In Rensselaer Mrs. G. J. Dexter, a most estimable lady, says that for many years Balser lived near neighbors to and often worked for her father, while he was superintendent of the Tippecanoe county poor farm, and he and his family enjoyed the esteem of everybody, and especially did they always seem to be entirely peaceable and happy in their family relations. These facts of his previous good character and amiable disposition give added force to the assumption that he was not in his right mi nd when he committed the acts for which he is incarcerated.