Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1889 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Mr. Harrison A. Warren and Miss Hester A. Powell, both of Newton tp, were marked last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. lek Yates and Miss Mary Yates were baptized Monday morning, by Rev. E. L. Conner, pastor of the Church of God. Squire Morgan performed the marriage ceremony, Saturday evening, for Mr. Wa Spencer Greenlee and Miss Mattie A. Shook. They live in Barkley township. Two burglars entered the Indian school building, during th<s recent absence of Father Halm, but were fired upon by one of the inmates of the building and frightened away before they secured any plunder. W■•: ' . ' • Joe Woosiey, usually called Oosley, a gay and festive widower, by grace of the Jasper circuit court, and Mrs. Rebecca Francis Delaney, relict of the late Chris. Delaney, were married at the residence of the latter, last Saturday evening.

The traction engines are said to be ' playing hob with all the little bridges in the county. Some threshers and hay pressers carry heavy planks which they lay across flic bridges for their engines to run upon. This is an excellent plan, that ought to be generally adopted. The holiness meetings, in the tabernacle in Spitlcr’s "rove, draw large crowds, every evening. The meetings are conducted in an entirely unobjectionable manner, and t>»e sermons are for the most part, highly commended. The meetings will continue over Sunday. A considerable number of the Rensselaer carpenters arc now in Chicago, where they are said to be finding plenty of work, at good wages. Jas. Thompson is there and so is Ed Smith, Jim Fisher, M. P. Walker and the two younger Borcms, and the elderßerem and Win. Smith are intending to go next week.

,]olin 11. Robinson, an okl and well known resident of Gilhun . township, took the train here Monday forenoon, on his way to Stanwood, Iow r a, where he expects to remain for an indefinite period, in the hopes that a change of climate will prove beneficial to his health. Ilis daughter, Mrs. Clow, 1 who lives at Stanwood, was with him. j Senator Thompson remarks that he is not quite so poor as one of the items in the description of his big Union township farm, published in The Republican- last week, would imply,' as he does not own atßhetandenclosed in the farm, the amount in his ownership being only 3,000 acres, instead of 5,000, as stated in the description. Lewis Day, the plasterer, went to Chicago Monday, to work on the big Auditorium building, and John Medicus went yesterday. They have a job that pays big money and will last till Christmas. Mr. Day intends removing his family to the city, in a short time. Ilis brother, Hiram Day, will also go to work in Chicago, ws soon as the jobs contracted here are completed. The Courier, of Morocco, alludes to a free slugging match, evidently of large and interesting proportions, which recently took place in that town, but gives no particulars of the occurrence. A rather unsatisfactory style of journalism is that, Brother Graham, especially in that neck of woods. Tell your readers who were in the fight and who got licked or don’t tell them anything about it at Ml. An exchange says that “Goodland is in a flutter of excitement over the near prospect of gas. A well has been sunk 1,200 feet into the rock at that place, and every indication of gas is noted;” —h at we hope that the good people of Goodland will not “flutter” themselves into a fever over the socalled “indications Of gas,” for the only indication that amounts to shucks in gas wells is the blowing out of the drill through the top of the derrick, when the gusher begins to gush. All indications previous to that are empty and vain delusions.

Re v. B. F. Ferguson will hold services in the F. W. Baptist cuhrch , Sanday evening. A remarkable and persistent attempt to find what is under them has just been abandoned atLaPorte. The hole is said to be 3,000 feet deep and has been worked upon, for two years. Ernest Mayhew, who has been in this vicinity for some time, entered Hanover College, last week. It is the institution at which his father, C. P. Mayhew, now of Red Bluffs, Cal-, was educated.

Boyles <fc Harlan expect to have about 85,000 bricks moulded, by the end of the week, for thejnew Catho - lie college building. They expect to get about 100,000 made this fall. 'They make them near the site of the building. Mr. Wm. E. Comer, of Rensselaer, and Miss Jennie Gleason, of near Rose Lawn, Newton Co., were married last Sunday, at the home of the bride, Rev. Ball, of Rose Lawn, officiating. They will, live in J. R. Adams’ house, near the depot. The Monon Route does not seem to be losing money very fast on account of its rate war with the big and wealthy Pennsylvania company. Its gross earnings for the month of August, just passed, were larger than for any previous month in the history of the company. Asa S. Baker, who lives south ot town, has had bad luck with his hay crop. He is reported to liavc lost his entire crop, 65 tons of fine timothy, partly from defective stacking and partly from being pressed before it had passed the •‘sweating” process.

The Winamac Republican states that a car lead of grading tools for the Rochester, Rensselaer <fc St. Louis lty. had been shipped to Rochester and that a car load would arrive at Winamac inside of two weeks. It was said that grading would begin about the 20th inst In re C. C. Palmer, the ministerial scalawag: He has been formally deposed from the ministry; the girl Magoon writes from Michigan that she knows not his whereabouts; he visited Chalmers and Reynolds a short time since and, lastly, he has fallen heir to $7,000, from an estate | in Michigan, and his wife is moving to secure her third, thereof. The disease which caused the death of the late Mrs. J. H. Robinson, of Gilium tp,, was diagnosed by Dr. 11. G. Jones, of Medaryville, as Bright’s Disease. Later a counsel of Dr. Me - Candlas, of Roachdale, and a Francesville physician, gave cancer of the liver as the disease, but a post-inor-tum examination verified the correctness of Dr. Jones’ diagnosis. Mrs. S. A. Hemphill and Mrs. Wiley Duvall reached home Thursday night, from their Kansas visit. They saw large numbers of ex-Jas-perites and report the most of them to be homesick to get back to the old county. We can assure these homesick ones that the prodigal calf always has his latch-string out when the fatted son gets ready to return to his ancestral home ip old Jasper.

A Rensselaer citizen who visited Granville Moody, of Barkley tp., last Sunday reports that he is possessed of an extra fine bunch of “calves.” The calves are 3 years old and the citizen aforesaid thinks they would now average 1,600 pounds, in weight, and they will be fed for a month yet Mr. Moody, by-the-way, is said to be the best cattle man in the county, ami when he came here, ten or a dozen years ago, he did not know a steer from a mule. ~- Mr. Harley .Shields, son of John Shields and Miss Lillie Platt, daught|er of Chas. Platt, were quietly married, at an early hour, last Tuesday evening, at the home of the bride’s parents, on Van Rensselaer street, Squire Morgan performing the ceremony. The wedding day had been set for some weeks later, bnt the time was anticipated in order to give greater eclat to a surprise party, giv|en the same evening to the groom’s I sister, at their home south of town.

“Watermelon lime” has come around “agin” with a rush, and the town is full of big ones, from the surrounding country. Miss Minnie Norris, daughter of G. W. Norris, a former. resident of RCnsselaer, was married at Holyoke, Col., last Sanday, to Mr. J. T. Lonnsberry, of Aurora, Neb. There will be preaching next Sunday, at Watson school house at 10:30 a, m.; at Pleasant Grove, 3p. m., and at Pleasant Ridge at 7 p. m., by Rev. R. M. Simmons, of the Rensselaer circuit.

Brother Winklcy, of the Mouun Times, congratulates himself on having won a bottle of Ta-Wah, at the Indian show, in Monon, as the homliest man at the show. We are glad to see the merits of the members of our modest craft recognized once in a while. Four ministers of the gospel live in the same immediate neighborhood, in the north part of town, and a campmeeting is now in progress in the same vicinity. Suggestions as to the advisability of spring chickens roosting high, in that neighborhood, are not in order, however. A girl in Madison, this state, clialenges her congressional district to a gum-chewing contest. Madison is not in our district and besides- we can’t accept the challenge now anyhow, but there was a lady here recently who could chew the jaw off a brass moniey, but, alas, she has gone hence. Rev. Father Godfrey, D. D. of the Order of the Precious Blood, of Minster, Ohio, will begin a series of mission services in the Catholic church, commencing Sunday morning next, and closing Sunday, Sept. 22. Father Godfrey gives all liis time to mission work, of this character, and lias the reputation of unusual ability in that line.

Rev. B. F. Ferguson reports that the Indiana Yearly Free Baptist Association, which convened last week with the Cold Spring church, was successful in every particular. More than 1,000 persons were present Sunday morning, of whom about 300: partook of tike sacrament. The Asso-! ciation voted to put an evangelist into the field, for the ensuing year. The good work the Rensselaer high school has been doing for the last few years is manifesting itself in the number of promising young men from Rensselaer now attending colleges, in various places, and«>in the large number of competent teachers turned out by the school. The tiroeis not far back when Gillam township supplied more school teachers than Marion township, including the town of Rensselaer, but that time is past and now Marion is far in the lead in that respect.

The Rensselaer Stock Farm got about everything they showed for at the Lafayette fair, last week. In the light harness class they took first money on best saddle horse or mare; first on stallion I year old and unIder two years, second for mare 2 years old and under 3; first on mare 1 year old and under 2; first on sucking mare colt; first on yearling mare or gelding. Also first on general purpose filly 1 year old. In the races Leo was third in the free-for-all trot; Douglas Girl second in the 2:50 and Joe second in the 2:30. This week the Farm is exhibiting at the Montgomery count} 7 fair, at Crawfordsville, '

“Monday the Holiness people silently folded their tent, and left. It is to be hoped that they may never again pitch their tent here, for a more obnoxious set of demagogues never run a holiness Show. Their preaching was mainly in abuse of ALL other Christian organizations, in which they proved themselves to be the most unchristian of the lot Such harrangues—-for preaching it oould not be called—will drive more people to infidelity than anything else, and should not be tolerated by the people at aIL”-Remmgton News. The above very severe criticism can not be justly applied to the people who are now conducting the holiness meetings in Rensselaer. Their meetings are well conducted and their sermons able and not intolerant.

• A very pleasant evening party was given last Friday evening at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Flynn, in honor of Miss'Olllie Reed, who is visiting in this place. About 25 invited guests were present and all passed a very pleasant evening. John S. Baber, brother to Asa S. Baker, of south of Rensselaer, has just been nominated for state senator by the Republicans of Tactxna, Washington. The young man is still under thirty, but is fast attaining prominence, in business as well as politics.

Dr. White Cloud’s free entertainments, every evening, in the Opera House, are attended by crowded audiences. The entertainments are possessed of many novel and interesting features, and are actually better than many variety shows which cost from 25 to 50 cents, for admission. They have the merit too of being free from even the slightes t taint of vulgarity or immorality. Marriage licenses issued since last week: j Harrison A. Warren, ( Hester A. Powell, j Joseph Woosiey, j Rebecca Francis DeLany. j Spencer Greenlee, l Mattie Shook, j Harley Shields, I Lillie Platt, f Alpheus M. Smith, West. —~~t~i

An exchange tells how still another slick swindler is getting in his work: Upon entering a town he lays in a supply of small glasses at an expense of about ten cents apiece. These he fills with earth, into which he places a couple of short stalks of milkweed or any other plant, with a a solution of attar of roses. He is now prepared to furnish confiding purchasers with shoots from the celebrated “Ceylon roses,” using that or some other high sounding name, at $1.50 each, aud he gets it as fast as he can handle them. Probably but few of the citizens of Rensselaer are aware of the fact tb at the wife of one of the young Indians connected with Dr. White Cloud’s band, now in this place, is a white girl and furthermore that she was formerly a resident of this vicinity. Her name was Miss Alice Yan Camp, and she formerly lived with her father, Wm. Yan Camp, in the Makeever neighborhood, in Newton tp. Her husband is a fine looking, full - blood Cherokee, named John Deerfoot, Indian name, Sawadis. They were married at Rossville, Clinton Co., July 20, in the presence of several thousand people.

Recorder Antrim is greatly wroth. The. chief of the State Bureau of Statistics has sent him a little blank, about the size of a sheet of note paper, which must be filled out with the information sought, or Mr. Antrim be subject to a fine of SIOO. The blank requires the facts and figures, regarding the business of the Recorder’s office, for the year ending May 31, as follows: Number of warranty deeds, administrators’, guardians' and executors’ deeds, sheriffs’ deeds, auditors’ deeds, mortgages, releases, leins (fee., recorded during the year, and the total of considerations for each class of documents. It will require many days of hard work to examine the records and make up the report, and not a cent of pay in it.

Wm. Ervin got pretty badly hurt during a recent trip to Buffalo, in charge of a number of car loads of cattle. He fell from the top of a car and between two cars, and received an injury upon the side of his head, from which he was taken up for dead, and from which he remained insensible for a long time. •He has not yet fully recovered from the effects of the injury, and especially, from a partial paralysis of the muscles of one side of his body. The cars were, luckily, almost at a stand-still when he met with the accident, as had they been moving at all rapidly his death would have been inevitable, as he fell directly across the rails. He was badly bruised in many parts of his body, | besides being injured upon his head.