Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1889 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN.

VOL. XXII.

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

A new boy at Wallace Robinson’s, since the 10th inst. The State Fair at Indianapolis, next week. Half fare for round trip, on the Monon Route. The Francesville Fair will be held the first week in October, beginning on Tuesday and lastiug four days. Dr. Nevada Upton, one of Dr. White Cloud’s Indian medicine men, will open with compan5 r No. 28, in the Opera House, at Remington, next Monday, September 23. The holiness campmeeting closed Sunday evening, and the conductor’s -have departed for Danville, 111. The meetings do not appear to have had any very striking results. The High School Senate will discuss the question of the proper location of the World’s fair of 1892, at their next session. The Chicago advocates ought to win for they have “the bulge” on the arguments.

L OSTi —On last Sunday, between Washington street and the camp meeting grounds, a monogram made from a gold dollar, with the letters “11. R, W.” Finder please leave at this office. The encouraging item of last week, quoted from the Winamac Republican, regarding the probable early beginning of grading upon the Rochester, Rensselaer &■ St. Louis Railway, lacks confirmation, and was probably a mistake. The prospects for a big state fair, at Indianapolis, next week, grow brighter every day. The liberal excursion rates allowed by the Monon Route, will afford the Jasper comity people an opportunity to attend at a reasonable expense. Work has begun on the foundations of Judge Hammond’s new residence, at the corner of Weston and Washington streets. It will be a good frame building, of moderate size, to cost 82,000 or more. Frank Osborne will superintend tho construction. J Parties from Rensselaer who attended the Crawfordsville fair, last week, say that the fairs held there arc about the best in the state. The attendance WHS immense and on last Thursday reached the enormous figure of 30,000. The show of stock, when led out on Friday, reached almost entirely around the half mile race track.

A team belonging to E. R. Burr, of Jordan tp.. upset the vehicle to which they were attached, at the river bridge, last Saturday, and a fi year-old son of Mr. Burr’s had his collar bone broken and was otherwise considerably bruised. Dr. Washburn attended the little fellow and reborts that he is in a good way for prompt recovery. On Monday last, the beginning of the third week of school, the enrollment in the Rensselaer public school reached the number 379. On the third Monday last year the enrollment was The increase would be considerably greater, were not a number bf children kept out by whooping cough. The attendance on Monday was 35J, a very large per cent of the enrollment.

At the White Cloud Indian entertainment, at the Opera House, last Saturday evening, an album was given as a prize to the hadsomest lady and a bottle of Tah-Wah to the homliest man. One of the Indian chiefs was the judge as to the relatives merits of the personal attractions of Ills audience, lie awarded the album to Miss True Alter and the Ta-Wah to a Mr. Cain, from over south. The Rensselaer Stock Farm had - big luck at the Crawfordsville fsir, last week, and took about ssoo' in premiums and race money. They took first money in the 3 minute trot, with Leo; first in the 2.35 trot, with Joe, and third in the 2:25. They also took seven first premiums on their exhibit of horses. This week their racers are at Cambridge City, but their other stock has all been brought home. --T-" r-

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1889.

Mr. Ferguson has his Hammond electric light plant nearly ready for operation. The first frost of the season, in this vicinity, oecured Tuesday night. It caught the vines to some extent, but was not hard enough to do much damage. The dates of the next Harvest Excursions, with which the Mononßoute makes connections, are September 24 apd October 8. One first class fare for the round trip. David Mitchell, of Union tp., comes to the front with the first public sale of the season. On Tuesday, Oct., Ist, he will sell live stock and other personal property, on the John E. Alter farm, near Alter’s Mill.

One day last week some parties stole $35 from one of the Indians connected with Dr. White Cloud’s company, and .the same parties, or some others, stole a valuable diamond pin from one of his managers. An unopened letter and paper,*just taken from the post-office, were lef t on a table in the court house yard, last Saturday morning. The finder will be rewarded by returning to Frank Padgett. The District Convention of the Disciples Church, for the district composed of Pulaski, White, Jasper and Newton counties will be held in Remington on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, September 24 and 25. Marriage licenses since last week: j Joseph L. Peffiey, f Julia Turpin, j Geo. R. Dickinson, \ Martha J. Casey, j William M. Porter, ( Melissa M. Mitchell. The mission meetings in the Catholic church, conducted by Father Godfrey, assisted by Fathers Hahn and Dick, will close next Sunday night. Three services arc held daily and are well attended. The purposes of these missions are for the spiritual awakening of the members and their instruction in their religious duties. An excursion over the Monon Route and the C. 11. & D. Railways, to the national Soldiers’ Home, at Dayton, Ohio, will run next Tuesday, Sept., 24th. The train will start from Rensselaer, at G o’clock a. m., and the fare for the round trip only $4. Will arrive at Dayton at 3:30 p. m. Return tickets will be good until and including the 28th. To-day is the sixty-second birthday of the Indian chief, Mountain Panther, one of White Cloud’s principal performers, and the occasion will be celebrated by giving him a benefit performance, at the Opera House, this evening. Tho small admission fee of ten cents will be charged, and the proceeds will all go to the chief.

It is announced that the Monticello club will come over’and play the concluding game Avith the Blues, next Tuesday. A dance in honor of the visitors and for the benefit of the local club, will be given at the Opera House, on that evening. This will afford the friends and well wishers of the Blues a good chance to extend to them a little deserved financial encouragement. Mr. Will Porter, of Coats, Kansas, formerly of Rensselaer, and Miss Melissa M.' Mitchell, a known teacher, were married last Tuesday, at the home of the bride’s parents, in Gillam tp , by Rev. .John fcebring, in the presence of a few friends and relatives only. A reception will be given to the young couple this, Thursday, evening, at the residence of the groom’s brother, W. Y. Porter, a mile or two east of'town.

The law passed last winter requiring railroads to put a bulletin in every station, to announce thereon, the time of the arrival of every train and whether it is on time, and if not how much behind, has been declared unconstitutional by three circuit judges, in Green codnty, Putnam county and Clinton county. The law is a good one in principle, but seems to have been too loosely and carelessly drawn to stand the scrutiny of the courts.

C. C. Sigler has sold his interest in the Halloran livery stable to Wm. Stephenson, of Barkley tp., who will enter into possession next Monday. The M. E. parsonage building and lot has been sold to J. R. Vanatta. It is the intention to rent a residence for the pastor until such time as the church feels in good enough financial condition to build a new parsonage. It is a cold day when the “D wiggins Syndicate” does not buy ©re establish another bank. The latest in the list is a bank at Thorntown, Boone county, which W. B. -Austin went over and purchased, Tuesday. Possession will be given next week. The present cashier will remain in charge.

In our Remington correspondence of last week was an item which some of the friends of Prof. Dickerson, the able and popular superintendent of the Remington schools, feel to hav e the effect of a disparagement of his abilities as an instructor. The item stated that Mr. Dickerson had helped conduct a highly successful summer normal in Brown county, when, in point of fact, he was the head and chief instructor in the institution, and not, in any sense, a helper. Superintendent Warren has received fifty copies of the annual report 1 of the State Superintendent of public instruction, for the year 1888, for distribution, as the law requires. Each county commissioner is entitled to a copy, also each school trustee, whether of townsnip or town, and some extra copies for distribution as demands may indicate, to teachers, school directors &e, All persons entitled to copies can obtain them by calling on the Superintendent M his office.

The Denison, Texas, Sunday Gazetteer gives an account of a brilliant double wedding which took place in the Thompson House, in Denison, on Sunday, September Ist. The bride’s jvere Misses Jennie and Lilly Thompson, daughters of Henry Thompson, a former resident of Rensselaer, and a brother of Mrs. S. A. Hemphill. The names of their respective husbands are L. H. Mitchell, of Fort Worth, Texas, and R. Y. Prigmore, of Ogden, Utah. . Tho new drain for the new county floor farm building, as located by Geo. M. Robinson and Surveyor Thrawls, will be 80 rods long and of a depth of from 8 to 2 feet, the general depth being not over 3 or four feet. It will run for its whole distance through land belonging to the poor farm, and through a tract that needs tiling badly, so that it will be worth all it costs in the way of benefitting the county’s land, to say nothing of the advantage of securing good drainage for the building.

The cock-and-bull story recently telegraphed from Rensselaer, regarding the alleged finding of a robbers’ treasure £>ox in the Kankakee swamps, is having a wide circulation. Not only are all of our neighboring exchanges, and the Chicago and Indianapolis dailies taking it all in, in good faith, but we have even seen it mentioned in a New York City and New Orleans daily. Falsehood travels first-class, in a limited" lightning express, while truth travels on a tieticket or dead-beats its way m a box car, and gets kicked out at every cross road. A base ball game was played in Rensselaer last Friday afternoon between the Rensselaer Blues and a club from Remington. The Remington hoys woe not in practice, and were beaten pretty badly, the score standing 19 to 5 in favor of the Blues. On Saturday afternoon the second nine from Remington played with the second nine of the Blues. The result was a tremenduous thrashing for the Bluelets. The score was 31 to 7 in favor of the Remingtons. The seven runs made by the Blues were all made in one inning, they having been white-washed in the other eight. Ed Irwin umpired both games to the satisfaction of all. Step in and see Rossbacher’s figure music, for the guitar, at Kannal’s.

Eight of the young Indians recently brought to the Indian school, from - Wisconsin, ran away last Saturday night and ar§ sujljxjsed to have gone back to their homes. Two of these eight were found, after their arrival here, to have been pretty tough cases, and they are believed tp have come here with the intention of running away at the first opportunity, and are supposed to have been the means of inducing the others to go with them. These two “bad Injuns” are ' under considerable suspicion of having been the parties who stole the money and diamond pin from members of White Cloud’s medicine company. A distressing accident happened at Johnny Guest’s place, in Jordan tp., last Friday. A young fellow named John Roberts, who has been working near Remington, was at Guest’s place hunting, and got to amusing himself, in a fool-hardy way, by striking the bottoms of his loaded shells together, holding one in each hand. He finally struck the shells together with such force that one of them exploded and the powder and shot struek him in the face and left eye. Luckily they struck him in a sideways direction, or he would have surely been killed. As it is, the sight of the injured eye is doubtless destroyed.

PERSONALS.

Nellie Moss is visiting her brother Will, and family, in Detroit, Mich. Miss Almira Monnett returned to her Evanston, 111., home, last Monday. Miss Cora Zimmerman has returned from her visit to Rushville, Shelbyville and Indianapolis. Johnny Hemphill, wife and children, of Ashland, Neb., are now visiting their Rensselaer relatives. Victor Willey is home from Pough - keepsie, N. Y., where he has been attending Eastman’s big business college, since last May. James Thompson, the carpenter, has moved to Chicago with his family. His. house, near the depot, is rented to J. N. Leatherman. Uncle Isaac Barkley and wife attended the funeral of Mrs. Michael Mann, in Henry county, last rveek. She was related to them by marriage. Miss Allie Kinney found school teaching in the remote solitudes of Carpenter tp., so little to her liking that slie/eturned home, after a week’s experience. Miss M. M. Hill visited Rensselaer friends from last Wednesday to Monday, evening, when she departed for Topeka, Kansas, where she will teach again the ensuing school year. The new M. E. minister, Rev. T. F. Drake, and wife, will make their home with the Misses Culp, corner of Washington and Cullen streets. They have no family other than themselves. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Brown went over to Danville, 111., to attend the Avedding of Mr. Brown’s sister, Miss Belle Brown and Mr. E. C. English. The Avedding took place Wednesday eveniug.

The neiv Methodist minister, Rev. T. F. Drake, held his first services in the tOAvn, last Sunday, morning and evening. He has been stationed at Winamac during the last three years, where he was highly esteemed. Mr. Hoobler, a former frequent visitor in Rensselaer and known to pretty nearly everybody as “Fod” is again visiting his grand-daughter, Mrs. T. J. McCoy. Poor health has prevented his visits for some time past. Mrs. Jennie Hawkins returned from Henry county last Monday. The funeral of Mrs. Michael Mann, her mother-in-law, whom Mrs. Hawkins had been attending in her last sickness for some months, occurred last week. A guitar for $6, at Kannal’s. Boots, boots, boots! Shoes, shoes, shoes! Cheap at Hemphill k Honan’s. School teachWs, don’t fail to call and price gold Avatches; they are so very cheap at Kannal’s Jewelry Palaoe.^

" Yi/EEKl^— FREE-INDIAN-SHOW! Opera^ouse,^ei]sselaer GRAND CHEROKEE INDIAN EXHIBITION ENTERTAINMENT I Ig ns m n ii wise. Grand Moral, Refined, Instructive and Novel Entertainment, composed of specialties of GENUINE INDIANS’ performances and aboriginal customs, also Irish, Dutch, Negro and Italian specialties, accompanied by the world’s renown Wizard of the West, J\ T. TEEL,^ Let every one come, as these shows' are free find moral. If you leant lots of fun come’and spend a night tvith us.

J // S' V DR. WHITE CLOUD, THE INDIAN MEDICINE MAN. General Manager of the Cherokee Indian Medicine Co.

A WORD TO THE AFFLICTED. I take this opportunity of announcing that I have come to your city for the purpose of Introducing the famous Cherokee Indian Remedies. It is unnecessary for me to state the wonderful cures that have been wrought by these magnificent preparations during their long reign before the people of this country. Every city, town and hamlet, throughout our broad land, I attests to their curative properties. THOUSANDS OF LIVES Have been snatched from the brink of the grave by their use. If you are suffering and have tried every means to ease your pain*, nOAv is your opportunity—your golden chance. It matters not whether your malady be of i long or short standing, there is still hope for you. All the diseases fiesh is ! heir to vanish before the all potent Cherokee Remedies. Ladies who are suffering from diseases peculiar to their sex, will find in the Cherokee Indian Remedies, complete salvation; they will restore the bloom to the wan cheek, give plumpness to the emaciated form, elasticity to the step, and a new lease upon life. _____ DO NOT DESPAIR Because }u>u have tried all doctors and medicine, but be up and doing, the Cherokee Remedies will cure yota ' Consumptives, who are tottering to the grave, disgusted with a science that has been unable to cope with their disease, will find in the Indian Remedies the road to renewed health and vigor. Victims of rheumatic trouble (no matter of hoiv long standing) are completely restored by the use of the Indian Remedies. Dyspepsia, Loss of Appetite, Sick Headache, Melancholia, Jaundice, Malaria, Heart Disease, Constipation, Liver Complaints, Backache, Bladder Trouble. Dropsy, Sour Stomach, Kidney Trouble, Gravel, Scrofula and Blood Poison all succumb to the benign influence of the In conclusion I would state to the afflicted that the Cherokee Indian Remedies have never failed to cure, and that we make no false promises. For sale by all Druggists. Dr. tVTiiie Clouds office hours arc from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M., at the Opera House.

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