Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1889 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Monon will have a “Trades Carnival” shortly. . BOOKS until you can’t rest, at B. F. Fendig & Co’s. Don’t forget the fair and' entertainment, at the Opera House, next Wednesday evening. Quick sales, small profits and cheap for cash, at one price. It. Chicago Bakgain Store. Ml*. James Peacock and son, of .Gallatin, Tenn., are visiting friends in Rensselaer, this week. Miss Maud Benjamin will again winter in Florida, for the benefit of her health, having departed for Candler, that state, last Tuesday. Have you seen those lovely albums at the new drug store ? See them before you buy. B. F. Fendig & Co. J. J. Eiglesbach, the enterprising butcher, put? a -neat little two-horse-power steam engine into his meat shop last week, to run the sausage machine and other like work. “Where did you get that toilet case ? I want to get one at the same place.” “At the new drug store, they sell ’em low, and they are so pretty, don’t you know ?” Miss Li ' Nga Hung, Miss Hu Po Mi and Miss Kismi will positively appear in their native costumes, at the M. E. Fair, on the afternoon and evening of November 27th. The sparkling effect of a delicate stimulant upon the jaded system is never more apparent than it is when drinking a cup of Mr. C. C. Starr’s pure Jewel Tea. The constable’s sale in the case of F. B. Meyer vs. Jas. Thompson has been stayed until December 15, before which time the case will probably be settled. Lewis Hamilton returned to Chicago, Monday evening to have his diseased eye operated upon. He is at the Hahneman Medical College. It will require a several weeks stay to complete the operation. J. W. Duvall left for Grand Rapids, Mich., last Wednesday on notice that his son-in-law, Eugene Young, was thought to be on his death bed, but at Valparaiso he was taken sick and came home Friday night. S. E. Yeoman Jias temporarily closed his harness shop in Lowell, and with his family is stopping in this vicinity. The prevalence of the diphtheria plague has caused pretty nearly a total suspension of business in Lowell. E‘. M. Parcells’ young son, Fred, was in a very dangerous condition last week, with tonsilites, and on Thursday was given up by his physicians and thought to be dying, but he finally took a turn for the better and is now nearly well. T. F. Clark with Jay W. Williams, is a cabinet maker, by trade, and if you want any furniture made or repaired bring it to him. AU work guaranteed. Picture frames made to order, 20 different styles of moulding on hand. A number of persons in Rensselaer are negotiating to secure a private box in the great Auditorium theatre, on the opening night, which occurs December 9, and when Patti will be there. It is figured that a box will hold 20 or 25 persons and cost about SIOO. Dr. Kelley, the dentist, has returned to Rensselaer and opened an office in “Liberal Corner,” up-stairs over T. P. Wright’s undertaking shop, where he will be glad to see all those wishing dental work, and he will make it an object for all wishing his services. ts. An expert electrician has been secured to have charge of the electric light plant. His name is Mr. Brainard, and he comes from Zanesville, Ohio, and is highly recommended. He took charge of the works last Monday night, and appears to be managing them in an entirely satisfactory manner. At a meeting of young people held Monday evening, at Dr. Loughridge’s residence, a literary society was organized, which will hold weekly meetings during the ensuing winter. The membership is largely but not exclusively composed of alumni of the Rensselaer high school. B. F. Fendig is president. The next meeting will be held at J. E. Spitler’s residence.

.Dolls for sale, at the Opera House, next Wednesday evening. Scrap, Photo and Autograph albums at B. F. Fendig <fc Co. John L. Nichols, of Barkley tp., has just been having a tussel with that pleasant disease, the quinsy. We give you a sled with every can of Baking Powder you buy of us. Paxton Moore. Don’t fail to see “The Old Woman Who Lived in the Shoe,” at the Opera Honse next Wednesday evening. Fancy Turkish towels; a full line of the prettiest ever brought to Rensselaer, at the Economy Store. r Ben and Morris Thomas are starting a meat shop in N. Warner’s room, next door to B. F. Fendig’s drug store. We sell the best goods cheaper than any store in town. Call and convince yourself. ■ - v ECONOMY STORE Co. A Monon train last week ran into a flock of one hundred sheep between here and indianapolis and killed fif-ty-seven of them. So the engineer reported.—Monticello Herald. Although I do not do an “exclusive cash business,” and believe in accommodating when needy; I defy competition in prices when one has the money. R. Fendig. Judge Morgan had another wedding in his one-horse temple of justice, last Saturday night. The parties were Mr. Wm. L. Wood and Miss Margaret Price, both of Barkley tp. This is no old stock, every late shape and all new colors in millinery. Felt shapes only 50 cents. Everyone can afford a new hat. Hemphill & Honan. Clerk Irwin represented Iroquois Lodge, I. O. O. F., at the Grand Lodge, in Indianapolis, Tuesday and Wednesday. J. A. Burnham had charge of the clerk’s office during Mr. Irwin’s absence. We have effected a special arrangement with the publishers of that most excellent state paper, the Indianapolis Journal, whereby we can supply it to our subscribers in connection with The Republican at the low price of $2.25 per year, for the two papers. Millinery goods, way down! felt hats 50cts. 'l’ips 50cts per bunch of three. Wings and feathers 25 cts. to 50cts apiece. Velvets from 50cts to 75cts pier yard. We are the people, Come and see. Hemphill <fc Honan. Atty’s. Hammond and Thompson went over to Logansport Monday and argued so cogently for a new trial in the Turpie-Lowe case that their motion was granted, by Judge Winfield. When and by whom the new trial will be is not yet determined. We must remind the neighboring farmers again that next Saturday ternaoii is,.the time, appointed, for a meeting to determine the question of holding a Farmers’ Institute. We believe that it will be a good thing to do, and hope the farmers will sec it in the same way and turn out to the meeting. Mrs. M. E. Lecklider has opened up a large and well assorted stock of millinery, fancy goods, notions and jewelry, next door to Haus’ restaurant. She is also a first class dress maker and will do all kinds of sewing and has a splendid trimmer from the city. Call in and see me. Mrs. M. E. Lecklider. Jasper County item m Goodland Herald: Frank Gray, who had his leg broken two months ago, is not able to be out yet, and Thursday of last week about a dozen men with teams pulled into his com field and husked out his coni for him. It was a perfect show to see twelve teams marching through a cornfield. The White Cloud Indian Show is no comparison to a husking bee. Chas, and Frank Yeoman, formerly of Rensselaer, were in the front rank of the Oklahoma boomers, last spring, and are now at Oklahoma City, where they have town lots and' are also each contesting a claim for good quarter sections near thb town, which were previously gobbled by “Toosooners,” as, the fellows are called who slipped into the territory before theJawful day. Their prospects for holding the land are excellent. The Regular Baptist people have arranged with the Missionary Baptists for the use of their house of worship, on the first and third Sundays, of each month. On the first Sabbath the preaching will only be at 10:30 a.m. On the third Sabbath services will be in the morning and also in the evening. There will also be services every Saturday of each month proceeding the third Sabbath, at 11 A, m., and 7p. m. The public are cordially invited to attend.

' Felt Boots $1.50t0 $2.50 at Hemphill & Honan's. Girl* Wanted. —To do genera housework. E. L. Clark. Fresh candy made and sold at the Opera House Wednesday evening of next week. Grandmother Chilcote is well on the road to recovery from her late sickness. Ladies’, Gents’ and Children’s underwear, at reasonable prices, at Hempbill & Honan's. A .good square meal at the Opera House, Wednesday evening, November 27. Oysters served on order. The venerable Clark McColly is very sick with a kidney trouble, at his home in Union tp., but serious results are not now* apprehended. All shades in Surah silks, Satins and Plushes, for fancy work, at (>5 and 75 cents, worth $1 per yard, at the Economy Store. F We learn that Benj. Barger, of Jordan tp., has had no end of suffering from his crushed fingers, mentioned some weeks ago. Toboggans' Hoods! Facinators! underwear, hoisery, at less than wholesale prices. Call and see at Hemphill & Honan’s. The Regular Baptist ,people will hold services twice a month, hereafter, in the Missionary Baptist church, Revs. W. R. and D. B. Nowels will preach alternately. Ladies, why not have a beautiful form by wearing one of those new French corsets, with extra long waists? Only $1 at Hemphill & Honan’s. A special meeting of the W. R. C. is called for Friday evening, Nov. 22. It is greatly desired that every member be present. Hattie FlYnn, Secy. The Fair to be given by the ladies of the M. E. church, will be open on the afternoon of Wednesday, Nov. 27. Supper from five to eight o’clock, this to be followed by the entertainment. The well borers at Fair Oaks are still having hard luck. The hole still goes crooked and it is now the intention, unless it can be straightened within the next day or two, to pull up and try a new place, about 100 feet distant. The depth yesterday was about 400 feet. A floating paragraph says a young lady of Columbus, Ga., has made a crazy quilt out of Louisiana State lottery tickets that failed to “connect” with the prize wheel. The numbers are worked in silk of beautiful colors. It is probable that the blank tickets tiirned out by that institution during the past twenty years would make I a quilt large enough to cover the . backbone of the Rocky mountains. Typographical errors will.sometimes occur: A Massachusetts paper lately closed a highly eulogistic notice of a deceased lawyer with a sentence which ought to have read, “the body was taken tq,Hull for interment, where reposed the remains of other . members of the family,” but by misi take the “u” in Hull was supplanted by an “e.” The members of the ' stricken family did not order any exi tra copies of that issue. i 'The citizens of Rensselaer have all i about ruined their eyesight staring :at the fine vestibule trains as they ■ pass through at the rate of fifty miles ' per hour. It would be a good place j for some peddler to strike with a lot ' of spy glasses.—Monon Times. Look here, brother Winkley, you are prodding us in a tender, place in that little squib and you want to let : up on that line if you expect any help in this vicinity on that new ■ county scheme of yours. The Monon Times man has got his • second wind and opened out on the . new county racket, harder than ever, I —devotes a whole page to the sub- ■ ject, in fact. His beautiful and accurate diagram of the new county is : copied in this paper. He says that the new county will have a $50,000 I court house and it won’t cost the tax payers a cent, the money to build it .being already pledged. Bro. Winkley is what is called, in the language of slang, “a plumb good one.” I The wife of Samuel Moore, of [Pleasant Ridge, died very suddenly I last Thursday evening. She had been i sick a short time with rheumatism and then lung fever had developed, but j no immediately serious results were ; apprehended. At the time referred to, however, some members of the family stepped to her bedside and found her dead. The physician decided that the rheumatism had reached her heart, and thus caused her sudden death. Her age was about 55 * years. She leaves a husband and considerable family of children, all of them of adult age. - -

Notice our wonderfully low. clubbing offer with the finest of juvenile magazines. The Wide Awake. . All the latest shapes in felt hats, reduced to 50 cents at Hemphill <fc Honan’s. An interesting programme, at the Opera House, next Wednesday evening. This is Bargain Week at the Economy Store. Don’t fail to get our prices. Y'ou can get a beautifully trimmed hat now for less money than it took to buy one without trimming, 2 weeks ago, at Hemphill <fc Honan’s. Mrs. Nannie Lyons, of Topeka, Kans., a daughter of the late Ezra Wright, visited old friends in Rensselaer for a number of days, departing for home yesterday. Did you see those long waisted French corsets, at Hemphill <fc Honan’s? They fit perfectly and make the form perfect. Call and see them at Hemphill & Honan’s. Rev. U, M. McGuire is extending the field of his usefulness as a singing master, as he now has a class of forty ' or more at Egypt, in addition to the , class at Watson’s, previously mentioned. A seven year old son of John Schyer, of Barkley township, was thrown from a wagon, Monday evening, and had an arm broken. Dr. Alter went out and set the broken bone, Tuesday. Jasper County item in Good land Herald: Our trustee, Wm. Roadifer, lost a good horse one day last week. While Will Hubbard was on his rounds selling beef he stopped at a house to deliver some beef that he had sold, dropping the lines as he usually does, and stepped into the house, when the team skipped out. They ran but a short distance when one of the horses dropped dead. The Rev. Dr. John R. Paxton, of New York, is a preacher who has the courage of his convictions. He said to the Presbytery: “The man who would dare to preach the doctrine of infant condemnation and the doctrine or reprobation as expressed in the confession is not a contemporary of the nineteenth century. He is a contemporary of the seventeenth or eighteenth. He is a survival —and not of the fittest.” The same learned justice of Union tp., who sent a summons instead of a warrant after an accused party, and subsequently tried and sentenced the man to jail, when he was 5 miles away, has written to Rensselaer enquiring if the firm of Marshall Field & Co., of Chicago, is good for $2.50 costs in a law-suit, That firm is not worth over 30 or 40 millions and Justice Dogberry had better make i his charges pretty light, or he will : force them into bankruptcy. A. L. Willis is canvassing for “Cram’s Unrivaled Atlas of the World,” one of the most complete ' and excellent works of the kind we I have yet seen. It is especially full ■ and complete in comparison with its ; very moderate price. Every family ought to have a good atlas of the world, for reference, and especially every family in which there are young people. All families not already provided with a work of the kind will do well to examine: the merits of Mr. Willis’ book, when it is presented to their attention. Our neighboring town of Lowell, in Lake county, is greatly afflicted | with a diptheria plague. Up to last I Saturday eighteen deaths had occurI ed with the disease, in the town or its ■ immediate vicinity and many other I cases were in a- dangerous condition. ■ Deaths were of daily occurrence and i the people were so alarmed that the i dead were buried without funeral ceremonies, with no one present but the undertaker and his assistants. Great suffering had resulted from the lack of nurses for the sick, but that difficulty was relieved last week by the appearance upon the scene of i a number of trained nurses belonging i to the sisters of mercy. The charming little cantata, “Bonny I Bell,” was very successfully rendered at the Opera House, last Friday evening. by members of the primary departments of the Rensselaer public school. The entertainment was given for the purpose of procuring needed apparatus in the departments mentioned, and great credit is due to their teachers, Misses McDonald and Ryan for their great efforts in organizing the entertainment and carrying it forward to its successful termination. The net receipts of the evening were about S3O which, considering the low prices of admission and the considerable sum required for expenses, is a very favorable showing. The attendance was very large. Johnny smoke the Maacot

The great Napoleon was “grand, gloomy and peculiar” and this weather is like him, if you leave out the “grand.” There will be a temperance play given in connection with the Fair, at the Opera House, on the evening of November 27, commencing at 8 P. M., entitled, "Out in the Street” S -The work of piping gas into Francesville began in earnest last week. The Era thinks the main line will be completed by the last of . this week or the first of next Another change of time is likely to occur on the Monon Route within the next thirty days. The present time card was hastily arranged and is not to the entire satisfaction of the management. Rev. and Mrs. M. L. Tressler left to-day for a short stay in Michigan. In his absence the Presbyterian and Methodist congregations will worship I together, under the ministrations of I Rev. T. F. Drake. u ■ Hon. I. D. Dunn, of Duniiville, was in town last Thursday, for the first time sineb his eastern trip. He and Mrs. Dunn went through Michigan and Canada to Maine, and from there journeyed by short stages tlyough Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New York, and; even paid short visits to Philadel-' phiaand Washington. In everyjplace j where they made stops of any length I they found relatives or old friends to ; visit. | Judge Field, attorney for the L. N. ■ A. & C. Ry. was in town last Friday, taking depositions in the case of Ben Smoot against the Monon and Coal Road companies, which case was taken from Jasper county to Newton, at I the late term, on change of venue. Smoot’s suit is based on an accident which he met with at Fair Oaks one day last winter. He arrived there , very early one morning, before it was day, and stepped out of the depot door, which the depot agent had negligently left unfastened, and got ! a fall of six feet, into a sort of a pit, adjoining the depot, and injured his J spine, so as to unfit him for active j labor. Ben’s chance for a verdict seems very promising. ‘ The election in Minneapolis, Colorado, and the county in which it is situated, was more favorable to the ex-Jasperites than the slowness of the ■ the news indicated: Minneapolis j did not get the county-seat, it is true, but E. C, Nowels was the successful candidate for county judge, by a large majority. He was running on ' the democratic ticket, but politics J did not cut much figure in the elec- i tion, the fight being on local matters.' The county-seat question is not settled as none of the towns received a majority vote, and another election ; will be necessary to determine the matter. In regard to the office to which our ex-townsman was elected, j we judge from what he have learned, that it pays from $(>00 to SBOO per year and leaves considerable leisure for other buisness.

One Frank Eck, known, to distinguish him from other Frank Ecks in j the vicinity, as “Big Frank Eck,” has : been lying for some time at John ! Bicknell’s, in Jordan tp.Jsoffering from the effects of a bad cut in the hip. :He started to do a job of plastering ’ for Bicknell, not long since, but soon ■filled himself with alcohol from a 1 bottle of that pleasant beverage, and ■ then left the place, and turned up at . a neighbor’s, a few hours later with a ' cut in his hip, and will not tell how and where he came by it. A remarkable feature of the wound is that although it is a long, deep cut, and looks as though it had been made by a sharp knife, there is no corresponding cut in his clothing, and this fact causes some wagging of tongues in the neighborhood. Eek’s condition was pretty bad at one time, and it was thought he would die, but now he is much better. Constable Will Wood made an attempt to overhaul Morris Timmons, the decamped butcher, on Wednesday of last week, the day of his supposed departure. Wood went to Remington, in the direction of which place Timmons formerly resided, but got no trace of the fugitive. Later it was found that one of his friends had driven Timmons to Fair Oaks and that he had taken the accommodation train there, and is supposed to have gone, to Kearney, Neb. Tlje constable intended, if he had caught him, to have brought him back and held him on a capias until some of his just debts were paid. These reach a considerable amount, as he appears to have made it a point lately to “get into” everybody who would give him credit He is said to have had a big roll of money with him when he left. A man who will deliberately run away and leave onpaid debts, which he is well able to pay, is as bad as a thief and ought to be subject to the same penalties.