Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1889 — Friendship, Lore and Truth. [ARTICLE]

Friendship, Lore and Truth.

The reports of the officers of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows show that there are in Indiana 558 lodges, with a nfem bership of 30,892, being a net gain of four lodges and 1,039 1 members in Indiana, during the past year. Relief was given to 1,912 members, and 136 families of deceased members. There was jraicl for the relief of brothers $2,640.98; for the relief of widowed families, $2,640.98; for the education of orphans, $110.24, for burying the dead, $11,131.15; for other charitable purposes, $5,671.73; making the total amount of relief $60,350.37, in addition to which there was donated by the members of the lodges, without drawing on the funds of the lodges, the sum of $2,227.50, for the relief of the Johnstown sufferers. There are 652,787 members of the order living, and of the Manchester Unity Odd Fellows, of England, there are 688,492 members, thus making the total number of Odd Fellows on the globe 1,341,279. This is said to exceed the membership of any other secret society by a quarter of a million. C. C. Starr’s pure Jewel Tea is the most refreshing of beverages. R. Fendig defies competition On the prices and styles of his overcoats. Felt Boots $1.50 to $2.50 at Hemphill & Honan’s. If you want a new dress made, try Mrs. M. K. Lecklider. We give you a sled with every can of Baking Powder yon buy of ns. —-—m Paxton Moure.

4- Rabbits are numerous this year, beyond all previous experience, as a few facts will illustrate: Monday morning Theodore Hurley, of Blackford, came to town with three wagon loads of the cotton-tails which he shipped to Chicago. Mr. Hurley estimated the number of rabbits in bis three loads at 2,270. Making liberal allowance- for the exuberant Nubbin Ridge imagination there were surely not less than 1,200 in the shipment. On the same day Mr. Farneman, the Rensselaer dealer, shipped 500 rabbits, j Both parties had shipped largely for 1 several days'preceding, Mr. Hurley jto the extent of several wagon loads. As showing the great numbers of the rabbits and the facility by which they may be slaughtered, we give au instance or two: Last Friday Charles and John Paxton and J. W. King, of Rensselaer, went into Newton tp.,and m a few hours they bagged 96 rabbits. In one small plump of underbrush, about an eighth of an acre |in extent, they shot over 30 without scarcely stirring from -their tracks. J ames Lister Jfrom south of town, brought in 150 last Thursday and sold them to Fameman, all, or nearly all of which had been killed on Wednesday; A man from Union tp., brought in 40 which 1 he and his dog had killed in one day, without firing a gun. In the soft, ! deep snow the dog caught them in short order The three loads above mentioned brought in Monday by Mr. Hurley, were nearly all bagged on the Saturday previous, although it should be remembered that Saturday is a mighty long day in the vicinity of Nubbin Ridge—in rabbit harvest time. The great increase, in the number of the genus rodentof the species cotton tail, is largely accounted for by the fact that the absence of deep snows last winter afforded no favorable opportunities to kill them off. It is fortunate that a succession of such seasons does not occur, as in that case, the rabbits would become so numerous as to be a destructive pest.