Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1889 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Photo albums at P. 0., for 75 cts. Chas. 11. Thompson, of DeMotte, is on the list for an increased pension. Fine plush toilet sets at P. 0., for f 1.50. If you owe us step in and pay us. Ellis & Murray. Lilly and Dahlia sings at the Opera House, to-night. Holiday opening at the Chicago Bargain Store. > Buy a nice box Of Christmas cigars at Fejudig cfc Cp’s. Mrs. Berry Paris had a mild attack of diphtheria, after her return from Attica, last week. Ellis A Murray will sell you an overcoat for less than you have ever seen them priced. If you are looking for Xmas presents, don’t fail to drop in at Fendig & Co’s. Ten little flowers, beautifully represented, will sing to-night at Opera House. Long & Eger have as line aline of plush albums, toilet cases &c., as was ever brought to town. Misses Allie Schriver and Hettie Blankenbaker joined the already large colony from Rensselaer, at Hammond, last Monday. By the way, do you know where to get the cheapest album in town ? At the new drug store and no mistake. sOur clothing must go. If you want anything in that’line, give us a call. Take it at your’ own price, at the Trade Palace. A new furnace was put under the electric light engine, last week. There were no lights Wednesday night on that account. We have got them. Yes, indeed, the best line of children’s and juvenile books in the city. 1 B. F. Fendig & Co. Red flannels at 25, 30 and 35c, best in the market You will want some. We can save yon some money. Economy Store Co, Picture frames at P. O.

Fendig & Co’s, for books. Presents for the thousands. It. Chicago Bargain Store. Old Kris Kringle left the dandy lot of dolls at-the new drug store. Come! Hear the wonderful singing flowers, at Opera House, to-night. If you want a new dress made, try Mrs. M. E. Lecklider. 1 ct. dolls, nigger dolls, clowns, Jack in the box, plush goods &c. It. Chicago Bargain Store. Full stock of dry goods, clothing, cloaks, hats and eai>s at Ellis & Murray’s. Full and complete line of books at _P. Q. Books not in stock ordered promptly. Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Dwiggins left yesterday morning for Bradentown, where they will spend the rest of the winter. A drive in fur muffs, cut prices in facinators and some rare bargains in fine, all wool Henrietta dress goods. It Chicago Bargain Store. Ladies Goods, of all kinds, at cost o» Wednesdays and Saturdays, and a large discount at all other times, at at Mrs. M. E. Lecklider’s. Harry Karlsberg, lately salesman with A. Leopold, is now in a clothing house in Milwaukee, a branch of the Chicago Bell. Best Prints at 4c, sc, and sc. Best ginghams at 6| to Bc. Our prices are always the lowest “ * Economy Store Co. I. S. Wade of Lafayette, Grand Worthy Chief Templar of Indiana, of the order of Good Templars, was in town last Friday, in the interests of the order. Prices tint in two, means some special bargains in clothing, foot wear and all kinds of winter goods to close It Chicago Bargain Store. 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. A. J. Davis, the piano tuner, who has been engaged in Rensselaer the past week, desires to have it announced that he has gone home for the Holidays, but will return to finish his work here, immediately after them. Having bought a complete line of Holiday goods this late in the season we saved 25 per centand you should see our goods and prkes before buying elsewhere. «» IL Chicago Bargain Store.

Fine family bibles at P. 0. For a nice bottle of perfumery go to Long <fc Eger’s. The Man in the Moon will be there. To-night at Opera House, £ And they are so pretty; those cases at Fendig & Co’s. Buy your beau a nice pair of slippers at Hemphill & Honan’s. Your choice of 300 fine, clothbound books for 33| cents each, at Long & Eger’s. Bring your whole family and attend the museum of holiday goods at the Chicago Bargain Store. Lewis Hamilton came home from Chicago Saturday. He reports that his eye which was operated upon is doing very well. This wet time you will need rubbers and rubber boots, go to Hemphill & Honan’s and buy the Candee Brand, the best on earth. Musical Instruments.—An accordion for $1.25. A violin for $2. All other instruments in proportion, at Long & Eger’s. Lowell is now said to be entirely free from the diphtheria affletion. There have been no more deaths from the disease for several weeks, and no cases are now pending. Those wishing to buy anything in the line of Cashmeres or Henriettas will do well to call on R. Fendig and inspect his new line of Dry Goods and learn low prices. The Aesthetic Garden, composed of solos and choruses, trios and quartettes, and full choruses, will be produced by the best musical talent of the town, at the Opera House, to-night. Wm. King has bought of Mrs. Hammond the old house that stood in front of their new residence, and is moving it to a lot in Leopold’s Addition, and is refitting it for a dwelling. Hemphill & Honan have a beauti- ’ ful landscape painting in crayon and for each dollar’s worth of goods bought for cash, they give a number free. The drawing will take place about the first of January. All persons knowing themselves to be indebted to me, please come in and settle, from now to the first of January, either by money or note, as my books must be settled. R. Fen dig. Send The Republican to your absent friend. It will please him better than a letter and keep him posted oil the local happenings of the town and county which you have not the time to look after, much less to write. Only $1.50 a year in advance. Men’s boots at $1.25 worth $1.50. Ladies’ shoes sl, worth $1.50 and $2, Children’s shoes 50 c., cost us from 40 to 50 cents more money. Come and see us if you want real bargains. Economy Store Co. Chas. Yates and John Kohler had. another difficulty, one day last week, over the old line-fence trouble, we understand, with the result that Yates was taken before Squire Morgan, on Thursday, charged with assault and battery, and plead guilty and. was fined $1 arid costs, a total of $10.65. Felt hats at cost, at Mrs. Lecklider’s. John Martindale, of Newton township, returned. Last Saturday from Warren county, where he had been attending the funeral of his sister, Miss Emma Martindale, whose death occurred on Tuesday of last week. She had been sick for several years, and a great sufferer from a cancerous tumor. For Holiday goods go to Long & Eger’s. Mrs. Kesser, of Fair Oaks, was before Squire Morgan Friday, charged with having threatened to blow up a house in Fair Oaks. The Squire bound her over to the circuit court, in the sum of SIOO. The lady is said to be a “holy terror” when she gets started. The complaining witness was Mrs. Wales, a lady not wholly unknown to fame. Choice of 200 books for 35 cents at the P. O. Bon bOns, pungents and toilet bottles at Fendig & Co’s. The post-office authorities notified Postmaster Bates, last week, that Rensselaer could have Sunday mails On the trains which run at the same time as the day mails of week days, if the convenience of the people required it, but after investigating the feelings of the citizens in regard to the matter, Mr. Bates decided that there was no public demand for mails on that day, and so notified the department.' A large assortment of Christmas cards at Long <t Eger’s.

Extra fine toilet setts at P. O. Go and see the fine toilet cases at Long & Eger’s—from 99 cents up. All winter goods at cost for cash at R. Fendig’s. The venerable Mother Prater, widow of Newman Prater, died in Barkley township, last Monday, at the age of 85 years. 1 ■' Dolls.—All sizes and prices; from 1 cent upward, at Long & Eger’s. Mrs. Crilla Baker, nee Hutson, has brought suit for divorce from her husband, Wm. Baker, on the grounds of abandonment. Baker is somewhere in the west. Ellis <fe Murray’s cheap store; cheaper than cheapest, and all goods first class, Bring your sewing to me and T will do it reasonably. Mrs. M. E. Lecklider. Be sure and hear Miss Mae Dale, the wonderful child artist, at the Opera House, to-night. She is only five years old, but plays the most difficult pieces on the piano without music. Please call and settle your account and get a number on the picture, free for each dollar. Hemphill & Honan. Buy a nice plush album at Long & Eger’s for 49 cents. There was a big light in- the western horizon, last Thursday night, which many took to be the reflection of a fire at Mt. Ayr. There was no fire there, however, and the light probably came from a fire in the swamps northwest from Mount Ayr. Long & Eger will sell a nice silver brush and comb case for 99 cents. A fur cap would be a rrice,approprinte present to your gentleman friend. Hemphill & Honan. Marriage licenses since our last report : j Chas. F. Foetisch, ( Dena L. Hasselbring. J Ulysses Grant Hopkins, ( Cora Alice Clark. ( Gustavus A. Anderson, ( Mary Wood. Holiday goods way down at bottojp prices, at Long & Eger’s. Millinery at cost now at Hemphill & Honan’s—not what it costs you but at wholesale prices. Col. J. T. Long, lecturer of the Worthy Grand Lodge of Good Templars will speak on temperance in the Presbyterian church, Friday night. He is an eloquent speaker and should be greeted by a crowded house. Admission free. He will endeavor to organize a lodge of Good Templars while here. For Sale or Rent.—Two houses and-lots, on reasonable terms. 14-4tp - • J. C. Passons. A year’s subscription to some good periodical makes a fine X-mas present. Subscriptions taken by J. E. Spitler. Frank Padgitt went to 'Monticello Monday, to take charge of a livery stable he has purchased there. His family has gone to State Line City, Ind., to spend a few months with relatives, and will join Mr. Padgitt at Montieello, later. The people of Monticello will find Mr. Padgitt a good liveryman and a good citizen. Plush albums from 50 cents to $5 at Long & Eger’s. Scott’s Waverly Novels at P. 0., cheaper than ever. Squire Perkey got his first wedding since his reliabilitation with the judicial ermine, last Tuesday. The parties were Mr. Gustavus A. Anderson and Mrs. Mary Wood, said to be from Barkley township or thereabouts. The Squire was a little out of practice but they were old hands at the business and easy to marry for that reason. The job was done in Hardman’s jewelry store. Boys’ stem wind watches, $2.5.0, at Kannal’s. * Dickens’ complete works at P. 0., for $6. The citizens of Louisville are not pleased that the Louisville, New Albany <fc Chicago, in connection with the Cincinnati, Hamilton <fc Dayton,-are running solid vestibule trains between Cincinnati and Chicago and ordinary trains over the Louisville and Chicago line, and the feeling has developed such strength that the Monon people are arranging with the Pullman company to build two trams to run between Chicago and Louisville similar to those now run between Cincinnati and Chicago. Clear and bright as a jewel—the spirits after drinking C. C. Starr’s Jewel Tea. Step in and see Rossbaeher’s figure music, for the guitar, at Kannal’s. -

Judge Hammond and prosecutor Marshall arc attending court in Kentland, this week. Price my goods before you buy. Hardman, the Jeweler. Mrs. Jennie Young, widow of the late Eugene Young, of Grand Rapids, Mich., is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Du vall. Everything in the Jewelry line at Hardman’s. It has been discovered that some malicious galoot has been putting sand into the oif boxes of the electric light dynamo, and thus causing the heating of journals and consequent stoppages of the machine. Clocks at cost, at Hardman’s, for the next 20 days. It seems from all appearances, that Morris Timmons missed his calculations a little when he skipped the country and left his creditors to weep and to mourn, as a considerabe sum of money belonging to him has been found in the hands of Benjamin 11. and Ira L. Welsh and this has been garnisheed. The trial of the ease is set for Jan. 21st, before Squire Morgan. See Hardman the Jeweler. Speaking of the comprehensiveness of the law requiring practicing physicians to secure licenses, Secretary Metcolf, of the State Health Board, says: “It is the opinion of the Board of Health that anyone who styles himself ‘Doctor,’ and who pretends to cure disease, is, in the meaning of the statute, practicing medicine, and is liable to prosecution if he has not procured a license to do so.” The well borers at Fair Oaks met with another fragment of bad luck, and did not get their well down to the depth expected, last week. They accidently let fall 500 feet of the casing, in the well, and it fell a distance of 200 feet, and about 100 feet of it was ruined, so that operations were' delayed until more casing could be I sent for. At last reports the depth ( of the well - was 775 feet H. J. Dexter and Jus brother-in- • law Geo. Cox, late of Plainfield, have formed a partnership, and have bought the lot on Van Rensselaer street, north of the Halloran livery barn and have begun the erection of a building thereon for a flour and feed store. They also intend to add a farmers’ feed yard to their business, having leased sufficient ground adjoining the lot purchased, for the ' purpose. A feed yard in Rensselaer I will fill a long felt want. Mr. and Mrs. John Makeever went to Lafayette last Thursday to attend the funeral of Rev. Frank Taylor, brother-in-law of Mrs. Makeever, whose death occurred on the morning of the day nefore. Mr. Taylor was 74 years old and had been in the ministerial work for upwards of forty years. He was a most excellent man, in all his walks of life, and will be i held in kindly remembrance by the many people in Rensselaer whose acquaintance he made during his occasional visits here, during the past few years.

I S. P. Thompson is again taking dej positions in the interminable TurpieLowe case, in Columbus, Ohio. La Rue Bros, and Ellis & Murray each have a Santa Claus in costume in their show windows. Laßue's Santa is dressed in the regulation furry garments, and, barring a rather suggestively rubicund visage, is an eminently respectable . old duffer. : Ellis & Murray’s specimen is dressed j for the weather now prevailing, in I gum coat and rubber boots, with an I umbrella over his head. In general -appearance he is a rather tough looking old rooster. I will not be undersold.—Hardman, the Jeweler. Trustee J. R. Guild, of Gillam township, who was in town Monday and Tuesday, reports that there is considerable exeitementin his neighi borhood over the fact that the agents ;of two or three eastern companies i are prospecting in the vicinity with a ! view of securing leases and boring ; for oil or gas. Mr. Guild, by the ! way, is the owner of the only gas I. well in the county and now has the gas I piped into his house, and uses it for . all fuel purposes and will use it for lights in a shbrt time. The well is onlyXOO feet deepjbut the flow shows no indications of dimonition, but rather increases, if anything. Goods at cost for the next 30 days at Hardman’s. The Citizens Bank officials were hardly in a fix last Saturday to have met a run on its deposits, for the i reason that, although they knew where their money was very well, they could not get their hands upon any of it. The cause of the difficulty was that on Friday evening Assistant Cashier Moss had slipped a cog in his mental calendar, somehow, and thought it was Saturday night, and he therefore set the time lock on the ! safe to run 36 hours or until, as he i it should be Monday morns ing. The wish is said by old Shakespeare to be father to the thought, and probably in Mr.- Moss’ case the wish that the next day might be Sunday, that he might visit his best girl in the evening, was father to the thought that it really was so. My stock of goods must lie reduced.—Hardman, the Jeweler. Doc. Nichols, of Barkley tp„ came to town Saturday and had Judge Morgan issue a warrant for the arrest of Chas. Hammond, chargedwith thumping Doc’s son. High Constable Billy Wood went out to serve the warrant anjl found his man in Squire Marion’s court, where he had gone voluntarily, to get a little two-for-a-niokle fine. Billy rushed in and collared his prisoner, just as the deliberate Barkley Squire was dipping his pen to sign the warrant Hammond was released on his own recognizance to appear before Squire Morgan next Saturday. The Barkley justice - mill will have to be oiled and limbered up a good deal, before it can hope to compete with Squire Morgan’s double action, high-pressure | judicial buzz-saw. Ladies watches, $4 at Kannal’s.