Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1889 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

, See Hardman the Jeweler. Fine family bibles at P. O. If you want a new dress made, try Mrs. M. E. Lecklidcr. F. G. Henkle, station agent at St. Johns, with his family are Rensselaer friends, for the holidays. ; still stock of dry goods} clothing, cloaks, hats and caps at Ellis & Murray’s. Full and complete line of books at P. (). Books not in stock ordered promptly. H. L. Brown, of the Economy Store, made a trip to Garrison, lowa, last week, where tlie company owns another store. _ This wet time you will need rubbers and rubber boots, go to Hemphill & Honan’s and buy the Candee Brand, the best on earth. Miss Birdie Hammond and Messrs. S. E. Sparling,. G. 11. Chilcote, Robt. Vanatta and Walter Willey, college students, are home for the vacation. Red flannels at 25, 30 and 35c, best in the market. You will want some. We can save you some money. Economy Stoke Co. Ladies Goods, of all kinds, at cost on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and a large discount at all other times, at at Mrs. M. E. Lecklider’s.. Miss Kittie Hyland left last Saturday for Chicago, where she will visit friends for a week or two and then resume there herjvocatlon of dressmaking. 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, James Yeoman came home from the Logansport asylum, last Saturday. His condition is very much improved, although the asylum authorities have not yet given him his final discharge, as cared. Hemphill & Honan have-a beautiful 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.

Extra fine toilet setts at P. O. Watch work a specialty, at Hardman, the Jeweler’s. Miss Ella Ritchey left last Wednesday foiv Manchester, Ala., to visit her sister Mrs. D. M. Nelson. Ellis & Murray* will sell you an overeoat for less than you have ever seen them priced. Fine china and glassware, tea and dinner sets at away down prices, at C. C. Starr’s. Bring your sewing to me ami I will do it reasonably. Mrs. M. E. Lecklider. i Dexter &Cqx’s new flour a&d- feed; store building north of the Halloran livery barn, is making very rapid progress towards completion. Please call and settle your account and get a number on the picture, free for each dollar. Hemi'iiill & Honan. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph White went to St. Joseph county, Tuesday, to spend the holidays with old neighbors, in the vicinity of New Carlisle. Our clothing must go. If you want anything in that line, give us a call. Take it at your own price, at the Trade Palace. The building committee of the new M. E. church hope to be ready to dedicate by January 9th. The delay is with the Chicago firm which has the contract for the windows. 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. J. H. Willey went out to Britt, lowa, last week, to look at his big j piece of fine land, near that town.! He had never seen it before, but was well pleased with its appearance and surroundings. 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. The venerable Mrs. Shortridge, mother of Rev. Lemuel Shortridge, of Keener tp., is visiting her grand-daughter,-Mrs. N. 11. Warner. She is 85 years old, but still able to get about with considerable alacrity. A large audience listened to Col. Long’s interesting and forcible lecture on temperance, at the Presbyterian church, last Friday evening. The attempt to form a Good Templars* lodge, however, did not meet with a very encouraging response.

Photo albums at P. 0., for 75 cts. Mrs. J. W. Pierce returned from Chicago Tuesday, apparently much improved in health. Ellis & Murray’s cheap store; ! cheaper than cheapest, and all goods i first class, } There will be a wood famine in town pretty soon, if these bad roads continue. For Sale or Rent. —Two houses and lots, on reasonable terms. J. C. Passons. Misses Lydia and Ella Dwiggins, the teachers, are home from Marion for the holidays. Millinery at cost now at Hemphill & Honan’s —not what it costs you but at wholesale prices. The Methodist people have sold their blcTchurch building and the lot whereon it is situated,- to Leßoy Sayles, for S3OO. A fur cap would be a nice, appropriate present to your gentleman friend. Hemphill <fc Honan. , Rev. T. F. Drake, pastor of the M. E. church, has rented and moved into ; J. W. Douthit’s residence, across the ; street from the new church. Miss Ollie Reed lives with them as house-| keeper. The following are the new electivei officers of Prairie Lodge, F. &A- M.: | M. L. Spitler, Worthy Master; J. M.: Wasson, Senior Warden; F. L. Chil-; cote, Junior Warden; R. Fendig,: Treasurer; Chas. G.Spitler, Secretary i The“week’s transfers of real estate! reported this week, represent a total; aggregate of considerations of $61,801, which is a pretty large amount of property to change hands in one week, in this county. A young son of Alfred Collins, of southeast of town, was thrown from his horse while going home from singing school, last Thursday evening, and had his collar bone broken. Dr. J. Loughridge set the fracture and the boy is doing well. It takes a person like Malinda Mr Goff to make the county clerk’s heart sing for joy, Two marriage licenses and one divorce is her record for the past three years, and the clerk confidently expects that she will make the round at least once more, before his term expires. States Attorney Marshall, Dr. Bitters and Constable Wood will go to Kentland this (Thursday) morning, to attend court. They will take the sand route to Remington, whjch is the only way they could make connections and get there the same day. Judge Hammond went last night by rail. The big “Sigler Ranch” in Wheatfield tp., has again changed hands. There are 2,600 acres in the ranch and it sold for $52,000, or S2O per acre. This is probably the largest bona fide transaction in property that ever took place in the county, so far as the amount of the selling price is concerned. A “green Christmas” is said to make a fat grave-yard. It might more truthfully be said to make a lean bank account—for the merchants. That is, if this is a sample of a “green Christmas.” It seems however as though it might, about as properly, be called a ‘‘ripe. So ripe in fact that it is rotten. Look at the roads. Don’t joke with men when they are wrathy. They will take it as a gross insult, every time. Frinstance: Both Doc Nichols and Charlie Hammond were offended at that little playful skit in The Republican last week, in regard to their little row and the scoop our Rensselaer justice got o on the esteemed Squire in Barkley ship, and each thought the other was the author of it. Fact, b’gosh. The members of the Rensselaer Fire Company will give their second j annual masked ball at the Opera I House, on the evening of January 9 th; and 200 tasteful and appropriate invitations have already been issued. The dance will be a complete success, there being no room for doubt on that head, whatever. The proceeds of the dance will be used for further uniforming the members of the company. . , The concert or cantata, known as the Aesthetic Garden, given by a strong company of home talent, at the Opera House last Thursday evening, under the auspices of the Ladies’ Aid Society of the Christian j church, is an unique and decidedly meritorious entertainment, and it was ' put on in excellent shape, by perfor- ' mere who had labored faithfully to I make the entertainment a success. I This it was in all respects except pat* ! ronage, and this was so meager tliat the receipts did not entirely cover the expenses.

Mrs. Caroline Martin is now bookkeeper for the Electric Light nyMiss Ottie Witham, of Francesville, is visiting her aunt Mrs. F. ; Osborne. The well at Fair Oaks has reached 'ed Trenton Rock, at the depth of 970 feet. Expert burglars ruined the safe of the Kentland bank, last Saturday night, but were frightened away before they got into the cash box. The Monon Route will again sell reduced rate tickets, for the Holidays, on December 31st and January Ist. Tickets good returning until January 3rd. For particulars enquire of the station agents. Six or eight weeks of reeking humidity, combined with occasional light freezes and some snow at longer intervals, have done their perfect work with the roads in this section, and they are now, by common consent, in the worst condition for many years. The exceedingly bad roads, making it impossible for the country people to market any of their produce, had an unavoidably bad effect on the holiday trade, but notwithstanding that drawback many of the merchants report that they have had a large trade, in those lines, during the few days before Christmas. The Ne w Years anniversary will be celebrated by the Missionary Baptist Sunday School, as usual, on the evening of Decfem beF ~STsk.~lThe exercises will consist of songs, recitations &c., with distribution of presents. A collection will also be taken for the Aged Ministers’ Home. All are invited to attend. On Monday of last week, at Chalmers, in White county, Levi Reynolds was set upon and most terribly beaten by Will Tucker and Harry Overtree, son and adopted son of Levin Tucker, whom Reynolds had struck the Saturday before, knocking out three teeth. Reynolds was beaten on the head by a heavy piece of iron, and received more than a dozen severe scalp wounds. He is a brother of John Reynolds, of this place. Marriage licenses since last reported: ( j James M. Spriggs, ( Mattie Elliott. j Charles Brown, | Malinda M. Goff. J Henry Whittaker, ( Etta Gooldsberry. j Frank Sunderland, ] Alice Wood. j William D. Bringle, ( Dorothea Goetz. August Plath, a well fixed old German bachelor from Newton county, got superlatively drunk in town, last Thursday and was put in jail to “sober-up.” In the evening he plead guilty to the charge: of plain drunk ami paid fine and costs to the amount of $12.75. The old fellow explained sobriety by say ing that he had got into a row with John Ma- ! keever over a S6OO security debt he had been compelled to pay, and that !he had filled himself with liquor to quench his consuming sorrow. Capt. J. M. Wasson moved into town, from southeast Marion, a few weeks ago, but went about it in such a quiet way, that his change of residence escaped the ever vigilant eyes of The Republican’s news gatherers. He occupies Dwiggins’ brick tenant house, on Main street. He has already bought considerable property in town, and is likely to buy more, and probably will build a residency. He and his excellent family are very desirable additions to the population of Rensselaer. Births.—Thursday evening, Dec. 19, to Mr. and Mrs. DeLos Thompson. Rensselaer, a daughter. Friday, Dec. 20, to Mr. and Mrs. Adam Nagle, southwest of town, a son. Saturday, Dec. 21, to Mr. and Mrs. Harvey W. Wood, of southeast Marion, a daughter. Same date to Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Reed, Jordan, a daughter. Sunday Dec. 22,t0 Mr. and Mrs. Milroy Hurley, of Barkley, a daughter. To Mr. and Mrs. Fred Burr, of Jordan tp., Dec. 22, a 9 lb. boy. The plans and specifications for the new Catholic College have just been received by Rev. Father Dick, and are now open for inspection, at his residence near the site of the proposed building, to any persons desiring to bid for the construction of the building. Bids will be received until Januarj - Bth. The building will be 135 feet long by 55 feet wide, and three stories and a bnsementin height. The basement will be of stone and the upper stories of brick. We un-den*t-in<l that the building will be completed and ready fur occupancy by next fall. x \

- The various Sunday Schools have made Christmas pleasant for the little folks, in their usual successful manner. The Methodist, Presbyterian and Union schools celebrated on Tuesday evening, the Free Will Baptist last, evening. At the Methodist church they had; a real Christmas tree., at the Presbyterian church the j device was a house, with a chimney I for Santa Claus. The Union School at the Christian Church had a- pyramid. upon which the presents were displayed. Large numbers of presents were distributed at every place, under the direction of a genuine Santa Claus. There is a second-hand marriage license over at the clerk’s office, which can be bought cheap by anyone who can find any use for it. It was issued a few days ago, and authorized the' marriage of Frank Sunderland, of Rensselaer to Alice Wood, daughter; of "Old John Wood” out south of town, but the old man kicked on | having Sunderland for a son-in-law • and the marriage was declared off. Sunderland took the license back to i the clerk, and wanted his money back, but was given to understand that goods of that kind were not sold subject to approval—at least not in the holiday times. Harry Crawford, the well-known railroad lawyer, is charged in a complaint just filed in Chicago with baving floated ten million dollars in j bonds on a new railroad without either beginning or end, which he, had bought in at a foreclosure sale at $40,000. He is charged: with having obtained $260,000 on one little bunch of these bonds, and it is asserted that the whole outfit is not worth $175, 000. This is the road which runs through Lebanon, beginning at Anderson, and intended to end some , day, when it is finished, at Champaign, 111., or at some point in that vicinity. About one-fifth of the projected line is still unbuilt, and what i is built is in a wretched condition. Raffling seems to be the po polar method of purchasing presents for! the holidays in Rensselaer at present. 1 Beginning with turkeys and chickens: about Thanksgiving time, it has now i advanced to diamonds and gold i watches and if the rage keeps up j we may expect to get a chance on a house and lot for a dollar by New j Years. During the last week John' Kegg, the baker, drew a diamond pin) valued at $25, at Kannal’s jewelry store, for fifty cents. Mose Tutuer drew a fine gents’ and W. P. Hopkins, the deaf mute, a ladies’ fine gold watch, at Hardman’s, each valued at S3O. Mose’s watch cost him a dollar while Mr. Hopkins got his for the' modest sum of fifty cents. Georges Parkinson, from the country, drew, the sls toilet set at Fendig’s drug, store, on a twenty-five cent investment. The nienty and nine unlucky j speculators went around wondering, where the money was coming from to get their best girls a present. At_ least that is the way U strikes our, young bachelor foreman, and he doubtless has practical knowledge l whereof he giveth utterance. Chas. Hammond entered a plea of, guilty last Saturday to the charge of ■ assault and battery upon a son of S.! R. Nichols, of Barkley tp., and was fined $2 and costs. The fact that a i plea of guilty was entered of course' prevented the facts in this unfortu- ■ mute affair being brought out in evidence, and the statements of tbfrl parties differ very widely, and its would be impossible for us to give an ' account which one side or the other would not pronounce incorrect and unjust. We think we can say however, with perfect truth, that although Young Hammond made a’serious mistake, considering his position as a school teacher, in giving way to his ‘ temper to the extent of becoming: involved in this, fracas, yet it can be; said on his side that he is an excellent young man and well esteemed by | alf who know him. He stands high as; a teacher. His first three terms were also taught in Barkley tp., under John L. Nichols, as township trustee, at increased salary each term, and with a recommendation from Mr. Nichols to his successor, that Mr. Hammond was one of the best teachers he had. His position amomg the country teachers now is, in point of salary, as high as any, with the single exception of his older brother, Joseph Hammond. This standing is well illustrated by the result of a patron’s school meeting, held where he is now teaching last Friday evening. There the circumstancas of the trouble were clearly explained after which the patrons voted unanimously for the retention of Mr. Hammond in the school. Men’s boots at sl-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 ua i£ you want real I bargains.

ECONOMY STORE Co.