Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1890 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

J. P. Warner has been given an increase of pension rate. All winter goods sold regardless of qost, at Ellis k Murray’s. Isaac Reubelt, the grammar room :] Ejfteher, has a fine boy at his house, horn last Sunday. A 10| pounder. Rev. M. L. Tressler made a short visit to Buchannan, Mich., last week, the place of his prospective location. Now is the time to buy your winter goods at 25 per cent, off atHempeill k Honan’s. The annual delinquent list appears in this paper, this week. It is not very long, which is bad for the printer but good for the people.

Don’t stand around shaking your teeth out while Hemphill k Honan have so much winter goods and are selling them so cheap. Samuel Rogers, of Frankfort came over last Thursday to play the bass with Healys’ orchestra, for the Firemen’s dance. They make excellent music together. • Margaret Craig, said to have been betrayed by a false lover, committed suicide at, Boswell, Benton county, on Jan. sth, by poison. She was buried a Morocco, her native place. Brother John Millikan has sold his paper, the Crown Point Regis ter,"to Samuel B. Day, of Chicago. Poor health and want of patronage are given hy”Mr. Millikan as his reasons for selling. John E. Meyers, of Walker tp., was in town Tuesday for the first time since he was hurt on the railroad, several months ago, and from the effects of whicn he has »oA yet fully recovered, and perhaps never will.

On Jan. 4, Margaret Kelley, of Winamae, gave birth to a child which she tried to murder by throwing into a privy vault. The child was found and cared for, and finally rceived by the girl, after a promise of marriage by obe Hatfield, who admitted the paternity of the babe. The engagemant of Miss Rachel Leopold to Mr. Will Mossier, was consummated last Sunday, at the residence of the father of the affianced bride, after the c jstom of the Hebrew people. Mr. Mossier is a merchant of Thomtown, Boone county, and an estimable and popular young man. Friends of both parties were present from Thomtown, Grawfordsville, Cincinnati and Chicago.

It is understood that the first man who gets to town now, with a full load of good “Nubbin Ridge Coal,” four feet long, and no quaking-asp or* water-elm in it, will be escorted through town by a brass band, be tendered a public reception in the town hall and be presented with the freedom of the city and a goldmounted {dug of chewing tobacco, as souvenirs of the occasion.

The family of Frank Padgitt, the liveryman, made their final removal to Monticello, this week. Miss Elmira Monnet still has one farm to rent. She may be seen at her rooms in the Makeever House. Don’t forget the dance Saturday night, at Ilealys’ Opera House. Only 35 cents a ticket. There is a feed yard now for the farmers. Try it. Dexter, & Cox. The teachers of Jasper, Pulaski and Starke counties will hold a joint institute at Medai’y ville the first Saturday in February. Miss Carrie Eger returned from Chicago Tuesday, where she has been undergoing medical treatment for the past week. _ John L. Blankenbaker, a well known citizen of Mt. Ayr/died last Tuesday evening. He was a brother of Michael Blankenbaker, of this place.

Miss Mary Mershon, a celebrated evangelist in the Protestant Methodist church, will begin a series of meetings at Rose Bud church, in Union township, on the evening of January 23. The drawing of the prize crayon landscape, at Hemphill k Honan’s, took place Monday afternoon. Miss Carrie Welsh, from near- the fair grounds, won the prize, with ticket number 397. There was a small freight train wreck at Pleasant Ridge, at a very early hour last Monday morning, caused by a broken axle, and several car loads oL eoaLwere damped on the tracks. The accident delayed the morning passenger train north, for several hours. Kentland Gazette: “Benton and Jasper counties will pay the greater portion of the expenses of the last term of court in this county. Our county bill against Benton county for the trial of the case of Richey vs. Allen is $224.55. and against Jasper [county for the trial of the Smoot case $461.60.”

E. D. Gamble, of Peru, is in town canvassing for the sale of Sir Bulwer Lytton’s complete works, handsomely bound in nine volumes and profusely illustrated with finely executed engravings. The whole set is sold for sl2, on payments of twenty-five cents a week, which places these valuable works within the reach of all. No one should hesitate to give Mr. Gamble an order. The labor of preparing the delinquent tax-list for publication, tbgether with an unusual rusli of job work of a character which could not be deferred, has caused some considerable deficiency in the extent of the home matter of the paper this week. It is something that does not occur yery often, and our readers will find it excusable, for that reason.

“Col.” A. Newton Field, faint traces es whose more or less fragrant memory still linger in this vicinity, has been sued for divorce, at Winamae, by bis wife Theresa Field. She alleges cruelty and desertion on the part of Field, that he earned her and charged her with unchastity. She does not know the present whereabouts of her husband. The feed yard rates are reasonable, try Dexter A Cox. ,

I. Y. Alter, of Union township, returned home yesterday, after several month’s stay with his brothers in Clinton county. Miss Abbie Harrison, of this place, who has been teaching in Wheatfiold tp., has been qbite siek, but was better at last accounts. Rev. Ferguson attended quarterly meeting at his Badger’s Grove, White county, church, last Sunday, and during the meeting received 11 new members into the church. John Dragoo, late tenant on one of Miss Monnett’s farms, east of town, lately departed by the light of the moon’s pale beams, and left a number of creditors around town, in the lurch for various amounas. number of cases of sickness in town which resemble in symptoms the Russian grip, and which some of the doctors think to be that disease. If such be the case, however, it is in a very mild form, and is scarcely epidemic in its prevalence. J. M. Wasson and Chas. W. Coen went to Beloit, Wisconsin, last Saturday, to attend Albert E. Coen, son - in-law of the former, who is very sick with pneumonia. Mr. Coen returned Tuesday night and reports that his brother’s condition is very dangerous.

The family of Ex-Congressman Thos. J. Wood, of Crown Point, has been terribly afflicted, having lately lost three children by diphtheria, two week before last andflone last week. Nearly all of the surviving members of the family were sick with the disease, at last accounts received. B. F. Alter, Alfred Cheney and Harry Alter, of Clinton county, have bought the Marlatt tile mill, north of town. They are experienced tile makers and will run tHe*imill to make it a success. They will add extensive improvements this year, and next year, we understand, will largely increase its capacity.

The Town Board, at its regula r monthly meeting, Monday evening passed the several side-walk ordinan - ces ordered at the previous meeting. They also declared a nuisance the well at the burned, mill, north of the ■railroad; and orderedthatit be filled up. It was also decided to adver - tise for sealed bids for 10,000 feet of oak lumber, for crossings &c.

< The dedicatory exercises for th e new church will positively be held on Sunday, Jan, 26. The farewell services in the old church will be held on the Saturday afternoon previous, conducted by Presiding Elder J. L. Smith. On Sunday morning the dedicatory sermon will be preached by Bishop Merrill, of Chicago. Elder J. 11. Cissel, of Lafayette, will preach in the evening. Further announcement of the exercises will be made next week.

In respomty to a claim that Mr. Nichols’ side of the Barkley township Center School trouble, has not received fair-play in The Republican we publish this week, a communication from a resident of the neighborhood, signed “A Workingman.” We hope most earnestly that the cohfitoversy will be permitted to end now', but if it can not,- we now state, in justiee to ourselves, that we shall publish nothing further about the matter unless it be over the proper names of the writers.

Quite a large number of bids were received, at Fort Wayne, on Wednesday of last week, the day appointed for the purpose, for the building of the Catholic college at Rensselaer. The bids ranged in amounts from $26,050, from Jxigansport parties to $69,999 by a Chicago party. At last accounts the 'contract had not been awarded, but the Logans port bidders were likely to receive it, if their bid was found satisfactory in other respects than the amonnt of the bid. These figures do not include the brick, stone and lime nsed in the building, as these are furnished by the church authorities. It will pay you a big per cent to buy Cloaks and Overcoats of Ellis A Murray now, for next winter’s wear.

Bishop Dwenger, of Fort Wayne, has been very sick with pneumonia, hut at last accounts was recovering rapidly. Miss Maud Spitl.er has came back from Goshen, where she has spent several months with her sister, Mrs. Learning. The death of the wife Geo. W. Cover, of Fair Oaks, occurred last Friday. The particulars of her death have not been received. The Grip, or something similar, has got its grip on the school children, as about 80 or 90 are out of the town schools this week, from sickness. Bion Zimmerman has returned from Greenfield, this state, where he has been working at the tailor trade for the last few months. Considerable excitement was caused in town Tuesday afternoon: by the report that Henry Sparling, a well known citizen who lives six or seven miles south of town, was thought to have been drowned in the Big Slough, which runs near liis. plaee.He had left his house Sunday afternoon, to go to Lee in a boat, but word having come from Lee that Sparling had not arrived there Tuesday morning, his family became

alarmed, and in the afternoon the neighbors started up the stream, to look for him. They did not find him however, but some time during the day lie turned up at Lee, all right. It seems that he had gone to Lee to see Armand Lewis, and that a short time before lie reached there, Lewis left for Sparling’s place to see him, and arriving there and reporting tha t Sparling had not reached Lee,caused the fear that he was drowned. * The second annual Firemen’s masked ball, last Thursday evening, was another brilliant success, in all re - spects. The number of dance tickets sold was 74. The attendance of spectators was greatly diminished by bad weather, only 92 tickets of that class having been sold. The number

of novel and handsome costumes represented was very large, and especialwas this the case among the ladies. The character which attracted the most interest after the unmasking was Fred Phillips, who was dressed as a lady, and performed the part so well that scarcely a person on the floor even suspected that he was not a genuine member of the fair sex. In | form and size and graceful manners and dancing, he made an excellent lady, and until he unmasked, was

quite the belle of the dance. Ills'* father, Uncle Simon Phillips, occupied a front seatamong the spectators and being a connoisseur and great admirer of female charms, he freely expressed his admiration of the graceful form of the lady who afterwards turned out to be his son, not having the least suspicion of his identity. The “Scheming for a Fortune” company, schemed in vain when they struck Rensselaer, last Friday night. They were advertised as a first class company, but turned out to be mainly a gang of amateurs, mostly from j Delphi. They gave a mighty poor show, but perhaps would have done; better, had it not been for the merer- j less and persistent guying they were subjected to by members of the slim audience. In regard to this guying business, it must be admitted that, within reasonable limits, a moderate amount might have been excusable

in this case, but as it was, it was carried to an extent which was not only an injustice to the performers on the stage but which was an offense against order and propriety and which would probably render some Of the principal offenders amenable to the law, were anyone disposed to take the matter before the courts. Poor troupes have pretty nearly ruined the reputation of our opera house, already, and if now hoodlumism in the audience is to be the rule hereafter, then its name is Dennis, so far as being a resort for respectable people as a place of entertainment, is concerned \ Pure buckwheat flour at Dexter A Cox’s.

Best grade of flour at Dexter A Cox’s for $1,20, warranted.