Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1890 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

A daughter at Thos. Moore’s, of Pleasant Ridge, the lGth. The feed yard rates are reasonable, try Dexter & Cox. Ed. Purciipile, of Norwalk, Conn., visited his Rensselaer relatives last week, from Wednesday till Friday. Wanted. —A good girl to take care of a baby. Apply, at McCoy & Co’s. bank. There is a feed yard now for the fanners. Try it. Dexteh & Cox. J. W. Taylor, of Linden, Wis., principal owner of the Economy Store, was in town last Thursday and Friday. “

Miss Elmira Monnet still has one farm to rent. She may be seen at the residence of the Misses Smith, Weston’s Grove, Rensselaer, Ind. A sneak thief got in the money drawer of the Pan-llandle station nt Goodland, one day last week, while the agent, was at dinner, and got away with S4O. The many friends of Rev. David Handley, in this vicinity, will regret to learn that he can not attend the dedication exercises of the new M. * E. church, next Sunday. Geo. J. Dexter, now occupying Judge Hammond’s farm, just cast of town, has finally concluded to try hotel-keeping again, and will move into the Nowels House, some time next mouth.

Burt Hutson was down from Hammond Tuesday, to attend his daughter’s divorce suit. He reports a great deal t>f sickness in Hammond, and many deaths. Much of the trouble arises from the “grip” which is very prevalent there, and in a severe form. Mrs. C. P, Moody, of Jefferson, lowa, daughter as Addison Parkison, of this place, has been very dangerously sick with pneumonia, resulting from the grip, for some time past. At last accounts her symptoms were slightly more favorable, but still very alarming.

A meeting will be held at the Center school house, in Milroy township, the first Sunday in February, 181/0, for the purpose of organizing a Regular Missionary Baptist church, under the direction of Rev. Peter Ilinds. Come everybody and witness the organization of the first church in Milroy township.

The venerable John H. Shaffner died at his home in Wheatfield tp., last Saturday afternoon, at the age of a little more Mian 1)3 years. The cause of his death was paralysis. Mr. Shaffner was one of the very oldest residents of the county, at the time of his death, in point of years, and had also lived ut the county for a long period, having removed into Wheatfield tp., from Tippecanoe county, in 1856. IDs funeral was held Tuesday.

Con Ellenhouse, of near Surrey, is very sick with the grip. Pure buckwheat flour at Dexter & Cox’s. J. Ws-Douthit went to Indianapolis, Tuesday, called by a telegram announcing that his sister-in-law, Mrs. Robertson, was very sick. The quarterly meeting of the Women’s Baptist Foreign Mission Circle will be held on Thursday, Jan. 30, at 2 p. m., at the residence of Mrs. McGuire. Capl. J. M. Wasson returned from Beloit, Wis., last Friday, and reports that his-son-in-law, A. E. Coen, is making good progress towards recov.t ery from his sickness. Elder Wm. Scott is conducting a successful series of meetings at the Randle school house, in Barkley tp. Up to last Saturday the meetings nad resulted in 23 additions to the church.

A grand hotel, to cost a million or more, is to be erected a few blocks north of the Monon depot, on Dearborn street, in Chicago. The land which it is to occupy cost money enough to have almost exactly covered it with silver dollars.

A 1 Bryer, maker o's the justly celebrated “Mascot” and other excellent brands of cigars, has moved his cigar factory down stairs into Geo. Hollingsworth’s room, adjoining Hardman’s jewelry store, formerly occupied as a meat shop. He will also open a retail shop.

Douglas, the $4 shoe man has just been installed Mayor of Brockton, Mass. Next he will be elected sheriff of his county, then governor of the state, and the next step will be into the presidency of the United States. Nothing like bull-head luck or persistent advertising, Lacy Gwin left yesterday for St. Paul. Minn., from which place he will be sent out to take charge ol a night office at one of the stations on the Northern Pacific. He has given up the night office at Rensselaer and C. Murray, who has been in charge of the night office at Fair Oaks, has been given his place. Lacy has many friends in Rensselaer, who will wish him success wherever he may go.

State Auditor Bruce Carr was in town Saturday to manage the sale of the 40 acres of state Jand in 31-31-6 that has just been advertised in Tiik Republican, but no bid for the land wb9 received and Mr. Carr returned to Indianapolis without having effected a sale. Any person wishing to buy the land can communicate with Mr. Carr, at Indianapolis, orcall for information on the county auditor, at Rensselaer.

A. Newton Field, whose wife’s suit for divorce was mentioned last week, returned to Winamac and created a big sensation on Saturday, Jan. 11th. He went to the house of his wife’s father, where she was staying, armed with a big revolver, and with the freely expressed intention of taking his own life on the door-step. The sheriff and another man captured and disarmed him, and after he had sohered-up in jail, he was allowed to leave town.

Mrs. Dr. Jackson’s little girl has been sick with pneumonia, following the grip, but is now considerably better. The weather got down to zero and a little below, Tuesday night, which is pretty tolerable cold for this kind of a winter. John Zimmerman, the tailor, has been granted an increase of pension. The increase is $6 per month and dates back to 1880.

Congressman Owen has selected for the clerkship of the committee on immigration and naturalization, of which he is chairman, V. L. Ricketts, one of the editors of the Delphi Journal The place is a good one, with a salary of $2,500, and Bro. Ricketts will ably fill it. The latest progressive domino party was at Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Meyer’s on River street, last Friday evening. About 60 players were present, and enjoyed themselves greatly. The ladies’ and gentlemen’s prizes were won by Mrs. Thos. Thompson and Mr. Ick Yates, respectively. A. McCoy received a shipment of 101 young bulls, 2 and three years old, at bis farm at Marlborough, yesterday morning, from the Chicago stock 3’ards. At last accounts Wm. Kenton was hard at work sawing off their horns and otherwise fitting them to adorn the peaceful paths of bovine existence.

Just now, when the roads are impassable and nothing can be done to make them better,, even if anybody wanted to do anything, everybody that is right in favor of gravel roads hold up their hands!

Along about next June, when the time comes to show your faith by your works, everybody that is willing to spend lots of labor and money on gravel roads hold up your hands 1 00000000000000000 Still another big wolf hunt has been organized in White county. This last will take place on the very borders of Jasper county. The east line of the field to be surrounded is the Monon Railroad from Reynolds to Monon. The south line the Pan Handle road from Reynolds to Seafield. The north line is the wagon road west from Monon to Palestine church, and the we3t line is from the same church south to Seafield. The j hunt is to take place to-day (Thurs- ! day). No rifles or whisky allowed.

The old Methodist church building will be formally taken leave of as a place of worship, next Saturday afternoon, when farewell services will be held in it by Presiding Elder Smith, the man whom, for the purpose, no more appropriate choice could be made, for, by a strange coincidence, he was presiding elder of the district when the building was erected forty years, ego >sad offiav&byJ, in its dedication. The building was erected during the pastorate. of Rev. Geo. Guild, late of Gillam tp., de°ceased, and he was assigned to the charge in 184!). The January number of the Methodist News states that Mr. Guild bellied to cut down the trees and hew into shape the timbers used in the building.

Henry Sparling, whose ease of sup-! posed drowning in the Big Slough, and whose subsequent safe appear- j ance at Lee, was mentioned last week, | was in town last Saturday and relat- 1 ed the storj r of his adventure. It j seems that after lie left his home on Sunday to go to Lee, in his boat, that night closed in on him while he was somewhere in the reaches of the

slough in the wilds of Milroy township, and not knowing his whereabouts for a certainty, he beached his boat, turned it up on the side so as to break, as much as possible, the force of the bitter wind that had arisen, built a fire in front of the boat, and remained there until morning. When daylight came he sought the residence of an old friend named Clark, in the vicinity, and remained with him until Tuesday morning, thus accounting for the long absence which caused the fear that he .was drowned.

A. W. Cole, of New Albany, was in town a short time Monday. Rev. R. M. Simmons, pastor of the Rensselaer M. E. circuit, assisted by Rev. MHEY Bums, is conducting a successful revival at Egypt school house, Jordan township. Up to last Monday evening there had been 25 accessions to the membership of the church. Dr. J. L. Smith, the presiding elder, wants to have some of the old-time songs at the farewell meeting in the old church, next Saturday afternoon, and if any of our readers are possessed of a copy of the old “Missouri Harmony” they are requested to take it to the meeting at that time.

There is no longer much room to doubt but that the epidemic influenza, known as the grip, has been prevailing in this locality, for several weeks, but luckily, for the most part, in a very mild form. In many places, especially the large cities, the disease has resulted in great numbers of deaths. Mrs. Crilla Baker, nee Hutson, was granted a divorce from Wm. Baker, last Tuesday, on the grounds of abandonment. Baker is some place m the west. The parties were married three or four years ago, and the mother is given the custody of the one son which is the result of the union—or rather, to be more exact in the statement, which the union was | the result of.

The big charge of dynamite in the oil-well at Fair Oaks was exploded last Friday by means of a “time fuse.” The result of the explosion if any', is not yet known, as the presence of the go-devil and other large pieces of iron in the well when it was fired, have caused the hole to be firmly blocked up, about 100 feet from the bottom. The operators of the drill are away now, but as soon as the weather moderates they will return and clear out the hole and see wpat is there and secure specimens pf the Trenton rock, at the bottom. The in the Welsh divorce case, from Wheatfield, was heard in the circuit court last Monday, but., the court has not yet rendered its decision. The plaintiff, Mrs. Ella 11. Welsh, testified that her husband, John M., has contributed nothing to [ the support of herself and her three children for the last two years, and that he is in the habit of getting drunk. They have been married six

years find have three children. The I defendant was on the witness stand | and admitted, more or less reluctant- j i ly, that had done five days labor , during his life. That he has done that much work will be an astonish- j ing statement to his acquaintances, j and to be accepted with some caution, . especially as a number of his neighbors , testified that his reputation for truth and veracity is not good in the com- , munity where lie resides. | ’ - . - " j The Dedication exercises at the new M. E. church, next Sunday, promise to be worthy'of that splendid structure. The dedication sermon by Bishop 8. M. Merrill, On Sunday morning will be the leading feature of the occasion, owing to. his high position in the church and great

poWers as a pulpit orator. The following is the program for the entire week, beginning with next .Saturday afternoon: Saturday, January 25, 2:00 P. M. Farewell Meeting, at tlie Old Church, conducted by Key. j. L. Smith, I). 1). Sundav, January 2o, lo:3oA. M. Dedicatory Sermon by Bimiioi'S. M. Mkuuiol, D. D. Sunday, Jan. 26,7:00 P. M. Sermon by HEv. J. H. Uimmki., D. D. • MohdaY, Jan 27. Key. 8. B. Crime*; Colfax, Ind. Tuesday, Jan. 23 .... . J Key. a. W. Wood, Lafayette, Ind. Wednesday, Jan. 29. Kev. Wm. Graham, I>. 1)., Lafayette, Ind. Thursday, Jan. S 3. . Ukv. J. W.Green, I). D.,Crawford«ville. Friday, Jan. 31. Hev. E.G. Pei-i.bv.