Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1890 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

A daughter to JVIr. and Mrs. Ed. Reeve, last Saturday, Farmers, when in town call on Dexter & Cox for your flour, cheap. Judge Hammond is looking after law cases in Fowler, this week. D. L. Richardson is not yet able to sit up, from the effects of liis accident of a month or two age. flour for the least money 7 of any firm in town. Try them. The funeral of Rev. G. -H. Boydis. said to have been the largest ever held in Valparaiso. Rev. C. 11. Johnson, of McCormick Theological Seminary, at Chicago, preached in the Presbyterian church, last Sunday. The Business Men’s Association will meet to-morrow evening. Business of special importance requires a full attendance. J. G. Reynolds left for Nashville, Tenn., last Sunday night, with the expectation of organizing a horse company, of which Chicago and Louisville parties will be at the head. A young man in Indian Creek tp., Pulaski county, named John Good, while chasing a goose one day lately, fell down and broke his neck, killing hind instantly. Domestic difficulties in Hiram Day’s family have resulted in a separation. The wife and children being now at Winamac, with the wife’s parents. It is likely that the troubles will result in a permanent separation. Auditor Robinson fiiids the present a very favorable time to continue the tiling of his farm, east of town. He has put in all, 16,000 tiles in the! place and now considers it the best J tiled piece of land in Jasper county. The Roberts Bros.’ flouring mill, at Monticello, was burned one night last week. The building represented an investment of $40,000, but the Herald estimates that $25,000 would replace it now. It was insured for SII,OOO. We Warn that Rev. M. L. Tressler, had a rather rocky experience with the Presbytery at Logansport, last week. It appears that that body looked upon his action in ~gig%aing his charge here and moving away without its eonsent, us rather precipitate," to say the least. The biggest shipment of cattle that ever came into the county came to A. McCoy, at Marlborough, last Saturday, from the Chicago Stock yards. There were 22 car-loads, and 5G7 head of cattle. Most of most them are stock steers. Wm. Kenton is harvesting their horns, at the rate of 100 to 200 pairs per day. Chas. Harley, of Delphi, has been appointed supervisor of the census for the district which includes Jasper county. Persons desiring employment as enumerators must make application to him. The work of enumeration will begin June Ist and last about a month. The pay will be fair while the job lasts. The expected consolidation of the C. & E. I. Railroad system, including the Coal Road, with the Evansville & Terre Haute (The Mackey System) has been accomplished to the extent of an arrangement to operate the roads under the same management. It is probable that a complete consolidation will be effected at no very distant day. The present winter, has more impressive than ever, taught the lesson that good, solid gravel roads are * necessary factors toward the future prosperity and development of our beautiful prairie country. Better roads is the crying need of our county and the solution of the troublesome road question will have to be found at an early day. We must have improved roads sooner or later.

p - - - - . > ■* Mrs. J. F. Antrim has been quite sick for a week or two past, Try pure buckwheat flour at Dexter & Cox. Fred W. Job, a young attorney of Chicago, spent Sunday with his old college room-mate, Delos Thompson. Mrs. H. W Porter is having another long and painful seige with her old trouble, the rheumatism. Harry Zimmerman, the operator, has been sick at his father’s house, for some time, from the effects of a fistula on his back. Farmers, please remember the feed yard when you want your team fed and sheltered for a trifle. Dexter <fe Cox. Mr. and Mrs. A. Armstrong, of Marlborough, have both been seriously sick, with the grip, in the case of | the latter resulting in lung fever. The attendance at the town schools, this week, has pretty nearly regained its normal proportions, after two weeks of serious interruptions from the grip. We have a good line of flour, buckwheat flour, corn meal, graham etc., which can not be beat in price and quality. Dexter & Cox. B. F. Ferguson, D. J. Thompson R. W. Marshall, C. W. Coen and 11. W. Porter are among the latest victims of the Grip. They had it hard. Miss France McEwen has opened an art school, in pleasant rooms in her father’s residence, and is preparedbJte give instruction in crayon drawing, including the advanced, or teachers’ course, for those that desire it. Val Seib has been appointed examiner of the Dwiggins Syndicate banks, and is now away engaged in j the duties of that position. The i banks in the syndicate now number j an even two dozen, not including the bank at Chicago. Ladies of the W. R. C. attend the call meeting Friday at 4 o’clock p. m. Let there be a good attendance, j |as there is important business to be transacted. Hettie Reynolds, Mary Leatherman, Pres, i Secretary. Mr. Ilaff, Of Foresman, was m town Saturday, exhibiting"}! patent chute for holding cattle while undergoing the dehorning process. There is no 1 doubt but that it is a good thing for | the purpose. A. McCoy bought the j right to make and use one on his j farm. j Miss Ninnie Hemphill, youngest ' daughter of Marcus 11. and Matilda Hemphill, died at the home of her j parents, four miles north of town, j Tuesday night, of lung fever, after a brief illness. She was a beautiful and lovable girl, and was seventeen years j old. The funeral is set for to-day, at the F. W. Baptist church, at 1 p. m. A public sale will be made by Simon Hufford, on the C. W. Coen farm, 3 miles northwest of Rensselaer, 'on Tuesday, Feb. 18th, beginning at ;10 o’clock. He will sell a considerable quantity of horses, cows, hogs j and other stock, corn, barley, many farming implements, &c. &c. Terms 9 months credit, on sums over $5, without interest. 2tp. Charley Morlan is now making I good progress 'in learning the telegraphing business, at the Rensselaer station. That fact reminds us of the large number of able young telegraph operators who have learned the art in Rensselaer, and who are now scattered all over the country. Chailcy Porter, Emerson Reeve, Harry Zimmerman, Frank Ilenkle, Earl Reynolds, Lacy Gwin, Geo.- Hollister and Miss Green, are names that we recall, in this connection. T There to no better “all-Tound” weekly paper published than the Indiana State Journal, in* the matter of general news, state news, politics and : current literature, We have effected ! ft special arrangement with the publishers of the Jonrnal whereby we are enabled to offer that paper for a year in connection with The Repcb- ■ lican for the low price of $2, 20, in s advance for both papers. This ar- ; rangement is for a very limited time, only- ts.

Mrs. S. Hemphill is sick with the grip. Last Tuesday was ground-hog day. Nary a shadow. . ' , . • Mrs. C. Wade, of Jamestown, N. Dak., is visiting Mr. and Mr 3. F. J. Sears. Albert Fendig left for Brunswick, Ga., last Thursday, to visit his relatives there, for a few mouths. Mrs. Alfred Thompson is beginning to recover from a severe second attack of the grip. Engineer Jim Hemphill is visiting his old friend, Engineer Strope, who' was injured in the wreck at Carmel, last week. Simon Hufford, tenant on C. W. Coen’s farm, northwest of town, will quit farming. Jacob Lesh will oceupv the farm the coming year. sale, at the Hammond farm, just east of town, on Thursday, Feb. 20, selling all his live stock, farming implements &c. It is absolutely necessary that wo pay our debts. In, order to do sq you must settle your account with lis. Please call at once and settle and oblige, Hemphill & Honan. Mr. Wm. King, of Rensselaer, and Miss Millie Turner were married Tuesday evening, at the residence of W. T. Perkins. Rev. U. M. McGuire officiating. E. J. Abbett, postmaster and a iprominent citizen of Plainfield, 0., was in town Tuesday, on business. He is a badly crippled man, who stood in the way of a number of rebel bullets, in war times. A man who recently died in the Michigan City prison, under the ! name of Wilson, turned out to be ' Charley Lamson, late editor of the j Valparaiso Hoosier Herald. He was sent up for a burglary committed in 1 Randolph county. The cause of his death was Bright’s disease. Chas. G. Gurtaer will make a public sale on Tuesday, Feb. 11th, at the | Widow Florence farm, 3 miles southeast from Blackford, iu Barkley tp. ;He will sell 9 horses, of different ‘ages, most of them finely bred, cows, hogs, a large assortment of farming implements, household and kitchen ;furniture, &c. The terms are nine tmonths credit, without interest, on sums of $5 or over, i 22-2 t. Fowler Era. On Tuesday, James j Brady and Benjamin Reeves wei*e before Judge Ward, on a charge of horse stealing, and on a plea of guilty were, sentenced to three years in the service of the state, at Michigan City, for which place tuey started on , the same day. These were the two gentlemen who formed so strong an attachment for Geo. Streater’s fine team that they took it along with them on a proposed trip to the far West, but they were overhauled at Aurora, 111., and brought back to confront the stern decree of justice. One Rile Kennard, who sued the town of Monticello for $2,500, some time ago, lias been given a verdict of SOOO, by a Cass cofinty jury. Kennard drove over a brush heap, in the street, and his buggy was turned over and broke, himself and family dumped out, and his face somewhat scratched. The Herald says that SSO or SIOO would have been ample compensation for the damages, and is greatly *wrotli atthe v.erdict. It does not repeat its joke of a former issue about Rile being riled, as it is Rile that has done the riling this time,and it is the “other fellows” who are riled Again, and for the third time this winter, we are called upon to chronicle the death of the oldest resident of the county. On Monday night at 11 o’clock the venerable Daniel Grant sank peacefully and painlessly to his long rest, at the home of his son, Alton Grant, a mile west of town. His age, at the time of liis death, lacked but 9 days of being 93 years. The two other oldest residents, whose deaths are referred to above, were Michael Mann, who died in Rensselaer a month or two ago, at the age | of 95, and John Shaffner, who died j in Wheatfield tp., last month, at a | little more than 93 years of age. The funeral of Uncle Daniel was held yesterday forenoon, at the Christian 1 church, Elder L. E. Conner, conduct- , ing the religious services. L.

| The Wasson school was closed all ! last week, on account of the prevalence of the chicken-pox. Miss Ollie Alter, who has been visiting friends near Indianapolis for a month, returned home last evening. Lacy Gwin is telegraphing for what is known as the “Soo Line,” at Prentice, in the big lumber district, in Northern Wisconsin. The joint Teachers’ Institute, at Medaryville, last Saturday, was a big success, both in respect to attendance anti the character of the exercises. ~~ ~ . Remember G. J. Dexter’s public sale, at the E. P. Hammond farm, just east of town, on Thursday, Feb. 20. Live stock, farming implements <fec. Rev. E. G. Pelley writes buck from Pierre, S. Dak., that he will he on hand to preach in the M. FI church, this, Thursday, evening. He is well pleased with the prospect of Pierre. Wnu Erwin left for Pawnee, Neb., yesterday afternoon, called by a telegram announcing the serious sickness of bis brorher, J. R. Erwin, a prominent and wealthy citizen of that place. This is a misfit winter, surely. Tusday, for instance, the thermometer stood at 66 in the shade, nearly all day, and the day seemed in all respects like a misplaced fragment of May weather. Wild geese and ducks are frequently seen flying northward. The contract for building the Catholic college, at this, place, has finally been awarded to Mitland & Gleitze, of Logansport, who were the lowest bidders, at the recent bidding at Fort Wayne. The work on the building is to begin forthwith. The contract requires that it shall be under roof on or before Jan. Ist, 1891. and be completed ready for occupancy on or before June Ist, 1891. It will thus be seen that it is not expected to open the institution before the beginning of the college year, of next year. The post-office department has made a change in the mail route on the Monon, between Chicago and Louisville, so that the runs now begin and end at Chicago, instead of Louisville, as heretofore. This arrangement is found very advantageous to Erastus Peacock and such other of the mail route agents as live near the j tiorthern end of the route, as most of . them do. In Mr! Peacock’s case, it enables him to do the same work as before and yet be at home two nights ; and qjm day more i'll each week, than | was the ease before the change, A. j W. Cole, who lives at New Albany, ; of course finds the change great!}' to his inconvenience, but, as we under- ; stand,* lie intends moving back to ] Rensselaer, in which case he, too, will i find the change to 1 his advantage. Mrs. Mary E. Moody, wife of Chas. P. Moody, of Jefferson, lowa, and a | daughter of Mr. and Mi's. A. Parki- ] son, of Rensselaer, died at her ho me at Jefferson, on Tuesday, Jan. 30,, at the age of of 34 years, 7 months and 22 days. She was born- in Barkley • tp., this county, and was married to Mr. Moody in IHBS. S;i. * was the mother of two children, Ida, who died Dec. Ist, last, an infant of a few weeks, who survives her. Site was a member of the i M. E. church and a consistent christ- ; ian. The remains were brought to her j native county for interment, and at same time, the body of the infant, j Ida, above mentioned. The double j funeral of mother and child was held last Sunday, at Barkley Chapel, Rev. jT. F. Drake, of Rensselaer, conduct- | ing the religious services. The 1 young surviving infant above meni tionod, will be cared for by Mr. | Parkison’s family. There lias been received at the | County Treasurer’s office copies of ! the tax levy notices required to be issued by county treasurers, for the year 1889, from 57 of the other counties of the state. An examina- . tion of these shows that, of the 57 1 counties, 33 have a higher rate of 1 taxation for county purposes than Jo*per county, while 20 only have a

lower .rate, two having the same. The average of the 57 counties is three and four-tenths cents higher on the !SIOO valuation than in 1 this county, ! or five and two-thirds per cent higher. : Jasper county has no levy of poll-tax j for county purposes, while of the 57 I other counties, 42 have such levy, j The average of the 42 counties is j seventy-seven and four-tenths cents on the pol! for county purposes, and the average levy of the 57 counties :is 57 cents on the poll for such purpose. If Jasper county was taxed for county purposes, the average levy ; of these other 57 counties, her eitizens ! would be required to pay $2,432 more than they do for 1889. Considering the fact that our lands are appraised low, that we have built in the last few years a jail, an expensive house on the county farm, with a large number, of iron bridges, and that we are entirely free from debt,, thto comparison is certainly very much to the credit of the county in regard to its financial management.