Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1890 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Comedy, Farce and no end of funny business, at the Opera Honse, .tonight. The Big Four.—Largest stock, lowest prices, cash prices, and one price-only. Chicago Bargain Store. Born, Sunday morning, to Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Phillips, a daughter. Sunday night to Mr. and Mrs. Dr. J. W. Horton, a son. Beautiful mohair bnllianteen dress goods, in all shades, lOcts. to 50cts. per yard. Chicago Bargain Store. Dr. Loughridge amputated a hand of Mrs. Ben Brittan, of Union tp., last Sunday.. She has long been afflicted with a cancer on the hand. Han’lsome lace curtains, 3 yards each, only 60 cents per pair; best $1 to $3 per pair. Chicago Bargain Store. Rev. W. F. Sellers; of Mt. Clemens, lowa, will preach at the Presbyterian church, next Sunday, morning and evening. All are invited to attend. We no w have a complete line of ladies’, gents’ and children’s fine shoes, of the best brands of handturned and hand-sewed shoes. Chicago Bargain Store. A meeting of the W. R. C. is called for Friday afternoon, at 3 o’clock. Every member is earnestly requested to be present, as important business is to be transacted. By order of the president. llettie E. Reynolds. B. Forsythe, of the Chicago Bargain Store, was in the city last week attending a clearing sale of boots and shoes and he is now prepared to furnish you with some of the best standard brands at less than actual cost. Come early. The new officers of the Rensselaer Fire Company are E,jC. Owens, chief; Ed. Reeve, Captain; Geo. Morgan, foreman; El’den Hopkins, assistent foreman; D. G. Warner, treasurer; 11. C. Smith, secretary.

Found. Several weeks ago, on road between Remington and Rensselaer, a good lap robe. Owner can have it by proving property and paying for this notice. * Call at Harrison’s grocery, near depot.

Bishop Knickerbocker’s Episcopalian services in the M. E. church, last Tiipaday^ening,were by a very large congregation, to many of whom the services were a novelty. The bishop’s sermon was interesting and instructive to all. Dr. Billings, of the Chicago Medical College, came down Tuesday night to consult on the case of Wm. Meyer. He confirmed Dr. Alter’s diagnosis, which is that Mr. Meyer is ; afflicted with that terrible disease, a cancer of the pyloric orifice of the stomach. Jasper county is talking gravel roads, and as usual the kickers are coming to the front and rushing into print. The gravel roads will come,; all the same, and when once they are built and even before they are paid for the kickers will be kicking themselves for ever opposing the project. —Monticello Herald. The ice men “made hay while the sun shone” last week. C. C. Stangot up about 240 tons of good ice; and T, P. Haus, J. J. Eiglesbach and Bedford <fc Warner did correspondingly well, The ice is from four to seven inches thick and is of good quality. It was the first and last chance to put up good ice, this winter. T. J. McCoy and DeLos Thompson returned from New York, last Saturday. They attended the great combination horse sale of Peter C. Kellogg Co., at New York, bought for the Rensselaer Stock Farm a fine, Kentucky bred mare, Ednah, witha young colt by her side, paying therefor the sum of $1,750. The colt, a filly, is from the celebrated Stamboul, who has been sold for 150,000 and for whom SIOO,OOO has been offered.

Boyd & Kent’s World’s Fair Specialty Company, at the Opera House,-to-night. Lost. Friday afternoon, a large satin muffler, figured with horses and riders. Finder will be rewarded by leaving with Arthur Nowels. It. Rev. W. Hj Sayler has accepted a call from the Portland, Wisconsin, church, and has removed to that place, from Elburn, 111., his former location "7 ~ '■ Our new stock of dry goods, boots and shoes, Clothing, hats and caps, meansbette r goods and lower prices i than ever before offered in Rensselaer. Chicago Bargain Store. ; Miss Ella Ryan has tendered her resignation as a primary teacher in the Rensselaer school, to take’ effect at the close of the winter term. Miss Nellie Kelley has been selected as her successor. Geo. Strickler’s house, in Newton tp., got on fire on Tuesday morning, of last week, and would have been destroyed had the fire not been discovered by the neighbors. The roof was about half destroyed. L. L. Daugherty shipped his house- ] hold goods to Hammond, Tuesday, and expected to follow them, with his family, yesterday or to-day. He and his family will take with them : the good wishes of a very large cir- * cle of friends in this locality. Mrs. M. E. Lecklider wishes to announce to the ladies of Rensselaer and vicinity, that she will remove her millinery store, next week, into E. N. ■ Hyland’s room, one door east of the post office, where she will re-open ‘ with a large and well selected stock i of new spring millinery goods. Please call and see them. The stockholders of the Rensselaer Building, Loan & Savings Association re-elected the three out-going directors, at their meeting last Monday night. The directors re-organ-ized their board by re-electing Vai Seib, president, electing John Eger, vice-president, and re-electing F. L. Chilcote, secretary, and E. L. Hollingsworth, treasurer. Miss Fannie Sinclair, from Chicago, has taken the management of the Opera House, and will play first class attractions only. Miss Sinclair comes to us highly recommended, and we feel assured she is worthy of our pat- • ronage. She will play the Chicago ! World’s Fair Specialty Company, ‘March 12th and 13th. The best company that Rensselaer has seen for a long time.

By a typographical error in the school report last week, the term standing of Arthur Snodgrass, a pupil in the sixth year grade, was stat-, ed at .74- when it should havu beeaJ 94. A mistake which is naturally > pretty tough on the feelings of an ' ambitious scholar. We take great pains to get these reports correct, but once in a great while an error will get in, unnoticedj as in this case. Judge Hammond was In Monticeb lo last week trying the case brought against the L. N. A. & C. Ry., jpr : the killing of Dana Gray, a brakeman, which occurred at Monon, Nov. 2G, ; 1888. His death resulted from the carelessness of the engineer of a switching engine, in running into the train Grry was working on. A verdict of $2,500 was given in favor of : the plaintiff. T. F. Palmer, of Monticello, was associated with Judge Hammond, as attorneys for the plaintiff. .. _ ... *4 “The Evolution of Dodd,” is the title of a little book that is attracting a good deal of deserved attention, ! just now. The book relates the incidents of the disreputable career and final reforming of a thoroughly bad boy. The book is published in Chicago, and evidently was written by an Illinois pedagogue. It is a well writtenjand intensely interesting book, and, moreover, is a valuable work for the lessons it is intended to teach. It is written more especially for school teachers, but is scarcely less interesting and valuable to every intelligent and well meaning person. Our good friend, Superintendent Warren, is an enthusiastic admirer of the work, and loses no opportunity to counsel his teachers to read it, and we have no doubt they will derive much benefit from its |>erusal. - ■■ ■

See a first-class specialty company from Chicago, at the Opera House, to night. The Rochester Republican thinks it has good reason for believing that the contract has been let for building the Rochester, Rensselaer & St. Louis Railroad. The meetings at the M. E. church still continue, and are resulting in a notable building up of the membership of the church. The total number of additions, up to Monday night was thirty-two. ; A resident of the vicinity of Rens-. selaer, who, two years ago, was an unsuccessful candidate for the Repub - lican nomination for Township Trustee in Marion township, and who,: since that time, has apparently looked upon all things here below with a jaundiced and oblique vision, last week brought to The Republican i for publication an article which reflected upon the administration of , his successful competitor forthenom- • ination aforesaid, Wm. Greenfield; • and which, also, contained serious i imputations against the ability and I professional fitness of the teachers employed by the said Greenfield. Although we considered the article an unjustifiable attack upon a faithful and efficient public official and an unkind and undeserved fling at the 1 teachers we, nevertheless, in our de- ‘ sire to give every man a hearing, at once consented to publish the article, | simply making the stipulation that the author should publish it over his own rightful name. Considering the nature of the article and the character of the charges it contained, we con- ! sidered this stipulation nothing more than justice to ourselves. The gentleman declined to have it published under these conditions and carried it forthwith to that always open receptacle for anonymous malice, the De mocratic Sentinel,, and therein it was published over the essentially false statement that The Republican had declined to publish it. The article can cause no injury nor even annoyance to Mr. Greenfield, but it is pretty tough on the faithful and hardworking teachers of the township, who are not accustomed to being held up to the public gaze as incompetents, simply because they happen to have been employed by a man who holds an office that another man wanted to hold.