Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1890 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Capt. J. M. Wasson, of Rensselaer, has been granted a pension. Go to C. A. Roberts for John Deere plows. A fine line of agricultural implements at C. A. Roberts’. Dr. J. ll.,Honan, the vetinary surgeon, visited his brother, E. P. Honan, oyer Sunday. If you want the best plow, harrow or cultivator on earth call on C. A. Roberts. B. F. Ferguson was in Hammond Monday, and then completed the sale of his electric light plant, in that place. Any kind of a farm implement for sale by C. A. Roberts. He can sell you a threshing machine if you want it. The name of D. H. Yeoman, of Marion township, is among the number of those who have been granted an increase of pension. W. C. Shead lately received and refused an offer of $5,000 to withdraw his suit to recover his share of his father’s estate, in Washington. The W. C. T. U. announce that their weekly meetings will be resumed this week. The meeting to be Frfday, at 2 p. m. at the residence of Mrs. Henry Harris.

Henry Zoll is carpentering at Hammond, and has struck so good a job that he will move his family there. This will leave the Cotton House again without a landlord. Mr. John U. Iliff and Miss Mary S. Adams, both of Jordan tp., were married at the home of the bride’s parents, Thursday, March 13, Rev. U. M. McGuire, of Rensselaer, officiating. Spence Hollister is at home this week visiting his parents. He has been running on the Lake Erie & Western Railroad, as freight conductor, and recently met with an injury from which he has riot yet fully recovered. Among the real-estate sales re-

ported this week is a piece of Land in Walker tp., which sold for $ 1,000 on Feb. 22, and for $6,000 two days later. That beats the Dutchman’s one per cent. There was a colore d brother in the deal but that is not saying that there was a “nigger in the wood-pile? Capt J. Al. Wasson, of Rensselaer, represented Rensselaer Post G. A. R., at the state encampment at Indianapolis, last week, and was honored by being chosen as one of the two delegates to represent the Tenth Congressional District at the National Encampment, of this year, to be held at Boston. The other delegate is Henry Snyder, of Monticello. Rev. W. F. Pettit and Mrs. Elma C. Whitehead will be tried together for the murder of Mrs. Pettit, at the April term of the Tippecanoe circuit court. The prosecution alleges that Pettit- proposed marriage to Mrs. Whitehead before the death of his own wife and renewed his proposals immediately after that event. That there was a conspiracy between the two to get rid of Mrs. Pettit and that there were also criminal relations between them.

Brown’s Comedy Company, an aggregation of about ten members, began a four nights’ engagement at the Opera House last evening, The engagement will also include a matinee Saturday afternoon. We believe this company to be really meritorious, from a professional point of view, and wp know that personally they are conducting themselves like selfrespecting ladies and gentlemen —an assertion which could not be truthfully made regarding a large proportion of travelling theatrical companies. if you want the best plow on earth call on C. A. Roberts.

John L. Nichols, of Barkley township, has lately been granted a pension . John Kegg and Bion Zimmerman are visiting the parents and friends of the former, at Ligonier, Ind. For Sale. A few shares in the Building & Loan Association. Call at this office. The Cotton House is for rent or sale. Possession given April Ist. Will be rented either for a boarding house or a residence. Wanted.—A girl to do housework, who can lodge at home. For further information, enquire at The Republican office. Miss Rena Peacock has been suffering for oyer a week past with a severe attack of lung fever and the grip. J. N. White, of Kankakee “town- * ship, has been drawn as a member of the jury of the U. S. court, which sits . at Indianapolis April Ist. George Reed, a well known citizen ' of Barkley tp., died last Saturday at the age of about 43 years. He leaves a widow and a large family of child-| jen. ... The members of the M. E. choir presented Miss Ada Daugherty with an elegantly bound hymnal, on 6 evening last week, on the occasion of her departure for Hammond. The new owners of the tile works north of town, Messrs. Alter & Cheney, have arrived from Clinton county, and are refitting - and improving the works. Mrs. Rebecca Jenkins, better know n as Grandmother Jenkins, died in Barkley township last Monday morning, at the age of 83 years. The cause of her deatli was general failure from old age. , l Wm. Meyer, whose sickness with that painful and fatal disease, cancer on the pyloric orifice of the stomach , was mentioned last week, died Tuesday evening, at 5:30 o’clock. The funeral is set for to-day at 3 o’clock p. m., at the Presbyterian church. j The Nowels House was re-opened i last week, under the experienced man- j agement of Geo. J. Dexter. The i building has been put in good shape throughout, and is now ready to entertain its share of the traveling public, in good style.

Hon. Charles Harley, supervisor of census for this district, has received an order from the census department that will disappoint a great many applicants for enumerator. The order explicitly sets forth that no person holding; any office whatever can be appointed enumerator. —Delphi Jour. Mr. Wm. A. Salter, step-son of J. C. Porter, of Rensselaer, and Miss Mattie Randebaugh, both of Ulysses, Kans., were married at that place recently. Mr. Salter is in the bank - ing business at Ulysses, and his bride is the daughter of one of the leading merchants of that town. Rev. W. F. Cellars, of Mt. Clemens, Mich., preached at the Presbyterian church last Sunday, morning and evening, and so acceptably that the congregation has unanimously agreed to extend to him a call to the pastorate of the church. The salary proposed to be offered is the very liberal one of SI,OOO per year.

Uncle Stewart Hammond thinks that the description last week of the author of the communication lately published m the Democratic Sentinel attacking the official record of Trustee Greenfield, might lead some people to believe that he was the writer referred to. We hasten to exonerate Mr. Hammond. lie had no connection with the matter, at all.

A windy individual who called himself Hight, was in town for about a week and talked laegely about buying the Democratic Sentinel. His wife was with him and sold face powder and medicines for diseases peculiar to the female sex. They boarded at <iofl’s restaurant, and l:i>t Friday, during his absence, they skipped the town and left Mr. Goff in the lurch for nearly ten dollars. They left some packages which appeared to be of value, but when opened they were found to consist only of worthless paper.

Each share in the Building and Loan Association is estimated to be worth a little over $33.20 March 11, two years from the time of organizing the Association. The motion of the railroad companies for a new trial, in Ben Smoot’s case, has been overruled. It is probable that the companies will now take l an appeal to the Supreme Court. The L., N. A. & C. Railway stockholders meeting in New York, last week, resulted in a complete revolution in the management of the road. The old board of directors were thrown out and a new board, hostile to the old management, was elected. The deal was managed very quietly and was a complete surprise in raLL, i road circles. Dr. Wm. Breyfogle, of ■ New Albany, is the new president ■ and George Posthlewaite, of London, 'is vice-president. Of the subordinate ! officials none have yet been removed except John B. Carson, the general manager. He is succeeded by W. F. Black, lately general manager of the J. M. &I. Ever since the election i reports have been in circulation that the Pennsylvania company had gobbled the Monon, while a counter report was that it was a southern road, the Louisville and Nashville, that was behind the deal. These reports, however, are denied about as often as made. It is certain, though, that the Monon is now in harmony with both the other companies mentioned, while heretofore violent warfare has been the rule. The new General Superintendent says that the road-bed and bridges will at once be greatly improved, brought, in fact, up to the Pennsylvania standard, while another prominent official says 1 that more attention will hereafter be paid to local traffic, and less to th e attempt to make the road a great through route.