Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1890 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Hiram Day and John Medicus are plastering in Hammond and having more work than they can do. An endless variety of new style ribbons and wonderful cheap, at Chicago Bargain Store. 2t The cornet band was out Monday night serenading all the successful candidates who live in town. Hand-sewed, genuine kangaroo shoes, only $4.50 sold everywhere at $5. Hemphill & llonan. Mr. Hollister is attending the meeting of the Presbytery, at South Bend, this week. If you want the best plow, harrow or cultivator on earth call on C. A. Roberts. A. Leopold is in Chicago, this week, baying clothing and other goods, for his corner stores.

Monday, April -21st, will be the last day for paying taxes, without the penalty. Miss Avanell Daugherty has just ‘ returned from Valparaiso, where she has been studying music for some time. C. J. Brown, of Marion tp., a few miles south of Rensselaer, has large quantities of good clover seed for sale.

Lew Roberts and his mother are keeping house in Judge Ilealy’s ten - ant house. Mr. Roberts is employed in Hemphill Bros.’ blacksmith shop. Mesdames A. McCoy and W. A. Rinehart aud Miss Blanche Loughridge, arrived home last Wednesday evening, from their pleasant trip down the Ohio and Mississippi river, by sfegamboat. The exclusive right to sell C. B. Cones’ boss over-all pants, in Rensselaer, has been given to the Chicago Bargain Store and hereafter their goods will not be sold to any other dealer. 2t. D. S. Willey, now in business at Monon, is closing out his stock of goods in that town, with the intention of associating himself in partnership with his father and brother, J. H-. Willey A Son, in Rensselaer. The question of buying clothing bothers the masculine brain at this season of the year. What will best suit me? Where can I get it? How shall I get the best value for the least money? Thus find a single and truthful answer: Go to Ellis A Murray’s Clothing Store.

Larry Beck, a prominent attorney of Delphi, was shot through the breast one night last week, while trying to capture a burglar, who had effected an entrance into his house. The wound was not dangerous. The burglar escaped and left no clew by which he could be identified.

The current number of the Methodist News publishes the programme c t w important religious gathering to be held in Rensselaer the first week in June. It is a convention of Valparaiso District. M. E. conference, and will begin on Tuesday and continue over Thursday. One day of the convention will be occupied by the Itinerants’ Club; one day by the Missionary Convention and one by the Epworth League. - We are always very glad when our readers favor us with any items of local news, whether from town or country, but we must state again what we have said several times before, and that is that we begin to “make up our forms" for the press immediately after noon on Wednesdays, and nothing but very brief items can be inserted in the paper after that time, and by three o’clock i t is usually too late to receive even short items.