Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1890 — ATTENTION, FARMERS. [ARTICLE]

ATTENTION, FARMERS.

At Sft Cara Prices.. Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Doors and Blinds. Estimates on bills a specialty. Dive us a call. Wolfe & Co.

The Free Will Society will meet with Mrs. B. F. Ferguson, May 2nd, to elect officers. All members are requested to be present. Say boys, when you need a new hat ask for the Rego, we have them in soft and stiff. Hemphill & Honan j ■ , • - * * I i C. J. Brown, who, as usual, is spending the winter in Florida, for the benefit of his health, is reported to be better this winter than for many years past.

A good house, garden, &c., for rent cheap. Enquire of Joe Paxton. Just received a new Top Job, the “Haydock Handy Top”. C. A. Roberts, Miss Schenck, of Washington, D. C., daughter of the late General Robert C. Schenck, will spend the summer with her aunts, the Misses Smith, of this place. " If you do fancy work call at Hemphill & Honan’s for supplies. J. 11. Willey & Son will not be undersold. Call and examine goods and prices. Lucius Strong, of Newton tp., has bought the Joe Anderson house, on Main street. Mr. Strong has rented his farm,'and intends to live in tow n hereafter, we are informed. We make a specialty of handling shoes and now have some special bargains in standard brands bought in jobs and forced sales at less than actual cost to manufacturers. 2t. Chicago Bargain Store. j The township trustees now in edifice, all of whose terms expire in August, will have the duty of eraI ploying teachers for the next winter ■ term. So decides the attorney general of the state. Hon. John Waymlre, ex-County commissioner, says, ‘‘l have tried the I‘Spading Harrow’ and find it the best ! pulverizer I ever tried. I tried it on ; the hardest ground.” Sold by B. F. i Ferguson. J ; The Rensselaer Democrats nominated a portion of a town ticket | Tuesday evening. Abe Simpson for i marshal, Jesse Grubb for clerk, Ike i Tuteur for treasurer and John Paxton and John Eger for councilmen. Would you father buy goods at a rock-bottom, one price, cash store or I go where you must pound and beat them down for one solid hour to buy J aii article for what it is actually |worth? Save your time and money 1 at the Chicago Bargain Store. 2t.

Tommy Bisseriden, engineer of j the electric light dynamo, has tender-: cd his resignation, to take effect June 15th. lie intends going to Seattle, Washington, where his brother Albert, has preceded him. As my intentions are to quit business, I have decided to elose out my i entire stock at cost. R. Fendig. j Hemphill & Honan will give a 1 Millinery display this season. See j notice later.

We had the pleasure last Friday of meeting Rev. .T. J. Claypool, of Montmorenci, Ind., in Lafayette. lie has recovered his usual health and was in excellent spirits. This is his third year on the Montmorenci Circuit, and he is able to report progress. —Warren Republican. R. F. Priest and family removed to Chicago, last Monday. Mr. Priest has bought a grocery store, m the vicinity of Lincoln Park. The store does a very large and profitable business, and. by all accounts, Mr. Priest has struck it rich. Be not deceived. If you consider quality of goods, the prices at the Trade Palace are at the bottom.

The big advertisement in this week’s ReiVulican conveys news that “the circus in coming.” It is John Robinson’s, the same which visited Rensselaer in August 1888. It is a good show, as good as any that ever exhibits in towns the sire of ours. Fanners, see Mr. John Way mire’s statement regarding our new spading harrow, the novelty of the age. B. F. Frrgcsox. The work of improving the road of the L., N. A. & C. road is being pushed all along the line. Section men have been added and additional gangs of track and bridge repairers put on, and a good deal of work is being done on the power.—Logansport Journal,

Mrs. Michael Brusnahan, of Union tp., fell and broke her arin, near the wrist, last Saturday. As she is quite advanced in years, the injury is likely to prove very tedious of recovery. Dr. Bitters has charge of the case.

M. J. Miller, the able young scientist who has Charge of the oil-pros-pecting enterprise which is operating in this county, has gone to New Mexico and Arizona to examine some mining properties there, at the instance of interested parties in Chicago/ He will be gone about ten days, and will, upon his return, complete the preliminary arrangements for the new boring at Pleasant Ridge.

The Republican job printing department has just turned out 500 elegant programmes for this year’s high school graduating exercises. j The graduating class of this year is eleven in number—seven boys and j four girls; and eleven more studious, well-bred and generally promising! and admirable young people, no one j i need wish to see. The exercises will: : be held in the M. E. church, on I Thursday evening, May 22nd. Two townships in Fulton county voted last week, Tuesday, on the question of township aid for our prospective new railroad, the Detroit, Indiana A St. Louis, alias the “Gold i Spike” road. In Rochester township 1 the proposition carried, by a vote of ’ 034 to 374. In Newcastle township it was defeated. Rochester voted $19,000, under the "conditions that the road would be built and shops located there. There are quite a number of new cases of measles in as many families in town, this week, all resulting, pre - snmably, from the single case mentioned last week. If the disease continues to spread in the manner whic h now seems likely, it is not improbable that it will cause a closing of the town schools. Among the families in which new cases have been reported are J. F. Irwin’s, J. C. Passons’ 1 and M. P. Walker’s.

The latest agony in house decora - tions is a “gum-board.” This wal 1 ornament is a smoothly planed board, cut any odd shape and hung on the wall as a receptacle for chewing gum when the jaws need rest. Artistic numbers or initials indicate the space allotted to each member of the family, and the penalty for sticking your gum on another’s territory on the board or taking other than your o wn quid therefrom is very severe. Parlor gum-hoards for the use of the girls and their fellows are not divid - ed into sections as it is supposed th e j spooneys like to chew each other’s 'gum.

j J. L. Powles, an ingenious citizen of '■ the neighboring town of Goodland, has invented and patented an appliance which will “fill a long felt want” for a verity, it is a Four j Horse Equalizer, whereby four horses ' may be worked abreast, three on one | side of the tongue, and is especially 1 adapted to grain hinders. By its use every horse has to do its full share of the work, while the side-draft is simply but effectually overcome. W. N. Jones has secured the general agency for the equalizer, and persons j desiring to know more about it, o r | to secure territory or sub-agency, can address him at Rensselaer.

D. H. Yeoman, Peter Hinds and James Welsh were in Indianapolis last Saturday, as delegates from Jas|per county, assisting in organizing l the State Farmers’ Alliance. So far I only eleven counties in the state I * have been organized and of these eight were represented at the state meeting. The state organization was effected by electing Thos Force, of Shoals, President, D. H. Yeoman, of Rensselaer, Vice-President, W. W. Prigg, of Mechanicsburg, Secretary and Treasurer and Eli Hodson,Mechanicesburg, Wilson Corey,Anderson, and James Welch, of Rensselaer, Executive committee; Rev. Peter Hinds, of Jasper county, chaplain. Another meeting to complete the organizatn ■ and to adopt a state constitution will be held in November.

Hereafter any person wishing to obtain cinders from the electric light works,-will please call at The office of the Superintendent, and procure his order for the same. Prof. J. YV7 Jenks, professor of Social Science, of the Indiana University, will lecture on the subject of “Training for Citizenship,” in the Court House, on some evening next week, not yet determined.

Joseph H. Willey, secretary of the Rensselaer school board, has just completed the enumeration of • the school children for the school town. The total number is 530. This is a net loss from last year of 18. The many families that have moved away during the past year, especially to Hammond, accounts for the falling off. In fact, the town has done well to so nearly hold its own in population, as these ■■figures" indicate, considering t-he extent to which the exodus, to Ilam - monel has prevailed, during a year past. A new time card will soon go into effect on the Monon, next Sunday, it it said. Among other important changes will be the doubling up of the vestibule and regular mail and passenger trains, between Chicago and Monon, in the manner that formerly prevailed. The consolidated trains will be hauled between Chicago and Monon by the new and very heavy ten-wheel locomotives, lately: procured by the Monon company. Another important change will be the abandonment of the Indianapolis and Chicago accommodation, which now passess Rensselaer at 11:42 a. m. and 3:57 p. m., its place being largely filled by the new milk train. Mrs. James Yeoman’s runaway driving team again added to their bad reputation by running away twice last Sunday. Both runs occur|ed at S. C. Hammond’s place, south- | west of town, In both instances they ran while Chas. R. Yeoman was in the buggy and doing liis best to hold them. The first time, they ran about la quarter of a mile, along a rough and stumpy road, at the top of their speed, and passed a buggy load of young people from town on their way, but luokily, without any accident. The second time they were inside of Mr. Hammond’s barn lot, and running through a high board fence, and astride of a post, they were again brought, to a stand-still, without much damage being done.

Two ' interesting suits were filed Thursday at Delphi. The first is against Abner T., Nathanial, jr., and Edward W. Bowen, sons of Abner H. Bowen, demanding damages in the sum of $300,000. This suit • is brought by the administrator of the Bowen estate, appointed by the court. The complaint charges the defendants with “unlawfully intermeddling with and concealing and converting to their own use” the property of the Bowen estate, consisting of notes, mortgages, bonds, moneys etc. The second suit is for $2,500 against Kirklind Baugh, for refusing to deliver to the administrator, when he made the demand Thursday, quantities of corn and wheat belonging to Abner 11. Bowen’s estate, which is stored in their warehouse.

The commercial reports indicate the largest volume of trade the country lias ever known, with collections above the average and a decreased number of business failures. Railway earnings are larger tlian they have ever been before, and the general average of wages is nearly 10 per cent higher than it was in 1880. The prices of farm products have been depressed for a few months by toe unprecedenied abnndancfc ©8 lasi, year’s crops, but the prospeet of a reduced yield of wheat next summer has already sent that cereal bounding upward at the average rate of seven-eights of a cent a day, and it is steadily pulling com and oats up with it. Were it not for the ravings of demagogue politicians and free trade newspapers, the thought of “hard times” would never occur to the average American this year.— Indianapolis Journal.

The Horse Breeders’ Association of Ladoga, will give a big horse exhibition of horses of all classes, next ■Saturday, at which SSOO in premiums will be distributed. T. J. McCoy, of Rensselaer, and one of the owners of the now noted Rensselaer Stock Farm, has been selected as;an impartial and competent expert, to act as judge in awarding the premiums. It is a good selection, for what Tom don’t know about that “noble annamile, the hoss,” isn’t worth knowing.

Mrs. Hattie Hilton, of Gillam tp., made one of her periodical visits to Rensselaer, last week, to look after her judgment against her husband, Elhanner Hilton. Elhanner turned her off, some years ago, and she got a judgment against him of SIOO in the circuit court, for the support of their child. She was {laid SSO of the amount, but afterwards when she came-for The other SSO she found that the verdict of the jury giving her the SIOO also declared that her husband was justified in deserting her, and she therefore refused to accept the other SSO, being possessed by the idea that if she receipts the judgment it will lie equivalent to giving her husband a divorce. Bui although she will not accept the money, she is very wrathful because it is not drawing interest in the bank, for her benefit, and she expresses her feelings in language far from elegant, ,She imagines tnat everybody is in league with “Elhanner” to deceive and defraud her, and she auataemizes them accordingly. She is a terror, but lM'dly responsible mentally for j what she says and does.

Squire Burnham had his first law suit, Tuesday. Jerome Harmon sued the litigious Michael O. Halloran. Harmon and his wife have occupied the residence or boarding house portion of Mike’s groggery for two or three months, going out about a week ago. Harmon tending the saloon bar and the lady looking after the boarding department. Harmon sued for his wages, for 79 days, at $1 a day and for 12 weeks hoard, for Mike and his hired man, at $3 a week. Some credits that were not disputed by Harmon made the total balance claimed by him about s(io. Halloran i claimed that his boarding contract | was for only $2 per week, and brought in a further counter claim of S6O for 15 gallons of whiskey, $lO for 200 cigars, sls for 3 kegs of beer, sls for 3 cases of the same and an

indefinite amount for an unknown quantity of wines and other bottled liquors which he claimed Harmon had got away with in one week during which Halloran was away, and for which only $23 had been turned over. In addition to these items, Halloran put in a claim for $lB for beer and sls of cigars which he claimed Harman had personally consumed during the period of his services. These items, if allowed, would have brought Harmon into the debt of the guileless Mike to the extent of SSO or S6O. The court held, however, that the evidence did not prove that Harmon got away with or wits responsible for the disappeared goods during Mr. Halloran’s absence, while as to what Harmon himself consumed, expert evidence was introduced to show that it is not customary to charge up bar tenders with wlial they drink and smoke during the discharge of their intellectual but nervt disquieting duties. Judgment was therefore rendered for the plaintiff, for $45.75 and costs.