Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1890 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Albert Johnson, of Tipton, Ind., fe visiting his sister, Mrs. Frank Wolfe, for a few days. Be not deceived. If you consider quality of goods, the prices at the Trade Palace are at the bottom. W. H. H. Graham returned last Friday from a ten days trip through Tennessee and Alabama. As my intentions are to quit business, I have decided to close out my entire stock at cost HL Fendig. The M. E. quarterly meeting will be held next Suuday and Monday. Rev. Campbell, of MedaryviHe, will act as presiding elder. 1 Say boys, when you need a new hat ask for the Rego, we have them in soft and stiff. ... 2 Hemphill & Honan Mrs. Dr. MeMellon, the oculist, will be in Rensselaer again, on May 10 to 12. Office with Mrs. Mary Hopkins, on Front street, as usual. Mrs. Lecklider has in her employ an experienced trimmer who will do her best to-please her patrons. Dressmaking done to order.

Elder L. E. Conner will preach on Sunday, May 11th, at 10:30 a. ra. in the Christian Church. Subject: The Destination of the Wicked. All are invited to attend. The new addition and one more new clerk affords ample store and help now to accommodate their many customers at the Chicago Bargain Store. Rev. B. F. Ferguson held services in his Badger’s Grove appointment, last Sunday, and received 13 accessions to the membership of the church, 10 of whom were baptized. Grand Opening, May 10th, at The Chicago Bargain Store. I still have a few cultivators and John Deere Plows on hand. C. A. Roberts. Work on the Catholic College building is» being rushed at a rapid rate, twelve mechanics from Logansport having been working upon it for several weeks. Roberts has a fine lot of Disc Harrows.

Notwithstanding the big advance in coffee you can buy fresh roasted coffee at C. C. Starr’s at the old price. C&pt, Burnham has changed his arrangements for his justice and pension office, and will occupy the front rooms over the post-office, after his term of service as a U. S. pettit jur - or, at Indianapolis, has closed. Hand-sewed, genuine kangaroo shoes, only $4.50 sold everywhere at ♦5. Hemphill <fc Honan. Desiring to close out my entire stock, I will sell all goods at cost from this date. R. Fendig.

Anente the subject of the cost of building gravel roads, we notice that the bids for building what is known as the Biddle gravel road, in Benton 'I county, were opened at Fowler last week. The road is. to be about 14 of 15 miles long and the lowest bid was at the rate of $1622.G8f per mile. Mr. Ben Harris says that the ground in which his Spacing Harrow was tried, was the hardest he ever helped plow. B. F. Ferguson. For a fine Corn Planter and checkrower, call on C. A. Roberts. He has the New Deere and the A. C. Evans. The Schumann Quartette of Du/Pauw University, will give two performances at the M. E. church, on Thursday and Friday of next week. With them is Miss Sidelia Starr, an elocutionist of rare ability. The entertainments given by the combination has a most excellent reputation.

The Schumann Quartet gave an entertainment at Bloomington last night to a large audience. Miss Starr completely captivated the audience and her first recitation brought tears to ►many eyes. Mr. Maxwell’s “lady Awake” was a decided hit, and was loudly encored. The work of the entire Quartet was fine and gave entire satisfaction. —Green castle Daily San.

Hear the celebrated Schumann Quartette, at the M. E. church, on Thursday and Friday evenings, of next week. ; ' ■ Farmers, see Mr. John Waymire’s statement regarding our new spading harrow, the novelty of the age. B. F. Ferguson . Wm. S. Coen is building a good residence, on his farm northeast of town, and intends to occupy it 1 wit h his family, when completed. Everybody call at R. Fendig’s and j get a rare bargain in clothing, hats : and caps; boots, shoes, dry goods, in fact everything in his line. i

Three members of Wm Stephenson’s family are sick with the measles. The disease does not appear to be spreading very rapidly in the town, as yet. If you do fancy work call at Hemphill & Honan’s for supplies. Just received a new Top Job, the “Haydock Handy Top”. C. A. Roberts, Ed. O. Green has gone to Portland, this state, to manage a wholesale beer louse for the Geo. A. Bolier Brewing Co:, of Lafayette. His saloon her e is managed by Geo. Strickfaden. Mrs. M. E. Lecklider was in Chicago, Tuesday, buying her new stock of Spring and Summer goods. Grand opening on Friday and Saturday of this week. E. Hollingsworth was re-elected marshal at Remington Monday by a vote that was practically unanimous. He is one of the established institutions of the town—in a much greater degree even than Shorty Simpson is in Rensselaer. Call for yourself and -see that I mean business. Save the profits, buy goods at cost at R. Fendig’s. Never before were we so well prepared to give you bargains in choice millinery. Hemphill & Honan. The expected general change in the time card of the Monon did not go into effect last Sunday. It is understood that all the arrangements for the change were not completed, and that the change will be made a week or two later. 1

I have a very fine spring-tooth cultivator and Harrow. Please call i and inspect the same before buying.. C. A. Roberts. People needing anything in my line, should take advantage of this rare opportunity. li. Fendig. Rev T.F. Drake of Rensselaer, was the guest of M. H. Ingrim |and family j the fore part of the week. Rev Drake was the former pastor of M.E. church at this plaee, and is a good man, and has a host of friends in this city who are always delighted to meet him.— 1 Winamac Democrat. i Rev. I. I/Gorby, of Union City, has accepted the call from the Presbyterian church at this place. The brethren of the church all seem to feel, and no doubt truly, that they have been very fortunate in securing Mr. Gorby for their pastor. He is not expected to arrive for a little time yet.

For a medium priced shoe, Fargo’s at $2.50 takes the biscuit. Hemphill tfc Honan. Prof. J. W. Jenks, professor of Social Science, of the Indiana University, will lecture on the subject of “Training for Citizenship,” in the court house, this, (Thursday) evening. The Professor is acknowledged to be one of Indiana’s ablest lecturers, and we believe our people will miss a rare opportunity if they fail to avail themselves of the privilege of hearing this lecture. There is no charge for admission.

The Rase Lisle Dramatic company who appear at School Hall this week under the auspices of the K. P. lodge, are giving general satisfaction, as evidenced by the fact that the attendance increases each night. Rose Lisle is a strong star in her profession and well merits the universal praise that is bestowed upon her. The support by her company is good. Last night “A Leap for Life,” a melo-drama; which was very pleasing and commended by all. Each member sustained their parts well and merited the repeated encores Tonight they appear in the celebrated play of “East Lynne” and will be greeted by a large audienc. Kentland Gazette.

j, A daughter at Jesse Smith’s southeast of town, Monday evening. I Mrs. S. A. Fulton, of LaGrange, | HI., has been visiting in Rensselaer for a couple of weeks. v i ' ... Miss Lethe Taylor, of Tippecanoe ; Co., a former teacher in this county, lis visiting friends in Rensselaer. Mrs. J. C. Morgan and daughter Grace are visiting her parents at Georgetown, HI., for 5 or 6 weeks. Mr. Worland, who lately went to Hammond to do teaming, has returned to Rensselaer, not finding business lively there in his line.

Albert Fendig has made arrange- ! ments to remain in the South, having ! entered the employ of a renting and collecting agency, at Brunswick, Ga. Mrs. Nellie Spitler Learning, of Goshen, arrived in Rensselaer Mon - day, and will spend the summer with her parents. Elder J. V. Coombs will begin his evangelistic work, at the Christian Church at this place, not later than Tuesday, of next week. - The Rose Lisle Dramatic Company will give a matinee, at popular prices, Saturday afternoon. The popular play, Edith’s Burglar, has been selected for the occasion. Hon. Ben Terrell, of Texas, National lecturer of the Farmers’ Alliance, addressed a large atidience, mostly farmers, in the court house, last Saturday afternoon. He is a very interesting and agreeable speaker. The condition of Hale Warner, greviously sick for many weeks past with the inflammatory rheumatism, has again taken an apparent turn for the better, since last Saturday. Previous to that time, for several weeks, his condition had been very alarming from the fact that’ the disease was affecting the region of the heart. The Rose Lisle Dramatic Company, a decidedly meritorious aggregation, is occupying the Opera House this week. They are giving good plays in good shape, and have a larger repertory of popular modern dramas. Rose Lisle, the leading member of the company, is an actress of more than usual ability, and she is very well supported.

Carpenter township has four or five road grading machines and all are kept in at this with the result of great benefits to the roads of the township. Marion] township has but one such machine,; and that is hardly ever used. The j farmers of Marion would do well to j take pattern after their Carpenter brethren, in this particular. The honor of standing highest in the present graduating class in tl»e | Rensselaer High School, and consequently the position of valedictorian iat the commencement exercises, lias ! been achieved by Miss Mamie Williams, daughter of J. W. Williams, the banker and furniture dealer. Geo. IN. Dunn, son of Hon. I. D. Dunn, of jDunnville, stands second and is therejfore the class salutatorian. His grade was only a few hundreths of one per j cent, below Miss Williams. i *-■■■

Newton township grad exercises were held last Saturday night, at Saylerville school house. The graduates from the township were seven in number, the class being, we understand, the largest of any in the county, for this year. Their names are Mary C. Wuerthner, Lydia Wuerthner, Edward Bowman, Wallace Sayler, Winfred McColly, Augustus Yeoman and Ed warn Coen, and in addition to these Elmer Babcock, of Jordan tp., Jordan’s only graduate, for this year. Mary C. Wuerthner, the valedictorian, has the honor of standing highest in her grades of any of the township graduates in the county, this year, and is entitled to the free scholarship in the Rensselaer High School, according to the offer of the Rensselaer school board. The exercises at the gradtation were of a high order of merit and the attendance was ven- large.

Sheriff Blue is interspersing his official duties with the pleasures of considerable extent* having leased the Rumeley 40, on tbe southeast border of the town.

The Republican is still in favor of the town taking active and radical measures towards getting better streets; and we also still believe that tbe most practicable couse will be the purchase, by the town, of a rockcrushing machine and the grinding into road material of the rock from the river. If the citizens of the town agree with us in this view, they should make some move in that direction ; either by petition to the TownBoard, or in some other manner.

The death of a young man of a family in Wheatfield last week, Mr. MeCue, adds one more to the list of those whose deaths have been, direetjly or indirectly, attributable to the [late epidemic commonly called the j Grippe. That disease, which was at first thought very lightly of, and ! made the subject of countless jokes, ; must have caused tens of thousands of deaths and a vast aggregate of , sickness and suffering, in this country, and many people are still suffering from its effects, as the death in , Wheatfield proves. i The new accommodation, or milk train, passes Rensselaer going north. ,at G;4B a. m., and returning going south, at 6:13 p. m. The conductor is E. A. Newtou, of Lafayette, the very pleasant and accommodating ! gentleman who had charge of the 'former Lafayette and Chicago ac--1 commodation, until it was abandoned. 'At present the milk portion of the ; train’s business is very slight, only 7 ; or 8 cans, of 8 gallons each, being carj ried by it, each day, and this is all from points north of the Kankakee river. The trouble with the milk ; business, at present, is the fact that | the Chicago milkmen generally make their contracts for their summer’s milk in April, and until the time for making their winter’s contracts in Oetj ober, there is but small chance for 'newshippers finding a market.

During the heavy thunder storm, last Sunday evening, the lightning evidently struck an electric light wire, in some part of town, as an electric discharge entered the building where the dynamo is, with such force as to seriously shock the operator Tommy Bissenden, incapacitating him from duty for several hours. The stroke- caused a loud sharp- report, like the sudden crack of an immense cattle whip, which was heard all over the town, the sound probably being transmitted over the light wires. It is said, by the way, that i the system of electric light wires affords a good protection to the town from lightning, as the fluid, if it strikes in the town at all, will be pretty sure to strike the wires, and once on the wires will be sure to go to the J # # j central station, where it will find an easy passage into the ground.

The Town Board of Goodland, does not seem to be actuated by the same penny-wise and pound-foolish spirit as has largely controled the Rensselaer town daddies, in all recent times past. In Goodland they are not afraid to spend a little money in letting the people know what ordinances and orders they are expect - ed to obey, and also in making public just what the peoples’ money«has been paid out for. All ordinances and orders are published in the town paper and also the Treasurer’s report for the fiscal 3’ear, in full, which names every sum of money paid out of the town treasury during the year, who it was paid to, and for what purpose. The report shows that the publisher of the Goodland Herald was paid, during the year, SGC for publishing ordinances, reports Ac., and we liave no doubt bat that the money was well spent. In Rensselaer the Town Board has not, heretofore, exjiended more that or $7 per year in letting the people know wltat ordinances they are expected to obey, and what becomes of their money.