Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1890 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

■ Councilman Ed. Morlan's little ■laughter is seriously sick. ■ Farmers will find the cheapest flour ■ll town Dexter x ( ex. ■ Infants’ fancy colored Button ■shoes. 15 cts. per pnir at Chicago ■Bargain Store. 2t. HI Ike Tnteur has gone to Chicago, to ■emain if he finds a satisfactory open- ■ We now have a fine line of Men's ■nd Boy's modern styles, tailor oil ■nd made, all wool summer suits. ■Chicago Bargain Store. 2t

■ The Rose Li.de Dramatic Compa■iy pim .w ,o imimmw l hxs m in \’:.i■tarai.o >. ■ week. ■ ■oinpany and deserve good houses. ■ Bought at a forced sale, a best B ’ "‘I, tular H>cr .■.•di’ n. ■ • [■ ■ 'sin; 1 - ■ We learn Us.l Eastern parties are Him; I . |. > < Hindis el' iii“ ' ■ ill.ahi I Cm’-.-' -25 mm's. La lies’ v'usls 10 ■cuts. Parasols 25 cents, silk mite H Hitorc.

A -merchant .-tailor,from Valparaiso, yas opened a shop in the ro<mi e.dj mfing r'endip's A'lig store, lately occupied by Miss Martin's millinery establishment. One side of our new room 105 feet deep, is completely filled with choice shoes and slippers and most of them we are selling at about one half regular price. Chicago Bargain’ Store. Harry Karlsberg, formerly with A. Leopold, but more recently with the Chicago Bell, at Milwaukee, Wis., has removed to West Bend, Wis. We are the sole agents in Rensselaer for Cone’s Boss pants and overalls, best in America, and now have a nice line of stripe goods at 50 cents per pair. Chicago Bargain Store. 2t The Flower Committee of the young people’s Society of Christian Endeavor, will have flowers for sale at J. 11. Willey <fc Sons store, on Commencement Day.

All goods at cost at R. Fend igs. I have a very fine spring-tooth cultivator and liar row. Please call and inspect the same before buying. C. A. Roberts. Leopold’s new brick building, south of the town hall, is completed and occupied by its tenant, B. F. Ferguson, for an agricultural implement store. The largest Boot & Shoe house in the U. S. is Phelps, Dodge & Palmer, of Chicago and a full line of their best hand-made and warranted shoes and slippers can always be found at the Chicago Bargain Store. 2t. • Messrs. Alfred Thompson and his [son, Delos Thompson, left Monday on an excursion to Manchester, Alabama, and other southern points. All kinds of feed at the feed store. Dexter & Cox. Spring styles in Dress Goods at the Trade Palace. The measles seem not to be losing their grip, but Miss Faris, the teacher, has recovered from them, and all the schools have been running as usual, this their closing week.

Hon. John Waymire, ex-County commissioner, says, “1 have tried the ‘Spading Harrow’ and find it pie best pulverizer I ever tried. I tried it on r. ffie~fiardest grbiuid.'” .Sold by B. F. Ferguson. The alumni of the Rensselaer High School will hold their annual banquet at the Nowels House, to-morrow evening. It will be a very pleasant affair, as a matter of course. Desiring to close out my entire stock, I will sell all goods at cost from this date, R. Fendig. Bought at a forced sale, one lot of (f cans best carriage paint ever made and guaranteed good. Each can will paint one buggy. Regular retail price tl, dor price 50c per can, at Chicago Bargain Store. 2t.

Grandfather and Grandmother Peacock left for Elm Creek, Neb., Tuesday, to visit their daughter, Mrs. Lamson. It is quite an extensive journey for so elderly a couple. Men’s honest, soft Kip plow shoes, 75 cents per pair. Chicago Bargain Store. 2t Dexter Cox are not in any flour they sell at living prices, CALL AND SEE. A Big Sale. Our enterprising dealers, Wolfe & Co. of this place, have the contract for furnishing the lumber for the Catholic College. The bill of lumber is the largest that has ever been sold in the county. * As my intentions are to quit business, I have decided to close out my entire stock at cost. R. Fendig. Be not deceived. If you consider quality of goods, the prices at the frade Palace arc at the bottom.

Eight incmbcrs'of Wm. Moore’s family, on Miss Monnett’s farm, east of town, are sick with the measles. All are §ick hut Mr. Moore. The' family is poor, and so much sickness; puts them in a bad fix. If you do fancy —work call at 1 lemphiil <fe Honan’s for supplies.... . Largest west goods, lowest prices, best terms, of any store in Jasper county is at the one price for cash, Chicago Bargain Store. 2t Quite a number of persons in the vicinity of Rensselaer have provided themselves will; milk cans of the regulation make, preparatory to shipping milk to Chicago. As before stated however, there is no present opportunity for a market for the milk.

Buy yonr line corn meal at D exter & Cox feed store. Buy your chicken-feed of Dexter & Cox. Mr. Ben Harris says that the ground in which his Spading Harrow was tried, was the hardest he ever helped plow. B. Fl Ferguson. The Laßuc Bros, sent their three fine, large, almost perfectly mated carriage horses to Chicago, last week, and they found a ready sale for the magnificent price of 81,500. They were bought by a rich individual-for family carriage horses. Hand-sewed, genuine kangaroo shoes, only 84.50 sold everywhere at 85. Hemi’hill & Honan. For a fine Corn Planter and checkrower, call on C. A. Roberts. He has the New Deere and the A. C. Evans.

The work of corn planting will not make much headway in Jasper county, Ulis week, but it is notyetlOftlate for, a good crop, if subsquent weather is favorable. Oats IHid meadows-are looking finely. Everybody call at R. Fendig’s and get a rare bargain in clothing, hatsi and caps; boots, shoes, dry goods, in fact everything in his line. Never before were we so well prepared to give you bargains in choice millinery. Hemphill <fc Honan. The Pan Handle Ry., has begun an injunction suit against the town of Remington, to restrain the town from opening up and improving New York street, across the railroad’s right-of-way. Mrs. Lecklider has in her employ an experienced trimmer who will do her best to please her patrons'. Dressmaking done to order. Say boys, when you need a new hat ask for the Rego, we have them in soft and stiff. II empii i i.l & Hon an

Col. J. A. Bryar, of Logansport, until lately editor of the Logansport Journal, is in town working up the indebtedness statistics, for the Tenth census, after a very thorough and comprehensive plan. He is the census wgenYvw thftV lino for the Tenth congressional district. The graduation exercises of Barkley tp., were held last Saturday night, at Barkley church, and the people of the township expressed their intelligent interest in education by attending in numbers sufficient to fill the building to its utmost capacity. The graduates were Arie Gray, Berl Richardson, Tilla Miller, and Park Sample. The rolls of honor for the township, 110 in number were distributed by the County Superintendent

A. Leopold’s team of small driving horses got out of their pasture about a month ago, and the most diligent enquiry has since failed to reveal their whereabouts. He now offers a reward of $25 to anyone bringing them to him, or $lO for information leading to their recovery. John Meyers’ $15,000 damage suit against the railroads, for the injuries he sustained at Alida, last fall, has been transferred to the U. S. courts, on application of the railroads. The circumstances of Mr. Meyers’ accident have been fully detailed in these columns. Marriage licenses issued since last reported: ( Chas. W. Platt, I Rachel Zacher. I Chauncy S. Elliot, pßrittic HyUn£L__ ■ pWilliamI J.’ Page, * ( Sarah A. Wilson.

The members of the Rensselaer Relief Corps, are requested io meet at the G. A. R. Hall, at ten o'clock, Sunday morning May 25. in order to march in a ixtey lx the memj!'i. ' mount theMr-EF-Church. ——■ E. L. Clark. •’ Sec’t. Pro tein. Prof. F. W. Reubelt, the able and popular superintendent of the Rensselacr seb.o. has received mi offer of the superjntendency Of the schools 6f a town-in at an advance of §350 in the.salary, above what he receives livre. We are glad to state, however, that he does not think of leaving IlensselacT, at present. The Louisville, New Albany & Chicago management finds it impossible to make the time coming south hauling the Indimiapolis and the Louisville train in cue from Chicago to Nlonon, and will return to the old plan of running; them m two sections until the road-bed is in such condition that it will be safe to haul the consolidated trains with ten wheel passenger engines at a high spegd.-lndianapolis Journal. Warren Washburn, Dr. Washburn’s oldest son and a member of the Rensselaer High School graduating class, was leading two horses to vrater, , Monday evening, and' they became fractious and he was knocked down anil trampled upon, or kicked, quite severely. It is not unlikely that his injuries will incapacitate him from taking his part in the graduation exercises, to-night.

For the first time in a number of years the Indiana Republican Editorial a “junket”. By the courtesy of Chesapeake & Ohio railroad company a special train will leave Cincinnati on June 17th for an extended trip over the line, including Natural Bridge, White Sulphur Springs, Richmond, Norfolk and Old PointjComfort, with probably a steamboat trip to Washington. I | Some unknown party has just made an interesting contribution to the Rensselaer’High school museum. It is a collection of geological specimens, and aconsiderable number of Minnie balls, from Chattanooga, Tenn. The balls ]are mostly flattened and twisted as though they had been stopped by contact with some solid substance, as rocks or trees. Of course they are from some battlefield of the late war.

A railroad man at Logansport has been telling a Journal reporter some things about our old friend Hartley, among others the following-although O. W. Church, and not Hartley, was the man who presented tlie pictorial request for cars: C. W. Hartley,the man who has been plunging in wheat iu Chicago this spring, and who is reported to have made 890,000 off an original capital of 850, used to be a very large shipper of grain from Remington. on the State Line division. We had some difficulty in keeping him supplied with carsand were frequently behind on his orders. He would come into the superintendent’s office about three times a week and make a behemoth ieal kick for cars. He got tired of this and finally said: ’l’m getting weary of coming up here every few days and making a talk for cars so I’ll just leave you this, put it on your desk so every time you look up you’ll see it, and every time you see it just consider I’m here and want cars,’ and he pulled out a big photograph of himself ,holding a card on which was written, ‘Say, I want 100 cars and 1 want ’em bad.’— Goodland Herald.

All the past graduating classes of the Rensselaer high school have been a credit to the town, to Our excellent ' school and its able instructors, and the class of the present year is not ■ only no exception in that respect, butis the equal in all respects to any of its predecessors. They are deserving of the highest praise. They have worked hard and deserve the public credit for the success they have achieved. Of the eleven members of the class three have a general average standing of above 99; several are above 98 and the lowest is above 9(L. If they carry their principles Of thorough and careful work into their future vocations they can not fail of success.

j Under instructions from the Postmaster G eneral, postmastera~throughwit the United- States have been- re- ------ t r . 1 quired to keep a count and report the number of pieces and weight of matter, with amount of postage thereon, mailed (luring the seven consecutive days beginning at G o’clock on Monday morning, May 5, and ending at 6—o-’elock Mon day Said reports when made show the number, weight and postage of the different classes of matter' mailed to wit: Letters, postal cards, circulars, newspapers, periodicals, merchandise,, etc. The report for the Rensselaer postoflice shows the aggregate amount during said time to be: Number of pieces of .matter.. pieces, weight 25G...pounds, postage 81L29.

The graduating exercises of the Rensselaer High School will take place this evening at the M. E. church, beginning at 8 o’clock, sharp. The names of the graduates and their subjects are as follows: George N. Dunn, salutatory and oration, “Progress of the Nineteenth Century.” Samuel Fendig, “Decline of Monarchy.” Susie Parker, “Tyranny of Public Opinion.” Fred W. Coen, “The Vanishing Indian.” Warren Washburn, “Influence of Science on Civilization.” Nellie R. Hopkins, “Fun.” Louie F. Hopkins, “Manhood.” Cora Wasson, “Womanhood.” Frank Maloy, “Every man is the Maker of his Own Fortune, and must be, in some Measure, the Trumpet of his Fame.” Peter Koh(ler, “History of the Class.” Mamie J. Williams, “Not Yet” and Valedictory. Prof. Reubelt will deliver the class address and Mr. J. H. Willey, secretary of the school board, will present the diplomas.

John Lowlow, the genial press agent of Robinson’s circus, also acts as leading clown for the institution, and has for many.years. lie is the one who was incorrectly reported killed at Brownstown, Ky., two years ago, by an irate individual whom he had guyed, in the audience. The incident which gave rise to the rumor, was as follows: About ten years ago the circus visited Brownstown, and Lowlow noticing a big fellow in the audience holding a baby, asked him if it was his oldest. As it happened, the baby was the child of an old sweet-heart of the man holding it, who had married another, and the allusion made the fellow furious and he advanced on Lowlow with an immense knife drawn. Lowlow faced him calmly’ and simply remarked: “If you kill me with that knife,, you will only be killing a fool and the pebple here will think you the biggest fool of the two.” The man shut his knife and walked away. The circus did not visit the place again until in the fall of 1888,, a few weeks 'after their visit to Rensselaer, and 'one of the first men to ’address Lohlow, after the arrival of the circus, I was the man who threatened his life ! 8 years before. He asked Lowlow’s pardon and presented him with the identical knife and said he had never .opened it, since the day he was about to kill Lowlow. The latter still has the knife and showed it .to us, during his visit here, last week. It is a big clasp knife, with a blade like a small Bowie knife, and is a mighty ugly looking instrument. Smoke the Mascot cigar. For sale everywhere

Edward Clinger, a nephew oU DE I. B. Washburn, of this place, was run over by a train and killed, at Leßoy, Ind., on May 14th. He was a brakesman on the Pan Handle Ry. Erastus Peacock, the mail agent, has recovered from his injured arm and is now handling Uncle Samuel’s mail matter again with his usual rapidity and exactness. He was fortunate in having a policy in the reliable Capital Accident & Disability’ Insurance Company, of Springfield, 111., from whom he received a cheek for SSO within three days from the time he was able to resume his duties.

G. W. Goff, the restaurant man and his baker John Kegg, abruptly terminated their business relations last week, after nearly two years connection, and found themselves unable to- effect a -sidtlernen ts w itheut a;jpeal—iug to the courts. Mr. Kegg claimed that his wages were to be $5 a week ■ and board, while*Mr. Goff held that! ■s■l and hoard .was the contract. The witnesses for Kegg were himself and John Allman, his former employer J who nu »er - week wajb We*contract. ()h the. ollier* MtzikhU Mrs. Goff, C. C. Sigler and Theo.j Carew all testified that y l was thej contract price. The case was tried last Friiiay, before Squire Morgan, and a jury, The jury .took Kegg’.- ■ view otethu caso. and gave him a verdict accordingly. We understand that-Mr. Gtef kilt take an appeaLto the evuri..: l.„ 'OMkC* Program of Exercises for ‘Dlcmorial or Decoration Day.” Organized bodies to assemble, at their respective Halls at 1 o’clock m., and nt IhO move to the northeasterly part of the -court house square. ' I. O. O. F. next to Washington street, then the K. of. P., Fireman, Post and Corps in order. All old soldiers are asked to march with G. A. R. Post. At 1:40 the procession will form and march in the following order: Sunday Schools, Details for decorating graves, I. O. G. F., K. eff P., Fireman. Soldiers, unorganized citizens on foot, Relief Corps, vehicles. Position at cemetery: Stage for speakers and those who lead the singing in the east half of the circle. Next to the stage, the circle, organizations of children. From the stage leading north, the three divisions for strewing flowers; to the N. E. of circle, W. R. C., S. E. of circle, Fire -Department ; of circle,--os-R.; S. W. of circle, K. of P. Surrounding these but keeping an open passage way to the north, the unorganized public. The comfort of all requires that they tend rather to scatter than to crowd, and all who have anything to say are reminded that it is impossible to say it too loudly—the whole audience should be enabled to hear without having to crowd together in the heat for that purpose. EXERCISES. 1. Song,'“Nearer My God to Thee.” 2. Prayer by Chaplain. 3-4. Reading of Orders. 5-6. Salutation 7. Song. “Star Spangled Banner.” ADDRESSES: 8. For the So.hool; H. L. Wilson. For the Church; T. F. Drake. For the Citizen; B. F. Ferguson. For the surviving Soldier; E. P. Hammond. 9. Sorg, “Battle Hymn of the Republic. 10. Dirge, Details move, scatter llow- - ers, return. 11. W. R. C. move, scatter flowers, return. 12 Song, “The yc eran’s last Song.” 13. 0. D. anil Comrades scatter flowers; Firing Party moves. , 14. Salute to thu dV.ad. 15. Song, “America.” IG. Benediction. Remark. Tr.a singing is to bo con gregational, led ay practical singers, to whom the several songs have been assigned. The Rego hat for men at Hemphill <fc Honan’s.

Another big railroad mortgage was filed for record in this county, a few days ago. It is for the sum of 810,000.009 and is given.by the L., N. A. & C. Ry., in favor of the Central Tru.-t Co., of N. Y. and John F. Stdteciibnrg, of New Albany. The Sum ay lie increased to 825.000 per mile, foFthe’sl2 intlcs of road,' making a tote! of over $12,000;000. The borvL Jraw 5 per cent, interest, and. are due in "50 years. The money realized from this loan will be mostly used in clearing off old debts, but a considers.)l j portion will - be devoted to the laudable purpose of improving the ro:ul-bed, bridges <fec., of the road.

'John Jlobinson’s circus, with its attendant side-shows, and snide-shows exhibits I hi ite:! —(rte-;- ; .-:i" a":;::'.-. Of. coTitet'Tlifcc'hili-shows, it did not nil the ■ '-me i- very got^iiow.— better ’tfl-faeWfiftn ti. f >o:x ■ t;”-. -; it har- years ago, and oil ot'icr hail'd 'posihsseds' <•#*> i ewhich .word - ■' ; IGx- tile I:Tlio at'.':.' ! '• .' " ; . larger. thu bee® • . • :i of i' •'x ■■ the ■farmers. : Aw-mg—the'teMuras advert7tW’.t was a Indlmt-asfam: ion, with' ■ a dts.<x!Rt. The balloon .was thLLt.-.ru-u.u. .l>ig ,un.e^. but durjiroeess- of iaflatioa with hot air. tee ‘ .ot .‘dtogctlu : too hot, and set iiw witKi-bag-o-n-fira. burning out svvi i! • jtmro yards, thereof, and "of -eoupfte-there was-Hv-aseensivn.