Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1890 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

p A fine boy at Mel Laßue’s, last Thursday, Remember you can always get fresh Graham flour at the mill. p? Mrs. Ritchey, whose apoplectic stroke was mentioned last week, is considerably improved. : You can buy a good flour at the mill for $1 per 50 pounds. Come and try it. Miss Nellie King has gone to De Sota, lowa, to visit relatives, and may remain all winter. Prices talk. All 5 cts per yard, dress cashimer, sateen prints, shirting, a nice pattern of scrim etc etc. I-2t Chicago Bargain Store. Wm Daugherty and family, who have been residing near Montezuma, Kans., for several years past, have re;turned to this vicinity.

h The largest fall and winter stock of the best brands and lowest prices of boots and shoes in Jasper Co. I-2t. Chicago bargain store. Warfen Washburn has gone to Hommond and is learning the electric engineering business in an establishment there. . ’ See the new Dress Goods at Ellis Murray’s. I The Bon Ton Ladies’ shoe of Chicago is the Ludlow, we have a complete line at the Chicago Bargain Store. Jas. Thompson and family have returned from Chicago, and are now occupying their residence, near the "depot. - - If you want the finest fittings and best wearing buy the Ludlow shoes for ladies, at the Chicago Bargain Store. . Williams, the photographer, and Worden the “juicinary” man, are getting in their work at the Morocco

fair, this week. The Indiana Series of school books must be used in all the schools. J. E. Spitler, at the post-offiee, has them on sale, at the regular prices. A Sunday .School Missionary picnic will de held in Lewis Sayler’s Grove next Sat. Sept. 13th, exercises Sunday Schools. The Bargain counters at the Trade Palace are filled withjust such goods as every one wants, and they are real bargains. Call and examine for yourselves. The Rensselaer G. A. R. Post and Ladies will banquet at the Nowels House on the evening of September '2oth with the Remington G. A. R. Post and Ladies as invited guests. Mtns’ work gloves at Ellis & Murray’s.

Khivesand forks at cost at J. H. Willey & Sons’. J. C. Porter and Charley Hammond left for Kansas Tuesday afternoon. The former to visit his son Charley and his step-son, Wm Salter, and the latter .to build a house on his homestead. Spitler’s posbbffice book store is thq.fteadquaM's for school books. The gotiidne Gold Star Medicated ■Red Flabftel, only 25 cts a yard, at Bits <fc Murray’s. ; .

•jdhn A. Rothrock has sold his inTOterest in the Monticello Democrat ‘ to A. B. Crampton, formerly editor •of the Delphi Times, and the latter gentleman now assumes the editorship of the Democrat. Buy your work gloves of E[lis <fc Murray. The post-office book store is headquarters for school books. F. J. Sears received a cablegram from Vai Seib last Thursday from Southhampton, England, consisting of the one word "“arrived.” It was a short dispatch for so long a disr tanoe,butit said all that it was r meant to say. %

Mrs. Ludd Hopkins will go to Crawfordsville to-day, to visit her sister, Mrs. Dr. Ensminger. f Good girl wanted at the Nowels ; House for kitchen work. Wages are good. Attorneys Hammond and Thompson are both in Ohio, taking evidence in the Turpie-Lowe case.

For 30 days, 4- to 5 pound blankets, all wool, $2.50 per pair. Lldd Hopkins. There are plenty of home grown peaches in the Rensselaer markets now.and of a fair quality. ......... _ A new and complete stock of ribions at 25 per cent less than ever

offered before, at the Chicago Bargain Store. John Zimmerman is adding a second story to, and otherwise extensively improving his residence, on Cullen street. Come and see the new and handsome line Of fall and winter dry goods at the Chicago Bargain Store.! Uncle Rial Benjamin came horn e Tuesday, having concluded that the Mineral Springs treatment was not lenefitting his case. The latest style black lined stiff i Tats, only at Ellis & Murray’s. For elegant fitting, low priced clothing, see Ellis & Murray’s.

An all day missionary’ meeting will be held at Barkley church next Sunday Sept. 14th. Exercises by the Sunday Schools. The best 7c, Bc, and 70 cent canton flannels in the market at Ellis & Murray’s. Amzi Laßue has gone to Crawfordsville to visit friends and se e the Rensselaer horses scoop in the races. Low grade, trashy goods, do not meet with favor. Our Hosiery, Flannels, Yarn, Boots & Shoes come direct from the manufacturer. Ludd Hopkins. Father Geitl arrived with his recruits of Sioux Indians, for the Indian School, last Friday evening, and the institution is now in full operation, with about 65 pupils. Our stock of men’s fall hats in all styles is the best in town. J. H. Willey & Sons. Michael Eger has the contract for the Presbyterian manse. The price completed, for everything above the foundation, which was built by Lewis Day for SBO, is $1,050, including wpod-house and other outbuildings. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Thompson, and their nephew, Ray Thompson,., got home from their Western trip, last Thursday. Ray and his cousin, Mrs. Ross, took in the wonders of the Yellowstone region, during the trip. Lacy Gwin, who is one of the remarkably successful class of young telegraphers who learned the business of C. F. Wren, has just been made station agent of the WUOOiisin Central, at Prentice, Wisconsin, at a good salary.

The Republics State convention met at Indianapolis, yesterday. The following are the delegates from Jas - i per county: M. F. Chilcote, Omar Ritchey, I. D. Dunn, ILL. P. Massey, John Martindale, R. B. Harris, A. J. Bellows, Chas. Denham, S. T. Comer. The creamery directors selected S. A. Henry’s site, located on the river, and across from and a little below the Rensselaer mill, where there is a fine flowing spring. Work on the foundation of the creamery is now in active progress, Maloy and Shrdyer doing the work.

R. C. Dowler, of Williamsport, who is here visiting his brother-in-law, T. F. Clark, has the contract for building the new Christian church, the foundations for which are already built. The contract price is S9OO, which does not include the foundation nor the doors, windows and frames.

The Louisville. New Albany & Chicago company yesterday commenced laying, for a distance df thirty-eight miles, between Monon and Chicago, a sixty-seven pound to the yard steel rail. President Breyfogle says that next year, between Monon and Indianapolis, every todt of track will be laid with a rail weighing sixty-seven pounds to the yard.—lndianapolis Journal.

! Mr. Tony Schwigman and Miss Lenna Moon, Both of the Makeevef House service, were married yesterday afterhoon, by Rev. Father Dick, at the Indian School. The assertion needs no proof, that “Henderson’s Hand-made Boots, a factory all wool Blanket, and genuine Yarn is cheaper to buy than Lldd Hopkin?. i

Mr. and Mrs. R. S, Dwiggins have returned from their sojourn in northern Michigan, and also their neice, Miss Ida Millikan, who has entered the preparatory department of Michigan University, at Ann Arbor.

- -Until farther notice all customers can buy clothing at 10 per cent., boots, i shoes and Kats at 5 per cent off of regular cash prices. l-2t. Chicago Bargain Store.

Work on the College building which had been interrupted for more than a week, by the non-arrival of window frames, was resumed Tuesday. The brick-laying is now on the third story. The Rensselaer school are opening the school year under very favorable prospects, and with a very full attendance. The number of new pupils from the country is especially large. .

Flower pots all sizes at cost, at J. .IL Willey & .Sons-’. ■ Indiana Series of school books, on sale at Spitler’s post-office book store, al the prices establisned by law. ’ Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Brown have closed a very successful term of art teaching, at Rushville, Ind., and Mr. Brown is now preparing to enter a medical college, at Cincinnati, at the beginning of the term. Mrs. Brown will remain for a while with her parents, north of town. Miss Hattie Flynn, who has been associated with them in their art teaching, will continue the work, at Rushville. Alfred McCoy is' enthusiastic over the prospects of the Rensselaer creamery and is willing to wager a good suit of tailor made clothes, fat men’s size, or lean, with any croaker, that the creamery will be receiving the milk of not less than 500 cows, at the end of its first month’s operation. To make an even bet, the croakers ought to put up some man of capacious abdominal d e velopement—J no. Casey, of Barkley tp., for instance. We hope the movement to b inaugurated at the meeting at the Opera House, next Sunday, for the organization of a Lutheran church congregation in Rensselaer, will prove a success. There is already a considerable number of families of that denomination in the vicinity of Rensselaer, and the organization of a i church here will be a powerful factor in drawing to the county a very desirable class of citizens.

Miss Eleanor Stack house is said to have engaged to start for Ireland this week, in the service of Rand, McNally &. Co., to gather material for a historical novel. She has been doing some notably brilliant work

for the Chicago Tribune, for some time past, over the nom de plume of “Nora Marks.” Before that she was editor of a paper at Peoria, 111., and at a still earlier date was connected with the Indianapolis papers. The young lady was a resident of Rensselaer, when a child, and, if we are not misinformed, was born here.

Pushing the improvements on the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago is still the idea with the present management. The pay-rolls of Mr. Zook engineer of maintenance of way on the Ifidianapolis division, show that ■ through the month of August there wore employed between Indianapolis 'and Hammond 832 men. There were six bridge gangs, one gang repairing depots, ' another repairing cattleguards; two pile-drivers were in operation nil the month, three construction‘trains hauling gravel, and about ■ftve'hundred of the men were engaged'in surfacing, lining up and ditchring. This month the same force will be kept at work, it being the determination of the management to have the road-bed in good condition -for high speed before the year closes. —lndianapolis Journal Look at Leopold’s 5 and 10 cent counters. Numberless articles can be found there, at those prices, worth five times the amount ia value.

| The Democratic congresional con- . vention was held at Monon yester■day. Dr. D. H. Patton, of Remingl ton, was nominated on the third ballot. The other candidates were Zimmerman, of Rochester, and Gregory, of Monticello. ■

Among the most serious of the i law suits that will grow out of the (recent misfortunes of the Monon, i will be that of Mis. C. E. Pearson, who was one of the victims of the Smithville collision. She was on the ill-fated train, and since has been confined to her homo by the result of the accident, and though only 21 years of age, physicians state that Spinal trouble has resulted which will make her an invalid for life, She will bring suit against the company for $10,000.-Lafayette Courier.

. The Stock Farm again had excellent success at Lafayette, last week. Leo got second money in two hot races, the 2:30 and the free-for all; Lancewood Chief took first in the 2:50 trot, and Pinkaminkgot first in the 2 year-old trot and pace. Fleetmount took Ist premium as , gentlemen’s driving horsey while in the show ring the Farm took a good list of premiums. This week they are at Crawfordsville. Mr. A. F. Kimball, of Xenia, Ind.j and Miss Lydia Paris were married Tuesday evening, at the residence of the bride’s parents, in Rensselaer. Only relatives of the families and a very few near friends, were present. Elder R. S. Dwiggins, uncle of the bride, performed the marriage ceremony. The bride has lived in Rensselaer and its vicinity most of her life, but of late years has been proprietor of a flourishing millinery store, at Xenia. The groom lives on the borders of Xenia, and is a farmer. The happy couple will remain in Rensselaer until to-day, and then after a short time spent in visiting relatives in different parts of the state, will return to their home at Xenia. Among the guests at the wedding from abroad were all the bride’s brothers and sisters, with their respective helpmates, Mr. and Mrs. Zimri Dwiggins, from Chicago; Mrs. Wall and Mrs. Beck, from Marion and Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter, from Cincinnati. 4