Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1890 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

A fine girl at Geo. Worden’s last Thursday. Remember you can always get fresh Graham flour at the mill. Mrs. J. F. Hardman is visiting her husband’s parents, at Warsaw, this month. We are fighting competition to the best of our knowledge. With good goods, at Farmers’ Alliance prices. Ludd Hopkins. Emmet Kannal attended the Illinois State Fair, at Peoria, a couple of days last week. Ladies please call and see our pattern- Hats- and Bonnetsnow to be seen at Hemphill & Honan’s. Mrs. Dora Morton, of Watseka, 111., is visiting her parents, Mi - , and Mrs. Woodworth. New hats for everybody, just received at the Trade Palace. The Monon folks have extensively improved their depot here by a new platform, repainting the building &c. Indiana Series of school books, on sale at Spitler’s post-office book store, at the prices establisned by law. The diphtheria is raging badly in the town of Winamac, and a number of deaths have occurred. Remember we are selling all spring clothing at cost. J. H. Willey & Son. I. J. Porter, southeast of town, is having his turn with the intermittent fever. i

For Sale. —A few thoroughbred j Poland China pigs for breding purpose. I. B. Washuurn. The Hon. W. D. Owen makes two speeches in Jasper County £his week. At Remington Friday evening and at Kniman on Saturday afternoon. A new lot red or white, all wool blankets. Take them while the are to be had at $2.50 per pair Ludd Hopkins. Mrs. J. E, Beck, of Crestou, lowa, was the guest of her cousin, Mrs. B. Forsythe, for a few days, including Sunday. 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. The Hon. W. W. Morrow was unable to get to Rensselaer in time to keep his appointment to speak here, last Saturday evening. Remember we can save you money on boots and shoes. J. H. Willey & Sons. Mrs. B. Forsythe returned from the sanitarium near Attica, last Friday. Her health is very much improved. Flower pots all sizes at cost, at J. H. Willey & Sons’. There will be no preaching services at the M. E. Church Sunday. Sunday School at 0:30. All are invited. Mrs. Lecklider has just received a fall and winter stock of goods and has a well* accomplished trimmer from Chicago, an experienced hand. The Rev. Cook"- will attend quarterly meeting at Badger’s Grove, over Sunday, and there will therefore be no services at the F. W. Baptist church, that day. The new fall stock now arriving at the Trade Palace, was bought at bottom, cash prices, and will be sold to meet all competition. Rev. Ferguson went over to Francesville last Thursday and performed the marriage ceremony for Mr. Daniel Prewett and Miss Nora Ives. The groom is a telegrapher and is located in Kansas.

Yon can bay a good flour at the mill for $1 per 5U pounds. Come and try it. The good brethren of the Monticello Baptist Association were so well pleased with the job of printing done at The Republican office last year, on the minutes of the annual meeting, that they favored us with the work this year, also. The minutes make a phamphlet of 20 pages, 400 copies of which were printed. Honest, careful work, done when, promised, at the lowest reasonable prices, is the unchangeable rule in our print shop, and it is the rule that wins best in the long run.

Chester Bitters, of Fulton county, is visiting his brother, Doctor Bitters. Mrs. A. Parkison left for Arkan - sas yesterday, to visit her daughter, Mrs. Willey. | The W. C. T. U. will meet with j Mrs. Henry Wood Friday afternoon jat 2 o’clock. j Money: Wm. B. Austin has made arrangements whereby he can make farm loans at G per cent from S2OO up. Commissions cheaper than ever and partial payments allowed. Unde Billy Hamilton, an old setj tier in this county, but now a prosiperous resident of Wilson county, ‘.Kansas, is now visiting liis .old rfnegdg in thk-Yielnity. I Notice is hereby given that all j threshing accounts made by Morris !O. Thomas are in my lands for col- ! ection. Parties knowing themselves f indebted, will please call and settle :at once. G. B. Steward. ... ! it. J. F. Hardman caught a 36| ounce ; eroppie, out at Clint Stackhouse’s j place, one day last week. He says !it is the biggest fish of the kind ever | caught in this region. i J. W. Horton, “The Dentist,” is still to the front, and is well supplied with best materials and facilities for performing dentistry in all its branches. All work strictly first class. Office over Ellis & Murray’s. A post-office has been established in Union tp., on the C. <fe I. C. between Fair Oaks and Kniman, on the land of Wm B. Austin and is known as “Virgie.”

Mrs. R. H. Purcupile, while in Chicago, engaged a first-class dressmaker and will begin work Monday , October Bth, 1890. Your patronage is respectfully solicited. 2t p. i The assertion needs no proof, that “Henderson’s Hand-made Boots, a factory all wool Blanket, and genuine Yarn is cheaper to buy than trash.” LuddHopkins. We have a long line of flannels, cotton flannels, wool blankets and every thing of the kind which we will sell at bottom prices. J H. Willey <fc Sons. J. G. Reynolds is in hard luck, as both he and his horse Daniel were debarred last week, at Chicago. We are not informed as to the cause of die ruling out. The Bargain counters at the Trade Palace are filled with just such goods as every one wants, and they are real bargains. Call and examine for yourselves. Mr. Dee Everett Watson and Miss Mabel Saidle were married at a very late hour, Sunday night, in Prosecuting Attorney Marshall’s office, b y Squire Morgan. ‘The parties liv e east of town. The line of Overalls, Jeans and Cottonade Pants for men and boys, at the Trade Palace, is the best for the money, to be had in Rensselaer. The Monon Route will sell tickets to Chicago on Oct. 9th, and 16th, on account of the Chicago Exposition, at one and a third fare for the round trip. Fare from Rensselaer $2,95. Good on any train going in on day of sale, and good returning until the following Sunday. We have just received a large line of t|ie celebrated Seitz, Schwab & Co’s., boots and shoes, for fall and winter. Also a fine line of LJL Gookey’s fine kip boots, for men and boys, and every pair of them fully guaranteed. ... J. H. Willey & Sons.

Mr. and R. S. Dwiggins have now ceased to be residents of Rensselaer, having this week removed to Chicago. Mr. Dwiggins is engaged in the real-estate business there, in company with his sons. Their office is in the Chamber of Commerce building. J. H. Willey <fe Son will not be undersold in the clothing line. In the memory of the oldest inhabitant there never was a fall when there were such swarms of caterpillars as now. They are crawling every place and walls of buildings in the vicinity of certain kinds of trees are literally frescoed with the disgusting creatures. Willow, box elder and black walnut trees seem to be the chief sustainera of the caterpillars.

The Stock Farm horses did well at Vincennes, last week. In the show ring they took six first, and one second, being first in everything they showed for. In the speed ring Leo was second in one race, and Lancewood Chief third in another. Val Seib arrived home from his trip across the broad Atlantic, last Sunday, after an absence of six . -weeks and one day. The passage home was very, rough and stormy and required ten days on the water. So many American tourists are returning home now that Mr. Seib had trouble and delay securing a passage. Tuteur Bros, scales were severely strained one day last week by the weighing of Mrs. C. A. German and her four daughters, viz: Mrs. Gayly, Mrs. Grayson, Mrs. Tuthill and Mrs. Pass. Their aggregate weight was 1,079 pounds. Average weight 215 and 4-5 lbs., lightest weight 180 lbs., heaviest weight 245 pounds. The Rensselaer Stock Farm owners do notintend that their big sale sliall fail of a full degree of success for want of proper advertising. The Republican office has {wanted for them 1,500 large card-board sale bills, is printing the same number of 34 page catalogues, while their advertisement will appear in 15 or 20 newspapers. They know the value of printer’s ink. ?

A couple of light weigths had a prize fight m the big barn, at Shelby Saturday night, which was witnessed by several hundred toughs and sports from Chicago. Information had been received here that the fight would take place at Thayer in Newton county, and arrangements had been made by Porscutcr Marshall, Sheriff Blue and others to go up on the early train Sunday morning and ~get ~EEe necessary warrants from Squire Ray,and arrest the outfit, but when it became known that the fight was to be across the river, out of this judicial circuit and out of Squire Ray’s jurisdiction, the project was abandoned. The arrest and punishment of the principals and a lot of their abbetors would have been a salutary lesson to the Chicago sports who are in the habit of coming to Indiana for their prize fights &c.