Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1890 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

A son for Andy Minnicus Tuesday morning. School teachers buy your candies of King; finest line in town. Bruce Chileote, of Michigan, visited his brother, J. C., this week. A wonderful success l Our folding bath tub. Laßte Bros-. — .1. T. Hemphill is in Chicago this week, buying goods. Long & Eger, headquarters for holiday goods. Bayard Clark is now conductor on one of the local freight trains on the Monon. Watches, clocks and jewelry repaired and warranted by H. J. Rossbacher at Meyer’s drug store. Rev. R. M. Simmons is conducting special services at the Barkley chapel. He reports good meetings. See Kanual’s Holiday Display of Fine Watches and Jewelry. Prices down to rock bottom. Rev. R. M. Simmons, of the Rensselaer M. E. circuit has been transferred to Hebron, Porter Co. It is a notable but well deserved promotion.

The largest and finest assortment of Candies, Nuts, Oranges, Apples and all kinds of fruits in town at Laßue Bros. A big red light in the sky, a little north of west, last Monday evening, was caused by fires in the big marshes a few miles north from Mt. Ayr. Secure your seats for the grand musical, to be given Christmas night. General admission 25 cts., reserved seats 35 cts. Tickets on sale at Hardman’s. Uncle Jared Ben jamin, the sale of whose fine farm was noted last week, has since invested largely in Chicago suburban property. We hope bis investment there will prove entirely successfu!. - Examine those lovely “Diamond Rings” at Kannal’s. Prices way down, you can’t help but buy. Just received, a ton of fresh candies right from the factory. Laßue Bros.

A. A. Willetts, of Dayton, Ohio, one of the most popular lecturers in the lecture field will be here Dec. 29th. This is a humorous lecture and can not fail to please all who attend. “The Redpath Lecture Bureau” has said that they have never heard a single complaint against him. Dear Father: Vi* Buy your obedient son or loving daughter a beautiful watch and chain, at prices that will astonish you, when you call on Huff at Kannal’s Jewelry Palace.

An extra fine boy at W. H. Daugherty's, southeast of. town, Dec. 10. Ladies, LoDg &Eger will sell you Blush of Roses, also the Luxury. Grandmother Garry, of Monticello is visiting friends in Rensselaer, her old home place. Children keep an eye on my window for old Santa Claus is coming. J. W. Kino The township correspondents are coming up m good shape, this week. Keep on with the good work, good friends. The considerable quantity of slushy snow that has fallen this week, and melted about as fast as it fell, will give the growing wheat a much needed wetting. Attend the musical, Christmas night, at the Opera House. Don’t buy your Candy until you have seen and sampled ours. Laßle Bros. Rev. I. I. Gorby will preach the third of a series of sermons on Amusements next -Sunday evening. Subjeet, “Amusements —Their Use and Abuse.” Christinas is coming. And you will find Billy Huff, the attentive little watch workman, always ready to show you the beautiful line of Holiday novelties at Kannal’s Jewelry Palace. Rev. Peter Hinds lost a black shawl and a fine Wyandotte hen, last Saturday, between Rensselaer and Pleasant Ridge. The finder will be liberally rewarded by notifying Mr. Hinds,, post-office Pleasant Ridge where to call for the articles. The Passion Play—Dr. Jordan — Opera House—Dec. 19.

The churches contemplating Christmas trees, will do well to call on King and learn prices before buying elsewhere. Hon. Chas. F. Griffin has chosen Hammond as his future abode and will enter upon the practice of law there in the near future. He has bought a lot and is preparing to build a residence there. Fellow Citizens:

Bear in mind it pays to buy good goods, of a reliable dealer, a man whom you know to be responsible. An elegant assortment of Watches, Clocks and Silverware, at moderate prices—see Emmet Ivannal, Jeweler, in Nowels’ Block.

The Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Ry. is enlarging its shops at New Albany, and has put in SG,OOO worth of new machinery. The prospects that the company will remove its shops to any other point are growing decidedly slim. Long & Eger will sell you an album cheaper than any one in town. For Rent. . Eight good rooms in Cotton House. Good residence fora famity. All conveniences. As usual the Monon Route will make Liberal rates for the Holidays. Round trip rates will be one regular fare and one third for round tnp. For children between 5 and 12, one half the above rate. Tickets sold only on Dec. 24, 25, 31 and Jan. Ist. Good going only on date of sale and returning until Jan. 5.

It is expected that another change in the Monon time table will go into effect next Sunday. The latest Ladies’ Capes, a full line of Astrachan and fur at the only place in town. Chicago Bargain Store. Mrs. R. H. Grow of North Marion is undoubtedly the boss turkey raiser of Jasper county, for this season she raised 135, and they sold for $l5O. Come in and see the finest and most complete line of fine Dishes ever shown in Jasper county, at La Rue Bros. Some member of the sneak-thief gang got into Ludd Hopkins’ cellar, while the family were at church last Sunday evening a week, andcarried oft all their canned fruit. Chamber sets any price you want, at Laßue Bros. J % Miss Imes, assisted by the best talent of the city, will give a musical at the Opera House, Christmas night, Dec. 25th. S. P. Thompson, leading counsel for the defendant in the celebrated case, Turpie vs Lowe, now on trial at Logansport, was home over Sunday and expressed the belief that the present trial would reach its long deferred end this week. Toys of all kinds, cheap at L aßue Bros. The handsomest display of Silverware in fancy patterns, ever on exhibition, can be seen at Kannal’s Jewelry Palace. An exchange notes the fact that mice have been caught in the act of gnawing through match boxes, and it is fair to infer that many of the fires of unknown origin have their beginning in this way. Matches should be kept in metal boxes.

Come and see our Bath Tub. Laßue Bros. Most people know something of “The Passion Play.” Coine and see it illustrated and explained by Dr. David C. Jordan, at the Opera House Dec. 19. Dating from Dec. 1, the passenger conductors on the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago road are to be paid by the trip. Under the old method of payment they received S9O per month; under the change, if they make the same number of trips, they will receive $l2O for the month’s service. Don’t foi get that Long Eger has constantly on hand a full supply of holiday goods. 11. J. Rossbacher has put in a complete set of tools and material and is able to do any class of watch, clock and jewelry repairing, at F. B. Meyer’s drug store. All persons knowing themselves to be indebted to me, will please to settle between this and first of January, at which time, all accounts will be placed in the hands of an attorney for collection. R. Fendig. Teachers who have subscribed for educational periodicals through the agency of J.'P. Hammond can save the trouble and expense of remitting the amount of their subscriptions to ths publishers by handing thesame to Mr. Hammond, at the forthcoming Teachers’ Association meeting, at Reusselaer, Dec. 26th and 27th.

Henry Rossbacher, brother-in-law of John Eger, has jnst opened a watch and jewelry repairing shop in F. B. Meyer’s drug store. don’t fail to be at the Opera House Christmas night. Omar C, Ritchie has left Indianapolis and gone to Newark, a town in the big woods in the northeast part Arkansas, where he inspects lumber in two big saw-mills belonging to the Indianapolis furniture factory he is connected with. Fot a nice plush case go to Long & Eger. Notice to school teachers —We buy our candies by the ton from the factory and will give you benefit of prices. Come and see us. Laßue Bros. Grandmother C. G. Weathers was 65 years old last Wednesday and the day was made memorable for her by a birthday surprise, gotten up by her friends, about 35 of whom were present, A splendijl dinner furnished by the guests was a leading featj ure of the occasion; also a number of useful and valuable presents. That cream candy at Laßue Bros, is delicious. Try it. All work in the way of watches, clocks and jewelr}'’ repairing left in the care of Frank B. Meyer, will receive prompt attention.

The Louisville, New Albany & Chicago expects to get on its new vestibule trains between Chicago Mid Louisville by January 1. They are similar to the fine trains which are run between Chicago and Cincinnati over the Monon and the C. 11. & D.,' costing, complete, nearly $75,000 — Indianapolis Journal. Buy yourself a new style hat or cap of Ellis & Murrays. Cards are out for the marriage on Christmas day, at the residence of the bride’s parents in Gillam tp., of Miss Laura Rathfon and Mr. F. W. Fischer, of South Chicago, 111. Miss Rathfon was formerly a teacher in tKe Rensselaer schools, and has been following the same vocation at Mouth Chicago for several years past.

Reliable reports from the gas fields of Pittsburg and portions of Ohio, leave no room to doubt that the life times of those fields are already near - lv to their limits, and the failure of those fields show what must sooner or later be the result in the gas fields of this state, and that their inevitable failure is only a question of a few years, at most. Look at Overcoats at Eilis <fc Murray’s before you buy. We bought before the advance and will give our customers the benefit. J. E. Spitler. The daily papers report the name of John Hump, of Rensselaer, in the list of increased pensions. It is probable that John Humes, of Union tp., a good man in peace and a faithful soldier in war, is the person intended. We trust that his increase is on such a liberal scale that he won’t “get his back up” at being misnamed “Hump.”