Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1891 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Ghas. H. Thompson, of Keener tp., has had his pension increased. Warnr lined shoes cheap for cash, at Hemphill & Honan’s. The January term of the Jasper Circuit Court will begin next Monday. The term docket is light. To Rent. —A comfortable house rqgfrsix rooms. Swanky Makeever. Rev. U. M. McGuire began a series of meetings at Egypt school house, last Sunday night. The feed store is the place to buy your feed and flour, Wm Grant, superintendent of the electric lights, with his wife has rooms with Mrs. J. G. Reynolds. CUT IN TWO. —Prices in millinery at Hemphill and Honan’s. All our winter millinery. Misk Sallie Stockton, of Lafayette, is visiting her cousin, Mrs. Dr. Bitters.

Examine those lovely “Diamond Rings” at Kannal’s. Prices way down, you can’t help but buy. Mrs. E. Purcupile has just returned from a protracted visit to relatives way down east. Dexter & Cox are now prepared to do custom grinding. Call and see them. J. W. Cowden has sold out his milk business to the old standby, milkman, R. B. Wilson. Ladies, we have a beautiful assortment of Fancy Goods, please call and see them. Hemphill & Honan. Married, on Dec. 22,1890, by Rev. J. H. Hahn, Mr. Cyrus Ball, of Rensselaer, to Miss Annie Evans, of Lakeside, Pulaski CQUnty .- For spot cash you Can buy flour at the mill for the remainder of this year for even money, $5 per barrel. Every sack warranted. 2tp. There are now 66 pupils at the Indian school, all of them well behaved and studious and things are moving along in good shape there. Ice-King felt Boots, with Candc? fubbeFovers $2.65.' "Samebboir with Woonsocket rubbers, $2.40. Call at once. Hemphill & Honan.

The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Val Seib has been seriously sick with a fever, but is now considerably improved. All work in the way of watches, clocks and jewelry repairing left in the care of Frank B. Meyer, will receive prompt attention. Dr. Washburn went over to Pulaski county Friday to visit his father and other relatives, and remained uutil Tuesday. A big lot of men and boys gloves and mittens will be sold at reduced prices. * Ludd Hopkins. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. John Mann died early Tuesday morning of lung fever. Its age was exactly seven weeks. We are always in the lead and nothino can beat us. Mrs. S. A. Hemphill left for Dennison, Texas, Wednesday morning, to visit a brother who is a hotel keeper at that place. Chamber sets any price you want, at Laßue Bros. The boys and girls are having great fun, now days with the skating on the Iroquois, which is unusually good. 1 Farm loans at lowest rates. S. C. Ibwin. People who keep the run of the past seasons say that 20 years ago the winter up to tins time was very similar to what the present winter is.

Miss Jean Hammond is home from Notre Dame Seminary, for the holiday vacation, and with her is her college friend, Miss Ollie O’Brien, of Topeka, Kan. Teh cents saved is 20 cents earned. So call at the Mill and buy your flour. Our best brands, $1.25 per sack, and warranted just as good as what you pay $1.85 and $1.40 for, at the stores. 2tp. Jared Benjamin has bought F. W. Reubelt’s comfortable and handsome residence, in Newton’s Addition, and will move into the same within a few weeks. All rubber goods must now move I have bought the very best np seconds go with me; now e 4 prices that make the consumers smite. R. Fendig. Charley Kleist, the operator, regained in the dispatcher’s office at Monon, only a few days and was then transferred to the station agency at Reynolds. His place in the dispatcher’s offce is filled by Earl Reynolds. Dexter «fe Cox will exchange you flour and feed for any kind of grain. A wind pump with other necessary attachments is to be put up at the county jail, in order to furnish means to beep the sewers of the establishment cleansed. W. T. Perkins is putting in the works. Remember you can buy 50 lbs. of No. 1 flour for $1.25, at the Mill, guaranteed to be as good as what you will pay $1.40 for elsewhere. 2tp. Mr. Amanzo Thomas, late of Witoka, Minn., has been spending the Holidays in Rensselaer, the guest of M. F. Chilcote, and family. He is now engaged in traveling in lowa, for a lubricating oil firm. Dexter & Cox will grind your corn, oats and rye, by the bushel or toll it.

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. Robt. Paris is visiting his parents here, for a few days. He has severed his business connections in Kewanna, and is now giving his attention largely to the sale of Pierre, .South Dakota, real-estate. The largest and finest assortment of Candies, Nuts, Oranges, Apples and all kinds of fruits in town at Laßue Bros. Cyrus Haas, of Rensselaer, has been granted a pension, at the rate of $lO per month. He was in the 40th and 51st Ohio regiments for 2 years and 9 months, and took his full share in the hard fighting. "LA TuIT stock Of all-wool hosiery, from Elkhart Knitting mills; equal to hand-made. Mens’ Womens’ and childrens’. Ludd Hopkins.

The movement to organize a “Uniform Rank” in the Knights of Pythias lodge here, is making good progress and is an assured success. The rank will start out with a membership of twenty-eight. The handsomest display of Silverware in fancy patterns, ever on exhibition, can be seen at Kannal’s Jewelry Palace. Rev. G. W. Payne, now of Frankfort, this state, together with his new bride, left for Chicago Monday, after spending several days with his relatives and friends in this county. They will remain in Chicago a few days and then return to Frankfort. 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 11. Willey & Sons. Willie Postill, about 17 years old,, came in violent collision with anoth- <» er young man, while skating on the river, last Saturday night, and had his collar bone broken. Dr. Alter is treating the injury and reports it as doing well. Ernmet Kannal, reliable Jeweler, wishes to announce to his many friends and patrons, that he has secured the services for another year, of the competent watch workman William A. Huff, who has been in Mr. Kannal’s constant employ for five (5) years past. He desires the liberal patronage of the people in the future, bearing in mind that he makes all his warrants good on sales of new watches and watch repairs.

Mr. John Grubb, of Bedford, Ind., spent Christmas with his brother, Jesse, returning home last Sunday. Dexter & Cox have remodeled their grinding facilities. Bring in your grain. Johnny Bissenden, dynamo engineer, lost his grip on a tap he was trying to tighten, a few nights ago, and his hands eame in contact with the rapidly revolving governor balls. His hands were badly bruised, but luckily no bones were broken. Newton Warren, of the senior class of the Rensselaer high school, is teaching out the winter term at Pleasant Grove school, in Barkley tp., left without a teacher by the appointment of S. E. Sparling to the princi - palship of the Rensselaer school. During the heavy wind last Sunday night W. T. Perkins’ chimney burned out, and gave the family a pretty bad scare. That the building did not take fire from the burning chimney Mr. Perkins attributes to the fact that it is covered with an iron roof.

The concert in the Opera House on Christmas night, by Miss Imes and local talent, was a very creditable performance indeed, with many varied and pleasing features. The attendance was fair although much less than the merits of the performance entitled it to.

Married, on the 23 day of December, 1890, at the residence of the bride’s parents, north of town, Mr. John V. Lesh and Miss Cora A. Nowels. The ceremony was performed by Rev. I. I. Gorby in the presence of a number of invited guests. Our merchants havn’t been making any special rnns on straw bats and linen dusters this month, on account of the warm weather, as has done lately in some towns in North Dakota, but the game of croquet in the public square has been in pretty constant progress nearly every day, for weeks past. C. D. Stackhouse, 4 miles north of town, has decided to move south in the spring and engage in the hardware business. He has lately made one trip to that region and about the middle of this month will make a second, going this time to the vicinity of Cumberland Gap, in east Tennessee.

A movement is on foot in Remington and vicinity, with good prospects of success, for the establishing of a butter factory, like that at Rensselaer. A large committee of representative citizens was over last week, part on Wednesday and part on Friday, to examine into the workings of the Rensselaer establishment, wherewith they appeared well pleased. Jared Benjamin will make a public sale at his residence four miles west of Rensselaer, in Newton tp., on the Chicago road, on Thursday, Jan. 15. He will sell a large quantity of live stock, (horses, cattle and hogs) five milch cows and 2 brood mares, corn in crib, wheat and oats in bin, and a large assortment of farming implements <fcc <fec. Ten months time on sums over $5.

For the information of non-resi-dent subscribers, and to put the mattei on permanent record, we note the fact that up to the Ist day of January the winter of 1890 and ’9l has been one of phenomenal pleasantness in this section. There have been none of the heavy storms and severe cold that have visited Other parts of the country. There has been but very little snow and this remained only a very short time. The weather and the atmosphere have been dry, and most unusually so for a warm winter. The ground froze early in December and has remained in that condition, but the roads were dry and smooth at the time and have continued in that way, and it is probably safe to say that never before in this region was there a year with so much good traveling in the months of November and December as in 1890, nor so much entirely pleasant weather during the same period.

Why is it that nobody has heard of any “tiddledy wink” parties in Rensselaer yet ? This game is all the rage now among society people in the big cities and Rensselaer people are not generally far behind in taking up the newest popular fads. The statistics prove that with all the wear and tear on his life through exposure, hardship, and war duties, the average oid soldier is older at fifty than men in ordinary life at sixty. Men live years in minutes during the war. Time with them was counted in deeds, not “in figures on a dial.” Age should not be the qualification. Service and honorable discharge should now be the only gauge, Marriage licenses since last reported: j Theodore F. Philips, ( Ella Mitchell. " ■ j John Smith, ( Lucinda Alice Coon, j Albert Helsel, ( Emma Gains, j George W. Ott, ( Amy M. Reynolds. ( Philip Kerns, ( Angeline Snyder. Squire Jim Morgan got two weddings in his Christmas stocking—and it still had room for more. On the evening of the 23rd he united in ■ t , marriage Mr. John W. Potts and Miss Alice Weber, at the residence of Mr. Abe Wartena. On the following night he made happy, in a similar way, Mr. John Smith and Miss Lucinda Coons, the ceremony taking place in the parlor of King’s restaurant.

Mechanics and laboring men would do well to investigate a little before they pull up stakes and break for Hammond,' at least at this season of the year. According to all accounts the supply there of laboring men and mechanics, especially of carpenters, already considerably exceeds the demand, with the certain prospect of still more unfavorable conditions should severe weather set in and put a stop to much of the work now in I progress.

The first meeting of the Jasper County Teachers’ Association; held in the High School building at Rensselaer, last Friday and Saturday, was attended by about 80 teachers of the county, and was a very gratifying success, in every respect. The program as previously published, was minutely carried out, with the exception of one or two features. The papers read were valuable and instructive showing that great pains had been given to their preparation. A permanent organization was effected, County Supt. J. F. Warren being elected president.

f We are requested to give notice that the dedicator}’- services for the new Christian church, corner Van Rensselaer and Susan streets, will be held next Sunday morning, and to extend to the general public a cordial invitation to be present. Rev. Mr. Ewing will preach the dedicatory sermon. This neat and attractive place of worship, which though not large, is commodious, well finished, and well furnished, and lastly is so nearly fully paid for, that positively no subscriptions or donations will, be solicited at the dedication. Rev. Ewing will hold a series of meetings in the church, beginning with Sunday evening.

Prof. F. W. Reubelt, with his family, departed for his new scene of labor, at Pekin, 111., on Tuesday. Mr. Reubelt has been superintendent of the Rensselaer schools for nearly five and a half years and during that time, by his superior talents has raised and kept the school to a standard of excellency second to none of its class, and far superior to most. In a most eminent degree he is a gentleman well fitted for the duties of a ; town or city superintendent, and it I was a piece of rare good fortune that our schools secured his services at all, and still better tliat they succeeded in keeping him so long. He leaves Rensselaer for his larger field of labor with the uuqunlified good wishes of the entire community.

The Union Dramatic Company, a company organized down about Chalmers and Carr’s water tank, gave “The Shamrock and Rose” at the Opera House, Monday evening, to a pretty fair sized audience. The performance was about as good, if not quite, as those of the average amateur theatrical companies, and would have been better had it not been for the merciless guying the performers were subjected to, by parties in the audience.

The School Board last Saturday filled the vacant superintendency of the Rensselaer schools by promoting Prof. 11. L. Wilson, principal of the High school, to the position; and to fill the vacant principalship, thus caused, they selected Samuel E Sparling, a former graduate of this school, and lacking but one term of graduation of the State University. Messrs. Wilson and Sparling are both most excellent young men and we believe will fill the difficult duties of their new positions with ability and success.

The report of the Secretary of the Jasper County Board of Health shows that only 48 deaths, all told, occurred in the county during the year ending Sept. 30, 1890. This would give an annual death rate’of just about exactly four to 1000 of population. Figured on this basis, that is of 4 to the 1000, would make the average life time of Jaspentes about 250 years. Most of them will be surprised to learn that they have such an extended prospect of existence before them, and a good many, while they will be well pleased on their own account, will be bitterly disappointed to think that some other persons they know of are likely to remain so long. It is not at all unlikely however, that figures for succeeding years will show a much larger death rate and thereby greatly reduce the average Jasperite’s prospects of longevity. In any case, though, Che fact will still remain that Jasper county is a phenomenally healthy region.