Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1891 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Mrs. H. W. Porter is visiting friends in Monticello. Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary given away at Hemphill & Honan’s. Cloaks !—Take ’em, at cost or less. LudD Hopkins. Mrs. H. C. Johnson, of Tipton, is visiting her daughter, Mr. Frank Wolfe. Watches, Clocks and Jewelry, repaired and warranted at Frank B. Meyers’ drug store. Rev. H. W. Vaughn is conducting a series of meetings at the new Vaughn Chapel, northwest of town. To Rent. —A comfortable house of six rooms. Swanky Makeever. Mrs. Mary J. Richeson, of Rensselaer, widow of the late Wm. F. Richeson, has been granted a pension. Bring your wheat to the Mill and get for it 2 cts. per bushel more than the market price. Rensselaer Milling Co. Dr. M. B. Alter has sent his trotting bred horse, Ralston, to Farmer City, El., where he will be kept for the ensuing season. All winter goods now going at cost; they must move, even though at great sacrifice; to make room for spring goods. R. Fendig. Judge McConnell, of Logansport, is holding court here this week, while Judge Hammond is filling Judge McConnell’s bench, at Logansport. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Cole’s little girl has been quite dangerously sick with scarlet rash and sore throat, but is now improving rapidly. The handsomest display of Silverware in fancy patterns, ever on exhibition, can be seen at Kannal’s Jewelry Palaee. The delinquent tax list appears this week. It still continues to grow shorter, year by year, and is probably the shortest this year of any for a great many years. All parties knowing themselves to be indebted to me, will please call at once and settle, as my books must be squared during the month Of January. R. Fendig. Everybody is cordially invited to . attend the Firemen’s grand masked ball, next Thursday night; and those who do not wish to dance can go as spectators, and be well entertained. H. J. Ros3bacher has opened an office in F. B. Meyers’ drug store, where he will be pleased to receive pupils on the Guitar. Satisfaction guarranteed. Mr. A. Leopold is now something of a grandfather as well as a good deal of a father; a fine daughter liaving been born to Mr. and Mrs. Will Mossier, at Kentland, January 7th. We have a long line of flannels, cotton flannels, wool blankets and every thing of the kind which we will sell at bottom prices. m _ j h. Willey & Sons. W. T. Perkins, last week, put up the big wind-mill which is to operate the water-works at the Makeever House. It is a big wheel and has a tower 60 feet high. The other improvements at the hotel are also in progress. Just received, a ton of fresh candies right from the factory. Laßue Bros. Dexter & Cox have remodeled their grinding facilities. Bring in your grain. Rev. and Mis. C. Cook returned last Friday from a visit to Hiram, Ohio, to attend the wedding of their daughter, Miss Mary Cook, to Prof. Hall, of Hiram College, which took place on Christmas The wedding took place at the residence of another daughter, Mrs. also the wife of a professor in the same institution.

A fine boy bom to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wolfe, last Wednesday. Candee felt Boots $2.50 at Hempphill & Honan’s. Rev. U. M. McGuire is at Brookston assisting the Baptist minister there in a revival, meeting. Mias Elmira Monnett has left the renting of her farms with M. F. Chilcote. 20-3tp. Capt. J. M. Wasson has moved this week into his handsome new house, in Newton’s addition. Good two horse wagon, with high bed, for sale cheap For further information enquire at this office. The Goodland Herald last week got out a very creditable illustrated •‘boom” edition. Woonsocket felt Boots $2.25 at Hemphill & Honan’s. The ten months old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Ad. Parkison, Jr., of Barkley tp., died Tuesday afternoon, of lung fever. The County Alliance, at its late quarterly meeting, did not take any action towards establishing a store of any kind in Rensselaer. Cloaks!! —Will not summer them over. Ludd Hopkins. “Evil Speaking” and “Poor Wages for Good Labor” will be Rev. I. I. Gorby’s subjects, next Sunday, at morning and evening services, respectively. Dexter & Cox will grind your corn, oats and rye, by the bushel or toll it. Cloaks! Take ’em whilti you have a chance, at your own price. Ludd Hopkins. And J. Ct Porter, too, is now a venerable grand parent, a daughter having been bom last Thursday to Mr. and Mrs. Wm Salter, of Surprise, Kansas. Bring in your Watches, Clocks and Jewelry and have them repaired in workmanlike manner and warranted by H. J. Rossbacher, at F. B. Myers’ drug store. The Annual Firemen’s masquerade ball will be held at the Opera House next Thursday night. Every preparation is being made to make it the greatest success of the season. Go to Mrs. Lecklider and get a trial bottle of Steward’s Healing Cream; also a box of face powder, all for the complexion. Also Madam Fay’s Roselene. Charley Rhoads, The Republican’s prodigal son who lias been wasting his substance in a vain attempt to acquire lucre in the restaurant business at Mt. Ayr, will be back to his old place in our print shop, next week. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary given away at Hemphill & Honan’s. Chamber sets any pnpe you want, at Laßue. Bros. We shall be greatly disappointed if the great frog-skinning excitement in and about Blackford does not result in some very feeling and appropriate poetry upon the subject, from the gifted pen of John Casey, poet laureate of Nubbin Ridge. The feed store is the place to buy your feed and flour. The largest assortment of boots and shoes in Jasper county. J. H. Willey <fe Son. T. H. Hurley, of Blackford, shipped eight barrels of rabbits from this station Monday morning. Ritbbitsare very numerous this year, but the absence of deep snow is an obstacle in the way of their wholesale slaughter. The low prices they bring is also discouraging to the hunters. Candee felt Boots $2.50 at Hemphill A Honan’s. The Separated Butter Company’s annual stockholders’ meeting was held Monday afternoon. The reports of the manager and secretary show that the institution is on a very flourishing b|sis. The directors chosen were Messrs. I. J. Porter, A. McCoy, Emmet Kannal, J. 11. Willey and D. B. Nowels. All are re-elections* except Mr. Kannal, who succeeds S. P. Thompson, that gentleman, having declined a re-election. Ladies, Long & Eger will sell you Blush of Roses, also the Luxury, Flower pots all sizes at cost, at J. H. Willey & Sons’.

Rev. 1.1. Gorby will lecture before the Excelsior Literary Society, at the Presbyterian church, Friday evening, on the subject of “Robert Burns.” The largest and finest assortment of Candies, Nuts, Oranges, Apples and all kinds of fruits in town at Laßue Bros. Mr. Elmer Dwiggins, formerly of Rensselaer, and Miss Matie C. Wood, were married at Sheldon, HI., on the 7th inst. They will make then-home at 1636, Michigan Avenue, Chicago. „ Ice-King felt Boots, with Candee rubber overs $2.65. Same boot with Woonsocket rubbers, $2.40. Call at once. Hemphill & Honan. Sheriff Blue went to Logansport last Friday, to escort to Longcliff Insane Asylum Mrs. Elizabeth Leitch, of Carpenter tp., the aged lady whose case lias already been mentioned in this paper! Rubber Goods, Arctics, Sandies and Boots, felt and knit boots, with Wales’ Goodyear rubber ; no seconds, only the best for the least money possible. Ludd Hopkins. The Crown Point Star is authority for the statement that Secretary of State, Chas. F. Griffin, has decided to locate at Valparaiso, instead of at Hammond. Mr. Griffin’s term of office will expire next Monday. All our Underwear, Yarns and Knit Goods, at cost, at Hemphill & Honan’s. Rev. Samuel Benjamin, of Warsaw, a Baptist minister and a brother of Rial and Jared Benjamin, of Rensselrer, was married a short time since, at the age of 75 years. His blooming bride is about 15 years his junior. Dexter & Cox are now prepared to do custom grinding. Call and see them. . —-—- Examine those lovely “Diamond Rings” at Kannal’s. Prices way down, you can’t help but buy. The case from Monticello of Lowe vs McLean, and others, tried in the Jasper circuit court about three years ago, and resulting in a verdict for Lowe, was last Saturday reversed in the Supreme Court. Judge E. P. Hammond was the attorney for Me Lean. : Capt. R. W. Marshall left for Louisville, Ky., last Monday, to testify in U. S. Court regarding a lot of captured and confiscated property, which passed through his hands while he was in the government service, way back in 1864. It is an old and very complicated case and involves a large amount. Capt. Marshall is an important witness, as he had something over one hundred thousand dollars worth of property in liis charge, at one time. Vaughn Chapel, the new F. W. Baptist church, 5 miles northwest of Rensselaer, was dedicated last Sunday, in the presence of a very large congregation. Rev. B. F. Ferguson preached the dedicatory sermon. Tiie building is 30 by 42 feet, with a pulpit recess, and cost, all told, $1015.87. The sum of $96 was raised at the dedication and this amount will leave the building entirely out of debt. Rev. H. W. Vaughn, sponsor of the church, presented it with a S9O bell, and a liandsome pulpit was given by the M. E. church, of Rensselaer. The church organization is in a flourishing condition with a membership of about forty. From those thrilling publications, the patent medicine almanacs, we learn that the day’s length to-day, on this parallel, will be exactly 9 hours and 35 minutes. This is an increase of 20 minutes since the shortest day of the winter, Dec. 21st, and the increase is now at the rate of about '3 minutes per day, and the day is now beginning to get “longer at both ends.” A fact which has not been true until within the last few days, the increase so far having all been given to the afternoon. This phenomenon, according to the astronomers, Is due to an extra burst of speed the earth gets up every year about the time of the winter solstice while coming down the home-stretch, so to speak, of its elliptical race track.

Judging from present indications the Swedish Quartet entertainment, Jan. 27th, will prove a very popular attraction here. Woonsocket felt Boots $2.25 at Hemphill and Honan’s. J. T. Daugherty’s* family, burned out on the Welsh farm Monday, now occupy rooms in Mrs. M. E. Hopkins’ house, on Front street. Fot a nice plush case go to Long & Eger. W. F. Pettit’s motion for a new trial was denied and sentence of life imprisonment passed upon him. Of course an appeal will be taken to the Supreme Court. John E. Remsburg, of Kansas, one of the most noted and eloquent Freethinker lecturers in the country, has indicated his acceptance of a request to lecture in Rensselaer, some time in February. The subject of his lecture will be “Thomas Paine.” C. C . Pattee and Purk Turner started out with a six horse team, Monday morning, to haul the boiler of boat, No. 1, to Baum’s bridge in Porter county, where the boat, will be rebuilt, and Commodore John Hack will start west through, Jasper county to dig a big ditch on the south side of the Kankakee river, to redeem the bad lands of Jasper and Newton counties. —Lowell item in Hammond Standard.

C.. W. Grant, the electric light superintendent, went to Chicago Tuesday, to arrange for greatly increasing the facilities for the plant. The exact nature of all the proposed improvements are not fully decided upon, but a new hundred horse power engine is contemplated and one or two new dynamos; also a new engine house. —The little game of “elegant crayon pictures” just for an advertisement; is being worked industriously, just now, by a Brooklyn concern, judging from the large number of their circulars received in these parts lately. The game consists in getting people to bite at the proposal for a free crayon picture and when it is finished to pay $6 or $£ for a practically worthless frame. Have nothing to do with this scheme. It is a fraud. Last Monday morning, about 9 o’clock, the dwelling house on James Welch’s farm, a mile and a half southeast of town, took fire from a defective flue, and was totally destroyed. The house was occupied by Mr. J. T. Daugherty and family, and all but a very small part of their beddiqg and household goods Were burned. The fire began in the second story and had made such headway when discovered that nothing could beHßne to save it, and but little towards saving the contents. The building was worth perhaps $250; the value of the goods we did not. learn. There was no insurance. Mr. Daugherty’s financial condition is such as to make this a very serious loss to him and his family, and the exertions some well disposed persons are making to raise a fund for their assistance is well deserving of encouragement. That noted character, J.B. Stanley, of Logansport, commonly called “Buck” Stanley, has lately turned from the error of his ways and become a remarkably successful temperance worker. Some of his temperance revivals almost rival in interest and solid results, those of the great Francis Murphy, himself. He lias made a proposition to come to Rensselaer towards the last of this month, to begin a series of temperance meetidgs, and at the union temperance meeting, at the M. E. church, last Sunday evening, his proposition was unanimously accepted. As an instance of Mr. Stanley’s success we may mention his temperance revival at the neighboring town of Francsville, a month or two ago, which resulted in hundreds of signers to the temperance pledge, including the two saloon keepers of the town, and the closing of their saloons. He will begin his meetings, here next Tuesday, the first being held in the Presbyterian, the second in the Methodist and the third in the Church of God churches.

The preliminary preparations for the forthcoming Farmers’ Institute, the first week in February, are being looked after by a committee appointed at the late meeting of the County Alliance, naniely Messrs. I>. H. Yeoman, Thos. Jordan and W. M. Hoover. The ’ prospects for a successful Institute are very favorable. Hemphill <fc Honan arc giving to each customer who buys S2O worth of goods for the cash, a well bound Unabridged Webster’s Dictionary free. No matter how small your purchase, they give you a coupon for the amount of your purchase and after you have the amount of $2.0 paid for, you get a copy free; 1281 pages. Call and see it. ; The export of cotton-tails is no no longer the sole source of wealth in the Nubbin Ridge neighborhood, a new industry having been developed there this winter. It is the catching and shipping of frogs, and it has al-, ready reached enormous proportions, as shown by the frequent large shipments made from this place by T. H. Hurley, the merchant of Blackford. The frogs are caught by the hundreds almost, in the ditches where they liave gathered for their winter quarters, being drawn out by hand rakes, and thrown out by shovels. The two kinds, bull arid green frogs, are found in large numbers, the latter being much the most numerous. They are killed and dressed before shipping. In the case of the big bull-frogs the whole carcass is dressed but with the smaller green fellows only the hind quarters are thought worth dressing. Mr. Hurley’s largest shipment, to date, was made last MonI day and weighed 300 pounds, filling one barrel and two large boxes. When it is remembered that this 300 pounds was made up nearly entirely of the dressed hind-quarters of the common green frogs and which would weigh only an ounce or two each, some idea may be gathered of the immense number of frogs in the shipment. Mr. Hurley himself put the number at 2,243 dozen or a total of 26,916 individual frogs! Knives and forks at cost, at J. H Willey & Sons’. Lost.- Two promisory notes, one for $65, payable April 5, 1891, the other for S6O, payable April 5, 1892. Both drawn in favor of Wm Lewark and given by David Pier. All persons are hereby notified not to negotible these notes or either of them.

WM LEWARK.