Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1891 — CORRESPONDENCE. [ARTICLE]

CORRESPONDENCE.

From Wbeatfleldi. Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Stimbel on the 15th a son. M. J. Ahlgrim has moved his saw mill to its formef place in our town. Prank Hathaway and family have moved to lowa. Mrs. Samuel Clark has disposed of her property in this place and has gone tp Minnesota. The machinery for the dredge that is to dig the Hodge Ditctt in this township arrived at this place by freight last week. Miss A Hie Bently is at this writing (Monday eve) not expected to live. Her disease is some affection of the brain. Daniel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Warner, is very sick with intermittent fever. ‘ E. Bonnet's and S. A. Austin’s children are down with the whooping cough; and Mrs. John Graves and Mrs. James Rodgers are also on the sick list. i— ; Ashoke, j

From DeMotte. Mrs. L. S. Tyler is very low with dropsy. Her case seems almost hopeless. J. P. Fairchild, who has spent five or six weeks in Chicago, under the care and treatment of a specialist for his catarralfal trouble, is improving his general health Yvitß good" prospects of fully recovering his hearing. Some of our Alliance people came to the conclusion that a town of our dimensions was entirely too large to kindly foster an institution of that kind, so they are at present trying to meet at the Tyler school house. Rev. Edward Day, assisted by Rev. Smith, of Rose Lawn, are conducting a very successful revival in our neighborhood. The church has five accessions and prospects bright for a goodly number to follow. May the good work go on. Another dance at the Town Hall Friday evening. While dancing is perhaps a pleasant and healthy pastime, we think that it is nothing more thau right, that they should let people sleep-who live in the vicinity of the hall, and run as they now are they ought to be condemned as common nuisances, and consigned to the past as “relics of barbarism.”

Hanging drove Items.

Frank Philips of the Valparaiso Normal spent Saturday and Sunday with friends and relatives in Hanging Grove. Susie Parker returned home Sunday aftei a two weeks visit with friends and acquaintances in Rensselaer Mr. Issue JEviins of La Porte is spending the week here with his sister Mrs. Sam Parker. Me Cool, our esteemed trnstee, has rented his farm and lie with his family Witt move to PLiff do some time in the near future, Mr. Cool is a highly esteemed man and his loss will be felt by the entire community. All the teachers were present at the at the tp., Institute last Saturday and all had their subjects well piepared. Mrs." Elias Hamerton is dangerously ill with lnng fever, and Mrs. H. P. Overton and Chas Ablegore’s little girl are also numbered on the sick list. Elvin Overton had his foot badly hurt, on the evening of the 6th, by a horse, which he was riding, falling with him. No serious damage was done and Elvin is now able to get about by the aid of a pair of crutches. “The horse was not hurt.” Windy Dick.

Hell—Sir and Knlman,

A stranger traveling along onr highways would see a sight worth seeing, a sight not often seen, either in this or any other country. There are sights which would more attract the eye of the average Hoosier: Such as a cable car in Chicago, the Brooklyn bridge, the Statute of Liberty, the Falls of a Niagara, a full rigged War Ship, or a young city damsel dressed in her best attire; but the sight you could sec last week in Walker, was mowing machines cutting grass on the ice, and hay rakes at work with wagons and slides, hauling it to the liav press, where it was manufpctured into bales, ready to be shipped to any part of the Union where it is most needed. Now if any other town can beat this, let us hear from them. I Mr. Miller, the saw mill man, with his helping hands, are just more than cutting lumber, and not as is done in some parts of the country, they do not steal the timber. They are on Dr. Loughridge’s ranch, 2 miles east of Hell-Sir. [lt doesn’t seem that far when the Doctor is there expressing his opinions with the bark pn them.] We are told that John Myers has recovered his pocket book and the SB6 and other valuable papers that was in the book. Jasper county can boast that she has some honest people. Thomas Sayers has had a severe attack of Kidney trouble, so bad that I he was not able to walk from his hay

bam to his house, when he felt the attack. Dr. Jones was called and arrived just in time, as a little delay might have resulted fatally. He is now resting easily. John Meyers says he does not see through it why all the rest of the Mey'ers boys have changed the names of just that many young l&dies and he left alone. Brace up John and give the clerk $2. The Rose Lawn Post G. A. R. has sent us word that they will have a Basket Supper at Hogan, Jan. 28, at 6P. M. Everybody invited.