Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1891 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

A. Leopold is confined to his house with a digestive trouble. Carpets—Latest spring styles. Ludd Hopkins. The March term of the Commissioners’ Court will begin next Monday. Carpets.—Best, latest and cheapest. Ludd Hopkins. Charley Warner arrived home from Springfield, Colorado, Monday evening, for a few weeks visit. All our Underwear, Yarns and Knit Goods, at cost, at Hemphill & Honan’s. Another forthcoming- big sale event is that of D. B. Nowels and J. E. Burk, advertised elsewhere. Dexter & Cox make both Graham flour and Com meal, fresh twice a week. ' Frank Wolfe went to Remington yesterday, to begin invoicing the stock in the two lumber yards he has purchased there. Dexter & Cox do custom grinding "Tuesday amid—Fridays, by the bushel - or toll. Bring in your grain we will accomntodate you. Henry. Rossbacher, the jeweler, and family, will occupy as a resi- : deiice, Mrs. C. G. Sears’ tenant house, corner of Washington and j Cullen streets. To whom it may concern —Housecleaners and movers. Carpet your i rooms with the latest desirable, patterns and latest desirable prices. Ludd Hopkins. The meetings at the F. W. Baptist j church still continue, conducted by : Revs. Ferguson and Cook. The total number of new members taken into the church since the beginning of the meetings now exceeds thirty. Just purchased, an immense - stock of boots and shoes at a great clearance sale, at one half price, and if money is an object, examine before you buy. , 26-2 t Chicago Bargain Store. ■ 1 Auditor > Elootr Mttrgay will havea thoroughly competent man to assist him in the complicated and onerous duties of his office, he having secured the services of Ezra L. Clark, j now filling the position of deputy treasurer. Mr. Murray’s term of office will begin in November, next. We arc the sole agents in Rensselaer for three lines of the “World’s Best” that you can not buy elsewhere. Ludlow’s line shoes for ladies. E. Stout’s patent snag-proof rubber Boots, and Cone’s Boss Overalls. Chicago Bargain Store. 26 Rev. I. I. Gorby, of the Presbyterian church, preached last Sunday on the origin and aims of the order of the Knights of Pythias, and made an address which won the heartiest commendations of all who heard it. Rensselaer Lodge, of the order, attended in a body, to the number of 45.

At Dexter & Cox you can always find a supply of com meal, buck- i wheat flour and graham flour, fresh.| Call and see us. Bring your wheat to the Mill and , get for it 2 cts. per bushel more than the market price. Rensselaer Milling Co. I ' . *• I So far as' afternoon mail service from the south is concerned, the people of Rensselaer have now no good cause for complaint even ' though the 3:50 P. M. train from Louisville changes mails here without stopping. Beginning with last Monday the 2:37 vestibule train from Cincinnati and Indianapolis now changes mails at Renssglaer. This additional mail makes considerable extra labor.for mail carrier Woodworth and Postmaster Rhoades, but -Adds decidedly to the convenience of the public. f

Mrs. J. C. Deming is seriously John Chamberlain was down from Hammond, Monday. He reports himself as very prosperous there. Lace Curtains 60 cts per pair to $4.50 per pair; an endless"variety. Chicago Bargain Store. |lrs. Sarah Rishling, nee Crockett, of Springfield, Neb., is visting her relatives in this vicinity The largest assortment of boots and shoes in Jasper county. J. H. Willey & Son.

Quarterly meeting at M. E. Church next Sunday, Dr. Smith is expected to be present or to send a supply. Everybody invited to attend. Carpets.—You who are goingHxr move or clean house, examine latest styles, just arrived Prices to suit all. Ludd Hopkins. Horace Peacock has rented the vacant room one door east of B. F. Fendig & Co’s., drug store, and will soon open a harness shop therein. Embroideries 1 cent per yard up. Chicago Bargain Store. Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary given away at Hemphill & Honan’s. Town Marshal Simpson has engaged to work for the electric light company, as fireman, after March Ist and intends to resign his office of Fzvnrn -marshal Go to the great Boot and shoe sale of our $5,000-worth of goods, and double the size of any other stock in the county. 26-2. Chicago Bargain Store. —Mr. Robert D. Shook and Miss Jeanette A. Pullins were married on Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 18th, by Rev. B. F.Ferguson, at his residence. : The parties live in Barkley tp. g The Bargain' counters at the Trade I Palace are filled with just such goods las every one wants, and they are • real bargains. Call and examine for yourselves. , L. K. Yeoman, of Rossville, TH. visited his Rensselaer relatives for a few days, including- Sunday. He re- ! ports that a big corn eroju with- big. I prices has made prosperity reign in : his section. * Bay pure teas and fresh roasted coffee at C. C. Starr’s. We roast our own coffee as needed, consequently have no old, stale stock. Hammond Standard.— F. K. Warne, of Rensselaer, Ind., will move here the coming week with the intention of starting a milk depot. Mr. Warne is a man of good standing_an.d—mostAurely deserves a share of the patrbnagS” <sf the city in his line of business. We have just received a large line, of the celebrated Seitz, Schwab & Co’s., boots and shoes, for fall and winter. Also a fine line of J. W. Gookey’s fine kip boots, for men and boys, and every pair of them fully guaranteed. J. 11. Willey & Sons. The little poem by r Miss Grace Nichols which we reprint this week, lis not very long but nevertheless has more of the real essence of poetry in it than whole acres of poetry publishevery year now days by poets of acknowledged reputation.

Figures will not He. Boys’ good, honest boots 60 cents to sl, men’s good, honest boots $1.25 to $2. Women’s shoes 60 cents to $1.25 for a first class calf skin shoe. Fine slip- ! pers 50 cents to 81. Most of the I above are , sample lots, and good j goods at much less than wholesale : prices. 126-2. Chicago Bargain Store. I The ways and means committee of i the House of the Indiana Legislature has drafted a bill which will revolt!I i tionize the entire system of taxation 'in the State. 11 repeals the State levy ,of twelve cents on each SIOO, takes the railroad tax from the counties and ■ pays it directly into the State treasury and establishes a State tax commission. The county boards of equalization are to be abolished, and a county assessor is to be elected who shall supervise the work’ of the township assessors. It also makes this oliiciol. the auditors and treasurers, a board of review with the same powers and ' duties as the county board of equalization. It that if this bill .should become a law it will raise the 1 appraisement of property to its real ! value.

The venerable Mrs. Rial Benjamin is very seriously sick with lung fever. A good two horse Studebaker wagon and a single top buggy for sale. "-ADexter Cox. The very large quantities of rain that have fallen during the past week, have naturally made the roads very bad. Remember we can save you money on boots and shoes. J. 11. Willey & Sons. Next Tuesday evening, the Uniform Rank of the Lafayette Lodge, K. of P., will be in Rensselaer_to, institute the new Uniform Ifyink at this point. J. H. Willey & Son will not be un dersold in the clothing line. A special car will be attached to the 3:50 train, north bound, Friday evening, to take the Rensselaer and Monon K. of P. lodges to Lowell, to institute a new lodge there.

The feed store is the place to buy your feed and flour. A committee of Logansport citizens which visited the Rensselaer, creamery a short time since, made a very favorable report thereupon, and strongly advised the establishment of a similar institution at Logansport. C. C. Starr’s pure Jewel Tea is the The towns of Brookston, in White county, and Flora, in Carroll, arc both pushing promising movements for canning factories. If Rensselaer, -which has a better situation than either Of them for a canning factory, is to have one this year, it is time the movement was put on footWatches, Clocks and Jewelry, repaired and warranted at Frank B. Meyers’ drug store. An exchange says a lady cured her fifteen-year-old son of cigarette smoking by laying on of hands. She had a slipper in one of them and held the boy with the other. It beats vhwstian science all hollow. The remedy ought to be applied with a vigor by some of the mothers in this town. The line of Overalls, Jeans and Cottonade Pants for meh and boys, at the Trade Palace, is the best for the money, to be had in Rensselaer. Geo. N. Dunn, who has been connected with the Citizens’ Bank, for some time past, has given up his position there, in order to remain with his parents, in Kankakee tp., owing to ofAa..mother.” The bank people were loth tp lose his services, and were just ready to give him a promotion. Dexter & Cox will exchange you wlnte me_al for yellow corn, we do not charge extra for shelling. The wires and poles for the newarc light circuit have arrived, but the other new machinery for the light plant is slow its appearance, owing to the absence from Chicago of Mr. Ballard, the superintendent of construction, and the resignation of his assistant. Everything will come around in good time, however.

The bill to suppress cigarette smoking by levying a license fee of S2OO for selling, has been defeated in the State Senate, after having passed the House. The discovery of the fact that the bill was introduced in- the House by a cigar-maker, was one of the causes that helped in its defeat. A Kansas man has got a patent on artificial eggs, which he claims can be manfactured at 3 cts. per dozen, and answer every purpose of the genuine eggs except for hatching. For the time-honored service of expressing popular disapproval of obnoxious individuals, they are, presumably, especially well adapted. * ,

The Monon management claim that the locomotive engineers on that road arc the best paid of any in this section, for the hours they are on the road. For last month a half dozen or more will be paid $145 for their month’s and none dropped below sllß. In the month of December even better wages were made, one engineer month’s \fork $lB7

Mr.oand Mrs. Harry Wilkshire’s little girl, Lizzie, has been very dangerously sick for some days with dropsy, following a relapse, after scarlet rash. The prospects for her recovery are very slight. Bring in your Watches, Clocks and Jewelry and have them repaired in workmanlike manner and warranted by Hf J. at F; B. Myers’ drug store. The temperance meeting last Sunday afternoon was the largest yet, and filled the Opera House to its fullest seating capacity. The exercises had reference largely to the. observance of Washington’s birthday, and were interesting and apappropriate. All winter goods now going at cost; they must move, even though at great sacrifice; to make room for spring goods. R. Fendig. F. T. Graham, of Kentland, oldest brother of W. H. 11. Graham, of Rensselaer, died last Monday, at the Presbyterian Hospital, at Chicago, -of an internal cancer. The remains were taken back to Kentland for interment. Mr. Graham was by' his brother’s side when he died.

Notwithstanding the big advance in coffee you can buy fresh roasted coffee at C. C. Starr’s at the old price. The Hild-Park Concert Co., justified all expectations, in their performance at the Opera House, last Thursday night. They are an unusually meritorious combination. In fact it is always safe to depend on a good value for money paid to any pf the Slayton Bureau’s companies. Owing to bad. weather and to the belating of the train by a wreck, the audience was very small.

Hemphill & Honan are 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 820 paitlfor, you get p copy free; 1281 pages. Call and see it.

As has always happened heretofore when the Monon has tried to run either of its day mail trains through Rensselaer without shopping, they have found the plan’ impracticable, and it is now announced that the 3:50 P. M. north bound mail train will hereafter stop at this station, “on signal,” which means, in effect; that person therefore desiring to leave the town on that train can now do so. J. H. Willey & Son have received a full line of the latest styles in gents soft and stiff hats. Call and see themS®! The Republican is glad to chronicle the fact that there is now an excellent prospect for another long needed improvement in the church architecture of Rensselaer. The Missionary Bapl tist people have concluded to replace [ their present decidedly unornamental house of worship, with a new and handsome structure. The details of the new building are not yet decided upon. Agopd girl wanted for housework. Must lodge at home, and can have her own time after 3 P. M. Apply ■ at this office.

It is the duty of all postmasters to inform the publisher of any periodical if the paper addressed to any person is not taken from the office by reason of removal or otherwise. There are a few postmasters who do not do their duty in this direction notwithstanding the goverment furnishes cards for such purposes, and it simply requires the exertion of writing the name of the subscriber and addressing the card to the publisher. The Denton-Culp ditch, m Jasper and White counties, is in hard sledding, appeals having been taken to the circuit courts in both counties. The api>cllants in Jasper county are ,S. P, and A. Thompson, A. McCoy and Mattie Rinehart. The costs of the ditch, already accrued, are upward of $500,’ which, if the appeal is. successful, will fall upon the two petitioners, Amanda Denton and David Culp. , '

Bro. Bitters, of the Rochester Republican pronounces Rensselaer the the banner temperance town of the state. Probably Bro. Bitters is a little too kind in his judgement in that particular, still we think any unprejudiced person familiar with the town, must be favorably impressed with its high standing in respects to temperance and all the other saving Virtues. 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 <t Sons. The most hopeful of the local ice packers are now thoroughly discouraged at the prospect for an ice crop this winter, and the remembrance that a pretty good ice-crop was harvested later than this last year, does not afford much balm to their grief. There is now so much .water and consequently such rapid currents in the streams that a freeze which would make good ice in still water would make none at all in the rapid currents now prevailing,

Impressive memorial services were jeld in the Opera House, Monday afternoon, under the auspices of Rensselaer Post,G. A. R. in memory of the late General Sherman. The Post attended in a body, also the Women’s Relief Corps, and also the High school and Grammar departments of the Rensselaer public schools. . The exercises consisted bf an opening prayer, by Rev. 1.1. Gorby, the appointed Memorial services, by the Post, shoit addresses by Capt R. W. Marshall, Rev. T. F. Drake, Prof. H. L. Wilson, Capt. J. A. Burnham, Rev. U. M. [McGuire, James W. Douthit, Rev. I. I. Gorby. Rev. C. Cook, Ed. P. Honan, Prof. S. E. Sparling, Frank Foltz, Rev. D. T. Halstead, Alfred Thompson and R. B. Wilson: also several very appropriate pieces of music. The citizens were present in large numbers; most of the business houses were closed during the services and many of them were tastefully draped in honor of the occasion.