Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1891 — ADDITIONAL LOCALS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL LOCALS.

The venerable Johfi Moneghan, Sr., died Tuesday at the home of his daughter, Miss Susie Moneghan, a short distance north of Rensselaer. The cause of his death was old age, he luiving readied tlie advanced “age of upwards 86 years. Prof. H. L.; Wilson will give a lecture before the • Excelsior Literary ■Soci.lv, on Friday. Feb. 27th, at the Pres by to rian Uhufch; subject, “The Contributions of the Reformation to ' EdiieM;i<.n.” * All are cordially invited tu attend. By order of President.

_ Look for put sharpers who claim to be patent fence agents, and who after contracting with some party in town to manufacture the fence then search theccmntr}’ districts for responsible farmers to act as agents. Quite a large number of farmers in Fulton County have lately signed papers purporting to be contracts as fence flgents, which have subsequently turned up as notes for large amounts. The contracts were probably of that ingenious sort from which one end can be torn off and leave the rest a. regularly signed note of hand. —m— Come now, brethren let us lose no more valuable time, but strike now for better streets in Rensselaer. Let us ask the Town Board to purchase a good and capacious rock-crusher, and then to contract on the best terms possible for the quarrying of rock from the Iroquous river bed, grinding and putting it on the streets. In this movement, we firmly believe, will be found the key to the solution of the ■ problems of better roads strectsin Rensselaer, better roads in the surrounding country and better drainage to avast scope of fertile but now’ largely unproductive country. Let us move in this matter and move at once. The trucks of a freight car loaded with ice, in the south bound way! freight, broke at Coen’s Hill, north of town, last Thursday, and caused ' a blockade of the track for a few , hours, and thereby gladdened the eyes of the dwellers along the line of the Michigan City division of the Monon, by the sight of another modern passenger train, the 3:50 P. M. mail having been obliged to go around by Wilders. The ice cars were tod heavily loaded and when the local reached Rensselaer several wagon loads of good ice were thrown off, and this the ever watchful eye of C. C. Starr detected, and he forthwith snatched it into his ice-house, like a brand from the burning and a gudgeon at the sea-side.

The enterprising members of the Rensselaer Stock Farm company have just made the most notable movement in their history. They have just bought of the Highlawn Farm, at Lee, Massachusetts, what is, undoubtedly, the beat bred colt ever brought into the state of Indiana, and at an immense price. The colt is bay, two years old, is by the celebrated Alcantara, by the still more celebrated George Wilkes. On his mother’s side his lineage is equally long and eminent, having in it, in direct line, the blood of Nutwood, Woodford’s Mambrino, Edwin Forrest and Tom Teemer. The colt will arrive at the Stock Farm in a few days, and will be a very valuable addition to the trotting horse interests of Indiana.