Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1891 — ADDITIONAL LOCALS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL LOCALS.

Mr. and Mrs. John. W. Paris and family, of Attica, are visiitng their Rensselaer home folks. Young man don’t fail to bring your Girl the 4th. and stay for the show at the Opera House at night. The services of the Missionary Baptist church will be held in the Court House next,Sunday. Sunday School at 9:30 A. M. Preaching at 10:45. ....... The Harris Comedy Company lias more fine comedy, good singing, exeellant music than any company travli.g.

Rev. T. F. Drake held quarterly meeting at Monticello Sunday, and from there went to LaFayette Monday, to attend the encampment of the Sons of Veterans, and from there to Valparaiso to the district meeting of the Ministerial Association. Elder L. E. Murry, pastor of the Christian Church of Delphi, will preac'i in the Christian Church in Rensselaer next Monday, June 29th, at 7:30 o’clock. All are cordially invited to be present and bear him. Brown’s Boston Creole Company occupied the Opera House Monday and Tuesday nights, to a large house the first night and to a fair one the second. It is a colored combination, even to the manager. Their performance is of the variety order and vastly diverting, and much of it excellent in its way. The manager of the Opera House has secured the famous Harris Company of comedians in their screaming 4 act Farce Comedy, “A Tatoo mark” for the night of July the 4th. This is a company of reputation and ability, and have been playing in all the large cities. Don’t fail to see them.

There will be a special meeting of the W. R. C. Saturday P, M. to make arrangements for the lunch stand, July 4. Proceeds will go to the Relief Fund. A full attendance is desired. Martha Wasson. Harriet Flynn. Pres. Sec’y. After Ju|y; Ist the flag of the Union will have forty-four stars, the fortyfourth representing Wyoming, admitted during the year. In the new arrangement there will be six horizontal rows of stars, the row at the top and at the bottom each containing eight stars, and the four rows between, each containing seven.H Superintendent Warren left for Indianapolis Monday, where he will attend the County Superintendents’ convention in session Tuesday and Wednesday, and read a paper upon the subject; “Literature in the Cornua on Schools.” From Indianapolis h e intended going to Bloomington to attend the summer scientific school, at the State University, for a few weeks.

The old Baptist Church is being razed to the ground this week, preparatory to replacing it with a handsome modern structure. The old building was erected about 54 years ago, and if it has not wholly survived its usefulness it certainly has long outlived its beauty, and after all the usefulness of a church depends considerably upon its beauty iu these days. The big balloon will go up in Rensselaer on the Fourtli, sure, and when, it has reached am altitude of several, thousand feet, the daring aeronaut will inirin out of the balloon and descend to the eai-tk with an immense parachute. It will be truly a thrilling spectacle and free to all who choose to look upon it.

Willing Workers w3l give an entertainment at the Opera House tomorrow evening, for the benefit of Mrs. Clifton. This certainly is a very commendible object, and one that deserves the most liberal encouragement. The contents of the evening's programme indicate a very interesting entertainment. especially for the little folks.

The balLoon and parachute felfews go high, but they also come high. In fact there is an intimate but, perhaps, natural relationship between the altitude of their elevations and their compensations. To the able professor of aerial gymnastics who will ascend some thousands of feet into the circumambient ether on the coming Fourth of July, and decend therefrom by the aid only of a parachute, the sum of $l5O is to be paid. It seems like a good deal of money, but probably none of our readers would care to undertake the same job for much leas.

Mr. George Butler, late of New Castle, this state, is preparing to issue a paper in Rensselaer, devoted to the advocacy of the principles of the Peoples Party. He is located m rooms over Berry-Bros, grocery store. He expects to issue the initial number of the new organ, this week. Its name will be tie “Peoples Pilot.” A small change in the Monon time table/went into effect last Sunday. .The principal feature of the change is the abandonment of the attempt to run the afternoon Louisville-Chicago train through Rensselaer without stopping. It now stops regularly and probably the management will be wiser than to attempt the experiment again.

County Superintendent Warren issued 104 teachers’, licenses during the year ending May 31st. Of these 34 were for 6 months: 49 for 12 months; 17. for 2 years and 4 for three years. The number of failures during the~ year were 83. Of those granted licenses 56 were females and 38 were males. The average length of licenses issued was to males 12 and 18 nineteenths months; to females 12 and 10 elevenths months. The difference in scholarship thus shown is in favor of the males, but too an exceedingly small extent. The recipients of the 4 three years licenses were Miss Johnson, of Remington, I. C. Rebuelt, of Rensselaer, Miss Nellie Coen, and Mr. J. J. Hunt. Logansport.Tozrm//: Deputy Sheriff Gallagher is scarcely recognized by his friends now, he having left his luxuriant whiskers at Michigan City the other day when he took Rans Sheirman to the pen. The prison artist who wielded the razor that laid low the growth of many years was no less a distinguished personage than W. Ferd Pettit, the ministerial wife murderer, who is serving a life sentence in the prison North. Such is the irony of fate. From the pulpit to a prison barber is quite a step, but W.Ferd appears to accept his lot with the spirit of a philosopher.

One Armstrong, a windy young man who correspor & for the Chicago Herald, was in town some weeks ago, and while here intimated that he would return in a short time and “write up” the town and county for his paper, if he found it would be “worthwhile.” That is to say if a good round sum would be raised by merclianlhs and others to buy his good opinions. It evidently was not made ‘“worth while” and he did not come back; although one day last week he occupied about a column and,a half of the not at all valuable space of the Herald , by an article purporting to be a description of Rensselaer and Jasper, county. The article was rather amusing in some respects, and no doubt the production of a bright and able writer, but it is malicious and ridiculously untruthful and incorrect in all alleged facts. Indiana’s World’s Fair Commission oflers prizes of S3OO, £2OO and SIOO respectively for the first, second and third best plans for the Indiana building at Jackson Park. The building is to cost about $25,000 and to contain about 6iooo square feet of floor space. It will be constucted entirely of Indiana material. The outside walls will be of stone, pressed brick and terracotta; the roof of roofing tile or of iron made in this State. The inside finish is to be highly -ornamental and made of plate, beveled and looking glass, hard wood and encaustic tile. The building is to serve the double purpose of displaying, in its construction, the building material of Indiana, and as headquarters for and entertainment of visitors and their guests at the Exposition. There is to he one large room on the ground flobr for assembly and reception purposes, and separate ladies’ and gentlemen’s rooms with lavatories and all modern conveniences, a check or baggage room, and a room for dining and lunching.