Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1891 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

To-night. Under The Gas-Light. Mrs. J. A. Beck of Creston lowa visited Mr. & Mrs. B. Forsythe last w eek. Fine slides, widths B to EE a tyChicago Bargain Store. The saloon men in various places are causing druggists who sell liquor unlawfully to be prosecuted. Opera House. Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. “Under The Gas-Light.” October Standard Fashion sheets given to customers. Chicago Bargain Store. About two miles more of the big Hodges ditch, on the Kankakee river, yet remain to be constructed. Its total length will be 9 miles. Do you know that Nowels <fc Ran- ■ •die are under-selling all competitors j in Furniture? i If saving money is an object, buy • your Boots and Shoes at nearly one half regular price. Chicago Bargain Store. Rev. B. F. Ferguson has accepted a call to preach for Vaughn church, for a year. D. F. Leatherman was in Indianapolis last week, attending the state fairland visiting relatives- „ The rains of last Monday afternoon and evening will be a great thing for pastures and still greater for the growing wheat. - See the wonderful realistic railroad scene, Opera House, to-night. A large Stock of traveling men’s sample Boots at factory prices, a little scuffed but good as new. Chicago Bargain Store. The schools in Carpenter tp. began last Monday. In Marion, Jordan, Keener, Kankakee and Wheat; field, they will begin next Monday, and in the other townships the Monday following. TheJ.C. Deming farm, 4 miles south of town, has been rented to a Mr. Davis, from Parke county, owing to Mrs. Deming’s continued poor health. She will spend the winter in the south, in company with her son. Under The Gas-Light, Opera House. If you wantfurniture go to Nowels & Randle. They have the largest stock in the county, to select from. Under The Gas-Lignt, an intensely interesting drama, at the Opera House to-night, by well trained home talent, under able and experienced professional leadership.

The worlds best make Stern, Mayer &Co Clothing, Gokey & Son, J. Miller & Co. Boots and Shoes, Cones overalls at the only place in town. Chicago Bargain Stoke. The Stock Farm’s horses are at North Manchester this week. Their week at Fort Wayne was only moderately successful. Belle Medium won a good race, worth about $350 and Leo got fourth money in his race, and Plutrusse fifth in her’s. The only house that buys Candee Rubber Boots & Shoes in 50 case lots and saves about 10 percent, to 20 per cent, for their customers is the Chicago Bargain Store. . —« See “Under the Gas-Light” the great five-act society drama, at the Opera House, three nights only, Oct. Ist, 2nd and 3rd. The Remington Press is pretty nearly filled now days with items about farmers in that vicinity who are selling their farms. They are getting good prices, but yet some of them might have done better had they waited a little longer. Commissioner Taber, for instance, very lately sold his fine farm of 800 acres at SSO per acre, and the man who bought it has already been offered an advance of $lO per acre over what he paid for it

UnSer The Gas-Light. J O. Carmichael has located at Oxford, Benton county. . A good milch cow for sale. Frank B. Lyon. Uncle Isaac Barkley is convalescing from a severe case of typhoid fever. Miss Maud Clark has gone to Frankfort, for the winter. She has a situation in her aunt’s millinery establishment there. The horse sale at the old fair grounds, last Saturday, was a total failure. The horses were there in plenty, but the buyers did not sherw up. Business demanded two more new clerks, Mr. Garrison, of and Mr. V. Web, of Wheatfield. Chicago Bargain Store. ---h —— Mrs. Louisa Cox, who jwas here from Russiaville, to attend her father, Henry Platt’s funeral, returned to her home Saturday. Johnny Leahy, E. P. Honan’s venturesome young nephew, who was lately holding down a good job in a canning factory at Hoopston, 111., is now traveling with a circus.

Nice easels at Nowels & Randle’s. Watches, clocks and Jewelry and silverware at rock bottom prices at H. J. Rossbacher’s, withF. B. Meyer The purchase of the Fowler Era by W. J. Huff, of Monticello, was not consummated, and the paper is still on the market Miss Emma Robinson, of Gillam Principal of the Winamac High School, has recently resigned her position there and has accepted a position in Milwaukee, Wis., at a much higher salary. An immense new stock in lates styles of fall and winter Jackets and Cloaks. . * Chicago Bargain Store. A quarter section of land just south of Hammond and east of and adjoining the L. N. A. <fc C. Railroad, has been bought by a big syndicate as a site for extensive cotton mills and an electric motor factory. This will be another great acquisition for Hammond . Delphi people have expended SB, 000 in a futile attempt to find gas where there was none to find, Wrignt Williams’ forked twig and viol of petroleum to the contrary notwithstanding, and they are now agitating the plan of piping in gas fron the gas fields. *

Under The Gas-Light. L. M. Noyer, at one time editor of the Rochester Republican, last week plead guilty to the charge of forgery and was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. Fqr trunks go to Nowels & Randle. The only store in town for latest style Camels-hair dress patterns in stripes. Coin dot and plaids. Chicago Bargain Store . Revs. Drake and Weaver are intending the Northwest Indiana M. E. ■ conference, at South Bend, this week, j It is probable that both will be returned itojtheir present stations, for another year. Do you want a carpet, go to Nowels & Randle to buy. Ida Bell Daugherty, the younger sister of the late Addie Daugherty , has been dangerously sick at her father’s residence, at Hammond with the same disease that caused her sister’s death, but is now improvings. Don’t sweep your carpets with your old broom but go to ?<owels & Randle and buy a carpet sweeper. We are selling 54 in. dress llmnel very cheap, if you don’t believe it Cojne and see. L. Hopkins. Col. ‘‘Billy” Wilson, the well > known Lafayette lawyer, died last Friday, of nervous prostration and softening of the brain. Col. Wilson was well known to many of our citizens, and if we mistake not, some of them were it his regiment in war times.

Trustee Greenfield, of Marion tp., is building a good school-house in the Parker neighborhood, northeast of town, and Trustee Hopkins, of Newton tp., is building a still abetter one' at Saylorville. This last s one of the very best country school buildings in 4he courityr~ Bring in your Watches, Clocks and Jewelry and have them repaired in workmanlike manner and warranted by H. J. Rossbacher, at F. B. Myers’ drugstore. Judge Hammond got home from Goshen Saturday, where for two weeks he had been trying a big case, involving a great deal of money. Tbe Elkhart Power and Water company, which owns a big dam at Elkhart, was suing a lot of corporations and individuals for back pay for water-power, claimed to have been used iff excess of their legal rights, and compel them to put in guages to measure the water they’ use, hereafter. The Judge will goback later to render his decision.

Under The Gas-Light. The corn is all ripe now, and farmers can bid defiance to Jack-Frost. Under The Gas-Light, at Opera House. Three nights only. Head-quarters for yarns, underwear annels hosiery, gloves etc. Chicago Bargain Store. Rev. B. F. Furguson was sick several days last week, which fact prevented his attending the S. S. celebration at Sand Ridge, as expected. Mrs. M. E. Lecklider has a new and competent trimmer for the fall season. Ladies, call and examine her work. In the Demorest Medal Contest, held at Vaughan Chapel last Wednesday night, prizes were awarded as follows. Demorest medal to Bessie Makeevcr, second, prize to Etta Yeoman, third prize to Maggie Kenton. See the wonderfully amusing “Wharf Rats,” in “Under The GasLight” at Opera House, to-night T. F. Clark and wife went to Morocco, Saturday, to attend a reunion of the Armstrong family. Some 20 members of the faroilj’ were present, including some from the Pacific coast, Dakota, Minnesota, and other i remote regions. Remember dear people we are the oldest established shoe store in the town, we can and will give you bargains iu good goods, call now. Hemphill & Honan

Stock, quantity, fit and price of clothing downs them all. 4-2 t. Chicago Bargain Store. ~ J; T. Hemphin arrivel home Mon - day evening from his (Summer’s engineering on the Duluth & Iron Mountain railroad. The season closed much earlier than usual, from the reason that all the boat: on the lakes are needed for carrying wheat. Russell Parker, his fireman, still remains in the northern regions. , While in the city last week we secured a great bargain in 54 in. dress flannels. L. Hopkins. Several good farms for sale, in the vicinity of Rensselaer, at terms to suit purchasers. B.F. Ferguson. The following item we clip from the last issue of the Rochester Republican. We thipfk Bro. Bitters has had it stereotyped and puts it in regularly every spring and fall. “It is reported that interest has been revived at Winamac in the Rochester, Rensselaer <fc St. Louis railroad. A letter has been received there saying thebonds have all been sold, and that the wbrk of construction will be commenced soon.”