Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1891 — ADDITIONAL LOCALS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL LOCALS.

Miss Effie Gwin reached home Sunday from a visit to her brother Lacy, at Marshfield, Wis. Customers that wore out a $3.00 Kip Boot last year are coining back for the same boot this year. The W. C. T. U, will meet with Mrs. Paris, on Tuesday, Oct. 6, at 3 o’clock. All members are urged to be present. Notice Williams’ new furniture ad. in this issue. The best $3.00 Kip Boot ever brought to Rensselaer. L. Hopkins. Edward Benjamin, of Candler, Florida, is visiting his grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rial Benjamin, and other Rensselaer relatives. Those Oak Rockers at Williams’ Furniture Store are just too nice, go and see them and take one home to your wife. I key Leopold has returned from Remington and intends investigating some promised situations in Chicago, next week. Stop —When you get a hand-sewed, hand-sided, double-sole and tap Kip Boot for $3.00 worth $3.50. L. Hopkins, Messrs. F. J. Sears and A. Leopold went to Brookston, yesterday, to acquire some information as to the practical workings of the Brookston can. ning establishment. _L. M _ A look through J. Williams’ novelty furniture store will convince you that he has the largest and most complete stock of furniture ever in Rensselaer;

Morgan N, Foulks, of Missouri, was in town yesterday. He is visiting his brother Uncle Peter Foulks, of Milroy tp. and it is his first visit for 35 years. Mr. Williamson, manager of the work of building the new cement walk, in the court house yard, will be pleased to make prices for any persons wishing anything in that line. Mrs. E. P. Honan and Miss Mary Myers returned from a protracted stay in Chicago, last Friday, copying the latest styles, and are now preparing for a grand opening at an early date.

Have you seen those Ratan Chairs at Williams’ ? A Special —Our $3.00 Kip Boot. L. Hopkins. The Ladies Industrial Society of the Presbyterian church is preparing to open and maintain a Women’s Exchange, where people can buy homemade bread, cakes, pies <fcc. It will be open only on Saturday, and its purpose is to furnish a means whereby people can obviate the necessity of baking on Sundays. Hold! Just in; a fine line of all kind of Watches, Clocks, Jewelry and Silverware at lowest prices, at H. J. Ross bather’a. Williams has now on hand over 50 different kinds of Rocking chairs.

Thos. Geer, G. M. McDonald’s horse trainer, was driving into town after dark, last Friday evening, from the old fair grounds, In a road cart, and with him was Andy Minnicus. While bowling along at a 2:40 gait, they ran into a lumber wagon, driven by AL Daugherty. The cart was broken into splinters, and the two men thrown violently out. Geer was quite badly cut and bruised. So much so that a conveyance had to be procured to take him to the hotel, and required a physician to dress his injuries. Minnicus was also considerably bruised.

We are not selling out, but we are selling cheap. Especially dress goods. L. Hopkins. The Delphi Journal relates a conversation with a business man who wanted that paper to “give those Delphi people a poke who go away from home to buy their goods;” in which it was developed that the said business man had himself been getting all of his supplies in the printing line away from home for years, and paying fully as much for them, quality Of goods considered, as he could have obtained them in Delphi for. As the Journal truly remarks, it is up-hill business for the papers of a town to make any headway in educating the people to buy at home when so many business men themselves persist in going away for almost everything they do not themselves carry in stock. We suspect that it would not be a difficult matter to find some of the buiness men of Rensselaer built that same way—though not a great many.

James Greenfield has come Tack from Hammond,and thinks of locating in Rensselaer. He did not find Hammond either a pleasant or a salubrious place of residence. “The easiest shoe ever worn” was the verdict of one of our most prominent physicians, when speaking pf our Candee Tennis shoes. Sizes kept for all ages at Hemphill <t Honan’s. Try a pair. Lincoln Bolt and Martha A. Bolt were married last Thursday, Sep. 24, in the county clerk’s office, by Justice Burnham. The parties live in Frankfort, and, it is understood, were a divorced couple, who had made up and concluded to try it again. This will be a great day of amusements in Rensselaer, of a verity. ;It will with a shooting match,near Starr’s ice house, and this will be followed by the political game of ball, the local foot race and the matched race between Al Robinson and Oshkosh, and wind up with the great drama I’ndei The G: s Light at the Opera House. Marriage licenses since last report ed: j Franklin Masson. | Eva Muchler. j Lincoln Bolt. | Martha A. Bolt. J James Cooper. ( Agnes M.Obencliain. J Allen M. Farris. ( Emma Palmer. ( George W. Cover, ( Mary Condon, In this year of great fruit yield, there has been a vast sale for tin fruit cans, but we find on inquiry at the various hardware stores, that the prices for. quart cansare 75 cents a„ dozen and for half gallons SI.OO a dozen These are the same as last year, there being no increase on account of the McKinley Bill. In fact there is nothing that ordinary people use that is any higher in price on account of that bill and the irrefutable evidence of this fact, is to be obtained by inquiring of any honorable merchant.

The publication of the facts regarding the very much of back number set of human bones, in Union Tp., and what some t of the people in the vicinity were saying in regard thereto, has apparently resulted in the clearing up of the long mystery regarding the disappearance of the man Myers Briefly stated the facts are as follows: Auditor Robinson and Sheriff Blue were in Keener Tp. last week, on some legal business, and happened to stop for dinner at the house of the late John Kosky, that fine and honest old German whom Rensselaer people got to know well during the trial of the murderer of John Dreger, Kosky’s son-in law; and Mrs. Kosky, his venerable widow, and herself a most estimable and reputable old lady, gave to Messrs. Robinson and Blue a full history of all the circumstances of Myers’ disappearance, and other facts therewith connected. It seems that the one or more severe beatings inflicted upon Myers by John Guss was only one incident of a big and bitter quarrel that had existed for some time, between two factions of Germans, in the vicinity of Alter’s Mill; and that when Myers lit out, taking with him, as alleged, some cash belonging to Guss and a good double-barrel shot, gun the property <f an American neighbor, he went to Kosky’s place, and was by them harbored for quite a long time. That the Koskys were in sympathy with Myers in his quarrel with Guss, until finally he got to making love to their daughter, (the one who afterwards married poor Dreger) and this they objected to very strongly, and finally as the only way to get him out of the neighborhood, they sent for Guss to come up and lick him again, or at least to scare him pretty badly. Guss therefore called at Kosky’s, and Myers seeing him afar off, took to the brush, and kept out of sight until Guss made an appointment to call again, and went home. Myers then came out of the bushes and concluding that 10 miles of swamp and sand-ridge was not a sufficient protection from the wrath of Guss, he went to Pulaskiville, where he had a "brother, and for at least four years thereafter, continued to write to the Koskys. The facts that some of Guss’s cash and the neighbor’s shot gun accompanied him into his Pulaski county exile would bp a good enough reason for his not communicating his place of residence to anyone in the Guss neighborhood.

The Rensselaer crop of school teachers of the vintage of 1891, are disposed of thus:. Jennie Miller, "Keener tp.J Addie Chilcote, DeMotte primary; Abbie Harrison, Carpenter tp.; Ura McGowan, Parker, Marion tp.; Mary Harrison, Union, Marion tp.; Blanche Loughridge, Bowling Green, Marion, tp. Ida Chilcote, O’Meara, Marion tp.; Cora Wasson, Wasson, Marion; Miss Jackson, Pleasant Ridge, Marion; Laura; Hodshire, Grants Marion; NellieJ’Coen. Kniman; Edie Wilson, Hoover. Marion; Robt. Vanatta and Lewis Hamiiton, Dunging Grove tp; Eva Linville, near Monon. - ■

Mrs. Dr. Deming has sent us a bundle of old newspapers which ;v.e decided curiosities. Among them are two copies of that red-hot Rebel sheet, the Charlston Mercury, of May 1861; also several other southern pap ers of war times. The most interesting of all these old relics however, is a copy of the Lafayette Weekly Courier, dated Feb. 27, 1855. Only a little more than 35 years back in time but whole ages in history. It is a 4 page 7 column paper, of clean and handsome appearance typographically. The type is rather small and closely set, and those being the days before “patent insides” or sterotype plates, the paper represents a vast amount of work in the way of type setting. And even the ad vertising matter is nearly all set without display and in small type. Advertisers in those days evidently followed the principle of getting all the matter into a given space possible. The paper contains several columns of summaries of the proceedings Of the State Legislature, then in session, and many news paragraphs from other towns, but for purely local news the reader will look in vain. Right there, in fact, is the great difference between papers of that day and the present; now the chief feature of local papers is the local news. About the only matter in the whole paper that is in the nature of local news is the anouncement of the death of Dr. Elizur Deming in one column and in another an account of his funeral. He was the father, we believe, of our own Dr. Deming, and was a great abolitionist and a prominent man generally and had a big funeral

One very interesting and instructive feature of the paper is the official list of the state banks, the notes of which were taken by the bankers of Lafayette. Those were the good old Democratic days of “wild-cat” state banks, although their evil effects had not reached their full developement untir a few years later. The list contains the names of 35 banks whose notes were still at par; 11 at 90 cents on the dollar; 5 at 85 cents; 17 at 75 cents and 19 at 70 cents. In the 75 cent list were the two banks of Rensselaer, one called the “Far. & Mec. Bank” and the other the “Bank of Renssellaer.”