Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1891 — A Beautiful Bridal. [ARTICLE]

A Beautiful Bridal.

The second annual session of the Jasper Co., Teachers’ Association will be held in the Rensselaer High School room, on Friday and Saturday of next week. A very promising program has been prepared, and the prospects are most favorable for a large And very interesting and profitable meeting. This session of the Association takes the place of one township institute, and the teachers who attend receive one day’s pay. Those who do not will not only miss the pay, but what will be a much greater loss, the benefits to be derived from the exercises.

The celebrated Boston Ideal Banjo, Mandolin and Guitar Club gave a concert in Association Hall last evening which was greatly enjoyed by all who attended it. The selections given by the Club were varied and always highly harmonious; the rich, full chords and accurate execution producing a delightful combination of sweet and charming music. The entertainment was a unique one, and those who, failed to attend it missed a genuine musical treat.-Ham-ilton Times, Hamilton, Ont, T The literary exercises of the Junior and Senior division of the High School last Friday afternoon deserve Special mention. The merits and demerits of the Australian system of voting were debated in a way that would be a credit to older heads. The “Silver Question,” “The Difficulty with Chili,” and “Opening the World’s Fair on Sunday”, were the leading topics of the day that were ably discussed in orations and essays. The other exercises consisting of declamaiions and readings were well rendered. Each individual member of this division deserves credit for the high standard of literary work fixed in the High School.

A big hunting match is being organized for Thanksgiving day, in which all the nimrods of the town and vicinity are expected to participate. All will ise enrolled in two contending companies, under the leadership of Charley Robinson and Eddy Irwin. They will leave town at 9 o’clock A. M., and return at 4 P. M., and the side which is found to have scored the most points will be declared the winners, and the losing side will have to pay for the snpper, of which all will partake, at 6 o’clock. The kinds of game most dificult to kill will c ount the most points. English sparrows, for instance, 50 points and quails 100 points. Rabbits count 10, wolves 700, foxes 500, prairie chickens 125, pheasants 150, fox-squirrels 15, opossums 17, crows 100, chickenhawks 125, musk rats 175 Ac. Ac Any persons wishing to take part in the sport will please report their names to one of the above named captains.

Wm. Kenton, of Marlborough, is the leading dehorner of Indiana without doubt. Last Monday for example, he dehorned 180 large steers, for A. McCoy, and under the disadvantage as constant rain. About a week previous he dehorned 155 head, in an afternoon. He thinks, under favorable conditions, he could dehorn 500 head of cattle in a day. He has a dehorning chute of his own invention and construction, that holds the cattle in a vise-like grip. The operation is quickly done, causes hardly any loss of blood, and is not when skillfully performed very pain-, ful, and never appears to make th animals sick. The practice is rapidly comiDg into general favor among the farmers and has no doubt come to stay. The only possible objection to the practice is on the grounds of its alleged cruelty, but people who really understand the nature of the dehorning process and also know how much pain and suffering cattle inflet upon one another, and upon other animals, with their horns, know that there is really vastly greater cruelty in leaving the horns on than in sawing them off.

The wedding of Miss Hattie Flynn and Rev. H. Y. Weaver was solemn* ized in the M. E. Church, last Wednesday evening at eight o’clock. The invited guests were many and the church was well filled, the occasaion being one of special interest, owing to the groom being a very popular minister of that church, and the bride one of the lovliest girls of the town and a gen,oral favorite. The bndal procession, preceded by the family of the contracting parties, consisted Miss Fannie Wood, and Mr Theodore Jtase, the fair bride

In her trained dress of virginal white, and her maid of honor, Miss Maud Benjamin, and last by the groom and his best man, Mr. Jesse Grubbe. The ceremony performed by Rev. T. F. Drake was particularly solemn and impressive, due not only to the nature of the bond, and the stillness of the immense throng, but the exquisitely soft and low musie, played through the entire ceremony and during the exit, by Miss Ora Duvall. The bridal costume was cream henrietta, made severely plain, only flowers being worn: those were sent by Miss Ida Gibson from Holly, Mississippi. The bridesmaids carried bouquets, of white flowers tied by broad Satin ribbons given them by the bride.

LIST OF PRESENTS. Silver Tea Set— W- R. C. Silver salt and pepper—Mr. and Mrs. J. P. and C. G. Hammond. Set silver forks—Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Lyon, Mi. and Mrs. 11. J. Bartoo and George Healey. Set silver forks—W. W. Hartsell, M. D. Set Silver Spoons—Miss Clara Goddard, Morocco, Indiana. Set silver tea-spoons—Jessie Bartoo. Set silver knives—J. W. Douthit, Silver butter knife and, sugar spoon— Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Huff. Silver napkin rings, 2—Eva and Iva Washburn. Clock—Capt. H. H. Weaver. Clock—Mrs. M. E. Jackson and Miss Eva Saylor. ~ ~ ~ ■ - Clock—Messrs and M.esdames D. E. Hollister, T. J. Saylor andH.S.Hopkins. Swing Rocker—Granville Moody, Epworth League. Ratan Rocker--Capt. H. H. Weaver, Reading. Mich. Fruit ane desert dishes—Martin Bohman and family, Rushville. Fruit and desert dishes—D. J. Thompson. Fruit and desert dishes—John Cliilcote and family. Fruit dish—Mr. and Mrs. James Yeoman. * Fruit dish—Wallace E. Sayler. Fruit dish Ora Hinkle, Nora and Ola Marlatte. Tea Set—Mr. and Mrs. I. C. Reubelt. Water pitcher—Mr. and Mrs. Geo. E. Marshall. Water set—Mr. and Mrs. Peter Rhodes, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Starr. Water pitcher—William Wood and mother: . -y.: Set tumblers—Edith Miller, Mary Chilcote, M. F. Chilcote. Set goblets—Lee Catt. Egg cups—John and Jerry He&ly. Caster-r-Misses Anna Webb and Mary B. Moore. Lamp—Harry and Florence Wood. Toilet set—sir. and. sirs. Simon P. Thompson.

Pin cushion and rug—Mrs. H. H. Weaver, Reading, Mich., Bridal gift. Two chair tidies —Miss Jennie Weaver, Reading, Mich. Linen throw —Miss Nellie Grantner, Rushviile, Indiana. Linen throw—Florence Bundy, Rushviile, Ind. Pair linen Towels—Mary Leatherman. Pair linen towels —Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Rhoades. Pair linen towels—Eliza Teuter and mother. Pair linen towels —Mr. and airs. Jeff. Smith.

Linen splashes—Hattie and Nellie Hopkins. Linen towel—Bertha Psrcels. Pair linen towels—Belle Hughey. Three linen towels—L. Edie, Lerie O. and Rufus L. Wilson. Pair linen towels and SI.OO—J. C. F. Dutton and sister. Pair towels— Mrs. Tyler. Two chair throws —May Nowels, Table cloth —Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Brown, Cincinnati, Ohio. Table cloth—George E. Mitchell and Ora Wilcox.

Set table doileys- —Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Honan. Bed spread— Mr. and Mrs. Bruce White’ and sir. and Mrs. Joseph White. . . Bed spread —Mrs. Clara Eldridge, Mrs. Julia Moore. Center table— sir. and Mrs. B. F. Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Parkison. ‘ _ , Smith’s Bible Dictionary—J. H. June, and Mattie Sayler. Our Wedding Bells—Rev. F. Drake 1 The Scriptural Numbers. 7—Almira M. Stockton. Oil painting— Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Stewart and daughter. , . Table and table linen—Messrs and Mesdames Jay Williams, C. W. Postili, Robert Randle, J. T. Randle, Wallace Robinson, W. R, Nowels, C- D. Nowles, L. Strong, Mark Hemp-

hill, Joe Paxton, R. P. Benjamin, Charlie Spriggs, Ed Randle and Daisy Yeoman, Arthar Nowels and Coraf Wasson, Horace and Harvey Henklc Delma and Bertha Nowels, Dali Yeoman and Swaney Makeeyer, Mrs. Richardson and Airs Stockton, Maud Hemphill and Fanny Wood, Emma Kline and May Enslen, Eva Burk and Allie Paxton, James Chapman, Manda Israel, Blanche Alter and Ora Duvall, Bertha Alter and Ada Strong, Mrs. A. Parkinson, Emma Randle and Stella A. Parkinson.

Fine Dinner Set "96 pieces—Lizzie Faris, Mell Medicus, J. F. Warren and wife, H. “B. Murray and wife, Ella Cole, Rev. T. F. Dinice. .John Mnkeever and wife, E. L. Clark and daughters, J. M. Wasson, ,J. S. Grubb and Maud Benjamin, jFrank Osborne, Ben L. Sayler and wife, J. F. Antrim. M. F. Chilcote, B. A. Linville and wife.