Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1891 — CORRESPONDENCE. [ARTICLE]

CORRESPONDENCE.

D UNN VILLE ITEMS Mrs. Sands is reported as being very sick. George Dunn came home from DePauw, to spend Thanksgiving. J. W. Mannan has had his pension increased; Milton White, of Clayton, was visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J, H. White, last week. The snow that fell Saturday is making a very unpleasant time for the rabbits, judging by the nuinbeF that are brought to town. The teachers of Kankakee Tp. attended the Teacher’s Association at Rensselaer, last Saturday. They report a very pleasant time. Frank Huffman is handling a number of veals, this winter. He must be gaining in wealth as he got enough ahead to take a pleasure trip Thanksgiving. Old Harper.

UNION ITEMS. —Too late for last week. Considerable sickness prevails in the township. Aunt Katie Gilmore was buried at Rensselaer on Monday. Young Wm. Hurley is convalescent. Glen. Alter is very low with rheumatic fever. Mattie McColly has sore throat and a gathering in the ear. August Makus is prostrated with rheumatism. A. E. Pierson has built an addition to his house. J- E. Alter has moved into his house.'

Almost every neighbor building new corn cribs. Hay is on the boom but almost every farmer has a little to sell. The farmers have their corn pretty well cribbed. Corn is turning out well. Winter wheat has been damaged by the drought but still bids well for a fine crop next year. Farmers in general seem to have plenty of potatoes, onions, cabbage, turnips etc. laid up for winter use. The great rain storms of the season have for the past week. Ponds are partially Tilled with water thereby making stock " water sure for the winter. The roads are in rather poor condition. Bill Bat. KEMINOTON ITEMS. The Thanksgiving sermon by Rev. John Crozier from the pulpit of the the Christian church, was an excellent one, replete with good thoughts, well expressed and well delivered. He was ably assisted in the services of the hour by Rev. A. H. DeLong and Elder Rodman of the Methodist and Christian churches respectively. Mrs. Peter Crumm is visiting Miss M. P. BoHes, Mrs. W. B. Price and other friends in this place and community. Mrs. A. H. DeLong, who has been in attendance for several weeks past upon a sister, who has been seriously sick with typhoid fever in Chicago, returned last Monday bringing her sister with her.

Mr. H. Hostetter, a student in Wabash College, visited Miss M. A. Johnson last week. A tramp, wet, wearied and disconsolate, dazed and unable to give any intelligent account of himself, came to Mr. Frank Babcock’s door last Saturday morning. He had wandered all night through the storm and darkness and was in a pitable condition. Mr. Babcock warmed and fed him, then brought him to town to Trustee Roadifer. It was ascertained through the day that he was an inmate of the poor house, who had escaped from that institution, and he was sent back there on Saturday afternoon.

A number of our energetic teacheis braved the snow and rain and attended the County Institute in Rensselaer last Friday and Saturday. They felt amply repaid for going. Please remember the fair to be held by the ladies of the Methodist church on the afternoon and evening of Thursday, Dec. 10. The schools throughout Carpenter township will give entertainments on Friday of this week, in the interest of Indiana’s exhibit in the World’s Fair. The exercises will be patriotic in character and will probably be interesting. The two weddings mentioned in the items of last week were solemnized <on Thursday evening last, Rev. A. H. DeLong officiating in both instances. We refer to the nuptials of Frederick Vincent and Mias Lillie Ream—Albert Kyle and Mias Lois Wilcox. , Hon O.' P. Tabor and family moved into their handsome,- commodious and convenient new residence on Thanksgiving day. Luther and Alice Patton, Merril Fisher and Fannie Jones, went back to Purdue Monday morning. The ladies of the Christian church gave a supper on Thanksgiving evening, which brought them in the snug

little sum of sixty-five dollars. It was well attended, ana everybody had a good time. Miss Flora Hollett, who came home to spend Thanksgiving, will return to DePauw this week. Mrs. S. C. Maxwell, who has been visiting with relatives and numerous friends in this place and vicinity for the past five or six weeks, returned to her home in Duluth, last Monday. Dr. and Mrs. Maxwell and their family have many warm friends in this place, who will always welcome them gladly. . The exercises in the Methodist church on Sunday evening last, were very interesting. They were in the interests of the Southern Educational Society and consisted of' good and appropriate music by the choir and congregation, a solo by Miss Flora Hollett, a paper by Prof. J. C. Dickerson, on Education and Citizenship, and a few remarks by the pastor Rev. A. H. DeLong. As before remarked, the music, the solo, the paper and the remarks were all especially good. Mrs. D. W. Peck and Mrs. Harry Hartley entertained a number of friends in a handsome manner on Monday evening, at the pleasant home of the latter on Ohio street. — Dr. and Mrs. J. Rainsey arrived last Saturday evening after a pleasant visit with friends in Hanover. Cincinnati and New Albany. Congressman D. H. Patton leaves his week fur Washington, where he will enter upon his new and most responsible position and its duties. Remingtonian.