Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1892 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Miss Mamie Williams has returned to her school at De Pauw University. Phillips’ Dramatic Company, aHhe ■ Opera House, to-night. Rev. H. V. Weaver now occupies D. L. Makeever’s house ou Main street. ‘ ... Boulevard silk umbrella. Chicago Bargain Store . Horace Peacock moved his family and harness shop to Wheatfield, last Saturday. Hear the “Little wonders” in their remarkable role as elocutionists. A girl baby to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Moor, wfiQ occupy the Monnett farm, east of town. The exterior of H. J. Rossbacher’s —Jewelry store has been improved byWhen you want a stylish new hat go and see. Ellis & Murray.

Anson Cox returned Wednesday of last week from o..se.yeral weeks visit in Lorenzo, I !1. Tom Swaim is now employed iu Issac Glazebrcok’s horse-shoeing-shop on Front street: A beautiful line of fancy goods to select from, at Hemphill &.Honan’s. Chas. Vick, the newsdealer, says he hangs his awning as he oasts his ballot, for the "R id, White "a id Blue.” C. H. Vick was admitted as a member ot the fire company at thier meeting Wednesday evening - of last week. i j ■ A job lot all kinds -of muslin unAderwear worthy any ladies attention. Chicago Bargain Store.

Henry 1. Adams is contemplating moving into town, and will .occupy the house ho lat dy purchased of Dr. F. P. Bitter s. ■ >*Dr. Alter was called to Fair O iks, Tuesday, to visit Tom Davison, who suffers severity from poor health, since ’ an attack of lagrippo four weeks ago. For Rent.—A small house, 5 rooms,one-half mile west of town. Plenty of land for garden adjoining. Enquire of R. W. Marshall. Newton Snodgrass, who moved to Hammond frbm this place about two - years ago, was in town Monday and. Tuesday, looking after his business in Jasper County.

Our spring stock of clothing is now ready for your inspection Ellis & Murray Our genial post-master has hung a sign in front ot the post-office, which he informs us is solid gold. We dislike to doubt the veracity of a man in such a position as Mr. Rhoades, and considering that the sign suffices for such a long-felt want, we really think it is worth its weight in golib Millinery for large ladies, little ladies and all the ladies, at Hemphill & Honan. At G. McDonald’s horse sale, which came off last Saturday afternoon, he succeeded in selling. about a dozen horses at prices ranging from $23 tb S4O. James Irwin, Geo. Ro! inson, Simon Phillips and Lyman Zea, were purchasers of a horse each.

H. J. Rossbacher will give away an elegant 2 Karat Diamond Ring, to the party knaking the nearest guess to the number of beans, put in the glass jar in his window. Buy a dollar’s worth of goods, and make a guess. '' ___ At the last Friday session of the Iroquois Club it was voted that a billiad table be placed in their meeting rooms, and that 10 cents an hoar be * charged for each cue. Each member of theclub if be provided a key to the meeting rooms. It was decided to haye theclub incorporated as a state instlttution and the Secretary of State was addressed regarding the matter.

Uncle Henry Smith has just given Judge Healy’s shoe-shop a fresh coat of green paint. New spring wraps at Ellis & Murrays. -- - - - Misses Blanch Braddock and Lulu Hutchison, students at De Pauw university, visited Dr. M. B. Alter’s family during the spring vacation. Farmers- —On plow shoes and boots, we will save you big money. Clear them out. L. Hopkins.

Harry Francisco, who a few ago. was a very popular conductor on the Monon Route, lately committed suicide, by shootinghimselfttiro i h the head. _,.,. ' " . Hustle to Zimmerman & Roberts for Spring suits. Don’t forget what we said last week on the subject of sugar-beet raising. C. S. Plumb, Lafayette, Ind':,-for free package of the seed and directions for raising.

The performances of the last three nights, by a thorough corps of actors las proven that they are worthy of the patronage of all. The Phillips Mrs. E. P. Hammond and daughter, Miss Angela, went to Indi inapotii Monday. Airs. Hammond went on, business connected with the Indiana Board of the World’s Fair. Reduced prices at the City Laundry: Collars, 2 cents each. Cuffs, 4 cents per pair. Ella Armstrong Prop. J. C. William has had a photograph gallery fitted up in the rooms in Leopold’s Arcade building, formerly occupied by Dr.. Kelley as a dental office. He will probably move iuto it to-morrow.

If your shoes are getting woTu or thin on the the soles, step in at Ellis & MufflTys and get a new pair. Bayard Clark is taking a two weeks lay off from his duties as conductor on L. an N. A. &C. freight tram. He has been suffering from a bad 5 cold and is hoping for an improvement in health.

•SaCKIIVX J.MVHDdHI’I •siaasoa ® nvkhhwkiz j M. P. Catlin, of Monon, who fires for Jim Hemphill, on the Duluth and Iron -Range. R- R...in...Wis, was in. Rensselaer Monday a id left Monday night to take his position on that road. Jim expects to leave about the 15th of April. A pretty, generous response to a collection taken for the benefit of Horace Peacock, whose household goods were so largely consumed at the late fire, partly recompensed him for the loss then sustained.

We are going to quit business. Liberal terms will be given to responsible parties. L. Hopkins. Verne, the six year old son of the editor of this paper, has been sick for ' some time with inflamation of the kidneys. The disease reached a desperately dangerous stage, the latter part of last week, but now his condition, is very much more hopeful, . The insurance companies promptly adjustski the losses from the late fire. E. L- Hollingsworth received $250 for his building, Mrs. Kannal about $172. A. F t Long received $250, J. C. Williams; the photographer, SIG 7. Scveralgopd young Norman and Clyde stallions; also good brood mares and colts, for sale on easy terms, or will exchange for other stock. . Laßue Bros.

A 'special meeting~6f Ihe'stbclcfiolders of the B.‘L. <fc S. Ass’n., was called for last Friday evening for the purpose of Dr. F. P. Bitters selling his property to Henry I. Adams, the latter assuming the mortgage of the B. L. 4 S.

Misses Anna Pearl Cogswell and I Lenna Parness two talented young ladies of Indianapolis will be at the Opera House April 9. Every lover , of literature and every admirer of elecution should hear them. . 'I in the neighborhood of one hundred persons attended a literary and social at the home of Mrs S. P. Thompson, on last Friday evening, given by the Ladies Literary Society. A pleasant program, refreshments and a general good time were features of the evening.

Alfred Thompson is sick with facial erysipelas." Lay in your fall supplies from what we have left - L. Hopkins. Bert Goff is spending the spring vacation at C. C. Sigler’s, near Deni otte.

Each ticket bought to the play of the Phillips’ Dramatic Co., secures a chance on the gold watch to be given away on Saturday night. Robert Vanatta returned with Will Hammond to the State University at Bloomington, last Saturday. There will be a sermon to men only, att 3Christian church, next Sunday at '3:00 o’clock, p. m. Muslin underwear cheaper than you can buy the muslin by,the yd. Chicago Bargain Store? A 6 months baby of Conrad Hildebrand died this morning at 3 o'clock, from catarrhal fever. Uncle Sol Wells is conyalesceni from a week’s illness, the result of a bad cold contracted while out of town.

Mr. W. N. Jonas went to Francisville AVeilnesdayYb^SaWK^teFxJf ; registered horses for Priest and Applegate. ] \ Nelse McGinnis and Ike Wilshire, from the Nelson Morris ranch, occupied Uy C. C. Sigler, ,s pent Sunday in Rensselaer. The very dangerous illness of a member of the editor’s family has almost entirely prevented him giving to the pap'-r, t ils week? which fucJJiis considerably-,’delayed its publication.

Any person wishing to invest or borrow money Call and see me, at my office, Rensselaer Bank, 1 B. F. Ferguson. Drs. I. B. Washburn and V.E. Loughridge went to Chicago, Tuesday morning, to attend the annual alUmniof the Rush Medical college of whichtfhey graduates. The only place in town for the Boulevard silk umbrellas that willoutwear a common twilled silk. Chicago Bargain Store. George Hollingsworth, Joe Hammond, Ira Washburn, Frank Wood, James Chapman, Harvey Kannal, and Chamberlain-aie latest purchasers of safety bicycles. We will give fall datings to om;responsible customers on all fall and winter goods. Now is your chance. L. Hopkins.

Mrs. Purcupile returned " Monday from Logansport, where she visited the bedside of her husband. Mr. Purcupileds still very sick, but not so dangerously so as last week. Do you need any clover Ortimothy seed this spring? if you do, go to Nowels Bros & Co. for it. Try their mill feed. They deliver it any place intown.

Farmers! you can get as nice in ea made out of your corn at the feed storetas anyone needs. Bring it along. & Cox. Zimmerman & Roberts have now opened their new Merchant Tailoring establishment and will carry a full stock of Foreign and Domestic piece goods; having bought the»f stock from exclusively woolen wholesilers. enables them to furnish suits, fancy vests, pantaloons, spring over coats, etc at prices to suit purchasers.

Chas. Chaniberlftin, Kirg Spitler and Harvey Kannal took the first bicycle round-trip to Fair Oaks, Wednesday. The total distance was 25 mites and the boys made the trip in 3| hours. ! Splendid time considering the number 'of cattle guards, bridges, etc., they • hftd to walk over. i Don’t miss your only opportunity ■of seeing those wonderful juvenile I performers at the Opera House, Apr. 19.

We learn from a Fort Myers, Fla., paper, thaFbn March 22, our townsman D. J. Thompson landed a tarpon fish, 6ft. l|in. in length and weighing 133 lbs. The fiih was caught by rod and reel, and was the second to the largest caught during the week ending March 22. After hooking the fish it required Mr. Thompson one hour and forty minutes time to land it Mr. Thompson sent Joe Hardman one of the scales of his famous tarpon, which is about 2f inches in diameter.

Frank Jacks, who occupies A. McCoy’s farm in Hanging Grove township, is suffering from an attack of lung fever. Oh! Those imported pantaloons, they r are elegant, at Zimmerman it Roberts. Miss Addie Wood, of Battle Ground, is visiting her brother Henry Wood and other relatives in R msselaef and vicinity. See the unequalled whip and gesture drills of the little performers, April 9th.

A. B. Robbins, 3| miles south of ; DeMotte, will maki? a public sale, j Wednesday, April 17th, selling a considerable quantity of livestock, a very complete outfit of farming implements, household goods Ac. He intends moving to 10-va. extracted painlessly without em charge by Dr. Raber Saturday Apr. 2, at Makeover HouaeV.The 'doctor will make regular trips t<» Rensselaer hereafter, dates published in due time. All but atyotrt fifty of the five hundred shares of the new series of i Building and Loan have bean subjSbnbed for, and a meeting of the 'stock-holders will be held in Austin i <fc Hopkins’ law office, to-night-. The j stock- hoklets are all requesled to be i present, as the business to be trans--1 acted will be of importance to each j stock-holder.

Indiana has every reason to be pround of her authors, statesmen, public schools and her orators. The reason is obvious, because her citizens take great interest in training the children. Come and hear two of Indinasa’ remarkable young ladies at the Opera House, April 9. Miss Ida Ricketts, who has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. James Leatherman and Miss Mary Leatherman at Rensselaer, left yesterday morning for Illinois, where she will visit at several points, after which she will return to her home in Dakota. She was accompanied to Chicago by Mrs. JameS snd Miss Mary Leatherman.

J. A. Sharp moved into his new house on Weston street, Tuesday. It is—a raihtr iinujmM'TTfcuTOStßTire-; that a house is completed a d nady. for occupancy so,early jh die season as this, in this latitude. ; The Methodist Protest mts closed a i i series of meetings at Fair Oaks J#»<t ISII nda v. with twenty :tcre.-s'ons. R.• v, i Vice of Rose Bud Chapel he.d the I meetings. On Sunday a chinch was organized and Miss Ella Warren appointed Cla?s leaden The class will be kept up by prayer meetings, bocials, etc.

“In the spring lime when the birds begin losing.” "Their mellow notes, from their yellow throats” “Then the woodlands with music ring.” Send your wife to Hemphill Honan’s lor a new bonnett. II in Verse ll.'

The bicycle owners have organized a club, and signed a petition not to run on the north sideof Washington street from the Makeover Louse to Liberal corner, and on the s m'h side of the same street, from A.,McCoy’ & Co’s, bank to the Rensselaer bank; The petition wss accepted by the Town Board at their Monday session. Rev. N. F. Jenkins of Coudiapu wiy deliver his illustrated lecture. ‘’The ' saloon tree and the.JFruELil bears,” I on Tuesday, April stl», at thvAl isaioui ary Baptist church commencing at 7 :- ' 30 p. >?. This lecture is highly rccomj mended and deserves a liberal patronage Admittance free, with the* exception of ft silver collection which will be taken at the door. I K'S ' Miss Stacy Cronon,, who w ith her parents formerly lived in Rensselaer visited. Miss Maggie Healy last I week, returning to Indianapolis Sunday. Many of our citizens will remember Morgan Cronon, her father, and regret to learn of his death, which | oocured about two years ago. The seven sisters all reside in Indianapolis, and are engage i i virio n occupations, and their brother Mike is j conductor on a passenger train, bc- ■ tween Indianapolis and Vincennes.

Those talented children Ann i Pearl : CcgSTcll and Te i-ny I . will Opera. _ h-nse April 9. will be ably S’" p"lb I ■ - f 'ho '■ VOCal r Wid iiib’ruiSrntal talent ohta'mable. ' Orders arb; coming fast, don’t allo« Very body to get ahead of you. .ZiMMiRMAN & Roberts. ■ • 'O;T TO-sla^~eVr; ff ■. g-ntxntt sixty--- , friends of Dr. Mary E. Jackson, 1 mostly members of th-i W. R. C. and ' their hushrnds, rm t at the G. A. R. hall to pa> bike in another social event prior' to Mrs Jackson’s departure. The. Ih-aly O:c‘te<ra ftumished excel-

lent music all th ; evening. Games were placed arid refreshments served. Mr< R. W. Marshall presented to Dr. Jackson h» b< half of the W. R. C. ladies a gold recognition pin with the initiii's and number of the Reroselaer corps. Spe< ches were made by Mrs. .Btvks.on, and Comrades, R. W. Marshad. J. W. Williams and others*, all e xpressing regrets that Mrs. Jackson’s dcfwiture was so hear nt hand.