Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1892 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]
TOWN AND COUNTRY.
Harry Zimmerman will return to Meadville, Pa., to-day. The W. C. T. U., will meet at Mrs. J. F. Irwin’s, next Saturday, at 2:30 P. M. Notice the Bargain Store’s big ‘ad.” on inside page. A son Tuesday morning to Mr. and Mrs. Homer Hopkins, across the river. Qur spring stock of clothing is now ready for your inspection Ellis & Murray The April term of the Benton circuit court began at Fowler, this week. ' Millinery for large ladies, little ladies and all the ladies, at Hemphill & Honan.
Mrs. J. D. Clement, of Chicago, is visiting her sister, Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth. Goodland now has a promising Rebekah degree Lodge, instituted Wednesday evening, of last week. Daily papers at P. O. at 35cts. per month. The town marshal has been doing some good work lately on the town streets with the big 4 horse grader. Carpets! We will discount them all on carpets this spring. > I. J. Porter successor to L. Hopkins. Geo. Cox has sold his interest in the flour, feed and fuel business of Dexter & Cox, to his father James H. Cox.
J. T. Hemphill left last Friday for Duluth, to begin his summer’s engineering on the Duluth <fc IronMountain railroad. Plymouth Rocks: —Pure bred Barred Plymouth Rocks hen’s eggs, for sale. N. Warner. Miss Belle Hughey has returned *rom her protracted stay at Ravenswood, 111., and resumed the dress- > ing business. lillinery opening this week at Hemphill & Honan s. Ladies cordially invited. Mel M. Makeever dropped off the train yesterday for a two days visit with friends. He has been to New York state on a business trip. Dexter & Cox will sell you a nice grade of meal and Graham flour. Many farmers report considerable losses from the rotting of seed oats, sown before the late heavy rains and succeeding cold spell.
See Bargain Store’s half page advertisement, in this issue. I. J. Porter, the new owner of the Ludd Hopkins store, together with his salesman, Louis Hopkins, will go to Chicago to-day, to buy goods for fully re-stocking the store. New spring wraps at Ellis & Murrays. Farmers! On plow shoes and boots we will save you big money. I. JPorter successor to L. Hopkins. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Soucie, of the Trade Palace, visited their home place St. Anne, 1 IL, last week. Mr. Soucie reports that the beet sugar factory movement is still working towards a successful conclusion.
Clarence carpet warp. : Chicago Bargatx Stobe. Marriage licenses issued since last reported. > ( John N. Salrin, | Bartha E. PetteL J Milo Tuttle, | Belle Barnes. On Sunday, April 17, Elder D. J. Huston, of Good land will preach at the First Baptist Church of Rensselaer, morning and evening. Pastor McGuire will be absent on a visit to the Baptist cnurch at Anderson, Ind. If your shoes are getting worn or thin on the the soles, step in at Ellis A Murrays and get a new pair.
1 A Hyearoldson of Wm. Snedeker, of Barkley tp., came to town Tuesday, with a thumb badly mashed, in a sawmill. Dr. V. E. Loughridge amputated thn irijffw>d ~ Read the big Bargain Store’s big advertisement on another page. The latest heard from Mrs. Floy Powell Martin, at Washington, she was improving fast from her extremely dangerous sickness, from puerperal fever and blood poisoning. * Wanted :—An experienced girl for general house work. Apply at Hemphill de Honan’s store.
The Rensselaer Division, Uniform Rank, K. of P., has voted to attend the next annual meeting of the K. P. Grand Lodge, which will be held at Kansas City, tae first week in August. . Next Sunday being Easter, low mass Will be celebrated at the Catholic church, at 8 a. m., and solemn high mass at 10 o’clock. Services will be held at 9 a m., Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week; and on Friday evening will be given, a lecture.
Dr. Mary E. Jackson, now of Hammond, lately of Rensselaer, will be at the Makeever house next Wednesday, April 20, from 7 o’clock a. m. until "p” m . to prescribe for. >atients and to settle accounts. Preaching service at the Presbyterian church, next Sunday, 10:45 a. m., Subject, “The Nature of the Resurrection Body.” In the evening a Stereopticon service will be given with views illustrating the “Resurrection and Ascension of ,Christ.” Those "Who expect comfortable seats must come early.
D. J. Thompson arrived home Saturday night from his winter’s stay in Florida. Ham Wood, of Winamac, who has bepn with him, xeturned at the same time. Mr. Thompson is distributing among his friends, as souvenirs, scales of the 134 pound tarpon he caught with a rod and reel on Mar. 22, with date and place of catching, weight and length of fish, and time required to reel him in, (1 hour and 30 minutes.)
The Monon Route booms on and boom ever. It has jupt been made the' Chicago outlet to several southern lines, and, Manager McDoel has been given permission to spread himself to any extent in the matter of improvements. New heavy engines are already contracted for, new bridges under way, new construction trains being put on, ballasting of the road completed, and more heavy street rails put down.
M. E. Industrial Society will give a fair and supper in connection, evening of the 19 th of April. The Elocutionary Recital, by Misses Leuna and Anna Pearl Cogswell, at the Opera House, last Saturday evening, under the auspices of the Order of the Eastern Star, was a very enjoyable entertainment, and open to no serious criticism except perhaps, that the program was a little too long, and that the selections given contained an unnecessarily large element of the horrible and the heartrending. Misses Harness and Cogswell are certainly marvellous elocutionists for such young children.
D exer <fc Cox will sell you flour at a bragain. 4 Again we remind our readers of the great advisibility of giving sugarbeet culture a thorough test this season, and that C. S. Plumb, director the Agricultural experiment Station at Latayette, is prepared to furnish sugar beet seed free of charge to farmers who will agree to follow the directions of culture, that an intelligent test of the profitableness of the industry may be made. So many experimenters in the past it is said have entirely neglected to follow directions that the sugar beet interests of the state are injured rather than aided by men growing beets under improper conditions, as beets so grown are invariably bad and the results are mis leading and to the disadvantage of the industry in the State. Send for some seed and sow and cultivate according to directions.
N. V. Snodgrass, of Hammond, bought and shipped some thirteen hundred dozen eggs in Rensselaer week before last, and last week about ihtrsame Subscriptions for the The Republican taken by J. E. Spitler at P. 0., without extra charge. W. J. Knight, wno acted as engineer on the captured train oh that celebrated episode of the war, Andrews’ Raid, gave his personal recollection of that thrilling event, at the Opera House, on ’Wednesday evening of last week, under the auspices of the G. A. R. post. He had a fairly good house, You will find at the feed store, choice grades of feed. Call and see Dexter <fc Cox.
Wm. Moore, Who lives on the Almira Monnett farm, a little east of town, met with a serious loss Monday night. His three work horses got upon the railroad track and two were killed and the other injured; the last, not so badly but that it will recover. Mr. Moore is a poor man, with a large family, and the loss to him is a very serious matter. The gate through which the horses got upon the track is the same through which J. T. Randle’s cattle passed and were kiilcdya year or two ago. —-———
Z. A good new safe, a refrigerator and an oil-tank for sale cheap. Laßue Bros. Sheriff Blue escorted Joseph Conrad to the northern pen, Monday, where he will remain for one year, less one month’s good time if he behaves him self. He was sent to work in the cooper shop, where most of the stout follows get j obs. He made a good face over the matter, and graciously offered to let the Sheriff take his place if he wanted to, agreeing to make proper return of the papers. Walter Daywitt, the only other rep-' resentative from this county, is working in the chair factory. At the same job is the notorious W. Fred Pettit, the wife murderer, whom Sheriff Blue closely scrutinized and pronounces to be “a mean-looking d—l.’’ Carpet warp 18 cts. Hf. foh,fc‘olors. Chicago Bargain Store.
An important business change was consummated last week. It was the sale of the L. Hopkins store, (the stock and business not the building) to I. J. Porter, from a few miles south of town. Invoicing was completed Friday, and the property is now in Mr. Porter’s possession. He will move into town as soon as he can make a sale of his live stock and farming outfit. He has had experience in the merchandising line, although it was some time ago. Louis Hopkins, who has so ably managed the business since his father’s death, will remain in charge of the store unti! Mr. Porter comes totown and gets the run of the business. r Ladies. We have laid in a handsome ine of cloth top shoes in lace and button. Also a line of low shoes the finest in the land; come and see them. Hemphill & Honan.
An agent of the L. N. A. & C. Ry, was in town Monday and paid to County Treasurer Hemphill $875.93 as taxes. This represents the April installment of the company’s taxes in this county, figured on the basis of its own valuation, being very much less than the valuation by the State Tax Commissioners. Judge Field, general solicitor for the company, has prepared the papers to file an injunction suit in the Lake county Circuit. Court, to enjoin treasurers of co,unties through which the road passes against collecting taxes in excels of the valuation as rendered by the company, which they believe to be fair and just. The case will be set for hearing April 18, and the treasurers of all counties* through whicn the road passes are included as defendants.’ JudgJ-Field states that the assessments made in the different counties increase the taxes of the L., N. A. AC. over former years $60,000, and the question as to the legality of the increase will, if necessary, be carried to the United States Supreme Court, as questions are involved which the federal, ar well as the State courts, must act upon. . .
j The Chicago News says that Percy Taylor, formerly of this place now in England looking after a legacy, has purchased $15,000 worth of race-horses which he shipped to Chicago. He has long been interested in a racing stable in Chicago. Daily papers at P. O. including Sunday at 50 cts. per month. Mrs. J. N. Cheek, of Greencastle, whose husband was killed in the Monon wreck at- Crawfordsville, has received $5,500 damages from the comW'-'> pany. No settlement has been made in the case of Melvin McKee, the company claiming that he died of heart disease.
Any person wishing to invest or borrow money Call and see me, at my office, Rensselaer Bank. B. F. Ferguson. Reports from various parts of the county are to the effect that the wheat prospect is unusally good, and especially is this said to be the case in Barkley tp.% where, according to the opinions of experienced observers, the crop scarcely ever looked better at this time of the year.
For Rent.—A small house, 5 rooms,one-half mile west of town. Plenty of land for garden adjoining. Enquire of R. W. Marshall. Henry Granger, of Keener tp., has been employed by Nelson Morris, to protect his timber along the Kankakee river in the northern part of this county. He has a fine steam launch to patrol the river with. Sheriff Blue has appointed Mr. Granger a Deputy Sheriff, so that he now has full authority to arrest violators of the law.
A beautiful line of fancy goods to select from, at Hemphill & Honan’s. Jonathan Peacock and his granddaughter, Miss Mary Peacock, arrived home last Wednesday night, from their winter’s visit in Pennsylvania. Their last visiting place was at Johnstown, the scene of the great flood of two year; ago. They report that town, as having fully recovered from the effects of that great disaster, and being finer and more prosperous than before its occuren co.
When you want a stylish new hat go and see. Ellis & Murray. Dr. Clymer has developed a stone quarry upon his Jasper county farni, onthe South Remington road. He says there is an exhaustless quantity of hard limestone that will make first.■J. ’ . ' ; -—— - —— class roads. Only a limited amount of the stone has been taken out, but the samples exhibited in town show it to be of a superior quality. Stone roads are the roads of the future.— Goodland Herald.
Lime and cement at the feed store. Dexter <fc Cox. I \ C. E. Mills has bought two entire blocks, of the Rensselaer Land and Improvement Co. in Weston’s Addition, north of the railroad, and intends to build himself a good residence thereon this fall. He has already arranged to drain them by constructing a’big tile drain, opening into Makemself ditch. The draining is to be done jointly with the Improvement company, which will drain several blocks of their property, at the same time.
In purchasing spectacles do not patroniz traveling doctors or optit cians, as every few of them are hon- ] est or competent and are pretty apto sell inferior'goods, at very high prices. Dr. I. B. Washburn Las a’ fine test case of lenses and will order i you the very best of glasses, in such ; frames as you wish, at; very reasonable rates. ft I The new chemical fire engine ar-! ♦ I rived last Friday and is now all, charged and ready for service. It is . a fine, handsome machine, and will, • no doubt, prove a splendid instrument for fighting fire. The machine cost (700 and the old engine. With the machine, as a compliment to Fire Chief Honan, the company it was purchased of sent free of charge, (150 worth of attachments. Including ladders, hooks, and two hand extinguishers. With this fine machine, and our large and well equipped hook and ladder trucks, and all managed by our well trained and always zealous fire company, Rensselaer is surely pretty well fixed for fighting fires.
At last accounts received Mr. Gifford’s big steam dredge was almost completed and ready to begin its mighty task of draining Haddick’s Mill Pond; and the many smaller swampsand sloughs, adjacent thereto. As before stated, the dredge was put together on Stumps Slough, near Boston’s bridge, somewhere near the line between Gillam and Walker tps. The defdgeis an immense and powerful affair, and when in operation will float in the ditch it itself has dug. Behind the dredge will float another huge structure, baling a two-story boarding house, for I the men who operate the dredge. It will operate the dredge md besides, these, Mr. Gifford has quitu. a number engaged in cutting timber, grubbing stumps &c., and when he ready to begin putting in the miles of tile drain contempleted, his force of men will be very much increased. It is
a great enterprise Mr. Gifford is enengaged in, and he seems, beyond question, to have plenty of means and plenty of ability to carry it to a successful conclusion. Clarence carpet warp, cheaper than you ever bought it. Chicago Bargain Store. Gentlemen. Our fine shoes have arrived. The most stylish and best value for the money, We have ever carried. If you want to be “In It’ come to us. Hemphill & Honan.
The news of the failure of W. J. lines, at Monon, was received here last week and his misfortunes were universally regretted. He passed many years of active business in Rensselaer and gained and kept the good will of all by his genial and accommodating disposition and strict business integrity. At Monon he has been engaged in the drug business,, banking , and he has also been township trustee, being serving his second term, when he made his assignment last week. He theu resigned the office and the county commissioners appointed his successor. The. direct cause of the faifrire is said tQ have a run on bis bank, caused by the beginning of a suit in the White circuit court to have the estate of a deceased bondsman released from his official bond. The ultimate cause however, is probably to be found in the saying,
‘•too many irons m the fire.” <£hat there has been any intentional crookedness in the business, as has been hinted in certain sources, the people of Rensselaer will be very slow to believe. The Monticello papers estimate the extent of Mr. Imes’ liabilities at (12,000 and his assets at (IL--000. His bank was originally started as one of the Dwiggins Syndicate banks, but afterwasds became solely the property of Mr. Imes.
; A rather smooth and no doubt successful method adopted by some concerns for raking in reluctant stickles, is by publishing arithmetical or other puzzles and conundrums of such obviously easy solution that 99 persons in a hundred tumble to the right answer at the first glance. Elegant prizes are offered (and perhaps some times awarded) to the first, second, third and fourth correct answers received; such as a line pianos, gold watches &c. A certain Canadian''';publication is the leading worker of this, scheme just now. Their latest prob’em, briefly expressed is this; A can cut down a I tree in 60 minutes; B can down the .same tree in 30 minutes. How many ; minutes will it take for both working together? Every person answering \ must send 30 cents in stamps, for a piece of music and copy of the publication— and therein is the milk in ; that cocoa-nut—lt is the little 30
cents they are after. They are good fellows to let alone. $1:23 buys the best plow shoe for the money in the county. I. J. Porter successor to L. Hopkins. Last Friday was a cold day, but not cold enough for A. Leopold and the new Oklahoma to get left. Three lots sold to Wm. Bull, of Barkley tp.. was the record for that day. ’Mr. Bull has wisely concluded to move to Rensselaer and take life easy the bal-
ance of his days. He will build this fall. Philip McElfresh, from a mile or two east of town, has acquired four lots iii the same booming subdivision, and intends to build this fall and move to town. So also we understand, does his brother William, who has two lots, J. F. Iliff,- present trustee of Barkley tp., is still another recent purchaser, in the same addition, he having three lots. He also talks of building this fall, and becoming a welcome resident of Rensselaer. JolinMacklonburg, who now lives in Chas. Ramp’s house, has two lots and will build thereupon, this spring. John Graves, of Wheatfield, lawyer, justice, auctioneer and geqerql hustler, completes the list» for this time. He has bought one lot and in case of certain contingences, will also become a resident of this town.