Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1892 — Seed Buckwheat for Sale. [ARTICLE]

Seed Buckwheat for Sale.

Farmers desiring to sow buckwheat can obtain good seed at the Rensselaer Mill at the low* price of 60 cents per bushel. 41-4 t Rensselaer Milling Co.

Mrs. Dr. Deming and her son did not arrive home from Florida last week, as expected. They are now resting at Chattanooga,. Tenn. They are both in such poor health as so be compelled to make frequent stops on their way home. Paily papers at P. O. at 35cts. per month. Gillam township schools held their graduating exercises last Saturday evening, at Independence church, with an immense audience present. The graduates were Misses Mollie Raybum and Minnie Lebold. There are 64 roll-of-honor pupils in Gillam tp., this year, and ten silver star pupils. These are the last graduating exercises of the year. Jersey bull calf for sale at a bargain. Call at Hemphill & Honan. The Rensselaer Brass Band was reorganized on Monday evening. It consists of ten members with John Healy as leader. The members are viz. John Healy, J. A. Hubertz, L. F. Hopkins, Ludd Hopkins, Geo. Hopkins, B. K. Zimmerman, Jay Zimmerman, C. H. Vick, Chas. W. Rhoades and Chas. Morlan. Examine Williams’ ten cent coun - ter. for bargains. The court docket for the present term is very light, and the pettit jury is not called until the last week of the term and the grand jury not at all. The court evidently took judicial cogrtizsnce of the fact that the farmers need very minute they can get just now, in planting an d cultivating their corn.

Carpets ! We will discount them all on carpets this spring. I. J. Porter successor to L. Hopkins. This present term of the Jasper circuit <eoart seems likely to beat the record in the matter of divorces. There are already five cases of that nature on the docket, and two or three more impending. One of the latest begun is that of Mary J. Harris against William Harris, both of Rensselaer. The grounds of the complaint are abandonment and failure to provide. Williams don’t Want the earth, but he does want the people to know that he has the.largest stock of furniture and carpets, in Jasper county. - The deferred graduation exercises of Carpenter tp., were held last Thursday evening, at the Jones School house. The graduates were: Cora Longwell, subject, “No Excel - lence Without Labor;” Minnie Goss, “The World’*, Columbian Exposition;” May Dodge, “The Indians of the United States;’’ Robert Russell, was’entitled to graduate, but was not present. The diplomas were presented by Superintendent Warren. The exercises were extended by declamations, -essays, music, Ac.

Farmers 1 you can get as nice meal made out of your corn at the feed store as anyone needs. Bring it along. Dexter & Cox.

A saloon keeper at Carlisle, Pa., a few days ago was fined SSOO and costs, and sent to jail for three months, for selling liquor to one of the pupils of the Indian school there. The Federal laws forbid, under yery severe penalties, the selling of liquor to any Indians, inside as well as outside of their reservations. Our saloon-keep-eraand any others who handle liquor, will do well to remember this fact, or they may fare as badly as the Carlisle saloonist did.

Any person wishing to invest or borrowmoney Call and see me, at my office, Rensselaer Bank, v B. F. Ferguson. Mairiago licenses issued since last reported.

| Ezra R. Hershman, I Nora C. Cooper. J Christie H. Vick, / - J Allie Tyler. J Jesse D. Allman. ( Mayme L. Hawkins. * j Samuel F. Wood, j Bertha Peregrine. ’ j George W. Fntz, » > ( Mary L. Nowels. j Charles E. Robinson? < ( Jennie Long. (Lee Jessup, ( Amanda E. Smith.

E. W. Bohannan, principal of the Pekin, 111., high schools, is here looking after the chances for the school He brings? some excellent recommendations. ~ Friends of Miss Mollie Babcock surprised her last Thursday by presenting her with a very fine invalid’s wheel chair, and she was able to go out in it Sunday and get her first taste of out-door air since last October. She has been very poorly all but for the last month has improved somewhat. Several good young Norman and Clyde stallions; also good brood mares and colts,forsale on easy erms, or will exchange for other ttock. Laßue Bros.

Special Ch ild ren’s Day services will be held at the Presbyterian church, next .Sunday morning. The children are expected to be all present by 10:40 a.m. Preparations are being made to make it a pleasant and profitable occasion for them. The evening services will be under the auspices of the Sunday School. Charles- Vick <fc Son, the news dealers are authorized agents of this paper. They will be glad to furnish you any paper or magazine published. You wil| find them at Signal-Flag Pole. The Odd Fellows of Rensselaer are making preparations for a fitting observance of Odd Fellows’ Memorial Day, which is June 14th. The Rebekah lodge will be invited to participate, and also the Odd Fellows of various neighboring towns, as Remington, Wheatfield, Mt. Ayr and Monon. The day has never been observed in Rensselaer.

Capt M. F. Chilcote, delegate to the Republican National Convention now in session at Minneapolis, left for that city last Friday. The good Captain felt some considerable reluctance, to starting on Friday, the Great Unlucky, having, no doubt, some inward premonitions that some ill-luck would result from it; and sure enough, the very next day, Secretary Blaine flew the track and resigned his position as secretary of the United States. Nothing like Friday for bad luck.

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 A Honan. Our neighboring county of White is all torn up over a court house fight. One element wants a new court house, right away, while another wants the old one patched up for a year or two. Judge Reynolds, of the White circuit court, favors the former view while the county commissioners are on the other side. Lately Judge Reynolds took matters into his own hands and condemned the old building as unsafe and unfit, and under the name of repai's has contracted for a virtually new building at the cost of 134,700. The commissioners have kicked against this action of the judge and have ordered the county auditor to draw no warrants for paying for the new but Id ng and the treas «rer, to f»ay none if drawn Its a very pretty light. “In the spring time when the birds begin to sing.” “Their mellow notes, from their yellow throats.” “Then the woodlands with music rings. Send yourwife to Hemphill & Honan’s for a new bonnett. II in Verse 11. .....

The chief motive power for the machinery at the world’s fair will be supplied by a gigantic engine of the quardruple expansion type. It will be of between 3,000 and horse •power. Compared with this, engine the big Corliss that was exhibited at the Centennial exposition is almost a, dwatf. the Corliss was considered one of the wonders of the exposition, but its builder rated it at only 1,400 horse power, or less than' half of this one. It is a rather remarkable coincidence, by the way, that this identical big CorlisS, the great engine of the Centennial, is now at Pullman, 111., driving the Machinery of the Pullman Car Works, and within a very few miles of Jackson Park, where its bigger rival of the Columbian ex posit ion w ill he ex hib i - ted.

Nowels Bros. Jr Co. report the local market prices as follows: Wheat 78c., Rye 60c., Corn 40c., Oats 28 and 30c., Hay $3 to $7. k . Hammond Bros., are headquarters for bicycles and tricycles. - An ugly looking cloud which passed directly over town, Monday evening, was thought by its observers to be an aerial cyclone, or more correctly, a tornado. Something similar was also seen last week. It often happens., that tornados fbrm in the clouds and spend their force without reading the earth; but it still more frequently happens, no doubt, that vicious looking but really harmeless clouds, hur - ried and tumbled along by the wind, are taken for tornados, when they are nothing of the kind. Ladies. We have laid in a handsome 1 ne of cloth top shoes in lace 1 and button. Also a line of low shoes the. finest in the land; come and see them. Hemphill & Honan.

Monday evening, during the thunder Shower then prevailing, the lightning struck an ash or box-elder tree, in the street in front of Dr. Loughridee’s vacant lot, fronting on Cullen street, nearly opposite the Makeever House. The tree was broken and splintered at the top, and Lhe trunk, for about 6 feet from the ground, was completely denuded of bark. The crash of the thunder and blinding flash of the lightning caused great alarm to the inmates of the hotel. Simultaneously with lighting stroke the electric lights all over town grew very dim, and in some cases blinked out entirely fo r an instant In a barn about 50 feet from the tree was a horse belonging to Mr. Geer. The horse was probably very severely shocked, Judging from its appearance and actions the next morning.

A brief but exciting runaway occured Monday afternoon. One of the lay brothers from the Catholic farm was in town, with a road cart, drawn by the already noted runaway horse belonging to the College. He left the horse in front of Laßnes’ store, fastened only by the lines thrown over a salt barrel. The horse pulled loose and began to run immediately, and had got under pretty near full speed, when the driver, a man of marvellous speed and agilty.Yan out of the store, overhauled the horse, and caught it by the bridle. He clung to the horse with wonderful courage and grit, until he was dragged diagonally across the width of the two streets and clear to the chain hitching rack, on the west side of the public square. The horse was brought to a stand-still, and although the brother was, seemingly, run against the chain with great force, he kept his grip on the horse and reported himself unhurt. It Was a mighty dangerous experience he had, though.