Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1892 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

George Cor is visiting a brother at •Joliet, Hi . Miss Mollie Babcock is now boarding with Mrs. Ella Armstrong. * Miss Sallie Clark, of South Chicago, listhe guest of Miss Bessie Bates. A beautifulline of fancy goods to select from, at Hemphill & Honan. Mrs. E. P'. Hammond and daughter. - Nena, went to South Bend, Tuesday. Examine Williams’ ten cent eounter. for bargains. Mrs. Nellie'Learning, of Goshen, -i-s Visiting her home folks, M. L. Spitler and femily. Call and see Mrs: Lecklider’s new line of ladies’notions, and see how cheap they are. * Rev. Father Walters, ofLifayett©, 1 visited at the Indian school and "St. Joseph’s College, Tuesday and 'yesterday. The work of ereeting the iron fence around the public square is still in progress and iikely to con-: tinue all the week. j Dotes Thompson has a new bicycle I which fully equals, if it does not a little lay over C. 6. Spitter’e elegant new “bike,” described last week. Mrs. d. C. Deming and -son 'Will ar-,. rived home from Florida last IFrid&y. .- Their stay in the South has been 1 very beneficial to Mrs. Derating Jim f Chapman returned Tuesday from amisit with his parents in-Bridge-man, ■Mich. Frank Maloy took charge vs the office during his absence. < ‘ Chatiey Nowels is making prepartions to build a good residence-on his lots in Weston’s Addition, notffar. from bis grand-father David Nowei’s place. " —-TCheap! Cheaper!! Cheapest maladies hats in town. Gail on c ’- Mrs- Ledklider. A good new safe, a refrigerator and amoil-tank for sale cheap. Laßde Bros. i ....... ->»- ) ■“ ' ■• * • i . Dr. J. W. Horton, the dentist, has bought.lots of A. Leopold, just easfrof Mrs. L. Tuteur’s residence, on Cornelia street, and will, sooner or later, ’ build a residence, thereon-

An explosion of an engine in a tile mill in Adams township, White Co., one day last week, killed four men, David Taylor, James Caugheti, Ber* Roller and George Williams. Subscriptions for the The Republican taken by J. E. Spitier at &. 0.,, without extra charge- \ . ! Miss Susie Parker left last Satur- • day, for Buffalo, N. Y., to visit with Wm. Rinehart and family. She exexpects to visit Niagara Falls aqd New York iCity before returning home. Thomas Bums, the new livery man, has traded his lately purchased residence, the Geo. Havens house, to\ D. E' Hollister, for the latter’s residence on Van Rensselaer street. Mr. Bums wanted to be nearer his place of V;X--Any person wishing to invest or borrow money Call and see me, at my office, Rensselaer Bank. ■ : B. F. Ferguson. The section men on the who were on a strike lately, all went went back to work, the only concessions made to them by the railroad being that they are now allowed a time and a half for all over time , work. !Will B. Price, a former resident of Carpenter tp., but now of Bnrtforil City, this state, was in town last Thursday. He expressed great astonishment at the evidences everywhere visible of the great improvement Rensselaer has undergone during the last few yean. - v,*

Thornton Dobbins, of Chalmers, Ind., was m town yesterday. Sayler’s street sprinkler began its season’s work, yesterday. , J ■ Jerry Karsner carries a black-eye, administered by one of the kitchen girls at the Nowels House. Dexter <fc Cox have ordered a new engine for their feed milt, and will be shut down or grinding for a week or two. • t)aily papers at P. ©. at 35cts. per month. Mrs. Martha J. Sharp has bought lots in the ever booming “New Okla - homa” and will erect a residence forthwith. Photographer Williams left yesterday, for Wheatfield, MedaryviHe and other places, on * viewing tour- His gallery is in charge of has assistant, J, A. Hubertz. Mr. Joseph White has ‘beer, in poor health for a long time, from a bronchial trouble, and his-condition has been very discouraging, but at last accounts was some better. :n \ Call and -see Mrs. Leckl-ider’s cheap trimmed hats. , Two good residence properties for sale, or rent. <C.‘W. Platt. Still another new building'in sight. Gapt. J. A. Burnham has bought lots in Leopold’s Addition, the south part thereof, end will build good resi' dence, during the summer and fall. White other stocks are declining that of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago road is advancing. Boston -is again securing a heavy interest -in this stock, and alls© indihe Chicago ok Eastern Illinois. i Vii. t The bicycle epidemic has prevailed greatly in Rensselaer-.this season, and it would be a low .estimate to say that; $1,200 worth of new “bikes” have been bought m Rensselaer during j the-test two or three-months.

1 Jared Benjamin left his coat where: he was staking off some lots, north of the railroad, and the philanthropist who took care of it for him is kindly rfq'tested to return the same to him, or-leave it at this office. MThe sad news has been received of] the death on Tuesday'of last week, of; Hugh E. Coen, in Tarrant Co., Texas, T6"which place he spent-fron this; county only last January. The ca use ] of his death was malarial fever. An obituary notice appears elsewhere. [&4THES. We have kid in a hand«om* *ne ofcloth top-shoes in lace and button. Also a line of low; shoes the finest in the knd; come and see them. Hemphill & Honan. *Mr. and Mrs. David SNoijels and their son, W. R. Nowels, left for Springfield, Colorado, Tuesday, to visit Judge E. C. Nowels and family. On the same tram left Mr. and Mrs. Holdredge Clark and Waiter Porter for'Pratt, Kans, also to visit relatives, ‘For elegant and stylish millinery, at lowest living prices,Hfll on Mrs. Imes, in the Nowels Blook, and examine her stock. See her line of 'hats, - especially, at prices from 10 cents,upward. The chapter of accidents M3till continues: Monday a boy of about 16, living with John Acres, in ißarkley tp., struck his knee with an .ax and cut it very badly, even cutting out entirely a-considerable portion of the knee cap. Dr. Alter was called and dressed the wound, and thj&ks the boy will not be permanently crippled. ■? , % ( The official call for the representa-tive-convention will be found elsewhere in this issue. The convention will be held next Thursday, June 23, at Goodland. The time and place was selected to accommodate the New-

ton county delegates, who are also delegates to the judicial convention to be held at the same time and place.

■ : . ; I'--County Superintendent Warren is at Indianapolis, attending the state convention of county superintendents, to be in sessiop Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Mr. Warren has a place on the program to take part in the discussion of the question whether a state manual prepared by a committee, should not take the place of the county manuals, prepared by the oounty superintendents.

Walter 1 ’ Martin, of Greenfield,, is {j —~ a visiting his cousin, Lawdie Martin. Mrs. Dr. I. B. Washburn is visiting relatives in Logansport and Burnetts ville. Good gentle pony for riding or driving, for sale. Geo- H. Healey. Messrs. K. and E. J. Hyland, of Plainfield, Hi-, visited their brother, J. 11., over Sunday. Lost, A baby’s white embroidered cape, on Sunday; June : sth. Finder please leave it at this etffice. Hammond Bros., are headquarters for bicycles and tricycles. Our former young townsman, Robert S. Paris, is now in bhaige of a Dwiggins Syndicate bank, at Eempton, this state.-' John Bissendet is now at Chicago, having his ©yes treated. His sight is not yetr-quite wholly gone, but the prospects for its improvement are understood to be very slight. ‘Guss Fhillipe left Saturday to go to Eaton 51L, to join Piper’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin Company, with which he haskn engagement. He took with 'him Its big educated St . Bernard dog, Nellie, which also has an engagement in thedJncle Tom’s show. L. W. Hunt, late, principal of the “St. Anne,* 1:11 schools, arrived with his wife, Hast week, raid is now living in the former Biseenden house, in Addition. The St. Anne school board was desirous of‘ retaining "Mr. Hunt’s services, but he, school work was too unfav-j orable upon his health.

IThe annual examination at, the In-dian-school will commence Monday, •June -20. The different classes will be .examined every forenoon, beginning at € o’clock; mechanic and-dif-ferent' trades every -afternoon begraningat 1 o’clock. tGominencemeat exercises will be held Thursday, June .28, beginning at # b’clock, a. »i. All friends of Indian work are kindly Invited to be present at am j or all-of -these exercises.

Mr >and Mrs. Ben Tuteur took ttheir' •little boy “Booby” to hChi< iago Sun-' day, intending to have an operation performed, skin grafting pr obabiyvto ■restore the use of his arm, crippled • since his bad burning, aboutTMwnttiS' ngo. With his customary 1 )ad luck however, the little fellow fel 1 off -of a chair, at the house of a re lative of Mr. CFuteur’s, in Chica go, and broke ■■his collar bone, m iking it (necessary to bring hkc h-ome, before any thing was done towards treating the former injury. Gentlemen. Our fine-shoes have arrived. The most stylish and best value for the money, we ha're ever carried. -If you want to be “‘ln IT come to us. HempHell-A Honan. J- L.iFatout, eontraetOßcf the new sohool house, was up from, ludianxpolis, Saturday, and started .operations on the building, with . a rush.; A. &. Yeoman is getting cthe rock | out, at his sandstode quarry, south- j east of town. Wm. Warren has the| contract for the excavations,-and oegan work Monday, with three or four teams. George Strickfaden has the contract for hauling in thestone from the quarry, and he, too,, started in Monday, withseven teams. He also has the contract to haul the brick from the cars when they have arrived. George M. Robinson is general superintendent of the whole work.

Charles Vick & Son, the news dealers are authorised agents of this paper. They will be glad to furnish you any paper or magazine pfiblished. You will find them at Signal-Flag Pole. The people of Hogan and vicinity are laying themselves out for a very creditable Fourth of July celebration, as attested by some hundred or more handsome full-sheet posters printed for them at The Republican office.. They have as their principal orator* Hon. S. P. Thompson, of Rensselaer, and for shorter speeches, Hons. I. D. Brown, of Fowler. Various a bower dance, a balloon ascension, and a Wild West show by Buck-skin Ben, tbe boss bold bnsh-whaoker, ending with fire-works at night? will fill out the measure of the day.

Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Callow, of Lafayette, are visiting their daughter, Mrs. J. G. Reynolds. The aged couple will probably become permanent residents of our town. • . Lost Hocket Book. —The undersigned lost a pocket-book, Tuesday nighty between his livery barn and residence, containing between SSO and S6O in money, and papers. Ten dollars reward for its return. Thomas A. Bohns. Isaac Glazebrook has bought the brick house on Front street opposite his blacksmith shop, and moved into the same. ! Jlr. Welsh’s family, who occupied the house, have moved into Mrs. Bingham’s house, in Newton’s Addition, vacated by Mr. Glazebrook. .

Republican nominations were not going begging in Newton county, Jhis year, to any very great extent. There .were four good mew announced for treasurer, for instance, and five for sheriff. The recorder is on his first time and had no opposition to a lenoxsinatioa. Their -convention was held Tuesday with what result we have not learned. Auditor Murray has purchased of the Emmet K&nnal estate the four very desirable lots, on the n-otth side of Willow street sugt west of the old Emmet JKannal resident*, ttnd proiposes to build a good residence thereon, this fall. Which counts one *more good building in sight for the hig list of Rensselaer’s improvements ■for the year *&2.

4 la the spring time «dien the birds begiirto sing/ ’ “Their mallow notes, from'their yellow throats.” “Then the ■'woodlands with music rings. Send your wife to Hemphill <fe Honan’s’Yor a new bonnett. 11l in Verse 11. ,

v Mrs. N*®cy Wood, widow of Jacob Wood, add mother dt Harvey W. Wood, of-Marion tp., lI.H. Wood, of Mrs. J .'M. Wasson, of Rensselaer, died last Friday morning, at*the residence of Mr. Wasson, at the advanced age of 7-6 years. *Funeml services were held Saturday nsorningv'st the residence, an 6 the remains were then taken to Pulaski Go., for-interment. There-4s a deal of good sound sense t® -the wrtacle headed •‘TCorn Planted,” ifcpom one the most .prosperous farmers ia! ; Jasper county,-and there are •net a few farmers in’this county who •mil firidit greatly to-their advantage to read the article «nd profit by its •suggestions. It is still- not too late for-a good deal of oows to be raised, if the balance of Che season proves favorable and the weeds are kept down. MissiJessie Bartoo’eOldpbotogr&ph gallery building has been moved across tbe street and i-attatohod to the rear of»her new building, one doof •west of 'Tie Repuimjigan- Office, and is utilized as die <*perating room. Her new building is very nearly completed, and is a very-unique and original but-also very attractive specimen of architecture; and is excellently well afckpted to tbe purpose for srhiok it ishuMl. , • ’

Dr. M. 11 Alter was •ealled Saturday night to attend a seven year old son af;Zebetiee Swaim, of Union tp., who was terribly injured by tbe kick of a horst. The skull ot the left side of the -head was broken for about two inches and mashed down against the brain. The doctor removed several .pieces of bone and elevated the depressed portions of the skull, and the boy was doing excellently at last accounts. It was a terrible injury and a marvel that it did not cause almost instant death.

Frank Hendricks, a little Chippewa Indian boy, from L’Anse, Mich., died at the Indian School Friday, June lOtli, at 9 o’clock, p. m., mid was burried Sunday at the Catholic cemetery. Frank was affected with scrofula, a disease very common among the Indians, ever since he tered two years ago. He was up and around till a iew days before his death; He was crippled from the effects of his diseacei and very small, though he was .seventeen years of age.

The thermometer touched the 90 degree mark,; la9t Friday and Satuaday, and was close to it, yesterday. ' W. 0. Piper, of Denver, Ind., spent last week with his two sons, who occupy the old Cleveland place, rrorth of town. Jakey Wright and May Bennett, the deaf and dumb children are home from their school at Indianapolis, for the summer vacation. They are both said to be doing well at the school. Daily papers at {*. O. including Sunday at 50 cts. per month.

S. P. Thompson went Tuesday to Warsaw, where his lawsuit with the Rochester, Rensselaer 4 StxLouis R. R. Co. is again on trial. Jersey bull calf for sale at a bargain.L Cali at Hemphill & Honan. Rev. U. M. ..McGuire, with his family, will depart to-day for Anderson, the new scene of his ministerial labors. He takes with him the highest esteem and good wishes, not only of his church people, but of the entire community.

- B. J. Thompson’s big tarpon will no longer delight the eyes of our citizens, nor those of the strangers withj« oar gates;- He has presented the fish to the hunting club of Columbus, Ohio, of which he is a and seat it to their club house, at Indian 'River, Michigan.

Williams don’t want the earth, but he does want the people to know that he has the. largest stock of furniture and cat-pets, in Jasper county. There will be a festival held at Saylerville school house, 2£ miles west of town, on Saturday evening, June 18th. 25 of Jasper counties best looking girls will be raffi ids. off to the highest bidders by the jolly auctioneer, Simon P. Phillips. The proceeds are to go to purchase a ne w organforUhe Sunday School. Every - body invited. fi . „ - * - Millinery for tber-tte -ladies, little ladies and all the ui.’iies.at Hemphill A Honan. David W. Kem, the wealthy Chi ©ago real-estate dealer, mentioned some time ago m being-in town looking aUreflidenee (properties, lias traded Chicago property for' the R. S. Dwiggins brick -residence, and five acres Of ground attached, and will

soon become a permanent resident of Reasselaer, after making some repairs andj adding modern wwveniences to the bouse. Mr. SCea- 1. V will be remembered, was already largely interested in -Jasper -count’ r. being the purchaser of the big Set lick ranch, in Walker 'township. Several good young Norman and Clyde stallions; also good brood mares and colts, for sale on easy eras, or will exchange for other ttock. * I alge Bros. Tbe public square wits without any indosing fence in any part, during mest of two days, last week, and it was remarkable with wbat-.unanimity people declared that the s qoare looked better without a f&ice~~Sf any kind than it would with a fen oe, even the handsome iron one, then i a process of of erection. This geneiui, in fact practically universal, gen'tii neat, demonstrates what The Rkpulslscan has often asserted heretofore, hi unely that i{ cows were not premised to run at large, our town would presen 1 1 much morejittractive appearance by' the abolition of the fenees.

Marriage licences issued since last reported: j Daniel O’Conner, ' | Delia B. Gunan. j Frank H. Ketchmark, j Theresia McCue. fc 1 - ' : _ j Anson A. Hilton, ' - * | Alice M. Obenchain. / * ( James E. Kennedy, ( Mary Wilder, j Robert E. Taylor, j sa*ali A. Stone. *