Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1892 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN.

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TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Ira Gay has moved back to Rensselaer frpm Hammond. New itraw hats at Ellis & Murray’s E. P. Hammond delivered the Fourth of July oration at Goodland, last Monday.' W. A. Huff moved last Thursday into the new house on Weston street ust built for him by Hiram Day. Daily papers at P. O. at 35cts. per month. Mr* W. B. Austin and daughter Virgie left Tuesday for several weeks’ visit at Tipton and Grawfordsville. The town was unusually full of people from the surrounding country last Saturday, and business was pros- , perous in proportion. 1 Examine Williams’ ten cent counter, for bargains. Mel ILaßue sold a car load of horses in Chicago last week, at good prices. Four of the horses were sold to parties who intended to ship them t o Ireland. A pocket-book with some money in it was left at the post-office, some days ago. 'Owner can obtain the same by proving property and paying this notice. ______ Sunday at 50 cts. per month. J. H. Willey, now of seuth Bend, was in town on business. His jewelry store at South Beqd has been disposed of to his son, C. V. Willey. A washout occurred on the Monon tracks at Cedar Lake, last Saturday night during the big rain, which interrupted trains over this division ■until noon, Sunday. See an elegant line of Neck-Wear, at Ellis A Murray’s. Miss Sarah Irwin, who has been visiting her relatives. fen - -Misses Smith for some months, left for Dayton, 'Ohio, last Thursday for a oouipleof months. N. W. Reeve’s new house, south end of Van Rensselaer st. will be a “Queen Anne cottage” in sty le of architecture. It will be a decided novelty in the building line, in this vicinity,but as handsome as novel. Ladies notions cheap, at Mrs. ’>• LecklklersL

Rev, I. L Gorby, S. P. Thompson*! and daughter Grace, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Randle, Albert Hopkins, and Ray Thompson, all left for the east Tuesday, to attend the Christian Endeavor Convention and see the sights. Valparaiso had a ,$15,000 fire on Wednesday of last week. Their electric light plant was destroyed with other property. An unexplained explosion in the light station wah the of the fire. Oxford?, Newports and Southern •ties at reduced prices at Hemphill A Honan’s. • s» ' V. The Peoples’Party of White Co., will have an organ hereafter, called jibe Pe/yples Advocate. .W- I. Harbert is the editor and the paper succeeds the Alliance Chronicle, published by J. C. Smith. A - . Where John Brown cut three thousands tons of hay, on the Kankakee last year,-and could have cut three times that amount, pot a spear has grown this season on account of high water. The whole Kankakee Valley i» Ip the same state.—Crown Point Star. J. E. and J. W, Loos, of the Tuscorara Advertising Co., of Coshocton, Ohio/ visited their sister, Mrs. Snedeker. ofßarkley tp., and their cousin, J. C. Williams the photograh- - er, of Rensselaer, last week.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA.THURSDAY. JULY 7, 1892.

Miss Green, of Attica, is a guest of Miss Sarah Chilcote. Cantata at Christian church next Wednesday evening. The W. C. T. U. Will meet with Mrs. Webb. Reeve, next Saturday, at 2:30, P.M. •*n° * Ike Wiltshire is going to start, on a trip to England next week to visit his relatives there. He wilL go on one of Nelson Morris’s cattle ships. He wilt be gone* 6 or 8 weeks. Hammond Bros., are headquarters for bicycles and tricycles. 1 Joseph Nisius, of Milroy tp., took the train here Tuesday afternoon,for Chicago, where he expects to gather in some SSOO or S6OO, which comes to him from an estate in Germany. As many of my preparations are mads in my own laboratory I can guarantee them as to purity. 44-2 t. B. F. Fendig. J. G. Davis, the capable piano tuner was in town last week, but was called away on business that could not be post poned. He requests us toinforn his customers here that he will return and finish his founds about the last of July.

Auditor Marble was called to Chicago this week by Nelson Morris,, and it is said that Marble will either buy Morris out, or Morris will buy Marble out. Their land lies side by side in Jasper county, bat Morris’ piece is a trifle the larger.—Crown Point Star. - Neck-Wear. In Four-in-hand, Windsor and Teck, largest line in town. Ellis & Murray. W. B. Austin’s new house will be of the one story cottage order, but of very handsome design and elegant in finish and appointments. Its total cost will be about $2,200. Dowler & Banes are the contractors and are to £ - nave it completed by October 25th. The Monon Ry., has begun the erection of a $1,200 depot building at Salem, and will, it is stated, build several such along fee line, this year. Perhaps the company will yet see the justice of building a better depot at Rensselaer. . . Order your Sunday baking of *T. W. Haus, who succeeds to fee Women’s Exchange business.

The Rensselaer Creamery has something over two tons of fine June butter stored in its cold-storage room, waiting for higher prices. The creamery is now receiving close to 9,000 pounds of milk daily. It is not likely that the cheese making apparatus will be used this year. Grandmother Cotton has been in very poor health ever since her return from Omaha. She has a heart trouble and her sufferings are great and her condition, at times, very alarming. Her daughters. Mrs. Della Thompson and Miss Arilla Cotton, her. Ladies don’t miss it, buy your toil et* articles of B. F. Fendig ♦‘The Druggist”. He has the best and freshest line in the country.

Mr. and Mrs. F. J._ Sears left for New York, last Saturday. They will be absent several weeks attending the Christian Endeavor Convention, seeing sights and visiting friends. Mr. Sears also has important business to transact in Boston, in conjunction with Zimri D wiggins, who preceded him eastward, a few days.

There will be some wheat and rye harvested in his county this week, but not nearly so much as would have been had not the big rain Saturday night soaked the land, so as to make harvesting with machines impossable for many days. It is a very good crop, on the whole, although some fields have suffered damage from'the excessive rains.

We have knifed the prices in summer millinery, call now for cheap hats and bonnets at Hemphill A Honan’s. F. J. Sears and W. B. Austin went over to Knox, Starke Co., last Friday and closed up the purchasd\of the only bank in the town. Zimri Dwiggins will be President and W. B. Austin, Vice President. Fred L. Chilcote, now of the Citizens State Bank, of Rensselaer, will have charge as cashier; going there as sOon as Mr. Sears returns from his eastern trip. 1

Charley Platt,Nate section boss on the Monon, has quit the employ of the R. R. and is succeeded by Mr. Cripps. David Elder went to Idaville Saturday, to remove the body df a Son; buried 7 or 8 years ago, into a more suitable part of the cemetery. I still have some wall paper which will be sold low. i B. F. Ffndig. The faculty and pupils of St. Joseph’s cnilftgß, together with a large number of the Catholic population of the vicinity, had a big picnic at Nagel’s grove,- on the Fourth.. A good new safe, a refrigerator and an oil-tank for sale cheap. <, Laß®e Bros. W. W. Watson and family will start back to Washington to-night. Miss True Alter will go with them, and remain for a considerable period, completing her literary and musical education. The City Laundry did some very fine work last week, equal to any steam laundry. Why not patronize home work. As a result of the tremendous rain of last Saturday night, which made a muck bed of the wheat and rye fields, many farmers are trying to cut their grain with’cradles. It is a mighty hard way of harvesting gram, however, especially to people who are not used to it, as very few now are, and if the weather continues unfavorable to harvesting with machines, the crop will be largely unharvested. t Any person wishing to invest or borrow money Call and see me, at my office, Rensselaer Bank. B. F. Ferguson.

The all night’s rain which began aboutnineo’cloek last Saturday night pretty nearly equalled the other very big ram early in May. The water descended in torrents much oOt the time and the total rainfall during the night being several ihches. The rain has been very damaging to the farmers by preventing the much needing working of corn and interrupting the harvesting of wheat and rye. Patrons of the late Women’s Exchange, and all others can leave orders for large cakes; roast meats mid other Sunday cooking, with T. W. Haus, the baker, not later than Friday evening. __ “The Columbian tower association at Chicago means to build a steel tower circular in form, 500 feet in its diameter at the base, 230 at its cornice, 1492 feet high, to be the Christopher Columbus’ statue and to have a double track electric milway wind around it spirally from base to top, its whole length being nearly 7 miles. Just at 4he tower’s base are also to b<s built 2 7-story hotels with 3,000 rooms.” All of which will be done—perhaps. Isaac Glacebrook carries a full line of McCormick binders and mowers also repairs. Give him a call. —I<oeation Grants’ old shop on Front Street. Rensselaer did not seem to be in it for base ball, on the Fourth. The Reneselaer vs. Goodland game resulted in a defeat for the home nine by a score of nine to ten. In Monon the nine from the Indian school was beaten much worse, the score being 13 to 33 in favor of the Monons. Up to the seventh inning the Indian boys had everything their own way, the score standing seven to two in thei r favor; but their pitcher then gave out and the Monon boys then scored as louJ as they had wind to run.

Several good young Norman and Clyde stallions; also good brood mares and colts, for sale' on easy terms, or will exchange fpr other tock. Laßue Bros. We were misinformed last week, in regard to Mr. Perkins recovering all his property, carried off by the sneak thief now in jail at SJonticello. He got back watch, which was the most valuable part of the property, but the suit of clothes was not, recovered. The thief says he left them in a strawstack near Surrey, but he was probably mistaken in the locality. It was likely near Marlboro or Lee or some other point between Rensselaer and Monon. It is not likely that the fellow went towards Surrey at all after leaving Rensselaer.

Mrs. Laura Martic, of Winona, Minn., is visiting M. F. Chilcote’s family. Subscriptions sor J the The Republican taken by J. E. Spitler at P. 0., without-extra charge. -----—- Barnum’s circus was at Lafayette yesterday. Some 7or 8 Rensselaer people went down to see it. Clearance sale of millinery at Hemphill & Honan’s, now is the ti me to buy cheap. • I ? i_ Joseph White’s sickriess still continues with but little prospect for permanent improvement. Coen <fe Paxton are working on their new hay barn. It will be a good building of its class. Remember I am headquarters for books and stationery. Late styles in papeteries. B. F. Fendi g

George Imes, a cigar and tobacco merchant, of Detroit, Mich., made his brother, Willis J., a short visit yesterday. B. E. Utz will preach at the Tabernacle next Suhdaymornihg andeyeiring. Subjects, The Faith and Th e Church. He will preach! at Pleasant Ridge in the afternoon./ Seventeen members of Remington Rebekah Lodge visited the Rensselaer lodge, last Friday afternoon and evening, and were very hospitably entertained. Remember B. F. Fendig “The Druggist’’ when needin anything in the drug line.. His store is now full of fresh articles in that line. Rensselaer did its share of celcbrating the glorious Fourth this year by helping out the neighboring celebrations. To Goodland we furnished the orator in the person of Judge E. P. Hammond, and a ball club; 1 o Hogan the orator in Hon. S. P. Thompson; to ,Monon a ball club and about 200 people; to Saylerville the orators in Capt. R. W. Marshall and Rev. I. I. Gorby, beside a good portion Of their crowd; to Rose Lawn the mnsic, in the Rensselaer Orchard 'bandf to TSTorbcgO their best race horses and a considerabl e number of their people.

Charle Vick A Son, the ne " 8-deal-ers are authorized agents of this paper. They will be glad to furnish you any paper or magazine published. You will find them at Signal-Flag Pole. • • Wosine F. Shaffner, who some four or five weeks ago was stricken with heart trouble, since which time his life, on several occasions, was despaired of, has convalesced within the past few days, so that for the first time since his illness he was able to sit up for several hours to-day. It is now confidently believed by his phjsician, that he will soon be out again, which will be good notes to his many- friends here. Mr. S. »«sa long time a dry goods-roerehw Bt in tuiaeitv, but for a few yt are past has been engaged in farming in Jas|*r county. Since his sickness, in order to be convenient to medical treatment, be has had rooms in the St. Nicholas hotel with his brother IT. B. Shaffner. 6 His wife has been a constant attendant at his bedside. —Lufayettc Courier. Mrs. Armstrong’s health his improved so much that she has decided to continue in the laundry business. She has now a competent assistant. Customers can depend on having their workdone with neatness and promptness.

It does not seem to be generally known that the laws of Indiana require an annual statement published fp a county newspaper by the direct* ors of every company organized “to carry on any kind of manufacturing, mining, mechanical or chemical business.” Such annual report shall state the amount of capital, the amount of assessments made and ! actually paid in, and the amount of * existing debts. The law further pro- | vides that if any person is misled or ’ deceived by any false representation l in such report or by the failure of the officers to publish such report, said officers shall be jointly and &v~ erally liable for all damages resulting from such failure or misrepresentation. See Secs. 3803-3865, R. S. 1881. .j- .

A fine boy at Jake Wagner’s last Thursday. Mrs. Sarah Weil, of Chicago is Spending the summer in Rensselaer. Summer Utearance sale at Hemphill <fc Honan’s.^ Bob Phillips has fired his little French barber, Jimmie Laßoche, and has another in his place. Belle Medium took the first money in the free-for-all trot at Morocco on the Fourth, and Tod Mohawk got second in the mixed trotting and pacing race. - R. B. Wilson got a bad blo w in the breast, one day last week, from the handle of a scraper, while working in the excavations for the new school house. The injury incapacitAt§a Es jum from labor, and may prove a serious matter. - - _ The late rains have of course, interfered greatly with the progress of the new school building, but great quantities of stone, lumber, frames <fcc are now on hand and it is expected stone laying will begin this week.

We are overstocked in fine shoes on account of the season; call now and get bargains. Hemphill & Honan . The graves of the thirteen persons buried in PaUuers’ row, in Weston Cemetery, have lately been sodded up and put into good condition by Sexton Platt, under direction of Mrs. Abbie Roberts, who obtained permission to have it done, from the County Commissioners. Mrs. Roberts’ desires to have all the graves marked by at least a plain marble slab. Several of those buried there have friends in the county who are able to furnish the stones, and if they will do that mueh/Mrs. Roberts thinks the graves of those without surviving friends or relations can be provided with slabs by a public subscription. Take tbe children to see the beautiful fairy cantata at the Christian church, next Wednesday evening. Only 5 cents admission. An agent of the Ohio Falls Car Co. of Jeffersonville, tilled on Recorder Antrim, last Thunl.»» evening, and left for record a contract through which the Mbgen’R. R. leases for seven years 300 new box cars and 250 flat cars. The cars are-built by the Ohio Falls Care-Gorbht arn jpaidYoUaiid owned by several English companies. The rental paid for the use of the cars, for the seven years, by the Monon, is $579 23 each for the box cars; and $477.82. each for the flats. The English corporations stipulate in tbe contract that the rental shall he payable in U. S. gold coin, us the present we ght and fineness. They are evidently afraid that the fiat-money and free silver agitators will succeed in their efforts to paralyze tbe finances of this country.

Attention 1 Threshmen! We are agents for the celebrated Gaar Scott Engines and Treshere; Huber Engines and Threshers and C. Altman A Co’s., Star Engines and Threshers. Give us a call if anything is needed in our line. 44-4 t. Hammond Bros. • The World’s Fair grounds and buildings, now nearing completion, are so renowned as a most beautiful and interesting spectacle that not only do from 5,000 to 12,000 peoples day at a cost of 25 cents apiece, inspect them, but the great majority ,of travelers who pass through Chicago devote a day or more to the same purpose. Hundreds of distinguished foreigners and thousands of promin ent men from various states of the union have availed themselves of this privilege, and it is not to say that all, without exception, have been mqgtjagreeably surprised at the splendor and magnitude of what they have witnessed, and have, very enthusiastic Over the j bright prospects of the Fair. Sevej;- ; al hundred of the returhing delegates | of the late Republican National Con- ! vention at Minneapolis, inspected the ; wonders of Jackson Park, while in Chicago. Nearly all of the delegates to the Democratic Convention at ! Chicago did the same. The Exposition authorities have committees to show visitors bout and explain details tq them. t

Deering Binders, Mowers and Binder - Twine, at DTK,

The Fourth of July celebration at Hogan was without doubt the largest in point of attendance ever held in the county outside of Rensselaer and Remington. The number of the S. P. Thompson, of Rensselaer, was the orator of thcocoaion, Tfaeyhad sever;. I races, ft wit and hoise, sparring matches, fi Wild West show, by Buch-skin Ben. a rousing big bower dance that lasted until sunrise the next morning, fireworks, Ac. Good order prevailed and only one casualty reported* A little girl was run over by a horseman, in the Wild West performance, and had her collar bone broken. THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. The County Commissioners adjourn ed their special session on Wednesday evening, of last week. One bid only was received for the contemplated repars on the coart house, and was from J. L. Fatout. It was in the sum of $1,500 and this the Board thought too high. They will meet again to consider the matter the Ist Monday in August. The contract with Fleener A Perkins was rescinded and those gentlemen forbidden to make any further examination of the county records.

The Sheriff was directed to contract for and have constructed a cement walk from, the south end of the court house to Harrison street. Walkto be 5 feet wide and be made of best Portland cement; and to Include proper platforms at the court house entrance. The walk is not to oosty to exceed 18 cents per square foot.

Things We Think About Rensselaer.

That it has more handsome residences, Better public ?.chools, Larger and better school libraries and apparatus, More flourishing secret societies, M ore solid banking institutions, More handsome and well bred horses, p Less sickness and a lower death rate, A more successful butter factory, A better system of electrlo lights, More rising young men “out in the world” Than any other town ol its size Ift the state of Indiana.

NO- 45.