Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1892 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

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.