Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1892 — ADDITIONAL LOCALS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL LOCALS.

B. F. Alter who lately lost his hand in the4ile mill north of town, has gone to bis old home in Clinton Co. He is reported as doing well. , Williams don’t want the earth, but he does want the.people ;to knew that Tie lias the. largest stock of furnii ture and carpets, in Jasper county. 1 Will Comer left for Whitley Co., yesterday afternoon, called by a telegram announcing the very dangerous sickness of his mother, who resides in that county •- •»■- That odd old citizen, “Dummy" Wright, arrived in town Tuesday night, after an absence of 5 or 6 years. He has been ih “California during his absence. See the beautiful cantata,“A Dream of Fairy Land,”at the Cristian church next Wednesday evening; 25 or 30 children as faines, goblins and sprites; Admission,s cents.

Our former townsman Jake Shrum was fined $1 and costs, oil the Fourth, by Squire Troxell, of De Motte, On a charge of trying to knife a fellow whom he had a row with at the Hogan celebration. The four months old baby of County Clerk Coover is, very dangerously sick with a bowel complaint, at Rem - ington, to which place Mrs. Coover went last Friday to visit relatives. At latest accounts the condition of the child was very critical. For elegant and stylish millinery, at lowest living prices, call on Mrs. lines, in the Nowels Block, and examine her stock. See her line of hats; especially, at prices from 10 cents, upward. I ’ Several Rensselaer people went to Cedar Lake, on the Fourth. Among the was a gang of shell-game fakers from Chicago, who robbed gudgeons right and lefV ahct kicked up several big rows in so doing, until a deputy sheriff came over from .Crown Point and arrested sev - eral and scattered the rest. A former citizen of Rensselaer, now living at Rose Lawn, is said to have dropped sls or S2O on the game. The parties who have gone from here to New Yorkon the Christian Endeavor Ccw#ention excursions have part gone on a northern route from Chicago, and along the lakes, to Niagara falls,and by the way of Albany and the Hudson River. The others go by the Chesapeake A Ohio R. R. through the Virginias and by the Washington and Baltimore. Those who went by the southern route will return by the nvrthem, and vice versa, and thus make a' notable trip totheparticipants.' ——

The celebration at Saylerville was a great success and had a large attendance. some of the features of the occasion were addresses by Capt. R. W. Marshall and Rev. 1.1. Gorby. A performance by ftollo Grant’s trained -dog, which climbed a 30 ladder and-sat on a chair on a platform at the top,with a pipe in his- month, and did several other very amusing tricks. Frank Sayler won the obstacle race, and Jared Martindale the foot race. Tba greased pig was caught by Wallace Sayler. The greased pole was essayed by many but achieved by none. Of the cake with prizes which was sold off, piece by piece, Simon Phillips bought four pieces and got away with the two best prizes; namely, ass gold ring and a dollar of the daddies.