Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1892 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

New Straw hats at Ellis & Murray • —7” —"—~~—~ ■ J y v ?■' - Examine Williams’ ten cent, conn - ter. for bargains. T. J. McCoy is putting an oil-burn ng heating furnace into his residence/ Still another very fine new “bike” in town. D. J. Thompson i? thrown - er, thereof. Charley Zaid, on the H. W. Porter place, northeast of town, counts the fourth boy since Monday night. See an elegant line of Neck-Wear, at Ellis & Murray’s. Auditor Murray will begin the erection of his new the river, within ajyeek or two. young friends of Miss gave her a surprise party, last Ladies , notions cheap, at Mrs . Leckliflers’. -- G. K. Holiingsworth has moved his office into the west front room in Leopold scoiDd bu Lidin R. B. Wilson left for Osborne, Kansas, Tuesday, with a view of finding a location to Remove to,- if the prospects were found satisfactory. , Hammond Bros., are headquarters for bicycles and tricycles. Work on the new Primitive Baptist church is now progressing vigor - lously. Frank Osborne is contractor for the carpenter work.

E. H. Morlan is doing the carpen - ter work on a new dwelling house on the Catholic farm, a few miles southwest of town. Any person wishing to invest or borrow money Call and see me, at my office, Rensselaer Bank. B. F. Ferouson. Mr. Driver, late a resident of Chisago, with his family has just moved into the north part of Barkley tp., where he has purchased a farm. Gifford’s ditch dredge in Barkley tp., is making good progress, and has already cut some six or seven miles of deep and wide ditch. A good new safe, a refrigerator and an oil-tank for sale cheap. Laßue Bros.

Miss Mary Chilcote is receiving medical treatment at the sanfl&rium •it Battle Creek, Mich. Her sister, lias Jeanie Miller, is staying with . ler there. *— - : J. G. Reynolds arrived from Mieh>gan, Monday, with about half a <tozen fine running horses, with whicii he intends to attend the races in Chicago, after resting and training them for a few weeks. Oxford-, Newports and Southern ties at reduced prices at Hemphill tfc Honan’s. Mrs. Alien Gray is. in Carpenter tp., attending her brother, Frank . Balser, who Is in a very dangerous condition from erysipelas, resulting from an injury tp his knee cap, received in falling from a corn planter. Of the four presidential candidates low in the field, all except Grover Cleveland were born in Ohio. Fhitelaw Reid, the Republican canidate for vice-president, was also - X)m in that state. We have knifed the prices in sumner millinery, call now for cheap hats .nd bonnets at HempJll Honar’s. W. H. Rhoades is now having finished and prepared for occupancy,

r lis brick house, across the river, vhich, on account of his long sick - ess, has been standing in an unfin- ; hed condition for several years. Simon Phillips, the renowned auc. idneer, cried the saleof the John ruildenzoph estate property, north of At. Ayr, on Wednesday of last week. The property sold well and the amount sold figured up to about sl,- . 750.

Jke Wiltshire left Tuesday on his trip to Old England. The Presbyterian Sunday School picniced at Nagel’s grove, yesterday. D. Honan the veterinary will be town,Alon z day July, 18th. Every fright train going north on the Monon now has from one to ten car-loads of watermelons. Call at the new bakery for finest of fresh bread, cakes, <fcc. One door east of Fendig’s drug store. Stone rnasOns began work on the foundations of the new school house, yesterday, H Trisonßaker, of Onarga, 111., isin town with another man from the same locality, who is looking for a farm to buy.

Neck-Wear. In Four-in-hand, Windsor and Teck, largest line in town. Ellis & Murray. Dr. Hartsell has~dJ6en sick since last Thursday, but is now getting much better. Order your Sunday baking of T. W. Haus, who succeeds to the Women’s Exchange business. A little son of Wile Duvall cut a pretty bad gash in his leg, last Thursday, by falling on some sharp inBtrutncnt. while playing about whCrfe Chas. Nowels’ newhouse is being built. -

Rev. T. F. Drake attended the State Encampment Sons of Veterans, at Fort Wayne j last week, and was henored by being chosen one of the four delegates at large to represent the state at the national encampment, at Helena, Montana, in August. For elegant and stylish millinery, at lowest living prices, call on Mrs. Imes, in the Nowels Block, and examine her stock. See her line of hats, especially, at prices from 10 cents, upward. The venerable Abram Freeland, of Newton tp., had a paralytic stroke a few days ago, and in a very critical condition. He is upwards of 92 years old and the oldest man now living in Jasper county, if we are correctly informed.

Charle Vick <fc Son, the news-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 Signalling Pole. Berry Paris arrived home last Thursday from a trip to the southern part of Ohio, where he went in company with his sister, Mrs. Parker, of lowa. He went to visit another sister whom he had nit seen before for forty years. The Logansport Pharos siys th it a certain minister of,that city preaches short sermons during the hot weather and that, as a result, when the hat is passed around it always goes back well filled. Perchance some of our Rensselaer ministers may lied a valu - able pomter/n this fact.

Mrs. Armstrong’s health his* im - proved so much that she has decided to continue in the’ Itumdry business. She lias now a competent assistant. Customers can depend on having their workdone with neatness and promptness. r X 4 The Carroll County Citizen is the name of Delphi’s new paper, published by A. B. Crampton, formerly of the Delphi Times, and later of the Monticello Democrat. The paper is bright and newsy, and as nearly independent in politics as so strong a Democrat as Bro. Crampton can make it.

The 9th Indiana infantry regiment will hold its next regimental re-union in Rensselaer,Tuesday and Wednssday August SOthand 31st. It is none too soon for the people of Rensselaer to begin to make preparations for giving a fitting reception and entertainment to the survivors of this grand pioneer regiment. Patrick O’Donnell, the eloquent young-Irish orator of Carroll County, completed his college course at Georgetown University last month, and will, it is said, practice law, in Chicago. He wound up his college career by Winning the big medal for

oratory. His address was on the silver question and the Republican national committee has decided to have the same printed as a campaign document

The Stock Farm has sold just their young stallion Pluto Jr. to a Rev. Mr. Hays, of this state. They received, in part payment, a fine young standard-bred mare. Clearance sale of millinery at Hemphill <fc Honan’s, now is the time to buy cheap.

The wheat crop in this county is now pretty nearly all cut, and is a pretty fair crop. The big rain of the night of July 2nd did not interfere so greatly with the use of binders as was at first thought. Much of the ground, owing to the many 'previous heavy rains, is packed so solidly that no amount of rain now can make it soft. Williams don’t want the earth, but he does want the people to kno w that he has the.largest stock of furniture and carpets, in Jasper county. Isaac Glazebrook carries a Ml line of McCormick binders and mowers also repairs. Give himyi call. Edition Grants’ old shop on| Front Street.

All of the great World’s Fair buildings, except two, are practically finished. A portion of the interior finishing and decorating is all that remains to be done on most,of them. On the Manufactures building and Machinery Hall work is being pushed sixteen hours a day, and they are fast catching up.with the other strucC. D. Nowels intends soon to remove into the rooms in the Nowels block over Fendig’s store, now occupied by C. A. Reed, who will move into T. J. Say let’s tenant house, on Front street. Mr. Nowels and family will take their meals at the Nowels House. The change will be made on account of Mrs. Nowels’ poor health.

The City Laundry did some very fine work last week, equal to any steam laundry. Why not patronize home work. Several good young Norman and Clyde stallions; also good brood mares and colts, for Sale on easy terms, or will exchange for other took. Laßue Bros. Town Clerk Spitler’s little girl was run over by a bicycle Monday evening, and quite badly cut on the legs and bruised on the head. The bicycle was ridden by a son of Milton Chipman. This accident, no doubt, had a good effect in causing the Town Board to order the bicycles to keep off the^-side-walks, and thereby probably prevented a much worse accident in the future.

Wm. B. Steward, of Chicago, visited his cousin, J. W. Williams’ over Sunday. Mr. Staward completed a three years term of service in the U. S. navy, a year or two ago. He was on the steamer TPBffton when that vessel and the Nipsic were wrecked in the terrible hurricane at Samoa, in the Pacific ocean, a few years ago. His recollections of that disastrous event are natiitally very vivid. We are glad, at last, to be able to state that the long needed new depot at the-Rensselaer station is to be built. The chief engineer has looked the ground ovei and has decided up-

on the kind of building needed, and the plans for Lt have already been received by the station agent. Tha building will have two waiting rooms, a freight room, ticket office <fcc. It will consist m part, of a remodling of the old building, but will be practically a new structure. Constable Will Wood and CharleyJohnson, one of Zimmerman & Roberts’ tailors, had a runaway while coming home from Remington Friday evening. The horses started from near Miss Monnett’s residence, just West of town, and ran until they ‘collided with the electric light pole, near the court house well. Some sl2 or sl3„worth of damage was done to the buggy and harness, which belonged to Burns’ livery. Johnson, who was driving, was thrown out between the horses and was somewhat bruised and had a narrow escape from more serious injury. It is stated, probably facetiously, that an amicable settlement of the damage wav effected by Mr. Burns throwing off half the amount and by Mr. Wood, not to be outdone in magnaminity, throwing off the other half.

- Work on the excavations for Wf B. Austin’s new residence is already in progress. Summer Clearance sale at Hemphill'A Honan’s. Abe Sparling is seriously sick, at his home a little southwest of town. His physician thinks he has a tumor growing on his brain. 1, Call on Minnicus & Troy, the new bakery firm, one doorfeast of Fendig’s drug.„ store. Everything new and fresh and of the best quality. E. N. Hyland arrived in town Saturday for a business'stay of a few days." He is now located at Gibson City, Illinois, and still in the hotel business. Patrons of the late Women’s Exchange, and all others can leave orders for large cakes, roast meats and.other Sunday cooking, with T. W. Haus, the baker, not later than Friday evening. ' - Mrs. J. N. Leatherman and Miss Mary Leatherman are at Indianapolis by the bed-side.Df Mrs. Payne, a sister -of the latter, who is very seriously sick.

We are overstocked in fine shoes bh account of the season; call now and get bargains. Hemphill & Honan.; Dept. Surveyor, J. N. Leatherman, began yesterday, making the preliminary suivey of the line of the 'proposed new channel for the Iroquois, north of town, elsewhere described. Dr. J. H. Honan the veterinary surgeon of Delphi, will be here July 18th, to attend to any work in his profession. Remember the day Monday, July, 18. ...... .. The Rensselaelr delegation to the great Christian Endeavor convention is still in the east seeing the sights and attending the convention—With the sight-seeing largely in the majority, we shrewdly suspect.

The Monon’s gravel trains began working on this division of the road, this week, bringing in the first load of gravel Monday afternoon, and unloading it somewhere bet «een Rensselaer and Surrey. A good many miles of other portions of the road have been ballasted this year, and we understand the intention now is to ballast this division, thoroughly. Th e gravel is brought from below Lafayette. Attention! Threshmen! We are agents for the celebrated G»ar SeottEngines and Treshers; Huber Engines and Threshers and C. Altman & Co’s., Star Enginesand Threshers. Give us a call if anything is needed in our line. 44-4 t. Hammond Bros. A lot of women are being sent out through the country in the interest of cerlairt baking powder com pahies. Their method is to go from house to house and test all baking powders for impurities, which of course they find in all but their own brand. In a neighboring town gentleman exposed the fraud by putting some of their own powder in another company’scan, and these lady experts promptly discovery! that it was full ‘ of impurities.

.'Chicago I li-hts, one of tlfe World’s Fair Ctiy a newest and most booming suburbs, is located in Illinois, near the Indiana line, about 6 miles west of Dyer on the Monon, and less than 50 miles distant from Rensselaer, in a direct line. Among other manufacturing plants located there, the most interesting to the public is the “Air Ship Works” where an immense flying machine is now being constructed, after the pattern of the smaller Pennington air ship, exhibited in Chic ago last year. ..

The mercantile agency of R. G. Dun & Co, which has representatives in all business centers of the countryreports that the failures of the entire country for the first six months of the present year were. in number 5,503, as against 6,074 4 ur * n S the same period m 1891. showing a decrease of 571. The total liabilities of all the failures which occurred in the first six months of 1892 were sixty-two millions, while for the same period in 1891 there were ninety-two millions, showing a decrease of- thirty million dollars. This seems rather to indicate that things are going from worse to better instead of from better to worse, as the Omaha People declared.—Ex.

Charley Rhoades, the barber, moved ‘ his residence Tuesday, from rooms over the post-office into E. D. Rhoades’ tenant house, bn Front street.. Nowels Bros. & Co. report the local grain marker as follows: Wheat 70 cents; corn 40 cents; oats white 30 cents; mixed oats 28 cents; I‘ye 60 cents. • A broncho race will take plAce at the Stock Farm Saturday afternoon. The colored boy working for J. G. Reynolds will rid e one of the bronchos ancßa young man from the vicinity of Rensselip r the other. As one of the results of the un-1 fortunate imbroglio in the schools of 1 Remington, O.M. Vickery has begun proceedings in the circuit court to have O. E. Harla ok er removed from the School Board and himself deery received two votes in the town board for school trustee and Mr. Harlacker three. But Mr. Harlacker is said to be inelligible on account of the non-expiration «>f a term as justice of the peace, to which he was once elected. % ~r j The Town Board did about right in withdrawing its permission to bicyclers to ride on the side-walks, entirely. As the matter stood it was onlya question of lime before some bad accident would occur. It was a_ constant practice of many young men to ride along the walks at a race-horse speed, greatly to the endangering of the limbs and lives of pedestrians. They shot by open doors or around un-een street corncfsyand were likely at any time to run over some person j and greatly injure them, and if it should be a child probably kill it. ! Some of the bicyclers had thus grossly I abusing their privilege of the sidewalks, and by so doing have forfeited their right to use them.

The County Board of Equalization, which now, under the new tax law consists of the County Auditor, Treasurer and Assessor, met Monday morning, as the law requires. The only grievance presented was by C. C. Sigler, of Keener tp., as agent for Nelson Morris. He asked that all their cattle be listed in Keener tp., where the headquarters of the ranch is. The request was granted. He also had 48 hogs taken off his assessment, as not being owned on April Ist. A further request for the reduction of the assessment on a steam dredge was asked for from $2,500 to $2,000. The Board knocked off only SIOO. G. B Clark, of Remington, wanted the assessment on his residence reduced, but the assessment having been made last year the Board had no power to change it

The favorable weather of the last ten or twelve days, has been very favorable for haying and. harvesting, and much improved the prospect for corn. - Percy S. Taylor lately bought in England, and shipped to Chicago, for himself and Mack Caldwell, of Mt. Ayr, a large lot of fine race horses. L The Monon News states the number ts Rensselaer people at Monon oh the Fourth at 400, which number is fully two times as large as the correct figure. Perhaps the editor celebrated so vigorously as to get himself into a condition to see double. The general character of his last week’s issue bears out that supposition, equally with his figures on attendance. Over five columns are occupied with big cuts, and display type, illustrating the editor's jubilant feelings over the su? t e"SS“'<7r”TO< : '■■dhTe^TMTon'' , ‘Xfifbffg’'‘' these cuts picture of a set of artificial teeth with the statement that they were “lostbya young lady from Rensselaer and await the owner at the News office.” We opine that the jowner had best make haste in re'ejaiming them, before the News man wears tb< in clear oufry Old Navy plug is dreadful wearing on false i teeth, especially upon No. 4 teeth in 1 No. 10 j iws. ;

Tblm in Harbert, rs DeGraff, Logan Co. Ohio, was in town Saturday, in company with Stacey English, of Hanging Grove tp., whom he was visiting. Mr, Harbert passed through Jasper bounty and what there then was of the town of Reiis*el;ur, in 1844. There yas mighty little her then but a few shanties. Mr. Harbert was then on his way further west, and taking it afoot, and walked over 700 miles that season. He walked on < west until he came to a town in ois,on the Illinois river, where an incident occured which shows that the Democratic party of that day had much in common with the organization as it exists now. It was election, the day he arrived, the voting being done viva voce, or by the voter stating the names of the parties w hom he desired to vote for and the elec- ' tion judges recording them, aS spoken Mr. Harbert had occasion to speak to one of the judges of the election, and walked up to the voting table to, do so, when another of the judges asked who he would Vote for. “Henry Clay and the Republican electors, ’ answered Mr. Harbert. “No you won’t’ ’ says the election judge, “If y<Ju want to vote for James K. Polk and the democratic electors, then you can vote, but if not, then you can’t vote here.” It was all right for a man bne day in the county to vote the Democratic ticket, but not right at all when he wanted to vote some other way.