Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1892 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Isaac J. Parker has gone to Watseka, 111. Mrs. J. W. and Miss Allie Paxton will visit tliek blither Will in Nob - y iesville, Jud. this week. Joe Iht. n. <>;' Uulon tp. has twi a , girls, born h?t Thursday . Nj>v 8/•i v a i‘a ;; E vs ,t Vf-j/riy’ J Col. H. R. W. Smith, of the Chicago Tribune editorial force, visited his Rensselaer relatives, over Sunday. We have knifed the prices in summer millinery, cuii now io • cheap hats •rd bomets at Henipl" 11 & Honan’s. Frank Osborne, the buildei, has the contract for putting up a roomy new house for Jay L'Jinsow', of northwest Jordan Tp. Examine Williajns’.ten cent coun - ter, for bargains. See an elegant line of Neck-Wear, at. Ellis & Murray’s. Charley Brown has moved back from Marlboro and ts now living in the Joe Clark house, m Thompson s Addition. ■■ Oxford?, Newports and Southern ties at reduced prices at Hemphill & Honan’s. ; The Monon's jpttra construction I and repair train js now putting the F track in goOcLorder in the vicinity of Rensselaer. • , Any pcisoii wishing to invest or borrow money Call and see me, at , my office, Rensselaer Bank. ■■■■;- I B. F. Febguson. Delos Thompson and F. M. Hanley’ went Tuesday to Kankakee, 111., where Belle Medium, Tod Mohawk and other of the Stock Farm’s horses are entered for the races.

Win. N. Jones left for Columbus, this state, Monday night, called by telegram announcing the sudden death es his brother, Richard. > A good new safe, a refrigerator and aii- oil-tsuik foi--sale cheap. - ’ La Rue Bros. Themes at the tabernacle next Sunday morning and evening: “The New York Convention’’ and “The Church. .Services at Pleasan tßidge in the afternoon. Isaac Glazebrook carries a full line of McCormick binders and mow -s also repairs. Give him a call. Location Grants’ old shop on Front Street. Benj. Gifford, the great American swamp drainer, is building' a second steam dredge, to out ditches in his* Jas per CottnYy TmoSv ■ Tins on j is being put up in Walker Tp. near Joel Spriggs’ residence. We are overstocked in fine shoes on Recount of the season; call now arjd get bargains. . ... • ” Hemphill & /We have received from Hon. S. P. Thompson, now east with the Christian Endeavor party, an interesting and philosophical letter from New York City, which, being received late, we have laid over until next week. - Ladies notions Cheap} at Mrsf Leek’idets’. '

Hammond Bros., are headquarters for bicycles and tricycles. The grand opening- raoesofthe new driving park, in the new state fair-grounds, at Indianapolis, takes place this week. Tickfttft for the occasion will be on sale at the Rensselaer depot untill tomorrow evening. One fare for round trip, with $1 added for admission to grounds and grand stand. Williams don’t want the earth, but he does want the people to know that he has ihe.largest stock of furniture and carpets, in Jasper county. The Rensselaer ball club played their return game with Remington, at that place, test Friday. It was a good game but resulted in a victory (or Remington, the score being 11 to 16. The home boys think Remington got it op to them a little, by employing a battery from Logansport.

John W. Paxton is at Albany in the gas belt, starting a new lumber yard. He will remain about a month, after which his brother, Chas* M. Paxton, will take charge of the business. Miss Mollie Babcock has lately become a member of the Shut-in Society, an organization of mvalids which and publishes a small monthly magazine, in the interest of its members. The Presbyterian S. S. picnic, at Nagel’s grove, last week Wednesday, was a fine affair, and successful in every particular. There were games of various kinds, as tennis, “croquet! base ball, bathing, any amount of good eating, music by the band <fcc. 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 Remington fair will be held August 23 to 26. The cash premiums offered are said to aggregate $4,000, which ought to secures large exhibition. The offerings in the speed ring figure up to $1,750, and that sum surely ought to provide fine entertainment to the ad mirer§ of horse racing. ’ Rev. Florian Hahn, the first, superintendent of St. Joseph’s Indian school, now superintendent of a sim- | L H . .. 4 4- - \*T 1 ' ■ . r ■_ -. _ . ington. stopped off to visit Father ' Geitl and other friends, Sunday and Monday, while on his way to Washington City, in the interests of his school, x, •_ , Clearance sale of millinery rat Hemphill & Honan’s, now is the time ■ to buy«obeap. I

Several good young Norman and i Clyde Stallions; also good brood j mares and colts, for sale on easy ‘ terms, or will’ exchange for other ' Jock. ~ Laßueßros. —4; Marriage licenses issued’■since last I - j Frank Cooper ( Ida May Conn. j Ernest E. Knight. ( Sarah A. Dalson. Silas L. Beachler, i / Eliza Blocher, Attention? Thresh men ! We are agents for the celebrated Qaar Scott Engines, and Treshers; Ilubiw Engines and Threshers and* C. ALman & Go’s., Star Engines and Threshers? Give us a call if anything is needed in our lipe. 44-4 t. .Hammond Bros. Monday the Indianapolis Sentinel published reports of the condition of the crops of nearly every county in the state* The estimate for Jasper county, sent from Rensselaer, was too brief to be of much value. It estimated the average prospect to bo, for wheat 76 per cent., for oats 75 per cent, and for corn 50 per cent. • Summer Clearance sale at Hemphill & Honan’s. Neck-Wear. In Four-in-hand, Windsor and Teck, largest lire in town. Ellis & Murray. Mrs, Dr. Deming has improved in health rapidly since her return from Florida. Her son, who was south with her, brought back with him a large supply of the “Florida fever,” sufficient to last him all the season, if economically administered. The Florida climate seems to be a good thing for sick people and a bad thing for well ones. \ i

A fifteen year old, feeble minded boy, of Rearing; >r. s wallowed a common button-hook, a week or two ago, much to the alarm of - his friends, but without any apparent, ill effects. The business connection between the boy and the button-hook was but a “limited partnership,” at most, and was soon dissolved, by mutual consent. T. J. McCoy’s little son, Taylor, was thrown from a horse, Monday morning, while performing someventuresome equestrianjeots, in company with Auditor Murray’s son, and broke both bones of the left arm, below the elbow. He is. a tough little chap and not likely to be laid up a great while with an injury no more serious than a broken arm.

The two gravel trains now ballasting the track north from Rensselaer, get in two tram loads each, every day. Threshing coal at Coen &JPaxton’s. C. E. Hershman, Monon night operator at the Rensselaer station, has been succeeded by Mr. Voight, of Delphi. xarties wisiiing u> ouy the best Hay Press on the market should call on or write Ccen & Paxton, agents for the Lightning Hay Press. M. L. Spitler was taken pretty bad sick, last Thursday night, with a Etomsch trouble, but waszabSlto get out again Monday morning. Mrs. Elizabeth Florence arrived last Saturday from a protracted residence in Kansas, and is now making her home with her son, Leroy Florence, in Barkley tp. Uncle Ellis Walton, our veteran teamster and hackman, had the misfortune Sunday night, to lose one of his handsome ycung roan horses, which he has been driving on his hack, for some time past. Blair, the young man who stole W. T. Perkins’ watch and clothes and later was arrested 'for burglary in Monon, plead guilty to the last named offence Nst week, in the-—White cir- j cuiLcburTTand was given a year in Michigan City. The case against Rev. Dominic 'Shank' ' CrTrTHst'tff'' Wanatah, charging the use of the United States mails trial when the’ trial calendar in the United States Cour t was- made up, - but the case has not been dismissed, as has been however, that the case will neve,r be tried, —Valparaiso Messenger " Rev. J. Cadden, president of La- I fayette Business College,-was Hi town : Monday in the interest of that sue- | cessfu! institution. The,,college has ! been in operation only one yfar, and j during-, that tmu; 43 of its pupils obtained good positions; which is certainly a good record for tlie first year. The broncho race at thi Stock Farm attracted quite a large crowd, last Saturday afternoon, Davis’ gray pony won the race, in 28 seconds, beating Bicknell’s 4>rown broncho. The race was a single' quarter mile dash, anti was for S2O a “side. Ed. DuvaH boy, Strawberry, the other. It is said they will race again in a month, A prominent Barkley tp. farmer tells us that he has a fine crop <of wheat, likewise of hay, oats promising finely and soon ready to hairvest, and even a pretty good show for corn, with a reasonably favorable season, hereafter. Many of his neighbors arc ii tile WM? 2x. From all of which-il is pretty evident that, m some porticos of the county at least, the year ’92 i< not going to be half a bad one for crops. '

A grand tally-ho party, with all the accessories, .such as Coaches and four, tooting horns anil liveried footmen, was given last Thursday evening, by a large party of Rensselaer’s leadingyoung society people. The party. < omprising two large coach loads, drove down the romantic Iroquois Boulevard until they reached Peacock’s Springs Park, where a very pleasant evening was spent in diversions suitable to the occasion, and winding up with' the drive hack to Rensselaer and a grand midnight ride through the principal streets of the town.

The discusskn caused by the action of the Town Board, last week, in ordering the removal of several barber poles from the outside of the sidewaiks, has resulted in bringing out the fact that most people believe that merchants and business meh are entitled to use the inner three feet on the walks in front of their places for the display of signs, goods <fcc., and it is said that an old ordinance of a former Board gives them thst right. We nave the highest legal authority in the county, however, for saying that no such right really exists, and that if any such ordinance was ever passed it has no legal effect. L

Mr.ami Mrs. Alfred Thompson and daughter, Mrs. Flo Sears, left yesterday for Old Orchard Beach in Mainez, where they will remain for some time. They wilt take the St. Liwrencc riverfoute going there. Coen & Paxton , repqri; the local gram and hay market, tts follows: Wheat 65e; corn 40c. Oats 26c. to 28c., Hay 85 to $6. B. F. Ferguson moved his real-es-tate and loan o’ i-t Monday, from the room in the i. <of McCoy’s bank into the west front room up-stairs, in the Williams-Stockton block, ,t esl of the post-office. Miss Olaf Krarer, the young lady from Iceland who lectured here a y car or twonig6, i i now thesu b ject -of-coasideoiblc a correspondence .with, persohi iu Iceland having ' developed the factthat her story is to a great extent 1 a Munchausen . —Mon ticello Her'• aid. David H. Yeoinai. n>w of Union tpr, was nomiggfed for Congress at the People’s Party convention,, 'at 'Winamac, last Wednesday. ,His only opponent was John B. Milroy, of Carroll Co. .Mr. Ycom.ru is ... .v. , estimable gentleman, personally, but he is running-on the wrong platform to ever hope fpr election.

.The South Whitley News gives a bit of information that may be of Benefit to some of our farmers. IL says that William Smith had five head of cattle bloat terribly 1- m eating too much wet clover. Aftera fruitless •Q’ort to relieve them with salt, the remedy he had always used before effectually, his wife thought to try soda. They dissolved about a tablespconful of soda and addedL to this solution a small handful of s«t. This dose they, gave to each one, and to their surprise the relief v,vis almost instant.

... - -- ' _ « Great preparations for j a big Peoples Party mass meeting at 4 Hogan, last Saturday, under the familiar guise of an “Alliance Picnic.” The Alliance farmers have “gotten ■ onto”'that scheme, however by prev- ' iousexpenence, and they let ilris as- - fair severely alone. In spite of all, 'that was done to attract a crowd, not ! over 100 persons, all told, attended ! the ‘‘picnic” and moU than half of the few that were there, were interested only in the bowery dance. The big guns of the party, were present to f urnish orations, as L.E. Glazebrook M.Y. Slaughter and Noland, but still it did not “draw”. The fact is the People’s Party movement *in Jasper county has seen its best day.

The people of our, neighboring county of White, are worse than ever torn up over their court house matter. Judge Reynolds quietly entered an order Tuesday of last week, for having the so-called repairs done, and the contractors began tearing down the up-., per part of the old. building at once. The eommiastonersand thosethfit are with them, tfijink the judge took a 2 6 aft iipidgemt.4t on them, and the commissioners give notice to the contract- ’ ors tint 1 hey' wi ’ 1 still oppose the work on the claim -f illegality. The cost ..will 1 e about $30,000. —■ Fh u- people av/ui'e to what proport on Nelson! Mornp’s ownership of ■]> elands In Jasp p County has grown to. Hr his S,7s<j ores in Keener Tp., 6J>xd.«ic3 hi Wheatfield Tp., and 1.643 seres in Walker Tp., ’the total being 17,030 acres. Benj. J. Gifford of ly .pkakee, 111., is .next to Morris as a large land owner in Jasper County He has now 3,448 acres in Barkley, 2,660 in Gillam, and 1,540. m Walker township. The tstal is j 7,648 acres, His body of | land, although smaller than Mor- . riu’s. is f ><oi>abiv more valuable, and I certainly will be much more so when fils drainage operations, no win progress are completed.- Next after Morris and Gifford as a large owner of Jasper county land is Frederick R. Otis, of Chicago, who has large tract In Keener and Union Tps.

Blanche, the cloven year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Kepnnr of Jordan tn., but formerly of Rensselaer, died very suddenly last Friday evening. She had b|en sick for seme time with diphtheretic tonsilitis, but had about recoverd from that attack, and was brought town the day of her deatfi;diy 'her parents, to' obtain '.fflfidicine for a stomach trouble, which followed the •*- • other sickness. In town she was taken tb the home of a relative, but becoming worse, asked to be 1 taken home, which was done. On arriving, home she had several severe “sinking chills’ ’ and died in a very short time. The weather turned suddenly quite tool Friday afternoon, and it is the Opinion of the physician who prescribed for her throat and stomach trouble, that the child, being very much en’cebiccXby ‘her previous sickness, became. greatly chilled during Vr long, ride home, and that thia brought on the chills which' caused her death. Interment of the remains was made Saturday afternoon, in Weston cemetery, but no public funeral.wttSh.eld, owing to the supposed contagious nature of her sickness.