Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1892 — ADDITIONAL LOCALS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL LOCALS.

Rev. L. E. Conner will preach at the Church of God, next Sunday. Dr. Washburn is getting about again after a short but severe sickness. Miss Zelpha Little, of Bumetsville, is visiting the family of Dr. Washburn. A very large and pleasant social party was given at Mr. J.C. Chilcote’s reaidence,Tuesday evening. Miss. Emily Dockstader, of Chicago, is visiting, Miss. Edith A. Miller, at M. F. Chilcote’s. The W. C, T. U. will meet with Mrs. Sullivan next Saturday afternoon at 3p.m. Dr. Hartsell js still unable to after d to his practice, although getting better slowly. Miss Ada and Ida Chilcote, have returned from Michigan, where they have been visiting -for the past month or two. Mr. Hudson, of Indianapolis, secretary of the Democratic state central committee was in town, on political business, yesterday. -.

Mr. and Mrs. John Kepner wish to return thanks to the citizens of Jordan township and others who so kindly assisted them during their late sad bereavement. There probably was never a time in the history of this part of the country when there was such a vast difference in the growing corn as at present, In a trip of twenty-five miles made the first of this week in thisvicinity r the writer saw corn that was from a few inches high to breast high, and in nearly every case was in the same field and was all planted at thesame time. Once in a great while a field of corn would be seen that was as good as you ever saw at this time of the year, but most of it is very poor, and some, unless we have a late fait; will never make corn. The oats are going to be much better than looked for, and farmers will probably commence harvesting them in about ten days or two weeks.—Remington Press. t Pleasant township, in Porter Co. js~r&ported iu the daily papers to be swarming, seething and slopping over with frogs, which croak and jump in every direction. The inhabitants think the frogs came in a big rain which occured there lately, and immediately after which they made their appearance. The frog-storm theory is pure nonsense, however. If the frogs are there they undoubtedly migrated from the vast swamps of the Kankakee river which lie immediately south and west of the frog infested region. Pleasant township is just across the river from Wheatfield and Kankakee Tps. in this county. ,

The Good land Herald very truly says: ‘‘A printing office is a poor place for visiting during working hours, especially with the compositors. Talking with type-setters while at work is forbidden in all well regulated printing offices.” The truth is that the work of type-setting is one so particular in its nature that it requires the undivided attention of the person engaged in it. When the attention is distracted from his work by the coversation of well meaning but not always very considerate visitors, he can neither do nearly as much nor nearly so good w ork as when he is free from interruption. The prohibitionists held their county convention in the court house, last S aturday afternoon. It was a mass convention and they turned out in m ai~, there being just six of them present, and that is about ‘ '•All there is left of them, Left oj'JSitf’—dozen. The Candidates nominated were: For Treasurer, Henry Welsh, of Marion tp. For Recorder, Everett Halstead, of Newton tp. For Sheriff, Chas. W,, Faris, of Gillam tp. For Commissioner, Jasper Kenton, of Newton tp. For Surveyor,"'Austin Rathfon, of Gillam tp. For Assessor, S. B. Thornton, of Newton tp. For Coroner, W. T Perkins, of Rensselaer. The name of Jared Ran jam in was the one first proposed for Treasurer, but he declined, whereupon W. T. Perkins arose and said he “had his opinion” of a man who would dej cline a nomination. As a reward for b's “rede zeal the convention n&h- ---* inated Mr. Perkins for Coroner.

gjThree children of O. K. Ritchey, 4 miles south of town, are sick with diphtheria. Two are getting better but a 9 year-old girl is still seriously sick. It is understood they contracted the disease from John Kepner’s children, There will be a Gospel Temperance meeting at the Christian Tabernacle on Tuesday evening, July 26, commencing at 8 o’clock. Sermon by Rev. H. V. Weaver. Every body invited. Proposed attendants at the Jasper County Summer Normal, which begins next Monday, are informed that arrangements havobeen completed for a boarding club, for such as desire to avail themselves of the privilege.

The latest from the White Co., court house was that the sheriff refused, Monday, to obey the orders of the commissioners, !© stop the contractors tearing down the building and that instead, the sheriff appointed 40 deputies, to guard the contractors and prevent any interference with them. The commissioners are powerless to interfere. It is a Democratic row, all around. The Town Board, at their special meeting Saturday evening, discovered that the amount of cash on hafid and in sight, would not permit of the improving of Washington street on the basis of the town paying all of the cost of the crossings amd half of the balance,'and they therefore decided to go back to the original plan of the town paying only for the crossings . It seems that whatever part of the cost of such improvements that the town pays for, must be paid when the work is done, there being no authority to incur indebtedness. There was no change made in the improvement ordered, except that the thickness of the crushed rock in the middle of the street was changed from 12 to 10 inches. The street will be (J K macadamized and guttered to Cullen street, and for thg. other two blocks toDtVision street the guttering be despensed with for the present and the macadamizing reduced to the width of 25 f eet,

Samuel J. Messersmith, who lives on the Wm. Haley farm, some five or six miles south of town, was in Monday forenoon to get his face patched up, as a result of a fight that morning with his partner, Jas. Henderson. Both of Messersmith’s eyes were blackened and besides which he had several bad cuts on his cheek, in fact appeared to be pretty badly licked,' He was not struck

by any weapon, but only by Henderson’s fist. Messersmith did not seem to bear any malice towards the man who thrashed him, but said they had made friends again, and that Henderson had hitched up the team for him to come to town with. But before he left town he loaded up with liquor and by the time he reached home he was swearing that he would kill Henderson, in less than 24 hours. Henderson therefore came to town and began surety-of-the-peace proceedings against Messersmith, before Squire Burnham, and also two cases for assault and battery, one of them being for a row they had last Friday, and the 2other for Monday’s fight. In both of these cases Henderson claims that Messersmith was the aggressor, and that he has been trying to provoke Henderson into a fight, for several days. Constable Wood went out and arrested Messersmith, Monday afternoon, and at his request, in order as he claimed, to obtain wit-

nesses, the trial was deferred until Wednesday forenoon. The men are hatching” on the farm they are working. Henderson has a wife, but she has left him since they have been on the Haley place, claiming that she could not stand the society of her husband’s partner. Messersmith also is married and does not live with his wife. Before the hour of trial arrived, however, the parties listened to the wise advice of friends and attorneys, and settled the matter, and the prosecutions were dismissed. The partnership is son assumes the rent of the farm, pays Messersmith for his work so tar, and the latter leaves the place. The costs of the court were divided Messersmith probably gets the best end of the settlement, but he certainly got the worst end of the licking, mJ matters are therefore pretty well evened up;"and sweet Peace now her downy pinions over the '' erstwhile scenes of sanguinary strife.

Leopold’s pony ran away in town, Tuesday evening, with a dog-cart in ■which were riding MoseLeapold and Bert Goff. The pony ran pretty near all over town before he stopped and dog-cart and £boys were promiscuously distributed, but the pony finally “lit,” bottom up, on the iron bridge. Nothing could hurt the boys and the pony but the dog-cart and harness werq badly used up.

Deputy Surveyor James N. Leatherman made the preliminary or prospecting survey of the proposed cutoff channnel for the Iroquois river, last Wednesday. He began about 80 rods south of the center of section 16, some two miles northeast of Rensselaer and three quarters of a mile above the place of junction of the Iroquois with the Pinkamink. If the channel is run upon the line surveyed by Mr. Leatherman it will be about 3| miles long, including .the distance down the branch from the Yeoman farm to the river. It will have a total fall of 13 feet and 2 inches; or if the river at the inlet Tie deepened 2 feet as it probably would, the fall would be 11 feet, 2 inches. This amount of fall, Mr. Leatherman says, would give a good current The depth of excavation needed would range from 5 to 16 feet; the deepest being about due north from the Rensselaer depot Mr. Leatherman believes that a considerably better route 'v' ; •• Ithan the one surveved can be found by bearing considerably southward for a distance, from the head, and then running due west most of the distance, upon the section line. This would greatly obviate the necessity of cutting up farms, and would Mr.Teathennan beiieves, pass. through lower ground and require less digging.