Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1892 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

' Work on. the improvements to the court house began Tuesday morning. Hammond Bros., are headquarters for bicycles and tricycles. Next week is County Institute week. » The Rensselaer.£itask Farm is entered in the seven rages at Remingt on fair this week. The Ladies of Rensselaer and vici nare invited to call and see Mrs, Lee kder’s stock of New Fall Hats. New style felt sailora 25 cents each. Rev Francis Cox, Jof Chicago, preached at th*fSf. E. Church, Sunday morning and evening. The new bakery, one door east of. Fendig’S drug stqrc, is the place for the finest bread, cakes and pies, y

Newton Gordon and family, of New Albany, arc visiting Henry Aidrich and? family. They will return home Friday. The best and freshest, of everything in the baker’s and confectionery ne, at the new bakery of Troy & Minnicus. Rensselaer M. E. church will have its quarterly meeting next Simda y morning, in Trinity M. E. Church. The presiding elder will preach.

Clearance sale of millinery a t Hemphill & Honan’s, now is the tim e to buy cheap. E. L. Clark is adding several new rooms and a cellar, and otherwise greatly improving his residence on Van Rensselaer Street. Notice. —Parties wishing to buy the best Hay Press on the market should call on or write Coen <fe Paxr ton, agents for the Lightning Hay The breaking down of a locomotive on the Monon, south of Hammond, delayedthesob th 1 tounJtramlsever-’ al hours, last Sunday. % Williams don’t want the earth but hedoes waut the people to know, that he has the.largest stock of furniture and carpets, in Jasper county. L. A. Bostwick, surveyor and civ - il engineer, lately of Bitavia, N. Y., has opened an office up stairs in McCoy’s bank building, across the hall from Thompson & Bros’ law office. Threshing coal at Coen & Paxton's . See an elegant line of Neck-Wear, The lawn festival by the ladies of the Presbyterian church, last Sat urday evening, in the court home yard, was generously, patronized, the& receipts being some $577 ' Don’t fail to hear Rev. J. H. Wil80u’s lecture on Anderson vil’e Prison. It will well bs worth the, price of ad- ! mission. Mrs. Henry Platt has gone to live with the family of her brother-in-Jaw Chas. Platt, Sr.; and has deeded to • them her house and lot, on Division* street, in consideration of being given a home during her life. Old soldiers can not afford to mis jearing the rehearsal of life at Audsrsonville Prison, at the Opera House Aug. 26. A fine statue of St. Joseph was srected above the main entrance of

lit. Joseph’s College, last Thursday, [t is about 8 feet high and fine piece of statuary. It came from Germany and was presented to the, college by Father Young, of Garrett, Ind . [ The proprietors of the Rensselaer Mill wish to to give notice to their patrons that the repairs are now all completed and that the mill is in full operation, in all departments. Rensselaer M. E. circuit will have its quarterly conference next Saturday afternoon, at 2 o'clock 7at the Rensselaer M. E. church. Quarterly meeting Saturday evening, at Nq. 8 achool, in Newton Tp. Services at the same place Sunday*, at 4 P. M. Pfesiding Elder Wilson will be present

The bicycle race at the Remington fair tak& place today. C.G. Spitkr is the only contestant from Rensselaer. Ladies notions cheap, at Mrs Leckliders’. Mrs. J. W. Cowden and two dauh. ter have gone to Chauncey, in southern Illinois, to visit relatives. Oxfords, Newports and Southern ties at reduced pricesat Hemphill <fe Honan’s.

Rensselaer has now a full-fledged boot-black, in the person of George Platt, otherwise known as ‘‘Punch,” Luther Hemphill has a large flowing well at his residence on Front street; struck Tuesday at a depth of about 50 feet. Mrs. Sadie Frye, of Hammond, is spending a few weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Stephenson, for the benefit of her health. The best wagon on earth at Hammond Bros. Mr.and Mrs.J. M. Wasson arrived home. Monday, after a two weeks visit in Darke Co., Ohio, the Captain’s old home Plows and Harrows of all styles cheap at Hammond Bros.

The Democrats will hold a county convention, October Bth. Some of them wanted a straight-out ticket, while others favor an endorsement of the People’s Party candidate. Smoke Safety cigar. Christie Vick has gone to Watseka, the thriving county seat of Iroquois county, 111., where he will engage in the fresh fruit, confectionery and tobacco handling trade. Any person wishing to invest or borrow money Gail and see me, at my office, Rensselaer Bank. B. F. Ferguson.

Edwin S. Rhoads, with C. C. Starr & Co., and Miss Emma Alter wer married last Sunday evening, at th residence of Mr. and Mrs.F.B. Meyer On River street. Rev. I. I. Gorby performed the ceremony. __ The little son of Marcus G. Lewis, of Jordan Tp., died on Wednesday of last week, of diphtheria. The child was about six years of age, The other cases of the disease in the Lewis family have all about recovered.

Sunday's Presbyterian church: Morning, “The unity of the Parables of the Lost Coin, the Lost ..Sheep and the Lost Son.” Evening, “The Evils of the Tobacco Habit.” . «» „

Sylvester O’Meara has sold his farm, 1£ miles south of Rensselaer, to Dexter N. Dalton, of Iroquois Co. Illinois, and will give possession the Ist of next March. The price paid for the farm of 120 acres was $4,800, or S4O pe r acre. Mr. O’Meara wiH Rensselaer., we are informed-. We are overstocked in fine shoe on account of the Reason; call now avid get bargains. Hempiiiix & Honan.

Seuyler Spencer* until lately a rising’ young attorney of Valparaiso, has deserted his wife and child for a “gay milliner” and gone to Bismarck North Dakota. Spencer lived inReminglon when a boy, and' later when attending college, intended to be a minister, and in fact, did. preach occasionally, during his student days; in Rensselaer among other places. Rev. John H. Wilson P. E. will deliver his famous lecture. “Over the line, or ten months in Andersonville” at the Opera House, Friday cveuing, August 26. Rev. Wilson has established# wide reputation as lecturer and his is pronounced one of the best.

A Peoples Party rally was held near Boston’s bridge about on the line between Walker and Gillam Tps. last Thursday. The meeting had been greatly advertised* and among the promised speakers was a Peoples Party candidate for a state office, a candidate tot* congressman and a candidate for presidential elector. Foot races, tugs of war, and amusements were advertised, as also an offer of a flag for the largest delegation. All these efforts succeeded in getting together a crowd of not to exoeed 250 at the outside, and the majority of those were Republicans, who took no stock in the calamity croaking of the speakers. y . .

Bev. M. L. Comer, of Kankakee Co., 111., was in town yesterday, visiting relatives;--Mrs. H. W. Porter went to Cammeron Springs, Monday, to head off an impending attack of rheumatism. She will remain a month. Attorney Frank Foltz and John R. Nowels left for Kansas, Monday, on business connected with the estate of the late Lewis D. Kenton. Examine William’s ten cent counters. T. F. Clark made a business trip to the central part of the state, the latter part of last week, and closed up the purchase of a piece of land over Dear Morocco. Mrs. Heater Cripps has moved her Dress-making estabhsnmcnt to her residence, in C. B. Stewards house Corner Jefferson St. & Chicago road. Work guaranteed satisfacto. y. 51-4tp

The surviving members of the family of the late Joseph White request us to extend their most sincere thanks to their many friends for kindness during their late bereavement. Stnqke Mandoza cigar.

Belle Medium started in a SIOOO race in Chicago, last week, and was a good second, m a big crowd, in the first heat, and was third the second heat. She then showed signs of sickness and was withdrawn.

The partnership between the undersigned, under the firm name of Sayler <k Hopkins, is dissolved by mutual consent* The books and accounts of the late firm will be At the Rensselatr Mill until Sept. 20th„ 1892. After that date, all unsettled accounts willbe placed in the bauds of an attorney for collection. " T. J. SUTLER. 3t p Homer Hopkins. A speaker’s platform and a system of seats have been erected in the court house yard, at the expense - ( of the various political party central committees,and the G.A.R.,to be used for the soldiers’ re-union next week, {ind for political meetings during the campaign.

The making of a circuit judge is a very important matter. Republicans Should turn butrwffll to the preei net conventions next Saturday afternoon. Every body TAKE NOTICEIhat I make baby pictures a specialty at my PAVILION, one door west of Republican Office. t J. Bartoo. All people who have any of the “Fresh Air’’ children, from Chicago* are requested to bring them to Rensselaer in time to take the 2:37 P. M. train Saturday, at which time their friends in the city have been notified to expect them. "S. Er^arlihg-will g 6 to the -Wi*7 consin ITrnVersity, when the Septem - her term opens,to begin a specialcour se in sociology and political economy, under a distinguished professor of those sciences, there. He proposes to fit himsei: for a college professorship. . , Pat*. O’Donnell, the Irish Republican, is, we believe, without question, the ablest orator of his age in Indiana. Let him have a rousing good audience, at his opening speech, next Saturday evening, at the court house. Don’t fail to hear Rev. J. H. Wilson’s thrilling narrative of his experience in the modern Golgotha, that 19 century exponent of medieval barbarism, Andersonvilla Prison, at the Opera House, Friday evening. The attention of Milroy Tp. Republicans is called to the change in the call of Chairman Chijcote, for electing delegates to the Judicial convention. By a mistake in the number of delegates to which the county is entitled, it was thought that there was one more precinct than there are delegates, and Milroy and Hanging Grove were therefore given one delegate, jointly. It having since been discovered that a mistake was made and that the number of delegates just equalled the number of precincts, Milroy was assigned a delegate and a place of meeting appointed within the limits Of the township. '* *