Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1893 — A New Year’s Greeting. [ARTICLE]

A New Year’s Greeting.

Rensselaer Ipd, Jan. 1, 1893. Kind Friends: The kind and gentle reception we have met with thus far in our present prosperous business career encourages us to again come before the public and ask tbeir patronage for another year. We take this occasion, to give a word of thanks-to*tlioee who have stayed with us through the cloudy weather as well as the bright and have overlooked out faults and short comings. With these few words of introduction we again steep our plumeless implement of chirography and launch out for another voyage on the sea of failure and fame. Hoping to sight von ail, in tune and hove along side, interchange the greetings of the New Year and with an “all is well” steer for the parts of our ambitions along the coast of Fortune’s “Deep.” AVe have no rash promises to make but simply solicit you to call and see us if you wish any work done in our line or any of the goods we have U> sell. AVheu you sell your home* I will make your deed for you at alliance prices, make you an abstract one and all at the same price for transfers whether you are posted or. not, will sell your farm foi you or buy you one tor a reasonable commission. Will write vou a ten year renewable, a 10, 15, 20or 25 year endowment, or a 20 year terminal endowment pol. icy with the privilege of bikmgyou cicdi earnings, out in cash, at the end

oi any 5 year period, and wUI write you an Accident Policy all in the best life Insurance Company in the world “The iEtna;” why wot have Ihe best when it will not cost you any more money and you are sure of your cash per contract. I can also write you accident insurance bn the installment plan. I,>ooo or Jor >3 per quarter’ in the North American Accident Company with a weekly indemnity of s'2s pey week. This is a golden opportunity and to the farnieis 11 tfer a lirst class 2 horse wagon warranted m every respect, ‘*The South llend Wagon” for $45, cash, and on lime, if satisfactory paper is made at a small advance. Here is a handsome New Years present to any one wishing a new wagon. Will furnish you all the money you want" in sums to suit 3011 at reasonable raU sos interest on city or farm property. Will furnish you money to build you a house on the farm or on the town lot. The great and proiitnble business we did last year assures •j* 1 hat we are in Hie right and busing » for the jioople. I cordially invito you all to como and see mo in my clMoe np stairs. North side of the public square. Happy New Year to ell.

B. F. FERGUSON.

Mrs. Eiiss Gingerieh submitted to an operation for Ovarian tumor in Chicago last Tuesday. The tumor and the fluid in it would have weighed nearly fifty pounds- She stood the operation very well and Profs. Robinson and Martin spoke hopefully of her recovery, yet in every operation their may be danger. To the Rensselaer Building and Loan Association with its two series of stock, is due muelr of the credit for the continued rapid growth of Rensselaer. And considerable credit also is due to the local branches of the several outside Building and Loan Associations doing business here. The Rensselaer institution now takes in about SI2OO, or enough* to build a good residence, every monthly payday.

Marriage licenses Issued since: lust i rjported; } Arthur N. Bailey’, — t Flora. V. Ssy.Jer ■ , j Benjamin Sivarlz, ( Louise Schauley. \ Calvin Grimme, | Sutla L. Grimme. j Alfred Barlow, ( Mary C. Smith. j A’zona Rushton, ( Dora Bell Marlett. > At a fashionable dinner at the I Makcever House, last Sunday Dr- J. H- Loughvidge and A. McCoy t both :appeared m elegant new dress- suits including claw-hammer Coats*; The suits were made by Zimmerman & Roberts and cost S6O each and* were paid for by Mr. McCoy, as the result of a‘'guess” on the latq election. See Hemphill Honan’s now ad. this week.

A pleasant holiday dance was held at the opera house, Friday evening. About 70 couples w«re present, including several from neighboring towns as . Monon, Monticello and Remington. The Monticello orchestra furnished the music. The dance was gotten up and naonagted by Messrs Rosa Grant, Floyd Robinson and Geo. Ktrickfadden.

Tbe Baptist Sunday School’s Holidaj' entertainment and distribution of presents was held last Saturday evening, on New Year's eve, as per their established custom. The presents were numerous, the exercises good and the attendance very large. By way of variety the device for holding and exhibiting the presents was a big wind-mill, upon the wheel of which the presents were sttaahed, and which was revolved to bring them within reach, in distributing'.

In a notable book just published, by AVm. F. Fox, entitled ‘‘Regimental Losses” a list of three hundred regiments are given that sustained the greatest loss in battle. Of these three hundred regiments, thirteen were from Indiana, and one of that thir teen, is the Ninth. Infantry, Gen. Milroy’s regiment,, andl which contained more Jasper 00 unity men than* any other regiment. The battle losses of the Ninth) are-stated m the book at 131 killed andl SB6 wounded; also 14 died in prison. The losses by sickness are nob given.

For some time poet occasional, reference has- i»een matte in the papers to an alleged* wonde*fully cheap method of making heattug and illuminating gas out of water, so cheap, in fact that natural gas itself was hardly in it, by comparison. An experimental plant for l&annfacturing this water gas is now in ojwration at Connerevitte, this slate; arid Rev. AY. R. Newels* of this place, who has a preaching appointment at Connessville, Is trying to investigate the raattcr with a view to its possibilities for Rensselaer. So far, however, Mr. Nowefe has not had much success with his inquiries, as the managers of the method at present decline to make any statements or propositions.

Chas. A. Dean a well-kuown and greatly esteemed citizen, lately living in Newton tp., is moving this week to Washington, 111., a flourishing town in Tazewell Co., 12 miles east of Peoria. Mr. Dean has just come into the ownership there of a big two-story brick building and of a large stock of groceries He traded therefor, and for the difference in ca6h, 280 acres of land in Keener tp., receiving for the same |25 per acre, and in good value, too. This price illustrates the great advance in tbe value of our northern lands during the last few yean, as it was no longer ago than that when Mr. Dean bought the land for 110 per acre.