Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1893 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Mrs. B. Forsythe left for New l Philadelphia, Ohio, Monday, to visit her parents, for a few weeks. Edward Mora combination at ' Opera House Friday Feb., 3rd. The breaking down of a eoal .cm, neat* Paisley, detained the Monon trains several hours, Tuesday. iThe new school house will not be ■ • completed and ready for use before March Ist.

Warner A Shead, at the new groe- • ery store, woald like a share of your i> trade. They will treat you right. Mr. John A. McCurtain and Miss f Eva L. Price, both of Barkley tp., were married last Thursday, Jan>l2th, by Squire Morgan, in his office. \ Chas. Vick, the news agent, is now making an exclusive specialty of the news business. He will get you any paper or periodical you desire.

i Fred Phillips returned home Monday night, after a week’s visit in i Fowler, Chicago and other points.. He reports one of his cousins at Fowler, Will Van.atta, as being desperately sick with typhoid fever. If your teeth need attention, call on ;Dr.;.Brown. He employees paiuless methods, his work is first class in evety particular. Teeth without plates and fine gold fillings a specialty. Officeever Ellis A Murray’s. ■Rensselaer wants a cannery but is hesitating on the question of paying one Win. Vigerus a bonus of $7,500 to start one., They might find themselves “vigerously” done up on that ’plan.-*-Monticello Herald.

Mrs. Tho 3. Antrim arrived home 'Friday from a protracted visit among old-time friends and scenes, in Miami county. Warner and Shead, the new grocery firm. i Give them atrial. Cheap Millinery goods at cost at Mrs.; Leckliders through Jan. and ;R. H. HBurcupile got down town one day last week, for the first time since he was brought back from the 'Logansport asylum, in a-supposed dying condition. His mental faculties are,.as yet, only partly restoied .

Don’t forget those trimmed hats, for€>NE DOLLAR, at Mrs. Lickider’s. Pure white bolted corn meal at <the elevator and feed mill; W. ft. Nowels & Son. Mrs. Lincoln Plake, lately Miss Clara J. Timmons, of Jordan tp., left Monday, for Tipton to join her husband. She was teaching the Hit - obey school, .in Jordan, when married, and .her term is being taught out toy Miss Belle Marshall, of Rensselaer. Blankets, yarns, flannels in fact all winter good:, in abundance. R. Fendig

Miss Bertha W. Faria and Mr. John J. Van Buskirk were married last Saturday afternoon, by Rev. J, G. Campbell. The bride is the daughter of Hon. Benj. E. Faris, of Gillam Tp. The groom lives in Custer Co,, Neb., but formerly lived in Gillam. Bmyains in HATS, Wednesdays and Saturdays, at Mrs. LeckEder’a. Estey organs' and pianos, and Estey & Camp organs and pianos, on exhibition at C. B. Steward’s. Rt. Rev. Joseph Dwenger, bishop of the Catholic diocese of Ft. Wayne, died Sunday evening, at Ft. Wayne, of an organic disease of the heart, from which he has suffered for several years. He was born in Ohio, in 1837, and was therefore about 56 j’tfcrs old, He has been bishop gihce 1872;

The,lndiana Mineral Springs, near Attica, and now owned mostly by Chicago parties, who have put a good deal of > money into their improvement. The • head physician in charge of the sanitarium is Dr. Tanner, the famous forty day faster. Underwear, you need underwear for the winter; we have got a fine line,just opened. Give us a call. R. Fendig.

-Mr. Vigerus, the cannery man, has not wholly forgotten Rensselaer. He has written for information regarding the price of building material here, being information he needed to enable him to figure out the proposition he intends to make.

C. H. Vick, of the Nowels Block .restaurant, -is ready to serve meals in the best style; good lunch counter and oysters at.all hours. Also fail line of hue tobaccos, confectionary, and staple groceries. Give him a trial.

Robert. Louis Stevenson, the distinguished novelist and author of “The Master of. Ballantrae” now running in this paper, is now said to be dying of consumption, at his home on one of the Samoan. Islands, in the southern Pacific. Ocean. B. S.,Fendig has-shipped 1000 rabbits since last Thursday, and not counting, over.2oo bought yesterday. T. H. Harley, W..L. Wood and several other parties are also shipping large numbers of rabbits. Hon. Jacob Keiaer, our former townsman, whose dangerous shooting by a crank, at Clinton, Mo., was mentioned in this, paper, a few weeks ago, is reported to be gaining rapidly, and with, every prospect of. complete recovery. Everything! fresh and new and first class, and at lowest liviDg prices, at Warner & Stead’s the new goocery store.

Programme at the Christian Church next Sunday: Bible school 9sßo a. m. The Christ of Prophesy, 10:45. Meeting for men only 3 p.m. Special programme by the Y. P. S. C. E. on Endeavor Day, 6 p. m. The Splendid Ideal 7 p. -m. All kind of mill feed at the elevator and feed milL. Boom manufacturing establishments are bard things ;to get and not always easy kept, after they are got. For instance, the Chicago papers note the beginning of a suit in the courts by Jay Dwiggins & Co., to restrain the Rau Manufacturing Co., from moving their .plant away from the town of Griffith, in which place they located less than a year ago.

Go and see Edward Mora the greatest of all magieians, Edward L. Barber the Humorist and Impersonator, the Mandolin and Guitar Trio making one of the strongest attractions ever visiting our city. Admission 25 and 35 cents, reserved seats on sale at A. F. Long’s Drug store.

E. L. Hollingsworth built a fire in one of the up stairs rooms of his new iron building, on Wednesday afternoon of last week, in a sheet-iron “contraption” and the result was a pretty big hole burned in the floor of the room, and a narrow escape from a disastrous fire. The sheet iron “stove” was not again “fired up’* but was “fired out.”

A very rare and interesting celestia spectacle Monday evening was the conjunction of the moon with the planet Jupiter. At about 8 o’clock the planet was so nearly in line with the moon that they seemed to actually he in contact and the star seemed merely an excrescense on the larger body. This close contact continued for perhaps half an hour. Marriage licenses issued since last reported:

j Samuel W. Obenchain, ( Rosa C. Hershman. j John A. McCurtain, j Eva L. Price. j John J. Van Buskirk, l Bertha W. Far is. . *, j Herman F. Ivetchmark, M | Eva C. Mallery. ] Joseph Geir, '% ( Rosa Schnli. *

Two big sl&gh loads of town people, drove ’ out to Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher .Monnett’s place, north ol town, Monday night, and gave that worthy and very hospitable couple a pleasant surprise party. It was enjoyed greatly by all concerned. The day’s length today, on the 41st parallel of latitude, which is almost exactly that of Rensselaer, is 9 hours and 56 minutes. An increase of 41 minutes sinee Dec. 26th, The in-

crease of the forenoon has only been 6 minutes. That of the afternoon 35 minutes. The day now “bulges” a good deal at the latter end. Notice. We have added in connection with our feed mill, a new french burr mill and meal bolter, and are now prepared to grind both feed' and corn. We grind on Tuesdays and Fridays of each week. W. R. Nowels A Son.

Two of Remington’s leading business firms failed last week. That of J. E. Stiller and of Leopold A Mossier. A few weeks before occured the failure of Simon Cassell. Several other important failures in the same town can be (ailed to mind, during the past few years. At this rate Remington will soon acquire a reputation for failures as great as Kentland has for fires. The Gifford dredge in the south part of Barkley has at last been frozzen up and quit work, about a week ago. For a long time several extra men were employed just to remove the ice from around and in front of the dredge, but the continued intense cold froze all the water in the ditch and then the mud under the ice. Dynamite was then tried, to break the ice and frozen earth, but without much success. In a flourishing lake town in Michigan a girl has recovered SSOO damages from a steamboat company for naming a boat after her without asking her permission, and they | must rename their boat. She took qffeme at a marine item stating that “kitty Marshall, having been thoroughly scrubbed, painted, refitted with canopied stern and new boilers, will hereafter serve as a mail carrier and poke her pretty nose into the lake business for all she’s worth.

- jj|. • ' The cheap artificialgas now in use of Connersville, this’state, extended reference which has been made in these columns, is made under what is known as-the Harris method. The Monticeis Herald gives a very glowing accoajpt of the merits‘‘of still another cheap artificial gas, made by what is called v tlje Parker process. This gas is in th’ejise at Liberty, this state, and many either towns are said to be putting in plants. It is claimed that the materials for making 10,000 cubic feet of this gas cost less than one dollar.

The Rensselaer creamery now receives an average of 3,100 pounds of milk, daily. Batter is high and the patrons make money. The net returns to them for November was $1.25 per hundred, and for December $1.17. Besides this, the patrons had the whey for pig feed. The branch of the creamery at Marlboro is also doing a rushing business, about 1500 pounds daily. The cream is separated ed there and the cream brought in the main factory twice a week. The movement to establish another branch in east East Jordan is making good progress.

The big wolf hunt, last Friday, did not result in the killing of any wolves, although it was claimed that ample signs were found showing that several had been routed from their peaceful lairs by the hunters’ approach. Other experienced hunters assert that the tracks seen were several days old. The east line of the square was said to have been deficient, or quite lacking. The fact is, and it has been often demonstrated, there is no use trying to get up a successful wolf hunt without thorough efrganization, and also' thorough advertising, in newspapers and by posters. The day has gone by when even wolves can be expected to. do business widfmen-who don’t' advertise.

J. J. Porter, of the firm of Porter & Wishard, is seriously sick, with a fever. ..... - Miss Flora Hodshire is visiting friends in Rensselaer. She is now holding a good position in a photograph gallery at Urbana, 111.

All lovers of sweet music should attend the / Edward Mora Combination entertainment, at the Opera House, Friday, Feb., 3rd. John Irwin'has moved from Mt. Ayr to Rensselaer and is temporarily occupying the Josie Irwin property, near the Church of God. J. B. Neal has just moved into the Presbyterian parsonage building, from the farm just west of town, which he sold some time ago, to Mr. Magee, of Tippecanoe county. Couhty Clerk Coover and wife entertained about seventy five of the young people Friday evening by giving a Pop corn social. Among the designs made cf pop corn were horses, chariots and a miniature of the Bartoo Photograph gallery. They report a humorous programme and a jolly good lime.

Remember B. S. Feadig is still paying the highest cash prices for hides and furs. Mrs. Lucinda Milier, whose maiden name was Baker, died at the Insane asylum, at Indianapolis, last Saturday, at the age of 39 years. She has been confined to the asylum, for a hopeless mental derangement, for about 5 years. The remains were brought t&ck to Rensselaer, for interment, and funeral services conducted at the M. E. church, Monday afternoon, by Rev. J. G. Campbell. The remains were bnried in Weston cemetery. She was a sister of Wm. Baker and of Mrs. M. H. Hemphill, of this place. She was matried about 20 years ago, to George Miller, and was the mother ot three sons, .who are now with their father and their whereabouts not being kndwn here. Death, in her case, was no doubt a happy release from suffering, mental as well as physical.

The Mt. Ayr foundry now employs es 5 men inside the building, besides at least as many more in gat bering scrap iron through the country. Besides this, there is every prospect of a large increase in their business, if they . move'here. The people of Rensselaer will be very blind to/ their own best interests it they do not do everything reasonable towards securing £ this establishment. Ten different makes of Sowing ma chines, At Steward’s. Aliy person wishing to invest or borrow money Call and see me, at my office, in the WilliamStockton building, opposite public square. " B. F. Febguson.

Colonel Field, formerly of Winamac and well known by many of our readers, died at the country poor farm at Crown Point last Saturday. The remains were intered at the expense of the county. Mr. Field’s death was caused by a disease which broke out during his residence here, and disfigured him through life. — Winamac Republican. The above refers to A. Newton Field, a man well known to many Rensselaer people. He was a man of far more than ordinary brilliancy of brain power, but his want of moral rectitude was his ruin. Alas poor “Colonel” i , Farm to Re^t.— l have a fine farm of 400 acres, to rent for cash rent. Fine two story house, fiae large barn, and well improved in all respects. A splendid-opportunity for the right man B. F. Ferguson. If this kind of weather continues much longer, there will be but few quail in the country next season. That is the way an old hunter puts it. The snow has covered all manner of vegetation, and the birds are practically cat off from food of any kind. Their only salvation now is an outstanding shock of fodder that is found here and there. Water, too, is all frozen up, and everything considered, the : quail are in desperate straight. They are dying of starvation in large numbers, and many rabbits are meeting a similar fate.

The practice of speeding horses on the main street of the town is one that provokes considerable unfavorable comment, although the “general consensus of opinion’’ seems to be that it should be ‘allowed to continuel until a child or some old person is killed or maimed, or at least until “some poor devil from the country,” is caught indulging in the same practice and made an example of.

An observant exchange, noting the anxiety of business men to keep peddlers out of their town, says: “This rule ought to work to the protection of printers as well as against other competition. A man who canvasses for printed stationery in a town where there is a printing office should be compelled to pay a license to the town in the same way as medical men, peddlers and other canvassers throughout the country are compelled to do. The home printer is allowed no protection, but is expected to boom the tows and its enterprise, and do all its defending. There is no justice in this arrangement. Town ordinances olight to protect all business men. An intelligent working man has suggested to us that it would be a good idea for the Town Board to steer a middle coarse on the great cow question, and instead of breaking the cow grazing privilege off short, to plass an ordinance considerably shortening at both ends the time when they are permitted to run at large, ahd also catting a hole in the middle thereof. In other words he suggests letting the cows run from. May Ist to November Ist except that during the dry, hot weather of July and August, when there is nothing for the cows to eat except poisonous ragweeds or the neighbors’ garden-truck, when they should also be kept off the streets. Such an ordinance would % very materially lessen the annoyance and damage caused by the cows, and at the same time it would not take ffom the cow owners any privilege of any value.