Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1893 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]
TOWN AND COUNTRY.
A fiae boy at Alf Donnelley’s, north of town, last Saturday. Mrs. T. P. Wright is beginning to recover from her long sickness with neuralgia. Mrs. J. F. Warren went to Grand Rapids, Mich., yesterday,to visit friends for a few weeks. John Q. Alter has bought of .Hipm. }Day the new house on Cullen street, now occupied by W. A. Huff. Mrs. Chas. Jouvenat, of Chicago, is visiting ''her father Uncle Ellis Walton, and family, this week.
| Jesse Grubb, the express agent, moved Monday into his handsome and convenient new house on Cullen stieet. The Misses Hattie and Nellie Hop - kins gave a witch party to a number of their young friends, Monday evening. Meeting for the Children at 2 P. M. and sermon to Old People and parents at 3:30 next Sunday at the Christian Church. Solomon McCaftain, of Barkley Tp., had a stroke of paralysis, last Saturday. Dr. Alter is attending the case and reports him as getting better. ' Geo. Gillette, the coming foundry man, has bought for a residence of W. B. Austin the former Tom Warren property, north of Hv Day s house.
( Russell Parker struck town Saturday, for a few days’ visit. He is Arcing on the Eisteru 111., and has ft fiance to get back on the Duluth <k Iron Mountain in the spring, if he jvknts to. The party who took a heavy walnut counter top from the alley in rear of l'orter & Wishards store is known, and if he returns the board at once no questions will be asked, otherwise legal measures will be taken. W. R. Nowels <fc Son have the material for the foundations for their proposed new miU all on the ground will begin work upon the buildng just as soon as the weather will permit. A protracted meeting is now in jrogress at the First Biptist 3hurch, conducted by Rev. Rhodes, ,he pastor. The first meeting of the leries was held Sunday night, at rhioh there were five additions to ,he church membership.
j Samuel Parker Jr, ( Cora B. Maxwell. j George M. Spitler, l Eldora Spitler. - . * ■■■Apr-r ri—. ~'. - W. N. Jones, county soliciting agent of the Indiana Farmers’ Saving and Loan Association was up at De ■ Motte, last week, and established there a branch of the association.
The marriage of David Leatherman and Miss Mary Fulks was solemnized at Rensselaer recently. Both parties are well known in this vicinity, and start out on thelr journey through ltfe together with the best wishes of Wolcott triends.—Wolcott Enterprise.';.
Joe Reynolds one of The Republican’s Able young typos, lost half of the first joint of one of his fingers last Saturday, by catching it in one of the wheels <y£ a job press. It is not a very painful injury but likely to incapacitate the young man for work for a week or two.
Jasper county was pretty nearly in the hold of an ice blockade, all of last week. Horses which had not been very recently shod could not be driven upon the roads at all, and hence a great majority of the farmers were obliged either to stay at home or else to travel on foot. Everybody welcomed the thaw up.
An Illinois exchange says that th e town of Dwight, the former chief seat of Keelev’s “drinkite’ ’ cures, is now in a bad way, as Keeley has con - eluded to use his establishment the re only as a home for incurables, hereafter, and the town’s prospect for a permanent boom has gone glimmering.
Rev. H. Y. Weaver, lately of Rensselaer M. E, circuit, is having great success in a revival at Wolcott, his present station; which a week ago had resulted in 85 additions to his church, according to the Wolcott Enterprise. Eighty-five new Christians in a town the size of Wolcott would seemingly denote a previously rather fallow field.
Ground-hog or no ground-hog, Seventh of February or no ’leventh of February, there is as certain to be a spell of fine weather in the latter half of February, as there is to be an Indian summer, preceded by a “Squaw winter,” late in the fall, or a season of boisterous winds in March; and all due to natural causes, pretty well understood by scientific meteorologists.
One of the most pleasant social events of the winter was an afternoon reception given last Thursday, from 2to 5 o’clock, by Mrs. J. F. Warren at her pleasant home on Cullen street. Although the weather was bad, about 40 invited guests attended the reception. The time was spent in conversation, games, readings, etc., ending up with dainty refreshments. No gentleman are allowed at these afternoon receptions.
The present season is bound to be one of almost unexampled activity in building in Rensselaer, if it does not completely surpass all previous records. In fact it is now a matter of difficulty to get contractors to figure on new buildings, they already having as much contracted as they care to undertake. As a single illustration of the magnitude of the coming building boom, we may mention the assertion made by one prominent contractor that ho already knew of at least 47 houses that would be built in the town this year.
Many people put their faith for a weather indicator on Ground Hog Day, but Uncle Joseph Robinson pins his upon Feb., 11th, whjch this year was last Saturday. When U ucle Joe was young, an old man of 70 told him that all his life he had observed that the weather on Feb. 11th indicated what the prevailing weather for the next 40 days would be. Uncle Joe has accordingly observed the same facts, ever since. In this case Uncle Joe’s sign confirms that of the ground h'ig, that is that we are all solid for 5 or C weeks of pretty good weather.
Wm. Smith is building a large carpenter shop, near his residence, in We-ton’s Addition. He proposes putting in a turning lathe and some other wood-working machinery.
The town of Hebron, in Porter county, now has a newspaper, the Hebron Leader. The first number was issued last week, was a very creditable number. F. H. Robertson and son are the publishers. The pa - per is Republican in politics.
As notable an instance of the rapid rise of Jasper County real-estate as we have yet heard of occured a few days ago. W. B Austin bought 322 acres in Walker Tp., for $9 per acre and the very next day sold it for sl2 per acre. A clear profit of over S9OO in one day.
The Good land Iler aid very truthfully remarks that reputable Catho - lies are evidently as indignant about the recent riot at Lafayette, in which an ex-priest was mobbed, as are respectable protestants. Several parties implicated in the riot have been indicted, and they are a very tough element with which the respectable Catholic element of Lafayette is as much out of sympathy as are people in other churches. Everything indicates that the row was instigated and carried out by lawless ruffians, and the Catholic church is m nowise .responsible for it.
George W. Spitler arrived in Rensselaer last Thursday, being his first visit here for about three years, and was remarried that afternoon to his former divorced wife, Mrs. Eldora Spitler, nee Sharp, and on Saturday they departed, with their little child, [for Benton Harbor, Mich., where George is holding down a good ;ob in a machine shop, with good prospects for promotion. The marriage ceremony was performed by Squire James A. Burnaham in the county treasurer’s office. The Squire s confident that he tied this knot
more securely than the former one was tied, which was evidently the work of an amateur. Prof. P. H. Kirsch, a former superintendent of the Rensselaer schools, has. been appointed Fish Commissioner, to suoceed Col. Dennis. Prof. -Kirsch is said to have made a specialty of fish knowledge, and may therefore be supposed to be well qualified for his new position. He is also said to be an enthusiastic practical angler, which if n be a fact, did not become notedduringhis stay in Rensselaer—although it is probably a fact that a number of young fellows could be found about town who could testify from personal experience to the Professor's remarkable proficiency with the rod. Auditor Murray has paid bounties on the scalps of six old wolves since Jan. Ist Wm. Barns, of Union Tp., brought in two of these, which he killed by shooting. Guy Sutton, a young fellow of Milroy, Tp., killed one: He saw it coming past, already about tired out by other persons, and he mounted a horse and soon overhauled it, whereupon the wolf laid down and made no further effort to escape; or to resist, and young Sutton then kicked the breath out of it I with his boots and then found a dub and finished the job with thatThe other three were caught in Union Tp., and vicinity by A. G. Barker, of Newton County, by the assistance of a One pack of hounds. The names of the parties who have been indicted for complicity in the Rudolph riot, at Lafayette, are Peter J. Clark, Philip McCauley, B. J. Murphy, Wm. Temple, George Bennewitz, Bert Carter, Gab Gillespie, Frank Tengen, James Matthews, Thomas Mehegan, Robert Shaffer, George Schulling, Frank Koenig, and Chas. Lindsay. Clark, the first named, is the same ornary tough who knocked out an eye of W. H. Caulkins, an ex-county superintendent of Tippecanoe county, during a Democratic procession last summer, for no Other reason than that Caulklns was a prominent Republican. He and one of the others above named are indicted for attemgjed murder, the others on less serious charges.
Henry Thornton of near Surrey and John Irwin, lately of Mt. Ayr, have bought in Thompson’s addition, the piece of ground where the holiness camp-meetings have been held? and both will build residences thereon this seasofi. Good-roads will increase the value of a farm, shorten the distance to market; save time, wagons, harness* horses, enlarge the territory which contributes to the home market, quicken social communication, and add to the wealth of the Individual and the State. — Stmington ( CL ) Mirror. Good rooms, supplied with water, situated within two blocks of a street
car line which runs direct to the World’s Fair gate, can be obtained by persons desiring to attend the Fair by applying soon to Jared Benjamin. Rensselaer, Ind. I Wal&r Porter, of the Jordan Tp. McCoy ranch, -has bought of the Emmet * Kannai " estate, the two “spring”,- lots,‘'on Kannfal street, and will build a good residence thereon, this season.- is not thinking of - moving* to town himself, at present, but Will rent until he does want it. 1.11. Porter 'has bought l the other two Kanrial in the same block. * * ... The rooms of the Iroquois’.Club have just been improved so that all the rooms, when occasion requires, can be thrown into one, for purposes of entertainments, dances, etc. The, completion of this and other improvements will be celebrated by a private dance, to night, the music for which wiil be furnished by an Italian band, from Chicago, secured especially for the occasion.
Messrs. Saylers and Hollister have about closed up the contract for a fine milling.outfit, of from 75 to 100 barrels capacity, during their visit to Indianapolis, last week. The milling machine company will also supply their engine and bofrer. The machinery they are buying is of the latest and most improved kind. Counterfeit bills of the Second National bank of Richmond, Ind. r are in circulation. They are of the denomination of $lO, the check number e, 486, and registered number 165,167. The issue of 1886; of $2 certificates are also counterfeited and being placed in circulation. They are three-eights of an inch shorter than good money and bear a sac simile of Rosecran’s name. The Indianapolis Journal published a portrait of Senator Gilman, lately, and with it a brief but complimentary sketch. Among other things it was stated that Mr. Gilman is the only Senator capable of making an acceptable prayer at the opening of the Senate, and m the absence of the chaplain. Of course it could not be expected that such a gerrymander body as our present state Senate would contain many praying men. Dr. Lewis N. Wells, a gentleman of the medical profession who is locating at Fair Oaks, was in town Monday after a license to practice 1 medicine, which the laws of the state now require. lie is meeting with serious difficulties however, owing to the fact that his diploma, from Michigan University, was burned and that his practice heretofore has been in another state. It is probable that he will bo obliged to send to Ann Arbor for a duplicate of his diploma before the regulations of the statute can permit an issuance of the license. -
“There is no interest in the Vnited States that has suffered so mich as that of the roads. The roads of this country have not kept pace with the other improvements and anythingthat will encourage and stimulate our people to the necessity of not only to better paving in the large cities, but also more substantial coun \ try roads, will contribute a great deal to the earning power of our people.”—lion. James Kerr , Clerk House of Jii’jrresentativea, in Memorial to Congress on Iloatl Exhibit at Worlds Columbian Erpositjon. ' ,
County Surveyor, John E. Alter, j lost a horse last Friday, on account lof fee icy weather. He was leading it out to water when it slipped on the ice and broke a leg; and had to be killed. A. McCOT <fe Co. are prepared to make farm loans at six per cent interest, giving privilege of paying before due if desired. Come and see us when you are in need of money. 25 4t -The Knights of Pythias will observe the anniversity of the institution of Pythianism, next Sunday, by attending the M* E. church in a body; and the Uniform Rank will be in full uniforms. Rev. Campbell will preach a sermon appropriate to the occasion. Boast as we may of the wond eriful stride this country has made in manufactures, in railways, in commercial progress, it is half a century behind in road-making. It is about time that the country should wake up and take some interest in substantial road - building. —Toledo Commercial . The movement in favor of having a office established down town, mentioned a short time ago, is likely to result successfully. The Western Union’s district superintendent, at Indianapolis, has virtually promised the office and will visit Rensselaer at an early day to select an office, route for the line, <fcc. Saturday morning,at Fowler, Jas. W. Pavne, a. prominent druggist, was
lying in bed asleep, when some unknown person shot him in the head. Payne jumped up and ran down stairs, although seriously wounded. He is in a precarious condition. Mrs. Payne has been arrested charged with the shooting. The affair has caused intense"excitement in Fowler. The Rensselaer carpenters do not intend to “let the grass grow under their feet,” nor even the snow melt, this season. Witness how gangs of them jumped on to Joe Hardman’s new residence, and John Makeever’s tenant house, on Cullen street, and other uncompleted buildings, Monday morning, just as soon as the thermometer got its nose above the freezing point.
The Gillette A Hochstettler foundry will be established in Rensselaer. That is n settled fact. The people of Rensselaer have subscribed SSOO as a bonus, and the Land A Improvement Company gives the site, and npon these terms the parties have agreed to pat the foundry here. It will be located near the railroad. Work upon the buildings will be pushed as fast as the weather will permit. * The Uniform Rank K. of P., elected the following officers last Friday night: Capt. E. Peacock, re-elected; Leiutenant, C. W. Hanley; Herald J. P. Hammond; Treasurer, N. W. Reeve; Recorder, H. B. Murray. The installation of officers will take place at an early day and be conducted by Col. S. L. Ensminger,of Crawfordstijle. The installation will be public and an interesting event.
The town schools will give the entertainment mentioned some time ago at the M. E. Church on Friday evening Feb, 24th. The proceeds wi 11 be used to purchase good literature for the grades below the High School. This is very much needed and it i 3 to be hoped that sufficient amoun t of money may be obtained for th e purpose. Let everyone remember the time and be present. The grand old Fighting Fortyeight Indiana Regiment had its annual re-union at L&Porte, last week. Those attending from this vicinity were: Capt. M. F. Chilcote, W. D. Sayler, B. L. Sayler and Joseph Burns. The claims of Jasper county to the next re-onion were so ably presented by Capt Chilcote and the other members of the conoty delegation, that Rensselaer was selected for the meeting. The time of the meeting has been changed from February to September, and the date will be Sept. 19, 1894. Oar people will convince the survivors of the 48ih that they made_no mistake when they selected Rensselaer for their next meeting.