Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1893 — Page 5

The Eensselaer Republican PROFESSIONAL CARPSPHT*ICIA*S * •m W. HARTBELL, H. D.. ™ * HOMEOPATHIC p]7yrir <a in s»--nrl g-iargfeaß., Eb Chronic Diseases a Specialty ' Office Bast Washington Street. .. a* Jan-84. Eesidence, Makoever House. jj. G. JONES, M.D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Calls promptly attended by day or night. MED ARVVXLLE, - INDIANA. t\r. i. b. washbufn, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, F.emaelaer, Indiana. Spec a; attention given to the trofttme-1 of diseases of the Eve, Ear, Nose and Throat and Disease of Women. Tests eye* for glases, " BANKS. it T Hears yat. d. F. Hardman, V. J. » SA * B e ’ ai^e A " Caß ' h!or . As’t cashier CITIZENS’ STATE BANK Rensselaer Ind.

CAPITAL $30,000. Surplus and undivided profits $?5000. Does a general Landing business. Interest, allowed on special deposits. This Is ]* e only State Bank In Jasper County that isexamined quarterly by Auditor of State. Your business solicited. Collections will receive prompt attention A. jiicCoy. T, J. McCoy. E. 1,. Hollingsworth, hres. Vice Pres. cashier. A.ilcCoy&Co’s.Bank RENKBBLABB,INDIANA. Does a general banking w . ioanedfor short time at current rates. We make a specialty of . : Vt the lowest rates and on most favorable terms. Rensselaer Bank, President. Vice President, J.C. HAHUIS, Cashier. Money loaned in emus to suit borrower Ei‘•bango bought and sold on ail banking points Collection made and promptly remitted. Dcposits received, interests bearing certificates of deposits issued. LA WYERS. W. MARSHALL, attorney at law, Practices in Jasper, Newton and adjoining counties. (TApecial attention given to settle inent of 'Decedent’s Estates. Collection;), Conveyances, Justices’ Cases, Ktc. Etc. Etc. Address, - - Eensselaer, Ind SIHON P. I’HOfXPSON, davtd J. THOsmton Attorney oiLavj. Not,try jt'ublie. Thompson a bro. attorneys at law Rensaelaer, Ind. Practice fn vll too courts. Wo pay particula attention to paying taxes, selling and leasing lauds. M. L. 9PITLEK collector and Abstracter

jJ-OKDEGAI F. CHILCOTE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Rensselaer, Ind. Att;rtlsto all business in the profession with promptness and dispatch. OMee in iteoond story ofthu Makeever truildina. WILLIAM B. AUSTIN. ABTnURfI. HOPKINS AUSTIN & HOPKINS, ATTOBNEXS AT LAW. __ Bftjsselaee, - lED. prg-Dfncc second Hoot of Leopold's Block. cor nor Waste ins: ton an Van Keiisselaer street Practice it all tbe courts, e»>d rinreh*se. sell ittiAo-t* h* f«ietp -Ally’* for 1». N. A. & 0. R\v. Go. B. I. & S. Association and lleussclati Watea, Bight & Power Co. £HARL£§E. MILLS. AITCENET AT LAW Keussolaor, Indians. Pensions, Collections and Beal Estate. Abstracts <areftilly prepared, Titles Examined Igy-Earm Beans negotiated at lowest rates Office up stairs over Chicago Bargain Store. JAMES W. DOtTTHIT ATTORNEY AT LAW, Kknssrlaks, - - - Indiana. |3P“Office in Benssolacr Bank. 2.V-40. 5 fHGB I ,R ANKOTJB. JAMES A. BUKNIIAM, u. S PENSION~ATTORNEY AND JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. Thoroughly equipped and abreast of the time. Expert in Pension matters. Office with County Treasurer, Court House. Sept. Ist. ISSO J. L. Helmick, Notary Pubic and Beal Estate Agent *, Lands of all descriptions for sale or ease. WHEATFIELD, END. JOHN GRAVES, WHEATFIELD, INDIANA AUCTIONEER, Hales attended in any part of Jasper and adjoining counties, also Real Estate Agent and Justice of the Peace. Collections promptly attended to, Large amounts of farms and town property (or sale. Address - - I - Whxatfuld,lxd. Dwigfins Bros. A Co., 3R««1 X.OWZAS «fa Office in rear room of Citizens’ State Baak, Bnwiun, iso. Money to loan on the eheanest ud best terns in the oounty. We hare the only ahstraet tecord in the oounty, compiled with great skin and oars, at cost oi oyer gnooo.oo. We have employed N. W, Beeve, an abstractor of oyer 20 yean experience, who has charge Of his department. We are prepared to make atptracts of title «n short notioe and on very reasonable ternwOne half rates to;tho profession, or a reason able fee for cxaminiag the record.

IT OUGHT TO HAVE HIT ‘EM SOONER

Inasmuch as tha JacLHiaiLJbi Town Board of Rensselaer saved four large dollars by cutting The the Washington street improvement matter has been paraded before the public, we think it well, before the hearts of the members of the Board become too much puffed up with vainglorious pride over that achievement, to call attention to the fact that their spasm of economy and caution struck them a little too late to be of much benefit to the property owners of the street and to the town tax-payers, generally. Of course $4 is $4; and if the old proverb is true * ‘s4 saved is $8 earned;” or at least the Board earned pretty nearly that much, for themselves in salaries, while saving it

The spasm ought to have hit them before they agreed to pay at the rate of $1.98 per cubic yard for crushed rock on t he two westernmost blocks of the street; and $2.50 per cubic yard for the other two blocks, when they had previously been getting the same kind of material gt $1.25 per cubic yard. It ought to have hitihem before they paid 20 cents per lineal foot for grading the two eastern blocks and then allowed the stone to be put upon such rounded-up grades, that in many places where the $2.56 per yard stone ought to have been 8 inches thick, it was only sor 6.inches thick. It ought to have struck them before they paid 15 cents per lineal foot for the tile drain down the center of the street when any farmer can get similar work for less than oue third that sum; and which, allowing liberally for the hardness of the digging, was at least twice as high as it should have been.

It ought to have hit them before they spent SSO or S6O in having the stand-pipes, or catch basins along the north side of the Btreet torn out and replaced by larger ones when even a school boy ought to have known that the catch basins ahead}’ there would let vastly more water into the small and badly constructed sewer below than it could carry away. It ought to have hit them before they compelled the writer of this article to pay sls for two of those new catch basins, one of which stands 4or 5 inches too high to admit any water, and the other of which is so badly put in that the water instead of going in at the gr ated top finds admission through the uncemented joints below. It ought to have hit them before they permitted the gutter in front of the public square to be constructed over the newly made and unpacked sewer beneath, and thus saved the cost of rebuilding the greater part of the gutter, this 6priug. It ought to have struck them beforo they fallowed the $2.56 per yard crushed rock to be placed above the newly made 15 cents per foot tile drain, and thus saved the SSO to $75 worth the rook aforesaid, which will settle down into the [ditch, when the ground “breaks-up” this spring. In fact, nothing but that four dollars saves the spasm from having struck the Board everlastingly too late, in every respect; and we don’t believe that even the four dollars would have been saved had not certain members of the Board <had it in” for us for having been rather too outspoken injegard to some of the matters above mentioned.

I have often thought that the the people, speaking of them generally, have never yet understood the value of good roads. They are not only matters of convenience, but they are really matters of great economy in every community. —l7. S. Senator Wm. A. Peff’er, Kansas, in Memorial to Congress on Road Exhibit a 1 World's Columbian Exposition.

Blankets, yarns, flannels in fact all winter goods, in abundance. , , \. . B. Fkndio ‘■ •4 ' '■ 4 n

CORRESPONDENCE.

EAST MARION. Grandma Porter and Mrs. Sarah Watson are on the sick list this week. Miss Frankie Porter spent Sat. and Sun- in Rensselaer visiting friend!. Miss Caddie Crockett is visiting friends in Mt. Ayr. Mrs. J. F. Watson visited her mother and other relatives in Rensselaer, over Sunday. Elmer Gwin, Eva Kenton and Elvia Gwin attended a party given in honor of Alta and Agnes Smith last Saturday evening. Mrs. Irene Nelson has taken charge of the Pleasant Ridge school, filling t he vacancy left by Miss Eva Jackson. A “Mush and Milk” social will be given at the Watson school-house next Sat. evening Feb. 25. A good pr ogramme has been prepared, and every effort will be made to make the evening a pleasant and enjoyable one. Every-body invited. Rosa.

FROM MARLBORO. On account of very bad weather the literary which was to have been last Friday was postponed until Friday, Feb. 21. At which date it will meet at Marlboro. Besides a paper, speeches, declamations, essays, etc. there will be a debate on the following question. “Resolved that railroads have been of mere -importance to the U. S. than the printing press.’’ Affirmative, L. 11. Hamilton, Rose Detrick and Scott Robinson. Neg, Charles Lee, Eva Kenton'and J. H. Long. Mr. Harvey Phillips, of Chicago* attended the funeral of his brother Fleming Phillips, who died last Friday.

J. R. Phillips, our hustling merchant is still suffering with rheumatism. Scott Robinson is acting as clerk, in which capacity he cannot be excelled. We were in the error last week in saying that the mush and milk supper at the Watson was Sat. Feb. 18, we should have said Feb. 25. Chas. Yates, master mechanic of the Marlboro creamery, reports an average of about 1,000 pounds of milk per day, with a steady increase. Mr. E. S. Kenton and wife of Marion were visiting in this vicinity last week. . ; Susie.

FROM HOGAN Z The robins and meadowlarks that put in their appearance here last week can now order snow shoes. A branch of the Indiana Farm & Loan Association was organized here with 64 shares* representing $6,400. About half are investors and the other half borrowers. Our town will take a boom now.

The lumber for Meyer’s <fe Brothers new store is on the side track. It will be built as soon as the weather permits. Wm. Kennedy is on the mend and we are glad of it. Chas. Armstrong, the ex-saloon keeper has returned, and is about to sell out his property in this town. Alfred McCoy has become a citizen of our town. We were pleased to see the pleasant countenance of our township trustee in town Saturday, also all of the school teachers of Walker township. A full grown township institute. Ben Keller has taken Horace Greele> ’a advice “go west young man.” Hannah Hasselbring bad to come from Rensselaer on account of so many of their family being down, 5 in all, with the measels.

Mrs. Grabow has gone to Chicago to attend the funeral of 2of her grand children, both of which are Bill Hiderman’s children, formerly of Walker township. Hogakite.

FROM DeMOTTE. Too late for lut week. The silver medal contest was largely attended with eight contestants. The silver medal was awarded to Laura Smithers. Rev. Sawyer re-opened his meeting last Sunday evening, which was discontinued on account of sickness. We understand that Mr. Thomas

Erwin is going to move on Ji farm some distance from our town. Mrs. C. O. Spencer has gone to Streator. I0 n to visit relatives and friends, for a few weeks. Mrs. Hunter and little daughter were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Halieck, last week. Township institute convened with all teachers present except Miss Eva Hilton, she being absent on aocount of sickness.] The measles are taking their round as usual, but no cases having proved fatal at this writing. Several new buildings are to be added to our town in the near future of which lumber is on the ground'for three dwellings. The young people seem to be very much interested in the meetings at Pleasant Valley. We hope that some good may he the result. Quarterly meeting will be held at tl.e M. E. church, one week from next Saturday and Sunday, at which Rev. J. L. Wilson,D. D. will be present, providence permitting. Literary society meets every Saturday night. All are cordially invited to attend. Old Maids.

REMINGTON ITEMS. The wife and mother of Dr. Landon are still living but the death of b oth of them seems to be near at hand. On Sunday last Mrs. London seemed to be dying but she rallied and is still living this (Tuesday) morning. The mother’s condition remains unchanged from week to week and month to month except she becomes weaker and more prostrate. Eugene Landon and wife of Momer.ce, 111., arc with him in this time of trial.

Mr. and Mrs. Weldon of Warsaw, Ky. are with their parents Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Turpin, called here by the serious sickness of Mr. Turpin whose condition is slightly improved.

Uncle Edward Ravenscroft slipped on the ice and fell some two weeks ago inflicting injuries from which he is suffering severely. Owing to his advanced age and feeble condition fears are entertained as to his ultimate recovery. Dr. Ramsey has been on the sick list for the past week, and Dr. Landon’s mind and time demanded at home, so that there has been need of another doctor or two to attend to The numerous cases of sickness in and about town. Dr. Walker of Wolcott visited a few patients in this place and vicinity last Monday. Mrs. John Wilson is suffering from nervous prostration and Mrs. John Bingman is seriously ill with heart disease.

We understand that Frank Harlacher leaves for Dayton, o..in the near future. We wish for our young friend abundant • success in his new venture. The many readers of The Republican will bear in mind the splendid entertainment to be given by the grammer rooms of the public schools on Friday evening in Durand Hall. Refreshments will be served at the close of the entertainment.

We understand that a team of horses slipped and fell while going up the elevator driveway, with such force as to cause the death of one of the horses. Your correspondent was unable to learn the name of the owner or the value of the animal.

Warner & Shead, at the new grocery store, would like a share of your trade. They will treat you right. 14 different kinds of bed lounges, at Williams.’ If your teeth need attention, call on Dr. Brown. He employees painless methods, his work is first class in evety particular. Teeth without plates and fine gold fillings a specialty. Office over Porter A Wishard’s.

New Harness Shop.

J. C. Carmichael wishes to inform all who may be needing anything in his line, that he is now occupying temporary quarters in the Collins implement store building, on Van Rensselaer street. All: his harness and harness goods arfe “made on honor" and of the best material. Prompt and durable repairing a specialty. Give him a trial.

REMINGTONIAN.

- "■■■!» . 4 - "" r - —-;v'- . New FIRM, -'W j NSW BUIFDING, ¥ New GOOE>S, m £ — ; ft The Undersigned ■ Have formed a partnership and opened buisness ? in the new iron building on Van Rensselaer street, south of McCoy’s bank building. j They have a full and wholly fresh line * ‘ of if StapteFancy Grocreies, I WHICH THEY' WILL SELL AS CHEAPLY j AS FIRST CLASS GOODS CAN f OO SOLD FOR. j‘ Give ns a trial, WARNER & SHEAR. I , :: GEO- W GOFF. * * Restaurant and Bakery.

BREAD, CAKES, CONFECTIONERY, FRUITS, GANNEL GOODS, TOBACCO AND OIU IS ~■- - • ■ - WARM MEARS AT ALL HOURS, * * ■ -ALSO A GOOD—--§s£>«ss§- mrcrssrciEs: cotjittbe. •• ■ ‘ - . . - - ... *- ; , -Y7 • "" '-" " “ " -■ rt —7^7• -jr —— gy-ftgvy-‘iT.’fagfcqgjl 1 > ....... •. • ... .3 ... - ■ .jU~ i _~ Everything Best and Cheapest. NORTH SIDE WASHINGTON STREET, RENSSELAER, INDIANA. • v -r ■ . . '»• __ $25.00 for a Life scholarship in the Corner 4th and Columbia ®ts* Prepare in a Permanent, Reliable aEd Progressive School. Large Faculty. Superior, Practical methods. Positions for grad uates seemed. Individual iuetructicts snd class drills. For cats logne, Address J. CADDEN, Pres. ' The Leading Hardware, Stoves, Tinware and Farm Implement Men is • i J asper County, They Handle THE BIG INJUN 3-WHEEL SULKY PLOW. The Best Plow on Earth, and the Reliable Process Gasoline Stoves, 1 The Newest, Safest Handiest and Be EARLY BIRD COOK *' j - 'V. : -sriW The very Sest all-aioaad kitchen stove ever sold in tke county. Austin, Tomlinson and Webster’s FINE FARM WAGONS ...1: - ——— ■■■■——■■ ■ mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmrncm ;AJI kinds of shelf and *. "■% builders’ hardware.