Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1893 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

The above is a faithful picture of The Republican’s new steam engine. The engine is about 4 feet high and three and one-half feet Jong. It is small but efficient. Like the old man’s oxen, “It is little, but oh 1 ”

The Monon will receive five more new engines by April Ist. Remember “Tab. Wah” and c'Skokum Oil,” and be wise . Sears has gone to Chiccago, for a two weeks’ visit. Mrs. M. A. Little, of Burnettsville, is visiting her sister Mrs. Dr. Wash - burn. A slaughtering sale o? boots and shoes. Chicago Bargain Store. Preaching both morning and evening at the Christian church next Sunday. All are invited. If you want a late style hat, shir t or tie, go to the Chicago Bargain Store.

Born —A daughter to Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Robertson, March 3rd. Mr. Robertson recently moved to Rensselaer. F. M. Parker moved to town last Monday. He will temporarily occupy the Rob’t Adams property near Hershman’s grocery. We bought spring goods early to get the best, as choice goods are always sold first. Chicago Bargain Store. James Huston, lately tenant on Warren’s Robinson’s farm, near towpj has moved back to Wabash Co., whence he came. J. R. Adams, formerly of Rensselaer, but more lately of Lee, has moved to Monon, and is selling monuments for Mackey & Barcus, the well known marble firm, of this place.

James Tanner, of Barkley tp., had his right hand severely sawed last Thursday afternoon, while sawing wood for Leroy Florence. He may lose the use of one Anger. Superintendent of Immigration Owen has tendered his resignation to the President and will return to Lo-' gansport as soon as his successor is appointed. Mrs. Owen is in Europe for the beneQt of her health. Carpets cut and sewed 5c yard extra. Chicago Bargain Store. All honor to the enterprising people of DeMotte and Keener tp., they have got their cannery organized and the movement well upon its feet, and a man hired to run IL Corn and tomattoes will be the principal products put up this year. Miss Hattie Sharp underwent a severe and dangerous surgical operation at the Post-Graduates Hospital, Chicago, last Friday, to remove a diseased condition resulting from her late sickness. At last accounts her prospects for recovery were very good.

Thomas Chestnut, the carpenter and builder, is building a house north of town, on a ten acre lot, lately purchased of Fletcher Monnett. Drs. Washbnrn and Hartsell went up into Union tp., last Saturday, and removed a large tumor from the breast of Mrs. Theodore Warne. At last, accounts she was doing, well 140 yd' bolts carpets choice patterns. Body brussels, Tapestry brussels, Ingrains, unions, cottons <kc. 18 cents per yard up. Chicago Baegain Stobe . G. W. Marshall, who about a year ago, married Uncle Jacob Keener’s grand-daughter and removed to Nebraska, has returned to this county and bought a farm in Union tp.

A Peanut Social will be held at the Union school house, Marion township, north of town, Friday evening, March 10 th. Admission 10 cents. All are cordially invited. Two car loads of horses were shipped from Rensselaer last Friday night. One load by Dennis Gleason, which went to Cincinnati, one by Pagett & Day, of Delphi, who shipped theirs way south. New stock spring dress goods, Epinglines, Bengalines, Poppelines, Crystalines, Mousselines, Glaces,, Crepons, Cheviottes, Serges, Satin Glorias, &c. Chicago Bargain Store.

The foundations of Sayler & Hollister’s mill are completed and that of the engine house is in process of erection. The contract for putting up the main building has been let to R. C. Dowler. George Strickfaden, who has been sick five or six weeks, with a bladder trouble, left for West Baden Springs Monday night, to try the effects of the mineral water there upon his disease. All the latest novelties in men's spring clothing and ladies wraps. Chicago Bargain Store . Simon Phillips went to Grant county last week, to attend the funeral, on Thursday, of his brother-in law, John T. Morgan, who died suddenly oh the preceeding Tuesday, of paralysis, —_-- ...

The proposed appropriation of an additional 125,000 for removing the Momence rock was successful. This probably means that the removal of the ledge will soon be proceeded with. George Healey has sent us a copy of a splendid 24 page write up edition of the Sedalia, Mo., Gazette, upon which paper he is filling the responsible position of city circulator. Sedalia is evidently a fine town and a very rapidly growing one. They all say it beats all the low prices of carpets at the Chicago Bargain Store.

A bill has become a law which extends the terms of township trust ees now in office from May, 1894 to November 1894, and requires their election in the latter month hereafter. The law also affects all other township officers in the same way. Presiding Elder Wilson came from Valparaiso last Saturday, to'hold quarterly meeting, but was taken quite violently sick, at his room at the Makeever House, and was unable to leave his room until Monday afternoon, when he returned to Valparaiso.

The professional road-builder, with the money used by ignorant sapheads and self-made road architects, would in a few years make roads in the United States over which two or three times the present load could be draWn, and the dumb beasts of the Republic would rise up and call us blessed.—Bill Nye.

A notable event in the history of the G. A. R. here will be the special meeting, held next Saturday afternoon, beginning at 1 o’clock. Fourteen new members will be mustered in. The poet is in a generally very nourishing condition, and with the 14 new members will have a total membership Of 81.

Rev. L. E. Conner will preach at the Church of God next Sunday, morning and evening. J. H. Jessen moved last Friday from Newton’s addition into Rev. W. H. Sayler’s property, north of the depot. ( It is now said that John Major has been selected by Congressman Hammond, for postmaster *at Remington. Mrs. A. McCoy has just completed, for the World’s Fair, two most beautifully and elaborately embroidered quilts, and upon which she has devoted an entire year’s work.

Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Austin were at St. Louis several days last week, attending a national electric light convention, and a large and important gathering. Carpets by the bolt. Chicago Bargain Store. The improvements in McCoy’s bank rooms are now completed. They make the bank much larger and better, and also give a larger and better private office. C. E. Mills moved into his new house, east of Henry Harris’ place last Thursday. The house he moved from, on the Owens place just north of town, is occupied by Joe Fisher, the milkman. Payne, the Fowler druggist, is able to be about and to look after his business. His wife, accused of shooting him, was still in jail at last accounts, but efforts were being made by relaatives to secure her release on bail.

A complete line of muslin underwear. Chicago Bargain Store . A bill was introduced in the Legislature last week to extend the terms of officers in incorporated towns, in the same way that the McHugh bill affect cities. but it finally got lost in the shuffle and did not become a law. B. F. Ferguson moved his realestate office Monday from up stairs in the Stockton-Williams building into the room upstairs in Leopold’s corner building, lately vacated by G. K. Hollingsworth and Dr. H. L. Brown.

Wanted —Two neat steady girls for housework. Good wages and permanent place, to right parties. Families live close together. One or both apply or write to J. B. Woods, Hammond Ind., Box 433, not later than March 13, 1893. J. K Fatout, contractor on the new school house, and the School Board reached a final settlement, last Friday. The total cost of the building including the heating and ventilating apparatus .and incidental expenses, extras etc., has not been exactly footed up, but is something over 116,000. It is a fine building and worth what it cost.

Several car load of brick for the new wing of St. Joseph’s college have been received and hauled out to the site of the building. The brick came from Sheridan, this state near Indianapolis. The stonecutters arrived Tuesday, from Logansport, and the stone-masons will also beg in their work as soon as the frost is out of the ground. “Bill N” Jones has a photograph of a two headed calf, born some months ago, from a cow belonging to Thos. Gray, near Francesville. The calf lived but a short time, but after its death Mr. Gray’s son spent $35 in having itstuffedand mounted. Except for having two heads where only one should have been, and one of its hind legs defective, the calf was about the ordinary shape and size.

The law just past affecting Building and Loan Associations, was drawn by an alleged State Building <fc Loan Association League, and is said to be a pretty good law for the home associations. It practically shuts out from the state all outside associations, and also puts safe-guards around the local associations by requireing them to report periodically their condition to the state auditor.

Mr. and Mrs. T. J. McCoy gave a party Saturday to the members of the School Board and to the Superintendent and teachers of the town schools. - Evening Star Chapter, O. E. S. will have a grand party to-night, in the rooms of the Iroquois Club, and their lodge room. Lafayette and Fowler chapters are invited.

The revival meetings at the Christian church closed last Saturday evening, after a five weeks session. The meetings resulted in thirty additions to the membership of the church. Harry Nichols and wife of Pawnee City, Neb., were visiting relatives in this vicinity a few days last week and until Monday of this week. Mr. Nichols is a brother of S. R. and John L. Nichols, and evidently “off the same piece” as regards push and enterprise. He is engaged in general merchandising at Pawnee City, and thinks he is located in one of the best regions on earth. Frank Osborne arrived home from Fort Wayne last Friday morning. He contracted while there for a fine planing mill outfit of machinery. Such as a planer, a turner, band saw <fcc. In all seven machines, and at a total cost of SBOO. The machinery he bought was the best of its cl as and of large capacity. He intends to be fixed for doing good work and lots of it.

The George M. Timmons Company had a good audience, at the Opera House last Friday evening. By universal consent, it is just about the best theater company that ever struck the town. They could not do full justice to their abilities here, however, from the fact that the stage is not large enough to permit the use of their own scenery and stage properties. . From a copy of a late number of the Rossville, 111., Press, which has lately reached us, we see that that A enterprising little town has been making a strong and successful puli to become the terminus of an important new branch line of the Eastern Illinois R. R. High up on the list of subscribers to the sum needed to secure the road, we notice the name of our former townsman, L. K. Yeoman.

On Feb. 25th Sheriff Dobbins, of White Co, arrested a man named Frank Cook, in Princeton township, near the Jasper county line. The sheriff was looking for a man wanted for murder in Michigan, and for whom SSOO reward was offered. Cook answered the description of the man wanted, in every particular, including even several scars on his person, but when word was sent to Michigan of his capture, the answer came back that Cook was not the man, as the real murderer had already been captured. In the meantime, however, certain suspicious circumstances led to the discovery that Cook was wanted at Wabash, this state, for rape on a little girl, and he was delivered to the sheriff of that county accordingly.

We“slipped a cog”in last week’s issue in the matter of reporting the real estate transfers, and the result is this week an enormously long list. Real estate is a tremendously active quantity in Jasper county now days, and our brisk and active county recorder grows exceeding weary in trying to keep up with his work. And “that tired feeling” is ten times augmented by the reflection that under the new salary law he is now earning about four dollars for the county to one dollar for Hunt. Let him be of good courage however, for 'the law was never meant to be permanent, anyhow, but was left fatally defective on purpose, and the present legislature has carefully refrained from amending it, also “on purpose;” and now as that malodorous body is safely adjourned, the Supreme Court will knock out the fee and salary bill about as promptly as you can ejaculate the customary Jackson Robinson, Esq.

Mrs. S. A* Henry, whose hopeless sickness has been previously mentioned, had a paralytic stroke, Tuesday. Her condition is very precarious. The man peddling glasses around town and representing himself to come from my store is a fraud. My optician will be here March 18 and 20. W. A. Huff. Miss Genevieve Huffman, Mrs. lines’ trimmer, has gone on an extensive trip to study the latest miliinery styles in Indianapolis, St. Louis, Cincinnati, and places farther east. Later she will visit Chicago. Dr. C.H. Erganbright, the veterinary surgeon, has concluded to re--1 main in Rensselaer. His office is in Meyers’ drug store.

The County Commissioners convened in regular March session, Mon;day. Their time, so far has been , given to saloon license cases, and to the disposal of claims. The application for a license by Louis Freel, of DeMotte, has been hotly contested, and was still on trial at our time of going to press. H. J. Dexter received word, Monday, from his sister, Mrs. Clara Starr, wife of George C. Starr, of Denver, Col., that she was on her way east, called by a telegram stating that her husband was in a dying condition, in New York City, where he had gone to buy goods, he iTeing in the merchantile business.

Deacon Billy Beane, the editor of the Goshen Democrat, says something funny, wise or otherwise, in every issue of his paper. Here is a sample of practical wisdom recently uttered: “Most men want a woman for a wife who knows something practical. A girl without a shirt to her back is worth more than a score of these fancy kind of girls, if she can cook, sew, mend, and understands housekeeping thoroughly. A girl who can put a good square patch on the gable end of a pair of pantaloons may nok.be as accomplished as she who works or embroiders green worsted dogs on a gentleman’s slipper, but she is far more useful to the needs of a large family.”

The Fowler Review has an article exposing the moral crookedness of “Capt.” J. W. A. Clark, a roof painter who did considerable work in Rensselaer several years ago. According to the Review, Clark had at least two living wives when here, one of them the daughter of landlord McDade, of Fowler, and the other, and only lawfel one, living at Bloomington, HL He went south after leaving Fowler and by accident the first wife learned of his whereabouts and caused him to forsake the McDade girl and promise better conduct The promises were delusive however, for the Review says Clark is now traveling in Texas with M a red-headed woman,” whom he passes off as his niece. He seems to be a tough old sinner.

Last Saturday, being Democratic Inauguration Day, and Republican Feast of the Crows, some of our Democratic friends around town tried to work upon us a base deception. They got a big fowl of some kind, one of Chairman Bates’ fattest turkeys or Surgeon-General Jessen’s tenderest capons, and having removed the feathers, head And feet, they sent it to us, labeled “crow.” The scheme did not work, however. We have been too familiar with good crow diet, since the 7th of last November, to bite at anything so lean and tough as a Bates’Jurkey or a Jessen capon. All right, boys: Have your fun while you can. Our turn will come around again, in four years from now. In the meantime, you must admit that Republicans are taking their crow with pretty good grace.