Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1893 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

A girl at Peter Wagner’s in town, Sunday night. - Miss-Maude Clifford, of Chicago, is visiting Miss Angela Hammond. Chas. A. Dean, of Washington, 11l is back here, on a business visit. Harvey Kannal, Geo. Minnikus and Joe Meyers are slaying lots of ducks, up about Fair Oaks. Work on Wallace Robinson’s fine residence, on Weston street, near Makemself Ditch, began this week. The Electric Concert Company gave their last entertainment Monday night. From here they went to Irv - ing Park, a Chicago suburb. « Work is now in progress on Geo. Hollister’s house, on Weston street, north of The Republican building . E. G. Warren is doing the work.

John G. Reed, the purchaser of the Dr. Deining farm,.south of town, has moved upon and taken possession of the same, He came from Illinois. John Wolf and wife, of Milroy tp., have adjusted their matrimonial difficulties and their divorce case will not be prosecuted. - Mrs. M. E. Lecklider will be in Chicago, all next week, selecting a new spring stock of millinery. County Surveyor Alter has an office now, in the front room over the post-office, formerly occupied by Squire Burnham, as a pension agency office. Miss Elvira Sharp is recovering very satisfactorily from the effects of her surgical operation, at Post Graduate Hospital, Chicago, as before noted. Jacob Schanlaub is another happy purchaser of A tract of three loti in Magee & Benjamin’s Addition. He will buila about a $1,200 house, as soon as he can get carpenters to do the work. He lives now in Newton county.

John Brenner, lately of Mt. Ayr, has bought three lots in Magee & Benjamin’s Addition and will build a $2,000 residence, this season. It will be situated in the same block as T. J. Warren’s $3,000 residence, mentioned in another item. It is now stated that Corbett the Great, who knocked out the world’s greatest knocker-out, Sullivan, will train for his next great fight, with Mitchell, near our neighboring town of Crown Point, on a farm belongng t ) a Caic-ip tfejatsc miaigar. Judging from statements that appear in the daily papers the newly projected Chicago, Indiana dr Eastern Railroad is pretty sure to be built. If built it will probably cross Jasper county in its northeastern portion, running in a northwest and southeast direction. / The County Superintendent requests us to state, for the Infoimation of teachers and intending teachers, that “The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table” is the book for review at teachers’ examinations for the next four months, including the present month.

There are a great rainy fraudulent world’s fair affairs trying t to saaure advertising in the country newspapers at this time, but we are very careful not to admit any such to our columns. The advertlsment of the W. B. Conkey Company is all straight This company is what it professes to be, the official publishers of the fair directory, and is entirely reliable.

Grandfather Joseph Callow has bought of J. F. Warren the McCormick house, on south Weston street, and moved into the same last Saturday. Work on the' superstructure of Nowels & Son’s mill began Monday morning, with a force of six men; but which number will soon be increased.

The firm of Hemphill Brothers, blacksmiths and wagon-makers, has been dissolved by the senior member, Isaac, selling his interest to his partner, Luther L., who will continue the business, as usual. J. Q. Alter moved last Thursday into his lately purchased house, on Weston street. W. A. Huff who had been occupying the property has moved into Grant Hopkins house but will hurry the erection of his own residence as fast as possible. For Sale: —A bicycle, tricycle and furniture. Call at Room 16, Makeever House . The questions which were unsettled between the Monon and the city of Lafayette, and which delayed progress in erecting the new shops at that point, have been satisfactory adjusted, chief Engineer Hall says, and the work will now move on briskly. We learn that Jack Plummer who has been confined in the State’s prison at Michigan City, has been sent from thence to an insane asylum. He is said, in addition to his mental aboeration, to have cancer of the stomach, and that he cannot livelong. —Kentland Democrat.

The ladies of the Presbyterian, Methodist and Christian churches will give “The Temple of Fame” at the Opera House on the evenings of Apr. 11 and 12, 1893. This is a very in . teresting and instructive entertainment and well worth attending. See advertisement next week. Clarence Lecklider will be in Chicago, selecting a new stock of installment goods, next week. The attention of juslices of the peace is called to the official notice given by the commissioners in regard to the establishment of a work house. Sentence wrong-doers to the county work-house, especially the wife-beat-ers . It will have ten times the good effect that a simple fine would have. The Valparaiso Vidette is authority for the statement that Bishop Raddemacher, of Nashville, Tenn., will probably be the successor of the late Bishop Joseph D wenger, of the Catholic diocese of Fort Wayne. The priests of the diocese are said to be quite anxious for Bishop Raddemacher’s appointment.

People who take the daily inter Ocean will need to have their wheelbarrows along to carry home their next Saturday’s number. That day is the Inter Ocean’s 21st birthday and it is to be celebrated by issuing a 60 page paper, full of the most interesting and valuable features. The paper will sell for two cents and the white paper in it will cost 3 j cents. Two hundred thousand copies of the edition will be issued. Warsaw Times: —It is not yet too late to build them, and so we suggest to those boys who have mechanical inguenity in their make-up, to build a number of the old-fashioned martin boxes and set them up in appropriate places, both in the town and country. The martin does not visit us as numerously as formerly, and it is because they are not supplied with nesting places, as was the case in the years gone by. The martin is an insectdestroying bird, aud it is a positive advantage to the country where it makes its home; so we urge the boys to provide-them with boxes tor nesting places. The attractions of Rensselaer as a place of residence are rapidly extending outside of the limits of Jasper county. One of the latest evidences of this fact is the purchase, last week, by T. J. Warren, a wealthy farmer of Benton county, of three fine lots in Magee & Benjimin’s Addition, with the intention of electing upon them a fine residence, for his own occupancy. The house will cost $3,000 and be built this year. It will be directly north, and across the street from Capt R. W. Marshall’s residence.

Work began Monday on the found • tions of W. A. Huff’s house, corner Weston and Harrison streets. It will be about a $1,400 building. Rev. Isaac.Sayler, of Newton Tp’, has bought M. L. Warren’s house, in the north part of town, and will occupy it as a residence. Mr. Warren will build himself a new house. John Holliday was before Squire Morgan last Friday, charged with whipping his wife. He was fined $5 and costs, a total of $18.20, which he paid. Miss Libbie Walton lost a pocketbook one day last week containing about $26 in money, a fine gold pen and other articles. She will give the finder $5 for its return. I sincerely thank my neighbors, also the W. R. C., and citizens for their kindness during my late bereavement. Mrs. Mary Payton. F. J. Sears was down to Albany, this state, a few days last week, looking after the new bank there, of which he is president and F. L. Chilcote, cashier. The town is booming and the bank likewise.

Superintendent of Immigration Owen has been notified that his resignation has been accepted. ExCongressman Patton, of Remington seems to have a cinch on the appointment as Mr. Owen’s successor An entertainment for the benefit of the Epworth League will be given at the M. E. church, next Saturday evening. Prof. Egbert W. Fowler, a noted humorous and dramatic elocutionist will be present and execute an extended and varied program. A good many people are wondering why the sassafras man from Nubbin Ridge is so long delaying his appearance, this year. There can be no real confidence that spring is here for sure, until the sassafras man goes his rounds. He should “grab a root” and make for town, at once.

Some fellow with a jag fell against the large window in the door of Mr. Makeever’s private entrance, at the Makeever House, last Friday night, and broke the glass. This made about the third time the glass in this door had been broken, and this time a very heavy plate glass was fitted in. Marriage licenses issued since last reported: j Joseph S. Jones, | Lizzie J. Mustard. J James A. Tillett, ( Arie Gray. j Henry P. Kessinger, I Cora A. Say let. The noted and venerable Rev. Father Chinique, minister and exCatholic priest, of St. Anne, 111., has just removed to Montreal, Canada, to make his home for the remainder of his life. His fine residence at St. Anne was burned a few weeks ago. Father Chinique is upwards of 83 years old. He was the founder of the town of St. Anne.

The religious revival at Wolcott is one of the most notable in the history of the county. About 200 persons have been awakened and have united with the various churches of the place, leaving very few residents of the town who are not now pro- 1 fessing Christians. Making due allowance for the usual proportion who will fall away from the faith, this is a remarkable work, and Wolcott will realize benefits from it above comparison with her other' elements of prosperity now rapidly develQping.—Monticello Herald. The Columbian Celebration Co., which is building “The Mac Kay Spectatorium” at Chicago, received, a few days ago, five carloads of tropical flora from Jamaica, W. I. which will be used in equipping a single scene of the many to be presented in the Spectatorio. An idea of the realism of with which every scene will be encompassed can be drawn from this fact. The flora, a sight in itself to the inhabitant of the colder clime, will all be used in the San Salvador scene in which is to be presented the landing of Columbus. Every other scene that will be displayed in this building will be on a like scale of correct environment.

R. P. Phillips intends going to Logansport to attend a grand banquet, to-night, given to the agents of the Union Central Life Insurance Co., of Northern Indiana. Mr. N. S. Jenkins, an elderly gentleman now living with his son, C. E. Jenkins, east of town, has bought three fine lots in Columbia Addition, and will build a residence and move to town.

Both of B. J. Gifford’s steam dredges are now shoveling dirt, night and day. “Up to the present time his dredges have cutover 17 miles of wide, deep channels in the’Haddick’s Mill Pond region. Rev. B. F. Ferguson went to Francesville Sunday, to attend the funeral services of David A. Hayworth, a young man about 18 years old, and son of John R. Hayworth, a former resident of this county. Uncle Ellis Walton had the bad luck to lose another horse, one day last week. It was a brood mare, and her death was caused by her being kicked in the abdomen by a stallion, some parties were leading through the street. A company of Monticello nimrods start this week for a ten day’s hunt in the Pinkamink swamps near Pleasant Ridge, Jasper county. The outfit includes three tents, four boats and seven galvanized iron shooting tanks, besides a large quantity of commissary supplies. The following comprise the party: Bob Lawrie, P. V. Mikesell, Wm. Zink, Jno. Biederwolf, M. A. Rader, Abe Stoner, Chas. Loveland, Sheriff Dubbins, Jas. P. Gwin, John Hanson, Fred Roberts and Jas. Perkins (cook.) — Monticello Herald.

Tne newly elected officers of the Uniform Rank, K. of P., were installed Monday night, by Col. Ensminger, of Crawfordsville, commander of the Eighth Regiment. A large number of invited guests were present at the exercises. A notable feature of the occasion was the presentation to the Rank* with appropriate exercises, of a fine flag, by the members of the Py thian Sisters. The newly installed officers are: Capt., E. Peacock; Ist Lieut., C. W. Hanley; 2nd Lieut., J. P. Hammond; Treasurer, N. W. Reeve; Recorder, H. B. Murray. We understand that Mr. Gifford- is heading a movement to organize a large “drainage district’’ to include a large scope of country affected by his extensive ditching operations now underway in Gillam, Walker and Barkley township. These “drainage districts” are authorized by the new drainage law, passed by the recent legislature. We understand further, that Mr. Gifford and other property owners affected by his ditching operations are strongly opposed to the Iroquois Ditch, holding that they can complete their present ditching system and get thorough drainage much cheaper than by the Iroquois Ditch plan. It is a matter of great importance to many people of this county and should be thoroughly discussed.

At the Rensselaer Building <fc Loan Stockholders’ meeting, last Monday night, the three out-going directors, John Eger, J. H. S. Ellis and C. G. Spitler were re-elected. Two proposed amendments were ratified. One fixes the annual meeting night for the third Monday in March, and the other (authorizes the directors to pay eight per cent, interest to withdrawing Stockholders, in the first series. The directors held a meeting after the itockholders adjourned, and re-elect-ed;l. B. Washburn, president; M. F. Chilcote, vice . president; E. L. Hollingsworth, treasurer; Austin & Hopkins, attorneys. J. H. Hammond was elected secretary, to succeed F. L. Chilcote, who has removed from town. Another meeting will be held next Monday night, to take final action on the proposed amendments. Until further notice the collections of the dues and interest of the Rensselaer B. <fc L. and Savings Ass’n will be received at the Citizens’ State Bank. Stockholders will please bring book, that they may receive their proper credit thereon. J. P Hammond, Sec’y*

Bruce White completed a fine well for Frank Osborne at his planing mill, Monday, with his new steam drilling outfit, but had to go to the unusual depth cf 90 feet, 75 feet of which was in the rock, before he struck the water. Misses Mary and Anna Meyer have bought the millinery department in Hemphill & Honan’s store, and will manage the same under the firm name of Meyer Sisters. Miss Mary Meyer has long been cpnnected with the establishment and is well qualified to successfully manage the business. Edward Phalon was arrested up about Blackford, last Saturday, by Dept. Sheriff McColly. He isicharged with stealing a log-chain from his neighbor, Mr. Switzer. It is said that Phalon is wanted at Englewood, 111., for running off a lot of mortgaged property.

Big dogs like some big men, are often very magnanimous toward smaller and weaker members of their own race, who offend them. This fact was illustrated last Saturday, when a moderate sized dog, which was following a lady, encountered the immense St. Bernard, Caesar, belonging to one of the show company. The smaller dog made himself obnoxious to the big fellow, growled some insulting observation probably, and intimated his ability to “chaw up” the big one. The latter did not disturb the serenity of his countenance in the least, but simply caught the smaller dog by the scruff of the neck, laid him prone on the side-walk, put one enormous paw upon him, holding him as tight as Jumbo’s foot would, thenfixed his gaze across the street and seemed utterly oblivious of the existence of the squirming insuiter beneath his foot. The lady mistress of the conquered dog bravely seized the canine Goliah by the collar and tried to pull him away, but she might as well have tried to move a mastodon. Finally a young f ellow connected with the hotel where Caesar was boarding, came along and pulled the big fellow off and released his uninjured |but much humiliated victim.