Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1893 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

“Temple of Fame.” Mrs. J. D. Babcock, on the Jordan tp., McCoy ranch, has been seriously sick with the measels. Positively our sale day prices will be for one day only. Chicago Bargain Store. \ Many farmers sowed their oats last week, and still more of them are sowing this week. House to rent. Call upon me. A. L. Willis. Quarterly meeting of the Rensselaer charge of the M. P. church will be held, at Fair Oaks on the 15 th and 16 th of this month. For Sale.— Two good, fresh milk cows. Enquire of E. Peacock. • 1 Four persons are sick with lung fever in Elias Hammerton’s family, on the Wm. Baker farm, north of town.

Our loss is your gain at the ribbon and kid glove sale, April 12. Chicago Bargain Store. Ed. L. Coen, formerly of this place now cashier of a bank at Vermillion) Ohio, was married March 29th, to Miss Cora Lawless, of Vermillion. Young man take your best girl to see the rendition of the magnificent Temple of Fame, April 11th and 12th.

Mrs . J. G. Reynolds has gone to Chalmers to visit with her husband’s sister, Mrs. Geo. Wolverton. who is dangerously sick. - - - - The reason Porter & Porter sell so many carpets is because people like to buy where they can get the best bargains. ~y Richard Butler, from near Surrey, has brought the Tim O’Conner’s house, in Rensselaer, and moved into the same. For Sale At private sale, all my household and kitchen furniture. Cheap for casli. 32-3tp. Mrs. Peter Giver.

ciety of Christian ISadeavor will meet at the Presbyterian church at 6 o’clock, instead of 5:30 as formerly. All are invited. The cause of Porter h Wishard’s enormous shoe trade i* because they sell the Henderson and give satisfaction. A well informed party tells us that the four principal ditching projects now on hand in this county, the Iroquois, the Wakarusa, the Wheatfield and Gifford’s ditches, will require a total length of 400 miles of ditches, and will cost half a million dollars.

A word to the wise is suflicient. We bought our carpets of the manufacturers, paid cash, got discount, saved jobbers profits, and give out patrons the benefit. Porter & Wishard. Early spring wolves are coming into market now and find a ready sale at the Auditor's office at $3 per head. Walter Smith brought in six a Jew days ago, from Hanging Grove and Jesse Gwin, from the same township, brought in one. Ladies who desire a beutiful, smooth and refined complexion must use the “Famous Gloria Water.” Price 75 cents per bottle. For sale by Mrs. Lecklider A new town is projected on the Monon about three miles north of Surrey, and two miles due west of Alters mill. The railroad has promised a switch station and cattle pen, and if the promise is fulfilled, a store will be bnilt. The site is on S. P. Thompson’s land, and he has had a small tract plotted, and named it Firman.

It is a cold day literally as well as figuratively, when a new building of some kind is not begun in Rensselaer, now days. You can not afford to buy carpets from sample ■when you can buy it 15 to 20 percent less by the bolt, at the Chicago Bargain Store.

Hanging Grove schools will hold their graduating exercises on Friday night, of next week, at the Osborne school house. There will be three graduates. We are bound to make next Wednesday, April 12th, an interesting day for those buying kid gloves and ribbons. Chicago Bargain Store. According to the Rev. Irl Hicks, March and the beginning of April was to be cold and stormy 7 , the sprmg backward, and “snow up to the clothes lines” after the first blue birds “arriv.” Hicks missed it mightily.

Clarenee^Lockiider has just received a full line of new installment goods. Lace curtains, bed spread sets, table and stand covers, portiers, rugs and sweepers, which are sold on weekly installments from 1 ct to $l- - week. Two new houses started this week are those of Steward Hammond, near the south end of Cullen street, and of Frank Foltz, on Work street, qear S. P. Thompson’s place. Both will be good buildings. Wanted:— Good writer, to write a few days, for a reasonable cash price, in an office office at In r diana. Address T. M. Crowley, Terre Haute, Ind.

The office of Commissioner of Immigration, lately resigned by Hon. W. D. Owen, and which Dr. Patton wanted, has been given to a man from “MaFyTarid, named Herman Slump; and the Doctor is now up a Stump. “Temple of Fame,” April 11th and 12 th. A fine stock ehenile portiers and lace curtains. Chicago Bargain Store. F. J. Sears went over to Knox Tuesday to complete arrangements for the erection of a new bank building for the Dwiggins syndicate bank located there, and of which Mr. Sears is a director.

Beautiful girls and lovely costumes at Opera House, April 11 and 12 . A retailer of carpets by, sample, sells for another retail house in the city. We save you one retailers’ profit. Chicago Bargain Store. The Nowe Is* House got a new landlord, Monday, in the person of C. W. Duvall. Mr. Duvall and his estimable wife have had previous experience in the hotel business, and know just how to conduct one to the satisfaction of their guests. Examine our umbrellas and learn prices before buying. Porter & Wishard.

You can save dollars on ribbons and kid gloves, next Wednesday, April 12 th. Chicago Bargain Store. The Supreme Court has affirmed the dgpision in the case of Ben SmodlFSgainst the Monon and C. <fc I. C. roads, in which he was given a verdict tor $5,000 several years ago, for injuries received in stepping into a deep pitfall, at the railroad depot, at Fair Oaks. Take your wife and children to see the “Temple of Fame” at Opera House, April 11th and 12th. Special sale day every Wednesday. April 12th, ribbons and kid gloves. Chicago Bargain Store.

The report of the viewers and engineer of the Iroquois ditch has been filed, and may now be examined by interested parties. The report covers eighty nine miles and 3579 feet, of which eighteen miles and 4158 feet are to be covered. There is no estimate of the cost of this work in the report. Mrs. Lecklider has a full line of spring millinery the cheapest ever brought to Rensselaer, and the trimmer has visited several of the lprge cities, beginning with Fort Wayne and closing with Chicago. She is yours to please and will do her best.

P. M. Clark has moved his jewelry store into the room formerly occupied by John Eiglesbach’s meat shop. The Misses Meyer’s grand opening, Thursday 7, Fridaytmd Saturday»April 13, 14 and 15. All are invited. E. G. Warren and Ed. Maueh have formed a partnership in the contracting and building line.

Grand opening of new and elegant spring millinery at the Misses Meyer’s, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, of next week. E. G. Warren’s family joined him from DeMotte, Monday. He occupies a part of A. Leopold’s double house, south of the court house. Thos. Chestnut, who has been occupying the rooms, has moved into his own new house, on the Owen tract, north of town. The ladies of the Presbyterian, Methodist and Christian churches will give the “Temple of Fame,” an elaborate entertainment, in Opera House, Tuesday and Wednesday nights of next week.

Station Agent Chapman, one of the most efficient as well as the most accommodating agents on the Monon, was laid-off for a month, Monday, because he happened to be out “checking off” freight, when the train dispatcher wanted his attention in the office. It is sometimes a difficult matter for even a station agent to be in two places at one time. Mr. Gwin, of Monticello, takes Mr. Chapman’s place, during his lay-off. The largest stock of fine kid gloves ever shown in Rensselaer. Chicago Bargain Store .

At the Opera House Tuesday and Wednesday nights, April 11th and 12 th. G. W. Castlen, of New Richmond, Ohio, was in town last Thursday, on business connected with his large land interests, near Rose Lawn. He has nearly 800 acres in one body, adjoining Rose Lawn, and nearly 300. a few miles further west. His land was mostly bought 8 or Q. years ago, at prices little more than nominal, aDd is now worth $25 to $35 per acre. Mr. Castlen deserves the fortune he has made in this advance of his land, for he has spared no expense or trouble in its improvement.

“Gloria whter” cures salt-rheum on the hands rendering them soft and white. For sale by Mrs. M. J. Winegarden Good rag carpet that w&s taken in exchange for fine carpets for sale at 35 cents per yard. Chicago Bargain Store. For two years the women of Indiana have plied the needle and exercised their ingenuity in artistic coloring and beautiful execution in decorative and art needlework that the collection in this department at the Columbian exposition might be a superior one. It has just been collected in Indianapolis, and the Sentinel says that such a collection of beautiful and elegant needlework has probably never before been seen in that city, many of the pieces being appraised at several hundred dollars each.

The cheapest carpets on earth. Chicago Bargain Store . Wanted— Ladies to assist me in selling the famous “Gloria Water,” for the complexion. Terms liberal. Address Mrs. Mary H. Watson Pleasant Ridge, Ind. Manager, branch office. The meeting in the interest of the Iroquois ditch laat Saturday afternoon, was attended by about 150 representative and interested citizens, from all parts of the county affected by the ditch. From Hanging Grove, Gillam, Walker, Barkley, Union and Marion townships. The sentiment seemed to be unanimously in favoi of going on with this great drainage enterprise. The proposed cut-off of the Iroquois above Rensselaer was discussed to some extent; but the plan did not seem to find any favor at all at the meeting. Those present, as they expressed it, did not, want to sec their county seat left on an island.

The third new house to be begun this week, is another tenant house by John Makeever, on Cullen street, east of the public square. Born to Gaylord 11. and Olive M. Chilcote, at No. 1567 Rock wood Ave. Los Angeles, Cal. March 28th,1893, a daughter. Mother and child doing well when last heard from.

One of the best entertainments evter presented by home talent will be given in the Opera Housa next week Tuesday and Wednesday nights, the Temple of Fame. All lovers of art, beauty, music, oratory, pathos, wit, humor, etc. should not fail to attend and eDjoy an evening’s entertainment replete with good things. General admission 250; reserved seats 35c; children under 12 years old 15c. Tickets for reserved seats for sale at Long’s drug store.

Dept. Sheriff Ben McColly got a pretty good bag of game at Mud Lake, near Fair Oaks, the fore part of the week. Among the rest was a 10 pound goose, an extra fine bird, and thereby hangs a little tale. For Frank Hanley and C." C. Sigler did steal the noble bird, and had it cooked at Haus’ restaurant and invited a large company of guests, with Judge Wiley at the seat of honor, to partake of the goose and of the other solid and liquid substances served therewith. It further befell that Mr. Sigler, having learned that Mr. Hanley was sehemeing to get the entire'’ cost of the feast saddled upon him, the said Sigler, he stayed away from tte ! same, and thus left the said Hanley to fork over the cash for the whole bill himself. And great was his grief, thereat.

Tlic Foundry’s First Run. The Rensselaer Foundry took off its first “run” last Tuesday afternoon, and quite a large number of castings of various kinds were then make. Only one “cupola” has yet been erected, but that is of 5 tons capacity. A cupola in foundry language is a steel cylmdar, in this case 3 or 4 feet in diameter and 20 feet talL It is lined with fire brick, and' stands upright, fjwiih its upper ;end above the roof. In this the iron is melted, the fuel used is coke, which is, briefly stated, charcoal, made of soft coal. The coke is put in the bottom of the cupola, and above it the iron. When a large amount of iron is to be melted alternate layers of coke and coal are put in; Only about a ton of iron was melted Tuesday and about 10 bushels of coke were used. To obtain sufficient heat to melt the iron, an air blast is required, operated by a steam engfine. The melted' iron runs out of a small hole iu the bottom of the cupola, and is caught in “ladles,” vessels lined with clay, or some similar substance, holding about three gallons each, and held by long iron* handles, and by which the men carry the ladles and pour their contents into the moulds. The melted iron, as it runs from the cupola into the ladles, or from the ladles into the mould, looks like a stream of liquid fire. The moulds are made in sand, of a peculiar quality, brought from Sidne (T, Ohio. Allen Gray, a very competent workman is the moulder. Pa terns, when needed, are made of wood, by Allen Call. Among those for whom castings were made Tuesday, were the electric.light company, the threshing machine shops, Mr. Miller, of the Barkley tp. tile mil'. The Republican printing office, Bruce White, William Stephenson and others. It was not to be expected that all the castings attempted would be successful, the first trial, but the proportion of fai« ures was less than was expected.