Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1893 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]
TOWN AND COUNTRY.
A boy at John Hodshire’s Sunday. Monon is to have a new brick, eight room school house. An elegant line of wraps. Chicago Bargain Stoke. Fred Schultz is building a house in Weston’s Addition. Miss Belle Hughey, the dressmaker, has erysipelas, and a very bad case of it. ** I have some fine Tomato Plants for sale. —Mbs. J. Zimmerman. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Comer, o! Union tp. Friday morning. Sale days are interesting days at the Chicago Bargain Stoke. Wolcott had a big fife April 7th, which destroyed an elevator, a hay barn, wagon shed, Ac. Bushev, the butcher, is building a very large and complete refrigerator, and otherwise improving his meat shop. You can save 25 per cent, on shoes. Sale commences next Monday, April 24th. Chicago Bargain Store.
J. C. Carmichael moved his harness shop, yesterday, into one of the new rooms between Burns’ livery stable and Collins’ implement store. CARPETS. Brussels, ingrains, hemps, everything in the carpet line. A beautiful line of symrna rugs. If you need anything in this line we can please you. R. Fenuig. F. Sears went down to Albany, this state, Tuesday, to arrange for erecting a building to accommodate the bank there, of which he is president. *" — , ' • ~r a . A We bought an immense lot of muslin underwear cheap, youjf choice at what we paid for them. Wednesday, April 26 th. Chicago Bargain Store . $ *' ' Jesse Grubb stopped off at Greencastle on his way home from his father’s funeral, to visit his brother Archie, who is sick and whom he found in a very discouraging condition.
M. L. Hemphill, Front street, south of the brick livery stable, does reliable blacksmithing and wood-work, on short notice and for reasonable prices, Give his shop a trial. The schoolß of Hanging Grove tp. had their graduating exercises at Osborne school house, last Friday evening. The graduates who were three in number, were Walter Lee, Charles Lee and Eva Kenton.
$2600.00 worth of shoes received this week all of Miller factory samples at wholesale prices, commencing next Monday, April 24th. Chicago Bargain Store.
W. J. Imes made a hurried trip to Cincinnati, the latter part of last week, to see his youngest son, Walter, who was reported quite dangerously sick with a throat trouble; but he was much better when Mr. Imes reached him.
A [washout on the Monon near Crawfordsville caused the morning and evening trains from Louisville to be delayed from one to three hours several days last week. Trains came via the Big 4 to Indianapolis thence to Lafayette. There are several cases of measel in town now, at E. L. Clark’s J.s Lamson’s, Geo. Kissenger’s &c, and the chances are that the disease will soon spread greatly.' There is plenty of “raw material” in town now for a prettyJarge epidemic of the disease. So far as reported the cases have been of a rather mild type.
Mrs. J. W. Nelson, of Hammond, is visiting Rensselaer- friends, this week. . W. R. Nowels & Son’s new mill and elevator are being placed under an iron by N. Warner <fc Sons. Unheard of bargains in shoes beginning next Monday, April 24th. Chicago Bargain Store . A traveling book auction store that has been located in the Nowels block for a couple of weeks, or so, has moved to Goodland. .
An opportunity you may never have again to buy inusun underwear as cheap. Sale day,.April 26th. Chicago Bargain Store. B. S. Fendig, the fur and junk dealer, has moved his place of business into one of the new rooms A. Leppold has just completed, north of Burn*’ livery stable. Have you seen that beautiful lisle of children’s suits, handsome jerseys, pretty three piece suits, nobby double breasted. Call in and inspect them. R. Fendig. The machinery for Nowels & Co's, flour mill arrived Monday, from Indianapolis,* and is now being placed in position by a large force of millwrights. , Women and children skirts, drawers,* chemise, night dresses, corset covers at cost, Wednesdaj 7 , April 26th. Chicago Bargain Store.
Dr. Washburn accompanied Mrs. J. C. Carmichael to Chicago, Tuesday, where it is expected that she will undergo a severe surgical operation, for an internal tumor, today. Have you noticed the hats now this spring? The mo3t of them came from our counters. Get your order in early, as they are piling up fast, on Us. Everything chic, choice and cheap, at Mrs. Imes’ Bazar. Mrs. Eva Foltz, who has been visiting in Benton Co., has now gojie to Honey Grove, Texas, on account of the dangerous sickness of an aunt who resides there. -
We always have what we advertise. If we fooled you once you would not come again. b Chicago Bargain Store. A small passenger steamer on the Tippecanoe river, at Wmamac, blew up last Sunday, and very severely and dangerously injured 5 persons, one of whom, George Frain, had to have both legs amputated, and would probably die. J. T. Warren, the wealthy Benton. Go. farmer’who intended to build a fine residence in Magee <fc Benjamin’s Addition, took sick and died a few weeks ago, and the intended purchase of the lots was Jnot consummated. -r-i——. —-
An line of Ludlow’s fine patent leather and Dongola Kid shoes for ladies and misses, just received at the Chicago Bargain Store. J. F. Hemphill will leave next Saturday to take his old position on the Duluth & Iron Range Railroad. Mrs. Hemphill will go with him. It is likely that they will make their permanent residence at Two Harbors, Minn. -v Uncle Henry Smith, our Mexican war veteran, and his estimable wife, had been married fifty years, last Saturday, and the neighbors and friends commemorated the day by a number of desirable presents. And for which The Repuhlican is requested to extend the thanks of the recipients. 1 «
Low prices is the reason loads of Carpets, Boots and Shoes, Dry Goods, Clothing etc. are carried away every day from.the Chicago Bargain Store. Services will be held at the M. E. church next Sunday, at 2:30 p. m., under the auspices of the odd Fellows lodges, and the local subordinate and Rebekah degree lodges will attend in a body. The services are designed to commemorate the approaching anniversary of the institution of Odd Fellowship. Rev. W. A. Hennegar, of Francesville, will preach a sermon appropriate to the occasion. The public is invited. .„
R. H. Purcupile’s condition is net so favorable as it was, and he has been unable to leave the house, for several weeks. Williams is selling carpets cheaper than any house in town. The Fowler Leader is the name and location of John P. Carr’s new paper. It is Republican in politics, and, it is needless to say, newsy and able.
Every piece of 70 dozen muslin underwear at cost. Sale day only, Wednesday, April 26 th. Chicago Bargain Store. The work on the Washingten-street improvement, suspended last fall on account of the weather, is again in progress. Mrs. Lola Patton, of Omaha, is visiting her mother, Mrs. LA. Moss. Her son, Geo. V., 6f the Hebron bank, also visited her last Sunday.
Misses Elizabeth and Julia Smith, who have been in Kentucky all “winter, have now gone to Dayton, Ohio, for a short visit, after which they will return to their home here. 4 The only place for genuine bargains in carpets. Chicago Bargain Store. Chas. H. Porter, the Pullman car conductor, son of J. C. Porter, has had hij headquarters changed from Kansas to Chicago; a change very mucli to his liking. You can not. afford tp buy carpets from sample when you can buy from theßolt at the Chicago Bargain Store. The first large piece of machinery was received last Saturday for Mr . Osborne's planing mill. A car load is expected this week and he will probably be ready for business in a weeks time.
The foundations of the new [wing of St. Joseph’s college were completed last week, and the laying of the first floor sills and of the stone watertable is now in progress. The brick - laying will probably begin this week. Notice. We lead, others follow. Who will be the first competitor to copy after the sale days every Wednesday? Chicago Bargain Store. Two cases tried at the late term of the circuit court are to be appealed to the higher courts. They are the Marshall vs. Halloran, and the Nelson Morris vs. Wheatfield ditch, cases. The first mentioned case goes to the Appellate court. The other to the Supreme court. W. T. Dobbins, of Chalmers, Ind. is sending out cards offering a reward of SSO for the capture of a horse thief and the return of a stolen team of horses. The horses are bays, and were driven off last Saturday by a man about 45 years old, weighing 175 pounds, with chin whiskers.
A. T. Perkins was down from Whiting Monday, in company with a gentleman who had it strongly in mind to start a machine shop here, to operate in connection with Monnett’s threshing machine factory, and the new foundry. Negotiations with him had seemingly reached a successful conclusion, when for some cause, the matter was dropped, at least for the present.
Agent Gwin will receive in a few days his first supply of World’s Fair excursion tickets. In contemplation of a large business an order for 7500 tickets has been placed to be duplicated at any time. These will be good going on date of sale and returning until Nov. sth. The rates have not yet been decided upon, but will lie considerably less than the present rates.
The party of hunters mentioned last week as going to Beaver Lake, returned on Friday, having made a pretty good bag of brants, ducks and jack-snipe. They camped near the big tree in which is located the nest of the pair of bald eagles which have had their nesting place there since the time to whioh the memory of man runneth not. The nest is an immense affair, of sticks and brush, about 6 feet high, and nearly as wide. The people of the neighborhood take great pride in the eagles, and warn all hunters against killing them.
The Bev. Philip McDade, whose serious mjury by a runaway was mentioned last week, is repoited as recovering from the effects of bis injuries. Wm. N. Jonts and his four sons, ‘Bert, of Bellwood, Neb., John, Henry and Ralph, and his step-son, Charley Chtmberlain, all dined together at the Nowels House, last Friday. It was a red letter day in Bill N’s. calendarr" ■ :
Mr. Salem M. Long and Miss Malinda T. Maddox, of Gillam tp., were married last Wednesday afternoon, April 12th, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Hershman, near the depot. Rev. B. E. Utz performed the ceremony. The foundry made a very large and successful casting last Wednesday. Mr. Grey, their moulder, was burnt considerable upon his shoulder and thigh by the spilling of some of the molten metal, but not enough to incapacitate him from work.
\ A license was issued last Thursday authorizing the marriage of William J. Piatt and Rama Price. It is one of the youngest couples married in Jasper County, for a long time; the groom beins only 17 years old and the bride a year younger. The young man lives in Union tp.
Mrs. Nellie Payne was indicted at Fowler, last week, for attempting to murder her husband, James Payne. Her attorneys asked for a change of venue from the county, the hearing of which was set for Tuesday of this week. Mr. Payne»ka3 brought suit for a divorce, and a change of venue is asked for in that case, also.
The Monon has completed arrangements with the new steamship company running between Michigan City and the world’s fair steamboat landing, thus landing passengers directly at the world’s fair grounds, and will commence selling tickets via this route May 15. Cullen and Weston streets are the bnes of greatest activity in the building line. Five new houses are in process of building on Cullen and the same number on Weston street, and on the latter two more have been contracted for. And so it goes all over toWn, to a greater or less extent. J. W. Coen, of Aldus, Oklahoma, and son of the late Hugh W. Coen, arrived at Rensselaer, a short time since, and will remain here during the summer, working at the carpenter’s trade. The family now have 380 acres of fine .land in Oklahoma and expect to secure about as much more when the Choctaw lands are opened up to settlement.
“The world do move,” for our Democratic fellow townsmen actually have had the “sand” to nominate a fall sized town ticket, and at a convention which was really public. It was held on Wednesday evening, of last week, and the candidates nominated were: For councilmen, Third ward, J. J. Eiglesbach; Fifth ward, A. F. Long; For clerk, Jesse Grubb; For treasurer, Nelson Randle; For marshal, James Jordan. Marriage licenses since last reported: ( Salem M. Long, ( Malinda T. Maddox. ( William J. Piatt, ( Lama Price. j Albert Dunn, ( Jennie Nearhoff .' j Daniel E. Jones, 1 Amanda E. Green. j Wiley N. Carmack, ( Agnes Lindsey.
At the second rendition of the The Temple of Fame entertainment, on Wednesday night of last week, the wreath of honor was bestowed upon Miss Viola Glazebrook, in the character of “Bridget O’Flanagan” an Irish “domistic” which she rendered to perfection. The two evening’s entertainments were well attended and resulted satisfactorily from a financial point of view, as well as in all others. The total receipts were •120, which, when expenses were paid left nearly SIOO to be divided among the three churches interested.
The prospects for a W-heat-crop in Jasper county this year are not flattering. It some portions of the county, especially in sandy &nd,it is looking very well, but in the prairie Regions the prospects is quite poor, and many fields have-been plowed up for other crops. The late extensive rains will greatly improve the general wheat prospect, however. Miss Elsie Arndt, of LaPorte county, a beautiful girl of seventeen, went over to the court of justice John McGuire, in Kankakee township, Jasper county, and caused George Ketshmark to be placed under a one thousand dollar bond for his appearance on the first day of the next term of the Jasper circuit court, to answer the charge of bastardy. When justice McGuire peeled his eyes and looked down on the erring George in a judicial way, the aforesaid George wilted and confessed the paternity of Miss Arndt’s unborn babe. Mr. George W. Beeman, of our city is prosecuting the case. Starke Co. Democrat.
At a meeting held in the M. E. church last Friday evening, preliminary steps were taken for the formation of a lecture association. The subject was informally discussed and everything seemed very favorable for success of the enterprise. A committee was appointed to prepare constitution and rules, to be reported at next meeting which is called for Friday evening of this week, at 7:30 o’clock, in Court House, where Mr. Thompson and others will address the meeting and a permanent organization will probably be effected. Everybody invited.
The citizens of Burlington, Carroll county, long ago determined that no saloon should be run in that town * This sentiment was so strong that when peaceable means failed to keep saloons out they blew them up with dynamite, and several were exterminated this way. Lately the State Liquor League has taken the matter in hand and has given the people of Burlington to understand that they must tolerate a saloon. The circuit court has issued a license to one Bert Willis, and he declares his intention of opening up a dram shop in the little village. He has been warned not to risk it, and if be does, he will show more hardihood than sense. It is strange that anybody should oppose a law that would allow a place like Burlington to govern this matter by a popular vote; and yet it is fought both by saloonists and prohibitionists.—Monticello Herald.
A queer mistake caused the fire alarm to ring about 10 o’clock Wednesday night of last week, the fire to be called out, and many citizens to be routed from their peaceful beds, A lady going home from the Temple of Fame entertainment, saw the electric light reflected from a bright piece of tin around the chimney of Mrs. S. Fendig’s house, on Front street. The reflection was bright, like a fire, and seeing it through the branches of trees waving in the wind, made the deception complete. She raised the alarm of fire, and before the mistake was discovered the fire bell was rang, and the fire company had got within a block of the place. The “lire” did not do any damage, but one excitable individual did abont 50 cents worth of damage by ripping off shingles, looking for it.
Mrs. Nettie Ransford, editor and publisher of the Eastern Star, Indian apolis, and well kown to many in this county, fell into an elevator shaft at Indianapolis, one day last week. The elevator boy being absent, she entered the elevator and ascended to the fourth floor. As she was attempting to step on the elevator to return below her foot struck the cable and the carriage shot upward. As she fell into the shaft she made a superhuman effort to grasp the cable, which she succeeded in accomplishing, clinging to it with the desperation of death.. As the elevator ascended the cable of course decended. When she bad gone about fifteen feet she shouted for assistance. When about fifteen feet above the lower floor, being of heavy build, and no longer able to cling to the cable, she shot down the latter, lacerating her fingers in the most terrible manner. Her injuries were found to ' to be merely external.
T. H. Geer has gone back to the Makeever House, ar.d Andy Minions has moved into the house Mr. Geer moved oat of. For Rent.—Two pleasant rooms, inquire at the Cotton House; ! A part of Sayler A Co’s, mill machinery has been received, and the work of installing the same has been waiting the arrival of the boss mill. wright, who was expected last evening.
Examine our umbrellas and learn prices before buying. Porter & Wishabd. Dr. J. C. Deming was expecting his wife and son to arrive home yesterday, from their winter’s stay in the south. The doctor, having turned over his place, four miles south, to its purchaser, he desires to locate in town, bat for the present is unable to find a suitable vacant house. Later he will occupy the old S. P. Thompson residence, on Yan Rensselaer street.
Miss Susan Cullen Vanßensselaer, daughter of the late General John C. Vanßensselaer, and who heired his large estate in Rensselaer, was married Monday, April 17th, to Mr. Allan Hartwell Strong, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Mr. Strong is a son of the eminent ex-Judge Woodbridge Strong, of New Jersey, and himself is an attorney and a leading member of the New* Jersey bar. The wedding lour is to the Bermudas.