Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1893 — ADDITIONAL LOCALS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL LOCALS.

Reynolds, whose mysterious disappearance is still unaccounted for, left TusTioine on a suddM wbimT Some years ago, and was not heard from for 10 months'. If this be the case, it is likely that he is pursuing a similar course now, and that lie will again turn up all right, sooner or later.

B. F. Ferguson will make you an abstract of your real estate for as little money as any one. The Ivemptongas field, from which Lafayette draws its gas supply, is practically exhausted, and the city must go farther and pay more if it continues to have natural gas. The entire Indiana gas field will be exhausted in less than*so y r ears, in our judgement, at the present rate of use and reckless waste. What has the golden candle sticks, the seven wonders of the world, got to do with Vick’s lunch counter ?

An exchange says it has been customary ever since sheep shearing was inaugurated to commence “clipping” at the head of the animal. In passing through the country recently where a farmer was shearing sheep, the passerby noticed that the operator commenced shearing the sheep at the reverse end. This strange proceeding caused the looker-on to inquire why he did not commence clipping at the head in accordance with the established , custom. With a feeling of remorse the farmer replied that he had voted for Cleveland last year, since which time he had been ashamed to look a sheep in the face. I have made arrangements for plenty of money to loan, on farms in sums of five hundred dollars, or any amount above that, at 6 per cent, interest, and a small commission. Money may be obtained for five years or longer if desired. M. F. Chilcote.

The prize fights at Roby are fast and frequent, now days. The next one will be next Monday night, between Alex Greggians, champion middle weight of the Pacific coast, and Dan Creedon, champion middle weight of Australia. They fight for a purse of 15,000, and a side bet of $4,000; and the winner is to fight Bob Fitzsimmons in December, at Roby, for $20,000 and the middle - weight championship of the world. These brutal affairs at Roby are held under the euphemistic titles of “Scientific Glove Contests,” and thus apparently have the snetion o f Senator Me Hugh’s law, which Governor Matthews signed, for being held in this state.

Warner and Shead, the new grocery firm. Give them a trial. The Monticello Building & Loan Association is in trouble. The bylaws require it to be wound up in eight years, and the assets only amount to $l6O per share. The question is what to do with the borrowers, who have received S2OO a share. The proper remedy, which no one in Monticello appears to have thought of, is to amend the by-laws so as to keep the association running until the the assetis will pay every shareholder S2OO a share. The Rensselaer Associaton will never have any such problem confronting them, for the section of the by-laws, placing the term for each series to run at eight years, has a string to it in the form of a modifying elause, which adds. “Or until the funds of the Association shall be sufficient to pay all its debts and to redeem all its stock.” That provision of the state Building & Loan Association law which requires that such associations shall fix a definit period for each series to run, is a miserable and mjschievious blunder anyhow, and always makes trouble unless the associations, at their beginning, have the forethought to insert some such clause as the above, in their bylaws, and then make their borrowers’ moftgsges oortform to it.

Last Thursday a passing locomotive started a fire, just northwest of town and horned a large rick of hay belonging to Joseph Yeoman. The week before the same engine, No. 54, started numerous fires a little further up the road, on the farms of 8. C. and H. W. Porter, C. W. Coen, Jack Hoyes and others. The neighbors turned out in large number, and kept the fires away from buildings and stacks, but some fences were burned and meadow land burned over. StilMurther north John Murphy dost 25 tons of hay, and D. B. Nowels alalso had some hay burned. It is said that No. 54 started all these fires. The engine is said not to have any screen over the smokestack.