Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1893 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

The Summer Normal now has an attendance of about fifty. Try a sack of our White Lilly flour. W. R. Nowels & Son. Uncle Jonathan Peacock is very poorly these days. / Tobacco, cigars, pipes &cat Vicks. Mr. S. H. Shackelford, of Kokomo, is the guest of Miss Allie Morland. B. F. Ferguson will sell you Builds jng and Loan stock. Choice fruits, of every descriptio n a t Vick’s restaurant. The Christian church Sunday school will picnic today, in Magee’s grove, just northwest of town. Mrs. Nellie Learning and ohildre n returned hojne to Goshen, Tuesday. The W. C. T. U- will meet at Mrs. Hester Cripps, Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock, Aug. TBth, ' - Call on C. B. Steward, agent for lots in Columbia Addition; 140 lots at prices from $25 to $l3O. . F. L. Cotton, of Omaha, spent Sun day and Monday with his family in Rensselaer.

Warner & Shcad, at the new grocery store, would like a share of your trad e. They will treat you right. The new addition to St. Joseph’s College is now completed, exce pt a little inside finishing. A first-class business in Rensselae for sale, at very reasonable terms. B. F. Ferguson, Agent. father Geitl, superintendent of the Indian School, will start on his annual western tourfor students, next Monday. For Sale or trade one good Lightning hay press. Enquire of W. R. Nowels & Son. Very handsome new altars, consisting of the main and two side altars, have just been placed in position, in the Catholic church. Everything fresh and new and first class, and at lowest living prices, at Warner & Shead’s the new goocery store. Rev. J. C. Rhodes will hold regular services at the Baptist church, next Sunday, and will also preach at Watson school house, at 8:30 p. m. House to Rent. Apply to Mrs. C. L. Benjamin. Ten different makes of Sewing machines, At Steward’s.

Al 4 year-old boy named Thos. Brown was accidentally shot and killed last Sunday, near North Judson, by a companion named Willie Lane, while they were out hunting. Don’t fail to see the HamiltonMarvin Comedy Co. at the Opera House, commencing Monday, Aug. list. Mrs. S. A. Hemphill arrived home yesterday, from Cameron Springs, where she has been treated for sciatic rheumatism, with some beneficial effects.

Warner and Shead, the new grocery firm. Give them a trial. Mr. and Mrs. George Kessinger and daughter, Miss Jennie, left for Defiance, Ohio, Tuesday, to visit friends for a couple of weeks. They will stop at the World’s Fair on their way back. One Week, the celebrated Hamilton A Marvin Comedy Co., one of the best companies on the road, nlaying only the latest successes. Good music, fine dancing, bright songs, elegant costumes. One week at the Opera House, commencing Aug. 21. The Morocco Fair Association is gilding new fair grounds, this season. They will not try to have a complete fair thia year, but will oon. tent themselves with a little bone

Mrs. H. C. Moles and daughter, of Muncie, are visiting her niece, Mrs. Dr. Horton. B. F. Ferguson will be pleased to show you The Mosely Folding Bath Tub. Now in his office. Mrs. G. O. Lackey and family, of Akron, 0., are visiting Mrs. Lackey’s sister, Mrs. G. M. Hopkins. Clock shelves and brackets at less than cost, at Williams’ for the next 10 days. F. French is building a good barn on his lots south of the jail, but will not build a residence until next year. Mr. Joseph Francis, of LaPorte, returned home last Thursday, after visiting his daughter, Mrs. R. W* Marshall and family. B. F. Ferguson is a Notary Public and can make out and take acknowledgment of any legal papers. Give him a call. *

Miss Daisy Bowman is very sick at her mother’s home, in Newton township, west of Rensselaer. Her disease is consumption. For Fresh Bread and Cakes try the new bakery, next door to Fendig’s drug store. Minnikus & Troy’s old stand. 49-3tp. Uncle Sammy Hemphill has gone to visit his son Jim, at Two Harbors, Minn., and his brother at Belmont, Wis. He will be gone several months. The Stock Farm has a very prom - ising two-year-old, in Gogoac, a half brother to Belle Medium. He can go a half mile in 1:14|, and has had but little training. B. F. Ferguson will loan you money at current rates of Interest. Miss Mary Thompson, of California, who has been visitin g Mrs. E. P. Honan, for some months, left yesterday for Effingham, 111., where she has other relatives. The one year old infant child of Mr. and Mrs. L. Bus well, on the W. R. Nowels farm, north of town, died last Thursday night The remains were taken over into Illinois, near the Newton Co. line for interment.

All persons that have perchased tickets for Photos, and wish me to make them for them, will please call before Aug. 20th, as I will do no work after that date. Respectfully, J. C. Williams. A son of J. H. Thornton, north of the railroad, aged about 8 years, died last Friday, of paralysis of the heart, following diptheria. He was buried the same day, and owing to the contagious character of his disease, without any public funeral service. Day accident insurance tickets in the Travelers’, for sale by B. F. Fer - guson. Everybody should get an accident insurance ticket before starting on a journey. The people of Indianapolis and of the state at large are making grand preparations to entertain the old soldiers at the national encampment, which begins Sept 4th. We look to see a very large attendance on the part of the old' soldiers of Jasper county. Strayed, from my place, one mile south of Aix, about July 26th a good Poland China sow, heavy with pig, hole in left ear. Five dollars reward. Address, Rensselaer, Joseph Williams.

And still another attempt to find gas , which is not there, is being made at Delphi. This hole is notjbeing made where Waldo Williams’ forked twig indicated that it should be, and Waldo is much dissatisfied thereat. He will soon have a chance to say “I told you so” to those who located the hole against the advice of him and his little twig. Wils Porter is agent for the Con tinental Insurance Company,' for this section, for all kinds of farm property, buildings, live stock Ac. Insures against damage by fire, lightning, tornados, wind storms Ac. Give him a trial. The County Commissioners, at their special session last week, allowed to the Town of Rensselaer, for the improvement of Washington street, fronting the public square 1867.50 for Say let A Co., for grad ing and macadamizing, and to Chas. Borntrager 8285 for guttaring. The original- claims were, for Saylors, UOA2S| and for Bomtrsgor, 8818,50.

There are now saidiorbe 200 mer working on the rock ledge, at Momence. Miss Pearl Gott, of Lafayette has been visiting her cousin, Miss Jennie Kessinger. Dr. H. L. Brown is in Chicago this week attending the session of the World’s Dental Congress. Mrs. Chas. P. Mayhew, of Red Bluffs, California, is visiting her numerous relatives in Rensselaer and vicinity. Nick Guss and wife and also the wife and chil Iren of Charley Zacker, have returned from Minnesota, to which place they moved last spring. Though wheat has “riz” to 45 cents a bushel, a five cent loaf of bread is still sold for a nickel, and has suffered no apparent dimunition in size. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Thompson returned from Cameron Springs, last Saturday. The treatment did not greatly benefit the latter’s rheumatism. A Miss Fluelling, daughter of J. W. Fluelling, on S. P. Thompson’s Union tp. farm, died last Friday evening, of peritonitis. Her age was about 21 years. Tuesday was the Feast of the Assumption, an important holiday in the Catholic church calendar. Special services were held at St. Augustine’s church, at BA. M. and at 10 A. M.

Prof. J. Cadden, president of the Lafayette Business College, was in town last Friday, on business connected with his college. He will continue to advertise his successful institution in The Republican. The Hamiltou-Marvin Co. will give ladies’ tickets for Monday night. These tickets admit one lady free, when accompanied by a gentleman, or any person holding one paid reserved seat ticket. Ed. Anderson’s company in The Lightning Express, drew a very large audience Friday evening. It is a good company and the play is put on, in good. shape. Mr.■ Anderson’s company will be sure of a favorable reception whenever it returns to Rensselaer.

Rensselaer Flouring Mill and Grain Elevator combined, W. R. Nowels & Son, proprietors. Manufactures of, and dealers in high grade flour, meal and all kinds of mill feed. We also handle all kinds of grain. Mill and Elevator near depot The Remington fair is held next week and the Kentland fair the week following. We have reliable assurr ances that the officers of both associations are sparing no reasonable effort to make this year’s fairs fully up to the average of all former fairs, and even better than that.

Mr. 0. P. Beam, of Reynolds, who disappeared so mysteriously a few weeks ago, has been found at Omaha, Neb., by the police of that city and his location reported to his family. He is said to be sound in mind and body but shows no disposition to return home at present. He started out to prospect for the purchase of a mill, and likely he has not found one to suit him yet.—Monticello Herald. This gray-headed old joke is again going the rounds: A woman in a small town of Southern Indiana, the other night, dressed up to scare her drunken husband. When h 6 arrived home she said: “Come with me, I’m the devil.” “Zat so,” said the man “shake, old boy, I’m your brother-in-law, I married your sister.”

The undersigned has purchased of Thos. Burns the new livery stable, on Vanßensselaer street, west of the public square, and proposes to conduct the same in a manner to give the amplest satisfaction to all patrons. Nothing but good rigs sent out Prices very reasonable. Give me a trial. Robt. Randle. Twoof Indiana’s stateofficers, Auditor Henderson and Insurance Commissioner Duke, have a 8100,000 libel suit on their hands. It is brought by one hundred stockholders of the Guaranty A Accident Lloyds, of New York, a concern which they recently black-listed. One of the aggrrived stockholders is Col. Daniel ascratary of war.

Wm. Smith, the carpenter, has invented an automatic wind and rain excluding door door-sill —and one that will do the business, effectually. He has applied for a patent. Mrs. B. Forsythe had visitors over Sunday, they being her aunt, Mrs. Amanda Kaldenbakigh, of New Philadelphia, Ohio, and her cousin, Maggie Deardoff from Midland, Texas. Estey organs and pianos, and Estey 4 Camp organs and pianos, on exhibition at C. B. Steward’s. Parties wishing to bid on the proposed new 300 barrel brick fire cistern can find the specifications in care of the town clerk, in Thompson’s law office. Bids will be received until next Monday evening. Rev. L. O. Steining, of Mt. Ayr, was in town Monday. His trip, by lake route, into the northern peninsula and the Green Bay region, was a vert pleasant experience and evidently very beneficial to his health. _ Mr. and Mrs. Henry Thompson, of Austin, Tex., old residents of Rensselaer, visited relatives here from Friday to Sunday. It was their first visit in 20 years. From here they went to Cameron Springs to visit Mrs. S. A. Hemphill, Mr. Thompson’s sister, and from there will go to California. Gertie, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Eiglesbach, died Monday morning, of dysentery, after nearly two weeks’ sickness. Her age was 2 years, 3 months and 14 days. The funeral was held Tuesday forenoon, at the Catholic church, Rev. S. Neiberg conducting the services. The remains were buried in the Catholic cemetery south of town.

A Democrat from Warren county took his wheat to Oxford last week when wheat was the lowest. He got a little better than forty cents a bushel for it and as he was driving away from the elevator one of his friends called to him how he liked it. “I’m blamed glad to get my wagon back,” he shouted, as he laid on the gad.—Fowler Leader. Miss Mayme Stokes, of East Hampton, N- Y., is visiting her uncle, J. W. Williams. Her home is at the very extreme eastern end of Long Island, and one of the earliest settled and most interesting places, historically, in the country. She is a teacher of Greek and Latin in Boxwood Seminary, at Lyme, Conn. John Sobrosky, of Mt. Ayr, was knocked down, on State street, Chicago, one day last week, and robbed of a gold watch and all his ready cash. Three men were engaged in the robbery, one of whom tarried so long looking through Mr. Sobrosky’s pockets that the police came up and caught him. The two thieves that got the money and the watch got away.

Nick Zimmer, the somewhat notorious, obtained a license Monday, to marry Anna Zimmer, his former divorced wife. He expected that the ceremony would take place that evening, but the woman, not un-natural-ly, grew reluctant, and ac last accounts, the wedding had not taken place. Nick’s celebration of the event took place just the same, though, and he was on a big toot Monday night. A bum, stealing his ride on one of our freight trains, was captured last Monday morning, at Fair Oaks in a merchandise car with a lot of tobacco on his person. He was brought to Lowell and had a hearing before Justice M. J. Sanders who found him guilty and bound him over to the September term of Court. He is now lodged in the county jail at Crown Point His name is Tom Gallagher. He is 16 years old and will probably take a trip over the road.—Lowell Tribune. We were in error last week in stating that Henry Thornton had bought lots in Magee A Benjamin’s Addition, preparatory to building a house, to replace the one sold to Jacob Clouse. Mr. Thornton’s sons have been hauling rock upon the site of Mr. Brenner’s proposed new house, in Magee A Benjamin’s Addition, from which fact arose the report that Mr. Thornton himself was preparing to build them

A girl in an Illinois town waved a hat at a stranger and in three days they were married. Two days later the young wife waved a flat iron at her husband and the next evening he came home waving a divorce. What are the wild waves saying? A fine lot of silver plated ware and notions, to be sold at great bargains, at Vick’s restaurant. Wm. Smith, the young man mentioned last] week as being very sick with congestion of the brain, at “Young Ad” Parkison’s place, in Barkley Tp., died on Thursday, and j was buried next day, at Independence cemetery, in Gillam tp. He had a wife but no children.

I declare Charley, that man Chipman takes the cake on engine work. This engine runs better than it ever did, gives more power and takes less coal. The Hamilton-Marvin Comedy Co., that played at the Opera House one week last year will again be with us for one week, commencing Aug. 21st. This company made many friends here last year, and will be sure of a favorable reception on this their second engagement. The Independence Epworth League will give a “Pie and Penny” social at the home of Mr. J. L. Faris, on Saturday evening, Aug. 19th. The admissionfee to this novel entertainment will be twenty-six cents a couple, a portion of which will be refunded. A cordial invitation is extended to all and especially to the church.

Marriage licenses since last reported: ( Elmer E. Pullins, I Emma J. Faris. j William H. Nichols, | Mariah Hoersted. ( John W. Marlatt, 1 Lizzie Reed. J Nicholas Zimmer, | Anna Zimmer.

Elder Sylvester Hassell of North Carolina will preach at the Primitive Baptist Church, next Sunday at 10:30 A. M. and also at 4P. M. Mr. Hassell, who is the author of a standard Church History, is a very learned and able minister of the gospel. Everybody is given a special invitation to attend these services. Stereoscopes and stereoscopic views, and a first class line of spectacles and eye-glasses, all to be sold, away below regular prices, at Vick’s restaurant. Our somewhat venerable but evidently more or less fascinating townsman, “Yankee” Nichols, whose divorce case at the last term of court was mentioned at the proper time, has procured a license to marry a lady by the picturesque looking and still more picturesque sounding name of Mariah Hoersted. She was a widow, and a sister of “Old Jim Griggs,” of Barkley tp., but lives in some other county. This is Yankee’s fourth venture in the matrimonial line.

Commissioners Faris and Martindale went down and inspected the Lamson bridge,Tuesday. The bridge is now complete and is a fine, substantial structure. In one respect it is a novelty in iron bridge construction in this county, in that it rests upon piers made of hollow iron cylinders, about 3 feet in diameter, filled with concrete, thus making, practically solid stone pillars. The bridge is remarkably firm and rigid, and the makers say that it will bold up all the threshing machine engines that can be crowded upon it.

These be times of adversity for jolly Fred Zard, of Marlborough. He says he makes seven barrels of sour krout every year, in case of sickness, and this year he can’t make a gallon. The long-jointed striped potato bugs paid him a visit, while they were so much in vogue, a while ago, and not only cleaned out his potato crop, but likewise used up cabbages and garden truck generally. Fred’s chief grief, however, is because they also ate up, and destroyed, utterly, the fine crop of choice seed weeds that grew so luxuriantly along the edges of his krout patch.