Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1893 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN.

VOL. XXVI-

MONON ROUTE. RENSSELAER TIME TABLE. TRAINS THAT STOP. SOUTH BOUND. 80. 81-Mail, Dally .... .10:49 A. M. No. s—Louisville Express, Daily..ll:3o A. M. No. 89—Milk accomm., Daily. 6:25 P. M. No. 9—Daily Except Sunday 7 ;30 P. M. No. B—Louisville Express, Daily 10:37 P. M. M0..45 Local freight 2:30 P. M. NORTH BOUND. No. 88—Mail Daily 5:40 A.M. No. 40—Milk accoinm.. Daily 7:87 A, M. Ro.Bo—Mail and Express. Daily.. 8.27 P.M. No. B—Daily Except Sunday 7:55 P. M. No. 46—Local Freight 930A.M.

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

James W. Douthit has gone to Knox on legal business. The town schools will open nex t Monday, Sept. 11. The circus will occupy the vacant tract east of J. T. Randle’s place. Highest price paid for produce at Laßue Bros. Cash Grocer/. Miss Ida Duck, of Cleveland, Ohio is visiting her sister, Mrs. Emmett Kannal.

Dexter & Cox have a new hand hay press. Give them a call when you want a cheap bale of hay. Miss Hattie King, of Chicago, is visiting friends and relatives in Rensselaer. Rev. J. G. Cambell is attending the M. E. conference at La Porte, this week. Try a sack of our White Lilly flour W. R. Nowels & Son. Rev. Father Geitl arrived with another large party of students for the Indian school, last Friday evening. Strayed—A black shoat, weighing about 40 lbs. Finder please notify me at Monitor Mills. C. E. Nowels.

Mrs. J. F. Antrim arrived home last Friday from her several months stay in Kansas. Her health is considerably improved. Time and money, the two great elements in commercial life are saved by dealing at Lißue Bros. Cash Grocery. Mrs J. G. Campbell has gone to Indianapolis to visit friends, while her husband is attending the M. E. conference at La Porte. P. S. Hemphill has moved into town, from his place near Pleasan t Ridge. He is now in the hay pressing business. B. F. Ferguson will be pleased to show you The Mosely Folding Bath Tub. Now in hu office. The small-pox scare is entirely a thing of the past. It resulted in a big harvest of vaccination fees for the doctors. Going to swear off ? well if you swear off paying high prices you will then trade at La Rue Bros. Cash Grocery. Some seven or eight long trains, of about ten cars each, went south over the Monon, Monday, all loaded with old soldiers bound for the encampment. A few nice residence lots near the business portion of the city, for sale cheap, for a few days. Call on Thompson <fc Bro.

The W. C. T. U. will meet with Mrs. Henry Harris, Friday at 3 P. M., Sept 8. All who are interested in this cause are cordially invited to be present. High-school books, a full line at B. F. Fendig’s. Cash buys a big pile of goods these days at Laßue Bros. Mrs. J. A. Spencer, of Brooklyn, lowa, Mrs. M. E. Clark, of Syracuse, Neb., and Mr. G. E. Banning, of Newberg, Ohio, are visiting their sister Mrs. D. E. Hollister. A few nice residence lots near the business portion of the city for sale cheap, for a few days. Call on Thompson A Bro. Visitors to the Kankakee river these days report that they never saw it so low before. It is a matter of difficulty to find passage for a row boat now. Great value at a small cost at La Rue Bros. Cash Grocery. Monday was “Labor Day,” a legal holiday in this state, The town saloons were closed that day, which was about the extent of its observation here.

Hemphill & Honan are closing out at cost prices. Go there for cash bargains.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1893,

Grandfather Cotton has gone to White Co. to visit a daughter. He will remain several months. Come and see what bargains yo u can get at Laßue Bros. Cash Grocery, ' - ; L. D. Richardson is getting a little better, after a very dangerous sickness, from a bowel trouble.

School-bags, pencil-sharpeners, pencils pens and penholders at B. F. Fendig’s. R. C. Dowler, the contractor and and builder, is getting about again after a severe illness, of several weeks duration. When short of cash remember La Rue Bros. They make a small amount of money go a long ways. Philander Hopkins, of Minnesota, visited his friends here over Sunday. He was on his way to the National Encampment, being One of “the old boys.” A few nice residence lots near the business portion of the city, for sale cheap, for a few days. Call on Thompson & Bro. W. W. Watson, of the pension bureau, at Washinton, D. C., and wife, are visiting the latter’s parents, Dr. and Mrs. Alter, for a short time. They will also visit the world’s fair, before returning to Washington. Indiana series school books sold at B. F. Fendig’s.

The best investment you can make is to trade at Laßue Bros. Cash Grocery. W. B. Austin received $2,000 the other day by express, the same bein g in redemption of two more bonds of the same investment company from which he received SI,OOO, some months ago. He has more to follow*. What is one man’s misery is another man’s joy. An empty array of boxes makes a theatre manager mad, but it makes Laßue Bros, happy. Luce Bond, of Chicago, and Ed Bond, of Remington, visited their mother over Sunday. They had just returned from a two week's fishing trip in the northern part of Michigan. For Sale :—My house of 4 rooms and summer kitchen and four lots in Leopold’s addition Terms are half cash and balance in stock. 52-3 tp. John Moosmiller. The grounds around the new school building have been graded up in good shape, and fine brick sidewalks laid around it. The basement floor has been cemented and is now perfectly dry, so that they wiil have good places to play, when the weather is bad outside. You can trade at Laßue Bros. Cash Grocery and go home feeling that the money is well invested. Three good rooms in the Cotton House to rent. Apply to James W. Douthit. 3tp.

In accordance with the order of the County Board of Education, Superintendent Warren has prepared a small but comprehensive county school manual, to be used as a supplement to the state manual, which last year’s experience showed was not alone sufficient to all the needs of the schools. The worth of your money is what you want and that is what you get at Laßue Bros. Cash Grocery.

Lawyer Yeoman was over from Remington Tuesday, attending to some legal formalities connected with Dr. Patton's official bonds, as register of the land office to which he has been appointed. The bonds are two in number and for $30,000 and $6,000 respectively. He gives a good solid bond, and all the signers but one are Republicans. Try B. F. Fendig for school supplies. Try our Butter fly flour. Laßue Bros. Cash Giocery. The trees are already beginning to take on the sear colors of autumn, as the pastures and meadows did long ago. It is probable that nearly half the live-stock in the county has to be fed almost as regularly as in winter. Such a long drouth, and beginning so early in the summer, the oldest inhabitant can not remember.

The cannery at Monticello had to shut down. Dry weather killed the tomatoes. The finest line of new clothing in town at Panic Prices. Chicago Bargain Store. J. W. Williams was accompanied home from Ohio by his brother, J. J. Williams, of Cleveland, who remained for a few days. Vick keeps his lunch counter supplied with the best and serves fine meals. The Misses Schenck, daughters of the late Gen. Schenck, ex-embassador to England, are visiting their aunts, Misses Elizabeth and Julia Smith.

Ladies waists and slippers at about half price to close outChicago Bargain Store. The forth-coming “agricultural boss trots” at Morocco are now dignified by the name of a “fair.” It, or “they” will be held Sept. 12th to 15th. Vick is putting in a full line of canned goods and fancy groceries, in his restaurant, and carries a full line of fresh fruits. Call on Dexter & Cox when you want baled hay. The Rowe brothers whose thresh - ing machine was lately burned in Hanging Grove tp., have been furnished another machine by the company of which they bought the other, says the Winamac Democrat. Shoes and clothing for the thousand at the old reliable one price cash house. Chicago Bargain Store.

Father Geitl arrived home last Friday with 27 pupils for the Indian School, 24 of whom were new pupils. They are Chippewas from Wisconsin, Minnesota and Northern Michigan. For Sale : —A good driving, family, or general purpose horse. Call on Rev. A. M. Simonton, opposite the new school house. Miss Ethel Dale, whose seemingly hopeless sickness was mentioned som e time ago, was thought to be dying, Monday night. She rallied from the attack however, but evidently the inevitable end can not long be deferred. Everything fresh and new and first class, and at lowest living prices, at Warner & Shead’s the new goocery store. The election of Gifford Drainage District Commissiones took place at Center school house Gillam tp., Tuesday. The successful candidates were G. H. Brown, John N. Baker and Harvey Robinson. Their election was pretty nearly unanimous. When you come to the show drop in and see our immense new stock of clothing. Chicago Bargain Store.

Othniel Beeson, the World’s Fair Commissioner from Oklahoma, who was lately implicated in an attempt to sell an award for SIO,OOO, was formerly a saloon keeper at Monticello, and later a post-master under Cleveland at Caldwell, Kan. Please remember that Clarke does watch, clock and jewelry repairing. A fine lot of silver plated ware and notions, to be sold at great bargains, at Vick’s restaurant. August was not such a very dry month after all, if Bev. Hicks’ previous prognostications are to be accepted as a record of what the weather really was. His predictions gave us plenty of rain, with three “central storm periods” and a like number of “secondary storm periods.” Just received nine twelve bushel boxes full of clothing to be sold at Panic Prices at the old reliable one price cash house* Chicago Bargain Store . All the district schools in Marion, Newton and Carpenter townships opened last Monday, with the ex - ception of one school, the Bowling Green, in Marion, and the Thornton,. 1 in Newton. The Bowling Green district is getting a new school house, and will begin next Monday. The other townships will begin later, some of them next Monday.

Fires and More Fires!

Great Damage Resulting From Fires In All Parts of the County. A very destructive prairie fire occured in Jordan Tp., Tuesday, begining near Neverfail school house. It seems to have burned over a good many sections and at last accounts was still spreading. Chris. Hensler and sons,David Garrison and John Bicknell Jr., are reported the heaviest losers; the greatest damage in all cases, being the burning of hay in stacks. Bicknell alone is reported to have lost about 150 tons. The total amount burned will reach 300 or 400 tons, perhaps much more. Pastures and fences are burned over, miles upon miles of fences destroyed, and live stock scattered, and left without food. The origin of this fire is unknown.

Ohly less destructive than the above, was a fire, or rather a series of fires, on the S. P. Thompson and Kent lands, in Union tp., Monday. More than 300 acres were burned over, and 150 tons of hay destroyed. Many acres of fine land are likely to be practically ruined before the fire stops. A large part of the burned hay was the joint property of Emery Garriott and S. P. Thompson. James Babcock, manager of the Thompson ranch, got surrounded by fire, while plowing to arrest its progress, and had a narrow escape, and his horses were badly burned. These fires were started by locomotives.

When Cal Porter gets back from the encampment and looks for his farm northwest of town, he may find it and he may find only a hole where it used to be. In fact, his farm is on fire. At present the fire is confined to two or three acres of marsh land, and is not likely to extend further. The marsh will burn until it rains, probably. A fire at Will Daugherty’s place southeast of town, last Friday, burn - ed 8 or 10 tons of hay, some fences* hay ladders and slides, etc. It narrowly missed taking the buildings. The people attribute the fire to some careless fellow emptying a pipe, throwing a cigar stub or a lighted match by the roadside. People in the vicinity of Wheatfield are having great trouble with fires in the woods and fields. Last Sunday, for instance, a fire west of the town of Wheatfield, burned over 200 tons of hay; the property of S. D. Clark, A. Halleck, and Grube Brothers.

Wils Porter came down from Chicago Monday night, and looking only on the east side of the railroad track he counted 50 burning haystacks, between Hammond and Surrey, and then got tired and gave up counting. A fire near Marlboro, last Friday, burned 200 bushels of oats on James Lefler’s place, also a stack of hay and several hundred rods of fences, in all quite a serious loss. John Randle, living near, also lost fences and [hay. It was only by the most strenuous exertions of a couple of gangs of threshers that Mr. Lefler’s house and barn were saved from distraction. It this dry weather continues there will be many fires and great damage without doubt. This damage will not always be confined to what is on the land, but in some cases is likely to include the land itself. There are many flue tracts of the best land in the countv which, if they should be burned over now, the fire would extend to the soil itself, and the land be virtually ruined. The September term of the Com - missioners’ court is in session this week. Till! business so far on re - cord, relates mostly to claims, and roads and bridges. Geo. A. Sttockfadden, of Rensselaer and J. F. Ellis, of Remington, were granted saloon licenses.

School Commences MONDAY, SEPT. 11. THE ! Before the boys start COLUMBUS they will need A New Suit, A Pair of Pants, A Hat or A of Shoes. Now the place to go Ibß to fit them out is S * T MMurray's

GONE TO THE WALL!

Cleveland’s Free Trade Panic Gets in its Work in Rensselaer. The people of Rensselaer and for many miles around, will learn with universal regret that the pinch of the prevailing panic has forced Ralph Fendig, one of Rensselaer’s oldest and most highly esteemed merchants, to make an assignment for the benefit of creditors. Such, however, is the case and the assignee appointed is his son, Ben j. F. Fendig, the druggist. As the assignment took place only yesterday, and we learned of the the appointment just as we were going to press, we must defer further particulars until next week. Mr. Fendig has been in business in Rensselaer since 1870; and in common with all our citizens, we sympathize with him in his misfortune, and hope that matters may soon be so adjusted that he can resume business as heretofore.

Prof. Gaylord Chilcote left for Los Angeles, Cal., Monday. His family will remain here until about Oct. 15, and go out in company with Dr. Deming and family. Be sure and see the stock of watches, clocks and jewelry at Eiglesbach’s old stand before purchasing elsewhere. A fire at Albany, Ind., Sunday, burned out the Citizen’s Bank, of which Fred Chilcote is cashier. Another room was secured, and the bank is probably already in business again. Children best school suits you ever saw from SI.OO to $3.00 per suit at the old xeliable Chicago Bargain Store. , The new postal cards that are going to supplant the three sizes sold at the present time will be 3| inches wide by 5| inches long. The largest postal card now sold measures 3|x6| inches, a shrinkage of nearly four square inches. Rev. W. H. Sayler, of Firth, Neb., visited Rensselaer friends Saturday and Sunday. He was on his way to the National Encampment. He reports that Nebraska has a big corn crop, but that the people there greatly feel the effects of the freetrade panic. - The 46th and 87th regiments, at their joint re union at Kewannee, last week, decided to hold their next re union, at Rensselaer, also jointly. As the 48th will also have its next re-union here, would it not be a good idea to hold that at the same time with the 46 th and 87 th?

Among the most attractive featyres are our trained and educated animals, charming intelligent creatures, whose bewildering performances are without parallel; Competent and experienced trainers are employed the year around, developing and expanding brute education. Animals that will talk! Animals that will please! Animals that will amaze! Animals that will amuse! Animals that will astonish! Cook & Whitby’s Circus. Who sold Henry Colborn’s lots? Answer, B. F. Ferguson. Who sold Hammond Bros. Implement Business? Answer, B. F.Ferguson. . - Who sold D. E. Hollister’s dwelling property? Answer, B. F. Fer- ■ —— Who sold Carrie A. Clarke’s dwelling property! Answer B. F. Ferguson. Who do you want to sell your property for you? Answer B. F Ferguson.

Great Bargains

Louis F. Hopkins offers for sale at surprisingly low figures a fine selection of Household Furniture. Note the prices: 1 Rosewood Bed Room Suit, cost S3O, sell for sl7. 1 Cherry Bed Room Suit, cost $33, sell for S2O. 1 Walnut Bed Room Suit, cost $lB, sell for $lO. 1 Single Ash Bed Stead, cost $4, sell for $2. 1 Kitchen Stow and complete set of cooking utensils, cost S2O, sell for $lO. 1 Fine Upholstered Tete-a-tete, cost sl2, sell tor $5. 1 Heating Stove, cost $7, sell for $3. Long time and easy payments on all amounts over $5. Goods can be .examined at the corner store near the bridge. Alf. W. Hopkins, Agent Up Stairs in Leopold’s Block.

Monitor Roller Milla •Mn 7 Everybody should try our Whit© Lilly Flour. For sale at nearly every store in the county. W. R. NOWELS & SON. Cor. 4th & Columbia Sta., La Practical BmlnrM Method*. No Crying from • modtrnUe. Normal omrir. Writ* Cor Catalogs* u> J. CADDKN. President.

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