Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1893 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

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.

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.