Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1893 — ADDITIONAL LQCALS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL LQCALS.

The excavators for the brick fire cistern, by the court house well struck bed-rock at the depth of nine feetjand it could not, therefore be made as deep as expected, by two feet, and was made enough longer, to obtain about the same capacity. Everybody knows goods can be sold for less money for cash than on ti.T..-’, so favorites, no bad debts. Come and see us. Laßue Bros. Cash Grocery. The Hammond Brothers have sold their stock pf agriculture implements to Alfred Collins, who began the re* moval of the stock to his own place of business, last Friday. J. P. Hammond will teach the Fair Oaks school again, and Charley will move to Kansas. A most thrilling and sensational double balloon ascension is made dally from Cook & Whitby’s exhibittern grounds, the novel spectacle of n ? r.ing skyward being a feature. At Rensselaer, Friday, Sept. 15. F. McKinnon, of Hammond,dept supreme commander of the Knights of Maccabees, has been in town several days trying to organize a branch oi die order here. It is like the A. Q. U. W., in that life insurance is the principal feature and purpose of t.hn/vm-nnizatiOD.

The Monon Route has discontinue the sale of Thayer commutation and tickets in their stead, have placed on sale excursion tickets good for five dtyg from date of Sale, Rensselaer to Chicago and return at the rate of $2.50. AV. H. Beam, Agt. < barley Hammbnd arrived home last Friday from Pratt Co., Kans., where he has been for three weeks. Ik is preparing to remove there in a .few weeks and will occupy a farm that is the joint property of himself and his brother, J. P. Hammond. He says crops are pretty good in that part of Kansas. Nearly all of the receipts of the first series of the Rensselaer Building A-r.mn Association are now utilized in paying up and cancelling the shares of retiring members, who receive all they have paid in on dues, with G per cent interest upon the same. This is a good thing for the Association, and also a good thing or as Inf st presumably so, for the Touring shareholders. Stereoscopes and stereoscopic views, and a first class line cf spectacles and eye-glasses, all to be sold, away below regular prices, at Vick’s restaurant.

The frost of last week, which was so light in this immediate locality, proves to have done great damage in many parts, of the county. The whole northern half of the county suffered greatly, and some fields of corn as far south as Hanging Grove tp., were nearly ruined.

For Sale or trade one good Lightning hay press. Enquire of W. R. Nowels & Son. Warner & Shead, at the new grocery store, would like a share of your trade. They will treat you right. Ten days ago about the most promising field Of com in Jasper county was a 30 acre piece on Unck | Billy Greenfield’s old place, north west of town, on a newly drained tract, that had never been plowed before; but the frost of last week totally ruined it. To lovers of good bread: try Butterfly flour at Laßue Bros. Cash Grocery. The absconded Carpenter township forger, Stephenson, appears to have done a pretty large business in forging and selling notes on prominent farmers. Both banks in Remington, one in Fowler, and numerous private parties, are said to be among the victims. The total amount of his forgeries will amount up to many hundreds of dollars.

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. Mrs. Florence C. Wright, wife of T. P. Wright, died yesterday morning of blood-poisoning, following peritonitis. She had been sick only two weeks. Her age was 37 years. She leaves a family of four children, ranging in age from 5 to 15 years, and her death is a particularly sad one, for that reason. The funeral will he held this Thursday afternoon, at 4 [o’clock, the principal services being conducted at the cemetery, by Bev. Beach.

Joseph Cason, a former resident of Porter county, died [ Friday night near Wheatfield, Jasper county. He was 85 years and 8 months old.— Valporaiso Vidette. Step into Clarke’s and see those solid gold watches and chains. Simpson Montgomery, aged seven-ty-seven, has been dropped from the pension rolls. He served in the same regiment with James McKnight, and is helpless.—Fowler Leader. Call on C. B. Steward, agent for lots in Columbia Addition; 140 lot at prices from $25 to $l3O. On the night of Aug. 31st, the threshing machine of Chas. Brunton, together with a lot of unthreshed grain, for Joseph Zoborosky was totally destroyed by fire. Cause of the fire unknown. —Morocco Courier. You will not make a mistake if you examine Clarke’s line of fine watches, clocks and jewelry before buying.- i

Rev. Fathers Geitjofthe Indian School, 40id .Neiberg, College, left for Ohio, Monday morning. The former will return by way of northern Michigan and bring about 10 more boys for the Indian school. The number now in the school is 55. Ten different makes of Sewing machines, At Steward’s. Choice fruits, of every description at Vick’s restaurant. Willie Shanlaub has gone to Morocco to do the local and mechanical work on the Morocco Courier, now owned by his uncle Sidney Shanlaub. Willie is a good printer for the experience he has had, and a mighty good boy on general principles, and we think he will keep up lus end of the Courier job, in very creditable shape.

Warner and Shead, the new grocery firm. Give them a trial. The talk of the town —Clarke’s line of watches and jewelry. „ James Nelson, the carpenter, moved back from. Hammend last Thursday. He is living with Mrs. Nelson’s father, W. S. Grant, until his own residence in Thompson’s addition is vacated by its tenant, Mr. Brenner, who is building himself a house in Magee & Benjamin’s addition. ==== Wils Porter is agent for the Con, tinental Insurance Company, for this section, for all kinds of farm property, buildings, live stock &c. Insures against damage by fire, lightning, tornados, wind storms &c. Give him a trial. The People’s Pilot has a new local, editor and business manager, this week, in the person of Charles B. Harrold, lately of Martinsville, this state. He is not altogether a stranger in this community, being a son-in-law of Uncle Steward Hammond. He is, we are fully satisfied, a very estimable young man, and as such we extend to him fraternal greeting and good wishes for pleasant p ersonal and professional relations.

Rensselaer Flouring Mill and Grain Elevator combined, W. R. Nowels & Sou, ■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 ice-cream festival by the Women’s Relief Corps, at the court house last Saturday evening, was quite a notable event. The chief features of which were the presentation to the Rensselaer G. A. R. post of a very fine flag, and a highly ornamental post banner. The flag was presented, m behalf of the corps, by Hon. S. P. Thompson, and accepted by Capt. J. A. Burnham: both of whom made short but appropriate addresses. The banner was presented by Mrs. Jnlia Healy, and accepted by Dr. I. B. Washbum. Financially the festival was also a success: the net returns having been about S2O.

There is some apprehension among the admirers of the Rev. Drake thrtt he will not be returned to the West Side charge after the conference meeting that occurs shortly. It is to be hoped that their fears are groundless, as no divine that ever occupied the Methodist pulpit is more generally respected and admired than Rev. Drake, over the river. Daring Mr. Drake’s stay he has made many friends, not only by those steadfast in the faith, but those who are not considered as members of the fold, and for this popular church to lose Rev. Drake would certainly prove a severe blow to the church’s success.—Lafayette Courier.

It was two weeks last Monday since Mrs. Moks left town with her little girl, the latter sick with a supposed case of small-pox, contracted at Muncie, her home- As stated at unanimous in the opinion that the child was taken away before her disease had reached the dangerously contagions stjicp ahH thA rpßiilt. Kflfl v “ Q 4 HULL VUt IvQUJU JLICIO fully justified that opinion. There has been no case of the disease developed in Rensselaer and there is no longer even a possibility of any occurring now.

Quite a number of our exchanges have been connecting Zimri Dwiggiris with Pennington’s collapsed electric railroad scheme, but so far as we ever heard without the least particle of evidence for so doing, further than the allegation that Pennington was formerly a partner in a Dwiggins syndicate bank, at Mt Carmel, 111., his former home. This is no evidence at all, and we are satisfied that Mr. Dwiggins never had any connection with Pennington’s electric railrosd scheme, whatever.

Rev. Dr. Campbell has received advices from Portland, Oregon, explaining the reason why Bishop Goodsell refused, at the last minute, to sanction Mr. Campbell’s transfer to the Oregon conference. As before surmised, his refusal was the result of an organized “kick” by other ministers of the conference against the transfer, into one of the best stations of the conference, of an eastern minister. Practically it was one of those very much unchristianlike things, a boycott, even though it was organized and controled by ministers of the Gospel. The action of these ministers in getting up a boycott, as worldly and unchristianly as it was, was less discreditable than the action of the Bishop in refusing the transfer, for it was at his very own suggestion that the members of the church that called Mr. Campbell, set about looking for a minister. They had been greatly dissatisfied with the minister previously sent them, and the Bishop of his own motion, told them to look up a minister for themselves, thus virtually, and in tact expressly, agreeing to transfer to the conference any minister they might select. This agreement he “went square back on” when the time for final action came.

Ex-Auditor G. M. Robinson was over at Momence, one day last week, and took an observation on the work now in progress of removing the rock ledge in the Kankakee river at that place. Several hundred men are now at work, and the as rock is very easy to remove, they are making very rapid progress. The channel is being cut along the south side of an island in the river, and a dry river bed has easily been secured by the building of a coffer dam, at the upper end of the is’and, thus turning all the water of the river into the channel on the north side of the island. The almost phenomenally low water in the Kankakee greatly facilitates this operation. The stone that is being taken out is partly in good sized and good shaped blocks, and this is being corded up for sale for building purposes. The broken up parts are given to the town of Momence, and are being hauled upon the streets as fast as taken out. Mr. Robinson is much inclined to believe that the channel is not being cut deep enough to effect the purpose for which it is intended—namely, the drainage of the lands along the Kankakee, in this state. He thinks the good effects of the channel now being made will not extend more than a few miles above Momence.