Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1893 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN.

VOL. XXVI-

MONON ROUTE. RENSSELAER TIME TABLE. TRAINS THAT STOP. SOUTH BOUND. Ho. 81 —Mail, Daily 10:49 A. M. tr.-: Ho. B—Louisville Express,- Daily. .11:30 A. M. ► Ho. 89—Milk accomm., Dai1y...... 6:25 F.TST. Ho. 9—Daily Except Sunday 7:30 P. M. Ho. 3—Louisville Express, Daily 10:37 P. M. Ho.'.4s—Local freight 2:30 P. M. NORTH BOUND. Ho. 88—Mall Daily. 5:10 A. M. Ho. 40—Milk accomm., Daily 7:37 A, M. No. 80—Mail and Express. Daily.. 3.27 P. M. Ho. B—Daily Except Sunday ......'7:83 P. M. No. 46—Local Freight .. 9:20 A.M.

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

B. F. Ferguson was to Brookston last Friday on business. High-school books, a full line at B. F. Fendig’s. Robt. Stephenson, of Union tp., has pneumonia, but is getting better.

Cash buys a big pile of goods these days at Laßue Bros. After all the failures still another attempt is being made to find gas in Carroll county. Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Smith, of Bridgeport, Conn., are visiting thei r cousins, F. J. Sears and wife. School-bags, pencil-sharpeners, pencils pens and penholders at B. F. Fendig’s.

Ernest Williams, of Bellfontaine, Ohio, visited his uncle, J. W. Williams, over Sunday. The young man is a student in Harvard college. A few nice residence lots near th e business portion of the city for sal e cheap, for a few days. Call on Thompson & Bro. Sayler & Co’s mill is now so crowded with work as to require a night force. Homer Hopkins is the boss miller for the night ran. ►Going to swear off ? well if you swear off paying high prices you will then trade at L 4 Rue Bros. Cash Grocery.

The Indiana State Fair is held Bert week. Half fare rates or railroads. Entries in every department are large; 166 m the speed ring, an average of 14 to each -class. ©aily meetings byH. C. Keeley, the evangelist, at the Presbyterian' church, at 10 a. iff. and 7:80 p. m.; Everybody cordially invited to at-? tend. lilesse Nichols and *Charley Israel,' of'Barkley tp., are out on the south-' west side of Kansas, waiting to go with the rush into the Cherdfcee Out-: let, next Saturday. best school suits you ever taw from SI.OO to $&00 per suit at the did reliable Chicago Bargain -Store.

The articles of assignment of Ralph Fendig’s property, estimates the assetts at about #1O;O00. The liabilities are thought to be from $&>000 to SIO,OOO. Try our Butterfly flour. Laßue Bros. Cash Grocery. Indiana series school books -sold at B. F. Fendig’s. There was a big prairie fire Monday, north of the railroad, between Monon and Lee. Many feundreAs of acres were burned over, and according to some reports, a vast quantity of hay was destroyed. 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.

TEe County Commissioners watered mi order kst week, to the effect that all male persons sentenced to the county jail for punishment should be transferred to the workhouse and be set breaking rocks. This order catches -‘Pappy” Platt, and the cheerful sound of his stonehammer now reverberates around the south-east corner of the public square, and the regions round-about. Pappy is evidently an expert at breaking rocks.

The telegraph line is now’in operation from the express office to the depot. Parties wishing to save the journey to the depot can now send their telegrams from the express office, for the very moderate additional fee of 5 cents. Orders to the lumber, grain hay and other dealers in the depot neighborhood can also be sent for tho same small charge^

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

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14,1893,

Miss Edith Marshall has again gone to Joliet, 111., to teach in the city schools. Dexter & Cox have a new hand hay press. Give them a call when you want a cheap bale of hay. John A. Sigler will make a pubic sale on Tuesday, Oct., 10, at his place about one mile west of DeMotte. Come and see what bargains you can get at Laßue Bros. Cash Grocery. Round |£rip Chicago tickets sold next Monday for $2.20, or half fare. And the tickets good for 10 days, which is the best part of it.

A few nice resydence lots near the business portion of the city, for sale cheap, for a few days. Call on Thompson & Bro. J. W. Powell, of Washington, D C., visited Rensselaer friends a day or two last week. He will see the great fair, before he goes back to Washington. 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 . An infant son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. McDonald* of Pleasant Ridge, was buried in Weston cemetery, last Thursday. Its age was not quite four months. The cause of its death was cholera infantum.

Try a sack of our White Lilly flour W. R. Nowels .& Sox. Time and money, the two great elements in commercial life are saved by dealing at Laßue Bros. Cash Grocery. W. C. Hopkins, of Chicago, was in this city Thursday and Friday looking at the prospects for an oil route and finds everything favorable. He expects to start a wagon in a few days.

Please remember that Clarke does watch, clock and jewelry repairing. When.you come to the -show drop in and see our immense new stock of 'Clothing. Chicago Bargain Store. Dr. Willard Stockwell will make a public sale at his Walker Tp. place, •on Sept. 26th. He intends to give up farming and move to where he purchased property, some time ago. Highest price paid for produce at Laßue ißros. Cash Grocery.

Shoes and clothing for the thousand at the old reliable one price cash house. Chicago Bargain Store. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. James, of Hammond, were rhere last Saturday dor the purpose of laying in Weston •cemetery the remains of a 11 months old infant child, whose death occuredithe day previous, of inanition. The round trip rate from Fair ©aks t® Chicago, Sept 18, via Monon ißoute, will be oaly $1.85. Tioketsigood for ten days. -Jno. Murray Agent.

Miss ffiaisy Bowman, daughter of Mrs. Mattie'Bowman, of Newton tp., died last morning, of consumption, after an illness of three years. Her age wac 17 years, 1 month and 20 days. The funeral was held Monday fosenoon, at the M. E. church, in this place, and was conducted by Rev. B. F. Ferguson. Interment was made in Weston cemetery.

Vick is putting in a full tone of canned goods and fancy groceries, in his restaurant, and carries a fuK line of fresh fruits. The finest line of new clothing in town at Panic Prices. Chicago Bargain Stoke.

September 27 th Is Indiana Day at the World’s Fair. It ought to be made the biggest state day of the whole fair, next to Illinois Day. There will be speeches by Gen. Harrison, Senator Voorhees, Gen. Lew Wallace, Uncle Dick Thompson, a recitation by Riley, <fec. Governor Matthews and staff will also be present, and in full uniforms. All Indiana people who go to the fair for Odd Fellows Day, Sept. 25th, should go prepared to remain until after the 27th.

A small traveling tent show exhibited in the vacant lot north of the Makeever House, yesterday. The performers are all colored peo - pie.

The best investment you can make is to trade at Laßue Bros. Cash Grocery. Mrs. Casey, of Remington, a more or less insane woman, has been lodged, in the county jail for several days, and refuses to vacate, claiming to be sick. Everything fresh and new and first class, and at lowest living prices, at Warner & Shead’s the new goocery store. There was a big fire in the Gifford marshes, in Barkley tp., Monday. It is estimated that 1,000 acres were burned over. The principal damage was to fences.

The worth of your money is what you want and that is what you get at Laßue Bros. Cash Grocery. Rensselaer Wilkes reduced his record to at Indianapolis, last week. He will trot at the slate fair next week, and try to reduce it still more. He is a mighty promising colt, surely. Call on Dexter & Cox when you want baled hay. Vick keeps his lunch counter supplied with the best and serves fine meals.

The Rensselaer public schools opened Monday, in good shape. The enrollment up to yesterday was 430. Owing to the complete subsidence of the small pox scare, tie vaccination order was rescinded. The new school house at Bowling Green district, Marion tp., is now completed, and is said to be about the neatest and most attractively finished school building in the county. School wMI begin in the district next Monday.

A'few nice residence lots near 'the business portion of dhe city, for sale cheap, for a few days. Call on Thompson & Bro. The Evangelist, H. C. Keeley, is having very large meetings at the Presbyterian chinch, every night thfe week. An»interesting feature of the meetings is Mr. Keeley’s use of the cornet, and his fine solo singing. Meetings are also held at 10 a. e. You can trade-at Laßue Bros. Cash Grocery and go -home feeling that the money is well invested. Ladies waists and slippers at about half price to close outCsicago Bargain “Stoke.

■O. S. Dale had a most unpleasant experience, Monday night, while on his way here to attend his daughter’s funeral. He got on the wrong tra in at Englewood, and was obliged to jueap off, while the train was- Banning 10 -or 12 miles anhour. He fell with great violence, on broken rock, and was cut and bruised in many places, and his clothing torn to pieces. He full within a few inches of the car wfceeis, and so close that had-he not lain perfectly still until the' entire train bad passed, the steps of the cars would have struck him. He had a very-narrow escape, truly.

Whea short-of cask remember LaRue Bios. They make a small amount-of money go K long ways. A fine lot of ailver. plated ware and notions, to be soid at great bargains, at Vick’s restaurant. Prof. M. R. Paradis, lately ofilllinois -University, and owner and prospective occupant «f the old Clint Stackhouse plaoe, north of town, is now in Wianipeg, Manitoba, in Canada, and in ordering the ad-i dress of his Scpuhliean changed, he says. “Weather is very cool here already. iThe black soil is so rich that it forms no dust in roads, but gets shiny like it were mixed with grease. Crops are excellent, —20, 000,000 bushels of wheat in sight in this country. There hss been enough rain all summer.

Smoke the big I Cigar. For sale by |!_J. W. KING.

Defeated But Not Discouraged.

The (Jrarel Roads are Beaten But the Vote Was Very Close. The election on the question of building some 17 J miles of gravel or stone roads in Marion tp., came off last Saturday afternoon in Rensselaer. The election was conducted after the Australian law, so far as the circumstances would permit. Considering the importance of the question at issue the vote was very light; the whole number of voUs cast being'only 439, out of a total of nearly 700 in the township. The following is the vote by precincts : SOUTH PRECINCT.

Road. For. Against. Maj. Againsl College 51 87 36 Long Ridge. 49 88 39 Poor Farm.. 49 90 41 WEST PRECINCT. - ——Bead, POTT Against. Maj. For College 88 70 18 Long Ridge.Bß 70 18 Poor Farm.. 93 72 21 EAST PRECINCT. College.. .w 73 62 11 Long Ridge.7l 62 9 Poor Farm.. 70 62 8

The net majorities against the roads were, College Road 7; Long Ridge Road 12; Poor Farm and Pleasant Ridge 12. The very narrow margin by which the various roads were beaten, shows conclusively that under any other tkan’the present very unfavorable prospect of affairs, the roads would 'have carried by large majorities. There is no doubt that even had the election been post-poned until next spring, as Tbe Republican advocated, the result would then have been in favor of the roads, as the sentiment in favor of improved roads is always considerably stronger in the midst or at the close of a muddy season, than during a season of good roads.

Of course this election is, in reality, only a brief post-ponement, for the time is not far off when the people of this vicinity will begin in earnest the work of building permanent roads.

We can not but believe, however, that it wi’l be better not to begin on a large --scale until financial prospects begin to brighten, nor even until at least one Legislature is asked to pass a more just and equitable gravel road law than any now upon the statute books.

In his report the commissioner of fisheriessays that “the system of lakes in northern Indiana is a very strikin g characteristic in the topography of the state. It is entirely safe to say that there are in the counties of Steuben, Dekalb, Lagrange, Noble and Kosciusko more than I,ooo lakes having an area of 10 acres or over. There are by actual enumerating 312 lakes in Noble county with an area of 5 acres or more, in every one of whioh nearly all the varieties of our best fish ore found, and in almost all black bass are found.”

The people of Carpenter tp. act as though the way to build gravel roads is to build .gravel roads. A half mile of fine pike, built of stone below and of gravel Above has just been completed in the east and west road first south of Remington, while on the road between Goodland and Remington, just novth of the latter town, work will begin next week at gravel-, ing from both the east and the west ends. On thie last mentioned road there will be a dirt roadway and a sonc and gravel! rood-way, side by side, the same as was proposed in the coads voted on in Rensselaer last Saturday, except that the top of the Carpenter tp., gravel roadway will be on a level with the dirt roadway, being in that respect much better than the roads proposed here, and less material required to make them. Only a mile or two of these roads will be finished up this fall, but next year the township road tax will be increased, and several miles will then be built.

CLOTHING •• THE T COLUMBUS Wjr A New Suit, A Pair of Pants, A Hat or A Pair of Shoes. Now the place to go mK to fit them out is Mr. EUisSMurray’s

The small-pox at Muncie is proving much harder to stamp out than previous reports indicated. The disease has been spreading considerably lately and the authorities have found it necessary to establish a pest house, to which all new cases are removed. The previous method was simply to quarantine all houses in which there were cases. The situation there now is said to have reached a stage where thejeity is in danger of a terrible calamity, unless the disease can soon be got under control. Schools are closed and churches and all other public meetings are prohibited.

Be sure and see the stock of watches, clocks and jewelry at Eiglesbach’s old stand before purchasing elsewhere. The Odd Fellows of Rensselaer and their friends will go to the World’s Fair on Odd Fellows’ Day which is Monday, Sept. 25th, on the milk train of that day. They will have a special car, however, which will be setoff here for their exclusive use. The members of the order and of the

Rebekabs’ are preparing to decorate the car, in an attractive manner. The fare, we understand, will be at the very low rate of one cent a mile for the round trip, which wilt make the fare about $1.40 for the round trip. There is a prize of $ 160 offered to the lodge that will enter the parade Odd Fellow’s Day with the largest per cent of members, counted on the basis of the membership of l£ft2. It looks as though Iwquois lodge ought to stand a pretty good show for this prize if a vigorous effort were made.

There was an altogether novel feature about the election for ditch commissioners in Gifford’s drsinage district, on Tuesday of last week, in thatrfnite a number of women exercised their privilege, as property owners in the district, and went to the polls and voted. This they did, intelligently, with dignity and selfrespect, and with the evident approbation and respect of all the voters present. It was a practical demonstration of the way women’s suffrage will work when it comes to be universally applied. The women will then vote <their sentiments, and vote them conscientiously and intelligently and without sacrifizing their respect nor the approbation and respectful treatment of the male voters. The names of the ladies who voted on the above occasion, so far as learned were Mrs. Elizabeth Pass, Mrs. Margaret J. Lewis, Mrs. Sarah Grigg, Mrs. Sarah Gwin, Mrs. E. Lisa Renicker, Mrs. Logan, Mrs. W. Prewitt, Mrs. Chas, Faria, Mrs. Gratner. They are the pioneer practical women suffragists of Jasper county. All honor to them for it.

Now This Is Liberal!

Next Monday, Sept. 18th, the Monon Route will sell tickets to Chicago and return for $2.20 which is one fare for the round trip. Tickets sold only on the 18th, but good returning for 10 days. Extra coaches attached to all trains Monday, and ample accommodations provided for all. Tickets good for all trains Monday that stop.

W amer & Shead, at the new grocery store, would like a share of your trade. They will treat you right. Farm For Sale —Bo seres, 60 acres unifier cultivation. Good buildings,jrach as frame house,‘large frame barn, granery and wagon shed, 2 good pumps, plenty water the whole year, young bearing orchard, small fruits of all kinds, 16 acres of timothy meadow, and 20 acres of good timber. Terms: Half cash, balance long time. Possession given day of sale. Reason for selling going into other business. Address, John O’Conner Kniman Ind. Or, inquire at Republican office. 3tp

Great Bargains

Louis F. Hopkins offers for sale at surprisingly low figures a fine selec- - tion 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 Stove and complete set of cooking utensils, cost S2O, sell for $lO. 1 Fine Upholstered Tete-a-tete, cost sl2, sell for $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. Ale. W. Hopkins, Agent. Up Stairs in Leopold’s Block.

Monitor Roller Mills Everybody should try our White Lilly Flour. For sale at nearly every store in the county. i W. B. NOWELS & SON. Cor. 4th S Columbia Sts., La Fayette, led. Pfrartinl M.tttfflii. No Oonytsp from Trit- Booftw Haiti muJmu. Xonrat cn«m. WWW Cor tiaufagw* J. CAODCN. President*

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