Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1893 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

A fine 'boy was born Sunday to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur S. Nowels. See the Bargain Store’s new “ad” on the inside page. George Bruce is teaching in the Fowler schools this year. Call oh Dexter & Cox when you want baled hay.

Wallace Robinson will move into bis elegant new residence, on north Weston street, to-day. Indiana series school books sold at B. F. Fendig’s. Henry Bruce left yesterday for Lawrence, Kans., where he will spend the winter with a son, living there. Try our Butterfly flour. Laßue Bros. Cash Giotery. F. B. Lyon, lately editor of the California, Mo. Herald is in town this week.

J. D. Brosnahan, of Rockford, Washington, is visiting his wife’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. John English, in Barkley tp.

Our trimmer, who has suited you so well many times, will remain and suit you again. Mrs. L. H. Imks. John Platt's 10 days sentence was out Monday and he having paid the fine and costs assessed against him, he was then discharged. Good paying positions for those . who learn Taylor’s Mathematical quare.

Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Taylor, of of Morgansville, West Va., visited the latter’s brother, Geo. B&rcus and family, for a few days, going away on Monday.

The next Northwest Indiana M. E. conference will be held at Lafay - ette. For Rent —New seven room house, near depot. Apply to M. L. Spitler. E. L. Hollingsworth and family arrived » from northern Michigan a few days ago, where the latter have spent the summer. Dressmakers especially should call and exchange views with Miss Mary Peacock, upon this all important art of time and labor saying system.

Last Thursday Mrs. Eliza Lebo, living near Winamac, committed suicide by hanging. Two weeks before her son, P. I. Lebo, went the suicide route, by drowning. Going to swear off? well if you swear off paying high prices you will then trade at La Rue Bros. Cash Grocery. John Irwin removed to Brook, Newton Co., last Thursday, where he will follow his old .vocation, black - smithing. He sold his residence here to Albert Hammond.

A few nice residence lots near the business portion of the city for sale cheap, for a few days. Call on Thompson A Bro. George C. Stockton formerly of Lafayette," who attempted suicide recently at Denver, is now in Chicago with his sisters, a mental and physical wreck, and near the end of his career.

Vick is putting in a full line of canned goods and fancy groceries, in his restaurant, and carries a full line of fresh fruits.

Mr. E. R Burr, of Jordan township, started for Tennessee, last Tuesday, to take a look at the sunny South, and if he sees anything in Tennessee that equals Indiana or better, he wiil locate there in the spring. —Goodland Herald.

Try a sack of our White Lilly flour W. R. Nowels A Son. Choice fruits, of every description at Vick’s restaurant.

Rev. E. L. Conner will preach at the Church of God next Sunday morning and evening. The last pre - vious announcement was a mistake, but in this case, Mr. Conner has him - self made the appointment and authorized its pnblication.

Prof. H. L. Wilson, a former superintendent of the Rensselaer schools, is noyr located at River Falls, Wis.

Ladies, now is the time to purchase a new dress and have it cut by the Square. Perfect fits on first trial. Ex-Sheriff Philip Blue has been appointed superintendent of the county work house, to. succeed B. D. McColly, who has resigned. School-bags, pencil-sharpeners, pen - cils pens and penholders at B. F. -Fendlgfa—~l~ ..... - —__ The Monticello Baptist Association held its annual meeting last week, at Burnettsville. The Rensselaer church was not largely represented.

High-school books, a full line at B. F. Fendig’s. Cash buys a big pile of goods these days at Laßue Bros. Mr. Harvey Morlan and wife, of Kansas City, and Mrs. T. W. Grant and daughter, of Wolcott, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Holdridge Clark this week.

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. The town now has two night watchmen, Christie Vick and Willis McColly. The two combined ought to be able to keep the peace, at least as long as they will keep the width of the street between them, and don’t get to heaving rocks.

A few nice residence lots near the business portion of the city, for sale cheap, for a few days. Call on Thompson A Bro. All the neighboring towns around Muncie have established quarantines against that town, to head off the small pox. In Muncie it is again claimed that the disease is under control and will not spread any further. A western editor apologizes to his readers after this fashion: “We expected to have a death and a marriage to publish this week, but a violent storm prevented the wedding, and the doctor being sick himself the patient recovered, accordingly we were cheated out of both.”

Dr. Patton’s position in the Cherokee strip is receiver of public moneys, and not register of the land office, as has been generally stated.

A few nice residence lots near the business portion of the city, for sale cheap, for a few days. Call on Thompson & Bro.

Mrs. O. S- Dale has removed to Monticello, her former home, where she will remain until spring and then join her husband at Washington. Everything fresh and new and first class, and at lowest living prices, at Warner <fe Shead’s the new goocery store.

W. B. Austin will shake down another little two thousand dollars from that Missouri investment company, before the end of this month. Notice our line of street sailors, also, did you ever see anything so artistic and stylish as those plaques in felt and silk plush, at Mrs. Imes Bazar. Three men were sentenced to the penitentiary from Benton county last week. Frank Kleinsmith for three years, Will Hall for two years and Perry Welch for one year. All burglars or robbers.

You can trade at Laßue Bros. Cash Grocery and go home feeling that the money is well invested. Mrs. L. H. Imes was called to Cin - cinnati, last Saturday by the sudden and very dangerous sickness of her step-daughter, Mrs. Etta Imes Carpenter. She has inflammation of the bowels, and at last accounts her condition was considered entirely hopeless.

The worth of your money is what you want and that is what you get at Laßue Bros. Cash Grocery.

Rev. H. V. Weaver has been compelled by poor health to temporarily give up the ministerial labors in which he was meeting with such remarkable success, and rest from it for at least a year, and during the interval will earn his living at his old vocation barbering, having formed a business relationship with Robt. Phillips.

An official statement of the smallpox situation, at Muncie, gave the total number of cases that had occurred there, up to last Saturday, at 102, with four deaths. To these may be added two more cases, which developed Sunday. Warner and Shead, the new grocery firm. Give them a trial.

The Lake county grand jury, Fridry, returned 29 indictments against principals and referees of the five fights that were fought and officers of the Columbian athletic club. They .were found under the riot and conspiracy act of 1889. They will be tried this term of court. Dexter A Cox have a new hand hay press. Give them a call when you want a cheap bale of hay. Willie Carter, the young colored boy who rides J. G. Reynolds’ horses in the races, was very badly hurt, at Morocco, last Friday, by his horse falling while in a race. He was brought to Rensselaer Monday, and is now at Mr. Reynolds’ residence. He is terribly cut and bruised about the head and face.

All parties knowing themselves to be indebted to the firm of R.. Fendig are requested to call on the undersigned and make settlement immediately, as the books must be closed. B. F. Fendig, Assignee.

An appeal has been taken in the case of Parker and McAfee the two colored men from Indianapolis, under sentence to be hung in the northern penitentiary Nov. 3rd. They are the first men sentenced to death in in this state since the law was passed requiring condemned murderers to be executed in the state prisons.

Come and sec what bargains you can get at Laßue Bros. Cash Grocery. Warner A Shead, at the new grocery store, would like a share of your trade. They will treat you right.

The most cherished ornament of Cook A Whitby’s circus, at least from a newspaper man’s point of view, is Willis Cobb, the veteran press agent. He is indeed, a genius of geniality and will be pleasantly remembered by the newspaper men- along his route, long after the name of the fdrcus he represents is forgotton.

- And still another change is impending in the management of the Nowels House. The Misses Comer will move back into the Kohler house, south of the court house, and will be succeeded in the Nowels House by Elijah Wood, of the Arlington House,at Monon. The change will be made next Saturday. Mr. Wood is a practical hotel man, of many years experience.

Vick keeps his lunch counter supplied with the best and serves fine meals. The fellow who robbed Holtam, the Reynolds saloon keeper, and was afterwards captured at Cincinnati, but was released, was again caught in a town in New York, from having written to a girl near, Wolcott, at whose father’s place be worked a week, before committing the robbery. He was brought back to Monticello, and last week was convicted and given a five years term in the penitentiary.