Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1893 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Mrs. Ira S. Miller, of Logansport, is Visiting Dr. Washburn’s family. Try a sack of our White Lilly flour W. R. Nowels <fc Son. Three new cases of small pox have developed at Muncie the last few days. Please call and see Mrs. Lecklider’s goods before buying elsewhere. Mrs. Mattie Bowman, of Newton Tp., is building a residence in Magee & Benjamin’s Addition. B. S. Fendig will buy and sell second-hand stoves of all kinds, or handle them upon commission. Dr. F. B. Bitters, formerly of Rensselaer, more recently of Rochester, removed last week to Huntington. Call «nd see the nice new line of installment goods, just arrived at Clarence Lecklider’s. The W. C. T. U. will meet with Mrs. H. O. Harris, Friday, Oct. 27, at 8 p. m. A full attendance is requested to attend to important business. A grand cloak opening, Wednesday, Nov. Ist, at reduced prices. Chicago Bargain Store. u Frank Hoover, one of last season’-s Rensselaer high school graduates, left for Bloomington last Saturday, to enter the State University. For Sale.—-One good heating and one good cooking stove. Enquire of Mrs. Weathers. ts. <Parker and McAfee, the Indianapolis colored men under sentence of death, at the northern penitentiary, 'have been respited until January sth.; the time previously set was Nov. 3rd.

Back at my old stand, at Longs drug store, and prepared to do all kinds of veterinary and dental sur<gery. Call and see me. T. H. Geer, D. V. S. Wm.<o. Piper has sold half of his farm northeast of town, to T. L. Minier, Tazewell Co., 111. The latter buys it as an investment, not as a place of residence. C. B. King, the Chicago piano tuner. In Rensselaer first week in November. Leave orders at Makeover House. The Supreme Court has refused a rehearing in the case of Ben Smoot vstbeiL. NA. <t C. By., and it is therefore now likely that Smoot will get the amount of his judgement. Everything fresh and new and first class, and at lowest living prices, at Warner <fc Shead’s the new goocery store. J. B. Spottswood, editor of the Kentland Democrat, died on Wednesday, Oct., 11, at the home of a brother in Terra Haute. The publication of the Democrat is continued by Ed Steinbach.

Mrs. Lecklider has just returned from the city with a fine line of Millinery. Come and see those beautiful Plato bats she will have at her opening which will be Nov. 2, 3 and 4. Please give her a call. Squire James A. Burnham had a wedding in the clerk’s office, at the court house, Monday morning. The parties were Mr. Sikke Etterna and MissTintje Sippema, both Holland-, era from Keener township. . Vjok keeps his lunch counter supplied with the best and serves fine meals. Exchange: A musician gets his cornet and plays a lay for the audience, but when the old hen gets her corn-et, she don’t play a lay, but she lays—all by herself—-under the wagon box where the farmer’s wife can’t find the egg in a month;

Spencer’Vick, of Chicago, son of C. H.'Vick, was married Oct. 18, to a lady in Kenosha, Wisconsin. B. S. Fendig pays the highest cash .price for eggs. Mr. Andy Rickets, of Pierre, S. D. is visiting friends and relatives in Rensselaer and vicinity for a few days.* A box supper will be given at Vaughn Chapel, next Saturday evening, Oct. 28th, for the benefit of the church. All are invited. All cloaks delivered on same day of sale. Nov. Ist No waiting as in past years. Chicago Bargain Store. Harry Cameron, a conductor on the Duluth <fc Iron Range R. R.. and an old friend of Jim Hemphill, was visiting Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Honan last Thursday and Friday. You can see every newest novelty from the city at the Cloak opening, Nov. Ist. Chicago Bargain Store.

Jasper county people are still going to the great fair in considerable numbers. From a financial point of view, at least, it will be a good thing when the fair is over. Mr. Fishbaoh, a prosperous and prominent citizen of Bucklin, Kans., and a son-in-law of Joseph Coons, a former resident, visited his brother-in-law, Jas. W. Pierce, a few days ago. .... • ■ * u . • * s>' « A large stock of every style of cloaks, capes and jackets will be bought from the largest house in Chi cago, for the opening. One day only Nov. Ist. Chicago Bargain Store . A Halloween social will be given by the Ladies Industrial .Society of the Presbyterian church, at the home of Mrs. M. L. Spitler, on the evening of Oct. 31st. Admission 10 cents, Supper, 15 cents. Mr* and Mrs. Allen Catt have issued cards of invitation for the marriage of their daughter, Miss Ora M. to Mr. Clarence F. Wood, to take place this evening. The groom is better known as Frank, and is the able and popular salesman in Forsythe’s Bargain store.

Rensselaer people are staying by the world’s fair to the last. The number of Chicago tickets sold since Saturday is about 150. The Makeever block is being painted a brown red and will be lined off in blocks, to represent stone, after the manner of the Makeever House. If you pay $1.50 down we will hold your cloak lOjdays for the balance from the day of opening, Wednesday, Nov. Ist. Chicago Bargain Store. An account lately published in the Pilot to the effect that the store of Meyers Bros., at Kniman, had been robbed was entirely unfounded. They have never been robbed, still less accused anyone of robbing them. At the Presbyterian church on the evening of Oct. 31, Miss Newton, a missionary from AUahabab, India, will address the Ladies Missionary Society. All are invited to attend. Lecture will begin promptly at 7 o’clock.

Remember C. B. King,of Chicago, the experienced piano tuner, will be in Rensselaer the first week in Novem - ber. His references are of the best and the quality of his work is guaranteed.

Mrs. Mary Gillette and Miss Ida Beazey, of -Rast Hampton, Conn., cousins of F. J. Sears, visited him from Thursday until Monday. They came west to see the world’s fair. Miss Beazey has been postmistress in her town for ten years and is also county superintendent.

F. J. Sears A Co., successors to D wiggins Bros. A Co., are in the field prepared to loan money cheaper than the cheapest. Consult your interests and do not fail to call on them before borrowing elsewhere. 8-4 t. T. J. Sayler fired about 40 pounds of dynamite in the river near Starr’s ice house, last Friday morning, this being the last and largest of quite a number of charges, during several days last week. The holes for the dynamite were made by a steam air drill, belonging to some parties in Monon. A vast quantity of rock was lessened up. Evidently the steam drill is the thing for getting rock out of the river.

Two Republican postmasters in Jasper county were bounced last Wednesday, to make room for Democrats. They were Thomas H- Davisson, at Fair Oaks, who is succeeded by Leander S. Kessler, and John W. Adkins, at Tefft, who is succeeded by W. C. Belcher. The Cloak opening at the Chicago Bargain Store, Wednesday, Nov. Ist, will be conducted by a young gentleman representing the largest cloak house in Chicago and he will make special low prices for the one day only. Chicago Bargain Store.

Dr. Talmage’s idea of a newspaper is that it should put virtue in great primer and vice in nonpareil. This leads the Elkhart Review to remark: “And the reading public would skip the great primer and read the nonpareil.” Dr. Talmage would be no exception to the rule. 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.

Marriage licenses issued since last reported:

( Charles Hoile, ( Elizabeth Ballinger. ( George C. Cooper, J Amy D. A. Rice. ( Sikke Ettema, | Tint je Sipkema. The next jasper County Farmers’ Institute will be held in Rensselaer Jan. 25 and 26. The dates are fav,orable attendance—much more so than last year, and if the weather is at ’ ad favorable, there ought to be a rousing! big meeting. The speakers will be extra good, says Institute President, D. H. Yeoman.

Tobacco, cigars, pipes Ac at Vicks* N. W. Reeve was re-appointed agent of the American Express Company last Thursday, by thq traveling auditor. The choice fell upon Mr. Reeve in preference to any other applicant, on account of his former long service as agent. Frank Maloy will continue to perform the active dutiei of the agency in the capacity of Mr. Reeve’s assistant

Chas. J. Dean, of Washington, 111. was in town Monday, 'in company with a Mr. Fifer, of that place, who was looking for land. The embezzlement cases against ExGov. Ira J. Chase and L. S. Walden, cashier of the Paris-D wiggins bank at Greentown, have been post-poned at Kokomo, Ind., until next March. The |State’s- Attorney did not wish to hear the actions prior to that of J. W. Paris, President of the bank, who obtained a change of venue. The principal facts of the confes sion of Stone regarding thb murder of the Wratten family may be found on an inside page. Later reports from the locality indicate a general belief that Stone’s confession was largely fictitious. It is the general belief that he took an active if not a leading part in the butchery, and that some of those whom be directly implicates had no part in the crime.

Warner <fc Shead, at the new grocery store, would like a share of your trade. They will treat you right. Alfred Donnelly, a couple of miles north of town, is" rapidly becoming a millionaire off from the proceeds of his potato crop. He has a piece of drained land, a former swamp, that produces potatoes to perfection. This year the yield is about 1500 bushels. About two thirds of thii amount is raised by renters, who give Mr. Donnelly a third of the crop, for the rent.

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

We estimate that by the time the world’s fair closes next Monday it will have cost the people of Jasper county 120,000. Of this sum $2,500 was for gate admissions, $2,500 for railroad fares, and $15,000 for board and lodging and incidental expenses. In case any reader thinks he can make a closer estimate than the above he is at full liberty to make the attempt Rensselaer Flouring Mill and Grain Elevator combined, W. R. Nowels & Son, 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 answer to the application for the reception of Mrs. Casey at the Logansport insane asylum is that the woman’s department is full and that she will have to wait until there is more room. She is now being harbored at the jail, she having, like the defendant In a late divorce case “developed an incompatibility of temper” which caused a permanent separation between her and Aunt Jane Platt.

There have been quite a large number of cases of sickness among the pupils of the Indian School lately, and also one of the brothers has had the disease. It is a fever, showing many typhoid characteristics. Dr. Loughridge attributes the trouble to impure water, Some of the boys have been dangerously sick, but all the worst cases are now somewhat improved. A few nice residence lots near the business portion of the city, for sate cheap, for a few days. Call on Thompson & Bro.— And yet another new gmc was filed in the circuit court, last Saturday. Wm. B. Russell, a merchant at Fair Oaks is the complainant. He charges that bis wife, Isabel, abandoned him and their children in the city of Chicago, in July 1891, and that they have remained separated ever since. They were married in November, 1883. There are three children, ranging in age from 4 to 9 years, and of these he asks the custody.

T. T. Evans, of Stockton, Kans., a former resident of Gillam Tp., was in town Friday. He had been visiting his son, at Foresman, and intended visiting old acquaintances in Gillam, but has been sick and was nnable to do so. He found quite a number of old friends among our older Rensselaer people, however. It was his first Jasper county visit for 15 years. He went into the army from this county, being a m ember of the 33rd Indiana regiment.

Mrs. Lecklider’s trimmer, Mias Avey, feels sure that she can please the ladies of Rensselaer and vicinity, with her work.

The following from an exchange is as full of wisdom as an egg is of meat. “A newspaper whose columns overflbw with advertisements of business men has more influence in attracting attention to and building up a city or town than any other agency that can be employed. People go where there is business. Capital and labor will locate where there is an enterprising community. No power is so strong to build up a town as a newspaper properly patronized. It will always return more than it receives.”