Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1893 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Mrs. R. W. Marshall is visiting relatives in Porter county. Mrs. Flo Sears has returned from her long stay in Chicago. No preaching at the Christian church next Sunday. Services postponed till one week later, —Nov. 26 * Presiding Elder Wilson preached at the M. E. church, Sunday morning. Sigler <fc Weaver’s elegant new hearse arrived from Chicago, Tuesday afternoon.

Dr. Bill Babb, the celebrated eviscerator of toe-corns, is back from Wisconsin, lor a short time. Franklin Batson, of Barkley tp., has bought a house and lot of Uncle Isaac Barkley, and is now a resident of Rensselaer.

Over 100 pair blankets to be sold sale day, Saturday, November, 18. Chicago Bargain Store. A box social will be given by Chas. Blue and Blanch Alter at the Bell Center school house on next Saturday evening. All invited. Miss Mamie Williams left for Boston, Monday, to enter the New England Conservatory of Music. She will be absent about six months.

Come to the cloak sale Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Nov.j 16,17, 18, in the Nowels’ Block. Two more trains have been dropped on the Monon Route. They are the trains that passed Rensselaer at 10:37 A. m. and 7:30 p. m., going south. The Iroquois river began to flow again last week, ofter several months of dryness. The opening of the Lakin ditch, in Union tp., was the cause of the flow. w

Big cloak sale, all the nobby styles at cost at Nowels’ Block, Nov., 16, 17 and 18th. The Stackhouse; or Pullins bridge over the Iroquois river, about four miles north of town, has been placarded as unsafe, by the supervisor, Elias Gingerich. Mr. and Mrs. Morris Thomas have lost then' other twin girl baby. Its death occured last Thursday, only nine days after the death of the other. The funeral was held Friday, at their residence some miles west of town.

N. S. Bates wants 2,000 turkeys for his Thanksgiving orders. Turkeys can be delivered on the 23rd, 24th and 25th. Do not bring anything but good turkeys and a good price will be paid; about 8 cts. At last John M. Turner has got his commission as post-master at Monticello, in spite of Congressman Hammond’s opposition. His man was a Mr. Lowe, and Turner was the choice of a popular election, in which Lowe refused to be a candidate.

To the Ladies of Rensselaer : We have left at your homes samples of Dr. Scales pills. They are a scientific remedy. Read the pamphlet carefully, and try them. Sold by A. F. Long A Co. John Omara, a Francesville party, hai given notice of intention to apply for a license to run a saloon in A. Leopold’s room on Van Rensselaer street, now occupied by George Btrickfaden, the latter being about to move into Chas. Roberts’ building, one door north. Ben Harris’s new residence, on the

old school house lot is now completed It is one of the two or three best residences built here this year, and with the spacious grounds surrounding it put into the attractive condition prepared by Mr. Harris, it will be one of the handsomest places un Front street.

Henry Harris is having a large and handsome porch added to his brick residence, on Division street, at the head of Washington street. Cloak Sale: Nowels’ room, Nov., 16th, 17th, 18th. The stock of a New York wholesale firm at cost Rochester is boring for gas again. The hole is 1260 feet deep now, and 120 in Trenton Rock, but still they want to go deeper.

Chas. Yick has sold his resturant and grocery stock to Milliron <fc Martindale, the new bakers, and they moved into the room last Friday. Boys: To Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Nowels, Nov. Bth. To Mr. and Mrs • Sherman Renicher, Nov. 9th. Both m the Sorghum Valley neighborhood. Christie Vick is going to travel for W. B. Pershing & Co., of South Bend, a stationery, blank book and specialties firm. Mrs. W. I. Morgan, Mrs. “Og” Yeoman and Mrs. B. C. Burroughs left Tuesday for their Kansas homes, after a visit of about 5 weeks, in this vicinity.

It was expected that a new time card would go into effect on the Monon, last Sunday, but arrangements were not completed in time. The change will probably be made next Sunday.

Mrs. Mary Casey was taken to the Logansport insane hospital, yesterday, by Sheriff Hanley. Notice that she could now be accepted was received Monday, by Clerk Coover. She has been at the poor farm for a week or two where she has had several very brisk scraps with Nell Karsner. Ben L. Webb, a commercial traveler for the wholesale drug firm of A. Keif er & Co., of Indianapolis, drew $75,000 from Louisiana lottery, last week. Mr. Webb is pretty well known in Rensselaer, this being one of the towns on his traveling route. If you want a beautiful picture of your beautjful child call at the Gallery called the “PAVILION.”

Recorder Hunt had a rather ancient deed to put on record last Saturday. It was made by Wm. Coons to John Jordan, and covers 85 acres in Carpenter tp. Its date is April 5,1848. It was recorded when first made but the record book was destroyed when the court house burned.

Jackson Plummer was brought to this place Saturday from the Northern Penitentiary. His health is fully as good as when he was sentenced. Mrs. Plummer is almost constantly with her husband. The decision of the Supreme Court makes his comtrial a mere form. A citizen has some rights which an officer should respect.—Fowler Leader.

Saturday night, in Lafayette, Charles Carr, a 15 year old boy, was running down a hill, at the top of his speed, when he stepped into a small gutter; this slackened his speed to such an extent that it threw his head back with such force that it broke his spine, and drove it into the base of the brain, causing instant death.

When you are in need of a loan on your farm or town property, do not fail to call at A. McCoy <fc Co’s Bank. They are prepared to make loans at low rates, and on favorable terms. 4tp Saturday evening the Republicans of Rensselaer got up an impromptu celebration of the great Republican victory, of the Tuesday before. The chief features of the celebration was a short speech by Judge Hammond, and a fine bonfire. The bonfire was held across the river, a little ways below the bridge. Tom Saylor and Ben MqColly made the arrangement for the bonflre, and they made it a

great, success. T. P. Wright, the undertaker, left for Dwight, 111., Monday, to take the Keeley cure. He was accompanied by T. P. Haus. Mr. Wright is a good citizen in all respects except for bis unfortunate addiction to the liquor habit, and which has visibly increased its hold upon him, during the past few months. That the cure will make him a man among men again is the hope and belief of scores of friends.

We are sorry to say that Uncle George Major, editor of the Remington Press, has had to have one of his eyes entirely removed, it being affected with cencar.

Only ten cents to hear one of the finest violinists in the state, next Tuesday night, Nov. 21, at the M. E. church. Other attrrctions mentioned on the programme, t Hon. T. J. Wood preached an excellent sermon at the M. E. church Monday night. We should not be much surprised to hear of Mr. Wood’s discarding the practice of law some one of these days to devote his entire energies to theology.—Crown Point Register.

The county convention of the WC.T. U. will be held at the M. E. church in Rensselaer, Nov., 22nd and 23rd. An entertainment consisting of songs, declamations, essays? Select reading etc., will be given on the evening of the 22nd. The meetings are all free tothe public excep t that a collection be taken at the close of the evening entertainment. Remember the Concert by the Epworth League at Trinity M. E. Church, next Tuesday night, Nov--21. The accomplished violinist, Prof. August Wolf, of LaPorte, is on the program for several numbers. Don’t fail to hear him. He is vouched for as an exceptionally fine performer, by residents who have heard him.

It happened Monday, oddly enough, that three Monon locomotives broke down, at Rensselaer. An engine on a local freight blew out a flue. That on the 3:27 p. m., north passenger broke an eccentric. Another engine to take its place was sent from Monon, and that broke a spring under the front trucks, just before reaching town. The breaks delayed the passenger train until after dark.

Chas. L. Ferris, the self-imagined inventor of farm machinery, signalized his release from custody, last week, by calling upon Warner <fc Shead and making a demand for his “royalty” as the inventor thereof, on the Champion Binders and mowers they have in stock. Not receiving the amount of his demand he took an inventory of the machines and posted up a notice reading: “These Champion binders and mowers are taken by Chas. L. Ferris, for use of the invention. Chas. L. Febris.” Tuesday, Ferris left the Makeever House, where he had been staying, with the expressed intention of going out into the country to try to sell some of the machines. He is liable to lay claim to any kind of machine, or even stoves, or other household articles and claim a royally for their invention. He is really a dangerous character to be at large, and ought not to be permitted to be so. Our country readers are warned to be on the guard against the inventor of everything. He is a medium sized man, with full dark beard. Also intelligent and plausible to talk with, on all subjects except machinery.

The funeral of Mrs. Rebecca Baker, late of Onarga, Hl., and widow of Seth Baker, was held at the M. E. church, last Sunday afternoon, conducted by Rev. R. D. Utter, after which interment was made in Weston cemetery. Her death occured at Onarga, 111., on the Thursday preceding. She was 83 years and about 10 months old. She and her husband were old settiers in Jasper county, having come here from Ohio, 1848. They lived here until 1865, when they moved to Onarga, which has since been her home. Her husband by whose side she was buried, died 26 yers ago. She was the mother of nine children only four of whom survive her. Namely: Harriton Baker, of Onarga, Cyrus Baker, of Springfield, 111., Mrs. Lucinda Campbell of Onarga, and Mrs. Eliza David, of Chicago. All four were present at the funeral. The deceased was born in West Morland, Pa., and was married to Seth Baker in 1830- She was a member of the M. E. church for over 60 years and died firm in the Christian faith.

The county coiAmissioners will let the contract next Tuesday, for 100 rods of turnpike grading, in the marsh in Jordan tp., on the Range Line road, between Rensselaer and Remington. See notice elsewhere of “Letting of Contract.”

Better it were that a man should wear a “Cleveland badge” on its customary location, from one years end to another, than that he should deny his family a sufficiency of good reliable Republican newspapers. Such, for instance, as The Rensselaer Republican, for local and state news, and the Chicago Inter Ocean, for general news, politics, art, science and literature. Both papers can now be had for the price of one. See big Ad., elsewhere, for particulars. It costs just as much to run a local paper in hard times as in good, while the receipts from job work and advertising are a great deal less. Therefore hard-times are the worst times for reducing the subscription price of a paper, yet in giving the weekly Inter Ocean and The Republican for the price of the latter alone, we make a great reduction in what we get for our paper, and so far as the advantage of the subscriber is concerned, we cut the price square in two, in the middle. See big ad* vertisement elsewhere for particulars. There are right here in Jasper county, a great many families growing up without any newspapers in the house. Some because they can not afford to take them, but more because they think they can’t To raise children in this day and country without papers to read, is next thing to not teaching them to read at all. Charitably disposed people who know of families without newspapers, could not exercise their charitable inclinations to better advantage than by sending them the Rensselaer Republican and Chicago Inter Ocean, both one year for $1.50. You send us the $1.50; we’ll do the rest And right here is a good chance to do some effective missionary work for the Republican party, by sending the two papers to families who are growing up in a state of heathen darkness, in regard to the true political gospel.