Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1893 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Miss Matie Towslee, of Utica, N. Y., is the guest of her cousin, Mrs. C. B. Steward. With the Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean you will get, every week, a beautiful art supplement. ; Samuel Borchardt is in Chicago, with a law firm, and will probably remain there permanently.. Thanksgiving services at the Presbyterian church, 10:30 a. m., Thursday, November 30. Mrs. G. J. Dexter, of Lafayette, has been visiting Rensselaer friends this week. v Mrs. Noble J. York and children, and Miss Minnie Harding, of Monon, are visiting friends in Rensselaer. J. W. Loughridge, of Greene Co., Pa., now a student of the University of Chicago, visited with his uncle, Dr. J. H. Loughridge, on Sunday. With the Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean you will get, every week, a beautiful art supplement. W. B. Burford’s printing establishment, in Indianapolis, was damaged about $50,000 by fire, last Friday night. Mr. and Mrs. James Creyiston, from the Bergman farm, just northeast of town, are visiting relatives in the eastern part of this state and in Ohio. ~ :

When you are in need of a loan on your farm or town property, do not fail to call at A. McCoy Co’s Bank. They are prepared to make loans at low rates, and on favorable terms. 4tp Claire Robinson, the survivor of the Valparaiso Normal school robbers got three years in the penitentiary, last week. Previous good character was shown, and he was let off easy. Another mail sack was cut to pieces by cars, at the depot, last Thursday. The contents were scattered some distance, but not greatly injured. Hi and Lew Day are at South • Waukegan, 111., plastering a big business block. The block is the joint property of Will and Geo. V. Moss, formerly of Rensselaer, and two other parties. Frank Maloy is a born comedian As Perkyn Middle wick, the retired butterman, he is superbly funny, the whole six feet two and a quarter inches of his vertical elevation.. Don’t fail to see and hear him next Tuesday night. Wm. Lloyd’s rendition of the character of Talbot Champneys, the dandified and somewhat dull, [but altogether good hearted son of Sir Geoffry Champneys, is good enough for McVicker’s theater. See it next Tuesday night, at the Opera House' Mr. W. P. Walker, upon behalf of himself and family, requests us to extend through the columns of The Republican his most heartfelt thanks to the many friends who showed so much kindness on the occasion of the last sickness and death of his wife. The big Hodges ranch, in Wheatfield tp., has changed hands. The purchaser is Ferdinand Seigel, of Chicago. The consideration was 120,000, which is a pretty large sum for a single real-estate deal in Jasper county. About one more month will see the contract finished at Momence, and the rock all out The water was recently let on to try the flow and the river at the state line fell one foot in twenty-four hours. When the job is complete it will work wonders with the Kankakee valley. So far it is doing more than was expected-—Val-p. raise Vidette.

Mrs. Nelson Randle is sick from an internal tumor. Her condition is very serious. A McCoy got home Tuesday night from a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Will Rinehart, at Buffalo, N. Y. He visited Niagara Falls, while there. The Indiana building at the World’s fair has been sold to the Chicago Wrecking Co., for SI2OO. This does not include die fixtures and decorations. With the Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean you will get, every week, a beautiful art supplement. Last Friday at Monticello, Miss Maude Britton thrashed Harry Bennett, a dry goods clerk, whom she thought had made remarks derogatory to her reputation. Hon. R. S. Dwiggins, of Chicago, was in town Thursday. His. mother, Mrs. Daniel Dwiggins, accompanied him back to Chicago, and will remain for some months,. David Thompson and J. M. Wasson of Rensselaer have been here since Tuesday the guests of J. H. Wood while transacting some business in the county.—Winamac D eurocrat 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 & Co. The Rensselaer Sentinel must be very hard pressed for fillin’ when it copies a column of hogwash, anent the Orton affair. Jimmy, you’d better pad out with some of last year’s boiler-plate.—Winamac Journal.

Last Saturday, at Indianapolis, Judge Baker of the federal court, dismissed the case of Wm. J. Craig against the Monon, in which he had asked for the appointment of a receiver for the road. The dismissal was made on agreement of the attorneys for both sides. Here is the story of a man who claimed he was -‘too poor” to take his county paper at 11.50 a year. He sent 82 to a down-east Yankee who advertised a receipt to prevent horses from slobbering, and received in return the following: “Teach your horses to spit.” Chas. Battleday, the purchaser and intended occupant of the Leroy Sayers 10 acres just west of town, will make a public sale Friday, Dec. Ist, at his place 8 miles southeast of Mt. Ayr. Mrs. Mattie Bowman left for Wichita, Kans., last Thursday night, called by a telegram stating that her son Charlie Bowman, was in a dying condition. He had consumption, and was at the home of a sister in Wichita. County Farmers Institute President D. H. Yeoman, requests us to give notice that a public meeting will be held at the Court House in Rensselaer, on Wednesday afternoon, of next week, Nov. 29th, at 1:30 p. m., for the purpose of arranging a program for the forth coming County Farmers’ Institute. All interested in this matter are invited to be present. Wm. A. Beane, editor of the Goshen Democrat fell dead of heart disease, one day last week. He was 65 years old and had been in the newspaper business 40 years. He was familiarly and affectionately known as Deacon Billy Beane to his newspaper brethren, and had a reputation all over northern Indiana for his pungent and philosophical paragraphs. Kentland had still another fire, on Wednesday night of last week. It burned Williams Bros, machine shops, and several other buildings. We never knew nor heard of a town which had so many fires for its size as Kentland. It would almost seem that there was a regular organized band of fire bugs in the place. This last fire, like most of its preceding ones, was evidently of incendiary origin.

Misses Daisy Warner and Carrie Clark have gone to Lafayette to enter the Lafayette Business College. Miss Warner will take book keeping typewriting and stenography. Miss Clark only the last named study. ■ 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. Alcantara, the sire of Rensselaer Wilkes, the Rensselaer Stock Farm’s boss stallion, took the blue ribbon at the National Horse Show, at New York, last Friday, as the producer of the most 2:3o.performers in 1893. Ben Webb, the jolly and gentlemanly drummer who drew the $75, 000 from the Louisiana lottery, was in town last Thursday, on his regular rounds. He still wears the same size of hat as before his big strike. The parties who disturbed: the meetings at the Presbyterian and M. El churches, Sunday night, by throwing corn against the windows, racing up and down the walks, &c., will be prosecuted if the offenses are repeated. The Monon will do away with stoves on all passenger trains. All passenger engines are to be equipped with steam heating apparatus for warming passenger trams, thus avoiding the danger of fire in case of a wreck. It will add greatly to the safety of railroad traveling when the stove dissappears from passenger cOaches.

Chas. Ferris, the universal inventor crank, is still at large. He was back in town the latter part of last week, but did not remain long. The only incident of his royalty collecting tour so far reported, was at Henry Eiglesbach’s, south west of town. He called first during Henry’s absence, and greatly frightened Mrs. Eiglesbach. He called again and Henry run him off, with a big club. Hiram Collins, of Big Creek tp., White Co., was taken to the Logansport insane asylum, last week. He had been writing threatening letters to Gov. Matthews for some time, intimating his intention to assassinate him. The Monticello Democrat says: “Collins is well known all over the county. He was at one time engaged in organizing Farmer’s Alliance lodges and has been a rabid political fanatic for several years.” The drama, “Our Boys,” which gave so much pleasure to its auditors several weeks ago, when pioduced by a home company under the leadership of Wm. Lloyd, an actor of marked ability, will be repeated at the Opera House, next Tuesday evening, Nov. 28th. This second performance will be even better than the first, owing both to the extra drilling, and to the fact that several very taking specialties have been added to the bill.

Daw3on L. Bamck has brought suit for divorce from his wife, Eva M. Barrick. According to the complaint they were married on the day of the month in the year ; and she abandoned him *on of averments of the complaints she must have been a — T — of a woman and they had a of a time of it. Unchaste conduct, in large quantities is freely alleged. The complainant lives in Rensselaer and is a cigar maker by trade and a bar keeper by occupation. There have been no new developements regarding the sensational incident of the book agent’s prospectus, found in the haystack on the Bergman farm two weeksago. The Cheser, 111, TVifiune of last week reproduced The Repukucan’s account of the circumstance, with some introductory remarks, in which occur the following: “Diligent inquiry upon our part has failed to discover anyone here knowing a person by the name [Dore or Dare] resident m the city or vicinity, and we believe the matter to be a gigantic hoax, gotten up to produce a sensation in that part of Indiana, which it has done.”

The rain, snow and slush of Tuesday will be a good thing for growing wheat aud rye. Also will make some water in cisterns. It was the first snow of the season, not counting a very slight flurry last week, and for a time it fell with marvelous rapidity. Came down, not in flakes, but in absolute snow-balls. We hope the farmers will keep in mind the fact that the next County Farmer’s Institute will be held at Rensselaer on Thursday and Friday, January 25th and 26th. The foreign speakers that have been assigned us are Senator Mount and Mr. Voyles. Senator Mount is, confessedly, the ablest and best informed speaker on subjects connected with farming and farm life, in the state. Mr. Voyles is not so well known, but he is no doubt an able speaker or Superintendent Latta would not send him out. D. H. Yeoman, the county Institute president is already working hard in the interests of this institute, and we hope his efforts will receive the heartiest co-operation of all.

A new time table went into effect on the Monon, last Sunday, and Rensselaer has an early morning train for Chicago, once more. Which we have not had since the 5:40 a. m. train was dropped two or three weeks ago. It is train No. 4, and it passes this statiou at 4:55 a. m. and stops on signal. The two afternoon trains north are consolidated, and pass at 3:25. The forenoon mail south is 20 minutes earlier, its time being 11:10 A. m. No. 33, the vestibule, south at 12:82 p. m. is taken off. It is no loss as it did not stop. The night train, south, goes at 11:23 p. m., which is 18 minutes later. The only change on the “Milk Shake” is 4 minutes earlier, in the evening. Local freights not changed. Station Agent Beam says that better connections can now be made for most every place than before the change. Volupuk. Eht Noilivap si eht Ecalp rof S’nerdlibc Serutcip. Llac.

Dr. Charles Warrington Earle, one of Chicago’s greatest physicians and noblest citizens, whose death occured a few days ago, was an old Libby prison chum and a warm personal friend, of Capt. J. M. Wassor, of Rensselaer. A musical and literary entertainment will be given at the Bowling Green school house, on the eve of Nov., 29. Music to be furnished by Healy Bros, assisted by Miss May Enslen and others. Admission 10 cents. Fred Phillips Is Full To-day. —Of histrionic ability. His rendition of the character of Sir Geoffry Champneys is no slouch. In fact is alone worth the price of admission—to any free show in America. Hear him next Tuesday night, and see if it isn’t so. A small boy threw a snow-ball, Tuesday morning, which struck a companion, glanced off, and broke a hole in one of the large plate glass windows in Meyer’s drug store. There must have been a small ttor e concealed in the snow ball