Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1893 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

The Jesse Grubb property, on Cullen street, has been sold to Addison Parkinson. For dried and canned fruits of all kinds, call on Lyßue Bros. They will save you money. The County Commissioners • will meet in regular December session, next Monday > With the Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean you will get, every week, a beautiful art supplement. Thomis Thompson returned home last Friday, after two weeks service on the U. 8. petit jury, at Indiana polis. Do you know where to go for good photographs? Chicago. No, the PAVILION. Frank Hanley has moved to Chicago, where he will engage in business with Mr. Martin, a brother-in-law, who runs a large milk business. Hard times, but Mrs. Lecklider will sell millinery at 25 to 50 per cent, discount, the balance of th e season. 2t. J. F. Warren represented Rensselaer Odd Fellows at the Grand Lodg e at Indianapolis, last week. G. W. Goff represented the Encampment branch.

With the Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean you will get, every week, a beautiful art supplement. The 24 hours and more of steady but slow rain, which began Sunday evening and did not let go until Monday evening has given the earth a good soaking, and will be a great help to the water supply. Well trimmed hats from 75 cents io 11.00 a piece. Tips at 50 cents per bunch. Felt hats 25 cents at Mrs. Lecklider’s, the balance of the season. John Ramey is just getting about after two month’s siege with rheumatism and kidney trouble, but is not yet able to work. It is pretty tough luck for him financially as will as physically. Mrs. John Moosmlller, whose insanity case was mentioned last week, was taken to the Logansport asylum Thursday, by her husband and Dept. Sheriff McColly. She stood the journey very vreii. The matrimonial business is “picking up a little” as the list of licenses • given elsewhere, shows. This is always the case about Thanksgiving time. From Nov. 9th to Nov. 25th there was not a single marriage license issued in this county. M. H. Walker, the Fowler attorney, is evidently in a bad way, for health, and no better for his long stay in the south. He is now contemplating trying Arizona, if be can stand the journey. He has sold his law library; A. D- Babcock, of Goodland, being the principal purchaser.

Preaching at the Christian church next Sunday, at 10:45 a. m., and 7:00 p. M. Call at Laßue Bros, the cheap cash grocers, to see the biggest, best and cheapest line of Holiday goods. Hammond is to have a Keeley cure establishment. As the place has about 60 saloons, it naturally needs a Keeley cure. ’ . > With the Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean you will get, every week, a beautiful art supplement. Mr. and Mrs. H. j. Bartoo had a pleasant party at their residence, just west of town, Saturday-evening, in observance of their third or linen wedding anniversary. The Jasper County Teachers’ Association will hold its regular annual meeting, Friday and of this week, at the court house. A very pi omising program of exercises has been arranged for the occasion. LOOK —at Mrs. Lecklider’s for cheapest millinery and ladies notions in town from now on the balance of the season. A procession of movers who drove through town last Friday, were going to the Gifford tract farms, and were from Champaign Co., 111. They struck a terribly cold time for moving.

The New York Tribune, which we are offering at such marvellously favorable terms in connection with The Republican, is the paper Horace Greeley founded. There is no better and no bigger weekly political paper published anywhere, and it is Republican to the core. S. P. Thompson’s new town, about midway between Surrey and Fair Oaks, has been established as a postoffice under the name of Parr. Post office department objected to the first name, Firman, probably on account of similarity to some other post-office in this state. Miss Nellie M. Hammerton, daughter of Elias Hammerton, and Mr. Elwood O. Manahan, of Crescent City, Iroquois Co., 111., were married Monday evening, Nov. 27th, at the residence of the bride’s parents, a few miles north of Rensselaer. Rev. R. D. Utter, of the Rensselaer M. E. church performed the ceremony. Our old and much esteemed townsman, Joseph H. Willey, was in town Tuesday, having Dr. Hartsell doctor up a badly sprained ankle, which he received last Thursday, in Rensselaer county, N. Y.,in getting off the cars. Mr. Willey is now traveling for J. A. Shepherd & Co., of Chicago, an art supply house.

Jasper county schools were awarded a medal on their exhibit at the world’s fair, for excellence in written class work. It will probably be some months before the medal is received. It will be sent to the county superintendent, and will probably be permanently, kept in his office. There will be a meeting of the Rensselaer creamery next Saturday Dec. 2nd at the court house for the purpose of making arrangements for regular monthly meetings. All who feel well toward the creamery interests are cordially invited to attend. L. Strong. Manager Daniel Van Dusen, the young man whose terrible injury by having his arm torn out while belting a haypress was described last week, died Thursday night, at his home in DeMotte, of blood-poisoning. He leaves a widow and two young children. He was a son-in-law of George Freely ‘ f

There is more good reliable farming Information in the New York Tribune than in almost any of the so-called agricultural papers, not to speak of its vast amount of all other kinds of good reading. The Tribune and The Republican for only $1.75 per year, and for a short time only for $1.50 per year, the price of The Republican alone, it the latter is paid for a year in advance.

“Our Girls” will give “Our Boys” a big Thanksgiving dance, at the Opera House, to-night. Tough time for tinners. Uncle Peter Rhoades and Fred Cissel are both laid up with sickness. Uncle Clint Hopkins is threatned with lung-fever. He got bruised by a fall, and caught cold. Mrs. Lewis Fisk, Gospel temperance Evangelist, will be be at Rensselaer the sth, 6th and 7th of December. Mr. and Mrs. H. R. W. Smith, and Miss Allie Paxton, of Chicago, are spending thanksgiving with Mr. and Mrs. John W. Paxton. Wm. P. Hopkins, the deaf mute, has moved to Benton Harbor, Michigan, Mr. Hopkins and family are old residents of Rensselaer, having lived here upwards of twenty years. ■ •-•-I . ... The free entertainment that is to be given by the Patriotic Order Sons of America, will not be given until some time next week, as satisfactory arrangements for a hall have not yet been made. Arthur H. Hopkins was in townlast Thursday. He is now permanently located in Chicago, in charge, with Louie Hopkins, of the Chicago end of Austin & Co’s business. Their office is in the Chamber of Commerce buildings corner Wash-; ington and La Salle streets. Mr. George W. Faris and Mrs Leota M. Jones were married Tuesday morning, at the bride’s residence, street; Rev. R. D. Utter performing the ceremony. The groom was a “well fixed” widower, of Gillam tp. The bride is very well known in Rensselaer having lived here many years. They will reside on the groom’s farm, in Gillam tp.

Marriage licenses since last reported : ( Luke Lang, | Mary Erwin. ( John Tanner, ( Sallie Meiser. j Edward O. Manahan, | Nellie Hammerton. J George W. Faris, ( Leota M. Jones. Henry Southwick, a brakeman on the Monon, met with a bad accident at the depot, last Thursday. He was helping unload a boxed piano, from a car, when the box got away from those holding it, and fell upon Southwick. It caught his right leg and dislocated the hip joint, breaking the bone of the rim of the joint socket. Drs. Loughridge set the dislocation and Southwick was sent to Chicago, where his home is. The Indiana supreme court has decided that land may be condemned for the purpose of a public cemetery when the public in general have a right to Obtain interment, and lands taken foi the purpose of enlarging a public, cemetery is devoting it to public use. The case went up from St Joseph county where a woman refused the tender of the sum fixed by the appraisers for some of her land intended to be used for a cemetery.

The cheapest reading ever offered: The Rensselaer Republican, Chicago Inter Ocean and New York TV-idwne all three for two dollars. Or the Republican and either the Inter Ocean or the Tribune tor $1 .75. And, for a limited time only, The Republican and either of the above for 11.50 and all arrearages. Or either of them and two years’ credit on The Republican, for SB.OO. Or both Tribune and Inter Ocean for $8.50 and two years’ credit on The Republican. The weather last Tdrsday and Friday was about as cold as it often is at this time of the year. Friday morning, for instance, the mercury was hovering arpund the zero mark. The Chicago papers said it was the coldest November weather for 21 years. But we recall a “cold snap” of about 1868, or thereabouts, which began the 9th day of October. Potatoes were all frozen in the hill anc the apples on the trees. For an early cold spell, that still teats the record.

The Mercy and Help Department < of the Epworth League will give a■ lie social at the home of H. V. I Weaver, on the evening of Dec. 6th.. : Sach lady is expected to bring a pie with her name on the bottom of the date. The pies will be sold to the, jentlemen for 10 cents apiece. Alli are invited to attend. The state Christian Endeavor convention will be held at Terre Haute, December Ist, 2nd and 3rd. Extensive preparations are being made to make this the best convention yet held, and a number of prominent speakers will be present. Rev. F. E. Clark, D. D., who has recently returned from a trip around the world in the interest of the C. E. work, will tell about* his travels. Other speakers who will be present are Rev. L. A. Crandall, of Chicago; S. L. Mershon, of Evanston, Ills.; W. H. McClain, of Missouri, and Dre. Lucas, Rondthaler and Hunter, of this state. The Juniors will have their first state meeting at this convention.

The Rensselaer Republican, New j York Tribune and Chicago Inter j Ocean, all three for two dollars. The j Rensselaer Republican and either j of the other papers one year for ( $1.75. Or a free gift of either of the! above, to any new subscriber who > pays for The Republican for a full year in advance; or to any old sub- j scriber who pays all delinquencies and a year in advance. Or to anyone who pays $3.00 on his subscription account. Or two yean credit on The Republican and both Tribune and Inter Ocean for 33.50. The cheapest reading ever offered. , An epidemic of scarlet fever is prevalent in the eastern part of. Hang-j iug Grove tp. There are op have been cases in the families of Parkers, Apple gores, Cooks, Kentons and several others. One death has occnred in Mr. Peterson’s family, but the was complicated with diphtheria. At last accounts all the other scarlet fever cases were improving. The diiease was brought from Chicago by two young ladies aho contracted it while visiting there.