Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1893 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Unci© Sol McCurtain of Barkley tp., is very sick with a lung trouble. Buy your farm wagons of B. F. Ferguson. Every one warranted. T. J. Sayler has gone to join his wife and children, in Mississippi, *

O’Neils’Sketch Club Monday and Tuesday evenings. . XH. Chapman visited his home folks at Bridgeman, Mich., last week. Mrs. P. W. Clarke and children have been visiting her parents near Lowell, for some days. Another boy at Adam Nagel’s, south of town, Monday. He now has four boys and the oldest is under four years of age. / * ; Call at Laßue Bros, the cheap cash grocers, to see the biggest, best and cheapest line of Holiday goods. A wonderfully entertaining program will be rendered by The O’Neils’Sketch Club, Opera House, Monday and Tuesday nights. Hard times, but Mrs. Lecklider will sell millinery at 25 to 50 per cent, discount, the balance of the season. ? < 2t - Mrs. Geo. J. Dexter, of Lafayette, is reported as still suffering from a wrenched hip, received while visiting in Rensselaer some time ago, and likely to be confined to her house for spme weeks yet. ; ’ /'• Y The ratio of 20 to 1 is about right ht La Rue Bros.’ Cash Grocery --twenty bargains for every one who calls. . g" . The snow storm of last Saturday night was the largest for years for so early in the season. Its depth before it settled was 10 or 12 inches. It was followed by very cold weather, being about 8 below zero, Monday morning. ' • , /j 5 . g / T , The stock market can be bullish or bearish, without affecting us, but when the grocery market is down go to La Rue Bros? Cash Grocery an d got 1U benelli. Ever since the days of good old Horace Greeley the New York Tribune haa been justly famous for its farming information. It still devotes two excellently well edited pages every week to agricultural matters. ‘ ;•>■•*■ ’■ *V . ‘ r, -.gUTT-' -.A'/ <

Eva Hess and school kindly invite everybody to an entertainment followed by an oyster sapper, at Marlboro school house, on Saturday eveused for purchasing Beading Circle books for the school, i• V 1 k ‘■S’*,-- w 'jw? The “Little Wonder” elocutionists Anna Pearl Cogswell and Lenna Harness gave two entertainments at the Presbyterian church, last week. The first on Wednesday night and the second on Friday, they are both remarkably proficient in their to all who heard them. 7 Sample copies of the JiWy Inter up be Wat Tm W Cbi’cago/IH., or the Ne » any th6 offices OhAM Whim W Thnradav niaWi? 1 t 1 aWtjdO ZplZ among w m were re from Delphi, Monticello ana Kermngt°n' J “ S T\e Who in nice little dance, in *ll respects.

Our Chicago Inter Ocean and New York Tribune clubbing offers are proving very popular, as they well deserve to do. Last Saturday was the 17th day of our Inter Ocean offer, and we had taken 81 orders for that paper. Thesatne day was the 12th of The Tribune offer, and we had sent out 12 Tribune subscriptions. Still there is room for more. William B. Querry, one of Gillam township’s oldest residents, died last Sunday, at Hildreth, Edgar Co. Hl., which place he had removed, with his sons, only a few weeks before his death. His age was about 65 years, and most of his life was spent in Gillam township The remains were brought back to his old home for burial, and the funeral was held Tuesday, at Independence chapel. , Mr. Querry was a truly good man in all respects. Bob Phillips is doing a good laundry business, as well as the best work tn the barber line. He sends clothes to a Chicago firm, and has them dyed the finest you ever saw. He also has an over Ike of good razors for sale, and will warrant them. Come and see him ’ for everything FIRST CLASS,

Mrs Alice M. Wheeler has begun suit against her busband, Edmund B. Wheeler; for divorce. She lives in Jordan tp., and is a daughter of J. H. Hylarfd. They were married "Dec. 3rd, 1884, in Chicago, and separated April 30, 1893. She charges cruel and inhuman treatment, and that the defendant is a habitual drunkard. They have no children. She asks for the restoration of her maidpn name and all other nronpr

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A high class"entertainment at thel Opera House next Monday and Tues-■ day nighte. "The O’Neils’ Sketch’ Club. e | J. C. Thrawls, and a party of assis-? tants from Wheatfield, had a tough ' time last Thursday and Friday, surveying a tract in Wheatfield tp. Every man in the party except one got fingers and toes frost-bitten. Mr. Thrawls was so badly used up that he is now siek-abed. J Mb. Editor—Allow me to most

Richard Lew Dawson, a noted humorist and impersonator, was to have been the lecturer at the Teach-■ era’ Association, last Friday evening, ’ but he cancelled his appointment on’ the grounds that he made it under the impression that it was to be for the evening of Nov. 81st, instead of Dee. Ist. It is not strange that a gentlemen with such a three jointed and very flexible name to keep in smooth running order, should sometimes get rattled on the number of i days in one of the most disreputable months in the whole year. Just think what a strain dn the gray matter it must be to keep Richard Lew Dawson always straight In one’s mind. Any trifling accident might knock the two hindermost joints of it into Law Dewson, Lewson Daw, Lawson Dew, Dewson Law or Dawson Lew, not to speak of what might be the results should such a frail and flexible cognomen meet with a really serious | casuality. 5-

LOOK—at Mrs. Lecklidefs for cheapest millinery and ladies notions in town from now on the balance of the season. While the wise old snoozeriin Congress are debating how to restore good times. Prosperity comes booming along between the two houses, makes faces at the Senate, sneers at the House, and setties down at La Rue Bros.’ Cash Grocery. I With the Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean you will get, every week, a beautiful art supplement.