Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1894 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Ai Ramey’s two year old chfld is -very dangerously -sick. S. Brumbach, df Odell, IIL, visited siiis brother-in-law, J. H. Perkins, last 'week. Rev. R. D. Titter went Monday to 'Westville, his former station, to conduct a funeral. A whole car load of Uutteilfly ’ brand flour, at Lißue Bros. Never ■ so cheap before. Mrs. Margaret Day got home last ! Friday from a three months’ "visit with relatives in Kansas. Muslin underwear at manufacturer’s price, Sat.’Feb., 17th. Onto ago Bargbkn Store. A. J. WorsteH’B public sale - comes off to-days-on the Alf Collins 1 farm, 2 miles east of town. B. F. Eerguson sells Che' 0 i®. Hay Press. The best Press-on the market to-day. 24-2 t The wolf hunt in White county, near the Jasper county line* did not result in the slaughter Of any-wolves. Great reduction in clothing, boots shoes, cloaks, blankets etc. Chicago Baragin Store . John P. Ryan, of Motion, a former resident of this county,-was over the latter part of last week 1 to visit his sick uncle, Sidnial King. TheG. A. R. and friends, of Medaryville and vicinity, will have a supper on the 22ud of < Feb., at Medaryville. Everybody invited. I. F. Alter’s sale comes of? next Tuesday, Feb. 20th at Alter’s mill, Union Tp. If you want a good family ecw, that is your chance. Muslin underwear sale, Saturday, Feb., 17tb. - Bargain Store. Samuel ißorchardt and- family started started back for Brunswick G*., yesterday. ’The northern climate has proved very bad for Mr. Borohardt’s health. Business and residence property in Hammond, Indiana, to-exchange for farm property. A. F. Knotts. & Co. Hammond, IndLaßue i Eros, have -sold about a 'dozen horses this week to a buyer •from NewiJefsey. Mr. ©anfortfe, of Washington, 111., also bought of them a' fine coach horse, last week. fcFoB Sake :—Thoroughbred light Brahma coekerels, at |H each, if taken soon. il>p 0. C. HifcLSTEAtI. t Uncle Wesley Henkle left last Thursday fer [Springfield, "Ohio, tor a protracted visit. It is the scene of his boyhood days and where his parents are buried. All (kinds women, misses and childrens muslin underwear. Chicago Bargain Score. Capt. J. M. Wasson met with the 'Libby Prisons Association in Chicago last Friday. He is one of the very few Indiana survivors of the party whieh made tbeir famous escape through the tunnel. Notwithstanding the fact that the banks have ceased to loan money in Jasper county, Austin <fc Co., have an unlimited supply of funds to loan for long or short time. No delay in making loans. 24-2 t. Rev. A. M. Simonton is at Marion, Ohio, assisting in a big rivival. From there he will go to the Senaca and Huron quarterly meeting, that being one of his old pastorates, in Ohio. Ben}. F. Fendig, the druggist, has a copy of the Kawdaw America, an Arabic paper published in New York. It is in the Arabic language, and a queer lookiog sheet. The lines read from right to left and the right hand column is the first column on the page.

A revival meeting is now in progress at the Christian church. It began last Monday evening. Uncle Sidnial King got worse again last week, and his condition has since been very critical, but now the symptoms are much more encouraging. He has lung fever. Articles on the gravel road question, pro or con, will still be in order, next week. But if handed in iater than Monday noon, especially if lengthy, we-Shall consult our own convenience about publishing ‘them. This is a fair notice. Adam Hess, a well known citizen of Gillam tp., has traded his larm there for property is Butler Co., Kansas, and will move there at an early day. Remember we still give a year’s subscription free for either the Inter Ocean or N. Y. Tribvme to any person paying 'three dollars on 'their subscription accounts. Buy»your farm wagons of B. F. Ferguson. Every one warranted. A, W. Cleveland has j just sold his, Milroy tp., farm -of 1400 acres toj Ridgway W. Coats, of-Bloomington, 111. The same party has also bought: of Alfred Thompson ’ €OO acres ini Newton county. t Mrs. Ciipps (has -resumed dress-' making at her residence, corner Jes-s fersen street and Chicago road. 4tp. j Judge William Johnson, of VaL parsiso, the Republican candidate, sod-Congressman in-the great slump year of 1892, and * prominent candidate for the -nomination in this the j greater anti-slump year of 1894, was in town Friday and -Saturday. •(Fodder for Sale.—-J. C. Porter has 200 or more shocks of corn fodder for sale, at bis place miles northwest of town. Would prefer to sell to some one who will feed it on the farm. (•Our former townsman, Ezra C.. Nowels, now of Trinidad, Colo., is in great luck. He has been nominated by the president to be receiver of at the land office at Lemar, Colo. It is a good appointment. The Board-of Health rules and regulations, published in this issue, conjoins much that it is-well for every person to know, especially every householder or head of a family. We advise that every family cut the rules out and preserve them for future reference. .... 'Head quarters for choice carpets in roil. Ci«tCA«o Bargain Store.. 1 Rensselaer will be pretty well supptied with ioe this year, even should there be no more good -ice weather. Ci C. Starr has his large ice house filled; so also are iEigleebach’s and Goddard’s. The -cold storage room of the creamery <i* also xfull. (My Wanner A Sfeeadlc remains to be filled. Did you see »the new traction engine that west • through town last Monday ? It was .manufactured by Gaar, Soott A Ga., and sold by B. F. Ferguson. The best traction engine, ever put on the .road. desiring to purchase ah engine this year will do well to-call on him before making other arrangements .24 -2 Miss Belle Hughey, -of Rensselaer, and Mr.<Geo. M. Wileox, the mer chant, post-master and station agent, of Surrey, were married -on Wednesday evening, Feb. Bth, by Rev. B. F. Ferguson, at his residence. A considerable number of invited guests were present. H. Y. Weaver has opened an upholstering room over J. Eiglesbachs meat market. If you have any old furniture that needs repairing in any way he will be pleased to put it in as good shape as when new at very reasonable prices. All work guaranted to give satisfaction. The friends atfd neighbors of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Worstell, on the Collins farm, 2 miles east of town, to the number of about 80, gave them a pleasant surprise party, and a big dinner last Thursday. Mr. Worstell is about to remove to Lake county and the party was an expression of the high estimation in which Mr. Worstell and family are held by the neighbors round about

The Soap Bubble Social, set for last Friday night, was post poned on account of the weather, until Friday night of this week. At W. H. Coover’s residence, across the river. Everybody invited. ——— — Isaac Sayler had a moving job last Wednesday that there wasn’t much money in. His wood-saw engine got “sot” in the ditch in front of Geo. Hollister’s place/on Weston street, and Isaac had to bring up his house moving-outfit to pull the engine out. Remember that we shall still com tinue our great clubbing offers with those great weeklies: The Republican and either the Chicago Inter Ocean or N. Y. Vribune for $1.75 per year;-or all 3 for's2. The Republican -and Indianapolis Journal , $2. Mrs. Nelson Randle’s surgical operation was performed Monday by Prof. Robinson, at the Presfey-, terian hospital. It was a severe and extensive operation, but so far as can yet be judged, was successful. Drs. J. H. Loughridge and Washburn were present at the operation. ! In returning home from Chicago •Monday night Drs. Washburn and tLougbridgeund Messrs. F. J. 'Sears, Geo. Kesseager, Ike Teteur and Rev. R. D. Utterhad the not very agreeable experience of being oMiged to spend the night on the cars, their train being‘laid up at Dyer, until the next morning, by the snow blockade. Free sample copies of the Weekly Inter Ocean and New York Tribune, at The Republican office. The Saxon Sisters performed in Goodland lately. The heraUls admiration -lor their artistic abilities is not wholly without its qualifications, as the following remark will suggest: “The Saxon Sisters are no doubt good girls and they ought to ;locate some nice, quiet village and learn to darn stockings and play on the -washboard.” B. F. Ferguson is loaning more money on real estate than any other firm. Don’t fail to eall before -making arrangements with any one else. A meeting has been called of all the land owners in the Kankakee Valley and those interested in reclaiming the swamp lands of the Kankakee to be held at Momence, 111., Friday, March 2. The object of the meeting is to look over the work just completed and consider plans to continue 4he work of draining the thousands of acres in the Kankakee -Valley. The gravel road question is getting to be the-prevailing sul jeet of dieoussion in Rensselaer now, and that is atr right" sec it is an important sub - ject. Let it be discussed with ;£airnecs and good feelings, however, and let every .-man try to look at -the question, not only from a purely selfish stand-point, but to consider the interests of i iiis neighbor and of the community in general, as well. Tte Jasper county Republican central cbihohitte met last Friday afternoon on call of Chairman McCoy and arranged for the county nominative convention. It will be held Monday March 19th, be a straight delegate convention, and the delegates will be elected at township and -precinct mass conventions on Saturday March 17th, two days prior to the convention. The official eall appears elsewhere in this issue. —— ~ When needing any insurance upon fawn property call-upon Wils Porter. He is agent for this section for the Continental Insurance Company, for all kinds of farm property, buildings, tools, live-stock, grain, hay etc. Insures against damage by fire, lightning, tornadoes, wind storms, Ac, Give him a trial. F. E. Mauch, formerly in the contracting and building line at this point, went last Saturday to Arcadia, a gas town in Hamilton county, where he will engage in the lumber business in partnership with Albert Paxton, lately in the game line at Morocco. Those Paxton brothers, by the way, seem to take to the lumber trade as naturally as a duck takes to water. Five of the six brothers are in the business, at different places in this state, and the sixth has until lately been traveling for a wholesale lumber firm.

Monday, Feb. 12, being the anniversary of Lincoln’s birthday, was observed in all the room* of the Rensselaer public schools, by appropriate exercises. Feb. 22, which |i& Washington’s birthday, will also be observed by exercises in all the rooms, in the afternoon. Extra preparations aie being made for that day, and the superintendent and teachers will be glad to see as many visitors as can make it convenient to attend. Frank Hays, of Barkley tp., who evidently believes that hydrophobia and not smut killed bis five cows, has written a description of his absconded dog to the Goodland Herald. was of the Shepherd breed, black and curly, rather heavy, white ring around neck, narrow white stripe down the face, white hind foot and a little white at tip of tail.” An accurate description, evidently, and one that ought to identify the dog if he has been seen doing any depredations since leaving home. Monday the annual sale of lands for delinquent taxes was made by Treasurer Hemphill There was hut little left to sell, and what was offered was soon bid -eff. Of the total number of sales advertised, namely 116, all but 30 had been paid by the property owners before the day of sale. Therefore onily 38 sales were made. Last year the sales were 35 in number. If our capitalists had gone to Lake county they probably would have been able to buy all the tax titles they wanted. There the delinquent tax list fills four full pages of the Lake county News. I a this county the list took less than a third of one page. Several sensational indictments were found by the Benton county grand jury, last week, in connection with the failure of the Oxford bank. Zimri D wiggins, president of the bank, but who says that bis connection with it for many years was merely nominal, has three indictments, W. J. McConnell three indictments, and two more in conjunction with J. W. Rommel l. All gave the required bail. Mr. Dwiggins went ! down Wednesday voluntarily. In J this connection, while we know nothing of the management of the Oxford bank, nor indeed nothing directly of the larger institation, the Columbia Bank, it is but jostioe to Mr. D wiggins to state that at a meeting of Columbia bank creditors last week, that the receiver of the bank said that he had made the most thorough search to find evidence of criminality in Mr. Dwiggins r management, but bad wholly failed to do so. A. McCOY A COMPANY are now prepared to make farm loans at to 7 per cent depending on the amount desired, and commissions as low as are quoted elsewhere. The usual privilege of partial payments allowed. They would be glad to bear from parties desiring doans and all inquiries by mail win be cheerfully answered. -28-4 t-p. Chas. P. Hopkins is now publishing a Populist paper at Dixon, Tenn. About three and one-half years ago Bro. Hopkins disposed of the Press office (then the News) and embarked in the newspaper business at Cumberland Gap, Tenn. At that time he was a radical republican. After about one year’s residence in the south he came out as a democrat, and now has turned populist—Remington Press. From which it doth appear that as a flopper our old typo lines right along up with Walter Queen Gresham. C. P. is not in it with Walter Q. for frequency of flopping however, for Gresh made the rounds of the three parties inside'of a year, while Mr. Hopkins has taken three years to make his ehanges. But the above paragraph does not do full justice to Bro. Hopkins’ versatility. He changed from Republican to Greenbacker, from Green backer to Republican, from Republican to Democrat, and from Democrat back to Republican again, before the News ever bad any knowledge of him. Verily, he ought to be a first magnitude saint in the Mugwump calendar, and to be a Cleveland “Paramount” of some kind or other.

Mrs. Efien Ramey, widow of Septemus Ramey, died early yesterday morning at the home of her son, J. A. Ramey, in Thompson’s Addition, at the age of 71 years, 8 months and 22 days. The cause of her death was old age and general failure of the bodily powers. She has been sick for a long time and entirely helpless for about 5 months. The funeral will be held at 10 o’clock to-day, (Thursday) at the F. W. Baptist church, Rev. B. F. Ferguson preaehing the funeral sermon. There was a very large and very much pleased crowd at the Opera House Tuesday night on the occasion of the “Columbian Entertaiument” gotten up for the benefit of the Presbyterian church. It was a great success, and great pains bad been taken to make it so, and the very liberal patronage it secured was well deserved. The many strange and far off peoples of the famous [Midway were represented by about 100 people in costumes, half of whom were children. There were E-iquimos and Soudanese; turbaned Turks and Japanese; Wild Feejees and Javanese; savage squaws and Portugese; Spanish Dons and Cingalese; not to speak of the Vienna street, a wonderful art gallery, a beauty show and many other attractions. In truth it was a grand success and so pronounced by everyone lucky enough to have seen it. A “Relief Committee” was organized at a meeting held for the purpose at the Presbyterian church, last Sunday afternoon. R. P. Benjamin is president, Mrs. Belle Kerr, secretary and Mrs. J. M. Wasion, treasurer. A standing committee was appointed to canvass the town and find what cases need assistance, and what is needed. Another committee solicits subscriptions, and contributions. In each church there is a member to solicit among the members, while Mrs. C. A. Roberts solicits among people who are not members of any church. There are now reported to be 12 families in town who are m greater or less need of assistance. This movement is a most commendible one, and we trust that it will meet with the generous encouragement it deserves. Monday’s snow storm was a pretty bad one. It was like a typical Dakota blizzard in that the snow was in very fine particles, and lots of wind with it, so that it drifted and sifted everywhere. It was unlike a real blizzard in that it was a very damp snow. It therefore drifted where it listed and stuck where it drifted. Hence it was a bad one on live stock. It sifted their hair full and stayed right there. Being wet and fine it formed very compact drifts, therefore was bad on roads and worse on railroads. The Monon got along fairly well however, although up in the windy and hilly regions between Dyer and Cedar Lake a good deal of trouble was experienced, qpd Monday afternoon the road became impassible, and several trains were blocked in until Tuesday morning. These included the north mail train of Monday afternoon and the south bound ‘'milk-shake” which should have passed at 6:17 Monday evening. But really only the tail end of the blizzard gave us a swipe. It was a vastly worse storm almost every place than here. All over the southwest especially it was terrible. Even in so near a point as Chicago, it was m aeh worse, and was there considered the worst storm since 1881.