Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1894 — The Gravel Reals Go. [ARTICLE]

The Gravel Reals Go.

EY REGULAR PENNSYLVANIA AND OHIO MAJORITIES. Thegravel roads, election in Rensselaer «nd Marion township, last Friday,‘resulting in an overwhelming majority in favor of “he roads. The proposed roads, extend north, south, east and west from toe town of Rena- ■ i selasr, through Marion tp., to the township lines, in •• each case, and in distances from toe town or from the center of the town, ranging from £ to-5-i miles. The interest taken in toe-election was very great and nearly toe entire vote of the township was polled. •The following •is the vote •on each read, by precincts: COLLEGE ROAD. For Against JMeji'for. East Prct. 140 64 < 76 West “ 158 96 82 South “ 112 75 >B7 Totals..4lo~

LONG RIDS® ROAD. ior Against. tMbj. for East Prct 147 55 - 92 West “ 162 93 •69 South “ 104 75 29 Totals.. 41 3 223 19o” POOR FARM AND PLEASANT JJSLDCrE. For 4 .gainst -vJfaj. for East Prct. 142 58 84 -West “160 .91 66 South “ 107 71 36 Totals.. 409 223 186

The average vote for'thc roads was 410. The average vote against them was 226. The- average majority for was 183. Of the 226 voter s who voted no, it would be safe to say that 80 per cent, of them are not opposed to gravel roads on ge acral principles, but that they' vot ad against this particular propositio n because they thought it was on t- )0 large a scale, for the times; and t hey would have favored it, had the j proposition been lor half as many mi les, or twice the time to pay for them in. This class of opponents, wc think without exception, very cheerful ly and heartily accept the verdict e-4 the majority and are now as ready as anybody to help push the buildiu g of the roads to a speedy and succ-. ssful completion.

Mrs. W, J. Imea is visiting friends at Converse and. Indianapolis, this week.

AM are on the gravel road ‘question -this week. Nary an “Aiantie,” left4n the township. A ten pound son was bom to Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Shields, of south Marion tp., on Gravel Road Day.

Remember- that we shall still con tinue our great clubbing offers with-toose-great weeklies: The Refubli-' can and either the Chicago InterOaecm or N.fY. Tribune for $1.75 per yearj-or all 3( for $2. The Republican and-Indianapolis Journal, $2. The MisseS M. and A. Meyer have moved in with R. Fendig where they wvill be pleased to meet their custom■ers. 28 2t

Ed. Duvall, son of S. O. Duvall .has moved down from Chicago and will occupy the farm in Newton tp., purchased a while back, and which formerly belonged to Mrs. C. R. Benjamin. They drove down from ‘Chicago last week, with teams, and were four days on the road. They found the roads so full of snow that progress was almost impossible.

The latest social fad is known as an “extortion social.” The way it works is this: A committe of six is appointed to assess fines, and no one but them is informed of the rules until some infraction costs liim or her two cents. There are fines for being late, for coining without a lady, fer loud talking, for awkwardness at the table, for married men talking to other men’s wives, and in fact for nearly everything. If a person thiaks a fine unjust he appeals to a jury but the jurymen cost two oents each and the judge five eenta.

Mrs. H. W. Porter is visiting friends at Frankfort, Stockwell and other points m Clinton and Tippecanoe counties.

James Duvall, of Tazewell Co. HI., was in town the latter part of last week, looking after a tract of land be owns in Jordan tp.” Mel (Laßue was down about Peoria, 111, the latter part -est last week and gathered up a load of fine driving horses, and which arrived here Monday. W. (EL Owens, of Urbana, 111., was was in town the latter part of last week, looking after his landed property,.just north of town. Marriage licenses since last reported : 1 John W. Hammerton, I Nellie J. Watson. ( Leonidas y ( Annie R. Jessup. ( James N. Tyler, I Rose D. Yeiter, \ Scott Cooper, j Jerusha Long, j Victor E. Lpughridge, Farrie E. Wilcox.

Rev. Hicks says a “sweeping cold wave” will wind up the tail end of February. In point of fact, however, the last four days of February and the first five of March, made one of the finest and warmest spells of weather ever known in this vicinity, at the time of year. Hicks gets in plenty of weather, but he don’t seem to bunch it together just right. Prices you can buy furniture at Siglers as long as we have any left. Woven wire springs, $i and upward, cotton top mattresses, fsl and up, cane dining chairs, 50 cents, cane rocking chairs, sl, h>gh back woo 1 dining chairs, 40, good hard Jwood bed stead, $1.50, good bed room suit, $lO.

Mrs. Jennie McColly, wife of John E. McColly, of Fair Oaks, died Tuesday morniDg very suddenly and unexpectedly, after an il’ness of about 3 weeks, but from which she seemed to be making satisfactory progress towards recovery. She leaves seven children, one of them an infant born Feb. 10th. She was a sister of Mrs. S. E. Yeoman, of Rensselaer, and of Mrs. John Chamberlain, of Hammond. Her age was about 40 years. She was au amiable and most excellent woman, and her untimely death is a great and irreparable loss to her husband and children—especially so to the several of the latter who are still of such tender years.

The death of Mrs. Zimri Paris, at Bridgewater, South Dakota, which was mentioned last week, was as sudden and unexpected as it was sad. It came without warning or premonition, and was not anticipated by herself or her friends. She bad just been given a dose of ergot by her physician, and almost immediately thereafter she expired. She left two children, one an Infant girl of but a few hours old and the other a boy of three yean. Mr. and Mn. Berry Paris, of this place, the infants’ grand parents, started for Bridgewater Tuesday, and it is their intention to bring the new-born motherless babe home with them. 1

Ephriam Bridgeman, an old settler, was bnried at Morocco Feb , 26th. He moved to the locality in 1840, or some 20 years before what is now Newton county was cut off from Jasper county.

C. C. Sigler intends closing oat bis entire stock of furniture regardless of cost, on Saturday, March 10, giving six months time to purchasers. Sale will begin immediately after Laßue Bros, big Cattle Sale.

Rev. Carson, of Remington, is aslisting Rev. Brady in the revival ' eetings at the Christian chnrch. The membership of the chnroh is still increasing as a result of the meetinp.

Buy your farm wagons of B. F. Ferguson. Every one warranted. J. B. Neal has bonght a gooa farm near Yalisca, in the southwestern part of h» a weeks. Valisca is 480 miles from Rensselaer and exactly due west. We are sorry to see such good people as Mr. Neal and his family leave Jasper county.

The town of Rensselaer is defendant in a suit for hiavj' damages for personal ir.juries, filed yestei’day. Mrs. Geo. J. Dexter, of Lafayette, briDgs the suit, as the result of injuries received by stepping in a hole in a side walk, last November, and which accident with its results, was referred to in tbis paper last week. The amount sued for is S3OOO. Stuart Bros , Ilammond, cf Lafayette, are the plaintiff’s attorneys.

Major Hendershot enlisted in the army as a drummer boy in the 9th Michigan Infantry, at Detroit, Mich., in 1861, before he was twelve years of age. He and his son have a world wide reputation as being the most Wonderful Diummer and Fder in America, and those who have heard the Major’s imitation and explanation of an engine on the railwajg, and bis imitation of a battle, say that those two pieces alone are worth more than the price of admission. Opera House tomorrow night.

There was a double wedding last Thursday, March Ist, at the residence of the officiating clergyman, Rev. B. F. Ferguson. The parties were Mr. John W. Hammerton and Miss Ollie J. Watson; and Mr. Leonidas V\ atson and Miss Anna R. Jessup. The bride in the first couple and the groom in the second are brother and 9 ster, children of John G. Wateon of Barkley tp. Mr. Hammerton is the son of Klias Hammerton, living north of town, on the Wm. Biker place.