Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1894 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Harry Wade, lately partner with Ed. Parcells. has gone to Morocco and opened a barber shop. You make your own price on the furniture you buy at Sigler’s auction sale. Next sale Saturday, April 14. Elder L. E. Conner will preach at the Church of God next Sunday, morning and evening. Dry goods sold St unheard of low prices at Fendigs Fair. Always the cheapest. Dr. M. B. Alter is nt Indianapolis attending the meeting of the State Board of Health, of which he is a member. C. C. Sigler will have another public auction of furniture next Saturday. There are 'l2 or gravel road contractors in town, and about half that number of land buyers from Illinois. School inarms and other teachers get your reward cards of B. F. Fendig. Judge Wiley decided the fee and salary law unconstitutional, at Fow - ler, last Tuesday, on proceedings brought to test the validity of the act. Attend Sigler’s auction sale of furniture next Saturday. B. S. Fendig hasfust returned from atrip through the oil and gas regions. He thinks strongly of moving to some point in Jay county, or therebouts. We are in receipt of samples of spring and summer clothing from the Globe Tailoring Co. Guarantee perfect satisfaction at Fendigs Fair General Passenger Agent Frank J. Reed, of the Monon, has returned from a trip through New Mexico and Cuba, made with other members of the National Passenger Agents’ asußqeiation. > ' ' - The Monon will sell tickets at one fare for round trip for the Republican State Convention at Indianapolis, April 24th and 25th, good returning till April 27 th inclusive. Mr. and Mrs. Berry Paris arrived home from Dakota, last Friday. They brought with them as they had intended, their son Zimri’s motherless infant girl baby, and now have it in their care.

•Cows Wanted. —Good fresh cows or springers wanted. Highest cash prices paid. Call at the Makeever House. 2tp S. E. Yeoman. Robert Randle’-s seven year old son David, has been very dangerously sick, almost desperately, in fact, with lung .lever, following the measles. But he is now considerably better and very strong ‘hopes are entertained for his recovery. Clarence Lecklider has a new supply of fine lace curtains, rugs dec. to sell on the installment plan, from 25 cents to ll per week. Notice is given to the members ©£ the M. F. church, Rensselaer Charge, that the third quarterly meeting will be held at Rose Bud meeting House, April 21st and 22nd. President H. Stackhouse, D. D. will be present with us. Rev. N. Vice, Pastor.

Call at John Healy’s aew shoe shop on Van Rensselaer street, south of McCoy’s bank, when needing any boot or shoe repairing, or other work in his line. Good work guaranteed, at fair prices. 32-4tp. Another shipwreck disaster on Jasper county high seas, occured last Thursday night. One of the Gifford passenger and boarding packets, took fire at that time, and burned to the water’s edge. There was nobody on board when the fire occured, and therefore, of course, there were no lives lost, at least no human lives. The loss was said to be about S4OO or SSOO.

D. B. Nowels has finished his winter’s term of teaching at Wheatfield and himself and family are home again. There will be twenty fine upholstered rockers, m the auction sale of furniture at Sigler’s.next Saturday. Frank B. Lyon has withdrawn from his connection with the Redfeejr Times but will probably engage in other business at Redkey. Buy your farm wagons of B. F. FergUson. Every one warranted. In addition to his large ditchiDg operations Mr Gifford has improved his Haddick’s Mill Pond region by building ten or a doz engood, large houses, with corresponding barns and outbuildings. Bed-room suits, upholstered rockers, beds, tables etc., at Sigler’s auction sale next Saturday. The Monticello papers both pub lished fine pictures of White county’s proposed new $75,000 court house, last week. It will no doubt be a fine handsome structure. Buy your furniture at Sigler’s auction sale next Saturday, and save money. The case of Mrs. Hester Daugherty against the Western Union Telegraph Co,, previously noted, will probably not be transferred to the U. S. courts, as the defendant did not make application in time. Wall paperl Wall Pajpbr !! WALL PAPERIII A nice new line of late patterns and low prices at B. F. Fendig’s city drug store. Remember that we shall still con, tinue our great clubbing offers with those great weeklies: The Republican and either the Chicago InterOcean or N. Y. Tribune for $1.75 per year; or all 3 for $2. The Republican and Indianapolis Journal, $2. A couple of contractors from Greenfield, Ind., were in town this week, figuring on the gravel roads. They are said to have gone away convinced that there was no money to be made in building the roads, at the viewers’ estimates.

Clothing j ist received, prices positively lowest. Fbndigs Faib. The late rains have been the meat extensive in this locality for many months. But the land was very dry and as yet there has not been too much rain, but the weather is not all that could be wished, in other respects. ' Our usual Spring Opening WiR take place, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, April 12 th, 13th and 14th. We exhibit an unusual line of goods at unusual prices. Mbs. L. M. Imes. Rev. A. W. Conner, of Indianapolis, delivered his lecture on the “Serio-Comic Side of a Preacher’s Life,” at the Opera House, Tuesday night It is a very entertaining as well as instructive lecture, and deserved a much larger audience. Positively the largest and finest line of tooth and nail brushes ever in the city at B. F. Fendig’s city drug store.

At Indianapolis Monday, T. R. Haughey, president of the wrecked Indianapolis National Bank, plead guilty to five of the numerous counts of the indictments against him, in connection with the wrecking of the bank. Sentence has not been pronounced, but it can not be less than five years. Mr. Haughey is nearly 69 years old. B. F. FERGUSON is now prepared to make Farm Loans at 6 1-2 per cent, interest per annum. Commission as low as any one else. He does his own- abstracting and can save you money there. Be sure and call. We can make your loans quickly, because—we make it a specialty. The question whether sown oats have rotted or not is still an open one, in this locality. Over in the south end of this county, and in neighboring parts of other counties, where sowing began earlier than here, the farmers were sowing their oat fields over again, the latter part of last week. Their idea was that part of the first sowing would grow, and the second, sowing was therefore much thinner than would ordinarily be done.

Tomorrow is the day for letting the gravel road contracts. The Ladies Literary Society meets Saturday, April 14th, with Mrs. C. W. Coen. Mrs. T. J. Sayler and Children arrived home Monday from their winter sojourn in the South._ Clerk Coover has been laid up several days with stomach trouble, but is now oat again. The Elkhart schools have discovered that the letter “Q” is useless and they want it kicked out of the alphabet. There are “kweer” people at Elkhart in any “kwantity.” Marriage licenses since last re ported : j Tony Demark, ( Jessie Franck voiak. j George G. Brown, ) Kitty A. Timmons. j Robert H. Gibbins, | Maggie I. Baker. Of the Kreuger family, eight in number, at Michigan City, taken with trichinosis last winter, only one, a little girl, is now alive. She will probably recover. She has been adopted by a relative. Charies Pullins, now of Union tp., bought in the skin of a very large wolf, last Saturday, and got $7.00 bounty at the auditor’s office. He caught it with his wolf dogs, a few days before, while the snow was on the ground.

Mrs. Nelson Randle’s second surgical operation was successfully performed at the Post Graduates’ hospital, Chicago, one day last week. The opeiation was much less serions than the first, and all indications point to her speedy recovery. The U. S. appellate court has affirmed the verdict in favor of John E. Meyers, of Kniman, against the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, for the Injuries he received about four years ago. The original verdict was for SSOOO and upon this verdict he will also receive interest for two years.

Lowell Tribune: The defunct Commercial Bank made a payment of 20 per cent, to the depositors last Tuesday. This makes 60 per cent, now paid. Two more payments of 20 per cent, are expected to be paid before next fall, and this will balance the accounts and wind up the business.

Prof. E. W. Bohannon, Superintendent of the Rensselaer schools, was elected treasurer of the North•ern Indiana Teachers’ Association, at their meeting at Frankfort last week. The Association is a large and influential body, and to be given a place in its list of officers is quite an honor, but a well deserved one in Prof. Bohannon’s case.

An exciting and dangerous runaway took place Saturday afternoon in the north part of town. Henry Grow was starting for his place, a few miles northeast of town, and in driving up to Nowels’ mill his team got frightened and ran away. Mr. and Mrs.'Grow, and their little girl were all thrown violently out, but luckily escaped any more serious injuries than a few scratches and bruises. The horses ran north across the railroad, and came to a stop m E. A. Aldrich’s door yard. The buggy was badly wrecked. The anniversary meeting of the Jasper County Auxiliary Bible Society will be held in the M. E. -church, Sunday, April 15th, 1894 at 3 o’clock P. M.

ORBBR OF EXERCISES. Singing Choir and Congregation. Reading Scriptures. .Mrs. C. D. Martin. Prayer... Elder J. L. Brady. Singing, Coronation Choir and Congregation. Reports Ist Secretary, 2nd Depository, 3rd Treasurer. Appointment ot Committee on Nominations. Singing Choir and Congregation. Address Revs. W. J. Virgin, Utter, Brady, Baech and Ferguson. Collection. Report of committee and election of officers. - —»•— Singing. Benediction by Rev. B. F. Ferguson. Buy your farm wagons of B. F Ferguson, and save money.

The Goodland Herald says that the aid society in Chicago which sent out Chas. Johnson, the boy sent to the penitentiary at the lale term of court, will re-imbnrae Mr. Marsh for Ms expenses in capturing the boy.

Goo. B. Antrim visited his brother James F., and other friends here the latter part of last week. George was one of the heroes of the Cherokee strip rush line, last fall, and is now holding a fine quarter section, 3£ miles from Perry, the fastest growing town in the strip. At the time of the rush he started from near Orlando, rode only about 6 miles, then staked his claim. It is a nice piece of land, with plenty of water, some timber, a coal vein and a “jumper.” j This latter is a colored brother, and j he adds nothing to the value of the claim—at least from Mr. Antrim’s point of view. The trial of the con-' test will probably be held in Octo- j ber. Chas. Harrington, son of Bronson Harrington, of Union tp., who has been With Mr. Antrim, has sold his claim, and probably will not return to the territory. Benj. Gifford, of Kankakee, 111, owner of the big Gifford ranches, was in town the latter part of the #eek, looking after the interests of the above property, and incidentily unburdening his mind as to his impressions regarding Judge Wiley’s decision that the Gifford drainage law is unconstitutional, and from which decision Mr. Gifford talks of taking an appeal. The immediate effects of the decision, if it stands, will be to cut Mr. Gifford out of about 16,000, which had been assessed against those who had not contributed otherwise towards the construction of his ditches. It will also probably cost him considerable in building bridges over his ditches, which if his drainage district had been established, the townships or county -would have had to build. It is probably, in the future expense of keeping the ditches cleaned ou.t and in repair, that the decision will be most to his disadvantage, however. It is said that Mr. Gifford is so inoensed over this decision, and other matters, that he will stop his ditching operations, at once and re move his dredge to Illinois.