Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1894 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

A son at John Worden ? s, last Saturday. 20 yards for SI.OO. Chicago Bargain Store. Laßue Bros., sold 2,000 eggs last •week to Bryer Bros., of Monticello. Rider J. L. Brady will preach at the James school house, 3£ miles south of Rensselaer, on Sunday, Apr. 22nd v at 3 r. a. Clarence Lecklider has a new supply of fine lace curtains* rugs Ac. to sell on the installment plan, from 25 cents to $1 per week. John Eger-will rebuild his present -tttore room this season, making it practically, a new building. It will be of brick. Did you ever see a silk umbrella for $1 ? Come to the sale, Saturday, ■April 18 th. Chicago Bargain Stork . Bro. Major, of the Remington Press has leased his paper to Frank Babcock, always his local editor, and will go to Dakota, it is said. We are in receipt of samples of • spring and summer clothing from the < Globe Tailoring Co. Guarantee perfect satisfaction at Fendigs Fair Geo. W. Spitler has moved back from Benton Harbor, Mich, and is ■ again a resident of Rensselaer. Himself and family will live in the rooms over the former post-office. 1000 umbrellas and parasols from 35 cents to $4.00. Special low prices Sale day, Saturday, April 26th. Chicago Bargain Store. Lewis Hamilton closed his Kniman school last Friday, and will now go to Terre Haute to enter the State Nor-, «nal.

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 27th inclusive, A ten year old son of Nathan Eldredge, of Barkley tp., fell off a horse Saturday, and broke his right arm, between the shoulder and the elbow. Prices will make an interesting sale day of umbrellas, Saturday, Apri 1 28th. - Chicago Bargain Store. The branch creamery, located on J. F. Irwin’s place, in Jordan tp., is about ready for business, and will begin operations not later than Monday week, and perhaps sooner. Cows Wanted, —Good fresh cows or springers wanted. Highest cash prices paid. Call at the Makeerer House. 2tp S..E, Yeoman. The baccalaureate sermon to this year’s high school graduating class, will be preached by Dr. Geo. S. Burroughs, D. D. P. H. D. president of Wabash _College, of Crawfordsville. The time is Sunday afternoon, May 26th. Hundreds bought their umbrellas one year ago sale day and you will be wise again if you attend this great •special sale. Saturday, April 28th. Chicago Bargain Store. Grandfather Cotton has gone to Chalmers, White Co., to remain for a few weeks, and where his daughter Arillaalso is, she having just come from the Battle Creek, Mich., sanatarium. We understand that her health is very much improved. Wall paper! Wall Paper!! WALL PAPER!!! A nice new line of late patterns and low prices at B. F. Fendig’s city drug store. T. P. Monnett has returned from his winter’s stay in Ohio and is again working on his self-feeding threshing ['machine. He expects to have two machines in shape for actual work this season, and to thus be able, by actual and extensive experience, to ascertain the respects in which further improvements will be possible.

Mrs. T. S. Arnold, of Watseka, HI., is visiting her father, F. J. SearsB. S. Fendig is |figuring on buying a store and going into the grocery business at Redkey, Jay county. Wesley Karsner was down from Chicago last week and took his mother back with him for an extended visit. School marms and other teachers get your reward cards of B. F. Fendig. The general opinion among farmers now seems to be that oats are all right; although occasionally a field has been re-sown, or will be. . ‘ Dry goods sold at unheard of low prices at Fendigs Fair. Always the cheapest. Rev. L. O. Stiening, lately pastor of the Mt. Ayr Baptist church, has closed his pastorate there and accepted that of the Monon Baptist church. Mr. and Mrs. Forsythe were to the city this week buying dress goods. Look out for bargains. Rev.. E. Baech and Fletcher Monnett represented the Rensselaer Presbyterians at the meeting of the Logansport Presbytery, at Valparaiso, last week. Buy your farm wagons of B. F Ferguson, and-save money. Clothing just received, prices positively lowest. Fendigs Fair.

Work has begun on the foundstlom of B. IF. Ferguson’s new residence, on Cuhen'Street, just south of Makemself ditch. It will be a good two story house. Mr. Ferguson is having stone embankments made for the ditch, which is a very good idea. 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 8 for $2. The Republican and Indianapolis Journal , $2. Call at John Healy’s new 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. Wild geese are small this year and few in the hill. Hence the killing of a very large one is an event worthy of special mention. Last Friday C. W. Bussell, of Hanging Grove tp., bagged one which weighed 13| lbs. Old hunters say that this is an extraordinary heavy weight for a wild goose to attain to. Reign—We reign as monarch of low prices. Rein—We are the check-rein on high prices. Rain—We have the largest stock of umbrellas in town to shelter you from rain and sunshine, and at lower prices than ever offered. Sale day, Saturday, April 28th. Chicago Babgain Store.

We learn that E. R. Burr, who lately removed from Jordan tp., to the vicinity of Lynchburg, Virginia, is not altogether pleased with his location. The fact that whiskey is sold at every ovoss-road is one of the strongest objections, to a man of Mr. Burr’s strongly temperance principles'and predelictions. B. F. FERGUSON is now prepared to make Farm Loans at 6 4-2 per cent, interest per annum. Commission as low as any one else. He does his own abstracting and ean save you money there. Be sure and call. We can make your loans quickly, because—we make it a specialty. The Curtis Creek school in Newton tp., taught by Miss Dena Wuerthner, closed Sat. March 31. The patrons prepared a fine dinner, after which they listened to a carefully prepared program which was well rendered. Miss Wuerthner is an excellent teacher, and never fails to gain the esteem of her patrons and pupils. Oxford, Beaton County, is getting in a system of electric lights, using the Fort Wayne system. The streets will be lighted by 24 arc lights. Iventland also will soon have an electric light system in full blast Rensselaer was the pioneer small town of the state, to have electric lights, but ihc others are following fast in our footsteps.

S. M. Laßue moved Monday, into L. F. Bartoo’s property, the old Emmett Kannal residence, across the river. Work has not yet begun on Halloratfs proposed three story and basement brick block, but the preliminaries are still being figured on. Mrs. Ora Thompson Ross and family will start for Seattle, Washington State, today, to join her husband, who has been located there for some time. We have received a long and somewhat acrimonious communication from Mr. B. J. Gifford, in- regard to the district drainage law decision. We could not get it in this week without considerable inconvenience, but will make room for it next week.

A more than ordinarily spirited newspaper fight has been going on, for some time between our esteemed brothers, Kitt, of the Goodland Herald, and Babcock, of the Remington Press. Both have been putting up a pretty gamey fight, for boys, but the Press man now admits that he is licked—by threatening a libel suit, which amounts to the same thing. Positively the largest and finest line of tooth and nail brushes ever in the city at B. F. Fendig’s city drug store. The'revival meetings at the F. W. church have been resumed, under the management of Rev, and Mrs. J. A. Jackson, of Minnesota, evangelists. The membership of the church has been greatly increased, the accessions up to date numbering about 25. Rev. Kent, the evangelist who conducted the former meetings, is now engaged in similar work at Vaughn church, northwest of town, and meeting with good success. Buy your farm wagons of B. F. Ferguson. Every one warranted. The post-office “took a walk” Saturday evening and brought up in Mrs. Hemphill’s building, in the room formerly occupied by Hemphill & Honan’s store. The location is certainly not so satisfactory to the majority of the patrons as the old place, yet it must be admitted that in other respects the accommodations are much better. The room b better lighted, and as there is to be no other business permitted in the room, it will be practically much larger. Also much easier to keep clean and orderly. In fact, the separation of the post office from all forms of mercantile business is an improvement greatly to be commended. Squire Castor, the blacksmith, and a good mechanic, but badly afflicted with the disease now known as “dipsomania,” or in more common language, the liquor habit, went to Dwight, 111., Tuesday, to take the Keeley care. He was accompanied by T. P. Wright. His unfortunate appetite has used up Ms financial constitution as thoroughly as his mental aud physical, and the means to pay for his treatment was “chipped in” around town. It was a most commendable thing to do, and one that should be imitated in the future. In what way of reform or charity can any community better invest $75 or SIOO than in rescuing a fellow being from the living hell, the moral, physical and financial wreck, of habitual drunkenness ? This yearns graduating class of the Rensselaer high school is seven in number, one girl and seven boys. The proportion of the sexes is reversed from the usual rule in high school graduates. The members of the class are Florence Neal, Benhardt Fendig, Jesse Coen, Ray Thompson, Kirgle Spitler, Joseph Marshall and Orren Parker. The relative standing of the class will not be determined, as the principal incentive for it has been abolished. We mean the offer of scholarships in the various educational institutions that heretofore gave them to the best scholars in the class. The State University having 1 withdrawn its offer of a prize scholarship to high schools, the other institutions that made similar offers have followed the example.

Ellis A Murray have renewed their lease on Leopold’s Corner Block, for another term of years. S. E. Yeoman, sells the McCormick mower and reaper, also the Kalamazoo hay rake. Robt. Randle’s little boy who was just beginning to improve from a very dangerous sickness, a week ago, is now out of danger: Don’t forget the “Olden Times” concert at the Opera House, Friday evening, April 27. For One Dollar, the regular price, we will send the Inter Ocean or N. Y. Tribune a year, and throw in The Republican for six months. S. E. Ytoman sells the Ideal corn planter, made at Decatur, 111. Binder twine a specialty. There is measles, mumps and chick-en-pox are in town, and whoopingcough is on the way. Measles not spreading much. A small bam at Charley Worden’s residence in the south part of town, burned Tuesday evening. It was -too far gone when discovered to save it.

The Newton county Republican convention was held at Goodland yesterday. Several wagon loads of Rensselaer politicians struck out for the scene, at an early hour. The first Baptist church has again secured a regular pastor, Rev. C. W. Fletcher, of Chicago University, who will preach every Sunday, morning and evening, beginning with nex Sunday. John King, who has been sick a long time with a kidney trouble, is preparing to go to Delphi to take a course of treatment in the “mud bath” establishment there. He will go this week, we understand. “My wife he got up there and hav seven teeth pulled, all at one time, and py golly! he never makes an ouch;’’ is the way an estimable old German of Rensselaer, related his wife’s fortitude in a dentist’s shop, not long since.

A Good Laundbt.-C. W. Rhoades, the barber, has the agency for the Acme Steam Laundry, of Kokomo, one of the best in the state, and as good as any represented in Rensselaer. He asks a share of your patronage. 34-2 t. John Murray, for the last three and a half years the able and popular Monon Route agent at Fair Oaks, has been promoted to the agency of the same company at Monticello. John will size up to his new job, all right. The Ladies of the F. W. Baptist church will give a supper Saturday evening, in the Nowels Block. It will be a good supper and a big one. Price 25 cents for each person. Everybody invited. The Pleasant Grove mail route, which takes in Valma and Pleasant Grove, now runs every day in the week, except Sundays. Blackford and Aix still rongh along with two -mails a week. Bat we think there is a kick coming for more mails for those offices.

Thomas Thompson is a member of the petit jury of the U. S. district couit for the term now in session at Indianapolis, bnt is now at home, being excused until the conclusion of the trial of the Coffins and others, in connection with the wiecking of the Indianapolis National Bank, which Is likely to last a long time. We have been shown a specimen of rock from the sand stone ledge at Pleasant Ridge, from which it is said that most of the eastern part of Poor Farm and Pleasant Ridge gravel road is to be built. If the specimen is a fair sample of the whole outcrop, the material is about as fit to make roads of as so much white chalk or dry clay. It is so soft, that it will mark oh a hard surface, like chalk, and pulverizes about as easily. We have it pretty straight that people in the neighborhood make their post holes in this rock with a common crowbar, about as easy as they would in a clay bed, and they dig wells through it with a common pick. If all these things are so, the material is totally unfit to make a road out of.

The Inter Ocean or N. Y. Tribune a year and The Republican six months, all for One Dollar. For the Campaign. Mr. Gifford has announced his intention to take an appeal to the Supreme Court, from Judge Wiley’s decision in the District Drainage law matter. Stbayed —from the residence of I.; J. Porter, one black sow shoat, weight about 125 lbs. Any one leaving word at Porter A Wishards store will be liberally rewarded. H. B. Tuthill, of Michigan City, a prominent candidate for the Republican nomination for Clerk of the Supreme Court, was in town Monday. He is a very preposessing gentleman. A rather scraggy string of movers, in old-time style covered wagons, went through town last Saturday. They came from Petoskey, in the far north end of Michigan, where there are is nine months’ winter and three months’ “skeeters,” and were bound for the hills of Southern Missouri, where there is nine month’s summer and three months’ jiggers. The choirs of the Christian and M. E. churches will give an “Olden Times” concert at the Opera House, on Friday evening, April 27. They have prepared an elegant program and the choruses will be sung by twenty voices. It is aimed to make this thejnusical event of the season, ahd you will miss it if you fail to attend. The participants ip the unique entertainment will wear old time costumes of a hundred years ago. The program- will be announced later on.

Mrs. Nelson Randle has not done well since her last operation, at the hospital, and the latter part of last week her condition became very critical. She is now somewhat improved, however, and stronger hopes are entertained for her recovery. Her sufferings since her last operation have been intense. The employes of the C. A E. I; R. R., including those of the C. A I. Coal Road, which is now a branch of the C. A E. 1., have just had their wages cut 10 per cent They did not like to accept the redaction, bat in these good democratic times, workingmen have to take about what i» offered them. James W. Ray, the venerable father of Mrs. T. W. Haus, died last Saturday, at his home at Westville, at the ripe age of 87 years. The funeral was held Monday, and Mr. and Mrs. Haus were present. Mr. Ray was one of LaPorte county’s very earliest settlers, having lived there since he was a young boy. He was an old time and very faithfn member of the Odd Fellows order and liis funeral was conducted under the auspices of the order.