Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1894 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

To Rent. —A good six room house Enquire of J- C. Passons. Opera House, Saturday, May 12th, Fannie Hill’s Operatic Company. Benhart Leopold is just establishing a grocery store in Remington. For nice children’s and infants’ shoes, go to Ellis & Murray’s. , Warner & Shead are out with a bran new delivery and ice wagon. Fine Tomato Plants for sale, by Mrs. J. Zimmerman. A daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Alter’s, at Alter’s tile mill, Saturday morning. •‘America,” the newest operetta by Fannie Hill’s Operatic Co., Opera House, Saturday, May 12th. Dr. H. L. Brown, the dentist, visited his parents at Danville, 111., over Sunday. Mrs. Sarah Tuteur Weil, of Chicago, is visiting her Rensselaer relatives. Great bargains in boys’ suits at Ellis & Murray’s. The County Commissioners appointed O. P. Robinson a constable for Marion tp., last week.

Everything in ladies’ and Misses’ f Jaskets and capes. Wholesale prices ) from $1 up, at Ellis Sc Murray’s. J. C. McColly has moved back from Chicago Heights and is living in R. B. Wilson’s house, on Van Rensselaer street. Fannie Hill’s Operatic Co. at the Opera House, Saturday May 12th. J. E. Spitler has just added a lemonade and milk-shake counter to the attractions of his news and confectionery store. Ellis Sc Murray are making prices on their stuff to suit the times. You cannot afford to buy anything in their line without getting their prices. Will Mossier and Simon Leopold went to Chicago yesterday, to buy goods. The former for his Rensselaer store and the latter for Remington. For the mamma’s of the babies there are hundreds of the loveliest of hats and bonnets. TAKE YOUR CHOICE. MRS. L. M. IMES. Jesse Grubb, the Marion express agent, is passing most of his time in Bensselaer now, in attendance upon his wife, whose condition is now very discouraging. You can save money by getting our prices before buying anything in the clothing, shoes or dry goods line. , 86-2 L Ellis Sc Murray .

The furniture and fixtures of the defunct barberlng and bath-room firm of Miller & Catt, has just been shipped away, part of it to Lowe 11, and part back to Chicago. A daughter of Joseph Lebold, of Barkley tp., died last Friday, aged about two and a half years. The funeral was held Sunday, at St. Augustine’s Catholic church, and burial made in the Catholic cemetery south of town. Everything new and fresh injour store; and goods delivered to all parts of che city. The staple and faney grocers, Alter & Yates. The celebrated Quaker evangelists. Mr. and Mrs. Nathan T. Frame, of Jameston, Ohio, are holding a meeting of great interest at the M. E. church. Services every evening at 7:80; week-day morning meetings at 9:30. Rev. George 'Knox, who for some years past has been the pastor of the Presbyterian church at Monticello, and is well known in this city, has been called to 'the pulpit of the Seventh Presbyterian church at Indianapolis. He will begin his new pastoral labors about May 20.

Elder L. E. Conner will preach at the Church of God, next Sunday, morning and evening. The newly elected , officers will take their offices next Monday night. You can buy a good spring jacket of Elli 3 Sc Murray for sl. J. W. Williams’ big and handsome residence, on Division street, has just been re-painted. D. E. Hollister will build a good residence, this season, on lots in Newton’s Addition, just north of Mrs. Geo. Hoover’s place. For little maids we have fifty shirred hats. TAKE YOUR CHOICE. Mrs. L. M. Imbs. John Callow is acting as night watchman, until the town Board can make a permanent appointment. He is a candidate for the permanent position, in company with quite a number of other good fellows. Mrs. Lecklider will have a summer opening May 10, 11, 12, when she will sell her paterns at cost during opening. The ladies of Rensselaer and vicinity are most cordially invited to inspect goods and prices. Cheapest ever sold in town. 86-21.

Mr. Peter Seallon and Miss Annie M. Hordeman, daughter of Peter Hordeman, of west of town, were married Tuesday morning, at the Catholic church. Rev. S. Neiberg performed the ceremony. Fannie Hill’s Operatic Co. in“Sinabad, the Sailor” and the newest operatic spectacle, “America.” Opera House Saturday, May 12th. Mrs. Nelson Randle arrived home yesterday. She has been at the PostGraduate Hospital, Chicago, and during the time has undergone two serious surgical operations, and one of them a very dangerous one. It is now hoped that she is well on the way to permanent recovery of her her health. A. Leopold has .sold his stock of merchandise to his son-in-law, Will Mossier, late of Thorntown. The invoice was made Monday and Tuesday, and Mr. Mossier is now in full possession. Mr. Mossier is a hustling ard progressive man of business, and we look to see him do a large business. , ~/■'

Charley Simpson is opening a news stand in the room just west of Fendig’s drugstore. Mrs. Leota M. Faris has moved into town aDd occupies one of Leopold’s houses, south of the public square. The most unfortunate of all towns, Kentland, had another large fire, Monday morning. Several business buildings were burned. “SiDabad, the Sailor,” a laughable Burlesque on Sinbad, by Fannie Hill’s Operatic Co., Opera House, Saturday, May 12th. Mr. John L. Jones and Miss Mary F. Kibler, both of Rensselaer, were married last Thursday, May 3rd, by Rev. B. F. Ferguson, at his residence. . - ' How sweet the little ones look in our baby bonnets. We have one hundred of them. TAKE YOUR CHOICE. Mbs. L. M. Imes. Jim Fisher, who is building his mother-in-law’s, Mrs. Kay’s house, in Weston’s Addition, will build himself one, adjoining her’s, as soon as that is completed. There will be Children’s Day service held at the Rose Bud church on the evening of May 20th. Everybody come and have a good time and do something for the Master’s cause. * S. E. Yeoman, sells the McCormick mower and reaper, also the Kalamazoo hay rake. Henry Zoll and wife, of Hammond, and his brother and wife, of Chicago, also Bert Hutson and wife, of Hammond, Jattende i the burial of Mrs. Margaret Zoll last Friday and remained until Sunday to visit friends. The members of the Rebecca Lodge were elegantly and agreeably entertained by Mrs. A. Leopold at the parlors of the Goff House last Friday night. The occasion being her initiation into the rites and mysteries of the order.

The first number of the Monticello Press was issued last Saturday. The publishers are C. M. Reynolds and H. L. Bott. It is independent in politics. The Rensselaer creamery is working about 5000 pounds of milk a day now, and the Marlboro branch about half that amount. The Jordan tp., branch began operations last Monday. Jim and Charley McColly, lately of Chicago Heights, have bought lots and began the erection of houses on Van Rensselaer street, just north of the electric light station. They will be right neat buildings, of a cost of about $1,200 and both just alike. E. W. Rettger, principal of the Rensselaer high school, has been offered and has accepted the position of assistant instructor in applied mathematics, at the State University, for the next school year. McCarty, one of the two men who assaulted an old woman residing near Medaryville last winter, was tried in the circuit court Tuesday. He was found guilty and sentenced to three years in the penitentiary.—Winamac Republican. The remains of Mrs. Margaret Zoll were buried in Weston cemetery, last Friday. She was the mother of Henry Zoll, a former resident of Rensselaer, now living at Hammond and of Mrs. Burton Hutson, at whose house she died. Her age was about 67 years. She was sick about 4 weeks, with catarrh of the lungs. A. McCOY Sc COMPANY are now prepared to make farm loans at 6£, and commissions as low as are quoted elsewhere. The usual privilege of partial payments allowed. They would be glad to hear from parties desiring loans and all inquiries by mail will be cheerfully answered. 36-4tp. Sam Pullins, a young chap about 18 years old, of Barkley tp., was fined $1 and costs, last Thursday, by Judge Morgan, for assault and bat tery upon the person of H. P. Overton, of Rensselaer. Young Pullins was a former pupil of Overton’s, some three years back, and the assault was the result of an old grudge, harbored since that time.

Our former townsman, Dr. F. P. Bitters, now of Akron, Fulton Co., lectured last Sunday, at Monon, on the subject of Spiritualisfh, in the reality of which the Dr. is now an ardent believer. He will be in Rensselaer on Friday of this week, but we are not informed whether or not he will lecture on his chosen subject. Remember that Alter Sc Yates have a full line of staple and fartey groceries, and that everything is new and fresh, of the best quality, and sold for cash, as cheap as the cheapest. The Rensselaer foundry manages to keep tolerably busy now days, on work of various kinds. A new article of manufacture with them is an iron well pump, of which they are making two sizes, a nine inch and a six inch stroke. They make a very strong and nice looking pump, as good in fact, as is made anywhere. Another considerable job they have worked at lately is the making of a big lot of castings, of various paterns, for Wm. Smith’s new model hay racks.

Mrs. Nellie C. Payne, now serving four years in the woman’s prison for having attempted to kill her husband, James W. Payne, in Fowler; a year ago, is making an effort for a new trial. She has appealed to the supreme court, the papers being filed Saturday. They assert that the lower court erred in refusing to quash the indictment, in overruling the motion for a change of venue and the motion for a new trial. Several cases of small-pox have occured in Fulton county, near Kewanna, with at least one death. The disease was contracted by a resident of the locality, during a visit to Chicago. The disease by the way, is getting an alarming foot-hold in the latter city, there being, it is said, not less than 1,000 cases, in the central portion of the city, and if it gets much worse, Indiana towns will have to begin to take rigid precautions against Chicago. In the mean-time it looks like the part of wisdom for people to avoid going to Chicago as much as they conveniently can, and especially to avoid making extended pleasufe visits there.

Judge Wiley and wife observed their 20th wedding anniversary at their home in Fowler, last Saturday. Buy your farm wagons of B. F. Ferguson. Every one warranted. John W. King returned home from Delphi, the latter part of last week. He has been taking the medical springs bath treatment, and seems to be considerably improved. Hon. W. D. Owen, Republican candidate for Secretary of State, and far the ablest political orator in Northern Indiana, will speak in Rensseltsr next Tuesday afternoon, May 15th. The suit of Mrs. L. L. Daugherty, of Hammond, against the Western Union Telegraph Co., has been venued to Porter county. The attempt of the company to take the case to the U. S. courts did not succeed. Our former townsman, F. B. Learning, was elected city clerk, at Goshen, last week. Another former Rensselaer resident, H. E. James, was a candidate at Hammond, for water trustee. Unlike Mr. Learning he did not get there, for he was not on the right ticket. It is a bad year to rm for office on the Democratic ticket? even in a Democratic town, like Hammond.