Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1894 — ADDITIONAL LOCALS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL LOCALS.

B. F. Fendig is at Indianapolis attending the Masonic grand lodge, representing Prairie Lodge, of which he is Worthy Master. _ Mr. J.H. Francis, of LaPorte, accompanied by his grandson Master George Francis, came here Tuesday, on a visit with their relatives and friends, and to attend the graduating exercises of the Rensselaer High School. Mr. Francis has lately returned ..from a winters trip to California and the Pacific slope. Clothino just received, prices positively lowest. Fendigs Fair. An important damage suit from Lake county has been brought to this county, on change of venue. The plaintiff is M. J. Orcutt, now of

Hammond, and he sues the Monon R. R., for $5,000. Some years ago Orcutt was riding from Englewood to Hammond. He paid his fare, 10 cents, as he claimed, to the brakeman, and when the conductor came around refused to pay him and was put off

the train between Hegewisch and Hammond. The tramp of a mile or two gave him rheumatism, malaria, snake-bites, chronic indisposition to labor, and in short a full assortment of ills of the flesh, not to speak of the great mental suffering that his noble and high spirited nature underwent on account of the humiliation of being bounced bodily from the train. The case has already been tried three times in Valparaiso, but each time the jury failed to agree. The plaintiff if we mistake not, is the same M. J. Orcutt, who formerly lived in the vicinity of Monon, and acquired some notoriety in connection with the Mary Baker fasting girl fake. Considerable excitement was caused in town yesterday morning, by the bringing to town of a load of the material that is being used on that part of the College Road gravel road now under construction. Indifferent larts of the wagon was material from different parts of the hill, and the material varies a great deal in quality. lEjpme of it is evidently too fine to make a good road, and the men who brought it in say the finest is the most abundant. The coarse part might make a fair road. Opinions differed on that point, but the great majority of those who examined the material, were decidedly of the opinion that none of it is very suitable :'or the purpose. Joseph Adams, who lives near the hill, made a pike of the best of it, in his barn-yard, ast fall, and he says it is no good. Says it wholly fails to “pack”—a necessary quality in good road material, Others, again, say that in time it will lack and make a better road than coarser material. The judgement of a disinterested expert is really needed in the matter.

We buy for “spot cash 7 ’ and save all discounts. We sell for “spot cash” and get no bad debts. We have the lowest rents and no clerk hire. Therefore we sell as cheap as the cheapest Alter <t Yates, Staple and fancy grocersj

It is said that the seventeen year ocusts are due this year. The entomologists say the advance guard may be expected during the last days of May. It will be in full force about the middle of June and will gradually diminish toward the middle of the following month. No alarm need be occasioned by the coming of these rare visitors. The injury that

they cause is mainly confined to their slitting the smaller twigs of trees in rows of borings of several inches in extent. The slits are placed at. near intervals, and are covered with pencils of fine torn-up fibers, which serve as a covering or protection to the eggs, from ten to twenty being deposited . beneath them. The harm to our fruit trees seldom amounts to more than a moderate shortening-in of the branches. In nurseries and young orchards trees are occasionally killed by the

attack. In fact, it is mainly owing to the fact that these insects are called “locusts” that their visits excite apprehensions of damage. And the name locust, as applied to them, is a misnomer. Cicada is their proper name, and they are in no way related to the real locusts; the grasshoppers being the fellows that properly should, in this country be called locusts.