Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1894 — ADDITIONAL LOCALS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL LOCALS.

Mrs. Geo. Keever, on the- J. F. Warren place, north of town, has been very dangerously sick, with a bowel trouble. She is now considerInnlv . —-—’ _•—_ ausv uvvwti, • • -■ We will start the Threshing Machine Works Monday, April" 30th and invite any work in our line. 35 2 mo. Owing to the small-pox epidemic the Michigan city penitentiary has been quarantined, by direction of the state authorities. Until further notice, no prisoners will be received from the counties of Fulton, M arshall, Pulaski, Blackford and Allen. No visitors are allowed within the walls. Arthur J. Hawhe, of Chicago, and a graduate of Union College of Law, of that city, was admitted to the practice of law in the circuit court Monday. He thinks some of locating here, but may choose Indianapolis. His family have considerable land in this county, and formerly had a good deal more. We buy for “spot cash" 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 & Yates, Staple and fancy grocers C. P. Mayhew, of Red Bluffs, Cal., is visiting relatives and old friends in this locality. He is on his way home from a business trip much further east, and will remain here until his son Ernest graduates at Wabash College, which will be in a few days.

Buy your farm wagons of B. F Ferguson, and save money. Tuteurs’ store was closed all of last week, and until Tuesday of this. The death of one of the partners rendered necessary the complete appraisement .of all the partnership property, as required by law. The appraisement was made by C. C. Starr and John Eger. Gillam township, which turns out more teachers and preachers; more lawyers, doctors, business men, good farmers and successful and useful people generally, than any other community of equal population that we have any knowledge of, will this year observe the annual exercises of their public schools, with customary thoroughness and elaboration. They will be held at Independence Chapel, of course, and on next Saturday evening, June 9th. The number of graduates is nine; being as we believe, about the largest class that ever graduated from a single township. Clothing just received, prices positively lowest. Fendigs Fair.

Thirteen-stop, full walnut case or gan, $35. C. B. Steward. Although The Republican published fully, at the time, the facts of the letting of the gravel road contract, and its subsequent sub-letting, some people are still somewhat mixed on the matter. The contract was originally awarded to Hawkins <fc Curtis, of Remington. These gentlemen subsequently sub-let the entire contract to Delos Thompson and C. C. Sigler, of Rensselaer, So, therefore, Thom pson & Sigler are the parties who are actually building the roads, although they, in turn, have again sub-let some poitions to other Estey organs and pianos, and Estey A Camp organs and pianos, on exhibition at C. B. Steward’s. A gun club has just been organized in Rensselaer, with a membership of 12 or 15 crack shots, and other members in prospect. The officers are James Simpson, president; Claud Vanatta, secretary; C. E. Hershman, treasurer. It ;is proposed later in the season, to give a regular shooting ' tournament, at which neighboring clubs will be invited to participate. A practice shoot will be held Saturday afternoon, near the Railroad stock yards, east of the depot. Shooting will be from five traps, or three more than have ever been used for a similar occasion in Rensselaer.

The work of building the stone arch bridge, over Makemself ditch, on Van Rensselaer street, on the line of the gravel rqad, is now in pro-' gress. It wi'l evidently be a good job. It makes the fourth stone arch bridge over that ditch. A little son of Wm. Daniels, of Barkley tp., hurt Ir’s foot on a rusty nail, last Saturday, and a day or two later was seriously sick from it, and threatened with lock jaw. Dr. J. H. was called out and by prompt treatment has succeeded in averting the danger of the dreadful diseased Thomas Iliff, a man of advanced age and an old settler, died Monday morning, at his home in Milroy tp., of lung fever. His age was about 75 years, and for about 30 years he has been a resident of Jasper county Previously he lived in White county In religion he was a Methodist, and in politics a Republican. His funeral was held Tuesday, the sermon being preached by Rev. Cai Anderson, a local M. E. preacher, of Hanging Grove tp.

A young boy named Ed Robertson, living with John Robertson, in Hinging Grove tp., met with a very serious accident on Decoration Day, and had a rcmaikable and almost miracu’ous escape from death. He was going home from Rensselaer, on horseback, and when near his brother’s place, his horse threw him off, and his foot caught in the stirrup. Tbe hoise ran away at full speed and dragged the boy a distance of three quarters of a mile, when the saddle broke. J. C. Gwin,trustee of Hanging Grove, and Republican candidate for county treasurer, was close behind the boy with a team, when he was thrown off. He hastily unhitched one of his horses,and mounting it, pursued the runaway horse. He had nearly overhauled it, when the saddle broke and released the unfortunate boy. The latter was pretty badly bruised, and was evidently kicked on the back, by the horse, but his injuries, though severe, are not fatal, and he will recover.

The County Commissioners went out to the Kannal gravel hill, last Friday evening, and made another careful examination of the material then being used on the south end of College Road gravel road. They had with them Willis Imes and Hen ry Fisher, both of whom have had a good deal of previous knowledge of gravel road material, and especially Mr. Fisher, who for ten years, followed gravel road building as a business. It was the decision that, as it was developing, the proportion of fine and therefore poor material, was too great in the hill, and therefore its further use, after Saturday, was forbidden. The Shields gravel is now being used, and to this there has been but little, if any, objection raised. In fact, there seems to be no question but that it will make a fine road. On the Jesse Smith farm, in the same neighborhood, is a large quantity of even better gravel than the Shield’s but it is considerably further away.

The latest curio to be exhibited in B. F. Fendig’s Columbian Museum, is an enormous bunion, about the size of a dollar, or a dollar and a half or two dollars, and which, according to the placard accompanying it, was removed from the foot, (we are glad it wasn't the little toe,) of a 17 year old girl of Rensselaer, by Dr. W. H. Babb, E. C.. B. E. and T. C. E., Eminent Chiropodist, Bunion Exterminator, and Toe-Corn Eviscerator. It is a pretty big bunion, and had a mate of equal size upon the other foot. Judging from its great size and wrinkled appearance, it must have been much older than the young lady whose foot it discommoded, but adorned as it discommoded. How a 17 year old foot could have a 40 or 50 year old bunion, is one of those problems which puzzle the erudition, even of such eminent specialists as Dr. Babb. There is some'doubt however, as to the accuracy of the method of computing the ages of these bunions. The most eminent chiropodists disagreeing among themselves aa to whether each wrinkle denotes a year’s age, or a long spell between soap and water.

A very cranky old fellow, named Withrow, who was in Rensselaer a few weeks ago, and tried to get a hearing for a lecture, in advocacy of some wild scheme, by which the government is to'spend several hundreds of bill ions of dollars in rearranging the whole face of nature, with a view to drainage and irrigation, is now on his way to Washington, and he is a whole Coxey army in himself. He is traveling with a wheelbarrow, in which he carries his camp equipage. He left Kankakee, 111., last Thursday-, and arrived at Rensselaer Friday evening. The next few days he spent in Union tp., where he appears to have found quite a following of kindred spirits. He wears a peacock’s plume in his hat, and on his coat a badge reading, “C. S. Bell, sol icitor of benevolence.” Bell being his assumed lecturing and crusading name. He wants to put his ideas into expeiimental practice in Jasper county, and will ask the state to buy and give to his “Hamlet Commonwealth Association” the Gifford errment to appropriate $1,500,000 to improve it. His ideas are very modest, very.

The work of graveling the north two miles of the north or Long Ridge gravel road, has been sub-let to Lowman & Voss, of Francesville, and they began work last Friday, with a big force of men and teams. They are using the gravel from the old Stackhouse gravel hill, and the hill being very near to the line of road, rapid progress is being made. About 20 rods a day, being about the average. The material used, so far as the unprofessional eye can judge, is very good for the purpose, and will make a solid and durable road. In fact, it has been tested on a s hort piece of road near the Pullins bridge for 16 or 17 years, and has stood the test well. Just north of Burk’s bridge, another short pike, made from about the same kind of gravel, from Dr. Loughndge’s farm, has been used for about the same length of time, and has made an excellent road, and in neither of these c ases was the gravel put on nearly to the depth that is now being done. Lyman Zea is superintending the putting on of the gravel on this piece of road, by special appointment of the County Commissioners, and under the general supervision of Superintendent Watson, and no poor material nor improperly smoothed rpad-bed nor insufficient thickness of gravel can pass his eagle eye. He is right on to his job.