Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1894 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

The people of DeMotte are preparing for a big celebration. July 4th. Buckwheat, for seed, at Dexter <fc Cox. E. W. Horner, of Topeka, Kans., is the guest of Miss Birdie Hammond. A fine, 10 room residence to rent. Enquire of S. M. Laßue. Charley Wigmore, of Monticello, has bought the Kentland Democrat. Hats 35 per cent off at Mrs. Leek lider’s. The trial of John W. Paris, of Greentown bank, is set for next Monday, at Frankfort, Buckwheat seed. At Rensselaer Mill. Rev. B. F. Ferguson received 25 new members into Vaughn church, last Sunday. For seed buckwheat, go to Dexter A Cox. Children's Day will be observed at Vaughn Chapel, next Sunday evening at 7 o’clock. All are invited. Ladies’ {jewelry and notions at Mr. Lecklider’s.

Bruce Pierson, who has been at Canton, 111., for some time past, has returned to this locality. For real city work, go to Mrs. L. M. Imes. Rev. E. Baech attended the Christian Endeavor convention, at Hammond, last week; and also visited friends at Joliet, 111., his former location. From now until July Ist is the proper time to sow buckwheat. Fine seed for sowing may be had at the Rensselaer mill. Charles Chamberlain, the electric light superintendent, is taking a lay offforafew weeks, and has gone to Wichita, Kansas, to visit relatives. Will Burns takes his place at the light plant, during his absence. You can buy a good spring jacket of Ellis A Murray for sl. Minerva Spriggs, daughter of Joe i Spriggs, of Walker tp., died last Thursday, after a long illness. Her age was about 20 years. The funera 1 was held Friday at Dew Drop schoo 1 house, in Walker tp. N. Warner A Son handle the Osborne Binders and the Osborne Mowers.

The Republicans of the ninth district nominated J. Frank Hanley, of Warren Co., at Kokomo, last week, on the 93rd ballot. The candidate is only 31 years old. Judge Wiley, of Fowler, was chairman of the convention. ' For the latest in everything pertaining to millinery,go to Mrs. LM . Imes. S. E. Yeoman, sells the McCormick mower and reaper, also the Kalam a zoo hay rake. Postmaster Honan has received a supply of the new postal cards. They will be in only two sizes hereafter. The largest size is somewhat smaller than the largest of the three old sizes, while the smaller size is so ne larger than the smallest of the old ones.

Good hats 25 cents at Mrs. Lecklider’s. Our clubbing arrangement with the Weekly Inter Ocean has expired. That with the New York Tribune is still in force. The Republican and the Tribune both one year, •1.75. Miss Eliza Tuteur has been ob liged from poor health, to give up her situation as clerk at Ellis & Murray’s, which she has filled so well for 5 or 6 years. She has gone to Chicago for a short visit, and later will go to some summer resort, probably Lake Geneva.

The members of Evening Star Chapter, O. E. S. had a picnic in Spitler’s grove, last Monday. S. E. Yeoman sells the Ideal corn planter, made at Decatur, 111. Binder twine a specialty. Mr. Charles P. Israel and Miss Elnora Arnold were married last Sunafternoon, at Fair Oaks. Rev. J. L. Brady, of Rensselaer, performed the ceremony. N. M. Banta has finished his winter’s term of teaching near Chicago, and is visiting his relatives in Hanging Grove tp., for a short time. He contemplates an extensive trip south and east, during his vacation. For the most stylish trimming go Mbs. L. M. Imes.

nguy your farm wagons of B. F Ferguson. Every one warranted. A class of about 25 young people recerved their first communion at the Catholic church, last Sunday. Confirmation will be administered on Saturday, June 30th. Bishop Rademacher will be present at that time. Dry goods sold at unheard of low prices at Fendigs Fair. Always the cheapest. Messrs Sigler & Thompson, gravel road contractors, desire us to give notice to holders of gravel road checks, that the same will be paid on presentment at A. McCoy & Co’s Bank, on or after June 15tb. A large, spring bed-lounge, good as new, for sale cheap. Mrs. J. Zimmerman.

Our exchanges have much to say regarding a certain fakir who is at present engaged m beating a tax-rid-den people out of their hard earned ducats by selling them three bars of soap for (1.00 and a set of dishes thrown in. Look out for this man, he is a “snide” in whom there is much guile.—Morocco Courier. The undersigned has a fine fullblood Jersey bull, kept in stable in rear of Hemphill’s blacksmith shop, on Front street. Price of service, (I 50. P. S. Hemphill. Still another secret society grand lodge office came to Rensselaer, last week, besides that to Erastus Peacock. Mrs. Ida Randle was elected Grand Protector by the grand lodge of Pythian sisters. She had previously occupied the position of Grand Inner-Guard.

Miss Franc McEwen has purchased a Caligraph and is prepared to copy legal and other instruments in type writing, carefully, promptly, and on reasonable terms. Orders can be left at the Sentinel office, the Surveyor’s office, or her residence. The frost on Tuesday night of last week, though so light in most places as to do no damage, severely nipped Alf. Donnelley’s 30 acre field of potatoes, north of town. Other fields, on low ground, were also more or less injured. All who feel an interest in cleaning the Sayler grave yard are requested to meet there June the 15th, 1894, in the morning. Jeff Smith. Look out for fellows who are going about selling soap, baking powder, and other articles, with an agreement to throw in valuable prizes of dishes, furniture, Ac., with each purchase. They deliver the soap, or other articles, when they make the trade, and get their money. The prize articles are to come a week later, but they never do. Seed Buckwheat, at the Rensselaer Mill.

Two young fellows from Kentucky students at the Valpo normal, cheered for Jeff Davis and the South* era Confederacy, at Valparaiso Decoration Day, and Frank Courtright, an old soldier and a former resident of Remington, had them arrested. They were fined and costed to the amount of SI 1 30 apiece. Another big gravel hauling contract has been sub-let by Sigler & Thompson. Geo. Strickfaden and Charles J. Roberts have the contract for hauling and placing all the gravel on Poor Farm and P.easant Ridge road, from the Newton township line, east to the iron bridge on the Pleas ant Ridge road. A distance of about 3| miles. They expect to begin work next Monday.

Dawson Smith, a former well known attorney of Fowler, has moved back to that place, after seven or eight years’ residence in various wtetem and southern states. Everything new and fresh in our store; and goods delivered to all parts of the city. The staple and fancy grocers, Alter & Yates. Tuesday, being June 12th, was Odd Fellows Memorial Day. The brethren here did not observe the day, but a large delegation of Iroquois lodge, some 3Q in number, went to Remington, to take part in elaborate observances by the Remington lodge.

Remember that Alter & Yates have a full line of staple and fancy groceries, and that everything is new and fresh, of the best quality, and sold for cash, as cheap as the cheapest. The populists of the tenth district nominated their congressional candidate at Logansport, last Thursday. Their choice fell on Rev. S. M. Hathorne, a Disciples preacher, of Burlington, Carroll county. D. B. Nowels, of Rensselaer, was voted for pretty strongly, and would probably have been nominated had he not declined.

We are in receipt of samples of spring and summer clothing from the Globe Tailoring Co. Guarantee perfect satisfaction at Fendigs Fair The members of the gun club had a satisfactory practice shoot, Satur - day afternoon, at their grounds near the cattle chute. Some of the members shot well, and others had trouble in getting on to the curves of the new traps. They are of a new kind and throw the balls at different angles every time. , The Woods Mower is sold by N. Warner & Sons. Don’t forget that fact, if you need a mower. The Rensselaer creamery now works about 11,000 pounds of milk a day; 6,000 at the home plant, 3,000 at Marlborough, and 2,000 ot the J. F. Irwin place. This 11,000 pounds of milk, by the way, makes 44 barrels, or enough to fill a pretty good sized cistern. The daily out-put of butter from it is about 400 pounds. B. F. FERGUSON is now pre pared to make Farm Loans at 6 1-2 percent, 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

The long looked for remittance of money for the gravel road bonds was received from Lamprecht Bros A Co., last Thursday. The amount of the bonds is 134,500. This sum is increased by $670.75, the amount of the premium, and decreased by $1121.25, as interest to Nov. 15, when the interest on the bonds begin. This left a net sum of $34,049. 50, realized from the bonds. The celebrated Minneapolis binders are now sold by N. Warner A Sons. Among some old papers in an Arkansas probate court was found a doctor’s account for medical attendance during the last illness 'of the deceased. On the back the administrator had made the following indorsement: “This claim is not verified by affidavit as the statute requires but the death of the deceased is satisfactory evidence to my mind that the doctor did the work.” Cost. —s3s.oo in Rensselaer, June sth. Had it in vest pocket, rolled up loose, did not miss it until next morning. May have lost it on road home to Kniman. The finder will be liberally rewarded. Description will be given. Address, John O’Connor, Kniman, Ind.

Six Rensselaer boys, Ray Thompson, Joe Marshall, Vernon Nowels, Roy Blue, Hallie Flynn and Benhart Fendig. three of them recent graduates of the Rensselaer High School, have entered the employ of a Lafayette firm in selling books. They have gone to various localities in this state, in Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan. Several Rensselaer boys have previously "been in the employ of the same house, and made quite a success atxit.

. Elder fl. L. Brady will preach at , James school house, 3| miles south of Rensselaer, on Sunday, June 17, at 3p. m. All are cordially invited to attand. U ~~ ' ' For the “Minneapolis Binders,” go to N. Warn er <fc Son. Also the Woods Mower.

Wheat and oats are looking fine, by general accounts. In fact some say that wheat never loooked so well, at this time. Rain is needed, however, for crops of all kinds. Uncle Seth Bentley, of Wheatfield, was in town Tuesday and Wednesday. He has been in very poor health for seven or eight months, but is now improving. Editor Shanlaub, of the Morocco Courier, and his y oung assistant Willie Shanlaub, are giving the people of Morocco the best local paper they ever had.

Isaac Tuteur can now be found at the Tuteur grocery. It is probable that he will buy the interests of his late brother, Benjamin, and remain here permanently. The increasing difficulty in getting out the gravel from the Stackhouse pit, for the north road, has caused its abandonment, and another pit was opened yesterday, a few hundred yards south and east from the old one.

Mrs. Lecklider has the cheapest line of hats in town for the Fourth of, July. Call and see them. The people of DeMotte have nev■r been reconciled to the idea of a laloon in their town, and are now in 11 fair way to get shut of the only one they have. Henry Granger, the owner of the saloon, has sold the juilding and is preparing to move to Thayer. The townspeople hope to be able to prevent the location there of a successor.” Baby head wear a’most given away at Mis. Leckliders. An old gentleman named Bodamer, died last Thursday, at Stoutsberg, in Wheatfield tp. The cause of his death was Bright’s ditease, and his age about 65 years. He had been a resident of the county only a year or two, having previously lived in Lake county. His funeral was held Friday, in the Lutheran church, at Wheatfield, and was conducted by the M. E. minister. See those well trimmed hats from 50 cents to (1.00 at Mrs. Leckliders.

It must have been a rocky series of questions propounded at the last monthly teachers’ examination, as out of 41 applicants examined by Supt. Warren, at that time, only eight made the grades necessary to entitle them to licenses. This was the largest per cent, of failures ever made at any of Mr. Warren’s examinations, in the whole seven years ’he has been superintendent. Tough as the examination was, however, Jas. N. Leatherman, of Rensselaer, pulled a three year’s license out of it.

' A base ball dub from Brook played the home club a game here, Saturday afternoon, The boys seemed pretty much out of practice in everything but running, and the scores ran up pretty large. For the Brook boys 19, and’for the home club 46. Still it was not a badly played game, on either side. But the Brook boys, especially, were much out of practice. The next game will be played at Lowell. The battery of the Rensselaer club is composed of a couple of fine players from St. Joseph’s Indian School.

•10,000 private funds to Loan on Real Estate Mortgages at Citizens State Bank. Weston cemetery will soon have too more fine monuments, one erected to the memory of the late Em- ' mett Kannal. The ether to Thomas 'and Elizabeth Hollingsworth. The ' latter, which is erected by their sons, E. L. and Geo. K. Hollingsworth, will be in the design of a stone sarcophagus, and therefore quite unlike anything heretofore erected iu the cemetery. The Rensselaer marble monument men, Mackey A Barcus, have the contracts for both the above monuments.

Children’s Diywas observed at the Presbyterian church, last Sunday evening, in an interesting manner. There will be service at the F. W. Baptist church next Sunday morning at 10:30, conducted by Rev. B. F. Ferguson. . The weather has again waxed warm. Monday afternoon the temperature was 96 in the shade, and Tuesday was about as hot. Marriage licenses since last reported : j Charles R. Israel, __ ( Elnora Arnold. ( Artemus Fleming, | Amelia Denziers.

George Soucle, of the firm of Changnou & Soucie, came over from St. Anne, 111., Monday evening and is now arranging to ship the balance of the Trade Palace stock to St. Anne. John Eger, owner of the Trade Palace building, will immediately move into the building himself with his grocery store. The Monon railroad is doing a rushing business hauling through coal. Chicago’s coal supply is shut off owing to the strike of miners in the east and in Illinois and Indiana, but down in Tennssee the mines are worked by convict laborers who can’t strike, and is the only coal obtainable. The Monon has the contract for delivering 1800 cars fom Indianapolis to Chicago, or 100 trains. We are pleased to be able to announce that the publisher of the Inter Ocean has made a special offer on the weekly edition of that psper during the present political campaign. He will send the Weekly Inter Ocean for six months to any subscriber on receipt of thirty cents. This is a very low price for one of the very best and ablest Republicans newspapers in the country. Good Republicans should try to increase its circulation. Subscriptions will be received at this price from June Ist to August Ist. After that the regular prices will be restored. , Somebody who wants to explain what the editorial “we” signifies, says that it has a variety of meanings and varies to suit the circumstances. For example: When you read that “we expect our wife home today,’’ “we” refers to the editor in chief; when it is “we are a little late with our work,” it includes the whole office force, even to the devil and the towel; m “we are having a great boom,’’the town is meant; “we received over 700,000 immigrants last year,” and itembraces the nation; but “we have hog cholera in our midst,” only means the man who takes the paper and does not pay for it, is very ill. A copy of the finest and most accurate map of the State of Indiana we ever saw, now hangs in the auditor’s office, at the court house. The map is published by R. Ryse, at Indianapolis. It is a sectional map and shows the exact location of every town, post-office, <fcc. It is right up to date, giving the location of such recently established postoffices as Parr and Valma, for instance. The map for this county was drawn by County Surveyor liter, and all the other counties, also were drawn by their respective surveyors. This plan could be depended upon to secure great accuracy.

Here is the way Bro. Bitters, of the Rochester Republican, cracks it to the tobacco chewers. “To the ladies and to men who have an abhorrence for filth the habitations of the tobacco hog are the most disgusting. Every public stairway is fairly blackened and befouled with great gobs of tobacco spit and quids. The nice concrete side-walks are covered with tobacco spit, and the stone walks, vitrified brick walks, every place the tobacco hog tarries for a moment he leaves filthy evidence of h s ß presence. If men will be so nasty they should empty their mouths into the gutters, or go to some obscure place to chew tobacco. Tobtcco is not particularly injurious to some persons, but it is in evidence that more men are physically debilitated and go down to an early grave by the use of tobacco than by the whisky habit.”

In Goodland last week the town board was asked to appoint a woman on the school board, the petition being signed by 154 votes, or 60 per cent, of the voters in the corporation. The request was not acceded to however, an d the woman candidate received only one vote.

The final report of B. F. Havens, Indiana world’s fair executive commissioner, has been issued. It shows that the total cost of the Indiana building to the taxpayers was (57,162 60, the contributions making the total value 167,368.50. The amount expended by the board of managers being (5,437.03. The balance iu the bands of the treasurer is (4,788.80. The public schools of the state contributed (5,781.98. The total number of awards to Indiana exhibitors was 278. These were distributed to nearly every department of the fair. About 152,000 people from this state attended the fair who registered at the Indiana building. Mr. Havens estimates the total number from Indiana at 300,000.

Under the auspices of the Ladies Literary, Society which to of itself a sufficient guarantee of its merit, a very unique entertainment will be presented at the Christian church, next Monday evening, June 18th. It is monologue entitled “Switzerland,” written and recited by Charlotte M. Allen. The story includes the adventures of three people on a tour m the Alps, with the sayings and doings of the travelers, couriers, peasants die. During the evening Miss Allen will appear in several costumes, including a peasant’s dress of the Bernese Oberland. This entertainment will be varied by the performances of Miss Dorothy Harrington, one of New York’s most charming artists, who will appear between the parts, iu her character impersonations. Tickets on sale at Long’s. General admission and reserved seats, 25 cents. Children, 15 cents. ——

The body of E. C. Beaman, formerly one of the best known conductors on this part of the Monon, was found Saturday morning, on the Monon tracks, near the Wabash river bridge, about three miles north of Lafayette. The legs were cut off and there was an ugly hole in his head. He had been In Chicago for a fiw days, and was returning home Friday night, on the late train, that which passes Rensselaer at about 11 o’clock, p. m. The manner of his death is a deep mystery. It is generally thought to have been a case of murder for robbery, while some circumstances suggest suicide. The facts that he had been hard up and despondent, for some time, and also that just before leaving Chicago he is said to have borrowed 75 cents of a friend and to have invested 25 cents of it in an accident insurance ticket, are those that give color to the suicide theory. This ticket was taken out at 6 o’clock, Friday night The only family he had was a girl of six years, He was about 65 years old. He was an odd character and had traveled more, it is said, than any other man in Lafayette.