Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1894 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

J.HrS. Ellia is buildinga- Dew barn. * Threshing coal at C. W. Coen’s. Simon Kenton, of Newton tp., is building a larger barn. Watch for “Robinson his man “Friday.” C. C. Sigler is getting better from a severe spell of sickness. T. J.Farden, of West Lebanon,! was in town Saturday. Mrs. Lena Tuteur and family went to Peoria, 111., yesterday, for a protracted visit. Nothing does the business like the McCormick mower; Sam Yeoman sells ’em. Dr. Hartsell was called to Chicago last Friday, to prescribe for an old patient, Mrs. Percy Taylor. Don’t forget the clearance sale of summer goods at Mrs. Lecklider’s. The railroad company is putting in a temporary side-track at the depot, to unload gravel from. Don’t forget the clearance sale of summer goods at Mrs. Lecklider’s. L. W. Hunt, the Dunnville station agent, visited his brother, the co unty recorder, the latter part of last week. A fine, 10 room residence to rent. Enquire of S. M. Laßue. Jake Eigelsbach is sick with rheumatism. Jake Wagner helps run his meat shop during his sickness. The celebrated Minneapolis binders arc now sold by N. Warner & Sons. Uncle John M. Gwin, of Pleasant Ridge, fell off a haystack, last Friday, and was quite badly bruised and jolted. ', ~ ' A chronological event: Friday will qome next week, on either Wednesday or Thursday (with hts master Robinson Crusoe.) Hon. Valentine Zimmerman, of Rochester, Fulton Co., was in town last Thursday, looking after his chances for the Democratic nomination for Congress. Wanted, a reliable agent to represent the Ohio Farmers Insurance Company. Apply to J. W. Coleman, State Agent, Warsaw, Ind. The ladies of the Christian church will give a “shingle social” atLthe home of Mrs. C. C. Sigler, next Wednesday evening, July 25. Every body invited. The man who called his rooster, “Robinson” because be “Crew so,” will be here shortly. Watch and wait for the occasion. Clerk Coover issued a marriage license, Tuesday, to Odell Norton and Minnie Lidtke, both of Wheatfield. It was the first license issued during the present month.

Messrs. D. W. Shields, J. W. McEwen, W. A. Trough, M. Costello B. F. Fendig and Geo. Stembel were Jasper county delegates to the Democratic congressional convention, at Hammond, yesterday. N. Warner <fe Son handle the Osborne Binders and the Osborne Mowers. Ed. Webb, a Barkley tp., boy, was kicked on the leg by a horse, last Thursday, and will be laid up for some time. Possibly will have a stiff knee, but Dr. Alter, who is treating him, thinks not. Lakey & Tharp, the new and enterprising bakers and lunch men. Don’t forget them. The first train load of Lafayette gravel since the beginning of the great strike, arrived Monday afternoon, and the work of hauling it was resumed Tuesday. Teams are scarce and all that are hauling on Lafayette gravel are working on the Poor Farm road.

The steam, dredge in the Lakin | ditch has had to quit for want of water. Hack’s dredge, in the Wheatfield ditch, will soon have to follow suit. You can buy a good spring jacket of Elli 3 & Murray for sl. Mrs. C. W. Coen attended the Christian Endeavor convention at Cleveland, Ohio, which began last Friday. She will visit relatives near there, and also take an extended t rip on the lakes, before she returns. jtonit fnrgpf, the low prices at Mrs. Lecklider’s, from now on. The Keeley Institute, of Hammond, is now in the hands of a receiver, and will be offered for sale. The News says it is probable that $3,000 is the lowest bid that will be entertained. Everything new and fresh in our store; and goods delivered to all parts of the city. The staple and fancy grocers, Alter & Yates. It is rumored that the Model Bal Club wish to play the Lowell Seniorsl for SIOO. The Rensselaer’s can name any day, as the Seniors are prepared to play them any time.—Lowell Tribune. 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. The Woods Mower is sold by N. Warner & Sons. Don’t forget that fact, if you need a mower. Rev. Hathorn, the one thousand dollar candidate for Congress, has removed from Burlington to Logansport. The country air does not agree with the aesthetic tastes of the Populist candidate, —Delphi Times. The best and freshest of everything in the bakery line, at Lakey & Tharp’s the new bakers, successors to Milliron & Martindale. ——- Notice is hereby given to the members of the M. P. church, Rensselaer charge, jthat the fourth and last quarterly meeting will be held at the Rose Bud church, Aug. 11th and 12th, at which time there will be trustees elected for said church. N. Vice, Pastor. Buy your farm wagons of B. F Ferguson, and save money. Postmaster Honan began to get about again last Friday. During his sickness Mrs. Honan attended to the work of the postofliee, alone, and did it well too. And the work was made extra hard on account of the receipt of large quantities of mail matter that the strike had delayed.

You need bread and Lakey & Tharp also knead bread. What they knead you need. Try it and see. John W. Medicus reports that a handsome young lady visitor arrived at his.place last Wednesday afternoon, July 11th, on the 3:25 train, and therefore promptly on schedule time. The young lady turned the scale at the seventeenth part of a fraction less than eight pounds. The refined Southers-Price Company with the assistance of several of our home talent, will present Mr. Southers’ dramatic spectacle in 5 acts, “Robinson Crusoe” a scenic comedy drama with magnificent 15th century costumes. Due notice will be given as to date <fec.

A ball club, the members of which style themselves “Natural Born Mechanics,” have challenged the victorious Merchants club, of last Thursday's game, to a game for the championship of Jasper county. Considering the state of the weather, if the merchants accept the challenge ( of these “Natural Born Mechanics’’ they ought to do it over the corresponding title of “Natural Born Idiots.” The strike in Chicago was a bonanza for the Three I. railrohd, which runs through the north part of this county. Several of the big western roads got to usiDg the Three I. to send their through- freights over, thus avoiding Chicago. This movement began Saturday week, and for a time there was about 50 big trains a day, over the road. Live stock and perishable freight were what they were loaded with.

j Will Burns moved Monday to Montieello, where he will run an engine in a canning establishment. Thirteen-stop, full walnut case organ, $35. C. B. Steward. Abe Simpson has opened a shooting gallery in one of the vacant rooms in the Nowels block. SIO,OOO private funds to Loan on Real Estate Mortgages at Citizens State Bank. Mrs. Ross and children, of St. Paul, Neb., left for that place Tuesday after several weeks’ visit with here. Buy your farm wagons of B. F Ferguson. Every one warranted. Miss Genievieve Huffman, Mrs. Imes’ millinery trimmer, has gone to Greeneastle, to spend the summer vacation. Mrs. C. E. Hershman got a fall Sunday afternoon, and badly sprained*her ankle. It is a painful injury, and will lay her up for some time. Trainmaster McCameron, of the Monon, had his right leg badly strained at the hip and knee while making up a train in Chicago last Friday afternoon. The Jasper County summer school Opened Monday with an attendance of thirty. The instructors are Co. Superintendent Warren, Isaac Reubelt, and Newton "Warren. Misses Lydia and Elk D wiggins and their mother started for Tennessee, Monday. The two former will stay a few weeks only, the latter probably for several months. Will Wishard has sold his interest in the store of Porter & Wishard, to his partner, I. J. Porter. He will visit friends for a few weeks and then enter the employ of Wm. Mossier, manager of the Model store W. D. Smalley, of Boston, hes been buying horses in this locality for the Boston market. He may te found as Iliff’s livery barn, Thursday and Friday of this week. Dr. M. E. Jackson was injured this morning by being thrown from a buggy. The horse 1 eiame frightened, started to run and the buggy was tipped over and Mrs. Jackson thrown out. —Hammond News. The oats harvest is now in swing. As before remarked the oats crop is immense in this county 1 Hay is a much better crop than was exexpected, a while back, and for the most part, has been harvested in excellent condition.

B. D. Comer’s team broke loose and ian away, last Saturday night, while Barney and his family were indulging in the mild orgies of a church ice cream supper, at Rose Bud, Union tp. Along towards night the next day Barney found his team tangled in the bushes, some three miles from their starting point. The vehicle they were hitched to was torn completely to pieces. The Southers-Price Company had a very good and a very well pleased audience at their presentation of Ingomar, at the Opera House, last Saturday evening. They are now arranging to give Robinson Crusoe, at an early date. In this a considerable number of home talent will be engaged. Tuesday night the company went to Monon, and Friday night will go to Remington.

I wish to inform the public that I am now located in the barn formerly occupied by Robt. Randle, and am making feeding and boarding horses a specialty. I also have a few livery rigs to let at reasonable prices. Please give me a call. 46-3tp. W. E. Ovekton. Uncle Ellis Walton, the veteran hack-man, met with a serious accident, last Saturday evening, in the shape of a kick in the abdomen from one of his horses. The injury was very painful and for a time fears were entertained for his recovery, but he :s now doing verj well and Dr. V. E. Loughridge, his attending physician, thinks he will soon be about again. Uncle Ellis was unharnessing the horse at the time, and I standing very near it, and the kick was probably more of a push than a kick, and therefore much less dan- . gerous.

Arthur Snodgrass paid his mother a short visit Sunda} r . He is night operator at IDmmond. Chas. Robinson, the express messenger on the Monon that was mjured in a wreck at Hammond, has become insane by reason of the injury. His family has brought suit against the road for $25,000. Don’t forget the clearance sale of summer goods at Mrs. Lecklider’s. Ex-Surveyor Thrawls was up along the banks of the romantic Lakin ditch a week or two ago, and foun d the whole country thereabouts grown up with an immense crop of corn. In the same region where he now walked m a sea of waving corn up to his arm pits, five years ago he waded for weeks in water up to his thighs. Good ditching did it.

The County Commissioners were in session a short time Monday. They were attending to some gravel road matters, and they also arranged for sending to the state school for feeble minded children a young girl named Ruth N. Crawford, of Keener tp. The state will pay for her education. This school is located at Ft. Wayne. The old rule for distinguishing a mushroom from a toadstool, “Eat it, and if you live it’s a mushroom,’’ does not satisfy the average person. Neither docs it seem to satisfy W. Hamilton Gibson, who has prepared an article on the subject for the August Harper’s Magazine. According to Mr. Gibson, all large fungi are mushrooms, the toadstools with the rest. Moreover, many un-pleasant-looking mushrooms which the public has labled “toodstools” are very good eating, and the only dangerous fungus in this part of the world is a innocent-looking pure white umbrella-shaped mushroom, the deadly Amanita. Fifteen common and edible mushrooms are illustrated and described in Mr. Gibson’s article, so plainly that a novice, if he met them in his rambles, could net fail to recognize them.

Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Brewer, the former a well known merchant of Francesville, had the great misfortune to lose their three months old infant, last Friday, while visiting Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Hershman, at this place. The babe was taken siek at 3 p. m., Thursday, and died at 4 p. m. the next day. Its disease was cholera infantum. The remains were taken back to Francesville for interment. House to Rent .—Six rooms. Enquire of J. C. Passons LOST —A gold cuff-button, gold dollar back, gold s2£ front. Two dollars reward for its return. J. E. Spitler.

~ Mrs. A. G. W. Farmer and Mrs. Penright, both living southeast of town, were quite badly hurt last Sunday. They were riding in the back seat of a spiing wagon, and in driving through a ditch, the seat came loose and threw both ladies out backwards. Mrs, Farmer’s collar bone was broken, and Mrs. Penright’s back was very severely bruised. Both are reported as doing well, by Dr. Washburn, who is treating them.

B. F. Ferguson has SIOO,OOO of private funds to loan on real estate at as reasonable a rate and as low a commission as any other firm. Don’t fail to call and see me before you make your application. Office up stairs in Leopolds block, Rensselaer Ind. If you are too far away to come and see me, write to me. I will make loans in the adjoining counties. It is a most excellent evidence of the sure and solid growth of the town of Rensselaer that so far during this present year of general depression, such a comparitively large amount of building should be done. Already there have been completed, or work is ndw in progress upon, thirteen good residences in the town or immediately adjacent to it. All of them are good houses, too, and their average cost will probably be not less than SI4OO or SISOO. This list will also be considerably enlarged before the season closes, we have good reason to believe-!

Grandfather Cotton, who arrived in town Monday, reports that bis daughter Miss Ariila Colton, will leave Battle Creek, Mich., sanitarium next Monday. She has been there nearly a year. Her health is no better, apparently, than when she went there. Joe Putts’ horse, hitched to a I buggy and tied near the court bouse well, got loose Monday, and started off, first at a brisk tret and then at a lively run. He was caught at the river bridge however, by Geo. Barcus and another party. Several persons previously tried to catch him, but found him about as diflLnll to stop as some of the hot grounders at lost Thursday’s ball game.

County Clerk Coover has just sent in his statistical report for the year ending June 30, 1894. It shows among other things, that 189 civil cases were begun in the Jasper circuit court during the year, and that 39 were pending when it closed; 26 criminal cases were commenced, and that there was one conviction for felony and five for misdemeanors. Marriage licenses issued 95. Divorces granted 11. Of these divorces 8 were to the wife and 3 to the husband; 4 were for abandonment; 4 for cruelty; 1 for drunkenness, and 2 for failure to provide. It will be noticed that the proportion of divorces to marriages is about one to nine. It would not be safe to conclude from this however, that one married person in every nine gets a divorce; from the reason that people who get addicted to what might' be called the divoroe habit, are apt to git divorces aga ; n and again. Thus a number of those who obtained divorces in this court during the year, had been through the same experience several times before.