Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1894 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Mrs. Wesley Karsner, of Chicago, is visiting Rensselaer relatives. For THRESHING COAL go to Dexter & Cox. Mrs. T. F Clark is visiting relatives at Frankfort. See those new sailers just arrived at Mrs. Leckliders. Miss Ura McGowan is visiting at Winamac, this week. I can now handle all kinds of poultry, and pay cash for same. J. W. King. The report that Graham Earle, the actor, was being treated for insanity, at LaPorte, was a mistake.

Dexter <fc Cox have coal for threshing machine engines. Rensselaer Wilkes was out of luck again in the race at Buffalo, last Thursday and did not get a place. Don’t forget the clearance sale of millinery to make room for fall goods at Mrs. Lecklideis. Mrs. Geo. Wolverton and daughters, Misses Ella and Maggie, of White Co., visited here Sunday. Bring your poultry to me and get cash for it. J. W. Kino. Near Depot.

W. H. Eger will add another story to his hardware store building this season; which he will utilize as a ware-room. You need bread and Lakey <fc Sayler also knead bread. What they knead you need. Try it and see. A good front room, over the postoffice, for rent. Suitable for offices or housekeeping. Apply to E. P. Honan, at the post-office.

The corner stone of the new court house at Monticello will be laid next Thursday, Aug. 16th, with imposing ceremonies.

The best and freshest of everything in the bakery line, at Lakey & Sayler the new bakers, successors to Milliron & Martindale.

Rochester has a mad dog scare, and the town marshal is ordered to kill all unmuzzled dogs found on the streets.

Buy your farm wagons of B. F Ferguson, and save money. Mrs. Catherine Laßue, and her little grandson, Wade Laßue, have gone to Crawfordsville, to be absent a month. We can and will sell goods cheaper for cash than on time. Porter <fc Yeoman.

The county commissioners were in session from Monday until Wednesday, making the annual settlement with the township trustees.

A daughter was born Sunday, to Mr. and Mrs. Geo. E. Nichols, north of town. On Tuesday a son to Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Harmon, in town. Wm. Cotton and daughter, Miss Arilla Cotton, are in town this week, it being the latter’s first return home since she went to the Battle Creek sanitarium a year ago. . Everything new and fresh in our Store; and goods delivered to all parts of the city. The staple and fancy grocers, Alter & Yates.

Remington has a young man who is so “muchly” bow-legged that he takes a board with him to place on his lap when he Visits his girl, to prevent her from falling through.

Jesse Sayler has bought the interest of Oscar Tharp, in the restaurant and bakery business of Lakey <t Tharp, and the firm is now Lakey <fc Sayler. The change was made last Friday.

Wm. King has gone to Zionsville, Boone Co., to look for a farm to rent in which case the family will move there. His daughter, Miss Emma, who went with him, expects to remain there in any case.

B. F. Fendig and Bion Zimmer-"I merman left yesterday for a trip on the lakes. They will go as far as Green Bay and return, by lake steamers. lam now prepared to handle all kinds of poultry, eggs and game in season. J. W. King.' Near Dept.

The students at the summer school now number 55. Next week will conclude the term, after which, the following week, will be held the annual Teachers’ Institute. Lakey & Sayler the new and enterprising bakers and lunch men. Don’t forget them.

The drouth is assuming serious proportions, in this vicinity. Especially is this the case in the sandy soil in the northern portions of the county On the “black dirt” the corn is not suffering greatly as yet. Victor Reeve, son of Express agent N. W. Reeve, who has lately returned from Kansas, will succeed A. S. Nowels in charge of the express office, as soon as the “route agent” comes to make the change.

Ed. Meyer, a 16 year old boy, jumped off a fast Monon train, at Creston, near Lowell, a few days ago, and was so badly injured that he died in a few hours. His parents live at Frankfort.

Cow Strayed. From my place in Barkley tp. Red and white, 2 years old, dehorned, right earslit. Return of the cow or information of whereabouts. will be properly rewarded. Post-office address Rensselaer. 2tp. Len Griggs. Burglars cracked a safe at Hebron, Tuesday night of last week, and robbed P. E. Hoeshaw, a jeweler, of SIOOO worth of watches and jewelry. Also got SSO or S6O in money, belonging to the Good Templars.

To my many friends and patrons, lam now prepared to handle all kinds of poultry and game in season. Bring it to me. J. W. King. A timid 'Fort Wayne lady asked a street car motorman if there was any danger of her getting a shock if she put her foot on the rail. He told her that she would not unless she put her other foot on the trolley wire.

The west side court house hitch chain was put in good shape last week, by Town Marshal McGowan, the town board having at last conconcluded that it was their job to keep that chain in repair.

Mrs. M. E. Leckliker and son Clarence arrived home last Saturday? from a two week’s visit at South Bend. Mrs. Lecklider’s mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Finney, accompanied her home, and will probably remain until next spring.

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. Overton.

Work on the gravel road has been going on with a rush, and great progress has been made, on all of them. Yesterday all teams had to lay off, on account of the railroad company being unable to get in gravel as fast as the teams hauled it away. The W.C. T. U. desire the children and their friends to meet at the M. E. church, Saturday afternoon, Aug., 11, at 3 o’clock to organize a company of the Indiana Loyal Temperance Legion. Children, come and join this society and you will surely be delighted with it. Attorney General Smith has rendered an opinion to the effect that county clerks have no right to suppress marriage licenses. This matter was brought out as a test case instituted by Editor Crampton, of the Monroe Democrat, who was refused the privilege of copying the records. Logansport Journal: August twenty-second, the day fixed for the Republican Congressional Convention, Barnum will pitch his tent in Logansport, and arrangements will be made to feed all dissatisfied and disgruntled statesmen to the wild animals. This warning is given in time so that every visiting statesman will come prepared to wear a smile in addition to the usual summer garments.

*, A company, headed by Capt. D. F. Allen, of Frankfort has contracted for the labor of 100 state prisoners, to be used in the manufacture of a light-grade bicycle. The warden has agreed to erect a- three-story building for use of the factory, to be ready for occupancy in sixty days. Dr. J. H. Loughridge was compelled to submit to another surgical operation, last Monday. It was performed by Drs. Alter, Washburn and V. E. Loughridge. It is problematical whether the operation will afford anything more than temporary relief.

The first case for damages on account of losses sustained in the late riots was filled Thursday against the city Jof Chicago. The Monon company demands $5 for damages to a freight car. It will be a test case and although the amount is small th'e suit will be bitterly contested. Freight traffic with the Louisville, New Albany <fc Chicago is now the heaviest it has been at any time in the last fourteen months. Every locomotive the company has is in service. The heaviest movement is in stone, coal, grain and live stock. —lndianapolis Journal.

Mis?es Grace Varatta and Blanch Loughridge, teachers in the Rensselaer schools, left last Wednesday for an enjoyable trip east. They expected to visit Niagara Falls, for several days, and then attend the celebrated Chatauqua assembly, for some time. All bills due me on furniture will be in the hands of a collector if not settled by Aug. 15. C. C. Sigler.

The Goodland electric light plant will be put in by the General Electric Company, of Chicago, at a total cost, exclusive of the building and site, of $6,197. The system will be the Thomjison-Huston, the same as in use at Rensselaer. It will be a very large plant, and at a comparatively very small price. On account of Battle Ground camp meeting, August 3rd to 12th inclusive tickets will be sold at rate of a a fare and a third for the round trip, good returning until Aug. 13 r h. $1 60 from Rensselaer. W. H. Beam

Rev. W. H. of Firth, Neb., has been making a few days visit in Rensselaer and vicinity’. He came mainly to visit his father, the venerable Henry Sayler, of Newton tp., who is in very poor health. Mr. Sayler reports that the hot winds of a few weeks ago, has practically destroyed the corn crop over the largest part of Nebraska. Rev. Sol. C. Dickey, state Synodical Supt., of Home Missions, will preach at the Presbyterian church, Sunday, Aug., 12th, both morning and evening. All cordially invited . Edward Baech, pastor.

The entire company which performed Uncle Tom’s Cabin here so very satisfactorily,last Saturday evening, will go to Morocco, next Monday evening. They will give the good people of Morocco, an Uncle Tom performance, that “will make their hair curl” for a fact. With the company also will go Rensselaer’s famous orchestra “Healy’s” than which there is no finer in northern Indiana.

George H. Brown, Administrator of the estate of Wm. M. Noland, deceased, has an automatic hay stacker, a steam bay press, a corn shelter and a corn grinder, several thousand bushels of oats, two hundred tons of wild and tame hay and other personal property that he desires to sell at private sale on good terms. Apply or write to him at Francesville, Indiana. 2t

Wabash Plain Dealer: Farmers are getting onto a new wrinkle in the harvesting of their hay. They cut it with a self-binder, tieing it up in bundles the same as wheat and .putting into shocks to dry. It is claimed that it cures much better and holds its rich green color, except the outside of the bundles, and it is much more easy to handle. David Whistler says he has tried this method with the beit of satisfaction, and other farmers are beginning to use it.

B. F. Fendig’s Field Columbian Museum continues to gather in the curios. A piece of a board from the original Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the property of J. W. King, is one of the latest acquisitions. Also a lot of fragments of pottery from Indian or Mound Builders mounds, from Chas. Pullins farm, in Barkley tp. Still another is what was evidently the tusk of a pre-Adamite wild boar. This was dug up lately on the Wm. Baker place, a few miles north.

S. E. Yeoman wants to buy a few more fresh cows and springers, for the eastern market. Highest cash price paid. See him at the Makeever House. 2tp

H. C. Hanson, prohibition candidate for Congress in this district, spoke at the court house last Friday evening. Mr. Hanson lives at Ho bart, Lake Co., and is the editor of the Hobart Advertiser, a not inordinately successful local weekly newspaper. He also publishes the American Advocate. A small m onthly with a very ambitious name, and which is especially devoted to the advocacy of the prohibition cause. We don’t do much blowing through the papers, but we do expect our prices for cash to talk very loud. Porter & Yeoman. Some 35 or 40 old soldiers met at the Post Hall, Saturday night, to start the ball a rolling for the big joint regimental reunion at Rensselaer, August 29th and 30tb. A committee of three, one for each regiment, was appointed to solicit funds, and entertainment for the visiting veterans. The committee consists of Dr. B. Washburn, for the 46th; Wm. Warren for the 48th and Chas. Platt for the 87th. A committee to have general charge of all arrangements was also appointed, of which Capt. M. F. Chilcote, of the 48th, is chairman.

Don’t bake yourselves trying to bak? bread this hot weather. Just stop the bread wa o on iu its daily rounds.

Conductors Adams and Negus and Engineers Shoemaker and Gilmore are all the old men that are at present working on the coal road. Some of the new engineers are first class mechanics and some hardly know how to start a train. A number of engines have already been burned out through the ignorance of the enginemen. Some of the new men areoldC.B. & Q., engineers and are as good a tet of men as ever pulled a throttle. It is said that Cook, the Master Mechanic, has said that he will resign if some of the old engineers are not taken back. Altogether things are not in the best possible shape on the coal road.—Oxford Tribune.

Buy your farm wagons of B. F Ferguson. Every one warranted. Judge Morgan had a surety-of-the-peace case, last Thursday, in which only females were interested parties. Mrs. Rachel Barley was the c rmplainant, and Miss Annie Moosmiller the defendant. Mrs. Burley and her daughter live in two rooms of Miss Moosmiller’s house, in the other rooms of which the latter and her mother also live. Naturally enough there is a family row, and the gory threats of the younger Moosmiller has resulted in her being put under SIOO bonds to keep the peace. Mrs. Burley has removed to other quarters, and the war is over. 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. The Town of Momence, 111., is reaping a rich harvest as one of the results of the great strike. The headquarters of the Coal Road division of the Eastern Illinois R. R., shops and all, are being removed there, from Brazil, and as much of the shops of the main line, at Danville, 111., as is possible to remove, will also be taken to Momence. The company got no protection nor the moral support of the people at either Brazil, Danville or Terre Haute, and they propose to take the shops where the sympathies of the people are in favor of law and order.

The possession of the Rensselaer Foundry is in dispute, and the matter will be settled in the courts. Gillett & Hochstettler rented it to Dike fora term of years; and they now want to regain possession, on the < rounds that he is neglecting to operate it. Suit was begun last week before Squire Morgan but Dike took change of venue to Squire Churchin. Monday the case was tried, but it was postponed for two weeks. Last Friday night, August Ist, was unusually cool for the time of year, and in some parts of the state frosts were reported. In Miami county, for instance, and in Bartholomew and Brown. In some cases considerable damage was done l»o corn and vines &c. So far as heard but little frost was noticed in Jasper county. A few acres of corn near Alter’s mill were done up, is all the damage reported.

There is no better and no abler all-around weekly newspaper on earth, than the New York Tribune. Its subscription price is one dollar, and it is worth many times that amount in any family. The Tribune and The Republican both one year for $1.75' This is for our old subscribers, as well as for new. For those in arrears as well as for those in advance.

A grand birthday surprise dinner was given July 24th, in Barkley tp., to Mrs. Mcßride, wife of Rev. 11. A. Mcßride, pastor of the U. B church. It was a very well planned and pleasant affair, and attended by about 80 persons. When the guests departed at evening they left behind them various substantial evidences of their esteem, including a handsome dress pattern, by Mrs. Wm. Daniels, and silver napkin rings, by Mrs. J. Nor-, man. alt was the lady’s 49th birthday. Like all Uncle Tom’s Cabin shows, that at the Opera House, last Saturday evening, had a large attendance, and unlike a good many, it was deserving of its patronage. Nearly every seat was taken, and the receipts of the evening were upwards of SIOO. Most of the leading parts, including those of the blood hounds, were taken by professionals. W. L. Swift, as Gumption Cute, and John Hartwell as Uncle Tom, were formerly of Rusco <t Swift’s Uncle Tom Cabin Show. They were immense. Edwin Southers, a small

man but a great actor, could not be excelled, as Topsey. Alphonso Phillips, as Geo. Harris, Fred Phillips as Legree, Frank Maloy as Marks the lawyer, Charley Blue, as Geo. Shelby were excellent, one and all. Miss True George was a satisfactory Eva. In fact it was a very good performance, indeed; and the people of Morocco, at which place the play will be repeated next Monday evening, with the same cast, are assured of receiving the full worth of their time and money, in attending the performance.

Bev. A. M. Foster, the learned and much traveled gentleman who lectured three evenings at the M. E. church, last week, is having a large book published in Chicago. It is upon the sime subject as the second of his lectures. ‘‘The Story of Christ.” It will be a book of 400 very large pages, most elegantly printed, and illustrated by over 100 large pictures. It will be sold by subscription. The question is often asked regarding the law of the street for pedestrians. A lawyer answers as follows: “The streets belong to the teams and vehicles and pedestrians have no more right on them than teams would have on the side-walk, but cross walks belong to pedestrians, who have the right of way over teams. Many drivers ignore the law, and go dashing over cross walks, endangering the life and limb of the pedestrian, without stopping to think that they are violating the law by driving rapidly over a crossing.” The largest county in the state, we find by studying Ryse’s new map, is Allen, with 650 square miles. The smallest is Ohio, with only 90 square miles. This last county, by the way, is much smaller than a single township in Montgomery county, Union township, which has about 111 square miles. This is the largest township in th 3 state, and at the other extreme in the township line, is Albion township, in Noble county, with only 4 square miles. Our own Jasper is the second county in size, with 570 square miles. Kosciusco is third with 556. La Porte and Greene each have 540.