Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1894 — ADDITIONAL LOCALS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL LOCALS.

f Word was received yesterday that Mrs. Z a, the aged mother of L} man, Peter and James Z-a, was lying at che point of death, at the home of the latter, in Remiugton. Prof Paul Hemmersbach, professor of music at St. Joseph’s College, now organist of the finest Catholic church in Boston, is visiting friends at the College, preparatory to his final departure. For the Bethany Park Assembly, at Bethany Park, Ind., Aug. 2 to 22, round trip tickets will be sold from Rensselaer to Indianapolis, at the rate of $3.30, good returning not later than Aug. 25th. W. H. Beam.

The Southers-Price Co. are painting a fine lot of new scenery for their production of Faust They will visit Lowell and Monticello in the near future. We can conscientiously recommend the company to the . people of those towns. ......

The great crop of wheat and oats is now being thrashed in this vicinity., Some specimen items; On the A. McCoy and Walter Porter farms, in Jordan tp., the oats crop amounts to 13,800 bushels. The average yield is 55 bushels to the acre. One field, on Walter’s place, raised by Wm. Essen, averaged 65 bushels. Mike Nagel, southeast of town, has 32 bushels of wheat to the acre, and 50 bushels of oats. The Piper Bros, just northeast of town, raised 31 bushels wheat and 50 of oats to the acre. Their oats crop is 3900 bushels. John L. Nichols, who raises “craps” better than he runs for office, has 50 bushels of oats to the acre. J. T. Payne, also of Barkley, had one large wheat field go 31 and another 33 bushels. It is estimated that the average wheat yield in Barkley will be 25 bushels.

Lest Thursday a man who was going through town with a mover’s wagon and had stopped in town for a short time, in front of Eger’s grocery, caught sight of the strap, attached to a heavy iron weight, with which Mr. Eger anchors his fiery delivery horse, when not in service, and at once took out his knife and coolly cut the strap loose from the weight, and proceeds-?; with it toward his wagon. Someone told Mr. Eger what was happening to his hitch strap, and he came out redheade<LZanJJsy threatening to have him arrested, he made the man go to a harness shop and buy a new strap. It was the general opinion that the taking of the strap was a deliberate piece of small thievery, but more than likely the fellow had never seen such a hitching arrangement and thought it was a lost or thrown away strap, and that he might just as well have it as not.

The joke is on Commissioner Taber. He was over at Wolcott the other day, looking after some gravel roads, he is building there and his partner, Mr. Curtis, handed him bis coat to carry to the hotel. Instead, Mr. Taber took it to a restaurant and “soaked” it for two glasses of lemonade. The coat was hung in the restaurant labeled in large figures, “Due 10 cents.” Pretty soon Taber took some friends in the restaurant to show them Curtis’s coat with its label, and behold 1 Curtis had found out what was up, and had slipped around to the hotel where Taber’s own coat was, and had replaced his own garment with Taber’s, in the restaurant pawn shop, and thus Taber found his own coat bearing the 10 cent label, ginstead of Curtis’. The cigars and lemonade for ths crowd was at Taber’s expense.