Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1894 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

The October term of the Circuit ■ Court begins next Monday. I -See the new 1 , line of crockery and I glassware at C. A. Lseklidec & Co. I iThe McColly Bros, are building ■ still another mew house, near, the I depot. ■ House to Rent. Seven rooms, cis- ■ tern, wood house, cellar and barn. ■ I). S. Makeever. ■ A big grocery trade circular issued ■ every Wednesday, by J. C. Porter & ■ Son. Call and .get a copy. It will I save you money. ■ , Don’t forget the millinery opening ■ atM. .& A. Meyer’s, next week, ■•Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Out. ■ 11th, 12th and iSih. ■ A. M-c. Coy is building a tenant ■ house on his Marlboro farm. R. C. ■ Dowler has the contract. ■ We can and will sell goods ■ cheaper for cash than on time. ■ Poikfbr & Yeoman. ■ Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Sears arrived ■jiome from South Dal;., Monday eve■ning. ■. Latest designs in pattern hats at ■Mrs..Lecklider’s on opening days . ■ Miss True Alter left Sunday for ■Cincinnati, where she will enter the ■College of Music. ■ Lafayette flour 70 cents, 50 pound ■eiuk at Porter’s special Saturdays Got. 13th. H The Edwin Slithers ecuapany has ■leen in .Ohio most of the time since ■eaving here, and has been having excellent patronage. ■ The freshest and finest cf fruits ■eceived daily, at Alter & Yates. ■ J. F. Watson, of southeast Marion, sold his Inrm to a Mr. Francis, of ■larvey, 111,, 210 acres at <4.5 per lore. |H Isaac Glazobrook has moved his ■hop just acrose the street into his |Bwn building, where he is now ready serve all his eustomere. H| Mrs. J. F. Warren went to Muncie, ■■Tuesday, as delegate to a convention |Kf the Women’s Foreign Missionary ■ociety. ■ See those single aud double door tiers and stand covers at C. A. <i Co. ■ Ruby, the six year-old only child ■f Fletcher and Sal lie Snodgrass, died ■■t their home in Lafayette, of diphlast Saturday. She was a of Mrs. Fishel, of ■ensselaer. I BH Geo. N. Dunn, of Dunnville, a ■■rnicr graluate of the Rmsselaer school, now a student of De■■auw University, is quite a distin■■lished footballist. He is captain ■■ the DePauw eleven and plays with I in the postion of right half back.

Several loads of melons came to town last Saturday, they being about the last of am immense crop. ; Peaches, -Pears, Plums, home grown watermelons, received daily at Alter & Yates.’ j Harvey Robinson is back from Montana, and will probably remain for the winter. j Dexter & Cox have coallor thresh- > ing -machine engines. Jesse Smith has sold his farm in ■ the southeast corner of Manion township, Ao James N.-Zca, of Remingto n. | u I Remember the easy payment plan at C. A. Lecklider & Co. Some boy threw.a stone and broke one of . the large plate-glass windows in C. D._ Nowel’s dry goods store last Saturday evening. School, suits for the boys and-every suit new ..and fresh from the manufacturers. Porter, <fe Yeomak. | Schuyler C. Irwin,.of Jordan township, formerly of Rensselaer, went.to '■ Dwight, HL, Monday to take the Keeley cure. He is an estimable young man, and has eeores of friends to wish him success in this laudable: attempt to become cured of his un-I fortunate and.diseased appetite. J. E. [ Antrim accompanied him (to Dwight.' Cail on M. .& A. Meyer .for your > fashionable millinery and .dress ingWm. Eger has completed the additional story to his hardware building and is utilizing it as a ware room. The new room is reached only by means of a large elevator, which is operated only by hand power, but with such large purchase that a man ' can raise 1,000 pounds in it. Dont fail to see the boys clothing at Porter & Yeomans. Will and Bert Small* the twin sons of Rev. Gilbert Small, of Idaville, once pastor of the Rensselaer Presbyterian church, have just started a new paper at Logansport, the Saturday Evening Review. The Small brothers have been connected with the Logansport Journal for some time, and are newspaper men of conspicuous ability.

Mr.. Wm. D. Geary and Mrs. Sarah ' E. Cooper were married Tuesday by ’Squire W. H. Churchill. Miss Mary Peacock has returned from a prolonged stay in the west, teaching a dress-cutting system. A two year-old infant son of Landlord Morton, of the Nowels house • got a terrible fall, last Sunday. Fall-, i ing from a rear balcony of the hotel ! to the alley below, a distance of about 14 feet. The child was unconscious I when picked up, and was thought to Ibe killed; ibut it soon revived, and apparently suffered no very serious injury from its fall. Miss Eva Watkins, a well experienced trimmer ifrom the city, is with Mrs. Licklider, and will do her best to please the ladies of this vicinity. Charles B. Landis, of Delphi, who .is doing grand .campaign work for the Republican party this fall, will make .three speeches in Newton county ; next week. At Brook, Oct. 17, at 2:30 p.. m. At Morocco, Oat. 17, at 7'30 p.on. At Mt. Ayr, Oct. 18, at 7:30 p. >m. If the people of the west ; side of Uasper county want to hear a . rousing good speech, Jet them attend '-the speech at Mt. Ayr next Thursday pjiight. We should not be surprised /to see a large delegation go over from Rensselaer. J. C. Pouter <fc Sou, the Arcade building grocery firm, now issue an elaborate trade circular every Wednesday, .giving latest prices on all commodities in their line. Call and obtain a copy.

The Monon Route filed for record another big mortgage at the recorder’s office last week. It is for an even million dollars, and given in favor of the Central Trust Co., of New York. It covers the entire road with all its branches. The money is to be used to pay up existing debts for rolling stock, and to lay heavy steel rails on the Indianapolis division from Monon to Rossville. The mortgage covers thirty closely written I pages of the mortgage record in the recorder’s offices.

Bertie Rhoades, the 17-year old son of M. D. Rhoades, while running' down the street very fast, in the dusk of the evening, last Wednesday, ran into a wheelbarrow and broke his right kg a little above the ankle. Both bones were broken, J. C. Porter & Son have the most complete stock of tobacco of any house in town. See our price list. Special sale next Saturday, Oct 13th. Surveyor Alter and Jim C. McColly arrived home from their trip to; eastern Tennessee the latter part of [ last * eek. They found and surveyed the upper surface of the McCollys’l mountain farm. They also went .hunting for deer, but did not find any. They found some fresh bear •tracks, but on reflection concluded that they had not lost any bears. Mrs. M. E. Laeklider will hold her fall and winter opening on Thursday,Friday and Saturday, Oct. 11th, 12th and 13th. The ladies of Rensselaer and vicinity are invited to call and seedier fine display of millinery and fancy goods. The name of the order now known as Pythian Sisters, and of which there is a flourishing lodge in Rensselaer, is to be changed to Rathbone Sisters, in honor of the founder of Pythianism. This action of changing the name of the order is due to the action of the Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias which debarred every Pythian from membership in any other order which used in its name the word Pythian.

Hon. Th os. H. Nelson, of Terre Haute, has long been conceded to be one of Indiana’s very ablest and most interesting political speakers. His speech at the court house, next

Tuesday afternoon, on “Balloon Ascension Day,” will probably be the last afternoon meeting of the campaign, in Jasper county. People who come in for the balloon ascension can come early enough to hear the speech, and people who come in for the speech can stay late enough I to see the balloon ascension. There I will be ample opportunity for taking' in both speech and balloon.

The filing of new divorce cases for the October term of the Circuit Court did not stop with the seventh, noted last week. Number eight is now on file also. James Rogers, the railroad agent at Wheatfield, is the plaintiff, and Mary A. Rogers the defendant. They were married March 3, 1888, at North Judson, Ind., and separated July 22, J 892. He charges desertion and incompatibility of temper. Reductions on all grades of sugar at Porter’s. See their price list. Don’t neglect to call and see the pattern hats at Mrs. Lecklider’s, on opening days. . Three good stoves for sale, or to trade for wood. One is a good Owen stove. Also a good cupboard. Mrs. J. Q. Alter.

Bert Shepherd, .the violinist, who will be one of the chief attractions at Miss E. War de Hoffman concert, at the Opera House, Oct. 19th, is the greatest musicial prodigy Jasper county ever produced. He was raised in Remington, and showed his wonderful talents for music from earliest ciildhood. His great natural gifts have been developed by years of hard study, under the ablest inslruc- | tors in Chicago.