Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1894 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

C. C. Brown has a comfortable and roomy house nearly completed on his farm southeast of town. Dont fail to see the boys clothing at Porter & Yeomans. > The Charley Pullins farm, in Barkley tp., has been sold to a Mr. Linzback, of Illinois, who will occupy it as a residence. David Hilton has bought and moved into the former Isaac Barkley .residence, ©n Elm street, near Main. Mr. Hilton has been living a few •miles east of town, for some time past. Mrs. Ludd Hopkins offers her residence for rent. Apply to Austin ,& (Co. The entire property, including the Liberal Corner store building is also for sale. Neighbor McEwen got.a very bad cut on the head, last Tkursday, by falling off a chair .upon which be was standing, to adjust a stove pipe. In falling his head struck against a corner of his press, resulting In the injury mentioned. Miss Eva Watkins, a well experienced trimmer from the city, is with 11 rs. Licklider, and will do her best to please the ladies of this vicinity. The Rensselaer Foundry is now making some very neat and certainly substantial iron posts, for marking the corners of lets in the cemeteries. A set of four of these posts, each one showing prominently the initials of the owners of the lots, are made for a dollar a p>st.

The Marguerite‘Club had a very ( pleasant masquerade party, at thCj roams of the Iroquois Club, Friday night Latest designs in pattern hats a Mrs. Lecklider’s on opening days. —Cbas. N. Ckilcote.late of Moultrie Co., 111., is a temporary occupant of the Mel Laßue house, across the river. He has bought several hundred fteres in Jordan tp , and will move upon it in the spring. SIO,OOO private funds to Loan on Real Estate Mortgages at Citizens State Bank. Dr. Washburn met with a severe and painful accident, on Wednesday afternoon, of last week, when some Bor 10 miles from town. His horse kicked him in the breast, and besides the it.jury of the sohock, loosened one of the ribs from the sternum. He is now able to be out again.

We can and will sell goods cheaper for cash than on time. Porter & Yeoman.

Louis Hopkins, the Chicago resident representative of the firm of Austin & Co., came down tne latter part of last week, to superintend the removal of the family to Chicago. This includes his mother, tyrs. Ludd Hopkins, and her little son, and her mother,Mrs. S. J. Austin. All of whom have now become permanent residents of Chitago, their place Of residence being in the suburb of Englewood. 4 Call on M. <fc A. Meyer for your fashionable millinery and dress making.

C. B. Landis bas unquestionably taken rank as one of the very ablest campaign orators in tbe state. This the Republican state committee has fully recognized, and to no one have they assigned more prominent appointments. He will make tbe last Republican speech of the campaign in Rensselaer, at the opera house tomorrow evening. YVe look to see him have an enormous audience.

Eld r L. E. Conner will preach' at the Church of God, next Sunday, morning and evening. B S. Fe.ndrg is again in the market for veal calves, fur, eggs aud game. At old stand near town hall. Uncle Isaac Alter, of Union tp., has blossomed out as an inventor, in his old age. His invention, for which he has applied for a patent, is a self-feeding pig trough, land a sample trough is on exhibition inthe court house square, near the public well There is no doubt but that the trough will “fill a long felt want.”—Anything that ;,fills a pig will do that. But it is undoubtedly a good inven* tion. Its inventor claims, and with good grounds, that the trough will economize feed greatly, as there is no chance for the pigs to waste the feed, and it will also be a great convenience and labor saver for the owners of the pigs. As by its use, the pigs only need to be fed once a day, or even once in two days, if thought desirable.

A full and complete line of Rugs at C. ArLecklider & Co. Lakey <fc Sayler the new and en terprising bakers and lunch men. Don’t forget them.

At Chicago, last Saturday, the United States Circuit Court of Appeals refused a reheariDg in the case of George M. McDonald, president of the American Guarantee Investment Company, and well known here. McDonald will go to jail for eleven months unless the U. S. Supreme Court comes to his rescue. He was convicted about a year ago, it will be remembered, with other officers of the company for using the mails to prosecute the business of a lottery . The decision was announc ed by Judge Woods, who said he was willing' to give McDonald time to appeal to the Supreme Court before sentence is carried out, and the defendant wa3 given a moath’s liberty under $5,000 bonds. He is making a mighty plucky fight to avoid the disgrace of his sentence, to say the least.

G. P. Kahler now occupies the George Hollister house, on Weston St., now the property of Austin & Co. The game season has opened. Bring all you have to B. S. Ftndig. A fine boy at Isaac Hemphill’s, Tuesday morning. Isaac says he is a thoroughbred Republican and an Odd Fellow. Remember the eosv payment plan at C. A., Leeklider & Co. The W. C. T. U. will meet with Mrs. Jennie L- Wishard, Saturday, Nov. 3, at 3 p. m. Notice the change in place of meeting. All members are requested to he present. See those single and double door porters and stand covers at C. A Leeklider & Co. Michael L. Blankeubaker died last Sunday, at his home in the west part of town, after a long illness, at the age of 73 years and 8 months. The funeral was held Monday afternoon, at the residence, conducted by Rev. B. F. Ferguson. Hard-Coal Stove —A fine baseburning hard coal stove, for sale cheap, or to exchange for sheet-iron wood stove. r Joseph Callow.

One day last week a horse which Will Wishard sofef a few months ago for le9B than SIOO, made a record of 2:25 at some point in Illinois. The horse was offered to several of Rensselaer’s fast horsemen, but they thought there was nothing in him, and would not buy.

John King was down to Attica, last week, on another two days “shooting scrape.” As usual he came out on top. The first day his average was the best on the grounds, and he took 7 first moneys alone, and had a place iin 10 other firsts, ind) seconds and 2 thirds. The second day his average was second best, and he got 1 first alone, and a part in 9 other firsts, 6 seconds and 2 thirds. Mr. Livingood, of Lafayette, ,averaged first on the ’ second day.

Married, Friday, Oct. 26, at 8 p. [ m., at the home of the bride’s parents, by Rev. R. I). Utter, Mr. Wilna O. Nelson and Miss Mae. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James W. Porter. There was a large number present to witness tin interesting cere- 1 rnony and bid the happy couple bon voyage " The best and freshest of everything in the bakery Uric, at Lakey & Say ler the new bakers, successors to Milliron <fc Murtindale.

The Republican’s job department last week and this, has been employed in printing the county and township official ballots and sample ballots, for the election of next Tuesday. It is a very large j>b as well as one that must be done with the most absolute care and precision; and must be done on time. This work has considerably delayed the publication of the paper. School suits for the boys and every suit Dew and fresh from the manufacturers. Porter <fc Yeoman.

Hon. J. F. Merideth, of Muncie, a id a member of the state legislature, and a brilliant and brainy young man, is making a series of excellent speeches in this county, this week. Monday night he spoke at Surrey. Tuesday night at DeMotte. Thursday night he will be at Kniman; Friday night at Wheatfield, and Saturday night, at Fair Oaks. See the new line of crockery and glassware at C. A. Leeklider <k Co.

Buy your farm wagons of B. F Ferguson, and save money. Mr. Michael Nagel desires throngb The Republican to express his very giateful thanks to the various friends who contributed towards the cost of the elegant gold watch, as a consolation for Uis narrow failure to beat James Walters, in the watch contest at the late Catholic fair, and as a testimonial of their appreciation of his popularity as a citizen and his excellence as a mao'