Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1894 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Newt Warren, now teaching near Chicago, is here for the holidays Haul -y our grain to Hartley Bros. Mi» Jessie Adams, of Monon, is visiting Miss Gusla King. Tnmine l hats from 50c to $1 at Mrs. Lecklider’s. F. 8.. Laaming and family of Goshen, are h*Te for the holidays. Cal! s’ Dexter <fc Cox if you want pure buckwheat flour. Miss Edith Marshall,- now teaching at Joliet, 111., is home for the holidays. Buy your portiere and rugs at C. Lecklider & Co. Mr and Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth and family, are at Kalamazoo, Mich., visiting relatives. You can get pure buckwheat flour at Dexur & Cox.

A three year old child of John Nowela, uurlhwe.st of town, fell and broke an arm, last Saturday night. See those beautiful dinner sets china and porcelain at C. Lecklider A Co. Lakeys ua»e shop moved two doors west, Monday, into the new room lately built by Ellis & Murray. Take your grain to Hartley Bros, between Planing mill and Paxton’s lumber yard, and receive Remington and Good land prices. Alfred Collins has sold his Newton township farm, which he got of John Sayler, to Philip Paulus. The Rensselaer post office will close at 7. p. m. from Jan. Ist, to May Ist, as per notice issued by Post Master Honan.

D Warne, of Hutchinson, Kans., has been visiting relatives in Jasper Co, his old home,* for several weeks. Also old army comrades. Mr. Chilcote, one of the Illinois new comers, is building two new houses in the eastern end of Jordan tp. Mr. and Mrs. Zimri Dwiggins, Mrs. Dunlap, and Mrs. Wood of Chicago, spent Christmas with Rens* selaer frienda and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Banes and children went to Monon, Tuesday, to attend a grand family re-union, at the home of Mrs. Banes’ parents.

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Hicks, of near Remington, arrived in town yesterday from a protracted visit to Mr. Hicks’ old home in Canada. Bihths —To Mr. and Frank Ro wen, of Surrey, a son, Friday, Dec. 21st To Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Pruett, of Jordan tp. a daughter, Saturday, Dec. 22ad. A daughter was born last Thursday, Dec. 20, to Mrs. Anna Tuteur. It is a posthumous child, its father being the late Benj Tuteur, whose death occured last summer.

A grand double wedding will take place today, at the residence of the father of the two brides, Michael Robinson, trustee of Gillam tp. The names of the parties are mentioned in our Gillam correspondence. The work of putting up the iron for the new bridge east of town, began last Wednesday afternoon. It is probable that the bridge will be nearly or quite ready for use, by the end of this week. Mr. Geo. E. May, of Princton tp.. White Co., and Miss Dena Wuerthner, daughter of Erbardt Wuerthner of N“wton tp., this county, were married last Sunday afternoon, by Rev. M. A. Paradis, pastor of the Presbyterian church.

Wm.'N. Jam s got a tlimno badly mashed, Monday, while h -lpiog handle the Christmas distribution of fi r e wood, contributed by S. P. Thompson.

- The Bazaar, given by the Presbyterian ladies in John Eger’s vacant store room, wa< very successful, the financial receipts reaching to about 1250. Misses Laura E-ins, and Alphere Blanch Dern, of Delphi, will spen part of their Ctiriatma-. vacation with their aunt, Mrs. Emma J. Daugherty, of this p'a e. MONEY—Not to loan but to buy corn witu'. Th-- way to prosper is to sr-li what you min- a; gotd figuies. Therefore consult. C. W. Coen befoie selling yUui grain ai d hay. The golden w.ddiug of Mr. and Mrs John Coen was very pleasantly observed yesterday a’ r oon and evening; further particulars of which will'be given next week.

Rensselaer R-bekas elected the following officers last Friday evening. Noble Grand, Rebecca Porter; Vice Grand, Mary Collins. Secretary, Laura Shields; Treasurer, Louisa Imes; Trustees, J. V. Collins, E. M. Parcel Is, J. R. Vanatta.

Thm new elective officers of Prairie Lodge, A. F. & A M , are as follows: Worthy Master: B. F. F-ndig; Senior Warden, C. G. Spitler; Junior Warden, H. L. Brown; Treasurer, Ralph Fendig Aif. W. Hopkins.

Warren Washburn Healy is the name of a young Missourian, horn a few weeks ago, in Sedalia. Geo. W. Healey is the proud and happy father, and Dr. I. B Washburn’s oldest son, is the nearly tq«alij proud and happy name-sake.

J. A Rothrock has sold the Monticello Democrat to A B. Clarke and J. P. Simons. In his valedictory Mr. Rothrock gives ill healih and poor prospects fur speedy and permanent recovery, as one of his reasons for selling.

Warren and Ira Washburn, of Pardue; Kirgie Spitler, of Wabash; Geo E. Mitchell and Ray Thompson, of Bloomington, aie college students home for the holiday vacation. H. C. Tinney, of Lafayette, a Cornell graduate, is the guest of the Washburn boys. A male baby was born down in West Creek V wnship last Tuesday that only weighed 9 ounces, and a ring worn on the father’s little huger could be slipped over its leg up to the knee. The child is of Norwegian parents, and bids fair to live and grow hearty.—Ciown Point Register. Uncle Alfred McCoy of course came to the front again, as usual, this Christmas. Monday Mrs. Abbie Roberts and Mrs. N. S. Bates distributed at his expense, among the families in town whose financial circumstances was such as to make such attentions acceptable, 23 sacks of flour, and 23 fine turkeys.

The ladies of the Presbyterian church will give a children’s dinner on New Years day, to which all the children of the town are invited. Anyone wishing to join with them and contribute in any way to the work, will please send their offerings to the Ladies’ Bxz&ar rooms, Monday, Dec. 31st, or Tuesday morning. Sam E. Nicoles, formerly located at Rensselaer but now Monon station agent at Medaryville, had his cash box stolen a week or two ago, with a large amount of cash in it. He found it after a little, however, in the 'reight room, where the thief had secreted it with the evident intention of returning for it later.

The case of W. B. Austin vs. A. Leopold was tried before Squire Burnham, one day last week, but decision will not be given until next Monday. The suit is on the official bond of the “late” oonstiable Billy Wood, for money alleged to have been collected on an execution by Wood, and not turned over. The defense turns mainly on the point whether the suit should have been brought against Mr Leopold alone, or against all of his bondsmen, collectively.

Miss Genevieve R. Huffman, lately with Mrs. L. lines’ millenery store, and Mr. Franfc Davison, of Greencastle, will be married at that place, next Monday evening, Dec. 31st. The elegant music box fchich has been on exhibition at Fendig’s drug store, was raffled off Monday evening, by Geo. Strickfaden. Vance Collins held the lucky number.

Corn has lately been coming into Rensselaer at a rate heretofore unequalled, and a careful estimate says that the total amount of ear corn now held by the various dealers is fully 25,000 bushels. It is a good deal of corn for this locality where such a large proportion of what is raised is gtnertilly fed to stock.

It costs money to advertise a firstclass show. Ben Wallace, of Peru, has just closed a contract with the Buffalo Courier Lithograph Co., for 157,000 worth of lithographs and printed matter. For newspaper advertising, bill posting, etc., it will cost Wallace at least $50,000 more. This is a fortune in itself, all expended in one summer for advertising.

The vast flocks of crows that are now to be seen at different times and places, in the southern part of this county, and places adjoining, appear to all have their roosting place in a tract of timber in the eastern part of Jordan tp. They gather there every evening in swarms of astonishing magnitude.

County Superintendent Warren, Prof. Bohannon, Principal Purdue, Assistant Principal Reubelt, Township trustees, Greenfield, of Maiion, Gwin, of Hanging Grove, Cooper of Uuiuu, and Misses Mary and Abbie | Harrison, and Jackson, are attending the State Teachers’ Association, at Indianapolis. A notable and very commendible Christmas benevolence, was the distribution of something over 20 loads of good wood, Monday, among fam-' ilies who needed it. The wood was all given by S. P. Thompson, being shipped down on the railroad from his farms in Union tp. The work of handling and distributing the wood was contributed by other parties. Great complaints are made of sneak-thieving lately. The worst sufferers are people who leave their teams standing about the public square. For them to miss robes, whips and other articles is said to be an almost daily occurence. It is to be hoped that some means will be devised to catch the guilty parties and to bring them up with a short turn. The Newton county grand jury has returned two indictments against the directors of the Kentland fair, for permitting gambling on the grounds of the association. That is right. It is time that gambling in country fairs was sat down on and sat down on hard. It is a source of great demoralization in every community where permitted. If fairs can’t run without gambling, they had better not run at all.

A Christmas day wedding took place Tuesday afternoon, at the residence of the bride’s grand-parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Bedford, just east of town. The parties were Mr. Frank B. Hitehcock and Miss Lizzie Warner. Rev. E. Baech performed the ceremony. The newly marked couple left on the afternoon train for Peoria, 111., where the groom resides and is engaged in the business Of manufacturing white lead.

The Edwin Southern family, well remembered here as the Faust and Marguerite show company, have been having a run of unusually bad luck. The young lady of the company, Mies Southern, was very sick for some time; and later Mrs. Soothers was very sick also, thus laying them up for a long time. At last accounts their prospects were brightening, they having found a good financial backer and gone into the Robinson Crusoe business exclusively. They were in the vicinity of Washington D. C., when last heard from.

The Revs. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Woodward, of . Dutton, Mich., and L. E Conner closed a successful -eries of meetings ar the Church of God, last Thursday, evening. There were six additions to the membership of this church, during the meetings. A detachment of the Salvation Array held a meeting at the M. E. church last evening. It is probable that the msetings will continue for at least several evenings, although no positive information upon that point had been received when we went to press.

The Rensselaer college band furnished music at the Catholic Fair Wednesday night. The boys are all excellent players and present a very fine appearance in their handsome new uniforms—a gift from Mrs. Judge Hammond just previous to her departure to her new home in Lafayette. —Remington Press.

A new class of work the Rensselaer foundry is now making is cast iron vaults or coffin boxes, for enclosing the coffins of the departed. A large size sample of these vaults may now be seen at the west side of Wright’s undeertaking store. It weighs 1400 pounds and is evidently a well made article of its kind.

The case of Henry L. Southwick against the Monon Ry. Co. was tried at Kentland last Thursday. Southwick, it will be remembered was the freight train brakeman badly hurt at the M< -non depot at Rensselaer, Nov. 23, 1893, by a piano which he was helping to unload, falling upon him. Tbe jury gave him a verdict of $2500.

Considerable excitement and alarm was occasioned at the school house, last Thursday, by au accident to a little girl named Dora Vice. While playing with others in the basement she was accidentally thrown with her head against a brick wall and being momentarily stunned, and later a good deal frightened, it was at first thought she was very badly injured, but she was able to be at school again the next day. There was a'freight train wreck, on the Monon, last Saturday, between St Johns and Dyer. Seven or eight loaded cars were piled up, and the road so badly blockaded that no trains got through until the afternoon mail train. The wreck was caused by the train breaking in two, on a heavy grade, and then coming together again. No one on the train was hurt, but a tramp who had camped by the road-side bad a leg broken by a car falling upon him. Most of those who availed themselves of our very advantageous Inter Ocean and N. Y. Tribune clubbing offers, last year, are renewing for the same papers as fast as their years expire. A few, however, seem to be neglecting to renew, possibly with the idea that the offer is not open ito renewals. This idea, if any hold it, is a mistake The offers are open to all, old subscribers as well as new, and to those already taking the Inter i Ocean or the Tribune, as well as those who are not.

The Rensselaer cornet band took a turn through town Tuesday, and favored our citizens with a number of well executed selections. The band has lately been re-organized, and under the zealous and capable leadership of H. V. Weaver, is rapidly making great improvement. We have plenty of talent here for one of the finest bands in this section of the state, and if our citizens will give this present organization the encouragement they deserve, we soon will have such a one.

Christmas was very pleasantly observed, Monday evening, by the Presbyterian, Methodist and Christian Sunday Schools. The exercises of the two former were held at the respective churches, and their exercises consisted of songs, music, recitations Ac. The exercises of the Christian School were held at the opera house. A Christmas play was the literary feature. Fine Christmas trees with a lavish distribution of presents, were features of all the exercise i.

Goodland is enjoying the reputation of having the cheapest electric light in the state. Th“ cost of the plant is stated at $6,000, though it » hinted that SIO,OOO is nearer the correct figures. However that may be the town owns the plant, and has only issued SB,OOO of bonds on account of it. The street lights are 22 in number. They are rated at $6 per month while incandescent r Igbts are furnished at 20 cents' per month for residences and 30 cents per month for stores. Strange as it may appear, there are some citizens of the town who are kickers on the investment as a piece of extravagance. Instead of kicks the town board deserves a monument.—Monticello, Herald.

An exchange does up the chronic growler in excellent style, as follows: “He was an old croaker, be loved to complain, in winter of snow, and summer of rain. He growled it ’twas dry, he growled if ’twas wet, he growled when a youngster, he’s still growling yet; then hurry him off and bury him deep, for he always will grumble awake or asleep. Go make his lone grave where the bumble bees bum, where the straddle bugs straddle and the bumming birds hum; where the Katydid did what she wanted to do and the green bottle fly used to fly where he flew.” Last Saturday was probably the biggest day for trading ever known in Rensselaer. The weather was fine, the roads were good," and the town was full of people, with their pockets full of money, from their big crops of corn and oats, and the sales of all kinds of goods, especially of holiday goods, were enormous. Every store in town seemed to be busy from early in the forenoon until dark. It would probably he a safe estimate to say that 16.000 worth of goods were sold in town, that day. Monday dso was a pretty good day for trade, but not nearly what it would have been, had the weather been better.

Editor Bowser of the Chesterton Tribune says: “Hammond is a qu er town, anyway. 1 was In on< of the big hardware stores with a number <f representative citizens. Somehow we got to talking about the new industry recently started there. Think what it is? Ahorse slaughtering house. Old broken down pelters are brought there and killed. An extra nice fat anima brings to. but the average price paid is $1 50. These men told me, and told me for the tru.h, that these horses are made into dried beef, sausage and fruuktorts. That settled my appetite fur dried beef and free lunch. But everything goes in Hammond.”

Our good brother of the Monticello Herald is greatly exalted because of some figures in the last biennial volume of statistical reports, wherein it appears that the warranty deed transfers of real estate in White county for 1893 were stated at 14,824,000, or next to the largest amount of any county reporting. If the Herald will study over the tables a little further, however, note the moderate number of sales reported in White county that year, and also compare the figures with those for 1894 in the same volume, it will find that the cause of its rejoicing is a simple typographical error, by which a figure 4 was put where a figure 1 should have been. White county had its fjjpll share of buy ing and selling of real estate in these two years just ending, but not more than that.

Marriage licenses since last reported: ( Charles L. Nuss, | Luella L. Probasco. j Alfred F. Webber, | Laura May Potts. ( Frank B. Hitchcock, ( Lizzie Warner. 1 Charles H. Guild, Millie J. Robinson. William A. Faris, Florence C. Robiisoi. Edwin M. Dunham, Minnie Miller. John R. Martin, I Elzena Nash. George E. May, Dena Weurtbner. ( Cuarles A. Burns, j Artie A. Clark.

Il seems that the gins • v. r tington.nse a Irf’le slang, •>» »i jw-ars-from the following, win* b b tnUen from the Huntington News: T*o girls were returning from. «ho 4. a few evenings since, .-wbw • n-- «>f them remarked to her chum, with a vicious crunch on her “bln k Jack” chewing gum: “I jist > s shameful the way Saliie Spltzzlejg spits slang. My! If I t*ii-«i u»y talker asshedoei. my I loou. l id snoozer of a dad would tan my duds until the dust was thicker’n fleas in fly time.” To which the <<’u r .e----sponded: “Yon betcher b»a*.-,* and it would serve you right. p rents are sunflowers of the same hue, and if I should make a nv «■ rack m my chin music they’d tbr >«b tin r< sy cussedness out of my apg< lie <■.,torn y quieker’n old Grover could clap a veto on a pension bill!”

Holiday Rates. —The Mo ;<>n Route will sell jouud trip t<k»ts between all stations, at ch <f! i «• e third rates, on Dec. 24th. 25tii, and 31st, and Jan. Ist. All geo •<• turning until Jan. 2. The Evening Star Chapt-i, Order of the Eastern Star, has just indulged in a revised set of by-1.»w% ,n d h d the same printed at The Repubhcan job office, which makes a sp»eialy of all kinds of pbamphlet work. Extern Star Chapter, by the way, u a very flourishing body. Has a -<»« 80 members, is the oldest fem de < r<ler in Jasper county, and is one of 'he best chapters of the O. E. s. m the state. Which fact has obtained »en era! recognition, as witn> s» the three rand lodge offices that h.v, been held here, namely, Grand Matron Grand Patron and Grand L ciurf*BSL Lastly, but by no means telSHvj this lodge has an appropriate and poetical name. And how different it is in this respect from the < v»-rlasting “Rensselaer Lodge” so a d uj in such tiresome and humdrum i»ration, of all the other lodges and branch lodges in town,except Prairu Lodge of Masons and Ircquois Lodge ot Odd Fellows

Threw Himself n the loari’ Mere Charles Aldridge, th>' old man 68 years of age, who stole Commissioner Scheldt’s team and after bec-g incarcerated in the Lake county bastite confessed to having stolen thiiteen head of horses, was put on trial Tuesday morning, he plead< d nut guilty to the charge of horse stealing. A jury was impaneled to bear the case and most of the evidence had been submitted when the prisoner aeked leave to change his plea of not guilty to that of guilty, and threw himself upon the mercy of the court. Judge Gillett allowed him to do so. and up to Thursday morning early the culprit had not been sentenced. Sheriff Hayes did some excellent detective work in bringing the old culprit around to a confession of his misdeeds, and his efforts were rewarded with success. The old man will probably get a sentence that will cover the balance of his imluitu life—* Crown Point Register. The above named Aldridge is the party whose name has been heretofore mentioned as the person who stole J. F. Iliff’s livery team. His right name, according to Mr. Iliff, is Funday. Mr. Iliff thinks that the prosecuting attorney at Crown Point would have done much better to have had Aldridge turn state’s evidence, and thus secured the arrest and conviction of the gang of younger men whose tool be was, and who bene fitted by the stealing more than he did himself.