Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1895 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Mrs. J ohra Pmsenpile, of Omaha, Neb., is v uwting here, this -week. Haul yo ur grain: to Hartley< Bros. A daughter to Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Wilcox,, of Surrey, daet Friday. D. A. Stoner is at Grecncastle-this week, as jud( je at a poultry show. Call at Deirter & <Cox if you went pure buckwht flour. You can get pure buckwheat sflour at Dexter & C> >x.

Mr. and Mrs. Harris* of Brazil ..Ind. visited Mrs. Flo .Sears, over Sunday. Louie Hopkins came down from Chicago, to spend New Tears. The Tilden-Steele Company, >in “The County Fair” to-night. Don’t miss it. Dr. Alter aioved his office Monday, into the front room over the post-office. Misses Linda Dwiggins and May Dunlap, of Chicago, are visiting Rensselaer friends, this week. An excellent new plank floor is being laid on the Washington street bridge, over the Iroquois river. Mr. Lara Lardner, of Goodland, and a student of Wabash College, ‘ visited his aunt Mrs. W. L. Wishard.

A rare treat for theater goen is in store, for the evening of Jai?. 12th. It is Aaron H. Woohull ;n his nation-renowned impersonation of Uncle Hiram, in the play of that name.

A son to Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Manahan, on the Wm. Baker place, north of town, Monday, Dec. 31st. C. W. Coen has the agency for gas burned tile and will keep them in stock and make a special discount in car lots. Take your grain to Hartley Bros, between Planing mill and Paxton’s lumber yard, and receive Remington and Goodland prices. Capt Allen arrived home Sunday from the gas btit, where he had been to take a horse to F. L. Chilccfee, at Albany.

Arthur H. Hopkins, Chicago member of <the firm -of Austin ACo ~ spent New Years-with Rensselaer (relatives.

There Jias been good skating on the river for some days, and the young people have been making the most of it.

Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Austin attended a grand'ball at' /Lafayette, Tuesday night, given by the Lincoln Club, of that city.

MONEY—Not to lean but to buy com with. The way to prosper is to sell what you raise at good figurec. Therefore consult C. W. Coen before selling your grain and hay.

G. S. Day, now living near Piper City, 111., has been in this vicinity for a few days. He Likes his present lo - cation verv well.

An effort is being made to reorganize the Iroquois Club, now, temporal ily at least, defunct. The effort to re-organize promises to he a success.

Mrs. T. J. McCoy is still at Lafayette, not having fully recovered from her sickness, which commenced during her visit there on Thanksgiving time.

A family named Portwood, living just east of town, have three children sick with lung fever. They are also reported to be financially in a very distressful condition.

Mrs. Simon Kenton, of northwest of town, left for Florida, Tuesday night, intending to remain until M ay. She goes for the benefit of her health.

The pupils of Surrey school, and Miss Emma Goete, teacher, will give a Shadow and Box Social, at the school house, Saturday evening, Jan. ■ 12. All are invited.

The W. C. T. U. will meet at Mrs. > Frank Osborne’s Saturday Jan.-sth, at 2p. m. The Loyal Temperance (Legion at the same place, at 3 p. m., same day.

A public installation of the new ■ officers of the Masonic and Eastern Star lodges was -held Hast Thursday ■ evening, in the masonic hall. A ifln e -supper after the -ceremonies, was a •very pleasant feature of the occasion.

Fred Zard, of Marlboro, has bought of Simon Phillips the old-Gus Bingham property, on the west side of town, and intends to move into it, -at an early day. He is well able to live without labor the balance of his life.

John A. Rothrock died latt Thursday at Monticello, of typhoid fever. From 1885 until a few weeks before his death, he was editor of the Monticello Democrat. He was a a comparatively young man and leaves « family.

Uncle Simon Phillips visited bis sister in <Grant county, last week. He reports that since the late Republican election the manufacturers of the gas belt have taken fresh courage, and everything is now running, full blast.

“The Boys" annual dance,‘at the Opera House Monday night, was altogether and entirely a pleasant affair. Some sixty couples were present, including about fifteen persons from neighboring towns, Montizello, Wolcott and Remington. The music was especially fine, being Signor M. Marotta’s orchestra, from Chicago, with three instruments, harp, violin and flute.

Town Marshal McGowan was laid up several days, from the (fleets of a bad cold, getting out again yesterday. John Warren wore the glittering insignia and discharged the functions of Tom’s office, during his sickness.

Mr. Alfred F. Webber and Miss Laura May Potts were married on Christmas evening, by Squire Jim Morgan, in hisget-married-while-you-wait, shaving parlor. The ceremony was dispatched in the Squire’s usual brisk but thorough manner. Elvin Israel is visiting his friends and relatives in this vicinity. He has just completed a five years’ term of service in the regular army, in the 4th U. S. infantry. He has been located in Washington state and Montana, during his term.

The holiday trade in marriage licenses has been very large, but Clerk Coover still has a stock on hand that he cares to carry over, and we understand, he is willing to close out what he has left at $2 a piece, and presumably, give one free copy for a club of twelve or more. Bob Michaels, of Jordan tp., laid himself out Tuesday to haul in to Coen the grain buyer, the biggest load of shelled corn to come to Rensselaer for the last ten years. He brought in 75 bushels; or in weight 42 hundred pounds. He hauled it 8 miles. Who will beat it ?

The funeral of John Sommers was held last Thursday, at the home of his son-in-law, Fred Saltwell, in Milroy tp. He was a native of Germany and was 75 years old. He came to this country in 1873. Rev. B. F. Ferguson preached the funeral sermon.

But three classes of people are entitled to the use of the.word “we” when lpeaking or writing individually. These are emperors, editors and men with tape worms.—Hammond News.

Yea, verily! And the greatest of these are the editors, with the tapeworm men a poor second.

Iroquois Lodge, Odd Fellows, elected the following officers, last Thursday night. Noble Grand, John T. Sayler; Vice Grand, E. M. Parcells; Secretary, J. F. Antrim, Treasurer, Geo. W. Goff; Trustees, L. L. Ponsler, James W. Cowden, J. R. Vanatta.

The O’Meara School, 1$ miles southwest of Rensselaer, will give a box social Friday evening, January 11th. Proceeds for the benefit of Young People’s Reading Circle. Everybody invited. Bl AN OBE Hoyes, Teacher.

The great feature of New Year’* day in Rensselaer was the fine skating on the river and the big crowds that enjoyed it, “from -dewy mcrn to (more or lesss balmy eve” and several’hours thereafter. In fact, sc numerous were the skaters and se active their frolicsome gambolings, that they fairly Mkept the ice hot!”

J. M. Kean, of "Chicago, formerly of Rensselaer, has sold his 4400 acre ranch in Walker tp. to other Chicago parties, named Foster, for $25,000. It is a big price for the land as it laj s, but the Chicago property it was ■exchanged for was probably also figured high enough to match the Walker land.

Martha, the infant daughter of Orlando A., and Katie Yeoman, died Tuesday, evening, at their home at the Makeever house, after a short illness of brain fever. The funeral will be held at 2:30 p. m. today. Its age was two months and eight days. It was a bright and beautiful b&be and its death is a heavy affliction to its parents.

Charles Aldrich, or Aldridge, the veteran horse thief, was given a seven years sentence, on his plea of guilty, at Crown Point. He tan reduce this to five years by good behavior, and thus make his time a year for each hundred horses he has stolen, according to the latest tstimates. He has got off pretty easy.

People who enjoy a rolicking corned y well played, may have their taste gratified to-night, at “The County Fair.” Mr. Tilden who has already been heard in the character here, and is pronounced, by good judges, who have seen the play in the big cities, to be one of the best Otis Tuckers in the country. One who would do credit to any theater—a whole comedy in himself. - Willie Clark, the 17 year old son of Ott Clark, was quite severely injured Monday morning. He was skating on the river, some miles below town, and skated at full speed against a barbed wire stretched across the river. He received a very bad cut on the lip and cheek, as well as a very severe blow upon the back of his head, from the violent fall he received a<i he struck the wire. His injuries, though painful; are not dangerous.

Elsewhere, in this issue may be found a letter from Hon. E. C. Nowels, at Lamar, Colo., descriptive of the great Jack-rabbit hunt at that place, of Dec. 21st and 22nd. Several large photographs of the rabbits killed on the 22nd, as they were hung upon wire cables, awaiting shipment, have been received here, and The Republican has one of them. 5142 rabbits are shown in the picture, and it truly must have been a marvelous sight to have seen them “in the flesh. ”

Apropos the dried horse beef scare comes a rumor that one of our citizens found a small brass padlock in some sausage which he purchased of a certain butcher in town. It will certainly pay our butchers, in the long run to see that such things are kept out of sausage. It wont do. We never sawsage a thing before. [Later] After thoroughly investigating the above rumor we learn that it was nothing but a suspender button which was found in the sausage. This is worse yet for even if a dogs breath does come in short pants there is no earthly excuse for the butchers permitting the suspender to escape his nutice.—Hammond News.

'"’J ' ~3: The new elective Officers of Rensselaer Lodge, Knights of Pythias, are, Chancellor Commander, C. C. Warner; Vice Chancellor, C. F. Wood; Prelate, J. N. Leatherman, Master of Arms, J. J. Hunt; Keeper of Records and Seals, N.W. Reeve; Master of Finance, J. C. Morgan; Master of Exchequer, W. A. Huff; Inside Guard, E. C. Owen; Outside Guard, J. R. Jordan; Master of work, H- L. Brown; Representative to Grand Lodge, F. B. Meyer, Alternate Representative, J. H.Chapman. The Tilden-Steele Comedy Company began- a five nights’ engagement at the’Opera House, Tuesday night. It is a company of eight persons; and in point of dramatic merit, it ranks right along up with the best of them that ever strike the country towns. Mr. Tilden is an especially able actor, and one not previously unknown here, having formerly been one of the strongest members of the Hamilton-Marvin Company.

Prof. Fisk, the Billy goat balloonist, was arrested in Valparaiso, last Wednesday, on the charge of cruelty to animals, supposed to be inflicted on the high-flying goats. He was tried Saturday, before the Porter county circuit court, and acquitted, under the instructions of the court, which 'held thattoere was no case against him. A retired business man named Shreve caused Fisk’s prosecution, and Fisk is now coming back at Shreve by a suit for heavy damages, for false imprisonment. The “spell of weather” that struck this region toe latter part of last week, while rather severe compared with what the winter had previously been, was very mild compared with what was experienced over a large porton of the eountry. Throughout the west and the south, it was a storm period of unusual severity, with a heavy snow fall, followed by intense cold. Here the snow fall has been, practically nothing and the lowest temperature, recorded by reliable instruments, was about four degrees below zero, last Friday morning./

The County Commissioners inet in special session, last Friday. They expected to receive the new bridge east of town, but the rejection of some poor lumber prevented its completion. Rulesand regulations regarding the new gravel res ds were adopted. Dr. M. B. [Alter was reappointed . Secretary of the County Board of Health, at the former salary of tBO per year.

A Jubilee band of the Salvation Army, from Chicago, has been in town for a week, and holding meetings nightly in the M. E. church. They are fine musicians, and are provided with splendid instruments, such as drums, cornets, tambouries, violins, tic. The main feature of their meetings fs plenty 'of music, of the most lively and jubilant sort, exhortations, testimonials by members of congregation Ac. One of the principal objects of these meetings seems to be to raise money to help in the great religious and charitable woi k the Army is doing in the large cities, and for this purpose an “offering” is solicited at the door, and collections are taken during the progress of the meetings. The meetings have been well attended. From here the band will go to Monon, today.

Amzie Laßue met with quite a severe accident last Thursday afternoon. He was helping drive in a lot of horses, when two of them ran into J. H. Perkins’ yard, and Mr. Laßue pursued them at pretty good speed, and riding under a wire clothes-line, before he saw it, it caught him across the face. He was thrown fr< m his horse with one foot caught in the and the other in the bridle reins. His horse began to thrash about, at a very dangerous rate, and for a moment his situation was exceedingly dangerous, but luckily his stirrup strap broke and released him. As it was he had a very deep cut across the left cheek, nearly three inches long, and a still longer one from the forehead to the ear. The cut on the cheek was undoubtedly made by the wire; that on the forehead, bis physician, Dr. Hartsell, thinks was made by a kick from his ' horse.

We have now made arrangements to again club with the weekly Inter Ocean, of Chicago; and the weekly New York Tribune. The Republican and the Inter Ocean,both one year, for $1.85. The Republican and the New York • Tribune, both one year, $1.75. Ail three papers one year, $2.10. The above offers apply to all—-old ' subscribers as well as new.