Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1895 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Mt. Jenkins eaet of town, is on the siek list. Haul your grain to Hartley Bros. Frank O’Meara is in Chicago clerking in a tobacco house. Mrs. <L. M. Imes is visiting relaatives mChicago, this week. Uncle. Joe Robisonis sick with a throat difficulty but better. Many of the teachers in the county schools were visiting the town schools Thursday and Friday. Omar Morlan, west of town, tad an exciting runaway Saturday. Mrs. . Morlan was pretty badly shaken up. Miss Sadie Cody so long an invalid reports that she has completely .cured at the faith cure hospital is Chicago.

Rensselaer Markets: Wheat, 45 to 47c; oats, 26 to 29c; .corn, 34 to 35 ; hay $5 to $6 . W. D. Robinson, of Hammond, is in town this week, on account of the sickness of his father, Uncle Joe . Robinson. John Martindale has sold a part of his farm in Newton tp. to W. A. Miller, of the real estate firm of Laßue A Miller. Mrs. T. J. McCoy is still at Lsfajs ette and makiog very slow and unsatisfactory progress towards recovery. She is auffering from nervous prostration

Bev. Ozro Roys, an evangelist, from Maine, is expected to begin a series of meetings at the Free Will church, Friday evening. C. W. Coen has the agency for gas burned tile and will keep them in stock and make a ’Special discount in car lots.

Miss Edith A. Miller, of Chicago, spent.part of the holidays with her many friends in Rensselaer,. She returned home last Saturday.

Barties wanting to know prices and see cuts of designs, also cut flowers and bouquets from Dorner & Son Lafayette, lad., call on Mrs. A. W. Cleveland. 2tp.

Attorneys John T. Brown, of Fowler, Wm. Darroch, of Kentland and Abe Halleck, of DeMotte, have had business here in the circuit court, this week.

Uncle iWilliara Barkley, of Kaigman -county, Kansas, is making a visit to relatives and old friends in this locality. The first since bis emigration 13 years ago. The Ladies Aid ’Society of the Christian ehurch will give a box supper at the home of Mrs. H. L. Brown Saturday evening, January 12th. Admission scte.

“Some days must be dark and dreary,” but there is no day too dark to take pictures at the Pavilion. That new, line, large skylight takes the cake.

The “Unde Hiram” theatre company that was to have been here next Saturday evening, has evidently made different arrangements, as nothing further has been heard of them.

Teeth extracted free, hy Dr. C. R. Kuderling at the Makeever House in Renstelaer, Jan. 45th, 16th, 17th and 18th_. All we ask is that you get your plates made by us, We make you a guaranteed plate for $6.00. .No fit, No pay. German spoken. Valparaiso is having no end of trouble with the late city treasurer, Geo. Schwartzkof,who has lately been found to be a good many thousands of dollars a defaulter. He was arrested last Friday.

Mr. Thomas J. Burke and Lillian Montrose, both members of the Til-den-Steele theatre company, were married last Saturday morning, at St. Augestine’s Catholic church. Rev. Father. Neiberg performed the ceremony. >

MONEY—Not to loan but to buy corn with. The way to prosper is to sell what you raise at goed figures. Therefore consult C. W. Coen before selling your grain and hay.

The Jordan tp., branch of the Rensselaer creamery closed down the last day of’94, the receipts of milk not being large enough to phv running expenses. llt IS a matter of doubt whether it will re-open again or not

Anyone having a good house of not less than six rooms to rent, next spring can find a good renter with snail family who is willing to pay rent quarterly, in advance. For par-ticulars,-enquire at this office.

.Mrs. C. A Edmonds, of Chicago, attended the funeral of her grand falser, Samuel Sparling, on Sat. Defe, 20, and remained with,friends in Rensselaer, until laatFciday, when she returned home.

Wallace Robinson’s two year-old daughter has been very dangerously sick with intermittent fever, but is now much -improved... JSbe was so bad the latter part of last week that for som 1 t ime her life was despaired of.

j Call on Dr. Kuderling the dentist at the Makeever House Jan. 15th, 16 ; th 17th and 18th, and get your teeth ' extracted free. All we ask is that ; you give us your plate work and the ; filling of your teeth. If you have teeth which other dentists have failed to fill properly, call on me.

Miss Blanch Merry, of Mt Ayr, who is attending the state Normal at Terre Haute jthis winter spent the holidays with her parents at home and with friends in Rensselaer. She returned to Terre Haute last Friday, where she will remain jzntil next June.

Mrs. Jane Siers, a lady of advanced age is lying very, low at the home of her son, Frank Siers, in the northwest part of town. She has been wholly unable to take nourishment for many days, and her death within a few days seems inevitable.

If you have ulcerated teeth and want them saved call on me at the Makeever House in Rensselaer, 15th Jan. 16 th 17th and 18th. My prices are •in the reach of the very poorest. Dr. Kc» erdin-o.

Peter J. Clark, who was given a four years sentence as one of the ringleaders in the Rudolph riot at Lafayette, two years ago, and who jumped his bail and fled, has returned to Lafayette and given himself up, and will now proceed to “take his -medicine.”

The directors of the Rensselaer Buikling and Loan Association, are now offering to retire shares in the first series, on demand, at 8 per cent, interest on paid m installments, for their -average time of running. At this rate, at the present time, this will make the value of each share withdrawn about $104.50.

The Kohinoor of Northwest Indiana is the rightful title of that magnificent and flawless! diamond, which now glitters and corruscates and scmtillates from Tom McCoy’s neck scarf. It is nearly 4 carets weight, and'without question is the finest diamond in Jasper county.

The Tilden-Steele Comedy company gave, “Trodden Down” as their farewell performance, Saturday evening. The longer this company stayed the more they grew in popular favor. Thursday night they gave “The County Fair” and on Friday night “The Two Orphans.” They did very well in all of .these p ays, But were especially strong in their production of “The Two Orphans.” Their patronage was only moderate, but they had a large house Saturday evening.

Gospel Meetings every night at the Baptist Church, conducted by Rev. W. E. Wight, assisted by Rev. J. W. Elliot, both of Chicago. All Christians are requested to come and assist. Praise service at 7 P. M. Preaching at 7:30. Everybody is invited to attend. Come, and bring your friends.

There is now much sickness in town and vicinity 7 , more especially among the young children, —so much that it has greatly diminished the attendance at the school. Colds pneumonia &c., are the principal diseases, and chicken-pox has also broken out. f There are also cases of scarlet-rash reported in at least two families.

The Pilot has been leased for a year, io Francis D. Craig, whois now in control of the paper. The Rewblican hopes for a continuance of the same pleasant personal business and editorial relations with the new editor, as marked the management •of Mr. dazebcook, the retiring editor.

Mr. Albert Wolf, salesman in Oev iston Bros.’ butcher shop, and Miss Emma King, daughter of Wm. King, were married Tuesday morning in St. Augustine’s Catholic church, by Rev. S. Neiberg. They’ will-reside with the parents of the bride. The latter, by the way,has on ly very recently united with the Catholic church.

Tilden Stanley, aged 17 years, died ; Sunday night at the home of his mother, Mrs. Minerva Stanley, about two miles north of town. He had been sick for some months, with a kidney trouble, but his death, which occured very suddenly and unexpectedly, was attributed to heart disease. L T e was a good, steady boy, and, for several years, had done the bulk of the work on his widowed mother’s farm. The funeral was held Tuesday, at the Primitive Biptist church, in town, Rev. W. R. Nowels preaching the funeral sermon.

The Rensselaer Building & Loan Association has a good deal of money on hand which w ill be loaned to outside parties, on good real estate security, at favorable rates. There is about $1503 in the first series and

about S2OOO in the second. The rate of interest is 8 per cent, and no charge for c rmmissicijs. It looks like this was a good chance for farmers or others needing money, to borrow it at favorable terms.

Carroll county farmers invested largely in western hog cholera, last fall, like those of so many other places, and now five of the parties who bought the diseased hogs have brought suits against the men who imported them, in sums of from $75 to $250. It these suits result favorably to the plaintiffs, the epidemic of hog cholera will be followed by an epedemic of law suits.

A woman who goes by name of Lizzie Antrim, gave birth to a pair of twins, a boy and a girl, at the county farm, last Friday. The boy lived only until the next day,however. The woman was brought to the farm about two months ago, from DeMotte. She had previously worked at Rose Lawn, and names a man there as the father of her children. She is not bright, mental 'y.

W. 'W. Crockett, formerly of this place, now of Falls City, Neb., is an inventor, the Fa Is City Journal says; W. W. Crockett and T. J. Neeley, prominent mechanics of this city have constructed an improved hand power device that seems destined to revolutionize the motive power as ap-

plied to mathinery in general. It consists of leverage power applied to a pendulum with a heavy weight, which in swinging revolves a pair of wheels that can be attached to any machinery. It is especially designed for pumpipg or lifting large quantities of water. Its power is regulated in the length and weight ’of the pendulum and its force is tremenduous and almost unlimited. A patent will be applied for and the genms of these men is likely to be liberally rewarded.