Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1895 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

A fine boy at R. JP. Benjamin’s last Thursday night. Haul your grain to Hartley Bros. The ladies of the Christian ehurch are now running an “exchange” every Saturday in a part of C. D. Nowels’ store room. They sell all kinds of baking, aprons, fancy articles, &c.. Barn to Rent . Enquire of Wm. Cotton, at the Cotton House. Mrs. Willis McColly and family have moved back to Rensselaer, and occupy Geo. Striokfaden’s house, on Cullen street. Special muslin underwear sale Sat. Feb. 2nd. Chicago Bargain Store. Don’t forget the public meeting at the court house, Friday evening, to arrange for doing our share for the Nebraska sufferers. C. W. Coen has the agency for gas burned tile and will keep them in stock and make a special discount in car lots. The same picture of the great jackrabbit display of Rabbit Day, at Lamar, Colorado, as is shown in Mr. Nowels’ photographs in the postoffice, is reproduced in large size in last week’s issue of Harper’s Weekly. The half price sale on cloaks and clothing will continue a few days more. Chicago Bargain Store. Omar C. Ritchie, now a prosperous business man of Anderson, this state, has been visiting relatives and looking after business matters, here, this week. Take your grain to Hartley Bros between Planing mill and Paxton’s lumber yard, and receive Remington and Goodland prices. Mrs. Ensminger of Crawfordsville, and Mrs S.J. Austin, of Chicago, have been visiting G. K. Hollingsworth's family. Mrs. Ensminger returned home Tuesday. A congregational meeting is announced to take place at the Presbyterian church on Thursday, Jan. 24, at Bp. m. All members and adherents are urgently requested to be present, as matters of interest to all, will be discussed.

R. P. Benjamin Jr., made his debut into this world on Jan. 17th, 1895 . A remarkably fine boy informed. A “chip off the old block” as it were with this difference, the father is a little larger and the son does not use a cane. ' , The handsomest new line of embroideries in town just opened at Chicago Bargain Store. Neighbor McEwen, of the Democrat Sentinel, is still so badly crippled up from the effects of his bad fall, a month or so ago, that he is unable to get out his paper. He hopes to be in shape to resume its publication as usual by next week. An emergency sale of all winter goods at any price is necessary to make room lor a new spring stock. - - Chicago Bargain Store. A lodge of that peculiar side degree of Masonry, known as the Knights of Birmingham, or the 99th degree of Masonry, will be organized in Rensselaer in a few weeks. It is a burlesque degree, something in the same line as the Oriental degree, in Pythianism. “Some days must be dark and dreary,” but there is no day too dark to take pictures at the Pavilion. That new, fine, large skylight takes the cake. Our Representative, Hon. M. L. Spitler, fared pretty well in the appointment of standing committtees for the House. He is on four committees ; On “Swamp Lands, ’ ’ on “Accounts,” on “Insurance” and on “Congressional Apportionment.” For Rent—Very desirable residence, all moderq conveniences. For particulars and terms call upon. Geo. K. Hollingsworth. John L, Nichols, of Barkley tp., a very well known citizen, has gone to Nebraska, but the reports that he has gone for good are denied by his friends. These reports seem to have originated in the undeniably bad condition in which Mr. Nichols’, left his financial affairs. A rare opportunity to buy clothing, cloaks and capes, shoes, blankets, underwear etc., at the sacrifice sale. Chicago Bargain Store. Marriage licenses since last nported: ( Wil’iam Denton, ( Mary Delaney. j Levi N. Miller, ( Wonnie L. Goldsberry. j Jesse H. Sayler, ( Keturah Adams. MONEY—Not to loan but to buy com with. The way to prosper is to sell what you raise at good figures. Therefore consult C. W. Coen before selling your grain and hay. The Presbyterians have commenced a series of revival meetings last Monday. At the end of this week Rev. W. A. Lattimore (Synodical Evangelist) will come to assist. As he is very highly spoken of for his eloquence and power, it is hoped that the people of this community will take advantage of this opportunity to hear him. It is a curious fact of the matrimonial market, that a certain class of second hand goods, almost always finds a ready sale; while bran-new articles if only a little shelf-worn, will be left on the bargain counters, indefinitely. Thus, in proportion to their numbers, seven ordinarily active grass widows will get married and divorced and married again while one old maid is getting married only once, and hardly that. That this is thusly is strange but true. The wolf hunt at Kniman last Thursday was a com plete fizzle. The Republican had a representative on hand, to report the slaughter, but when he got to Kniman he says there were not enough hunters to round up one undersigned rabbit, let alone corraling a large pack of full grown 88 calibre wolves; with coyotes and foxes thrown in. The hunters contented themselves with “rounding up” a few schooners of beer in the Kniman saloon and then went their several ways, rejoicing that it was no worse.

The “Manny Marsh,” in Walker tp., noted last week as sold to A. C. Robinson, of Gillam tp.. is this week recorded as sold by Mr. Robinson to Fiske <fc Beem, a business firm in Ottowa, 111. The purchase price at the first sale was $940, of the second it is an even $25,000. A rise in value of 300 per cent, in ten days time, is a pretty large increase even for Jasper county swamp land. Wm. Baker, who sold his residence last week to Nelson Randle, will move back to his fine farm, north of town. He still owns some Rensse'aer property however, having taken in part payment from Mr. Randle, some good lots on Weston and Susan streets, south of J. N. Leatherman’s place. Elias Hammerton, who now occupies Mr. Baker’s farm, will move back to Hanging Giove tp., on land belonging to Geo. H. Brown, Jr.

Several boxes of clo' hing for the Nebraska and Kansas sufferers have been contributed by the charitable here; but as yet the people of Rensselaer and surrounding country have not contributed as they ought in this excellent and most urgent cause. The reason is probably because no sufficiently systematic and organized effort has been made to that end. A public meeting will be held at the court house, Friday night, to take action in this matter. It ought to be large and effective. Kate Drexel, of Philadelphia, now known as Mother Katherine Drexel, who, several years'ago, resolved to enter a convent and devote her life and immense fortune to the education of colored and Indian children, has taken her final vows in the church, and thus severed all relations with the world. The Catholic Indian School at Rensselaer, was the result of one of her benefactions, the money to erect the building having been given by her. \ • The Monticello Democrat, in speaking of Building and Loan Associations throughout the country, says: “The recent failure of the Inter-Ocean Building Association of Chicago, and theconfesion of the officers of one or two Indianapolis associations that their stock would not mature in the time specified, has tended to create distrust m foreign building associations. Building associations are a splendid thing, and the most satisfactory are the home associations, because their workings are open to inspection of the stockholders. Monticello Herald: Postmaster Fawcett, of LaGrange, formerly one of the editors of the Democrat at this place, has a storm raging about his ears, and if the press reports are correct he deserves it all. He is charged with seducing a young lady who has been in his employ as a compositor, and lately he provoked public indignation by entering the postoffice with her on Sunday and remaining there with closed doors until after nightfall. A public meeting was held and his removal demanded by the indignant Citizens. A postoffice inspector was dispatched to LaGrange by the department, and Daffy’s head is expected to roll into the basket be 'ore many days. Three of his bondsmen are said to want off bis bond, while two . ympathize with him and are trying to extricate him from his difficulty. There is a movement on foot which promises to soon put a net woik of telephone wires all over Jasper Co. The movement got Its impetus from the construction of a line from DeMotte to Kniman, by Abe Halleck. This line is seven miles long, and works perfectly. Mr. Halleck is now putting up another line, to connect DeMotte, Wheatfield and Tefft The proposition is now to form a company in Rensselaer to build a line to Kniman, to connect with Halleck’s lines. If this goes all right, another hue will be built to Remington. The system used is the Manhatton. It is an electric telephone, essentially the same as the Bell telephone, but the instruments are bought absolutely and not on the rental plan of the Bell system. The line from DeMotte ' to Kniman cost only $125, incl ud ng : the instruments.

Mr. Jesse H. Sayler, son of Benj. L. Sayler, of Newton tp., and Miss Keturah Adams were married last evening, at the home of the bride’s mother Mrs Henry I. Adams, in Jordan tp. Rev J. L. Brady perjormed tiie ceremony. One of “Uncle Hiram’s” best cracks, while making his trip around town last Monday, was at the expense of Will Eger, the hardware man. Hiram told Mr. Eger that he was looking for some one to take a boy to raise. Mr. Eger recommended Uncle Simon Phillipa, whowasinthe crowd, as just the man for the job, and who had already taken several boys in that way. Uncle Simon said it was so, and that Mr.Eger himself was one of those very boys. Hiram took a good look at Mr. Eger, said that if he was a fair sample of Mr. Phillips’ success in raising boy's, he guessed he would look a httie further, and walked on. The hunters of Medaryville have been having considerable sport bunting wolves, according to the Medaryville Advertiser. Parties on horseback went out after them, and got, one each day, on Monday and Tuesday of last week. Another woif story the Advertiser tells sounds rather fishy. It is that two men went after wolves, and stopping at a farm house, an accommodating wolf walked up to the back porch, and quietly waited for one of the men to knock him in the head with an axe. The wolf was only stunned, and was taken alive to Medary ville, and locked

in the ware room of his captor’s grocery store. But for some cause, probably the proximity of the strong butter, he at last lost patience, and pretty nearly wrecked the whole premises in his frantic efforts to get farther away from the butter tubs. The production of Uncle Hiram, at the Opera House Monday night, drew an —a regular Uncle Toni’s Cabin house, in point of magnitude, and had the weather not been bad, the crowd would have been still larger. Harry Green in the character of Uncle Hiram is simply great. He is a good enough comedian for any theater. Dan Wier, in his character of Senator King is also a very fine actor, while Lillian Schoals does the serpentine dance to perfection. The acting of the heavy villian of the piece was perhaps a little too heavy; as that of the “Suffering Moses ” of a lover was a little too suffering; still they were all good enough to carry the play through in good shape. Uncle Hiram in the character of the jayest kind of a jay from Jayville made the rounds of the business houses in the afterternoon, and his superb acting during that trip, no doubt had much to do with drawing the big crowd at night.