Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1895 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Wheat —40c to 43c. Corn 34c to 35c. *Oats —2sc to 28c. Hay 15 to $6,50. Mrs. Peter Giver has been very dangerously sick, but is now improving. Miss Eliza Tuteur went to Peoria, 111., yesterday, to make a protracted visit with her sister, Mrs. Dr. Weil. Now is the time to buy clothit g cheap at Ellis & Murray’s.

J. L. Nichols, of Barkley tp., ar - rived home from his Nebraska journey, the latter part of last week. C. W. Coen has the following sizes of tile in stock, 4,5, 7 and 8 inch. —— C.C. Sigler shipped three carloads of fat sheep to market, last Monday. They-measured up about 100 to the carload.

New line of White Goods and Embroideries just in at Ellis & Murray’s. L. A. Bostwick, the civil engineer, has returned from a stay of sever al months at Batavia, N. Y., his bld home. New Stock of izidies shoes at Ellis A Murray’s.

The Ladies’ Industrial Society of the M. E. church and other -friends made a surprise party on Mrs. Wm. Baker last Thursday afternoon. It was a pleasant occasion. Full line of sweaters at Ellis A Murray’s from 50c to $2.50. Warren Robinson, the sale of whose half section was noted last week, has bought of Elijah Rushton, -the 80 acres justaast of towny known usually as the Hollingsworth farm. Remnant stock of embroideries at half former price, at Ellis & Murray’s.

Dofrt miss the lecture on Alaska and the Fur Seal. At Opera House, Tuesday evening, Feb. 19th. Proceeds to go to school library.

J. M. Patchett,-of Lee, Indiana offers his services-as an expert pruner and planter of fruit trees, shrubs, vines, Ac. The present month.is the proper season for pruning vines. Satisfaction guaranteed, in work and prices. Address him at Lee.

Visit the Carpet 'department at Ellis A Murray’s. Spring stock now in.

C. W.Duvall, has sold his residence in Weston’s Addition to G. K. Hollingsworth, and has bought of the same party the Geo. Hollister house, on Weston street, north of The Rebubuoam office, and will occupy it soon.

The lecture by Prof. Everman on Alaska and the .Fur Seal, at Eger’s Opera House, Tuesday evening, Feb. 19th. Proceeds to go to school library. Remember date.

Go to Ellis A Murray’s and buy' overcoats, cloaks and all Broken lines of winter goods at half former price.

Erasmus Wright, of near Leavenworth, Kans., visited Rensselaer relatives several days last week, and until Tuesday of this week. He was a half brother of the late Willis Wright It was his Aral visit to Rensselaer for forty years.

Alaska and the Fur Seal. Don’t forget the date, and place. Eger’s Opera House, Tuesday evening, Feb. 19th. Proceeds to go to School Library.

Mrs. Williams, who lives on the old Sparling farm, southwest of town, has bought Lew Thornton’s residence in the depot neighborhood, and in tends, we understand, to occupy it as a residence. Mr. Thornton will probably build again, this season.

Felix French gave a big supper last Saturday evening tothecarpentes who built his new house, and their families. The carpenters were R. C. Dowler, W. P. Walker, Mon- • roe Banes and Grant Hopkins. Buy you hosiery"of Ellis & Mur-, ray and save money and get what will suit you. - Thp Countg Clerk Coover’s young ± son, Clyde, has been sick for some days with a severe case of scarlet fever. At present he is improving very satisfactorily. Proper measures to prevent the disease spreading have been taken.

Muslin work of all kinds and plain sewing done by Mrs. Lottie George. Boys, buy those sweaters of C. D. Nowels?

Erastus Peacock, the mail route clerk, was taken quite seriously sick, the latter part of lust week, as a result, probably of over-work, he having been having an extra assignment of work on his route, on account of the sickness of another clerk. Flannel lined coats at C. D. Nowels’ for $1.40 to <2.00. For Sale Cheap. —One nearly new top buggy. For name of party apply at this office. 23 2tp. George Welch, of Carpenter tp., but only two miles east of Goodland, is reported to have sold his 80 acre farm for s|oo per acre. This is surely far the largest price per acre any farm of that size ever sold for in this county. It is a very ipghly improved piece of land, however.

Ladies who wish to get their spring sewing done early, should call atEllis A Murray’s. goods just received. Take your grain to Hartley Bros between Planing mill -and Paxton’s umber yard, and receive Remington and Goodland prices. The Grant School just west of town, had its turn st the Reading Circle Book socials, (last Saturday. It was a success all around, and probably netted sls cr sl6 for the cause. There was the usual popularity contest, the prize being won by Miss Cora Mitchell, with Miss Mattie Hemphill a Close competitor,

Joseph Mitchell, three or four miles south of town, has sold his farm of 165 acres to Jim McMannis, of between Remington and Goodland. The sale was that full team of Clarks, Ott and Barney. We understand that Mr. Mitchell contemplates moving back to the eastern part of the state.

There will be a “Shadow, and Box” social at the “Brushwood” school house in Union township, on Saturday night Febuary 9th. Mart Goetz, Teacher.

• County Supt. J. F. Warren and exClerk J. F. Irwin, have formed a partnership in the general loan, realestate and collection business. They have their office in one of 4he front rooms upstairs in the Stockton-Wil-liams block. Mr. Irwin, who has already come to town for ethe purpose, will have charge of the office work Of the new firm.

One .of the latest things in box socials at Bowling Green school house Feb. Bth. Ura McGowan, Teacher.

In the «uit brought on behalf of the widow and children of Aaron fleck against the Monon railway, tried in Delphi, a verdict was Thursday rendered against the company for $7,000. About two years ago Heck was killed while winning an engine which was doing pile-driving □ear Lafayette. A freight train collided with the apparatus, killing Heck.

Prof. Everman’s lecture on* the fur seal, is strongly recommended by President Jordan, of Stanford University, by Pres. Parson, Vice-Pres. Sandison, and nearly the whole faculty of, Indiana Normal School, by acting president 6f Bose Polytechnic Institute, and many other good authorities. It will no dcubt be a highly entertaining and instructive lecture.

r ~‘ Our esteemed exchange, the Low* 1 TWiwnt? trad five er-sixyrea4»>g° £o= tices in last week, for an advertiser, all wiong side up. Locals put in in that way make the paper look bad and don’t he’p the advertiser any. Our advice to Brother*Ragop, in the case of the next advertiser who

wants his ads stood on their heads, is to stand the advertiser himself on his head, awhile, until he appreciates the objectionableness of the position. The ladies of the M. E. church will give a New England supper and baby show at the Opera House, on the evening of Feb. 22, [Washington’s birthday].

A burning chimney at ren’s house, Tuesday evening, caused some excitable person to ring the fire tjell and cons, quently to call out the fire company. There was no occasion for the alarm, as Mr. Warren knew his chimney was and bad his eye on the indicator to see that no damage resulted. He was surprised enough when the fire lads charged down on him. For Rent —Very desirable residence, all modern conveniences. For particulars and terms call upon. Guo. K. Hollingsworth.

Real estate men say there is vast activity in farm property in this county low. That many more deals are than the puplic gets to hear of. These are mostly sales by contract, to be closed up a little later. A whole crop of these contract sales will mature about the first of March. One well posted party says he knows of at least SS<O,'OOO worth of these-saks, in escrow.

There will 'oe a Shadow box socia at the Court House, Saturday might, Feb. 9th.. ..Given by the Ladies of the F. W. Baptist church, one third of *he proceeds to be used for the Nebraska sufferers. Everybody invited. Ladies come and bring a box. Gentlemen, come and buy.

"A traveling agent was 'in town Monday, with an aluminum bicycle, which he put through its paces on the street, tit was a large sized machine and weighed only 21 pounds. Aluminum, or aluminium, as is coming to be the favorite form of the word, is coming more and more into general use, every year, and as soon as the cost of its production can be cut in two again, the much heralded ’’age of aluminum” will doubtless begin. It is truly a marvelous metal.

Mrs. Marion B. Baxter of Harvey 111., will deliver a course -of free lectures here at the beginning of next week, under the auspices of the IV. C. T. U. ’She preaches at the M. E. church next Sunday morning at the usual time and lectures at the same place in the evening on “Christian Citizeuship. ” Monday evening topic, “Society as it is,” Tuesday evening, “That daughter of mine?’

The ground hog had no trouble at all in locating his shadow, last Saturday, and therefore it fallows that if he and Prophet Hicks can manage to pull together, we may confidently look forward to having a great many spells of weather from now until some future time. In vthis connection, it Should be understood that, generally speaking, so long as there continues to be any kind of weather at all, <it lets Hicks in all rigtit, and the ground hog’s .methods are off the same piece.

A fatal accident, resulting in the death of a well known freiglit conductor on the Three I railroad, occurred one day last week. The through freight train west bound was taking coal, when the second section ran into the first In an attempt to escape conductor William Vincent was crushed to death between the caboose and the car ahead. Braketaon Pangburn jumped into a pile of ties and received a severe rupture besides several minor external bruises. Coal heaver John Lain was thrown from the top of the cab of the engine and was badly scarred up. He will recover, as will also the brakeman. Trainmaster Maynard blames engineer William Medicus, in charge of the colliding engine. Conductor Vincent was thirty-eight years old; and haves a wife and two children, in Streator, 111.

The weather is still not only “a little cold around the edges” but also down through the-middle. Saturday morping, about 10 below; Monday morning, about 12, and Tuesday morning still worse, by about three degrees. ?Many thermometers indicated even-as low as 20 below, Tuesday morning, but the general concensus of the more reliable instruments, was-about at the 15 mark. It was so far the coldest night of the winter, except Jan. 14; and of more wind made the weather even more-severe than on the’former date.

Frederick A.-Joss, of the law firm Of Jameson A Joss, of Indianapolis,, was in town last Thursday on legal business. Their firm has charge of a big omnibus suit institutedby Nelson Morris, the great , packer acd cattle dealer, of Chicago, to quiet his title to a great deal Of his many thousands of acres of land, in-the northern part of this county. The -legal .notice to non-residents, Which this -«uit requires, willbe found in this paper. It is, w ithout doubt,< the largest notice -of the 'kind ew:r published in this county.

Although the organized public movement in favor of ithe Nebraska and Kansas sufferers, which The Republican hoped for, has not (been made in Rensselaer, yet-eo muck has been done in a private way that we doubt if any community in the state, of no greater population, has done more than have the people of Rensselaer and vicinity. The remittances that have been made by private parties, mount into scores. Through the post-office alone at least SIOO has been sent in this way. One of the bank* estimates that S2OO have been sent through it. Through the other banks, also, a large amount in ttie aggregate, has been *ent, and it would probably be a conservative estimate, to say that in money and goods, SSOO has been sent from here, in all. Of course the most of this has been sent to relatives and friends of the senders; but it does good work all the same. %

Jake E glesbach the butcher, had a bad scare Monday afternoon. He keeps himself warm this cold weather by a small oil-stove, which he keeps inside a-small compartment, arranged for an office. In passing this stove, a key chain be wears caught on the stove and upset it, spilling the oil over the.floor, audit was all blazing in a moment. Monroe Banes happening to be passing, and by his help the fire was smothered out with heavy wrapping paper. It was a pretty elose call for a burn out, though.

Haul your grain to Hartley Bros. Charles Malcho, a young man aged about 21 years, died Wednesday morning,' of last week, on the farm of Capt. J. M. Wasson, a few miles southeast of town. The cause of his death was lung fever. His parents resided at Francesville, but he was a nephew ofCbarles Malcho, who lives south of Rensselaer. He was buried at Francesville, last Friday, and by a strange co-incidence, exactly two weeks after a brother about two two yearsolder was buried at the same place. This older brother, whose name was Fritz Malcho, died at Marlboro, having been in the employ of A. McCoy, on his sheep ranch. His disease was also lung fever.

Our old Gill am friend, Jas. R. Guild, now of Medaryville, has been down to Tennessee, hunting, and the Medaryville Advertiser, thus waxes facetious over the big game he didn’t get: “Mr. Jas. R. Guild informs us that the supply of wild hog meat has given out and that he is very sorry not to be able to supply all that have naked for it. Should ’he ever make another trip south (and as he is now acquainted with the desires of those applicants for wild meat) he will on his return give a dinner, of which the following will be a part of the menu: Roasts: Young Bear, stuffed with rabbits; Wild Hog, braised; Buffalo. Mint Sauce. Entrees: Bengal Tiger Spare Ribs with Brown Gravy; Lion Tongue a la Creole and Alligator Liver with Rattle-snake Jelly.”