Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1895 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Wheat 40 to 43. Corn 35 to 36. Oats 25 to 28. Hay $5.50 to $6.50. ” Mrs. B. Forsythe has gone to lowa to visit relatives for a few weeks. Something new and b3autiful at the Pavilion. Come and see it. A daughter to Mr. and Mrs . B. D. Come?, of Union tp., last Sunday. A nice large front Office Room centrally located for rent. Enquire of ’ Geo. E. Murray. 25-21. A daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Chas. R. Yeoman, Newton tp. Monday, Feb. 11th. Haul your grain to Hartley - Bros. W. W. Wishard is able to be about again, after a long and severe sickness. - Now is the time to buy clothing cheap at Ellis & Murray’s. This is St. Valentine’s Day. The children and the-turtle doves will enjoy the day. New line of White Goods and Embroideries just in at Ellis & Murray’s. A boy at Mr; John Moore’s*. Barkley tp., Feb. 5 th. »Their next oldes t child is now 14 years old. New Stock of Ladies shoes at Ellis <fc. Murray’s. * Cteo. B. Parkison has sold 320 acree of his fawn near Pleasant Ridge, to Illinois parties, for $11,200 .

C. W. Coen bag the following sizes of tile in stock, 4, 5, 7 and 8 inch. Mr 3. M. L. Spitler is now Sojourning at Indianapolis, in company with her husband, therllepresentative. Boys, buy those-eweaters of’C. D. Nowols." ' Mr* and Mrs. Ed Mauck, oft,Arcadia, 'Ulis state, came here to attend the funeral of Miss Etta Yeoman., Mrs’. M auck’s sister . Flannel lined coats at C. D. .'No wels’ fop>Cl.4o to $2»00. Will! Mossier, of the Model, :and Ike Leopold, of Wolcott, went to Chicago, Monday, and will pat in the week buying spring goods. • Baknwo Rent. Enquire of Wo . Cotton, at the Cotton; House.

Martin. Pass, now of Ransom, 111., is visiting friends here and in Bark - I ley his former home. ; It is his ft rat i return for (four years. Muslin work of all kinds and plain •sewing done by Mrs. Lottie George. .9. H. Thornton, who lives north of the railroad,ilias been very danger• •ously sick since the first of the weels with ahe art trouble. Attest reports he was co nsiderably better. Full line of sweaters st Ellis & Murray’s frnmAJc to $2.50,. Mr. Joseph 1.. Adams, of Marion tp., south of town, was married on Wednesday, Feb. 46, to MisoGrizzelJ McElhoe, at Monticello, the ibride’s home. Remnant stock of embroideries at half former price, at Ellis & Murray’s. The meetings at the Prebysterian chuch, conducted by Rew. Lattimore, the state evangelist, continue with good interest. They will .close with j the end of this week, we understand. I

W. J. Huff, a newspaper man. of * many years experience, and formerly editor of the Monticello Herald, has bought the Monticello Press, and will continue its publication as an independent paper. r _

Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Thompson were at Tampa, Florida, when last heard from, and had struck a snow storm, and were still enquiring the way to the “Sweet sunny South.”

Buy you hosiery of Ellis & Murray and save money and get what will suit you.

Tuesday, Feb. 42, was Lincoln’s birthday, and a legal holiday. There •was nospecial observance of the day •here, farther than the inevitable closing of the banks.

Visit the Carpet department at fellis & Murray’s- Spring stock how in.

A change in the grocery and implement firm of Warner & Shead has taken place this week. Mr. Shead has sold his interest to Vance Collins and the firm is now Warner <fc Collins.

For Sale Cheap.—One nearly new top buggy. For name of party apply at this office. 23 2tp.

Dr. H. L. Brown, the dentist, has bought of Mrs. C._ L. Benjimin a lot on Culler street, just north of J. F. Warren’s place, and contemplates building a residence there this season. Goto Ellis & Murray’s and buy overcoats,cloaks and all Broken lines of winter goods at half former price.

Four passengers for Florida took the train here Monday. They were Mr. and <Mrs. John Yoder, Elias Beachy and E. Yoder. They live in the vicinity of Mt. Ayr. Yhey will remain about four weeks. Ladies who wish to get their spring sewing done early, should call at Ellis ■& Murray’s. Spring goods just received. Births.: To Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Babcock, Union tp., Feb. Bth, a girl. To Mr. and Mrs. Perry Castor, in town, Feb* 6th, a boy. To. Mr. and Mrs, Robt. Platt, in town, Feb. 11th, a boy.

C. W. Coen has the agency for gas burned tile and will keep them in stock and make a special discount in car lots.

' Hans Gilbranson of the rfar east end of Kankakee tp., was in town Wednesday. He intends moving to Wisconsin next month, -and has arranged to make a public sale Tuesday, Feb. 26th.

J. E. Spitler has sold his news book and business to John W. Huggins, of Montpelier, this state, and Who is now in the active management of the same. Mr. Spitler still retains his fire insurance business.

Take your grain to Hartley Bros between Planing mill and Paxton’s amber yard, and<receive Remington and Goodland prices.

J. Q. Alter returned home last Thursday, from a two weeks’ Visit in Clinton Co. He intended to 'have staid longer, but got frooze out; that part being in the famous gas belt, where the gas always plays oat in the coldest weather, when the n eed of it is the greatest.

Owing to the inclement weather the social at Bowling Green was postponed until Feb. 20th. Ura McGowan. teacher.

The funeral of Mr. Calvin Merrett, of Brant, Wis., was held at that place last Sunday. ■’ He was a brother-in-law of Mr. F. J. Sears, and step-father of Mrs. Rosa Seib, of this place. They designed attending the funeral but the snow blockade in that part of Wisconsin prevented their so doing.

Alaska and the Fur Seal. Don’t forgat the date; and plaee. Eger’s Opera House, Tuesday evening, Feb. 19th. Proceeds to go to School Library. The Town Board, Monday night, temporarily transferred enough unloaned money from the sinking *fund to the corporation fund to pay Mrs. Geo. J. Dexter’s judgement, of SBOO, with interest and costs. The entire bill will exceed >IOOO, when all is settled. The Trustees of Weston cemetery were settled with, showing balance now on hand of $299.17.

There was quite an exciting time in the southeast extremity of town ,* Monday evening, owing to a burning chimney in the house occupied by Mr. Allen, the new shoe maker. By close watching the bujlding was prevented from taking fire, and no onegot excited enough to call out the fire departinent.

..... MONEY —Not to loan but to buy eOrn 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.

Mr. Strong, the present superintendent of the Rensselaer creamery will retire on March Ist and the directors have contracted with Chas. Morlan to succeed him. He is an experienced butter maker and will no doubt carry on the institution to the full satisfaction of patrons and stockholders.

Don’t miss the lecture on Alaska and the Fur Seal. At Opera House, Tuesday evening, Feb. 19th. Proceeds to go to school library.

Hon. Cyrus Bussey, First Assistant Secretary of the Interior under Harrison, was very badly but probably not fatally injured in Washington Monday, by being run over by a team and sleigh. Mr. Bussey is well and favdrably remembered by many in Rensselaer, having made a speech here during the campaign of 1888.

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

Mrs. Ellen Howe, widow of Richhad Howe, died at Fowler, • last Sunday, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Samuel Smith. She was, for a long time, but many years ago, a resident of Rensselaer. She was a sister-in-law of Mrs. A. Turcupile, and she, with Mrs. J. M. Hopkins, attended the funeral, which was held at Fowler, Tuesday.

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 large delegation of ‘Rensselaer Eastern Star people went over to Remington-last evening to institute a chapter of the order there, with C. G. Spitler, as special deputy. The fine work done, by the initiating team of the Evening Star Chapter, is procuring them a wide reputation, and further calls f or outside work of this character may be confidently looke d for.

Remember Dr. Kuderlingextracts your teeth free and makes you a guaranteed set of teeth for $6.00. Gold fillings.♦hOO, silver fillings 50c. Call on him at the Makeever House up to Friday-afternoon at 8 o’clock.

Last Friday was a record breaker for cold weather,, for this winter at least, and for 7 or 8 winters before it. Plenty of thermometers that morning showed 22 to 25 degrees below, and the most conservative of them -stoo d at least as low as 20 below. And during the entire day Friday, except in places exposed directly or indirectly to the heat of the sun, the mercury kept five or six degrees below the zero mark.

Don’t fail to attend the last Box ■Social of the season at the Putts school House, 2 miles south of town, Saturday evening, Feb. 23. Emma Eger . Teacher.

•C. C. French, editor of the Brookston Reporter, was attacked one day last week, while in Monticello, by Orville Rothrock, armed with a big whip. Mr. French was considerably bruised in the face, and one ear was badly <cut, and Rothrock had a finger broken. He was also arrested and fined. The occasion of the attack was a somewhat plain-spoken obituary notice, given by Mr. Freiich’s paper, to young Rothrock's father., the late John Rothrock former editor of the Monticello Dewterat. This “obituary” while plain-spoken was nothing that could at all justify this attack on the part of young -R ithrock. ____

The rules and regulations for the repairing and the use of Jasper county’s gravel roads appear elsewhere in this paper. The rules are made under the requirements of the laws of the state, and themselves have the force of laws, now that they have been adopted and published by the proper authorities. Sections Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth are especially intended for the guidance of the general public, in the use of these roads, and they should be carefully studied.

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

A sad accident occurred yesterday morning, on the Monon. A freight brakeman named H. Bacon, was caught under the wheels at Dyer, and both legs cut off. He was taken to Hammond, and died soon after arriving there. His wife, who lived at Lafayette, went up on the milk train, but he died long before she arrived there. The accident occurred between 4 and 5 o’clock in the morning.

Last Saturday was not a very good day for tall men, although several were in town that day who look down on a six-footer from a considerably higher altitude. There was Eddie Irwin, six feet 2|, Squire Elias Hammerton of the same front and rear elevation, and then came Martin Pass overtopping them both with 6 feet 3|. Had Martin’s brother Frank been around Martin would have had to sing a little small himself, as the top of’Frank’s head is just six feet six above the bottom of his feet. These Pass boys, by the way, will more than Pass, in point of longitudinal extent. There is another brother, in some part of the state, who is about Frank’s height, while in Barkley tp., lives Sam Pass, who is so to speak, and no disrespect intended, the “runt” of the family, he being only about six feet and 1 inch in rectilineal extensiveness. .'

The Rensselaer Odd Fellows made their final decision, last Thursday night, to proceed with the erection, this season, of their proposed big brick block, on their lot opposite the court house. It will be 46 feet wide, 100 feet long, and three stories high. The services of a competent architect will be called in, to study out the details, and to plan the exterior. This building bids fair to mark the beginning of a new building epoch in Rensselaer.

The people of Henry tp., Fulton Co., have just paid $359 to some parties to induce them to not build and equip a one-horse canning factory, for which a contract had been made. We size up these fellows as the very same gang that was trying to work Rensselaer, a few weeks back, but to whose schemes a timely blast from Thi Republican appears to have put a summary but not untimely end. They may not be the same gang, but their methods sug gests a mighty strong similarity.

The income tax for the year 1894 is now due and being collected. As the tax, on individual incomes, is levied only on incomes in excess of $4,000, it is not likely that the government’s revenue from Jasper county from this source, will be very extensive. In Rensselaer the victims will probably not exceed 16 or 18 individuals and two or three firms. In Remington there will probably be two or three. Not unlikely a few farmers in different parts of the county, will be caught, also.

The annual sale of real-estate for delinquent taxes was held Monday afternoon, in the county treasurer’s office. It attracted a room-full of local capitalists, but it was a pretty small affair, notwithstanding. Of the 142 numbers of delinquencies advertised, all but 41 had been paid up by the owners previous to the day of sale. In Rensselaer only one delinquency remained unpaid until the hour of sale, and in Remington only three. Everything offered was sold; the competion among the bidders being quite spirited.

~ Mrs. J. H. Allman, of Remington, who has been staying with her daughter, Mrs. W. H. Coo ver, for- several weeks on account of sickness in the family, returned home yesterday.

Two wolf scalps have lately been brought in for the bounty of $7.00. One by John Hardesty, killed south of Wheatfield; the other by Geo. E. May, killed in Newton tp.

Dr. F. P. Bitters, who quit his practice a year ago for the purpose of giving his time to other scientific studies, has resumed his practice and opened an office in the Sentinel Block and will give his attention wholly to his profession.—Rochester Republican. , We are heartily glad that the Doctor has decided to abandon his spiritualistic lecturing vocation. He is a good and conscientious physician, and no doubt has many years of usefulness still before him in that profession.

Miss Etta B. Yeoman, whose hopeless sickness with consumption has been several times mentioned, died Wednesday morning, Feb. 6tb, at the home of her father, David H. Yeoman, in Union tp. Her age was 20 years, 9 months and 28 days. She was bom in the home where she died. She was a member of the Protestant Methodist church, but in accordance with her own wishes, her funeral was held in Trinity M. E. church, in Rensselaer, Rev. R. D. Utter, the pastor, conducting the religious services. Her surviving near relatives are her father and mother, four bi others and three sisters. She was a most estimable girl, and especially well known and popular in Rensselaer, where she was a member of the High School, and, had she kept her health, would have graduated this year.