Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1895 — ADDITIONAL LOCALS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL LOCALS.

Mrs. Henry Harris and Miss Jennie have left Florida, and are now at Chattanooga, Tenn. - ’ '& _j_ Strictly Pure White Leads and Heath & Milligan’s house paints, at Meyers’ Old Reliable. The Commercial State Bank, our new banking institution, opened up Tuesday imthe Citizens’ Bank building. Good town lots for sale. Terms and locations all right. j. C. Passons. The snow fall at the north end of the county, Monday night, was from eight to tea inches in depth, as reported by reliable parties. Here it was scarcely two inches. Ten different makes of Sewing ma chines, At Steward’s.

Leroy Thomas who has been visiting his mother, the widow Thomas, of this place, for several months fast, has returned to his home in South Dakota. ~ _ Evangelist Bischcff closed his ser ies of successful meetings at the Presbyterian church, last evening. His next appointment is at Springfield, Jff. ' -

Mr. and Mrs. Watson, the evangelists, closed their meetings at the M. E. church, Tuesday night. The meetings have resulted in 50 additions to the membership of the church; a very notable increase. The evangelists have returned to their lome, Paoli, Orange Co., this state. A cordial and unanimous call to ;he pastorate of the Presbyterian church of Rensselaer, was tendered to Rev. M. R. Paradis, some time ago. He will giye his answer to the call next Sunday night, And preach a sermon appropriate to the occasion. Communion services will be held in the morning, at which service Baptism will be administered, and new members will be publicly received. We regret to have to announce that our old and much esteemed 'townsman, Henry Bruce, will probab’y have departed this life by the

time this paper reaches the majority of our readers. He had been staying with his sons at Lawrence, Kans,, all winter, and at Kansas City, Mo., oq Ins way home, was taken sick with cholera morbus, at the home of a nephew. His daughter,.Mrs. Barcus, of Rensselaer, was called to his side, and a letter written by her Monday, i;o her husband, states that his case is evidently hopeless, and that death was expected within a very few days.

Governor Matthews made his appointment, last Saturday, of a Proso ecu ting Attorney for this judicial circuit, to succeed the late T. C Annabal, of Goodland, deceased, and his choice fell upon none other than our own townsman, James W. Douthit. Of the various applicants for the appointment, Mr. Douthit is certainly as capable as any, and much more so than most of them. The David Bennett Hill style of Mr. Douthit’s Democracy no doubt had also much to do with influencing the Governor’s decision in - his favor. Mr. Douthit is the first Democratic

prosecutor this Circu t ever had, as at present constituted. He will serve until his successor is elected in 1896. I. M. Patehett, of Lte, Indiana offers Lis services as an expert pruner and planter of fruit trees, shrubs, vines, <fcc. The present month is the proper season for pruning vines. Satisfaction guaranteed, in work and prices. Address liim at Lee.

The Citizens State Bank is now a thing of the past, after an existence of about 16 years. Most of that time it did a good business, and when the fatal panic of 1893 came it was in the very highest tide of prosperity. Then its supposed close connection with the failed Columbia bank and the Dwiggins Syndicate caused such a run on its deposits that only the most strenuous exertions and honor able sacrifices upon the part of the president and other officials, saved it from total ruin. As it was, its business was so badly injured that its final retirement has been about the only course open to it. But it retires honorably, and no one loses by its retirement. It deserved a better fate.'