Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1895 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Wheat 62 to 65. Corn 46 to 47. Oats 27 to SO. Hay $5.50 to $6.50. Hiss Laura White is preparing to enter school at Valparaiso. Mrs. Merill from Wisconsin, is vis - iting her daughter, Mrs. Seib. Mr. and Mrs. G. K. Hollingsworth aie visiting friends in Des Moines, lowa. John King and Jim McColly went to Knox Tuesday, to a shooting tour, ament. Miss Mary Rogers is preparing to build a tenant house, north: of the railroad.

Squire Churchill is preparing to build another tenant house, north of the railroad. Miss Minnnie Wood, of Winamac, visited relatives in Rensselaer and vicinity all of last week. “Samson” will be Rev. Paradis’ subject at the Presbyterian church, next Sunday evening. The Dunkards or German Baptists will hold services at the Church of God next Sunday at 2 p m. D. A. Stoner took a trip to Morocco, Tuesday. He says the frost cut the corn fields, very badly.

A. C. Pancoast, of Newton Tp., has lately returned from a health visit to Indiana Mineral Springs. Manager Ellis has reconstructed the opera house lighting system; so that the lights are now excellent. Work has begun on Wm M. Hoover’s house, southeast of town. E. L. Cox and Bro. have the contract. John Shields has just bought of A. McCoy the double house on McCoy Avenue, just west of the river bridge. J.J.Eiglesbach is having his house on Front street rebuilt and greatly enlarged; the work being now in progress. The Uniform Rank, Koighti of Pythias, is on the boom, having six new members now in progress of initiation. «► Wm. Price, the insane man, who has been held at the jail for some time, was taken to the county asylum Monday.

A party of Eastern Star people went to Remington, Monday night, to help the Remington lodge install new officers. The frost last Monday night was a very sharp one and did considerable damage to fruits and gardens. Also to some fields of corn. , Mesdames J. F. Warren and C. B. Steward went to Indianapolis Monday to attend the Daughters of Rebekah convention. | j f Alexander Hamilton, till late a resident of Gillam has bought lots north of the railroad and expects to build a house this season. W. E. Murphy, of Tuscola, 111., is here this week, looking after his father’s farm, the former Geo. H. Brown Jr. plaoe, in Barkley Tp.

Mrs. Belle Watson, of Paducah, Ky., and Mrs. Ollie Gamble, of St Lonis, Mo. are visiting their parents, Dr. and Mjs. M. B. Alter. Mrs. Henry Watson, of Pleasant Ridge, has bought lots north of the railroad and will build a house forthwith. Her son, Dee Watson, will occupy it, we understand.

The Makeever House has just been fitted out with an iron fire escape, on the esst end, reaching from the third story window to the ground. Rev. G. W. Payne, of Frankfort, is just getting about after a week’s severe sickness at the residence of his son-in-law, Wm. Stephenson. Burget <fc Penn, the real estate agents, have their office up stairs in Leopold’s corner building, in the. room just vacated by B. F. Ferguson. The new law reduces the pay of court reporters from 10 cents to 5 cents per 100 words. The law has the emergency clause and is now in operation.

Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Thompson left Tuesday for the Pacific slope, where they will spend several months mainly with their daughter, Mrs. Ross, at Seattle. According to all reports the home gravel used on the Marion township gravel roads last year is making better and smoother roads than the Lafayette gravel.

Mr. Chas. W* Gray and Miss Flora T. Moore were married last Friday evening, May 17, by Squire Jim Morgan, at the residence of Mr. Marion, in the east part of town. About half the farmers in the central and southern portions of the county are replanting their corn fields that were nipped by the frost. The others will stand the chances of a better crop without replanting. Wm M. Hoover, David W. Shields and C. B. Steward attended the Odd Fellows’ grand lodge, at Indianapolis Tuesday and yesterday. Mr. Hoover was representative q! Iroquois lodge.

John T. Greene, a former townsman, desires to state that he can sell at a liberal discount nearly all makes of bicycles. Prospective wheel buyers are invited to communicate with him, care of B. Shoninger Co., 267269 Wabash Ave., Chicago. Mrs; Laura Fischer nee Rathfon, of South Chicago, visited Rensselaer friends the latter part -ot last week, and is now in Gillam tp. She was formerly a teacher in the Rensselaer schools.

Mrs. IsaacD. Sayler lost a gold locket, last Sunday, valued greatly as a keepsake, as it contained her parents’ pictures. The finder will be paid for his trouble, by restoring it to its owner. It is understood that some of the people in the proposed to be annexed district are organizing to fight the proposition. The matter will come before the County Commissioners at their ensuing June session.

Both Lafayette and Hammond base ball clubs have broken up for want of paying patronage. They were members of the Western Inter State Association. It is a bad season for base ball. Everything runs to bikes. Those old time enemies, Ed Griggs of Fair Oaks and Sherman Cooper, of wherever his hat’s off, tried to settle old scores Saturday evening, in a fight in the alley back of Laßue’s store. Cooper, who was pretty drunk, was quite badly pounded up.

John Ramey was over at Roann, Wabash Co., last Thursday, attending the re-nnion of his bldtegiment, the 47 th . About 100 survivors of the regiment attended. The day of the re-union was the 32nd anniversary of the battle of Champion Hills. Onr former well-known townsman, Capt. F. W. Babcock, has resigned his position as attorney for C. Aultman A Co., and has returned to the general practice of the law, in Canton, Ohio, in partnership with P. J. Collins, a rising yonng attorney of that city. The first the foundation of the Odd building was laid just after noon, last Monday; and since which time the work has made good progress. Some very fine large rooks from Yeoman’s qnarry are being used and they will make a good foundation.

Dr. J. H. Honan, of Hammond, visited his brother the P. M., over Sun lay. The Dr. by the way is now a full-fledged ‘*M. D.” and no longer a “D. V. S.” he having just graduated at Rush Medical College in Chicago. He will locate in Hammond we understand.

A late issue of the Scientific American devotes two pages to an illustrated article on Purdue University. There has been a rapid growth in attendance at this institution in the last few years, and it is taking high rank among the industrial colleges of the nation. Winamac Republican—-Vitrified brick is the coming pavement for the business streets of towns. It can be laid easily and as easily kept clean. Some house floors are not as easily cleaned as is such a roadway.— The first cost is a little more than this crushed stone but there are years and years more of wear in it. Mr. Edgar S. Thornton, who lives' near Vaughn church, northwest of town, and Mrs. Elbirda D. Vannice, were married Sunday evening, at the residence of the bride’s father, John Daugherty, in the northwest part of town. Rev. B. F. Ferguson performed the ceremony.

Dr. I. B. Washburn and Comrade J. C. Passons were over at Logansport last Thursday, attending the reception given by the 46th Indiana regiment in honor of the regiment’s old commander, Col. T. H. Bringhurst. Capt. Fisher, of Remington, also attended. Harry Kressler moved his barber shop Monday, from np stairs over Porter & Son’s grocery into the ground floor room in the Makeever House fronting on Cullen street. He has a neat and commodious room and will no doubt find it a much better location than his former secondstory situation.

The Republican’s job printing department has been busy for nearly a week, printing the big four page programmes for the coming June Festival, at the M. E. church. An idea of the magnitude of the job may be had from the fact that 11,000 “impressions” of the press have been required to complete it. The supreme court has decided that the act of 1693, under which the telegraph companies were assessed, is constitutional. The decision is in the case of the Western Union telegraph company against the auditor of Marion county and all other county auditors and treasurers in the state. Marriage licences since last reported:

j John C. Lawrence, \ Celia A. Griggs. ( Henry Dekker,- ( Edith Dekock. j Charles W. Gray, ( Flora T. Moore. j Edgar S. Thornton, | Elbirda D. Vann ice. Will Mossier, the able manager of the “Model” store is still “spreading but” He has had the partitions removed from the Second story of his store, and the same handsomely papered, and will occupy the entire floor as a carpet and cloak room. Thus the Model now occupies two entire floors, each 90 feet long by 23 feet wide. The Chicago Rivals entertainment, at the opera house Saturday night, drew a very large house, an 183 house in money measure, and cleared S3O for the Presbyterian church. It was a very meritorious entertainment, in all respects. Wm. McCormick, the whistler is a marvel, as is also the boy violinist. The singers and elocutionists were also of the highest order of merit. The spring wolf crop is now evidently about all gathered in. All that have been added to the list, since last week’s report, were two cubs, brought in by Wm. H. Beaver, of Milroy Tp. He found them by the roadside, near Tbos. Crockett’s place, in the southeast corner of Marion Tp* The $6 paid to him raised the total wolf bounty since April 10th to $220.

The sale of the Blue Sea swamp, in Milroy tp, has been consumated, and is noted in this weeks report of real-estate transfers. James Hill sells it to Frank L. Smith, M. R. Keeley, and Curtis J. Judd, in varying quantities. The entire tract sold in this county, is 2,980 acres, anc the entire consideration, $39,088. Mr. Hill has doubled his money during the year or two he has owned the tract. The installation services for Rev. M. R. Paradis, were held at the Presbyterian church, last Wednesday evening, as per previous announcement. Revs. D. P. Putnam and H. A. Percival, both of Logansport, and H. G. Rice, of MonticeTTo, performed the services. Rev. Percival preached a powerful sermon on ♦♦The Preacher for the Age.” Dr. Putnam delivered the charge to the pastor ; and Rev. Rice that to the people. A notable feature in the general plan for the improvement of Weston cemetery, was completed last week. It was the cutting down of the hill in the street just at the proposed new entrance. This in itself makes a great improvement; and, as much of the removed earth was taken to fill an old and unsightly depression in the cemetery proper, made by an 'old time brick yard, a second improvement was accomplished at the same time. The work of canvassing for subscriptions for the proposed new Presbyterian church has progressed so well that the Trustees and Elders have decided to go ahead with the building, at once. A building Committee has been appointed, made up as follows: T. J. McCoy, John Eger, M. F. Chilcote, G. K. Hollingsworth, F. J. Sears and Rev. M. A. Paradis. The question of material to be used in the construction of the church, with brick or boulders, is still under investigation.

Walter Porter has struck a gold mine out in Jordan township, or something that has paid as well as a gold mine, at any rate. It is the 320 acre farm in the west part of the township, which he bought two years ago for $7,600, and which he sold again last week to Lewis Meyers, of Washington, 111., for .$16,000; but besides this profit of $8,400 on the sale of the farm, he will get, in last year’s rent $1,900 more. All told Walter is about SIO,OOO ahead in the deal.

A terrifying but in its results not serious runaway took place just before noon, Saturday. It was a big team attached to a heavy wagon, and they started from the hitch-rack on the eaet side of the court house and ran entirely around the public square while the street was full of people. When they got back to about wifere they started from they ran into the hitch-rack and were brought to a stand. A broken wagon reach and a slight injury to one of the horses was the extent of the damages.

The latest developments in the famous suit for damages of Anson Woleott vs the Pan Handle Railway company indicate that Wolcott will receive his judgement, which now amounts, with accrued interest, to $15,867.35. The defendant has notified Wolcott’s attorneys that an appeal will not be taken to the U. S. Supreme court, and that the judgement and costs will be paid within ten days. The case was the first of its kind, and was brought to recover damages alleged to have arisen from the alleged refusal of the Pennsylvania company to furnish transportation for the plaintiff’s grain.—Logansport Journal.

Crown Point Register: Reuben Fancber informs us that the shores of Cedar Lake around the north and east ends are literally covered with dead fish, and the warm weather will soon cause a stench that will produce an epidemic of some kind. The fish are either dying off with some disease or are being dynamited. If the latter case is true a strong effort should be made to discover the guilty persons, as it is not only a wanton destruction of fish, but tbh stench' that will soon arise from the decaying carcasses will drive the inhabitants around the lake crazy. Mr. Fancber says all the dead fish are of good size and large enough to have made excellent eating. He says he could have loaded a two-horse wagon box frith dead fish Tuesday.

A new deputy P. M. arrived at Postmaster Honan’s place, Tuesday night He is said to tip the scale at 30 pounds, but the accuracy of the weight statement lacks confirmation. The Rensselaer School Board are getting their corps of teachers for next year’s school filled up rapidly. A high school principal, to succe ed A. H. Purdue, has been 'secured in Thos. Large, of Huntington Co., and for assistant principal, to C. Rcubelt, E. O. Holland, of Switzerland Co. Both'are Indiana University men. Mrs. Aura S. Walls wiil be succeeded in the first primary by Miss Grace Vanatta, now in the second primary. Mrs. Walls w>ll resume her former position in the Plainfield schools. Miss Fannie Mills and Miss Kate Mills, recent graduates of the State Normal, will respectively succeed Miss Irwin in the 6th room and Miss East in the sth room.