Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1895 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Wheat 66 to 70. Com 43 to 44. Oats 25 to 28. Willie Hammond grajpated with credit at the State XJJprersity, last Wednesday. Dr. Taylor of Chicago was the guest of Miss Edna Alter at C. B. Steward’s, over Sunday. A daughter, Sunday to Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Wasson, of Marion Tp., southeast of Rensselaer. F. B. Learning, of Goshen, spent Saturday and Sunday here, where his family are spending the summer. Mrs. Chas. Johnson, of Whitehall, Mich., and Mrs. E. K. Mason, of Grand Rapids, are visiting Rensselaer relatives.

Mrs. Steward, Mrs. Porter, Miss Frankie Porter and Lor a Brace attended the B. Y* P. U. Conyen tion at Monon. A student from the southern seminary will fill the pulpit at the First Baptist church during Brother Byle’s vacation. A dollar-fifty excursion to Chicago, next Saturday, with a chance to stay in the city until late Sunday night. See particulars elsewhere. Judge Burson tied the matrimonial knot for Mr. Paris Brittin (of Jksper county) and Miss Malinda G.. Archer at his office in Winamac, June 19, J895.—-Winamac Journal. Miss Fannie Scott, of Kansas, is visiting relatives in Bedsselaer. She is the daughter of Samuel Scott, a former well known resident of this town.

Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Meyer and their three children all rode to Remington last Sunday, on their bloycies. They are all expert bicyclist*.Harry Kurrie, of Orange County, a recent graduate of the law department of Indiana University, is now assisting Thompson and Bro. in their law business. Rev. B. H. Pelton, of Hillsdale, Mich., preached at the F. W. Baptist church, last Sunday evening. He is a candidate for the pastorate of the congregation. Miss Edna Alter who has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Steward and Harry Alter of the tile mill, for the past seven weeks has returned in Clinton Co.

Hon. S. E. Nicholson, author of the celebrated Nicholson bill, will lecture at Brook, tonight, on the subject of the Nicholson Bill and Good Citzenship.

Robt Phillips has moved into his father Simon Phillips’ house, in the west (art of town. His own residence on south Weston street, will be occupied by J. P. Hammond. Mrs. Judge Wiley came over from Fowler last Friday, and Saturday afternoon she and the Judge took the train for Chicago, where they expected to remain over Sunday.

Robt. Vanatta has been offered and has accepted the position of principal of '.he schools of Monroeville, in Allen county. It is a good position, with a salary of SBO per month.

W. W. Evan’s and wife loft here last Thursday for Ventura, Calif., where they expect to make their future residence. Mrs. Evans is the daughter of Alexander Hamilton, of Rensselaer.

The sale of the old Presbyterian church comes off next Saturday. The congregation will probably use the court house as their place of worship until the new church is built. The~ big rain that didn’t come Tuesday afternoon, was preceded by a rushing wind storm and the biggest, blackest and densest cloud of dust ever experienced in this locality, it is safe to say. The annual adjustment of salaries of postmasters of presidential offices has just been made. That of the Rensselaer office remains unchanged, at 11,500 per year. Remington was increased from $l,lOO to $1,200. J. J. Montgomery, of Lafayette, began the work Tuesday of laying out the lines for the telephone exchange. It is expected that the work of putting up the poles and wires will begin some time next week.

The heavy weight bicyclers will lead the van at the bei ginning and bring up the rear at the

finish, at the great bicycle parade July 4th. Don’t fail to see them. James Lynch, the farmer who was locomotive engine exploded at Francesville, about three years ago, and when Engineer Brewer was killed, has just been given a $7,000 verdict against the railroad, at Knox. In our report of the commissioners’ court, last week, we inadvertently stated that the term of County Treas-urer-elect Gwin would begin July ( 12th. We should have said August 12tb, that having been the date of the change of treasurers, in this county, for many years. Mrs. C. Bridgeman, who lately retired from the grocery and restaurant business, on Main street, has gone to Rossville, this state, to take charge of a hotel. She took with her, in tending to give him a permanent home, of Dick Stone’s rather redundant young sons. Goodland had a daring and sensational esse of robbery, one night last week. The thieves entered the house of Mrs. Shaffer, who was absent, and chloroformed her two sons and their sister, and then ransacked the house. Their booty was sls or S2O in money. ~-~Tr7izzzr.i-rirr=±— The new school house, Trustee Greenfield is about to build, in Marion Tp., is southeast of town, instead of northeast, as was erroniously stated last week. It is in the Slaughter neighborhood. The contract for the building has been let to J. L. Fatout, for $545.

The last decision of the Supreme Court in regard to the 1893 amendments to the 1891 fee and salary bill will throw out of court Recorder Hunt’s suit against the county for the recovery of money paid over by him to the county treasury. The amount involved was about $1,900.

The wheat and rye crop of Jasper county is being harvested this week. According to the most of the reports received the wheat crop will be considerably better than has been expected. It is probable, in fact, that taking the county through, nearly half an ordinary crop will be harvested.

The Lane Bridge Company, of Chicago, the company which has the contract for the new iron bridge over the Kankakee river, at Dunn’s crossing, has just contracted ton move their plant to Wabash, this state. The company expects to be running in their new location by Sept. Ist, and to employ 150 men.

Miss Eva Jackson, for the past two yeais a teacher in the Rensselaer schools, and Mr. Alfred Hoover, oldest son of Wm. M„ Hoover, were married last Thursday at the borne of the bride, in Boone Co. The newly married couple will make their home in the elegant new house, ju§t completed on Mr. Hoover’s farm, a few miles southwest of town.

The Citizens Band went out to Wm. M. Hoover’s place, southwest of town, last Friday evening, and serenaded Mr. Alfred Hoover and his bride, nee Miss Eva Jackson. The. members.. of the band and the friends who went with them '/JsjHjT treated to ice cream and cake, and they in turn presented the bride with a handsome arm chair. Through a mistake in addition, the total amount subscribed for the new Presbyterian church, was last week stated just SI,OOO larger than it was. The figures then given should have been $6,077 instead of $7,077. But Elder Hollister is still working faithfully, and if the list hasn’t already reached the $7,000 mark, it will ere many more days have passed.

The oats crop will not be wholly a failure in Jasper Co., this year. Robt. Michals of Jordan Tp., for instance, has fifty acres of immense oats, standing nearly four feet high. At the same time he has 100 acres that will hardly pay for harvesting. These big oats are on low and undrained ground. We hear of a good many other fields that will produce good yields of oats. Next Sunday is the last day tbe Presbyterians here will worship in their old church building, and the pastor desires to have it announced that communion services will be held at the morning meeting. Also that the evening meeting will be a “historical service.” This, (Thursday) evening, the “preparatory service” will be held, and all members are urgently requested to be present.

The intention of Uncle John Makeever to build cement walks around the Makeever House, was noted last week. We are now glad to say that the contract for the walk is already let, and that the work will soon be under way. The walk will be eight feet wide and 108 feet Jong on Washington street and 78 feet on Cullen street; or about 1500 square feet, in all Day Bros, have the contract,

Walter V. Porter and C. C. Sigler completed a deal Monday, whereby Mr. Porter has become owner of Mr. Sigler’s brick residence, at the junction of Main and Division streets, while Mr. Sigler gets in part payment the “spring” lots across the river, fronting on McCoy avenue, and also some property in Kansas. Mr. Sigler will continue to occupy the brick house the balance of this year. Mr. Porter will ultimately move into town and occupy it himself.

It is rumored that the Monon will soon put on an evening train to Chicago, leaving Indianapolis at 3:20 p. m. and reaching Chicago at 9. It will probably take the place of the present afternoon train, as th° management seems averse to increasing the present number of trains. The change if made, will be on account of a new train put on out of Cincinnati by the C. H. A D. reaching Indianapolis about 3 p. m., with which the Monon will connect. — Monticello Herald.

It is said that there are in Kansas twenty-eight well-built towns with out a single inhabitant. Saratoga, in that state, has ft $30,000 opera house, a large brick hotel, a $20,000 school house and a number of fine business houses, and yet there is not a single person to claim that city as his home. At Fargo a herder and his family constitute the sole population of what was once an incorporated city.

A superintendent for the Rensse laer schools, to succeed Prof. Bohannon, has been engaged by the school board. It is Prof. W. H. Sanders. He is a graduate of both the State Normal, and of the Indiana State University Also has had several years’ experience as a superintendent in the schools of Middletown, Henry County. His rccomendations are also of the very best. Prof. Sanders was in town several days, the latter part of last week and the first of this, and made a very favorable impression among those of our citizms whose acquaintance he made.

George W. Pearce, who for the past twenty-five years has been one of the two gentlemen from Porter County who furnished the U. & Government its crop reports from Porter County, says that last March he reported the wheat crop per Centage at 85 per cent. Month by month this was cut down until now he reports that it will be but 2 per cent Never in the history of the county has the crop been such a complete failure. What the drouth did not destroy, the fly is doing.— Chesterton Tribune.

The Logansport Journal is now using a Merganthaler linotype machine, by which typesetting is dispensed with entirely, and type is cast for each issue of the paper and remelted when the paper is off. These and other type-casting or type-setting machines are coming rapidly into* use, especially In the large cities, and have already thrown many thousands of compositors out of work. The machines are worked with a key-board like a typewriter.

It is not often in these days that a family of eight brothers and sisters, all adults and themselves heads of families, can be got together in one group. It happened however a few sago, in the Pavilion photograph gallery. The parties in the group were Frank and John Osborne, and tbeir six sister.; Mrs. Chas. Johnson. of Whitehall and Mrs. E. K. Mason, of Grand Rapids Mich., Mesdames E. L. Clark, J. F. Warren, A. W. Cole, and Chas. Spriggs, of Rensselaer. A. J. Knight and Mrs. George Spitler went to Flint, Michigan, last Thursday, as witnesses for the state in the case against Charles Cordry, for bigamy. His preliminary examination was held Friday, and he was bound over to the court in the sum of SI,OOO. His trial will come off in August. He was unable to give bail and went to jail. It is evident that he is in for another good term in the state’s prison,. The much marrying scoundrel pretended never to have seen Mr. Knight before, and claimed that he never was in Rensselaer in his life.

Mr. Peter Kohler and Miss Bernice Watson, were married, Monday evening, at the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Watson, a few miles southeast of Rensselaer. The ceremony was performed by Rev. J. L. Brady. About 50 invited guests were present and the affair passed off very pleasantly, in all respects. The young couple will make their residence in Rensselaer, we are informed, in the bouse in the east part of town, just built by Conrad Kellner.

There has occured a serious interruption of the work on the new Odd Fellows’ building. The beautifully carved stones for the front entrance do not fit, and several of them will have to be made over again. There is also delay and interruption on account of the brick. Those last delivered from the local brickyard having proved to J>e entirely worthless on account of fragments of limestone mixed in with the clay. This defect will be an extensive loss to the brickmaker. Brick from other places will have to be procured, which will take time. And to rectify the mistake in the entrance stones, will also cause considerable delay.

The vote on the water-works question, in Fowler last week, was practically unanimous in favor of the improvement. The vote in favor of the works was 283 and against it only 9. We don’t hardly suppose that Rensselae-’s vote will be quite so unanimous as Fowler’s, because our town has escaped the expensive experience of disastrous fires, and therefore has not realized the necessity for water-works so keenly as other less fortunate towns. Still we believe that the necessity for water works for fire protection, for sewer washing, for street sprinkling and for lawns, gardens and domestic purposes, has come to be so generally realized here, that when the question comes to be submitted to our people, the vote will be overwhelmingly in favor of the improvement.

A vast krowd of komically kostumed klowns will follow in the wake of the bicycler*’ parade, on the Fourth, The managers of that feature are expecting that their number including all sizes, shapes, colors and conditions, will be about 40. The Rensselaer saloon keepers are preparing for tbe advent of the Nicholson bill, by having their partitions and screens so arranged that they can be taken down during legal closing hours, as tbe law requires, and by removing their pool tables Ac. The constitutionality of the new law in reference to the election of county superintendents will be decided by the Supreme court soon after tbey meet in September. It will bo decided on a case appealed from Hancock county whleh has been advanced on the docket. The decision of the lower court was adverse to the law. Marriage iiscenses issued since last reported:

j John E. McClanahan, | Mattie M. Warne. j Peter Kohler, j Bernice H. Watson. ( Silas W.. Mooney, | Cora B. Kaight. j Edwin T. Bond, ) Flora Hart. . ... . The town of Remington is threatened with a $1,500 suit for personal injuries alleged to have been received by a fill from a defective side walk. The party making the claim is Mrs. W. A. Harrington. The recent experience of Rensselaer fighting such a china, inclines ns to the view that the Remington town board had better try to compromise the matter. Town or county corporations don’t generally fare much better at the hands of average juries than railroads do.

Frsfk Maloy, his bike and Dr. Aiter’s dog are not expected to repeat their great one act spec-

tality * perfonfiwfice, as depicted above, on July 4th, because of the reluctance of the dog, to longer appear in such subordinate parts; but among the multitude of bicycle riders on that day, will no doubt be many interesting antics, and doubtless some amusing accidents. The obvious moral of this is: Come to Rensselaer July 4th and see the great bicycle parade, in the forenoon, and the bicycle races in the afternoon.

The Supreme Court has made another decision in regard to the fee and salary law of 1893, which is to the effect that county treasurers must be paid under its provisions. This decision is a direct contradiction of previous decisions on the same law. Under the decision Tresurer Hemphill will receive only $1,250 per year for the last two years of his service, and from this he has to pay for all deputy hire. The decision also affects recorders and auditors, and Recorder Hunt will therefore receive for his services only S9OO per year, up to the time the new laws will go into effect. Considering the amount of work he has and the deputy hire he has to pay that sum is much too small. The new law will give him $l,lOO salary.

Thompson A Sigler let the contract for their proposed telephone system, last Thursday, to the Lafayette Harrison Telephone Company The system to be used is the Harrison, and it is one of the best in use. There is a strong company behind it. of which Stephen Elkins, the well known statesman and capitalist, of West Virginia, is president. The name of the local company is “The Jasper County Telephone Company.” Negotiations are in progress looking to the connecting of all the towns in the county, in one general system. The members of the local company are Delos Thompson, C. C. Sigler, E. L. Hollingsworth and J. F. Wat- | son. Each of whom owns one fourth interest. The central exchange will be located in the rooms over N. i Warner A Sons’ hardware store.

Clyde Comer has gone to Benton Co. to spend his summer vacation on a farm. J. H. Guild, formerly Trnstee of Gillam Tp., now a successful business man of Medaryvi'le, was in town Tuesday. AbigdelegationfrcmGlffamTp., were before the County Board of Review, Tuesday, asking for a reduction of assessments. Sheriff Hanley made the trip to Michigan City, with Jim Rogers, Tuesday, in good shape. Jim had got his nerve back, and took matters philosophically. :. . —— - Miss Harriet Blood, supervising instruceor of drawing in the public school of Council Bluffs, lowa, visited Rensselaer relatives Tuesday and Wednesday. She designs making an extended pleasure trip eastward, before returning to Council Bluffs. It takes two men now to do tl e day work at the Rensselaer depot, owiDg ’argely to the greatly increased telegraphic work, r< suiting from O. A. Yeoman’s branch grain and stock exchange. R. P. Johnston is the extra man, assisting Agent Beam, Rensselaer Lodge Kn : ghts of Pitbias elected tbe following officers, Tuesdaynight. C. C., C. F. Wood; V. C., J. N. Leatherman; Prelate; J. J. Hunt; M. of W., C. C. Warner, M. of A., E. C. Owen; I. G , C. Guy Spitler; O. G., H. B. Murraj ; Installing officer, J. H. Chapman* Rensselaer was visited by a fine shower, Tuesday night. Nearly half an inch of juta fell, and it was the best rain the town has had for many weeks. It was only a sprinkle, however, as compared with the rain that visited Hanging Grove Milroy and parts of Gillam Tp., just a week earlier.