Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1895 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Wheat 50 to 55. Corn 37 to 38. Oats 20 to 23. Miss May Dunlap, of Chicago, is visiting Miss Mary Belie Pureupile. The jjoleß for the telephone exchange began lo he delivered Tuesday. They are 40 feet in length. Unde Jared Benjamin is considerably improving, his residence in Newton’s Addition. Miss Dale Bemenderfer, of Clarkdale, 111., visited her cousin, Miss May Enslen, last week. Mr. and Mrs. John Hanley, of Lafayette, visited their nephew, the sheriff, Sunday and Monday. About 80 of the little folks were delightfully entertained Friday afternoon and evening at a lawn party, at M. L. Spitler’s. Mrs. Agusta White, wife of Joseph White, an old resident of Bose Lawn, died at that place, yesterday morning. Her «*ge was 57 years. A. Leopold is erecting a one room brick building on Van Rensselaer street, between Rosenbaum’s saloon and the rear of Ellis A Murray’s store. A. W. Cleveland % building a sixroom cottage, of elegant design, on his block some distance north of the depot. Jessup A Son have the contract. Quarterly Meeting at the M. E. Church next Saturday evening and Sunday morning, July 20 A2L The Presiding elder, Rev. J. H* Wilson, will conduct the services. Gen. Francis M. Drake the Republican candidate for governor in lowa, is the principal owner of the Three I railroad which passes through the northern part of this county.

Dr. Washburn was over in Pulaski Co. Saturday, to visit his father, whose health is very poor. The old gentleman’B great age, upwards of 80 years, makes his sickness very serious.

Mrs. C. V. Adams and her invalid daughter Miss Edith, of Winfield Kansas, are in town visiting relatives and friends. They have been the guests of Mr. A Mrs. Wm. H. Hopkins during the past week.

Work on the cement sidewalk around the Makeever House, is under way. Mr. Makeever has enlarged somewhat on his original plan, and with the Washington street walk will include a cement gutter. Day Bro-. «hers are doing the work.

Quite a party of Rensselaer bicyclers went to Lafayette Sunday, and two of them, Bert Hopkins and Albert Overton went on from Lafayette to Monticello, making pretty nearly a ninety mile run. The oth ers came home on the afternoon mail train.

General Superintenden| George E. Lowell, of the Monon railway who reoently Completed an inspection trip, speaks highly of the condition of the property and its business status. He says more money is to be spent in improvements and heavier rails are to be put down.

Albert Overton, our crack bicycle rider, don’t intend to have Louis Wilcox’s dust in his eyes. Monday morning he received by express an 18 lb. Victor racer, of the very best style of make. It is no doubt one of the very best wheels in the county, and its oost was #196. ~

A daughter was bom Tuesday afternoon, to Dr. and Mrs. V. E. Loughridge. E. W. Kolb, of Oxford, a civil engineer and a late graduate of Purdue University School of Engineering, visited the family of his sister Mrs. Frank Foltz, the" latter part of last week. Hie Jasper County Summer Normal opened Monday for a five weeks session, with an attendance of 37. Under the able management of Messrs. Warren and Large, the instructors, it is sure to be a successful session. The “Merry-Go-Round” still conproves a very popular attraction north of the Makeever House. Last evening the ladies of the Presbyterian church had possession of it by contract, for the benefit of the ehnrch; also conducting an ice-cream festival in connection. Saturday will be the last night here of the merry-go-round. ■___

Jack Warbnrton, a noted temperance speaker held meetings in the oonrt house, Monday and Tuesday evenings. He is an able and a pleasant speaker, but he found the attractions of the “merry-go-round” too strong for a temperance movement, just at this time. • -a — 1 A marriage license was issued Saturday for Mr. Charles H. Chapman and Miss Rosa Grube. Mr. Chapman is a mail route agent on the Three I road and Miss Grube, who lives at Stoutsbeig, is a well known teacher in the public schools of the county, and a most estimable young lady. Marriage liscenses issued since last reported: j Charles H. Chapman, \ Rosa Grube. j M. Birney Graham ( Hettie R. Luckey. -

The Evening Herald is the title of one of Goedland’s two recently launched and not yet stranded daily papew. A. J. Kitt of the Saturday Herald is the publisher.. It is a bright little Bheet aud if anyone can perform the miracle of keeping a daily alive in a town like Goodland* Bro. Kitt will do it.

Stockholders in the Rensselaer Building and Loan Association should make it a point to attend the special meeting of the stockholders, at the court house this, Thursday evening. The Association has a surplus of several thousands of dollars now lying idle, and the puspose of the meeting is to adopt some method by which it can be profitably used.

Rev. J. T. Clark, writing from Russell Springs, Logan Co , Kans, to his brother, T. F. Clark, of Rensselaer gives an account of some enormous rains that have visited his section lately. Some of these storms were very disastrous in magnitude. Kansas, or at least that portion of it, has been abundantly blessed with rains this season, and the crop prospects are immense.

The work on the Odd Fellows’ building was suspended again, for several days last week, on account of tho non-arrival of a car load of brick from Lafayette which ought to have been here the first of the week but did not arrive until Saturday. Some of the Monon agents at Lafayette are most grossly negligent of their duties and ought to be discharged. The building has made good progress this week, and the brickwork will be completed <Jty Thursday night.

Amateur speculators who expect to get rich by trading in wheat options would better prepare for bankruptcy and poverty at once. Buying from dealers one day in the hope of selling back to them the next at a big profit at their expense is the wildest of dreams. They are as certain to lose in the long run as if they sunk their money in a lottery. The market has been manipulated expressly to induce the “lambs” to invest. This accounts for the extraordinary number and variety of the rumors sent over the wires every day. The only safe rule is to keep out.—Ex,

Thad Kellogg has moved his barber shop from the Makeever House into C. A. Roberts’room on Washington street, next door west of the express {office, where he has a convenient and well located little shop. The room he occupied in the hotel is now utilized try the “Board of Trade.” A.F. Bowers completed his cement walk work here, Tuesday, and has returned home to Rochester. Besides the walk in front of the public square he also constructid two cement street crossings. It seems to be the universal opinion that he is fully “on to his job” in the cement walk line, and his work is built to stand. He intends shipping another car load of cement to this place, and will be back again m two or three weeks, having a number of contracts for walks awaiting him. This will include several more etreetcrossings, and a walk in front of the town hall. As a result of a distribution of town lots in Rochester, last week, A. F. Bowers, builder of the cement walks at the court house, became the owner of a lot worth SIOOO, and which cost him only SIOO. A4O acre tract adjoining the town was laid out into lots to secure money to establish a normal college. A good honse and barn was in the tract, and when laid out this laid on the line between two lots, and one of these lots fell to Mr. Bowers; the other to Tully Bitters, of Rochester. The two lots with the house and bam, are jointly worth s2‘ooo.

The long looked for rain vi.dted this locality Tuesday hight, or early Wednesday morning, and it was the best rain Rensselaer has seen for months. The amount of rain-fall was fully an inch, and many estimate it at even more than that. This rain seems to have covered a wide scope, and with other good rains that have visited other parts of the county lately, it is likely that no part of Jasper county is now suffering from drouth; aud it is the general opinion that an immense corn crop is now an assured fact in this county. A magnificent electrical display accompanied Tuesday night’s storm.

The enumeration of the voting population of Rensselaer has just been completed by Trustee Greenfield, assisted by J. F. Antrim. The result gives 542 voters within the town limits. The Rochester Republican figures out the population of Rochester by estimating 5 persons to eyery voter, which would give Rensselaer a population of 2, 710. But this basis is evidently too large, as the actual careful count of our population, two months ago, was just at the 2,000 mark. A basis of four people to one voter is more nearly right, although even that is a little too large. Our esteemed Rochester contemporary would do well to revise its estimate of Rochester’s population, and to reduce it from 4,445, to about 3,200.

The Town Board has begun a new action for the annexation of the “Northwest Territory,” and has not only included all which was in the June attempt, but also considerable of a tract in addition. This additional traot is a strip some 665 feet wide lying along the entire west side of town. It begins at M agee A Benjamin’s addition on the north and extends south just one mile to the south limits of the town. It contains 40 acres of land, and includes the residences of R. W. Marshall, Harvey Grant, Mrs. Thos. Robinson, Wm. Beck, Wm. Washburn, Erastus Peacock, and H. J. Bartoo. The extent of the original tract has already been described. It includes about two blocks directly north of the a tract of from 70 to 80 acres in extent, in the northwest angle of the town, •'and includes a population of about 50 persons. Magee A Benjamin’s addition being already platted and recorded, will be taken in by simply a resolution of the Town Board, as soon as the annexation of these other tracts is consummated.

The work of installing the telephone exchange began Tuesday, with a force of about 25 men. About half of these are shaving the poles; the others digging holes and setting the poles. The first pole was erected Tuesday, in front of Warners’ hardware store. Jack Montgomery, of Lafayette, and a hustler who is on to his job, is superintending the work;

The Board of Review has about completed its work. They have made very many individual changes, and horizontal changes, by townships, as follows: Marion, raised 5 per cent.,Newton raised 5 per cent., Jordan raised 10 per cent.; Union raised 20 per cent., Carpenter lowered 10 per cent. In Rensselaer the most of the original plat is lowered 20 per cent.; and in Weston’s and Newton’s Additions 10 per clnt. These changes affect only lands and lots and not improvements.

Two young fellows, Chase and Waldron by name, stopped at the Makeever House, Tuesday night, who are making a notable bicycle trip on a wager. They are Tiding from Denver to Philadelphia, and have to make their expenses and SSOO clear money during their tnp. They started June Ist and have until Aug. 25th to get to Philadelphia. They carry a mandolin and guitar, and make their money out of their music. They only lacked $125 of the SSOO when they left here. They make considerable stops in the large cities. They gave a free concert in Fendig’s drug store Tuesday evening and made enough for their hotel bill. They came from Chicago, Tuesday, and had a tough road until they struck Long Ridge gravel road at Burk’s bridge, which they said was about the finest piece of road they had struck on their journey. They pulled out eastward Wednesday morning.

Ton would be surprised to see Twenty Five men shaved, in one hour, at Bob Phillips Barber Shop last Saturday with four barbers.

And •till another important deal in business property is to be noted this week. John Eger has bought of the Monnett estate the 32£ ft front on Washington street, between Starr’s building and Eiglesbach’s butcher shop. Two old wooden buildings now on the lot will be torn down, and a good single story brick Will take their place. The old buildings are now occupied by Clarke’s jewelery store and Parcell’s barber shop. Mr. Eger paid SIOO for the property. Albert Overton is short a good bicycle. Monday afternoon he rented his SBS Victor to young Jim Randle, for the use of a young man who went by the name of John Yager, and who was introduced as Jim’s cousin, but who was no delation. At the same time Jim rented F. D. Craig’s wheel. They wanted the wheels, they said, to go out to practice on the Stock Farm track. They did not go near the Stock farm, but the next morning young Randle returned and stated that they bad gone to Remington, 1 and that when he was in a restaurant the so-called Yager had mounted Overton’s wheel and left for parts unknown.

Rensselaer is likely to soon have a more or less numerous family of rattlesnakes, as permanent residents of the town, if the pending proposition to annex territory is successful. A big rattler was seen one day last week, at Capt. R. W. Marshall’s place, in a black berry patch. His large size and evident bad temper indicated that he was the head of a family and there are no doubt several of the rattlers in the vicinity. The whole neighborhood, including most of Newton’s addition and other adjoining parts of town, are terrorized by the presence of the snakes in the vicinity, and in the case of the adult male population, it is understood that many of them have gone to doctoring beforehand for possible snake-bites. The usual snake-bite remedy is taken as a matter of course.

Sow and ten pigs for sale. Apply to John O’Connor, Kniman, Ind. I have S2OOO to loan for two yean time on good terms. M. F. Chilcote. • Anyone wishing to purchase a sec-ond-hand bicycle of first class manufacture at one half cost of new wheel can learn particulars by application at this office. The nicest thing can be, for one to take a nice refreshing batb, at Bob Phillip’s Barber Shop. Can send your Laundry with him and make your change there in the bath room. A great many remark that the barber shop, laundry, bath rooms, cigars, A combination of accomodations makes Bob’s one of the most complete shops in northern Indiana; and he keeps as good barbers as do Chicago’s finest shops.