Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1895 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Wheat 50 to 51. Corn 37 to 88. Oats 17 to 19. Bye 35 to 57. Miss Mary Johnson, of Ladoga, is visiting Mrs. W. H. Coo ver. Fritz Zard is on the sick list, with a stomach trouble. Bev. L. E. Conner will preach at the Church of God next Sunday morning and evening. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Thompson are at Indiana Mineral Springs, for the benefit of the former’s health. SundayWiool at 9:30 atT. W. B. church every Sabbath morning. County Superintendent Warren had 65 applicants for teachers* license to examine last Saturday. Mr. and Mis. H. C. Goldsberry and daughter, of Wolcott, visited Clerk Coover’s family, Tuesday. E. L. Coen, cashier of a prosperous bank at Vermillion, Ohio, visited his Rensselaer friends last Thursday and Friday. 1 J. Porter, of the firm of Porter & Yeoman, has sold his farm southeast of town to G. W. Terwilliger, of Champaign, 111. Bensselaer Wilkes trotted at Joliet, U1 M last Wednesday. He come out second in a race with a big drove of fast trotters. Come to the Free Will baptist church next Sunday evening, Bev. Mr. Pellot will preach. His subject will be “Interest”

Rev. J. W. Clear of the Dunkard faith, announces a meeting at the Watson school house, south of Pleasant Ridge, next Sunday at 10 a. m*. J. D. Babcock, trustee elect of Marion Tp., has bought the old Putts place, about two miles southwest of town, with a view, .of making it his residence. Isaac Ruebelt and family departed Monday for Dana, Vermillion Co., where he will officiate as superintendent of the town schools, during the ensueing school year. A grand cycling run -to be made to Battle Ground on next Sunday, on account of the camp meeting* All wishing to go should meet on the river bridge at 5:00 ▲. m. on that day. Everybody invited. J. W. Cowden, just east of town, on the Pleasant Ridge road, is preparing to build a good residence this fall. The Shedd brothers on the same road, will also build a house on their farm, this season. Long the druggist and Hardman the jeweler put in a new safe for their joint use, Monday. It is fire and burglar proof, and of the last and most approved make. It is a big one, and weighs three tons. ’ • . • -, w The Catholic cemetery, south of town, is being extensively improved. The big sand hill in front has been graded down, and this will be followed by building a low stone wall around the cemetery, upon which will be an iron fence. • John King was down at Lafayette to a big shooting tournament two days last week. He did great shooting, and bad the fourth best average In the crowd . At a badge shooting contest be broke 48 out of a possible 50 birds, but one other man went him one better.

H, Forsythe has already begun work o/ {ns proposed big brick block, A>n the Halloran corner, in the way of excavating for the basement. The marriage ceremony Of Mr. Fay Lear and Mifi? Ella Saltw“UfOf Milroy Tp'., was July 23rd by Squire J. C. Morgan, at his residence. And still another farm on the Pleasant Ridge gravel road has just been sold. It is C. E. Jenkins, about two miles out. The purchaser is Mr. Amsley, of Fairbury,’ 111. The farm is 100 acres in extent and sold for 155 per acre, Mrs. Clement Timmons, of Pleasant Bidge, has a handsome one story house nearing completion, on Franklin street, near Jos. Kight’s place. Mr. Kight is also beginning a new house, adjoining his present residence which he has sold to Wm. Bull, of Barkley Tp. People hereafter can go to Chicago, Cedar Lake, or take any other little trip on’the Monon, on Sunday’s at half fare, for the round trip, as per notice elsewhere, given by Agent Beam. The return tickets have to be used the same day. Children between 7 and 12, half of these rates. Jesse C. Gwin, of Hanging Grove, County Treasurer Elect, is building a good residence on Cherry street, east of, Uncle Davy Nowels’ place. Cox Bros, are the contractors. Mr. Gwin expects to move into town, and occupy his new house Sep. Ist, although his term of office begins Aug. 12th. Mrs? Sheets, a widow with two children, has moved into Mrs. Stockton’s tenant house, on Weston street, the old Terhune place. She came here from Goodland. She has herself and, children to support and needs work j in the washing, plain sewing and house cleaning lines. L. A. Bostwick has just got out a new and revised edition of his elegant and accurate 12 by 19 map of Rensselaer, shoeing all the changes that have been made lately. Such as River Side Park addition, Milroy Street properly named Ac. It is an excellent map, and sold at Long’s drugstore at a very low price. J. L. Crounse, of the Cincinnati Orphans’ Home, was about here several days last week, investigating a recent case where one of the Home’s former charges was prosecuting witness in a criminal assault case. He did not make public his conclusion in the matter, but from what remarks he let fall it was rather evident that he thought there was nothing in the case.

The Rensselaer creamery is not able to supply the demand for its butter, nor to make cheese fast enough to furnish the home market With increased prices for butter and cheese in prospect and a good market for all that can be produced, it looks like this was a good time for farmers to begin taking their milk to the creamery. There is every reason to believe that they would find it very much to their profit, so to do. Three big land sales, all in a bunch, were closed up the latter part of last week. This includes the farms of J. V. Parkison, 240 acres; Geo. Landis, 160 acres, and J. T. Sayler, 160 acres, all east of town, and all sold to one party. The price in all cases, is stated at 155 per acre, which makes the whole sale foot up to 180,800. The party buying the land lives in Illinois, but his name we did not learn. The crimes of Holmes, the incarnate devil who is already practically proved guilty of twelve murders and is suspected of as many more, have an added interest for Indian lans, from the fact that some of his victims oatne from this state. Miss Emeline Cigrand formerly lived in Lafayette, and her parents were located in Oxford, for a time, and are now at Anderson. Holmes also located st Indianapolis tor a short time and is supposed to have murdered a boy there.

The plans and specifications for the new Presbyterian church were received from the architects Tuesday. The advertisement for bids will appear next week. The management of the Nowels House has again changed hands. Mrs. Sarah Reece and son, Charles Reece, are the new managers. They came here from Wadena. A change in grain firms has just gone into effect. W. B. Nowels and W. C. Babcock have consolidated their grain buying business, under the firm name of Nowels A Babcock.

Martin Shenaberger. who has been connected with the brick livery bam, was arrested Tuesday night, on paternity proceedings, begun by Cora Davis, of Saginaw, 111., Shenaberger’s former location. The case was begun before Squire Burnham. The complaining witness arrived yesterday forenoon, and. very soon thereafter a quiet wedding in county treasurer’s office, Squire Bumham officiating, put an end to the proceedings. And still another Township Trustee elect, has resign o d his office before entering upon the enjoyment of the honors and emoluments thereof. Itirß. L. P. Massey, elected trustee of Gillam Tp., last fall, on the DemoPopulist ticket. Mr. Massey has moved to Medaryville, and gone in-

to business, and being no longer a resident of the township, nor even of the county, he of course, could not hold the office. To fill the office in his place Auditor Murray has appointed A. W. Prevo, son of exCounty Commissioner, A. C. Prevo, and an excellent man for the place. The Chicago Tribune says that the Studebakers are to engage in the manufacture of bicycles on an extensive scale, and that they propose to make a wheel equal in every respect to those now selling at SIOO and place them on the market at S3O. And it is also said that the Coquillard Cp., will transform part of their great wagon works into a bicycle factory and manufacture and sell a first class bicycle at $25. In fact the indications continue 'to multiply that the day of cheap bicycles is close at hand. The officers of the Odd Fellows Grand Lodge, of Indiana, have promised to hold a district meeting in Rensselaer some time in October, at which time the new building will be dedicated. The exact extent of territory which the district meeting will cover has not yet been definitely determined, but probably it will include pretty nearly all of the northwest quarter of the state. Special rates will be secured on all railroads in the district, and it will be a great day for Odd Fellows, and for the town generally.

The storm which came up suddenly last Wednesday evening caused consternation at the merry-go round, and came near causing a bad accident. A side of the tent blew in, while the machine was in motion, and the poles and ropes caught the children on the horses. Leonard Rhoades got a severe blow on the head, and his neck badly abraded by a rope. True George, Floss Wright and Bessie Eger were all cut by ropes or thumped by poles, but not seriously. Had the “merry” been under full headway when the tent fell it is probable that the results would have been pretty serious. The plans for the Fowler water works call for five miles of mains, 4,000 feet of eight inch, 16,000 feel of six inch and 4,500 feet of four inch, and 49 hydrants. The standpipe and pump house will be erected at the intersection of Eighth and Vanburen streets. The pipe will be 100 feet high and 12 feet in diameter. There will be two force pumps of half a millian gallons daily capacity, and two* deep well pumps of similar size. Two hundred and fifty horse power boilers are required. The job is to be completed in 90 days and it is estimated that the water rate will pay alt expenses and in twenty years pay for the plant.

Tuesday night was very cool, and some reliable parties claim there was a light touch of frost The merry-go-round pulled out for Frankfort, Monday morning. It has been in Rensselaer three weeks, during which the popularity of the amusement it furnished, has continued unabated. From what is known of its receipts during the two nights when a per cent was devoted to public or charitable purposes, which for the two nights aggregated 175 or 137.50 per night, it probably would not be too high to place its total receipts at S2O per night, or $360 while here. This would be no doubt, a profitable business, although not such a bonanza as some people imagine. The managers- of the “Merry” were gentlemanly people and leave with* the general well wishes of*jur citizens.

Our venerable townsman, Joseph Callow, has as one of his most treasured possessions, the certificate of his baptism. The certificate was issued Aug 9,1820, the date of his baptism, into the church of England. It was at the Parish of St. Leonard, town of Shoreditch, county of Middlesex. He has carried thecertificate with him for upwards o! 60 years, in every part of the world, almost, and*wbile it is worn into rags, and yellow with age and stained with accidents of land and sea, it is still perfectly legible, in every word. It states the date of Mr. Callow’s birth as Nov. 8, 1810, which shows' that the old gentleman is fast nearing his 85th birthday. The stockholders of the Bensselaer Building A Loan Association have so amended their bylaws as to permit the directors .to loan the surplus money to outsiders at such rates of ( interest as they can get. *Heretofore a. lower rate than 8 per could not be accepted. Another amendment gives the directors full discretion to ’ buy up and retire stock, ; or # to pay such rates of interest to withdrawing stockholders as they deem advisable. The purpose of these amendments is to find profitable use for the large surplus now accumulating in the treasury of the Association. Any stockholders, especially in the old series, who wishes to withdraw his stock can now probably do so on much better terms than ever before, by application to the directors.

A couple of caetS were begun in the Jasper circuit court, last week, which will attract attemion more from the prominence of the parties than from anything notable about the casts. Daniel P. Baldwin, of Logansport and W. H. Dague, of Fowler, ate the plaintiffs in both cases; and O. M. Vickery and D. H. Patton, are the defendants in one case, and Vickery, Patton and Geo. Major, all of Remington, the defendants in the other. Each case is a suit on a SI,OOO note, with two years’ interest. Vickery was the principal on both notes, and the other defendants were his sureties. Nearly all the parties are either statesmen, alleged statesmen or would-be statesmen—but that won’t make the judgments any easier to collect. Probably many of the readers of The Republican who, in going to or coming from Chicago, may have noticed, when the train stopped at the Englewood depot, the long three story building just across the railroad to the west of the depot; with its three octagonal bay windows on the side, and a circular one at the front corner, over the entrance to a drug store. This building is none other than the so-called “Holmes Castle in which H. H. Holmes, one of the most diabolical villians the world ever produced, committed a number of the crimes the accounts of which have lately taken so much space in the daily papers. Many of our citizens have been in the building and A. H. and L. F. Hopkins were acquainted with Peitzel, Holmes’ partner and final greatest victim, himself and his three children having been murdered by the fiend.

Alf. Hopkins is expected to arrive home in a day or two by way of Chicago, from his long bicycle trip, mentioned several weeks ago. He rode his bike clear to Washington, D. C., but took the more expeditious steam oars, on the way back; and during which he visited Niagara Falls, among other places of interest A number of our citizens went to Wolcott Tuesday to see a ball game between Wolcott and Brook. Joe Reynolds, Mont Hawkins and the Makeever House colored boy, Tom Moore; played with the Brook club, but that did not save them from a beautiful drubbing’ at the score of 15 to 8 in favor of Wolcott One Wolcott playei* collided with Mont Hawkins and his collar bone broken. Moore is a fair player and a whole circus.

The need of waterworks as a means of keeping our sewers open and in good order, is one of the very greatest arguments in favor of the improvement. And it is one that greatly concerns eVery resident. We al ready have an extensive and expensive system of street sewers, and to which new additions are constantly being made. And these sewers are slowly filling up and not only their usefulness thereby being impaired, but they are thus becoming sources of great danger to the health of our people. If during any protracted dry spell now, and especially in the winter, anyone will notice the foul odors of sewer gas which constantly arise from the catch-basins of the Washington street sewers, especially tbe older one on the north side of the street, he can not fail to perceive the truth of this statement. And not only will filled-up sewers. endanger health, but they will be'a’constant source of expense. "At'the rate tbe Washington street sewers are filling, it will not be many years, unless we have waterworks, before the greater part of them will have to be dug up and cleaned, and this will necessitate also the digging up and "replacing many hundreds of feet of expensive gutters. And what is true of Washington street sewers is true of all the sewers and tile drains in town We must have water to flood them with or they will fail of their purpose as sewers, and become sources of danger to the health of our people.

A movement is on foot to organize a high-class lecture course in Rensselaer for the ensuing fall and winter. The attractions are to be secured from the always reliable Slayton’s Lecture Bureau, and the subscribing of a few more season tickets will make the movement an assured success. It is proposed to give five entertainments, during the season. They have already been decided upon, and the dates arranged, as follows: Jenny Lind Quartette, Oct. 2nd. E. B. Baldwin, arctic explorer, Dec. 2nd. Dr. A* A. Willets, D. D., Jan. 13th. Slayton Colored Jubilee Singers, 9 Feb. 10. Prof. J. A. Lcining humorous and dramatic reader and character impersonator, Mar. 2nd. These are strictly high class entertainments. The price of season tickets, good for the whole five entertainments, is $2, which is at the rate of 40 cents for each admission. This includes a reserved seat, reserved for the entire season. The price of single reserved seat admissions will be 50 cents, it will therefore be quite a financial advantage to secure season tickets; and the holders of these will also have the first choice of reserved seats. Season tickets may now be secured by application to J. J. Hunt, the secretary, or B. F. Fendig, the treasurer, of the association. This movement for a series of high class entertainments in Rensselaer is one that well deserves the liberal encouragement of our citizens. These concerts and lectures Will not only be instructive and elevating in themselves, but they will have a strong tendency to discourage the coming here of entertainments whose tendency is the opposite of instructive and elevating.

L. F. Hopkins, of Chicago, is putting in this week at Bensselaer. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth’s infant child is seriously sick with cholera infantum. The base ball cranks went over to Remington in force, Monday. They saw a well played game between Goodland and Remington, which was declared a draw, at the 10th inning, with a score of 14 to 14. And still the sale of farms gees on. Wm. Ebson sold bis yesterday, in Jordan Tp.-240 aoies at $55 per acre. Mr. Myt rs, of IIL, who recently bought Walter Porter’s place, was the purchaser. It is also reported that C. C. Brown, south of town, has sold.

Jim Longstreth’s team got frightened, yesterday morning, while he was driving up the shute at Nowels A Babcock’s elevator with a big load of rye. They backed through the railing, and wagon, man and team fell ten feet, all in a heap, with tbe horses on top. The rye was spilled, and the wagon was somewhat broken, and the horses hurt some, but Mr. Longstreth got out of it pretty well. That he escaped injury himself was almost a miracle.