Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1895 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Wheat 50 to 55. Com S 3 to 34. Oats 15 to 17. Bye 35 Hay 7 to 10. , . Miss Emma Fette, of Havana, pi., is visiting Miss Mabel Matheson. Lyman Zea has been having a bad spell of sickness from a kidney trouble. Ira Osborne went to Rochester Monday, to visit relatives, going by the bicycle route. Miss Nancy Reece is having a good house, built north of the electric light plant. It will cost about $1,200. The wrecked wind mill at the court house well has been replaced by a new one, and also a new water tank put in. F. B. Meyers and B. F. Fendig left for the lak° regions of Wisconsin, Tuesday, for an outing, taking their wheels along. Today is Old Settlers’ Day, at Fountain Park Assembly, Remington. S. P. Thompson, is on the program for a speech.

Mrs. Thomas Babb, of Burlington, lowa, and Mrs. Ed. Green, of Remington, spent Tuesday with Misses Lizzie and Mary Comer. - Mr. and Mss. Bast Sigler, of Kniglitsville, a newly married couple, visited Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Sigler, the latter part of last week. Dept. County Auditor E. L. Clark is taking a much needed vacation this week and-is visiting relatives in Indianapolis, Redkey and Rochester. Miss Dema Hopkins, whose graduation from Yalpo normal is mentioned elsewhere, has been elected assistant principal of the schools of Nunda, 111., a good position.

C. E. Jenkins, who lately sold his farm east of town, has about concluded the purchase of a place in Lake county, a mile or, two from Crown Point. Squire J. W. Warren’s team ran away, Monday, from near Coen’s grain office, with a lumber wagon. They stopped before any great damage was done. The colored campmeeting broke up and also went broke, Sunday night. It was a total failure financially, whatever it may have accomplished, spiritually. Miss Allie Cissell, of Milan, Kans., Is visiting her uncle, Wm. Powers’ family. She is the daughter of Mervin 0. Cissell, a former resident, now editor of the Milan Press.

Elder L. E. Conner will preach at the Chnrch of * God next Sunday, morning and evening. They will be his farewell services here, as he intends to remove from the state. A son, to Mr. and Mrs. Sam Thornton, of near Surrey, born Wednesday Aug. 14, 1895. This is the happy parents’ first child, after eleven years of married life. Some sneak thief or tramp entered Frank Doty’s house, on the Wm. Haley place, 5 miles south of town, last Thursd&y and carried off all the loose cash he could find; some $lO or sls in amount. A lady lost a red leather pocket book in Ellis A Murray’s store. It contained $8 in money and other con- { tents. $5 reward will be given, for the pocket book and contents, if re- 1 turned to this office.

Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Spitler and daughter, Mias Maude, left Monday, on an extended eastern trip. They will visit Washington, New York, Boston, Niagara Falls, Ac. They will probably be gone until Oct. Ist. Squire J. W. Warren, of Newton Tp., and his sons, Edwin G., of DeMotte, and Newton, of Rensselaer, left Tuesday on the Three I’s excursion to Niagara Falls. The Sqnire will stop at Marion, Ohio, on the way back to visit old boyhood «cenes.

A good telephone line to Remington is now an assured fact, and work upon its construction was began yesterday. The Rensselaer telephone company, or more exactly, The Jasper Telephone Co., is putting up the line. It is hoped to have it finished by Remington fair time. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Gamble, of St. Louis, are in Rensselaer this week. Mr. Gamble was struck by a baggage car, awhile back, and has since been incapacitated for his Unties as conductor on the big bridge at St Louis.

The summer normal, which closed last Friday, reached a total enrollment of sixty. This, we believe, is the largest attendance ever had at a summer school in this county. It was as successful in all other respects, as in the point of attendance. According to a Surrey correspondent, an Indian squaw, in fall Indian costume, dropped off a train at Surrey last Sunday, and created about as much excitement and consternation among the peaceful people of that propinquity, as did the cyclone in Rensselaer the week before. At the late Goodland fire the largest loss was a new Baptist church, just approaching completion, and on which the loss was $4,000. A new subscription is meeting with great success, and the prospects are excellent for the immediate rebuilding of the chnrch.

The Remington fair will be held “the last week in August, this year, as usual. Judging from the generous list of premiums ofiered, and the evident energy being put forth by the management, there is every reason to believe that this year’s fair will be more than usually successful. The temperance people of Rochester and Rochester township, are making a similar attempt against the September applicants for saloon licenses, to that being made here. The Rochester Republican says that 763 voters’, signatures to the remonstrance will be required; and that it is thought that 1000 will be procured. That able and experienced newspaper man, Bro. Huff, of the Monticello Press, is trying the experiment of ruqning a daily. It is called the Evening Press, and is a bright and creditable little sheet. Monticello is a good advertising town, and it may be that a daily there will be able to live and flourish. If it fails of a paying patronage, it will not be because it does not deserve it.

E. P. Honan got a fall of 20 feet, at the Catholic church, Saturday afternoon. He is superintending the work of building a new steeple, to take the place of the one wrecked by the big storm, and one of the boards of a scaffold having been removed, the tme which was left broke with Mr. Honan’s weight. He was considerably bruised, but got out of it pretty well, considering the extent of the fall. .&

C. D. Nowels’ cement walk, in front of the Nowels House and Fendig’s store, was completed Monday. It, with the oement step at the west end. is 100 feet long and over 13 feet wide. The maker, Ira Rinehart, of Delphi, is now extending the walk eastward in front of Warner’s hardware and Starr’s grocery. This will add 55 feet more in length to the walk. It is a fine improvement. The same party is aho making a cement crossing, across Washington street, t the Nowels House and beginning a side-walk in front of the Post-office and Laßues’ grocery.

Miss Dema Hopkins, daughter of j C. A. Hopkins, of northwest of town, graduated at Valparaieo Normal, last Thursday, in the Scientific Course. Her standing was of the very highest, she and one other having 100 per cent, in general average. They were the highest in a class of 124. Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins attended the graduating exercises.

That excursion for next Wednesdav. Ang. 28th. will take the ribbon. To Chicago and back for only $2 00, and & steamboat trip from Chicago to Milwaukee and back, is surely the greatest chance for much travel for little money ever offered to the people of Rensselaer and vicinity. Farther particulars of the excursion given elsewhere.

Prosecutor Doulhit was up at Roselawn last Wednesday prosecuting a case against one Mrs. Ida A. Herring, a “new woman” of the most pronounced type, who was charged with knocking her old man down with a club. She was fined sls and costs. She plead her own case, and made it very interesting for the States Attorney, by the free and abusive use of her very voluble tongue.

Four genuine wild western cow boys were in town an hour or two last Sunday. They left Chicsgo the Thursday before, and are making the journey to the Atlanta exposition on their ponies. They carry their camping outfits on their ponies, and camp oat nights. Their rather slow time, from Chicago, was explained by the fact that one of their horses got sick. They were dressed in regular Cow boy style. ■ Will Tratebas, an estimable young man 20 years oid, was shot and killed at Chesterton, Porter Co., last Thursday, by Alonzo Powers. Tho parties had got into a fist fight in a blacksmith shop, and had been separated by others, when Powers, without prove cation drew his revolver and shot Tratebas dead. The murderer was arrested and lodged in jail, at Valparaiso after trouble in preventing his lynching by a mob.

The death of Moses Washburn removes from the scene of action a man who has for some years been known for having resided longer in this county than any other man in it. He came to Indian Creek township in 1833, when there were but two other white families in that township and when the county contained probably 100 Indians to one white person, and had resided here all of the sixtytwo years since then. He cleared up a large farm, raised a family of honorable men and women, and had the respect of a large circle of acquaintances.—Winamac Democrat. Dr. J. H. Loughridge’s will, made about a month before his death, leaves all his medical and surgical library, instruments, office fixtures <feo., to his son, Dr. V. E. Loughridge. To his daughter Blanche, property by herself selected SI,BOO, the value of that willed to the son. All of the residue of the estate is willed to the widow, Mrs. Candace L. Loughridge, who is appointed the executrix. The doctor was in good circumstances, financially, and left an estate of $20,000 to $25,000 net value.

S. P. Thompson is working about as great a transformation in the aspect of the country, on bis tract in Union Tp, by the new houses and barns he is erecting, as Mr Gifford has done, on a larger scale, in the Haddick’s Mill Pond region. Mr. Thompson, by the way, has been just about overwhelmed with applicants to rent his farms. Many of these applicants are from the big tenant tracts in Benton county, where the rents have reached so high a figure that it must be almost impossible {or a renter to live. Eight dollars an acre, per year, cash rent, is said to be a common price there. When the rent is payable in part of the crop, the land owner must have half the corn and all of the cornstalks. It is no wonder that the tenants want to escape to the swamps of Jasper county.

Uncle Dick Oglesby says; “I have graduated as carpenter, store-keeper, lawyer, soldier, governor and senator to become a farmer, and life in the country is the best of all.—Chicago Journal. Commenting upon this, Gen. Reub. Williams says in the Warsaw Times; We believe every word of it. Besides what looks more comfortable than a farmer, fairly well up in years, comfortably situated with wife and family around him; a piano in the parlor for the daughter; horses and carriage in the tarn ready to take the family out for a ride at any time, a barn well filled; crops coming forward, the old gentleman seated on the porch,—“porch,” mind you, not veranda—smoking his pipe; of a genial temperament, and full of jokes? There is no need of tucu a man exchanging his position with that of any other profession known to man, and the only trouble is that he grows old before he finds it oht.