Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1895 — Page 5

REMINGTON ITEMS.

School will begin Monday Sept. 9th, instead of the 2nd, as previously announced. Abe Hardy was over last week in the interest of the telephone, the poles tor which are nearly all in readiness for the wires. Lace Bond made a short visit home this week. He returned to Chicago Tuesday. Mrs. C. B. Hitchcox and Mrs. M. A. Hansenberg, of Aurora, N. Y., are visiting the . former’s sisters Mesdames BartOo, Griffin and Bowman. Married—Wednesday evening at the home of the bride on Ohio street, Mrs. Martha Lambert and Mr. Perry Griffith. Rev. D, Handley is enjoying a short vacation m Fountain Co. Petitions are being circulated both for and against the Ellis saloon. I. The speech on Saturday afternoon by the author of the Nicholson bill, was most excellent, and listened to by a large audience. A committee was appointed to organize a “Good Citizen’s League,” an outgrowth of his speech. Prof. Chamberlain, of Butler College, delivered a very able address on Ladies’ Day at the park. Old Settlers day was the most largely attended. The oldest citizens, headed by Mr. Culp aged 85, were seated on the platform. Addresses were delivered by John Ade, of Kentland, S. P. Thompson, of Rensselaer, and A. Wolcott, of Wolcott. The Assembly has been a great success in every way. Last Sunday there were 1044 tickets sold. The mass Sunday school numbered 342; collection $6.83; leader Supt. Morgan of Fowler. At the Conference it was unanimously decided to hold another camp meeting next year. Little Laura Peck fell off the porch and dislocated her arm. Miss Mary Morgan, returned to her home in Crawfordsville Tuesday of last week. _ A. M. Traugh who has beenjvisiting in Oklahoma reports his son Will as not improved in health, as much as was thought. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Major are home again after a ten days trip.

All Cement Walks.

The Town Board Monday, grappled with the side-waik question, for the business part of town, and rising to the magnitude of the occasion, they settled it in a business-like way. Every foot of walks of all kinds, on both sides of Washington otreut, between Front and Van Rensselaer, which is not already of cement, is condemned; and new cement walks, tending from the property line to the gutters is ordered constructed. It will be a grand improvement.

Estsy organs and pianos, and Estey A Camp organs and pianos, on exhibition at C. B. Steward’s. Austin, Hollingsworth A Co. have purchased the only complete set of Abstract Books in Jasper County. They are prepared do make abstracts cm short notice and on reasonable terms. Call on them for prices. It costs nothing to feed hogs with Dr. Haas' Hog Remedy as it will return three times its cost in extra flesh produced and feed saved. Use it in time and avoid risk. Supplied by A. F. Long the Druggist. H. W. Porter is still in the in* SWance business. Don’t forget that; and is still agent for the old and always reliable, the old Continental. Ijugures town and farm property Sinst loss by Are, lightning, toroes Ac. Don’t forget him when Mftding Fire insurance. Btp. B. F. Ferguson will loan you all til* money you want at 7 per cent and S per cent. Come call and see on before going elsewhere

Buying Some Things Cheap and 3 (Jetting knifed on other isn’t business. 3 iUiUiUiUmUiiliUiUiUiiUUMttMUittttAß is not our style of doing business. V\fe don’t knife you - - oh anything. These prices prove it. Mason frnit jars, on© quart, per dozen 75 cts. Mason fruit jars, two quarts, per dozen $1.05. Washboards, single and double, 18 cts to 85 eta. Economy plug tobacco, per lb .'. #ts. Jars—any size, crooks—s gallon and 1 ga110n.... IgR gnl. Good house broom eacL FRANK MALOT.

ADDITIONAL LOCALS.

Eger’s hardware store and Eiglesbach’s meat market are having cement walks bnilt this week. C. C. Brown arrived home Tuesdar from Carroll Co., where he has purchased a farm, and will move to it next spring. Full uniformed band orchestra, with Keough Comedy Company, three nights beginning Saturday evening. J. W. Burget arrived home Tuesday from a week’s stay in Douglas Co. 111., where he arranged to have his 90 acre field of broom corn harvested. The Keough Comedy Company, consisting of 18 persons, will open the theatre season at Rensselaerniext Saturday night, at the Opera House, and continue three nightfc The copious rains of Monday and Monday night seem to have been general all over the county. They will do great good, although many fields of com are already cut short from too little rain.

A lawn fete, for the benefit of the Catholic church, will be given Wednesday and Thursday evenings, of next week, in the yard of the church.’ The music will be an especially notable feature; being furnished by the College Band, Rensselaer Band, Healy’s orchestra, Prof. Carl Hemmersbach, St. Augustine’s Choir, and the College Glee Club. The battle ship Indiana, now approaching completion will be~nof only one of Uncle Sam’s most powerful fighting ships, but one of the best in the world. A movement has been on foot for some time to raise a fund in this state to present a library and silver service to the vessel, as a testimony of appreciation of the honor done our state in naming the ship Indiana. In order that Rensselaer might have its proper ffem in this good work, Erastus Peacock circulated a subscription paper and raised sls, which he has forwarded to the proper parties in Indianapolis, and leceived their receipt therefrom.

Joe Leach, who works for Sam English, in Barkley Tp., and Jack Murphy, a carpenter employed by Donnelly Bros., got ieMfea fight in Strick’s saloon, Saturday evening. They were soon separated but not before Murphy was considerably hammered up. Murphy was locked , up, and on Sunday Squire Morgan fined and costed him to the extent of $22. He is in jail and though able to pay out refuses to do to, and he also refuses to work under the able supervision of Uncle John Ramey, , the work house superintendent.

Recorder Hunt has prepared and forwarded to the proper offlnial, bis statistical report for the year ending May 31st, 1895. During that period 829 warranty deeds ware recorded, with the expressed total consideration $1,730,297.72. Last year the total of warranty deeds was 572, with a consideration of only $740,088. Thus the number of deeds is nearly doubled and of the consideration more than doubled, over last year. For the year ending May 31, 1893, which up to that time was the biggest real-estate year in our history, the deeds numbered 893, and the consideration $920,455. Thus for that year the deeds were a little more numerous but their value much less, than for the year lately dosed.

A son to Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Leatherman, north of town, Saturday night. Mrs. Bernice Sigler, of Kmghtstown, is visiting Mrs. G. W. Goff. Keough Comedy Co., at Opera House three nights, beginning Saturday. There were 38 tickets sold here Wednesday, for the Chicago and Milwaukee excursion. - JPrtif; Carl Hemmersbach, now of Boston, is visiting hi 3 former friends at St. Joseph’s College. Jim, a Chinaman, will start a washee shop in the old Duvall building, on the-river bank. “Water works are a grand thing in a town. ” That is the universal testimony of every town that has them. The water-works election comes off next Tuesday. Citizens who neglect to vote will have no right to complain hereafter, if the election does not go to soil them.

Tuesday was not the hottest day of the season, but the most uncomfortably hot, owiDg to the great humidity of thentmosphere. About 87 to 90 was the temperature in the shade. —; Conductor Byers, of the Monon, took his 9 year old daughter with him to Chicago, Saturday, and when coming home on the night tram she w alked off, perhaps in her sleep, a little beyond Lowell, and one foot was cut off. She was doing well at last reports.

Special train to Lafayette for the big fair, on Friday. Sept. 6. Rensselaer Wilkes will trot that day. One fare for round trip. The Monon will run a special train on Friday of next week, Sept. 6th, to Lafayette on account of the Tippecanoe Co. fair. It will leave Rensseaer at 8:15 A. m., and returning will eave Lafayette at 7 v. m. One fare : 'or the round trip. This we understand, is the day that Rensselaer Wilkes will trot at Lafayette. Another special train will start from Medaryville the day before, Sept. sth at 8 a. m. One fare for round trip. ,

Justice Burnham, of Rensselaer, and Chappell, of Remington, and Dr. Landon, of Remington, as medical examiner, held an inquest Saturday to determine the mental condition of Mrs. Sarah E. Vincent, wife of Chas. E. Vincent of Carpenter Tp. She is very badly deranged. She is violent at times, and makes homicidal threats. She is 37 years old, and has 4 children. A severe attack of bilious fever preceded the insanity. One brother and two sisters have been insane. In one particular she is very notable physicially, her weight being 285 pounds. She will be taken to Logansport asylum some time this week. The so-called report which the retiring trustee of Wheatfield Township publishes in tne Wheatfield Sheaf, is not his report at all, in the plain meaning of the law The law specifies in detail that the trustees shall keep a full record of their transactions, and report them to the county commissioners; and adds in so many words that “Each Trustee ahall cause a copy of said report in full to be published for one week in one wefekly newspaper having general circulation in his county." The alleged report published by Mr. Clark, of Wheatfield, is simply a summary of the receipts and expenditures of the different funds in his care, but gives none of the particulars of how those funds were expanded; and which are the very facts which it is the purpose of the law to have made public.

Rensselaer Wilkes is a Great Horse.

Delphi Jounal. Rensselaer Wilkes, owned by Tom McCoy and Delos Thompson, of Rensselaer, raised the on the heads of all the old sports Wound the Indianapolis race track last week. He was entered in the 2:19 trot and appeared with a field of splendid horses and in the betting he was by no means the favorite. He sailed in, however, and won the race in three straight heats making a record of 2:125. The friends of Messrs McCoy and Thompson are Jubilant over this splendid record. Sohool-bags, pencils, pen-holders, pencil-boxes, erasers, ink and in faet all supplies at Fendig’s.

About Water Works.

The Town Council of the Rensselaer, Indiana, orders an election to be held on the 3rd day of September, 1895, for the purpose of voting or~against Water Works for the said town of Rensselaer, Indiana. Up to this time there has been very little said for or against-the enterprise, and to the inquiry has been, “What will be the probable cost of installing a plant for Water Works, and about what capacity will it be. and to what points in the town will it be distributed?” These, of course, are the three principal questions of interest in this matter, and

we shall try in this article to state to the voters of the town of Rensselaer the facts concerning these three important questions; the cost, of course, will depend largely upon the system that is decided upon to be installed in the town, that is whether it shall be direct pressure or a stand pipe and in the supplies which will be furBlshed for the capacity, and it will there be shown to the voters that the probable cost will not be more than $22,000 direct pressure, and say $25,000 with elevated tank, and of course this may be varied more or less in accordance with the plans and specifications that may afterwards be made.

Now in regard to the capacity of the plant, we want to say that the town is desirous of installing a plant that will be of 'sufficient capacity to supply the town with water, say any where from one and a half to two million gallons per day. This of course will require two large steam pumps of seven hundred and fifty thousand or one million gallons each, per day, and these will be installed so as to run in alternation in the ordinary supply of water, but in time of a fire they may both be put to work "and will be connected to the same main. The boilers will of course be of sufficient size to admit of additional machinery, if required in the future. As to the question of distribution, we would say that it is the purpose to have these mains extend out to the various limits of the town that are at present occupied and improved, and it will be left in such Shape that vhen the improvements extend further out into the new additions that these mains can be extended so as to accommodate the entire town, when required.

The erroneous idea that some have understood that these Water Works would be simply located in the business part of town should be dismissed from your minds at once. There has never been any intention of that kind, but if Water Works are installed in this town they will be put in with a view of benefittirig every property holder, and of affording protection from fire to every resident property and every business property in the town of Rensselaer.

It does not seem practicable for us to allow this opportunity to go by without casting our vote for water .works, for the reason that we are daily exposed to fire, and in c ;se we should have an extensive one we sin uld te entirely at the mercy of the flames.

The fact that we need the water works for individual supply is not the question of so much importance as a fire protection. Nevertheless, if we tad had water this year to use our gardens and lawns would have been in much better condition and more profitable than they have been to us, and when we consider the benefits to be derived from this system of water works and then compare that with the nominal cost it will h* to tacn in-, dividual we can but decide that it is impoitant, ana ot mutual benefit to each and every citizen of the town of Rensselaer, and that we will vote to have water works established in our town.

The question as to our ability is of course a matter to be considered, but when we take into consideration that there are people who will take our bonds and cwy them fo.* five, ten, fifteen and twenty ; .years, and when this plant is once established the rentals from the water will doubtless pay more than the interest and the expense of running the plant, and at the rapid rate’of increase in our town both in valuation of property and population, the taxes necessarily assessed to meet these expenses will be but a trifle, and daring all this time we will be enjoying the adva .tages of water works. The rental for water from the water works will, in a very short time pay for the entire plai.i This f act has been demonstrated time and again in other town#, and some of these towns whieh hareji aid for their water works are no* as large as this Fowler, Montieello and Kent*, land ha ve all ynted on water works and it has carried there, and there is no reason why Rensselaer sho’d not keep pace with her sister to wns and we are fully as able to have these necessaries as any toun in tha State. The item of taxation should not

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be considered as a reason for voting against water works, as the exierience has been in all places that they are self-sustaining, and there is no question but what this one will be Issfore the expiration of five ysars. Again, our town is now rated for insurance in the tourth class, and as soon as we have a good system of water works operating in the town the insurance companies will give us a new rating ana place us in the seond class, which will make a material difference in the cost of insurance, not only to btu* siuess people but to the resident owners as well. I find that it will require about five miles, or 28,000 foet of mains, ranging in size from 4 to 10 inches, to supply the town, about 30 fire pings and a pumping station.

B. F. FERGUSON.

To Borrowers.

B. F. Ferguson will furmsiiyou money at the rate of 11.40 per month, in one of the best Building A Loan Associations in the state, with limited payments. Call and see before making arrangements with any•ns else. Reystcp* Com Husker and Fedder Shredder, sold by Robt. Bandit.

Upholstering, Picture Framing. A full line of Baby [ Cab Supplies, such as wheels* brakes and springs. Parasol tops, straps, nuts etc- Lounges upholstered for from $4, to S2O and $25, and yon select your own material. * THE MARSH BOOKCASE FOR SALE. Call and See Me.. . H. V. WEAVER-

Lost— The builder’s spetffieatians for Geo. Strickfaden'a new residence. The finder will be rewarded for their return to R. C. Dowler, (he .contractor. Robt. Randle Is agent for the Keystone Com Huxksr pul Fodder Shredder. If there is a man !n Jasper County needing a wagon, oal] on G. A.Roberts, he has the World's hast, Ahn Studebake”. Nevermind wind dfen6 <memgo but boy the Studebaker wagon of GL A. Roberts, it pays to get Che tMt the best is none to good.

The undersigned hay# bought—l are now in control of the livery stable, west of the puhlin square. They solicit people's pntronod*. Fflfc rigs furnished on short gotide. flftcflisg end boarding at reasonable rates. S mo. pHxouur finest

The undersigned tofts *BS men with teams to do ditch brack, est Wheatfleld. Every man must famish his own scraper. Joan Macs.

Change in Livery Stable.

25 Teams For Ditching.