Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1895 — ADDITIONAL LOCALS [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL LOCALS

Spitier <k Eight's steam laundry made its first start Tuesday. Thompsod and Douthit attended court in Kentland, this week. s . Rev. E. Baech and wife, of Indianapolis, are visiting Rensselaer friends. For Sale—2s or 30 acres of corn in field, 6 miles north of Rensselaer. 3tp Jacob Wilcox. Miss Mollie Lees, of Onargo, 111., is visiting her cousin,Miss Maude Ilemphill. - ■ —— - Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Hemphill returned home from a two weeks visit in Ohio. -■ Mr. Albert Alter, of Russiaville, is visiting friends and relatives in Rensselaer. Mrs. M. E. Lecklider and son Clarence are putting in this at Chicago, buying millinery and installment goods.

Don’t forget the reserved seat drawing, of the Rensselaer Lecture Club, Friday evening, Sept. 27, at the opera house.

Any one desiring to sell oiVorrow money on Life Insurance Policies, write to, or call upory Ferguson, Wilson Co,

From 92 degrees above zero Sun* - day afternoon to cold enough to freeze Monday night, required a fall in temperature of at least 60 degrees.

The Ladies of the Womans Relief Corps will serve meals in the east room of the Odd Fellows’ building at the time of the dedication . ——-

B. F. Ferguson is still in the Insurance business. He represents the Royal, “The greatest Fire and Tornado Insurance Company on the face of the earth. Miss Pauline B. Bentley, of Chicigo attended the Alt j r-Kannal wedding. Also Mr. and Mrs. Simmons and son Lewis, of Greenfield, this state. The Corner stone of the new P resbjterian church will be laid Oct. 15 th, with elaborate ceremonies, and for which preparations are now being made. Sheriff Hanley went up to Chicago, Tuesday, to visit his brother Frank, who had the misfortune to get a badly broken leg, by being thrown from a horse. Both bones of the right leg, below the knee, are broken. Sherman Richards, who was in jail charged with criminal assault, took a sneak last Friday, during the absence of the sheriff, and while doing some work about the jail, and has not been found since

Dr. H. J. Kannal has bought of Thomtes Thompson the triangular shaped tract of land, just west of the river bridge, and will build thereon a good residence next year. The tract is now occupied by a very old house, once the property and residence of Gen Robt. H. Milroy. This will be torn down.

There was a wrestling match at the opera house, Tuesday night, between Randolph Wright, the Newton Co., champion, and Bob Costello, sai<f to be a Pacific <Coast champion. Costello threw Wright the first round, jut declined to take the fall,\on account of Wright having a sore hand. The next two throws and the qiatch went to Wright. Following this was a sparring contest between CostaUo and Harry Wiltshire, in which the California man undoubtedly had the best of it, There was a large audience in point of financial magnitude.

The time honored name “Nubbin Ridge” for a certain region of Jasper county, will have to give way to (“Big Corn Eminence,” pretty soon, judging from half a donen enormous ears of cern brought to The Bepvbcicam office one day last week, by Theodore Hurley, the Blackford merchant. The corn is yellow in color and of a variety called “Ninety Day Corn” by Mr. Harley. He planted it May 37th and gathered it about Sept 17th. The ears are not only large but firm and heavy, excellent eom in fact. They are on exhibition in our office alongside of some of the largest and handsomest potatoes ever grown anywhere brought in by James Donnelly from north of Rensselaer.