Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1895 — TOWN AND COUNTRT. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRT.

Wheat 45 to 50. Corn 25 to 26. Oats 14 to 15. Bye 30. Hay $7.50 to *9.00, George Strickfaden moved Tuesday into his handsome new house, on Cailen street. ———— -———— The receipts of the concert at the M. E. church, Monday evening, amounted to sls . Aaron Wood is beginning to recover from a pretty Bevere attack of inflamation of the bowels. A daughter to Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Leatherock, living near the light station, Tuesday morning. The “Dazzle rs” advertised to be here last Friday and Saturday nights, failed to arrive. The “Dazzlers” seem to have been “Fizzlers.” B. F. Ferguson spent the greater part of last week traveling through Minnesota, going away Monday and arrived home Friday. The car repair and woodworking departments of the Monon car shops, at New Albany, are being moved to the new shops at Lafayette, this week, • v B. W. Marshall went liver to Kentland, yesterday, to hold court for a few days, as a special judge, in cases for which Judge Wiley is disqualified. Dr. H. J. Kannal and his recent bride, nee Miss F. Gertrude Alter, took their departure last Thursday, on quite an extensive bridal tour. Their proposed .route of travel is in the west. Geo. Cole, who has been visiting friends and relatives here and at Lafayette for the past month, left Sunday morning for Denver, to resume his old position with the Santa Fe A Bio Grande railroad. Edward T. Biggs, of Wheatfield, has been appointed administrator of the estate of the William Dahncke. It had been supposed by his relatives that Mr. Dahncke left a will, but this appears not to have been the case. The County Commissioners of Benton county have agreed to appropriate the necessary sum, not to exceed $15,000, to erect a memorial hall, at Fowler, on condition that the people of Fowler furnish a suitable site. The Columbian Literary Society of St. Joseph’s College now issues a very creditable little monthly magazine the “St Joseph’s Collegian.” J. F. Cogan is the editor-in-chief, with a large corps of associates and reporters. A crowd of Crawfordsville sports lost their boodle at the Terre Haute races this week by backing heavy money on “Quo Allen,” a horse which is a favorite in that locality. The horse acted badly from start to finish, and its backers are looking around for some good able-bodied man to kick them for losing their boodle. — Lafayette Courier. The Station agent here now h*s authority to flag the south bound vestibule train, going south about 12:30 p. m., for passengers bound for Indianapolis or beyond, but he can not flag it for passengers for nearer points. The north bound vestibule will also stop to let off passengers who come from Indianapolis or points beyond.

Hon. S. E. Nicholson has visited sixty counties in the state in the interest of the good citizens league, and he reports as a result of his visitation that there is an IrresistaMbstide rising in favor of temperance and good government. A Marriage licenses since last reported. v Frank Peck, \ May Tedford". j John H. Guild, ~ (J. Maud Prevo. j Joseph H. Long, ( Mertie B. Bowen. Messrs. J. F. Warren and J. F. Irwm moved their place of business, Monday, and the former the county superintendent’s office, into the west front room of the second floor of the Odd Fellows’ building, whete they are very pleasantly and conveniently situated. Already some fifteen horseless road carriages have been completed to contest for prizes amounting to $5,000 ia a race to be run early in November, from Chicago to Milwaukee. Three factories are being built to make them. They will cost from SSOO to SBOO, and their speed will be from ten to sixteen miles an hour. The Keeley Institute at Dwight received another Candidate for the gold cure, from Rensselaer the i&ttefpart of last week. The uniform good results that have followed the treatment of all Jasper county dipsomaniacs at that institution, heretofore, furnishes excellent ground for anticipating similar good results in this case. The city of Ft. Wayne is making active and extensive preparations for the Centennial celebration of the establishing of old Fort Wayne at the confluence of the St. Mary Jand St. Joseph rivers, by Mad Anthony Wayne, one hundred years ago. The celebration will be held on the 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th of October, and a large time is anticipated. It is reported that the extremely hot weather which prevailed through September has ruined the apple crop in many places. The apples were so badly baked on the trees as to render them soft and unfit for keeping purposes. What was thought to be the most bountiful apple crop for many years is said to be almost a total failure, so far as winter keepers are concerned.

Property owners affected by the Dayton street tile drain, recently completed, are requested to notice the correction this week, in the notice of their assessments, published in th is paper. By an error, the date when the assessments were due was previously stated at Dec. 23,1895, whereas the correct date, as now given is one month earlier, or Nov. 23,1895Work on the cement walks was resumed in the business district Monday morning, and probably by the end of the week all will be finished except two short sections belonging to John Eger „where he is building or preparing to rebuild, and the section imfront of the corner where B. Forsythe is now at work on'the basement of his proposed new building. T. J. McCoy, G. E. Murray, R. P. Phillips, E. P. Honan, Val Seib and Delos Thompson left for Lexington, Ky., Monday night, to /attend the race meeting, and especially to see Rensselaer Wilkes in bis big trot, which takes place to-day. As he will meet some of the best trotters in his class in the oountry, it is not to be expected that he will get first money, but that be may get second or third place is not so unlikely. The state board of charities at Indianapolis has sent out a letter of warning to several towns in this vicinity instructing them to be on the lookout fora family of professional beggars named Winleigh, consisting of a man who gets very drunk, a woman who begs and three children who eat. The letter goes on to state that they have worked nearly every town of any prominence in the country.

One of the most notable weddings ever held in Newton Tp., took place last Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 2nd at the home \)f'Tbe v }>ride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. y-SfiSL parties were Mr. Mann A. Brewfer, of Mt. Ayr, and Miss Winnona E. Sayler. Over 100 guests were present, land of course a grand wedding dinner Was a feature of the occasion. Bev. B. D. Utter performed thn ceremony. John Eger’s new brick business building, between Starr’s store and Eiglesbach’s shop, is now neariDg completion. When done, P. W. Clarke, the jeweler, will occupy the smaller room and Laßue’s furniture store the larger. As soon as this last move is made, Mr. Eger will proceed to rebuild the building now occupied by the furniture store. It will all be tom down, except the front, and this will be changed somewhat, and all will be thoroughly rebuilt. --Over in Jasper county they are agitating the question of changing the township lines. In the early settlement of Jasper county the boundaries of the civil townships were established on the borders of the swamps, with very little regard to congressional lines. The result was that Jasper county has about the most irregular shaped townships of any county in the state, Liberty and Union and the eastern line of Big Creek township in our own county being" Mr samples- of all of theirs. A rearrangement of boundaries would seem to be a sensible move.White Co. Democrat. There is still a good deal of vacant public land in the country, but it is mostly of an undesirable nature, and the business of the General Land Office is accordingly decreasing at a marked rate. The opportunities of the home seekers now depend mainly upon the opening of Indian reservations, and it will not take long to exhaust that supply. Generally speaking, therefore, it has ceased to be true that Uncle Sam is rich enough in surplus real estate “to give us all a farm,” as the old song used to say.

The Jasper County Telephone Company still continues to extehd its field of operations, with most coinmendible enterprise. Arrangements have been made for extending the system northward, as soon as the line to Lafayette is completed. A line will be run to Kuiman, taking in Fair Oaks and Parr by the way; and at Kniman connections will be made with the Halleck Bros.’ lines, already constructed, connecting DeMotte, Wheatfield and Kniman. When this line is completed, the entire county will be connected by a telephone system, centering in Rensselaer. Another oil excitement has broken out in a new place, in Jasper county. This time in Milroy Tp , and large numbers of oil-leases have been taken on land In that vicinity. As usual the terms are one eight of the produpt for the land owner of oil is found, and SIOO per year for each well if it is gas, One well is already in process on or near the line between MUroy township and White Co. So many experimental wells have been put down, in different parts of this county, heretofore, without results worth mentioning, that we are very skeptical of about this last venture. It is said that the Standard Oil Company is behind this new move, and that fact is regarded as some indication that there is something in it. The Town Board held a special meeting Monday night, to meet with the Lafayette gentlemen who asked for aSO year franchise for waterworks. As a special invitation had been made to the citizens to attend this meeting, to express their views on the proposed waterworks, the meeting was held in the court house, that room might be had for all who wished to attend. But the town hall would easily have accommodated them. l The citizens who were present seemed to be a unit in being opposed to waterworks under the private company plap, as so also did the members of the Town Board, and they voted unanimously in favor of an indefinite postponement of the proposition.

Mr. Joseph Long, principal of the Medary ville schools, and Miss Mertie B. Bowen, daughter of Joseph Bowen, Gillam Tp., were married in Bensselaer, yesterday morning, by Rev. B. F.Ferguson, at the residence of Mr. M. L. Hemphill, r The commissioners of Carroll county have compromised with the Bowen heirs in the delinquent tax suits, 'the claim of ‘the county against the estate was $22,860.24 and against A. T. Bowen. surviving partner, $9,57181, in all $31,432.05. The proposition of the Bowens to pay $10,300 and all costs of litigation has been accepted. Pretty big shave, but when it is shown that the lawyers on both sides are to paid by the Bowens the compromise should be regarded as very favorable to the county. A similar compromise was effected with the eity, by which it receives $4,000 out of a claim of SII,OOO. The new Odd Fellows’ building was formally accepted by the trustees last Friday. It is not only a handsome building, but a well built one, and with every prospect of great permanency. The material used in its construction has been of the best, in every respect. Great credit is due Mr. Fatout, the contractor, for the thorough and workman-like manner in which he has had everything done, about tho building, especially when it has been evident for some time that there would be no profit in the contract, for him. This was partly owing to rather close figuring, at the letting of the contract, and also to several runs of bad-luck. The dedicatory exercises of the Odd Fellows’ building, to be held next Wednesday, Oct. 16th, will be performed by a special staff from Decatur, 111. They make a specialty of dedicating Odd Fellows buildings, and are in constant requisition, for that purpose, in all parts of the country. The dedicatory services will take |iace in the forenoon. lathe afterbpon the grand street parade wifi take place first, and this be followed ’bf''the''district’meeting.*- At this the Rebekah Degree work will be exemplified by the degree staff of Adica Lodge, of Delphi. The Initiatory Degree by the degree staff, Schuyler Lodge, of Remington; the First and Second Degrees, by the degree staff of Carroll Lodge, of Delphi; and the Third Degree by the degree staff of Fowler Lodge, of Fowler. The work m each degree will be followed and explained, in each, by an address b> one of the grand officers of the lodge. It will be a great day for the Odd Fellows of Jasper county, and indeed of all this immediate portion of the state.

A traveling doctor or alleged doctor, struck town last Wednesday, and put up at the Makeever House. He went under the name of Blair, and professed to be the president of the United States Surgical Institute, or some such name, located in Chicago. He had the services of an agent or capper, who drummed up quite a number customers’, and from a number of whom the “doctor” secured promissory notes for varying amounts Two of these were given by Joe Smith and wife, of near Hogan, for $25 each. Smith said when he signed the notes the doctor represented them as a mere contract to take medical treatment. Later Smith got suspicious aid telegraphed to the Inter Ocean, at Chicago, asking about the alleged Surgical Institute, and got back word that there was no such institution at the number given. Smith then called ou Blair, accompanied by an attorney, and succeeded in getting his notes back. Blair and his capper left on the next train, although they had been expecting’to stay another day. They undoubtedly took in several people besides Smith; in fact they are known to have offered several notes at the banks here, but how extensive were their operations can not at present be ascertained. When will people learn not to trust these traveling quacks and mountebanks ? They ! are fraud, quacks and swindlers from beginning to end.

r Bernie Gragg, of Lowell, visited friends in Rensselaer, last week. Mrs. Mary Campbell, of Lafayette, is visiting at Henry Harris?. Rev.B. F. Ferguson went to Brookston yesterday, to do a little marrying for a couple down there. The south wing of Iliff’s livery barn, on land sold to B. Forsythe, is now being torn down, to enable Mr. Forsythe to complete the foundation of his building. The F. W. Baptist quarterly meeting will begin Friday evening and continue over Sunday. Ministerial help from abroad is expected. The public is invited to attend the services. Mrs. Julia Day Lilly returned from a visit at Winamac, Monday or Tuesday. Daring her stay there one of her twins, the little girl Fay, died of membraneous croup. Its age was about three years. Austin, Hollingsworth A Co., have sold three lots in Riverside Park to A. W. Hopkins, who will proceed to erect thereon, at once, a house of the value of about SI,OOO. It will bs the first house in the new addition. A. R. Rishling, of Lee, has bought lots in Columbia Addition, and will build a good bouse ou them, forthwith. He will rent the house for the present, but intends to occupy it himself, eventually. Philip Blue moved yesterday, from S. M. Laßue’s house, ou Weston St., formerly W. B. Austin’s, across the street into Hiram Day's property, just vacated by Geo. Strickfaden. Mr. Laßue will move into the house Mr. Blue has vacated, in a few days. An 18 mouths old child of John Worden, is dangerously sick with diptheria. Three other children in the family have had the disease but have recovered. Precautions that will probably prevent any farther cases, have been taken. And yet another luge sale of land, just consummated, is the sale by Austin A Co., of 806 acres in Walker township, about 2£ miles south of Dunnviile, to W. H. Stephens end Levi Reynolds, of Chalmers. The consideration was about $14,000. Another luge and important deal in Jasper county land, has just been concluded. A. McCoy has bought of Carroll C. Kent, 1500 acres in Union township, at sl2 per acre, or a total of SIB,OOO. The price was low compared with most other recent land sales in this county.

Miss Angela Hammond, daughter of Col. E. P. Hammond, will be married in Lafayette,- next Tuesday, to Mr. Edward A. Horner, of Lead ville, Colo. The ceremony will take place in the Catholic church, at Lafayette. Rev. Father Dinnen, of Crawfordsville, performing the ceremony. Benj. J. Gifford was over from Kankakee, a day or two last week, and incidentally picked up a section or two of land, just to keep in practice. He bought Wm. Holle’s farm, 600 acres, and *2OO act«s of the Dr. Loughndge estate, all in Walker township. The Commissioners at their late special session contracted for three small iron bridges. Two over Curtis Creek, in Newton township, at $669.50 and $768.75 respectively; and one over Wolf Creek, on the line between Wheatfield and Kankakee townships, for $850.60. The Lafayette Bridge Co., has the contracts. The many thousands of acres of splendid corn raised this year in portions of Jasper county which a few years ago were practically worthless swamps, is a sure presage of the wonderfully wealthy region our county will soon develope into. Not only has corn in enormous quantities been grown this season in the Gifford tract, but also in the Once swampy regions near the Kankakee river; and also in the “Blue Sea” and Wakarusa regions. Laud in those regions which 6 or 8 yean ago w» a slow' sale at $4 or $5 per acre, now sells readily at $25 to S4O.

At least eight bands of music have accepted the invitation to attend the band convention here next Wednesday, and some others will doubtieik come with visiting Odd Fellows’ lodges. Ellsworth Iliff was bound over to the circuit court, Tuesday, by Squire Morgan, to answer to paternity proceedings, begun by Miss Rosa Platt. To-day he will have a hearing, on the chuge of seduction, in the same case. The entertainment last Wednesday evening, by the Jenny Lind Ladies Quartet, under the management of the Rensselaer Lecture Club, was a brilliant success, in the points not only of the character of the performances, bat in the magnitude and character of the audience. It was, indeed, a fine audience, and the entertainment was well worthy of the audience. And these remarks applies not only to the four musical ladies in the quutet, but also to their accomplished reader andeiocutionist, Miss Mina Prentice Borden. t * House of seven rooms to rent. Good outbuildings, good location. Plenty shade and water. Inquire at this office, or of L. F.Bartoo,of Remington. Strayed or stolen from my premises on the night of September 12 th, 1895. Bay mare 15 years old, black mane and tail, black points, scar in forehead by barbed wire. M. F. Chilcote. The Women's Relief Corps will be headquarters for good meals on Dedication Day, Oct. 16th. In the east room of the new build'ng. Get your dinner next Wednesday at the W. R. C. headquarters, and help the ladies in their effort to do good. East room of new building. The Christian Endeavor will give a Picture Social at the residence of R. W. Marshall, Friiay evening, October 11th. Everyone invited. Ladies bring boxes.

Lost: —Bunch of keys on ring, also 1 spring shell extractor and one corragated key with the numbers, 26 above and 11027 below. Return to T. P. Weight. The ladies of the Presbyterian church will furnish meals in Court House yard, opposite fife Odd lows building, at the time of the dedication Oct. 16t\ Come and get a good warm dinner. Mrs. Lecklider will give a present of Mdse, worth 25 cts. actual value with every $3 hat or over. The Marseilles Belt Cora Shelter is one of the most reliable shelters manufactured today. The only machine that received a medal at the World’s Fair. C. A. Roberts, agent See the lovely line of china ware just arrived at C. A, Leckliders’ A Co., at the Emporium. The Izzer Buggy is for sale at C. A. Roberts’ place of business, cm Cullen St. Call and see same before buying. Its worth your time. Remember the place, just across the street from Makeever Hotel.

Yours truly, C. A. ROBERTS.