Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1895 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN.

VOL. XXVII-

MONON ROUTE. RENSSELAER TIME TABLE TRAINS THAT STOP. SOUTH BOUND. 80. ft—Louisville Moll. Daily M:SO ▲ IC. , 80. V—Milk acoomm., Dolly. 6:81 F. M. No 6—Louisville Express,Daily 11:8? P.M. Mo. 46—Local freight. 2:80 P.M. NOBTH BOUND. ■O. 6—Nall |:«8A. M. Mo. CO—Milk acoomm.. Dai1y...... 1-M A, M. Me. •—Mail and Express, Daily.. 8.28 P.M. Ma 66—Local Freight 9:80 A.M. 80. 74, Freight 10:06 P. M. No. 74 carries passengers between Lafayette and Bensselaex. '

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Wheat 45 to 50. Com 25 to 26. Oats 14 to 15. Bye SO. Hay $7.50 to $9.00. Aaron Wood, after two week’s sickness, is able to be around. Mrs. C. C. Sigler has been quite sick for the past two, weeks. Miss Bertha Conyers, of Lebanon attended the funeral of Wm. Gwin last week. Miss Eliza Tuteur. left for Peoria, HI., Saturday evening, to spend the winter Mrs. Mont Hubbard, of East Chicago, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Sigler. Miss Blanche Heyes is learning the type setting vocation In The Republican office. Mrs. Geo. Gillette is at Goshen, this state, taking medical treatment for a trouble of long standing. John T. McColly has sold his poultry and egg business, north of the depot, to Barney Kaeztnae, of Thayer, who took possession last Tuesday. M. F. Chilcote is making slow but steady progress towards recovery. He was able to ride out last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Fletcher, of St Anne, 111., came over Monday to attend the Odd Fellow’s dedication, Mid to visit relatives a few days. W. W. Taylor, the South Dakota defaulting treasurer, has Just had his penitentiary sentenoe reduced to two years, by the Supreme Court of that State. Mr. William Evans and Miss Emily A. Eibler, both of Rensselaer, were married last Sunday, by Rev. B. F* Ferguson, at 6 p. m., at the residence of the officiating clergyman. Mrs. A. C. Chaney and Miss Amy Alter, of Russiavilie, are visiting relatives and friends in this place for a few weeks. They came to attend the dedication of the Odd Fellow’s building also. Mr. and Mrs. John Worden’s 18 months old infant son, Ledh, whose sickness with diptheria was mentioned last week, died last Friday. He was an unusually bright and attractive little fellow. The intended proseoution of Ellsworth Iliff, in connection with the Platt vs. Iliff paternity oase, was dismissed by the plaintiff when it came up for hearing, before Squire Morgan, last Friday. Miss Bertha Conyers, who came to Rensselaer to attend the funeral of her uncle, W. H. Gwin, last week, returned to her home at Lebanon, Monday. Her grand-father, John Conyers who aooompanied her here, will remain a few dajs in this vioinity. The Republican was not quite correctly informed in regard to the sale of the C. C. Kent land, in Union Tp., last week. The amount sold was 1000 acres and it was bought by A. McCoy and Walter Y. Porter, jointly. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Austin, Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Spitler, and M. L. Spitler, attended the HammondHomer wedding, in Lafayette, Tuesday. The wedding was a grand affair. 1 V-—-— —4S- - _

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 17, 1895,

Odd Fellow’s Day.

THE BUILDING DEDICATED. ‘ -T' „ .. . V A Great Day For Odd Fellows. THEIR DISTRICT MEETING TOO, A GREAT SUCCESS. FULLY 5,000 PEOPLE ENTSix Hundred In the Processi on. The Cornet Band Convention Was Also A Great Feature. The dedication of the new lodge building of Iroquois lodge, together with the District Meeting, made Wednesday, October 16th, 1895, the greatest day in the history of Odd Fellowship Jasper county ever saw; and one of the greatest in Northwest Indiana. The De icatory exercises were held in the forenoon, in the lodge’s new hall; and were performed by the Dedicatory Staff of Decatur Lodge, No. 65, of Decatnr, 111. The staff is ten in number, and they make a specialty of dedicating lodge and other public buildings. The services were beautifully rendered, and very impressive Dressed in gorgeous and appropriate costumes, in colors of the order* they bnilt up in the center of the hall, an altar, of snocessive colors, typifying parity, friendship, love, truth, faith, hope and charity, and these virtues Mere celebrated with beautiful and poetic exercises. The different functions discharged by the members of the staff, were, Grand Master, Thos. Kitchen; Grand Warden,C. W. Borchers; Grand Marshal, W. A. Bright; Grand Heralds, W. E. Pease, H. J. Votaw, A. W. Hendricks; L. W. Fribourg; Grand Chaplain, J. H. Gregor; Grand Inside Guardian, Willis Martin; Grand Outside Guardian, L. H. Martin. Their proficiency in the work, the beanty of their ceremonial and the completeneas of their costumes and paraphernalia, are deserving of every praise. The dedicatory ceremonies were public, and the number present were far in excess of the capacity of the hall to hold them.

The grand street parade was the great public feature of the day. It was fully a half mile in length, and was composed of 120 Daughters of Rebekah, 404 Odd Fellows, on foot, besides officers on horseback, and grand officers in carriages, and also six bands of music, numbering about 90 pieoes. TWENTY-FOUR LODGES PRESENT. , The following visiting lodges were represented, with the number of members, as near as could be ascertained. Schuyler Lodge, Remington, 30 members. Wheatfield Lodge, Whealfield, about 25, and a Billy Goat. Goodland Lodge, of Goodland, 25. Monticello Lodge Montioello, 50. Battle Gronnd Lodge, Battle Ground, 13. Grand Prairie Lodge,Brookston 10.' Mt. Ayr Lodge, Mt. Ayr 16, [tbe entire lodge.] Beaver Lodge, of Morocco, 17* Brook Lodge, of Brook, 5. Orin Lodge, of Wolcott, 9. Monon lodge, of Monon, 40. Medary ville lodge, of Medaryville, including Rebekahs, 25. Yellow River lodge, of Knox, 10. Decatur lodge, of Decatur, 111. 10. Fowler lodge, of Fowler, 20. Carroll and Delphi lodges, of Delphi, 50. Adina D. of R. lodge, of Delphi, 24. Francesville lodge, of Franoesville, 15. Lowell lodge, of Lowell, 20. Calumet and Moltke lodges, of

Hammond, 18. Grand officers present were, C. F. Northern, of .. Greensburg; Dept. Grand Master, representing the GrandMMtefVwhowasmck.il W. H. Leedy, of Indianapolis, Grand Instructor. U, Z. Wiley, of Fowler, Past Grand Representative. Ed. Farrer, Indianapolis, P. G. R. W. H. Talbott, Dannville, P. G. John JRyan, Hammond, District Dept. Grand Master. The following visiting bands were present, participating in the exercises and attending the band convention: Brook, 14 pieces; Monon, 15 pieces; Lowell, 18 pieces; Gillam, 10 pieces; DeMotte, 15 pieces. These with Rensselaer Citizens Band, 17 pieces made 89 pieces, all under the leadership of H. V. Weaver. The afternoon’s work in the lodge room consisted of the following: Rebekah Degree, exemplified by Degree Staff of Adina Lodge, No. 79, Delphi. Address by U. Z. Wiley. P. R. G. . v Initiatory Degree, by Degree Staff of Schuyler Lodge, 284, of Remington. Address by Ed Farrer, P. R. G. j

First Degree, by Degree Staff, of Carroll Lodge, 174, of Delphi. In the evening: Second Degree, by Degree Staff, Carroll Lodge. Third Degree, by Degree Sjtaff of Fowler lodge, No. 460. At three o’clock Dept. Grand Master Northern gave a public address from the stand, in the public square. There was an enormous crowd present, estimated at from 4,000 to 6,000 people. They came from all directions, and by all methods of conveyance. A special train, chartered by Iroquois Lodge, started from Frankfort, and brought several hundred, from Delphi, Monticello and Monon. The business honses were mostly handsomely decorated, with flags, bunting, and lodge colors. Ellis & Murray fixed up their corner window, in a way to take the prize. THE NEW BUILDING. Is located on a lot the lodge has owned since 1866; and which was

bought of M. L. Spitler for S4OO, and at least half of the sum was for a building then standing on the lot. The lot which was worth S2OO, twen-ty-nine years ago, is worth more than $4,000 now. i The decision to erect a lodge bnildiog was reached early in the present year. The contract was let May 2nd. the contract price being $7,844, Other items, such as cost of plans, a superintendent’s salary, drainage and walks, raised the total cost to $8,848. To this most be added the cost of shelving the store rooms on the ground floor. This building, an ’ accurate picture of mhich accompanies this article, is he only lodge building in Jasper county, and its front is the most ornamental of any business or public building in the county. The area of the building on the ground is 44 by 84 feet and it is three stories high. The first floor is occupied by two elegant and spacious store rooms. The front of stores and show windows are finished throughout in red oak, with large plat o glass windows and are modern in every respect : '■ ■ ~ * : The center of the building is occupied by the entrance to second floor and Lodge halls above, the entrance

doors beiog finished in oak with beveled plate, and the side walls wainscoted 4 ft high, while the floors are tiled mosaic. The entrance doors to the stores are at each corner. The entire front of the building on the second floor, and side next the alley, is fitted np in suites of offices for professional men, on tbe plan .of one of our modern city office buildings and it also contains a ball 25 by 50 feet, which will henceforth have the honor of housing those noble orders, the Rensselaer G. A. R. Post and Women’s Relief Corps. The entire floor is finished in Georgia Pine with oil finish. The entire third floor is occupied by Iroqnota Lodge and is now one of tbe most complete and well arranged lodge rooms in the state. The entire front of the bnilding on this third floor is occupied by the Lodge hall which is 46 ft. 6 inches by 42 ft. in the clear, with an arched ceiling 18 feet high. In the rear of the lodge room is a banquet ball 25 by 31 feet, with a kitchen adjoining, 10 by>ls feet, and a paraphernalia room 10 by 10 feet. Between the main hall and tbe banquet room is a large ante-room •10 by 18 feet, also a cloak room and

preparation room, the staircase from the second floor landing directly in front of the ante-room door. The lodge room proper, with its spacious and well proportioned dimensions, ita lofty ceiling, its handsome finishing, and fine new furniture, is a grand and beautiful home for the different branches of this noble order. The exterior of the building is designed in English Renaissance, and is executed in buff-colored pressed brick with stone trimmings. The carving on the caps and other ornamentation on the front of the bnilding are all made to special design and executed in a highly artistic manner. One of the principal features of the design on the front is the transoms over windows in Lodge hall on the third floor, in which the emblems of the different degrees in Odd-Fellow-ship are executed in art glass making a beautiful effect when the ball is illuminated. These finer features not, of course, be shown in onr cut. The building throughout reflects great credit on the architects, Mess. Morrison A Torrance, of Chicago. The building was erected under the general control and management of the Building Committee of Iroquois Lodge, namely: J. W. Cowden, T. J. Sayler, L , L. Ponsler, A. Leopold J R tho Gim first

named are also the present Trustees of the lodge. J. L. Fatout, of Indianapolis, wss the contractor; and J. F Osborne, of Rensselaer, the superintendent. HISTORY OF THR LODGE. Iroquois Lodge, No. 143, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, was instituted June 9, 1854. The charter was issued by the grand lodge on petition of John McCarthy, Jacob M. Troxell, Randolph Brearly, Daniel P. Spears and A. T. Reed. The members taken in tbe first night were the five above named and Jacob Markle, Geo. W. Spitler, John Hunter, Thos. N. Springer, Harvey Phillips, John Phillips, Cyrus W. Heakk, and Dr. Cornelius A. Logan. Messrs. Brearly, Spears and Reed belonged in Monticello and only joined this lodge temporarily, to help organize it

None of the above are now members of the lodge, and the only one now living in the county is J»oob M. Troxell, of DeMotte. Harvey Phillips is in business in Chicago, bnt is a frequent vis’tor at Rensselaer. Dr. Logan became minister to Chili daring Lincoln’s administration, and while there was made Grand Sire of the Soverign Grand Lodge, the most exalted position in Odd Fellowship. The first officers of the lodge were: Noble Grand, J. M. Troxell, Vice Grand, Randolph Brearly, Sec’y, D. P. Spears, Treasurer, A. T. Reed. The lodge first met in tbe third story, or more-groperly, attic, of the building as Liberal Corner; and which still stands, on the

north side of Washington street, and to occupied by RhOiades’ barber shop, Hans’ restaurant, etc. The next year the lodge moved into the third story of the “Shanghai” building, which occupied the west part of the site of the present Trade Palace. Later the lodge moved upstairs into a building standing where now is Porter A Yeoman’s store; then into Spitler’s building, where now is the Western Union telegraph office and Spitler A Eight, and finally into Bedford’s brick building, which has served as the lodge’s home until the removal into the new building, just completed. Lemuel W. Henkle Joined the lodge Deo. 15, 1854, and is still a member, and in point of membership is the oldest in the lodge, as he is also in point of years. Next after him is Wm. C. Pieioe, who Joined Dec. 22, 1855, and still belongs. Mr. Troxell left the lodge a year or two ago to help organize the Wheatfield lodge. He is really, in years of membership, the oldest Odd Fellow, probably in Jasper oounty. He first joined the order in 1849, at Pittsburg, Carroll Co., when on the point of starting to California. To him and Mr. McCarthy belongs the principal credit of organizing this lodge, and he it was who suggested the name of M lro

quota.’* ZJTba lodge is not only the oldest, of any order, in thecdunty. bnt it is also the largest in point of numbers; its members in good standing numbering 163, and this number is increasing at a remarkable rate. The cognate order of Daughters of Rebekah, was instituted Jan. 2,1891, under the name of the Renseeliiwr Lodge, D. of R. No. 846. It is flourishing g.eatly and now has • membership of 106. Hie Encampment degree was organized Feb. 10, 1892, under the name of Rensselaer Encampment No. 201. Its membership is about 60.

A stranger who was found drank

in a ditch, near the corner of Washington and Division streets, was fined Saturday by Squire Morgan, to the extent, including costs, of $10.20, which will keep him in jail 11 days* He sail he was from Cleveland, 0-, and was convicted under the usual name of John Doe. J. W. Paxton has sold his residence in Newton’s Addition to Thomas Smith of Newton Township, who will move into it next March. Mr. Paxton owns good lots on Weston street sooth of J. N. Leatherman’s place, and wiH build a good house there next spring. Rensselaer Wilkes got into a tough crowd at Lexington, last Thursday. In a crowd of thirteen starters he got the seventh place, which was exactly in the middle. Several heats of the race were made in 2:10£. Wilkes did very creditable trotting, however, if he didn’t win any money, and was never more than a second or two behind the winners. He will trot again at Lexington, this week. Mary E. Grimes has begun salt for a divorce from Daniel Grimes. They were married May 17,1887, and separated Nov. 18tb, 1894. She charges cruel and inhuman treatment and specifies that Daniel called her a-——> b—h, struck and kicked her, told her to “gather her old staff and go to —> with it,” and finally “threw her out doors,” without anything laid upfor winter. They have no children, but

•he wants back her maiden of Nearhoff, and ought to have it. They live in Walker Tp. We trust that no one will contract malaria, rheumatism or any kindred affliction in watching for that total eclipse of the 11190 a a number of our neighboring editorial brethren have promised for to-night; but if any one has to suffer from that cause, it would be only justice if it was the said editors themselves. How they came to promise an eclipse when there was no eclipse to be had, is a matter we would gladly have them explain. ▲ lunar eclipse in the dark of the moon would be something absolutely new and novel in the line of celestial phenomena, for a fact.

The people who were brought into the corporation of Rensselaer, in the annexation proceedings, at the September term of court, did not perfect their appeal to the Supreme Court, within the time required by law, and it may therefore be taken for granted that they are in the town to stay. As the population of the town was 2000, about May Ist, by actual count, this annexation, and Benjamin A Magee’s addition, with the natural growth of the 'town, will make our population now fully 2150, and probably a little above that figure. The little but busy town of Brook now has two newspapers, which real* ly seems too much of a good thing, for a town of its size; yet judging from the advertising patronage of the new venture, the business men of town are ready to give it a liberal support. The Brook Reporter is the name of the second paper, the first number of which was issued last week, and was a very creditable local paper. Its editor is Jacob D. Rich, a well known lawyer, of Brook. Since the above was m type we have learned that the new paper takes the place of the old one; which has demised. In other words the Up-To-Date, Is out of date.,

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