Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1895 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Wheat 45 to 50. Corn 25 to 26. Oats 14 to 15. Rye 30. Hay $7.50 to $9.00. . Harrison Baker, of Onarga, 111., is in town this week Mrs. P. W. Clarke and children, are visi.ing her parents, near Lowell. Uncle Sol Wells, of Champaign, 111., is visiting his Rensselaer friends and relatives again. Scott Bnrget, abanker ofNewman, 111., visited his brother, J. W. Bnrget, the latter part of last week. S. M. Laßue moved Thursday into his lately purchased residence on Weston Street, formerly W. B. Austin’s pro perty.

Harry Kissenger found a K. of P. watch charm the other day, near the railroad, which the owner can have by calling on him • The thermometer stood at 20, or 12 degrees below the freezing point, Monday morning, which is pretty cold for Oct. 21st. A start has been made on some gravel roads, at Marlborough. Two roads are at present concemplated, each about a mile in length. H. J. Dexter’s grocery stock has arrived and is being put m order, ready for business, in the west room of the Odd Fellows’ building. Advertised Letters: Chas. A. Williams, 2; Elsie Williams, John Latson, Dr. C. H. Blair, 2; Minnie Condon, Augusta Hurd, C. Y. Scholl. Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Richardson went to Albany, Ind., last Thursday, expecting to remain during the winter with their daughter, Mrs. Charles Paxton.

Judge John Brown and wife of Tuscola, 111., were the guests of Mr.and Mrs. John Penn last Saturday. He is the father of Wm. Brown of Barkley Tp. Grand-mother Michaels, in Jordan Tp., fell out of a wagon one day last week and broke both her wrists. Dr. Loughridge was called and set the broken bones. A daughter was born Sunday to the wife of Joseph E. Brandon, of Alexandria, at the home of her father, Ira Norris, near the depot, whom she was visiting. Uncle Sammy Parker, of Hanging Grove Tp,advertises a public sale for Nov. 6ih. He will sell lots of live stock and farming implements. He owns considerable property in Rensselaer and will move to town before many months.

Rev. F. L. Austin, late of Allegan Co.,Mioh., Is now regularly established here as pastor of the Church of God; and is making his home with Uncle Berry Paris and his estimable wife. As a point of speoial interest to the young ladies we add the information that he is a young man and a bachelor. The Monon Route is building a fine passenger .depot at Frankfort; and we wonder how long Rensselaer people must be compelled to use the present very unsatisfactory structure. The business this road gets from Rensselaer is of such magnitude as to entitle us to a respectable passenger depot.

Frank Zacher, of Newton Tp., is very sick with malarial fever. E. D. Rhoades is confined to his house by an infliction of boils. Miss Mary Hoyes is visiting friends in Howard and Clinton Counties.

Theodore Kellogg is building a house in Columbia Addition. Dr. and Mrs. H. J. Kannal arrived home from their wedding journey, last Friday night. B. A. Linville, a former resident, now of Cable, Ohio, was doing business in town Tuesday. The telephone line to Marlborough is completed and in working Older. The toll for using it is 25 cents. Simon Fendig, the Wheatfield druggist, and his new bride visited their Rensselaer relatives, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Tanner, of Bolton Landing, N. Y., are visiting the latter’s brother, Mr. J. H. Perkins.

Miss Marlatt, of Barkley Tp , who lost her gold watch at the Frances - ville fair, has recovered the same by means of an advertisement in the Francesville paper. Miss Adelaide Demmon jof Chicago Kindergarten Institute, has opened a Kindergarten school in the pleasant rooms over Starr’s store, formerly occupied by the Iroquois Club. She comes very highly recommended. J. F. Antrim’B little son lost a lady’s gold watch, on Odd Fellows’ Day, which Mr. Antrim values greatly as a keepsake. It had a short chain attached and also a small round icharm. He will suitably reward the finder for its return.

Frank Parkison, lately came from Newton Co., sick with what the doctors there called walking typhoid fever. His physician, the other day, found him walking about and taking his meals regularly, yet with temperature at 104| degrees, or enough to kill any ordinary person.

Capt. Chilcote is still making progress towards recovery, but very slowly, and is still confined to his bed the greater portion of his time. He still suffers from his diseased hand, and last Thursday his physician sou nd it necessary to open it again. “Hoosier Slide,” the famous sand hill at Michigan City, on the shores of Lake Michigan, which it was announced some years ago, was destined to be hauled away to make glass of, but escaped that danger, is again threatened with destruction. This time the hill is to be used to manufacture a new kind of brick.

Thomas H. Robinson, a well known and well fixed resident of Gillam Tp., has bought of Mrs. Margaret Robinson, her handsome residence just west of Weston cemetery, and expects to move into it before many months. Mrs. Robinson will build herself a new house near the residence of her son, Warren Robinson, just east of the corporation line. E. L. Cox A Bro. are doing the work. Lawyer McConahay’s office, at Mocon, was the scene of unusual commotion Wednesday night. It arose from a dispute over a three dollar receipt, with Jas. Dickey on one side, and Otis Blackman and Jas. ahd Marion Jacks on the other. A hand to band encounter ensued and for awhile it looked as if Corbett and Fitzsim mons had found quarters in the of flee of the peace loving attorney. The affray wound up with some bloodshed, but no bones broken.—Montioello Press.

The feeding of the multitudes was no small matter, on Odd Fellows’ Day. The Presbyterion Industrial Society and the Women’s Relief Corps, oooupied the west and east store rooms, in the building, respectively, and the first fed about 450 people and the latter 400. Mr. Goff in his restaurant and its temporary annex, the Nowels House, fed 898; the two other restaurants about 400 between them. Many others were accommodated at the Makeever House and the various boarding houses.

W. A. Huff and C. W. Rhoades, and families, visited friends in Kentland, Sunday and Monday. . A new time table went into effect on the Monon last Sunday. The only change of any magnitude is in the afternoon north bound mail train, which now passes at 3:47 P. M. which is 19 minutes later than before. None of the other trains are changed more than a minute or two.

Judge Wiley took a ride with Sheriff Hanley, Tuesday afternoon, through the Haddick’s mill-pond and Pinkamink marsh regions. The re. suit of his trip was to fill him with admiration for the courage and enterprise of Benjamin Gifford, in undertaking the reclamation of those great swamps. A good arched stone culvert, five feet in diameter and nearly the width of the street in length, is being built over Makemself ditch, on South street, westof Dr. Washburn’s'place. Chas. Borntrager is doing the work. A similar culvert will be built at once, over the same ditch, on Weston street, for which Norman Bros, have the contract

A traveling doctor' wfcb put up at the Makeever House in Rensselaer and advertised himself as the president of a surgical institute in Chicago left town in a hurry when one of his victims began to telegraph to Chicago for information about his “institute. ” He had already secured a number of promissory notes from patients who had placed themselves under his treatment. The public will do well to let traveling doctors alone. When a doctor is competent to practice medicine he stays at home—Monticello Herald.

The cement walks now extend from Front street to the east side of the Makeever House, on the north side of the street, and to the east side of the public square, on the south side, in unbroken stretches, except for two gaps of about 25 and 50 feet respectively, where owners are preparing to build. These sidewalks are fine to walk over, and goodly to look at, but how frighfully tobacco spit does show on them. Why will men be so filthy?

An exchange says two brothers kept saloon in a Missouri town. One of them went to Chicago to lay in a stock of liquor. When he left home a revival was in progress in the town and he had hardly reached the end of his journey when he received the following telegram; “Bill:—Buy no liqubr. Will join church tomorrow night- Business is taking us to hell.—Jim” That night Bill went to hear Col. R. G. Ingersoll lecture. As soon as he got back to his hotel he sent off a message as follows: “Jim:—Hold on till I come. Have it from a prominent citizen of Illinois that hell is closed up.—Bill.”

A. S. Laßue’s family had a very dangerous experience, last Monday morning, owing to an escape of gas from a lighted gasoline stove. His wife and mother were both overcome by the poisonous fumes, and fell down unconscious. They were carried to a neighboring house, and Dr. Alter hurriedly called. The elder lady soon revived, but it was fully two hours before the younger was restored to consciousness, and for some time she was believed to be dead. She was seriously sick all day. All the other members of the famtly w**re more or less affected, but none so seriously as these two.

Another death from diptheria has oocured in John Worden’s family, sinoe our last issue. Another little boy* George, aged about three years, died Saturday morning, and was buried the same day. Three girls, who were older, are apparently much better, and if watched carefully by the parents and not allowed to oontract a relapse from too early exposure to the weather, they will probably recover. These three, at the request of the attending physician, Dr. Haitsell, were given the “anti-toxin” treatment last Saturday, by Dr. Washburn. A single hypodermic injection df the serum was given to each child, and one injection is usually sufficient. 5

a Ira Rinehart the cement walk man, is doing some more work at Monon* this week. ! ' Iroquois Lodge of Odd Fellows got new and handsome carpets, chairs and the furniture for their new hall* before moving into it. Owing to the opposition of the governor of Arkansas, and the flunking of Fitzsimmons, the big prize fight is off for good, and Corbett says he will never fight again. Work on the new Presbyterian church is going forward rapidly, and with a continuance of good weather, the prospects for its completion by Jan. Ist, as 1 required by the contract, are very favorable. The Anna Keeler Dramatic Company, a large company of good actors and nice people, is filling a week’s engagement at the opera house, this week. Their patronage so far has not been in proportion to their merits, but will probably be better for the remainder of their stay. Marriage licenses issued since last reported:

j Charles B. Wineland, t Ed a A. Nachtigall. j James H. Bidgley, I Vina Howe, j George W. Fredline, f Martha A. Isley. ( Joseph W. Leach, \ Lora M. Eld ridge, j Thomas J. Akers, { Alice Nelson, j Richard Kiken, ( Catherine Zwart.

Over in Pulaski County, a while back, a miserly old fellow lost his second and very scrawny and ill-tem-pered wife, and not wishing to lock up much wealth in a tomb-stone, he bargained with the monument man for a very thin and narrow slab, and directed that it bear this inscription SARAH HACKETT. “LOKD, SHU was tjine!” But the Stone was so narrow tha* there was no room for the last-letter, so the stone cutter left it out, with this result: SARAH HACKETT. “lord, she was thin!” The “Milk Church Picnic” of next Saturday, being the annual feast arranged by the officers of the Rensselaer Creamery Company, promises to be the biggest and best affair of the kind yet given; and it is bound to be so if any amount of energy and liberalty on Mr. McCoy’s part can make it so. For the big free dinner, at noon, 700 pounds of beef, 700 of mutton and 600 of pork, will be provided; while the amount of cooked poultry to be brought in by the ladies, in competition for the 36 prizes offered, can only be guessei at; that it will be an enormous amount in the aggregate, is very certain. Coffee by the barrelful will be made by those ancient warriors, Comrades Platt and Stephenson. Uncle Mac will bring down the whole population of Marlborough, in a body, and it will be a free excursion for the school children there. /

B. F. Gifford continues to add constantly to his immense holdings of land in this county. This week’s transfer record alone showing 700 acres sold to him at a total cost of about $15,000. Of late he has been buying largely up across Walker and into Wbeatfield townships; and there are rumors current that he is contemplating building or having built, a spur from the Three I road, from about Stoutsburg, down into his great tract in the Haddick’s Mill Pond region. Another report that has found some circulation is that he is negotiating the purchase of the Nelson Morris lands in Keener and Wbeatfield townships. This report probably comes under the classification “too good to be true." Morris fences his land into great cattle ranges, drives out the people and makes it a wilderness. Gifford drains his, divides it into farms, builds houses and barns,, brings in a good class of people to oultivate it and makes it an oasis. And that is the difference in the methods of these two greatest of Jasper County land owners.

John Eger’s elegant new residence is nearing completion. It is one of the handsomest in the this town of handsome residences, while the elegance, and completeness of the inter ior, are fully in keeping with the arattractiveness of the exterior. The entire cost of the building and plant of the new Monon shops, at Lafayette, is stated at $400,000, and fully half a million will be invested by the time the works are fully completed. It is said that the machinery room at these shops is the largest in the world, covered by one roof, without post supports.