Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1895 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Wheat 45 to 50. Corn 25 to 26. Oats 14 to 15. Bye 30. Hay $7.50 to $9.00. J. F. Watson no# occupies F. J. Sears’ residence, on River street. ....... . : Misses Mabel Doty and Emma Burgett ate in Chicago this week. Chas. J. Rpberts Is building a large addition to his residence, on south Division street. Mrs. Elizabeth A. Gwin has been appointed administratrix of the estate of her late husband, Lieut. W, H. Gwin.

F. J. Sears and family took their departure last week for Storm Lake, lowa, where Mr. Sears has charge of a bank recently established in that city.

Miss Flora Harris has gone to] Chicago to attend an Art institute. She possesses a good deal of natural ability and with proper cultivation will make a fine artist. Charles Dean, now of Washington, 111., is coming back to Rensselaer to live, and we are glad of it. He has bought Jck. Yates’, house, on Front street, and is expected to arrive this week.

Isaac Hemphill has sold his half interest in Yates A Hemphill’s grocery to his partner, Ick Yates, who will be sole owner, henceforth. Mr. Hemphill leaves the business on account of his health. Que Allen, the Crawfordsville horse which Rensselaer Wilkes beat on the (1,000 trot at the Indiana State Fair, made a record of 2:10£ at Bloomington, 111., a week or two ago. Que is a good horse and it took a good horse to beat him.

Messrs. Large and Holland, principal and assistant principal of the high school, visited the Frankfort schools, Monday and Tuesday; and Misses Wharton, French, Coen and Lang of the higher grades, visited the Lafayette schools, the same days. J. C. Porter has sold his half interest in the grocery business of J. C. Porter A Son, to Will Wishard, who took possession Monday. The style of the new firm will be Porter A Wishaid. Chas. W. Porter, being the Porter end of the firm. Mr. Porter senior, retires on account of poor health. Work on the telephone line between Kentland and Goodlandis tobe commenced in a few days. It is the present intention to continue the line from Brook to Morocco, and with the contemplated line to be*built to the North end, Kentland will have a connection with every town in the county, also with Remington, Rensselaer, Fowler, Lafayette and Indianapolis.—Kentland Enterprise. • c* 4 - nni, A !■ —nn 1 ■ AM ill A If AA AM *- -- * S -

The wreck on the Monon railway near Franoeeville ia even more disastrous than reported last week. The engine and six oars went into the ditch and were badly wrecked. Brakeman Gus Brown Jumped from the car, and received what may prove fatal injuries. He was taken to the hoepital at Michigan City. Engineer McCauley was also badly hart. He was removed to his home at Monon, where he is likely to be laid np for several weeks. The fireman, Will Shields, Jumped from the gangway of the engine and came out of the wreok unharmed.—Medaryvrlle Advertiser.

_ Advertised letters:—John H. Van. Burtn, Mrs. Mary Nuss, Mbs. Elizabeth Barns, Mrs. Charles Standish, Claude Wall, R. B. Lythe. F. B. Meyer, B. F. Fendig and Bert Hopkins vsat to Lif*yette Tuesday to see the Purdue and the Minnesota foot ball teams play a game*

Mrs. D. E. Hollister has received intelligence of the death, at Cleveland, Ohio, of her only brother Geo. E. Banning, which occurred last Sunday. „_ r The celebrated fighting chaplain, poet, orator and humorist, J. H. Lozier will lecture in Rensselaer at an early day. He is an old friend of Rev. R. D, Utter. Samuel Wood, an old resident of Barkley township, died last Wednesday or Thursday. His funeral was held Friday. He was buried in the Prater graveyard. Wm. Esson has bought the Wm. C. Rose farm in Jordan Tp., 240 acres for $39 per acrd. Mr . Rose bought it three years ago from A. McCoy for $27 per acre. Mr. and Mrs. Ciceio Pancoast of Newton Tp. attended the funeral of the latter’s father, Robert Livingston, at Grown Point, last Wednesday. His death occured the Sunday previous.

The Monon company’s great stonecrushing works at Salem begun operation lest week. The works have a capacity of 60 or 75 car loads a day, out at present are being operated for about 40. The entire road is to be stone ballasted, it is saidv And it is also stated that the company has the [contract for 10,000 car loads of crushed stone for the streets of Chicago.' Davis and Rankin,' the creamery machinery firm of whicago, has failed and most people will think their misfortunes are well deserved. They and their piophet, the smooth and guileful Fosmer, responsible fcs: the founding of hundreds of creameries where they could not be made to pay, and where their speedy closing and abandonment was a foregone conclusion.

The Chicago Inter Ocean of last Saturday had quite an extended article regarding E. B. Baldwin, the Arctic explorer, who is the next attraction on the Rensselaer Lecture Club’s course. Mr. Baldwin was the meteorologist in one or two of Lieut. Peary’s expeditions, and according to the Inter Ocean, he is preparing to take up Peary’s work where he left it off, and will himself head an expedition to the Arctic regions in 1897.

A contemporary says that newspaper subscriptions are infallible test 8 of man’s honesty. They will sooner or later discover the man. If he is dishonest he will cheat the printer in some way, say he has paid what he lias not, declare that he has a receipt somewhere, or sent the money and it was lost in the mail, or take the paper and not pay for it on the ground that be did not subscribe for it, or move off, leaving it to come to the office he left.

The Stude bakers have denied the report, widely circulated a while back, that they were going into the bicycle manufacturing business, and at such a rate that the prices of bikes would take a mighty tumble. But Studebakers or no Studebakers it can not be many years before the prices of bicycles will come down to a reasonable proportion to other machines and vehicles, and to a reasonable proportion to their actual cost. The Rochester Republican indulges in felicitations over the prospect that, as oold weather advances, the number of licenses to marry in Fulton County will probably soon equal in number the divorces granted at their last term of oourt The danger of lioenssa falling behind the divorces in jasper Co. is not imminent, so long as our divorced people continue to exhibit tueh remarkable alacrity in getting married again as has characterized them lately.

Misses Ethel and Roxie, daughters of Joseph Kennedy of Morocco, visited their aunt, Mrs. H. O. H&iris, Saturday and Sunday. a. McCoy and McDonald give notice of a big sale of mi]£ cows and other live stock, at Marlboro next Saturday, Nov. 2nd. The W. C. T. U. will meet with —: —— - 7 ———~ Mrs. Jennie L. Wishard, Friday, Nov. 1., at 2:30 P. M. and the Loyal Temperance Legion at 4 P. M. All members of these societies are earnestly requested to be present and all interested in temperance work are invited to attend-

The people should beware of peddlers of optical goods. As a rule they cannot properly test eyes. And if they cannot do that they cannot fit the glasses. The victim is out just so much money. Most of them will say anything to effects sale. Monday night the Town Board let a contract for a stone arch over Makemself ditch, on Cullen street, to Thompson <fc Sigler, for $406. A contract for a steel fire’beil tower was let to J. H. Perkins. It will be 60 feet high and cost S6O. It will be erected back of the town hall.

The Monon Route is now selling cheap tickets to Atlanta for the great fair. The round trip from Rensselaer, for tickets good returning till Jan. 7, is (30.45. For tickets good for 20 days, is (25.55. Ten day tickets will also be On sale, but only on Nov. 5,15,25, and Dec. 5 and 16. The rate is (18.75. Extensive fires have been prevailing in the Kankakee river region, especially on Nelson Morris’ land in Keener and Wheatfield townships. The fires began on the Porter County side, and were carried across the river by the wind. Several hundred tons of hay, belonging to Mr. Morris have been burned, it is said, and probably much of the land will be greatly damaged.

Frank L. Clark, wife and four children, will leave Rensselaer this week, probably to-day, to drive through to northern Alabama, where he expects to make his future home. The distance is about 600 miles, and he expects to be four weeks on the road. Two of Dr. Stockwell’s sons are prepared to go south, and will probably travel with Mr. Clark. Their object've point is near Me Minnville Tenn.

“This is a queer world,” remarked an observing citizen. One is struggling for justice, another fleeing from it; one man is saving money to buy a house and another is trying to sell his for half what it cost him; one man is spending all he can make in taking his girl to the theater and sending her flowers, with the hope of making her his wife, while his neighbor is spending what gold he has in getting a divorce; one man escapes all diseases that flesh is heir to and gets killed on the railroad, and another escapes with a scratch and dies with the whooping cough; one man “stands” off all his creditors aid goes traveling, whiie another pays his debts and stays at home.”

The cases of diphtheria in John Worden’s family have now apparently fully recovered, and the quarantine of the family has been raised. Of their six children, five had the disease, of these five two died, and three got well. The three that got well were given the new and now famous antitoxin treatment, and the one who did not have the disease was given the treatment in its t( immnnizing” form. It can> hardly be said, however, that these cases are in their nature a conclusive tests of the anti toxin, from the fact that those who were treated with it were never in an apparently desperate condition, and hence it can not be said of them with any degree of certainty that they would not have recovered just as soon without the antitoxin as they did with it. There is no reason to apprehend any farther spread of the disease from these cases.