Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1895 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Wheat 50. Corn 20 to 21. Oats 14 to 15. Rye 30 to 82. Hay $7.50 to $9.00. W. B. Austin has just made another business trip to .Minneapolis, Minn; —~—**— ~ rL —~~-r Miss Bl&nch Laughridge is teaching Miss Nellie Coen’s room in the to wn school, until the latter- reeoveis Charley Chamberlain, son of our former townsman, John Chamberlain, of Kentland, is now officiating as clerk at the Makeever House. Misses Rose and Ella Culp moved Tuesday into their—spacious and handsome new house on Dayton street, north of the railroad. 1 f O. A. Y>oman has retired from his connection with the Makeever House management; and his father,' S. E. Yeoman is now the sole and only landlord. The closed season for quails ended last Sunday, and the hunters are now after them, “red hot.” A considerable number went from town to hunt them, yesterday, going to the vicinity of Parr.

The Bell Center School, Marion Tp., Miss Lulu Daugherty teacher, will have a box social, with the usual adjuncts, next Saturday evening, Nov., 16th, for the benefit of the school library. Miss Bertha Alter had a growth removed from one of her eyes, at a Chicago hospital last Wednesday. Her mother Mrs. J. Q. Alter, who was with her, returned home last Sunday, and reported her doing very well. Mel Laßue has just negotiated the sale of the McCorkle farm, up near Rose Lawn. It contains 1,000 acres and sold for 136,000. An Illinois man is the purchaser. The sale evidently was a pretty good plum for Mr. Laßue.

Mr. Henry Shide and Miss Kate Wagner, both VcTwof Rensselaer, were married Tuesday, in the Catholic church, at Remington. A big jollification was held in the afternoon and evening, at the groom’s parents, ♦jn the east part of Jordan township. The law requiring railroad companies to note on blackboards at least twenty minutes before the arrival and departure of trains the facts as to whether such train is late or on time, and if late, how much, was sustained in the supreme court, last week. The infant daughter pf Mr. and Mrs. McMurray, of Newton Tp., mentioned last week as sick with diphtheria, died on Thursday morning, Nov. 6th, aged abftut eighteen months. The remains were taken to Remington, Mr. McMurray’s former home, for burial. Since our last issue John' Eger has torn down the grefiWrparFprhis old store building, preserving only the brick portion, which extende I only about fifteen or twenty feet back, tifad is noy hud at work rebuildtntr, lie will mak« it into a btick bulling, ninety feet dong, twenty feet wide, 'iand tw < ht<>. • Th rToWcr i stpry will be raised t» give a fourteen foot ceiling. When completed he will m >ve h s grocery store bick into it.

Fred Phillips is now clerking for the Model Miss Fannie McCarthy is writing in the county clerk’s office, now. Mrs. Walter R : ch, of Peru, 111. is visiting her cousin, Mrs. G. E. Mar* shall. Charley Warner 1 is -back from Delphi aud is working for Recorder Hunt.

boys arrived Tuesday. They are very fine. The Nowels House opened Monday under its new landlord, W. D. Sanders. „ The marriage of Mr. Homer Hardjr arid Miss Blanche Garrison, two of Remington’s beat known young people, will take place to-day-.. Misses Fannie Wood and Eva Klinewent to Monon last Saturday, to visit relatives for a few days. A new time card went into effect on the Monon last Saturday. The only cb an ge of importance is in the forenoon mail and passenger train south. This train which has heretofore arrii'edatlo.s2-Ar.-~M..*doeß not arrive now until 12:07 P. M., being an hour andfifteenmlnutes later than heretofore. W. H. Beam, the station agent, went down to Monon Sunday, to act in his old capacity of train dispatcher, for thirty days. He is not stuck on the job, for although the pay is good, the labor and responsibility are too great for his physical health. During his absence W. N. Cloud will act as station agent. | B. C. McCoy, an aged .and, formerly, for many years a resident of Jordan Tp., this county, died recently near Mulbeny, in Clinton Co., where he had been making his home for some years past. Mrs. Jay Lamson, of a few miles west of town, is his daughter. He was a most estimable man in all respects.

Alfred Armstrong, formerly of Hanging Grove Tp., now the capable superintendent of the state prison farm, at Michigan City, was in town last Saturday. He is well pleased with his job, and is well qualified to discharge its duties m an efficient manner. The labor on the farm is done by convict “trusties,” and one of Mr. Armstrong’s very best hands is Jim Rogers, from this county. Sheriff Hanley has received notice from Warden Harley, to be at the Michigan City prison Dec. 28th, to receive Charles Johnson whose time will expire that day. He is the young Polack who was sent up for two years for stealing a horse of Henry Marsh, of Carpenter township. The new law requires that prisoners in the penitentary be taken back to the counties they were sent from, to be released, when their terms expire.

Theodore Smith’s little child, which was so bad with membraneous croup, is now about well, and unless it takes cold and suffers a relapse, will soon be out of danger. Dr. Washburn gave the child the antitoxin treatment; membraneous croup being so nearly the same disease as diphtheria, less perhaps its contagiousness, that the same remedy is adapted to cure it. Squire W. H. Churchill informs us that we were somewhat misinformed last week, as to the grounds of his decision, in the case against Mrs. Comer and Mrs. Burley, for provoke. While the fact that they used opprobrious words was proven, it was not proven that the words were addressed to the ladies who made the complaint. The Squire also says the affidavit was faulty— “ J. F. Il ff docs not intend to remove to Crown Point next spring, on his retirement from the livery bu-hws, is hxs been currently reported, l ilt.will epntinue to make his home, in Renf-sH.» r.’yb' rh he knows cv. v,y ' <s?ly and evr • \'.<>■ : y"kiuvrfirms; a tac* which wear. gl_vi to'r.i>nouii«-e for Mr. Ibff is one of than, .class of men whom it is a misfortune to have move away.

Evening Star Chapter, O. E. S. is making great preparations to enterWednesday night. The visitors will be from Remington, Monticello and Wolcott. The Daughters of will have a big supper, to-morrow, Friday, evening at Six o’clock, in the banquet room of the Odd Fellows’ building. All members of the Rebekah Lodge will please take note of this fact.... _____ . The town teachers who were not with those who visited other towns’ schools a few weeks ago, put in last Tjiprsday and Friday in that presumably pleasant and profitable diversion. Miss Kelley went to Indianapolis, Miss Marshall to Hammond and Englewood, and the two Misses Mills, Misses Kennedy, Miller and Vanatta to Englewood and Chicago and Miss Rogeis to Lafayette. W. C. Martinie, of *A.llerton, Vermillion Co., 111., left forthat place Monday, after a few days sojourn here. He has bought the Homer Millet farm, Of about 300 acres, 5 or 6

miles southeast of Rensselaer, and expects to return to this county soon, but being pretty well advanced in years, and well enough fixed financially to not need to work, he will rent the land and live in town. Quite a colony of people started* for Tennessee Tuesday, following Dr. Willard Stockwell’s two sons, who left last week. Those starting Tuesday were the Dr’s Son-in-law, Geo. M. Hershman, and a Mr. Pulver, of Walker tp., who went by team. Starting from Rensselaer, were the families of the two just mentioned; John Fleming, also of Walker, and family, Dr. Stoekwell and family, and the family of his son Lewis all going on the cars.

Previous tp the rains which began last Thursday night, it was so dry that farmers could not husk or in any way handle shocked corn, as it wasted practically all of the “fodder ;” and many had even quit husking their standing corn for the same reason. The rains wll also be a great benefit to wheat and rye, and help the water supply for stock and domestic use. In checking the great swamp and prairie fires along the Kankakee region, in several counties, the rains also did incalculable good.

B. J. Gifford, of Kankakee, was at his garden south of town thia week and his rounds among his many tenants he found one family that were in need, their children were in rags and had no shoes. Mr. Gifford, who has a heart as big as a broad brimmed hat, went to work and bought clothing, shoes and food for them and hired a school teacher at his own expense and will send the children to school. Mr. Gifford has done wonders for this country as working for the good of mankind.—Wheatfield Sheaf.

The new iron fence is now being erected at Weston cemetery. It is 406 feet in length, and includes an arched gateway and entrance. Another notable and very desirable addition has just been made to the cemetery by the trustees, in the purchase of Warren Robinson of the strip in front of the cemetery and i\st of the entrance, and extending to and a little beyond, its west boundary. The strip is four town lots in extent, and cost S4OO. It is a very desirable addition to the cemetery, as it will bring the whole front of the cemetery up to the street. Mr. Anson Cox, junior member of the building firm of E. L. Cox & Brother, quietly “hied” himself to Austin, 111., a suburb of Chicago, on Saturday, Nov. 2nd, and was married to Mbs Myrtle Holderness, at the Testdetioe of her psrefts, at Auitfiff He camelhome a day or two after the wedding, without his bride, and the fact of bi-i wedding was not divulged until last Friday, when his bride came down and joined him. For the present they are inakit g th ir home wijli 3Jr. Tffx s pin-nits, out will,7m a fi7w up' h■>«»' Jive-ping in the new house just built by Miss Mattie Benj unin,'-on South street, in Newton’s Addition.

Great improvements have just been completed, and some are still in progress at the electric light station. The necessary machinery has been put in to permit the use of the extra 400 lamp dynamo, bought a year or so ago, and of the second engine ard boiler. The cylinder of the large engine has been re-bored, and a new heater and pumps are to be put in. The plant is now not only able to caTryalilightsinbutbasOapscity for several hundred more. There is some talk of organizing a regular old fashioned “singing school” in Rensselaer this winter. The idea is a good one. There are a good many young people in Rensselaer whose voices could, with a little training, make them good singers. The time is especially propitious for organizing such a school, from the fact that an experienced and exceptionally capable instructor is now right at hand, in the person of Mr. John E. Alter, the county surveyor. He has had much successful experience in the . instruction ,of vocal music, and we~ understand has consented to undertake the management of the school if one is organized.

Rosa Belle Makeever dieil last Saturday, Nov. 9th, 1895, at the residence of her mother and stepfather, Air. and Mrs. W. S. Coen, in the north part of town. The cause of her death was heart disease, its. particular form being enlargement of that organ; it being, in her case, three times the normal size. Her death, though not unexpected, was sudden, as she had been well enough to be out to Ludd Hopkins’ funeral the Wednesday before. She has been affected by the disease tor many years, and from it had been a great sufferer, and many times at death’s door. The funeral was held at the M. E. church Sunday afternoon; Rev. M. R. Paradisconducting the religious services.

Joseph M. Clark, better known in this section as Joe Clark, went to Goodland list Thursday, after his short visit w)th his brother, here. He was for quite a long time a resident of Rensselaer, owned a good residence here, and belonged to the Rensselaer Grand Army post. A most estimable man, in every respect, and of late years, one who has been called on to hear more than his full share of afflictions, and within less than a year he has lost, by death, his wife, a daughter and a son-in-law. He now lives with his surviving widowed daughter, and her infant child. He has a good, steady job as a motor man on the cable cars, and seems, after much sorrow and tribulation, to be well situated at last, to live in comfort and content. C. W. Duvall, the drayman, had a pretty tough experience last Thursday, and a very narrow escape from a very serious accident. With his wagon heavily loaded with freight, he stopped in the alley to unload some barrels of gasoline, in the rear of Eger’s hardware store. The wagon not being in quite the right place, he took hold of the bridle of the horse nearest the wall of the building, to lead the team ahead a few feet.

Just at this instant the horse on the other side took fright and began to run. This crowded the horse Mr. Duvall was leading against the building, and he was squeezed against the wall by the shoulder of the horse, and in this position was dragged about fifty feet, with the prospect if the horse did not crush him the wagon would. Finally he struck the doorway in the rear of Laßues’ furniture store, and fell into it. The wheels passed over his left leg, though bruising it ~did Hdt Bffikk any bones. His back and shoulders were also quite badly bruised and skinned. His injuries, though pain ful, were not otherwise severe, and he was nble to get about again Mon- [ day With the help r f crutchis. His IT Wls stiff TiTnfflff.h3 pe'.’"' ho WViir; ’ai d may qjerm’u;.er.tly stiffciicd. . Svine person who happened, to be near stopped the hotsis before any further damage was done. •

Miss Lynn Kelley is visiting in Delphi, this week. J. W. Burgett made a business trip to Francesville, last Monday. Dr. Ensminger and family, of Crawfordsville, attended the funeral of Ludd Hopkins, last Wednesday. A son was born Saturday night, Nov. 9, to Mrs. Lizzie Hitchcock, at F. W., Bedford’s place. T. P. Wright will soon move his undertaking establishment into Mrs. Mary Hopkins’ building, lately occupied by Rhoades’ harness shop. Prof. Sanden was at Indianapolis Thursday and Friday, attending a state convention of school superintendents. The G. A. R. post and Relief Corps are now well settled in their elegant new lodge room, in the Odd Fellows’ building. A new carpet and other new furniture add to the pleasantness of the room.

'Wm. Parks, the drayman, has begun work on a new residence on lots on —McCoy A venue, . lately bought of I. J. Porter, and just west of his place. Coen add Knsh are doing the work. , Mr. Chas. F. Iliff, son of J. F. Iliff, and Miss Mary McColiy, both of Rensselaer, were married last Sunday evening, at the residence of the groom’s brother, Will Ibff. in Barkley Tp. The ceremony was performed by Squire Lewis, ot Barkley. At a recent called meeting of the pastors it was unanimously resolved to announce all evening services to begin at seven o'clock until further notice; also, 10:45 was endorsed as the hour for the Sunday morning services.

Another good citizen, and one who has needed it a good while, has betaken himself to the classic shades of the Keeley institute for a few weeks of voluntary retirement. Joe Sharp, who knows the way there, was the guard of honor. It is reported that a prize fight is being arranged for in Rensselaer. We sincerely trust that there is no truth in tne report Let not the good name of our peaceful and moral community be dishonored by any such disgracefuf and demoralizing spectacle.

Jake McDonald, the poultry dealer of Plessant Ridge, will move to town shortly, and occupy Dr. Stockwell’s house on Van Rensselaer street Jake has been so engaged in poultry of late years, that he never sees a chicken that he don’t want to pullet; nor ever meets a hen turkey that he isn’t anxious to gobbler. G. R. Wysong. of Indianapolis, is trying to buy the Rensselaer creamery with its various branches. If he secures it, his plan is, as we are informed, to buy the milk, outright, paying different prices according to the season of the year, from sixty cents per 100 lbs., up. It is no experiment with him, as he already owns several creameries.

Some mighty smooth young fellow, ’aid to have been a total stranger and without any probable resident partner in the scheme, recently worked off about SIOO worth of forged checks intown, signed with the name of Ed. Randle, of Pleasant Ridge. One of the banks was stuck about half of the amount and a clothing firm for the other half. The fbrger got sway with his wealth before his crime was discovered.

Marriage licenses since last reported: j Charles W. Hickman, j Eliza Snyder. m—MißinmniinTiiwiiiini —■mu » mi mu ij mi i tin ( Henry Shide, ] Katie Wagner. * ( Charles F. Ibff, ( Mary McColly.' ... j i Edmund W. Stokes, ( N wey J. Harrwl \ Homer B. Hirdr, 'l (B St C,> 1 <• -r ■H . • j*WHson II non, { Cora Biown. A F. Long the Diuzgist for strictly pure Drpgs and