Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1895 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Wheat 50. Corn 20 to. 22. Oats 14 to 15. Rye 30 to 32. Hay $7.50 to $9.00. The wife of Elder A. E. Pierson, of Union Tp. was reported very dangerously sick, a few days ago. Rochester, Fulton 00., now has a Spiritualist church, its name being “The First Spiritualist Church of Rochester. - We are informed that F, J. Sears at Storm Lake,’ lowa, but instead v -w. took up real estate and loan-business. The experimental well just bored out near the Hanging Grove line in White Co. did not find any gas but did strike a little oil. Probioly not enough to be of any value however. Dr. Newman the “wonder worker” is now at Rochester. It is certainly a “wonder” the way wandering quacks of all degrees “work” the wealtn out of their dupes. Hence “wonder worker” is a good term. ————

The proposition to build ten miles of gravel roads ia Lincoln Tp, Newton Co., under the township gravel road law, carried by a vote of 116 to 39. Ten miles of road will be built, centering at Rose Lawn.

Delphi, Rochester and Eentland are all talking for (but not through) telephones. The two first mentioned are considerably larger than Rensselaer and ought surely to be able to sustain good telephone systems. Prof. Fisk, the billy goat aeronaut, was at Tipton when last heard from . As usual, he “soaked” so much himself before the ascension, that he had to “soak” his balloon after it to pay his bills and get to the next town. Quarterly meeting at the M. E. 1 church next Sunday. Communion service at the close of the forenoon sermon. The Rev. Dr. Wilson, P. E., will preach iq the evening at 7 o’clock.

The opera Galatea was given at the Opera House, Satuiday night, by “The Bohemians,” a Lafayette organization. They had a fair house, and the most of those present seem to have been much pleased by the performance. ./, Jake McDonald shipped a car load of turkeys Monday, “and the next day it snowed.” Jake says he never shipped a car of poultry m his life that it didn’t Snow the next day. He beats the goose-bone as a weather producer.

The ladies of the Christian Church will le open their bszaar,next Wednesday, Nov. 27ih, in one of the front windows of C. D. Nowels’ store. It will be open for the one day only, and will sell meats, cakes, pies, etc., suitable for Thanksgiving. Henry Purcnpile’s family will soon move from F. B. Learning’s house, near the railroad, into Mrs. Ludd Hopkins’ house, on Front street, and will conduct a boarding house. O. A. Yeoman will occupy the house Mr. Puroupile’s people moves out of. Those two eminent populist editors, Towle of the Hammond Leader and Knotts of the Wheatfield Sheaf, have fallen out most greviously and are now “at it, teeth and toe Bails.” Both are past-masters in the doubtful art of hurling epithets.

A son last Thursday, to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. C. Babcock, in town. J. P. Overton was at Atlanta last week, taking in the Cotton States Exposition. Mrs. Henry Adams, now of Jordan ments on her property just south of the new school building, with the view of moving back into it. The Rose Lawn telephone exchange has been in operation for some time. Lines extend from that exchange to the following towns; Lake Village, Fair Oaks, Pembroke, and Thayer. An extension north from Thayer is projected. Ail will soon be connected with the Rensselaer system.

The Columbia City Post very truly remarks: “About ninety-nine out of one hundred men urge a paper to expose this or that wrong on the part of public officers or citizens, are just courageous enough in the presence of the accused to condemn the paper for doing what it did. «

Logansport is clearing S2OO a month now from its ekctric light system, and expecting to make it SSOO, in a short time, clear of all expanse. The town of Rensselaer ought tn nwn its light, plant. Better ser-" almost”®? ivewfal rule, where towns and cities own their lighting systems. Frank Padgitt, a former liveryman of Rensselaer, now a professional horse buyer, shipped a car load of horses from here Tuesday, for the Atlanta, Ga., market. Horses are lower than he ever saw them before, says Mr. Padgitt. It is a cracking good hojse that will bring SSO; and about $35 is the average price.

At a social event held in Knightstown, a novel way for each gentleman to select his lady partner for the dining room was resorted to. A basket containing the pictures of all the ladies present taken when quite small was drawn from and the gentle men would then find his partner by this youthful picture. Porter B. Towle, editor of the Hammond Leader, is under bonds to answer to the charge of libel, brought by Ben. R. Hyman, of tn° Hammond Tribune. Editor Knotts, of the Wheatfield Sheaf, and his brother Thos. E. Knotts, of Hammond, have also employed attorneys to begin proceedings against Towle, for libel

The fire company was called out Monday evening, about 5 o,clock sos the first time for months The cause was a little blaze on the roof of J. E. Spitler's building, occupied by Spider A Eight’s steam laundry and by the Western Union telegraph office. The fire had got under very little headway and was easily extinguish! d. The damage was merely nominal.

We again inform the people that if you are taking a newspaper or periodical of any kind, and you do not want to continue it after the subscription expirea,jthe prnpar thing |«T to i n form the pc«tmaßter or the fact, and it'is his dut/y to so inform the publisher, being supplied by the government with cairds for that purpose.. But if you owe subscription the delinquency must first be paid up. The Eastern Indiana Railway Company, with a capital stock of $50,000, was incorporated last week with the avowed object of building a road from Delphi, Ind., to Dayton, O. The project is backed by capitalists of Marion; and it is rumored that the Monon road is also backing the scheme with a view of extending its line into, the gas belt. In 1885 Jaoob Harmon, of Warren county, died and willed a section of , land in Iroquois county, Illinois, to Wabash College. About two years later a nephew appeared and claimed that Harmon had promised him the land, upon which he hitd been living. Three trials were held in the United States oourt. Wednesday of last week tiie matter wae finally decided in the nephew’s favor. The land in question is worth $25,000.

A ion wm born Ust Saturday to' Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Zea, of smith east Marion Tp. r— —---'.--I- " v Charley Ramp is building a large addition to his brick house, near the south end es Division street. Wm. Jones is “shy” one black leather glove for the left hand, and would like to get it back again. Has black fur around the wrist.

Jake McDonald is utilizing the foundry building, near the depot, for a poultry room. Mr. Gillette, the foundry man, has gone to Goshen for the winter, but is expected to return and re-open the foundry in AprilT~

The name of the town and station at Maxinkuckee is to be changed from Marmount to Culver City the people having so voted. The change was made in honor of Mr. Culver, who has done so much to bring Maxinkuckee into prominence and public -favor— ■ .

The Logansport electric light plant is now netting the city S2OO per month clear profit over and above running expences and it is thought by the end of the second year’s operation the plant will return SSOO more pay paontb. . , fine residence property by the erection of about 300 feet of handsome iron fence, extending on both 6treet fronts, and also in front of his adjoining tenant house on Cornelia street. C. A. Roberts has also continued the same fence in front of his property on Van Rensselaer street, occupied by Mrs. Nagle.

George Hi Gr *y, county attorney, received word from Elliott & Elliott last Saturday that the United States Circuit Court of Appeals at Chicago had on the Bth inst. decided the case of Braun vs. Board of Commissioners of Benton county in our favor. This is the celebrated Harris gravel road case and Attorney Gray says this decision will save the county about 118,000. —Benton Review.

The Sunday edition of the Indianapolis Journal now gets to Rensselaer early Sunday morning, have several»hours advantage over the Chicago Sunday papers, in that respect. And its advantages Over those huge bundles of paper from Chicago are not confined to earlier arrival, for it is in our judgment, a better Sunday paper, and contains more really good reading than the Sunday paper printing in Chicago.

Night trains on theMonon are now said to be fully prepared to meet any emergency arising from an attempted train robbery. Train men on the main lines are armed, carrying their weapons where they can be readily reached. The company learned that an attempt was to be made to hold up one of its trains, and is now prepared for such an emergency. Each night train now carries some determined men who would give train robbers a waj-m reception. ,

We publish elsewhere, in this issue the annual prospectus of), the New York Independent, and right here we want to say without any suggestion or solicitation on the part of the publishers of the Independent, that it has been a regular feature on our exchange table for several para, and we can conscientiously and most heartily endorse every word' in.j&e. prospectus. The Independent is truly a grand paper, and the more one reads it the better they like it.

George Cox, son of James Cox, of this place, and himself formerly in business here, was very badly hurt at Marion, this state, on Tuesday night of last week. He ran into an open gate, which was swinging over the side walk, and received an abdominal rupture, of so serio& a character ih*t for a time, four doctors who worked over him all night, said he could not live. His brother, E. L. Cox went down to visit him over Sunday, and on bis return reported him as now on the evidently sure road to recovery.

Monday night December 2nd is the next date of the Rensselaer Lecture Club. E. B. Baldwin, the Arctic explorer is the doubt, be one of the most interesting and instructive numbers in the whole x o&ast». ~'--h l A grand concert will he given next Wednesday evening, Nov. 27th. at the opera house, under the auspices of the Society of Christian Endeavor. Excellent talent has been secured and musically inclined people may expect a great treat. George Hatton a young man at Logansport, died a few days ago from the effects of smoking coffin nails commonly called cigarettes. Ujroaly the victims are stricken with unconciousness and die in that condition after abput three days of terrible suffering. The poison t ffects the brain and recovery is iaopossibe’ Merchants and others who desire to know which is the best advertising medium in Jasper county, are informed that The Republican has no “press room secrets.’ Our subscription list is open to their inspection, at any time; and they will be welcome to be present at any time, and see the papers mailed, and thus know that the subscription list is exactly wliat"fer7Hii ihilia ill liuji mnl that, every name on it represents an actual subscriber, and not a lot of names carried for appearance, to whom an occasional fre<| sample copy is sent.

The disease which has been carrying off thousands of hogs in 'his part of the state and till now supposed to he hog cholera, is found to be indigestion caused by feeding pumpkins from which the seeds had not been extracted. Enormous crops of pumpkins were raised this year and the farmers began early to feed them to stock. No one had'a suspicion of the cause until last .waek when a postmortem examination of several bogs disclosed the fact that the stomachs were packed with, undigested pumpkin seeds. The bulbs are as hard as stone. —Lafayette Sunday Times.

Governor Mai thews last Thursday issued the some time expected pardon to James Rodgers, of this county. As stated some time ago, Rodgers was convicted on the evidence of a couple of transient residents, who have since been shown to be of doubtful reputation, and who evidently Lad it in for Rodgers on account of previous troubles. All the members of the jary that convicted Rodgers signed the petition for pardon, and Judge Wiley is also understood to have given it his endorsement, Rodgers arrived here Saturday, and repaired to bis farm some miles south of town.

He told the story in this way: I stood on the porch one evening when the sun weDt silently down; and the June bug bright in the starry night, flew merrily through the town. Oh, sweet were the gentle that blew from the balmy south; and red were the lips and sweet were the sip 3 that I took from her pretty mouth. Her tiny waist encircled by my arms s) strong and so true. Said I, “Whose duck are you, love?” “Yourn,”-she murmured, “and whose are you?” Oh, the hallowed hour that evening; oh, the cruel caprice of fate 1 Her father unkind stole up behind and kicked me over the gate.

if The north bound train on the 'Monon yesterday afternoon carried a very interesting passenger in the person of a seven-year old boy who was on his way to Nebraska to make his home with his grandmother. It is not an uncommon occutanoe for a boy of that age to go from one end of the country to the other without the company of an older person, but the unusual feature of this little fellow was the fact that he was totally biind. He carried a card with him asking conductors to take care of him and see that he made the proper transfers. No other passenger on train, which was in charge of John Browning, reoeived as much attention from the train crew as was given him.—Delphi Times. - .. » ; .1

H, P. Albaogh, until lately one of ike editors of the Climax, of Aneonia, Ohio, ia visiting his relatives, the Leshes; north of town. ■ A “Pie Social” will be given Friday night at the residence of Mr. and Mrs, J. F. Warren, by the ladies of church. Admission 10 cenfs. Everybody invited. —(h ■ :

The big Chicago dailies have got intA a general ruction, with the result that all of them have cut the pri<Be of their papers down to one cent a copy, or not enough to pay for the white paper, and the expense of delivering them. The Tribune claims to have an increase of 81,000 in circulation the first day of the reduction’ and the News wants to go the Tribune SIO,OOO that it had nothing near such an increase. The Tribune, like some.smaller papers we know of, is a great’ bluffer. What it claimed as an increased subscription list, was mostly extra free copies sent out to newsdealers and counted as I increased subscription, whether thei papers were sold, given away or left on the dealers’ bands.

The reporter knows of a couple of fond parents who are in a quandary to know what to name their infant son. The Delphi Journal, speaking on the same subject, says silly names sometimes ruin people. It suggests good, sensible, old fashioned names like James and adds: “I like that name. It is the kind of a name that boys bear who get up in the morning and buill £fires. Give a boy that kind of a name and he will carry in 1 coal and wood every day without ! having to be horsewhipped or “tnmj med” with an ax handle. It’s the “Jims,” and “Toms,” and “Bills,” and “Bucks,” and “Hanks,” who 1 pick apples, hull walnuts, feed pigs, husk the com, slop the pigs, split the wood and eventually graduate into the best men in the world. Such names promise success,invite success; they are synoaomous with success. ,

The neighboring town of Monticello is, with due apologies to Winimac, which is another prosperous town, the gem of the Tippecanoe valley. For a good many years the town has been lagging behind in the march of improvements, owing to the fact that, being consi jerably to one side of the county, there was always danger, until a new court house was built, that some other more central location would capture the county seat. The building of an elegant 180,000 court house, recently completed, haa put an end to any danger from that source, and as a result the town has been improving with a rush. Nearly 100 new baildings have been erected this year, or are now in process of erection. Like Rensselaer, it has electric lights, a telephone exchange, but not so large aS ours, lots of cement walks, also, what Rensselaer has not, a fine water work 3 sysUm in process of construction. The business district is rather rusty and dilapidated, but is now showing many evidences of improvement, bat is likely to be along while in catching up with Rensselaer in that respect. Ia the matter of handsome residences the town shows up only fairly *sll, even in the new buildings. At least that is the way it strikes visitors from Rensselaer, who would be too apt to compare other towns with theirs, in that ;respect; and Rensselaer is, by almost universal consent, possessed of more handsome residences, according to its size, than any other town m the state. In one other important respect Mpnticello is to be congratulated; and that is the excellent character, of its newspapers. We know of no town of its rank in the state that, taketf all in all, has better nor more ably edited newspapers, nor a more gentlemanly and honorable outfit of editors. Lastly the town is remarkable for its number of large, fat and jolly citizens. Our foremost fat man, George Barcus, the monument man, whom we saw there the other day, would scarcely rank as a fat man there at all, but only Just in fair growing condition, in fact.