Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1895 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Wheat 50. ’’ ~ Corn 20 to 22. Oats 14 to 15. Rye 30 to 32. Hay 17.50 to $9.00. D. W. Alter, of Pittsburg, Pa., ie visiting his relatives, J. Q. Alter’s family. -A. fcSlTrton, north of town, went te Urbana, 111., Sjjuday, to attend the funeral of a nephew. Miss Love Crampton, of Delphi, leturned home Sunday night, after a week’s visit witfaßcngßeiaer'friehdaf '-rr-- —Young Or - Ritchey 'a houHe, north •of the railroad is now completed and he will soon move into it. The W. -C. T. U.will meet Friday, Nov. 13, at 2:30 p.m., with MriL M. M. Collins. All interested intemperance work are invited to attend, The subjects of next Sunday's sermons by Rev. Paradis, at the court house are: morning, “Duty of the Hour;” evening, “The Lost Lord,” A 4 year old daughter of Clms_ Pence, in Newton township, was ruptured last Saturday, by a fall while playing.

Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavqr, Sunday evening at 6, at court house. Subject, “What is True Friendship?” The Denton-Culp ditch is now completed, except about 1£ . miles. It"K 7 miles -foagtrwud is mostly in* Grove township. A pleasent social party was given last Thursday evening, at the residened of Mr. and Mrs. Simon Leopold, on River street - James H. Turpie, long a resident of Monon, and well known to manj' of our people, has removed to Lafayette. F. B. Meyer, the druggist, is justly proud of a new show case in his store. It is of glass from the floor up, and no doubt the finest thing of the kind ever seen in Jasper county. Isaac Hemphill has sold his 100 acre farm, 2 miles east, on the gravel road, to A. Bowern, of Decatur, 111., for 155 per acre. Burget & Pjenn negotiated the trade. Burton Shsfftr a highly esteemed young man, accidentally shßt and in : stantly killed himself, near Delphi last Wednesday, while hunting rabbits.

B. J. Gifford is just beginning another six mile dredge ditch. It will start near the Wm. Holle place, in Walker Tp., and run into one of his larger ditches in Barkley township. Wilber Rush the foot racer, was fined $1 ancKensts by Squire Morgan, one day last for slappmg Peter Giver during a discussion over a game of cards, in “Rosey’s” saloon. He stayed the fine. Telephone rentals are payable the 15th of each month, at the Commercial Staije Bank. As the 15th comes - on Sunday, this- month, the rentals may be paid Saturday the 14th or Monday the 16th: The ipanv friends of Mrs. Ed Long, who with her husband moved from Mt. Ayr to Kerrville, Texas, more than a year ago, will be sorry to hear that her health does not appear to have been materially benefited by the change of climate.—Morocco Courier. John Yoder, of near Mt.Ayr, started for Mississippi yesterday, where he has purchased a large tract of land and upon which he will locate. Several other families in that section will follow him in tSfc course of a month.—Morocco Courier.

! Miss Nellie CoeD, teacher of the 7th year in the town schools, is again i beginning to recove’ from her sickness, in which she lately had a serious relapse. She has typho-malarial fever. -An exchange says that a law y ex sent the following telegraphic eondolence to the widow of a friend. “I can not tell you how pained I was to hear that your husband has gone to heaven. We were bosom friends but now we shall never meet again.” -< The negotiation for selling or leasings the. Rensselaer creamery are still under consideration.—Mr. Wysong, of Indianapolis, has had an Bgent here looking up the prospects, and will be here himself, in a few days. It is likety that he will lease the creamery.

Chas. Holle, lately of Walker Tp. and son of Wm. Holle, was in town lait Thursday and reported his intention to move this week to La Porte, where he will engage in the livery stable business. His father, who sold hig fine farm some time since, will move into the village of Kniman. Earl Reynolds is now a partner in the tfa-nagement of a fine skating.rmk.a.t the old Libby Prison grounds •n Wabash avenue, Chicago. Earl is himself a great skater and a few nights ago he won a 500 yard dash in 42 seconds, which ties the world’s orevious record, for that distance, on an indoor circular track. A “Hobby Club” was organized 'fonday evening, at a meeting held it, the school house for the purpose. Tlios. Large, principal of the high I school is president, Jesse Wilson vicepresident and Mr. Leatherock secretary and treasurer. The club 'will meet next Friday night and every two weeks thereafter.

A conductor and a woman in Mon on had their pictures taken together at the photograph gallery of Mr. Fred Robinson. The woman was not the wife of the conductor, but .the wife of the conductor applied to Mr. Robinson for the negative, which she was made the possessor of, and a divorce suit may be the result of the affair.—Monon News. • O. K. Ritchey, from 4 miles south, was in town Tuesday, and there is really nothing strange about that, of a Verity; but the main object of his trip to town that day was worth noting. It was to receive with proper honors a regular Rensselaer Wilkes of a male porker of the jPoland China breed, just received from Joe Cunningham, the celebrated swine breeder, of Miami county, -The Monon railroad has issued a general order for all divisions forbidding hotel runners, hackmen, draymen, etc., from soliciting patronage on the company’s platform, on the arrival of trains or while the trains are standing at the station. It is said this general order has been issued because o * the delay caused by crowding about the steps when the trains arrive.

Still another pretty big land sale has just been recorded, and was made by Geo. H. Brown Jr., who has been very frequent in land deals this year. He sells a tract in Gillam to A. F. Fay and C. C. Jenkins, for $12,800. Another of Mr. Brown’s recent enterprises, as we hear, is the purchase of a tract of land adjoining the town of Knox, in Starke Co., with the intention to lay out a large addition to that town. The man who did not live in the country when a boy and plowed for wheat m the fall, cut up corn, crated pumpkins, made cider, boiled apple butter, made sorghum molasses, went coon hunting, went after the sausage atuffer in butchering times, milked the cow, grated corn meal, kissed the girls at the apple bees, stacked hay in the high wind, swallowed quinine in scraped apple, his castor oil in cold coffee and drunk sassafras tea for three months in the spring to purify his blood, will need to be xeincarnated to gain a proper farm life experience.—Exchange.

It is reliably stated that B. J. Gifford is maintaining a good free school at hia own expense, in a portion of his big tract in this county, where a good many families have lately moved in, and where, as yet, no public school has been established. Th«» UtA firm in the Kankakee river regions were not nearly so ex tensive as the corrrspondents of the city papers represented. Among other baseless reports was the burning of the house of Mr, Pence, the foreman -for Ne’son Morris. Neither his house nor any v-f his outbuildings were burned. There is hardly a week passes now that some one does not pass or try to pass a forged cheek oi order, or try some similar piece of rascality.* Andj this is no doubt largely owing to the j example of the eases of crimes of this ; kind that have been committed by' youthful high rollers, and covered up by their daddies. It is announced by Sells Brothers,! the showmen, that negotiations j which have been pending for the conJ solidatioa of Barnum and Baily, j Forepaugh and Sells show properties* under one management have been completed, and they will be operated as one show next season. -The Valporaiso —Yidctte has tliQj following mention of a former Rem-! tngton man and a well known old soldier.—“S. F. Courtright, of South Locust street, had another severe attack of nervous prostration Saturday night. He would be pleased to have some of his inends and comrades call on him.

W. W. Watson and family arrived , from Clinton, Mo., the latter part of last week, and will visit their relatives until after the holidays, and then go on to Washington city to make there again their permanent residence. Mr, Watson wilt contin-; ue to occupy a position in the pen-, sion department. North township, Lake county, vo-' ters will vote Jan; 7 on the gravel road question. The proposed roads cover a distance of 43 miles and the estimated cost will be $218,969.36Hammond, East Chicago, Wilding and a number of smaller towns are in - this township, and which is financi- j ally able to spend a large amount for roads. ' • • • " .*■ ' | F. J. Sears sends The Republican a copy of the Storm Lake, lowa, Pilot, containing an account of the burning of Storm Lake’s principal hotel, a $30,000 building. The paper also contains the legal notice of the incorporation of the Storm Laker Investment Company, of which Mr. Z. D wiggins is president, and Mr. Sears vice president. A serum which promises to do as great things for consumption, if taken in its first stages, as anti-toxin does for diptheria, is coming into use. There is a prospect that the new remedy will be tried here, in the case of Pleasant Gant, of Union township, who is now in the first stages of the dread disease, and which has already taken away three of his brothers and sisters.

Dr. Washburn was called to Kniman, last Sunday, to administer the anti-toxin treatment!# a 10 year old girl, daughter of Lee Armstrong; which had membraneous croup. He administered the treatment but as the child was in a dying condition when hd arrived it proved unavailing, and the child died an hour and a half lather. This is the second death from this disease that has occured in Kniman lately. The other, about two weeksfcgo, was a child of Mr. Wallace. The telephone company completed another big addition to its toll line connections, Monday, taking in the towns of- Goodland, Kentland, Fowler, Brook, Foresman, Lochiel and Percy. The rate for all these towns, as it is for all their toll line connecexcept below Lafayette, is 25 cents. Towns below Lafaveue, He rate is 35 cents. Connections hive not yet been made with lov/ns north of Rensselaer, but woik ou the lines is in progress, and the connections will soon be oompleUd.

There are two classes Of a community who are conservative, says an exchange. They are dead set against change, especially against social and industrial riformatory movements. These are, first the very poor and ignorant; second, the very rich respectable. They claSp~ hands in opposing any thing new. It is always the middle class—the people who both work and think—that carry the world onward in the path of progress. The inmates at the prison north were not without their enjoyments on Thanksgiving day. Warden Harley gave them a fine .repast. The menu consisted of roast turkey, with oyster dressing; bread, cake, pie, apples and coffee. The dinner was pronounced | one of the finest and mosttvenly dis- ! tribnted-that has been served to the .1 * i coovicts in years. It required 9000 pounds of tuikey, ten gallons of o\sict TB, 400 pies, 4,000 cookies and aI bout 20 bushels of apples to serve the tables w ilb these luxuries. i The Telephone Ex chaDge has add|ed nine new numbers to its town list t 'sN}ee last week, and now has both its switch-boards "bsolutely full, and can take no more ufatil a now gwitntTv board is put in: and this will not be done before Spring. The following fare the new numbers: 144, County : Jail; 145, Eldon Hopkins; 14G, E. D. - Rhoades: 147, C. W. Duvall; 148, T. J. Sayler; 149, Antrim & Dean; 150, Nowels House; 151, W. H. Churchill; 152, Mrs. Isabel Pai k,er. An effort is now being made to in- ; duce the governor to pardon Bill

Green, now in the Michigan City penitentiary. Bill killed Enos Brumbaugh at a picnic in Carroll county.. He is a brother of the notorious Amer Green, who was lynched for killing Loutlir Mabbit, and both brothers were captured by Buck Stanley* in Texas. 811 has made a model prisoner, and as there were some extenuating circumstances connected with his crime, it is not unlikely that he will be pstftkmed: * Especially as our present governor is a pretty “easy mark” for those who are after pardons. ~zs Last Friday a young man named Tolson, who has been working for Mike Nagel, tried to work the Chicago Bargain Store with a forged check for SSO, with C. C. Starr’s name attached. Tolson is a rather simple minded and a characterless fellow and the Bargain Store people suspected the scheme, and investigated Accepting the check. Tolson had made a similar break, in this line a short time before. Some ‘‘Smart Ellick” had induced him, by way of an alleged ‘ ‘joke” to write a. check for $lO signed with his, Tolson’s own name, and try to get it cashed by some buisness man, after banking hours. He did work it off on Creviston Brothers, the butchers, but Tolson deposited $8 of the $lO in the bank, and this much the Crevistons recovered. »

A wandering scalawag who gave his name as Hoper, and who claimed to be a printer, but never Wfcnt near a printing office while here, But spent most of his time at the saloons, worked a forged check on his landlady, Monday noon, and then skipped the town. He had been here only a few days, and the check he gave for only $3.25, which covered his board bill and $1 more, which the landlady paid him. He claimed to be working at Tiie Republican office, and the name of the editor was signed to the check. The fellow took “Old Nick Zimmer,” from out south, and drunk,as usual, to his room Saturday night, and is understood to have robbed Nick of about $25. Hoper probably left town on foot, and is thought to have gone westward, and is likely to visit Brook, Morocco or Momence. He is an undersized, swarthy, bignosed, big-mouthed, smooth-shaven scamp, pretty well dressed, with light over-coat and a light muffler. “Mother’s Apron Strings” at the M. E. church next Saturday night. Be on time, if want a choice seat.