Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1895 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Wheat 50. Corn 20 to 22. Oats 11 to 15. Rye 30 to 32. Hay $7.50 to $9.00. J. F. Judy, of Williamsport, was la town Monday. Goodland is to have another paper about the first of the year. A new meat market will soon be opened on Main street, by Ellison Condra. ?~ The Presbyterian church at Fowler, was burned last Thursday. The loss was about $3,000. Will Mossier, manager of the Medel, has a fine son, born Monday. ‘‘Competition please copy.” J. E. Francis, from the J. F. Watson place, south of town, has gone to | Harvey, Id., to spend tliy winter*. The favorable weather us tue past couple - weeks lias given farmers a good opportunity to finish their corn bus king. Dr. Pen’),, a having dentist of Winamic, died sudd- :.ly of heart, nis; ease on Wednesday morning of lu .t week.

The brick and stov.b work is all finished on the. Presbyterian church; and the work of putting on the roof is making good progress. A. F. Long the druggist, and Long & Hardman, the jewelers, have lately been investing in some very elegant new show cases. For bargains in Real Estate, call on or addaess Lee-dr Co. The only firm in Rensselaer making a specialty of the Real Estate business. There are ii|(.JicMions that Cupid is getting in some rather deliberate, but judicious and. successful work among several pairs of widows and widowers in Rensselaer. The shelving and partitions etc. are being put in the east room in the Odd Fellows’ building preparatory to its occupancy by Antrim & Dean, the new hardware Him. Alonzo Powers, who killed Wm. Tratebas, at Chesterton, a few weeks ago, has been sentenced to life imprisonment. Powers is only 24 years old, and his victim was but 19. Jas. B. Wilson, publisher of the Indianapolis People, a filthy sheet like the Chicago Sun, has just been sent to the penitentiary for two years for sending obscene matter through the mails J. W. Paxton is building a goodly sized residence on Weston street. He expects to have it completed by March Ist, when he gives up posses sion of his present house in Newton’s addition. Uncle Peter Foulks, of Milroy Tp., is in bad luck. He was knocked down and trodden upon by a horse recently, and one, of his legs was broken, below the knee, and the ankle joint was dislocated.. , Uncle Johnny Record, one of the oldest settlers and pioneers of Jasper county died Dec. 3rd, at the home Of his son in Walker township, aged 81 years. Uncle Johnny was widely known and respected by all for his kindness.—Wheatfield Sheaf. Attorney Gray claims to be the first to tap the water main. He was early and says the water is as pure as crystal and he has it for his family use and tor a horse, and all he can use, at a cost of only $5. It is certainly a great convenience.—Fowler Era.

Uncle Berry Paris slipped off a roof, Tuesday, and -dislocated bi, wrist. The abutments for the new bridge near the 1 creamery, were finished T ui-sday. Hon. J, A. Hatch has the thanks of The Republican for desirable public documents. The present raining season is about the Wettest wet spell Jasperjuounty has seen for several years. The Wasson school, Marton TtMx. have a Cl.iiolu.in ; rce amCfchleimtaiurnent, on -Lite n.>terr,ooh of Dee. 2 4 lb.. Mr.isnd Mrs. G>«>. Striekfaden had the misfortune to lose It-.eir Six m< nib’s old girl baby, last Friday, of membraneous croup. '1 he funeral was held Sunday : furnoofl and inTmEtent made in the Caihuiie. cemetery. Mrs. E. L. HollihgbWGrlh and children went to Kalamazoo, last Friday, to spend the holidays With her parents, aS is her regular custom. Mr. Hollingsworth will join her there IhTime ToFtte-Christniis festivities. The Monon railway has another damage suit for SIO,OOO on its hatds. Il is brought by the wife of Oscar T. Skinner. The latter w-as conductor of a gravel train on the was run over and- killed by the train near Delphi.

Hon. Anson Wolcott, of Wolcott, has gone down to Washington and wifi c-mp nght there until congress rights the “crime of’ '73.” .Mr, Wolcott is a nice old gentleman, .but he ia lilt I ; better then a monomaniac;, on the silver fpiest on This week’s big ii'.’ A d deal is the >ule'l>y Cant J, M. Wesson of <BO i ores m Mflroy tp.. to B< njarniu F. S>Vsr*z for 81'4,600. Th: conjtrsct was made, seme time sgo, but the deeds were made only a week or Vso iggz...... We are informed by good authority that B. J. Gifford will make his headquarter farm on the Bradbury place H mile east of De Motto, along the 3 1 railroad—We understand that the Gifford railroad will cross the line about 1 mile dhis side of Knirnan, and cross the 3-1 at Morris’ feed yards.—Wheattie.fi Sheaf. Mr. Leon W. Shaffimr, of Wheatfield Tp. and Miss Anna Erwin, dau htcr of Samp Erwin, formerly of Rensselaer, more recently of ”DdMotie, and now living in Tennessee, were married last -Thursd >y evening at residence of the bride’s cousins,Mr. and Mrs. N. Littlefield, north of the railroad, y '

The Ni< bolson law has knooSyd out nearly five hundred saloons, in this state, and still they go, but they are those of small towns where the remonstrators are numerous and determined, never backing down after signing the remonstrance. Country people are not so much concerned about saloon patronage.—Rochester Republican. Circuit Court judges are not deciding all one way in the question of the right of remonstrators withdrawing their names front an anti-salooh remonstrance. Judge White, of the Park Circuit Court, decided “that a man having once signed the remonstrance, had no right to withdraw his name. No county in Northern Indiana has increased in wealth more rapidly than Jasper county, and the old shell used for a court house is a disgrace to the county. The people could not advertise their progress and establish their proper standing among the counties in this part of the state in any more fitting manner than by the erection of a modern temple of justice.—Monticello Democrat *

Catherine Gerardy, the old woman Who, about three years ago, with the of her daughter, Mrs. Kersting, murdered her second husband, Nicholas Gerardy, near San Pierre, was killed by the cars near Logansport, Tuesday of last week. After the murder she was sent to the woman’s reformatory for two years, but went violently insane soon after, and has been confined at Long Cliff asylum ever since.

Mr. Morehead, a Chicago builder quite well known in Rensselaer, died recently at his home in the above city. He built the residences of F. J. Sears, Alfred Thompson, and J u dge Ha mm on d, now Hen ry Harris L Frank S. Davidson and his company gave Old Farnmr Hopkins to a big autliei ce at the opera house last Frdday night, 11 is an interesting play, a small but superior company, I -ahd the fc'etTei y is.'tspeciMly ff-ie. Frank Little, the Sliel'\v young prom Frank Fuller’* buT t. w-is alive: I Monday, but-was Him very low mid I bis death sti 1 ♦xp clu'd. He and Li, ; bn-ther are still in j M at Criwn Point ' I The'wgotistic-ns'fcr di-posit-g of i the Rev.s&l'ii-r creamery, by sale or 1 lease, are still under <r>n Kirii-rsO'ori, i bus. the chances are ndw that Mr ‘ Smith, of Th'orntowi]., rather than Mr. AVjsong, o f Indianapolis, will make the moreracceptsble proposition. 1 The funeral of Mrs. Campbell a lady of quite advsneed age, was held at Brushwood church, Union Tp. last Wednesday, interment being in rra'tea’ cemeteryw Barkley township. She lived with with a son on W; H. Churchill’s farm, in_Union township Her age was 85 years.

John I-Dgen.got damages of 83,500 against I he town of Kentland, for injuries received from an alleged defective sidewalk.- The case was tried at Monticello, and as was the case with the D' xier esse aga : n-.t Rensselaer, which was tried at Kentland, the ; jury evidently paid no n't< ntion to J any evidcgesuh-fhvor~rffdrlrn tovu. Tue .(use v. ill he a ; pe l d io the. Safife me Court, and it. is expsetfil that ,lhe._s?.me. liee of reasoning which led the < ourtTfi.thv Ryan case to declare counties not iiab’e ter such injuries, wiTTTe there applied to cities and tov ns, aMI the case be reversed J. H. Jessen he's been forking f-r a long time on an i..vention on which he. and GvO. Barcus, to vho'm half interest is assigned, a patent has just been granted It is a device for bolding houses just where they ar wanted, while being shod, or having their feet and legs treated in any way It is a system of strong iron rods which are quickly and easily, ah justed about a horse, and hold him so that it is impossible to thrash about or throw himself, or in fact, when the leg Clamps are adjusted*, to move out of his trucks. The leg ciamps are so arranged that by Simply working a lever and ratchet, the leg can.be raised

:to any desired point,- and securely listened tliere, thus giving the blacksmith the chance to shoe the horse, easily aijd expeditiously. It is prij mariiy intended fur holding wild or i fractious horses and mules, while being shod; but it is also believed that its use will so greatly lighten and expedite the labor of shoeing even gentle horses, by keeping them from stepping about, and holding their weight off the hprsesboer, e that the machines will c..me into general use among all progressive blacksmiths.

There are two full moons in the present month, and an item has been going the rounds of all the papers pretty nearly, stating that superstitious people, which includes about everybody, are" greatly exercised thereat, because it is the first December since the advent of Christ in which there have been two full moons; and it is regarded as a portent of direful import, etc. Now as there are thirteen full moons about three years out of every five, it would be a remarkable circumstance if December, one of th§ longest as well as the meanest months of the year, had failed to grab even one of the extra “fulls” for nearly nineteen hundred years. But December isn’t that kind of a month. It has had its full share of full moons, and no longer ago than 1876 there were two in Decern-, ber, one the Ist of the month, the other the 29tb,and if anyone has a back number almanac for that year, they can easily satisfy themselves of the truth of this statement.

(,'. E '. lills i s mak in g a tri ptli r oug h Illinois this week. The Presbyterian ladies have seIcurefi the Liberal Corner roomlTdr . theirlChristmas B z-iar. >int institute of the teaeke?B=ofMariuh and Union townships will be held at Fair Oaks, Jan. 11, A copy of the program has been received, and wilt be published next webk. Uie—Reusscdaer Christi'an Bible jScWM>rw]n hold Christmas exTcises bn Lil-s' Opera House Christmas eve. t'T4r’"v v li-. !tree loaded with ]>rcpoTA AT;! adults and persons moO ; v.’ll be chrrwed a fee of ten ; <■ n- - .o help defray expenses.; ' 5;,. A>--i A. lum.<->■ and Miss p-1.0 L>ewt y were married iTue-d:.;. lureiipu ,by Rev. B. F. Feii gus; t Ids i ( sulera is The groom [lives in Jliln.y Township and the: • bride in Joida’l. She being the idaugliof Marfin HeWey, who now ins six aMc bodied som-.n-law, and room for one n ore. Marriage licuis- s since last repert--7'7 F j L- >n \V. Shaffner, ! I Anna Erwin. j grjwjk J. Sorairifripp < " I Emma Rahm. ( Willialn D. Cqdv, ( Glennie E. Zook. ( Albert A. Beaver,* ) Margaret H. Dewey,

George Strickf id-;n’s family, the death of whose baby is mentioned elsewhere, have nearly all been sick with what is now understood to have beerr a mi’.d,f<;rm of dipflietia. Tfif 'hired girl had it first, lifter a visit to Er sjneg wi-ich Mrs, Strfcfe fade;! s'-'i -the , other <?m|.dren have .Tso si.ft'jn.d from it. The oldest vhihl ■ E ! ilh, 'ms' b 'biKleridusfy s ; ck, but tai? been improv-iig steadily for several dsys.

Thor; are ’sever J dogs in Rensselaer as large and strong as g- off sized Jf.&rhvix, .which are habitually allowed to rffii at, large. They arc good nu-. tured playful fellows, but no one ever tell when they might suddenly get angry at some person, and if it were a chill, especially, they could tear him to pieces in a minute, and oven to kill grown man would not take one of them very long. These huge dogs ought not to run at large, unmuzzled, especially after night. There is still a gool deal of talk of a new railroad Mr. Gifford is thought to be about to build, to furnish an outlet fur the producs of his laud in th’s county. It is even reported that he now has a surveying corps i the field lorati •-_»* the line of the r >.vl. Tliii ! epurt is no doubt erroneous however, and was probably based on the fact th ;t Surveyor Aller and his

assistants have just been laying out the line *- of Gifford’s new ditch in Walker Tp, and which said ditch follows for seven miles the exact course which the .alleged .Gifford railroad will follow, according .ts|the location the latest reports give it, and should all the dirt from the ditch be thrown on one side thereof, then behold there is the railroad bed, ready graded. “Give the Old Man a Chance” was the title and burden of a song quite popular someyears ago. In the spirit of this song, the ‘*old men” of Rensselaer are going to have their innings on Christmas night, in the way of a grand ball, at the opera house. It is gotten up by such .venerable citizens as C. G. Spitler, H.“ J. Kafinal, V. E. LoughridgerSimon Leopold etc. The youngest man on any of the committees is A. Leopold. Only “old’, married men and their youthful wives are invited, and if any bachelors, old or young, show their heads inside the doors, they will be thrown into outer darkness. Spinsters, especially if young and attractive will be admitted unless the wivCs aforesaid interpose a final veto. But it is, in all truth, going to be a grand affair, gotten up regard-’ less of expense, and if these alleged “old men” don’t give the young men sdhie pointers on the getting up 1 and management of a high class ball and social entertainment, The REPjibucan will greatly miss its guess. 1 ' > - ■ ■ , i •' p-

A son was born Friday to the wife of Geo. W. Cantor, trustee of Milroy township. Hon. D. R. Jcncs, commissioner from the third district, has not yet recovered from his siikncssof a month or two ago, and was unable to attend the December term, of the Commissioners’’“court, at all. Commissioners Far's and MartinRale left yesterday oni ah_ < xiehStee: cour -house inspecting tfip, through the state. They are 'beginning «hl&ir great task Of Imildin ht. u sv, in llicel-; gbt w ay, -J. 0. Perrin, of Lafayette, visited H. O. Hanis ycbterd&y. He was joikirg at Mr. Mucker’a farm, i.rai i Mt. Air, with a view to purchasing. He li;ts tue laud in ibis vicinity very milch. It is pietty marly a settled fact that a large business block will go up next year, on the north side of Washington street, on the lots now occupied by Fendig’s drugstore, the fruit shop and Yates’ grocery. Tne owners of the lots Ere N. Warner, H, Harris and Ralph L. A. Bostwick and John O’Conner, ditch commissioners for B. J. Gifford’s new ditch ia Walker Xp* are now working on the assessmentß_of_ me sima. The ditch will be the miking of quite a large scope ot, country through the" center of the west half .of Walker 'township. There are few things more corruptng to the boys and young men of a ■oinmuMty than gambling games naintaiaed in their midst. That there are sevcralMcrap” games going

on aboutCV.ry night in Rensselaer, jird in places that from their apparnt respectability make- the example vastly worse,, there is but too much eaton for bMieviig. These things should by “cet down on hard” and citizens 'whose sons are being corruptid, should see that there is a session jf the grand jury at the ensuing term of court, and that this matter is stirred up to the bottom. The fire’bell rang shout 4 o’clock *a,t Friday morning, for the first time since the of the new lire bell tower. The" cause was the burning of a paper box full of ashes, on the main floor of the Liberal Corner store, temporarily occupied by a fire sale shoe store. No damage was done worth mentioning, but had the fire got a few minutes more start, nothing csuld have saved the whole ouilding from destruction. The blaze had reached dangerous proportions, and would soon have spread, very fast. It. was an act of criminal caiT-fessmsii, rs -no -more, to leave* a box of ashes in the manner this was.

Chaplain J. H. Lozier delivered hrs curious production entiitled “Your Mother’s Apron Strings” at the M. E. Church, last Saturday evening, to an audience of fully 400 persons. It is, for the most part, a rhymed commentary on matters and things in general, full of witty hits and sage conclusions. He sang two original sorgs during the evening, “The Man of Gallilee,” and “Your Mother’s Apron Strings” and quite a number of copies of which, with their music, were sold to members of the audience, at the conclusion of the lecture. The Chaplain, though now living in lowa, is a native Indianian, and during the war came to Rensselaer and made an address in the interest of the Sanitary Commission, which, according to ..the Chaplain’s recollection, met with a very generous response, in the shape of, large contributions of money and articles of value to the sick and wounded soldiers.