Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1896 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Wheat 50. Corn 20 to 22. Oats 14 to 15. Rye SO to 52. ’ Hay $7.50 to $9.00. Joe Sharp has made an addition to 'his photograph gallery. The Knights of Pythias are having their castle hall handsomely repapered. Miss Stella Parkison has gone to -Chicago to begin a course of study in an art school. C. C. Warner gave a bachelor dinner to 9 bachelor friends and sympathizers, on New Years Day. C. A. Roberts had a very dangerous attack of asthma, last Thursday night, and has not yet fully recovered from the attack. The thermometer last Friday morning marked 10 and In some cases 12 •degrees below zero It was the oold--est morning of the winter, so far. Willie Parkinson, Of Purdue, gave a dinner last Thursday to all the other college students, at his father’s 1 residence, in Barkley Tp. The first issue of the Brookston •Reporter under the management of Healey & Graham fully justified our of improvements. John Gwin, son of County Treasurer J. C. Gwin, has gone to Marshfield, Wis., to take a situation in the express office there, and of which his brother Lacy is head manager. Jau.es Moore, of Pleasant Ridge, had a black plush lap robe stolen from his sleigh, last Sunday, in Rensselaer. He offers a reward of $lO for capture of the thief and recovery of the robe. An epidemic of diphtheria is said to be raging at Hanover Center, six •miles southwest of Crown Point. There hss been several deaths, and a great deal of excitement.—Crown Point Register. The Supreme Court holds that the express companies in the State must ipay a tax, thus holding valid the act of 1893 taxing express companies upon each mile of route within the State. Mrs. Alice Ammerman, of Crawfordsville, whose horse was frightened by a steam road-roller, whereby she was crippled for life, |has brought suit against the city’s ""for $20,000 damages. Remington had a fire Tuesday afternoon. The property burned was 2 large hay barns belonging to Mr. Barnes. Also about 150 tons of hay and straw. The Amish emigrant train left Mt. Ayr last Monday afternoon bound fcr Gibson, Mississippi. The town took on a regular holiday appearance in honor of the occasion, the entire neighborhood being present to bid their departing friends adieu and God speed.—Morocco Courier. Mrs. Lecklider has gone to South Bend, Ind., to visit her mother and relatives. Clarence' will be m Chicago on business a few days then join his mother in South Bend and return home. Store will be closed while absent. 9 t • _-*UW' Monticello Press: phos. McCoy of Rensselaer, seems to have the inside track for the chairmanship of the republican congressional district committee. The first engine on the Chicago Air line was named after Mr. McCoy and he’s all right-

Ex-TreaSurer M. H. Hemphill has purchased of Pbegley Bros, the souili Yan Rensselaer street I very stable and having associated bis son Charley with him, it is nOw,. under their management. The firm name is Hemp.hill ik..Son• i „i W ,I There is one man who has beencarrying a loan of SSOO in the Ind. school fund for thirty-two years. He sent the state treasurer a check recently for the annual'interest. During the thirly two years he has paid the state $l,lOO interest on the SSOO. ' ' ' 1 ' '*'J “Shredded corn fodder is rapidly gaming favor with feeders,” says the LaPotte Argus, “and it will not be long before it will be put up in bales and sold in the markets the same as hay now is.' Some like it even better than timothy. The day for wasting corn fodder is about past.” * The State Auditor has blacklisted the following insurance companies for failure to comply with the insurance laws of the State. Illinois Mutual Insurance Company, Chicag o Reliance Mutual' Insurance Company, Chicago; Underwriters’ Insurance Company,

The next annual Jasper county farmers’ institute will be held at Rensselaer Wednesday and Thursday Feb. sth and 6th. The assigned speakers are Messrs. Jones and Kelsey. The Newton county institute will be held at Brook Monday and Tuesday of the same week, with the same assigned speakers. We regret to say that the Logansport Saturday Review is no more. It was the paper published by Small Bros., Rev. Gilbert Small's twin sons. It was a bright and able sheet, but in a field too full of good papers already, to leave much room for a new venture. It existed a year and three months. The first annaul report of State Treasurer Scholz shows that the State is now spending more than 18,000,000 annually on Its public schools. It expended for higher education last year $223,922. The report shows that the permanent plan for reducing the State debt is operating satisfac torily. Kokomo comes to the front, through the esteemed and ever reliable Dispatch, with the following :“In a certain nonhead saloon is seen a placard with the following: ‘Venezuelan Whiskey. Three drinks for a quarter Fight Warranted.’ If one thinks ail the patriotism in confined to congress and the newspapers, one is lamentably off his trolly.” The Indianapolis News says that the Supreme court will hardly pass on the validity of the Nicholson temperance law for several months. Cases involving every section of the law have not yet reached the court. It has been the hope of the attorney general that all the cases might be bunched, and one decision, covering all the points, secured. Intelligence has been received here of the death of Mrs. Rosa Robinson in Kansas. Her death was the result of a wound received in a shooting affray, in which she happened to be an innocent bystander and witness. Mrs. Rosa Robinson is well known here and in Gillam. She was the daugnter of Mr. and Mrs. John Robinson, deceased, of Gillam, and a sister of Mr. A. Q. Robinson, of Monon.—Medaryville Advertiser. An authority on slang produces the following on a popular term: “A rubber-neck is somebody who'l try in’ to get next to somebody’s affairs. A woman that keeps looking out of the window to see what her next door neighbor is doin’ is one of em. You’ve seen a man tryin’ to read a letter over another man’s Bhoulder. He’s a rubber neck, cause, you aee,/he’q stretchin’ himself to get onto] something that’snone of his business. These fellows that hang around church doors to get onto pretty girls, are rubber necks, every one of them.*' It wtll be readily seen that according to his deffination every community has its rbbber necks, some of whom are very conspicuous.

Dr. W. E. Reynolds, a villain of the Charles Qerdy and Charles Clifton order put a fitting end to his 3areer, at Springfield, Illa week or so ago, by suicide. He left undivorced wives in : various parts of the country, one be'ing a former very estimable Moirti!cello girl, Miss Emma Engle. Ad Robinson bos sold his farm, the old Robinson homestead, about 1 £ miles north east of town, to Austin Moore, of Hanging Grove tp., who will it himself. Mr. Robinson will]soon go to eastern Kansas with a #iew to buying land there if it suits him. The farm he sold contains 240 acres and the price was $55 pet acre. Telephone exchanges are now al the rage among the larger towhs and smaller cities of this state, following in tt c lead of Rensselaer in this respec 4 , which as before remarked is understood to have the biggest telephone exchange of any town of its rank in the state. Delphi is the latest town to get in line for an exchange. The rates will be the usual $2 for business places and $1 for residences. The Home Build irg & Loan association of Bloomington, 111., ha) struck breakers. It does look like people would get their eyes open in regard to foreign building and loan associations sometime and let them severely alone. The words of a smooth stranger have more weight than the cold facts of a home bmsiness man. A home building and loan is the safe one; it buiilds up a town and protects your pocketbook. Put your savings there.—Oxford Tribune. ’ . ..... - ' - ' • •• ‘. • ’ . The Indiana Farmer is organizing, a colony of farmers to locate in some of the southern States. Colonies for a similar purpose have been organized in Illinois, lowa, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Kalfeas, and in the Dakotas. Large numbers of farmers in those States have already gone south; others will follow within a short time. A good many Illinois farmers are buying the lands vacated in the other States named above. Thirteen Amish people have been arrested m the south port of Adams county, and the number includes several ministers. It is charged tnat marriages have been solemnized with out proper license, and persons married who were blood kin. Among these are first cousins, and several 4. . . V eases where the young men married their half sisters. Various other offenses are charged knd the Amish threaten to move ont if prosecutions are pushed. The end of the world predieters who are always with us, and who had the world blown to flinders several times in 1895, have come up smiling* for the campaign of 1896; and one of the most enterprising of their number has fixed upon this, Jan. 9th. as the date of bis mundane cataclysm. But the predicters predict, and the old world wags right alpng in the same old way, and will continue to wsg. The Commissioners of Carrol 1 county have cut down the allowances made by Judge Lairy to the attorneys in the Whitmore murdei trial from $4,500 to $1,250, and which last sum is liberal and more than liberal pay for the services rendered. The attorneys refuse to accept these reduced allowances, but it looks like they had a long and rocky road before them before they get any more. Governor Matthews has furnished an eat imate of ,tbe military strength of Indiana. Re states that the militia of the state [consists of some 3000 able bodied men, who can be made available on a moment’s notice, and they armed with rifles of the latest pattern. The artillery companies, however, are not provided with the latest ield pieces, but all their guns are muzzle-loading. Within thirty days, however, the state oonld furnish at least 40,000 men to the government, who wonld be well officered and equipped in everything except in arms, which the government would have to furnish.

Mr. Gifford received' more lumber the first of the week. . ,;A A daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Kissinger,-of Jordan Tp., Jan. 4th. R B. Davis, of Laurens, lowa, isvisiting his sister, M'»s. Harrison. Miss Mamie J. Wiliams is spending this week with friend* at Welt Lafayette. \ -l-- r ... ■A- - - \ - . • . . The first goods for the new hardware store, in the Odd Fellows’ building began, to arrive Monday, T. F: Wright, the undertaker, is now fully established in his new location in Mrs. Ludd Hopkins’ building. A neighboring exchange says that four years from last Wednesday, the civilised nations of the earth will write 1900, and that that will mark the beginning of the 20th century. Fhe-exebamge is right in the proposition that the year 1900 will begin in four years, but is mistaken in the other statement that the year 1900 is a part of the 20th century, The 20th century will not begin until Jan. 1, 1901. Those who have been in the habit of crediting the long drouths of the past couple of years or so to too much tiling have been keeping very quiet on that subject for a month or more. On the other hand, had it not been for the tiling and drainage, which has carried the water away quickly, the amount of water that has fallen and soow that has melted during the past three or four weeks would have kept the people busy locating the high spots to get out of the water.

Many of the newspapers are discussing the propriety and practicability of farmers putting their names on their barns or bouses that all persons passing may learn of the place of habitation of each and every farmer Hn the county. It voufd be a great satisfaction to travelers and a convenience to those seeking country people on business, especially the lightning-rod and other land sharks, but where the benefit to the farmers’ would come in is not so apparent. There are 238 lawyers m congress, 41 farmers, 27 editors, 28 manufacturers, 1 railroad manager, 2 steamboat owners, 14 teachers and college professors, 25 bankers, 20 merchants, 1 house builder, 3 clergymen, 7 who say they are “engaged in business,” 8 doctors, 1 architect, 1 music teacher, 1 owner of oil wells, 5 miners 2 insurance agents, 1 theatre manager, 1 manufacturer of ice, 3 civil engineers, 9 lumberman, 2 owners of stone quarries, 2 rent estate agenca, 1 druggist and 1 steamboat captain.

Another happy marriage took place at the home of the bride’s parents in Barkley township, Jasper county, it being that of Mr. W. F. Osborne, of Gillam, to Miss Mary L. Humes Quite a number of near and dear relatives and friends witnessed the Was performed by Rev, D. Shunkwiler. The bride is the accomplished daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Humes and calls a large circle of 'riends her own. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Osborne,, of Gillam, and is well and most favorably knowh here as a thorough gentleman. He holds at present a lucrative position as in the Lafayette Business College, and the voung and happy couple departed for their new home at Lafayette last Thursday.—Medaryville Advertiser. The Monticello Herald indulges in a little modest and pardonable bragging because the sum total of Monticello’s improvements last year, and not counting the White court house, still figures up several thousand dollars more than Rensselaer’s. Monticello has indeed had a very prosperous year and we rejoice in the fact, but all the same the itemized list of its improvements show that in the particular of new residences, which is the one which shows whicn town ia increasing fastest in population, Rensselaer is still far ahead, as of these Rensselaer built 56 re 1896, while Monticello built 0n1y.29. Waterworks and business buildings were the items that gave Monticello the lead in total expenditures.

Mrs. B. Forsythe is confined to her bed with a sprained ankle, and also has rheumatism. *„ , T '• - . ■ .... • J. P. Overton is still serionsly sick atlhe home of his son-in-law, J. W. Childers, on Weaton street. All the Bensselaer contingent at the Keeley Institute are now at honfe fully cured of their grievipus appetites for liquor. Capt. M. F. Chilcote is expected home from Los Angeles, Calif., in a day or two, it having been bis intention to start from there Monday. Remember Dr. Willeta, on the lecture Club Course, will be at the Opera House next Wednesday evening, Jan. 15th. School children in gallery, 10. cents. Taylor, the young son of T. J. McCoy, had a relapse in his dlphthe- ' m oose, and became very sick again, but is again getting better. Bo was given the anti toxin treatment the second time. Miss Stella Parkinson gave a party to about 30 of her young lady friends on the afternoon of New' Year's Day. A game of “Progressive Cat,” a novelty in this region, was the. principal feature of the party. Will Daugherty, just west of town, has been sick a long time with a rheumatic trouble. His physician discovered and opened an abscess in his hip, a few days ago, since which his condition has greatly improved. Ike Tuteur went to Chicapo, Tuesday, from which place he intends in a few days, to start with a party on about a 30 days trip, the exact route of which had not been determined. It may be through Mexico, California or the south.

B. F. Ferguson has rented the room in Liberal Corner just vacated by T. P. Wright, and if having the same fitted for a general supply store for steam, and pipe fittings, bioycle repairs etc. His son George will have charge, we understand. The Iroquois Dancing Cittb give the second of a series of six dances, Tuesday evening, and it was a very pleasant affair. About thirty-five couples attended. Excellent music was furnished by the home orchestra. An effort is now being made to increase the number of members of the club to about fifty and then engage a competent instructor to teach them in the graceful art. The new enumeration blanks have been sent out to the various school trustees of the state. The new school enumeration law requires that the enumeration shall be taken between the 10th and the 20th of April each year. In the .hope that it will prevent the stuffing of the enumeration with a view to ravishing the school fund, each enumerator must take an oath to do his work accurately. The enumerator is also required to list the names of parents and guardians and in cities he must giv4 the number and street at which the child lives. Any enumerator who shall knowingly enumerate' persons not entitled to be enumerated or who shall in any manner add to or take from the number actually enumerated shall be guilty of a misdemeanor for which the fine is from five dollars to a hundred dollars to which may be added imprisonment. ,

The Republican does not deal out much astronomical information to its readers, usually finding enough matters of a terrestrial nature to occupy its attention, but when we do give anything about matterr celestial, we always take great pains to give straight goods. Hence our great annoyance, when we discovered that in our item of last week about eclipses for the year 1896, that a typographical error in that part referring to the total eclipse of the sun of Aug. 9, had made us say that thie eclipse would be “universal” all over the United States except Alaska, whereas what we wrote was 4hat it-would “invisible” all oyer this country except that far northwestern territory. An error which practically expressed exactly the oontrarp of what we meant to say.

Mies Jennie Miller, teacher of the Fourth Year grade in the town, schools, was unable to teach Monday, from sickness caused by an es&opu of coal gas into her sleeping room. Siren a hard coal store. Trhe hlrtdi girl, who slept in the same room was equally affected. Messrs. Coen and Rhoades,, of the Town Board, visited Montiaello, Delphi, Logansport and other towns, last Thursday and Friday to make investigations regarding electric light plants, their cost, efficacy etc. The result of their visiA will bo reported to the town board nexJ Monday night. The Republican’s new three horse power vapor engine arrived Tuesday and unless unforeseen difficulties occur in setting up, we expect that it will the, motive power for this issue of the paper. This is the first vapor engine ever brought to Rensseladr, and as we think to Jasper county. Theso engines have become very popular of late years. As they do not' use steam, they also run Without fire. Our readers are invited to call in and see it in operation.

It is time Rensselaer people began to learn the names of our streets. We doubt il a third of the people know the name of the street they live on; and shouldn’t wonder if several good-business men could not be found who do not know the came of onr principal business street. And when the name of Main street appears in the papers half the people who see it, think it means Washington street, which is the principal business street; and not the street from near the Catholic Church to the depot and considerably beyond, which is named Main stFeet, and which also is getting to be quite a street for business. We renew a suggestion made several years ago, that the Town Board have the names of our streets posted op.