Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1896 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Wheat 55 to 60, Corn 22. Oats 14 to 15. .Bye 30 to 32. •Hay 17.50 to $9.00. Mrs. James Swaim, of Union Tp. its on the sick list. Little Johnnie Ramey is quite sick with lung fever. * Miss Carrie Welch was quite sick a tew days last week. . Mr. William Washburn spent a few ■days last week iu Brook. Miss Maud Healey is recovering Irom her recent sickness. Mrs. J. W. Douthit has about recovered from a pretty severe illness. Elvin Overton left Monday for a few days’ business trip through Illinois. Mrs. Isaac Kepner has been dangerously sick and is still confined to .her bed.

James Foster is moving this week .in his newly purchased property near the depot. W. L. Wishard drove over to Sheldon last Thursday oh business, returning Friday. Mr. fcolb, of Oxford, was the guest' of his sister Mrs. Frank Foltz a few days last week. Miss Nellie Coen is rapidly improving from her long and severe spell of sickness. About twenty couples participated in a pleasant dance at Henry Shide’s last Thursday evening. Mrs. Elizabeth Purcupile tell Thursday and sustained a severe sprain of the ankle. The Lafayette Courier, like the Logansport Journal, now sets its type by a Mergenthaler linotype machine. The Misses Sadie Leopold, Mildred Harris and Bertha Parcels are out of school on account of sickness. Miss Berenice Waunieck of Washington, D. C., is here on a short visit to her aunt, Mrs. C. A. Roberts. A number" ’Wue's friends gave her a pleasant surprise party Saturday evening, Jan. 11. Will McConahay moved Monday to Pleasant Ridge where he will take charge of of the store at that place. Mrs. J. T. Harris returned from an •extended visit in New Hampshire to Rensselaer, Saturday evening, Jan. 11. Mrs. C. E. Hershman went to Medaryville last Saturday for a two weeks visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick. Remember the County Farmers' Institute, to be held in Rensselaer Feb. sth and 6th. The program will be published next week. The Marion township teachers attended a joint institute with Union township at Fair Oaks last Saturday. A good time is reported. J. H. Allman and J. D. Allman, of Remington, father and brother respectively of Mrs. W. H. Coover made her a visit the last of last week. Frank Latta, the young fellow whom, it was thougnt, would die from the 'wounds he received in the flglit at Shelby, has got well, but is still in jail at Crown Point, awaiting trial.

Grandfather Cottony accompained by his daughter Arrilla, left Monday noon for Wolcott for a of indefinite length with his daughter Mrs. Bunnell. * The sheriff of Lake county has equipped himself with a pair of southern blood-hounds, with which he expects to track and overhaul fleeing criminals. i Clyde Randle of Hanging Grove township, returned home from Valparaiso, where he has been attending school, on account of having the measles.

William M. Blackstone, of Lafayett?, was elected State central commiteeman for the 10th district at the democratic convention held in Lafayette Wednesday. * —A three year old daughter of Jesse Nowels, of Parr, died last Saturday, of diphtheria. The people of the neighborhood are greatly in fear of a spread of the disease. ■ i The winter term of the State nor- | mal school at Terre Haute began with an attendance of 500, which is the | largest with one exception in the history of the institution. • County Surveyor Alter attended the meeting of the State Engineers’ Association, at Indianapolis, last week; as so also, did Ex Surveyor, Lewis S. Alter, of Carpenter Tp. John P. Carr, one of the best known citizens of northern Indiana dropped dead last. Sunday from heart disease, at his home at Carr’s tank, near Brookston. He was 70 years old.

Female spotters are said to have be.u the source of no little annoyance to Monon conductors of late, some of whom it is intimated were placed on the retired list on that ac-. count. The people of DeMotte were cot stuck on the idea of a town incorporation, and at the election last Wednesday, they voted the proposition down by a vote of 14 in favor tb 41 against. , H. V. Weaver has bought a pros perous barber shop and laundry agency business in Lowell and is now in charge of the saihe. He will not move his residence to Lowell for about two months yet. A fifteen year old son of Thomas C. Davis living three miles south of town had ap arm broken last Friday afternoon. 'He was snow balling and fell down, his cousin fell upon him breaking both bones of his left fore arm.

Herman Barrows, alias J. P. Harrington, picked a hole through the 18-inch wall of the Lonansport jail, Thursday nis<ht, and escaped. He was a horse thief and forger. Nine other prisoners could have escaped but did not do so. The telephone line from the north was completed last* Saturday, so that § Rensselaer now has telephone connections with DeMotte, Wheatfield, Tefft and Kniman. Connections with Fair Oaks and Rose Lawn are not made yet, on account of lack of phones. Sixty-awo applications for admission to the LaFayette soldiers' home have been accepted and two rejected. The home will be open to receive them Feb. 1, Half fare rates have been granted by the railroads to those who have been accepted as inmates. The maiden stood before the gate and hummed the latest air; St. Peter smiled behind his beard, for she was passing fair. She was a brand-fiew maiden and she was bloomer clad, but St. Peter wasn’t posted in the latest bloomer fad. So he hinted to her gently that her chances wouljl be best, when applying for admission were she more completely dressed. Ex. A circular just sent out by the State board of health declares that shipments dead bodies shall not be. granted in the case of any one dying of membraneous croup, and that permit of shipment shall not be granted upon the certificate of heart failure alone, but in every case the cause of eaid heart failure must be stated.

The Supreme Court has made i’s final decision in . the celebrated Fowler will case. The decision finally knocks out * that portion of Moses Fowler’s will by which he sought to tie up his great landed estate so that the heirs could not dispose of it for 25 years. He owned 30,000 acres ip Benton county, alone. The attorney general has brought suit againbi Carroll county in behalf of the State to compel a distribution of the money received by the county from the Bowens as a settlement for delinquent taxes. The state claims about $2,500 of the money, of which the attorney general will get 15 per cent.

An eleven year old daughter of John Brady, of Brady’s ranch, near Thayer, was thrown from a horse on Jan. lst. and the saddle turning and her foot catching in the stirrup, she was dragged a long distance, the horse running and kicking all the way. Strange to say, the child was not Hurt, beyond a few bruises. The Knights of Pythias of the Slate are now planning to begin work on their new castle hail at Indianapolis next spring. The fund of the Castle Hall association has giOivn rapidly during the last year. Recently the association has filed several to its oiiglual articles of association with the Secretary of State. »

The trial of Editoj Hausen, of the Hubart Advertiser/ charged with criminal libel, took place al Valparaiso lately, aad resulted jn a disagreement of the jury. It is said they stood 7 to 5 for conviction. Mr Hansen was the prohibition candidate for congress in this district, last year. He was charged with libeling a Hv-. bart attorney. His »paper has suspended publication. The Indiana division league of American wheelmen is compiling a road book and map of the state, for the use of bicj clists and road ust is in general. The book will be mailed free to any league members. It will be issued about March 1, 1896, and Frank S. Chance, of Indianapolis desires to correspond with anyone in this county, who is familiar with the roads and their condition.

Mr. Jesse B. Lee and Mis. Rachel Burley were married Wednesday evening, Jan. Bth, at the residence of the bride’s son-in-law, John Piatt, on Division street. Squire James A. Burnham preformed the ceremony. The groom gives his residence as Omaha, Neb., and although 53 years old, admits that this is his first matrimonial venture. His bride is two years his senior. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Thompson arrived home last Thursday night from Battle Creek, Mich For six months Mr. Thompson has been taking medical treatment at sanitariums at Battle Creek and Ann Arbor, i ut we are sorry to say, without any apparent beneficial results. He is now very weafc, although still able to sit up a wfot the time. From being a largewreavy man, his disease has reduced his weight to than 100 pounds. , ' This year’s tax list is the smallest m the history of Jasper county; not only in the number of delinquencies but in the total amount of the tax delinquent. There is no township that is left out entirely, but Barkley has only one delinquency; and Marion and Carpenter each only two, and Milroy, Hanging Grove, and Newton have only three each. The smallness, in fact comparative insignificance, of this delinquent list, shows how groundless is the howl that people in this county are being “taxed-to-death.” It also shows how entirely unnecessary is the fear of a little additional tax for a new court house. A county with no debt whatever, with practically nd delinquent taxes: with an assessed wealth of nearly nine millions and an actual wealth of fifteen millions, and increasing as fait in both wealth and population as ours is, need not fear a longtime debt of SIOO,OOO for something so badly needed as a new court house.

A great deal of corn is being marketed in Rensselaer now. During five days lA>t week, for instance, a single firmjNbweb i Babcock,bought 20,000 bushtls. Uncle Billy Bussell, of Hanging Grove, is preparing to make a' public sale Feb. 6th ahd as sbonthereafter as practicable he will move into his Rensselaer residence. A box social for the benefit of the school library, will be given at Curtis Cheek school bouse, Newton Tp., Miss Mary Harmon teacher, on the evening of Saturday, Feb. Ist. About 40 of the friends of Mrs. Louisa Churchill, gave her “a surprise party, Jan. 12, at her home northwest of town, in honor of her 61st birthday. They had a big dinner, of coprse, and also left a number of desirable Nothing of public interest was done by the town board, Monday night. The npuri of the visiting committee on the electric light question will not come- up until the next meeting. The newly elected Republican county central committee will meet in Rejuselaer next Saturday, to perLct tLfcii organization by-electing a chairman, secretary etc.

(Ju pl. Al. F. Chilcote, who announced his intention te leave Los Angelos fur home on or before Jan. 6th, has not arrived yet, and no word has been received accounting for his nonarrival. The Republican district convention for the 10th district, will meet at Rensselaer next Tuesday, Jan. 21st. to elect a district corqjnittee-man. The only candidates now in the field are T. J. McCoy of Rensselaer, and G« o. P. Hayward, of Lafayette. The Republican organizing conventions appear to have been very fairly attended in all the townships, last Saturday. As several of the townships have not reported their proceedings, tire publication of the delegates and committees is deferred until next week.

Mr, R, L Martin, the genial Secretary and Treasurer of the Cincinnati Bicycle Club, has returned from a few days recuperation with his friends and relatives in Rersselaer. He gained 2—15 of an ounce while away, wh ch for a g'nllmsn of his phj sique is maiVelous. The Adjutant is sporting an elegant gold watch which he found in the “toe of his Bicycle stockings.”—Cincinnati Tribune. Marriage licente since last reported: j George Nenninger, ( Jennie Sipkema. J Samuel T. Vawter, | Nancy E. Vawter. j Joseph E.'Neff, "I Daisie O. Mikels. ( Jesse B. Lee, ( Rachel Burley. j William S. Yocam, ( Edna M. Lee. \ Jan.es A. Whited, 1 Jennie Mutchler.

It is again our painful duty to record another death from diphtheria in Rensselaer. The victim was Gracie Kenton, the bright and handsome eleven year old daughter of Frank Kenton, who lives pear the south end of Cullen street. She was taken sick last Thursday and died yesterday morning, about 1 o’clock. The case assumed a very malignant form from the first. A boy two or three years younger appears to have had the disease first, but in so mild a form that a physician was not called, and its nature not suspected. A still younger child has also been affected, but in a mild form, and is now apparently about well.

A new time card went into effect on the Monon, and the change in several trains are quite important, and in case of the forenoon mail south the change will be thought very advantageous, by Rensselaer people, as it gets the Chicago papers and other mail here in much better season. That train which for some months has been passing Rensselaer at 7 minutes past noon, now passes at its old tune, of 10:57 A. M. The afternoon mail north is changed from 3:47 P. M. to 3:24 P. M. The early morning train north is changed from 4:45 t04:25 A. M. The night mail south still goes at 11:23 P. M.