Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1896 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Wheat 55 to 60. Com 22. Oats 14 to 15. ♦ Rye 30 to 32. Hay 17.50 to $9.00. Mrs. Frank Parker has been quite poorly for several days. Glenn Robinson, little daughter of Wallace Robinson, was quite sick last week. Mrs; Ed Hemphill went to Monon Saturday to attend the funeral of a niec-’. Mr. Wilson Crisler of Chicago visited Mrs. Benjamin Harris his sister, over Sunday. Miss Catherine Mills has been out of school on account of sickness for the past week.

Ira Rhinehart will move his family in the Ott Clark property on River street Ibis week. Dr. Horton is rebuilding the old Karsner house, on Division street, to ■make a good tenant house out of it. The Michigan City high school building was burned a short time ago. The fire started in a hot air shaft. Mrs. Geo. E. Murray entertained a number of her lady friends Thursday afternoon of last week. J. W. Wen’rlck, who lately removed to Bradner, Ohio, was in town last Friday, on business. Mrs. Dr. Sharer and Miss Emma Noland of Fancesville were the guests of Mrs. R. B. Harris part of last week. Miss Stella Parkison now attending an art school in Chicago, visited her parents and friends over Sunday. Miss Mamie Williams has returned home from Lafayette where she has been visitjng for several days. Mrs. H. 0. Harris visited her sick niece in Morocco last week, and since her return ho me has been quite ill. ’ Mr. Sprigg, the sewing machine man, removed to Redkey, Jay Co., the latter part of last week. Mr. and Mrs. Forsythe returned the latter part of last week, from their trip to Lafayette and Indianapolis.

Rev. L. H. Findley will begin a .series of meetings at the Christian Church next Sunday evening, January 26th. The parents of Delos Coen gave a very pleasant little surprise tea-party for him, on the occasion of his 13th birthday, Thursday, Jan. 16th. Joe Marshall is spending the winter in the south. At last accounts he was at De Leon Springs, Florida holding down a job in a print shop. Robert Yeoman received a severe bruise of the ankle last week, Tn getting off from a load of wood he slipped and the rear wheel of the wagon passed over his foot and ankle. Sheriff Hanley has bought the old Henry Platt property, on Division, street, and intends sometime to remove the old house and build himself a residence on the location. Mary Clark, a 12 year old motherless niece of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mackey, and who has made her home with them for some time, is very sick with a complication of diseases.

The members of the Church will give a “Milk and Honey” social, Friday evening, January 24th, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. "Alt-members are cordially invited. - The Grube school house, in Wheelfield township, was burned last Thursday night. The cause is supposed to have been that fire dropped out if a dilapidated stove. The building ww pretty well insured. The Trustee will rebuild at once. The Pilot’s long looked for illustrated souvenir number was goUeq out the latter part of last week. It is a very creditable production in every rfspect, and for which our neighbor deserved sincere congratulations.

Claude Holley will gP to Rensselaer Monday to begin the study of dentistry ur der Dr. Horton, of that place. Claude is a bright, energetic boy and will no doubt render a good account of himself. —Morocco Courier. According to the La Fayette Sunday Times, a Missouri farmer figur< d it out one rainy day that he had walked 300 miles in cultivating one acre of corn. He thereupon sold his farm and moved to town, where he walked 600 miles to find a j >b.

Squire J. M. Troxell, lati ly of DeMotte, started last Monday for Point Washington, Florida, for a few months’ stay. Upon his return he will locate in Rensselaer, building a residence on lots on Cullen street, mar J. F. Warren’s, and several tenant houses in Leopold’s Addition.

A new swindle that is being worked quite extensively is reported from LaPorte. An alleged representative of a Chicago bicycle factory offers, wheels at very low prices on terms of; $5 cash, and the balance in small' monthly payments. The cash is picketed, the agent disapears, but 1 the bicycles Sever arrive. Monticello Press.—The passage and enforcement of a curfew ordi-; nance, which is for the purpose of keeping little children off the streets at night, has been tried with gratifying results in many towns of this size. Many good people here would be glad to see the curfew adopted in Monticello, believing it would prove a wholesome and helpful influence to the rising generation, deficient in home restraint.

The Pittsburg Post says: “The policy of the Pennsylvania proper is to gradually assume direct control and ownersnip of all the roads in which it is in any way interested at present, and railway men who are posted say it will be only a matter of time till the time-honored names, Panhandle, Fort Wayne, Grand Rapids and Vandalia, are known only in the memory of the people, as all equipment from New York to Chicago, Cincinnati and St. Louis will be lettered in the conventional Pennsylvania railroad style.”

- Mr. W. E. Yocam, of Paul City, Neb., and Miss Edna M. Lee, of Hanging Grove tp , were married at the residence of the bride’s parents, in the above township, on Wednesday, Jan., 15th by Rev. Wright, of Francesville. The groom is a student, and prospective physician, at Valparaiso Normal, and the new married couple will make their residence at Valparaiso until he completes his general and medical education.

Bourbon, Ind., is noted for its pugilistic physicians, and if they cannot find any one to fight they occasionally fight among themselves. Recently an old farmer, who is a Well known road hog—that is he will not give any part of the road when he meets another team—was halted by one of the doctors who demanded his share of the public highway. The old man ripped and roared and swore he would not give an inch. The doctor got out of his buggy and climbed into the road hog’s vehicle and pummelled the country man until he bellowed like a calf and gladly consented to turn out quite liberally. There are a few people in Jasper county who need to take the same kind of medicine.

The question of the purchase by the town of the electric light plant now in openation here will come before the Town B>ard ait their meeting next-Moß4»y »igW r when the visiting 'committee wiil make their report. Judging from what the present talk is the report of the committee is not likely to prove favorable to buying the present plant at the price asked for it. Beginning with this year the Rensselaer. School Librsiy now receives regularly the U. S. Patent Office Gazette. It is a weekly publication, about the size and shape of a monthly magazine; and contains pictures and descriptions of all the machines and devices as they are granted patents. The reports are open to the consultation of the public at any time. F. Cbilcote arrived home Sunday night from his California visit, which he greatly enjoyed. He was detained considerably at different points on his home journey, and thus arrived a few days behind schedule time. But he knew where he was all the time, and therefore was neither lost, strayed nor stolen. His journey out was made over the Santa Fe route, on a fast through train, which has since been taken iff, from failure to pay expenses. The schedule time from Chicago to Los Angelos was three days and 5 minutes; but the train was two whole minutes late, on arriving at Los Angelos, and the Capt thought some of suing the bloated railroad corporation for the two minutes lost time, but afterwards relented.

Albert C. Tolles, an unspeakable brute, who lived in Rensselaer a few months several years ago, and fled from here because suspected of murdering an infant child, to stop its crying, lately perpetrated an act similar to what he was suspected of here. He was living in a hovel at Brook, i Newton Co., and impatient with the crying of his 7 months old infant child, he took it between bis knees and so crushed its head and body, i that it died a few days later. Telles was arrested and is now in jail, H’S unfortunate wife has returned to the home of her mother, Mrs. Alter, in Carpenter Tp. this county. This act of Tolles is a strong confirmation of the charge that he killed his other child here. His story then was that it was accidentally smothered. Since the above was in type we learn from other sources lhett the child injured at Brook did not die, as reported.

The third number in the Rennsselaer Lecture Club’s course was a lecture last Wednesday night by Dr. A. A. Willitts of New Jersey. “Sunshine” was the title and it was sunshine, he turned loose on his hearers and it was well absorbed, judging by the faces that trooped out of the house at the close of the lecture. Dr. A. A. Willitts is a minister of thirty years experience and his “Sunshine’* was probably the best sermon ever heard in the town; a man of vast learning and a broad and liberal reader and thinker, with a heart simple as a child’s, he has gotten the best out of a long life, and with his wonderful delivery and matchless powers of mimicry, his mission to teach happiness to a grumbling .sand pessemislic world is indeed a good one. He illustrated his points in a most happy manner, and it needed only a gesture or two of his, to place anything he described right before the eyes of his listeners. His idea that one can get more happiness out of five cents worth of stock, in some needy person, than can a millionaire from all his riches, is a profitable one for ns all to consider. And . his repeated advice to “Invoice our blessings” if followed would dispel mnch of the gloom that surrounds us. One illustration, when he said that all the millions spent by America’s chief millionaire, in buying a duke for his daughter, would not buy one chubby baby out of a market man’s wagon, was significant of the worth of some of our blessings. In fact the Doctor just turned loose and let his Nature caper, and from appearances he enjoyed its “caperings” as much as did his delighted hearers. '

Ed Banes, a printer of Attica, is visiting his cousin, Monroe Banes. Albert Overton visited ■‘relatives in» Chalmers, Sunday. A sou” to Mr. and Mrs? U. E. Tyner, near the depot,. Friday, Jan. iZlh. A daughter, Monday, Jan. 20lh, to Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Nichols, Barkfey township. S. M. Buhaw, of Morris, 111., is visiting his old neighbor, J. H. Perkins for a few days.

The Presbyteriep church is now all ready for plastering as soon as the furnaces are put in. Alfred Thompson’s condition has not shown much change since his return from Battle Creek. Mrs George K. Rollings worth, attended the Paderewski recital at Chicago on labt Wednesday afternoon. The kind of weather we are now having is causing a great deal of sickness of the nature of gripor infiuer z*.

Subjects of sermons, at Christian chuich, next Sunday: Morning “The Moiel Church,” Evening, “The New Commandment.” Rev. C. G. -Voliva, pastor of the Missionary Baptist church, will begin a protracted meeting next Sunday, to continue indefinitely. Chasz Daugherty, of Hammond, soil Of L. L. Daugherty, formerly of Rensselaer, was iu town Tuesday. He is now deputy sheriff in Lake county. B. F. Ferguson was in Chicago Monday, buying the stock for the new general supply store, in Liberal Cotner, to be conducted by his son, George. Commissioner Jones is still confined to his house, as the result of h's typhoid fever relapses, but was thought to be improving steadily at last reports. * . . Uncle John Karsner was taken very dangerously sick in Chicago, a few days ?gQ, and Tuesday morning his son Merce and daughters Mrs. Giver and Mrs Wiltshire, went up to see him. '■ -

Shelby has come to the front again. This time it was a fight to a finish between two hired girls in the Riverside hotel. They knocked down, pull d hair and tore dresses to r a frightful extent. . , , ■ ■ The county commissioners ha»‘O been in special session since Monday, considering plans and the hiring of an architect for the new court house. The matter had not been decided when we went to press. Chas. Vick was splitting wood Tuesday nignt and swinging his ax rather exunerantly, it caught a clothes line, with the result that the heel of the ax hit Mr. Vick near the eye, knocking him down and cutting him quite severely. Marriage license since last reported: ( Thos. E. Reed, ’ I Bessie O’Brien. ( Andrew Grube, I Hattie May Michael, j Geo. B. Commons, | Gertrude I. Green. E. Gilmore, now the sole owner of a 2800 acre tract in the Wakarusa swamp region, in the east part of the county, is now located on the tract and preparing to move his family from Illinois. The Denton-Culp ditch will drain the tract, and he is preparing to break the most of it up, this season. He will also build a number of houses and barns, forthwith, open up roads, and otherwise make a new country out of it. The trial of the suit of John Graves, of Wheatfield, against Wm. Hoile, of Walker, for 1600 agent’s commission on sale of land, began Tuesday, came to an abrupt and sensational end. The court said that an attempt to bribe a juror bad been charged, and he continued the case and ordered the grand jury called again, to investigate the matter. ,

t Some years ago the alty of Hammond sought to annex a large tract of contiguous territory by the same legal proceedings by which Rensselaer last year added so many nice people and so much picturesque landscape to its limits. In the Hammond case the county commissioners deeided against the annexation, instead of in favor of it, as they did here. The town appealed to the circuit court and that court reversed the commissioners and annexed the fend. The state supreme court sustained the circuit court. But the owners of the principal tract, being residents of another state took the case to the U. w- courts and have now obtained a decision in their favor, and against the annexation. The point of the decision seems to be that there can be no appeal from the decision of the commissioners in annexation proceedings, except that it be shown that.in the course of theproceedings the law was not complied with.