Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1896 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Wheat 55 to 60. Com 22. Oats 14 to 15. . Bye 80 to 82. Hay $7.50 to $9.00. . Dr. and Mrs. H. J. Kannnal are visiting friends in Ohio. ". .. 0 Mrs. H. B. Murray is recovering from quite a severe sickness. Miss Anna Nagle has been quite Hick for a week or more. Herschel Wilson, of Bloomington, iis visiting his brother, the attorney. H. V. Childers, of Delphi, visited ibis son, J. W. Childers, Monday. Ephraim Fleming of Jordan township has been quite sick for stveral weeks. Mrs. John Makeeevr is laid up with a badly sprained ankle, the result of a fall. A son to Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Donnelley, north of town, Thursday Jan. 28rd. " "7~~ J, P. Overton has so far recovered from bis long sickness as to be able to walk ont. Mi sses Blanche Makeever and Stella Jacks visited in Lowell the latter part of last week. Well informed builders think the present year will he as good for building in Rensselaer as last year was. The people of North township Lake Co., where Hammond is, voted down a $200,000 gravel road system.

Mrs. Effie Thomas, of Englewood, went home last Saturday, after two weeks visit with her parents, Mr, and Mrs. J. C. Gwin. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Foltz attended the wedding at Oxford, last Sunday of the latter’s brother, E. Worth Kolb, a civil engineer of Oxford. Mrs. Mary Karsner, widow of the late John Karsner, will continue to make her home in Chicago, with her eon, Wesley Karsner. A box Social to be given by Katy Shields and school at Union School House, Marion Tp. Friday Eve, Jan. •31st. All are cordially invited. Sunday, 12 M., Jan., 26, at the home of Eev. and Mrs. R. D. Utter, a son was born to their daughter, Mrs. Chas. A McKellips, of La Porte. The recent purchase of the Ware •ranch, in Wheatfleld Tp., raises Mr. Gifford’s landed possessions in this county to from 26,000 to 28,000 acres. There has been so much sickness for a few days past from colds, fever, sore throat and kindred afflictions the physicians oould not answer all the calls.

The death of Mary Clark Sunday evening was the first in the member* ship of the Christian Sunday school since its organization nearly eight years ago. Uncle Peter Foulks, of Milroy Tp., was in town Saturday, for the first time since he broke his ankle, two months ago. He gets about with the aid of a pair of crutches. The next entertainment m the Rensselaer Lecture Club’s course will be Slayton’s colored jubilee singers. It will no doubt be the great popular entertainment of the whole course. Its date is Monday, Feb. 10th.

Mr. and Mrs. Perry Spencer of Fowler spent Sunday in Rensselaer. ' Will ParkisOn of Purdne; has been Very sick for a ifsok or twepMk ' Mr. Stephen Freeman, of Barkley Tp.,~is dangerously tick A • t Miss Mary Yates is visiting friends at Roseville Illinois. , ~ • Mrs. J. W. Douthit is visiting relatives in Medaryville this week. Mrs. J. R Yannatta was in Indianapolis last week consulting Dr .Thompson the occulist. A box social at the Putts school house, 2£ miles sOnth of town, Friday evening Jan. 61. . . Misa MyrUe Pulver of Lowell, is Visiting tier sister, Mrs. P. W. Clark, in the north west part of town. Births:— To the wife of Henry Linz bach, Barkley Tp., Jan. 25th, a daughter; to the wife of George Martin, Jordan Tp., Jan. 27th, a daughter.

Ira Gay’s mare, a valuable animal broke one of her bind legs. Just above the hoof, Monday evening, by getting caught in a switch frog, at the railroad. It is a serious loss for Mr. Gay. Some person accidentally exchanged umbrellas with Miss Orrie Clark, at the Epworth League social, last Friday evening, and Miss Clark would be glad to have the mistake rectified. Alfred Bates, who has been reading law for some years in Capt. Marshall’s law office, has now gone into business by himself, bis office being with Lee <k Co, the land agents, in J. E. Spitler’s building, and over the Western Union telegraph office. Stephen Barnes i f Fowler, and son-in-law of Uncle Simon Phillips, attended the Republican district convention at Rensselaer last week. Steve by the way, is out after the Republican nomination for sheriff in Benton county. The ice crop in Rensselaer is still to be harvested. Only a very small' amount has yet been put up; Jake Eiglesbach having made a start on his ice house, and a little has also been pat into the creamery cold storage room.

The oil well recently sunk by the Standard Oil Co. west of Monon, is believed to contain oil in paying quantities, though since its completion it has been plugged and will probably remain so until the company has use for its product.—Monticello Press. A four year old son of Jerome Harrison stuck a prong of a table fork in the corner of his eye, one day last week, inflicting a very painful injury, and one that it is feared will permanently iDjare the eye, and possibly destroy its sight. Mr. Arthur Snodgrass, of Delphi, and Miss Gertrude Ramey, of Rensselaer, were married Saturday evening, Jan. 25, at the residence of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. A 1 Ramey, in the north west part of town. Squire J. C. Morgan preformed the ceremony. A case appealed from the Vermillion circuit court to the appellate court rules that a laborer or a man who furnishes the material, is entitled to a lein upon land on which a building has been erected. Even if the structure has been destroyed it does not affect the lien upon the land.

That neither pleasant nor ornamental contagious disease, the mumps, now seems likely to get a foothold, or perhaps it would be better to say a face-hold, in Rensselaer. Earl, son of Wiley Duvall is recovering from an attack of the disease, and be had it in a pretty severe form V John OConnor, one of the Ditch Commissioners in the Gifford Ditoh, No. 77 has been appointed by the Judge of the Circuit Court as commissioner in charge of said ditch, and will as soon as possible, carry out the instructions of the court. Wiil advertize and sell the work and hustle tiie work through to completion.

“John Paxton took a ran down to see his brothers at New Albariy and Arcadia, the first of this week. Mrs. P. W. Clarke, Mrs. J. W. Childers, Mrs. N. Warn°r, and Mrs. Shelby Grant are all reported sick. District Chairman T. J. McCoy attended a meeting of the state central committee at Indianapolis, Tuesday. J. W. Jessup, the carpenter, is in Tennessee. It is said he has bought property and will move his family I there. Add Robinson’s sale, last Wednesday, amounted to about $2,600. Mr. Robinson will move to Kansas before many weeks. * The iron work of the river bridge by the creamery is now completed; but the approaches must be made before the bridge can be used. ■ -p* - So much sickness with colds ana grip has greatly reduced the attendance at the town schools, although it is much better this week than last. Miss Aley Potts and Ur. Howard T. Landis were married at the home of the pride’s parents last Wednesday evening, Rev. J. L. Brady officiating. The milk and honey social held last Friday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Leatherman was quite a success both socially and financially. Born to Mr. and Mrs. John Potts, Jan. 19, a son. To Mr. and Mrs. Chas. K. Scott, of Front street, a daughter, Jen. 24 . To Mr. and Mrs. John J. Reed, south Marion Tp., Jan.. 27, a son. j Sam Scott and Oscar Phegley left for Tennessee, Tuesday morning, to look for a location. Wm. Lowman from a few miles east and the families of his two sons, Alfred and George, already there, also started at the same time. Members of the Iroquois Daoee Club are notified that the next dance will be given next Tuesday evening, Feb. 4th. This is the fourth of a veiy successful series. New members are being added and interest increases with every dance. Beginners are especially invited. Good mnsic will be furnished.

The addition of an extra day to February this yea* throws most of the holidays to the end of the week. In 1895, for instance, Independence day came on Thursday; in 1896 it comes on Saturday. Washington’s birthday and Decoration day also come on Saturday in 1896, and Christmas day comes on Friday. Easter Sunday comes on April sth, nine days earlier than in 1895. The County Farmers’ Institute will be held in the court house at Rensselaer next Wednesday and Thursday. We hope for good roads and good weather those days, and to see a large attendance of the farmers from all over the county. Heretofore, as luck would have it, most of these institutes haye been at times when the condition of the roads and weather prevented the attendance of those living any considerable distance away from the county seat.

The educational meeting to be held next Saturday at the Rensselaer high school building, promises to be an occasion of much interest and value to teachers and others interested in school matters. Dr. Chas. A. Me/Murray, of Normal, 111, is one of the most eminent and widely known workers in educational lines, and his presence alone is sufficient to make the occasion one of unusual importance. Prof. F. A. Cotton, of Indianapolis, and Dept. State Superintendent, is the other lecturer, and is also a man of very high standing in educational circles. Besides the all day’s session in the sohool bouse, Dr. McMurray wiil deliver the dosing lecture of the meeting in the court house, in the evening. Teachers attending the meeting will be expected to contribute 50 cents each towards defraying the expense. No charge made to others.

A son, Tuesday, to Mr. and BJre. Chas- Crosscup. 3 ' | Mrs. R W. Marshall and lire. Mattil Bowman and daughter Grace visits! M»i. G. M. Wi'cox at Suirey, yesterday. The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. -|iaa Marian died yesterday morning, of a brain trouble- Its age was about 10 months. Robert Randle has sold a portion of his, Jjhftn in Barkley township, and rented the rest for cash rent. He will make a public sale Feb. 13, and has a very large amount of property to dispose of at that time. * The change yesterday from the mutky, gloomy weather ol many days past, to bright sunshine, is not only a very agreeable change, but from the point of healthfulness, a very advantageous one. John'Eger’s new store room is now, completed, and he will move his grocery stock into it next Monday. He has a fine room and also uses the whole second story as a storage room; having connections with it by stairs and a freight elevator. . ~ ~ The unusually warm weather of last Week so far thawed ont ftom his winter’s hibernation “Neversweat” of McCoy sburg, that he crawled to the telephone and informed The Republican, in tones of evident disappointment, that his partner, the black coon was still in his possession. Strick, the saioonist, had refused to negotiate for the coon, on a whiskey basis, on account of the alleged obfectioniable odor of the animal. Which is something of a giveaway on Mr. Neversweat, as he and the coon are Understood to be regular bed-fellows. The Monon Route has issued a card of regulations, which prohibits, according to a statute from the Department of agriculture, the acceptance for shipping of any stook Infected with contagions disease, each at hog cholera, tuberculosis and sheep scab. Those who sell for shipping each stock are liable to prosecution.

The latest newspaper bulletin issued by Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station deals with the “Use of Commercial Fertilizers m Indiana.” The subject is one of great interest in some portions of the state, but not, as we think, in Jasper county. In oase however, that any of our readers have any interest in subject that can procure copies of the the bulletin by addressing C. S. Plumb, Director, at Lafayette

The county commissioners studied court house plans and specifications and consulted architects all of last week until Thursday, when Mr. Faris got the grip and went home. The matter of deciding upon plans and selecting an architect is one of the utmost importance, and so many things are to be taken into consideration, that it is also a very perplexing and complicated problem, and tkc-csamissioneia- are very properly taking their time to make a decision. It has been erroneously stated that the Republican county chairman of this district has selected Michigan City as the place for the district nominating convention. Michigan City is considerably in a corner of the district, but it has fine railroad connections and also plenty of hotel and hall accommodations, and would therefore be a good place for the convention and is said to be very favorably thought of in that connection; but the matter is not decided yet; but will be at a meeting of the district and oounty chairmen today in Chicago.

Monticello Press—R. A. Clark, tbe telephone man, is in town, for the pnrpose of con ferine: with the Jasper County Telephone Co. in regard to connecting Monticello with the toll' line of the latter. Mr. Clark informs us that he has been contending for a lower rate of toll for towns inside the county than that asked by the company, and for this reason negotiations have beendelayed. The present rate is 25 oents and Mr. Clark is asking a reduction to 15 oents, and hopes to reach a conclusion on this basis while here.

..... - ; ’ Mrs. W. I. Parks has been very dangerously sick with pneumonia, at her home on Division street, and for some time her recovery wm despaired of, but her condition took a change for the better Tuesday, and the improved conditions have since continued. Mr. Ellis.- owner of Mm Trade Palace, will, as soon as Mr. Eger vacates it, proceed to divide the room into two, one being considerably larger than the other. It is understood that Mr. Huff, jeweler, will, occupy one of the rooms and La Rue Bros.’ grocery store the other. The Telephone company has just put in two new' 100 wire lead-insulat-ed cables, to replace those before in use at the central station. These cables will do away with the trouble that has been experienced iniUp weather from imperfect insulation, producing the “cross talk” that has been the source annoyance.

An exchange contains the following advice to kicker#; “Before yon become a kicker consider if you can’t be something better. One thing is certain, if yon can do nothing good for a community, you can make a great deal of trouble by abating the people who do. Agitate your liver, take a dose of ground glass and remove the bile, cleanse your conscience, cultivate faith in your fellow man, then go to work and help somebody, but don’t be a kicker.” A protracted neighborhood row between Mrs. Isabel Ankeny and Wm. Moore’s family, who lives near the railroad, finally resulted in the arrest of Mrs. Moore and her daughter Dora, at Mrs. Ankeny’s rinstance. The case eame before Squire Morgan at the town hall, last Sunday, bat a change of venue was taken to Sqaire Burnham, for yesterday afternoon. The case was not tried as we go to press. It is one which the projecut!ta@Mtßimey ought to irevWUßftiseffi to have brought, and one which the Squire would doubtless be glad to throw out of court, if a lawful opportunity to do to is presented.

A man who was “bumming” his way over the Monon in a box car, had a tough experience at Water Valley, the p’ace where the road crosses the Kankakee river, on Wednesday night of last week. The train stopped there for water, and the man thought he would get out and walk about; but the car had stopped on the river bridge, and the man walked right off into the water. He raised a fearful yelling and woke up John Deversy, who works in Christie Vick’s river hotel, and he got into a boat and rowed out and rescued the man, just as he was about exhausted.

Christie Vick, keeper of the “One Horse” hotel, at the Kankakee river, had a narrow escape from getting his everlasting dose, a few days ago. He was crossing the river on the ice, drawing a. hand-sled loaded with wood. When in the middle of the river the ice broke and let Christie in where the water was 20 feet deep. He hung on to the rope attached to the sled, which still remained on solid ice and by means of it managed to pull himself out. He had scarcely reached the river bank, however, before the whole cake of ice where his sled stood, broke in pieces, and floated down the stream.

The sale of the big Ware ranoh, in Wheatfield township, has just been consummated by putting the deeds on record. As We stated a little while back Mr. Gifford is the purchaser of the tract, and the seller is Elisha C. Ware, of Chicago. The tract contains 2720 aores and the total price was $40,950. This in amount of genuine money consideration is, we believe, the largest single land deal, where only two parties were interested, ever transacted in the county. Mr. Ware bought the tract in 1889, for about SB,OOO, thus making about $32,000 on an investment of SB,OOO, in about six years’ timeThe same land was bought by Daniel Sigler, in 1865, for SI.OO per acre.