Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1896 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Wheat 55 to 60. Corn 23. Oats 15 to 16. Bye 30 to 32. Hay 37.50 to 39.00. Harvey Phillips, of Chicago, was in town the first of the week. Joe Marshall arrived home last from several months spent in the south. Mrs. J. W. Doutbit is slowly get«ting better from her severe and dangerous sickness. Isaac Thompson, of Bluffton, Ohio, is making his annual visit to his brothers here. Mrs. K. Rosenbaum, of Helena, Mont., will arrive here this week, to visit her son, August Rosenbaum and family. A praise or song service will be held at the court house next Sunday evening at 7 o’clock. Ail are cordially invited. Joe Reynolds went to Chicago Tuesday, being offered actuation by his brother, Earl, who is managing a bicycle training school in that city. Moses Y. Cox, formerly of FairOaks, who was very badly hurt at Goodland, by the cars, some time ago, is now about recovered from his injuries. A -

The*. H. Robinson, of Gillam Tp. moved to town last Saturday, and now occupies his handsome house just west of town, purchased some time ago of Mrs. Thos. Robinson. Rev. G. W. Muckley, of Kansas City, Mo., secretary of the Church Extension Society of the Christian church, will preach here next Sunday morning at the Christian church. Joseph P. Bowen, who moved to 'Gillam a year or two ago, from west of town, has bought a lot north of the railroad and will build a house at once and become a resident of Rensselaer. Jerome Harmon’s little boy, who badly hurt his eye with a table fork, is now getting slope well. The sight of the eye is not destroyed, although to some extent, it will probably be permanently defective. W. T. Perkins was at Mishawaka last week attending the funeral of his brother, P. C. Perkins, president of the Perkins Wind Mill <fc Ax Co. His age was about 72 years. He was a prominent and wealthy citizen of .Mishawaka.

A comet that is to strike the earth March 14, is the latest sensational fake exploited by the daily papers. A little two by twice comet has been discovered, it is true, but the idea that it is to strike the earth is the sheerest nonsense. The revival meetings at the M. E. church, conducted by Evangelist Wilkinson, still continue with very large attendance and increasing interest Quite a number of accessions to the membership of the church have already resulted from the meetings. A branch of the society known as the Daughters of the American Revolution will soon be organized in Rensselaer. Only direct descendents of soldiers of the Revolutionary war are eligible to membership. Mrs. T. J. McCoy is at the head of the movement to organize a branch here,.

ft z I And still another change has taken place in the management of the Nowels- • House. The new landlord is Mitchell i H. King of Kosciusko Co. a hotel | man of long experience. W. IK Sanders, the retiring landlord, has gone back to the feather renovating businesd. Lyman Zea, contractor for building the approaches to the new bridge on Kannal street, started on the work last Friday, but was obliged to abandon it Monday on account of deep mud in getting to his dirt supply. He has till June to finish the job, and will wait for dry weather. Last Wednesday, Feb- 19, the day for Robt. Randle’s postponed public sale, was even a worse day than the Thursday before, which was his original sale day. The attendance was so small that only about half of the property advertised was offered for sale, and the rest is being disposed of at private sale. The property sold amounted to about 31,500. Among the “classic” names given to towns in Indiana by its pioneers are such as the following: Tailholt is in Boone county,Henpeck is in Carroll, Pucker bush in Wabash, Toadlope in Hamilton, Squankum in Hendricks, Bughop in Johnson, Bugtown in Posey, PoAumtrot in Brown, Lickskillet in Morgan, Buzzsrd’s Glory in Whitley and Hog Point in Tippecanoe.

The recent Tennessee and Alabama excursion, gotten up by Thos. Florence and Isaac Kight, of FairOaks, included these persons: Thos. Florence, Isaac Kight, Nixn Hopkins, Cale Hopkins, Austin Laken, Frank Lakin, J. F. Irwin and Dan Mellon. Mr. Kight bought some land near Columbus, Tenn., and it is also reported that the Lakins bought land near Manchester, in same state. Wednesday’s Chicago Record gave Walter Thomas Mills, of “People’s University ’’ feme, something of an airing. The Record doesn’t appear to have an abiding faith in the said Walter, and paoceeds to speak at some length of another co-operative scheme of his that has just come tp a disastrous ending up in the Northern Michigan peninsula.—Morcco Courier. <,

The ice men made the most of their opportunities, resulting from the cold spell of last week, and several of them got in a pretty large quantity of ice. C. C. Starr about 300 tons, J. J. Eiglesback about 240 tons, T. P. Haus 100 tons, and some other lesser quantities. The ice is not of the best quality, in fact is rather deficient in that respect, but is much better than no ice at all. N. S. Bates, who has been in the poultry and game business for a number of years, has sold the business to Jake McDonald, who took possession of the same last Saturday, and will continue it at the on Front street, south of the Nowels block. Mr. Bates intends to make a prospecting tour through the south, pretty soon, and may conclude to locate there. Good auctioneers are born, not made, and Uncle Simon Phillips, the oldest and still the best public sale cner in this portion of Indiana, has one son who seems to have inherited his auctioneering talents. Fred auctioneered M. O. Gant’s sale in Union Tp., a short time ago, and with such complete success that the people present could hardly be made to believe that it was his first experience in that line; but such in truth it was.

A man by the name of Cramer is starting a new religious denomination in Hendricks Co. whose special mission is to wage war on all kinds of secret societies, but it will probably be some little time yet before any of our lodges in Rensselaer will find it necessary to surrender their charters on account of Cramer’s labors. At present his attention is largely occupied as a defendant in an ejectment suit He has taken forcible possession of a Baptist church building and the rightful owners are seeking to dispossess him.

The Republican can state authorit- ; aiivly and regrets the necessity of so doing, that Hon. D. R. Jones, eommissioner from the third district, will not be a candidate for renbmination. The state of bls health making it wholly impracticable for him to be a candidate. Reliable reports as to hie ; condition, are that while he has lately gained a little in - strength, his condition is still critical. There is absolutely nothing in the ground-hog sign. A gentleman who has watched it for twenty yean, with a view to determining if it had any bearing upon the weather, and says the whole thing is an old and worn out whim. There is often times three or four kinds of weather in a radius of one hundre i miles, and the idea of such a sign producing such an effect as is credited to it is worse than foolish.—Crown Point Register. This from the Chicago Inter Ocean, is true; “If the young men and women of the land learn no lessons from the great crime perpetrated at Cincinnati, which has plunged many respectable families into sorrow ten times worse than death, they will be marked as slow to take a lesson. How one false step leads to another and how it widens and broadens and gathers in its fatal meshes those who are innocent was never mon clearly illustrated. The LaFayette Courier says; The farmers of this country are fully alivr ot the fact that agricultural interests flourish under a system of tariff protection and reciprocity and they arc therefore anxious for a return of political conditions which insure a revival of prosperity. It is natural that they should turn to McKinley as the logical leader in the ensuing campaign and, judging from returns received by The Courier, they are very much of one mind on that point. A small fire occured in town bat. Saturday morning. It was the burning of the wood-house on the premises now occupied by Wm. McCord, the painter, and which belongs to Mrs. Warne, of Parr, formerly Mrs. Mary Clifton. The neighbors gathered around and pulled down the burning out-building before the flames could reach the adjacent dwelling. The fire company was called out, but the fire was out before they could reach the place.

The Baptists of Goodland dedicated a fine new Baptist church, last week ;and the fact that their building is now complete and ready for occupancy is an instance of very praiseworthy energy and public spirit. Late in the summer they had a building almost ready for dedication, when it caught fire one day and was totally destroyed, with no insurance. The congregation went to work on a new one before the bricks of the old one were cold and as before stated, they have another completed and dedicated, and a better building than the one that was burned. “There is no good building without a firm foundation,” and there is ho reason why the foundation of the new court bouse should not be as firm as the everlasting hills. County Surveyor Alter measured the depth of the soil down to the solid rook, at the court house last Saturday. Holes were bored down near each of the four corners, and the distance to the rook in each case was just about nine feet. Being at no greater depth tha n this, of course the foundations of the new building will be put right down upon this solid rock.

Remington Press—A large audience greeted Mr. J. ArthurLoining at the Remington opera house Wednesday evening. The evening’s programme was rendered with the success that invariably characterizes his earnest endeavor to win applause from his audience. Mr. Loining is a fluent elocutionist, an d the comic and dramatic readings were highly appreciated by those in attendance. He is certainly an artist in his line, and his appearance in Remington will long be remembered as furnishing an evening of excellent entertainment

Alfred Thompson's condition yesterday was reported as considerably worse, Mrs. W. P- Woodward, of Walker Tp., was reported yesterday as being *3 the point of death. Will Parks moved Monday-into his new residence across the river on McCoy avenue. Laßue Bros are moving their grooery store, this week, across the Street into the Trade Palace building. The “AU Men’s Banquet” noted as in preparation, a short time ago, by the members of the Ch istian church, has been indefinitely postponed. -~ In this, our last Issue before the Republican Convention, there is one new announcement for caSdidate for County Commissioner; Hon. O. P. Taber, of the third district.

Rev. August Seifert, Rector of St Joseph’s College, is preparing to make a protracted visit to Rome, Starling in about two weeks. He Will be absent most all summer. | The funeral of Harry Paulson, son of Ex-trustee Hans Paulson, of Kankakee Tp., was held Sunday. The young man died in where he went for his health. The Putts and James schoolsjsouth of town, had a joint celebration of Washington’s birthday last Friday afternoon at the James school building. The exercise* were intejeating and the whole affair was quite a notable success. Mrs. Emma Mont Me Rae, professor (of English Literature of . Prudue (University, and one of the ablest educators in the country, will lecture in Rensselaer, March 13th, for the benefit of the school library. subject of her lecture will be “The Land of Evangeline. ” <

A man named Fred Lang or Lange, was drowned in the lake at the north part of Chicago, one day last week, while dumping dirt in the lake. His team got frightened in some way and dragged him into the water. A man of the same name, who formely lived near Stoutsberg, this county, for a number of years, moved to the north part of Chicago a year or two ago, and engaged in teaming, and it has been reported that he is the man who was drowned, but the report has not yet been verified. * The oldest man in length of time served in the Michigan City prison is Wm. Lee. He was sent from Tippecanoe Co., but before his conviction lived considerably in this county, having worked for Addison Parkison, A. McCoy and other early residents; and during all his long years in prison, Mr. Parkison has had charge of a few hundred dollars belonging to Lee, upon which he has paid him interest regularly. He was charged with killing a man for whom he had been working, and got into a quarrel with. Next after Lee in years of confinement, is James McCullock, who has been in 26 years. He was sent from Benton Co., for murdering a mover and taking his team and wagon. S. P. Thompson prosecuted him and E. P. Hammond was the judge who presided at his trial.

The latest in a card of thanks runs thusly and is of Ohio origin: “I desire to thank the friends and neighbors most heartily in this manner for their united aid and co-operation during the illness and death of my recent husband who escaped from me by the hand of death on Friday last while we were eating breakfast. To the friendsand all who contributed so willingly towards making the last moments and funeral of my husband a howling success, I desire to be remembered most kindly, hoping these few lines may find them enjoying the same blessing. I also have a good milch cow and a roan gelding horse rising of eight years old which I will sell cheap on the premises. God moves in a mysterious way his wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea and rides upon the storm. Also a black and white shote very low.”

The suit of Geo. J. Dexter against the town of Rensselaer w ill come up for trial at Kentland, next weak. The subtropical weather which started in yesterday has. set the wild geese again to flying northward. The construction of the Gifford ditch work in Walker Tp., Was sold to Mr. Gifford, except 900 feet, sold to John McGlynn. Guss Phillips of the HamiltcnPhillips theater company, is home here for a while. The dangerous sickness of Mrs. Hamilton has caused the company to disband for the present. i ' • • I The Town Board Monday night, appointed J. F. Watson, J. T. Ran* cle and Lucius Strong, commissioners in the case of an alley, petitioned for through block 4; to ran in the rear of the business buildings on that block. Apetition for an arc light at the Makeever House corner was denied. Arrangements were made for the transportation of witnesses to Kentland for the Dexter vs. Rensselaer trial, at Kentland, next wee .

It is a fact observed by every person who visits any penitentiary or prison, and talks with the convicts to any extent, that they all claim to be innocent of the crimes for which they were convicted. One of the six or seven Jew convicts in the Michigan City prison, having thin well known fact of pretended innocence in view, wrote to the governor * while ago, asking fora pardon. He informed the governor that there were 850 convicts in the prison, and of those 850 there were just 849 who were innocent men, and|tbe one guilty man in the whole outfit was he, the writer of the request for * pardon. He did not think it right that he the one wicked man in the whole prison should be left there to contaminate the other 849 innocent ones. According to with, accompanying description posted in the post-office, Joe Sharp is making experiments with the lately dicovered Roentgen rays; the discovery of which according to Joe is a great thing, because heretofore the only rays photographers have known anything about are actinic rays, and the raise of the rent. Joe says he tried first to photograph the inside of his head, but could find nothing there but a wheel. He next took the inside of his pocket-book, this being the picture posted in the post-office. It shows the contents of the pocketbook to be one cent and a fish-hook. And that is what gives the picture away as one of Joe’s jokes. Had it been a genuine picture of his own pocket-book, it would have shown another fish-hook, and nary a cent.

The black snow-storm of a year ago, which creating so much comment, had its duplicate only more so on Tuesday night of last week, and this action of the eouwLy get its full share of the dirty “beautiful.” There is really nothing very marvelous about the dirty snow storms, nor remarkable except their rarity. Big wind storms sweep over the bare dry plains of the Dakotas, Nebraska and Kansas, and pick up vast quantities of fine dry earth and sand, and carry it eastward until the damper air of the lake region is reached, and a snow or rainstorm is generatated and carries the dust to the earth. Sometimes, it has been stated, several inches of dry soil has to blow away off a plowed field in Kansas, in a single wind storm. Tnis last dirt snow was general over the most of this state, and large portions of several adjoining states. Remember that after next Saturday, Feb. 29th Laßue Bros’, grocery will be located in the Trade Palace building. Fob Sale—A good residence in Rensselaer, 8 rooms, good cellar, large grounds, also good bars. For particulars call upon Hollimgswobth & Hopbums. Please Settle Blacksmith Bills. All parties knowing themselves to be endebted to the firm of Bates <fc Wartena, are requested to call and settle their accounts, before March Ist. Bates <k Wabtema.

Examination for Graduates from District Schools. The examinations for pupils completing the common school course of study will be held Saturday, March, 21, 1896, in the following places; Hanging Grove and Milroy Townships, at the Osborne school house. Gillam Township at Independence school house. Walker, Wheatfield, Keener and Kankakee townships, at the Wheatfield school house. Barkley township at the Center school house. Marion and Newton townships at the Rensselaer High School building. Jordan township at the Egypt school house. Union township at Rose Bud school house. Examinations will begin at nine o’clock. Pupils should prepare themselves with pens and ink. Paper will be furnished by the examiner. J. F. Wahbkn, County Superintendent.