Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1896 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Wheat 60 to 65. Corn 24. Oats 17 to 18 . Rye 80 to 82. Hay $8 to $9. Frank Duvall, southeast of town, has the measles. —- W. R. Nowels hM opened a realestate office over the Model store. A daughter wm born test Saturday to Mr and Mrs. Delos Thompson. E. L. Coen, of Yermillion, Ohio, visited his Rensselaer relatives, Son•day and Monday. Dr. H. J. Kannal, the veterinary has moved his office up stairs into Dr. Aster's offioe. Messrs. E. P. Hammond Sr. and E. P. Hammond Jr., of Lafayette, attended court here Monday. Beginning with March 29, and continning through tbe Spring Sc Summer seasons, the Sunday evening services at the Church of God will commence at 7:30 o’clock. Mr. William F. Simons and Miss Grade Coppess, both members of prominent Qillam township families, were married Tuesday, March 17tb, by Rev. S. Moot, of Francesville. Capt J. M. Wasson, of Rensselaer, and his brother P. C. Wasson, from southeast of town, arrived back test weekjfrom a visit to their old home in Ohio, where they helped celebrate their mother’s 80th birthday. Dr. F. P. Bitters is seriously ill with pleurisy at the residence of his sister Mrs. Belle Daniels. Mrs William Bitters, his mother, of Akron, is attending him.—Rochester Republican. The silver table Mrvice now being made for the battleship Indiana, and to the fund for which Rensselaer citizens contributed sls, is now being made by Tiffany Sc Co. of New York. It will be the finest table service owned by any ship in the navy. An Arkansas free-silver editor goes into ecßtacies over the natural scenery of his state as follows: “We have mountains so high that you can tickle the feet of the free silver angels in heaven, and gorges so deep that you can descend to their base and band down ice to the gold bugs in the infernal regions. Mr. John W. Boyd, of Dallas Co., lowa, and Mrs. Jennie Johnson, of Johnson Co., Ind., were married test Thursday, March 19th, by Squire Jm. A. Burnham, in the County Treasurer’s offioe. They came in from Hanging Grove Tp., where the bride had been visiting friends, and where it is understood they will make their future residence. Both parties are presumably fairly Well inured to life’s vicissitudes, and have been more or less married heretofore.

. A daughter/Monday, 1 to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Siera, near the railroad. J. H. Chapman has.been appointed administrator of the estate it the late Dr. V. £. Longhridge. Dr. Hartnell is getting ottt again a little, after many week’s confinement from sickness. ■ A two year old child of Mike Nagel, west of town, was severly, hot not dangerously burned, Saturday, by a cup of hot coffee. Seats on sale at Long's for the Smalley Grand Concert Co. Reserved seats 50 cents. Phillip Blue will move this week intoM. F. Chilcote’s residence, and the lat.er will give np housekeeping and board with Mr. Blue. Mrs. C. W. Hanley has been quite seriously sick for a number of days past. At last reports yesterday her condition seemed a little better. —Addie Clark, the 10 year old orphan daughter of H. B. Clark, has lately arrived from Arkansas, and makes her home with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mackey. The Smalley Grand Concert Co. at Ellis Opera House, Monday evening, March fiOth. See large bills. P. W. Clarke returned from Lowell Monday. Hie children and Miss Myrtie Pulver were better of the diphtheria, but Miss Grace Pulver, who contracted it later, is still quite bad with it. The report in circulation that Dr. Washburn “caught a young wolf” Tuesday morning, has no other foundation than that a girl baby was born that day to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Wolf, just west of town. Dr. E. C. English of Danville, Ills., will locate in Rensselaer, April Ist Dr. English has had charge of the Wabash Hospital at Moberly Mo. during the past year, and comes well recommended. A. Lewis, formerly of Logansport and a cigar manufacturer of twenty 20 yeaw experience, has opened a cigar factory in the second story of Hildebrand’s brick building over Yanatta’s harness store. Mr. Lewis intends to turn ont goods of a high grade, end to employ at first 4 or 5 hands, which number he hopes to increase to 10 or more, as his business increases. Our local sellers and consumers of cigars, ought to applyf the principle of encouraging home institutions to Mr. Lewis’s goods, as far possible. A cigar factory running 8 or 10 hands would be an addition to the industries of our town well worth encouraging. Fred Renicker, a young man of Barkley Tp., was pretty severly injured, last Friday, by the bursting of his gun, or rather the blowing ont of the breech pin, while he was shooting at wild geese. He was badly cut and bruised about the nose and eyes, and his faoe and eyes filled with powder. The breech pin, or some other flying piece, struck him in the centei of the forehead, cutting a 2 inch gash, to the bone, and knocking him senseless. He was brought at once to town and Dr. Alter dressed the injuries and removed as much of the powder from the Injured boy’s eyes as could be done at the time. There is danger that the sight of one of his eyes Will be permamently damaged. M. L. Spitler Jr. is back from Wabash College for his spring vacation. Kirgte wears his honors easily, but he was second in command of the Sophomore forces during the late great contest at Wabash between the Sophs and the “Freshies” and which was equal to an ordinary Cuban battle in the number of oombatante engaged and the extent of the causalties; namely one fellow hit on the head with a wagon spoke. Whereupon the Sophs gathered up their comrad who bad been spoked with the spoke, and retired from the combat with the roughspoken Freshies, and after the true Weyler manner proceeded to telegraph the great Sophomore victory. The Fresh that used the spoke was excused on the plea that he “spoke” before he thought.

Mrs. J. C. Passons went to Mar-] ion, one day Isst week, for a month’s visit with relatives, and on her way from the depot to her relatives’ bouse, she was attacked by a mad dog, and had a bair’s-breadth escape from being bitten. She was passing a crossing, and one of ber overshoes pulled off. Just as she was stooping to adjnst the shoe, the dog rushed at ler, and, just missing her band, < cought ber by the upper part of the 1 shoe, tearing off a portion of it. The dog which was not much larger than a terrier, was pursued and soon killed. There was thought to bfi no doubt of its bemg mad, both on account of its behavior, and from the that quite a number of dogs and other animals had just had the hydrophobia at Marion; afid several persons have been bitten and some of them are at the P&stuer Institute at Chicago now. St Peters sits at the heavenly gates, his hand on the strings of the lyre, and sings a low song as he patiently waits for the souls of those who expire. He hears in the distance a chorus of song from tbe foot of the heavenly throne, and he smiles as the music is wafted along, and he warbles a lay of his own: “There is room In this regions for millions of souls who by sorrow and woe are bereft; ’tis for thpse who have suffered the melody rolls—but tbe kickers must turn to the left. There is room for the people who when they were young persisted in sowing wild oats yet boomed up their town with sinew and tongue, but the kickers must go with the goats. There is room for the people who pointed with pride to the beauty and growth of their town, Who kept singing its praises aloud till they died, hut tbe kickers will please amble down. The’d say the music was all out of tune, and the angelic gowns 'hand me downs,’ and they'd send for a jeweler clear to the moon to sample the gold in their crowns. So while there is room for a million of souls who by sorrow and woe are bereft, we want no complaint to the music that rolls; so the kickerfr must turn to tbe left.”—Ex.