Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1896 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Wheat 60 to 65. Corn 25. Oats 17 to 18. Rye 30. Hay |3 to $9. Town election on the “Qity Question,” tomorrow. Mrs. L. Tuteur will txtensivtly rebuild her residence this season Mrs. A. 1%. Brown is visiting relatives in White Co.', this wetb. A son to Mr. 'and Mrs. Joseph Nagel, south-west of town, April 4th-t Another son to Mr. and Mrs. Ault Padgett, at the Stock Farm Saturday, April 4th. Uncle Ad. Parkison is getting better of a severe attack of lung fever. Mrs. Delos Thompson has been ' -finite dangerously sick, but is now improving. Miss True Yeoman has recovered her health and returned to her studies at Greencastle. - , ' A. Lewis, the cigar maker, has .increased his working force by two more men, this week., Hiram Day has a new tenant house staked off, near his present residence. Jessup & Sons have the contract. ~ Mrs. C. W. Hanley has had a dangerous relapse, sinco our last issue, but is again somewhat improved. Morgan Shields now '“decuples J. T. Lamson’s property, across the river, lately vacated by Parker Overton. Mrs. Johu Ts Harris left yesterday for Redlands, California, for a protracted visit with her step- son’s family. Ferguson & Wilson loan money at 6 per cent interest.

The farmers have pretty nearly all got their oats in, in good shape, in spite of the numerous relapses of the weather into previous wintry conditions. ___ John O’Conner, assessor of Walker Tp., and the town of Kniman’s most active citizen, was in town Tuesday, and reported a new girl at his house, the day before. Geo. B. Davidson, of Blackhawk, Pa. has been looking after his Jasper County property this week, and visiting his old partner, Comrade at the Makeever House. Ferguson «k Wilson offer better terms than others, be sure to call and see us. 'e ry Parrott & Taggarts Lunch Milk Biscuit, but be sure Parrott <k Taggarts name is OH each Biscuit.

J- F. Osborne’s family took their departure from here Tuesday, for their new place of residence, at Francsville. i Rensselaer is to have still another phvsiciam as we are reliably informed. Dr. Lome Jackson will locate here, about the 15th of this mouth. Remember that tomorrow, Friday, April 10th, is held the election to determine whether Rensselaer thall ' incorporate as a city or not. | Born, Saturday, March 4th, to Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Florence, Newton Tp., a daughter. Monday March fitb, to Mr. and Mrs. Wm* Shook, Union Tp., a daughter. 11. W. Porter, the former ssessor is assisting Ass ssor J. T. Sayler in assessing the property of Marion Township. Mr. Porter assesses Rensselaer and Mr. Sayler the rest of the township. R. W. Hubbard, for many years a resident of Beadle Co., S. Dak., writes us that his family are now back in Jasper and he is about to join them here. Jle can’t stand the failure of crops in, the “arid belt” any longer.

Mrs. Isaac Glazebrook, who lately returned from a protracted stay with her sick mother, Mrs. Ariadne Bridges at Greencastle, was recalled there Monday, by telegram announcing that she was in a dying condition. Mrs. Glazebrook left on the 10:57 train, Monday forenoon. Chas. B. Landis, of Delphi, was nominated atCrawfordsville Tuesday, for Congressman from the 9th district, on the first ballot. The district has 2000 republican majority, and the nomination is equivalent to an election. Good for Charlie Landis. S. F. Armstrong, superintendent of the Newton Co. poor farm, 5 miles north of Kentland, came to Rensselaer to mill, Monday, and lost his pocket-book, he thinks within a mile or two of town. It contained $45 in money and some papers. The latter of not much value 1 State Seuator Holler, whose farm borders on the Kankakee river for three miles, is going to have the channel of that pirt cf the river made straight- The woik will be done with a great steam dredge. Holler thinks that the straightening of the stream will make the drainage of the Kankakee lands much easier.— Valparaiso Messenger. o Ferguson &-Wilson furnish money on the B & Lqilan at the lowest rate. Only $1.40 per month.

Walter White, the neiv owner of the old Uiff, formerly lialloran livery barn, and of the Dexter <fc Cox feed mill adjoining, is tearing down both those structures, and on their site will erect at once a new livery barn, of large dimensions. To-wit, 44 feet wide aad It..,wU& a imim building, covered with iron and gravel roof. It is Mr. White’s intention to put the building up with a rush. Suit has been brought in the Tippecanoe circuit court against the Monon railway for $15,000 damages by Mary Robinson, who alleges that she received injuries to that extentAugust 4, 1895, in attempting to board a train at the Salem street depot, and that the injuries are due to carelessness of employes of the road, who started the train without warning, thus throwing her to the ground. J. F. Iliff has not retired entirely from the livery stable business, in giving up his Van Rensselaer street barn to the new owner, Mr. White. He has rented the old Hemphill barn, on the river bank, in the rear of Hemphill’s blacksmith Bhop, and there keeps a few rigs and buys and sells hordes. He has rented the Randle . barn, off Van Rensselaer street, but will not get possession of that until next fall. If you have cultivated a tastej for something good & worth eating buy Parrott and Taggarts Lunch Milk Biscuit. _ Ferguson & Wilson solicit your patronage if you have business in the 'courts.'

Col. Bob Ingersoll, the agnostic will 1 dure at Michigan City, Friday night which, is the same evening that Dr. John, Ingersoll’s ablest oponent, will lecture at Rensselaer, in reply to Cwl. Bob Wesley Karsner was down from Chicago, the latter pari of last week, buying some horses. He has quit the printer’s trade and bougl t a small farm in Wisconsin, and will engage largely in the poultry raising business. . . Drs. Berkley and Washburn performed quite an extensive operation on Uncle George Kissinger’s foot, last Monday, removing the metatar sal bones. Uncle George cut his foot quite a number of months ago„ and it has never healed up properly. He will probably be permanently crippled. Horace E. James, our former townsman, is now the undisputed boss of the Democratic political machine in Hammond, and runs things about as he pleases. He will be sure of soma good snaps if the Democrats carry Hammond at the coming city election.

P. W. Carke, the jeweler, arrived home last Saturday from bis second sojourn with —his —stdr tamily, at Lowell; L aving them all vfery much better. Mrs. Chirk(>, her two sisters and Jier three children all had- the diphtheria, in a more or less severe form, and all are now practically* well. It is an unusual circumstauce that so many cases occur in a family and no fatalities result. The superintendent of public instruction has been sending to the school officers of the state, a pamphlet, which is issued by the depart rnent of agriculture, and which calls attention to the observance of Arbor day. Heretofore, the day has been partially observed on the third Wednesday in April, and is a custom which has been carried on in some states to the benefit and beautification of public grounds. Asa luxury for a lunch you will find that Parrott & Taggarts Lunch Milk Biscuit is just the thing. Try them. J. E. Spitler’s building, occupied by the Western Union Telegraph office and Spitlei <fc Right’s steam laundry, caught lire again last Friday afternoon, in the roof, or at the eaves, between that building and the Odd Fellow’s binding. The fire company was called and extinguish the fire ; but not without considerable difficulty, owning to its location. No dam: age was done, worth mentioning.

Among the 1500 or more Dunkards who North Dakota, a few weeks ago, in a body, were about 15 families from the north part of this county. Among those from this county was an old Mrs. Rodgers, from near,Kniman, a very old lady, and who died 5 days after reaching her.. dcs).iAaUpn--JiMmg. her grave 5 feet of frozen ground was dug through, and the bottom of the frost line not reached. Our emigrating Dunkard friends have struck a pretty cold country, and it is pretty likely that those of them who went there from Jasper County had much better have staid here.

Joseph Conrad, a convict in the prison north has placed himself in a box by making a confession. Charged with murder in Lebanon, he was found guilty' and sentenced to eleven years in prison. Daring all the trial, which took place about a year ago, he asserted his innocence. A few days ago he wrote out a confession and sent it to a Methodist clegeryman at his home asking his and his people’s forgiveness, claiming "that he ,had turned from the downward road and been converted. Now the supreme court has granted Conrad a new trial and the latter is sorry’ that he made the Confession.—Laporte Herald - This is the same Joseph Conrad, if we are rightly informed, who. was sent up for a year from this county some years ago, for stealing meat in; the Blackford neighborhood. His partner Sherman Cooper, got, a new trial or something, and was linally acquitted. # - .... the Coleridge Cigar* The. best 5 center. Made in Rensselaer.

The County Corambsione-s went to Chicago Monday, to interview the Lane Bridge Company, in regard to to Dunn’s bridge, over the Kankakee riveg* This company contracted with Tlasper and Porter* Counties in 4an. T&&5 r to buUd- the bridge, and have done practically nothing yet. The company has succeeded in “working” Porter County for an advance of SI,OOO, for all they have done nothing on the bridge. They sent a man here a short time «go to try to secure an advance in this county, but did not succeed. Shelby, at the crossing of the 8 I and Monon, in Lake county, has a building boom, already eight new buildings are up, and lumber for more scattered here and there. It is only a question of time when tbe vast marsh that surrounds the little bamlet, will be cut up into small farms and produce as fine cerels as any land in Indiana. Game, ducks, and geese have been shipped from here ill's spring and the hunters arc yet in pursuit of the feathered tribe. —Brook Reporter. - ■ —~—-*+— = A Fowkr paper sarcastically remarks that “Being drunk has been defined by a jury in this city as lying face down in a gutter on the north side of street six feet or more from the crossings in five and not more than six incins of mud. In any other conditions the accused had simply taken a drink or two, but was not drunk.” Itjnust bo that some such definition of drnnkenness as this has been adopted by the Jasper County juries, judging from the uniformity with which all persons charged with that offence are acquitted.

To Sunday School workers of Jas per Co.—greeting. Wednesday Apr. 15th is the day set apart for the complete house to house canvass of the entire State by the State Sunday School Association. This great movement was Bet on foot last year, and thirty counties were partially canvassed. Repors show that about 500 000 people wefe reached by the canvass. . The second annual canvass is now being planned and it is hoped that it will be more thoroughly done. Oar county does not waDt to be behind in this kind of earnest Sunday School work. Jasper County is striv-’ ing to become a Banner County. All persons interested in this good work are cordially invited to assist in every way they can. State statistician Thompson recently asked the 1,000 township assessors in the state to send in information in reference to the acreage of growing wheat as compared with that of last year, and also information concerning the condition of the growing crops at the present time. So far, reports have been received from about 400 assessors. These show that, the acreage B n6t quite so large as it was last year, and that the indications at this time are notfavornearly every county comes the information that the dry weather last fall injured the wheat and that the freezing and thawing the first part of this month did much damage to it:

The doctors now seem to he falling into the procession, in the long list of changes and removals in the business district of the present season. Dr. I. B. Washburn, who for 15 or 1C years has had his olliee over Mey* era’ drug store, has' formed a copartnership for the practise of medicine and surgery with Dr. E. C. English, recently of the Wabash Railway Hospital, of Mobfirly, Mo. They will have their offices in the rooms in LeopMd’s Corner Block, formerly occupied -by Dr. Loughridge, and which are being fittted up in good style for their accommoda,tton. They expect to move into their new quarters the last of this week. Dr. English is a graduate of Wesleyan College, of Bloomington, Ill.* and of RusH Medical College, Chicago. *' Ferguson & Wilson will gi ve you the privilege to pay 1-5 Of your pin each year and put the contracts in the mortgage. “The Colleen Bawn,” April 9th.

The people of Remington voted for water works last Friday, by a majority of more than two to one. They are to be congratulated on their enterprising and progressive spirit. It is proposed to put in a system of water wor ksto - William Koepke yesterday recieved his appointment and Commission as fish commissioner for this district, says the Laporte Herald. This district comprises all the counties bordering on the Kankakee river. Mr. Koepke says that he will vigorously follow out the letter of the law, and prosecute all offenders irrespective of rank or station. Particularly will he devote his attention to the lakes surrounding Laporte. He dates further that he will stop the Letmrg in the lakes here if he has to employ all the available constables in the state. Mr. Koepke received his commission from State Commissioner P. 11. Kirscb, of Columbia City. Maude Muller on a summers night went out ou her bike in the bright moon light. She peddled around from six to ten on a trip that would fag the strongest men; but! her heart was light and her spirits gay, for it wasn’t work, ’twas only play. Next morning however, she’d a pain in her head; she was all played out and stayed in bed, while her mother hustled in the kitchen below —not to ride a wheel, but to make things go. Though.,the morning was cool and she worked by the fire she didn’t collapse with a punctured tire. Alas for the girl and the woman, see. Things are not as they used to be.— Rochester Republican.

It is reported on pretty good authority that 75 or 100 men got together, over in the edge of Pulaski County, some 12 or 13 miles east of R. nsselaer, a few nights ago,Tor the purpose of administering discipline to a young man thought to be very much in need thereof, The. report is that the young man had been making his home for quite awhile with a certain respectable cit zen, and whose wife was the young map's cousin. The conduct of the young man and his cousin, the other man’s wife, was the occasion of the reported gathering of the neighbors, and had reached such a stage that the wife had gone to Monon with the young man and refused to return to her husband ; and finally consented to do so only on the stipulation that she would act as his housekeeper, only, and not longer than he could find some one else 1 1 take her place. But when she came back the youug man came a too, nd lienee the gathering together of neighbors. It seems however that he had got word of their intended visit and left before they appeared. The affair has caused great excitement in that vicinity.

Bible Society Anniversary. The anniversary of the Auxiliary Bible Society, will be held next Sunday April 12th at 2:3U P. M. at the M. E. Church. At which will Afc-s; Program. SingiDg Reading Scripture, Mrs. J. M. Wasson. Prayer Rev. L. H. Findley. Reports: Ist Secretary,, 2nd Depositary, 3rd, Treasurer. Committees on Election of Officers. Addresses. The Bible in its present form Rev. M. R. Parades. Some of the literary charactericstics of the Bible Rev. Findley. The Bible in missionary work Rev. F. L, Austin. How earn wo make the Bible Society moreauseful Rev. C. E. Voliva. The Bible Society and its work Rev. R. I). Utter. Report of Committee and election of Officers Si NO TNG. Benediction. G - - 11. P. Benjamin, Pres. . R. I ). Utleb, Sec

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