Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1896 — CITY AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

CITY AND COUNTRY.

Corn 23. Oats 15 to 16. The Republican congressional convention meets at Michigan City next 1 hursday, June 4th. C. A. De-in, made a business trip to the northwest part of Illinois, the latter part of last week. , ,7 John King will take part in the Illinois state shooting tournament, to be held at Chicago, ntxt week. June has been the “month of roses” from time immemorial, but this year May has taken the place of June, in that respect. Miss Gertrude Small, type writer for Hollingsworth & Hopkins, has gone home to spend the summer, and her place is taken by Miss. Cartwright, of Delphiy , ■ , Mrs. M. J. Berkley and Mrs. Grace Young, mother and sister of Dr. A. L. Berkley, returned home Teusday, to Newtoan 111. after several days visit with the Dr. City Assessor H. W. Porter, lost a pair of gold-rimmed nose glasses, last Friday, while engaged in his duties as assessor. He will properly reward the finder for their return. Mrs. Louisa Wagner and Mrs. Anna Miller,'%oth of North Manchester, mother and sister, respectively, of Mrs. John Renicker, are visiting the latter at her home in Barkley Tp.

Levi and Sherman Renicker have returned from their prospecting tour to Mason Co., Mich., and are reported to be well pleased with the country and thinking of migrating thither. C. W. Bussell, of Hanging Grove Tp., was tried for provoke by Squire Burnham, last Friday, the complaining witness being Elias Hammerton, of the same township. The verdict was “not guilty.” Wm. Fessler, of Indianapolis, clerk of Marion county and chairman of the Seventh District Republican central committee, visited T. J. McCoy, last Thursday and Friday. There was no politics in his visit. The Qatbolics of Fowler have just dedicated a 115,000 church. Fathers Tiost and Clement of St. Joseph’s College assisted at the dedicatory exercises. Bishop Rademacher preached the dedicatory sermon. Miss Belle Lally, who has been vis iting friends and relatives in this place for several days, returned to her home in Michigan City last Monday, after stopping over at Reming-

ton for a few days, with friends. Another sidewalk personal damage case was tried at Kedtland last week. It was that of Geo. Wakely against the town of Boswell. A board tipped up and he fell and was injured. The jury gave him a verdict of $740. Rev. L. H. Findley, pastor of the Christian church, has returned from his Ohio visit, and will hold services at the church Sunday evening. The morning services will be dispensed with, on account of the Presbyterian church dedication. A man named Rathburn struck town Friday morning, traveling on horseback from Perry, Oklahoma, to Kalamazoo, Mich. He has been four weeks on the road, and made about 45 miles a day. He bad an extra horse to carry his baggage, which consisted mainly of two or three blankets to sleep on. See the World’s Fair Monday evening at the Presbyterian church. Bring the children. v Calico 3 cts. at The Model Saturday,

A daughter last Thursday to Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Rhoads. Good land will vote on the water works question on June 15th. A. Lewis, the cigar has begun opeiations this week for the erection of a good two-story brick residence in Leopold’s Addition. The late heavy rains have caused some farmers to think there is too much rain. Other say that the land can stand more wetness yet. The difference in opinion no doubt results from difference in the character of the soil. , . Congressman Hatch last week secured a widows’pension of sl2 per month for Mrs. Catherine Dillon, of Logansport, who has been trying for two years, through Senator Turpie and Judge Baldwin, to get one.— Kentland Democrat. Township Assessor T. J. Sayler has gathered the following statistics regarding the acreage of different growing crops in Marion Township: Corn 9000 acres; oats 5283, wheat 3626, rye 181, potatoes 159 J, hay 3760. Leopold’s Addition, the historic New Oklahoma, is coming to the front ihese days. Mr. Leopold has made arrangements to set aside block 17, for a park and pleasure resort, and has already procured shade trees to set around it. Quite* a large party of German Baptists, or Dunkards, left Rensselaer Saturday, to attend their yearly meeting at Covington, Ohio. The party includes J. M. Lesh and wife; Edward Miller and wife, Levi Renicker and wife, Chesley Ray and two daughters, and several others.

A medicine fakir over at Huntington received the following testimonial a fpw days ago: “Dear Doctor: I was cured with a wart on my neck, which I used for a collar button. After taking two bottles of your excellent remedy I cm now button my trousers on it.” The elegant nev Presbyterian church at Kentland cost, including carpets, pews and alter, $10,200. Of this amount $3,725 was still to be raised when the building was dedicated, Sunday, May 17th, when in ap hour’s time $3,744 was subscribed, or sl9 more than was needed. Parties desiring to attend the Republican convention at Mieh. City, can leave here June 4th on train 31 at 4:46 A. M., connecting with the special train at Monon, reaching Michigan City about 8:30 A. M. Fair for the round trip, $2.25. W. H. Beam, Agent. Last Thursday, at Judson, Parke County, Barney Roberts shot and killed John Newkirk, the town marshal, who was trying to arrest Roberts. Roberts is a “bad man” and a cousin of Charley Roberts, the noted “Parke County Outlaw” who was once tried for robbery in this county, about 10 or 12 years ago. The process of opening the alley "through block four has struck an abstraction in the objections of A. L. Havens, to accept the damages offered him by the alley reviewers. He owns the building and lot used by Geo. Smith's hlacksmith shop, and has taken an appeal to the circuit court from the award of the reviewers.

The reports that come from Washington indicate that Senator Voorhees’ condition is exceedingly precarious. He has not been in his seat in the senate for over two months and it has been found necessary to abandon taking him to Hot Springs as his condition will not permit his removal. He has been suffering for a number of years and it would not be surprising if his death occurred at any time. The G. A. R. post, at their meeting Friday night, adopted a resolution earnestly requesting that all business houses be closed next Saturday afternoon, from one to three P. M., during the Memorial Day exercises at Weston cemetery. It is to be hoped that this very proper and reasonable request will be universally complied with. Do you remember the magnificent the “The White City ? See them again Monday evening, June Ist. for 25 cts. Ladies blk cotton hose worth lOcts. 5 cts. at The Model Saturday.

Rensselaer has in the neighborhood of 200 telephones scattered among the residences and business houses of that place. There are probably more telephones in proportion to the population in that city than in any city in the United States. It is thought that the number in Delphi will run up to over 15Q within the next month..— Delphi Journal. Occasionally a Rensselaer bicycler, especially some of the younger ones, evinces a disposition to ride on the sidewalk, in violation of the ordinance against it. Still others, and these are not all of the younger class, ride altogether too fast for a safe speed in the town. Both pf these dangerous and unlawful practices should be given up, at once, or some grevious accident will result from it. Rev. M. L. Tresßler, of Cincinnati who will be here next Sunday to participate in the exercises at the dedication of the new Presbyterian church, will deliver a lecture on Monday evening on the subject of the World’s Fair. The proceeds of the lecture will all be for the building fund of the church. Mr. Tressler has delivered this lectnre in various places, and it has been very favorably received.

The Rensselaer band picniced at Cedar Lake, last Sunday, together with enough other Rensselaer people to make the whole number from here about 70. They had a yery pleasant time, marred only by the conduct of a few young fellows who got hold of liquor somehow, and drank themselves intoxicated. It is no trouble to get liquor at the lake Sundays. In fact it is reported tliat several saloons on the west side were running, wide open all day Sunday. The June term of the Jasper Circuit court begins next Monday. The large number of old cases continued from former terms, together with an unusually large number of new ones, will make the docket one of the largest, if not the largest, for any term of court ever held in the county. The cases are, for the most part, of very common-place order, and the term does not promise to be of much interest to the general public,

Newspaper bulletin # No. 26 of the Purdue Experimental Station, in speaking of the ravages of the currant worm, says: “The most successful remedy yet discovered for this insect is white hellebore. Dust a little of the powder over the infested bushes while they are damp, either early in the morning or just after a shower. If this is done promptly, before the worms have spread all over the bushes, one or two applications will usually be sufficient. Last evening a lady whose avoirdupois approximates two hundred pounds ,was learning to ride a bicycle. As she neared the crossing of Madison and Center streets the wheel veered and threw her full length upon the ground with a terrible thud. As she fell all the electric lights were «xtinguißhedywLee e the ladies who was assisting the fat woman to conquer the bike, cried out, “My God, woman, you jarred oat all the lights in town.” And then there was a general roar of feminine laughter that coaid be heard two squares away.—Rochester Republican.