Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1896 — Dedication Next Sunday. [ARTICLE]

Dedication Next Sunday.

Next Sunday, May 31st will be a great day for the Presbyterian people of Rensselaer, as on that jlay will be dedicated to the worship of (jrod their fine new church building. Four services will be held. At 9:30 A. M. the Sunday School Jubilee. At 10:30 A. M. the' Dedicatory Services, at which Prof. Craig, of McCormick Theological Seminary and ex-Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly, will preach. At 3P. M., the Y. P. S. C. E. will hold a meeting, at which Rev. M. L. Tressler, Of Cincinnati will preach. At 7:30 P. M- the closing service of the day addresses by different minis, tern, nine of whom are expected to be present, will be given. The General Supply Store sell the Waverly, an Indiana Wheel. Ladies blk cotto\i hose worth lOcts. Sets, at The Model Saturday. Good Jersey for sale. Fresh in a few days. Good milker and butter maker. For name of owner, apply at this office.

L. M. Perry, pf Evanston, 111., is lookiDg for land in this lecality. Miss. Ray Fletcher, of Frankfort Ind. is the guest of Miss. Sadie Leopold. " • " ' - t . Capt. Allen, of Frankfort, state tax commissioner, was in town yesterday.*-* - County Treasurer Gwin went to Indianapolis yesterday to make his spring settlement with the state treasurer. A big crcp of home grown strawberries is now beginning to come into the local maikets. Vast quantities of imported berried have been sold here this season. Marriage licenses since last reported. « ( Edward F. Todd, | Lillie M. Bushey. j Jo.hn L, Hershman, ' { Mary E. Gilmore. * *j Robert H. Colston, - 1 Mary Gaaton. * ( Merrit Strain, \ Lizzie Marion. j Rees Hill, ( Leoan Crisler. j Levi Whitmoyer, j Celia M. Irwin.

i Later reports regarding the wheat crop in Jasper county are to the effect that the Hessian fly has made its appearance in some localities and has done considerable damage. Quite a good many fields have been so badly damaged that they have been plowed up. The south eastern portion of the county seems to have been the worst damaged. Chintz bugs are also reported to have made their appearance in some localities,' but the rainy wheather has given them but little chance to do much mischief. Memorial Services were held Sunday morning at the M. E. church, Rev. M. R. Paradis, of the Presbyterian church, preached a very elequent sermon appropriate to the occasion. The heroism and self-sacrifice of the volunteer soldiers and of the common people generally, in the great civil war were described and eulogized in an manner which it has seldom if ever been the privilege of our people to hear equalled. The G. A. R. post, with other old soldiers and the Women’s Relief Corps attended the services in a body. Revs. Utter and Voliva assisted in the services.

The sale of the “Western Indiana” railroad, to the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern, a big belt line, was noted in the Chicago papers last week, and from the similarity of the names might be confused with the Chicago <k Western Indiana, quite a different institution. The last named is the road from Hammond to the Dearborn station In Chicago, owned by half a dozen big trunk lines, of weieh the Monon Route is one, and over which they enter the cify of Chicago. But the Western Indiana, the road which has just been sold, is a little three-mile road running from the Illinois state line north of Hammond, to the Grasselli chemical works in East Chicago, this state. The road was, in fact, built for no other purpose than that of furnishing a convenient outlet for the freight originating at the numerous industries located along its route.

Matt Nuius, a boy about 18 or 19 years old, and son of Josewh Nisius, a well known resident of the east end of Jordan Tp., met with a terrible accident last Friday. While plowing with a riding plow his team ran away and the boy getting entangled between one of the wheels and some other parts of the machine, he was cut and bruised about the head and neck in a most terrible manner. % One cut in his neck went clear to the windpipe. It was at first thought that the skull was crushed and that death was certain, but on Sunday the boy was still living and it was then thought that the skull was not fractured. Up to that -time, however, the boy had not recovered consciousness. Later since the aboxe was in type, reports of the injured boy’s condition up to Tuesday mternoon have been received. He was then conscious at intervals, and the hope that he would recover was considerably encouraged.

75 cL ladies shirt waist, 48 cts. at The Model Saturday. . Ferguson <k Wilson loan money at 6 per cent interest. Calico 3cts. at The Model Saturday. »

In parts of Newton Tp., the farmers arc all plowing up their wheat fields and planting them in corn, on the account of the ravages of the fly, and rust. Previously the wheat prospect was fine. ~ ” Our former townsman, H. E. James of Hammond, is out after the democratic nomination for Congressman in this district* Wonder how that will strike our neighbor of the Democratic Sentinel? When, last week, we noted the advent of the Robertson triplets, of Milroy Tp., and stated that, so far as could be learned onljr one other set of triplets had ever been born in Jasper County, and that in ’Barkley Tp., we knew not the full capabilities of this same Milroy Township. A previous set of triplets were born there shortly after the war. They were three boys and the parents were Mr. and Mrs. James Smith. When they made their appearance, and their mother being otherwise engaged, the proud and patriotic father kept the score and named them at the same time. The first was named Grant, the second Sherman, the third Logan. While he was debating in his own mind between Sheridan and Meade for the fourth, it was announced that the list was closed. One of these triplets died after 7 or 8 months, or perhaps a year. But the other two grew up and so far as known are still living. The family moved to Kansas many years ago.

“Military Day” was observed with great success at St Joseph’s College, last Thursday afternoon. The prize drilling contests between companies A and B were very creditable preformances indeed, while the exhibition drill by a picked squad was surprisingly excellent in all its details. In the contest drill, the prize for which was a fine Sag, to be kept by the winners for one year, the judges were Capts. Wasson and Marshall, of Rensselaer G. A. R. post, and J. W. Volpert, captain of the Volpert Zouaves, of Peru, Ind., the latter being especially familiar with all the lat.r orders and movements of military tactics. The prize was awarded to Company A, which is composed of older students than their competitors of Company B. But their victory was not by a very wide margin, their average in points of excellence being about 92 per cent, and of company B. 86 per cent... A patriotic' and very elequent address by Rev. George Wechtman, of Gas City, Ind., and chaplain of the National Soldiers’ Home at Marion, was one of the chief features of the occasion. The college band furnished excellent music. The exercises were attended by quite a large number of town people, and by a detachment of Rensselaer G. A. R. post, in a body. And still another addition to Rensselaer has been platted and filed for record. It is the fourth addition for the present year, or the fiifth, counting the subdivision of Block Three in Thompson’s Addition as one. It is the sixteenth addition to the town, counting Kannal’s subdivision as one, and not counting a large number of outlots which have been subdivided, but not named as additions. This last addition is laid out by W. B. Austin and J. C. Paxton, and is named Austin A Paxton’s Addition. It i S made from a part of the old Yeoman homestead, northwest of town, and is 21 acres in extent and lies west of Benjamin <fe Magee’s Addition.’ It consists of four blocks and 83 lots. The poor farm gravel road runs on the south side of the addition, and the name of this road, in the plat, is changed to Clark Street. There are four new north and south streets and to these have been given the names of presidents, and which are also the names of prominent Chicago streets; namely Madison, Monroe, Adams and Van Boren. Vine Street, which is the first street south of the railroad, is continued and forms the north boundary of the Addition. This street thus becomes, in one respect at least, the most notable street in town, and that is in the matter of length, which is now nearly one and a half miles, in a direct line, and due east and west.

Buggies at Roberts’ implement store on Cullen street, opposite Maksever House., Calico 3. cts., at The Model Saturday. * ' For good buggies, at low prices, all on C. H. Roberts.

Farmers say that never were there so many cat worms as this season. In many cases they have even attacked the meadows, and to snch an extent as to ruin them. Arthur Kressler, one of the high school graduates has the, mumps, and may not be able to participate in the commencement exercises this evening. Dr. I. B. Washburn attended Rush Medical College Commencement at Chicago, Wednesday. The college is turning out a class of 227 new doctors, this time. This being a season of unusual warmth and abundant rains, it is only natural, however lamentable, that it is also a year of many tornados and other destructive storms. The Rensselaer schools will close tomorrow for the ‘dong vacation” after a school year of more than usually effective work, under the capable and experienced management of Prof. Sanders and his able corps of teachers.

C. C. Starr has sold his handsome brick residence to Granville Moody, of Barkley Tp., who will move into it in the fall, instead of building a new residence as he> had previously intended. The price paid for the property was $6,500. A crowded congregation gathered at the Methodist church last Sunday afternoon, to hear Dr. Fisher’s wise and able address to the high school graduating class. The doctor preached at the same place in the evening, also to a very large congregation. The local bicyclers are arranging for a big illuminated parade, Saturday evening. If the arrangements are carried out, the procession will form in front of St. Joseph’s College, and proceed thence to town, and traverse the principal streets. It will be a sight well worth seeing. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Taylor, of Englewood, 111., were in town Tuesday. They were on their way home after a visit with Mrs. Taylor’s father, Andrew Hicks, of Remington. Mr. Taylor now owns a prosperous meat-market at Woodlawn, near Englewood.

Last Saturday night a burglar, presumably a tramp, got into Geo. W. Burk’s house, seme miles north of Rensselaer, and while rummaging about the house, he awoke Mr. Burk, who valiantly grappled with and attempted to capture him. He broke away from Mr. Burk, however, and made his escape. He did not succeed in carrying off any of Mr. Bulk’s valuables. Our prosperous townsman \V. B. Austin, has just testified his regard for his Alma Mater, Wabash College, in a noteworthy manner. He has endowed what will be known as the Austin Prizes, at sso' per year. To be divided into a first prize of S3O and a second of S2O to be .given at the close of each college year to the best public debaters in the Junior class.

The county commissioners were in town Tuesday looking about fora suitable room for the circuit court, during the building of the new court house. For the other county offices it is probable that the sheriff’s residence will be utilized, another residence being rented for the sheriff* This will be a much more convenient as well as much more ectnomical plan than to try to secure rooms for the county officers about the town. An entirely groundless report was started in town Tuesday night, that three boys had been drownd that day, at Stackhouse’B bridge, while in swimming, and that one of them was one of Dick Stone's sons. As one of his boys had gone to work in the Gifford region, the report gave Uncle Dick and his family great distress. The report was no doubt started by some brainless and unprincipled idiot who thought he was thereby perpetrating a great joke. 75 ct. ladies shirt waist, 48 cts. at The Model Saturday. Unbleached muslin, 3} cts., at The Model Saturday. The People’s Picture Gallery. Over Porter A Wishard’s. Call and inspect work. You can save (1 on a dozen fine cabinets. All 13. ladies kid button shoes |2.10 at The Model Saturday.