Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1896 — CITY AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CITY AND COUNTRY.

Fourth of July Meeting. At the request of citizens, notice is here given that a meeting of business men and citizens generally will be held at the court house, I — Friday, June sth, at 8 o’clock P. M., to consider th e advisability of a Fourth of July celebration in Rensselaer this year. — —. . 'fl i • • Corn 22. ■ ~. Oats 14 to 15. Hay $8 to $9. Rye 30. Mr. and Mrs T. J. McCoy spent Sunday in Lafayette. The bicyclers’ parade expected for last Saturday evening did not take place. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Osborne, of Francesville, were here for Decoration Day, and over Sunday. C.G. Spiller represented Prairie Lodge, at the state grand lodge of Masons, at Indianapolis, last week. The funeral of a three months oltT infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Will Collins, was held Saturday afternoon. Mr. Jasper Guy, the well known Remington attorney, and Mrs. Josephine Emery were married last Thursday by Rev. S. V. McKee. Edward Bowman went to Indiana Mineral Springs, the middle of last week, in the hopes that they would benefit his constantly failing health. Mrs. Delos Thompson and her two year old son are both slowly but evidently surely recovering from their late severe and very dangerous sicknesses. The decorations were tasteful father than profQse, and the class motto “Out of School Life and Into Life’s School” was given a proper prominence. The commissioners of White county have passed an order to erect a $2,100 cottage at the Lafayette state soldiers’ home. The building will ba frame and contain six rooms. Frank Wolfe, now of the Colborn Lumber Co., Michigan City, was in town Tuesd«y« ‘ He was formerly in the lumber business here, and later in Remington.

Mrs, A. Stronach, of Winipeg, Manitoba, and Miss Jean* Wellmark, of Mennedosa, of the same Canadian province, are visiting Rev. and Mrs. M. R. Paradis. Mrs. L. W. Reprogle and daughter Mabel, Mrs. Elisha Warden and Miss. Jennie Reprogle of Monticello spent Saturday and Sunday with Lucy and Katie Shields. Melvin Wishard, of Purdue, spent Saturday and Sunday at home, here. He intends spending his summer Vacation in the southern part of the state, Mrs. Angela Horner, nee Hammond,, of Leadville, Colo., visited Rensselaer relatives Saturday and Sunday. She reported snow on the ground when she left Leadville. IL R* W. Smith dropped off here for a short visit, the latter part of ' last week. He has quit the daily paper editorial work and is now enjoyiog a well earned ease at Arcadia, this state. Rev. M. L. Tressler delivered bis lecture on the World’s Fair, at the Presbyterian church, Monday night, to a fair sized audience. The lecture, which is a very interesting one, is illustrated by over 100 fine and very large stereoptican vie'ws of the fair buildings, grounds Ac.

Mrs. Robert Randle and Mrs. J. N. Leatherman attended the Grand Lodge Pythian’ Sisters, at Indianapolis, Monday and Tuesday, as representatives of the Rensselaer lodge. U. C. Warner, C. D. Nowels, G. E. Murray, Erastus Peacock, Robt. Randle, W. C. Babcock and J. J. Hunt went to Jndianapolis, Monday, to attend the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias. Capt J. M. Wasson left yesterday on about a ten days trip through Missouri, and some other western states. He will make a special point of visiting the hurricane wreck, at St Louis. Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth,children and their nurses left Monday for Charlevoi, northern Michigan, to spend the summer. She went by Kalamazoo where the will be joined by her mother, Mrs. Allen.

Mrs. Frank Ducharm, of Fowler, has compromished the damage suits against Freeman Pritchett for SIO,OOO for killing her husband and against the saloon bondsmen for $5,000. She receives S7OO. Joe Cheadle, it is said, has abi ndoned the idea of being an independent candidate for congress in the Ninth district to run against Charles Landis, and will start a free silver paper at Frankfort. A poll taken of the inmates of the state soldiers’ home at Lafayette shows that there are 103 republicans, 9 dems, and 4 pops, therein. There are 123 legal voters of which 100 favor McKinley for president. Dr. John L. Smith, the ex-presid-ing elder of the Valparaiso district, and the veteran Methodist preacher DfNorthweßtlndiana,eelebrated his86th —birthday, Sunday May 23rd. He is still hale and vigorious, bodily as well as mentally, and bids fair for many years of life yet. A delegate meeting of the Daughters of Liberty was held at Hammond, Monday, to organize a state grand council, or lodge. Holly Council of Rensselaer, was represented by Misses Bertha Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth also attended the meeting.

The alley through Block 4 will now be opened withfout further trouble. Tne City Council compromised matters with A. L. Haven, Monday night, thus removing the only obstacle in the way. The Council paid Mr. Haven 1170, which was 1100 more than the re viewers a ward e 1 him. Morocco Courier:—Two young, Rensselaer “mashers” came very near getting into serious trouble in our town last Sunday night. The boys, however, beat a hasty and somewhat undignified retreat in the direction of home, just in time tb escape a good drubbing. Some of the “agricultural statistics” gathered by the assessors during their spring assesment just concluded, show that in the corporate limits of the city of Rensselaer there are owned and kept the surprisingly large number of 301 horses. Of the more retiring and unassuming, but not less useful milk cows there are 97 kept in the town. The circuit court was in session from Monday afternoon till yesterday noon, when it adjourned until next Monday. Considerable business was transacted, but mostly of a routine character, and of little public interest. There is no grand jury this term, and the pettit jury is not called until next week.

I There will be preaching at the iSayler School House Sunday afternoon at 3 30, by Rev. F. L. Austin. Walter L. Willey, of the Junior class Indiana Law School, of Indianapolis, is visiting in Rensselaer this week. W. P. Walker has returned from his course of treatment at the Delphi sanitarium. He thinks now that his long and obstinate case of rheumatism is permanently cured. He has great faith in the Delphi mud baths. Marriage licenses since last reported. j Jasper Guy, .. -( Josephine L. Emery. ( Mirt C. Ghilcote, ( Blarche Dickinson. j Thomas O’Brien, ( Margaret J. Burns. Co, Supt. Warren examined 30 applicants for teachers’ licenses, last Friday, the examination being held on that day on account of the regular examination day being Decoration Day. It was Mr. Warren’s 108thmonthly examination, completing nine years of continual service as County Superintendent. An exchange says, while ten men watch for chances, one man makes chances; while ten men wait for something to turn up, one man turns something up; so while ten fail, one succeeds, and is caEed a man bfluck the favorite of fortune. There is no luck like pluck, and fortune most favors those who are most indifferent to fortune. Conductors say that it is now as difficult to collect the tickets on a train of four coaches as it was on ten coaches before the mileage book came intc general use. We use of

the mileage is rapidly increasing and a much larger percentage of the travel is now carried on that class of tickets than persons who have not investigated would believe. Our former townsman, Geo. Cox, of Marion, underwent a surgical operation at Ft. Wayne, last Friday, as a result of a severe and dangerous injufy'sSfeWaiained, last fall,- from running against an open gate, and which was mentioned at the time. The operation was reported as very successfully performed, and the prospects are now good for Mr. Cox’s complete recovery. The funeral of Rev. Thomas Dobbins, a well known Dunkard preacher, of the Conservative branch, was held at Wolcott, last Sunday. He was 61 years of age and an old resident of that locality. He was a nephew of Mr. and Mrs. James Leatherman, of this place, and who attended the funeral. He was buried in Dobbins cemetery north of Wolcott. The people of Gillam and adjacent townships observed Memorial Day, in excellent shape, at Independence Chapel. The exercises were held in the forenoon there, and at Medary-, ville in the afternoon. Maitin Comer was the orator of the day, at both places. At Independence the crowd in attendance was the largest of any Memorial Day service ever held in Gillam township. Rev. F. L. Austin, pastor of the Church of God, arrived home last Friday evening from Martin, Mich., bringing with him a bride, whose former name was Miss Mary Chase. A reception was given them the same evening, at Berry Paris’s residence. They will reside in the new house on Van Rensselaer street being built by Mrs. C. L. Benjamin.

‘‘Dear old Lydia Swinkham, long dead but still advertising,” reads an alleged testimonial, in a patent medicine ad. “I have taken three bottles of your Vegetable Compost, one package of Sanative Bosh and one box of Cod Liver Pills, and now I have a dear little babe,: four weeks old.” My, what remarkable results, truly to follow the use of patent medicines ’ What would have happened Rad~sbeTakenirddzen bottles of the" Com post; or perchance a whole case ? It seems to be definitely settled that the missing Forester Lispenard was the victim of foul play, and that he m<t his fate at the hands of a rat” who was conveying him down the Mississippi’in a boat. The murder was committed near Wikliff, Ky., the remains being discovered on Island No 10 in the Mississippi. T. J. Legg of Logansport has just returned from the spot, bringing with him portions of the corpse and clothing of deceased, by which the remains were identified. A bill was recently passed by congress and is now a lsw authorizing the Secretary of War to give away a large quantity of condemned cannon, cannon balls and other ordinance stores for which the government has no use. The application of Grand Army posts or m unci p i 1 corporations may obtain these interesting war relics, provided the transportation is paid. Here may be a fine opportunfor Rensselaer, or our Grand Army Post to secure some of these valuable war specimens at small cost. The "matter is woftfiTtfie attempt anyli6w'.“ And now we have heard of still another set of Jasper Co. triplets, and have learned of them through Uncle Lemuel Henkle, who never wants the achievements of the early settlers to be over-looked. These were born in times “way back,” forty years anyhow. They were three boys of them and they belonged to John Jr win and wife, who lived near “Black Oak Point,” in Carpenter Tp. These boys, like James Smith’s, all started in well, and like his one died after a few months, or perhaps a year, and the other two were supposed to have grown to adult years. —Oar-former townspeople, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Gamble, of St. Louis, were right in the path of the great storm which devastated that city last Wednesday afternoon. Neighboring houses all about them were destroyed and badly wrecked, but their own place, by wonderful good fortune was wholly uninjured. It is a very solidly built, triple house, of brick, and to that fact was probably due

its escape. The houses of at least 50 of Mrs. Gamble’s friends, as she writes to her parents Dr. and Mrs? Alter, were wrecked in the storm. At one building, on an adjacent corner, eight persons were killed. Monticello Press: A dispatch in the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette of May 18th from Corinth, Miss., says that a land terrapin was captured near that place containing the following inscription cut on its lower shell: “George Thompson, 34th Reg. Ind. Vol., 1862.” A few of the letters on the most exposed places were worn off or partly so, but enough remained to make it legible. The owner intends to take his capture to Shiloh on May 30 where it can be seen by many veterans. ”» Geo. Thonipson is living in this locality and is the same referred to here. He would no doubt like to see the terrapin which has so long carried a specimen of his engraving. Reports from many parts of the county regarding the crop prospects are very fayorable, indeed, it being a common remark of farmers that their piospects were never better at this season of the year. They do not all tell quite the -same story, however. In fact there are large tracts in the northern and north central parts of the county where, last year, enor.-' mous crops of corn were raised, which now are so wet that the corn can not be plowed nor even planted. In fact, many tracts which raised fine corn last year are now actually covered with water. In other parts of the county the wheat has been entirely used up by flies and rust. This, according to reports received, is specially true in parts of Newton, Marion, Hanging Grove and Milroy townships. I

First Presbyterian Church, Dedicated May 31st.