Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1896 — CITY AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

CITY AND COUNTRY.

- Corn 22, - • " ■ Oats 14 to 15. Hay $8 to $9. Rye 30. Mis. Mary E, Hopkins is seriously sick with a stomach trouble. Miss. Cora Landis of Delphi, is revisiting Rensselaer friends. A daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Dell Thornton, in town, Friday, June 12th. Monroe Banes has moved into his new house, in Thompson’s Addition. Born, Monday June 15, to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Iliff Jr., Barkley Tp, a daughter. Born, Tuesday, June, 16th to Mr. and Mrs. James McClanahan, of Union Tp., a son. A daughter to Mr. and Mrs, Frank Pollard, southeast of town, Wednesday night, June 10th. Emma and Cora Ray, who have been visiting in Ohio for three weeks, returned home Saturday morning. Alfred Hopkins, of the Chicago Law College, is home for the summer vacation. Also M. L. Spitler, Jr. of Wabash College. Mrs. Minnie Faris Kerr, of Indianapolis, has succeeded Miss Small as book-keeper and type-writer for lIoL lingswort & Hopkins. Mrs. P. W. Clarke is 1 at the bedside of her mother, Mrs. Pulver, at Lowell, who is very low with a chronic liver and kidney trouble. Ault Padgett has the foundations in for a good house on Grace Street, south of Judson Perkins’ place. Jessup & Son havethe: contract. Th-Kellogg went to Lafayette yesterday, to visit his Aunt Mrs. Susan Wilson, whose death from a cancer on the cheek has been imminent for some time. Mrs. Hester A. Cripps, now in the dressmaking business at Marion, was in town Saturday on business connected with her suit against the Travelers Accident Insurance Company. Rensselaer now has a second cornet band, fully organized and provided with instruments. It is composed of the younger band players of the town, and has 17 pieces. Rev. M- R. Paradis will preach a special sermon, next Sunday morn, ing, outlining the future work of the congregation in th&new church. AH members are especially requestid to bo present. Earl Reynolds has now blossomed into a bicycle race rider, of eminent degree. He is in Morris Park, N. J. near New York, and has already won some very good races. He is contemplating a trip to Europe, this fall. The Commercial State Bank is now the owner of the building it occupies, and is therefore permanently located there. The purchase of the building and lot, of George K. Hollingsworth, was consummated last week. Next Thursday, June 25th is the day set for tbe contract for the new Jasper County court house. The bonds for building the same arc also advertised to be sold the next day, June 26th. The Rensselaer school board has done wisely by re-electing Prof. Sanders as Superintendent for another year. Tbos. Large who was principal last year, will resume his studies at the State University next year, and will be succeeded as principal of the high school by Mr. Holland, who last school year was assistant principal.

Tobacco users will find, in another column, an item of decided , interest to them, headed “Don’t Stop Tobacco.” Prof. W. H. Sanders will move his residence this week, from across the river, into’the new house on Van Rensselaer street, north of the school houses, just built by E. M. Morland. Mrs. Harvey W. Wood and daughter arrived home last Friday, after a six weeks’ absence in Missouri and Nebraska, where they visited Mrs. Wovd’s son and a brother in Missouri and a brother and sister in Nebraska. The Endowment Rank of the Knights of Pythias, through its local Secretary Dr. H. L. Brown, paid to Mrs. Farrie Loughridge SIOOO, the amount of insurance carried in that order by her late husband, Dr. V. E. Loughridge.

George Cox arrived from Marion last Friday, and will reipain with his parents here until he recovers his health, which, in the opinion of his physician, is likely to prove a reasonably sure 1 roe ess, but not a very rapid one. • Newton Warren came back sick from the State University, last Friday, and is now at the home of his bro th er County Superintendent J. F. Warren. It is feared that his sickness will develops into a case of typhoid fever, or something of that nature. Jackson Sheridan, a promising Junior student in the State University, was hit above the ear, on Tuesday of last week, while umpiring a college game of base ball, by a bail being thrown from second base, and died on Thursday. His home was at Lebanon.

Mr. and Mrs. John Fitzpatrick, their son Michael and wife, and their two daughters all of Ft. Wayne, h ve been the guests of Sheriff Hanley this week. They were here to witness the graduation of James Fitzpatrick, one of the most promising students of St. Joseph’s College. Rensselaer citizens attending the National Republican Convention at St. Louis, this week, are T. J. McCoy J. H. S. Ellis, Geo. E. Murray, C. G. Spitler and Hale Warner. Mr. McCoy is there in an official capacity, he having had the good fortune to be appointed an assistant sergeant at arms of the convention.

David Shields arrived home last Saturday, from Tennessee, where he invested in 200 acres mefre of Tennessee land His father, John Shields, Frank Donnelly and John Sullivan, the latter from Jordan Tp., who went south with Mr. Shields, returned some days earlier. They did not buy any land. Mrs. H. W, Porter underwent an extensive and dangerous surgical operation at the Presbyterian hospital, Chicago, last Thursday. The operation was so severe that its result was in serious doubt for several days, but by Sunday it was considered that the danger point was passed, and she is now reported to be doing very well. Chas. Grow, who has been attend $ ing school at Danville, Ind. for some timepist, returned home Thursday. He made the trip on his wheel, covering the entire distance of 120 miles in 10 hours, including a stop in Lafayette for dinner. His best lime was between Crawfordsville and Lafayette running the 29 miles in 1 hour and 50 minutes. Ad Robinson sends a copy of the lola, Allen Co. Kansas, Register with a marked paragraph noting the discovery of another enormous gas gusher, a few miles from lola, of about 8 or 10 million cubic feet daily capacity. The Register intimates that the discovery of big gushers in that locality has got to be such a common thing as hardly to be a matter of interest any more. Monon News:—John Munden of Fair Oaks, a brakeman leaving here on a Chicago bound freight train Saturday night, in attempting to Jump from the front box car of the train onto tbe tank of the engine, fell between the cars and narrowly escaped death, his only injury being a broken and badly contused leg. His parents were here as quick as possible, to wait on the injured man and returned home with him Wednesday. Dr. Clayton performed the surgical work and says ne never in his life had a patient stand an operation throughout with such vim as did Munden.

The people of Remington are pr jparing to have a great Fourth of July celebration in the fair grounds, near the tow-i. Great money, especially is being offered for horse races, though other sports are nut overlooked. So much money,* in fact, is being put up for races and other attractions that a small admission fee wiiLbe necessaiy to Help cover the expense.

Mr. W, 1., Hoover, son of Wm. M. Hoover, of near Rensselaer, and Miss Alta Smith, daughter of Jesse F. Smith, a former resident of this vicinity but now living near Delphi, were married on Wednesday evening June 10th, at the home of the bride’s parents. At present the newly married couple are making their home with the groom’s parents, southwest of town. . What is, undoubtedly, the finest musical instrument in Jasper Co., was received last Saturday, at the residence of H. O. Harris, the banker, it being a preseift»from him to his daughter, Miss Jennie Harris. It is a Steinway Parlor Grand, and of the very latest and most perfect make of the great house whose name it bears. It was purchased through the agency of Mrs. Sallie Hogan Skinner, of Kentland. •

The county Board of Review met Monday, as by law required, to hear and adjust grievances, for equalizing assessment for taxes. The board consists of the County Assessor, County Auditor and County Treasurer, who are members, by right of office, and of two others appointed by the Circuit Court, who are John R. Phillips, of Hanging Grove and Jas. F. Antrim, of Rensselaer. Thenumber of complaints before the Board are very small. The newly elected members of the Rensselaer school board have decided by lot the length of their respective terms, it being necessary to do that, in order that one member might go out each year. In the division the three year term fell to Mr. Chilcote, the two years to Mr. Clark and the one year to Mr. Thompson. The Board organized for the ensuing year by electing Mr. Clark president, Mr. Chilcote secretary and Mr. Thompson treasurer.

The Republicans of Newton Co., at their convention at Brook last Wednesday, nominated W. H. Ade for Treasuer, C. Wickwire for Sheriff, A. M- Boyle for Recorder, Barnett Hawkins for Surveyor, Sherman White for Assessor and G. T. Griggs and E. E. Parsons for Commissioners Amos Agate, a good fellow well known in Rensselaer, was a candidate for Sheriff but he got 13 votes on the first ballot, and the unlucky number hoodood him. It is an odd co-incidence that just six days after the Republicans of the Tenth Congressional district had nominated a candidate by a majority of 52 hundreths of a vote, the smallest convention majority then on record, another congressional convention |n this state, should out-dothat record, and nominate by a still smaller fraction. Sucli was the case, however, and last Wednesday, at Vmcennes, the Democrats of the Second District nominated a candidate by a majority of only two.seventeenths of a vote.

Frank Minnicus, of Rensselaer, and John Ullum, of Jordan Tp., had a pretty lively scrap in Rosenbaum’s saloon, last Tliuisday. Both are pretty heavy weights, and Minnicus especially has quite a reputation as a fighter, but he appears to have 4>een outclassed when he mixed with Ullum, and to have got quite the worst of the fight; although both men were pretty badly hammered up. Affidavit against Minnicus has been filed in the circuit court, and the row is likely to prove a very expensive amusement to him. Dr. H. A. Gobin, D. D. has just been elected president of De Pauw University, to the evident great satisfaction of the faculty and students, and the friends of the university generally. He has been acting president for a year past, and, in that capacity, has fully demonstrated his great fit ness for the permanent presidency. Dr. Gobin was formerly a Methodist minister in this portion of the state, and was at one time stationed at Remington; that being, as We believe, his first appointment in the ministry. He is still remembered with great esteem by the people of Remington.