Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1896 — CITY AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

CITY AND COUNTRY.

Corn 21-22. Oats 12 to 14. Wheat 45 to 50. . Rye 20., . C. Gr. Hammond, now of Morocco, was in town Monday. Mrs. C. G. Martin is visiting Mrs. E. Baech, at Indianapolis. Mrs. Hattie Weaver, of Lowell, vitited her parents here, Sunday. B. F- Ferguson is now off on the western trip we noted last week. Mrs. W. W. Bussell has been quite seriously sick but is now some better. Dr. Berkley moved Monday into his new office jn Forsythe’s new building. Mrs. Jerome Harmon is visiting friends at Muncie, Carthage and Rushville. A daughter was born last Monday to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Waynjire, of Jordan Tp. J. W. Loos, of 1 Coshocton, Ohio, is visiting his sister, Mrs. Snedeker, in Barkley Tp. Henry Grow is building 160 feet or cement street sidewalk; the first to be made north of the railroad. Mrs. Gross moved Monday into her new house, on Van Rensselaer street, north of the light station. A pleasant surprise party was given to John Jones, last Friday evening, on the occasion of his 28th birthday A lady’s pocket book containing a small sum of money, in change, and a door key, awaits an ownej; at this office. The Remington fair will be held the last week in August, as usual. The dates are the 25th, 26th, 27th and 28th. Trustee Nichols of Barkley Tp. is building a new school house at Valma. J. W. Jessup & Son, have the contract. Rev. Wilson C. Cort, pastor of the Goodland Presbyterian church, died Monday of last week, at the age of 46 years. The Francesville fair has demised after a long and lingering decline, and in its stead, this season, will be held a big race meeting. Miss Mary Washburn is back in Chicago, from her six weeks trip to Europe, which shc.is reported to have enjoyed very much. Oliver M. Daugherty, of Hammond, visited old friends here, over Sunday. He is now agent of an express company, at Hammond. W. B. Austin has bonght C. C. Sigler’s interest in the Jasper Co. Telephone Co., making him one of the largest stockholders in the company.

Diptheria is prevalent in the north part of the county, to some extent. A death from it has lately occurcd in Walker Tp., and one also in Keener Tp. The city is having the steep hill by A. Willis’s residence cut down and the adjacent north approach to the creamery bridge built up in good shape. The City Council is investigating the propriety of ordering a cement walk to start from the east side of the Makeever House, and extend clear to the depot. C. W. Coen has let the contract for the construction of his new elewator to McDonald Engineering Company, of Chicago. They put up the building and put in the machinery. Tuesday was said to have been the hottest day of the year, in Chicago, and it was fcarfullydiot here, but the temperature, about 94 degrees, was no higher than on some previous days.

Rev. J. H. Wilson, of Valparaiso, has resigned the position of presiding elder of Valparaiso District, and word comes that it is under Circumstances and charges that net bear publication. The Chicago Bargain Store will not be able to move into its new building by Aug. 10th, as expected. The delay is due to slowness of Chicago parties, in shipped fixtures and furniture. There is almost an epidemic of typhoid fever in Hanging Grove Tp., all among children. There are two cases in T. H. Herron’s family, two in Frank Arnott’s and one in John Peregrine’s. Miss Blanche Miller has lately returned from a three years stay in California, attending college and teaching, and will teach this year, near her mother, Mrs. W. A. Miller’s, in Newton Tp. A “Harvest Home” grove meeting will be held at Rose Bud Chapel, Union Tp., Sunday August 16th. It will be an all day’s meeting and a number of able preachers will be present from outside points. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Austin and daughter, Miss Virgie, left yesterday on an extended western trip, including a visit to Colorado Springs, Leadville, and other mountain cities. They will be away two weeks. Rev. August Seifert, rector of St. .Joseph’s College, arrived-home from several months stay in Europe, last Thursday evening. The-mostof his stay was very pleasant, except the latter part which was rendered otherwise by si severe attack of inflammatory rheumatism.

# Vice President and General Manager McDoel, Chief Engineer Hall and other magnates of the Monon went south over the road Monday, and stopped for sotoe time to consider the location of a side-track to Coen’s proposed new grain elevator. R. M. Harvey, advance agent of the Wallace circus, wjis here Tuesday. The circus will be here Sept. sth. It is a great big all-around show, by all accounts, and a good clean honest one too; and moreover it is an Indiana institution, the owner Mr- Wallace living at Peru, this state, and wintering his animals there every, year. , Sun Bros, circus exhibits here today ; tomorrow is the race meeting at the Stock Farm, and next Tuesday and Wednesday takes place the annual two days shooting tournament of the Iroquois Gun Club; from all of which it would appear that the people of Rensselaer and vicinity are getting plenty of amusement, just at this time.

A. H. Purdue, a former principal of the Rensselaer high school, and more recently a fellow in Chicago University, has just been elected to an assistant professorship in Arkansas State University, in the ’departments of biology and geology. Mr. Purdue is a fine scholar as well as a most estimable young man, and his many friends in Rensselaer will be very glad to hear of his promotion. Marriage licenses since last reported.

t Lewis Griffith, | Agnes S ? Lintncr. j Thomas E. Moore, I Julia E. Eollins. j Edward C. Henry, | Emma G. Goetzj Harvey Daywitt, | Alpha Cooper. J. H. Jessen is now at work on the court house sewer, with a large force of men. But progress is slow on account of the large amount of hard rock to be excavated. Ho uses a steam drill, supplied by steam by Isaac Sayler’s traction engine, and as compared with the old way of drilling by hand he gets along very fast. The large charges of dynamite which he fires off tear up the rock in great shape, as well as make a big noise.

Under the reviving influence of an earnest and energetic pastor, Rev. D. A. Tucker, the Free Baptist church seems to have taken a new lease of life. The Sunday school also, which had for some time been abandoned, has been reorganized and is having a fine attendance. Special efforts are being made to lookup children who are hot now attendants of any Sunday school, and induce them to attend. JohnKepner is superintendent of the Sunday school ( and Lewis Thornton, assistant superintendent.

Mrs. A. W. Cleveland, who lately visited the private vineyards of M. F. Farciot, manager of- the Georgia and Alabama Fruit Growing and Winery Association, at Talapoosa, Georgia, has just received from the vineyard a dozen boxes of grapes, in white and blue varieties, and all of the finest flavor . The association has 24,000 acres, which they sell in 10 acre tracts, 2 acres planted, at from $4 to $8 per acre. They also pack and market the product. The winters are said to be delightful, the summers not too hot, fruits of all kinds abundant and never failing. The Valparaiso papers are telling of a barn having lately been struck, in Pine Tp.,Porter Co.,by “whatis known as a cold bolt of lightning.” Which is the first time we ever heard it intimated of any kind of lightning standing still long enough for any one to take its temperature to ascertain whether it was a hot or cold bolt. In fact, we imagine that if anyone found any kind of a lightning bolt hot or cold laying around loose and were to try to pick it up, he would find that it had at least one very hot end, and that ho had got hold of it. John Sparling, of Keener Tp., son of Henry Sparling, had a wonderfully narrow escape from being killed by lightning, on a recent Sunday night or rather about three o’clock of a recent Monday morning. Ho had been out to see his girl, was going home at that, comparatively early, hour when a thunder storm came up, and the lightning struck his buggy and broke every spoke out of one of the front wheels of the buggy, and neither John nor the horse were hurt at all. And John was not even so badly scared but that he ventures over the same road at about the same hour, the following Sunday nights. Win. Powers’ drilled well, at his residence on River street, does not “give down” the water as it ought, and Tuesday night he had J. H. Jessen try the experiment of, “shooting” it with a big load of dynamite. Two pounds, in a long tin tube, was lowered to the bottom, some 37 feet, and fired by a battery, the same that is used in exploding the blasts in Mr. Jessen’s court house sewer work. The charge threw out a quantity of oily water, which liberally sprinkled a number of spectators, and blew out the tin tube in fragments no larger than a ten cent piece; but the flow of water does not seem to have been materially improved.

There has been some further trouble about the court house bonds, but the matter is now all favorably settled. Mr. Trowbridge, the purchaser of the bonds asked that 1 instead qf. the bonds drawing six per cent, interest on their face value, and being bought at a premium of $15,700 that they be made to draw only 4| per cent premium, and be sold to him at par. The commissioners agreed to accept this preposition, provided the county would lose nothing by it, as compared with the previous terms of sale. The matter was accordingly referred to the First National Bank, of Chicago, and their answer was tliat instead of being a loss, the county would actually gain S4OO by accepting.this proposition. Therefore the bonds will still go to Trowbridge & Co., but will be sold at par and will draw only 4| per cent, interest. The amount of the issue will not lie changed fro m the first figures, namely $82,500.

The Republicans editors of Indiana met at Lafayette last Thursday, and the people of that beautiful and enterprising city, irrespective of politics, fairly outdid all previous records of other cities in the way Bf hospitality. The editors and the ladies who aceompamied them were taken by trolley cars, carriages and special trains to all the notable places; to Purdue University, to the Indiana Soldiers’ Home, to the immense green houses of C. Domer. & Son, to Tecumseh’s Trail, and to Battle Ground. An elegant lunch was served at the Soldier’s Home by Commandant McGrew; and from the green house every lady carried away , a big boquet. At the Battle Ground a brief sketch the famous Tippecanoe battle was given by Hon. B. Wilson Smith. In the evening while the editors held their business meeting the ladies of the party were entertained at the La.fayette Social Club; at this occasion the Rheinbcrger Quartette, a famous Lafayette organization, gave an impromptu/conccrt.

The solid limestone rock is only 9 feet below the surface where the new court house is to be, and as previously stated; the foundation walls of the building arc to rest on this bedrock, and thus be as solid and durable as the eveilasting hills. The workmen in digging these trenches began to reach and uncover the rock the latter part of last week. They found the rock very hard, about as level as a floor and as smooth as glass. The smoothness and polish of the surface of the rock, is the result of glacial action, and besides being smooth and polished the rock showed the “striae” or scratches common to all glacier planed rock surfaces. These scratches all extended in an almost due north and south direction; which is the same direction of the scratches on the glacier planed rocks in the river bed, below the creamery bridge. As a matter of interest, we may add that County Surveyor Alter took the levels of this planed rock at the court house and the river, and found them almost exactly on the same level, that in the river being only 6 inches lower than at the court house. Mr. Weatherhogg, of the firm of Grindle <fc Weatherhogg, architects of the new building, had a piece of the glacier smoothed and scratched rock cut out to preserve as a geological specimen.

Martha E. Sayers has sued for a div< rce from John M. Sayers. They live in the Gifford district; were married in Benton Co., in 1892 and separated June 30, 1896. She charges cruel and inhuman treatment, that he beat, kicked and cursed her to such an extent that she feared for her life. She wants the custody of their 19 months old child, alimony of S3OO out of his alleged wealth of $500; also S2OO per year to Support child, and her maiden name of Martha E. Grobe. Miss Grace Pulver, of Lowell, is visiting her Rensselaer relatives. To reduce my stock and make room for a new one I offer hats as low as 5 cents. Hats that were sl, for 25 cents. Hats that were $1.50 and $2 for 50 cents. Mits. L. M.-Imes. Wait for the finest line of clothing, shoes, dry goods, cloaks, groceries etc , ever seen in town. Chicago Bargain Store New Department Store, Twenty percent off’ all trimmed hats at Mns. L. M. Imi;3.