Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1879 — OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. [ARTICLE]

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.

Auditor, B mmrj A. Barkley Treasurer, Henry I. Adams. . s Beeetder, Uary ty W.^Wood^ Sheriff, George M. Robinson. Clerk, Charles H. Price. Commissioners, let district, tease D. Doan; 2nd district. William JL Perkiecn; trd district, William B. Price. Towriehlp Offloerw V. - , r - * '*• Trustees, Hawing Grave township, David Graj; Gillam, Am. H. Robinson; Walker, 1 George Stahlbaues; Barkley, 8. B. Nichols; Marian; William 8. Coen; Jordan, Elliott B. Burr, Newton, B. Coen; Keener, W. H. Tyler; Kankakee, Edward T. Biggs; Vfheattield, Lewis Rich; Carpenter, Janes f. Irwin; Milroy, Washington 800 U; Union, Malachi P. Comer. • Justices, Hanging Grove township, Turner A. Knox; Gillam, James IL Guild and Miles Bisber; Walker, Joel P. Spriggs and Lorenio Enkhass; Barkley, Biles Marion and J. W. cCleary; Marion, Eldridge T. Harding, Augustas H. Wood and David James; Jordan, George Seitsinger and Stephen Hamblin; Newton, John Warren; Keener Daniel E. Pairchild and Hum D. Fairchild: Kankakee, William W. Jones; Wheatfield* ■ ■ - : Carpenter, B. B. Jeffries and Jamee Bpencer, Milroy, James Booker; Union, John Alter and Clark MeColly. Town, Officers. Marshal, William Powers. * Clerk, Truitt P. Wright. . CoaneilmeD, Ist district, CharlesC. Starr; 2nd district, Mervin 0. Cissel; ,3rd district, Henry V. Childers; 4th district, Simon I’aiitips; sth district, Samuel Scott. School Trustees, Abraham Leopold, president; Simon P. Thompson, treasurer; Mordecai F. Chilcote, secretary. Ccnart*. .. Circuit Court, Hon. Edwin P. Hammond, judges Frank W. Babcock, prosecutor. Is, Mrihday in January, Brd Monday in Marcht Ist Monday in June, 3rd Monday in October, • Commissioners’ Court, Ist Monday in March, June, September and December. ' t * " T C2a.MXcli.ee. . . Methodist Episcopal Church, Rev. W. 0. Vessels, Pastor. Services every alternate Sabbath at 10:30 o'clock a. m., and in the evening of same day. Sabbath School at 9:30 o’clock a, m. Prayer meeting every Wednesday evening. Baptist Church, no Pastor. -Presbyterian Church, no Pastor. Sabbath School at 2:30 o’clock p. m. Christian Church, Elder D. Halstead, Fastor. Services every Sabbath morning pod eyening. Sabbath School at 9:30 O’clock a. m. Free Will Baptist Church, Rev. Sanderson, Pastor. Services at the Daugherty school house every alternate Sabbath at 10:30 o’clock a. m., or 8 o'clock p. in. Sabbath School at 9:30 o’clock a. m. Societies. * . Prairie Lodge No. 125 F. & A, M. meets Ist and 3rd Saturday evenings of each month in Nowels’ llall. Officers: W. M., H. W. Wood; Sec., Louis Kcrn‘. Iroquois Lodge No. 143 I. O. O. F. meets every Tues lay eveuing in Bedford’s Hall. <ifficer*: N. 0., 11. 1. Adams; Sec , C. C. Btarr. Rensselaer Lodge No. 32 K. of P. meets every Thursday evening iu Bedford’s Hall, Officers: C. U., N. W. Reeve: K. of R. A d., Frank B. Meyer. Erening Star Chapter, Order Eastern Star, meets ou the Ist and 3d Wednesday evenings of each month, in Masonic Hall. Officers: W. M., Mra. A. Purcupile; Sec., L. B. Warner.

—Dry sad dusty. <. S —T see hers’ examination to-day. C > —Commissioners’ Conrt neat weak. —Business is beginning to I 'keens.’ ’ —Mr. Ralph Fsadlg visited Pern did waefcg. > ... —Next Thursday will be a gala day ffsr Delphi. L ; , —Otd Settlers meeting at Rensselaer next * teterd * 7 - n, A - ... —A slight frost Tuesday morning. No damage done. —Prof. Kidd, the elocutionist, to-night, at Starr’s Hall. —There were 80 teachers enrolled at the Institute on Monday. —Are yon going te attend the barbecues! Delphi next Thursday? —His fall term of the Rensselaer public schools opens next Monday. —Thx Stahdasd offico-has boon enjoying a nuh of job work this week. —Blue Ribbon meeting at the M. E. Church next Friday evening. —J. B. Bunnell, K»q., of Wolcott, White county, wee in town Monday. —Another young polar wave swept over this connty the first of the week. —lra W. Yeoman, of Goodland, was in town the first of the week. . —Mrs. Reynolds, of Decatur,. 111., visited her brother, C. C. Starr, this week. —Ralph Spencer of Rensselaer, jras in town last week.—[Monticello Herald. —Mr. W. H. Sayler, of Malta Bend, Mo., is visiting relatives in Jasper county. —Rev. H. B. Miller has our thanks for a generous mess of beans and sweet corn.

—Mr. Wm. Beck, Esq., is building an addition to bis dwelling, just below town. —Remember (he temperance meeting at tbe Church of God next Monday evening. —The Old Settlers’ reunion at Monticello, Thursday, was pronounced a grand affair. I—The 1 —The new buildings in coarse of erection are being vigorously pushed to completion. —Mrs. John Meinbroeck died at her homo, three miles south of town, on Tuesday last. —A new marble shop will soon be opened in Rensselaer by a gentleman named Howland. —County Clerk Price and wife returned Saturday evening from their trip to the west. —Charley Sears no longer toots the tuba. He has ‘‘stepped down and out’* of the band. —Mrs. C. Wade and son, of Wstseka, 111., visited the family of Mr. F. J. Sears this week. . —Mrs. M. Lam son will please accept our thanks for a liberal donation of grapes and tomatoes. —Ex-County Superintendent Snoddy has been elected principal of the Earl Park, Benton county, school. —Thanks to Mr. James Welch, father of Mrs. M. L. Baylor, for a late copy of the Adrian (Mich.) Times. —The Starke County Ledger man has been troubled lately with snakes—not in his boots but in his dooryard. —All kinds of job work neatly and promptly fixeented at Thx Standabd office. Call and leave your orders. —Mrs. Lamson returned Wednesday evening from a three weeks’ visit to friends in Crawfordsville and vicinity. l —Rev. Geo Guild, of Gillam township, and Justice Fairchild, of Keener township, were in town’the first of tbe week. • —J. S. Wigmore will return to Monticello soon, occupying his old residence property on Bluff street. —[Monticello Herald. —A Urge number of our citixeus attended the Remington Fair, Thursday. They pronounce the exhibition a complete success. —Bear in mind, the Jasper County Agricultural Society will hold its Bth Annual Fair at this place October 7th to 10th, 1879. —Messrs. C. P. Mayhew and Wm. H. Gwin have erected a grain ware house at Pleasant Ridge, on the I, D. AC, B’y., Enterprise. —Messrs. A. M. Munden and J. E. Alter will open a select school at Brushwood school house, Union township, next Monday week. , —Snbscride for Tu* Standabd, the best local newspaper in Jasper county. Only $1 a year, 60 cents for six months, 26 cents for three months. t Mr. L. B. Warner, of the Narrow Gauge Clothing Store, returned Saturday night from a visit to his mother and brother at Buffalo, N. Y. —Jns.B. McCarthy, Esq., of Newton county, one of the pioneer journalists of Jasper county, spent half an hour in Thb Standard office ThonsSTay. - —Bring your wife and iittlo ohm to the Old Settlers’ meeting next Saturday and 'spend a day with the pioneers of Jasper and Newton counties. —Will. Woe, of Carpenter township, swooped down upon the connty seat of Jasper on Monday last. Of oourse hs took in Thb Standabd office. —Charlie Price, the affable and efficient clerk of Jasper oonnty. was in town lastJSaturday, en rente home from the editorial excursion.—[Monticeilo Herald. uJu U —Miss Louie Hammond started Wednesday to Notre Dame, where she will become a student of the University at place. Her mother accompanied her. —Messrs. Addison and Wm. K. Parkison, Alfred McCoy and Alfred Thompson will donate the steer for the barbecue at Delphi next Thursday. He is a monster, Weighing 1,700 pounds.' * — Rev. C. K. Lambert formerly pastor of the M. E. Church at this plaee, was in town Tuesday morning. Hr. L. has been elected president of tbe Willamette Usiversity, at Balem, Oregon, whither he has gone to enter npon the duties of hit offiot.

—Go tp Inymet Kannal’s for weekly story Denars and msgs lines Ales hnadnnartrw r*w . v 1 for Ckicaso dally naDers. " 11 1 JPM Iff * m • —A Utile son of Daoghsrty jumped from a second story wind** ti> the ground, (ha ether day, receiving severe, bat not foul, injoriee. ' r —Reger's Indian Ffver.and Agne Cars, vxiTT+nttd; no cure, ns pay. Call at Mmmst kannal’s drag store and prepare a bottle, and shake no more. s-TK 8 *prkn Connty Ifdgsr ahaonnees the death of a doff iathkt osaaty at the ripe old «*•*! -Iffyenw* * months and 17 days. Almost eld enough ta Vote. .. —The Delphi folks are msldag extensive preparations for the celebration of the formal owning, for bagfneas the 1., D. &C. R’y at that pine# on the 4th 9} September. ,—A Connecticut man has invented eopper i]ad pantaloons, warranted U>stand the wear of inv cried nail kegs. They are iatended for clerks in stores who do not advertise. Miss Celia Wilkinson returned Wednesday evening to enter open her duties in the Rensselaer schools which begin next Monday. She spent the summer vacation at her home in Laporte county. —Bear in mind that the Old Settlers of Jasper and Newton counties will hold thsir annual reunion at Rensselaer next Saturday, September 6th, instead of at Jared Benjamin’s grove, as was previously announced. —Mr. Phillip Hall, a former roeident of Barkley township, Jasper oounty, bat now a citizen of Nebraska, is back to his old stamping ground visiting numerous friends. He gave Thx Standard office a call yesterday.

—J. H. Cissel, Jr,, who has been for several weeks employed as an apprentice in Thk Standard office, returned to Laporte, to-day. “Harley” is a good boy and we are sorry to part with him. Our best wishes go with him.. —Callers at Tbv Standard offise during the week past: Mr. W. Spitler and Mr. Alford, of Iroquois, 111., Miss Bard and Miss Root, of Chebanse, 111., Miss Nellie Bpitler and M iss Do PurcupUe, of this place, Mrs. Bndgeman and Miss Legg, of Logansport. —The relationship sf man and woman in rainy weather is easily discovered. If they are lovers the woman will have all the umbrella, and the man won’t care a fig how wet he gets. But if they are married it is just the opposite. Marriage makes the difference, that is all.—[Ex. —A. Leopold has received his immense stock of fall and winter »dry goods, clothing, boots, shoes, hats, caps, fancy goods, notions, etc., and is now waging a relentless war against high prices. Call and examine his magnificent stock and learn prices before making purchases. —Attention is directed to the card of Ira W. Yeoman, attorney at law, Goodland, in another column of this paper. He announces that he will practice in all the courts of Newton,-Benton and Jaspei counties. Parlies desiring the services of an attorney will do well to consult him. —Hon. James Peacock, of Gallatin, Tennessee, who baa been -visiting relatives in Rensselaer and vicinity for a few weeks, started yesterday on bia return trip to the South. Before leaving Mr. P. called to bid Us good-bye, and left upon our table a recent file of the Nashville (Tenn.) American, for which he will please accept our thanks. —For mere than- one I had chills and fever, third day and Dumb Ague, until rfiy health was gone. Tried many things to cure me but failed.- A friend whose family was alFcured with Liebig’s Ague Cure induced me to try it. I did so and was cured. I have sold it to scarce of others who have bdftn cured—John Qukut. Sold by W. J. lift*. —Prof. Kidd, fhf elocutionist, gave an entertainment in Starr’s Hall last evening, to a very fair sized audience of appreciative and attentive hearers. As an elocutionist the Professor hss no superior, and wherever he appears before the public he is hailed with delight. His entertainments never flil to give satisfaction. Go and hear him to-night. Admission reduced to 15 cents. —A new time table will go into effect on tbit 1., D. AC. R’y next Friday. From and after that time two trains will be run over the road daily (except Sunday) as follows : Leave Rensselaer at 6a. m., arrive at Del-phi-at 8 :46 a. m. Returning, train will arrive at Rensselaer 11; 65 a. m. Leave at 12 : 20 p. m., arrive at Delphi 4 : 45 p. m. Returning, train will arrive at Rensselaer at 8 : 15 p. m.

—Th* KxHssfeLxEß Stxndakd announces a dance, in its last issue, in Starr’s Hall. Preachers most be liberal over in that tewn. Berea dance is denounced as a heathen institution. Rensselaer must be back sliding to tolerate amusements of that kind.—[Starke County Ledger. Yes; dances are quite common here, and are a source of much pleasure to' the young folks. Come over and take a whirl, Bro. Mussulman. —Mr. J. w, Sibbett, landlord of the Rensselaer House, who is almost in the last stage of consumption, became exhausted by over exertion Wednesday evening and fell prostrate upon the street near the court yard, Auditor Cowdin and Mr. F. L. Cotton, who happened to be near, picked him up and oonveyed him to his room. He soon regained sufficient strength to be about «■" ! is again attending to business as usual. —-Hemp first came in use in the cord-age. —[N. ,Y. News. And wind instruments in the band-age.—[Rome Sentinel. And negro nqinstrelg in the oork-age.—[Advertiser. And bankrupts in the short-age.—[Alton Tribune-News, And women in tbe man-age. -—[Crescent Democrat. And dogs and eats in. the saus-age.—[Osceola Spirit. And dead head in tbe pase-age—[Leon Reporter. And saner kraut in the cabbage. —lt may net be generally known but it is a fact never-t£e-l«es that Charles P. Wright and Nathaniel W. Reeve, tw'o of the best natured and most popular of our citi■dns, constitute a new law firm. Thev will praotiee in all tbe courts of Jasper and adjoining counties, make oollectiaaa, prepnrq. abstracts of titles, pey taxes, Hti, etq. AU business entrusted to their hands will ceiv* prompt attention. See card in another column.