Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1897 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER SEMI-WEEKLY REPUBLICAN.

VOLUME XIX.

pixegaoT 1 ojes~st COUNTY OFFICERS. Clerk W*. H. Cooveb Sheriff Nat e J. Reed Auditor Henry B. Mdbeay Treasurer Jibsb C. Gwin Recorder Robert B. Pobteb Surveyor John E. Alter Coroner Truitt P. Wbioht Supt. Public Schools Louis H. Hamilton Assessor . John R. Phillips (Ist Dist Abraham Ualleck Comm’rs< 2nd Dlst John Mabtindalk t 3rd Dist dexter R. Jones Commissioners' Court First Mondays in March, June, September and December. CITY OFFICERS. Mayor Thomas J. McCoy Marshal Thomas McGowan Clerk '...Schuyler C. Irwin Treasurer C. C. Starr . Attorney Civil Engineer L. A. Bostwick Fire Chief Edgar M. Parcels T,.. 1 M. B. alter lstWard..} K. B. Meyer Councllmen < 2nd "Ward, j "' c* G. sTpitler srrt Ward j !.!. WA L ROBINSON ward j j K KioH t JUDICIAL. circuit judge Simon P. Thompson Prosecuting Attorney albert E. lhizum Terms of Court—First Monday In January; Third Monday In March: First Monday in June; Third Monday in October. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. TRUSTEES. TOWNSHIPS. Robert S. Drake.... Hanging Grove A. W. Prevo . . .Gillam John F. Petiit Walker Samuel R. Nichols Barkley James D. Babcock Marion Marcus W. Reed Jordan Jackson Freeland Newton C. C. Bierma : Keener J.C. Kaupke Kankakee Albert 8. Keene W heatfleld John A. Lamborn Carpenter George W. Castor Milroy D. H. Yeoman • Union TOWN OB CITY. A. Beasley Remington M. F. Chilcote Rensselaer Edward T. Biggs Wheatlleld Louis H. Hamilton, Co. Supt Rensselaer

OHXJROHBS. FIRST BAPTlST—Preaching every two weeks at 10:46 a. m. and 7 p. m.; fcunday school at 9:80r B. Y. P. U, 6 p. m. Sunday; prayer meeting 7p. m. Pastorate now vacant. *** FREE BAPTIST—One service every Sunday morning and evening, alternately. Prayer meeting Tuesday evening. A. C. F. meets Sunday, 6;30 P. M. Rev. D. A. Tucker, pastor. *** CHRISTIAN—Corner Van Rensselaer and Susan. Preaching, 10:46 and 8:00; Sunday school 9:30; J. Y. P. S. C. E.,2:80; S. Y. P. S. O. E., 6:80; Prayer meeting Thursday 7:80. W. O. Moore, pastor. Ladles’ Aid Society meets every Wednesday afternoon by appointment. *** PRESBYTERIAN—Corner Cullen and Angelica. Preaching, 10:45 and 7:80; Sunday school 9:80; .lunlor Endeavorers, 2:80; Y. P. C. C. E., 6:30; Prayer meeting, Thursday 7:80; Ladles’ Industrial Society meets every Wednesday afternoon. The Missionary Society, monthly. Rev. 0. D. Jeffries, Pastor. *** METHODIST E.—Preaching at 10:45 and 7; Sunday school 9:80; Epworth League Sunday 6; Tuesday 7; Junior League 2:30 alternate Sunday; Prayer meeting Thursday at 7. Rev. R. l>. utter, D.D. Pastor. Ladles'AldSocleiy every Wednesday afternoon by appointment *** CHURCH OF GOD—Corner Harrison and Elza. Preaching 10:46 and 7:30; Sunday school 9:80; Prayer meeting, Thursday, 7:80; Ladles’Society meets every Wednesday afternoon by appointment. Rev. F. L. Austin, pastor. CATHOLIC CHURCH—St. Augustine’s. Corner Division and Susan. Services 7:80 and 10:80 a. m. Sunday school 11:80 p. m. Rev. Father Dlckman pastor. LODGES. MASONlC—Prairie Lodge, No. 126. A. F. and A. M. .meets first and third Mondays of each month. A.H, Hopkins, W. M.; W. J. Imes. Sec’y. Evening Star Chapter. NO' 141, O. E. S . meets meets first and third Wednesday' of each month. Cora S. Nowels, W. M.; Hattie Dowler, Sec’y. CATHOLIC ORDER .FORESTERS—WiIIard Court. No. 418, meets every first and third Sunday of the month at 2 p. m. J. M. Healy. Sec’y; Frank Maloy, Chief Ranger. ODD FELLOWS—lroquois Lodge. No. 144,1. O O. F., meets every Thursday. J. W. Cowden, N. G.; S. C. Irwin, Sec’y. Rensselaer Encampment, No. 201, I. O. O. F.. meets second and fourth Fridays of each month. L.L.Ponsler.C. P.; John Vannatta, scribe. Rensselaer Rebekah Degree Lodge, No. 346, meets first and third Fridays of each month. Miss Ora Duvall, N. G.; Miss Maude Irwin, Sec’y. I. O. OF FORESTERS—Court Jasper. No. 1708, Independent Order of Foresters, meets second and fourth Mondays. Geo. Goff, C. D. H C. R.; J. W. Horton, K. *** MACCABEES-’-Rensselaer Tent. no. 184, K. O. M. Meets Wednesday evening. J. M. McDonald, Commander; F. W.Olssel,Record Keeper. PYTHIAN—RENSSEL AER Lodge No. 88, Knights of Pythias, meets every Tuesday. C. G. Spltler, C. C.; N. W. Reeve, K. of R. S. RENSSELAER TEMPLE. Rathbone Sisters.— No. meets 2nd and 4th Wednesdayy, every month. Mrs. A.S. Laßue,Chief; Mrs. O. A. Yeoman, M. of E. O. ■ *** PATRIOTIC ORDERS, GRAND ARMY—Rensselaer Post No. 84 G. A. R. meets every Friday night. T. F Clark Post Commander. J. M. ft asson, Adjutant. Rensselaer Women’s Relief Corps meets every Monday evening. Mrs. James Flynn, Rresf dent; Mrs. Lulu Huff, Secy. HOLLY COUNCIL—No. 7, Daughters of Liberty, meets 2nd and 4th Mondays. Maude E. Spltler, Counsellor; Francis Bostwlck, Recording Secretary. r

Back in the Barbering Business.

The undersigned desires to give notice thst he is again engaged in the barbering business in Rensselaer haying purchased an interest in the shop of Harry Wade, at the old Morgan stand. All old friends and customers are invited to call there. Ray Wood. 6 pressed tincupe for five cents at C. A. Leckliders.

Twenty-Six Years Ago.

Friday's Dally. Twenty-six years ago to-night began the greatest fire of modem times*, perhaps the greatest of all times in the value of the property destroyed. It was the burning of Chicago. The writer was then a resident of Englewood, then a suburb, now an integral part of the great city. There is a remarkable similarity between the weather then and what -we have now. There had been a long period of hot, dry weather, and for several days before the fire as well as during its continuance, a heavy wind blew from the southwest, even as it blows today. The city was largely built of wooden buildings, everything inflammable was as dry as tinder, and with the steady gale of wind, things were ripe for the great conflagration. It began the night of Oct. Bth, continued all night and all the next day, and took everything in its path, buildings of stone and brick, of supposed fire-proof construction, burning as readily in the fearful heat, as though they were built of wood. Over 2,000 acres were burned over, 17,500 buildings were destroyed and nearlysJOO.OOO rendered homeless. The loss was estimated at $196,000,000, and 250 lives were lost. The fearful desolation of the burn, ed district, the thousands of homeless and hopeless people wandering aimelessly about, leaves a picture in the minds of those who saw it on that fearful October 9th, that no lapse of time can ever efface.

A Formal Reception.

Mrs. Delos Thompson issued “At Home” cards to a large number of the ladiesof Rensselaer for Thursday from 2 till 6 P. M. and during those hours, yesterday, her home was thronged with callers coming and going. The rooms were beautifully decorated with smilax, palms, and ferns, the smilax draping the windows and pendant iiT the doors, while white roses of many varieties delighted the esthetic sense of those present. The receiving party consisting of Mrs. Thompson assisted by Mrs. Ross and Miss Love Crampton, of Delphi, and Miss Hattie Lackey, of Akron, Ohio, welcomed the callers and passed t hem on to the dining room, where ices and coffee were served from the refreshment table graced by Misses Marybelle Percupile and Gertrude Hopkins, and later by Mesdames Belle Spitler and Blanche Chapman. Music and gay conversation filled all the hours, until at six o’clock callers ceased to come and the reception was finished.

Uncle Mac Rejuvenated.

These prosperous Republican times have rejuvenated Uncle Alfred McCoy and he is now rushing the sheep, the oattle and the farming business with old time enthusiasm.

Yesterday he bought four carloads more of lambs at the stock yards, in all 554, which will replace the 600 recently sold, and bring the total of his flocks up to 1800 in round numbers. How many cattle he individually, and the firm own together, we will

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not undertake to say, but he has the not very small drove of 200 now fattening at McCoysburg. On the McCoysburg farm there are 600 acres of corn. Some of it is excellent com and some of it dried up pretty badly. He thinks it will average 35 bushels to the acre. On the Jordan Tp. farm there are 800 acres of com and that will probably average 40 bushels to the acre. AH told Uncle Mac thinks he has 53,000 bushels of corn in sight, which is not so bad for a dry year.

Field Fires At Walter Porter’s.

Friday’s DaLly A great many people hustled out to Walter Porter and Jay Lamson’s places, 7 or eight miles southwest of town this afternoon, on account of a telephone message saying that field fires were endangering their houses and other buildings. The fires covered quite a scope of country but by hard work were finally checked. Seven large stacks of hay belonging to Mr. Lamson were burned and two of Mr. Porter’s. A great deal of fencing was also burned. It was only by hard work that Mr. Lamson’s house was saved.

Wolcott Enterprise: One who recently passed through the country known as the Gifford lands north of here about twenty miles, states that the sight is one that appeals most strongly to man's sympathies. The residents are renters and their crops are entirely destroyed by the late spring rains, and later by the dry weather and frosts, and many will be in a suffering condition before winter. Many of the people have not str nickle with which to buy the necessaries of life and without grain or stoek to sell the situation is indeed a Serious one for them. If this is really true, and our informant is a reliable gentleman, our people who have enjoyed an abundance of the necessities for keeping soul and body together, can easily spare of earnings to help their fellowmen, thus filling the scriptural injunction to “give to the poor,” and the reward will be greater blessings to those who give.

Saturday’s Daily. Waterworks Supt. Rooney has returned, and the power house was staked out this morning, and the work of digging the trenches began this afternoon, with a considerable force of men. Hutton & Wall, of Hammond, have the sub-contract for the power house, which is to be completed by Nov. isth. The new building is to be built around the old one, the greater part of which will be alowed to stand until the new building is enclosed, this being necessary in order to protect the electric light machinery and engines.

A fine bred Poland-China sow, about 6 months old, strayed from my place about Sept. Ist. Nearly all black, Anyone knowing her whereabouts address me at Kniman. Pay for trouble. John Swartz. House for rent. W. M. Cotton.

Situation Serious.

Digging Dirt Today.

Poland China Pig Lost.

Painting the Pole.

One job bf high painting which Uncle Bill Jones has had his eye on, he failed to get. It was that of painting the flag pole on top of the new court house. The work was done Saturday forenoon by Tom Manley, one of the men who put up the pole. He climbed to the top of the pole, 40 feet from the peak of the court house tower, and 200 above the surface of the ground, then drew up after him a large rope and a seat after which he leisurly proceeded to apply the paint beginning at the top and working downwards. Scores of people, and at times hundreds of them, watched him during the whole course of his seemingly very dangerous task. This painting job completed the work of putting up the flag-staff. Judging from what has been said about this pole by some of our own and neighboring papers, the job was about equivalent to going out into the woods and cutting a good-sized hickory pole, and bringing it to town and setting it in the ground, small end up. In point of fact, however four men have been working on the job for two weeks, and some of the time five men, and not counting a great deal of work done in our black-

smith shops. People who will climb up into the top of the tower and see the four huge iron beams that were cut in two, and the dozens of half inch holes drilled in thick, hard iron, and all the other cutting and fitting and drilling and chizleing of hard iron in most inconvenient places, will begin to get some idea of the amount of work that has been required in the erection of this staff. And to see the many specially made Bracings and Sitings, circles, bolts and clamps will give some idea also of the cost of the material that is in it.

A Modern Fable.

The Bluffton News contains the following fable: “There was once a sav-uge Microbe who made his home on a Pencil. This Mi-crobe de-fied Doc-tor Hur-ty and his Laws and though he was boiled many times in a Tank which the people paid $2.75 for, he still Flour-ished and grew Fat and went about seek-ing whom he might De-vour. One Day when a Child picked up the Pen-cil, which was the Mi-crobe’s Home, the Sav-age Creat-ure rushed out and Carried her off to his Den, and her Parents said it was Tough. “Moral: Pro-vide the School Children with Ax-es So the Microbes will fear them and will flee. Dr. Hurty Appears to have a number of able assistants over the state who are equally zealous in the prosecution of this great sanitary labor. Down in Richmond it has been decided to use individual communion cups. This is to prevent the microbes hopping around from mouth to mouth and inoculating the entire community. This is a good; a wise, judicious reform, but will not work the blessing intended unless arrangements can be made for each member of the church to sing a different tune. Microbes are bound to be swapped just as long as the same tunes are used by the entire congregation,

You can’t boil ’em like you do slate pencils. There must be an apportionment made, or all these precautions of Dr. Hurty will prove futile.

Didn’t Hit Hard Enough.

Geo. W. Dowell, who used to live at Francesville, and well known here, and who was involved in several sensational affairs, including one shooting scrape, has been “at it again” over at Kofeoraorhls presrent location, as thus described by the Winamac Democrat. “George Dowell, who used to live in this county and whose ‘‘rackets” of one kind or another are remembered, came very near getting his dose in his office at Kokomo last Saturday. In dispute with John F. Campbell, a mall carrier about some rent he reached for his hip pocket, Campbell says, whereupon the latter picked tip a heavy paper weight and struck Dowell a blow upon the forehead that cut the skin open but failed to fracture the skull. Dowell then ran out of the office, but returned taking a revolver from a valise, shot Campbell. The wound proved a harmless flesh scratch on the side, however, from which Campbell will soon be well. Dowell’s wound is said to be not dangerous, either, as to which a gentleman here, while talking to two others Monday evening about the affair, said as he heaved a sigh: “There it is again—didn’t hit him hard enough: just our luck.”

The Post of Priests.

The Grand Army Post, comprised, with one exception, entirely of priests and of brothers from the order of the Holy Cross, was formally mustered in Tuesday night at Notre Dame University. It was an occasion singular in the history of the G. A. R., and one never to be forgotten. Posts were present from Elkhart and South Bend. A camp-fire attended by a great number of people, followed the installation, at which addresses were made by Commander James S. Dodge and others.

Death of Cinda Somers

Miss Cinda Somers, whose supposed hopeless condition was mentioned in Saturday’s paper, died Sunday morning, at the home of her father, Charles Somers, in Milroy Tp., of typhoid fever. The funeral was held at one o’clock Monday afternoon, and interment made in Crockett cemetery. The deceased was quite well known in Rensselaer from having, for quite a long time, been employed by Mrs. Delos Thompson. She was lady of the most amiable and lovely disposition and of a character admirable in every respect Her age was about 20 years.

The ladies of Rensselaer and vicinity are invited to call at Mrs. Hexsbman’s millinery rooms, near the depot, before purchasing their fall and winter millinery. She has well selected stock, and a trimmer ready and able to please all. She has thoroughly studied all the new styles, and is able to make any kind of hat wanted.

Onions for Sale. Finest of onions, at 50 cents per bushel, 14 miles north of Rensselaer. dw2. Alf Donnelly.

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Mrs. Francis Painfully Injured.

As Mr. and Mrs John Francis, who live on the old Shindler place, in Newton Tp., were starting home from church Sunday night the kingbolt or coupling pin broke, as they were passing E. D. Rhoades’ house on Front street, at a brisk trot. This let the front wheels out from under the buggy and both occupants were thrown out with great violence. Mr. Francis escaped with nothing more serious than a badly bruised thumb, but Mrs. Francis had three teeth broken out and received numerous cuts and bruises, in different parts of her body. She was helped into Mr? Rhoades’ house, and remained until next morning, when she was able to go home. The horses with the front wheels ran violently down the street, but were brought to a stop at R. H. Yeoman’s place, by the lines getting caught in the wheels. A peculiar circumstance is that Mr. and Mrs. Francis were over at J. H. Sayler’s Sunday afternoon, and Uncle Henry Sayler, hearing of their intention to come to church in the evening, strongly advised them not to come, on account of the danger of accidents in night traveling.

Jurors For October Term.

Jury Commissioners Thomas Thompson and John Eger and Clerk Coover, drew the following jurors for the October term of the Jasper circuit court, this morning. GRAND JURORS. Samuel McGuire Kankakee A C. Anderson Newton William Daniels. Barkley Greenleaf L. Thornton.... Marion A. L. Willis Rensselaer Wallace Robinson..... Rensselaer PETIT JURORS. Wm. P. Bennett Rensselaer Harrison Wasson Rensselaer Andrew K. Yeoman Marion Wm. 1. Hoover Marion Washington Cook. Hanging Grove Jonh W. Hitchings Jordan Wm. McElfresh ...... Rensselaer Luthur H. Frame ........ Keener John Y. May Carpenter John F. Garriott Union James B. Jordan...... Rensselaer R. B. Harris Rensselaer James Marquess Remington Frank Hart Keener Hans Paulson Wheatfield Dallas M. Yeoman ... .Rensselaer The petit jury is called for the second Monday at 11 o’clock a. m. The grand jury will not be called at all, during the term, unless some pressing occasion for their services should arise, hereafter. You will see the prettiest hats ever shown at M. & A. Meyer’s Millinery Opening Oct. 14 15 and 16. r Mrs. Veromka Wehrle, and two children departed for their home at Philadelphia this afternoon after a two weeks visit with her sister Mrs. Peter Hordeman.

Ladies. Call et Mrs. Austin Hopkins’ Corset Parlors and be fitted. More than a dozen styles to select from- Correct measure taken and corsets made to order.. Residence 2 doors south of Co. Clerk’s office. dwtf. Millinery Opening Oct. 14 15 and 16 at M. &A. Meyers’. > • Millinery opening, Oct. 19 to 23 at Mra. C. E. Hershman's near the depot.