Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1878 — On The Shoot. [ARTICLE]

On The Shoot.

Butter 12 cents per lb. Eggs 8 cents per dozen. Clear side 124 cents per lb. Bacon and Hams 12| to 15. Shoulders 10 to 12. Potatoes 25c. per bushel, Green apples 1 60. Beans $2 to $2 40 per bushel. Flour (winter wheat) $1 60 to $1 60 per quarter bbl.

If you wish to buy a tract of land in Jasper county consult Thompson & Bro. They sell at owners’ prices, and have a large list from which to select.

Oranges and lemons at A S. La Rue’s. A good Hat for 50 cents at Narrow Gauge One Price Clothing Store. • Canned peaches, both table and pie at A. S. La Rue’s. D. H. Yeoman has just received some fine specimens of Bronze Tureys and Partridge Cochin Chickens. Dried apples 8| cents per pound at La Rue’s. Good, well-made Jeans suits for only $5 at the Narrow Gauge One Price Clothing Store. The “Alf McCoy” recommenced its trips betwte Bradford and this plac e Tuesday last Teas, coffee, and sugar a specialty at La Rue’s. New goo Is are being received daily at Imes’ grocery store, and “Newt” is all attention to customers. The best flour at La Rue’s grocery at bottom prices. Don’t buy one dollar’s worth of clothing before you examine goods and prices at the Narrow Gauge One Price Clothing Store. Dried currants 3 pounds for 25 cents at La Rue’s. A street colloquy—good little boy. “Say, Sam, did you ever know Horace James to “blow off” at Capt. Edmonds when he was about? Sam—“No,Tom; James isnt that kind of a ‘Bean’!” We are requested to announce that Divine services are expected to be held in the Presbyterian Church, Rensselaer, on Sunday, March 17, 1878, Rev. Gilbert Small, of White county, to officiate. The public are invited to attend. Josh Billings says: The man that buys and sells for cash is the man to trade with. L Lowman of the Narrow Gauge Clothing Store says the same; and, besides, he lets you Know that he can save you 25 cents on every dollar’s worth of Clothing, Gents’ Furnishing Goods and Hats, that you buy of him.

Frank Robinson, our gentlemanly book-keeper of the Narrow Gauge, Henry Purcupile and Will Hamar, anticipate a fine hunting expedition next Monday. Their boat, which is necessary, as the fields are almost devastated with water, will be conveyed bv rail to Hanging Grove “raging cauawl” —Pinkamink—from whence they propose floating down. It is a well concocted plan, and if Diana shed her halo of light around them, and Fortuna fors them they will come home with their boat—“full.”