Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1878 — Strawberrv Festival. [ARTICLE]

Strawberrv Festival.

The young ladies of the Presbyterieu Church, of Rensselaer, will give a Strawberry and lee Cream Festival on this (Friday) evening at the chur h. Besides Strawberries and Ice Cream, other refreshments of the season will be supplied. A general and cordial invitatiou to attend is extended to the public. Mr. Leopold was selected to succeed Mr. Fendig on the school board. He will no doubt prove an efficient, working member. We understand that the president of the city dads for two days labored under the erroneous impression that Mr F. L. Clark was the new appointee. —lt is more than likely that Bro. James has, or will be, granted leave of absence from Turks Island until after the election this fall. He can hardly be spared just now, but of course his Consular pay will come in just the same.—Remington Times. An Indiana girl made S6OO raising broamcorn, last year. That is better than raising broomsticks. • Youngmen, bewareof mixed drinks! Remember that Goliah was killed with a sling. The man who never does any harm might crawl into a cave and stay there ten years without being missed. Albany Argus: A coquette is a rose bush 'from which each young beau plucks a leaf, and the thorns are left for the husband, “The biscuit,” says a newspaper writer, “is the national gastric clog, the huge sporegerm of self-propagat-ing and self-perpetuating dyspepsia. Edward Mink, a young man of A 1 leutown, Pa., has eloped with Mrs. Susan Mertz, and Mr. Mertz says he shall not bother about it. Most sensible man. A 16-year-old boy of Henrietta, Jackson county, Michigan, was married to a 15-year-old girl just 24 hours before a child was born to the partnership. I The Adventists of Battle Creek, Michigan, believe that Jesus Christ will very soon come again to earth and take them all up lo heaven. Yet they are building a $25,000 eh ireh. —D. W. Thompson, of Greenwood. Miss., has married his mother-,n-law, a marriage void under the State law. f-o that the couple have the choice of living apart or removing to another State. The lecturess known as “Miss Edith O’Gormau, the escaped nun,” is the wife of Professor Auffrey, of New York, and the mother of a child. This disclosure will be likely to destroy her sensational business.