Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1879 — Strawberry and Ice-Cream Festival! [ARTICLE]

Strawberry and Ice-Cream Festival!

To-be held at the Presbyterian Church Thursday, May 22, 1879. Committee on Araangements—Elza Phillips and Louie Bass. Finance—D. J. Thompson and F. J. Sears. Confeutlon^-y—R. Spencer,. A. Cole, Miss Ella Osborne and Miss Emma Phillips. Lemonade—M. Teuter, Wm, Legg, Miss Rachel Bass and Miss Della Cotton. Cake—Miss Hattie Coen, Miss Au rilia Cotton,. Mise Mollie Babcock and Mrs. F. J. Sears. Strawberries—Miss Julia Smith, Mrs M. L. Spitler. Mrs. I. C. Kelley and Mrs. C. H. Price. Ice Cream—L. Martin, W. E. Moss, Miss Dora Purcupile and Miss Eliza Kirk. Flowers—Misses Lizzie Purcupile, Rosa. Eaker, Katie Green. First half-hour, devoted- to music and promenade.

Miss Arvena Books, teacher of S.n.ths school, district No. 3, reports lor the month, ending May 9th, t-.e enrollment of 38 pupils, and the uvei age daily attendance 31. <5. ihose perfect in punctuality, deportment and study wer: A ice Fh Ider, Jenme Murray, Fl ra Henkle, Korah Heukle, " iilie Henkle, Dora English r i\i;ind.i McCurtain, Warren M<€ar tain r Frauk McCurtain, Louis MeCurtuiii, Louisa Day, Lizzie Day, Inez Walker, Edmond Walker, Ch, rles Walker, Korah Parker, John Marla r, Nora M-niuit, Lissa Pritchard, Mar shal . te.d, Liudl Pullins, and John Pullins. Miss Eliza Kirk, teacher of the lioqnni* S ho 1,. n Marion towns! p district No. 7. reports for the month en o Muy 9m, 1379, an enrolnuent ■i 1 pupils, and an average attend ance of lfs Thos- who were perfect in attendance, punctuality, deportment -ind scholarship are Ida Coons, Rosa Paris, Rosa Coons and Laura West.

A wife.in tbe house is worth two in the street.—Me Bregor, (Iowa) News. A correspondent asks, “What has become of Jim Anderson? Is he dead?” Oh, no: he is only lying low. Angell is a very valuable acquisition to the Joliet oenitentiary. He does the work of three ordinary bookkeepers. A merchant may get along without, advertising, and a boy may slide down hill without a sled, but both feats are wearing.—Stillwater Lumberman. A Rhode Island woman went into the cemetery to weep ovei the grave of her fourth busband. She found a strange woman doing the weeping for her, and there was a flgut, a hair-pull, a howl, and all further tears were declared "off.” A young girl returning home alone from church in Lancaster, Pa., a fewnights ago, was insulted by a welldressed man, and hit him in the face with her prayer book with a force that sent him reeling. Apayerbu k is a good thing, Colonel Ingersoll o the contrary notwithstanding. He antered the grocery store and said not a word, but allowed his cane to swing to and fro exactly us the pendulum of a clock. The grocer only said, “No, we sell nothing on tick.” and the man with the cane p ssed sadly and silently out. - Louisville Courier-Journal.

Farmers will have a hard time of it this year fighting potato bugs, Several ha e already been captured with maps iu their possession containing the location of every potato patch iu the county, and they are so ferocious ibis season we may expect to hear of young children being gobled up by them at any time. The outlooit is bad.—Granu Rapids Leader, The postmaster general has issued the following order: Owing to the rapid increase iu mails and the establishment of many new’ post offices throughout the country, this department finds it necessary, in order to secure a speedy transmission of t ie heavy mails now passing, particularly over the trunk lines of railroads, to request the public that in ail cases the name of the county, as well as the postoffice and the state, be in scribed upon the {letters, newspapers and other matter forwarded by mail.”