Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1880 — DECOLLATION DAY. [ARTICLE]

DECOLLATION DAY.

Rev. A. W. Wood and M. F. Chilcote, Esq., orators. B. F. Furgnson, opening prayer. Arilla Cotton, reader. D. V. Halstead, benediction. Sunday schools to participate and decorate the graves. Masonic orc er, Odd Fellows and K. of P. invited to ua.iticipate. The Rensselaer Cornet Band will will furnish the instrumental music and the Blue Ribbon Choir the vocal music. Sampson Erwin, Marshal. Committee <sn decorations, Superintendents of Sunday Schools. Procession to form at 10 A. M , ex ercises to commence at the cemetery at 10:30 A, M. The different orders will form on Washington and inarch to Cullen street, where,the Methodist Snuday school will join the procession. The procession will then move to the Presbyterian church, where the Presbyteiian Sunday school will join the procession and then to the Christian church, where the Sunday school from that cliurci will join the column and all will march to the cemeteryOn arriving at the cemetery, the Sunday children, under the direction of the Superintendents and teachers, will decorate the soldidrs graves» after which the peoble will assemble at the speaker’s stand, where the exercises will take place. After the exercises are concluded the procession will re-form and march to Washington street. The marshal will appoint his assistants.

Our little friend, “Birdie” Hammond, on Wednesday morning last presented us a handsome boquet of flowers, for which we are duly thankful. Will Rich thinks that he has the boss field of wheat. It’s on Fred Hoover’s farm, just across the road west of Mrs. Kirkpatrick’s. Who can beat it?—Remington Reporter. Remington Reporter: Dr. M. G. Traugh has the neatest and best kept lawn in town, and his black Tumbler Pigeons, bought of a Philadelphia fancier, are most magnificent performers. M.:F. Chilcote, Esq., returned yesterday from Indianapolis, where hej had been in attendance on the Masonic Grand Lodge. While in the city he hud a business interview with Blue Jeans.

On her way home, last Saturday, Mrs. Rhoda Florence inisssed her pocket book. Returning to town, after a short search it was found in front of Kannal’s Drug Store where she had entered her couveyanoe.

The greatest novelty, as well as the best Time-piece ever made, for the price asked, is the Waterbury Watch, for sale at Goldman’s New Jewelry Store, north side of Washington st., Rensselaer, Ind.

Last Saturday was certainly an aggravating day fer our amiable and gallant friend, Tecumseh Major Bitters (big injin). “Ringster” refused to console or advise with him. The Democratic Convention chose to manage its own affairs in its own way, and ha was much dissatisfied and demoralized with the result of its management, then his personal friend, Lyman Zea, whom he had voted into the constabulary force of tho town, threatened to “chaw” him up.

Commissioner Le Due is experimenting with a oew breed of chickens that will give milk. If he succeeds the present administration will go cut in a blaze of glory.

The Blaine managers have been sending out lithographs of their favorite to be hung in hotels printing offices and railway stations. None ot them, however, represent him in that interesting attitude which he assumed in the presence of honest Jim Mulligan.

The people who have been frightened by Mother Shipton’s prophecies into the belief ‘that the world will come to an end in 1881” will feel relieved to hear that the N. Y. World has taken the trouble to prove beyond question that the prophecies are a fraud, and if possible, rather worse as prophecies than they are as poetry. An Englishman named Heindly now admits that h® wrote the Shipton prophecies in 1862,