Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1881 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Refreshing rains. Bather cool this June 3d. MB ""Circuit Court, next Monday. Commissioners Court next Monday. Now meat market first next week. Closing exercises at the Rensselaer Schools to-day. A prospective Democratic voter is stopping with John Owens. Arrived last Saturday. The dwelling house of David Gleeson. in Keener township, was entirely destroyed by fire Sunday last. Cause unknown No insurance. Wo are requested to correct the statement of a correspondent with reference to the price of the organ purchased by Mr. Isaac Parker He paid $l4O for the instrument

Mrs. Jas. Zea, from near Remington, last week visited her sister-in law, Mrs. P. H. Zea, of this place. Mr. Zea came over and spent Saturday and Sabbath with nis brother and family. They returned home Monday, well pleased with the activity of buMncss and improvement of Rensseiucr, especially with the creamery.

The M. E. Church will be open for services next Sabbath. Sabbath school at 9:30 a. m. Pieaching, 10 : 30 a. in., and 7:30 p. m. A, W. Wood, Pastor. June 3,1881.

New dry goods, large assortment, Just received, and will be sold at the very lowest prices by R. Fendig.

Much serious sickness and suffering might be prevented bv promptly correcting those slight derangements that, otherwise,, often develop into settled disease. When a cold or other cause checks the operation of the secretive organs, their natural healthy action should be restored, and inflammatory material removed from the system. Ayer’s Pills accomplish this quickly, safely and surely.

Twelve* pounds of light yellow Sugar for $2, at Kern’s new Grocery Store. Take Ayer’s Pills for all the purposes of a purgative, for Constipa tion, Indigestion, Headache and Liver Complaint. By universal accord, they are the best of all purgatives for family use. A full stock of Groceries just received, and will bp sold at bottom prices, at R. Fendig’s. See announcement of Jasper County Normal in another column. The gentlemen having it in charge, Messrs Nowels, Hooper and Allen, are instructors of unquestioned abilities. Buy your Sugar and Syrups, pure and unpdulterated, at Kern’s new Grocery Store.

The “half breeds” pre endeavoring to console themselves w]th a fable manufactured for the occasion by tne New York Tribune. The moral is that the withdrawal of a Giraffe and Trick Mule failed to break up a show, and notwithstanding the withdrawal of Conkling and Platt the radical menagerie willl continue its performances.

Keener Townshi?. June 1,1881, Editor Democratic Sentinai, : Dear Si;— l send you these few lines for p üblication,and the sentiment expressed is that of at least fourlifths of the voters of Keener township, I see by reference to the Republican of May 26th, 1881, that a bridge across the Kankakee river, at Dunn’s Ford, is a fixed fact. Now, in the language of Tax Payer, “a bridge across the Kankakee river, at Dunn’s Ford, is superfluous,” and will be of very little benefit to the people of Jasper county, only Hon. I. D. Dunn, who will be personally benefited several hundred dollars by the building of said bridge. This issue was made some two and a half years ago, during a closely contested campaign, and the idea not only denied but ridiculed. The bridge, if built, will only be a few rods over two miles west of the line Between Starke and Jasper counties, and but four miles west of San Pierre, a station on the line of the L., N. A. & C. RR., which gives to the people of the northern portion of Kankakee township a very good trading point; and if they wish to cross the river into Porter county they have only to go two miles up the river from the RR. crossing, and five miles below, to Baum’s bridge, which gives very good accommodations for getting to Koutt’s Station or Valparaiso, in Porter county. Therefore it is very difficult to conceive where public necessity requires the county to oe taxed the tune of fifteen hundred or two thousand dollars for the erection of a bridge at Dunn’s Ford.

Now I wish to speak of a petition for a bridge across the Kankakee river one and one-eighth mile west of the line between ranges 6 and 7, in Jasporcounty. The petition was filed June 5, 1877, and a survey of the route made by George Johnson, by virtue es an erder of the Commissioners. This bridge, if built, woud give the people of Keener township an outlet to Hebron, in Porter county, a distance of only five or six miles, but as now traveled wo have to go nine or ten miles east to Baum’s bridge, and the same distance back, before we can reach Hebron. If this bridge was built it would place Rensselaer and Hebron in diiect communication, which would be of great benefit to the people of both counties. But it seems as though we must wait yet a little while longer and vote the Republican ticket.

During ihe last compaign we were goaded with the party lash, and made to understand that if the present Commissioner of the second district was elected the grade and bridge over the Iroquois river in which be is interested should' await its turn, and the one wo wore interested in over tho Kankakee river, would receive his support. But, 10l our petition was—dismissed. Wonder if bis petition will be dismissed at the next term of Commlosionerr Court ANOTHER TAXPAYER. Choice Codfish cents a pound, at Kern’s new Grocery Store.