Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1881 — Little Grains. [ARTICLE]

Little Grains.

BY DON.

Mrs. Mary Hopkins has had ner house re-roofed. Married men should let young girls alone. If a cur runs out and barks at you never stop your team, get out of yo .ir wagon and try to drive him away.— It will only make him woise. Drive right on and he will quitbarking, and sneak back looking as sneaking as if he had been killing sheep. It is a good plan to treat some men in the same way, i. e. with silent contempt. Sandlapper, please give Heistand a rest. There never was a finer prospect for corn in Jasper county than this year. Leopold is preparing to build a new brick store room and a brick front to his stone building. Good for him. Don’t you think it a humbug to ad«vertise men to deliver Fourth of July orations who never promised to come here ? The track is down to the Kankakee river. ’Rah for the Air Line. Don’t ycu think it would pay us to vote a two per cent, tax to get the Chicago and Block Coal Railroad to Rensselaer? Jo. Eigelsbach is working for Mr Wood, the new butcher. Don’t talk too union about yo,ur neighoors is a sure preventive of thumped heads. "Will Austin is a Bachelor of Ari. — He graduated at Crawfordsville. The creamery is doing a good business of late. Perkins is paying out two and three hundred dollars each week for cream. The Sunday fishermen didn’t catch many fish. The grand jury didn’t find any bill against those funny people who do not behave well in church. They had better look a. little out however.

The School Board met at the law office of M. F. Chilcote, Wednesday, and among other business transacted,the services of the following-named persons were engaged' as teachers in the Rensselaer Public Schools for the ensuing school year: Superintendent, Wm. de M. Hooper; Grammar Department, C. P. Mitchell; Intermediate Department, Mrs. C. P. Mitchell ; Primary “B,” Miss Amanda Osborne ; Primary “A,” Miss Lydia Parris. School will commence on the Ist Monday in September, and continue nine months, with a short vacation during the holidays.

The surveyors are at work on the Air Line road from New York to Omaha, and are now, we understand, this side of Rochester. We learn that the engineer has promised the people of Kewanna to run a line taking in that village. If this is done, it might be well for our people to give it a little attention and see if the road cannot be brought to Winamac. It will be a bad day for Winamac if this road passes south oi' north of us a few miles. Some may say the road will never be built. If it is not, there is no harm of being on the safe side; but the prospect is that it will be built. In fact, it is settled that it will be built, and that at no distant day, The men who have it in charge are men of means and experience, and they intend to put it through. Our people should be alive to their interests. Railroads never killed a town yet, and never will, and any man can see the advantage such a road as this would jbe to our county.—[Winamac Re- | publican.