Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1881 — Items from Slip-Up. [ARTICLE]

Items from Slip-Up.

Weather very warm. Most too dry for corn and potatoes. The saw mill at Slip-Up has done very mnch since Heistand was called to Cotton’s. Heistand is at home with a portable engine. Messrs. Johnson and sons will astonish the world this fall with race horses. Peiville is flourishing. Slip-Up badly needs a store and post office. Strawberry Valley could get its mail at Slip Up, as could also Bob-Tail. Tail Holt has been deserted. Rose Lawn is a beautiful village two and a half or three miles from the great Kankakee river. The mosquitoes have taken the place of the frogs, as a means of annoyance to the inhabitants of the north woods. James Brushahan returned last week from school at Valparaiso. SAND-LAPPER. July 18, 1881.

Miss Ella Rhoads is visiting Miss Jessie French, at.Kentland. The cornice is being put in place on the Makeever hotel. Rob’t Gregory, Esq., of Monticello, is in Rensselaer on legal business. The engineers of the Continental railway reached Rensselaer Wednesday evening. Oir old friend Dr. R. J. Clark of Monticello, was in Rensselaer the first of the week. When a thief steals five cents he doesn’t think half the dime that some day perhaps old nickle get him.—Wit andJWisdom. E. P. Roberts, of the hardware and agricultural machinery firm of Roberts & Mikseli was in Rensselaer Tuesday on business of the house. Mr. John Makeever has not as yet contracted for the construction of a new business block, but he assures us that he is going to build it all the same.

Miss Brandon, of Decatur, 111., gave a recitation, and Prof. J. L. Makeever, late of Osceola, Neb., and Will B. Austin delivered addresses before the Blue Ribbon organization last Friday evening. The “Merry Maidens” gave an entertainment at the Opera House last evening that was well worthy a much larger audience than was present.— The audience was highly pleased, and the absentees missed a good treat.