Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1881 — Union Township Items [ARTICLE]

Union Township Items

Health good. Buslaess lively. Weather cooler than for the past few days.

The Sunday school f reunion t>t Pleasan Yalley was a success. Miss Mattie D. Alter, of Carpenter, is visiting friends in this township.— Welcome. Mattie. . Basket meeting at Auer’s Mill, today. Rev. Abram Miller will preach at the Gant school boure next Sunday, at 4 o’cloc.c p. m. Union was visited >?ith a good rain yesterday, while her republican sisj teis on the north and south were Jejt Ito dry up by the sun. It must be because Union proposes to give a good Demoeratic majority in 1882. “The prayers of the good availeth much.” Billy is married at last. We wish him and his fair bride “a smooth sea, and a fair wind to watt them o’er life B stormy ocean.” . Union will “show out” at the Coun. ty Institute next weeK. Small grain about all threshed. — The “curu-out was smaller than at first expected. Damon & Pythias says in the col mans of the Republican that “Bill Bat“ “has no poetry in his soul, and and t.hnt the song of the nightingale would have no more charm for him than that of the mosquito.” Mr. D. & j P. is mistaken, “Bill Bat” is possessor of'one of the only two organs in the t i-.vnsbip, is a feood violinist, and cgjj_ 8 tig more Dutch songs than any other man in Jasper We are atwaysready to defend the people of Union. We are glad to see Newton represented in your columns. The inhabitants of that township are a widtavvake class, even if they can’t boast of the “web-looted maidens” of Gillam, or the “pretty garls”of Union.

GRAPE ISLAND.

August 7,1881.