Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1881 — Items from Slip-Up. [ARTICLE]

Items from Slip-Up.

Business lively. Weather very warm and dry. Setting poles for lightning wires, F. L. Cotton has sold out his lumber and coal yard and residence to C. D. Nowels. R. B. Patton, who has beeu with F. L. Cotton for several years will remain and manage the lumber Jand coal trade for the new proprietor, and since he has deserted the Hemp Hills and taken to the Hy Lands he is not going west as was reported. We understand the telegraph wires will be up in thirty days, and then Wren, at Rensselaer, will be slinging lightning all over this broad laritF'"

August 10.1881.

SAND-LAPPER.

Our genial Deputy Auditor, Chas. W. Coen, performed the grandest act of his life last Sunday, when he married Miss Aggie, the accomplished daughter of Hon. Geo. H. Brown; and Miss Aggie, too, did well in securing so clever a young gentleman for a life companion. Thanks for a supply of choice cake. We wish them a long and joyous life,

Choice Codfish 6$ cents a pound, at Kern’s new Grocery Store. 'All watches and clocks repaired at Hamar’s warranted for one year. Buy your Sugar and Syrups, pure and unadulterated, at Kern’s new Grocery Store. B. F. Ferguson is prepared to purchase all kinds of grain, and will pay the highest cash price for the same. Office and warehouses at his lumber yards.