Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1881 — Union Township Items. [ARTICLE]

Union Township Items.

Diy and warm. Hay making almost over. Business lively at “Pei Ho.” Considerable sickness among the 'fthildien. Mrs. Robert Sw.um is reported on 1 the sick list. Jaepb Troxell limps around with a catarrh on his foot. liev. Lemuel Shortridge preached last Sunday at the Harrington aeiiool house. Win. Tyler has been working for Jacob Troxell for the past week. Tom Sayrs says he has a “steam engine to pitch his hay this year.’ It is reported thatß. W. Harrington contemplates moving to Bose Lawn next spring. Let every woman mark her $ silver pieces, and put her peaches under Jock and key. William Cooper has put up over 200 tons of hay this year. He has a single rick 105 feet in length. Agues, daughter of James and Eli - zaboth Wiseman, aged 13 years, died last week after a sickness of a few days. Our heartfelt sympathies go with the bereaved family. A valuable 3-year old steer belong log to A. McCoy and William Kenton died of sun stroke last Saturday.— Mr. K. was driving him, with 180 more, to Keener to pasture. J. E. Alter and A. M. Munden, two live teachers of Union, contemplate opening a live weeks school at the Bose Bud school house, for the bene fit of teachers and advanced schol ars. We wish them a erand success Scientific “Bill Bat” keeps his eye on the cornet. That’s right, b. b., keep your eyes open. It pleases us to know that Union has her own ns tronomer.

“That good rain” of the Democrats of Union and the “Grape Island man” seems to bother the brain of the Keener correspondent to the Repub lican. His imagination contains, to him, most horrible pictures. He imagines he hears the joyous shouts of the Democracy and the people in the approaching contiicts. He can hear the howling of the tempest (republi can ories); the falling of raid-drops (republican tears): the crashes of thunder (republican exposure), which • is enough to strike terror iD his heart, as did the handwriting on the wall strike teiror to the heart of Belshazzar of old. Why this “ weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth?” GRAPE-ISLAND. August 29,1881. Subjects for pulp it discourse at tlie Presbyterian Church September 4th: Morning, “Gifts that are Better than Silver or Gold.” Evening, “The Religion of the Bible a Pre-eminently Personal Need. Married, this (Thursday) morning, Elder D. T. Halstead officiating, at the residence of the bride’s mother, Mrs. Mary Hopkins, Mr. Frank B. Meyer to Miss Alice Hopkins.