Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1881 — Unien Skraps. [ARTICLE]

Unien Skraps.

Weather warm and cloudy. Roads almost impassable. Three fourths of a mile of water over the grade south of Grape Island. Hurrah for Union! A new top buggy! John Gant the owner! Look out for “Polka and Wsltz! The first top boggy ever owned in Union! Soon be time for candidates to start out electioneering. Our iriend, the Hon. D. B. Swac - lehammer, Esq., who so readily crit i.-ised the tardiness of other correspondents. might profit by hys own criticism. We always conside.ed him a little too boastful. The small pox scare has died away. There will be a joint discussion at the Harrington school house, between the literary societies of Ktenei and Union, on the second Saturday of January. Let everybody turn cut But we want it distinctly understood that language flows from the “Union ites” as Wiis supposed to have flown the miraouious waters from the fountains of perpetual youth. Literary every Saturday evening. The officers elected by our literary society at the last election are as fol* lows: President, F. J. Gunt; Vice President, C. C. Cooper; Secretary, James Pierce: Treasurer, C. Harrington. We might also add that the society is in a flourishing condition. The attendance of our schools are not us good at present ns at the beginning of the term. Bad roads the cause. We had the pleasure of walking over to the railroad last Monday missing the train. We then started for Rensselaer on foot. Only three more days in which to see the la»t part of Mother Shipton’s prophesy fulfilled. The best looking girls in Jasper county arc those of Union. A young Democrat at Jno. Swalm’s. The following persons will represent the Jusper City literary society in the joint discussion: David W. Shields, Austin Lakin, James Pierce and B. W. Harrington.

Deo. 26,1881.

GRAPE-ISLAND.