Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1883 — UNION ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

UNION ITEMS.

Roads bad. Heavy shower yesterday. Corn very backward, wheat and rye somewhat ,elow the average, Morg. Shields and Cnarley Cooper have purchased a top buggy. Road working is the order of the day. Walter Harrington closed his spring term of school last Friday. Tne poople are very well satisfied with the new County Superintendent and think the schools will continue to prosper as heretofore. Taken altogether the schools have been a grand success this spring. Miss Chattie Sayers returned from her school, iu Gillam township,.last Saturday. Yery little has been done, in the way of improvements, in Union this pring. Rosebud school closes on next Friday. David W. Shields returns to Valparaiso to-morrow to continue his studies in the Normal at that place. Mr. Isaac Hemphill and wife, es Pleasant Ridge, visited relatives in Union last Saturday and Sunday, Reports say there will soon be another wedding in Union.

Old maids are as numerous as frogs but not a single baohelor, in Union. Misses Minnie and Ellft Troxel vi lted their parents last Sunday. Moses Wilson has purchased a violin and now he claims s o be an amateur. Two map agents in Union last week, but talk is cheap and the gentle breeze has passed over. Slang phrases are very common just now. The latest is JUMBO ! Juno 18, 1883.