Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1885 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Owing to the non»arrival o f our supply of paper ;this week ou ac--count of the “blockade,” and having no print paper on hand we are obliged to issue the Sentinel to-day in this form. The "oldest inhabitant” declareth this i 3 the heftiest weather it has ever been his lot to experience. Ezra C. Nowels came home from Indianapolis Saturday night last,and we learn “footed” it to Monou, Tuesday ou his return to the State Capital. C- S, Downing, editor of the MOll- - n Dispatch, Noble J. York, and Frank Im°e after waiting till Wednesday for the removal of the snow blockade, gave it up, started on their homeward trip on foot. J. W. Duvall, the livorv, man stilted Monday to carry a couple of passengeis to Marl Iwo add possibly to continue on toMonon- Before reach ing Pleasant Ridge, however* the party conclude ! it would be best to make a back track to Rensselaer. Wes. says he has been in business a good many years, and this was the first time he was ever compelled to return withoul first teaching his point or destination. Zina. Dwiggins and wife came over from Oxford Friday iast, and doing obliged tc make a virtue of necessity, are still in Rensselaer.' The new depot of the Lr, N. A. & C. RR. on Polk St., Chicago, is a handsome and übstantially bull’ structure, and will so n be completed. Thursday next wll be the 21st anniversary of the Knights of Pythias An intertainment w>ll be given at bull of rlie Order in this place, on that occasion, Saturday last Mrs ‘Pet” Jones was arrested for intoxication and disturb ance of the public pea e, taken before Justice Purcupile, and fined $2 and costs, amounting to about sls. Our Methodtst friends are holding a very interesting series of meetings' Quite a number have been added to the church, on probation and letter, since the meetings began.