Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1885 — “FREE AT LAST!" [ARTICLE]

“FREE AT LAST!"

About 9 o’clock, Tuesday night, a fire broke out in the rag room of the Tippecanoe paper mill, aih rt distance s uth-east of Monticello, and destroyed the mil] and contents. Loss about $50,000; insur. mice about £25,5(0. Jt will be rebuilt. It i : a notorious fact that Leopold gives greater bargains than any other house in town. Call and examine for yourself. H. A. W adsworth, Esq., of L _ pone Argv.s i as been appointed post-master for that city. Correct. Our friend, A. M. Traugli lias been appointed post-master a: Remington, t is county. Mi\ John B. Chesebro igh has been appointed post-muster a 1 Kentland. The, Chicago Grocery, R. F. Priest, proprietor, i now in full blast, in the Williams-Stockton block. Extensive and at prices eompetijadn Everybody respectfully invited to call and see for themselves.

Tuesday last, at India apolis, a vast multitude from all over the land followed the remains of the late Vice-President Hendricks to their last resting place, while in the villages, towns and cities of the Union, Memorial Services were hold In Rensselaer emblems ( f mourning m-1 the gaze in every direction. At 1 o’clock, pursuant to programme, adopted at meeting on Saturday evening, our citizens ana! the public schools assembled at the Gourt House and engaged in the exreises agreed upon. Dr. James Ritchey, an o d no. quai t lime and fell >w mend er wdh Mr. Hendricks in the Constitutional Convention, as President on the occasion opened the exercises with appropriate remarks. Praver, by Rev. 1). audley; appropriate music by # the band and choir, followed by short and suitable addresses by Messrs. James W. Douthit, Ezra C. Nowels, Dr. I. B. Wasburn, J. H. Jessen, Simon P. Thompson, M. L. Spit er, Horace E. James and Dr. S. W. Ritchey, occupied the afternoon.