Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1889 — To Speak Good English. [ARTICLE]

To Speak Good English.

Bev. Robert Colyersaid; “Do you •'ant to know how I manage to talk to yoain this simple Saxon? I will teH you. I read Bunyan, Crusoe, and Goldsmith when I was a boy, morning, noon, nr>q night,**

Vote for Simpson! No services at the M. E. church next Sunday. Our streets were lit up by the electric lights last evening. The Findlay (Ohio) Manufacturing Company will furnish the seats, in antique oak, finished with cherry, for the new M. E. church. Mr. Jerome Harmon and Mrs. Suo E. Tribby, of Kemington, married at the Makeever House, Monday, Justice Morgan officiating. Our old, solid Democratic friend, John Tillett, one of Gillam’s substantial farmers, visited the county capital to-day. The graduating exercises last Saturday evening were held at Saylerville. Graduates —Erliardena Weurthner, Mary Goetz, Wilber Tharp and Harvey Henkle, of Newton township; Lucy Nowels, of Marion township.

Rensselaer decorated oh Centennial JDay, and in the afternoon the Opera House was packed with a large audienc?. Patriotic songs by the choir, music by the band, and addresses bv Judge Hammond, Senator. T ompson, Revs. T. J. Abbett, M. L. Tressler, U. M. McGuire, and Frank Foltz, Esq., made up the prsgramme. Alfred Thompson presided. On Wednesday of last week a sneak thief entered the hall of the j til and extracted from a vest of sheriff Blue, which was hanging therein, a valuable gold watch and chainT The sheriff suspected his man, and by the exercise of a little detective ingenuity and the aid of O. K. Ritchey, he captured the thief and secured his property, the Thursday evening following. In default of SSOO bail, Russell languisheth in the county jail.