Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1913 — Items Taken From the Rensselaer Union of Feb. 22, 1877. [ARTICLE]

Items Taken From the Rensselaer Union of Feb. 22, 1877.

In 1877 the Rensselaer Union was printed by Horace E. James and llervin 0. Cissell. A stray copy of ;he paper of 22nd, 1877, has alien into our hands and from it the following articles are taken: Elder D. T. Halstead and wife were planning to move from Rensselaer and the paper was-deploring their intended departure. A long article recounted that he had served two terms as county auditor, one as trustee of Marion township and had served as a deputy In other courthouse jobs. A wild fire burned up about one hundred and fifty rods of fencing on Mr. John Makeeva's Two-Mile prairie farm, a day of two since: Scarlet fever is reported among the youthful inhabitants of Hanging Grove township. No cases have yet appeared in Rensselaer. * J. H. Wood and family left this week to take up their abode in Winamac. Michael Comiskey has decided to pack up his portable effects and return to the Wolverine state, but will hold a public sale on March 3rd before departing. A number of members of the Church of God met on the evening of Feb. 21st at the residence of Norman Warner and presented Elder D. T. Halstead with a testimonial letter and a purse containing SBO. The following morning another testimonial letter signed by the county officers and a number of other prominent gentlemen of Rensselaer, reached him: The Jasper County Temperance Union advertised to hold its monthly meeting the following Monday. S. P. Howard was to open the meeting with prayer and Delos Thompson, Miss Flo Thompson, Dan Willey, Elmer Dwiggins, Jiy Dwiggins and Freddie Cissell were down for declamations. Joseph Willey had an essay and J. M. Williamson had a select reading. There was to be a song by the “young ladies and “organ performances by Miss McArthur and others.” The Democratic Sentinel made its appearance the week before and the Union gave it a very complimentary notice, saying some good things about James W. McEwen, who had just moved here from Monticello, where h 4 had published the Constitutionalist. In another column an argument was started, a reply to a “hot shot” from the Sentenel of the week before. The paper was well filled with advertising. A. Leopold, R. S. & Z. Dwiggins, E. T. Harding & Son, J. W. Duvall, N. Warner, J. S. Wigmore, C. C. Starr, David James, Bass & Co., Emmet Eannal, Charley Platt, W. A. Railsback, James Spencer, S. B. Haver, John Coen, R. Fendig, Louis Kan, R. J. Hopkins, J. Austin, Leslie Grant, Samp. Erwin, Dr. G. A. Moss, Dr. Moses B. Alter, Dr. J. H. Loughridge, Dr. R. Y. Martin, James W. Porter, John Zimmerman, N. R. Bowman, A. McCoy & Thompson, Frank W. Babcock, Thompson & Bro. and M. F. Chilcote were advertisers. The Crescent Litaary Society, which had been meeting at the court house, was compelled to disband because the commissioners had ruled that no meetings other than the court could be held there. David Goodenough. 25 years .of age, died of dropsy of the heart at the residence of Sydney King. Rev. Thos. Yanscoy conducted the funeral. , Henry G. Sayler, of Barkley township, was buried the Sunday before. The following Sunday Rev. D. J. Huston was'to deliver a memorial sermon and review the history of the Baptist church in Rensselaer. John H. Querry and Celia Jane Prevo were granted a marriage license on the 13th; Emanuel Clouse and Malinda M. Shannahan on the 14th, and John Abram Wahl and Sarah Ann Stew on the 17th. The price of the Union was $2 a year and the editors thought that every family in the county that could read the English language should take the paper, but stated that if they could not afford $2 they could get the Democratis-Sentinel for $1.50. —-- George M. Robinson, as sheriff, was advertising at sheriff’s sale some property at Remington to satisfy a judgment against William H. and Cornelia M. Shaw. The Republican also has the files for the year 1888 of the Rensselaer Republican and will print excerpts from it occasionally.