Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1875 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

This is said to be the latest season since 1868. Logan port claims to Jhave a population of 16,000. The Battle of Spring is fought with blades of grass. Dropping the fish alias onSnndays la not all write. There were no msrrisgs licenses issued this week. Mr. John Tharp, of Remington, was sos town Sunday. Go to Kern’s for groceries—% nrw stock jost received. Never ran in debt—walking Is such more dignified. Save your quarter and go to the concert to-morrow night. Mr. P. W. Bedford goes shopping In a near $210.00 phaeton. Messrs. I. J. Sean ft Go. have given their front a fresh coat of paint. Go to the eoneert to-morrow (Sunday) evening, at the Court House. Willey * Sigler have just received a new and selected stock of carpets. Our worthy P£M., Mr. George Sigler, and family, are visiting in Chicago. Riley * Shepherd, the Remington marble men, were in town Wednesday.

Remington young men come to Rensselaer and go a fishing on Sunday. F. J. Sears & Co. have the handsomest sign in town—put up on Tuesday. See advertisement headed “The Best Prairie Lands in Iowa an Nebraska’’ Would you rest easy and have a clear conscience—attend to your own business. Dr. W. C Maxwell, dentist, formerly of Remington has again located at Fowler. 20,000 pounds of Wool wanted at F. J. SEARS & CO. Cleanliness is next to godliness. Scrape the back yards, and then keep them clean. Mr. T. P. Wright is building a residence on Cullen street opposite the M. E. Church. “Hunks” will find something in another column that may be of special interest to him. The Plymouth Republican has suspended operations, and the office is now offered for sale. Mr. J. W. Peters is said to be the best singing teacher that has ever visited these parts.

New and fnney—is the awning just put up at F. J. Sears & Co’s establishment. At F. J. Sears & Co. can be found the largest stock of Goods ever opened in Reas«slaer. 'The wiseacres now predict a drought.— 1 hey’re always drowning or ereuating a fellow. /.** Mr. B. M. Donnelly aud lady, of Remington, were in Rensselaer last Sunday, risilng friends. Mr. Charles Hathaway and Mies Dellia Hathaway, of Remington gave us a eall last Saturday. ..*»■ Many of out fanners are done planting corn, noth withstanding the backwardness es the season. See the new advertisement of E. L. Trice, jeweler and watch All of his work is warranted. Mrs. Chas. Jouvenat, of Remington, is spending a few days visiting at her father's, in this place. Touchingly picturesque, tenderly suggestive, and bewitchingly piquant, are the spring bonnets. Among our Remington callers, on Wednesday, were Mr. G. B. Chappell and Mr. 0. B. Mclniire. Mr. J. Zimmerman, the tailor, has the thanks of the Rmnueix office for an act of kindness. Five persons were baptised in the nee last Sunday, by ftev. S. E. Rogers, of the Free Will Baptist Church. /"

Young Moyer, of the Old Line Drug Store, has gone to Dixon, HL, to clerk in a drug store in that city. Several persons from Remington were in attendance to the B. S. Convention on Tuesday and Wednesday. On the flrat of July, the fee for postal money-orders of fifteen dollars or less will be increased to ten cents. Turkish Prunes 12} cents per pound, Early Bose Potatoes $l6O per bushel, and new Onions, at Kern’s Grocery. Mr. Chas. Jouvenat, a Remington Lawyer, called on ns Friday. C&ariie takes the Rxpcbliu.v, therefore he is happy. Our “Jordan Township Items” were delayed in the mails last week, so we were unable to give them in last week’s issue. Elsewhere we present to our Readers toe eall for the State Temperance Convention. Bead the call and attend the convention. Our Drees Goods Department is complete. All are invited to call. No trouble to show goods. P. J. SEARS A CO. Messrs. Geooge Armstrong, Ute Jegries and Bam Bowman, of Remington, autos graphed at the Austin House last Sunday.

We have acme elegant Linen Baits for ladies. Also, neck wear in great variety. F. J. SEARS ft CO. William* ft Heasler, es the Warsaw Indication, have purchased the Fort Wayne Gazette, the only morning paper in that city Rensselaer can now boast of* aaloen.— We suspect it has already begun to grind out a grist of “Blighted prospects and rained characters.” Don’t forget the musical feast, at the Court House to-morrow evening. It is expected to make this the hurt entertainment of the season. Mr. E. Anglemire, of Remington, called at the RxrtrsUKaa offiee last Friday, and oedersd a oopy of tha paper to he sent ragulsrly to hb address. • Mr. Ira W. Yeoman left for Indianapolis Tuesday morning, to represent the Lodge of es this plaoe, in the aaeembling of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows. Boftly now, the tender-hearted wife imparts to her searching husband the intelligence that she sent hb linen clothes to the Kansas sufferers last winter. The Rensselaer Musical Society will give a grand concert nt the Court House next Saturday evening, May 22d, 1876. Admission 26 ocats; children 16 cents. Mr. H. B. Miller haa a larg*. quantity of sweat potato plants for sale. Persons who have engaged plants of him are hereby notified that they are ready for delivery. From the Delphi Journal wo learn Mr. Samuel Johnson, formerly of Rensselaer, died on Saturday, May Bth, 1876, caused by an operation for the removal of gravel. The Celebrated Weed Sewing Machine b the best ia the market, for rale by C. W. Clifton, the authorised agent. Office on Front street, Rensselaer, near the school boildisg. The concert, te-mevrow evening, will he under the supervision of Mr. J. W. Peters; Milts Mary Cole O rganist, assisted by Mr. C. P. Hopkins and others. Doors open at 7:45, concert to commence at 8.

Mr. J. M. Austin, the gentlemanly proprietor of the Austin House, is building an addition to his hotel, which contributes considerably to the appearance of Washington street, in the shape of a large veranda. To save himself from-further trouble and ns from an unpleasant duty, the gentleman who borrowed our ax and has had. it in his possession for the past two weeks will please return said ax and no questions will be asked. R. Fendig, of the Stone Store, ia constantly adding to hit large stock of goods. In foot he is compelled to do so on account of his large sales, and the reason he sells so rapidly is that he keeps the best kind of goods and sells cheap. Hon. R. S. Dwiggins was elected as a delegate, with Rev. E. A. Andrews as an alternate, to represent the Jasper County Sunday School Union in the State Sunday School Union Convention which convenes at Lafayette on the Ist day of June. “Timothy Tugmutton,’ 1 of San Pierre, is hereby notified that we do net insert anonymous communications. The name of the author mtui accompany the communication, not for publication, but as an evidence of goodfoith on the part of the writer. So write again “Timothy” but sendyour proper name along. ’

A correspondent of the Porter County Viiette says: “Mr. John Vantwood, late Justice of the peace, es Chicago, has bought two hundred acres of land over in Jmeper county and and is shipping lumber here to muke improvement preparatory to moving on his land. He tells us that land has advanced seventy per cent over in that part of the country in one year.” If our fugacious cotemporaries will consalt Webster’s Dictionary they will find that ■tavane is the plural (if you know what that is) es savant, and means literary Rensselaer Union. And if our sealous brother will again take up Webster’s Dictionary and turn to the word in question he will find that savants is the plural of savant, which Webster defines, ss meaning “A man es learning; one versed in literature or acieenoe a person eminent for acquirements.” - Z. I. Summers, of the northern department of the C. &8. A. R. R., arrived here with his corps last Monday, and commenced the survey es the section between this place and Rensselaer. They started at the P. C. k Bt. L. R. R. in the continuation of Railroad street and ran due north over one hundred rods, then started on a straight line to Bradford. The road will run through the corporation of MonticeQo nearly one mile on n direct line. If Radford is made a point, it will make the only angle on the line between this pine# and Rensselaer. In all eases where practicable the location will be an air line between stations. —Monticello Herald.

Will “Hunks” allow us kindly to suggest that perhaps it is an uneasy conscience —rather than reasons alleged-—that interferes with his peaceful slumbers. He doubtless feels that he ought to identify himself with the Good Templars, or, at least, with the friends of temperance, whether in or out of the Lodge. If wo are correct in our surmise, we hope he will not shift the responsibility to that innocent nnameniable personage, via.: Hood’s jackrabbiti— Would that ho and all men would raise their voices and help swell the temperance anthem until it should awaken the hearts of aD the rum dealers in toe land to a sense of their responsibility. As to the H. W. B. darts that “Hunks” attempted to hurl at the Lodge, we will treat them with silent contempt, as we consider them unworthy the pen of a gentleman, and will only call his attention to the old proverb of stones and glass houses. N If “Hanks” is right and wears wrong lot him in charity remember with uneonsolable Widow fiedott that “we are all poor miserable critters.” Two Goqp Txmplabs.

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