Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1875 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Between two evils choose neither.* Good growing showers fell last Sunday. -a . « , - Bee advertisement es school hinds for sale. . The Fourth of July comes on Sunday this ye"Hon. B. S. Dwiggiris has gone Ne# Yrirk City. Commissioner Hoover was in town fast Tuesday. The Newton Circuit Court is in session this week. The fishing on the Iroquois is reported as being good. Thd popular name for saloons now h “snake factory.” The Northern Indiaaian of Warsaw is now offered for sal e. Elder D; T. Halstead immersed Mrs; A. Purcupile last Sunday. Both •‘Hunks” and “Egyptian’’ foiled to get their items in On time this;week. - The LaFay'ette Granger and Home Journal has just completed itl first volume. The Crown Point Register says the Colorado potatato brig is non est in that region. » This is a hard month on preachers and wash-women ; five Sundays and Mondays in it. Dr. Lougirridge has collected the finest specimens of ferns we have seen in this locality.

Mr. Merril Mead a Remington furniture dealer, perambulated our streets last Monday. Mr. H. 8. Travis, an expounder of the law from Fowler, was in town Monday morning/ .. ■—-— ——— There is no philosophy that can convince a man to the contrary when he knows he is hungry. Last Monday was Queen Victoria's birthday, and was generally observed by Englishmen. —— <w —— There is no place a man Can gb io this side of heaven without meeting * 1 the colonel” or “'the major.” During this “heated term’' is a good time to go to C. C. Starr’s and get a glass of cool soda water." They have a saloon keeper at AndreW, lowa, by the name of Jesds Christ Blessing. What’s in a name? Willey & Sigler have niade quite an improvement on the arrangement of goods in their establishment. The grading on the 1., D. & C; road between Monticello and Delphi will be Completed in a few weeks. Austin Calhoon, the former proprietor of the Kansas City Hotel, started for Kansas City, Mo., last Tuesday. Basket meeting at Mr. John Alter’s grove, five miles west of Remington, one week from next Sunday. LaFayette is to have a two-cent Republican daily published by proprietors who are not yet out of their teens. A grand musical institute will bo held at Monticello, commencing Tuesday, June Ist, and continuing two woeks. ■ I Mr. J. Misner, of Donovan, Illinois, was in town Tuesday. Mr. M. recently moved from Remington to Donovan.

How can harness makers live when the farmers come to town driving their teams with the bark of trees for lines? Mr. Mart. Warner has had a new business sign painted on the front' of his new building, painted by Mr. J. Warner; See C. k. Clifton’s jifiw advertisement in another column of this paper. It is interesting j it will do you good to read it. Owing to a change of time on the P., C. & St. L. railroad the eastern mail arrives in Reuse elaer one day later than usual. ——w s 1 Persons having business with the Commissioners’ Court should bear in mind that it convenes one week from next Monday. The Goodland Reporter has suspended publication, at least for the present. There’s a chance for another man to starve out. Considerable excitement was caused the other evening by the advent of the surveyors of the L, D. & C. line into Rensselaer.

Barnum’s balloon went off from New Ha ven the other day with a piece of a boy’s ear. The boy himself went off on the other. Since our last report, marriage licenses were issued as follows *. Christian Ruddle to Helena Booth and Isaac Sells to Emma Tanner. A wife who can hump herself over a hoe or a spade, must be a sweet consolation to some of our citizens who love early spring vegetables. Look before you leap. Thousands of persons who went West to better their condition can get no employment, and wish they were back home again. ■ w ■ If you are going to travel west, north or northwest peruse the advertisement of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company in this paper. Mr. J. W. Peters gives a concert in Remington next Saturday eve ning. Parties going from Rensselaer who belonged to his singing class will be admitted free. Mr. Howard M. Brook is now the publisher and proprietor of the plymouth AfniZ and Magnet. Cliffe M. Brooke is still the editor. Success to the combination.

M. V. Chilcote went to IndianapoUs this week, to represent the Lodge of this place, at the tegular annual meeting of the Grand Lodge of Masons of Indiana. ■ - " " So for aa we can learn, the peach crop promises to be better than many thought a few weeks since. The indications are that there Will be a half a crop in some localities Harding 6, Willey have just put in that large cistern'Jn ths itar of their drug build- “ ing. Now, if there would only cornea good, heavy shower they would be prepared for* Ire. • . 1 ' Mite Mollie Stanley, of Knox, Ind., committed suicide, on Sunday evening of last week, by taking strychrine. Disappointed love is given bs I Cause of her committing the rash act. The concert given by the Rensselaer Musical Society at the Court House, last Saturday evening, was rather scantily at-tended-—the receipts of the evening amounting to orily about $6.00. Mr. Clark, of the Remington Record, has sold his interest in the Record office to [Mr. AL J. Kitt, his former partner. So says Mr. D. B. Miller, of Remington, who gave us a brief call oil Wednesday.

We riotice that many of our ettizens have been planting fruit andjhade trees on their premises this kpfiirg. Such work not only beautifies the town, but will prove of material benefit to property owners. Owing to negligence on the part of some one the Chicago dailies foil arrive at this place Until the next day after publication. It cannot be the fault of the railroad compsr niss as they, have not changed their_ time table. A “Citixen” from Kanitdkee township presents tin excellent idea on the location of public roads, in this issue of, the Republican, which the Commissioners would do well to consider, L e., the location of roads on section lines only. Coriitnissioners McCullough and Kessler were in town on Monday last. The last named will probably make his appearance at the next meeting of the Board in a new suit of brown clothes, as Mr. Zimmerman has just finished making said felothab; The Commissioners’ Court convenes one week from next Monday, at which time the Commissioners j will be asked to grant license to three different parties to retail, liquors by the small, in Jasper ctrttfiiy—two in Remington and one in Rensselaer. The question is, will the license be granted ? Rev. C. E. Lambert, of the M. E. Church, started for Chicago last Tuesday morning, to bo absent several weeks. Bev. Mr. Vanscoy, of Brookston, will fill Rev. Lambert’s place in the ptilpit during his abscense. Rev. Vanscoy is just fresh from college, and no doubt Will preach interesting sermons. A happy-go-lucky individual wild was attempting to make his way through the street; last Monday, while under the influence of excessive potations of whisky, was asked wither he was going ? Holding up a tooth-brush and tooth-pick which he was tightly clenching, he simply remarked, *‘l’m moving.” Mr. A Calhoon has sold the appurtenances of the Kansas City Hotel to Mr. Prestly Dunlap, who resumed control of that house last Monday. Mr. Dunlap is an old hand at hotel keeping, bdving kept the house he now has for upwards of twenty years, therefore it is useless to say that this house win be kept in first-class style.

The post-office department at Washington has recently issued three-cent postage stamps made on a new principle to prevent the dishonest customers from washing them in order to sell them again after having been used. The paper of which they are made is pofus, and they absorb the ink from the marking stamp, thus making it indelible. The following is a report of school No. 1, Newton township, for the month ending May 7, 1875: Number enrolled, 19; average daily attendance, 17. Those perfect in attendance, punctuality, deportment and study, were Lucy Grant, Ulysses Grant, Carolina Kessner, Frank Kessner and Wynona Sayler. Ella DwiUgibs, Teacher. The number of pupils enrolled in school district No. 4, Walker township, for the mofith ending May 20, was 14; average daily attendance, 10; number studying arithmetic, 11; grammar, 2; geography, 8. Mary perfect in attendance. Hattie Lakiti and Ella Lakin were perfect in attendance And conduct. Sxlina E. Switzer, Teacher. , it r -f" t The Postmaster General has issued an order modifying the postal Regulations By striking out that part providing that no subscription to newspapers for less than three months shall be considered a regular subscription within the meaning of the law.— The Sffect of this order is to allow newspaper offices to send papers to subscribers at regular rates, whether for one week or three months.

While Clerk Spitler was watering a horse at the towfa piimp. last Friday evening, the hone took a notion to go before Mr. S. was ready. However, he tumbled into the buggy, but not in time to keep the horse from striking one of the shafts against the corner of the court house fence and breaking it, thus frightening the horse. Mr. S. fought nobly with the frightened animal, but it succeeded in throwing him out of the buggy, which became somewhat demoralized, and further than this little or no damage was done. There is a little money due us on job work which we would be glad to have paid in.— Remington Record. “There is a little money due us cn job work” done for the grangers in the vicinity of Remington, in the shape of posters, giving notice of a granger’s picnic which was held in Jordan’s grove, about a mile north of Remington, on the 14th day of August, in the year of our Lord, 1873. The amount is only $3.50. To say that “we would be glad to have it paid in” would but very feebly express our feelings. Our cup of joy would be full to overflowing.

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