Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1875 — To Whom it May Concern. [ARTICLE]

To Whom it May Concern.

After the 25th of October, 1875, my books will be placed in the hands of an attorney for immediate adjustment. By settling previous to that time you will save the extra ten per cent., and very greatly obhge. 3 ’-. Yours &c., R. Y. MARTIN, M. D Take in your house plants. The sausage days are approaching. Call at Willey & Sigler’s for bargains. Soda fountains are now things of the past. Commissioners’ court convenes next Monday. Comfortable quarters—twenty-five-cent pieces. Go to Harding & Willey’s for School Books. Stationery of all kind at the Old Line Drug Store. Other matrimonial engagements are being whispered about. The Chicago and .Cincinnati expositions closed last Saturday. A few scattering flakes of snow fell in Rensselaer on Monday. Wifey & Sigler are the “boss” Dry Goods Merchants of Rensselaer. Valparaiso’s tramps are given three hours in which to leave the city. If you want a good local newspaper subseribe for the Republican. The new postal cards and the silver dimes will soon be in circulation. Babies are describe las cupons attached to the bonds of matrinrny. Good Tea at from fifty cents to one dollar per pound at Charley Starr’s. A LaPorte county fanner will pack 10,000 barrels of cucumbers this fall. Charley Starr h.-.s just received a large stock of Teas—only 1,000 poun’s. The Annie Britton’s at the Court House Mopday evening, October 18, 1875. Brick is being laid on the third story of Bedford and Jackson's new building.

Send in your communications early.— Those coming late are generally deferred. Buy your groceries of Charley Starr and you will sleep well and live tea ripe old age. The Rensselaer band furnished tire music for the Old Settlers’ meeting, last Saturday. About this time look out for sufferers from the Texas floods. Encourage them topass on. The sounds of the corn knife, kraut cutter and sorghum grinder are heard in the land. Rensselaer, the metropolis of Jasper county, still continues to improve, and business is lively. The nicest lot of Toilet article! in town just recived at the Drug Store of Harding & Willey. The horse disease has broken out in Indianapolis and Chicago—tto epizootic in a mild form. Our merchants are stocking up, and the women are growing crazy over “those lovely fall goods.’’ Some of our young folks are beginning the preparations for getting up a series of plays for the holidays.

South Bend is will supplied with daily papers. It takes three? of them to scrape up all the local happenings. One of our prominent Democrats says, if he lived in Ohio he would vote the Republican ticket, this fall, sure. Rev. T. Vanscoy preached Lis introductory sermon to a full house, last Sunday. He is a clear and forcible speaker. E. L. Price has just received a large stock of Accordeons, Violins, Violin Strings, Guitars, Harps and Notions. One-half or two-thirds interest in the Benton County Herald, is for sale. Address M. H. Ingrim, Fowler, Ir.d. The North Carolinians gave two exhibitions in this place last week. They “Carved dot ’Possum” both evenings. Secretary Delano has resigned; but Willey & Sigler continue to sell Clothing at prices which defy competition. We have a few gool itenfs from “Sand Lapper.” of Kankakee township, but he failed to send his proper name.

If you desire to purchase any of the popular Poems or the latest Novels out call at Harding & Willey’s Drug Store. There are a few idiots who are doing their level best to resurect the “spelling bees.” Why can’t you let the dead rest ? Willey & Sigler’s at the postoffice building, is the place for cheap Dry Goods, Clothing, Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoes, etc. Every younglady should carry around a small slip of paper on which to keep alist of her gentlemen friends who do not drink. Do not forget to call and settle before the 25th of October, either by cash or note, and oblige. R. Y. MARTIN M. D. 8 The Porter County Fair will be held at Valparaiso on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, October 20th, 21st and 22d, 1875. The attention of the public is directed to large stock of School Books and Stationery at Hardipg & Willey’s Old Line Drug Store.

Felix Lester Ugaih engineering the Remington hack lind. “Feci ” understands his business, he does. . , The first Fair of the Remington Trotting Association win commence next Wed- esday anil continue three days. : Fix up the broken windows, clean out the chimneys, examine the flues, blacken your stoves and build a good fire.Every young woman contemplating marriage should studiously prepare hei self for that condition by learning to split kindling wood.

A Rensselaer girl gupposes that the reason she has never kindled a flame in any man’s heart is because she is not a good match. Ludd Hopkins is making calculations to start for California lit about thirty days.— Will visit the Paeifie slope in search of his health. On Wednesday of last week, Mr, M. L. Spitler started for Maine. In about two weeks he will return accompanied by Mrs Spitlqr. A Boston thief tied a lady to the leg of a piano and then ransacked the house. This is another reason why folks shouldn’t keep pianos. The merchants of Rensselaer are receiving large amounts of goods about these days.— There is no better place to buy in this part of the State. We were not permitted to be present at the Old Settlers’ meeting. We understand it was a complete success, about SCO persons being in attendance. Mr. H. C. Foxworthy will t ach the young idea how to shoot—paper balls against the ceiling—in Kankakee township, this winter, instead of Carpenter. Trade «e«*ms to be improving. ' Large stocks have been laid in, and we trust our merchants will more than realize their expectations of a£ood fall trade?. Should some of our subscribers find their paper feels a little damp, it might be well to consider whether it is not owing to the fact that there is considerable due on it. During the leisure time before corn-busk-ing begins," get your farm machinery out of the Adds and make a sited under which they may be protected from the winter’s storms. There is poor encouragement for a man to 1 “die rich,” while we heir of so many instances of dead rich men scrambling like hungry pigs over a division ot the property. Last Saturday, the Hebrew day of Atonement, was observed by the Jews of this place. Their business houses were closed from 6 o’clock Friday evening to G o’clock Saturday evening. Marriage licences were issued since our last report as follows: Harvey E. Parkinson and Melvina E. Moore ; Abner C. Wilcox and Alvira J. Osborn; John T. Culp and Victoria Wade.

Geff-SlgLr, Charley StafY and their ladies took in the Chicago exposition last week. They report having a splendid time, with nothing to interfere with their enjoyment save the mud. Willey & Sigler have received, within the last week, an enormous stock of Dry Goods of all kinds. They now have the largest stock in town, and sell at as low rates as can be had anywhere. Some “Sand-lappets” were in town Saturday, and having imbibed a little to much, they became “drunk and disorderly.’ ’ Wonder whose business it is to arrest such •‘yawping yahoos ?” While returning from the Old Settlers meeting, la«t Saturday, Mrs. Underhill and Mrs. Daniel Martin were thrown from a wagon, and injured considerab’y. Mrs. Martin’s i-juries are supposed to be of a serious nature. “Who’s your grocer?” is an important question now-a-days, and if yoa cahi reply, Charley Starr, you must bo a happy man, for the groceries lie sells are of tho best quality, and his prices compare favorably with all others.

A young lady in Westchester, Pa., didn’t know that her sister was dead until ,several weeks after her burial. She was visiting a family only five miles distant, but the family didn’t take the county newspaper.— What a sad warning. For Salk.—The southwest quarter of section eleven, township thirty-one, range seven—one hundred and sixty acres, in Keen er township, Jasper county, Indiana, at $5 per acre. Address E. GOUGH, Boonville, Ind. The “Clumsies,” of Carpo nter township, and the “Dragoons,’'of pilot Grove, Newton county, met in Rensselaer, last Saturday and played a game of hose ball, or rather a part of a game. On account of the falling rain they were unable to play it out. The result was a score of 20 to 16 in favor ofthe “Clumsies.”' Love & Newcomb, of Remington, are doing the carpenter work on Charley Price's new residence, And, by tho way, they are the “boss” carpenters of Remington. They have been running a force of fourteen men in their line of business, during the last summer. For neatness and speed they can’t be beat. Our exchanges are now telling big stories about the yield of potatoes in the neighborhoods where they are published. As an inducement to have some Jasper county farmer beat the n all, we will send the Republican postage paid for one year, to any person in the county who tells the biggest story and sends us one dollar and a half. The Plymouth Mail and Magnet is. no more, or rather it has been consolidated with Pavkard’s Plymouth The editorial department of the Republican will be controlled by Hou. Jasper Packard, and Howard Brooke will be the city editor and publisher. May the combination meet withunbaunded success in the new venture.

Contraction or expansion is low the’leading question, and >Hley & Sigler have madb up their minds. Tlioy have contracted their prices to th© lowest possible sum, and have expanded their stock of goodsand their trade to as large an extent as possible. There is still room for new customers, and all, even the latecomers, will be entitled to all the benefits and privileges of old Customers.