People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1897 — Union Township. [ARTICLE]

Union Township.

Trustee I f. H. Yeoman announces that he will be at his farm every Thursday until further notice for the purpose of attending to any matters in connection ■with township business.

You can buy 50 inch table damask as low as lia cents a yard Saturday March 20th. Chicago Bargain Store. We hpve held our forms twelve hours hoping for our patents to arrive but in vain, hence we are obliged to come to our readers with only four pages this week. 77

On entering one of the leading business places of Rensselaer. Monday morning we observed tue manager adjusting hiß business to the new conditions. Marking down goods fifty cents bn the" dollar. This is the first positive' evidence of McKinley confidence, and the resulting prosperity. The merchant is confident now, he cannot sell bis goods at a profit and is adding the prosperity which was to accompany confidence. Which being a minus quantity reduces the price. They are here jusl as promised but not the kind he was locking for. Quite an effort wasjofade before the county commissioners last week Wed-; nesday by thj trustee <jt Marion township to have the line between Union and Marion changed so ap to throw Burk’s bridge into Union. Achunk of 160 acres would have to be taken out of the northeast corner of Maricfu, making an ugly jog, and diverting th j boundary from its natural line. The yline was established in its present pla/a about a year ago after a careful canvass of the facts before the commissioners by attorneys pro and con. The petition presented Wednesday had been kept a profound secret from the people of Union and was signed by only 35 voters of Marion. The board very properly ignored the petition.