Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1876 — A Challenge. [ARTICLE]

A Challenge.

Extra gaiters for M a pair at Willey A Bigler’s. > ; A fine selection of white vests at Willey & Sigler’s. Rummer clothing Just received at Willey A Sigler’s. Paris green for potato Lug poison at Kanntal’s drug store. , The best cbffee at 25 cents a pound at Willey A Sigler’s. /, The largest assortment of cloth shoes at Willey & Sigler’s. Groat bargains in black silk grenadines, at F. J. Sears A Co.’s. A new stock of prints and muslins opened at Willey A Sigler’s. Look at those new alpaca and linen dusters at Willey A Sigler’s. Extra shirting for 12} and 16} cents per yard at Willey A Sigler’s. A large and new lot of beautiful ehawls very cheap, at F. J. Sears A Co.’s. ’ Mr. Jacob Eiglesbach has succeeded Mr. Mart. V. B. Warner in the meat store. Trot-line fishers are catching quite fine catfish in the Iroquois river at this place. Mrs. J. M. Austin will please accept thanks for a large mess of fine lettuce from her garden. Mr. Willis J. lines’ family have a fine young baby boy at their house, He was born on Tuesday. The finest things yet brought to town! Those percale half suits for ladies, at F. J. Sears A Co.’s. Uncle Billy Daugherty is landlord at the Austin House in the absence of of the proprietor, Mr. Austin. If rumor is not incorrect a grocery store in Rensselaer will change owners ere the lapse of many days. A feather renovating company has commenced cleaning up dilapidated bedding in Rensselaer this week. Those ecru lace ties have arrived. They are very nice and very cheap. Call at F. J. Bears A Co.’s and see thepi. George Washington collars—each and every box contains a golden hatchet—at F. J. Sears A Co.’s Pioneer store. Mr. J. M. Austin and daughter, Miss “Tutie”, and Mrs. Emmet Kannal are away from home on a tour of visiting. Rev. Thos. Vanscoy, pastor of the M. E. Church, baptised ten converts on last Sunday, four of them by immersion. Messrs. F. J. Sears A Co. have now the largest and finest stock of goods in Jasper county, and think their prices the lowest. Mr. A. Leopold has not been able to purchase all the wool he wants yet. He still pays the highest market price for it. Col. Healey, J. B. Spangle, Thos. E. Willey, and others expect to start on next Tuesday, in wagons, on a trip to Arkansas. The favorite brands of bleached muslins, Lonsdale and Dexter, forl2} cents, and the Atlantic mills, unbleached, for 8} cents at Willey A Sigler’s. Standard prints—Allen’s, Cocbeco, American, Arnold, Merrimac and fiprague—will be sold for 6}- cents per yard at F. J. Sears A Co.’s for the next 30 days.

A marriage license was issued this week to Mr. Truett P. Wright and Miss Florence C. Strain, and they are now husband and wife. Congratulations are extended. After an absence of sixteen years Mr. N. R. Bowman of Westville has returned to Rensselaer and seated himself on the tailor's bench vacated by Mr. J. B. Spangle. The ready-mixed lead and oil paints on sate Kannal’s drug store have Ijeen tried by people we are all acquainted with,and they giye them a good reputation. An agreeable shower of rain is falling to-day as we go to press, but it is not more agreeable to Mr; A. {►old’s customers than >hi£- cheap prices for excellent goods. ’ Read Mr. Moses Tuteur’s new advertisement in another column, and if wanting anything in his line of business give him a call. He has an excellent stock of brand new goods. Two feet of water stands on a level in the cellar of Liberal Corner. A pump and all the volunteer force to be procured among the street Arabs are at work lifting it out into the gutter. A summer cook stove that will do all the cooking for an ordinary family at a cost of less than 5 cents per day. ■YOU don’t believe it? Call at Emmet Kannal’s drug store and see about it ~ for yourself. * ’ The first strawberries of the season appeared at the stores on yesterday. They were very fine indeed, and Messrs. F. J. Sears & Co. have thanks for the present of a nice box to the editor's table. , Everybody having dealings at the Stone store speak in praise of the wonderful bargains they obtain, and of the attentive treatment received at the hands of Doerly, friend Leopold’s accomplished salesman. Mr. John B. Spangle will sell off his household goods on Saturday, by auction, at Mrs. T. J. Spitler’s residence, preparatory to moving away. Ho goes with Col. Healey, Dr. Harding and others to Arkansas. The most complete stock of cottonades, jeans, flannels, Cheviot shirting, etc., etc., ever displayed in Rensselaer are now upon the shelves of F. J. Sears & Co., all of which they will exchange at bottom fif/urea for wool, country produce, or cash. Potato© bug poison, a sure thing every time, which will not injure the vines if put on according to direction, is Kannal’s Colorado Beetle Exterminator. Also dredging boxes to keep it in and apply it with. Call at Emmet-Kannars drug store. Do not forget that A. Leopold is Belling all kinds of dry goods, clothing, groceries,, etc., at an immense reduction on prices of six weeks ago. A grand tumble has been made in the price of dry goals within the lust three weeks, and Mr. Leopold bought at' the right time to get the advantage of it. . If your watch or jewelry needs repairing leave it at the Austin House, and it will be done in a workmanlike manner, on reasonable terms, by J. S. Wigmore who is with Wil) H. Pierce, (late Morgan & Bon), at Remington. Mr. Wigmore is well known in this vicinity, and needs no recommendation from us. All work warranted. 3d

“Oh, say! Charley, dear, pray,” Said a blushing maiden to her lover one day, “Go to Kannal’s and buy a set of croque|, And then we’ll arrange for our wedding Without further delay! ” A suggestion to the ladies: Would it not be a proper thing to get up a strawberry and ice cream festival for the benefit of the cornet band ? The bovs are very accommodating, and furnish excellent music on every public occasion, and that, too, without anything like adequate pay for the time employed or the pleasure they afford. Those gentlemen who arrested the young men last week at Reynolds on suspicion that they were horse thieves, an account of which was published in these columns, had their trouble an<l expense for their pains. After taking them to Remington and telegraphing to Gilman without receiving any answer they permitted ,the boys to go at liberty. Mr. Michael Schneider will, on Saturday tho 10th instant, offer for sale at his place of residence in Rensselaer, by nubile auction, two horses, a fresh milch cow and calf, a buggy, light 3-spring wagon, farm wagon, baby cab, set of light harness, set of heavy double harness, single heavy harness, Howe sewing machine, stoves, bedding, excellent house furniture, a large stock of sugar cured hams, shoulders, sides and pickled mess pork. He gives six months credit, or a liberal discount to cash buyers- Mr. Schneider will return to Cleveland, Ohio, from whence he came a few months since. We can convince you that clothing is cheaper than ever before, if you will call and examine our stock. Willey A Sigler. The Advantage.—The advantages in buying D, B. DeLand A Co.’s Best Chemical Saleratus are numerous. Among them are full weight and pure and uniform goods, —— ■ 1 y Strayed.—From Kentland, Indiana, a black mare, 4 years old, weighs about 1,100 pounds, has a letter “S” dimly branded on left shoulder, a small dim white spot in forehead. A liberal reward will be .paid for her re-

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IRVIN HOWENSTINE.

I will put any standard article that you m»y buy of mo at tny price beside the standard articles of the same description from any other house in Rensselaer at their price, and abide by the result. Lunn Hopkins.