Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1879 — Local Gleanings. [ARTICLE]

Local Gleanings.

Holdridge Clark is on the sick list. “Meteoric showers” are encored by Swains. Mrs. M. L. Spitler ought to have her poem on the Narrow Guage published. Fred Cole and Bas Donnelly are painting Willey ft Sigler’s new store room and Opera House. The town Marshal was aronnd this week collecting corporation tax. Wonder is he saw any cattle in the streets. The Jasper County Temperance Union elected E. H. Tharp, President, and Ora Tbompsou, Secretery for the present quarter. “Ido Millikan “brought down the house” at Cope’s lecture, Saturday night, by expressing her approval in a childish ha! ha! Geo. Kannal and A. Leopold have had brick side walks laid in front of their business rooms, on the west side of Washington street. Some authority ongh*. to level up or down the side walks on the east side ot Washington street They are dangerous a* they are. The premium given the Pleasant Ridge school by the Agricultnral Society is a beauty. Visit the school and see it. Miss Clara Coen teacher. The business men of Rensselaer ought to attend the Friday night temperance meetings. They owe that much to their individual interests.

The following persons are teaching the schools ot Walker township: Miss E. Bonk, Mary Bonk, A. Caldwell, Oscar Grans, Mrs. Annie Brown, Lottie Holley and Jas. F. Antrim. Mrs. Mary E., wife of Thomas Cody, of Hanging-Grove township, died of disease of the heart and dropsy, last Friday, after a long and painful illness. There are but three schools in Kankakee township. They are taught by John C. Dumond, B. F. Jones and Miss Ella O. Pierce. One dollar and sixty cents per day is the wages paid the gentlemen, while Miss Pierce receives one dollar and twenty-five cents. There are two new inmates at the county asylum. George W ells, “ail Ohio man,” will bo sent back by trustee Coen as soon as he is able to travel. The other is a blue-eyed, fair-haired darling of fifteen months of age, from one of the northern townships. Some good family ought to adopt it. / Pleasant Ridge is looking np under the management of Joseph V. Parkinson. He" has a post office, waiting room, warehouse for wheat, corn-crib, lumber yard, stock yard ( and scales large enough to weigh the fatest man, woman or ox in the county. lie also thinks of starting a grocery store soon.

The Iroquois Poultry Association organized yesterday by adopting a Constitution and By-Laws and the election of the following officers for tho year: President, Dr. I. B. Washburn; Vice-President, Dr. S. C. Maxwell; Secretary, C. W. Clifton; Treasurer, W. R. Nowels; Directors, W. It. Love, C. J. Brown, D. II Yeoman. Judge Hammond now occupies his new and elegant home. Thomas Ilyner lias moved into the Judge’s former residence. Sam Rothrock has moved into the Babcock property. Geo. Conwfell into Sam Duvall’s house, west of the school house, and Newt lines into rooms in Mrs. Spitlc-r’s house. If nothing prevents W. J. Imes will oconpy his new mansion at the foot of Front street, to-day.

IRO QUOIS.