Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1879 — Grand display of Silverware at Orwin's old stand. [ARTICLE]

Grand display of Silverware at Orwin's old stand.

Local Gleanings. Pat Donnelley, Dec. 15, —a ton. J. S. Wigmore, of Monticello, was on our street* last Tuesday. Geo. Morgan want* the marshal to impound the straying cow*. Hanging Grove would be a good place for a store and a doctor. F. J. Sears & Son made their first sale of a coffin last Monday morning. • Contractor Wood has done some more work on his house west of the bridge. ' Six hundred chairs will be required to seat Willey & Sigler’s opera house. Jack Yeoman is paying twenty cents per bushel for soft corn to feed his eattle. A. P. Rowen and James Ryan, of Union township, have been improving their dwellings. Cotton & McCoy’s are putting up a new office and a new set of scales near their elevator. Alec McDonald certainly deserves an increase of pension if any one does in Jasper county.

John Pullins, of Barkley township, has recently lost two bright little boys with diphtheria. The persons who bottled up their laughter at Perkins’ fun, Munday evening, will never grow fat. Charley Harditjg and Charles Bruse have started a store in Hurley’s store room in Hurley town. Theodore Hurley’s wife and daughter are still very sick. His son -in-law Henry Steel is recovering. Captain Frank Babcock has accepted an invitation to address the Kentland Republican club the 27th. They have leveled up the side walks in front of Percupile’s and Imea* steres. Good. Let a lew more try. The Christian Sunday school will have a Christmas tree. Louis Hollingsworth has been chosen to deliver the Christmas address. John Makeever has purchased a part of the brick for his hotel to be built in the spring. Ho promises that it will be the finest in town. Settle up all your little bills with the Wash woman, dress maker, laborer, merchant, doctor and editor and make it a “Merry Christmas” indeed for all. Win. Washburn, of Jordan township, has put his fifiishing touches on bis mammoth corn oribs. They will hold 5,000 bushels, but he has but four to pnt in them this year. The Surgeon of the army has asked for forty more clerks to assist him in the work of his office, particularly that pertaining to the pension and record division. If you notice a discouraged and

drssatrefled look on the face of year wife, you can eootribnta it to the fact that she attended Perkins’ lecture and did not laugh or yon have* been buying green wood lately. Tbe public schools in Rensselaer are orar crowded. The trustees ought to take the preliminary steps towards building a new house at as early a time as possible. Dr. W. L. Ham ar just received a letter from hi* brother, Will Hamar, who was running an engine from Little Rock, Ark ,to Texarkanias, Texas, stating that he had recently sustained a fracture of one of his ankles', and other injuries, about two weeks ago, caused by hi* engine striking a horse and then jumping the track. His injuries y ill disable him for some time.

IRO QUOIS.