Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1879 — Local Gleanings. [ARTICLE]

Local Gleanings.

Father Peacock has boilt a new stable. Frank Cotton baa moved Into bis near home. - Onr grain buyer* are having a “eorn boom*’ jnst now. May Washburn has gone to Star City to spend the holidays. Wra. H. Logg has rented Mrs. Crockett’s house and gone to honse keeping. Mr. Stroble, of Lafayette, ia here trimming a couple of buggies for Norman Warner The Odd Fellows new hall at Star City, Pulaski county, will be dedicated Jan. Ist, 1880. Quite a number of people from the country attended the lecture of Abby Sage Richardson. Emmet Kannal is putting the finest furnitnre in bis drug store that we have seen in Northern Indiana. Go and admire. Prof. Alien, principal of onr public schools, has work enough to do to occupy the entire time of two good teachers. $ The Temperance Society will elect officers next Friday evening. All the members ought to be present. A good meeting is anticipated. There are at present a few empty honses In town and plenty young ladies who would like to make home pleasant. Young gentlemen, speak quick. Charles P. Hopkins has moved into Bebfords building in the rear of Willey A Sigler’s emporium. John Holiday lives in the same building. John W. Berk moved his family into the Hopkins property on Front opposite the mill. Mr. Burk is uow at Fowler running the engine for Enoch & Jenkins’ hay press. On Tuesday afternoon a four-year-old child of Nick Guns, living ten miles north, got too near the stove and its clothing caught fire and burned it very severely on the left side of the face, breast, left arm and hand. The parents were absent from home at the time. An older sister put out the fire and saved the life of the living one but was pretty badly burned herself.

IRO-QUOIS.