Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1880 — Local Gossip. [ARTICLE]

Local Gossip.

Phillip Blue has taken a little augel to raise. Mrs. Horace James is very sick of rheumatic fever. N. M. Grant is on the jury this term of court for the first time in his life. Riley Nowles has the largest poultry house in this part of the county. He has soma tine poultry. Ad Robinson was purchasing an outfit and said he was going to try to keep house. May all his troubles be little ones. Mrs. Erwin has purchased and will occupy the D. J. Thompson properly, opposite Norman Warner’s residence. Captain McCahan, an attorney from Wabash, Ind., was in town Tuesday. He is a stalwart Republican from a stalwart county. People can better afford to die since we now have competing undertakers: F. J. Sears <& Son and Willis J. Wright bury theif friends in order to live.

Jacob Eigelsbacb and Mrs. John Morgan have traded property. Mr. Eigelsback will build an*ice and slaughter house on the Morgan property which is on the north side of the river, below town. Harvey Grant has rented the Swain farm. Holdridge Clark will occupy the house he vacates, and his son Alvin has rented Leopold’s land, east of towu. John and Frank Gant have rented the Sayers farm, three miles north of town. Sidewalk building is very popular just now, if not with those doing the work it is with those who have waded the mud for so many years. The following have recently put down new walks: Norman Warner, Grant Warner, R. J. Hopkins, Mrs. Yates, Mrs.Tharp, L. C. Grant School Trustees, W. J. Imes, Geo. Sigler, and Mrs. Laßue.

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