Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1881 — Keener Items. [ARTICLE]

Keener Items.

Miss Flo C. Van’t Woud will soon return to Brooklyn, where she will clasp gladhands with her parents and brothers, whom she has not seen for over six months. . James Robbins will move on his farm, in a few days, three miles north of Rensselaer, known as the Greenfield place, where he may spend the first years of his wedded life in the pleasant vocation of farming. The Pleasant Valley school closed Saturday the 19th. A goodly number of visitors were present, including nearly all of the patrons of the school, who expressed themselves well satisfied and showed marks of kindness to their teacher, who returned to her home in Walker. Keener again has a new trustee, on whom the community gazes for the completion of the grade across 1 the marsh from Mr. Chas. Thompson’s to Elder Shortridge’s, which is very necessary. Our trustee is a man of good judgment, and we entertain no fears of his leaving the road in its present condition, if it is possible for him to do otherwise.

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Editor Republican:—ln the last Republican there was a notice of the appointment of the county physician which did not show the true “inwardness” of the case. The board of commissioners, Messrs. Dunn and Rockwood, received bids to treat tlie poor of Marion, Union, Barkley, Hanging Grove, Milroy, Jordan and Newton townships, including those at the poor farm. Drs. Bitters and Lin 1 - each bid $174 and Dr. Owens $156. The commissioners, notwithstanding the low bid of Dr. Owens and the fact that he has a diploma ’ from the Hahneman Medical College of Chicago, a certificate to practice from the Illinois State Board of Health and has practiced longer than either of the others, ignored him by proposing to decide between the first two by casting lots. Sheriff Powell, we understand, drew the lots and Dr. Link was the lucky one. So much for the “compliment,” the facts, and Fair PlayJ