Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1881 — Walker Items. [ARTICLE]

Walker Items.

* Everything in Walker is in a flourishing condition. Farmer are busy with their spring work. Wheat looks well, and most of the corn has been planted. Mr. Stalbaum, our trustee is diving into the work in earnest this spring. He is now clearing a new piece of ground. Mr. Stalbaum is a gentleman and well worthy of the praise which his neighbors give him. Frank Hershman has been absent for a few days in of cuttle He made himself pKsessor of six. ty or seventy head of two-year old steers, which he will summer. All the schools in our township } excepting the one in which the “Old Reliable” is principal, have closed. Rev. Scott Brown has been making rails, grubbing and building fence for the last two months. If he keeps on working until fall, no doubt his health will be so much improved that he may again come before the people in advocacy of the truth of the Bible. A Sabbath-school was organized at the Hershman school-house last Sunday. ‘ We are expecting as usual, a good attendance and a profitable school.

Everybody is happy over the prospect of a new bridge across Stump Slough, for, as all know, the bridge has been long needed. .. In looking over the Sentinel, we find the Union correspondent claims to have found a girl in Union township larger than the one reported by us a few weeks ago. He says she is sixteen years old and weighs 205 pounds. We will just ask tl a Union correspondent to figure on a little. Our girl is eleven years old and weighs 180, and it has been two or three months since she was weighed. It is probable that she will weigh more now. But if the correspondent figures on it he will find our girl to be the larger according to age. Miss Yene Bonk, of Walker, is now teaching in Gillam. • Veije is S good teacher, and we wish her success. The "Hershman school closed April 16, after a continuous term of six months. Quite a number of visHors, both old and young, were present and all seemed to enjoy the occasion. Ex-Pedagogue. Keep Cool. —Buy your loe of C. C. Starr <fc Co. have it will and supply your dtemnds. “A tiling es beauty is a joy forever,” as witness those elegant refrigerators at Warner k Sons’. Choice Codfish at 6J cents a lb. at Kern’s new Grooery Store.

We want a correspondent in each township in the county. Try Jones* patent jantOa&ed Trasses and Abdominal Supporter, liras A Meter, Agents. The services of the U. E. church will be held in the Presbyterian church next Sabbath. Sabbathschool at 9:30 a. M. Preaching at 10:30 A. m. and P. K.

The. track-laying on the Chicago A Indianapolis Air line has been delayed somewhat by the non-re-ceipt of iron, but fifteen car-loads came in Tuesday, and everything is now progressing favorably as we understand. Big assortment of nice sprinf and summer clothing, at 25 per ct* less than ever sold in Rensselaer, at R. Fendig’s. Having been disappointed in regard to a report of the J\i. E. Church concert and festival at Starr’s Hall last night, which wa had been led to expect, we shall be obliged to give the entertainment a much less extended notice than its merits deserve. It was a* complete success m every way. «.• The audiencd was large and appreciative, the programme wisely selected and successfully rendered; the ice-cream and cake of a superlative quality; handsome ladies graced the rooms, beautiful flowers dispersed sweet fragrance, strains of delightful music soothed the soul, and besides some, $34 of Uncle] Samuel’s circulating medium that became segregated together during the evening remain as substantial, if unpoetical, evidence of the success of the entertainment.

If yon want the cool of the evening perennially preserved, buy one of those Refrigerators at Warner’s.

C. C. Starr & Co. sell a better Fine Cut Tobacco for 40 cents than you can buy at any other house for 50 cents. i New Millinery* —Mrs. M. EHaislev, of Delphi, desires to inform tne ladies of Rensselaer and vicinity that she will be at the Nowels House parlors on Wednesday of each week, with a full line of Millinery and Fancy Goods, of the very latest styles. Mrs. Haisley comes well recommended as an artistic milliner, and we bespeak for her a liberal patronage on the part of our people. Personal. —Dr. Ira C. Kelley has recovered his house. Wesley Reed smiles and yet he is sad because he cannot write it James A. G. Let him call her Jim-mima. W. C. Pierce has been improving his home property. Jnd Porter has purchased the Harding property near the Christian church. Dr. E. T. Harding has located in Macomb, Miss.

Dr. M. B. Alter will take possession of the County Treasurer’s office, August 12. O. B. Mclntyre, publisher of the Remington News, and W. H. Henkle, trustee of Carpenter township, made ns pleasant -visits yesterday. Jtfr. Kiel, proprietor of the Fort Wayne Gazette and Newspaper Union, was in town over .Tuesday night, and made this office a cal 1 , Mr. Kiel is one of the ablest editors in the State. J? E. Cox, of the Delphi Jounnd, was in town Friday of last week. Paymaster Raymond of the Air Line, was here on his monthly pay-ing-off tour, last week. Geo. Sigler, of the firm of " illey <fc Sigler, with his family, returned home from the South last week. Mr. S. is looking and feeling much better than when he left here, some three months since.

, D. B. Miller, Esq., has been up in Keener township and oyer in Newton county this week, on business. Mr. Miller has acquired a reputation for honesty and ability enjoyed by few older men, and it is a pleasure to note that his business is rapidly increasing. Mrs. A. > cCoy and daughter, Miss Mattie, are visiting friends in Chicago. If you intend to buv any Glassware or Queensware, don’t fail to go to C. C. Starr A Co. and see their mammoth stock before buying elsewhere. Try Bedford’s 60 ct. tea.