Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1881 — Personal. [ARTICLE]

Personal.

8. P. Thompson Attended the funeral of Ex-Senator Lane, at Crawfordsville, Monday. O. B. Cissel, son of Elder J. H. Cissel, ol* LaPorte, is visiting relatives in this place. Geo. M. Robinson returned from his Ohio visit last Saturday. David Elder removed to Delphi, we understand, some time last spring. If Ms. Elder had taken the pains to have remitted the few dollars he owes this office before his departure, he would have spared us the pains of writing this personal. ‘v

D. E. Fairchild, Thos. Smith, S. Ritchey, Dr. Alter, T. J. Saylor, Mary E. Hopkins, E. E. Rockwood, H. A. Warren, Thos. Thompson, B. F. Reynolds and M. L. Spitler have each favored us with cash on subscriptions the past week. John Makeever showed us some cider which had rested unmolested in his cellar for 16 years. It was said to be rather hard, butof course our strictly temperate habits prevent us from attesting the truthfulness of this statement. C. P. Mitchell returned selaer, Tuesday, and went over to Gillam to-day. E. E. Davisson, of Kewanee, says that he was told before he left home, Tuesday, that the engineers on the Continental Railroad were setting the grade stakes between Rochester and Kewanee. Grant Warner has gone to Ohio to look for Buckeye harvesting machinery. The demand for the Buckeye is simply tremendous and the Warners have their hands full to keep up the supply.

We took a ride over the new railroad last Saturday as far as the iron was laid at that time, which was within about two miles of the Kankakee river. Track laying has progressed rather slowly lately, owing to the failure of contractors to get the grade ready as fast as it was required. Roadmaster Conner expresses the opinion that some one has been playing him a trick by moving the Kankakee river over toward the north lately; but we are disposed to believe that Mr. Conner is liable to run into hyperbole occasionally, as, for instance, when he states that there is but one man in this part of the country who knows how to tell the truth, and that is himself. If he had only included the editors of The Republican among the truth speakers his statement wouldn’t have appeared quite so extravagant. Mr. Conner’s opinion of the raging Iroquois is not exactly flattering. He says that a bucket of water poured into the ( —) ( —) thing at the bend above Rensselaer would be just four years in reaching the bend below town I The paddling of the wild geese spring and fall being the sole cause of such current as the stream has. Having bought a large stock of sugars before the late advance we will sell you more sugar for your money than any house in town. C. C. Starr & Co.

The M. E. Church festival, last week, at Starr’s Hall, was a rather hastily improvised affair, but a decided success, notwithstanding. The display of flowers was especially noteworthy. The bouquets were arranged by Mr. N. J. York and\ Misses Rhoades and McEwen. Perhaps the most remarkable feature of the entertainment was the wonderful, but not altogether inexplicable, popularity of the lemonade corner. The lemonade itself was but little better than the ordinary quality of commercial lemonade, which has, as everybody knows, a general flavor of having been brewed over a cold fire, and of having known but little of lemon and less of sugar. Being usually as sour as a Hoosier democrat after the fall elections, and about as weak as an original editorial in the Goodland Herald. But notwithstanding these, the very ordinary disadvantages of the lemonade trade, the demand for that article among the young men, was marvelous, and if we' leave out of view the attraction of the dispensers thereof, we should be at a loss to account for its popularity.