Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1881 — Union Utterings. [ARTICLE]

Union Utterings.

The prodigtrf son has returned. The fatted calf mast die. Advertise in The Republican and make yourself happy. < These are* the times that try the jiatience as well as the pocketbook of the oppressed printer. ' Thebe are about twenty members of the Rensselaer sporting club, and their club-house to be erected o»the Kankakee will cost not far from SSOO. Announcesedt.—The Hon. R. 8. DWiggins will lecture at the Christian Church, next Sunday, at ths usual hour of worship. Subject : “The Second Coming of Christ.” A son of Mr. Fulton, living north, of town, was thrown from a buggy onto a wire fence by a runaway horse, this morning, lacerating his face terribly and otherwise injuring him. Rensselaer is thronged with strangers, many of whom ate men looking for business locations. There is no town in Northern Indiana where greater inducements are offered for live,, energetic business isen than right here in Rensselaer. At the request of the Rev. A. Taylor, pastor, we would announce that the regular quarterly communion services ’of the Presbyterian Church will be held one week from next tianday. Preaching on the Friday evening previous, and on Sutaxday, at 2 p. N. The Coming *. Concert. —The musically inclined people of Rensselaer, who are interested in the “coming event,” are applying themselves with renewed vigor to their concert work since the change of weather, and think they are safe in promising their friends a pleasant evening, on August 4th, at the Opera House. The committee has secured the services of both professional and amateur elocutionists, and all tastes can be satisfied. . , r , 11 • r The entertainment given by the “Merry Maidens,” at the Opera House, last Thursday night, wss a very pleasant affair. The prois given below: Tableau, by Society; Address by President, Miss Carrie Egor; Greeting Song, Society; Drama, “Sunshine Through the Clouds,” Misses Nora A. Hopkins, Katie Green, Rachel Leopold and Etta Imps; Declamation, “Ride of Jennie McNeil,”"by Miss Myrta M. Henkle; Song, Misses Etta M. • Imes and Nora A. Hopkin!; Declamation, “Church Reveries of a School Girl,” Miss Katie Green; Song, Nora A. Hopkins; Declama- • tton, “Acts of Kindness,” Tillie Fendig; Song, Carrie Eger; Decla?mation, “Pictures of Memories,” Deatie Boroughs: Tableau, “Patience,” Misses Rachel Leopold and Myrta M. Hinkle; Declamation, “Bernardo Del Carpio,” Lizzie Morgan; Drama, “Crab Tree’s Wooing,” Deatie Myrta M. Hinkle, Katie Green, Nora A. Hopkins and Rachel < Leopold; Paper, IjLatie Green and Deatie Boroughs; Closing Remarks by President, Carrie Eger; Song, Society. <

The river is £till dry. ’ .Health good in general. Harvest is over and threshing has begun. Everybody is invited to come out and hear Dr. Flood, on the • 7th of August, in the grove, near Alter’s mill. Mrs. John McColly, who has 'been sick for the past six months, is not yet able to sit up. The neighbors assembled at the broken bridge last Friday afternoon, passed resolutions and carried them out The result was a reconstruction of said bridge, and - it is again passable. Several of our boys received only a part of their railroad money after the paymaster did make his appearance. The reason is unknown. Perhaps the time-keeper made the mistake. Every band should report himself to the timekeeper at night legt he be overlooked. ♦ A brother of Mrs. Mike Shultz has just arrived from Germany. He seema-to be thoroughly German, as . he does not even walk in AngloWe are glad to hear that John, jr, and John, ar n have settled their dispute about the wheat .. “Where sisters dwell and brothers meet, should never come.” last Saturday evening. An elderly man who resides in • Keener- township, was goings home from town, lieing under the influence of a quart or so of Halloran’s best He was driving at a reckless speed and .when he same to the turn in the. road, paid no attention to it but kept straight ahead into the woods. The result was a cut and bleeding . facet a bruised side and a broken Bhgon tongue. John McColly procured another tongue and sent the old man on his way home, a. sadder and it is to be hoped, a wiser man.

BILL BAT.