Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1882 — Union Items. [ARTICLE]

Union Items.

Heaviest rain of thd season on Saturday 22nd. The oats is up but growing slowly, owing to the cool weather. Many farmers are plowing for corn. Tren McColly has returned from Delaware c«unty and is working for I. V. Alter. We know of several persons who were swindled at the show. Let every Republican be at the polls on tlye Bth of June and help to put the right man in the right place. • Viola Copper, formerly Viola Wilcox of this township, died recently at her home in Wisconsin. Lookout for the coming comet. The recent display of northern lights was the most brilliant we ever saw. Forming an arch in the narth at 12 o’clock and a center 8 degrees south of the zenith, dark red flames variegated with blue and white, rolled to the center from all points of the compass -with wonderful rapidity, for the space of half an hour.

BILL BAT.