Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1882 — Farmers Attention. [ARTICLE]

Farmers Attention.

He Played It Low Down.—One of the benevolent orders of .Rensselaer owns a valuable building lot. A wealthy citizen who owns an adjoining lot wished to purchase from the society a portion of their lot joining his own, four feet in width. He accordingly made an offer to the society of one hundred dollars for the four feet, or at the rate of twenty-five dollars per foot for it. At the same time, and, presumably for the sole purpose of making the society believe that he was making a liberal offer for the lot he wished to buy, he said that if the society would not sell to him their four foot strip mentioned, then he would sell to the society four feet front off his lot for one hundred dollars. Nowit happened to turn out that the members of the society had about as correct an understanding of the value of the lot as did Uncle J. —wealthy citizen we mean—himself, and accordingly they informed him that they would accept his last offer and pay him the hundred dollars for four feet off his lot. but that was not what the wealthy citizen was after at all and he very promptly ‘•backed out” of his bargain. “How hardly shall they that have riches”—you know thereat. A Card of Tninks. Mr. Editor:—We desire thiough the columns of your paper to express our thanks to the many friends who met at the parsonage, and so generously pounded us. Of course, Mr. Editor, the pounding was all in conformity to law, and, if not for the good of the public generally, it certainly was a benefit to those who received it. Therefore, dear friends, accept our greatful thanks, for the generous expressions of your regard for us in the temporal things of this life. May God's blessing ever rest upon you all, and may no cloud of adversity ever darken your pathway. Rev. J. W. Loder and Wife.

We are putting up a flax mill at Remington, Ind., and after August Ist, 1882, will be prepared ro buy flax straw at the following prices: Machine threshed straw, $2.50 to $3,00 per ton. Tramped or rolled straw $4,00 to $5,00 per ton. Pulled straw in straight bundles, sßjpo to SIO.OO per ton. Wei, mSwdy or weedy straw not wanted at any price. D. B. Sweetser & Co., Remington, Ind.