Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1883 — UNION TOWNSHIP ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

UNION TOWNSHIP ITEMS.

Cool and cloudy. John Petty is working on his new house. The families of Noah M. Gant and Abe Warne have the measles. Austin Lakin returned, Saturday, from a visit to his relatives at Hoopston, 111. The Grape Island and Harrington schools closed last s Friday, ( after terms of four months. The Pleasant Ridge school closes next Saturday. • i Morgan Shields is feeding cattle op Beaver prairie, in Newton Co., where he will remain until spring opens. * . Quite a number of cattle herded in this township this winter. Sadie McDonald has been engaged to teach the Spring term of school at Grape Island. Sadie is a very successful teacher, I. J. Gant, Jennie Gant, Austin Lakin and David W. Shields talk of attending the Northern Indiana Normal at Valparaiso this summer. William Cooper intends fencing 160 acres of land this spring. Alexander Long is building a new house. Literary at the Harrington school house next Saturday night. Question for discussion is: Resolved that Pride and Ambition are greater evils than Ignorance and Superstition. Affirmative, A. N. Lakin, C. C. Cooper and F. J. Gant. Negative; David W. Shields, Sadie McDonald and Frank Cooper. Quite a lively contest is expected. Union claims the best looking girls in Jasper county! ! Church at < the Pleasant Ridge, (Gant) school house next Sunday evening.

MISS FLINT.