Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1883 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

A man is certainly low down, who will steal chickens from a preacher! Yet such s has been the case, as Elder McDade lost some tine ones last week. “Spring time has come, gentle Annie!” and an odor of burning garbage hangs around the town powerful enough “to drive a bulldog out of a tan yard.” The attention of farmers and horse owners is called to the advertisment of Norman Horses which appears in this issue of The Republican. It pays to breed good horses. - ■■■»■«■ ■. *■■■ Sheriffs Powell’s little daughter, Hattie, lost a valuable • gold necklace, with, a cameo ring attaches, 'Tuesday evening. Anyone returning the same, to the loser, will confer a favor, and recieve a suitable reward, from Mr. Powell. About the most striking, and, at the same time, unfortunate feature of the Kentland fire ‘was the great amount of property on which there was no insurance. The Newton County News, loss S9OO, and The People’s Press $450, both uninsured, are fair examples of many others equally unfortunate.