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

Republican Voters, Attention!

There will be a Republican Mass Convention held at the Court House in Rensselaer, on Monday, x April 30th, 1883, at 7| o’clock p. m., for the purpose of nominating a ticket for the ensuing Corporation election. Every Republican voter in the corporation is cordially invited to be present. F. J. Sears, ) O. C. Link, > Committee. Geo. M. Robinson: ) • Counting Judge Gresham the new Post-master General, Indiana has had six representatives in the cabinet since the organization of the government. Caleb B. ■ Smith was Secretary of the Interior from 1861 to 1863. John P. Usher, Secretary of the Interior 1863 to 1865: Hugh McCullough, Secretary of the Treasury, 1865 to 1869; J. N. Tyner, Post-master General, 1876 to 1877: Richard M. Thompson, Secretary of the Navy, 1877 to 1880. The New town of Mount Airy, in Newton county, some nine miles west of Rensselaer, is starting out with a considerable of a boom. The building to be occupied as a branch store by Willey & Sigler of Ren£ selaer, in charge of W. L. Wishaid, is nearly completed. It is a very large building for the place, some 90 by 60 feet, two stories high. Four or five other business buildings are finished, or nearly so. Ira Sayler of Rensselaer has a hardware store in one of them.

The Grand Chapter of Indiana, Order of the Eastern Star, met in Indianapolis last week. It was at tended by the Rensselaer people: Mr. and Mrs. F. Chilcote, Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Spitler, Mrs. C. H. Price and Miss Ada Hopkins. The three first mentioned ladies attended as representatives of the Evening Star Chapter, the others of the party were present as interested spectators. At the election of officers of the Grand Chapter Mrs. Spitler was honored with the posiiion’of Associate Grand Matron, the second highest that can be filled by a lady in the Chapter.

Born, -To Jfe. KD. Bhowfes, Thursday morning. Apt. 19. a son, The Ladies’ Literary Society will meet at Miss Lydia Parris’ Saturday afternoon, April 21st A full attendance is desired, as there is important business to transact Mrs. Wilson, of Lansing, Lake county, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. H. E. James. James W.Douthit has just received a complete set of Indiana Reports, from Robert Clarke & Cd. Cincinnati, Ohio. • Mrs. J. D. Hopkins, of Dayton, Ind., is visiting her mother, Mrs. Tharp, this week.