Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1883 — Temperance. [ARTICLE]

Temperance.

A meeting was held at the Presbyterian church Tuesday evening for the purpose of reviving the interests of Rensselaer. A committee consisting of Mrs. A. Purcupile, Miss Mollie Babcock, Mrs. R. 8. Dwiggins and Mr. E. 0. Nowels,, was] appointed to confer with the officers of the blue Ribbon society in regard to a revival of the meetings of the latter. The result of the conference will be found in a programme published in this issue of The Republic \n, for a meeting at the Court House Saturday evening There ought to.be.a, rousing meeting.

The material for the new iron fence around the jail yard is now on the ground, and the fence will be put up-in’ a short time. 1 .. -- ‘ .1 rThe wheat crop on the prairie lands of Jasper county will be little less than a, complete failure this year. That sleet storm done the business for it. < Mail Cab Burned:—-Inform rtion reaches us, just as we go to press, that the mail, baggage and express car, attached to the train which went north through Rensselaer at 5;47 last evening, took fire at Cedar Lake, and was entirely consumed. Of the mail matter, only the registered letters were saved. r“' J* We have not learned whether the baggage and express goods were saved, but as the fire originated in the mail car, they probably were saved. The fire resulted frcm the explosion of a cooking lamp, in the mail car.