Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1883 — Children’s Day. [ARTICLE]

Children’s Day.

June'l4th, ore week from the summer solstice, and a heavy frost last nignt! The weather is more numerous than excellent) veHly. The members us the High School at its closing session passed a resolution voting sincere thanks to Prof. Mitchell for his able services during the school year. The City of Joliet, 111., last year charged SSOO for a saloon license. The plan of high license worked so well that this year the figures -have been doubled and the license fee put at SIOOO. Prof. James H. Smart, Ex-State Superintendent of Public Instruction, was last Thursday elected President of Purdue University by the board of trustees of that institution. It it is a good selection.

Three townships of Pulaski county voted Monday on the question of giving the aid to the Rochester* Rensselaer 4 St. Louis railway. The tax carried in every . township, we understand, but by what majorities we have not edThe voters of Marion township will, on Wednesday, August Ist, vote on the question of giving aid to the Rochester* Rensselaer 4 St. Louis railway. This date will afford ample iiinie for a thorough (canvass of the subject, and the Republican will endeavor to do its part towards enabling the voters to arrive at a clear understanding of What their best interests will require of them, on the day of the election. > The Harper High License Bill is almost certain to become a law in Illinois. It has already passed the lower house and through the first reading in the senate. It forbids the licensing of any saloon in the state at a less sum than SSOO, With the exception that a license to sell malt liquors may be granted for $l5O.

Some twenty-five or thirty people joined the Jumbo Excursion so? Chicago, from Rensselaer last Saturday. Experience has shown that Mr. Ivellar, the General Passenger Agent of the L. N-A. & C. always tries to be as good as his word, and exepting the fact that the tram was a good deal behind time, the common lot of excursion trains, the excursion was all that r as promised. The cars were first class, and accommodations ample, the company respeotable and well behaved. The following item in regard to the Rensselaer people who have just returned from Nebraska, we clip from the last issue of “The Republican Valley Echo,” published in Franklin, Nebraska* “On Monday last the Franklin Real Estate .office sold 240 acres oi the A. K. Ilice farm to Willis J. Imes, of Rensselaer. Ind., for $2,600 and 820 acres of the J. Y. Wirings’ land to R. B. Patton* of the same place, for $1,750. Both these gentlemen will come to their possessions in the near future. Mr. lines has been in the drug business and Mr. Patton in the lumber business for some years, and having wearied of mercantile pursuits, they propose to try corn, pattie and hogs for a whilo, and certainly they have made good selections. The farms are but one mile apart, and both within sound of bur academy bell. These gentldmeh left a very favorable impression on oUr people. It was easy to see that they were business men, with both brains and money, and wo miss our guess if they don’t open out in business after their homes are fixed up to suit They took the.trUitt Tnursduy morning for Indit-na*”

The Discipline of Hie M. E. church sets apart the second Sunday in June for a fepecial children’s service and for the presentation of the claims of the Educational Society. This day is usually known as Children’s day and sometimes as Bose Sunday. The day was fittingly observed at the M. E. church last Sunday, the morning hour being given up to it. The weather had the effect of reducing the number of the audience much below what it otherwise would have been, but the services were entertaining and instructive, and in which the singing was a predominating feature. The church was profusely and tastefully decorated with flowers and greenery.