Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1883 — Complimentary Resolutions.! [ARTICLE]

Complimentary Resolutions.!

—t-tt ■ ■— - . n . , f-f — ,rAll grades of sheet music, from the easiest, for learners, to the most difficult, for professionals, at Kannal’s. Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, are the last days upon which excursion rate tickets can be bought for the Railroad Exposition 4»t .Chicago. • Ths Grand Jury.— 'the Grand jury closed its labors on Friday last and were discharged. During their session they found in all eleven indictments, four of these were for giving liquor to minors; four for being intoxicated in a public place; one for unlawful sale of liquor; one for sodomy, and one for grand larceny.

A praiseworthy and persistent' effort has been made during several weeks past to revive popular interest in the Blue Ribbon Temperance meetings. We regret to say that the effort has not succeeded, and, for the present at least, will be abandoned. ■«»»■ Church Festival.— The ladies of the &f. E. Church intend giving a series of regular bi-weekly ice cream festivals, daring the season, the first of which will be given at the residence of the pastor, the Rev. J . J. Claypool, next Friday (to-morrow) evening. It will be a pleasant affair; without doubt, and everybody is invited to be present and help enjoy it. The June number of “The Midland Monthly”, formerly “The Telephone,” the Indianapolis literary magazine of which our former / townsman, Prof. W. De M. Hooper is managing editor, came to hand last week. The name has, very wisely, been dropped intirely. This number presents quite an extensive table of contents, and so far as we have examined, seems to possess a large share of real literary excellence.

At a called meeting of the Board of Education, to complete unfinished business, on June 4th, after the election of D.' B. Nowels’ successor, the following complimentary resolution's were presented and adopted by an unanimous vote: Ist. We, the trustees of the several townsnips of Jasper Co., composing the Board of Education of said County, do hereby tender a vote of thanks tox>. B. Nowels, School Superintendent, for the efficient and impartial maimer in which he has discharged his duties as president of this 4 Board, during the past four years. 2nd. That said Board recognize in his labors, those of a zealous and faithful school pfficer, having introduced many reforms, thereby placing the schools of Jasper Co., higher in the scale of proficiency than ever before attained. A motion prevailed that the Publishers of the Rensselaer Republican and the Democratic Sentinel be furnished each with a copy of the above resolutions, with the request to publish the same. A. J. Yeoman, Sec’y Pro-tom.