Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1883 — PERSONAL AND OTHER MENTION [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND OTHER MENTION

George Hopkins has sold his house and lot to Isaac D. Barkley. Mrs. F. M. Oswald, of Kentland, is visiting the family of Mr. Jay Williams. Mr. Arnold and Joe Burns of Barkley township, are building dwelling houses. Mr. Noble J. York bought goods in Chicago, for Leopold’s Bazar, Thursday and Friday last. Casper Eiglesbach tie preparing to build a house and stable north of the school building. Miss Rosa Parris returned Saturday from a week’s visit to friends in Oxford and Attica. Charley Mayer, the tailor, the lost but not lamented, has settled in Wadena, Minnesota. Don’t forget the railroad meeting at the Court House next Monday evening. Hon. A. O. Marshall, an attorney from Joliet, 111., visited his mother and his brother, the editor, this week. Mrs. Isaac M. Stackhouse, of Indianapolis, is visiting old friends and acquaintances in and around Rensselaer. The Anti-Monopoly Convention in Chicago last week was attended by Messrs. J. A. Burnham, J. J. Waterbury, J. A. Pierce and Jonathan Pancoast.

The Rev. W. H. Vance, pastor of the M. E. Church at Remington, came to Rensselaer to visit his brother in the cause, the Rev. Claypool this week. Mrs. Lillie Anderson, who has been with Hemphill & Honan, for several months past, departed for her old home at Mason City, 111., on Tuesday morning. The good neighbors of Mrs. Wm. Price, of Barkley tp., whose husband was lately sent to the insane asylum, are harvesting her grain for her, gratis. The Hon. R. S. Dwiggins will start on an extensive business trip through the East, the latter part of this week. He will visit New York on business connected with the Continental railroad during his absence. Brother McEwen’s improved method of spelling “Bloody Shirt,” as per the last issue of the Democratic Sentinel, may be well enough adapted for the. pages of a democratic paper, but hardly seems likely to come into general use. ■e • - * Twelve hundred dollars is the highest bid for the ' old school building and grounds.