Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1883 — Rensselaer on the Same Road. [ARTICLE]

Rensselaer on the Same Road.

The Public Debt Statement for July shows a reduction during the month of $7,900,590. It is stated on pretty good authority that $3,800 were taken in at the ticket wagon on circus day. A larger sum, by the way, than was ever paid to The Republican, on delinquent subscriptions, during any one period of two weeks, since the paper was established.

Attica Ledger. The effort to popularize the Mother Hubbard dress in this city will have to be given up. A farmer saw one on the street the other day and informed his wife, upon returning home, that Attica was “going to h—las fast as it can the wimmin there have got to Wearin' night-gowns on the street.” •‘Old Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard To get her poor daughter a gown; Slie made it up slattern, With a sack for a pattern, And the style spread all over the town.”