Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1883 — Winamac Wickedness. [ARTICLE]

Winamac Wickedness.

Marriage Licenses issued since our 3ast report: John W. Horton, Mattie V. Smith. Lewis M. Jacks, Rebecca J. HooTer. Henry Grimke, Mary Antrim. James'Longstreth, Minerva Price. John A. Price, Rachel A. Spencer. Kannal has fishing-tackle, cheap Jewelry made “good as new” at KannelV / Base Ball goods, all kinds, at KannaPs. Birthday cards, at Kannal’s. Jewelry and watches at KannaPs: Watches repaired at Kannal’s. An invention has just been patented at Washington which is thus described: “A self-acting sofa, just large enough for two, has been invented. If properly wound up, it will begin to ring a warning bell just before 30 o’clock. At one minute after 10 it splits apart, and while one-half carries the daughter of the house up stairs, the other half kicks her young man out of doors. They will come high, but people must have them.” —Exchange, We hardly think, in strict just ice, his liberality to the cause of religion is sufficiently great to entitle him to be called the De Pauw of Northern Indiana, nor even of Jasper county, although he says that when he can no lbnger take delight in giving to the church, [and the rate of interest gets reduced to six per cent] then he wishes to die and leave this sordid, selfish world. All the same he demands twelve per ceht. interest and good security, before he will loan money to help the church of his choice out of a tight place.

According to the Republican of that town some fellow who has been tampering with Winamac tanglefoot, (the same being the worst quality of an article bad at best), has been made to feel the weight of Winamac justice to the extent of $10.50; The Republican gives him a local habitation and a name by calling him Robert W. Stillwell,, of Rensselaer. We disclaim the proffered distinction, and invite the Winmacer to father its own drunks or else to locate them in some town which has no reputation to, lose. Rose Lawn, for instance, whose young fame has been-blasted because of her unmindfulness of the -injunction to “Pull down the blind'.” Rensselaer knows not Stillwell,