Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1883 — Personal and Local. [ARTICLE]

Personal and Local.

r David W. Shields is going to Texas next week. Re expects to make his future home there. A notice iii last week’s Republican secured to Miss Etta Spitler the return of a lost penholder. Mothers have you seen those cunning little frocks tor children, at Miss Babcock’s? Theodore Hurley, the postmaster at Blackford, Bai'kley tp., has lately taken to himself a wife. Ludd Hopkin s defies competition in Boys and mens' boots.- Mens’ cloth top boots 81.35, Mens’ fine slippers $1.25, Ladies feltslip’rs 50. Messrs. Phil M. Wolfer and Stephen Sappington, two prominent stockmen of Otterbein, Benton county, were at the Nowels House Monday night. Ludd Hopkins has no store expense. He buys goods for "spot cash. 30 years experience in the business. Price our goods. Mrs. Lillie Dousman lias returned From. Cl ucago, and will, probably, take up her residence in the old Tharp house, on Front Street., • A few more chances yet on that breech loading shot gun, at Purcupiles. 25c worth of tobacco or cigars entitles you to a chance. Clark Price has gone to.La Fayette and entered, as a law si udent; the office of Godlove ■S. and zY. Orth Behm. | The largest and handsomest line of cloth window shades ever on sale in Jasper county, may be hal at Kannal’s. Something novel in the amusement line, will be the masquerade on roller skates, at tiie Opera House, Saturday night. Married.—Sunday afternoon, Sep., 30, 1883,' at the residence of Mr. Thomas Jordan, in RensseJaer, Mr. Prank W. King ami Miss Sarah E, Brewer, both of Rensselaer. The Rev. B. F. Ferguson performing ceremony. Lasit Tuesday, the first day of the Jewish month Tishri, was observed by the Jewish people as the festival of the Rosh-hashanali, the Jewish New Year. This year, according to the Hebrew calendar, is the 5645th in tlie age of the world.

Temperance Meeting at the Court House, next Saturday evening. The friends of the cause should attend those meetings, thereby manifesting their interest in the cause. Miss Lola Moss will conduct the music. All are invited to attend. Clark Price, Sec’y. Mi-. C. A. Cox, one of the, most popular and efficient of railway Conductors, is about the only representative of the old set now left on the L. N-A. &C. The others, good, bad and indifferent, are all gone. Some were “fired bodily” and perhaps justly, others found Lmore-suitable situations elsewhere, ! and still others were wrecked up l on the sharp angles of the fplaner general manager, McCleod’s, irascible temper. Of all the former conductors none are missed shore by Jasper county people, than the gentlemanly Tom Hiner, once at resident of Rensselaer.

To all who are interested in having a ladies’ furnishing store in Rensselaer, wheTe over-work-ing mothers caii purchase readymade muslinwear, for themselves ; and children, at a trifle above the cist of the raw material: I wish to say that I am 140 W keeping a complete stocki of Ladies, and Childrens furnishing goods, such as: Ready-made Muslinwear, Ivuit' Wollenwear, Shirts, Corsets, Gloves, Hosiery, Hoopskirts, bustles, Infant’s and Children’s di essI es, Stockings, Ladies’ and Chikl- ‘ ren’s gossamer waterprobf circulars, all of which I offer at reason- . able prices. Call and see fny stock, no trouble to show goods.

MOLLIE W. BABCOCK.

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