Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1883 — UNION ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

UNION ITEMS.

The rainfall has been unusually heavy. Corn is too damp to crib. The frost has shortened the pasture. We will soon be “compassed abou*" with ditches, Alter & Son have opened over twb miles of 14 ft. ditch lately. Aaron Pierson is building a new house. Ed also boasts of ’I new daughter, five weeks in size, aged Alice. The trustee has just finished a new school house, near the center of our township, on a beautiful sand-capped eminence overlooking one of the eastern arms of tte “Black marsh.'’ ... ~ We wondered what had happened to Dow Brasket, as he passed Us the other morning, without looking up, while a smile, composed of a mixture of joy and grief, passed over his pale countenance. All Was tnade plain, how’teVer, when, by chance. We overheard one little six-year hopeful, of the female pesuision, say to another at school “Its a girl.” Brushwood school is in operation and the rest will soon begin. ATM. Munden took the contradt of building a bridge across the Iroquois river, tvro miles above Alter's mill. I. V. Alter gets the grade work. Thb trains are killing stock in this townskip nearly every week. Our Sabbath schools have all closed for the season, after a successful term David Warne has sold his farm and will soon migrate to Dry Water Creek, in Grasshopper Valley, Kansas. We wish him more prosperity tham we believe to exist in th at state. —>

BILL BAT.