Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1884 — DEMOTTE AND KEENER. [ARTICLE]

DEMOTTE AND KEENER.

li. W. Marshall has just got home from a cattle hunting trip, through Northern Indiana and .Southern Michigan. He reports steers scarce and high. E. D. Fairchild has been scooting round a considerable, on the same business He also finds it slow work filling up his herds at satisfactory prices. D E. Fairchild run over to Kankakee, on Monday. He says K-k.k is a lively town, but nowhere compared to DeMotte. Everybody has been making good use of the fine sleighing, to haul in saw-logs: there is a perfect blockade of them all around the mill grounds. Superintendent of schools, Nelson and Trustee, Fairchild, were swinging around the circle, looking after the Keener schools, last week. If they were as much pleased with the schools as some of the school inarms and scholars were with the Co. Superintendent,' every thing will be reported 4 ‘Q. K.” Elder (R. Ball is now conducting a series of meetings at Pleasant Valley school* house. This js their sec ond week, and they are having a reasonable amount of success and eneoufagement considering the thinly settled condition of this part of the county. This is the second week the T enter school has had a/orced vacation on account of the sickness of their teacher, Miss Chattie Sayers. Her inany Mends Will be glad to know that she is now improving.

Mrs. Henry Platt, a lady whose zeal so far outruns her discretion, that the latter quality may fairly be counted as entirely but of the race, has, for several weeks > past, persistently pestered the people of this propinquity for alms in ajd of a family-, in the south-east part of town, who lately had the misfortune to lose a few of. their household effects by a| fire. The loss, though not great in itself, did, indeed, leave the family destitute of some necessary articles,. especially, clothing, vvhifch ought to have been, and in fact were supplied by. the kindness of neighbors- Further than that there was no-reason why they should have been considered objects of charity. The husband is well and strong, has only a wife and one child to support, owns the house he lives in, and has steady work, with sure pay, as a section hand on the railroad: “Lo the poor you have with [Von always” and in Rensselaer are certainly at least a few persons, 1 who ought to receive ■ assistance .from the benevolent, but to make j objects of charity out of people in Ino worse-ekeuDistances than are these particular proteges of Mrs. Platt, is to do them more harm than good--“ Whatever day makes a’’ strong man a mendicant “takes half his worth away." . -Clergyman, gpeakera, stager*, and actors, lintl that Ayer'i Cherry Pectoral improves and aid« thi voice.