Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1884 — UNION ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

UNION ITEMS.

Oats and wheat looking well. "Very little corn has boon planted yet. The candidates are on the war path. Our new Trustee settles himself into the official harness with a will. Several grubbing machines have been purchased in this township anil are doing good service. The ditching plow still runs. Most of the ditches aio being worked at ■R"p¥6lenf7 Some sickness provails. Mrs. Win '. Humes pussed away after a lingering illness. Mrs. Casey has been ill for a long time but is now convaleS cent. Frank Lakin bus purchased sevora 1 hundred acres of land lately adjoining his farm. Mr. Leroy Sayers has run a ivire fence around his new farm. Brushwood has no teacher yet. Some of our young teachers say that Superintendent Nelson is “bough on rats.” The signs for an abundance of fruit arc good excepting peaches. The troes fhemselves in most cases have been killed by the heavy sleet. The rainfall for the month of April was 7 inches, mean daily temperature for the month was 42 degrees. Coldest day, Friday, 18th 83, degrees. Warmest day. Wednesday, doth, 66 degrees.

BILL BAT.