Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1884 — NEWS AND PERSONALS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS AND PERSONALS.

The third term bugbear beat John Powell. There were four accessions to the M. E. church last Sabbath morning. Ladies’ and Children’s winter hoods and woolen skirts at Ladies’ Bazar.. The He publican" is doing business up one flight of ladder this morning. A question of fconsiderable interest just now is “Wlio woke up the night watch?” The Election evening masquerade, at the roller skate rink, was fairly successful, in spite of the bad weather. Ladies from the country will find the Ladies’ Bazar a good place to warm when they come to town. A few days before Mr. F. JSears started for Colorado, he purchased an interest of one third m the Citizens’ Bauk, of this place. The election in Marion township passed off very quietly, and with good order. There was no disturbance of any kind aud no drunken men on the streets. Judge Hammond ruus nearly 350 votes ahead of his ticket in this county. An excellent evidence of the great estimation in whicti he is held by his neighbors. Married. —On the evening of October 30th, 1884, by Rev. T. C. 1 Webster, at the residence of Mr. •John M. Gwin, near Pleasant Ridge, Mr. L. C. Sayers, and Miss Emma Gwin. The National Encyclopedia of Social and Business Forms; by James D. McCabe, is a complete and very valuable work. Miss Amanda Chesterson, of Sheldon, 111., has the agency for this county and is notv canvassing Rensselaer and vicinity. Hon. R. S. Dwiggins returned from Luke Petoskey last Saturday! with his health considerably improved. Mr. Dwiggius has sold a part of his interest in the Citizens’ Bank to Mr. F. J. Sears, and intends to retire for a time from active business. He will pass the winter in the South. , The killing of John Dreger, in Keener township, was, beyond doubt, a cold blooded, long premeditated murder, and with no other motive than to get his property and money. We have no doubt that the guilty man is now in custody and will receive the punishment his fearful crime deserves .