Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1885 — A Game of Progressive Euchre. [ARTICLE]

A Game of Progressive Euchre.

j A party of young people played progressive euchre, at the home of the, I editor, on River street, last Friday eve- | ning, and, with one accord, they all ■ pronounced it a delightful game. As the game is new in this place, accede to the request df friends, and republish, in condensed form, the description Of the game given some months ago, in this paper: Not less than three four-handed games of euchre inust be formed. One table is called the AcS table, another the King t&'bfo. and the’other the Queen table. Playing begins simultaneously at all the tables, and five point games are usually played, at the Ace table. At the &mg and Queen tables, 1 however* they do not finish any games, but play right along for as many points as ' possible, until the players at the Ace 'table announce that f hey|have finished I a gam#. The partners who are defeated j at the Ade table then go to the Qneen l table’, the partners who have the j most points at the King table take the vbcaht chairs at the Ace table; and, in the same manner, those ahead at the ' Queen table move forward to the King table, and then.all begin to play again, as before. No games are recorded, or in fact completed, except ht the Ace table. It would be no detriment to the game if four or even -five tables were formed; the fourth one could be .called the Jaok table, and the fifth* the Ten-spot tabic.

, Joseph Wiles, a man about sixty two years of age, committed suicide by hanging himself with a log chain, week before last at his. home three miles northwest frqin Woodland. Insane dispondency"is assigned as the cattse for the act. He was an inoffensive, kind-heart-ed old man, and' weft liked j n Obotllnhd and vicinity.