Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1885 — County Coŕespondence. [ARTICLE]

County Coŕespondence.

PLEASANT RIDGE ITEMS. Health good as a general thing.* A new dish-washer at Henry Steele’s. Prayer meeting at the Riage Thursday night. ; , * ... Weather cool, and Jack Frost gave us a call. Mr. Frank Yeoman has an attack of hay fever. A son born to Mr. and Mrs. Austin Moore, last Thursday, Aug., 27th. Mr. and Mrs J. F. Bruner are visiting relatives at Do Motte, Indiana. Linden & Co., are pressing and' shipping hay at a lively rate, from the Ridge. Mr, H. V. Childers is preparing to build a new house. We wish him good success.

Quite a number of the Ridgeites attended the basket meoting at the Watson Grove, Sunday. All report a good time. Messrs. Ike and Press Hemphill, and wives, are going to attend the Remington Fair, and also visit Mr. Charles Dean and wife. ,Mr. and Mr 3. Lewis Yeoman are visiting relatives at Rossville, 111., Mrand Mrs. Cluster are keeping house for them during their absenee. »

Miss Lida Kenton, of Monlicello, and Miss Stella Parkinson, of Rensselaer, spent part of last week with their cousin, Jaley Parkinson. That Platform.—in regard to the platform dance, certainly it was not the dance that the residents of the Ridge were not satisfied with, but the manner in which it was carried on, and the whisky and beer that were brought there, and the profane lauguage that was used, The Writer who signs his name “Wintergreen, ” Writes as though ho had an interested part in that' platform. Suppose lie was the owner of it, and some person who was opposed to whisky and beer drinking did set fire to it to prevent another display of that kind, does be think tiio people of the Ridge wish to encourage such proceedings? The people of this community would think just as much of the writer if he would sign his name ‘ Green,” as to have the “Winter” to it. , , i Stranger. > . ..

Through the persistent efforts of Postmaster James the Postoffice Department has ordered a thrpugh mail pouch to be carried on the through .passenger train between Indianapolis and Rensselaer, and return. It passes Een sselaer southward at 11:28 p. m. and northward 4:7 a. m. This arrangement will expedite mails to or from the east, by twelve hours, generally. * —Providence has -smiled on our friend Peter Foulks, of Milroy tp. since he renounced the Greenback delusion and came back into the Republican fold, and he now** makes positive claim to possessing the best seven acres of corn in Jasper county. The other half dozen or so of lonely and unprosperous Greeubackers still left in the county, had better consider Brother Foulks’ ways and be wise.

Mr. W. A, Brewer, the able and genial secretary of the Francesville Agricultural Society, was in town Tuesday. The fair will be held the fourth week in September, the dates being the 22, 23 24 and 25 of the-month. The fair last year, though it left no dividends for stock-holders, paid one hundred cents on the doHaf of its premiums,-.and did a power of gond to the community. Mr. Brewer is confident that the fair of this year will be equally as good aud probably much better.

W. E. Shaw, of RemiDgton, has the agency of Marion township, for Gen. Grant’s book and will call on our citizens soon, to solicit their subscription to this f justly, celebrated work. In view of the fact that numerous spurious imitations of Grant’s book, with nearly similar titles, are being crowded upon the public, it is proper to state here that the work Mr. Shaw is handling is the genuine article, and Commander’s own and onlybook. Our citizens who give tk/ir subscriptions to Mr. Shaw may thus be assured that they will get just what they want, “The Personal Memoirs” of General Grant, as written by himself.

A note-worthy enterprise in the line of fine stock raising, which was inaugurated in this county last spring, has heretofore escaped public notice. Mr W. T. Smith, of Chicago, purchased a farm in Milroy township, and placed there, in’ charge of competent parties, a herd of the finest Hereford cattle to be bought in Chicago. The herd consists of seven cows and one bull. The animals are all high priced, one cow costing $l,lOO. Mr. Smith is now in Rensselaer arranging for the erection of a large barn on his farm. He is the guest of Sheriff Yeoman, of wkyse wife he is a step-brother. He is one of the rising young men .of Chicago and commands a very large salary in the service of the New York Life Insurance company. Dress Goods, Fall styles, at He mpkill & Honan’s.

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All indebted to tls by note or otherwise, will plefise call and settle. •We heed our money, and must have it. N. Warner & Sons. Suits To order. —Willey & Sigler, at Trade Palace, have the agency for the celebrated house of Browning, King <fe Co., of New York. If you want a suit ot clothes made to order call and inspect their samples and get a suit that Will be warranted'to give satisfaction.