Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1886 — Wood! Wood!! Wood!!! [ARTICLE]

Wood! Wood!! Wood!!!

I will deliver good Wood to my customers at the following prices Sawed in stove length, $3.75pr. cd. Sawed and split, $4.00 “ a Cord wood; $3.40 “ “ / We invite criticism on the measurement of wood delivered from our yard. It takes a bed thiea feet high to hold a half cord of sawatt wood thrown in loose. f. Telephone your orders from

R. P. Benjamin.

Vast quantities of cordwood are coming into town at present. Willey & Sigler, at the Trade Palace, will always be glad tameet any price given, by any legitimate business firm, on goods in their line. D. G. Warner, of the firm of Warner & Sons and Miss Gertie Robinson, daughter of County Auditor will be married at the home of the bride’s parents, on River street, this evening. Mr. C. R. Benjamin, of Newton township, has long been afflicted with an obstinate bronchial trouble, and we learn is thinking of removing to California, in the hopes of deriving benefit from the climate of the Pacific coast .

Henry Murley, a well-to-do farmer, living halfway between Monon and Francesville, in Pulaski county, committed suicide last Saturday, by hanging* Insanity, induced by intemperance, is stated as the cause. He leaves a wife and four children. The State Association of County Surveyors held their -annual ses-r sion, at Indianapolis, last week. L. S. Alter, of Ihi s county, the faithful and efficient Corresponding Secretary of the Association, was in attendance, and was honored by a re-election to the above position.

We have authority for "’saying that Grant Warner and Miss Gertie Robinson, two of Rensselaer’s most estimable young people, will soon quit “trotting in single harness”. We may be a little previous in making the. announcement, but Bro. Marshall, of the Republican, was bought off aud has not said much about it. Here is success to you and yours_ Grant —Monon Dispatch.

Shorty Hatfield, the piano tuner, reeled oiit of Halloran’s saloon, Saturday night, a few degrees drunker than usual; and having insulted a citizen who asked him to paj a just debt, was soundly thumped; after the same manner, only more so, that another citizen reasoned with him a month or two ago, under very similar circumstances. Shorty has followed the drunkard’s descending path so far as to be incapable of appreciating the force of any argument except a knock-do wn.

Married.—At the home of the bride’s father, on River street, Rensselaer., Ind., at 2:30 p. m. Wednesday Jan., 27th 1886, Mr. O. P. M. Butler, of Denver, Colorado, to Miss Adda Cleaver, of Rensselaer. The Rev. D. Handley performing the ceremony. The young couple took the 4:38 train for Chicago, last evening, and will proceed at once to Denver, at which place the groom is a pai^- 1 ner with his father in the management of the Red Lion hotel. They are also the lucky owners of a cattle ranch, 15 miles from Denver. The marriage was very quiet, only immediate friends and relatives of the parties being present

We promise that at the end of the year that what is our interests,' shall be a benefit to those who give us their trade. Willey <fc Sigler.