Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1891 — Pay Your Lumber bill. [ARTICLE]

Pay Your Lumber bill.

Having sold our lumber yard to ■John Paxtori, all persons knowing themselves to indebted to the firm of Wole & Co., of Rensselaer, are hereby notified and requested to call and make settlement of the same at once. Wolfe Co. Candec felt Books £>2.50 at Hemphill <fc Honan’s.

A very promising Rebecca degree lodge, which is the women’s branch of Odd Fellowship, was instituted in the frail of Iroquois Lodge, I. O. O. F., lasUThursday night, with a membership of 50. The instituting officer Was Job n Reynolds, of Ind ianapolis, Deputy Grand Master. The initiating team was from Monon, and so well did they perform the beautiful and impressive ceremonials of initiation that the Deputy Grand Master declared that in all his experience he never had seen better work. The entire party from Monon was 32 in number. The elective officers ofthe

new lodge are: Noble Grand, Mrs. Belle Kerr; Vice Grand, Miss Mamie Spitler; Secretary. Nliss Blanche Loughride; Treasurer, Miss Grace Vanatta. The charter members are C. B. Steward, J. R. Vanatta, A. Leopold, Alfred Colljns, John Koh- , ler, J. F. Antrim, and J. W. Duvall. The new lodge will meet every alternate Friday evening, in Odd Fellows Hall. The name of the new lodge is peculiarly appropriate. The parent lodge being named after the pellucid but powerful Iroquois river, the branch lodge has fittingly chosen the latter river’s gentle affluent, the Pinkamink, as its name-sake. The full name and number being “Pinkamink Lodge, Number 846, Daughters of Rebecca.” The whole of Salem, Beaver and White Post township and all their relations were in Winamac Wednesday and Thursday attending the sale of the Monon Ditch, also a largenumbet - df interested people from White and Jasper counties. Wednesday was devoted to the selling of the ditch and Thursday to the making out of bonds: with a few exception the allotments in this county were bid in by the landowners, who propose to do the work themselves if they cannot get some dredge company to take it off their hands at reasonable price. They do not propose to be gutted” any more than the law makes necess-ary,-and, by the way, the legal expenses are not a very small item, taking the work of the surveyors, advertising, auditors’ fees, treasurers etc. into consideration. Yet though the of doing this work will be a big thing, the benefits to be derived therefrom will be equally as great. If the ditch is properly made, thousands of acres of land will be redeemed from the swamps and made 'as valuable as any land in the State. It is going to be extremely hard for some of the farmers to meet the assessment, and perhaps, in a few instances, some may lose their farms; but the final result will more than compensate for all the trouble and expense.— Winamac liepublican.