Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1892 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Charley Platt,Nate section boss on the Monon, has quit the employ of the R. R. and is succeeded by Mr. Cripps. David Elder went to Idaville Saturday, to remove the body df a Son; buried 7 or 8 years ago, into a more suitable part of the cemetery. I still have some wall paper which will be sold low. i B. F. Ffndig. The faculty and pupils of St. Joseph’s cnilftgß, together with a large number of the Catholic population of the vicinity, had a big picnic at Nagel’s grove,- on the Fourth.. A good new safe, a refrigerator and an oil-tank for sale cheap. <, Laß®e Bros. W. W. Watson and family will start back to Washington to-night. Miss True Alter will go with them, and remain for a considerable period, completing her literary and musical education. The City Laundry did some very fine work last week, equal to any steam laundry. Why not patronize home work. As a result of the tremendous rain of last Saturday night, which made a muck bed of the wheat and rye fields, many farmers are trying to cut their grain with’cradles. It is a mighty hard way of harvesting gram, however, especially to people who are not used to it, as very few now are, and if the weather continues unfavorable to harvesting with machines, the crop will be largely unharvested. t Any person wishing to invest or borrow money Call and see me, at my office, Rensselaer Bank. B. F. Ferguson.

The all night’s rain which began aboutnineo’cloek last Saturday night pretty nearly equalled the other very big ram early in May. The water descended in torrents much oOt the time and the total rainfall during the night being several ihches. The rain has been very damaging to the farmers by preventing the much needing working of corn and interrupting the harvesting of wheat and rye. Patrons of the late Women’s Exchange, and all others can leave orders for large cakes; roast meats mid other Sunday cooking, with T. W. Haus, the baker, not later than Friday evening. __ “The Columbian tower association at Chicago means to build a steel tower circular in form, 500 feet in its diameter at the base, 230 at its cornice, 1492 feet high, to be the Christopher Columbus’ statue and to have a double track electric milway wind around it spirally from base to top, its whole length being nearly 7 miles. Just at 4he tower’s base are also to b<s built 2 7-story hotels with 3,000 rooms.” All of which will be done—perhaps. Isaac Glacebrook carries a full line of McCormick binders and mowers also repairs. Give him a call. —I<oeation Grants’ old shop on Front Street. Rensselaer did not seem to be in it for base ball, on the Fourth. The Reneselaer vs. Goodland game resulted in a defeat for the home nine by a score of nine to ten. In Monon the nine from the Indian school was beaten much worse, the score being 13 to 33 in favor of the Monons. Up to the seventh inning the Indian boys had everything their own way, the score standing seven to two in thei r favor; but their pitcher then gave out and the Monon boys then scored as louJ as they had wind to run.

Several good young Norman and Clyde stallions; also good brood mares and colts, for sale' on easy terms, or will exchange fpr other tock. Laßue Bros. We were misinformed last week, in regard to Mr. Perkins recovering all his property, carried off by the sneak thief now in jail at SJonticello. He got back watch, which was the most valuable part of the property, but the suit of clothes was not, recovered. The thief says he left them in a strawstack near Surrey, but he was probably mistaken in the locality. It was likely near Marlboro or Lee or some other point between Rensselaer and Monon. It is not likely that the fellow went towards Surrey at all after leaving Rensselaer.