Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1892 — ADDITIONAL LOCALS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL LOCALS.

Willis McColly handles his stable bedding with a long-handled fork, now days. A short time back he warpnlling old straw out of a banana barrel, when a spider about as large as a Nubbin Ridge bull frog ran out of the straw and bit him on the finger. The bite hurt worse, Willis says, than when he was hit on the hind leg once by a number nine rattle-snake. He promptly applied one of nature’s remedies in the form of a hot poultice obtained without going out of his cow stable, and the pain ceased almost immediately, and the bite gave him no more trouble. Dr. Loughridge afterwards told him that no doubt the phompt applrcatKHY “Of the allopathic poultice saved his life, as the big spider was probably a tarantula. You want a niefe muff, go to Ellis & Murray’s. Mrs. Honan would like to see her lady friends and customers at her millinery parlors. Latest styles Underwear, you need underwear for the winter; Aye have got a fine line just opened. Give us a call. R. Fendig. The first installment of the five million Columbian half dollar world’s fair coins, 50,000 in number, was not delivered to the fair officials until last Monday morning, but by noon of Tuesday, 5 of the coins had reached Renssei.-MT,t tv. property of T. J. McCoy, and one of them" is now* on exhibition at McCoy’s bank. They are a very handsome, piece of money, with a picture of Columbus on one side and of his celebrated Santa Maria ship, on the other. The established price of the coins is one dollar, and they may be ordered at McCoy’s, the Citizens’ or the Rensselaer bank. All of which already have orders in for the coins to the number, in the aggregate, of 275, -nd which orders will probably be much increased. Bargains m Wool Blankets, at Ellis & Murray’s.

The Town Board ordinance prohibiting the running at large of cows in Rensselaer will probably come up for final action at the next regular Board meeting night. In view of the facts that there is now but comparatively little uninclosed land inside the corporation, and what little there is left is fast disappearing, and of the great expense caused to the town and to the people individually in reparing side walks and fences; and of the further fact that, in spite of all that can be said in favor of “the poor man’s cow” that the great majority of cows that run the streets are owned by people who are not poor, it would seem that the time had now arrrived when cows and other domestic animals ought no longer to run at large in the town. If any of our readers think! otherwise, they onght to bring their objections to the hearing of the Town Board previous to the evening of the second Monday of next month, or “forever after hold heir peace.”