Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1893 — ADDITIONAL LOCALS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL LOCALS.

C- D. Nowels has just bought out his brother, W. R. Nowels’ interest in the Nowels House block, and will soon, it is said, conclude the purchase of the entire building. Very Rev. August Seifert, presidentrof St. Joseph’s College, attended the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the ordination of Very Rev. M. E. Campion, at Logansport, last

Saturday. Willis MeGoily, the night-wateh, was trying to blow out a stove flue with a charge of powder, Tuesday morning, wnen the charge went off, prematurely, and burned him quite badly in the face and eyes. He will be off duty for a few days, during which time his place is taken by E. H. Morlan. Willis did not have to blow down the muzzle of that stove-pipe to find out that it was loaded.

There are still some rabbits in this section, although not so many as there were a few days ago, for Benny Fendig bought 188 in one bunch, yesterday morning, which with 10 or 12 otherwise disposed of, J. W. King, Alvin Clark and Will King killed in three days, with the help of C. C. Brown one day. They found them in the neighborhood of town, mostly in a northerly direction. Notice. We have added in connection with our feed mill, a new french burr mill and meal bolter, and are now prepared to grind both feed! and corn. We grind on Tuesdays and Fridays of each week. W. R. Nowels & Son. We are informed that an entertainment is to be given soon by the pupils of the public schools, for the purpose of securing money with which to purchase supplementary reading materia 1 for the grades below the High School, which is already I well supplied with many choice selec-1

tions. The’good influence of good books is too evident to need urging. It can scarcely be estimated in a financial sense. The effort to supply these books is certainly along the right line, and is sure to meet with the favor and support of both the friends and patrons of our town schools. Such entertainments cannot be too liberally patronized. Austin & Hopkins will loan you money on short or long time at current bank rales, on personal, chattel | or mortgage security, without delay. William M. Noland, a well-known and much esteemed citizen, died suddenly at liis home in Francesville Monday. He was out doiDg his morning chores and from his position when found, had, apparently, just sat down to milk a cow, when lie fell dead . The cause of his death was probably heart disease. Mr. Noland was, for many years, most of bis life in fact, a resident of Barkley Tp., but he moved to FrancesviUe a few years ago and engaged in business with his son, Frank Noland, himself formerly engaged in business in Rensselaer as a partner so T. J. Farden. Mr. Noland’s age was about 65 years. Through his first wife, who was a Parkinson ,he has m&ny relatives in Rensselaer and vicinity. The Auditors notice of delinquent tax sale, for this year, appears in this issue. The delinquent list continues to grow shorter at both ends and thinner in the middle from year to year. There is no danger, however, that it will quite vanish entirely, for no matter how prosperous people may be, there are always some who will let theirj'taxes go delinquent, from pure forgetfulness and negligence. This constant diminution of the delinquent list is, of course, a bad thing

for the printer, but as it is a good thing for the people, it be unbecoming in us not to rejoice in its decrease. Still, when we Uiink of the times when wealthy non-residents owned a large portion of Jasper county, and were so busy in clipping coupons from government bonds that they had no time to pay their taxes and let whole sections of swamp land and whole additions of town lots be advertised for taxes, we can not refrain from “sighing a few scythes” over those halcyon days of yore.

The Fowler Review , the Democratic organ of Benton county, wants the Fowler postmastership settled by a meeting and vote of the democratic patrons of the office. Such a plan might work in Fowler but we fear it would not do at all in Repsselaer. Every other man' present at the meeting would himself be a candidate for the place, and how could such a gathering arrive at a harmonious outcome? The candidates are very numerous already and reports from the out-townships have hardly begun to come in yet. The latest accessions to the list are C. D. Nowels and Wm. O. Hoover. In regard'to Mr. Bates, always regarded as one of the most formidable in the list, it is now asserted in some quarters that he would be satisfied to pull off if he could be given the place in the government print shop, at Washington, now held by J. W. Powell. 14 different kinds of bed lounges, at Williams.’ j