Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1893 — ADDITIONAL LOCALS [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL LOCALS

It is seldom that a man freezes to death in this latitude a week before Thanksgiving day, but an instance occured in Benton county, last week. G. W. Hill was found frozen Friday morning, about £a mile east of Lochiel, which is the second station south of Goodland on the Coal Road. Hill’s horse had fallen into a ditch and could not get up, and thp man sat in the buggy frozen stiff. An empty half pint bottle in bis pocket probably accounted for the circumstance of his sitting still and freezing to death. He had formerly, been in business at Wadena, four miles south of Goodland. Everything fresh and new and first class, and at lowest living prices, at Warner & Shead’s the new goocery store. ,

A few nice residence lots near the business portion of the city for sale cheap, for a few days. Call on Thompson & Bro. Wm. Wood, the well known constable, pulled out from town, one day last week, and his present whereabouts are unknown. It has developed since his departuie that quite a number of judgements left in his hands for collection, by the town justices, have not been settled for by him. The total amount of these unsettled judgement? is estimated at about |350 —$50 from Justice Burnham’s court and S3OO from Justice Morgan’s. His bondsmen, who are holden responsible for these judgements, are A. Leopold and Wm. Greenfield. The amount of his bond is SIOOO.

Thirteen-stop, full walnut case organ, 135. C. B. Steward. Warner & Shead, at the new grocery store, would like a share of your trade. They will treat you right. The rabbit crop is virtually a total failure in Jasper county this year. They are small and few in the hill. It is said that the weather conditions this year were exceedingly unfavorable to the increase of the usually exuberantly productive Molly-cot-tontails. It cut them short at both en ds. In the spring the little ones died from excess of water, and in the summer and fall they perished from he dearth thereof. No cotton-tails! No buil-f rogs! Verily these be times of adversity on Nubbin Ridge; and it is no wonder that some unauthorized person worked the combination on Tom Price’s vault in HollerLog bank, and abstracted the wealth he had deposited therein. SYill, the N übbin Ridgers need not mourn as those entirely without soap. The gentle and succulent ’possum stily winds his crinkly tail around the branches of the fragrant sassafras; the melllow “mushrat” still breeds and burrows in the bull-rush bordered banks of Gifford’s ditches; the ring-tailed coon roosts high in the hickory hollows; and the loud smelling skunk still burdens the borean blasts with his pungent perfume.