Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1894 — ADDITIONAL LOCALS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL LOCALS.

R. W. Marshall’s six year old daughter is seriously sick with dysentery. So also is P. W. Clarke’s two year old daughter. Ten different makes of Sewing ma chines, At Steward’s. There was a cave-in at the Shields gravel pit, Monday afternoon, which mashed a wagon and killed a horse. T uesday morning another cave occured which smashed 'a wagon. In bo th instances, luckily enough, no men happened to be near enough to be caught. Austin & Co., have private funds to loan on real estate at the lowest rates. No delay, no red tape—but if your title is good you can have your money in 5 hours. 46-3 Henry L. Southwick, the Monon freight brakeman who was so badly injured at the Rensselaer depot last November, by the falling upon him of a boxed piano he was helping to unload from a car, has brought suit in the Jasper circuit court, against the Monon company, for $20,000. He seeme to be permanently crippled as a result of the accident. The suit was filed last Friday. Of course t here is no probability that the case will be tried jn this county, but that the inevitable change of venue will be taken. In that case however, Jasper county will at least have the p leasant duty of paying the big bill for court costs, sure to accrue in a case of such magnitude as this.

Call on C. B Steward, agent for lots in Columbia Addition; 140 lots at prices from $25 to $l3O.

Commodore Snow, up about /the Blackford neighborhood, will wax wealthy this year, raising that fragrant and toothsome tuber, commonycleped onions. He has two acres, on black, peaty or turfy swamp land —and he is the first, it is said, to try the onion raising experiment on land of that character. The result is astonishing. The onions are immense in size and so close together that they fairly shoulder one another out of the ground. There is a good deal es this kind of land, scattered about in different parts of this county, and if it will raise such big crops of onions as this experiment of Mr. Snow’s apparently demonstrates, it will be a mine of wealth to its owners.

Estey organs and pianos, and Estey 4Camp organs and pianos, on exhibition at C. B. Steward’s. There was a “poverty social,” at C. B. Steward’s place, last Friday. There was an enormous crowd present, and it was a big time generally. And in spite of the “poverty” of the occasion, it yielded sl7 or $lB, clear money, for the treasury of the First Baptist church, for the benefit of which it was held. People attending were supposed to simulate impccuniosity, in their personal and those who failed therein were subjected to fines. These rules were so ingeniously devised and so rigidly enforced that everybody that wore clothes was fined on some pretext or another, and, it is n eedless to say, no one escaped. The Rensselaer Band and Healy s’ Orchestra furnished music.

Austin Co., have private funds to loan on real estate at the lowest rates. No delay, no red tape, but if your title is good you can have the money in 5

Our gifted former townsman, J. L. Makeever, of Osceola, Neb., is again an author. His latest pub--1 ished work, of which The REPißLrcan gladly acknowleges the receipt of a copy, is an elegantly printed and b ound little volume, and has for its s übject the unique title “Red Headed W omen.” Odd and original as the s übject is, it is not more so than the author’s method of treatment. In f act the only thing about the book t hat is not odd and unusual is the author’s evident admiration for auburn haired women. That is a complaint that many besides himself have b een afflicted with. The subject i s t reate d in a partly humorous, partly se nous, and wholly poetical manner —although mostly in the form of p rose; with an occasional break into poetry when the authors’ sentiments become too ardent for adequate expression in prose. In truth it is a very charming little book, and we are very glad the author remembered us with a copy.