Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1879 — FROM CARPENTER TOWNSHIP. [ARTICLE]

FROM CARPENTER TOWNSHIP.

[Special correspondence >f Thf. Stanuard.] Oh glorious Fourth, wl ere hast thou gone? When wilst thou cone agnin? Green apples and eramp colic have come. A number of temperance pledges were broken last .week. What a grand way to celebrate the anniversary of ihe birth of “America’s latest daughter.’’ Raspberries, cherries, currants, etc., are ripe, and the good housewife is busy canning the same for winter use. 1 Most of the district schools have closed, and the gay and festive school misses have again retired to the privacy of their homes. The “cocklebur” nuisance is disturbing tbe Carpenterite farmers to such an extent as to induce Them to use the hoe in defense of their corn crop. The coming harvest promises to be an abundant one. Oats look well; timothy will make an average crop, and flax in quantity and quality will exceed that of

ntaqy previous years.

P. RICE.