Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1879 — To Correspondents. [ARTICLE]

To Correspondents.

All oommunitions intended for publication ia Tn Standard should ha maded in season to reach this office Wednesday* la order to iscare insertion the same week. Correspondence fa solicited Awns every tewnahip In Jasper seamy, apoa all ■niters of lasni Importance, via., emrriagm, births, dsaths, aeeideats; removals, improvements, crops, etc., Me. No pains will be spared to make this aa interesting feature of the paper, and it te the wish of the pabHaher that some person |n each township will take the trouble to write up the aeWt of bis township and send it ia for publication, and Urns assist ia making Tn Stajtdaxd the bUooal newspaper ia the ooaaty. A rOCTAL CAKD ooaaxsroxDKnca ooLrtfn will bo opened to the patrons of this pepet and every bedy else who will bo kind enough to fhrnish us with brief items of local news. We extend tbe invitation to everybody to send in tbe news of their respective neigh* borbood written on a postal card for publication in this oolutnn. We desire to uiake this an in tercel ing feature of tke paper and hope out friends will respond cheerfully to tbe invitation. Who will be ftntf

—Almost a fro* la* night. . —Considerable sickness just now. —Sunday school picnic next Friday. —Old Settler*’ Reunion at Delphi to*day, —Dance, ia Starr'* Hall, next Thursday night. , , —Hon. Fred. Hoover was in town la* Saturday, —Mis* Rachel Bess is visiting friends in Lafeyette. , —A new invoice of harps, just received, at W. 8. Orwia’a. —Blue Ribbon meeting «t the M. E. Church this evaning. —A youthful visitor makes glad the hearts of Alex. Peacock’s family. —Mr. S. Bass baa sold his stock of boots and alioea to Mr. A. I^opold. —Mr. Ira W. Yeoman is now in Goodland retailing law. .Suocarn to him. —The knowing ones predict fro* iu leas than six weeks from this date. —Superintendent Millikan, of tbe 1., D. A C. R'y, was in town Sunday. —Miss Josie Catt was visiting her tunny friends in Renselaer, this week. —Thanks to our genial friend N- W. Reeve for a fine mess of sweet corn. —Tbe Remington Agricultural Association offers $2,385 in cash premiums. —Excursion to Chicago next Wednesday. Round trip fare from Rensselaer* $2.00. —Mr. Joeeph Rothrock, of Montlcell>>, is visiting the family of Mr. J. S. Wigmorc. —Mr. D. T..Sigler, of Hebron, Porter county, visited Rensselaer friends this week. —-A splendid variety of calling and visiting cards a; this office. Call aqd see them. —G. W. Ha.-call, of Remington, poked hi* head into Tbs Utaiuaed effioe, Wednesday. —Call at Tux Stan hard office for envelopes—a Urge stock, of best quality, on hand. — A marriage license was issued last Sat-v urday to Joseph Story and Lovelotte MBillon. —The rains the first of the week Were of incalculable value to the farmers of this region. • . - i . j

—Marshal Bronson, of Remington, gave The St as dahd office a pleasant eall last evening. —Mr. H. B. Pershing, of Plymouth, was at the ‘‘hub’’ oY Jasper county, Tuesday, oft business. —Jimmy Dunn is stirring np the beerguxzlers and wine-bibblers at Monticello this week. —Miss Linie Purcupfle, the little girl with sparkling eye*, was in Monticello a few days this week. —Subscribe for Th* Standard. Only $1 * year, six months for 60 cents, three months for 25 cents. —Miss Kellie Spitler, of Rensselaer, is visiting these roily of Mr. Peter H. Ward. —[Kent I and Gasette. —Between sixty and seventy persons from this place attended the Battle Ground camp meeting last Bunday. —J. 8. Wigmore, the gentleman that repairs watchee and jewelry, visited Monticello, the first of the week. —Two carloads of excursionists went from here over to Delphi, this morning to attend the Old Betdera’ Reunion. —lt is estimated that belweoif 9,000 and f ,000 persons attended the Battle Ground eamp meeting lest Sunday. —Billy Legg’s mother, brother and sister, of Lcgftftaport, and a brother living in Goodland, visited him this wfteic. —Am excursion on the Kankakee river, frem Momence to Baum’s bridge, is talked of, 80 says the Lowell Enterprise. ' —Just received—6,ooo cigars, “Pure Karan* Fillers,“ at F. G. Hankie ft Co.’s restaurant. Gall and sample them. —Tkaaki to the charming little misses, Frankie MeEwen and Blanche Lotighridge, for a beautiful button hole boquet. —*Tke Montieello Herald’s SBO,OOO libel suit came to a focus last a eek. The plaintiff ffiiled to appear, and the case was dismissed. —lt it a notorious fket that Lyman Zea it one of the best “general purpose’’ fellows la Northern Indiana. His equal is hard to find. —The “Coquette” and the beautiful “Bouquet” oigais take the lend. Call at F. G. Henkle and Co.’s restaurant and try (hem. : >r —Mr. George Grauel was last Monday summoned to the bedside of his mother, near Logaaaport, who wus reported 80 he daagtrOusly ill. —Twenty five visiting cards, with name and address- neatly printed on them, for ten oeots, at this office. Gall and leave your order.