Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1879 — OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. [ARTICLE]

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.

* —The latest project is to build a Barrow feauge road from the mouth of the St. Joe /river to rtffibooth, Indiana, where it wffl coraeet with this Indianapolis, Peru and Chicago road. A large committee of wealth/ Men in the north pari of the elate baa been appointed to work the enterprise bp.—(Tndiana|>oli« Journal. ' —There uon exhibition at Peek’s store the largest pumpkin ever grown in this section ot the country. It measures about 5 feet in tircninference and weighs about 83 pounds. The same - was grown by Lake Ford and presented to D. W. Peek, who after keeping it on exhibition for a few days, will remove it to bis dwelling, hare a door eat in it and use it for a coal boose during tba coming winter —[Remington Reporter. —Negotiations are pending looking to the purchase of tba partially completed Plymouth, Kankakee and Pacific road by the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago railway management. Before the panic etruek this country the road was graded but no iron laid. The organisation which commenced this work is still in existence. The line is quite an important one, being about 100 miles ia length, and running through a country which is sadly in need of railroad facilities, and if completed would doubtless be a valuable feeder to the P.. F. W. and C road.—[lndianapolis-Journal.

Oovixity Officer*. Auditor, Henry A. Barkley. Treasurer, Henry I. Adams. Recorder, Harvey W. Wood. _Bheriff, George M. Robinson. Clerk, Charles B Price. * Surveyor, Lewis Alter. Bchool Superintendent, D B. Nowels. Commissioners, Ist district, Isaac D. Dunn; 2nd district, William K. Parkison; Brd district. William B. Price.