Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1879 — Local Brevities. [ARTICLE]

Local Brevities.

—Pumpkin plei'in all the rage sow. —Otf papers fur sale at Th k Standard office. —Slapjacks and 'lasses are an the way. Van, yun*! —Cupid is again at work in ot»r midst. Keep your eyes and ears open. —The family of Major Bitten returned from Rochester, Monday evening. —Calling and visiting cards, large new stock just received at Th* SftHMHD office. —Music, moonlight, love and serenades was the programme of evenings during the week past. . i - —The nutting season is about over. Tlta crop this senes. is report ad to have bean unusually large. —Twenty-five handsome calling cards, with aaoe neatly printed, for ten cents, at Tub Stanuxud office. _ —The recent oold snap bad a tendency to check the rapid growth of wheat which was thought te be too forward. —The SraNUAHn from now until after the presidential election—over thirteen month# —for sl. Call in and subscribe. Mrs. J. M. Hopkins is prepared to do stamping for ladies' needle work. All work warranted. Cali and see'her patterns. The I*., C. & St. L. railroad distributes $30,000 among its employee in Logansport every month; so says ths Journal. Ksusselaer has anothsr government saloon, which was just recently opened on Van Rensselaer street by a gentlemen from Remington. —Attend the temperance meeting at the Presbyterian Church, Monday evening. The programme of exercises will be found in another eelumn. i » —Next Monday is ths last day granted for the payment ot State and county taxes. The penalty attaches te all taxes remaining unpaid after that time. —Elder N. P. Ravlin, of Chicago, has been holding a sense of interesting meetings in the Christian Church, during the past week, wkick were well attended. —Mrs. Ales. Littlefield, as Carpenter township, haring beee adjudged insane, was last week taken to the hospital for insane persons, at .Indianapolis, for treatment. -Subscribe for Tbs Staxdaew, the Aesf and ckeapeet local newspaper published in Jasper oouaty. Only $1 a year; six months for 60 cents; three months for 36 seats. —Saturday was a lively day for Rensselaer. The streets presented an unusually business like air, and the merchants were kspt busy from sarly morn till late at night.