Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1869 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Thursday, July 20, 1809.

The thermometer stood nt 05° this morning at 7 q’clock. Native ripe apples hityo make their appearance in Rensselaer. The wool trado of Rensselaer amounts to less than 20,000 pounds this year. Another heavy rain storm visited this county Sunday evening and the prairies and fields are again Hooded. An amateur dramatic troupe is in process of organization in Rensselaer which will make tits debut sometimo in September. Wo see Mr. Mart. V. 13. Warner is putting a new fence in front of the property recently purchased of Mr. Elihu Pierce. Warner’s volocipedc has been broken and don’t come out any more. Checkers is still the favorite game, “’t aint so exawstin’ ycr know.” Abe Sparling has opened out a butcher shop at his old stand in the City liakery. lie has some very fine mutton there this morning. Call and sec him. O

A now suspension bridge across the gutter in front of the l’ostolticc is among the improvements tins week. Conwell is architect and builder. , Several responses in obedience to the command “Go forth, multiply, increase and replenish the earth” are reported this week. All “as well as could be expected” and most of’em boys. Mr. Simon Phillips offers to donate four acres of land ou the west side of town, to the 1., D. & C. R. It. Co., for depot buildings, Mr. A. Tharp offers two acres adjoining—who will bid higher? We saw four sweating, puffing gentlemen pitching horseshoes yesterday. You can’t make it popular, sirs, it is too much like work. Checkers is still the “national game” with Rcnsselaerians. Our enterprising, genial and popular Township Trustee, C. W. Henkle, is opening a stock of hardware and sundries, one door below Jackson’s Drug Store, on Washington Street. We wish him success. We have received jm order to print three hundred blank conveyances of right of way, for the benlit of the Indianapolis, Delphi and Chicago Railroad Company. Prepare to fill them out.

We notice the good natured countenance of Mr. George McCullough furmerly a resident of Jasper, smiling upon old acquaintances again. Mr. McCullough hails from Pat--tonsburg, Missouri, and reports the crop prospects fine when he left. Jasper county has 340,31 a. 71 acres of real estate within her borders, appraised at $1,231,934.73. — There arc $270,707.27 worth of improvements on the lands. Her towns are valued at $98,599; and I he nine miles of railroad at $35,000. A cow aftaelaafT/ne of Mr. T. J. Spider’s little boys last week and was only prevented-making a local for us by the timely appearance of Mr. Spider. The little fellow was bruised somewhat, but not seriously damaged. . Capt. Joseph Pillars, formerly a resident of Jasper county, now a citizen of Kansas, dropped in on us for a few fninutos, yesterday.— Joe says they have bad considerable rain out there this season, but their crops promise better than ours. Wo infer, however, that lift does not consider thatoountry verybnuch superior to ours in natural advantages. The Rensselaer Flouring Mills, J. D. & C. D. Hopkins, proprietors, has never been iu better order for doing good work than at the present time. There is plenty of water, and it is run night and day. It is winning golden opinions from tbo public and people bring their grain iu some instances twenty-five and thirty miles, which is the best kind of evidence of its popularity. —■.at....-.;.

Tlio citizens of Rensselaer held an impromptu jollification over the result ot tho railroad election, last Thursday evening. A bonfire was built, the anvils brought out and fired, the cornet and martial bands played inspiriting airs, and everybody was jolly. It. C- Gregory, Esq., of Montioello, hSjjiponhrg in town, was introduced-by Col. E. P. Hammond and addressed tho assembly from tbe Austin House balcony, in a pleasant little speqeh of about ton minutes length. As we said beforo, everybody felt jolly, and some ot tbo boys even glorious before the/ went wont homo—in tho morning. The Town Marshal is busy clcan- - ing out the gutters along tho streets ami public highway's. Under an Act passed by the legislature, last session, Marshals of towns arc empowered with the authority of district supervisors to call out persons liable to road laboiv repair the streets and bridges of ftis district, give receipts for labor, eto. This law also provides that towns be road districts, entitled to its proportion of public road money, which will prove of groatAnine to towns heretofore relying on special taxation for street improvemetits.