Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1869 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LOCAL MATTERS.

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Considerable number of stock bogs have been sold at this plaoo the past week at $5 per hundred, gross. ~i Extensive preparations have been made for the M. E. donation •party this evening and it promises to be a splendid success. Mr. C. C. Starr is putting up a new dwelling, in Newton’s Addition. It is to be 24x40, frame, and two stories high. Prairie chickens arc reported scarce in the county. The very rainy spring and summer does not appear to have been favorable to their increase. Checkers holds its own despite the dullness of the times. It has become a chronic “local” and does not ncovl tho service of a peddling doctor to seat it. V . »♦ Mr.'Leopold is repairing the hay scales above the bank on Van Rensselaer street. They will he thoroughly overhauled and ready lor weighing by Saturday. William 1,. McConnell has removed his otliee from up stairs in LaKuc's store building, to the room lately occupied by M. C. Mead, next door to Thompson's Drug store. Mr. Frank Sparling’s house, one and one-half miles south of town, caught on lire in the roof day before yesterday, but was saved without muoh damage.

Mr. Ludd Hopkins is building a new dwelling on Front street, between L. & N. W. Hopkins’ store and F. W. Bedford's agricultural machine ware-rooms. It is to be a frame, one and one-luilf stories high, and 10x24 feet in size. We arc requested to announce that the Free Will Baptists hold a Quarterly meeting at the Hoover School House, two miles south of Rensselaer, Saturday and Sunday August 2Gth and 21st. Services will commence on Saturday nt 10:30 o'clock A. M. I lev. W. 11. Gifford and others will be present. A Basket meeting will be held on Sunday. General and cordial invitation extended to the public. From our friend Win. I. Morgan formerly of this place, now in Nebraska, we have received a list of prices lor labor, market produce, groceries, lauds, etc., at Lincoln City; Flour is from $3.50 to $3.75 per barrel, corn 75 cents to $1 per bushel, sugar from 20 to 25 cents a pound, colice 28 to cents, butter 35 to 40 cents, eggs 20 to 25cts dozen, potatoes $i to $1.20 atjnsT, land within ten miles of. Lincoln, unimproved, is held at from sls to SIOO an acre, wood is $0 a cord, farm bands ask $25 per mouth, carpenters have $3 and plasters $1 a day lor AvOrk. From all which we conclude that that portion of the 1 “Great West” don’t hold out as good inducements to immigrants} as Jasper county docs.

At the request of several persons living south of town, who intend to organize a Draining Company, we publish the Draining Law, passed at t he last sessiofi of the legislature. There is a larjre tract of very tine land lying to the south and east of the Orphan Asylum, that like a goodly amount of other lands only needs draining to make it one of the best bodies Of land in the county. The articles of association have been drafted, and signed by some of those interested, but have not yet been filed with the connty ltccordcr» We hope that an enterprise which promises as good results as this will not he allowed to fail, especially as the land can be drained at comparatively little expense.