Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1870 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Thursday, May 19th, 1870

Good deal of work is being done on the sidewalks. '• Weather getting a little too dry for gardens ami grass. See Mr. W. J. Imes’ advertisement in another column. M. L. Spitler is making quite an addition to his dwelling. Streets afo Very dusty and the town quite dull this week. Angling in the Iroquois isn’t as good just now as it has been. Marshal Spangle is putting in his \ime well itnprdVilfg the streets. Potatoes in good demand and .very scarce in the Rensselaer market.

Farmers will nearly finish their ’corn planting this week in Jasper county. Miss Mary - Howard has our thanks for a couple bunches of nice radishes. Mr. A. Thompson we sec is putting up a new fence in front of his residence. At one o’clock yesterday afternoon the thermometer stood at 91° in the shade. Mr. Tbos. Monnett is building a good gravel walk in front of the School-house property. Thousands of young osage hedge' plants were winter killed in Jasper county the past season. Mr. Harvey W. Wood, announced for county Recorder, is a resident of Hanging Grove township. Mess. Leopold & IleidlcLergcr improve their lots frontcontilliill'TVww " ing on Van Rensselaer street.

The Duvall brothers have been awarded the contract for carrying the mails from Monon (Bradford) to Rensselaer. Eggs are down to eight and onethird cents per dozen. Butter down to twenty cents a pound. Potatoes eighty cents a bushel. Messrs. R. F. Goddard and Richard Williams have opened a butcher shop in “Liberal Corner.” Steaks fifteen cents per pound. ■ ■' - w -w * » ■ I ■ I ■II ■ I ■ Messrs. McCoy <t Thompson arc preparing to put a shingle roof over their new bank building, the flat roof having proved a failure. The work of cleaning the underbrush out of Weston cemetery still progresses under the supervision of the efficient board of trustees. Now is the time to have job printing done neat and cheap.— Hand in your orders while the days are long and the weather is warm.

The fine gravel (as large as your fist or so) with which the sidewalks are being covered, comes handy to pelt “shoo fly” whistlers. Good thing. > —————-—— The many friends of Dr. Martin and C. W. Ileuklo are glad to see that they have so far recovered from sickness as to appem- oh our streets again. About the only sickness in this vicinity is the obstetrical cases which arc so prevalent as to almost indicate a normal condition of a numerous class. • The musical convention has been interrupted this week on account of tjic indisposition of Professor Hazleton who is suffering from an abcess in his throat. Hon. R. S. Dwiggins, President of the Fort Wayne and Pacific Railroad company, starts for Tiffin, Ohio, this afternoon on business connected with his road. Since the Messrs. Hopkins put the new turbine water wheel in their mill there has been plenty of water to grind with and now grain does not come in fast qnough to Jcoep them busy. Mr. John W. Coats is hauling mand and gravel on the sidewalk in front of his dry goods establishment. This is right, when trade is •dull improve your property and prepare for the good time coming. There will be an average crop of cherries in this locality if the season remains favorable. The trees blossomed abundantly and although quite three-fourths of the flowers blasted, enough filled to make a fair S

Charlie Starr's ice cream ialoon iff in full operation and is a favorite resort of ladies and gentlemen lUcse warm summer evenings. ' i iij ! i » ' The work of improvement still progresses. Mesars. W- I moa and Willey & Sigler are taking up the rough flagging pavement in front of their business establishments and placing in lieu thereof a good plank walk. Rev. Geo. Guild will hold a two days’ meeting in the grove at Saylor’s school house, commencing Saturday, May 28th, at 4| o’clock P. M. Services on Sabbath, May 29th, at 10| o’clock A. M., and 3 o’clock P. M. All are cordially invited to attend. Wm. Krapp. The flurry of wind which passed with the little shower this morning snatched the bank bald headed — tore the tin roofing off. McCoy says he will cover the building with prairie hay as soon as the grass is fit to cut, and keep the occupants of the second story in “out of the wet.”

A young horse driven by Charlie C. Starr to a sulky last Sunday, ran awrt-y overturning the vehicle and throwing out the driver. The sulky was considerably smashed, the harness broken, the horse had her legs cut some and Mr. Starr was dragged several rods but did not receive any serious hurt.

The concert given in the Court House last Thursday by the ladies of Rensselaer for the purpose of raising funds to be applied in payment of an organ for the use of the Presbyterian church, was well attended. On the whole the performances were Creditable and we heard many compliments from the audience. The proceeds amounted to $31.55. Passing a dwelling up town last Tuesday a woman was heard to say an y cullers ask for me this afternoon teWM?, e jß°“ e t .°. 6U in the cellar.” Although* ing a high temperature, the idea is hardly as expressive as Charlie Lamb’s when he felt as though he would like to strip his flesh from the bones and sit in a draught where he could feel the zephyrs play through his skeleton. Assessments for income tax in Jasper county are as follows: R. S. Dwiggins $2.98, George Kannal, $43.50, Alfred McCoy $284.95,51. L. Spitlci — M 2.45, Alfred Thompson $285.20, Ira W. Yeoman $11.40. — A penalty of five per cent is added to this tax if it is not paid on or before the 10th of June; also interest at the rate of one per cent, per month for the time 4t remains delinquent. All licenses were dtie on the Ist day of May and are now liable to collection at any time. — They should be paid at once.