Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1871 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Thursday, February 9, 1671.

A flurry of snow covered the ground two inches in depth last night. The Tutejir Brothers have a new sign over the front enterancc of their cigar factory. r —JTho Common Pleas court docket for the session next weok is the largest one Judge Gillett has had in this county. The Masonic fraternity have moved into their new Lodge room, over Hopkins’s store corner of 'Trout aufl Washington streets. A new' carpet is among the improvements brought with the removal. " The following is a list •of the jurors for the February term 1871, of the Jasper Common Pleas Court: David Gray, Bronson Harrington, James T. Handle, James Spencer, Janies Yeoman, Jesso Wilcox, Parley Finney, 11. I. Adams, Bennjah Johnson, C. C. Jones, Win. C. Pierce and Geo. Major. In their appropriate places will be found the advertisements of two valuable farms in the vicinity of Rensselaer that arc offered for sale at reasonable prices, with liberal terms of payment. These farms are within sight of town, are elligibly situated, with good soil and valuable improvements and are desirable for homesteads. Further particulars are contained in the advertisements themselves.

The Iroquois Library is one of " Hhc jnost valuable institutions of tills p'aCC and the members ol the association arc worthy of all praise lor their public Spirit. The iusti* tut ion is in a flourialiuq; condition ami has recently bad several more volumes added to Jt s well filled shelves. In ibis connecupn it will u-otf b« amiss do say Unit,-tkfi-. present librarian is a model officer, taking good care of the books and treating all with the civility- that marks the true gentleman.

dosiali Heed gives notice by posters that he will sell at public auction. at bis residence, one mile West ot tbc Egypt school bouse, on Saturday, February 25th, 1871, liie following personal property: Four head of young horses, two milch rows, one new two horse wagon, one set of double harness, a one horse buggy and. buggy harness, plows, four stands Of bees, two good sfoves, bureau, “bedsteads, <4®ek, chairs,' tables, and other kitchen and household .furniture. A credit of nine months will be given on all sums over thteo dollars, purchaser giving visual bankable note with security. Sums of three dollars aud under cash. i

Chicago, liWi.'iiiMpolis, Cincinnati, Toledo, Ness' York and oilier ioreign newspapers arc good in their places, but they will not eontain a dozen paragraphs a year about Jasper county, ami have no direct interest in its settlement, development, or welfare, and never invest a dollar within its borders for trade, taxes or charity. The local paper alone, has a direct interest in the improvement of the county and a neighborly interest in the prosperity of its inhabitants.— Local papers have their powers of usefulness increased or diminished, and their influence extended or circumscribed in proportion to the liberality of their patronage, just as the productiveness of a piece of ground is increased or diminished as it is cultivated or neglected. >’ Last Friday night Mr. Sampson Irwin, of Jordan township, who lives six miles south''of Rensselaer on tho Remington road, lost his pocket book, containing upwards of #4O, scrtncAvhere between Maloy’s oyster saloon in Rensselaer and liis residence. Happening in towi| pretty late he went into Maloy’s saloon with a couple of friends and alter buying the oysters he went out and got on his horse that was hitched at the door, and started for heme. The pocket book was an old calfskin ono that had been carried several years and was considerably worn. It contained four tcn-dol-jar bills', ono bill, one iwenty-tivo cent postal currency, one nickedfive cent piece nml ptripcrhaps other change. .Among tjie papers in it were two road receipts -ant in favor of Mary Welch aucl Kfre other in favor of himself, ami a? order for a plow drawn in his favor by Thomas Stone and addressed to John Thompson. Tho finder will !>e satisfactorily rewarded for tho pocket hook and contents by returning them to Mr. orleaving them alt this oflh;*, *

Dr, Kelley takes all kinds produce for photograph^,Jj Thu Jasper Common Pleas Court wilkbe in session next week. Wo would advise parties having business in that court to ho promptly on hind, for Judge Gillett does not seem to like the hash dished out to him by our Rensselaer landlords niul will probably try and rush the business'through by Wednesday evening. Wo dcsiro to inform the Postmaster at San Pierre, Stark county, that much complaint reaches us from people whose mail comes to his office for delivery, about bis negligence. In one instance, a letter postmarked at Indianapolis m May did not reach the person addressed until the last of January (last month.) Several of our subscribers who have us direct their papers to that office complain that they do not get the Union for two, three and even four consecutive weeks. We know that it is regulnrly«put up in a package at this office, that .eitcli paper* is plainly marked with tbc subscriber’s name, that the package is plainly directed and also see if put into the mailbags at the Rensselaer postoffice.— Perhaps an important reform might be made by our neighbor in tbc manner of conducting bis office if he would keep bis children away from the mail matter. 4ft