Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1871 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Thursday, August 10th, 1871. •'

gffi-Dr- Kelley takes all kinds of farm produce lor Photographs. C. R. Donnelly’s advertisement of lumber in another column. Read it. Green corn, water melons, cholera morbus and ague arc in full blast. We are informed that there is a great deal of sickness in and around Remington. F. W. Bedford reports that ho raised 27J bushels of wheat and 56 bushels of oats to the acre. Prairie chickens will be fully ripe next Tuesday and should be picked as soou as possible after that date. Died August. sth, 1871, Frank, infant son of Mr. I. M. Stowe and Mrs. Jcnnio Stowe, aged 1 year and nine months. Died, in Rensselaer, August Oth, 1871', Bertha Frances, infant daughter of Horace E. and Frances J. A, James, aged one year and nine imonths. * -•••-* HJ. D. Stackhouse, living 3 miles north of town has two hundred thousand osago orange plants for sale. The plants wero raised on his farm, are hardy and warranted to give satisfaction. Tlwfce'will be a temperance meeting at fho Court House Saturday evening next, at o’clock. Dr. Samuel Ritchey and S. P. Thompson will address the meeting. A’ full attendance is desired. Billy Abbett’s light bay Alley, which ho advertised as lost last week, was Returned to him Friday —next day after the advertisement appeared. He paid five dollars for •Tier recovery and now is “as happy -as a big sunflower.’’ Thcro will be a Conference meeting of the Church of God for the 'State of Indiana, held with tho Church*at Rensselaer, commencing on Thursday, August 24tb, 3nd continuing over Sunday. Public ministration of the Word during the time. A number of speakers from abroad expected. The public cordially invited to attend, j Mrs. H. M. Martin, Administratrix of the estate of Dr. Wm. 11. Martin, deceased, gives notice that on Saturday, August tho 19th, she will sell at public auction valuable personal property, consisting of horse, cow, hogs, mowing machines, .’farming implements and household and kitchen furniture. A credit of six months will bo given on all sums •ovpr three dollars, purchaser giving nisual bankable note. O I .1 Jesse Gotti long known as one of rthe best jour, blacksmiths of this tplace, who ‘has for several years ipast been working tor Norm. Warmer, hap taken charge of Duvall’s shop, and has goneAo work on his own account like he w r as used to it. His old friends will find him always at his shop ready to do any kind of blacksmithing. In repairing and horseshoeing Jesse ’is like Capt Cuttle’s watch: “Equaled by * few and excelled by none.’*

Rev. 8. M. Conner, of Remington, sends us the following notice for publication: &PITOBB Union: —Please announce that tho Churches of Christ in this Northwest District will hold their yearly meeting on the 21st of this August, at Lafayette, Ind.— Tho object of tho meeting Is to consider ways and means for the spread of the Gospel and improvement for tho work of the Lord.— All congregations are cordially invited to send delegates, who will be entertained free of charge during the meeting. Ablo speakers will bo present and the meeting will be interesting and profitable. W. R. Jewell, Cor. Scc’y.