Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1873 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

February 13th. 1873,

% -***** Kepfesentative Hatch have our thanks ■for-docnyicntary favors. j* , —-*« ■Where the ground is protected ’with snow there is only'twelve or fourteen inches of frost. Lots of folks buy their groceries bf Charley Starr, because he keeps good articles, sells ehesp, add deals 'fair. We can use a few loads of wood 'at this office, and would take it on subscription, if brought before the 4th of July. Don’t be afraid to call on Messrs. Daugherty & Jacks for groceries. /Their stock is all fresh, and they ’Sell as cheap as anybody in the -Charley Platt is doing about as tgodd business in the grocery trade Ira airy body Ih the county. Call atlJ see his fine assortment. Died, Sunday morning, February 9th, 1973, ot cerebro spinal meningitis f Alice Emma, oldest child of Horace E. and Frances J. A. James, aged 9 years 7 3 months and 0 days. A few Chinese Ah Sm-like days, smiling and bland, the first of the week, almost persuaded some that the ground hog sign might stave exceptions as well as other general rules, but at present writing it looks as though those days had intent to deceive.

J-. B. Hemphill will sell his entire stock of winter caps at cost. Mr. Zimvi I)wigging junior member of the law firm of R. S. Dwig£ins & Co., is this week enjoying An his own right a few measles and lluxuriating on summer savory tea ■and Port wine panada. When he ; gets well again lie will be glad he Jiad it, and will know just exactly "how the old thing works. The Remington band is coming over to this place next Monday evening to toot their little horns in exchange roTAfewqnartsrswhich they, in childlike simplicity, think people hereabouts have to squander. Welcome them with hospitable hearts to hearty suppers, and give .them a nightmare for rasping PW nerves. ~

A. bargain in -the way of winter <cnps, at J. B. Hemphill's. Died in Rensselaer, Monday evening, February 10th, 1870, Mr. Win. Knssner, a native of the Kingdom *>f Saxony, aged 42 years. Kassner had been in America about 2o years, and was a sober industrious mechanic, a well-informed liberal minded, lieu thinking man. His death is;:i loss to community.—, llis death was caused by an abcess .in shoulder which broke inwaMly. Miss Caddie Benjamin, teacher in the Second Intermediate department of the Rensselaer school makes the following report for the month ending January 31st, 1873: Number of pupils enrolled 48 Average daily attendance 30]. Pupils who were perfect in attendance; - deportment are, Jennie Burnham, Charlie Downing,. Eva Grant, Willie Grant, Addie Hopkins, Louie Hollingsworth, Caleb'wlopkitis, Amy Israel, Robert Porter, Ella Rhoads, Eddie Reeve. Nellie Spitler, Delos Thompson, Mary Weathers, Ichabod Yates and Freddie .Stackhouse. S. B. Haver and C. M. Haver, late •of Remington, have removed their livery to Oxford, Ind., where they are prepared to accommodate their old customers and friends ut their usual liberal rates. o-20-12t, And now they fcay thtft the firm of Willey, Sigler & Halstead years# to be made post master at Rensselaer, with the office at the real - end of their stare. This would be-a oonvenient change; if the presect •officer desires to retire, and will lie of reciprocal advantage to the public and the firm—to the former by providing a more central location and more commodious shclterwhile waiting for distiibiUnoM of mails, apd jto fibs firm by bringing the whole public where they may seo 'ltheir fine stock of goods. Caddie Benjamin, teacher of the Second Intermediate Department pf the Rensselaer schools, gives the following report for the month ending December 19th, 1872: Number of pupils enrolled 44. Av'erage dally attendance 38|. Pupils perfect in attendanoe and ‘deportment; Bayard Clark, Elmer Dwiggins, Charlie Downing, Eva Grant, 'Willie iirapt, Addie Hopkins, Lotiie Hollingsworth, Ellen Karsner, Matilda Karsper, Mattie McCoy, Ella 'Osborn, Minnie Phillips, Willie Porter, Robert Porter, John Platt, Dora Purcupile, Eddie Reeve, Nellie Bp»t--•ler, DelbS Thompson, George Warner, Mary Weathers, RJnjbwi Yates, Alice ■ Irwin and Freddfi