Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1873 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

"Thursday, March 27th, 1573.

Eggs only ten cents a dozen. Good butter 16ft cents a pound, • v 1 ■■ Bpring goods at Leopold & Fendig’s. Gecs’e, ducks and pigeons are ■Plenty. . ' Don’t go to Johnny Hemphill’s for poor tobacco —he don’t keep it. New style dress goods at Leopold & .Fendig’s, • Earners tell us that the wheat 4>rop is probably ruined in Jasper county. Kext Monday is the last day of ■the present term of our public .schools. We print sale bills, "aiuF all manner .of plain work, cheap. Wpuld it not be a good thing to iplant a few shade trees on tho failground this spring? Johnny Hemphill has received a tne.w invoice of excellent cigars and tobacco. Go and sample it. Broadway am) London latest spring styles of hats and caps at Leopold & Eendig’a. Miserable bad weather on stock and wheat this week—cold rain, isloet and snow. Musketoes and •green headed flies arc ,trouble some ye t. S e vcral ki n d-h ear ted fa liners considerately filled their slcighbeds with hay this, morning when they came to town, and the poor cows seem to enjoy the treat hugely. A Very extensive assortment of ready made clothing, cheap, at Messrs. Leopold & Feiylig’s; The new building erected on Washington street, above Myers .& llaley’3 shoe shop, will bo occupied, as soon as completed by Messrs. Bradilock & Maxwell manufacturers of and dealers in harmless, saddles, etc. The Monticello Herald says it was a great spectacle to seo the ice gorge go out of the Tippecanoe river at that point last week.— Equally fine spectacles may be seen any day at I. M. Slew’s jewelry stall in Charley Starr’s grocery. Fine serge (old style) Congress gaiters for only one dollar and seven tytive eeuts a pair, at Lutid Hopkins'. A man from Sheldon, 111., came savor and claimed the horse taken from a thief, a Jew days since, by Oonstable J. W. Duvall. He proved property; paid charges, and was glad to get Dobbin into his possession again. Remember that State Lecturer Lansing, of the Patrons of Husbandry, will deliver a public address upon the*objects of the Order, at the Court House iu Rensselaer, Saturday (day after to-morrow) at 10 o’clock, a. m. Everybody invited to be present. * Thankful for past liberal patronage Dr. Kelley, the photographer, will continue his low prices for gems until April Ist. ’f •The Remington Journal says that UX good flouring mill is needed at Remington and would pay well; a t draih tile factory would also pay •good interest on the capital invested in their manufacture; and the manufacture of farm implements is another enterprise which would undoubtedly meet with success in proper hands! The first Hebrew wedding in Jasper county was solemnized last Sunday at the residence of Mr. Ralph Fendig in this place. The happy parties were Mr. Nathan Fendig and Miss Amelia Rubel, — Rabbi Schaflhcr, of Attica, officiated in the ceremony. Our best wishes go With friend Fendig and his young wife. Thanks for a generous portion of as fine cake as ever accompanied a wedding notice to this office. It is safe to “show your pretty feet” after going to Ludd Hopkins’ and selecting your gaiters from the new styles just arriving. Rev. W. J, Burch, pastor of the Methodist church at Brushwood school house near Alter’s Mill in Union township, was made the! recipient of a beautiful quilt on tho 10th instant. The presentation took place at a school celebration and was made the occasion of congratulatory speeches. The school is spoken of as -a grand success during the tong just closed. It was taught by Miss Viola M.. Wilcox. Rev. Mrs. HelOu M. Davisson addressed the pupils of the closing school i» well chosen words and t • >':„V y I

Owing to the inclement weather no mails left here yesterday. Messrs. Leopold & Feudig’s new goods have arrived and are on the shelves ready for inspection and sale. The first purchasers will have choice of a very large siock. March 27th, 1873; there is four to six inches of snow on the ground, in places it is drifted from two to fiy.e fcet deep. Pedulc arc travclling with sleighs. River nearly frozen oyer. Woods full of pigeons and many of the earlier migratory songbirds. Wind low from the south. The following persons have been appointed Deputy Assessors for their several townships, by Mr. Real Estate Appraiser Johnson with the concurrancc of Auditor Babcock: Hanging Grove—Turner A. Knox. —Gillam A.G. Robb. — - Walker—Jesse. Wilcox. Barkley—Holdridge Clark. Jordan—J. V. Button. Newton—lsaac Sayler. Keener—Elam D. Fairchild, Kankakee—Oscar B. Rockwell, —Wiieatfield—John M. Helmic. Carpenter—G. G. Thompson. Milroy—A. G. W. Farmer. Union—Brunson Harrington. Town of Remington-G. W. Hascall. All good Republicans who are to deceive $2.50 a day for—the time :tfrgy work. 7 _l_ i ~ . .; The season for painting is rapidly drawing near and people who Intend ty renovate and improve the appearance of property should get the best materials. Emmet Kannal keeps the celebrated Averill Chemical Paint iir all colors, tints and shades; also white lead and oil in large supply. —The time for planting shade trees has again come round. Last season Several hundred were set out in Rensselaer and nearly all of them are alive. But few years will elapse before their beauty' will be .remarked by every visitor, and their grateful shade appreclated by mil who walk our sidewalks. — Farmers in this prairie country would find that shade trees set along the fields bordering highways and 1 alien add'materially to the adornment of their property and enhance its value far above the cost of labor to plant them out.— It is said that ill some parts of Europe long avenues of trees bordering the highways form a remarkably beautiful feature of the landscape, while their shade in summer and protection as windbreaks in winter arc very agreeable to travelers. No Landscape on earth would be more improved by judicious tree y>lantteg tban these vast,, monotonous prairies of the West. Let every man in, town or country, who has not already done so, plant out a* few shade trees this spring along the road in front of his houstv Gen. Milroy’s homestead, south of tiie river, is for sale on easy term. — House has live or six rooms, wash house and cellar; good stable, wood house and other outbuildings; garden contains apples,pears, plums, peaches, grapes, and a large quantity of small fruits, a|J in bearing condition. For particulars address Mrs. Mary J. Milroy, Delphi, Indiana. Tho attention of the Hon. Board of Trustees of the Town, of Rensselaer is caliqd to section 5 of the amended school law, pertaining to the election of school trustees: “The Common Council of each incorporated city, and the Board of Trustees of each incorporated town of this State, shall, at their first regular meeting in the month of April of the present year', elect three School Trustees, who shall hold their offiee, one, two and three years respectively, as said Trustees shall determine by lot at the time of their organization, and annually thereafter shall elect one School Trustee, who shall hold his office for three years. Said Trustees shall constitute the school board of the pity or town, and before entering upon the duties of their office shall take an oath faithfully to discharge the duties of the same. They shall meet within five days after their elec-' tion and organize by electing one of their number President, ope Secretary and one Treasurer, Tho Treasurer, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall execute a bouikto the acceptance of the County Auditor, conditional as in ordinary official bonds, with at least two sufficient freehold sureties, who shall not be members of said Board, in a sum not less than double the amount of money, -which may come into his haiids within any one year, by virtue of his office. The President and Secretary shall eacli give bond witli like sureties, to he approved by the County Auditor, in any sum not less than one-third of the Treasurer’s bond, Said Trustees shall receive for their services .such compensation as the Common Council of the city, or the Board of Trustees of the town, may deem just, which compensation shall be paid from the special". school revenue of the city or town. All vacancies that may occur in said Board of School Trustees shall l»e filled by the Common Council of the city, or the Board of Trustees of the town.” On account of this new election taking place soon (one week from next Monday.) the present Board of School Trustees liavg decided to make no arrangements for a spring term of school in Renssolaer, pre- 1 ferring to leave this fluty to the j judgment of their successors. The' present Board, consisting of! Messrs. Alfred - Thompson, John Coen aiid Horace E. James, have

Hereafter our charges for legal advertising will be governed by the following section of an act regulating fees of county officers, &c., approved March 8, 1873: Sec. 0. Legal advertising growing out of any transaction or connected with the performance of any duty of the sheriff' clerk, treasurer, auditor, executors, administrators, guardians, trustees and assignees (except the printing of the delinquent tax list) shall be by such officer charged up collected nnd paid over to the printer, apd when such printing is done for the county, the hoard of county commissioners shall allow the same and pay it out of the county treasury according to the rate being fixed. The compensation for such legal advertising siuill be as herein set forth, to-wit; For each advertisement, per square of 250 ems, first insertion $1.25; tor each additional insertion 75 cents. Eleven lines of our advertising type constitutes a square as defined above. All fractions of squares of six lines or less will be estimated as half squares; over six lines whole squares. A new stock of merchant tailor’s goods, consisting of cloths, cassimeres and trimmings of the latest styles, just received and for sale at the Stone Store. -*»■