Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1873 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Thursday, May Ist, 1573.

Corporation election next dayAustin has connpenceil work on liis new hotel. Gents’ hats ami caps at Leopold’s new store, opposite the bank. School com,raence'd Monday with a good attendance. The loser of a silver finger ring can fiud it,at this office. The foundation tor Spitler’s new brick building is beingdafd. Secretaries of Granges can procure blank applications for membership at . this office, for 10 cents a. dozen, It is seasonable time to set out shade trees. Don’t i'ail to plant a* few. \ Continued wet weather is making farmers very late with their spring work. - • • ■ -*«♦■- Fine pike and bass are now being caught o*,i a spoon hook in the Iroquois at this point. Closing out lot of plug and fine cut tobacco, also a choice lino of smoking tobacco at cost for cash, at Kannal’s. - -.-» • ♦ -*— Mart. Warner’s butcher stall was burglared of a couple of hundred pounds or so of bacon last Friday night. Frank,' son of Cassius M. and ‘Frances Hopkins, died last Sunday morning, aged between two and .three years. . Dr. Kelley’s dwelling caught fire .last Friday morning from a defective flue, but early discovery and prompt action prevented any serious damage. Granges will be "TurnislTed blank (limits for 10 cents a dozen, on application at this oiticc. Rev. RioTiard llfirgvavevfhe wdlknown veteran Methodist Minister, will occupy the M. E. pulpit in this place next Sabbath, (May 4th,) morning and evening. Marriage licenses were issued by the clerk of Jasper county, during the month of April, 1573, to the following parties: Wm. Washburn and Margaret Scbriug. Samuel G. Windsor and Caroline C. Bul l is. Philip L. Hull and /alpha V. Barkley. - 7 John Wagoner and Margaret Thiel. Samuel H. Moore and Lora Lilves. Ladies’Rats and lion nets for spring and summer, ready trimmed, at Leopold’s new store, opposite the bank. Judge Ilammond and Prosecuting Attorney Thompson open business this week in the new 00th judicial circuit in Benton county. — The term there is of two weeks duration. Succeeding the term in Benton county, court is held in Jasper for three weeks, then two weeks in Newton which is followed by three weeks in Pulaski county. At a special public examination of applicants for license to teach school, held at the school house in Rensselaer, April sth, 1870, certificates were issued,as follows: To Eva Halstead for 18 mouths on a grade of 88 per cent. To Candace Boroughs for IS months on a grade of SO per cent. To Molvina Moore for IS months on a grade of 81 per cent. At the regular examination held the same place, April 20th, 1870, certificates were issued to Jasper Gray, for 12 months, on a grade of 85 per cent. W. T. Pritchard, for 12 months, on a grade of 84 per cent. ' Matilda Hamilton, for 12 months, a grade- of 77 per cent. Alice Miller, for 0 months, on a grade of 70 per cent.

Try Kannal’s cigars for quid ity ami price. He keeps the heat" Cigars* in town for the price and is always ready to wait on customers. w. w. Foster has established a marble works factory at Remington “the first ever attempted in Jasper county, and the only one in operation that we know of ni the llrrce counties of Benton, Newton and Jasper. For many years people of this region have ordered much of thair monumental work from shops in Illinois, having frequently to wait three, four and six months, or even longer, after the contract time for their orders to be filled, and Whiejn, some complain, the work they' and paid a high price for was of inferior quality. Mr. Foster promises to prevent all such complaints from hie patrons. He is a plain, straight-spoken, ’farmer-like man whose enterprise we'” should like tqjiave our ■‘readers encourage by ordering from his establishment anything in his business they may have occasion to use, and by men-' tiomng him favorably to friends. See his card in another column,

Purcupiles are repairing and making a neat store room of their building adjoining the one they now occupy. May Ist, 1873, raining and coldfires necessary in sitting rooms and oflices. Very little plowing has yet been done, cattle barely get a living on prairies, and season backward. Young men, buy your fine boots at the Boston boot’and shoe store, corner Washington and Van Rensselaer streets. The first session of the Jasper circuit court, under the new arrangement, will be convened one week from next Monday. The grand jury are summoned to be present on the first day of the term, and the petit jury on the fourth’ day. As will bo seen by advertisement in another column of this issue, Mr. Cbas. Platt has ndhnttcd Mr. Moses Tuteur to partnership with him in the grocery and provision business. The new partner is a shrewd, courteous business gentleman, and there is no doubt the new firm will make business lively. The new Boston boot and shoe store, opposite the bank, at Rensselaer, Indiana, lias every desirable kind of foot wear manufactured. Last week we promised to notify our readers as soon as winter was has taken place or not, but think there are some indications ot spring and among them is the fact that young men occupy the sidewalk in front of Charley Starr’s grocery on sun-shiny days, to such an extent as (o compel ladies to cross the fitrcct in order to pass tliemX What arc the temperance organizations of this place good for ? Prominent m ember B—officer8 —officers—of these societies see notorious habitual drunkards—Joe Wbitabead, Tommy Wolf, “Dutch Nick,” and others —’go into Tutcur’s establisliment sober and come out of it reeling, vomiting drunk; yet they have not. yet shown the nerve to file a complaint either against Title ur or the intoxicated persons. A few pieces of dry goods, hats,; caps, boots, shoes and notions left ot the old stock belonging to the late Thomas Hollingsworth, at Emmet Kunna.lV drug store, will be sold at great bargains in order to close out. Two “turnstun commercial agents’! tackled us during the past '".wuck so r an order; on & ofthcm commencing his attack forty minuu tes before breakfast and eontinuing.his skirmish at irregular intervals until nearly sundown. Now wo want to buy an iron-clad, steeltoothed, bob-tailed hull dog of 120 pounds burthen, warranted to operate in all kinds of weather withofit missing tiro, or else we want to soil out and go West as peace commis- . stoner to the Modocs,