Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1873 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Thursday, May 22, 187& Spring shawls at Purcupile & Co.’s. Dr. 11. 11. lloss has located at Dyzart, lowa. Perfumery and jewelry at Johnny Hemphill’s. The circuit court will close its May term this week. Latest styles of percales at Purcupile & Co.’s. C. C. Starr sells an excellent quality of soda water. £== Shirts, suspender's and socks at Johnny Hemphill’s. Our postoflice has not yet received a supply of the new postal cards. Gents’ hats and caps at Leopold’s new store, opposite the bank. Weather wet and cold and very little corn has been planted this spring. Best tobacco and cigars in the market at Johnny Hemphill’s. The worms and toys aro having a lively time catching cat fish and shiners. 300 pounds of Clarence carpet warp just received at Purcupile & Co.’s. -New sidewalks and street crossings are very much needed in some parts of town. Collars, dickeys, neckties and gloves, cheap, at Johnny Hemphill’s. Mr. John M. Austin has comlaying the foundation for his new hotel. Peanuts and candies at Johnny Hemphill’s. These are fresh and good. Mr. John P. Warner has painted his house, thereby adding much to its appearance. Every one that wants a good pair of boots or shoes should not fail to call on Purcupile & Co. 11. E. James has gone to Indianapolis this week to attend the meeting of the Grand Lodge ol Odd Fellows. The nicest assortment of children’s shoes and slippers, ever in this market, at Purcupile & Co.’s. Mr. Ira W. Yeoman, who left here a couple of weeks ago, has located at Vinton, lowa, and is in the railroad office. 3,000 yards of brown muslin, from 121 to 16j cents a yard, just received at Purcupile & Co.’s. Marshal Spangle, with his spade, hoe and scraper companies, is busily engaged in working the streets leading into town. Granges will be furnished blank (limits for 10 cents a dozen, on application at this office, ——-—•••■ —— Bedford is getting his little gun in order for the purpose of using up the worthless dogs that have been killing his turkeys. Why do Purcupile & Co. sell so much jeans? Because they buy cheap and sell for small profits. And now Johnny Boroughs wears a big 'straw hat and has a bird dog following Mim around. What an imitative boy John is, to be sure ! Purcupile & Co. have the best 'buckle plow shoes to be found in the market; also laced plow shoes. Mumble-the-peg is said to be rapidly taking the place of marbles, croquet and other sinful: games in the affections of the youth of this place. Secretaries of Granges can procure blank applications for membership at this office, for 10 cents a dozen. At the present term of the circuit court Matilda F. Lipprant obtained a decree of divorce and six hundred dollars alimony from Henry C. Lipprant. ’ Ladies’hats and bonnets for spring and summer, ready trimmed, at Leopold’s new store, opposite the bank. Last Sunday Ambrose Ford, a saloon keeper of Remington, gave Bill Draper something to take the cob w ebs out of his thro at and kinks out of his hair, and on Tues,day he was brought before the circuit court on an information, pleaded guilty and was fined teij dollars and costs.

Henry Downing, of Remington, was fined .ten dollars and costs on Tuesday, by the circuit court for giving Bill Draper a small drop of red eye. Closing out lot of plug and fine cut tobacco, also a choice line of smoking tobacco at cost for cash, at Kannal’s. Hamilton Records, of Gillam township, was fined by the circuit court $5 and costs, for unparliamentary conduct at a debating society last winter. Young men, buy your fine boots at the Boston boot and shoe store, corner Washington and Van Rensselaer streets. — Monday weekthfcgwnship trustees will meet at the auditor’s office to elect a county school superintendent. There is only one aspirant so far as heard from. 72 pairs of men’s plow, packs just received at Purcupile & Co.’s, and will be sold as low as t hey can be afforded in tills market. < » • . A heavy rain storm last night raised the Iroquois to almost a level with its banks. It is the heaviest shower we have had since th e summer of 1869. -—~ Try Kannal’s-cigars for quality and price. He keeps the best cigars in town for the price and is always ready to wait on customers. - -4 *- —— TheJloard.of tojyn trustees, at the special meeting Tuesday evening, made a levy of 20 cents on each SIOO of taxable property in Rensselaer, and 50 cents on each poll, The new Boston boot and shoe store, opposite the bank, at Rensselaer, Indiana, has every desirable kind of ’foot wear manufactured. A large grist of informations against whiskey sellers of Remington was filed in Judge Hammond’s mill last, Tuesday morning. They will probably come up for trial to-day. The largest, best and cheapest stock of boots and shoes in every variety of leather, patent leather, cloth, carpet, and rubber stock, at the Boston boot ami shoe store? Mr. Wiley 11. Pierce, of Remington, on Wednesday of this week, having proved to the court that he was a man of good character, was admitted to practice law in the courts of this State. «-***- « ~~ - Everybody wants a summer hat, and the place to buy one of the latest style is at Johnny Hemphill’s. Also caps and everything in the gentlemen’s furnishing line. Mr. I. M. Stackhouse, Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Masons of this State, is at Indianapolis this week attending the meeting of the committees appointed to lay oft', the work for the Grand Lodge, which meets next week ..... A few pieces of dry goods, hats, caps, boots, shoes and notions left of the old stock belonging to the late Thomas Hollingsworth, at Emmet Kannal’s drug store, will be sold at great bargains in order to close out. A young man from Remington who lias frequently made personal" allusions to us through the columns of the Remington Journal, was .in town this week. If he wasn’t a temperance man one would hardly believe that he had colored his nasal protruberancc with pickles. The season for painting is rapidly drawing near and people who intend to renovate and improve the appearance Of property should get the best materials. Emmet Kannal keeps the celebrated Averill Chemical Paint in all colors, tints and shades; also white lead and oil in large supply. - A few of our German citizens are fearfully exercised over the attack the temperance people are making on the unlicensed saloons of this county, and some of them even talk of going back to the domains of Kaiser Wilhelm. We sincerely hope that our new temperance: law will not be the cause of a declaration of war against us by the German Emperor. 10 tbs. dried peaches, extra, ffir $1.0(1 9 “ choice N. O. sugar, “ 1.00 10 “ brown “ “ *• 1.00 .. A !> white “ “ 1.00 4 “ choice coffee, for 1.00 Natural leaf tea, per il>, 75 Prunes, per lb, 15 Extra yard wide muslin, per yd, 12} A few pieces fine cassimere, new styles calico and choice selection of percales, at Lucid Hopkins'. The temperance organizations of this place have at last awakened from the lethargy that seemed for a time to hold them, and are now after Tuteur, the man who deals out liquid damnation without license. Last Saturday a . Geo. Morgan, the Worthy Patriarch of the Sons„p? Temperance in this place, filed an information against Tuteur for selling and allowing liquor to bejlrank on the premises, and-that action was followed on Wednesday of this week by two more informations, against the skmc party.

Daniel Miller has been appointed Notary Public by Gov. Hendricks and as soon as he receives his seal will be ready to acknowledge anything. . i i f in w. i The longest faces we have seen for some time are those of the Remington and Rensselaer whiskey sellers, who were this week brought before the circuit court for gelling their beverages contrary to law. Miss Estella Purcupile, daughter of A. Purcupile, of this place, inadvertently stepped out of a door in the second floor of their house on Monday of this week, and fell a distance of some ten feet, bruising her severely. The several Granges under the jurisdiction of the J. C. C. A. are hereby notified that the next meeting will be held in the Court House in Rensselaer, Ind., on Saturday, May 31st, 1873. Matters of universal importance will be presented for the consideration of the delegates, and the several Masters will see that their Granges are fully represented. By order J. C. C. A; P. of H. C. W. Clifton. Cor. Sec’y. If Bill Draper keeps on filing affidavits against the Remington men who let him have whiskey he will soon reduce the capital of the whiskey men of his town to such an extent that they will probably have to go into involuntary bankruptcy. There is one good thing about it, Draper is compelling them to increase the school fund to a considerable extent. Deputy CL W, Clifton reports the organization of the following Granges during last week: Wheatfield Grange, Jasper county. Membership 28. E. R. Farmer, Master; John M. Helmic, Secretary. Postoffice, San Pierre, Ind. Jay Grange, Carrol county, Ind. Membership 22; J. A. Williamson; Master; John Humrickhouse, Secretary. Postoffice, Burrows, Ind. Boswell Grange, Benton county, Ind. Membership 16. Jas. Harris, Master; M. A. Barber, Secretary. Postoflice, Boswell, Ind. Warren Grange, Warren county. Membership 15. S. G. Knaur, Master; John Knaur, Secretary.— Postoflice, Boswell, Ind. Pine Grange, Warren county, Ind. Membership 14. W. M. Deer, Master; S. Roberts, Secretary. Postoffice, Rainsville, Tud. The fiendish the liquor traffic U makes of the men who for hire it is illustrated by the action of those men at Remington who deal out the poison (they are no worse than others), who, although notified by the wife of one of the citizens not to sell to her husband, still in defiance of the protest of the wife, sold the villainous stuff to him and kept him drunk for days, until last Sunday in a fit of drunken frenzy he struck and maltreated her until she had to be protected by her friends. The retribution that follows wrong acts conies swiftly, and the men who would not be restrained by the appeals of the wife are likely to be fined to such an extent by the circuit court-that "they will be cautious how they sell in the future, and it may be that before the cases are all disposed of that their dives will be closed as nuisances and the proprietors be compelled to engage in some business that will support their families in as good style as they do now, and will not be any injury to the families of others.