Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1873 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Thursday, July 10, 1873.

Mr. Ned. Riley, of Barkley township, died and was buried last week. A good gaiter for SI.BO at Hopkins’. ►— Spring chickens range in price, in market from 12 j to 16| cents_ each. Spring shawls at Purcupile & Co.'s. New floors, and perhaps new furniture, will be placed in some of the rooms of the school house this season. Falley’e? ealf boots, at for $6. Miss Louie Hammond has our thanks for a mess of early succotash beans and also for a basket of raspberries. - ; Latest styles of percales. at ,I’ureupile & Co.’s. Mr. Alfred Irwin, of Huston. Texas, is spending the yellow fever season with relatives and acquaintances in Rensselaer. All shoes reduced in price at Hopkins’. The families of Mr. Alfred Thompson and R; S. D wiggins left on Tuesday for a few weeks 1 sojourn at the seaside. No better stock of groceries in the county than Hopking,keeps. Mrs. Schenck, of Dayton, Ohio, wife of Commodore Schenck, U. S. N. is visiting her sisters the Misses Smith in this place. 300 pounds of Clarence carpet warp just received at Purcupile & Co.’s. Hon. Barney Dailey, of Delphi, is in town this morning attending a meeting of the directors of StJoseph (Catholic) Orphan Asylum. Save your potatoes by getting some of Kannal’s “Potato Bug Exterminator.” Seven cents a quart was paid for -cherries on our streets this morning. Considering the scarcity of this kind of fruit the price is low enough. ’ ' ■ ■■■■ . : —’ Ludd Hopkins has 10 barrels of sugar, to be sold by the dollars’ worth or by the barrel. Huckleberries down to G| cents aquart Currants and’gooseberries each 5 certts a quart. Currants are unusually large and plenty this season. Every one that wants a good pair of ■Loots or shoes should not fail to call .on Purcupile & Co. ■One of Uncle Willis J. Wright’s •horses immersed him in the race last week, from the effects of which Jtfri.Wright was confined to his room with rheumatism for three or four days. •The nicest assortment of children’s shoes and slippers, ever in this market, at Purcupile & Co.’s. ' Hon. Jesse D. Bright, tiicky, is in Rensselaer to-day. MfeBright owns a large amount of valuable land, in Jasper county and usually comes up once a year to look after it,*pay taxes, etc. It is -understood that he does not take as much interest in political mattefs pow as. he di<J in .former years.

Mr. T. P. Wright., while working I on Austin’s new hotel building I yFsler7! Uy considerably stiffened by having a heavy board fail across his neck while standing m a stooping posture. 3,000 yards of brown muslin, from 12J to 16fj cents a yard, just received at Purcupile & Co.’s. The elements conspired to render abortive what preparations had been made for celebrating the Fourth at this place, which, however, were not extensive, and none were seriously disappointed Thereby. . Granges will be furnished blank (limits for 10 cents a dozen, on application at this office. cx«> Miss Miranda Banta, teacher of school number 4, Marion township, - reports for term ending July 3d, 1873, that the number of pupils enrolled was 15, average attendance 12$ nearly; Willie McCord and .Allie Brown attended every day of the term. ' Why do Purcupile & Co. sell so milch jeans* “Because they buy cheap and sell for small profits. The calico pants and plug hat of Henry S. Travis, attorney at law, Oxford, Benton county, spent the •Fourth in Rensselaer They were brought over to help Auditor Babcock fly his 5£ x 7 feet red, white and blue kite, and it was done successfully, too. Purcupile & Co. have the best buckle plow shoes to be found in the market; also laced plow shoes. Secretary Cushman of the Plymouth, Kankakee & Pacific Railroad Company, whose line crosses the northern portion of Jasper County, wrote to parties in Rensselaer a few days since, that the Company was expecting to resume work on their road about the first of August. Secretaries of Granges can procure blank applications for membership at this office, for 10 cents a dozen. Involuntary immersion was performed upon George, son of Rev. J. B. DeMottc, one day hast week. George was riding their black cob to water when the old fellow got beyond his depth and both went under. Timely assistance coming to their aid they were rescued from a watery grave. 72 pairs of men's plow packs just received mid will be sold as low, as they can be allorded in this market, r- » Miss Lydia Paris, teacher of school number 5. Hanging Grove township, reports that Cind.r Zard, Fritz Zard and Lizzie Rvdd—were perfect in attendance’ during thelast month of school, and that Ella McCoy, Sallie Culp and Belle Smith lost no time during the entire term. A few cents worth of Kannal’s potato bug poison will kill more bugs tn one day than you eah kill with your hands in a week. Letters have recently been received from William Phillips; by his parents, which report him in good health and well pleased with his soldier life. He is a sergeant in Company 11, 3d U. S'. Cavalry, and-for'the present-is stationed at Fort 1). A. Jiiissell, Wyoming Territory. He nays they have an occasional brush .with tire Indians, who are disposed to be troublesome this summer. Hamilton Bros.’ show was in town Tuesday exhibiting Its marvels for 50 cents a head. We saw a man whose family doctor bills are paid by the county 'anxiously hunting for the agent ,to procure tickets for himself and family.— That man’s wife and children wore clothing which charitable neighbors had provided. Ho lives in a little log cabin, and his table is generally supplied with corn bread and fried pork, if the corn crop is abundant and he. is not too tired to take it to mill, and there: is plenty of mast in the woods for hogs to fatten on. A few pieces of dry goods, hats, caps,’ boots, shoes and notions left of the old stock belonging to the late fThomas Hollingsworth, at Emmet Kannal’s drug store, will be sold at great bargains in order to close out. At a’public examination of applicants for license to teach school in Jasper county, held in tho school house at Renssdaer, June 28th, 1873, Miss Annie B. Smith, of Jordan township, received license for eighteen months, upon a general average grade of 91. One of the applicants in answer to the Superquestion. “Between whom was tho battle of New Orleans fought?” replied “Between the Irish and Canadians.” Other answers were equally as incorrect, but were generally made by quite young persons, who, “with a little attention and care, may improve and become among the best qualified teachers in the county. A... ; ■J■ " ' Z

■ .'r-’rrr -; - a , -7—— —.u l . Last Friday, the 4th inst., this ! place was visited by the severest storm of wind and rani we remember to have witnessed in the locality for nearly twenty years. Large trees were broken off or blown out by their roots, fences were leveled to the ground and buildings were unroofed and blown down. There must have been Immense damage done to growing crops by beating down and flooding. We hear that Mr. Joseph Pillars’ house, two milps southeast of here, was unroofed. In town, tho stable on S’ P. Thompson’s lot, belonging to the property where Sheriff Daugherty resides, was unroofedy a portion of the front elevation of Warner’s wagon factory was blown away; shade and fruit trees were uprooted and fences thrown over? As yet we have learned of no accidents to persons or stock. Every person interested Tn the prosperity of our county should prepare something for exhibition at the fair in September. Last year although held late in the season and but short notice was given for preparation, the exhibition was pronounced creditable; this year it ought to be still better in many respects. There probably will not be as fine display of fruits, but there should be better garden products, better stock, and better manufactured articles. The premium list is proportioned much better this season than last, b»t is not perfect; a revised list will be published within four orfive weeks, and in the mean time suggestions will be thankfully received by the committee appointed to prepare it, who, we believe, are Messrs. 11. C. Bruce, Wilborn Day and David 11. Yeoman; or suggestions upon this subject may bo left with either of the editors of The Union. “Sand Bur,” the Laporte Herald's Rensselaer correspondent; tells all about the Temperance picnic on the 14th of June. How the members of that organization put on their regalia and marched through the principal streets; how Rev. Mr. DeMottc delivered a few timely remarks; how the company scattered through the grove to enjoy themselves as best they could; how Miss A. and B. ate their ice cream from the same dish, I'.fiss C waited until it thawed and then drank hersj and how Mr. D. ate his with the big blade of a pocket knife. Then they took croquet in theirs and gambled for some more ice cream, -which-they ate at GliarTnyHtarFfc Then this lively writer calls Mr, J. A. Burnham an “efficient principal.” Also mentions meeting one of the editors of The Union in his office at 6:30 a. m. busily “preparing for the coming issue;” and a little later is “accosted by Mr. A. Thompson, one of the bankers, who looked all business, save the rose in his button hole, placed there no doubt by the loving fingers of his brighteyed little daughter Ora.” The communication further observes that in Rensselaer “ministers, lawyers, merchants, coijnty officers and teachers all bear bouquets to their variousqilaccs of business.”