Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1873 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Thursday, October 2, 1873.

Mr. Jesse Greenfield lias moved to Clarksville, Tennessee. Potatoes retail for $1 a bushel and onions $1.75 in this market * J. Horn, lock and gunsmith, at Healy & Meyers’s shoe shop, will repair sewing machines. 0-1-it. Johnny Eger lias opened an oys. ter salooit in the Liberal Corner building, cast room on ground fioor. """ —' A new millinery establishment opened in town by the Misses Ilogan. Now you brute, you, buy *%our poor wife a new bonnet. r Call at J. I. Purcupile <fc Co.’s for boots, shoes, dry goods, hats, caps, clothing, &e., for fall and winter wear. The Sabbath school concert postponed last Sunday on account of the rain will be-given next Sabbath evening. Elder D. T. Halstead has withdrawn from the mercantile firm of Willey, Sigler & Halstead, an J | entered upon his new labor of missionary of the Christian denomination for the State of Indiana.

"Faff dry goods, clothing, boots, shoes, huts, &e., &c., at J. I. Purcupile & Co.’s. Call and examine the new stock- - - y- It is reported that a homo com-, patty of amateur-dramatic artistsare studyhig and rehearsing with a view of giving a public entertainment in this place, within a couple of weeks. Joans, flannels, waterproofs and yarn 20 per cent, cheaper than last year at Hopkins ’. ~~ ”7' hiifnber of people talk of~ mOving out of Jasper this fall to improve the health ol the county. When all the Bl&k are gone, this will be the healthiest locality in the world. Secretaries oi granges can procure blank njqdiea! ioHSdoi' niomberslii-p at this office, for lb cents a dozen. Mr. D. T. llaLstoad, trustee, desires us to say that the public schools of Marion township will commence on Monday, the 1 3.-„h day of October, where notice is not given to the contrary. . A fresh arrival of boots ami shoi s,_ -consisting of calf and cu h on tnadp kip at bottom price.!, at Hopkins’. — —r Mr. William N. .lopes, of Gillum township, tins county, superintended the White county.fair .this year. Mr. Jones enjoys a fair belt; r than any other aimisoinenl, ami makes one of the most efficient fair officers we ever knew. Do not forget the advantage tlterb is in selecting hoots an:! •hoes from a large, new stock .of good:; hi which there are lip. culls or refuse articles'!— J. I. Purcupile it Co. have several llmnuaml worth nf hoots uliil Shoes, just received, lor the' hill ami winter trade. «, s*M>- ——— Week from next Tuesday the people of Benton, Newton, Jasper and Pulaski counties, will elect a circuit judge. There is now but one caminiate in the Held, Judge Hammond, there is no .excitement, and there is likely to but a small Vote polled. - - —■fc-jy*!.. • , I .-iill have a few pair.; of 1. boots which I willselj at the price.; started out with-$4.50 cash down. . Also as good hoot as heretofore offered •at $4.51), for $4. Dear in mind that. ! do not “wait ’till tomorrow” at these prices, Hunt) IJopkins. The Teachers’ Institute is said to be panning out pretty extensively this week. There are between seventy-five and eighty pretty, school ma’ams of both sexes enrolled, and the pretty-' exercises proceed pretty smoothly and pretty vigorously. The Grange Store lias just received a large and well-selected stock of queenHW!nro,.-wMek-.wiU.he--saM very. low for cash or country produce. We have alsp a good stock of glassware, that wi.ll be sold as cheap as the market will permit. Call and examine our stock beforft. purchasing any where else. DaucFiikkty <& Jacks, Rensselaer, Indiana. Tho-marriage licenses issued by the clerk of Jasper county, Indiana. du ring the month o f Sep Hum ber, 1873, were to John Jacks and Sarah L. Gailev. Euocli J. lioicourt and Klzina Timmons. Marion L. Stephens and Ann LottL. sa Hanna. Thomas G. Smith and Sarah E. Tillett. About forty of the beautiful andgallant educators who are xattcnd-ing-tbe’-Teachers’ Institute now in session, together with a .number of disciples of Terpsichore that do not attend educational matinees, whirled in the giddy dance last night and kept time with rosy hoofs and seven league boots to the fiddling of Uncle Felix TL Donnelly -and Mark Lewis; *

Mr. James S. Banta, of Milroy township, will make a public sale of his personal effects a week from next Saturday, preparatory to leaving for the breezy plains of Kansas. Among other articles he will offer twenty-sevon head of yearling cattle, two cows, four calves* a span of nudes, harness, wagon, etc. He gives twelve months credit, without intfcrelsij'on amounts over five dollars, or discounts them ten per cent, tor cash.

We are told by a gentleman who was at Francesville yesterday that, the hair now held there promises to exceed in attendance and display of stock any previous exhibition of this region of country. We yesterday received from the secretary a nmnber of complimentary tickets tom the officers of the Jasper county Agricultural and Mechanical Association, but it will be impossible for us to distribute them unless those for whom they were intended call at our office. To-morrow a large number of people will go over from Rensselaer to attend the Fair. A balloon ascension is promised as ail attractive feature tor Saturday.

It is remarked that II other Snoddy, whose fame as editor of the Remington Joutnul and county Superintendent of Instruction has readied td the uttertiiost coiifities of Jasper, is adorned with a brand newt suit of store duds from bis i crown to liis ankles, (his feet are : still encased in the number 13 bro--1 gaits which he got to electioneer ;in last Hiring), and that now., eith or Lti'om- exta'.s.si-w; hunn ii ty ,-L)r fear.-aT. rubbing the shine off' against pass'- : i-rs-by, or in order that gaping ' crowds which gather Vm the sidewalks to wate.li him pass may have : a better view of his regal splendor and majestic 'proportions', he takes the middle of the street when traversing' back and forth between hisj domicile aijd the Institute. ' w L In view of the hard times sura to ! follow the great financial crash which i has overtaken capitalists during the past week, it behooves all people to lessen their expenditures and livens economically as possible. And oneway to begin is to buy your store go,ids where the best articles' can he j Had for the least money. For dry f goods, boots, shoes, clothing, etc,, -try J. J. i , areupile-.& Co. .—. ». —4 ■* *■* ■ —■ Mr. Lewis Marion, of Jackson | tQwitsliip, NeWtot) county, gives. J notice That on Friday the 10th day. i-of October he. will make a public l sale at which- he will 'offer two ( marcs, two two-years old colts, one spring eolt, one spring—mule colt, four cows, three calves, four yearling steers, six two-years old steers, forty head of shotus, seven or eight | head of heavy hogs, twenty-fiVe or j thirty tons of clover and Timothy 'bay, about twenty five acres of corn in the field, and two sets of harness, lie will also offer at private sale j [ two gelding horses, one, two-horse i wagon, and twenty-live or thirty acres -of corn by the bushel delivered in the crib. Twelve months credit will l>e given on all amounts ; over three' dollars, whether purchased at public or private sale. To.those who got work done at tlieir blacksmith shop and promised to pay “after harvest,” “in three or four weeks,” or in “a day or two,” Messrs. Duvall & Goff would suggest that harvest is now over,...three or. four Weeks have past, a day or two have gone by and time Is up. Now come tip to time inid pay like gentlemen.— It takes money to run a blacksmith shop and those who owe us are urg- ! ently requested to pay immediately as I we need money, and money must ! come—peaceably if possible, forcibly if must.