Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1874 — Real Estate Transfers. [ARTICLE]

Real Estate Transfers.

The plank walk in the public square cost $lO2 or thereabouts. Mrs. C. C. Thornton, of Rensselaer, weighed 486 pounds last week. It is not lawful to let your sheep run at large in Marion township. Home grown strawberries were in market this week, selling for 20 cents a quart. Mr. W. T. Pritchard had one of his Wrists fractured last Saturday, by falling from a swing. j*or 1874 the tax levy for county purposes is fifty cents on the hundred dollars of valuation in Jasper county. Grove meeting at Alter’s mill next Sunday. There will be twenty or more persons immersed at this meeting. Mrs. H. B. Miller sent us the first these of new peas this season. They Were very fine, and she will please acoept thanks therefor. Miss Ora Thompson has our thanks for a bouquet of roses. So also has another little maiden who does not desire to have her name published. Geo. H. Brown, Geo. Major and J. H. Snoddy, represent the People’s party of Jasper county at the State convention at Indianapolis, this week. A two days’ meeting will be held in the Presbyterian Church in Rensselaer, on Saturday and Sunday, June 20th and 21st. Preaching on Saturday at 2 o’clock P. M. and on Sabbath at 10:80 A. M. All are invited. Mr. M. F. Chilcote was appointed iby the town council to fill the vacancy in the board of school trustees caused by the resignation of Horace E. James. The school board now con- 1 slats of Messrs. John -Coen, Alfred Thompson and M. F. Chilcote. A terrific wind storm passed here Tuesday, doing damage to fencing, ‘timber, etc. Mr. Mart. V. B. Warner’s brick dwelling, in process of construction on the prairie northeast of town, was unroofed and a portion of the walls blown down. Damage SIOO or S2OO. Jasper county is out of debt, has $3,064.24 in the treasury in excess of liabilities, and there is over forty per .ceut of the taxes of 1873 yet to collect. Still it was thought necessary to make the levy for 1874, for county purposes, fifty cents on the one hundred dollars valuation. The total amount of school fund for which Jasper county is liable is $43,826.84. There is 2,750 acres of Congressional school laud, valued at $l,lOO. The net amount of school fund now at iuterest is $10,408.40. Amount in the treasury June Ist not invested, Congressional school fund $005.50, common school fund $261.10. During the flowery month of May the Clerk of Jasper county issued only three marriage licenses. The happy parties were Clark M. Hord and Mary E. Nicholson. Morris Slaughter and Orilla A. Cotton. George Zimmerman and Addie Wolf.

The following transfers of real .estate were filed witli the Recorder of Jasper county during the week end. ing June 10, 1874: Lewis L. Daugherty to Newman \V. Hopkins, sw sw 20,30, 7 —40 acres, for S4OO. Richard Blackburn to Edward A. Comstock et al, ne 25, 32,5 —100 acres, for S4BO. David Siler to Alfred Thompson, sw, sw so 29, 31,6 e J se 30, 31, 6 and due ne sl, 31, 6—320 acres, for S4OO. Resin F. Goddard et al to John W. Duvall, 10 acres iu w £ se 17, 29, 6, for S2OO. The Instruments recorded were warranty deeds.