Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1874 — Announcement of Candidates. [ARTICLE]

Announcement of Candidates.

S. P. Thompson is a candidate for Prosecuting Attorney. W. H. Martin is a candidate for Prosecuting Attorney, subject to the vote of the people at the October election. Ira W. Yeoman is a candidate for Prosecuting Attorney of the 30th Judicial Circuit, subject to the decision of the people at the October election. Ezra L. Clark is a candidate for Clerk of the Jasper circuit court. Harvey W. Wood is a candidate for re-election to the office of county Recorder. . Peter Rhoads is a candidate for Sheriff of Jasper county, subject to the October election. S. P. Howard is a candidate for Appraiser of Jasper county, subject to tne October election. Lewis L. Daugherty will be a candidate for re-election to the. office of Sheriff of Jasper county, subject to the decision of the people at the coming October election. A Cabd. —To the voters of Jasper county : lam a candidate for re-elec-tion to the office of county Treasurer, subject to your decision at the ensuing October election. L. C. JANES.

Grasshoppers are appearing in countless numbers In this region. New, neat and nobby are the cuffs, collars and other furnishing goods for gentlemen’s wear, at Johnny Hemphill’s store. Mr. S. P. Thompson is off .electi.Qß~ eerlng through Chicago. Laporte,, South Bend and up on Lake Michigan perhaps as far as Macinaw Straits. Mr. Berry Paris left two plugs of Navy tobacco at this office, which he found Monday in the road between his house and town.; The owner will please call and get it. A peripatetic vendor of cement, salve and razor hone rejuvenating powders is holding street soirees, and. amusing the boys with his quaint talk. He is not makingvery large sales. Hon. 11. S. Dwiggins started to New York City, day before yesterday. Megoes to persuade those bloated bond holders to pay for the work they had done on the Continental Railway’s road bed. . ■ Mr. Patterson, of Goodland, District Deputy Grand Master of the Odd Fellows, was present Tuesday night to install the officers of Iroquois Lodge No. 143. They had a pretty warm time. —=----- - *• —— —— The third regular biennial proposition to establish a competition press in Rensselaer, is now being agitated by the Ring. Gentlemen, in October votes will do you more good than a poorly supported newspaper can. ■ —... 4 —— With the murcury. at ninety-seven degrees in the shade and a desperately dull political campaign in progress there is not quite so much croquet playing done on the public square as has been witnessed in years past.

Mr. David J. Thompson will get his ‘copy of The Rensselaer Union at Duluth, Minnesota, this week. The Union is not very large, but like a young widow we used to hug it is oh, so good I Subscription price only S 2 a year. A change in the proprietorship of this office is contemplated, which, if effected at all, will take place in a few days. Those who are indebted to the firm of James & Healey will please make arrangements to settle upon demand. t)r. Moses B. Alter was installed Noble Grand of Iroquois Lodge No. 143, I. O. O. F., Tuesday evening, Nathaniel ,W. Reeve, Vice Grand, A. Leopold, Secretary, Garrett VY. Terhune, Treasurer, William C. Pierce, Warden, J. W. Duvall, Inside Guardian and Right Supporter to the Vice Grand. ’ It is reported in the papers that “8. P. Thompson and daughter” represented the Rensselaer Union at the Northern Indiana Editorial Association at Laporte last week. As Simon has been passing himself for a bachelor for the fifteen years that he has made Rensselaer his home, it will be in order for him to rise and explain about that daughter when he returns. The Jasper County Ditching Company’s appraisers, or, rather, the gentlemen appointed by the commissioners of Jasper county to appraise benefits and damages to lands that will accrue from the proposed work of said ditching company, expect to complete their labors this week. The schedule prepared by these gentlemen will afford interesting reading to those who own land in that region. According to the sew postal law, jthis provision of which went into .effect on the first day of the -present jifonth—July, 1874—newpapers may - be circulated free of postage through £he mails In the county wherein they lire Those patrons of the Union who have prepaid postage on it for the present quarter to the post at Rensselaer, Remington or Pleasant Grove are entitled to have their money refunded upon making application therefor to the officer who collectedit. Those of our subscribers who think it-will be more convenient to receive their paper at the Rensselaer post office than to call at our office for it can have it taken .there free of all extra expense to them, by leaving Word at this office.

Mrs. H. B. Miller will do embroidering and fine sewing. Samples of her work done for Mrs. Burnham, are pronounced very nice by those competent to judge of such things. W. AV. Foster, formerly in the marble business, is now engaged in the lumber trade. His lumber yard is east of Butler & Burger’s, Remington, Indiana, where he has a brisk trade. Those who favor competition should call ob him. Success to him. Having sold the thoroughbred bull I recently bought at Waukegan, my old bull will be brought home again from Mr. A. K. Yeoman’s farm. Persons from a distance wanting to breed to him, can get pasture for stock at* reasonable rates. I have a few pure bred Berkshire pigs for sale at reasonable prices.

C. J. BROWN.