Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1874 — Teachers’ Institute. [ARTICLE]

Teachers’ Institute.

Get something ready to bring to the Fair. 'Another room in the public school building of Rensselaer is being fur* < hished with new desks and seats. Mr. Nathan Babcock, cue"of the early settlers of Jasper county and a highly esteemed citizen, died on the 6tb instant. Oram, the dentist, may be found at Harding’s drug store, and is always prepared to do work pertaining to l)is profession in a satisfactory manner. Mr. Jacob Bierly had his right hand caught by the cylinder belt of a threshing machine, a few days ago, and had the peeling taken off to the bone. Harding’s drug store lias a reputation built upon the solid foundation of merit. Harding’s drugs arc the purest and cheapest in market. For medicines, drugs, stationery, toilet articles, etc., go to Harding. A county officer who receives from eight to ten dollars a day for his valuable services spent a large portion of yesterday boring ail that would listen by reading to them more than a column of silly drivel about Tiie Union and its editor, which lie had published in an obscure paper of a distant county. How foolish! Those long-bodied, old-fashioned, eanthnrides potatoe bugs have retired from public life, and their places are now occupied by the second relief of the Colorado vandals. Murphys will lie luxuries in tills region before another crop matures, that only a few jieople can afford to enjoy. Hon.desscThick, of Sulcur, “Dhio;and United States Revenue Collector, is visiting his daughter, Mrs. Emmet Kannal, and enjoying an occasional hunt on the beautiful prairies of Jasper county. He reports crop prospects good in Eastern Ohio, but business is stagnant and a number of their furnaces have suspended work, throwing many poor people out of employment. Friend John C. Frazee has decided to leave Jasper county this fall, and move to Missouri. In anticipation of that event he will make a public sale Saturday, the 29th instant, at which time lie will offer a span of horses and wagon, twelve head of cattle (cows, yearlings and calves,) fourteen hogs, twelve acres of eorn, potatoes in the ground, mowing machine, hay rake, tit nil implements, house and kitchen furniture, etc. One year’s credit will be given. No season since the incorporation, of tile town lias there been more or better work done on its streets than is being laid out on them this year.— Town Marshal Reeve lias excellent judgment in this respect, and most of In's labor is put where public necessity demands it most, and it is of a permanent nature. Mr. Reeve is a good man in tiie viglit. place, and the wisdom of tiie Town Board in making his appointment is fully confirmed by his efficiency. A public sale wjll lie made on (lie Sth day of September next by Mr. A. BUhp'r, " ho lives in Morion township, White county, about six miles j'vest of Bradford, on the ‘‘Old Banta Place.” He will offer three milch cows and their calves, two yearling —colts, one two year-old colt,one yearling mule, six head of hogs, twelve acres of corn, mowing machine, rake, farm implements, house furniture, etc. Nine months credit glveu. Mr. Tfullinger intends to move to the •grasshopper-eaten plains of southwestern Kansas. - —— An episode in the earlier history of Rensselaer is told as follows, by a correspondent in a recent uuniber of the Lowell (Lake Co.) Star: “When the New Albany & Salem Railroad was first projected through Indiana, the company offered to make Rensseluer a point upon the condition that Jasper courtly would raise a small subscription, the company looking to cither Michigan City or Chicacago, these places being of about equal importance. Rensselaer looked at her position on the map, saw she was in a direct line from Lafayette to Chicago, and said: ‘lf the company build the railroad, we are sure to get it, and what we can do will make no ■difference with the company—if they want the road they will build it anyhow,’ and sosatdown while AVestville and Michigan City offered, the company inducements to secure the road. When Rensselaer heard that the engineer was going past her on another lines, she Sent a committee offering the amount required, but received an. swer that it was too late -they had slept away their day of grace and could not now have the road on arty terms. So Rensselaer is todays dilapidated, third rate village, and is destined to remain so unless she secures a railroad, ami her real estate is not a third in value what It plight have been had they aoted wisely.” These reminiscnces and observations which are true so far as the important facts are concerned, should serve as a lesson to teacli the present generation to avoid the grave error by our fathers. Whenever a proposition is suggested that is oaleu lated to beueiitour town and county, ft should haye an attentlve, respectful hearing, and be as fully developed as uiir means will permit

It is now reported that the Ring proposes to call a convention at no distant day and nominate a so-callrtd straight-out Republican ticket for county officers. TheD wo will see how many of the present county officers who are candidates for re-election will eat their own wolds and “accept a nomination from any party.”

The annual session of the Jasper County Teachers’ Institute, for 1874, will be held at Rensselaer during the week commencing September 21st.— D. Ecklev Hunter, of Bloomington, Indiana, has been employed to do the principal work. Mr. Hunter’s reputation as an Institute teacher -is sufficient to guarantee the success of the session. Programmes and further particulars will be issued in a few

days.

J. H. SNOĎDY,

Supt. Pub. Schools of Jasper Co.