Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1874 — Calendar of Future Local Events. [ARTICLE]

Calendar of Future Local Events.

August 22tfaiul 23d, Methodist Quarterly meeting. August 29th, regular monthly meeting of Jasper County Central Association of Patrons of Husbandry. September 3d, Grange rally and picnic. September 4th, Republican primaries,held in the several townships. September sth, Republican county convention. September 7th, Board of County Commissioners meets in regular session. September Bth, 9th, 10th, 11th, third annual Fair of the Jasper County Agricultural and Mechanical Association. September 17th, the Union completes its 6th volume. September 21st, Jasper Circuit Court convenes for a three weeks’ session. September 24th, the Union begins a new volume. September 26th, grand Temperance rally and picnic at Reusselaer.

The Band has a new sls drum. Leopold drives a nice pony team. Melons are large and cheap this season. Morey Hopkins now has a personal Interest In the grist mill. Messrs. Leopold & Fendig. have dissolved partnership. Leopold retires. According to the Remingtoif Journal a Temperance, picnic.-is--talked of at this place. Mr. A. Leopold thinks some of taking his family to Europe to spend the winter in die Faderland. A cotillion party will be given in Spitler’s Hall, Thursday night, September 3d. Excellent music. The building of two or three morebrick business houses in Rensselaer this fall, is being talked about. Mr. Lee Taylor has returned to live in Rensselaer again. He is now at work for Warner in the blacksmith shop. All who are indebted to F. W. Bedford are requested to call at his place of business, and make immediate settlement. Mr. M. D. Rhoads is remodeling his house so as to enclose about four times the room that his family has heretofore occupied. Mr. J. Horn is back again in Rensselaer and will mend guns, locks, safes, etc. Established at Erwin's blacksmith shop. Miss Mary, A., daughter of L, W. and L. C. Ilenkle, died of consumption Monday evening. She was little more than"2o years old. Messrs. Willey & Sigler, the popular proprietors of the post office store, are now receiving their first Invoice of goods for tile fall trade. Oram, the dentist, may be found at Harding's drug store, anti is always prepared to tin work pertaining to his profession in a satisfactory manner. Old papers that are not mutilated for sale at this office for ten cents a dozen ; this is the cheapest and most diversified reading matter that can Lie bought. lit is said that John P. Warner did an excellent *j ob of liainti ng aml graining for Ezra L. Clark, Esq.— Jack, as lie is familiarly called, can do fine work. There are good many peaches in Jasper this year, but on account of the drought they are so small tlint it takes about a bushel of them to make a peck measure full. Mr Thomas O. Ohesnut and his agreeable family move to Columbia City, Ind.j today. Good bye, Tom, don’t stay long, because we do not like to lose good citizens. A magnificent rainstorm watered this parcliCd region witli a copious fall of moisture last Saturday, which will help mature corn more perfectly, freshen pastures a little, and put soil in excellent condition for sowing fall wheat.

Methodist Episcopal Quarterly meeting will be held in Rensselaer Saturday and Sunday, 29th and 30th. Presiding Elder Graham and Rev. Richard Hqrgrave will be present. It id reported tlla.t Mr. Thomas \V 1 1ley is to become a partner witli Mr. E. T. Harding in the drug business, and that they will build a brick store room, two stories high, 20x60 feet on the ground, to move into this fall. The Temperance people of this section contemplate having a picnic and rally at this place. They will endeavor to secure the attendance of Mr. Wm. Baxter, Mr. Talbott nnd Mrs. Emma'Maloy to address them upon that topic. It is expected that Mr. James Buchanan, of Indianapolis, Hon. W. DLee, of Lafayette, Hon. Anson Wolcott, of White coupty and Mr.vJ. E. Olieman, of Indianapolis, will be ip attendauee’at the picnic-next Thursday, to make speeches. >■ Mr. Bears, of Clinton, lowa, moved to Rensselaer this week. It is said that he will become a member of the popular mercantile firm of J. I. l’urcupilc & Uo.,' which said firm is preparing for an extensive trade this com ing fait mid winter. ■ Bix weeks of more favorable weat her for making wild hay was flavor known in this county than we have * . been favored with tills season, and people have generally improved it pretty industriously, so that a greater quantity than usual has,been put up, and all of it hi excellent order.

About forty Jasper county folks attended the Independent Senatorial Convention at Goodland, last Saturday. Not loss than thirty of these have heretofore been voting the Republican ticket, bub they wont do scf very extensively this year of grace. Elder D. T. Halstead, A. Thompson, E. T. Harding, J. H. Willey and Senator R. S. Dwiggins, and their wives, of Rensselaer, together with H. M. Babb and wife, of Remington, attended the Conference meeting of the Christian denomination held at Antioch, Marshall county, last week. The Republicanism of the Rensselaer Union is very scattering indeed, says the Remington Journal. But the laws in this country provide that one may be tried by a jury of his peers and before an intelligent, unprejudiced, uucorrupted judge; so we are safe from harm from that source. While working about Mrs. Hemphill’s building Monday, Mr. Burton Hutson was struck on his head by a brick accidentally dislodged from a scaffolding five or six feet above him. An ugly gash was cut in his scalp from which blood flowed freely, but for a wonder the man was not seriously hurt. Mr. Ralph Fetidig, who recently became sole proprietor of the mercantile establishment of Leopold & Fendig, is now in Chicago to purchase a large stock of goods for the fall and winter trade. Mr. Fendig’s long experience and well-known excellent judgment insures the selection of a splendid stock. At a distance of seventeen feet from the surface the workmen who were digging a well on the Fair Ground struck a fine vein of pure water, which raised nine or ten feet. The well has been walled up witli brick, a good pump was put in it, and it is thought that it will supply all the water that may be required. Members of the Jasper County Central - Association of Patrons of Husbandry are requested to meet at the Court House in Rensselaer, atone o’clock p. m., Saturday, August 29th, 1874, to transact any business that may lawfully come before them, mid to select an additional committee for tlie picnic. A. I). Swain, Pres. It is currently reported on the streets that Mr. A. M. ijunden will be one of the contributors to the columns of the Rensselaer Republican, if it shall be born. It will be born if four hundred subscribers can be procured for it* -ami certainly --this ■ number ought to be obtained in a locality where the voting strength is claimed to be 1,000. At a eauciiss of the Republican Central Committee of Jasper county, held in Rensselaer last Saturday, it -was decided to cal l a delegate con vene turn at Rensselaer .Saturday, Stptember sth, for the purpose of nominating a county ticket. A eauciiss will be hold in each of the several townships to select delegates to this convention on the previous day, (September 4tli). All members of the Jasper Temple of Honor and Temperance No. 5, and of the Social Temple, are hereby notified to meet, at their lodge room in Rensselaer, at 7:30 p. in. Monday evening, August 31st, 1874, for the transaction of important business. — By order J. T. 11. T. J. A. Burnham, W. R. Mr. M, B. Halstead tells us that in some parts of Newton township the drought or grub worms, or both together, have destroyed a great deal of tame meadow this season. One of his neighbors in breaking up a meadow field for wheat found whole acres on which the roots and stubble seemed to lie wholly detached from one another, and there was no vitality perceptible in either.

Wednesday, September 2d, Mr. William Huttenhow, on his premises on tlie Alter’s Mill road five and onehalf miles north of Rensselaer, will offer at public sale one horse, eighteen head of cattle—yearlings, cows and calves—ten head of hogs, pair of bob sleds, plow, fourteen acres of corn, etc. A year’s credit will be given on sunis-over five dollars. See posters for further speeifidations. Is it not rather a remarkable circumstance thatall three of a former Board of Commissioners of this county have been nominated this year for .legislative seats? George Major- is tlie Independent candidate for Senator, and Charles M. AVatson (Republican) and George H. Brown (Independent) candidates for Representative. Two of them—Major and Brown—wilP likely he elected. Uncle Charley is a nice man, but on the wrong side of the question.