Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1875 — Special Notice to Granges. [ARTICLE]

Special Notice to Granges.

ffp-The. Rensselaer Union is now the largest paper published in Jasper county, Indiana, and pays two and one-half times the postage on its regular circulation that is paid by its county cotemporaries. Advertisers and others who desire to reach the people through the medium of newspaper columns are referred to Post-Office records for confirmation of this statement. Potatoes of inferior quality are retailing for $1.40 a bushel in this village. C. F. Culver was baptised at the Christian Church, Monday evening. —Remington Record The festival at the Court House, last Friday night, paid about $55. Mr. Bellan, of Cincinnati, obtained the fortunate piece of cake containing the finger ring. A green minstrel troupe is billed 'for a performance in the Court House to-night. Better send your -Hrarplus moeey to some sufferer in the West than waste it on strollers. Isaac M. Stackhouse, Esq., of Southport, Marion county, well known to most readers of these columns, is visiting Rensselaer this week. He reports good health blessing himself and his family. “Please, Mister, give me a pipefull of terbacker,” was the request a lair lady made as she sidled up to him with a persuasive smile on her lip, in one of the stores the other day. Remington claims to have a pop’ ulation of 1,000 persons now, and promises to make it 2,000 in two yearß. If she does there will be an unusual demand for soft flannel and soothing syrup in the time. Mr. M. V. B. Warner has leased a lot on Washington street, nearly opposite The Union office, on which he talks of erecting a brick building in the spring, to be used for a meat riiarket and provision store. Mr. Jesse Goff talks of retiring from the hammer and anvil, and ■opening a new butcher office in this thriving town. It is expected that .the new establishment will be in .operation before the close of this .month. . Day before yesterday Messrs. R :S. <fc,2. Dwiggius moved into a new office in, the second story of Messrs. Jlarding <fc .Willey’s new brick drug store, .where they are now prepared to .furnish clients Adth a .good quality of legal advice for compensating fees. It will be seen by reading the proceedings of the Board of Trustees for the town of Remington, that W. W. Sage and J. W. Shaffer have been appointed trustees to fill the vacancies in the first and second wards, made by the removal of O. B. Mclntire and Robert Parker. Mr. F. L. Cotton has been appointed Marshal, Mr. Lucky being unable to serve on account of popr health. —Remington Record. Those wlio admire good carpenter work will be gratified by calling into Harding & Willey’s new store and seeing how neatly it is being finished under the supervision of the Robinson Bros., who have Messrs. Wm.' Norris and Wm. P. Hopkins to assist them. At the meeting of the Jasper County Central Association of Patrons of Husbandry, at the Court House last Saturday, Cyrus J. Brown was fleeted president, James Yeoman vice president, Riley Nowels secretary, Ira C. Trussed treasurer, and A. D. Swain lecturer. Scarcity of water for steam has compelled the grist-mill at this place to stand idle for six weeks past. It will probably dot be in operation again until a thaw or rain-storm, or both, furnish the necessary moisture. Meantime flour sells at the stores for $1.50 per quarter-barrel sack. Mr. James Fell, of Jackson township, Newton county, threefourths of a mile south of the Putnam school house, will make a public sale Wednesday, 10th inst. He will offer three cows with calf, Tour yearlings, three calves, parlor stove, etc. Eight months credit on sums over five dollars. We estimate that at least $2,000 will have been sent by citizens of , .this county before crops are raised again for relief of grasshopper sufferers in Kansas and Nebraska. Whole families there are being supported by their friends here, besides the liberal donations that hare been sent to relief committees lor'general distribution.

A meeting of gentlemen interested in draining lands on the head waters of the Iroquois River will be held at the office of the engineer of the Iroquois Ditching Association in Rensselaer, Saturday of this week, when they will order notices of election of officers and directors, and the reorganization of said association, to be given. If any young man desires to put the matrimonial bit in his mouth, we advise him to make Mrs. Howard’s his boarding-place. Every young man who has boarded there within the last fifteen years is either married now or his prospects are brightening. — Republican. Would you insinuate that the accommodations are of such quality that iu their stead those hapless youths preferred to brave the possible horrors of infelicitous matrimony? Col. Healey and Mr. Silas L. Swain went to Delphi to attend a meeting of the direct ors of the Indianapolis. Delphi & Chicago Railroad Company, which was held yesterday. The special business before this meeting was to correct some imperfections in the articles of consolidation with the Chicago & South Atlantic Company. They have not returned as we go to pres&, hence we have no report of the proceedings of the meeting. Clouds obscured the sky Tuesday, effectually preventing the rays of the great central luminary around which our solar system revolves from effnlgently illuminating the wintry desolation of this region; hence that legendary American arctomys discovered not his shadowed outlines and returned not to his den, but remained a wanderer upon the earth. Alas! poor victim of misplaced confidence, how his (or her, as the case may be,) toes must have ached yesterday! i . j Miss Miranda Banta, teacher of first intermediate department of the Rensselaer school, reports for the month ending January 22d, 1875, an enrollment of 48 scholars, and au average daily attendance of 42. Those perfect in attendance, deportment and study were: Ollie Alter, Lily Alter, Mary Weathers, Tillie Kai sner, Alice Rhoads, Clara Reeve. Eddie Reeve, was absent one-half day on account of sickness, otherwise he should be reported in the foregoing list. Mr. D. B. Nowels, teacher of Iroquois school (No. 7 of Marion township,) reports for the first month, an enrollment of 24 scholars, and an average daily attendance of 21.9. Those perfect for the first month were: Harry Kays, Hoover Kays, Edward Kavs, l|arvey Robnson and Frank Robinson. The enrollment for the month ending January 20th, 1875, was 23, the average daily attendance, 22f. Per* feet in attendance and punctuality, Etna English, Milroy English, John English,Harry Ivays,Edward Kays, Hoover Kays and Robert Paris. During tbe month of January, 1875, marriage licenses were issued by the clerk of Jasper county to William S. Lewis and Supan F. Markin, Robert Shigley and Elizabeth Eldredge, Alton Grant and Margret J. Dillon, Wm. *H. H. Smith and Annie Turner, Burgess Dillon and Martha Morlan, James H. Slattery and Louisa C. Howard, Hugh Roberts a«d Margret J. Nelsdn, Andrew Misch and Barbara E. Shirer, Jay M. Bell and Anna L. Hopkins, Samuel E. Kiester and Catherine Miller, Mathew M. Thompson and Sarah Bidnell.

I respectfully request Secretaries ol Granges comprising the Jasper County Central Association Patrons of Husbandry, to notify me as *oon as practicable, by letter or otherwise, the exact working condition of their respective Granges; together with their membership at tbe present time. Also, that each Grange be fully represented at the next meeting of this Association, to be held at the Court House in Rensselaer on Saturday the 27th instant, commencing at one o’clock P. M., as there is a large amount of business to be presented for consideration that is of interest to all. Rilxy Nowkls, Secretary. J. C. C. A. P. of H. Rensselaer Ind. Feb Ist 1876.