Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1875 — Save Money [ARTICLE]

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, ... • 1 am offering splendid sugar cured hams for 14 cents a pound.— Ludd Hopkins. “Rent” Hopkins fired his lime kiln Monday morning, and was sole proprietor of a miniature volcano all the first of the week. Sell your wool for cash and buy goods where you can get them cheapest, for instance at Ludd Hopkins’ store in Rensselaer. A heavy stock of jeans, flannels and blankets at R. Fendig’s stone store, to be sold at very low prices for cash or in exchange for wool. Ira W. Yeoman was elected Senior Warden of Prairie Lodge No. 125, F. & A. M., last Saturday night-, vice S. N. Johnson, deceased. Pamphlet copies of the Constitution of the Jasper County Sunday School Union are ready for distribution. JUr. John Coen has them. Hopkins’ corner is only one block distant from the Court House square. It will pay anybody to go that far out of their way for every dollar’s worth of goods they buy. Wool Wanted. —Mr. R. Fendig, proprietor of the stone store wants to buy all the wool for sale in Jasper county, and will pay the highest prices in cash or merchandise. There is attempt being made to consolidate Bowling Green and Prairie Lea Granges, reorganize them, and have the meetings held at Belle Centre school house in the future. Willis J. lines, of Monon township, White county, and John I. Purcupile and family, of Monticello, former citizens of Rensselaer, were visiting friends in town this week, and looked healthy as ever. There is not an unoccupied dwelling house in Rensselaer, and scarcely room at the three hotels to accommodate- transient custom with sleeping apartments. Never before has there been such a rush, known here. —— At the meeting of the board of town trustees, last Monday night, M. F. Chilcote, Alfred Thompson and Joshua Healey were appointed school trustees, and W. W. Reeve, town marshal. All are good men for their several stations. Monday was a day that made overcoatß and fires feel comfortable. Uncle Jimmy Dutton, of Jordan township, thinks there will be frost here between the 20th and 25th of this month, because there was a thunder storm on the 22d or 23d of last February. On the sth day of the rosy month of June, 1875, a marriage license was issued to Austin A. Thornton ( and Mary J. Hess; and on the same day his honor Justice E. T. Harding pronounced with neatness and becoming solemnity the words which made them one flesh before God and among men.

We have only space to acknowledge with thanks an interesting letter from Mr. Stephenß. Yeoman, a former Jasper county boy who is now pleasantly located at Dysart, lowa. It is probable that such portions of his letter as are likely to interest any of his numerous friends and acquaintances who read The Union will appear in its columns next week. Quite a flutter prevailed among the dry goods dealers in Rensselaer last Saturday. It came about after this manner. Several weeks ago the vigorous and energetic firm of F. J. Sears & Co. with characteristic .enterprise for which they are noted announced that they could afford to/and would, sell prints for 9 cents a yard which other dealers were asking 10 cents for. This of course caused other dealers to come down as gracefully as they might, and business continued to flow without a ripple until last Friday, when a competing firm posted the town and country with handbills announcing a reduction on prints to 8£ cents a yard. There is too much game in Sears & Co. to squeal or throw up the sponge in a little business which they had introduced, neither would they join a ring to keep prices up; so when people came into town Saturday morning to take advantage of competition and buy 8£ cent calico, they found Sears & Co.’s bills everywhere announcing such standard brands of prints as Merimacs, Cochecos, Richmonds, Spragues, Allenß,etc.,in patterns for cents. Then there was a rush, and all day long Sears Co. were kept busy. They sold upwards of six thousand yards of calico that day, a sale m that line of goods which is unprecedented in this conpty. Of course there was nodding, and winking, and solemn looks, and mysterious nods in particular quarters, where they prophesied thpt it was only a Bummer shower that wouldn’t last long. But we learn that Messrs. Sears & Co. immediately sent. for more goods to replenish their stock and are still selling their prints in patterns for cents a yard. There "is not a better stook of goods in the county than they keep, and they will nst he undersold' by anybody.

On account of poor health, I earnestly wish to reduce the stock now in my store as much as possible.—Ludd Hopkins. Considerable space is occupied this week by the Premium List of the Jasper County Agricultural, & Mechanical Association, for their fourth annual Fair, which will be held at this place on the 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th days of September, 1875. Every possible effort will be made by the managers to make this excel any former exhibition of the kind that was ever held in this or neighboring counties. A letter written by Nace (?) Henry, addressed to Miss Joe Henry, containing money, and mailed from the post office at Rensselaer March Ist, has been returned <from the Dead Letter office at JVashington, where it was sent because not called for at the office to which it was directed; and the writer or the person for whom it was intended may obtain it by applying to Mr. Sigler, postmaster at Rensselaer. Thus far this week commissioners’ court has been occupied chiefly in equalizing the assessments of property, and hearing and determining appeals therefrom, etc. The board will not be able to get through with the business of the session until some day next week. They have set Tuesday as the time when they will consider the applications for license to retail liquors in this coupty, two of which are made by parties at Remington, and one here.

And go to Leopold’s on the cheap corner. Previous to moving into my old stand in the stone building, I have concluded to sell my entire stock of dry goods at cost, intending to retire from that branch of business. I will now give better bargains than any other store in the county. My dry goods arc all new, and were bought lor the lowest cash prices. Ladies, please call, buy me out, and save money. A. Leopold.