Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1875 — Save Money [ARTICLE]

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Elder W. P. Shockey is preaching in Rensselaer this week. Mr. Ansel Woodworth has raised .the frame of his new dwelling on Water street. X Commissioners court is still in session, and the board is transacting an unusual amount of business. One of tbe railroad “Mickeys” is said to have been pretty badly beaten by a comrade, last Monday. At this office are premium lists of the Indiana State fair for gratuitous distribution to all who may desire copies. Last Saturday was cool enough to make heavy coats and fires necessary for comfort. For corn weather it was a failure. A public concert will be given at the Howard school house, Barkley township, next Sunday afternoon. Everybody invited to attend. 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. The railroad office is the front room up stairs in Mrs. Hemphill’s brick building. Here the engineers and contractor have their headquarters. A good second-hand mowing machine, of Walter A. Wood patent, which has only been run one season, for sale cheap for cash. Enquire at this office. Judge Hammond is at Logansport this week presiding over the Cass county circuit court. His honor is as popular in that circuit as he is in his own.

Billy Phillips sold out his harness shop, and started for Texas last Friday afternoon. Ad Seward is head center of the establishment until further orders. Charley C. Starr is furnishing groceries to the railroad hands. Charley is one of the best business men in the place, and his store is popular with all housekeepers; Johnny Eger, at Charley Starr’s grocery, is engineer of the soda fountain, and handles the beverage which refreshes but does not intoxicate with a grace that commands admiration of all thirsty people. Rev. Father Hartmann, manager of St. Joseph Manual Labor School, contracted to supply the railroad people with 500 bushels of corn in the crib, at Remington prices less cost of transportation. Jqjie 9th Rev. S. E. Rogers solemnized the marriage of Abraham J. Freeland and Miss Josephine Sayler at the residence of the bride’s father, Jacob Sayler, Esq. Both parties are of Newton township. Silas Swain drives the finest and fastest mare in this town, and probably in the county. She has Messenger blood into her, and can be made to trot inside of 2:40. Silas cares more for her than he does for a woman.

Billy Eger has constructed a neat hexagonal aquarium for his own amusement, and will embark in the business of raising pojlywogs and wigglers for home consumption. Billy is an ingenious workman, and an excellent tinsmith. Norman Warner has the agency for selling the old, and well-known Sweepstakes Thresher in Jasper and Newton counties. See advertisement elsewhere and should you want a good, No. 1 machine, call and learn his price and terms. Complaint is made that clinch bugs, wire worms and grub -Worms are damaging corn and other crops in this vicinity. Just at present a few days and nights of hot weather are needed to give vegetation of all kinds an impetus that shall place it beyond the ravages of insectiverous pests. The disagreeable weather of the past week seemed to make people cross and quarrelsome; hfbnce the occurrence of feminine hair-pull-ings and masculine head-punchings. Of course the principals in encounters are conscious of their impropriety and disgracefulness, and it is sincerely to be hoped that each participant endeavor to control their passions that there may be no repetitions of these off enses against good order and law.

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. It is told that some of the Walker township people are raising wolf pups for the bounty that is paid on their scalps at maturity. Unless the board of commissioners increase the bounty now paid it is doubtful if the investment will be very remunerative. Miss Fannie F. Miller, teacher of school No. 9; Marion township, reports for the month ending June 11th an enrollment of 14 pupils and an average attendance of Lizzie James, Louisa Doty and Frankie Adams were perfect in punctuality, deportment and study. Last Saturday the honorable board of county commissioners did a just act in reappointing Mr. J. H. Snoddy county superintendent. In his former term of service, Mr. Snoddy was industrious and efficient, and it is very probable that the experience he has had will qualify him for still better services. Daniel B. Miller, of Remington* was appointed surveyor of Jasper county by the board of commissioners, last week, in place of Charles P. Maylieiy, resigned. We don’t think of a better selection that could have been made. Dar,. will probably move back from Remington to his old home in Rensselaer, in order to have his office centrally located. Not a county in Indiana is settling up faster than Jasper. Within two years much of the land has increased in value from 25 to 100 per cent. In five years more there will be scarcely a tract of cheap land on the market here; and at that time if improvements increase at the ratio of two years back, there will not be an unenclosed foot of land in the county.

A change in the running of trains over the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago railroad, which went into effect Monday, gives Rensselaer the southern mails one day earlier than under the former arrangement. If the Indianapolis Journal Company will see that their package of papers for this post office is iftailea by way of Lafayette, hereafter they will reach- here on the day of publication. During six months closing June 9th the real estate transactions in Jasper county, as indicated by the transfers recorded in the recorder’s office, amounted to nearly 60,000 acres for which the consideration was $558,000, and 280 town lots for $45,700, making the total amount of business in this department reach upwards of $603,000, or more than SIOO,OOO per month. Will not this compare favorably with other counties in the State?

It is told for a fact that a very nice lady who teaches a class in Sabbath school caused considerable merriment among those who heard her, the next day after buying a supply of dress prints at F. J. Sears & Co.’s, by promptly answering “Six and a quarter cents a yard” to a question asked by a pupil concerning the lesson they were considering. Sears & Co.’s store is rapidly becoming famous for the bargains they give customers. Mr. Al. J. Kitt, the handsome, talented, and accomplished editor of the Remington Record , spent last Sabbath in Rensselaer. He was accompanied by Henry Downing, a former Rensselaer boy, Mr. Clark, his former business partner, and several female friends. We suspect that the whole coterie would bo just as happy to marry and settle in our town, when the railroad is completed and there is communication with the great business world around us. Two drummers for stationery firms in a dispute over some trivial matter one day last week in the room where the honorable board of county commissioners was in session. To settle the issue they proposed to bet, as fools generally do, and each staked $1 on the issue. Turning to a member of the board they desired him to hold the stakes for.them. Without hesitation he- accepted the money and turning to the sheriff, placed it in his hands and directed him to invest it in lemons and sugar for the use of the spectators. The drummers accepted the situation gracefully and didn’t squeal.

Mr. R. F. Goddard is collecting material to build a business house on Front street, near his ice house. Messrs. Minnicus Kohler will this week fire a kiln of 250,000 brick. They are now ready to receive orders for them. Albert G. Robb and William Hanley of Gill am township, and Silas L. Swain of Marion township were appointed by the Commissioners, yesterday, as a board to appraise the benefits and damages to property by the proposed work of the Jasper County Ditching Association, which has recently been reorganized. Tuesday was a field day for the temperance people of this county. They assembled in force in the afternoon to listen to the arguments of counsel for and against grant-* ing license to sell liquors in Rensselaer and Remington, After hearing both sides patiently, the board of commissioners refused to order license granted. The applicants were Leopold Tuteur, of Rensselaer, and Jared JI. Fountain and Timothy O’Connor, of Remington., The latter case w'as dismissed upon a legal technicality, and the party will probably apply again at the next term of commissioners’ court, which will be in September. In the pressure of other matter, last week, we omitted to direct public notice to the card of Dr. 11. 11. Moss which appears in our advertising columns. Harry has grown up in his father’s office in our midst, has attended medical schools longer than average students do, and has seen consideiable practice in other localities. We hope to see him prosper, and recommend him to the public for trial. Indeed there seems to be no good reason why physic and things should not be as efficacious when prescribed by him as by any other physician. Give the young, gentleman IT

Well, now, the “great and celebrated” Dora Bloom Combination has left us without any amusements to attend. This “talented troupe” visited Rensselaer and gave two of their wonderful and inimitable performances Saturday and Monday nights. They had singing, and fiddling, and dancing, and ventriloquism, and prestidigitation, and psychology, and mesmerism, and burlesquing, and Punching and Judyism. Dora Bloom’s Combination was combined with Ed. Moray's Combination. They were an exceedingly celebrated troupe of performers, and only asked to be judged by their merits —and patronized. They fiddled well, sang well, danced well, and behaved well; but they did not draw well and were not appreciated here. The public calls them thin, but the public is mistaken and envious; it was only the public that was thin—on the seats and in the pocket. Dora Bloom’s Combination pays its bills; and Ed. Morley travels on the square. Good bye, ladies, gentlemen, and cute little children; may you have better houses elsewhere, and be happy.

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 are all new, and were bought for the lowest cash prices. Ladies, please call, buy me out, and save money. A. Leopold.