Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1875 — Town Council Proceedings. [ARTICLE]

Town Council Proceedings.

Beautiful fine gold rings, at E.L. Price’s. New stock. Wild meadows -promise a large crop of hay this year. A new lot of linen suits for ladies and gentlemen, at F. J. Sears & Co’s. Judge Hammond holds court this week at Moiiticello, for Jhdge Daily. "Wild strawberries have begun to ripen. Some have been brought into town. Mr. Burton Htitson is building a •dwelling over in Newton’s addition, iiorth side. Therfe are none who iron buggies and wagons neater or better than Shindler & Roberta. C. P. Wright had an elbow dislocated Friday in a playful scuffle with Aaron Trullinger. There is a fair prospect for a good many wild blackberries and raspberries this season. —— —... ■ There is not a better place'in the county to get a square meal than at the Hopkins House. Master Johnny Haley has thanks for an elegant bouquet of roses. Johnny is a gentleman. . Hon. R. S. Dwiggins is having a fine large stable erected on his premises west side of the river. Town Marshal Reeve is doing lots of road and street work this season. » lie is an efficient officer. Hon. W. D. Lee and family, of Lafayette, are visiting friends in this town, their former place of residence.

Nagle’s ros6 garden, two miles west of town, is gorgeous with bloom, and the proprietor delights to receive visitors. Austin’s hotel maintains its wellearned popularity with the traveling publlo. Patrons are well cared for, and the cooks are good. Tommy McCoy is back from Perdue University, where he has been learning to be a scientific granger, lie spends vacation at home. The boys are making a paper balloon to send up on the Fourth, in the construction of which they use 8,640 square feet of material. Inquire at this office for a good second-hand mowing machine. It has been run only three days, and will be sold very cheap for cash. Charley B. Steward announces a ibali >n. Spider’s Hall on the afternoon and evening of July 3d. Good music secured and a good time anticipated. Mr. Justice D. I. Jackson talks of building a brick business house this season, on the corner of Washington and Front streets, west of and adjoining the Hopkins House. One of Mr. Leopold’s little boys was kicked in the face tlio other morning, by a horse whose tail be was pulling. His face was mangled some, but he was not hurt seriously.

Judge Chase, of Logansport, is Folding court in Rensselaer this ween. He is a gentleman of ability and culture, and is quite popular with those who have had business to transact with him. A young lady of this place is teaching school in the country tour miles from home, and walks out and back every morning and evening. The roses on her cheeks will not wash otf. This is St. John's day. The Masonic fraternity of Remington are celebrating it with customary ceremonies, and a number of the brethren have gone from here to participate.

The stockholders of the Prairie Farmers’ Agricultural Society will hold their last regular quarterly meeting before their Fair, at Francesville, Saturday, July 10th. * A .full attendance is desired. Mr. J. H. Wood, the hardware man is having the front of the Union office covered with a heavy coat of pure white rubbet paint, which is being neatly applied by Professors Hopkins and W ahlz. Mrs. Norman Warner this week received a beautiful collection of flowering and * ornamental plants from Messfs. E. Y. Teas <fc Co., Richmond, lnd. She has now as fine a small collection of house plants as there is in the town. Miss Flora Warren, teacher of Curtis Creek school, Newton township, reports Emma Yeoman, Lizzie Nigh, Sayler, Rilla Warren, Cleveland Sayler, Elbert Yeoman and Willie Coen perfect in attendance, punctuality and deportment for the ihonth ending June 11th. Charley Johnson, our good natured friend of the Republican office, favors us with the use of the ready set statistical tables relating to county finances and the distribution of school money, which are published in this issue. He has our thanks for the favor, and permission to name his oldest boy for us.

Closer investigation of the account of Thos. O. Chesnut, txtreasurer of Rensselaer, shows that it is correct, and notdelinguent. Mr. Frank Purcupile and wife visited his father’s family during the past week. Frank is now traveling for an Indianapolis wholesale grocery firm. Celebration exercises will be held at Sutton’s Mill, ten miles north of Renselaer,Saturday, July 3d. They expect to have a good speaker, and will conclude with a bowery dance. Mr. D. B. Miller, the newly-ap-pointed Surveyor of this county, filed bis official bond in the penal sum of SI,OOO, with Joseph H. Willey and David Nowels bondsmen, with the Auditor, last Monday, and was duly sworn into office. George and Philander Shields will have a hearing before Justice Jackson next Saturday, upon a charge of disturbing the public peace in the town of Rensselaer last Saturday. Brown was pretty badly whipped, and is said to have been the aggressor. A railroad excursion to Michigan City has been organized for Monday, July sth. Fare from Remington, for the round trip, $2.50. Train leaves Remington at 5:35 in the morning, and arrives at Michigan City at 10:30. Returning, the train leaves Michigan City at 8:00 in the evening. Arrangements are made for a steamboat ride on Lake Michigan, and a visit to the prison. Oats, potatoes and garden truck are growing rapidly this weather, and promise as well as ever they did in previous years, at this time ol the season. Corn is not so forward as it has been some years, but is nowgrowing rapidly. Meadows, especially the wild ones, are thickening up and promise to yield good crops of hay. Fruit, such as apples, peaches, pears and plums, will bo a failure; but grapes, gooseberries, currants, ■wild blackberries and wild raspberries promise a large yield.

The llensselear Brass Band lias been reorganized, agreeably- to an ancient annual custom. Professor Charles P. Hopkins will teach the infantile ideas how to toot. The boys go to Morocco on the 3d or July, having been engaged to make music and dnirkfiTJcd- letrmuatU—inhonor of the memory of our illustrious forefathers who fought, froze *and bled at Valley Forge and divers other places, during the Revolutionary war. Howbeit, it is a more comfortable patriotism to sit in the shade and listen to speeches and music than it is to campaign on short rations scant with clothing. H. J. Banta, teacher of Lefler school, Hanging Grove township, reports for the month ending June 11th ail enrollment of 29 pupils, .With an average daily attendance, of Jennie Lefler, Matilda Bussell, Ettie Brown. Linda Lefler, Cinda Zard, Barbara Rishling, Ettie Lefler, Ollie Lefler, Arthur Kite, J. Willie Lefler, Sammy Scott, Nattie Scott, Lucy Gw in and Chancy Lefler were perfect’ in attend anc e, punctuality and deportment. Matilda Bussell. Susie Johnston, Alice Banta, Tillie Robinson, George Robinson, Scott Robinson and Cap. Dan. Robinson are coming two and three miles.

The board of directors of the Jasper County Agricultural and Mechanical Association held a meeting last Wednesday, at which theyi made the following revision of the premium list recently published in these columns:—Division A, Class 1, added pemiums for brood mares showing one or more colts, $lO for best, $5 for second best. In Class 3, heavy draft horses, struck out the age specification. In same nlass added a premium of $lO lor best gelding, and $5 lor the second best. The board also decided to have the well on the failgrounds improvedTby tubing to the rock, and drilling until suincieut water is obtained. Messrs. Geo. 11. Drown and Win. lv. Parkison wefe instructed to procure lumber for the Association, and Wm. Iv. Parkison and C. C. 'Starr were appointed to arrange the programme.

The honorable Board of Trustees of the town of Rensselaer met in special, session June 21, 1375. Present full board. N. W. Reeve presented the assessment roll for the town of Rensselaer, which, after careful examination-, was approved and accepted. Ordered levies to be made, as follows for current year, to-wit: Fbr special school, 0 cents on each SIOO valuation of taxable property; for special tuition, 15 cents per SIOO, and 25 cents |on each poll; for corporation revenue, 20 cents per SIOO, and 50. cents on each poll; for road 20 cents per SluO, and 25 cents on poll! Ordered the Town Clerk to give notice by publication in Tun Rensselaer Union that the : assessment roU for the town of Rensselaer is n®W completed; and that all. complaints or appeals therefrom will be heard and decided by said Board at 7:30 p. M k , July stb, 1875.

Ordered, the Town Clerk to give notice by publication in The Rensselaer Union that the bridge across the Iroquois river at Rensselaer is declared unsafe for the passage of teams over it. Ordered, the appointment of a committee of two with authority to contract for needed repairs 6n the bridge across the Iroquois river, and to make report of progress at the next regular meeting of the Board. The President then appointed J. 11. Loughridge and Ira W. Yeoman said committee. Adjourned until July sth.