Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1875 — From Remington Record. [ARTICLE]

From Remington Record.

On the 13th instant Jbhn Samuel Rogers and VioletUh Smith were licensed to marry. Mr. J. H. Chappel, of Union township, says that he sold his pacing mpre for SSOO. Chappel loves sport. Green chickens and gooseberry sauce are among the luxuries scopped out to boarders at the Hopkins hotel. Owners of land in section 11, township 30, range 6, are interested in a notice of survey which is published in another column. Next Saturday afternoon a Sunday school picnic will be held m Mr. Micha Sayler’s grove, two miles and one-half, west of town. 'q ’ *4 Mr. Henry Ilartberg has bought brick for a new dwelling house. Frank Ilengisbach says Henry exhibits strong symptoms of a desire to marry. Messrs. Minnicus & Kohler are prepared to deliver brick for building purposes anywhere within the corporation of Rensselaer for $8 per thousand. Dr. E. L. Yarlot is in town looking after the interests of the normal school to be started here. We hope the people of this community will give the project their earnest support. The dilapidated and unsafe bridge over the Iroquois at this place, has been toggled up by the carpenters, who have put eight new “bents” under the stringers to support it. If you would have good harness work done call at Phillips’ shop on Front street. There is a baldheaded man there who just gets away with the best of them when it comes to doing work that will wear: Messrs. C. B. Steward and C. M. Hopkins announce another of those enjoyable platform dances in Rensselaer for the afternoon and evening of July 17th, next Saturday. Music by the best quadrille band inthe county. Professor Smith, the Michigan liorsc-tamer, lias been in town for a few days past. lie understands a horse a little bit better than old Itarey ever did, and his system of taming vicious equities is a long ways ahead.

With strictest economy the young people of Rensselaer manage to get through the week with no other public amusements than, two singing schools, a dance, a festival, and one or two pic nios, not to mention the horseracing. Mr. Charley Price, of Carpenter township, thinks lie has the Irest 300 acres of corn in Indiana. Charley is a first-class farmer and one of the best fellows in the country. lie is off 1o Ohio this week where he intends to visit for a month. Wanted—a gentleman to edit this paper. —llcmsddcr lii’publican. Ah, Charley, it is all very well to be modest and unassuming, and all that sort of thing, but where is the use of trying to make your acquaintances think you are not a gentleman? That won’t do; nobody that knows you will I elieve any such chaff.

Messrs. R. S. & Z. Dwiggins, attorneys and loan agents, are extending their advertising and business' into other counties. They have between $500,000 and $1,000,000 to loan at nin£ per cent, interest, on real estate security, on long time, and in amounts to suit applicants. They keep four persons employed in compiling their abstract of real estate of Jasper county. When completed this will be a valuable work. On the IGth day of August, proximo, Mr. Ralph Fen dig will move his stock of goods into Mrs. Hemphill's new brick store. In order to lighten the labor of moving, he will until that time sell his present stock at greatly reduced prices. Everything in store is new and grtod,and all will be sold very cheap. Now is the lime to get bargains jn summer goods, and Feu dig’s stone store is the j^latie.

The Christian»phurch is to have a coat of paint applied this season. A pailful of cherries were sold in town last Saturday at ten cents ‘O' a quart. . In order to make room for fall goods, F. J. Sears & Co., will sell their present stock of percales, lawns and trimmed hats at cost. When the Remington Record men come over to Rensselaer they can call on us for cigars. But la! that was rather a thick coat for the season of year. He took sixty grains of quinine and half an ounce of ginger in a pint of whiskey at one dose, last Sunday afternoon, and then laid down in the to sweat off the ‘•fever’nager.”

Messrs, Smith & Harding’s card appears in this issue of The Union. ’Twas skipped last week, but that proves nothing against their skill as painters. Go see them about having that house painted. It is reported that the proceeds of the Methodist Episcopal festival last Friday night amounted to upwards of SGO, The attendance was respectable in size, and everything was pleasant. Mr. John Warren recently had a shoulder dislocated in stopping a team that had broken loose and started to run away. A lt was reset yesterday by Drs. G. A. and 11. IIMoss and J. 11. Loughridge. Mr. Silas L. Swain, who by the way is one of the most agreeable fellows hereabouts, values his trotting mare at an even SI,OOO. With less than a week’s training she comes down to a 2:55 gait in sulky. Strayed premises of M. L. Spitler, near Rensselaer, a light bay horse, five years old, about fifmen hands high, black legs, mane and tail, and white hind feet. A reasonable reward will be paid for his return. A. D. Swain.

Who is more genteel er accommodating to customers than Ed. Rhoades, at Kannal’s drug store? A prescription put up by him has twice the efficacy of one compounded by a cross, surly, melancholly dyspeptic. A band of vocal serenaders will not «waste their sweetness on the desert air again beneath a certain window in this place until they are assured that it is not the custom of the family to empty their slops out of it at that particular hour. Omcr Ritchey, son of Dr. James Ritchey', living four miles south of Rensselaer, was driving a team near Remington last Thursday when they ran away, capsized the buggy and throwed him out. His injuries were a dislocated ankle and a fractured leg.

They had so much business at Phillips’ harness shop that it was found necessary to remove the carriage trimming department across the street, this week, into the room formerly occupied by Norman Warner as a furniture wareroom, and to employ more help. Corn is most all “laid by,” and some fields are “tasseling out.” A few of the oats have been flattened down by the winds,-but most of them are standing straight and thick ou the ground; they will be lit to cut in about ten days. Mowing Inis been commenced in earnest this week. Messrs. John Miller and Thomas Boroughs have formed a partnership, under the firm name of Miller & Boroughs, in the real estate business. They are agents for the sale of over 20,000 acres ofJasper county land, including some' of the best there is on \his continent for cultivation or grazing. Their office is opposite the Court House in the brick la\v office of the late T. J. Spitler. ■* At a regular communication of I roquois Lodge No. 143, 1.0.0. F., held at their hall in Rensselaer, July 13th, District Deputy Grand Master Patterson, of Goodland, installed the following officers for the term of six months: Noble Grand —A. Leopold, Vice Grand—William 0. Pierce. Secretary—lra W. Yeoman, Treasurer—G. W. Terhune. Warden —Daniel Duvall. lE. B. to N. <;. Moses it. Alter. L. K. to N. G. 11. IT. Moss. LG. ami Ik& to V G.—.l. W. Duvall. ■.... -

Mr. Norman Warner ba3 the. finest. bedstead ever brought to this town on exhibition at his furniture, store. n Mr. Alfred Thompson talks of ditching that big slough on the north side of the Bradford road, five miles east of Rensselaer. The ditch required to drain oil the water will be at least two miles in length, six or eight feet wide, with an average depth of two and one-half or three feet. The water will be conducted from the east line of Mr. Henry Watson’s farminan easterly direction to within about a quarter or a half mile of Mr. Frederick Zard’s west lino, thence nearly south, by a ditch already made, a mile and a half, where it intersects the State ditch, which, seven or eight miles west- of that point, empties into Carpenter creek just above its continence with the Iroquois river. By making the ditch contemplated, twelve or fifteen hundred acres of wet land will be reclaimed, the whole of which may be converted into pasture or meadow ground, and from one-third to onehalf will bo made dry enough for the production of corn, oats and other crops of like nature.

Business is on the increase.... The brick work on Burger & Butler’s building is nearly completed ... .Mr. James Knight was recently baptized into the Christian church ....Fourth quarterly meeting of the Methodist Episcopal church will be held on the 21th and 25th instants. Rev. J. L. Smith will preside... .The sheriff of White county last week arrested and took to the House of Correction a youth named Smith, who had been about Remington several days New potatoes retail for $1.40 a bushel ... .Two horses were recently killed by lightning, about a mile and a half north of town.,..Mr. Fred Hoover expects to raise 15,000 bushels of corn this year, lie has gone to lowa for a few weeks and will return by way of Nebraska, St. Louis and Cincinnati.... Two women were bound to see the show yesterday. When the band wagon turned Ohio street they fell into line, hand in hand, and marched along beside it, their mouths opening and closing with the measured taps of the bass drum... .The net proceeds of the recent Methodist festival was 0.. Mr. Robert Parker, of Indianapolis, cashier of the Central bank, will return to Remington shortly to stay... .It is reported that a brass band will be organized in Remington before long by the iadiesT Reckon that is a slanderous report.,. .Jake Duzlak is mad “like eferytings” because somebody shoots at his quiet dog ....About fifty persons of Elizaville. Ky., male and female that a Remington youth, lately of the former place, “is not, never was, ami, unless thefcsiiiuine intellect is waning, never will be a married man’’..... A' calico ball at Bcdtonian Hall on the evening of July 15 th.