Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1875 — Election Notice. [ARTICLE]

Election Notice.

Go to Reeve’s new gallery for good pictures. Col. Healey has sold his interest in this paper to Horace E. James. Did you ever Bee pleasanter weather in the month of November in this latitade? If you would be happy go and have your picture taken at the new photograph gallery. Travelers having occasion to visit Remington, will find the Babb House an excellent hostelry. At the new gallery, over Kannal’s drug store, you can get any style of pictures wanted. Messrs. Bedford & Jackson have completed an excellent walk in front ot their new building. Satisfaction is given in the phcp tograph line at A. Reeve’s gallery over Kannal’s drug store. Copies of The Union for sale for five (5) cents apiece; but none to give away before the moon fulls. Horses are coughing around with epizootic. Several human beings hereabout show similar symptoms. A. Reeve, at the new gallery, has a lens for taking photographs of residences, public buildings, etc. Paints, old fashioned lead and oil mixed, the best in the market, at Kannal’s drug store. 8-3 Geo. W. Swett will apply at the next term of commissioners’ court for license to retail intoxicating liquor in Remington. Several dollars’ worth of repairing is being done on the court house without and within. It has long been needed. Mr. A. Shepard is preparing to move to Nebraska—near Lincoln. It is a pity to have sach good citi- ' gens move from the oounty. A. Reeve, over Kannal’s drug ‘‘Atore, has seven different lenses, and is prepared to do any style of work in the photograph line. For bargains in wall paper go to Kannal’s drug store. He is closing Otlt present stock at reduced prices. Now is the time to buy cheap. 8-3 One by one ancient landmarks disappear. Spangle’s old tailor shop is being moved and will be converted into a meat store. Reader, subscribe to The Union if you desire to keep posted on Jasper county affairs, and general intelligence. Only $2 a yean Hesperian slate and book covers. .Emmet Kanual gives one oi the Hesjlfiicjan book covers gratis with every school book sold at his store. For fine oards and all other kinds of job printing don’t send orders out of the oounty until visiting the Union office and - learning prioes. Musical instruments —guitars, violins, flutes, acoordeons, etc., and violin and guitar strings constantly kept at Kannal’s drug store. 8-3 No dealer in the county or in neighboring towns sells better groceries, or sells them oheaper, than Charley Starr, at the Shanghai store. “ Messrs. A. Leopold and L. Kern locked horns in a little combat the other day, on aocount of which the former was fined $25, by Justice Harding. - 11 - Twenty-seven appeals from the Assessments of the Jasper County Ditching Association have been filed for the docket of the December term of the circuit court. Mr. J. B. Spangle, tailor, has established his headquarters in A. Leopold’s store, where he wjll be happy to labor to clothe the naked for a .reasonable consideration. Frank King is completing a neat frame dwelling on Water street Near by it Geo. Robinson has raised the framejif one to be occupied, when finished, by his family. A temperance meeting is appointed to be held at the Presbyterian church Saturday night at which business of importance will be transacted, speeches made, etc. Everybody invited to attend.

Corn husking has commenced and in this vicinity the crop yields remarkably well. Fields are said to be turning off 75 and 80 bushels per acre, and the grain is usually plump and sound. Our merchants report business better than for ten years previous. People who desire bargains in dry goods, clothing, boots, shoes, groceries, etc., should call at the Stone Store before leaving town.Don’t the Hopkins hotel look ever so much better with a little pinking? Its outside neatness is but a faint reflection of the excellence within. The proprietor spreads a splendid table for his guests. Elsewhere in these columns may be found the card of the famous Austin House, which has been for a long time a favorite stopping place of strangers having business in Rensselaer, It still mantains its well-earned reputation for excellence. Friend E. L. Prioe, the jeweler, with commendable enterprise has filled his establishment with a fine, large stock of clocks, watches, jewelry, etc. Everybody that patronize him are satisfied with his prices and the treatment received at his hands.

Since last publication marriage licenses have been issued by the clerk of Jasper conntv to Jacob Durr and Elizabeth Hawy, Milton B. Chipman and Ruth L. Adamson, William Henrick and Sarah Jane Yantz, William A. Lamson and Mary A. Peacock, George W. Hileg and Maggie E. Reigle. Those who are indebted to the late firm of James & Healey, are" requested to call at this office without delay and make settlement. All accounts of said firm not settled, either by money, note or otherwise, on the Ist day of December, 1875, will be placed in the hands of a collector for immediate adjustment. Horace E. James. Eighteen new houses have been completed and begun in Rensselaer since last spring. Among them- is a three story brick for business rooms, a brick bakery and several neat frame cottages and brick dwellings. Rensselaer is, without doubt, among the liveliest towns in Indiana. There is a fine country around it, and business is not yet overdone. People from the country who have business in town that keeps them during the day, and who do not want to go to a hotel for dinner, will find Hemphill’s restaurant a nice, cosy place to get a warm meal. OysterST,' beef steak, “Earn and eggs, hot coffee, etc., served in good style at all hours. North side Washington 6treet, one door above Mrs. Hemphill’s brick store. Mr. Marsh H. Rice, of Francesville, solicits business in Pulaski and Jasper counties for the Continental Insurance company, of N, Y. Policies issued against loss by fire and lightning. Mr. Rice is a gentleman to deal with and those who read this paragraph will do well to see him. The Continental ranks among the best companies, and issues policies on the installment plan. Miss Mattie Benjamin, teacher of the second intermediate department of the Rensselaer school, reports for the month ending October 29th, 1875, the number of pupils enrolled as 58; ‘average daily attendance 52. Those perfect in .attendance, punctuality, study and deportment were Cora Zimmerman, Tillie Fendig, Carrie Eger, Louiza Platt, Mary Haley, George Hollingsworth, Fred L. Chilcote, Oliver Rhoads, Victor Willey, George Conwell, Charles Porter and Caleb Hopkins. v Messrs. Miller & Boroughs— John Miller and Thos. Boroughs—real estate dealers, have their card published elsewhere in this paper this week. These gentlemen have long been residents of Rensselaer, both have been in public office, one as county surveyor and the other as county treasurer, and are as well acquainted with real estate in Jasper county, both improved and unimproved, as an y other persons in the county. They are genial, pleasant men to do business with, fair and honorable in all their transactions, and we do not hesitate to recommend them as worthy of patronage. Read advertisement.

The Indianapolis Journal pub* lishes that bids will be received at the Postoffice Department at Washington city, until 3 o’clock p. m. of February 2d, 1876, for carrying the mails from July Ist, 1876, to June 33th, 1880, from Remington to Rensselaer, and back, six times' a week; and from Rensselaer to Francesville, and back, six times a week, ’i’he bond required with bids for first route (No. 22,390) is $200; for second route (No. 22,391) is s.soo.

Notice is hereby given that the Stockholders of the Jasper County Agricultural and Mechanical Association will hold a meeting at the Court Honse in Rensselaer, on Saturday November 13th, 1875, to elect nine directors of said Association for the ensuing year. A full attendance of the Stockholders is earnestly requested as business of the utmost importance to the Association is to betransacted. By order of the Board.

J. HEALEY,

Sec’y.