Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1876 — Local Brevities. [ARTICLE]

Local Brevities.

Mr. George Coover has thanks for late Ohio papers. Huckleberry prospects arc pleasing in the north region. The Iroquois river is high np, its brinks being nearly level full of water. *' That building on Washington Street with a red face and striped eyes, is full of whiskey and beer. Dr. Kelley’s photograph gallery will be open all day on the Fourth of July for the taking of pictures. Rev. Mr. Campbell, of Goodland, will preach in the Pfebyterian church in Rensselaer on Sunday, June 25th, at 10:30 a. m.; also in the evening. Candidates for the various county offices that are to be filled at the noxt general .election are becoming numerous, especially for the republican nomination. The list of announcements elsewhere appearing begins to assufne interestingproportions. Largeryet that list shall grow; brighter still fond hopes shall blow; colder than tho Arctic snow their disappointment! Miss Mary Robb, teacher, reports for Union school mimbor 4 of Gillfttn township for tho month which ended Jane Bth, IB7u, an enrollment of 25 scholars, and the average daily attendance of 20. Emma Tillett, Mattie Tillett, Jessie Tillett, Mary Whittaker, Henry Whittaker, Sarah Weloh, Eva Vanosadol, Louella Overton and Ida Overton were perfect in attendance, punctuality and deportment. * - Mrs. Hemphill has moved her stock of millinery goods down stairs into the old room above Fendig’s store, bhe has a good assortment of ladies.’ hats, bonnets, dress goods, dres* trimmings, ribbons, articles of ladies’ apparel, etc, Her rooms are conveniently located and arranged for the reception of customers and a general Invitation is thus-ex-tended to all who desire anything in the millinery or dre*s-making lines to call at her establishment. . « Very heavy rains for a week or two past have delayed farming operations in this, county and caused farmers to wear a disheartened look. Some think there Is no chanoc for a crop on the flßt lands. Those who are cultivating the sand-ridges feel, better pleased, thinking they will make a, good crop. Une of the M t(’olly boys IW Union township said, a day or two since,, that he had thirty acres of sand-ridge cornfield which will be sure to make a good crop if any corn is raised in the county thia year i Miss Ada Strayer teacher of school number 4, Marion township, reports for the two months ending June 2,1870, an enrollment of 24 pupils, and an average daily attendance of lfi*. Only one hour was lost by tardiness. Eleven were marked not absent. Those perfect in punctuality Wwre Lida Pierce, Flora Pierce, Lizrie Melvin, Deadly Melvin. Dee Watson, James McCord... and Allie Brown. A hearty invitation w extended to all tq call and see the progress mad® in this school. ' W« are under obligations to Miss Maiie Howard who is now Normal School at Lebanon, Ohio,* for pros pec-us of the Central Normal School, to be opened at Ladoga, in thjs State, September sth, IS7O. The corps of teachers is made up of tten best talent in the Lebanon Normal School, Among the rest Miss who will craciuatc at tbc present term, and who will instruct Ri the co!bhioh~’br»ncbes and give lessons in both vocal and Instrumental music. She has our best wishes in her new field of labor and may success attend her in leaching the young ideas how to shoot. StccESs Urns Merit.— If therein an instance upon the records of our oountry where an article of American manufacture has u nde its way to universal favor solely upon its own merits and without extraneous aid, it is that of D. B. Delxuid & Co.’s Best Chemical Salcraius. It has only to bo sold in one place, and it is demanded in another; and so it has gone on increasing in favor until the products of the extensive chemical works ofH. A. DeLand & Co., at Fairport, Monroe county, N. Y., are now immense. This article ia mode only at these works by a process known only to the proprietors, and is better for all purposes than soda. Try it.