Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1876 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

la these hard times a friend in need is a friend indeed. Mr. A. Leopold announces to his friends and Customers that all who are in want of goods need not be bashful but call and get such things as they want on reasonable time, if they can not pay down. Thanks to Miss Fannie Miller, teacher of Rosebud school, Union township, for an invitation to attend a School picnic near Alter's mill, which was held yesterday, and regret our inability to comply. Miss Miller is a successful young teacher and very popular in the districts where she has taught. Mademoiselle LaFontaine, or somebody else of the female sex, made an ascension in a hot air balloon, from the vacant square northeast of the court house, at Rensselaer, on last Saturday evening. The vessel went up to a fair bight and landed about half a mile west of the place of ascension. It was a nice trip and no accident occurred. A call is made for those who are interested in the keeping and management of bees in Jasper county, to meet in convention at the Court House, at 1 o’clock, p. m., July 29th. Those who aredceeping bees or who have watched their management, are requested to be present and takepartin the proceedings. Bring full reports of the number of swarms, products and losses for the year. No person should leave town without calling at Leopold’s for groceries, dry goods and clothing. Few merchants are willing or able to accommodate people with credit, even though they may be in actual need. Mr. Leopold’s invitation, cordially extended, is to call and get what you want, money or no money, it is all right anyway. He will give any reasonable length of credit to all responsible persons. Mr. Thos. E. Willey has returned from his trip through Arkansas and the sickly Southwest. Have not yet had opportunity to talk with him, and do not know what his opinion is in regard to that region as a place for emigrants to settle in. When he left Col. Healey, Dr. Harding and others last Sunday they were well. Mr. J. B. upn bad started in wagon to visit East Tennessee. Mr. Adamson, living on Judge Hammond’s farm near town, visited the show last Saturday, and while preparing to venture a little wealth upon the result of one of their popular games of chance had SSO snatched out of his hands by some one connected with the establishment. During the excitement subsequent, produced by the atrest of one of the gang for striking Mr. Bull, the money was returned to him by another one of the attaches; so that Mr. Adamson is not so poor as he might have been had Bull not fed the pig and got a tooth knocked out for i|.