Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1876 — LOCAL JOTTINGS [ARTICLE]

LOCAL JOTTINGS

Go toKsonal’s for Roaoh poison. Queenswaro, beautiful, durable, cheap, at C. C. Starr’s. Buy a pure article of oastor oil at Kannal’s. Go to F. J. Seara <fc Co.’s, to get yonr new boots and Bhoes. Emmet Kannal has the “boss” .5 cent cigar* .. Only 10 cents a dozen for old newspapers, at this office. The sound of the threshing machine is again heard In the land. Blackberries are not all gone yet. A few have come into market this week. On and after next Tuesday prairie chickens toll be “ripe” enough to kill. Read the proceedings of the People’s convention in an other column. , The Rensselaer Junior base ball dub warmed it to the Morocco boys last Saturday. Wall paper and a lot of photograph albums, at cost, at Emmet Kannal’s-drug store. Horace E. James, of The Union, is in Lqg&nsport, this week, on business of a personal nature. New Goods 1 New Goods! Just received, a large invoice of boots and shoes at F. J. Sea.es & Co.’s. A very superior line of stationery for sale, at very low figures, at Kannal’s drug store. Borne fields of corn in this county •are very heavy, while in others the crop will be almost a total failure. Three hundred thousand brick for sale at the Kohler & Minnicus kiln, two and one-half miles south of town. W. J. lines, druggist, is building up a good cigar trade. lie is now -sell an (excellent quality of goods in this line. “Let o3o guilty man escape” until he goes ito Starr’s grocery and examines bis large stock of sugars, coffees, teas, etc. Fob sale. —A span of match sorrel horses, aged 4 and 5 years, respectively. Enquire at Erainet Kannal’s drug store. F. J. Sears & Co. will open a full line of dry goods, direct from the city, 6n Monday, August 16th. All are invited to call. ChaHey Starr is not afraid to

show bis goods to customers, for ' he keeps nonet but what are firstciass in eyery respect. You can get more goods for your money at the old reliable store of P. J. Sears A Co., than at any other house in Jasper oounty. Since last publication, the clerk of Jasper county issued a marriage license to Charles P. Wright and Mary C. Vondersmith. Several refreshing showers have visited this vicinity the past week, tending to revive the drooping spirits in vegetation. It is a fact that F. J. Sears & Co. have the largest, best, and most complete Btock of goods in the county, and a still better fact, they oan not be undersold. Bologna sausage ought to be cheap in Rensselaer, judging from the number of canines loafing about town. Some of them are in splendid condition for converting into bologna.

All Charley Starr asks of yon is to call and inspect his groceries before purchasing elsewhere, and he will convince you that he oan do better by you than any other grocer in Jasper county. “A -thing of beanty is a jpy forever,'’ and “Hannas” Eger, the popular clerk at C. C. Starr’s grocery, possesses this rare accomplishment. At least all tbe young ladies who trade with him say so. Mr. William S. Coen, who was elected trustee of Marion township two. years ago, on the people’s ticket, was nominated for re-elec-tion by the republicans at their primary election. He has been an efficient officer. -• Dr. E. T. Harding returned from Arkansas, one day last week, and is now with hia family. He will go back again in the fall. Elsewhere appears an interesting letter from his pen, relative to the crops, productiveness, etc., of the state wbcjrc he will make hia honfre.

One of the young? Benson’s, of Milroy township, Went home last Saturday eveniug with a bloody shirt., Ho, engaged Charles P. Wright in a controversy wherein knock down arguments were resorted too, and he came out second beat. The game of base ball at Bradford yesterday, between the Rensselaer and Bradford clubs, resulted in the defeat of the former by a score of 49 to It. Thta wilt necessitate a third game which will be played at this place before a great while. The “Clippers'” are confident of of winning. The “Clippers” returned home last night, not disheartened, but very much vexed at the result of the game yesterday. They all have “blood in their eyes” and declare they can and wt# have revenge. The boys claim that unfair means were resorted to by the Bradford club to seoure their defeat. Premium Lists of the sth Annual P air of the Jasper County Agricultural and Mechanical Association, to be held at Rensselaer on the 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th of September next, are now ready for distribution, and may be obtained free of cost by addressing Ira W. Yeoman, Secretary, Rensselaer, Indiana.

Mr. Thos. Sayler has sold his outfit of butcher shop, recently, purchased of Yeoman & Sermon, to Mr. Jacob Eiglesbach, and retired from the business of butchering. He desires us to thank those friends who favored him with their patronage during the brief period in which he supplied them with beef, and says he will ever remember them for their liberality. Married, at the residence of the bride’s father, Mr. A. Vondersmith, on-Sunday, August 6th, 1876, by Esq. Abram C. Abbott, Mr. Charles P. Wright and Miss Mary C. Vondersmith l all of Jasper county. The Union extends congratulations to the fair bride and generpus groom, and wishes them all the happiness imaginable. May they live to see an other Centennial, t We are requested to announce that the Old Settlers of Jasper and Newton counties will hold tEeir annual meeting on Saturday, September 2d, 1876, at the *>ld Indian Village—same place that it was held last year. All the old settlers of the two countios earnestly invited to be present. A more extended notice will be given in a subsequent issue of The Unton: Miss Ada Strayer’s school closed at the Watson school house, last week. She started for Peru, her old home, last Monday. We understand she will probably get me

primary department in the Rensselaer schools again this winter. She has woman enviable reputation as a teacher, both here and at the Watson school house, and is viry successful wherever she iscallecfeto teach. t We had the pleasure of takiig our worthy friend, Rev. S. ;li. Rogers, by the hand this week. Mr.. Rogers, wife and sod, are tli back on a visit with their ma§y friends iu Rensselaer and vicinity, andintend remaining over Sabbath. He informed us that he would preach in the Presbyterian cburfh Sabbath evening. Let all avMl themselves of this opportunity lo hear him. Mr. Jakob Bakker, who lives n the northern part of Jasper count i, was brought to town a day or tv b ago, and being examined, was a - judged insane and paperß wdl made out and sent to the proper authorities at Indianapolis to sog if he could be accommodated ft the State Insane Asylum. He L not considered dangerous at preg. ent, but it is feared he may become ungovernable. The cause of insanity is not known. ■ Through an oversight last wee| the customary notice upon the firit appearance of a new advertiseraei was not bestowed upon Mr. F. Babcock’s oard, which may h i found " among the business can i on first page of Thk Union. slj Babcock has been a resident < Jasper oounty for many years; : an industrious, careful and exa< business man; is well acquamte with the real estate of the county is prompt,energetic, reliable." Cal op him.