Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1876 — Old Settlers’ Re-Union. [ARTICLE]

Old Settlers’ Re-Union.

The second annual meeting of the old settlers of Jasper and Newton counties will be held on Saturday, September 2d, 1876, at the old Indian Village in Jasper county, about five miles north'*«*st of Rensselaer —the same place the meeting ' was held last year. Short addresses are promised by Judge Hammoijd, Hon. R. S. Dwiggins, Mr. S. P. Thompson, and others. Those who attend are requested to bring baskets of provisions and participate in an old-time picnic. All who have resided in Jasper and Newton counties for twenty years and upwards are earnestly invited to be in attendance and to bring their acquaintances.

At Newberg, last Tuesday, Homer Dannett, a young man aged twenty-one years, while under the influence of liquor, attempted to murder bis family with a revolver. He first attacked and fired upon his mother, inflicting a slight wound in her hand. He aimed at her head and supposing that he had killed her attacked his cousin, a girl sixteen years old, who sought safety in her bed room. He fired two shots through the door at her without effect, and after breaking in the door shot her through the ’upper lip. The girl then jumped from the wimjpw of her room to the ground, a distance of twelve feet, and before the unfortunate victim could regain her feet the drunken wretch fired twice more, each ball taking effect in her back, however, only producing flesh wounds. Citizens went to the rescue, of the terrified family, and succeeded, finally, in arresting the fiendish outlaw.

One of the “business” men of Rensselaer, occupies in The Rensselaer Union, four columns as an advertisement. That man knows how to advertise, and more so, how to keep up his reputation as a business man. The more printer’s ink he uses, the more trade he will . build up.— Orford Tribune. ’ Not only does Mr. Leopold know how to advertise, but he rfl so knows how to please customers and attract trade. The way he does it is to keep a good, large stock, sell cheap and never misrepresent an article. This is the secret of his success.