Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1876 — LOCAL NATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL NATTERS.

Mr. Alfred McCoy's new dirick residence will soon be ready tor occupancy. Mr. Esau Hart, landlord of the popular Hart House, at Remington, was in town last Friday. Corn raised in Jasper county if of good sound quality, though ears are short and average thin on the ground. Apples, potatoes, beans, cabbage—in fact anything you have to spare in the vegetable line—will be taken at this office in exchange for Tan Union. One of those refreshing nor’wester’s swept over this region Monday, calling for wood, coal, overcoats, and other articles necessary for comfort, and reminding all of us that winter is approaching. Marshal Smoot has built a good substantial plank walk aqrosa Washingion street from the bank to Leopold’s corner building, which will be hailed with delight by all pedestrians, especially when the streets are muddy. Mr. William Sermon has opened a butcher shop in the room recently occupied by Bedford and Clark, one door west of Kannal’s drug store, and is supplying the market with good beef. Billy is a gentleman, and understands his business thoroughly. We bespeak for him a liberal patronage.

The Messrs. Meyers Bros, of Wheatfield township, whose postoffice address ia Koutts, are doing well with the Wilson sewing machine. They are industrious, enterprising, and agreeable gentlemen. Besides the sewing machine \vhich is their specialty, they also deal in sewing machine needles and attachments of all kinds, besides oil, th road, etc. Are You Satisfied —To have yellow, heavy bread, pastry, &c., when you can have nice, light white bread, biscuit, &c., by using D. B. DeLand & Co.’s Best Chemical Saleratvs? Don’t buy Baking Powder, and with every pound get two ounces of white earth, several ounces of corn starch, a little soda and tartaric acid. H. A. DeLand & Co. never adulterate. Call for D. B. DeLand & Co.’s Best Chemical Saleratus, and be healthy and happy.

On Wednesday morning of last week the driver and passengers of the Remington hack discovered smoke coming out of the doors and Windows of Mr. Joseph Sparling’s house, about a mile and a half south of Rensselaer, and stopping to ascertain the cause discovered the family to be absent and the house on fire. They succeeded in subduing the flames before the house was burnt down, but not until the clothing of the family and most ’of their furniture was destroyed. The origin of the fire is not known with certainty, but it is supposed that some of the younger childreh were playing with matches during the temporary absence of their mother and accidently communicated fire from them to combustible articles in the house.

Now that election is over, and the feverish excitement incident to a political campaign subsided, the proprietors of the The Union will endeavor to devote more time and space to home matters, and strive to make it one of the best local papers in Northern Indiana, and one worthy the generous support it is receiving. The circulation of The Union is now larger than that ot any other paper ever published in the county, and new subscribers arc being daily added to the list, but we ask our friends, kindly, to assist in increasing the circulation of the paper. Every one of you, perhaps,know of some triend whom you might persuade to take the paper for three or six months. The subscription price is comparatively small, when you take into consider, atjon the size of the paper and amount of reading matter it contains. The terms ot subscription are: Ope year, |2; rix months, $1; three months, 50 cents. We would like to h*ve a correspondent in every township in the county, who will write up all local news of interest (q thp. readers of The Union. Nqw let us see who will be the first to send in the news of his neighborhood.