Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1877 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

WUley A Sigler will mU their clothing oat at coat. Potatoes are rofailed at the atom for $l per baehel. Hot “tattle” soap ia on the bill of fare of a local reetaarant. See Mr. J. S. Wigmore*a new advertisement in another oolamn. New.stock of prints and muslins to be opened at WUley A Sigler’s this week. “Ransylier” is the way a correspondent spelled the name of, oar beloved town. It is reported that a new tailoring establishment is aboatto be opened in Rensselaer. Willey A Sigler keep the Elgin watobes in stock, which they sell cheap for cash. If you want a suit of clothing call at Willey A Sigler’s and get* them at first cost A fresh arrival of splendid teas at C. C. Starr’s. Prices to correspond with thw times. First quality of apples sold from sleds on the streets last Saturday - for 40 cents a bushel. ' Now is the time to get you a home, on reasonable terras, in Leopold’s addition to Rensselaer.' A carload of queensware just received at Charley Starr’s. Go and see his splendid assortment. I will sail lots in Leopold’s addition to Rensselaer on monthly payments. Taos. Boboughs, Ag’t. A few more silver cake stands and castors at C. C. Starr’s, which wilt be sold at cost in order to close •ut. Don’t forget to trake yonr settlements with A. Leopold before February Ist. You understand the net,: Jjudd Hopldns’ prices on all goods will compare favorably with the prices of those who are selling off >at*ett. F. J. Sears A Co, are offering great bargains for cash in order to redoes their large and varied stock of goclds. ** LudJ Hopkins keeps ’the’ only' •genuine Grover A Baker sewing maoUnS needles that are kept in t Rensselaer. A few overcoats and blankets left at Leopold’s, which will be •pld for less than original cost fn order to close out. Willey A Sigler keep the American sewing machine for sale. Also needles and attachments for all kinds of sewing maohines. Rev. B. Hartmann, formerly in charge of St. Joseph Catholic eburoh at this place, now at Lafayette, was in Rensselaer on Monday. Why don’t yon smoke a good cigar when yon can get it, in preference to an inferior one? At Charley Starr’s yon will always find the best. Thomas Robinson and David H. Yeoman will find the chromo premium of the Indian* Farmer to /.which they are entitled, at this olios. _ , The regular monthly temperance masting will be held at the court bouse on Monday ovenfng, the 29th instant, programme of which will appear next week. The first marriage license issued by the clerk of Jasper oonnty for tbs year 1877 was granted on the Utli instant to Andrew J. Reed and Elisa 0* Timmons. Noticb —All persons having accounts and notes past due will -please oall and settle at once, for we must have money to meet onr F- J. Sxars A Co. All parsons having cash to pay , for goods wilt do well to look around. Yon can find the largest and best stock of general merchandise in the county at F. J. Sears A Co.’s, Live turkeys are in active demend at eight cents a pound live weight. Mr. Alfred McCoy is said to have three or fonr hundred head following hie grain-fed cattle on his farm east of town. F. A Seajw A Co. are anxious to redaee lbeirgeneral stock of goods 110,000, preparatory to making a change March 1, 1877. For cash yon cam Any goods cheap. Look to yonr own interest and give it a call.

If. yoa,jfquid like to try some first-class hominy go to Charley Starr’s. Fiv4 barrels just received. Why send to a New York company for yonr teas? My teas are shipped direot on Arival at SanFrancisco. I ask a trial. * Luvd Hopkins. Mr. Isaao V. Alter on yesterday started to Kokomo for a saw mill. His mill yard seven miles north of town, is full of logs of good quality and neigbors are still hauling. The prospeot is good lor a fine business this season. .Mr. William lines was in town yesterday and said that it was current talk at Mo'Uicello on the previous morning (hat the Constitutionalist newspaper establishment had been sold to Mr. Keys, late of the Delphi 2Hmes, and Mr. Kitt, of Remington. A gentleman by the name of Bass, from Lafayette, has engaged one of Mr. Leopold’s business rooms and will commence the manufacture of boots and shoes in this place.. It is understood that he will also carry a fair quantity of ready made goods. The protracted meeting, which has been in progress at Blue Grass school house lor two or three weeks past, conducted by Rev. Thomas Vanscoy, closes this evening. Twenty persons have united with the church, most of whom were soundly converted. On last Saturday a week ago a sorrel mare colt havirg a small star in her forehead strayed from the premises of Mr. Bartley Lyons, six miles northwest ot Rensselaer. Atiy information leading to the recovery of the colt will be suitably rewarded. Word may bo left at this office. E. T. Harding & Son are building up a splendid trade. They have only been started in their present business a few months, but they now have a trade ol which an old established firm might well feel uroud. The secret of their success is they sell goods at prices beyond competition. E. L. Swiuar, teacher of Mount Pleasant'school, Barkley township, reports, for 4he month ending December. 7, 1878, an enrollment of 40 pupils; pverago daily attendance 32.95. Mattie Cox, Maggie Braddock, Willjq. Hnrley, Bettie Goff, Rosa Goffi Ula Switzer, John Beezy and. Theodore Beezy were perfect in attendance. Notwithstanding the fact that Norm. Warner boldly asserts that he will dispose of an unlimited amount pf castor oil and lamp black free of cost, Charley Starr is having an unusual run on boot blacking and is selling the best oil blacking in the market at only ten cents a box. Call and get a box before it is all gone. It is selling rapidly. E. T. Harding A Son always have on-hand a full and complete assortment of family grooeries, smoking and chewing tobaccos, cigars, candies, nuts, school books, writing paper, pens, pencils, ink, etc., which they sell as low as any other house in Jaraer county. Call at their establishment, examine goods and learn prices before purchasing elsewhere. Report ofßurns’ school, Barkley township, for the month ending January 6th: Number of pupils enrolled, 40; average attendance, 26.8. Perfeot in attendance, punctuality and deportment, Ada Hinkle, Marohy Hinkle, William Call, Nanny • Call, Johttsy MeCurtain, Eddie MuCurtain* Dora Borns, George Call, Louisa Call, James Price and John Price. General average for the first month 29.0; enrollment 36. Motlie Robb, +e --4 *-*4*4- - ■ teacher. A good deal of complaint is made agaiust the -present board of trustees of the town of Rensselaer for extravagance and neglect of business. In some respects the present board ia considered the most extravagant th*t the town has had for iitany years, and, curiously, a majority are members of that political party which has most to say about economy and reform. Of course, however, this is merely a coincidence without any special significance, because all are honorabl<*men, just as we were in the days of tbe Roman triumvirate.

Willey A tigler sell their, stock of boots and shoes cheap for oash. Lewis L. Alter, teacher of Star school (No. 8) Jordan township, reports for month ending January 8, 1877, an enrollment 0f39 pupils, and an average daily attendance of 27.35. Rena Suits and Jennie Kenn lost no time. Mr. S P. Thompson was driving through the streets yesterday with a sleigh load of young ladies, when in turning the corner at the intersection of Front and Washington streets at a rapid pace the vehiole swung round against the sign post of Hopkins house breaking it off even with the ground and pitched overboard Mr. Alfred Thompson’s two daughter*. The youngest, Miss Ora, was thrown against the post and 6U tained a severe bruise on one leg, nearly fracturing it, an injury that will confine her in the house for several days. The other occupants were uninjured.