Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1877 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Hominy, rice and beans, fresh and olean, at Charley Starr’s grocery. A few sa(4s of Wejtville flour left at Harding Jo Son’s, in the Shanghai building. For the best, freshest and cheapest t6as in this market, go to Charley Starr’s grocery. Do yon ever write letters? If so, bay paper, envelopes, pens and ink of £. T. Harding <fc Son. Roots and shoes, as good as the best in this or any market, are sold very cheap at Willey Jo Sigler’s. Hon. R. S. Dwiggins has been preaching from the bible to large andienoes in Rensselaer daring the week. Excellent tobaccos, fine cigars, and first-class groceries for sale by E. T. Harding & Son, in the Shanghai building. At less than the original costare offered overcoats and blankets at Leopold’s, in order to close out present stock. Fine fish, inclndingindividuals of the pickerel, salmon and cat varieties, have recently been taken out of the Iroquois river at this place. No house in town keeps better standard groceries—sugar, tea, coffee, etc. —than Willey <fc Sigler. No' house in Jasper county sells cheaper, Id order to make a rapid reduction in their large and varied stock of goods, Messrs. F. J. Sears & Co. offer special bargains for cash tor the next thirty days—during the month of February. Starr, Charley Starr the grocer, has the largest quantity of salt of any dealer in the county. Where Ranted by the barrel call on him. Also, always kept, a splendid pure article for dairy or culinary purr poses. Several errors crept into the official publication of the delinquent tax list in the Remington Record this season, which will invalidate apor tion of the sales and entail a small unnecessary expense upon the county. A sewing machine is as indispen-t sable in the house as a mowing machine is in the field. The American sewing machine is one of the best. Willey Jo Sigler are agents at Rensselaer, and keep needles and attachments for all the different machines in the market. Country exchange papers and city dailies, containing late news, valuable information, and charming literary productions, for sale at this office under the name of old papers for ten cents a dozen, or a nickle for six. This is the best and cheapest reading matter that can ,be found. No papers to give away. Mrs. E. L. Switzer, teacher of Mt. Pleasant school, reports for the month ending January 16th, an enrollment of 38 pupils; average daily attendance 24 7-10th*. James Zimmerman, John Beezy, Theodore Beezy, Ezra Switzer, -Ula Switzer, Ella Marion, Maggie Braddock and Willis Hurley were perfect in attendance. After an existence of little more than two years, the Remington Record made its last appearance'on last Thursday. The office material is to be brought over to Rensselaer this week and set up in the Spitler building, opposite the court bonse, from whence a democratic paper will' be issued by Mr. Mcfiwen, late proprietor of the Monticello Constitutionalist. Are any of your notes held by F. J. Sears <fc Co.? Have these notes become overdue? Have yon an unsettled book Account with them? If so, call immediately and pay the notes and settle the accounts. In order to perfect their contemplate*! change in business on the first of Marcii, 1877, they air© compelled to urge somewhat persistently. ,

Sleighing has departed from this region of country but the roads are still in good condition for wagons. Have you a little money? Do you need dry goods of any description, or any article of general merchandise? Are you willing to pay money for such articles when it i« made a special object for you to do so? If these questions hsve an affirmative answer, listen while we tell you a secret which is revealed for your speeial benefit. Messrs F. J. Sears Jo Co. will give an extra premium for all this kind of custom in the way of prices nicked do wu into the bed-rock. Call and see them.

Mr. John B. Elder informs ns that a gentleman who has been living on a farm of Mr. Madison Makeever’s, a few miles northwest of town, was recently found guilty of petit laroeny and made to pay the penalty therefor by being compelled to leave the country. It is understood be emigrated to Illinois. That is one way to dispose es such miscreants wilhoat putting the county to expense, but at the same time it is cheating justice out of her dues. The motto should be “Let no guilty man eseape.” If the peojple who appreciate tbe efforts ot tbe Union to become a good local newspaper will interest themselves in its behalf, the local circulation could be easily and speedily doubled. Two dollars is a small sum of money, easily raised by an industrious person even if times are dull, but it will pay. a year’s subscription. One dollar will pay for six months; fifty cents, or tbe value of two dozen eggs, will pay for it three months. Every family in the county where the English language is read and understood ought to take one of tbe local papers. Mr. W. H. Ilolabird, the Sfankey of Judge Gtllett’s gospel meetings in last week; is .voted a brick of a fellow by the boys. At one of -the meetings Jte engaged in a discussion with a .couple of youngsters upon a biblical .proposition. The disputants became earnest and the debate waxed warm, when Holabird elevated the capsheaf by dapping his hands upon his pocket and exclaiming “I’ll bet a hundred dollars” that his was the bible position. The boys hadn’t gone prepared for a bluff game, the sum oversized their pile, they didn’t call him, and Hdiabird held the fort. It will be seen by posters that Mr. John Gass intends making a public sale on Wednesday, February 21, 1877, at his residence, seven and one-half miles north of Rensselaer,- at which time will-be offered a. lot of personal property, consisting of one team of horses, ten twoyear old and two yearling steers, three two-year old heifers, six rniicb cows, twenty head of hogs, farming implements, household and kitchen furniture, etc., etc. A credit of nine months wilt’be given on all sums over $3, purchaser giving approved note without interest if paid at maturity; if not paid when due, notes to bear ten per cent interest.from date. Sums of $5 and under, cash in band. Miss Mattie Benjamin, teacher of the second intermediate department of the Rensselaer pubiio school, reports tor the month ending on the 18th day of Jannary, 1877, an enrollment of 58 pupils, with an average daily attendance of 57J. Those perfect in attendance, punctuality, study and deportment were Addie Daugherty, Louisa Platt, George Conwell, Bennie Fendig, George K. Boilings-, worth, Rachael Leopold, Deatie Boroughs, Hettie Blankenbuker, Myrtie Henxle, Minnie Norris, Bertie Morris, Jennie Miller, Alfred Tuoruton, Hattie Hopkins, laey Hutson, Harry Zimmerman, Gertie Robinson, Frank Kepuer, Mary Beck, Gallia Beck add Sarffh Tut.eur.