Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1877 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

H.« WrfMrtv I. *, V*e» ; j.*ne s day. .. a. >• ■ .<*> > Prepare for making to •tart efrilj Plants iast W<i n aa possible. Chertoy Price went to Monticello lift week to assist at the inatilntion fit . Mg. of Ao Knighu or Mttaara Bedford & Clark have about 150 cords of wood piled up in their yard .fronting Van Rensselaer street. O Mr. Cptton’e lumber Bales at Rensselaer averaged 100,000 feet per month dvmngtbe soiling reason of last year. JUr. J. £>. Mopkina and Mr. Peter bayp no far recovered from recent aiotmeas a» to appear ppon the streets again. Elder D. T. Halstead will deliver hie farewell sermon in the Christian church, one week from •>•s* Sunday, at”! I o’clock A. M. S-et everybody go and hear him. Rev. Vanacoyfe series ot meetings at Salem will be brougfet to a close jthls week. His efforts at, that place resulted in some fifty accessions to the church. Mr. Joseph V. Parkiaon. three guiles east df town, has the identical old skillet used by old Simon Renton of pioneer fame. Mr. Rarkison is a grandson of the old Indian fighter.

Real estate basin ess in Jasper county which has been in a dor* jnant condition for several months begins to show signs of life. A narked change for the better has taken place within two weeks as jnay be observed by comparing the number es transfers reported in these columns. ? At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Remington agricultural society recently held, Messrs. Rich, Parker, Bellows and Downing were elected directors to succeed Messrs. Major, Hartley, |foover and Fleager. The other members of the board of last year were re-elected. John E. Alter, teacher Rosebud school in Union township, reports for the month ending Janury 2d, 1877, an enrollment of 39 scholars, and the average daily attendance of 26|. Amos Alter, David Alter Isaac Alter, Charles Swain, Ed,ward Swain, David Swain and James McColly were neither absent nor during the month. Mitip jfatie Howard one of Rensselaer’s brightest and most promising who is at present engaged io teaching mpsip in the Ladoga Normal Schoo), spent Saturday and Sabbath with her many friends in this placp. She returned to her post Monday, accompanied by Billy Moss, who has been taking J aMew flays recreation from the school-room. Dr. James W. Porter, the unrivalled water wixpard of the wild western plains, advertises his services to thp inhabitants of Jasper and neighboring connties. His tests are infallible. He is the only wiuard that insures and backs up insurance with work. Faith without works is dead. His terms are: no water, no pay. Sinks drive and artesian wells. See professional, pard. Elder D. T. Halstead and wife will start in a couple of weeks tor a trip southward, to a milder dipiate, S4.d remain until the changable spring weather of our latitude. is settled in milder summer. MrsHalstead’s health h as been seriously impaired for a number of year, with a pulmonic affection, and it is p relieve her from the ordeal of bad stormy yexther thatjhp 9Q n* wil ! w “, k r A meeting was held at the Tyler pcho r ob°use in Keener township on Monday of last week td consider the northwestern Kankakee river bridge project. A number of citipeus of Potfer County Were prpept. A committee was appointed no aoiieic osMcfipttons or Jo effect S permanent organisation, consisting pf convnissioner L- F. Bcptt, and Messrs J. W. Para more and John okeUon of Porter county, and Commissioner Johp Vau’t Wood, S. P. Thompson, David Novels ; and Pay >d H- Yeoman of Jasper county. What they will next do has nut yet