Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1877 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Fresh oranges and lemons at Kamial’s drug store. Boating on the “raging oxnawl” is quite popular Sundays. The town was chuck full of people again last Saturday. Thanks to Mrs. Doctor Longhridge for a handsome boquefe the first of the season. It is a positive fact that Emmet Eannal sells the best 5 oent cigars in Rensselaer. Try them. Building improvements are progressing slowly but hopefully in tosntandtb«*ii«mßdtate v iei n i ty. Canvaaback ducks have appeared i>» the waters of Beaver lake this season, which is noted as an unu> snal occurrence. Harry Purcupile, they say, will commence the study ot law as soon as he completes the assessment of property in Marion township. Eannal keeps the old standard prepared paint, made of pnre white lead and linseed oil tpijced nead.y for use. A fall line of paintbrushes Colors in oil and ec&ors dry. Many farmers of Jasper county sowed oats last week, a few patches were putDttt ibe week •befovo, and this week will find the largest portion of the seeding for this crop done. Some have commenced stirring the soil , for corn pi an dug. Mr. J. S. Wigmore is one of the best jewelers that ever breathed through a blow-pipe or disseoted a watch in Rensselaer. Everybody likes him because he is both modest and courteous in his intercourse with all. At Imes’ drug store. L 'tfcSS Mr. John Makeever will erect a building this season on the vacant lot opposite the court house, below Mr. F. J. Sears’ residence, which he will occupy as an office to transact loaning and brokerage business. Frank Meyer has been limping about with a thumb that was badly lacerated by a beam ot timber that bad to be cut up into fence rails and drawn out with a stump-puller. He never for a moment forgot his customary good humor, and is rapidly healing up. Mr. Reed of Pleasant Grove will push his hay slide campaign this season with renewed vigor. Ha has a valuable invention, undoubt* edly, which ouly a. proper introductiou to make it popular with those who harvest exteusive quantities ot hay. Irish potatoes of fair quality are being «oid at retail at the provision stores at the rate of SL4O a bushel. Wagon loads fetch $1.16 a bushel. On the streets laat week they wsre peddled out ot wugous for $1.26 a bushel. Most of those on sate were grown on the sandy ridges iu t!)s northern part of the county.