Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1877 — TOWN AND COUNTY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTY.

Keep your eye on the potato bugs. The pronpeet for nn abundance * of grapes is very flattering. Mr. Henry I. Adams is in Ohio this week on private business. If you want to save money patronite the merchant who advertises. Mr. Willie Sears sends us a copy of the Dixon (111.) &a, for which be has thanks. Calling and visiting cards executed with neatness and dispatch at Thu Union office. Bring on your orders. The of picnicers that went down the river in a boat last Friday report a splendid time. Sorry we were not along. The basket meeting at Alter’s grove last Sunday was attended hy about 1,000 persons. The counties of Bunton, White, Newton and Jasper were all represented. Fishing in the Kankakee is reported to be belter this season (han it has been for several years, and anglers are drawing out daily a number nf fine pickerel and bass. . e Another refreshing showervisitcd this section of country last Sunday night, giving a new impetus to growing crops and causing all kinds of vegetation to loom up in newness of life. The Sherwood folding top lock desk is pronounced by the Rensselaer school board to be perfect. It -is made of hard wood and malleable iron. Address Sherwood School Furniture Co., Chicago, 111. Prof. Oben has come aud gone. He left Rensselaer a wiser it not a better man, and has learned perhaps, by this time, that the citizens «f our quiet town are only willing to patronize liberally performances of genuine worth. . Mr. Henry L Adams, treasurerelect of Jasper county, filed his •official bond with the county commissioners last Monday, which was approved. Mr. Adams will assume the duties of treasurer in August. We have no doubt he wiH make »n efficient officer. Mr. John P. Dunlap was in town the fore part of the week and reports the grades over the Kankakee river at Baum’s Bridge progressing finely, He has some twenty hands at work throwing dirt and thinks it will take him about three months to complete his contract. The township trustees re-clected Mr. J. 11. Snoddy county superintendent for another term, at their ■aosioii last Monday. Good enough. Mr. Snoddy is the right man for the position, having performed the <duties of his office to the entire satisfaction of all parties concerned. The Saturday evening social was held at the residence of Mr. 11. W. Wood, last week. A good lune is reported. Another one of these socials will be held at Mr. N. R. Bowman’s residence next Saturday evening.. Ice cream aud other refreshments will be served. Bring your lady and have a good time. In another column of The Union will be found a list of valuable books for the farm, garden aud household, any one of which will be supplied from this office at publisher’s price. These books are all standard works, are firmly and handsomely bound, and the low girices at which they are offered place them within the teach of all. Make your selection from the list and leave your orders at, or send them to, Tue Union office and they will receive prompt attention. i A colored preacher lectured to a slim audience in the Baptist church in this place*-last Monday evening. The inclemency of the weather k pt a great many at home who would have gone to hear him out of curiosity had it been a favorable night. It is reported the same reverend gentleman preached to a fair congregation at a certain school house not a hundred miles from town where a co!* lection was taken amounting to eighteen cents and given him tor his ministerial labors. He thanked his bearers very kindly for their donation and told them “if it •• • • wasn’t begrudgingly givpn it would be sA—kfaliv received;” t . w.r:w f

A pttitition is being circulated for signatures this week, praying the honorable board of county commissioners to make a quarterly allowance of a sum sufficiently large to relieve the wants of Mrs. Mary Lewis, who is said to be in destitute circumstances and unable to earn her own living. We are glad to note the petition is being quite numerously signed by our generous hearted citizens. Miss Mollie Robb, teacher of Independence school, in district No. 9, Barkley township, reports for the month ending May 25th, an enrollment of 30 pupils, with an average attendance of 25. Earnest Pattee, Louisa Adair, Nellie Galbreth, Flora Daniels, Mollie Daniels, Cora Daniels and Ida Clark Were perfect in attendance, punctuality, deportment and study. The pati rons and friends of the school are ' invited tu come and see the progress being made by the pupils. At the meeting of the town council last Monday evening, Mr. Thomas Sharp was elected to supercede Mr. Warner G. Smoot, whose time expired with the meeting of the board. Mr. Sharp is a young man full of energy and enterprise, and his election to the 1 office of marshal will meet with the approval of a majority of the ! citizens of the town. There were ' two other applicants tor the position besides the one selected, viz.: Mr. Smoot and Mr. Win. Powers.