Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1877 — LOCAL AND NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL AND NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.

Ladies linen salts at Willey A Sigler’s. Purgative peas per peek pailful, .20 cents. New print* just received at Willey A Sigler’s. That 50-oent tea at Charley Starr’s sells like hot cakes. Kite flying is popular with our youngsters for the time being. Alexandre kid gloves—black—three buttons, at Willey drSjglerV Fred Hoover and E. JBL Kookwood, of Goodland, were ill town yesterday. Justice Harding was boasting of new potatoes ai|d gilt-edged colie a day or so ago. Huckleberries are ripening on the sandridges, and a few havebeen brought into town. John I. Pureuptle, Esq., of Monticello, was iu town this week. He is business to the hilt. Marshal Sharp maneuvers the ■shovel and hoe brigude with the .easy grace of a veteran. 'Miss Emma Gibson, of Lqgatiaport, is visiting her sister, Airs. Frederick Cole, in this place. Mrs. Mattie Goff, ot Momeuce, 111., made a couple days’ visit to friends iu Rensselaer this week.

Starke comity is much depressed in spirit because her huckleberry •crop promises to be light this season. A large stock of meats, just re •ceived at C. C. Starr’s. Sugar •cured liatns only 124 cents per ,pound. ‘The Herald reports that such an immense yield of strawberries was never before known in LaPorte county. On .one day about a week ago 18,886 quarts of strawberries were .gathered at and shipped frum the town of Bristol. Mr.,J. I’. Dunlap reports the idling excellent in the Kankakee 1 tins season. Fine bass, pickerel, mmmoii and catfish are taken. A large slock of quart and half ijiulloii , glass fruit jars at C. C. feiiire's ..Quartstandard jars only Jfcl a dozen All others proportionaileiy l«w. A plank sidewalk is to he laid sm the south side ot Milroy street from the river‘.bridge to Mr. A. MeCoy’s residence and perhaps farther west.

A number of ease# ofague are rejiorled tho inhabitants ot (Ilia region, and now and then a lu 1 (ialient that is afflicted with scarleliiiit. Uncle Gas. Bingham writes lo friends that hie health is excellent. Southern Illinois climate, scenery and friends make the old geutlemau happy as a youth. .James Patton, of Remington, is writing in Merrick <fe Travis’s abstract office. Jimmy it a lively l>oy, and will make many friends during his stay. —Fowler Ilerald. A corner of Dr. S. W. Ritchey’s house, five or six miles south of here, was unroofed by the wind Monday, and the timber near by was broken down to some extent. Rev. B. F. Furguson, Free Will Raptist, of Frances ville, will preach in the- Presbyterian church Sunday morning. Also religious •exercises Saturday at 2 o'clock p. m. What is* Mardi Gras? Who knows? If you want to learn come to Rensselaer on the Fourth and Monroe Carr will illustrate the subject. At 4 o’clock p. m. look out for the border ruffians, bummer brigade and privileged infanta. The citite-'s of every township in Jasper county, and of every county in the state, and of every state in this grand republic, are cordially invited to meet on the banks of the lovely Iroquois in the pleasant town of Rensselaer, and join in an old-fashioned celebration of Independence Day. A Goodland correspondent of the Fowler Herald says: Mr. George Robinson, sheriff of Jasper county, lias been prowling around a northeastern neighborhood in search of that young man who shot those seven boys a few weeks ago, but lie has gone west to grow ap with the country and the sheriff couldn’t eateh him-

■■ White kid gloves just received at Willey A Sigler *, > Rev. J. H. Cissel is preaching a series of sermons on popular amusements to the people of LaPorte. The Rensselaer cornet hand will give a grand Fourth of July ball, at Bedford’s halt, both afternoon andevening. 4 Charley Starr’s delivery wagon is kept pretty busy distributing groceries and provisions to bis many customers. A few boxes of imported raspberries were offered in market Tuesday for 20 cents a quart. A few huckleberries were also displayed, the price asked being cents a quart; but this figure is too altitu* dinous to maintain. The annual register of Purdue University, ,for .1876-77, a pamphlet of between thirty and forty pages, has been received at this office. Jasper county is represented there by William Evin Florence, of Rensselaer, a first year class student.

The foot, sack and wheelbarrow races on the Fourth will be amusement for everybody that can laugh. Haley, the funny shoemaker, has secured a greastd elm peeler to bo given to its captor. Hen Tenter says ‘‘See me loom.” There are dead loads of fyit ahead. Come out on the Fourth and enjoy it. Willey & Sigler have just received a new invoice of the renowned American sewing machines which they are selling at prices so low that any .one can buy. Machines which sold lastyearfor sßocan now be bought for S4O; S7O machines for $35; $65 machines for S3O. Call and see them. All machines warranted. Bring all the torches used in the political campaign last year and join iu the torch light procession to parade at Rensselaer at 8 o’clock p. iu. July 4th, 1877. The era of peace and good will calls for a grand union parade without political distinction. We all rally around one and the same flag on the glorious Fourth. The committee of arrangements tor the Celebration on next Wednesday request ali citizens to bring flags, it they have them, and flowers to decorate the, grounds mid stand with. The Celebration on July 4th, 1877, will be immense*. There has been nothing like it here in many years—not since you and I were young. At C. C. Starr’s popular grocery you will always find a large and complete stock of groceries, provisions, queen swart*, earthenware, canned fruits, cove oysters, flavoring extracts; tobaccos, cigars, oandits, nuts, raisins, etc.; etc. It .will be to your interest to examine his slock and learn ,his prices before making purchases. /The , premiums offered in the games on the Fourth ot July amount to ten dollars, and will be distrib uted as follows: To the winner iu tho race for boys under .12 years old, $1; boys between 12 ami 50 years, $1; men over 50 years, $1; sack race for boys under 12 years old, $1; Sack race for boys over 12 years old, $1; wheelbarrow race $2; catching pig, $2; climbing pole, sl. Considerable damage was done at Francesville liy the storm of last Mouday. The depot building, Duun’s Imy shed and several stables were uuroofed, the new, 'partially finished store of R. L. Mattingly was considerably injured, and several other buildings were more or less damaged. Between this town and Remington fences were blown down, and it is reported that a building or two were partially unroofed.

The celebration of the Fourth at Rensselaer this season will be conducted on the volnnteerplan—when each individual strives to make all others happy. There will be short speeches, songs, music, games, sports, and fun for everybody. It is hoped that any whose names may not appear in the printed programme who can declaim, speak, «ing, or in any way add to the interest of the occasion, may be introd«<sed to the committee of arrangements, who will take pleasure iu assigning them appropriate places. It was thonght best this time lo give the boys a chance. See prograwacs.

jjk. All are iuvited to bring baskets well filled with provisions to the court house, on the Fourth, where a committee, consisting of Auditor Barkley, Sheriff Robinson, Recorder Wood and Treasurer Janes, will care for them. The citizens of Rensselaer will join in the basket diuner, and it is hoped all will have a sociable ucd happy mom.-*, ing. Come one and all ana liuve a jolly .time. The citizens of Jasper oounty and the adjoining region will meet in Rensselaer on the 4th of July and have the happiest holiday* ever known. Business houses will remain closed from 10 o’olock a. ra. to 12 m., and from 2 o’clock p.-m. to 3:30. Ali tho exorcises will be short, pithy and to the point—nothing wearisome. The picnic, amusements, Mardi Gras and torchlight processions will be popular features of the day.