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

LOCAL MATTERS.

ftatrtft of July oclcbmtoft *t i. BsT - lUnm\*w. (id yont calling atid tioitiiig Oardi printed it Thk ITmiok Office. Try tturt «ootato bug poison at Emmet Ktttnafs drug store. It la ft sure shot. B!r. fc *. Thompson ia spending ft ahott and needed vacation with tel stives and friends in the Backeye state. Rensselaet celebrates the Foorth of July this year with appropriate and highly interesting ceremonies. Mark that now. * The Masons of this place and vicinity picnic in Kannal’s grove to-day. The Ukiok wishes them a pleasant time. Icecream, strawberries, oranges, lemons, cakes,candies, etc., at Kan* OaTa ice cream parlors, op stairs, over drog store. Bring yoor wife and little ones to town Oft the 4th of July and participate in the celebration. There trill be lots of fun. Crops in Jasper county promise finely this season. There are no belter prospects between here and the Atlantis ocean. Mr. D. V. Garrison, of Remingtou called into Tub Usio.v office -on Ft id ay last. Remington people are ulways welcome here.

Keep it before the people that Emmet Kannal will furnish picnics, festivals, socials and individuals with ice cream in any quantity on short notice and at reasonable rates. Who has the book in which was kept a record of the ordinances passed by the board of trustees for the town of Rensselaer prior to 1675? The town clerk is the proper custodian of the book, but the preeent incumbent has never had it in his possession. The new cornet band, under the leadership of Mr. R. 11. Puroupile, is making rapid progress. The new Eflat recently purchased by the leader is a “clipper’’ and when “Hank” spreads his lipa over its mouthpiece the wind raises immediately and the way ho rattles off ilie music is surprising. Despite the inclemency of the weather there was a very fair attendauce at the temperance meeting at the Baptist church last Monday evening, and everything passed off pleasantly and in order. The programme was carried out in full, with one exception, and the exercises were highly entertaining. Nannie Warfel, teacher in district No. 6, Marion township, reports for the month ending June ?oth, an enrollment of 15 pupils, with au average attendance of 11.8. 1 hose perfect in attendance and deportment were Emma Pierce, Belle Phegly, Emma Hammond, Rosie Hammond. Aiusie Williams, Minnie Williams, and .Charlie Hammond. Keep the railroad feeling in good condition. Let everybody speak encouragingly. It will be a grand thing to have that road ready to move our crops next fall. Without accidents occur between this date and harvest time Jasper county will have an abundance of corn, oats, hay and potatoes, and then producers will need facilities for •speedy shipment. When the readers of this memorandum have a lull in their business th® time cannot be more profitably or agreeably passed than in reading and posting themselves on ovent* that ure constantly transpiring in this great, busy world. Aud there is no better or cheaper medium through which to obtiun this information than the so called old papers consist ing of dailies and weeklies that We sell for ten cents a dozen or six for a nickel. '"

■Monday afternoon and night this part of ihe country wat viaited by heavy rains accompanied with thunder and lightning and a very hiuli wind which blew down wheat, fences, fruit and shade trees, and fur a time it seemed aa if the unruly elements would commence the worb of destruction upon some of the old rookeries and less substantia* wooden buildings. Hut the aiojfcn spent ita fury without doing any further damage that we have •ward “t than that already «jc#-