Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1877 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

If tying has oommenoed. F«rra«r» in this section of oouutry apeak very encouragingly of the prosjyect for good crops this aaauou. Mr. Watson Kirk, of Remington, In visiting his brotiier-in-laAAr, Mr. Daniel B. Miller, In this-place. Mr. ArohibaUl Pureoplle ami family are visiting with the-family of Mr. Johu I'.. Puroupile, in Montieello, tills week. Mrs. Keaiah Freeman, (-‘Granny"*, died last Friday morning. She was about seventy years old, and hail lived. in RettaseUer upwards of a quarter of a-century. SherifV Ityhlnson returned from Inwitli Jakob Bnkker, who, we are pleased to learn, has eo far recovered from insanity aa to take cam of himself. One of the heaviest rains of the •eason visited the south part of the county lust Sabbath. The farmers in that section complain that It isentirely too wet for agricultural purpoaes. Mr. William 11. Austin has returned from hi* hasty visit to Crawfordsville in res|tonse to a telegram that his father was dangerously sick. Mr. Austin is very feeble, but better than when hla son was telegraphed for. The best and cheapest reading matter to be found anywhere is at The Union office. A dozen exchanges containing the latest foreign and home news cun be had for only ten cents. Half a doren for a nlekle. Read and keep posted cm all matters of local and general interest. Let everybody do what they may to make the Fair this coming fall as interesting aa possible. It is nett worth white to depend on the present board of managera to accomplish much in this direction, and the credit of nil that is done to render it attractive will l*4oag to individual enterprise. It wIH require the exercise of a great deal of patieuoe and perseverance on the part of the stock holders and all who feel an interest in developing the material Interests of the county toovercome the embarrassment which inefficient managers bring to the Agricultural Association, but determined effort on the part of nil will do it, and the Fair of this year may be made better and more attractive than any that have beeu held. Work it np-