Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1878 — Personal. [ARTICLE]

Personal.

Thomas Pritchard spent New Years at Franklin. ? ■ * *«!'- aaWl*- ... Mrs. J. M.'Austin is visiting al Cvawforvlsville. Simon P. Thompson smiles upon his friends again after a few weeU4 courting atQFowler and ICeutland. Judge Ilammoud rejoices rn tho prospect of being home a few weeks, Frank Babcock has taken room* at the City Hotel, J. M. Thorn* r brough having rented bis property, E. 11. Tharp talks of removing from Rensselaer. Dr. S. N. Caldwell talks of moving temporariiyUd Valparaiso. Marshal H. Rice, of Francesvilfo, was in town Monday. Jerome Boroughs started to Denton county with a herd of cattle, Tuesday. William Childers carries his ohin in a sling 1 .

Tommy McCoy,spcntthe holidays in LaFuyette. lie returned to-day, Louis Bass is the victim of one of Job’s comforters. Dr. Haraar is still confined to tits bed. Jesse Cornet is lying very low at his residence, of lung disease. Judge Hammond is holding court in Logansport this week. Mr. M. F. Cliilcote was called to Wolcott yesterday on business of a legal nature. • —-—- Mr. S. P. Thompson says Spots* wood,,of the Kentland Press, don’t know what is the matter with him. is—worms. Prof. Zea is instructing a olasa of boys in the manly art of engineering a-wootfsaw. Let_thft mothers rejoice. i; Mr. Frank Cotton, of Francesville, intends removing his lumber yard to this place about the first of next month, as the’ officials of the Narrow Gauge railroad promised to ship lumber hero for him about that time. lie also contemplates building a dwelling here in the spring. Rev. Thomas Vanscoy, closed the protracted meeting at Egypt school house last Monday, he preaching the funeral sermon of Mrs. Courtney at that time. The meeting was an interesting and successful oue considering thoweather and the condition of tho roads. There were fifteen accessions to the church. At n meeting of Prairie Lodge No. 125, F. <ss A, M., held at the Lodge Hall la*t Thursday evening, the following officers were duly installed: J. U. Loughridge, W. S. P. Howard, S. W; 11. W. Wood, J. W; Ralph Fendig, Tr? C. HPrice, Sec.