Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1879 — A “Tidal Wavs” of Popular Favor [ARTICLE]

A “Tidal Wavs” of Popular Favor

A Faib -Abo-dt the middle nr latter part of neat September the breeders of good horses, improved cattle, fine hogs, thoroughbred sheep, big chickens, large turkeys, the growers of enormous corn, splendid apples, grapes, pens',' of large onions, of nice potatoes, of the thousand good and fine articles that farms and gardens and orchards produce—we say that about the middle of September the people who own such things as these in Jasper county will want a fair where they can exhibit thinn and receive premiums. But Just about that time, unless they take a little more interest now in preparing for an exhibition, they will discover that there is no fair. Farmers, and farmers more than any other class in cornmu" nity, are directly interested in fostering agricultural societies. Tbe Jasptr County Agricultural & Mechanical Association will never hold another fair unless some prompt measures are decided upon to relieve the society of Its embarrassment. It is hopelessly in debt, and its creditors are clamorous for their pay. a—,,. , , Decoration.—Tbe Old Thirteen will meet at Judge Hammond’s residence nekt Tuesday evening to make arrangements for tl>e disposition of the unexpended balance of funds in their treasury for the purpose ofassistdng in the decoration of soldiers’ graves in Weston cemetery. By the way, this announcement recalls the circular of Quartermaster General Meigs coucermng headstones to be furnished by the government to mark the graves of patriots of the war of the rebellion. Somebody ought to report all the facts to tlie Quartermaster General, as it cost nothing except perhaps a little time and three or six cents postageinsignificant indeed compared with the great sacrifice of those whose remains are unmarked in the midst of the people whose country they yielded up their lives to preserve. Tit eyh reconiTiTg.Fat h erAb raha tn, three hundred thousand more- The colored man and brother is coming up out of the wilderness of oppression in the south, and the next presidential election will show a solid north for the republican party. That’s ail. gentlemen democrats; and it is the natural inevitable result of your persistent perversity and narrow, illiberal, shortsighted policy. The Laporte Argus, one of the best couutry journals that reaches this office, celebrated its tenth anniversary last week.

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