Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1879 — Local Gleanings. [ARTICLE]

Local Gleanings.

Thump A. Dodger 1 Ob, (bat would “ Urt 1 h■« r.i.hV lit Attend the republioaa caucus Baturday night. Louis Hollingsworth would mats a food local editor. W. J. Tmes is making ready to build a brick dwrtfing house. Copt. ChllcoU is fearing a lot ia the northern part of town. Several new sidewalks shoot town are hi proeess of construction. An addition baa been built to CbO Methodist Episcopal parsonage. Mrs. Lamson, six miles west of town, is very low with consumption. Henry Fisher A Sons havs made a Into Addition fe their tils factory. Jake iflglesbauh has built a forty dollar refrigerator for bis meat stors. S. P. Thompson is building an addition to his dwelling honse on Van Rensselaer street. Zim Dwtggins gave his wife a line gold watch and chain last Saturday. He bought it of Orwfu. John Hankie, of Barkley township, has surrounded his door yard with a new picket fence. The Moody brothers have fenced a largo wood pasture near the Pleasant Grove school house. Charley Harrington, at Union township, sports two immensecarbunklea on his neoh. They are bad. Mrs. Mary K. Hopkins is building a new fence around her property, corner of Front and Susan streets, Charles W. Clifton* of the Iroqnofs Poultry Yards, last week shipped Buff Cochin eggs to Massachusetts. Victor Lougbridge is self-possessed as U lecturer on scientific subjects. Get more apparatus, Vic,, and persevere. Paul Pry looks and acts the. editor to a dot. Study hard and, keep clear of bad company, Paul, and yen Will succeed. Dr. Washburn was chairman of (be committee of introduction at .the Harris residence, Saltillo, last Sunday. A tine daughter. Ben Harris is Vappy paternal for tbc second time. But the sex will not permit the name of Headly to attach in honor of grandpa. A nice ditch has been cut on —— street, from the race to the Methodist Episcopal churoh. Charley Platt bossed the job sad did it well. Judge Hammond ia having his let at thy eastern end of Washington street graded, preparatory to building a Sue brick dwelling house on it. Mrs. Catharine Laßue has bought a couple of lots on the corner south of th» Christian church, abd is building a dwelling house on them. A telegram last Tuesday informed Mr»« T. Pi Wright that her mother was dying. She left town on the first train in obedience to the summons. A quick way to get leaves and dead grass out of fenoe eornerb is to set it on fire; but it is not the most economical way, as a Barkley township farmer has learned. The pedometer is a new instrument to record the distance that the wearer walks in a day. It would be a good thing to hang to those who “go on a lark/’ It might then be known how for they travel. William Wibert and Samuel Rogers are cutting a large ditch through the lands of George Burk, Riley Bowels, William Greenfield and others, four or five miles north of Rensselaer. A good and much needed improvement. What says Union

Grange about It?

ARTFUL DODGER.