Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1879 — Local Gleanings. [ARTICLE]

Local Gleanings.

Speoi'il correspondent;! of The U>'ion". One oi ItobcrT 1 Kepner's little grandsons is tow with typhoid lever. Uncle Eli Yeoman has made notable improvements quins farm this season. The earlier you pick your crop of potaoe bugs, the more potatoes you wilbhave. . Mr. S. Bass has fenced his lots in Weston addition, .near Judge Hammond’s property. “llano” Potts, of Barkley township, suffered an eight pound son stroke one day last week, Samuel PL Yeoman of Newton township reaps about £ 1,000 benefit by the back pension act. Captain will have a.n office in Makeover’s new building when the latter is completed. Young man don’t try to kiss her on the sly while riding in a top buggy. The motion, can be understood at long range. After this when Lew Brisket, of Newton township counts his flock he can say “We are five and the youngest is a darling daughter.” The windmill and note swindle was attempted on rtciti/.en ot Newton township a tew ..days hgo, but Without success, v He didn’t take the hook.

Dr. M. B. Alter attended the Grand Lodge of Indiana Odd Follows at Indianapolis, last week, in 1 the'.capacity of represpjaHtive of Iroquois Lodge No. 113. J James Shindler of Newton township has built anew barn and a lot of new fence since quitting vthc blacksmith shop in town. May he live long tb enjoy the fruits of his prosperity. *j f . F. J.’ ,, Seats"*ent his iiS jChar’.ie to borrow Walton’s, shovel plow, last Monday. lie described it as being,painted red, wish a singletree attached to it. In due time Charley came back* bowed down and sweating under the 1* tyden of Walton’s two-horse stubble plow. , Willey gler'iiav.e'bought tjie lot on which the Shanghai building stands, and now have two lots to' gether" on Washington street. Up on ' W*trfe?f a two story brick building, fortytwo by sixty-eight leet ground di-

mciinWu*. A siore-i oonf will cTvo tiicm ppjx-i(unity tb J dis plav flit’ll’- goods to adv a ill age. ( , Geurge Sigler n 'ur ied lrtuu 4*kilnsas on ihe 14? h instant. He tl>inlets the state good to raise cattle, small l'ruits, musket-ms and gnats; but did not like it well cHougli to buy it. Ills lirotlier-iii law, Tims. E. Willey, and his family have good healih auTarecomtorinlilv sTtuatpfl.

ARTFUL DODGER.