Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1879 — Local Gleanings. [ARTICLE]

Local Gleanings.

Special Co. *o«|ionilonc*of Tiih Union: Sirs. C. 11. Steward is quite ill. Perry Mallatt n splendid field of corn ih Barkley township. Elder Godfrey preached in the Methodist ftpiseopal church Sunday evening last. Harvesting the splendid wheat crop of Jasper county will bo coinmenoed next week. .C. D. Stackhouse & Son find ready sale tor their fine thoroughbred Jersey Red swine. E. L. C lark will move his stock of hardware into one of the storerooms in the Newels block. S Emmet Kannal, •W. S. Orwin, Janies Malay and F. L. Cotton, took in the Chicago excursion Juno 2 4th. Tlrero was an unusually large attendance upon the morning services at the Christian church last Lord’s day. By comparison of notes it is found that filtveu to twenty married women were away visiting their mothers last week. The Rensselaer Cornet Band will go to Morocco to celebrate the Fourth of July, 1870. The crowd will follow, and a good time is anticipated. Miss Alice Irwin was elected secretary of the Presbyterian Sunday school, last Sunday. Mrs. Rothrock was elected organist at~a previous meeting. Coni is small for the season of the year, but the ground is clean, and favorable weather will make a huge crop. Oats and grass are also doing well in this vicinity. Mr. A. P. Hill, of Thorntown. has leased the Nowels hotel. He will furnish it throughout with brand new furniture bought expressly for that purpose. Mr. H, has the reputation of being a firstclass landlord. . Tlife band boys could not raise money enough to defray the expenses of properly celebrating Independence day. Those whose business would be most benefitted by the celebration, with perhaps one or two exceptions, were too close calculators of profit and loss. Many of the excursionists have a pool opinion of Monticello hospitality. They should be charitable. The Monticello bank suspended that morning and the people were too busy congratulating each other because they bad no deposits therein to give much attention to anybody or anything else.

ARTFUL DODGER.

Gol. Ilealey of Gnodlaud is ill town to.day. Independence day will not be formally celebrated in Rensselaer this year Girl wanted to do general housework,for a small family. Enquire at thtA postoffice. Mr. D. B. Nowcls has gone to Indianapolis to attend a session of the county superintend cuts. Mrs. Catherine Bedford and Mrs. Mary Frazier of LaFayette were in Rensselaer last week visiting. A stock of elegant Hamburg lace, edging and embroidery at Miss Meredith’s being sold way down in the little figures to close out, F. L. Cotton will build a small horse power grain elevator ueari the railroad, and be better prepared lor the grain trade at this point. Evening Star Chapter of the Eastern Star Degree will meet in Masonio Hall next Wednesday evening. A full attendance is desired. _ Marriage licences were nsued to the following named persons: Alonza C. Jones and Nettie J. Bentley; Charles E. Fatrick and Sarah G. Keener. Ladies will find a stock of good cheap summer hats at Miss Meredith’s parlor, over imes’ drug store. Hats sold at 00 per cent, discount, to close out. . Ladies will never receive more millinery goods for their money than now if they trade at Miss Meredith’s. She offers her entire Btock at clo.sing-out prices. A mare owned by Geo. W. Burk ran away Tuesday and in attempting to pass .through the barbed wiro fence indexing Dwiggins’ pasture, was badly cut. Henry Fisher & Son are making a superior quality ot brick at their tile factory two miles north of town. They are very hard, smooth, dark red oolor, handsome* A gentleman from Peru, Indiana, is talking of building a steam grain elevator near the depot, and engage in a miscellaneous business which includes handling grain, lumber, coal, salt, cattle, etc. C. W. CjJiflon is stocking the Iroquois PqyiSrjfc-Yards with a superior cldes of birds. A pair of Plymouth Rock and a pair of White Leghorn chickens are among recent accessions to his finer stock.