Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1879 — Wilborn Day started on Monday [ARTICLE]

Wilborn Day started on Monday

to visit cmTdrcn in Kansas. Immense stock of merchant tailor goods received this week at T. M. Jones’.. If you have a good thingkeep it, keep if, and buy Stationary at the postofdee. r J. S. Wigmore and family have' moved back to their old home in Monlicelio. Milks Lydia D.wiggins has returned to Terre il.utio to attend school for another year. John Wolff has thanks for a watermelon. This fruit of the vino is unusually good this year. Try Jones, the tailor, for that new suit, iL si>m<it|;iiig.. durable and cheap is wanted. Fine fancy suitings at Jones, the tailor’s, arc the nobbiest goods for men’s and boys’ wear yet introduced,. Men’s and boy’s fashionable tailoring cheap at Jones’. Call and see the new stock just opened, this week. ’ ' * ' Judge Ilapimond, Tyosectitok Babeqpk, Hon. 11. S. Dwiggins and S. F. Thompson are courting at. Fowler this week. Rev. Thos. Vansedy returned to North Evanston, lil., dn Tuesday momingj-to enter upon.anotherycar of theological stud y. Platt McDonald, ex-cditor of the Plymouth Democrat, dropped into the office of this paper for a moment, Monday morning. Widow Alter of Carpenter township complimented The U nion edi-. tor loslwcek with a basket .of tom a toes containing seven varieties. Wm.’Beck is building a neat frame dwelling house On hisi tine property in the western edge of town. live long to .enjoy’it. | v/. s:o t win’s family have gone I to spend several, months jn the southern part of Indiana. Orwin remains to sc 1 ! jewelry, all kimfo of musical instruments and to pursue 1 bin specially of ffue watch lipairing.

IteimHcluer Musical Associa-1 tion will pioct nt, tU< Presbyterian , church Tuckdnv evening, S< | um- [ ! bvi Olh. W.M. E. Skai.s, Secretary. ' I Sunday last while jdaying with I its fclloh s a little six year ol<i son ' of Duniq in Jordan township, had its right hand badly ent ' wiXi* nn.ax.. tailor, lian this week ojieulMtylie largest,finest, best and cheapest slock of cloths for men’s . an I boy’s clothing ever displayed in Rt’iisselnur. J-iluv.. W. G. Vessels ip attending the North western Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal* church fchich is in Hcspiotfll South Bend, ibis week. the tailor, is unsurpassed artisuc cutler ami fitter. His new stock of moruhnnt tailor sup--1 plies is elegant. None better can be tumid in tlie market. f It is true economy to employ Jones, the tailor, to make fine and business suits for gentlemen. They fit better, wear bettor and are cheaper than slop shop goods. Last Sunday, August 31, 1879, the clerk of Jasper county issued a marriage license to Sloan Dob- ! bins and Ada A. Hartman. Justice |A. 11. Wood prosided over the marriage on the same day.* Charley M. Dean, the .first engineer to run a railroad locomotive ' into Rensselaer, is now running on a passenger train between LaFaycito and Muncie, on the LaFayetle, Muncie &> Bloomington road. The Rensselae r Christian Union Temper:u>ce meeting wilt be lu Id ' in the MethadisL Episcopal church | tomorrow night-—slh instant. All come out and let us have a good meeting. C. H. Prick, President. W. E. Sears, Secretary. About a dozen gentlemen from the vicinity of Delphi were in_

town Tuesday morning with Col. Yeoman to receive the famous I’arkison calf given by Messrs A. McCoy, A. I’arkison, Win. K. I’arkison and A. Thompson for the railroad jubilee al Delphi to-day. Yesterday the board of county commissioners decided adversely to the petition of Joseph Willets for license to retail intoxicating liquor in the town of Remington. This is the'second consecutive+failure of Mr. Willetß’boforc the same officers. Will fie try again? Moses Heuc advertises positively the last week in RenssuLa.er. For special bargains call without delay one door oast of the Narrow Gauge Clothing Store. New goods received daijy. A varied and superb stock. Everything 25 per cent, below customary prices. Those wishing anything in the jewelry rftre will do well to call on \V. S. Orwin. Owing to the bad health of Mrs; Orwin he has decided to remain in Rensselaer but a short timcTnrd will sel+gooeis in order to realize upon them. For the next thirty days he will sell watches worth §ls for §12.50, and otlrer goods at proportional prices. Anything sold that does not prove satisfactory to the buyer may be returned ami money wiiVbe cheer fully refunded. Those having watches in the shop for repair will please call and get them before Mr. Orwin leaves the town.• While backing down to Pittsburg last Satuaday and rounding the curve near town, one of the cars of the narrow gauge train jumped the track-on a trestle bridge ten or fifteen feet high. Engineer Petit reversed his lever in a moment keeping all but one car on the trsick. Conductor Jones was on top of the car that jtirhpped and was thrown off, sustaining s fractured mrtn. Freight Agent Smith was pitched out of the door of the express and mail car and had his left ankle sprxined. One or two passengers also were bruised slightly. The jumping car was untrucked and somewhat splintered, but the damage was small. A hailstorm passed about seven miles north of town Monday, doing ciiiisitkrttble... damage tai -growing’ciopfi. The path made Uy it is about one mile wide, how Jong it is we have not learned. At Thomas Davisson’s, John McCully’s, Benj. Martin’s ami in that neighborhood the blades were stripped from staridiug corn and sorghum as clean as a man might cut them off with a club, tobacco patches wereriddjed, chick ens killed, and hailstones could have been gathered up by bushel Measures fail, indeed they are reported' to have drifted lour inches deep in places. Some of the ice pebbles were ttn inch or more in dtametor -arM left- priitis -and-- scars oftheirpeltingon and houses. Fqw trees were uprooted, but it scattered hay and straw stacks in places, fericeb rather too promiscuously for the satisfaction of owners. At the regular meeting of tfic board of trustees of the town of Rensselaer, Monday night September 1, 1879, bills were allowed 'f F. J. Sears §9*53; W. W. Reeve §9; W. F. Powers, marshal, s2l. Received petition of business inen on Wnsliingt-m street praying for ttib pa ssage of.an, ordinance requiring the Weekly cleaning of Washington street from Front street to VanRensselaer and the south Of Washington street, .find.ordered the clerk to draft an ordinance in accordance with said prayer. The invitation of the Mayor of_Deli»hi to attend the formal opening pt the Indianapolis,>DeJphi Chicago xaikoad fromjfensselaer'to Delphi at the-latter city on the 4th instantj -waAmmircd and accepted, and tKe~ e’erk was dir-ectedtq make formalackLowleugeiueut- of the iuvitut-onJ

Rev. B. F. Ferguson, and Rev. Mr. Snunddrxrn, Free Will Baptists, will hold a basket mooting at Hoover school house m xp Sunday'. General public invitation extended. JPWMwi »i «■ ii I - io i» ii Hemp first enme in use in tlie cord age.—A. V. Niwt. Wind instruments in the bi|n<l-age — Jionte Sentinel. Negro minstrels in tli’e cork-age.—Advcr-tierr. Bankrupts in the short-age.— Afton Tribune-Nettrii. Women in the man age.—‘CWle'inf Democrat. Dogs ami cats in the saus-nge.<—Onwota fiptrtt. Dead in the pass-age.— Leon Reporter, i-’nuer krout in the cftltli-Hce.— Standard. Tnc Indianajiolis, Delphi & Chicago railroad in the narrow gauge. • • ,