Rensselaer Union, Volume 12, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1879 — Local Gleanings. [ARTICLE]

Local Gleanings.

; ? M. L. Spider has been improving his home property. D. C. Hopk ins has leased his interest in the Rensselaer flouring mill to his brother, J. D. Hopkins. Carpenters have enclosed the new dwelling on Uncle Clint Hopkins’ farm. It makes »u imposing appearance. Geo. Bailey proposes to establish a flour and feed store in Rensselaer, exchanging flour and feed to farmers for their wheat. Ex-SheriffDaughcrty, Reef Hopkins and S. C. Hammond of Marion township, and Geo. Jenkins of Barkley, nre building new stables. It might he well for supervisors to attend to the drainage of the public highways while they are having the rond-tax worked out. To drain a mud hole Is better than to add another story to it by filling it with loose earth at this time of the year.

ARTFUL DODGER..