Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1899 — The Old Relics. [ARTICLE]

The Old Relics.

There. was quite a fine exhibit of old relics at the old settlers’ meeting, mainly illustrative of the housekeeping methods of two or three generations age, with war and hunting weapons also, and some Indian implements. The Grant and Alter families were the largest contributors to this exhibition but many articles were not labeled su as to show the owners names. Some of the articles exhibited are here named. A gun said to have been carried by an Indian at the battle of Tippecanoe. A chain made in Kentucky in 1823. An iron pot hook made by Geo. Brown. 4He was killed by Indians in 1751. His six year old daughter was struck by atomahaw and then scalped but recovered. She was L. S. Alter’s great-grand-mother. A spinning wheel, dated 1835, loaned by Morlan family. A piece of a silk dress of home production, made in Tippecanoe county in 1841, by L. S. Alter’s mother. She raised the worms and spun and wove the cloth and made the dress. The preamble and construction of the Ladies Union, Rensselaer,s earliest Ladies, literary society, of winter 1853-4, Gun carried by Reason Goddard ; in the Mexican war. | A broad ax used, by Newman Snow for fifty years, | An old time grain flail, a grain sickle, flax spinning wheel old candle moulds, various old weapons, old ox yoke, old fire arms etc. ft' -