Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1905 — Old Time News [ARTICLE]

Old Time News

Facts from Jasper County’s First Paper. February 16th,1854

No mention had been made of ground-hog day on Feb. 2nd. Evidently that little weather prophet humbug was not in much vogue those days, while nothing at all was known of such much more pestiferous long range fakers as Hicks, Foster and his ilk. The editor put up an awful holler over the conditions their one mail a week arrived in. His exchanges were so soiled and soaked that they hardly were worth taking out of the bag. Now days exchanges rarely get soaked in transit though they occasionally vigorously “soak” one another. “Fire—On Saturday last the store of R. Strode & Co. was discovered to be on tire. Fortunately the discovery was made before the the fire had made much progress and it was soon extinguished. It was communicated from the stove pine to the upper part of the building.” Said to be 6,000 men pushing the construction of the Lake Erie, Wabash Valley &St Louis R. R. Suspect that must be what is now the Lake Erie & Western. An unrequited lover in New Boston, N. H. 23 years old, named Sargent had shot at Miss Jones four times, killing her instantly, and, had then killed himself. Murder [and suicide by jealous lovers is by no means a wholly modern crime.

Smallpox was said to be prevalent in quite a number of different places in the state. Oh, where was Hurty when that pox broke out?

“MARRIED—On the 14th, inst., by Rev. Mr. Harker, Mr. Walter Clark to Miss Isabel Randle, all of this county.” James E., Ballard, engineer, and John Darroch, Commissioner gave notice of intended letting of some 25 or 30 miles of new ditches, in eluding one of 10 miles along the “Big Slough.” Chas. Fromm & Co. of Delphi were new advertisers. They wen in the monument and tomb stone business.

The first non-resident notice ever published in Jasper county ap peared in this issue. Rufus Strode and his partners, Edward L. Penn and James Fowler, were the plaintiffs, and Samuel Satterly was tin defendant. They Wanted to fore •lose a mortgage on Samuel. Recent rains had raised the iro quois river and the mills wereagain in full operation.