Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1905 — Old time news. [ARTICLE]

Old time news.

Facts from Jasper County’s First Paper. August 31, 1804.

An account was given of the Democratic congressional con ven tion, held at Plymouth, on Aug. 17th. on. Norman Eddy, the then member of Congress, was renominated by acclamation. The resolutions reaffirmed the Democratic platform of 1852, and declared for the policy of nonintervention (in slavery matters) as applied in the Territories of New Mexico, Utah, etc. G. W. Spitler was the vice president of the convention for Jasper county. “Many Voters” proposed the nameofDoct. Wm. Tichenor, for State Senator.

A Democratic County convention was called for Sept. 2nd, and a People’s convention for Sept. 9th, both to be held at Rensselaer. The people’s party was opposed to the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. People were getting very busy with politics then, for besides these county conventions, the Democrats were to hold a senatorial convention at Oxford on Sept. 6th, and a representative convention at Saltillo, on the Bth, to nominate a candidate for Jasper and Pulaski counties. Thus it appears that Saltillo, now utterly vanished, was then large enough to bejselected for a convention. O. B. Cissel, was to make a public sale of his household goods, on Sept. 9th, at his place in town, and would give a year’s time on sums over two dollars. At the same time and place, Seth Baker would sell a lot of sheep and cattle and two large Durham bulls. Eighty acres of prairie land three miles north of town, and 40 acres of timber two 'miles from it, were for sale cheap for cash. Apply to this same O. B. Cissel, at Rensselaer, or to Clint or Ike Stackhouse, at Lafayette. The funeral of Miss Fillmore, daughter of the ex-president, had just been held at Buffalo. She died from the vholera. The editor had been sick for the previous two weeks, and that was sufficient excuse for errors or lack of original matter. Evidenty, the Shellenberger pills which he took a few weeks before, had not knocked the chills and fever as cold as he Insisted they had.

Rensselaer market: Flour $7 per bbl. wheat 90c per bushel, corn 30 and 35, oats 15, potatoes 50 apples 50; not so very much different from now. Butter however was only 8 cents a pound, and eggs 6 cents a dozen. R. Strode, the good fellow who was selling too many of his goods on tick, and who had been hollering “pay up! pay up! all the year, now gave notice that he expected to start east the Ist of October, and he must have what was coming to him to buy goods with and to pay his debts. We greatly fear Rufe fell far short of his expectations, in the returns received from that ad. John Curry had departed this life, on some previous occasion, and Clerk Spitler gave notice that he had left about $471.86 for dis, tribution among the heirs.