Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1906 — Old Time News. [ARTICLE]

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Facts from Jasper Vj County’s First Paper. OCT. a«, 18S4. - 1 I 11. From Sept. 21st to Oct. 26th, no number of the Jasper Banner- was* ' wsued, owTrigtotbe CdtfOriß sickness. _ .Four numbers were missed in that stretch and three before that, all Owing to his sickness, fie now announced that he had secured sufficient help and knew of no reason why the paper would not be issned regularly, thereafter. Indiana was then an October state and the election was held on the 10th. The official vote was given of Jasper county, and as the editor explained, that it might be referred to in the fature, as evidence that Jasper county was one of the few that stood by Democracy in the “day of her calamity.” Bnt “she” has got pretty well used to “days of calamity,” since thenT" There were some 840 votes cast in what is now Jasper add Newton counties, or only abont one fourth of what Jasper county alone now casts. The Democrats had a pretty close shave, even in this county, as Eddy got only 420 votes to 408 for Colfax for Congressman. The Democrats also elected all county officers but by small majorities. Owing to the editor’s sickness, and consequent lack of advertising, the county fair had been postponed to Nov. 4th. The premiums offered aggregated S6O and were 35 in number. The highest was $5, for the best colti rated farm. Of the list of judges only two are still living, A. Parkison, on cattle, and S. Phillips, on poultry. Chicago had just authorized the building of a cast iron tunnel under the river, A project which 'failed then but was revived 15 or 20 years later when several such tnnnels were constructed there. ; The Russians were getting badly licked in the Crimean war, and the news had come from Europe that the French and English had already captured Sebastopol: bnt they hadn’t, and it took them nearly a year longer to effect its capture. Rev. Mr. James was to preach at the “Presbyterian Meeting House” in this place the next Sunday. We suspect this was R. B. James, afterwards an editor and father of Horace R, also an editor. The elder James was long a school teacher here, aHd a mighty strict one too, according to the recollection of some of the old timers. The boys called him “Old Black-hawk,” bnt not where he heard them, we can be sure. A new firm got their first ad in this issue. It was A. Pnrcnpile & Co., composed of Lyman Blair and Archibald Pnrcnpile. They had a general store and sold cheap for cash. Two firms published notices of dissolution. Being G. A. Moss and C. A. Logan, physicians, and Walter and Thomas Clarx, of Clark Bros., merchants.