Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1906 — Thirty-Seven Years Ago. RENSSELAER UNION NOV. 5 and 12, 1868. [ARTICLE]

Thirty-Seven Years Ago. RENSSELAER UNION NOV. 5 and 12, 1868.

The paper hollered Igood over the election of Grant and Colfax and the defeat of Seymore and Blair. The Republican majority in Jasper county was 363. “Johnny Eger” had three fingers nearly cut off at Sparling’s butcher- shop, while trying to grab a piece of tallow which was being chopped. What was you trying to grab it for, anyhow, Johnny? The issue for Nov. 12th used ready prints, or “patent insides” ’ for the first time in Jasper county. A jollification meeting had been held, and Editor James was to have made the presentation speech of a flag to Hanging Grove tp. but owing to the rooms oppressive condition had to leave before the speech was delivered. He therefore made that his excuse for publishing his speech in full in the paper, while all the other speeches were left out. Horace was always a a great schemer. A “Chapter of Horrors” was largely headlined. George B. Work, living two and a half miles north of town, had suicided by a revolver shot in the head. Another “horror” was that Michael Sheffer, an old but very bad resident of Newton County, had been shot dead by «ojne person, as he sat in his lonely cabin. The coroner accused Frederick Tanner, a seemingly inoffensive youg man, who was soon acquitted. The election being over, a writer resumed the already 20 year old clamor for a railroad, but which was still a good 10 years away.