Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1906 — Old Time News. [ARTICLE]

Old Time News.

Fiftj-One Years Ago. JASPER BANNER, FEB., Bst AND 22 1855The number for Feb. 15th, i» missing from the volume, and by mistake, two copies of the Bth. were inserted. Receipt was acknowledged of the first copy of The Delphi Daily Times, issued from the office of the weekly Tinies, and which was to be regularly issued thereafter, and the opinion was expressed that Delphi was then' big enough to support a daily paper. What do you think of that, Brother Isherwood? You didn’t know that your little old Delphi Daily Times that you are so now proud of, had a prototype of the same name over fifty years ago, did you? The farmers were again advised, in a well written and logical editorial, to buy labor saving machines, and not only mowers and hay rakes are mentioned, but the patent thresher, the patent reaper and the patent corn-planter. ~ A temperance law almost as radical as the present South Carolina state depository law, seemed likely $j pass the state legislature. It placed the entire liquor business in the hands of county and township agents. The issue of' Fab. 22, said the governor had signed the temperance bilL A meeting was called .for Mar., 3rd, to take steps, through a New York society, to obtain a supply of cheap laborers and servant girls for Jasper county. Judge Milroy and several other leading citizens signed the call for the meeting.