Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1906 — Old time news. [ARTICLE]

Old time news.

Fifty-One Years Ago, JASPER BANNER, JURE ,14 185 S. Hi The citizens were called to meet at the court house the next Safer <yy afternoon, to arrange “for celebrating the approachipg. anniversary of our national independence;” The Western Republican, but a Democratic paper, had just been started at Marion, Grant county, and it brought to our editor the news of the death of a near relative. Friend Burns, of the Plymouth Banner had received a..pressing iuvitation from Dell, his fair correspondent at Lake Maxinkuckee, to visit her and regale himself with strawberries. Dell thus described the lake: Where eglantine embalms the air, Hawthorn and hazel mingle there; The primrose pale and violet flower. Find in each nook a narrow bower; Aloft the ash and warrior oak, Cast anchor in the ritted rock. We suspect that ‘‘Friend Burns” wasn't long in “going to press'’ after he reached the lake.

Two or three years ago The Republican made some mention of a neglected grave up iu Smith cemetery, in Jiarkley Ip., in which are bariel Harrison Guthridge and Emily his wife, both of whom died the same day, namely June 5,1855, he in his 42nd year, she in her 38th: Their obituary appears in this issue of the B inner of June 14,1855. They were most exemplary and highly esteemed people. The cause of his death is not stated, but of his wife's death the Banner says: ‘‘She lived to see her husband bid farewell to earth then giving a few brief directions to her friends, Death casse and pressed Her wearied lids and brought the sick heart rest.” Her infant child survived her but a few hours, and was laid upon its mother's breast.” Verily, but few sadder or more touching incidents than this triple death have ever oeeured in Jasper ; county. c Another notable death was that I of Wm. Sayler, a young business ! man of Rensselaer, who died of consumption, on June 9tb, age 27 years