Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1906 — Old Time News. [ARTICLE]

Old Time News.

Fifty-One Years Ago. JASPER BANNER, AUG. 23, 1855. Logansport seemed to be troubled with an epidemic--of black Jog* preachers. Only a short time before Rev. Robinson had hiked out for California under very suspicious circumstances, and right recently, Rev. W. Parker had gone looking for a wife, although he already had one, and had also been arrested for horse stealing. He too, had vamoosed. Chicago had already established its reputation. This was quoted from the Wisconsin Democrat: Men are getting rich, faster, and living higher, and doing more business, and drinking more, and going to the devil generally, by a shorter road in Chicago, than any place I have seen out West. “Lazy rich girls make rich men poor and industrious poor girls make poor men rich.” Still works out that way occasionally, to this day. A Missouri editor had closed up for six weeks, while he went to St. Louis with a load of bear skins hoop poles, shingles, oak bark and pickled catfish, he had taken on subscription. Now is the time to subscribe. Bring in your bear skins, but if spelled bare skins it would sound more comfortable this weather. A reward was offered by Julian Armfield, ofMiama Co. fora roan mare that had strayed from Jared Benjamin’s farm four miles west of town. But she’s gone for good Ty this time. E. T. Harding advertised fcr half price a list of school b?oks that were being adopted all over the state The books and their prices were: Eclectic Speller sc, Indiana Ist Reader sc, 2nd 8, 3rd 13, 4th 25. McGuffey’s sth reader 40. Ray's Arithmetics, Ist sc, 2nd 10, 3rd 20.

Thirty-Seven fears Ago. RENSSELAER UNIUN, JULY 15THano 22ND 1867. The issue of July loth was a railroad number,, devoted almost entirely to arguments in favor' of the proposed railroad tax. Those were the days of competitive field trials of new farm machines, especially mowers, when the Wood would buck the Buckeye. In such a trial just held, Daniel Dwiggins, Isaac Sayler, Stephen Nowels, Jared Benjamin and Milton Makeever were the judges, and e 'ery one of whom has since been gathered to his fathers. They rather favored the Buckeye. A long Fourth of July poem by 8. P. Thompson was published, in which "To the words of our fathers, in the Old Declaration, we will shout ‘All free and equal,’ next Fourth of July.” Oh, my, Judge! How could you! The election for the county to donate $42,000 for the new railroad carried by a vote of 564 for to 467 against. Marion, Jordan, Newton, Union and Milroy were for it, all the rest of the townships against it, except that in Keener the polls were not opened. Most of the townships were practically’ solid either for or against the donation. It was the first time the new township of Union had ever voted at any election. The Rensselaer school trustees and patrons, at a public meeting bad decided on five months school the coming school year, and four teachers had been employed, name|ly G. H. Smith, principal, H. 8. Travis, Emma Downing, Mary H. Shortridge. Smith got $65 a month, Travis, SSO. and the ladies S4O per month, or from S2OO to $325 per year for the different teachers. School teaching has “ris” since those days. Wanted at once, a good dish washer, at the Makeever House.