Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1906 — Thirty-Seven Years Ago. RENSSELAER UNION, NOV. 25, 1869. [ARTICLE]

Thirty-Seven Years Ago. RENSSELAER UNION, NOV. 25, 1869.

The weather of the preceding week was pronounced awful, but it bad raised the river enough to start the grist mill to grinding a'ain. Seven inches of snow had falleir the previous Monday, and sleighing had been good ever since. Professor Norman Warner had just organized a singing class at the Christian (Broad Gage) church. Dr. J. H. Lougbridge, Lawyer Tom Spitler, and Editor H. E. James had been to Indianapolis, attending the Odd Fellows Grand Lodge, and the editor had nearly a column and a half headed Indianapolis, bat mostly devoted to setting forth the deficiencies of the Indianapolis papers, from the tone of which it was evident Editor James considered that he could greatly improve those papers if he had the running of them. Dr. J. W. Laßae was to deliver the next Sunday’s Spiritualist lecture on the subject “What and where is God.” The Doctor’s address did not settle those great questions so decisively but what they are still discussed occasionally to this day.