Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1881 — Pilot Grove Items [ARTICLE]

Pilot Grove Items

David Williams, an old citizen of Colfax, is dipping water with a twoquart pail for 75 or 80 head of cattle. The old fogies are not all dead yet. Huckleberry time is over, and Joseph Hartley, the huckleberry king, will soon have to hunt other employment^ The well-known Wishard farm, whioh has not been paying expenses for the past three years, has an abundant crop this year, and the credit is all due to Adam Shidler. Luther Ham. it is supposed, will soon engage in peddling tinware and buying old iron. Joseph Dunn and Dr. Bowman ure terribly interested in the Continental Railroad. A short time since a few shoddy office-seekers of Jackson township sneakingly undertook to have the post office moved. Poor fellows, they have never been able to get office in any other way. Old man Protsman, the Republicans say, takes his boy to Rensselaer once a month, and has him take the Sbntisix, in oraer to build him up in the Demo erotic faith. The post office is not moved yet, and fears are entertained that some of the leaders in the plot will undergo investigation by a lunacy coinrais- j sion. Beavek.